The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-04-06
ELBR1DGE.
, farm work last week.

Wheat and meadows looking fine
The rain fall in March this year
was the greatest ever known.
Memphis didn't sink last week
but it may wash away this week.
Last Wednesdays downpour was
the second big rain of the year-as
great if not greater than the one
that fell IN January, washing away
bridges and fences and doing much
other damage to farm property.
The ground hog could have seen
his shadow nearly every day in Feb
ruary, but since then the sunshine
has been scarce. If the ground hog
has anything to do with the wealth
er we wish the whole family would
die.
April is here but still live stock
of all kinds have to be kept on full
feed, and the feed bill does not di-
minish, and early garden sass will
be scarce, and the prospects for a
bountiful harvest this year is not
very hattering at present. but the
sunshine will come by and by.
The spring term of the Clover
dale school closed March %. The
Principal, Prot. Wilder, of Geor-
gia, has gone South with magic
lantern show. Cloverdale seemed
to be in a bad row the past year,
having had no school worth any
thing either last fall or this spring,
but future prospects look brighter,
as the Board has closed contract
with that able instructor and Chris
tian gentleman, Len d. Williams.
of Hornbeak, as principal for the
fall and winter term.
There is a law IN the State of
Kansas giving a wife the right to
recover damages from any one who
furnishes liquor to her husband,
resulting in his intoxication and
injury to her in person or property
or means of support. A lady OF
that State was recently awarded
$4,000 damages against a Topeka
brewery for selling her husband
beer, from which he became intoxl-
Gated and killed two companions,
for which crime he was sent to the
penitentiary. II our next legisla-
ture would pass such law for our
State it would be a great blow to
the liquor demon and thereby make
the dispensers of the vile stuff bear
at least part OF the expense OF
maintaining the army Of paupers
made by the liquor traffic. If the
manufacture and sale cannot be en-
tirely prohibited in the State, this
law would not be bad, even If the
Adams law is extended to every
city in the State. And another law
which we hope to see passed is to
prevent liquor being shipped to any
tswn in the State where there is no
saloon.
We notice from the county papers
that some who oppose bond issue
for road purposes have sprung the
question of the narrowness OF our
public highways and that it would
be impossible to make first-class
roads without better right of way,
also that the land owners of the
county own and pay taxes on the
land covered by the public high
WAYS, and that the county should
buy or own all said highways. To
all of this we agree, and we do not
suppose there is a bond advocate in
the county who does not fully real
ize the absolute necessity of more
right of way on large majority OF
the public highways of the county
before public highways could be
built. But why 60 to the trouble
of condemning or buying more right
of way until we have some means OF
improving that right of way. There
is sufficient right OF way now to be
washed into dredge channels for the
drainage of the surrounding lands
by the present mode of working the
roads, and we have not sufficient
means to do otherwise than we are
doing. During the year 1905 there
was expended $500 of county funds
on the roads in the Ninth District
besides the labor of about 800
hands, who were supposed to have
contributed five days labor each on
same, making approximately $1,000
expended in this district, and the
roads are we'll nigh impossible now.
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