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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-02-09
p.tent Washes For San Jose Scale

This is the subject OF circular NO. q
New Series, recently published oy Tue
Virginia State Crop Pest Commission
in response to the large number Oh III
ouiries in regard to the use OF pa1en'
nreparations now placed on the marx
ct as substitutes for the lime-sulpnur
wash.
A number of these preparations
have been tested with the result a'
none of them appear to be more eheo'
tive than the lime-sulphur prepare
ton. and some of them are not a.
effective. The cost OF these pateh'
preparations is from two to SIX time'
tbe cost of the lime-sulphur WASH
Persons who have notreceived cop;
Of this publication, can do 80 py al
dressing the undersigned.
]. L. Phillips,
i State Entomogist.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-02-09

Twill be at Atlantic for the practice
Of my profession on Thursday and
Tr;dav February 14th and 18th, 1907
DR.. w. A. Taylor,
Dentist.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-02-09

Now open and ready for business
with a new and hobby line OF harness
and harness parts OF all descriptions
Bell Harness Co.,
w. E. Bell. proprietor,
Onancock, Va.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-02-09

A harness store full of harness from
Is. 90 to $50. 90 per set. Come ana ge'
your pick.
Bell Harness Co.,
W. E. Bell, proprietor,
Onancock, Va.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-02-09
p-oduce Exchange rleetlngs.

Mr.. VIM. A. Burton, genera man
ooor of Eastern Shore Produce Elk
change will mest with Oak Hall divi-
sion at Oak Hall on Friday, February
ODD. I'd. m. The public is invited W
be out to hear him.
J. A. Barnes,
Director.
The Onley division of the eastern
shore of Va. Produce Exchange VIII
meet at Onley, Saturday afternoon
February IS, at 2:3O p. No. TO iornu
late some plans for the improvement
Of our barrels at this place, &C.
VI Lee R. Phillips,
Director.
The New Church division OF tn
Exchange will meet at New ohuro :
February 9th, 2 p. m. a iuii a'Uen'
ance is desired as there will be SOM
important business before the NEE
ing.
| Secretary.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-02-09

90 TO Halls drug store, Parksiey'
.ou tho hest combs, brushes per-
fumes. or any toilet article.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-02-09

Go to the Parksley Manufacturing
o.. to buy your hot-bed glass They
have a car load at right prices
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-02-09

We will allow in trade 10 Genus i 10.
law "" side meat and 70 cents Tor
country lard. 1,o,,nsn
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-02-09

For valentines, call on
Ashby & Hickman
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-02-09

For a nobby up-to-date line Oh
snring hats and caps call on
Ashby & Hickman
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20

create the impression that he is
against the primary.
The American asks. ssWhy have not
district primary in which every yOt-
er can vote his choice as easily as in a
direct primary, the delegates thus
elected TO attend county convention
which in turn shall elect delegates to
a State conyention?n etc. Simply be-
cause there is no assurance that the
recipient Of a majority of any coun-
tvs votes will get the votes he is en-
titled to. "If every man is to vote
his choice" why not count his vote
and settle the matter then and there?
Why bring a convention between the
candidate and the voters? The PEG.
pie Of Tennessee want no "denatured
primary masquerading under the
name of delegated primary" They
want fair, square fight, and let the
man who gets the most votes in the
direct election be declared the nomi-
nee of the party. Nothing else will
satisfy them.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20
STATE PRIMARY ASSURED

From the best information alb
tainable, an overwhelming MAORI
ty Of the Democratic voters OF
Tennessee favor u primary election
to select candidates for the various
offices-from Governor down, and
from Governor up-including the
office of Governor. The Patterson
followers seem to favor this plan
and Mr.. Carmack's supporters in
dorse it. According to the Mem
phis News Scimitar's figures, Dem
ocratic Executive Committees in
three. fourths of the counties of
the State have passed resolutions
asking the State Committee to give
them a primary and others are
speaking almost every day. The
State Committee could neglect or
refuse to order general primary,
but such action would in no
wise prevent the various county
committees taking the matter in
hand and holding elections in their
respective counties.
Speaking on this subject the
Nashville Tennessean remarks:
Nothing could more clearly demon
strate the soundness of the demand
for direct primary for State offices
than the senseless arguments which
the official corporation hall-boy of
Tennessee politics is making against
it.
The statement that the primary
movement is ''an effort in the interest
of a faction and ostensibly for one
man. is untrue. To say that one man
and one faction favors a direct pri-
mary while the others oppose it
would be to say that the first man and
his friends are ready to trust their
fortunes in the hands of the people,
while the Others are not. As matter
OF fact, both candidates for Governor
and every candidate for the other
State offices are on record as favoring
the direct primary. Gov. Patterson
has declared as strongly as his oppo-
pant has aver done that no man can
afford to oppose primary unless he is
afraid to trust his cause with the peo-
pie, the Nashville Amarican is do.
ing him an injustice and giving him a
thrust In the back while pretending
to be his friend in helping the Cover
nor's adversaries In their effort 10
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20
A BRIGHT STAR DIMMED.

Senator Daniel did himself no good
the other day, when he drew Mr.. Bryan
into an unpleasant conversation in
the lobby Of hotel. On that occa-
sion he acted like bully The pol
ished, dignified statesman that Sena-
tor Daniel is reputed to be gave way
to the vulgarian for the time being,
and he did credit neither to himself
nor his country. 1t is to be hoped
that nothing worse than senility was
the cause of his unfortunate conduct.
Men may disagree and continue to be
gentlemen. The practice of that
very principle has placed Senator Dan
iel in the class with great men. That
which cannot be cured must be endur-
ed. Senator Daniel is not as great
now as he was before that unfortunate
meeting Winchester Herald.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20
SCISSORS EDITORIALS
POOR WILLIAM.

According to a country editor here
abouts, the school authorities of a
certain town took it into their heads
lately that they would have the chill
dren's eyesight examined by an occu-
list. This was done, and the parents
Of these children whose eyes were
found to be in any way affected were
communicated with. Accordingly the
head master wrote to the father of
Willie Thompson: Dear Sir: beg to
inform you that your son, William,
shows signs Of satignatism, which
ought to be attended to at once. Yours
faithfully" Willie's father replied:
dear Sir: don't quite understand
what it is Willie has been up to now,
but l have walloped him tonight; you
can do it again tomorrow morning.
Yours faithfully, L. T,"-Shelbyyille
Gazette.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20
CURRENT EVENTS.

Over in Kentucky Trigg Coun-
ty coroner's jury found that Wal
ter Gray, the night rider who was
killed by the Hopkinsville posse
pursuing the attacking party on
its return to Trigg County, came
to his death at the hands of an I'M
known assassin.
Dispatches to Dun's Review in
dictate a better tone in the business
world because of further improve
ment in the money market. Sea-
sonable weather is increasing the
demand for staple lines of mer-
chandise, but holiday trade, SO
far, is rather inclined to be back
ward.
Col. A. S. Colyar, NashviIle's
veteran lawyer, and publicist, died
Friday morning shortly after O.
o'clock at his residence on Eighth
Avenue South. The funeral SER
vice was conducted at the First
Presbyterian Church at 2 80 O'Clock
Sunday afternoon, and the remains
of the eminent citizen buried in
Mt. Olivet Cemetery, the inter-
ment being private.
John Solely, under sentence of
death ut Columbus, O., came near
being executed before it was dis
covered that the papers commut-
ing his sentence had been mailed
to the warden and were being held
for postage.
Stuyyesant Fish in an affidavit
filed in Chicago Monday AYERS
that he will Gust E. II. Hartman
as director of the Illinois Gen.
trail in case he secures a majority
of proxies to be voted at the annu-
al meeting.
A White House bulletin says
that Mrs. Longworth is progress
ing rapidly, and her condition is
entirely satisfactory. Mrs. Long |
worth several days ago underwent
an operation for APPENDICITIS.
The Hon. w. G. Oates, of Ala
bama, has been appointed Chair
man of the Commission to mark
the graves of Confederate sol
diers.
Last Saturday at high noon a
photograph of Ex-Gov. j. l. Cox
was placed in the State Library,
being hung alongside a splendid
likeness of Hon. Frosty Frazier.
This completes the collection.
"Now let us lean up against the
deep river"
Representatives Langley and
Bennett. of Kentucky, have pre-
pared bill prohibiting the issu-
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20
FOR THE LEGISLATURE.
3. n. MOORE.

We are authorized to announce K.
N. Moore as candidate to represent
Obion County at the next session Of
the General Assembly Of the State of
Tennessee, subject to the action of
the Democratic party.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20

Trains No. ia and iOe are accommodations.
Tickets and particulars az 20 specific rates
limits and train time OF your home ticket aRant
&C. r. Collins, Paducah junction.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FLoATER
q. r. M,pApE.

We are authorized to announce G..
r. McDade as candidate for Floater
70 represent Dyer, Lake and Obion
Counties at the next session OF the
Tennessee General Assembly.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20
FOR MAYOR.

ELECTION Jan. 4, 1905.
We are authorized to announce as
candidates for Mayor:
DIR. T. d. EDWARDS.
W. H. GARDINER.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
Municipal Election.

We, the election commissioners of
Obion County, Tennessee, do hereby
call an election to be held in Union
City, Tennessee, for the purpose of
electinga Mayor and six Aldermen for
said town for term of two years.
Said election to be held Saturday, Jan.
4, 1908.
J.. A. WHIPPLE, Chairman,
j. @. BURDICK, Secretary,
A. X. Wells,
Election Commissioners of Obion
County.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20
THE CUMBERLAND BANNER.

Col. I. A. Havron, editor and
owner, will please accept our sin
cerest congratulations on the i'm
proved appearance of his paper,
the Cumberland Presbyterian Ban
ner. The paper has been moved
from Jasper to Tullahoma, new
type, new presses and machinery
of latest design installed and the
paper now compares favorably
with any of the church journals in
the State. The circulation, Col.
Havron states, has reached the 49,
600 mark, and the improvements
were absolutely necessary in order
to handle the large and rapidly in
creasing business. The Banner is
the official paper of the Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20
Illinois Central
RAILROAD.
soUTHBoUND.
NoRTHBoUND.

Trains No. ie5 and Iss are Accommodations
end stop at Padueah Junction TO receive OF dis
charge passengers.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20
FOR ALDERMAN.

We are authorized to announce as
candidates for Aldermen:
s. s. ALEXANDER.
JOHN ADAMS.
J.F. GREGORY.
j. @. BURDICK.
RIM. wHIPPLE.
j. w. BRANsFoRD.
CHAs. BURCHARD.
JOHN sEMONEs.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20

F.w. HARLOW, ID. p. A.. LonisvIIIs.
Al. McDoUaALI, d. r. A., New Orleans
!. n. HANSON, @. P A.. mo. A. SCOTT, era
chica&o. Memphis
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20

ance of Federal liquor licenses in
''dry" districts. The measure will
be introduced in Congress by Mr..
Langley.-LouisviIle Courier
Journal. A good measure, but a
month late. Col. FINS j. Garrett,
so the dispatches tell as, intro
duced this bill the first day of the
present session.
-
Our esteemed contemporaries
with some metropolitan preten-
sions, the Memphis Commercial
Appeal and the Nashville Ameri-
can, are worked up the point of
blowing out a handful of fiues in
an attempt to cry down the state
primary. Everybody seems to be
against the primary but the peo-
pie. Down this way both Car
mack and Patterson supporters
are heartily in favor of primary.
The Democrats will 90 to Colo
RADIO next July and nominate w.
j. Bryan. The National Conven-
ton will meet in Denver July7.
The fact that the Governor has
not located the Experimental Sta
tioE for the Western Division
seems to be Fostering the jackson
Sun quite a passle. Don't worry,
hub; and don't demand the impos-
sible of a man. Governor Patter-
son cannot locate that station. He
can appoint the commissioner
and he will. He can name Col. |
Rice A. Pierce, of this city, and
Maj. Boone, of Trenton. How
loes that strike you9
y
1t is stated by parties who claim
o know, that st. Louis is the third
neanest city in the United States.
Perhaps SO, but where does Mem
,his come in9
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20
A ROTTEN UMPIRE.

There will be an effort made in con-
gress at its comming session to prohi-
bit dealing in futures. That would
be wise and righteous. But past expe-
rience has had the effect to paralyze
hope. When it comes to an issue be-
tween the robbers and the masses, so
far the robbers have made nearly all
the touchdowns, when congress UNI
pired the games between these contes-
tants. Winchester Herald.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20
HER JUST DESERTS.

A year or two ago Memphis lady
married foreign count. Now she is
suing for divorce. Served her right.
Tennessee women should have more
sense and patriotism than to get mar
ried to those degenerate foreign lords
and dukes and kings and things
Winchester Herald.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20
OUCH.

The Nashville American says Mr..
William j. Bryan and daughter have
gone to see the Holy Land to spend
the winter, and that Willie ]. has the
permission of that august publication
to accompany them. Fact is, the
United States would be Holy Land
to the American and It's ilk of "yaller-
hammer" Democrats If Bryan were out
of 1t to stay. But Bryan ct al. are go
ing to bedevil you few more years,
Mr.. Observation-Disclosures Progress.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20

Representatives Langley and
Bennett. of Kentucky, have pre-
pared bill prohibiting the issu-
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20

Stuyyesant Fish in an affidavit
fled in Chicago Monday AYERS
that he will Gust E. H. Hartman
as director of the Illinois Gen.
trail in case he secures a majority
of proxies to be voted at the annu-
al meeting.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20

A White House bulletin says
that Mrs. Longworth is progress
ing rapidly, and her condition is
entirely satisfactory. Mrs. Long
worth several days ago underwent
an operation for APPENDICITIS.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20

The Hon. w. G. Oates, of Ala
bama, has been appointed Chair
man of the Commission to mark
the graves of Confederate sol
diers.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20

John Solely, under sentence of
death at Columbus, O., came near
being executed before it was dis
covered that the papers commut-
ing his sentence had been mailed
to the warden and were being held
for postage.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-12-20

The Democrats will 90 to Colo
RADIO next July and nominate w.
j. Bryan. The National Conven-
ton will meet in Denver July7.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26

abreast Of the times and it evident that this pris-
oner knew almost as much about the elevated rail
roads as the reporter who wrote the story. It may
be possible that the iiterate but even then
the so called wireless service s always working
and man is surely dead one who does not know
what is going on There are few prisons that pro-
hibit weekly newspapers from circulating among the
prisoners After the days work is the prisoner
has the evening to himself Where the silent sys7
tennis enforced he naturally turns reading during
the evening hours in order to avoid insanity There
is no question but what prisoners read more than
any other class of persons earth. For him there
is no opera, no banquets no lodge meetings. and no
friendly game Of whist He is alone from six to
nine each evening, which is generally devoted to
reading.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26
Il Modern Method of Torture.

In ADOPTING New York's system Of electrocution,
New Jersey added the ''mercifu' provision of with
holding from the condemned prisoner the date of his
execution. For refined torture this device makes
Torquemada and the Indians look like philanthro-
pists, in the view Of the New York Auze,ycau
The Judge sentences the convicted man to die
within the month between two certain days, but at
just what hour of what day is known only to Provi-
dence and the Warden. The state of the prisoners
nerves under this suspense can be imagined The
dropping of water on the head of q manacled victim
is mild in comparison. A man can face a definite
and known danger It is the that is uncertain
and ndefnable that goads him to madness. With
an ndeterminate death sentence staring him in the
face, each hour to the condemned man would seem
like an age, and each sound would fall his ears
like the knell of doom. N
The first execution under this amiable and COM
passionate law occurred yesterday For three weeks
the prisoner had been kept in suspense since the first
day named by the judge had passed. During those
three weeks he scarcely ate or slept. Had it not
been for the administering of opates he would prob
ably have died of the strain and terror Every
step outside his cage sent him fleeing in panic At
might he prayed until he fell in stupor his cell
floor. - @s
The middle ages devised some methods of torture
that as fendsh the limited intellect of the
time could invent e The thumbscrew, the rack, the
steel maiden and the we'll in rayless dungeon were
sufficiently horrible to merit and win immortal in
fanny. But it has remained for an American state
in the twentieth century to surpass them all. The
indetermnate death sentence is as much worse than
any of these mental torture is worse than hysical
torture Dubuque Herald.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26
Cannot Take Measurements.


The supreme court of Kings Co., New York,
has handed down decision which says "that the
authorities have no right to take photographs and
measurements of a under arrest but not con-
victed.' No one will question the wisdom of this
decision, for no man should be treated as acrimnal
until found guilty by jury of his peers. All per-
sons who arrested suspects are not criminals
by any means. Therefore it would seem that the
decision, unless revoked by the higher courts will
prevent the New York authorities from applying the
Bertion system to those who are awaiting trial or
who suspected of committing crime.
In large city like New York there is no ques-
ton but what hundreds of persons arrested an
nually who are innocent of any intent to commit
crime They happen to be caught in the periodical
dragnet suspects, and designated suspicious
characters. 1t seems it would be doing this class
grave injustice to place their photographs in the
rogues gallery. We are uniformed as to whether
or not this is the custom in New York. but it isevi-
dent that such is the case for the recent decision
implies much.
If any Of these innocent persons should achieve
success in after life, what must be their humiliation
to know that their pictures in the rogues gallery
There are thousands Of eminent men today who were
poor and friendless in their early manhood Many
of them often walked the streets looking for honest
employment. Surely one wants to see this class
placed in the same category as criminals, if they
should have the misfortune to be arrested suspi-
cion While it is conceded that the Bertillon sys-
tenn operates we'll against the enemies of society," it
should not be enforced against its innocent wights
who have the misfortune to get entangled in the
meshes of the law.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26
BY F.. M.


An Indian in South Dakota has his squaw divorce
because she >dopted the and other fuzzy wuzzy
apparel of her white sister, Now there
who debt of gratitude divorce squaw
because the not long when big brave tired Of
Pocahontas he would buHslos
her where the chicken got the
Moir English champion not know the first udi
ments about the game Of fstcuf His
guard orcbly reminds
nate from planting oscnlatory sobbpr her bread
When boy begins spruce up combing hair shining
shoes and washing his neck gamble that
iy in the background somewhere.
When ogles at she
CATION and if she finds that be has wd in the
begins breach promise poor
she has him arrested and sent to the workhouse
Preachers the Windy City trying make Miss Chicago
put her lid on straight ~.
It the humble opinion Is
paccng sleep waop that he intends
the trusts before he retres and order force
final blow he will give the big stick preliminary swings
Casey did the willow before he swated the ebb
Some feather their financial by plucking jays nj
The young who starts out with the setting the
world on FIRE is luckyf he does not get his fingers burned
football players hair looks like oa Of hult by college
1t does necessarily follow used tobacco
In this world will not smoke when he reaches the next
It is said that Colorado actually
defeated for Office that did salary
must have used artificial the little
sorrow or else he is mollycoddle @. KS .hsA 4
When the inmates of this place attend they
vantage their outside brethren that their stage
not obsructed by flower garden hats Is. .fs-. So
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26
.GnreZesS ,Wrltint

- CNPeLeSS fWTIJL71g.
In Is surprising how few persons there who
write legible hand. In most cases poor handwrit-
ing is the result of carelessness-noti Ignorance. To
get definite idea how widespread this habit is,
should look at the figures compiled by the dead letter
office at Washington Each year the officials of that
department receives millions of letters which are
either poorly written else the address is incorrect
ly given Many Of these letters contain money and
valuable documents; but Uncle Sans clerks altho
we'll versed in the chrography of thousands of indi-
vdusls, find it impossible to decipher the peculiar
hieroglyphics which many persons are accustomed
to make in addressing letter. aa
Poor handwriting is not entirely confined to
lliterate persons AS rule this class are more
painstaking in this respect than those who have
ceived an academic education Their letters may
lack coherency, he devoid of grammar, punctuation,
and correct spelling still they are fairly readable.
This cannot be said of the man who is we'll educated
for he generally writes such poor hand that it
might be mistaken for rebus or Chinese sign
board, What appears plain to the writer may look
like Greek Ito the who receives it. One cannot
write too plainly, for writing art worthy of any
ones best efforts.