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The Winslow mail., 1908-10-31

George Weinert, of Flagstaff
was a Winslow visitor MOndav
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-03-13
FATAL SHOOTING.
Robert Summers Killed by Charlie
Stroud.


Tuesday morning at about :
O'Clock at his home, near Harris,
Charlie Stroud shot and almost in
stantly killed Robt. Summers.
Mr.. Stroud lives on the old Nor
rls farm, about miles northeast of
this city, having about one hundred
acres of the place rented. He had
about three months ago sub-rented
portion of the land to Mr.. Sum-
mers, who was to cultivate a share
crop, so Mr. Stroud states. He says
they had been having some trouble
about some repairs that were to
have been made on the portion of
the farm rented by Summers-fenc-
ing and work on a cistern, which
the recent rains prevented.
Monday Mr.. Stroud came to town
and consulted magistrate about
issuing peace warrant, stating
that he feared there would be
trouble. For some reason the war
rant was not issued.
Tuesday morning, so Mr.. Stroud
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-03-13
JUDGE JONES.
Declared The Nominee by the Dem
ocratic Committee.

Declared The Nominee by the Dem
ocratic Committee.
The Democratic Judiciary Com
mittee met in this city last Satur-
day, and there being no opposition,
declared Judge Joseph E. Jones, of
Dresden, present incumb bent, the
Democratic nominee for Circuit
Judge of the Fourteenth Judicial
Circuit, election to be held the first
Thursday in Augusts, 1908.
Judge Jones had no opponent and
is to be congratulated that no
other good Democrat wanted to
contest for the place, since the NOM
ination is in the way of an indorse-
ment of his services in filling the
vacancy caused by the resignation
of Judge Maiden.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-03-13
NEW MEXICO
VS.. OBION COUNTY

make money in desert, but for
all purposes | have never seen any
thing to equal Obion County.
When our farmers get the advan-
tage of the Experimental Station
we will make many improvements
and much progress in what we are
now doing. Obion is good enough
for me. w. G. REYNOLDS.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-03-13

states, Summers came to his home
and into the family room, in the
presence of himself, his father and
wife, attempted to draw weapon.
Mr.. Stroud states that after asking
him to remove his hands from his
pockets number of times, he
opened fire, firing three shots from
a pistol. Immediately after the
shooting Stroud left. stating that
he was coming to Union City and
surrender to the sheriff. He arrived
at the home of Sheriff Finch about
9 o'clock and told the officer what
he had done. He was placed in
jail, pending an investigation and
trial. All three OF the shots took
effect and Mr.. Summers died almost
instantly. Summers was about
forty years of age. He was reared
in Weakly County, but moved to
Obion County from Hickman, KY,
about three months ago. His wife
and four children lived with him at
the time of his death.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-03-13
WEAK KIDNEYS
MAKE WEAK BODIES.
Kidney Diseases Cause Half the Com
mon Aches and Ills of Union City
People.

Kidney Diseases Cause Half the Com.
mon Aches and Ills of Union City
People.
AS one weak link weakens a chain,
so weak kidneys weaken the whole
body and hasten the final breaking
down.
Overwork, strains, colds and other
causes injure the kidneys, and when
their activity is lessoned the whole
body suffers from excess of uric poison
circulated in the blood.
Aches and pains and langour and
urinary ills come, and there is ever
increasing tendency towards diabetes
and fatal Bright's disease. There is
no real help for the sufferer except
kidney help.
Doan s. Kidney Pills act directly on
the kidneys and cure every kidney i'll.
Union City cures are the proof.
Mrs. Ellen Schmidt, 718 East Vine
ST., Union City, Tenn, says: "Mr.
Schmidt used Doan's Kidney Pills
successfully four years ago, and has
not since had any recurrence of the
trouble, which was attacks of lame
back caused by disordered condition
of the kidneys. There was also sore
ness and lameness across the loins and
small Of the back which made it hard |
and difficult for him to bend over, |
stoop or lift. We still think highly of |
Doan's Kidney Pills, although it is
four years since Mr.. Schmidt gave
statement for publication recommend
ing them after he had been cured by
their use, and we have abundant rea-
sons for our desire to let Others know
If their merits, We procured Doan's
Kidney Pills at the Red Cross Drug
Store, and would advise every sufferer
rom kidney trouble and backache toI
give them thorough trial"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
.ents Foster -Milburn Co., Buffalo New
York, sole agents for the United
states.
Remember the name-Doans-and ,
axe no other.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-03-13

Editors Commercial: Three weeks
ago | wrote you letter from New
Mexico ar a,mentioned few good
things about that country, all OF
which is true, and possibly much
more can be said in its favor, but
the best of all can see in favor
of that country is the high, dry
climate which is suited TO the
health of some people, and also to
the fellow VINO likes to m k 9
bitches and build concrete walls,
as many are doing there now, to
save the water and irrigate the
lands. Some of these bitches are
several miles long and are con-
creted to save the waste of water.
Although some are making fine
crops, after irrigating, but SO far
there is only small part of the
land that is irrigated or that has
an artesian well, which is common
out there with the better class of
farmers.
But let's take a look at our own
State and this good county of
Obion. We read the nice things
about other countries where the
bright side is presented in rich
colors and we forget about the
good things we have at home.
Obion County stands to-day the
garden spot of all this country.
Not an acre of land for sale but
what can be sold in a days notice,
and in most cases, if for any rea-
son a farm is offered for sale, the
nearby neighbors are waiting to
take all offered. In the West most |
of the lands are for sale, but here
with us not many farms are for
sale at all. If we would advertise
our lands and advantages of lands
as they do our land values would
increase 35 per cent. at once. It's
very much like this: | heard of a
nan that got dissatisfied with his
home and surroundings, and after
,alking it over with his wife, de-
,ided to sell out and buy better
arm. So he went to the real es-
ate dealer and listed his property
With him, giving him, as best he {
ould, an outline of the improve
nents, richness, etc., of the farm.
\ few days afterwards he read in
he papers of splendid place for I
ale that had all the modern con- S
eniences = wells, cisterns, out a
ouses, good fences, and in high 7
tate of cultivation. He called his :
fife and told her to read the de- S
cription of the place that Just il
lited him. They read together, I
nd to their surprise found that it :
as the very place they were then Z
wing on. They were satisfied S
'om that day on. fl
We are blind to our resources, g
lind to our conveniences and
olendid farming country and just Y
eed to open our eyes and look S
3out US and see how much we are
lead of all other countries when ts
is considered in its
'oper light. a.
Most any country is good for "a
mething, and some men can al
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-03-13
CATARRH YIE1

To Healing Air of Hye
Under Guarantee by
,Comug Store.
i Y honrh is the most prevaAfJ1ty
SsS yn to humanity. Probably
NCnSa anGSsar. OF cent of the people in this
Ts S after at one time or another
X this common disease.
+ Tt is a germ disease and hence can
be cured only by some method that
will reach and destroy the germs.
This is best found in Hyomei, which
may be called the direct method of
treating catarrh, as its medication,
taken in with the air you breathe,
goes directly to every air cell in t1s
nose, throat and lungs; kills all Ca
tarrhal germs; heals the irritated mu-
cous membrane and vitalizes the It's
sues so as to render catarrh no longer
possible. y
The proprietors of the Red Cross
Drug Store give their absolute guar
lntee to refund the price to any ca
Larrh sufferer that Hyomei fails to
benefit.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-03-13

Call to see A. e. Caldwell g. Co.,
dealers in staple and fancy grocer
les, loose garden seeds and seed po-
tatoes. Country produce bought
and sold. Phone No. IS.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-03-13

| Keller was elected chairman and j.
| N. Tull, secretary. The temporal
ry organization was made perma-
nent. Resolutions endorsing the
Roosevelt Administration, Taft for
President, N. W. Hale for Nation
al Committeeman, Newell Sanders
for Chairman of State Committee
and j. A. Fowler, Newell Sanders,
r. A. Haggard and E. w. Essary
for delegates at large to the Ma
tional Convention were adopted.
At 1.30 o'clock Mr.. Burdick
came into the convection hall and
asked permission of the chair to
make a statement, and stated that
he would call a convention at 2
O'Clock in the county court room,
and that what had been done by
the other convention was illegal,
and left the hall. After the con-
vention adjourned G. T. Taylor
came into the hall and made an an
nouncement that real convention
would be held in the county court
room at 2 o'clock and invited all
to come in, but the Evans Repub-
licans, about fifty or sixty In num-
ber, left the courthouse, and the
Brownlow faction then called its
convention with about twenty to
thirty delegates present, j. c.
Burdick was elected chairman and
VIM. Stover, secretary. ResoIu-
tions endorsing Taft for President,
j. r. Walker and E. w. Eskridge
for delegates to the National Con-
vention from the Ninth Congress
sional District and Oliver for Ma
tional Committeeman were adopt
ed.
DELEGATES.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-03-13
TWO CONVENTIONS
REPUBI AICANS SPI lit

Two Republican county conven.
tlons were held at the courthouse
in this city last Friday, March g.
and in order to give both sides 8
hearing we reproduce reports
from both factions as follows:
The Republican party of Obion
County met in mass convention in
the county court room Friday to
select delegates to the district and
State party conventions. The af-
fair was strictly a Brownlow con-
vention. 1t was called to order at
at 2 o'clock by Hon. j. G. Burdick.
Chairman of the Obion County Re
publican Executiv ) Committee.
Attendance numbe ed about 250.
Hon. HI. Forcum, of Obion, was
made chairman, and Hon. T. j.
Lowell. secretary. B tn are
avowed Brownlow men. Commit
tee reports were adopted by unani-
nous vote. The list of delegates
was long one, and contained the
leaders of the party belonging to
Brownlow faction in Obion. The
Evans men were left out of the
deal altogether. The delegates to
the State Convention to be held in
Nashville on March 25 were in
structed to vote for Daniel e. Swab,
I. Asbury Wright, Jesse NJ. Little
ton and G. 7. Taylor as delegates
at-large to the National Republican
Convention at Chicago. The dele
gates were also instructed to work
for the election of Hon. w. j.
Oliver as National Committeeman
from Tennessee.
Instructions were also given that
the delegation from Obion to the
Republican Congressional District
Convention, to be held at Union
City, to vote for and support r.
W. Eskridge, Esq, of Weakley
County, and Judge j. r. Walker,
of Gibson, as delegates from the
Ninth Congressional District to the
Chicago Convention. Resolutions
were passed indorsing the Admin
alton of President Roosevelt.
i ~ question of the candidates
M M1n SE&ent, the following reso
f. 1eFse,S E-passed unanimously
disAS, Wing:
m,eA ~, E-sed, Thatwe point
Ncn to the numer-
.nes uax, Nandidates of
Gns. ID EN-, 1.1 Presi- :
- ! asppo!s !s slF. \
asto be n ~. IL
Ahs1g that,v.s.
'nS'T La.uh41 ~ gY
convention adjourneueYiti
THE EVANS CONVENTION. w
The Republicans of Obion Coun-
7 met in convention here Friday. m
he Evans wing of the party as ~ ~
,mbled in the courthouse and o.
aited a few minutes. Mr.. j. @. nc
county chairman, failing Ia
make his appearance, the secre- su
rY, Mr.. Joe Wilson, called the pc,
Getting to order, and after stat Dr
g the object of the meeting pro- an
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-03-13

Just received from China and
Japan a new stock of mating. Low
est prices at Bell Furn. Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1908-03-13
DELEGATES.

A. D. Keller, W. E. Pate, E. M.
Tate, Joe Wilson, J. t. Clogs, G.
NJ. Steel, W. L. Shelton, Will
Ethridge, G, T., Welch, L. A.
Ward, j. N. + s1ioqs belIL Jr.,
John Worts. @N->'N.~,., 1IpdgS .nt
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-06-19

ton have also been strengthened by
the addition of new instructor to the
staff of each
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-06-19

| agriculture may take a full three
years course of agricultural instruc-
ton similar to that offered in the
School of Agriculture in Nebraska OF
Minnesota. Further all male students
in the Preparatory School are required
to elect a minimum amount of work in
Agriculture, Horticulture, Dairying
and allied subjects.
Another of the good things planned
by the Board of Regents for the Uni
versity students next year is a series
of lectures on the laws of Idaho
There is no law school within the state,
and the time seems not yet ripe to es-
tablish law department in the Univer-
sity. Still there is definite need for
carefully classified knowledge of the
laws of Idaho, state, county and NUM-
cipal; and leading members of the
state bar will present the subject dur
ing the coming year at the University.
This knowledge is obtainable at no
other institution. This series will form
part of wider course of lectures to
be given before the general student
body, on Military History, Strategy
and Tactics as illustrated in Modern
Warfare; international Law; Govern
ment; and Diplomatic History. The
latter lectures will be presented by the
Military and History Departments and
the President, and the whole series
may be appropriately termed, Studies
in Citizenship.
The faculty in Modern Languages
has been strengthened. Formerly
the work was in charge of Dean Ed
ridge with assistants, but from
this time on Professor Eldridge will
take the German, and Professor
Shanks the Romance Languages,
French, Spanish and Italian. Dean
is a Yale man through and
through, a Yale student, and after
wards Yale instructor until his com
ing to Idaho. His heavy administra-
tive work as Dean of the College of
Letters and Sciences does not keep
him from throwing himself vivaciously
nto the work of instructing his classes.
List Hall, only recently reconstruct
ID and turned over to the Music De-
,artment, is already overcrowded. AS
n other lines of culture, the UNIVERSE
v is the center from which influences
adiate to the farthest corners of the
tate. Professor Cogswell during the
fcoNrrNI1ED ON NEXT PACE)
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University of Idaho, Engineering Building

name for effectiveness, but in the
Northwest cavalry troop would add
immensely to the usefulness of the
state militia in any emergency which
called for the quick movement of troops
to distance.
Lieutenant Smith, Sd U. S. Cavalry,
came to the University as Commandment
directly from service in the Philippine
Islands, and has taken up the work
with such enthusiasm, in the regular
daily drill and during annual encamp-
ment. that his University battalion
won high commentator from the in
speeding officer of the War Department
on his annual tour of the schools where
military instruction is given.
The Department of Physical Educa-
ton is almost unique among western
educational institutions Idaho is the
first to answer one of the evident needs
of student life in establishing it. The
design is that every student shall
undertake regular physical training,
under the advice of the head of the
who is graduate physician
and an expert in corrective exercises.
The student thus carries on his physical
side by side with his mental
development, and obtains the necessary
amount of
Exercise to Assure Health
during the years in which the steady
continuous mental exertion is kept up.
The average student needs more
vigorous bodily exertion to keep his
brain in the best condition, and this
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ed of course it is furnished with good
timber. The Civil Engineering De-
partment could hardly have a stronger
recommendation than the list of its
alumni in the new catalogue which shows
the positions occupied by them at the
present time. Two are in good places
with the U. S. Reclamation Service;
two are in the Philippine Islands, as
Lighthouse Engineer, and in the Blu
reau of Public Lands; four men are
connected with the great railroads, as
inspectors or in construction work, one
having charge of particularly difficult
piece of mountain tunnelling and grad
ing for the Canadian Pacific; three are
practicing as independent civil en-
gineers in their own state and others
are scattered through the western
states in the same capacity. This tells
what the Civil Engineering Depart
ment has done what it will do in the
future must be mapped on larger
scale. A second instructor has been
added during the year, and now special
attention is paid to the most advanced
problems Of modern engineering. Rail
way engineering and hydraulics are of
first Importance at present on account
Of the development of
Railways and Irrigation Works
n Idaho; and in the department
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-06-19

ton of crops, and list the varieties of
winter wheat most suitable for dry
farming.
Throughout the United States there
is now an increasing demand for teach
ers who are prepared to give instruc-
ton in agriculture in the high schools.
The high school superintendent of Ida
no are awake to this movement. To
meet this demand for instructors, the
members of the faculty of the College
of Agriculture, in cooperation with the
Department of Pedagogy, announce
brief courses of instruction in methods
of teaching the different subjects in
cluded in an agricultural course, where
the intending teacher of agriculture
may receive instruction in normal
methods. 1t is the intention of the
Regents also to provide sound second
airy education in agriculture, fitting
teachers for nature study and elemen-
tary teaching of agriculture in the ru-
raj schools. In this plan the prepare
tory school will connect the 9Th grade
Of the public school with the College of
and intending students of
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IDAH0'S GREATEST
STATE INSTITUTION
What 1t Is. What 1t Has. What 1t Does.

There is not citizen of Idaho but be-
lieves in the future greatness of the
state. New possibilities are continual
ly opening before us; wider promises
are appearing everywhere. Idaho with
much already written in her history is
'asest at the beginning of her career.
And the men and women who shall
shape this future are now being edu-
the system of public education, in the
grammar and high schools, State Nor
mails and Academy of Idaho, and in the
State University. We are warranted
then in speaking of this chiefest insti-
tuition of learning, that has such re-
sponsibility in relation to the future
welfare of the state, as the greatest
among her Institutions. This is the
thought that greets visitor and student
alike as they enter the main portal of
the University, on the tablet within the
great stone arch of the new Admins
tration Building. 1t reads:
ERECTED BY
THE COMMONWEALTH OF
IDAHO
FOR THE TRAINING OF HER
FUTURE CITIZENS
TO HIGHEST USEFULNESS IN
PRIVATE LIFE AND
PUBLIC SERVICE
The Administration Building when
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this west of the Missouri river and it is
equalled only by those used in the u.
S. Forest Service in California and
Washington. Heavy timbers from the
mills, building stone from the quarries
and concrete samples from work under
construction are brought here from the
various sections of the state and broken
or crushed in the different machines,
and the young engineers become famil-
lar with the building values of the ma
terials with which they must work in
after years. The Forest Service has
entered into an agreement with the
University of Idaho for cooperation
in
Timber Testing.
The University provides in adj
dition to the great machine
already noted a smaller testing
machine, drying oven, circular saw
and planer. The Forest Service will
send to the University each year one of
its engineers to engage in testing the
of Idaho timber and super
wise the testing work done by the Uni
versity. The results of these tests
will be published by the cooperating
parties simultaneously. Thus a new
of Forestry will be added
to the University which will be of in
Importance as Idaho 5 untouch-
ed forests are cut and put on the mar
kets during the coming years.
Professor Sheldon, a Wisconsin Uni
versity man, and afterward connected
with several of the great electrical
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to visit. All the appliances for deter
mining the elements that enter into the
soils, waters, grains, fruits, etc., are
in daily use. There many problems are
solved and lessons learned and given to
the public that in former days were
found out by the farmer for himself
only after expensive experimenting,
and failures of crops and running of
land, and the other hard lessons of
experience.
The Experimental Flour Mill was
built with the same end in view, and
good progress has already been made
in ascertaining what varieties of wheat
are best adapted to Idaho soils, are
most profitable to grow, and contain
the most valuable food ingredients.
The Experiment Station Farm is the
laboratory of the Horticultural and
Agronomist. There the students learn
their best lessons, while their hands
are busy, and incidentally, by work on
the farm, help to support themselves
while carrying on their studies.
Some of the most valuable investiga-
ton done by the University in further
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Mechanical Engineering Department Woodworking Shop

department plans to teach the care OF
the health and the prevention of ply
steal deterioration, as well as to train
athletes for the various college and
intercollegiate contests.
The athletic fame of the University
of Idaho has been placed high on the
roll Of western schools by her cham
pionship football team of 1907, and just
at present it is listed for more distant
fame by Edmundson, the Idaho runner
who has defeated everyone in the
West, and is most promising candi-
date for the American team that will
represent this country in the Olympic
games at London next month. Ed
mundson's extraordinary work is done
in the quarter and half mile dashes.
Next to the Administration Building,
Morrill, Hall is the newest of the Uni
versity group, and is located at the
northern extremity of the campus on
the crown of hill with a splendid out
look over the city of Moscow and the
uplands and mountains beyond. Each
of the agricultural departments has a
suitable suite Of rooms devoted to its
recitation work, laboratories, and col
lections. The Dairy Department is
fully equipped with the apparatus
needed in producing
Butter and Cheese
Of the highest grade, in the most eco
1omical way. The dairying courses
are proving popular with the young
men, and the graduates of the depart
nent are all in good positions in trade
where the supply of good men is far
hort of the demand.
The laboratories Of the Agricultural I
chemist are a most interesting place