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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08
Notes on the Fair.
BY MRS. BERRYHILL.

Now that our county fair has come
and gone and Mr.. MILFORD Farris has
nothing to do but snatch few hours
repose and begin thinking OF the next
one, which, we trust, will be as nice, all
those ladies and gentlemen who entered
exhibits and failed to capture ribbons OF
of any color whatever have ample time
to look to their laurels for next year.
The lady that admire most is not the
one who came away, fairly brlstllng with
ribbons until she looked like a proud
and happy sky-blue poodle. (Her shirt
waist was plain and unassuming when
she arrived, but when she unplnned her
ribbons it must have looked like open
work But she is the lady, who, time
after time, has entered exhibits, failed
to capture any prize, had her husband
make sarcastic remarks about the judges
and told him to go on about his busl-
ness and goes on about hers. She is
always optimistic, and is the opposite in
every way of the other lady who tramp
ed angrily i'll to receive her needlework
which failed to win fame and renoWn In
spite of the best efforts of her neighbors,
gave Mr.. and Mrs. Farris, Mr.. and Mrs.
Wade, Mrs. Dahnke, Mrs. and Miss
Whipple Mr.. and Mrs. Harris Parks
one whitening glance of scorn and froze
them with the bitter words | amt
never going to enter nothing in this
hateful fair no more 1t never brought
me nothing"
J 1t brought the children something
opening day to all appearances. II
must have brought the Pike" men
something. The Ferris Wheel was kept
busy. and its revolutions revealed the
dusty and happy limbs of childhood
trembling with ecstasy, but every seat
filled. The sandwich and say-so"
men did big business. The suave and
gracious Japs handed out all sorts of art
objects over their bowling counters
The palmist had tents full of susceptible
Young ladies at all hours. The race
track was the best, the horses were the
finest, the pumpkins were the biggest
the weather was delightful. There coulc
not have been nicer fair.
The chicken display was not as grea
as it should have been. A pen o
games very rare in Union City,
think = was noticeable. These bird
seemed cramped in their close quarters
They were very interesting. The Barr
ed Plymouth Rocks were heavy AND
healthy looking and nicely marked
The Buff fowls, the smaller ones, seem
ed to have been well cared for, a thin'
that shows in animals and birds NOR
than in people. A raiser of Buff Or
Ipingtons was trying to make me beliey
his favorite hens made better layers an
, mothers than Plymouth Rocks. Whel
he failed miserably he Web, th
Bluffs look so pretty in the green grass.
was wondering what we would do if W
5 had no grass, when lady, busiiy en-
t gagged in poking the geese to hear then
hiss, remarked, What 0bion Count
wants with chickens is to cat them.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08

there conveyed to her home, Elbridge.
Misses Ina Hudson, Myrtle Howard
and Valley Fields were nominated and
received very hattering complimentary
votes from their friends, but did not
desire to remain in the contest, so had
their names withdrawn.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08
The Soldiers Ride at the Fair.

]. D. Hughes won the cane and A.
L. Brevard the watch fob offered by the
John B, Gordon Chapter, U. D. G., at
the fair here last week to the best horse
man among the Confederate Veterans,
privates only being allowed to enter.
The presents were both very beautiful
and the chapter has added largely to
the success of the fair in this contest.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08
PIANOS AWARDED.

The Commercials Popular Girl Vot-
ing Piano Contest closed Saturday al
6 o'clock, and the pianos were awarded
early Monday morning by the gentle
men who had kindly consented to
referee the job, Col John A. Hefey,
cashier of the Union City Bank and
Trust Co., and Mai Walter Howell,
cashier of the First National Bank
Results:
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08
Assisted by local talent will appear Reynolds Opera House
Tonight Friday October s, in Dramatic Recital

ever strive to develop the kindly feeling
of Friendship, Love and Truth.
The wives of Odd Fellows, come for
ward and join Obion Rebeccah Lodge
No. "a. Respectfully,
Mrs. LILLE B. PURsER.
1874 South Main street, Memphis.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08

The first four composed the city
contest and the three last named were
contesting in the county contest. Miss
PAGES piano was sent to her home and
the other one shipped to 0bion, from
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08
Married.

James Bunch and Miss Bessie ellis
were happily married in this city at
Esq. Sacra's court this week-on We'd
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08

Upholstering, Furniture repairing,
Mattress renovating. Shop over Pearl
Cafe. Phone 49. r. L. CARMAN. 2t
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
A HMlte.n

The difficulties experienced by our
forefathers in trying to reckon money
in very small proportions appear in
the various value given to mite"
in the sixteenth and seventeenth CEN
tury books of commercial arithmetic.
The original mite" seems to have
oeen a third of Flemish penny, but
the use Of the word for the widows
coin of the New Testament made its
regular English meaning half farth-
ing, and some old people may remeDl-
Der applying the name to the short
lived nineteenth century coins Of that
value. In those old arithmetic books
mite" stands for various values not
represented by actual coins, but OBJ
viously used in reckoning. work Of
1905 makes it one-twelfth of penny,
two sixteenth century books one
sixth of farthing, and in 1874 Jeake's
arithmetic made 1t as little as one
sixty-fourth Of penny.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
Many Women Are IIIiterate.

There are said to be between 70 and
80 per cent. of illiterate women in the
provinces in Italy south of Rome.
Above this line many intelligent wom-
en- are engaged in professional work
and are highly educated. The femin-
ist movement in Italy is going very
slowly owing to this fact, but royal
commission has recently been engaged
in studying it, and there is hope for
the future in the minds of those in
terested.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
Reduced Cost Of Maeadam.

Macadam roads have long been &C
cepted as the standard Of highway
construction. But macadam roads OF
the old pattern, with crushed stone
eight inches thick, cost from $4,000 to
$4,000 per mile. Now it has been
found that three or four inches will
do quite as well, and the cost is cut
squarely In two. In some parts Of the
central States, where crushed stone
is rare, it has been found that the
very clay which makes the roads al
most impossible is the best Of track
making material when burned. In
yet other regions the farmers have
discovered how to make good roads
by the simple expedient Of rolling or
dragging them after each rain, and
in yet other places a mixture Of sand
and clay, costing $500 or $400 per
mile, is found almost as good as the
best macadam.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
A Bear Just Misses Revenge.

Herman Russell, a farmer of Hud-
son township, had thrilling escape
from a den of bears the other day,
says a Boyne City (Mich.) dispatch
to the Chicago Inter Ocean. While
driving along the road his watchdog
secuted a cub and Herman, seeing the
little fellow decided that it would
make good pet.
He accordingly went over to the
cub, but when he attempted to pick
him up he was confronted by big
mother bear, who put up fight. Her
man took to the first tree, which was
a small sapling. Mrs. Bruin sized up
the situation, then deliberately g;-aw-
ed the sapling until it broke.
Russell was saved by falling into
the branches Of larger tree.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
VACANT PEW PROBLEM.
An Indiana Man Has Given q Practl-
cal Hint Of Solution.

An Indiana Man Has Given q Practl-
cal Hint Of Solution.
Indiana, land Of novelties, poets,
and philosophers, and much else in
life that is good and great, is again
In the limelight. A wealthy farmer
out there has presented his pastor
sixty acres of land, valued at $125 per
acre, because he made his sermons
short and to the point. Here is food
for thought for those before the pulpit
as we'll as those behind. The presen-
tation of this land is equal to a raise
of salary. There is no doubt that
short sermons would help to Ill va
cant pews, and possibly Indiana has
started a movement that may become
universal.
The Hoosier State has done many
admirable things besides producing
James Whitcomb Riley. She may be
the means Of solving the vacant pew
problem, besides bringing church sal
aries up to a more satisfactory and
just elevation. Not exactly, ''the
shorter the sermon the greater the
salary" but, rather, "the longer the
sermon the shorter the salary" Indi-
ana, her pastor, and her farmer are
to be congratulated.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
ROADS~,9s5!z.1G] ! 4 !
ROADMAKlNG
=. 4-.>S r~.'1s'Np~
WHAT POOR ROADS COST.
Put An Added Annual Expense on
Farmers of 5000 OoO, 900.

Put An Added Annual Expense on
Farmers Of $500, 100000.
It cost little over a billion dollars
to haul the farm crops of America. to
market last year. With good roads,
roads such as are to be found in some
parts of America and in all parts OF
France, the marketing of the crops
would have cost $400,000,000. Six
hundred million dollars per year,
then, is the price we pay in this land
Of the free for having impossible
roads. Did ever a nation spend so
much for so doubtful a luxury be-
before? With American roads lying
open and fathomless before the eyes
of our foreign critics, what monstrous
injustice 1t is to talk of American
dollar worship!
Most men of middle age can recall
the annual picnic known as mending
the roads. Just why it got that name
no one has ever explained, for in
practically every case the picnic left
the roads In worse condition than be-
fore. The law in many States pre-
scribed that each resident Of a rural
district must pay certain road tax
in labor each year. The payment of
this tax was done under the super
vision Of local officer known as the
pathmaster. The customary time Of
payment was In the early summer,
Just before haying time, when there
wasn't much else for the men and
teams to do. The neighborhood turn
ed out with horses and plows and
harrows, ripped up divers sections of
highway which the years travel had
packed to a more or less navigable
condition, rounded them up nicely in
the middle, scratched them smooth
with the harrows. You were never
expected to work very hard at these
festive occasions, and the pathmaster
who insisted on real work soon found
himself unpopular. 1t was just as
well, for since nobody had any real
notion of roadmaking, the more work
the worse results.
What some Of those results were
and are we have vivid testimony,
Across Iowa last winter the racing
autos had to take to the railroad
tracks, because the common roads
were simply impossible.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
Very Steep Railway.

What claims to be the steepest rail.
way line In the world is that recently
opened near Bozen, in the Tyrol. The
Mendel railway, with a gradient Of "a
in 100, and the Vesuvian, with 63,
have hitherto held the record. But
the new line in its steepest part rises
70 in 100 and in other parts sc.
It leads up the mountainside to
Virgil Terrace, on the River Eisach.
The system employed is that Of the
electrical wire rope and the ascent is
made at the rate of five feet second,
or five minutes for the whole distance.
The car of four compartments carries
32 passengers.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
Interested In Good Roads Issue.

The farmer, the business man and
the working man are interested In
good roads. Highways that are pass
able at all seasons mean not only
more remunerative and expeditions
marketing Of crops, but insure an end
to the isolation which often Is the
bane of rural living, more especially
to the farmers wife and daughters
Good roads will increase the pros
perity Of the farmer, and thus contri.
butte to the general business prosper
ity. The fact that railroads are ar
dent advocates of good roads, as well
as of improved interior waterways, Is
sufficient evidence that business men
generally will profit through them as
well as the farmer.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26

According to the Saturday Evening
Post, this is story heard with much
glee by congress during the last days
of the Roosevelt administration:
During the recent cold spell in
Washington, man, shivering and
ragged, knocked at the door of K
street house and said to the lady:
please, madam, give me something
to eat. l am suffering severely from
exposure"
you must be more specific" the
lady replied. Are you a member OF
the senate or of the house?"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
Every sectIon Interested.

New York State is preparing to
spend $5O,O00,OO0 on roads. In Cali
fornia, Los Angeles county is con-
sidering the raising OF $4,000. 900 for a
similar purpose. In Colorado, $50
miles of mountain roads around Colo
RADIO Springs are to be improved.
Michigan and Massachusetts have
made plans for extensive highway
work. From coast to coast the peo-
pie are interested in the subject.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
A Popular Project.

Cities are finding 1t good business
to improve the roads leading out into
the farming region; the farmers are
beginning to tax themselves in ra-
tional fashion for highway improve
ment, and many philanthropists have
passed by the conventional college
and library donation to spend their
surplus funds on good roads. Historic
mudholes are being slowly filled up,
stone and concrete are replacing the
crazy wooden bridges, and a hundred
inventions have been made to help
get the best results for the lowest ex-
penSe.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
In Chicago. Of Course.

A mother hid her $500 worth Of
Jewels in her little daughters slipper,
forgot all about 1t and the next day
threw the slipper into the garbage
can. OF course, 1t happened in Chi
cago, says the New York Herald.
Where else would a child's slipper
hold all those gems?
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
Vastly improved.

The roads Of America are vastly
better than they once were. and the
Improvement Is going on apace. The
United States government Is lending
a hand by setting It's spare scientists
to work teaching the people Of differ
ent regions how to make the best
roads at the least cost. The States
are doing vastly more.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
SATURDAY
NIGHT TALKS
ny REV. r. <. DAWSON
RutlsRd, VI
BACKBONE.
international Bible Lesson for
Nov. a8, 'oo] Rom. "a: To-2Il.

There a r Q
three classes Of
people in every
commun 1 ty -
those with q
straight back
bone, those with
a crooked back
bone, and those
with no backbone
at all. The first
class can bend
backward or for
ward, to the right
or the left, or
stand erect and
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26

Peter Thorn OF Barre has a Scotch
thistle in his garden which has
reached over eight feet in height.
The seed from which the thistle was
grown was obtained from thistles
growing on the grave of Robert
Burns.-Deerfield Valley Times.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26

Clean feeding pals. clean quarters.
plenty OF sunlight. fresh air and pas
turAge as soon as the calves are old
Snoegh win insure gratifzipE -Enccaana
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26

The frst performance Of Italian
opera in the United States was given
In New York City in 1925, Rossini's
Barber OF Seville"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
H0NESDAlE NATIONAL BANK

HoNEsDALE. WAYNE COUNTY. PA.
= At the close Of business, Nov. I6, 1909.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
For sslse.Ion Of Friends.

For Selection Of Friends.
The Chinese proverb 10 If you don't
belong TO the family. don't co into
the house" Seek friends who enjoy
you.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-02-27
ACTIVE WORK AGAINST
GREAT WHITE PLAGUE
Northern Minnesota, Especially
st. Louis County, Leads in -
War Upon tuberculosis.
Prospect Of Early Establishment
Of County Hospitals for Con-
sumptives.

During the last two months a wave
OF public sentiment has been passing
over st. Louis county in the wake Of
the States Anti-tuberculosis exhibit
The reedlessness Of the 173 deaths
from tuberculosis Ga larger proportion
than In the state at large) last year
credited to that county, has been
brought home to the people in scores
of stirring addresses and convincing
editorials. The Duluth Evening Her
ald," which has led the newspapers
Of the county in the campaign against
the "Great Destroyer" says editorially,
THAT something definite is going to be
accomplished in St. Louis county for
the prevention and cure Of tubercu-
losis Is certain. The matter is excit-
ing comment and stirring discussion
everywhere.
During the two months educational
campaign under the direction Of the
State Board Of Health, aided by the
Minnesota Association for the Pre-
vention of tuberculosis, which reached
al parts Of st. Louis county except the
extreme western section, and also ad-
jacent parts Of Lake and Carlton
counties. Seventeen thousand persons
visited the exhibits and attended the
lectures held in connection with them,
and many thousands Of educational
leaflets were distributed. Committees
on the prevention Of tuberculosis were
organized In each city. The Dulutrn
committee has already raised about
1,o00-enough to insure the employ
ment Of at least one nurse to visit in
the homes of poor consumptives. Con-
trfbut1ons toward summer camp
have been promised.
But the principal definite accom-
plishment mas been the arousing of an
overwhelming public sentiment in
favor Of a county hospital for the ad-
vanced cases. The State Sanitarium
at Walker will receive only early and
hopeful cases. This leaves the chronic
and advanced cases, which are great
ly in the majority and many Of whom
are homeless and destitute and the
source of great danger, without pro-
vision. st. Louis county is going to
see that this lamertable state of af-
fairs does not continue as far as the
care Of its own 1000 consumptives is
concerned.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-02-27
RELATION OF: CHURCH
TO MODERN SOCIALISM
Entire Want Of Unanimity Among
Socialists as to System and
Program.
Sixth of a Series Of Contributions
BY the Rev. Charles <.
Stetzle.

The church cantot' accept and .ad-
vocate. socialism beeause, even the So
clalists are not:agreed among them
selves as to just What they. want nor
how their plans Yil4ewor]3 *out.: ~ tt ia
true that they, ~naye adopted a. plat
form Of principles i or rather::s they
have Indicated a. series Of, objects
which are to be attained, but when it
comes to the method whereby this
most desirable situation is to be
brought about, there is not quite the
unani1nity of agreement which one
would expect to find in a perfect So
cial system. Very frequently I have
had the experience in presenting to
one socialist the views advocated by
another, Of having him say to me:
'That man doesn't know what social
ism is. I will tell you what socialism
stands for and how it is to be brought
into existence" If there is this variety
Of opinions among 1.-THE socialists, how
can, they expect, the church to adopt
their economic system. until they
know more definitely as a, body what
they desire the church to advocate. AS
will be indicated later, the church al
ready stands for, the most desirable
things advocated, by the socialists. 1t
has been only too true that there
have been .'iivisicns in the church an1
there are still many sucn divisions
too many o. thenn--but: the tendency
today is all ir: the. opposite direction.
The churches are getting closer to-
gether as was manifested by the re-
cent meeting in Philadelphia of the
Federal Council of the Church OF
Christ in America, which, represented
SO denominations and nearly 10000
600 members. BY adopting a social
which would not be satisfactory to
large numbecs who are both inside
and outside Of the Church., there
would again be brought about a SER
ious split in the church more grevious
than ever before, and instead Of
there being 90 denominations, there
would probably be az least twice as
many. If the church has learned any,
thing in recent times, it has been the
foolishness Of division and it does not
propose to adopt any economic sys-
tenn which will Enthusiastically again
rend the church. in pieces: The
church has made. mistakes, but here is
a mistake it would be folly to repeat.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-02-27
ANOTHER HARD BLOW
DIRECTED AT LABOR:
:. 81 81
BY Supreme Court Justice Mills at
White Plains, New York State = !

NEW YORK, Feb 1s.-The courts
dealt another blow at labor unions
Tuesday when Supreme Court Justice
Mdlls, at White Plains, ruled that Dis
trict Council No. Is, Of the Interna-
tional Association Of Ma,chinists must
pay $3,847 to the Jones Speedometer
company to reimburse the latter for
the expense OF guards for strikebreak-
ers and special detectives caused by "a,
strike Of the former.
The suit was brought by Joseph W..
Jones as president of the Jones Speed
ometer company, which has a large
factory at New Rochelle and another
in New York. 1t was directed against
George M. Maher. as president of Dis
tr1ct Lodge No. Is of the International
Association of Machinists. Local No.
46O was made co-defendant, as were
several members Of the local and lis
tr1ct lodges.
A strike was called in March, 1907,
| to obtain the reinstatement of five
foremen VINO were discharged. because
Of their loyalty to the union. The
company then made a contract with a
detective agency for supply of
strikebreakers and special detectives.
After being fleeced by the detective
agency the company decided to wiring
their loss from the union.
It is believed that if the decision of
Judge Mills will be upheld it will
work forse havoc with the labor
unions than the Danbrry Hatters' de-
cision, whic hconfines the damages
liable to loss in trade. That treas
uries flabor unions can be mulcted
to reimburse employers for expenses
incurred in fighting a.. strike ordered
by that union is departure even for
American courts.
/ The ruling of Tuesday is practically
Identical with the famous Taft Vale
decision of England, which was used
for a precedent by British employers
until the workers Of that country uni
ted politically and caused the passing
Of the Trades Disputes act. This law
protects the British workers from such
decisions as rendered at White Plains
Tuesday.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-02-27

and of summary smethods adopted to
suppress the strike. ..
Several thousand Coreans recently
went on strike and the hacienda own
ers asked for an intervention of state
authorities. An order was issued to
imprison the striking. Coreans as
vagabonds. This. had the desired eff
feet and the. Coreans went back to
work. . .-.~ -.
The Coreans were imported to re-
place Chinese coolies who left to try
to smuggle themselves. across the
United States border
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-02-27

States 100000 lives of human beings,
double that number Of COWS and live
stock, and at least one billion dollars
in money every year.