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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-07

No. u. Farm of rs acres, fairly
good dwelling, 2 barns, 3 wells, good
fence, in fine state of cultivation,
one-half mile from Union City.
$110 per acre will buy this land.
Long time and easy payments.
No. IA. One 5-room cottage, To-
Gated OH the east side of Clover ST..
lot 90x220 feet; for $500.
No. Is. Al acres well improved, J
miles south of Rives; nice, new, g.
room house, new barn 30x36, good
Groom tenant house and good out
houses; can be bought for $4,000.
No. 16. 1-story frame dwelling,
situated on the west side of First ST.,
comparatively new, 5 rooms, bar
gain for quick sale at $735.00.
Have with this property vacant
lot 50x100 deep; will sell with. resi-
dence at bargain, part cash and
part time.
Good 2-story house, with lot 70x
250, corner Try and Mercer sts., in
northers part of city, for only So, 900
A two-story frame dwelling on Ex-
change street, lot 90x113 feet. A
beautiful home. Can be bought for
$2.100.
10-acre farm with good 7-room
residence, good 40x42 barn, good
fences; l mile west of city. This is
a nice place and is worth the money
$1,000.
40& IS of fine land, three-quart-
ers of mile from city, in high state
OF cultivation with good barn 50x60.
A beautiful building site. A big bar
gain for $105 per acre.
One 2-story brick building 30x6O,
lot 30x130, on the east side of the M.
& 0. R. R.-$1 500.
118-acre farm three-quarters of
mile northwest of the city; nice two
story frame house; nice barn, and is
a bargain at $105 per acre.
1000 acres of fine land 6 miles
south of Riyes, 200 acres in cuitiva-
tion, rest in timber. Can be bought
at $13 per acre, and is bargain that
will not last long.
No. z. Two cottages, 2 rooms
each, located on Flower ST., lot with
each lot rs K los feet; $3.50. 90 each.
No. 5. 143 acres fine farming land,
81 miles southeast of Riyes, 12S
acres cleared, nice house and good
barnes, under a good fence; can be
bought for $4,000 per acre.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-07
THE COMMERCIAL is DOING ITS BEST 5sE 5s m E'sEsi ssi
DO YOU WANT A HOME?
If You Want to Buy, Sell Exchange City or Coun-
try Property, List it With Forester -Beckham
Forester, Up-to-Date RealEstate Men.
FOR SALE

No, 1. 75-acre farm, 81 miles east
Union City, 4-room house, 20x20
barn shielded all round, good young
orchard, good water, 70 acres in cul-
tivation; can be bought at $50 per
acre. "A bargain for some one
wanting to locate near the city.
No. 2. 100 acres of fine bottum
land, miles southeast of Ridgley;
can be bought at Sol per acre; worth
SEQ as soon as cleared.
No. 8. 105 acres fine land, 2 miles
east OF Rives, 81 acres in cultivation,
15 acres deadened, 2 tenanS houses
and 20x20 barn, good black land,
can be bought at S25 per acre.
No. 4. 700 acres fine bottom land,
in timber, miles west of Obion;
$50 per acre, or "a per acre for the
timber; will exchange it for good
town property.
800 acres good land, well improy-
ed, 100 acres in cultivation, 2-story
house and new barn; 3 miles east Of
Rives, at S40.0 per acre.
Nos. Nice, 2-story frame dwell
ing, lot 1O0x135 feet, on Exchange
street, for 50, 700; most desirable.
part Of the city.
No. 8. One five room cottage on
Ury st., lot 75x150 it, can be bought
for $4,000. This is handsome
little place and will sell soon at the
price.
No. 10. One saw mill at Terrell,
Tenn, consisting of 16-horse power
Advance traction engine, edging saw,
swing cutoff saw, double cob-top
and bottom saw log turner, 80 feet
line shafting, pulleys, belts, ETC.,
good log wagon and chains. Can be
seen in operation any day. 5000.
Two fine farms in Lake County,
11O acres each, well improved, in a
fine state of cultivation. Rents for
So. 90 per acre. For quick sale can
be bought for $45 per acre.
No. Is. One tract of land of IA
acres and AZ poles, elegantly i'm
proved, 2-story dwelling, good barn,
orchard, smokehouse, 2 wells, under
good fence, quarter mile of good
school and church, splendid neigh
borhood, about / mile from Union
City, at a bargain. One-half cash,
balance on time. Can give possess
ion IN next 10 days or two weeks.
One four-room cottage on east side
Of Second street, lot 50x100. Price
$3.50.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-07
HUNTING A LEADER.

Disinterested observers on the outside
of Congress, seeing there no qualifca-
ton of leadership to which the country
may turn with hope or confidence, and
believing that the only warrant of hope
for Democratic, success lies in return
to the issue on which it won its great
victory of 1892, have begun to look else
where than to the personnel of the
party in Congress for national leader
ship. 1t is believed that the majority
of the people of the country are tired of
the Republican protective tariff policy,
and are ready to reject it at the first
clean-cut opportunity. 1t is believed
that no matter what this Congress may
do, the people will make such a change
in the composition of the next House
that there will be no sort of doubt about
the popular will Therefore it is that
there is a deep-running current of ex-
pectancy that leader will be furnished
from among the people.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-07
NOMINATIONS POURING IN
Many Contestants in the Race for
the Two Commercial Pianos.

A few days ago The Commercial an
nounced that it would inaugurate a
Popular Girl Piano Contest for this and
surrounding counties. To encourage
interest and advertise our paper we offer
two beautiful pianos free, each worth
$400, one to 60 to the most popular
girl outside of Union City, the other to
the most popular girl inside Union City.
The plan we hit upon was this: For
every dollar secured by young lady
on the payment of new subscriptions
to The Commercial, 500 votes would be
given, and for each dollar secured on
renewal subscriptions, 400 votes would
be given.
To our great surprise friends of pop
ular girls throughot the county, and in
other counties, began to send in the
names of their girl friends as candi-
dates in the contest. The girls and
their friends have begun to get busy
and as soon as the girls get up to the
line ready to start and the word is given
to go, our friends will see the greatest
race ever inaugurated in Obion.
The voting will be entirely free to all
contestants and will be under the super
vision of two judges whose honesty
integrity and fairness will not be ques-
toned by any.
The pianos when they arrive will be
placed on display at our business houses
which will be announced later, and we
would like to have every one interested
in this contest call and examine these
magnificent $400 pianos.
Receipt books and instructions will
be mailed to all the contestants and if
any one wishes to make additional
nominations they should send in their
names as early as possible so that all
may start equal. Every young lady
entered in this contest will have an
equal chance to win the piano or one
of the special prizes-no more than
one special prize will be awarded any
one contestant.
If you desire further information
write us Or call up phone 103 and we
will be pleased to answer questions.
Candidates for The Commercial s
great piano contest have been nomi-
mated from every portion of this ter
ritory. This is a good thing, because
in this way the girl who canyasses her
own neighborhood the most success
fully is most likely to win the piano.
When there is a large number of candi-
dates it becomes a sweepstakes race, so
TO speak, and it is hardly necessary for
any of the candidates to make an ex-
5ensive canvass over the county.
During The Commercials piano con-
est every new subscriber and every old
subscriber paying in one dollar will re-
'eive as a special premium two farm
ournals, viz: Farm Life (of Chicago
md the Missouri and Kansas Farmer
of Kansas City,. Your dollar pays
or three papers one year during our
ontest. Sample copies of these farm
'apers may be had by calling at The
office. Ask for farm pa
ers when you pay in your dollar, if you
7ish them. No ask, no farm papers.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-07
Smile

is a pretty hard thing to accomplish
when you're blue, bilious and out of
sorts. There is sure cure for all sorts
of stomach and liver complaints con-
stipation and dyspepsia. Ballard s Her
bine is mild, yet absolutely effective in
all cases. Price so cents per bottle at
Mailing Drug Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-07
What Merit win Do,

Meyer Bros. Drug Co., St. Louis,
write; We believe that merit is the
prime factor in creating the demand for
Mendenhall's Chill and Fever Tonic. 1t
ranks among our best sellers. Sold
on signed guaranty by the Red Cross
Drug Store.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-07
BRYAN OUT OF IT.

There is manifest, whenever the sub
iect is discussed among Democrats here,
a pronounced sentiment that the party
must find new leader. Even the most
ardent former followers of William J.
Bryan concede as much, even while un-
certain what Mr.. Bryan himself intends
to do. That he desires again to be a
candidate for President his closest friends
are not prepared to deny. Nevertheless,
there is an unqualified elimination of
Bryan as candidate in all Democratic
discussions, while the expression of hope
that he will lend his best efforts to the
theme upon which he won his first
fame-that of tariff, and leave other
things alone. OF other Democrats whose
names have been used in connection
with heading the national ticket, that
of Judson Harmon, the Governor of
Ohio, is most frequently heard in an
approving way. Robt F. Wolfe, owner
of the Ohio State Journal, Republican,
who is in Washington, said to-day:
Gov. Harmon is making good with
the Ohio people, for he is showing him
self a strong and able executive. He
has demonstrated his breadth and scope
of ability to high degree There is
not the slightest trace of petty politics
in his handling of the reins of execu-
tive authority. He has vetoed several
bills and has had at his back strong
official staff. He is making himself
every day stronger and more popular
with the people. Other than the mat
criticisms to be expected
from partisan Republican sources, prac-
tically every respectable newspaper in
Ohio has commended his course.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-07

w washington, May z.-freclouS llCtle
has been heard of. National Democratic
politics since the assembling of Con
gress in the extra session, and that lit
tie has but vague aspect. Democrats
who have hopes that the party will one
day in the not too remote future take
stock Of principles and undertake their
reassertion have had scent encourage
ment from the conduct of members
disclosed in the tariff discussion. In
the House there was no proposition to
substitute a Democratic measure for the
Payne bill, and in the Senate there has
been no amendment or series of amend
ments proposed to take the place of the
Aldrichized Payne bill. There can
scarcely be said to have so far been a
single Democratic speech which had the
spirit and ring of aggressive assault
upon the Republican principle of pro-
tective tariff. The Democratic leaders
if there have been any such-have been
afraid of their own membership. Too
many Democrats have made Republi-
can arguments in their efforts to obtain
for local industries in their States and
districts some possible benefit to be de-
rived from duties retained or raised. If
the proposition was to lower the tariff
on some product of their own constitu-
ents, they claimed that they were hurt
by discrimination, even though they
held out for a strictly revenue tariff.
Undoubtedly since the debate has been
transferred from the House to the Sen
ate many Southern Democrats have be-
come so obsessed with the idea that the
pending bill is a construction for the
benefit of New EEyland at the expense
of the South tbz.t instead of attacking
the high duties protecting New Eng
land industries they are complaining of
discrimination and asking for some of
the lOOt lOr t9elr OWN region.
PLEAsES REPUBLICANS.
All this has been Of great comfort
and frequent amusement to the veteran
standpatters in the Republican ranks.
They discern that it more than dis
counts any movement for tariff reform
in their own party. What votes they
lose from their own party they see COM
ing over to them augmented from the
Democratic camp. The standpat lead
ers have been confronted with defec-
tions, but the situation, as developed
the Democrats in Congress, has
relieved them of much of the causes of
the anxiety which made them at first
little uncertain of the future.
In the present Congress Republicans
have time and again referred to the
Wilson bill as not affording the benefits
predicted for it. But the Wilson bill,
when it went into effect, was not what
It was when the House Ways and Means
Committee presented it, and as Chair
man Wilson commended it to the coun-
ry. Not even was the income tax fea- /;
,ure unchanged as presented by Repre- '
McMillin, of Tennessee. The S
Senate had changed it so as to have it Q
affective only from 1895 to 1900. The !
United States Supreme Court, by vote q
II 5 to 4, at the October term of 1894, \
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-07
DEMOCRACY rs IN SAD PLIGHT
Rent in Twain by Struggle for Tariff
Loot.

The tariff debate ins House
and Senate during the extra ses
sion of Congress has revealed a
woeful abandonment of bedrock
Democratic principles on the part
of many members in both branch
es. Anxiety to secure some share
of the tariff loot has caused Con-
gressmen and Senators to depart
widely from the ancient tenets of
their party, and Republicans have
been hugely tickled by the protec-
zionist speeches made by men sent
to Washington to represent DEM
ocratic constitu encies. These
things have set thoughtful men
outside of Congress to wondering
if there is not in the rank and file
of the party some man who meas
ures up to leadership ~ one who
can lead Democracy back to its
old moorings. Bryan is not even
remotely considered, but Judson
Harmon, now Governor of Ohio,
is most frequently mentioned with
approval.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-07
POPULAR VOTING CONTEST
I hereby nominate or suggest the nam
Address

as lady worthy to become candidate
in your POPULAR GIRL VoTING CONTEST.
| present this name with the distinct
understanding and agreement that the
editor shall not divulge my name. This
does not obligate me in any way what
soever.
Signed ned------------------------
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-03-04

nose on a sand fiat and there she
stuck. was afraid Of that tide all
along.
I tried to got her on with the oar.
but TWAS no 60. Then pulled the
skin alongsIde-the one we'd been
towing astern-and got into that and
tried that way. But that wouldn't
work either. Finally jumped over.
board up to my waist and then got
her of.
But she stuck again Rfors we got
out Of the cove. ! splashed and
showed and worked for another half
hour or so, the wind dying out and the
fog drifting in. Time l got her afoat
this time and had listened 10 q steady
stretch Of Van Brunt's lazy sarcasms.
my temper was worn 10 Bhoe-strings.
Consarn the man! II didn't seem to
make no difference to him whether he
got home that night or a week from
then.
We got out OF that blessed cove
and into the channel somewheres
around six o'clock. Then twas a dead
beat home and the breeze pretty nigh
gone. A few minutes. and the fog
shut down on US. wet and thick and
heavy IA ever l see r. We poked
along for an hour or so more and
then twas most dark and We want
half way to Wellmouth. Lord James
in his usual position. hanging on to
the centerboard and moving his head
from one side TO tother as II he was
afraid of being hit when he want
looking I'd pretty nigh scalped him
with the boom once or twice and
now he ducked whenever the tlller
squeSked. lie certainly looked like
statue OF misery In fountain, with
the fog dripping of his side.whiskers
Van was stretched out on the locker
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-03-04

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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-03-04

When have passed the bloom OF life
And youth has brushed ms by.
] would not speed by racing tide
To shores where frothing breakers ride
To surge until l die!
When 1 have spent my strength and skill
And meet the tide OF Drawn.
i would not strain to vie for place,
But yield to combers In the race
My plunging days are gone!
When longer grow my shades Of life.
fain would hear the call
OF gentle rivers in their play
Where I may idly float away
Unto the End Of All!
The grace AJAX Is merely this;
That still my heart shall cling
To faith and Eest. In clear delight
That other men may wage the fight
where'er the tocsins ring.
o. o o
Mother Batch.
II the average woman would sleep
with her feet in the ice box. lot of
us married fellers could save a heap
Of money on ice.
Her name was Miss Dorothy Grace.
Now It is Mrs Josiah Ezra SIdebot.
tom. Lord, how she must have loved
that man!
know a man who makes out lists
Of flowers to plant. puts them away
carefully and forgets where. When he
misses them, he makes an awful fuss
because his wife has mislaid his data.
Shh! I'm the man! I'm just writing
this to please my wife. She hasn't
got over being sore yet. No. not yet!
II Is surprising how bad a good
cigar can taste when a man Is feeling
that way,
II mans salary would only grow
as fast as his coal pile grows less.
what happy world this would be.
o o O
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-03-04
SYNOPSIS.

Mr.. Solomon Pratt began comicaI mar
Eation OF story, introducing well.to-do
Nathan ScuddeT OF his town. and Edward
Van Brunt and Martin Hartley. two rich
New Workers. seeking rest. Because OF
latter pairs lavish expenditure OF money
Pratte hrst impression was connected
with unRticS. The arrival OF James
Hopper, Van Brunta valet, gave Pratt
the desired Information about the New
s.pmsd The S wanio ig ~" VEN nA sr Tn
q was learned, was the Hucesssfui sutton
for the hand OF Miss Agnes Page, who
gave Hartley Up. The Heavenlies" hear
a long story OF the domestic woes Of
Mrs. Hannah Jane Purvis, their cook ana
maid Of all work Decide 10 let her 20
and engage Sol. Pratt ~ chef. Twins
agree 10 leave Nate Scudder's abode and
begin unavaiiing search for another
1omicile, Adventure at Fourth OF July
celebration at EaStwtch, Hartley rescued
q boy. known N "Reddy." from under q
horses feet and the urchin proved TO be
one OF Mise Pages charges, whom she
had taken to the country for an outing.
Miss Page and Hartley were separated
during deFco storm. which followed tho
picnic.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-03-04

split into pieces. sasns ~ . rotten
topsI The Dora Bassett heeied over
TIL I thought she was going on her
beam ends. HIS lordship turned loose
yell like q tugboat whistle. lets go
the tiller and dives headfrst into the
cockpit amldshipa. As for me. was
swinging over the side with my whole
weight on the iib downhAul. paving
air with my feet. and trying to get
back my balance.
That downhaul was old and some
rotten. II broke and I went overheard
with a howl and o splash.
went down far enough TO begin TO
see glImpses Of that blue place l was
speaking OF Just now. Then paved
up for air. When my head stuck out
OF water there was something big
and black swooping past II. l made
q grab and caught hold. As luck would
have II twas the skin we was towing
astern.
climbed into that skiR like q cat
up n tree. was full Of salt water
eyes and all-but could see the Dora
Bassett Topping ahead OF me with her
gaff halfway down her mast. Seems
the ballard had broken Just after the
downhaul did.
reared, a sputtering kind Of roar
And then Vans head stuck out over
the sloop's stern.
God sakes!" says he. Are you
drowned?"
Drowned" l hollers. Think I'm
a pesky lubber Just cause you"
had TO stop here to cough. was q
regular tank, as you might say. OF salt
water.
Good heavens!" says Van. DC
they always do that-boats. I mean? ?
Always do Twas SO mad at myself
and all creation that l could scarcely
answer. "oh, suffering mighty! Il
-, ever go to sea again with a parce
Of Catch a hold Of that tiller! Brinl
her into the wind! Cast of that main
sheet! Cast II on! Here comes
another onel"
suppose mainsheets are kind o
scarce on the Street" Anyhow
see that he didn't know what meant
THAT rope at the stern" hollers
dancing around in the skin. Gas
II OF! Lively!"
The second squall struck us. Sc,
the Dora Bassett drive OF in 4 sweep
ing half circle. the end OF the boon
knocking the tops Of the waves L
pieces and the spray flying like |
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-03-04

blowing smoke rings and spouting
poetry. I'D been too busy TO tell him
a word about his girls being in the
neighborhoOd. Fact is. didn't like
the feel Of things. believed there was
wind coming.
See here" says I. finally. "one of
you fellers' II have to go for'ard and
keep an eye out for shoals. We're on
the edge OF the channel here and l
want TO be in deep water afore a
squall hits us. I cal'late there's one
pretty nigh due"
His lordship Just stared at me fishy.
eyed and pitiful. As for Van, he went
on reciting something about being on
the sea, with the blue above and the
blue below" He want going to stir
not him.
Look here" says. IF we strike
a sand bar and a squat strikes us at
the same time wen go below. way
down. where It's a big sight bluer
than It's here, 'cording to the minis
ter's tell. Go for'ard ON lookout. won't
your"
So he went, though doubt IL he'd
have known q bar when he see ono
not that kind anyway.
Pretty soon the breeze give out
altogether. And then, from OF In the
distance. heard a noise. n rushing
roaring kind Of noise.
''Harkl" yells. DO you hear that
Here she comesl Down with the jib
Haul on that rope. Mr.. Var. win youi
No, no! Tother oRel T'other onel
Godfrey scIssorsl Here you opper;
hang on 70 that tillerl Keep her Just
As she a."
made q long arm, grabbed thai
valet man By the collar. yankod hin
into the sternsbeess and iammcd th'
tiIler into his hand. Then took I
tying leap forard where the TwlI
was trying 70 cast loose the peak hal
Hard, having a notion. It seeneds thai
Il ought 70 belong to the iib.
The squalI struck az, The fol
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-03-04

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