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Coal at summer rates. Call $50.
Nashville Musician Complimented.

1t is always gratifying to the public
to hear of home talent being compli.
mented and honored, and especially
when it is done deseryedly, as is in the
following instance. Mrs. G. 0. Sum
mitt, who, it will be remembered, was
Miss Dickson Sanding before her mar
riage, musician of exceptional talent
and skill, and who has had the ability
of composer, is being complimented to-
night by Mr.. Kopp. One of her COM
positions, called The Sans souci Rag, :"
was submitted to him, and being i'm
pressed with it, he has made an or
chestral arrangement of the selection,
and in compliment to the composer and
her marked talent, is placing it on his
program for this evening. Nashville
American.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-08-20
MINNICK.
Health is good.

Health is good.
A little shower would b. welcome.
MIR. Lum Cunningham was in town
this week.
Our school is getting along fine under
the supervision of Prof. V. G. Adams.
Prof. r. HI. Bond and Mrs. Laura
Bond have a twelve pound boy at their
home.
Mr.. ]. S. Glover has a second CROP of
grapes growing on the same vine. The
first crop having been gathered off.
The crops are all laid by and the next
thing on program is for us all to 60 to
meeting. We are not going afoot or
horseback like our fathers used to do.
with jeans pants and home-spun dresses
as our fathers and mothers used to
wear. But the most of us 60 in buggies
and few in wagons and all go with a
Joyous faces and fine clothes and
thankfulnes is written in every line of
their faces and well may they praise the
great God of Heaven for giving them
such an abundance of crop and high
prices for everything.
Come out in the country in the sum
mertime,
When the luscious fruit is hanging in
its prime,
When the birds are singing in the
month of May
lis sweet land of love and sweet
liberty. HooL1GAN.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-08-20
NONRESIDENT Attachment Notice.

L. A. Ward vs.. E. 7. Jernigan ct ais.
Chancery Court, Obion County, Tenn.
In the above styled cause it appearing
to me, the undersigned G. A. Gibbs,
Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court
OF Obion County, Tennessee. from the
bill OF complaint which is sworn to- that
the defendant, E. T. Jernigan, is non
resident of the State of Tennessee. so
that the ordinary process of law cannot
be served upon him, and it further APP
pearing from the said bill that the said
+. L. Jernigan is indebted to l.. A.
Ward, complainant, and a writ of at
tachment having been issued and levied
on all the right, title and interest, legal
and equitable, of the defendant, E. t.
Jernigan, in the following described
parcel or tract of land, lying and being
in the Eleventh Civil District of Obion
County, Tenn, and bounded and de-
scrlbed as follows, to-wit: Beginning
at a stake in Glasgow's north line. A.
q. Vests southwest corner, running
thence north with Vests west line $50
pOiSo W o obthC Ill lilG SOuIll BOUNDARY
slne of John Dickey with maple and
sNeet gum pointers, the northwest cor
ner OF the said west tract. Thence west
with the said Dickey 100 poles to an
elm, with gum and maple pointers,
Holloman's northwest corner in Dick
ey's line, thence south with Holloman's
eastsline $50 poles to an iron stake. Hol-
loman s southeast corner. Thence east
100 poles to the beginning.
The said E. I. Jernigan is therefore
hereby ordered to appear before the
5hancery Court OF Obion County. to be
held in the Chancery Court room in the
at Union City, Tenn, on the
First Monday in October, 1909.
md plead, answer or demur to the bill
lied against him, or the same will be
AIKEN as confessed by him, and the
'ause set for hearing ex parte as to him.
1t is further ordered that publication
If this notice be made in The CONNER
'ial, weekly paper published in Union
hty, Tenn, for four consecutive weeks.
This Aug. IA, 1909.
G. A. GIBBS,
,2s2-4t Clerk and Master.
by Geo. A. Gibbs, Jr., D. C. & NJ.
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The Census Work.

No one can doubt that President TAT
is DESTROYS of having the sensus of 1915
made as accurate as possible and that
the census work should not in any re-
spect be affected by political or partisan
influence. His letter to the Secretary
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor indicates this desire and his de-
termination to divest the census work
of political significance and bias. He
says in this letter that the census sys-
tenn can easily be perverted to politi-
cal purposes if the supervisors are not
| forbidden to use it as an instrument for
influencing local and general elections
and primaries in the interest of partic-
ular candidates or parties, - and he
orders that in the regulations for tax
ing the census prepared by the Depart
ment, a provision shall be embodied
that any supervisor or enumerator
who uses his influence with his sub
ordinates or colleagues to assist any
party or a candidate in primary or
general election, or who takes any part,
other than merely casting his vote, in
politics, national, State or local, either
by service upon political committee,
by public address, by the solicitation of
votes or otherwise, shall at once be dis
missed from the service. -
This is a highly commendable order
and should be rigidly enforced, but it
seems apparent that while it represents
the true spirit and desire of the Presi-
dent, it was suggested by the fact that
the President had been swerved by lead
ing men of his party from his original
intention of making the appointments
of supervisors less narrowly confined to
one political party. In other words, it
seems that the President has been in
iuced to take more into consideration
he accustomed party policy in making
hose appointments than he would have
lone had he followed his personal incli-
latlons without the pressing advice of
'arty leaders. Nevertheless, in follow J
ng more closely the party custom, he
eels 1t necessary to emphasize his idea
# non-political influence in the census
FORK, and to impress upon the super z
isors he has appointed and will appoint 5
hat they should not misinterpret the
lvor he has shown them as calling for Q
ny party service whatever, and to warn
lem that they will subject themselves a
} immediate dismissal if they make 7
active in any way in politics a
lille holding their offices.
The Presidents letter, however. would v
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-08-20
Money to Loan.

/ loan money at the rate of 5 per cent.
per annum on farm lands in Obion and
Weakley counties, Tenn, and in Fulton
County, Ky. About one-half the cash
value OF farm will be loaned. Loans
made in sums of 81 900 or more for five
years with privilege to borrower of pay
ing same after one year in full or max
ing any size partial payment desired at
intervals Of six months after the expira-
ton OF one year, interest being stopped
on partial payments made. Call on or
write 0. SPRADLIN,
Attoney-at-Law, Union City, Tenn.
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BETHEL.

Miss Suda Smith was shopping il
Union City Monday.
Mr.. Matt True and family were in
Union City Monday.
Miss Mamie Sanders visited Protemus
friends Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. Arthur Phillips, of Union City,
visited relatives here Friday.
Walter Phillips and wife, of Nash
vile, are visiting relatives here.
Farris Calhoun, of Protemus, visited
his sister, Mrs. Frank Brown, Monday.
Mrs. Belcher, of Number Ten, is WIS.,
iting her daughter, Mrs. Charley Kirk,
this week
Miss Mary Belle Shepherd, of Old
Republican, spent the week with rela-
tiyes here.
Mr.. Bud Williams and family, of
Kedron, visited friends and relatives
here this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Perryman, of Ken
ton, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. 0. Prim-
rose this week.
Miss Murt Garrison, of Mineral
Springs, was the guest of Mrs. Frank
Brown Tuesday night.
Miss Virgie Smith and brother, of
Troy, were guests of Miss Maud Moss
ind brothers few days this week.
TpIyTu
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-08-20
500 Reward, 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased tc
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its stages
and that is catarrh, Halls Catarrh Cure is the
only positive cure now known to the medical fra.
ternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease
requires constitutional treatment Halls Ca
tarrh Cure is taken internally acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the svs.
tenn thereby destroying the foundation of the
disease and giving the patient strength bv buiId-
ing up the constitution and assisting nature in
doing its work The proprietors have so much
faith IN its curative powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure
Send for list of testimonials. Address
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for CONSTIPATION.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-08-20

difficult for the people to appreciate the
real loss sustained by inadequate trans
portation while to build good roads
must be done by taxation, and that,
taking money directly out of pocket,
makes them hesitate to vote money for
roads.
| think the building of roads, the i'm
provement of our schools, and gener-
ally, the advancement of the conditions
under which the great majority of our
people must live, are the questions that
should, and will, engage the thought
Of our real statesmen.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-08-20
Coover Would Be Judge.

Dyersburg, Tenn, Aug. 16.-Hon.
W. S. Cooyer, a prominent and well
known lawyer of this bar, announced
yesterday to friends in the district that
he is candidate for the office of circuit
judge of the district.
He will be opposed by Judge Joseph
E. Jones of Dresden, known all over
the county as the man who tried the
sNightriders, while Mr.. Coover ably as
sisted Hon. Rice Pierce in their defense.
Mr.. Coover was also warm supporter
of Gov. Patterson in the last campaign
for Governor, and if he gets the solid
administration support, the strength of
two or three thousand more, he will be
a formidable factor IN = race.
Telephone Union City Ice & Coal Co.
when you want coal right now.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-08-20
GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT.
BY CHANCELLOR D. L. LANsDEN.

BY CHANCELLOR d. L. LANSDEN
To my mind there is no other subject
unless it is that of education, that SC
vitality affects the interest of the State
as a whole as that of good roads. Ten
nessee, and especially that part of Ten
nessee which is least developed, must
depend upon its agricultural develop
ment for ita azure prosperity, and the
greatness Of the State will depend upon
the thrift and happiness of the small
farmer in the rural districts. Good
roads will contribute more to the happi-
ness and convenience and, consequently,
the contentment Of our rural population,
than any other one thing. 1t removes
the isolation that usually makes the
farm; life unattractive to the farmers
boys and girls. 1t relieves farm life of
its ordinary drudgery, and makes inter-
communication between members of
the country neighborhood easier, and,
and necessarily permits social inter-
course between the country and the
town. In fact, good roads will give the
country resident all the conveniences of
town life, and, at the same time, pre-
serve to him the comforts of the country.
Of course, in addition to these matters,
there is the business view to be taken
of good roads. The saving in the cost
of transportation to the country farmer, |
as well as the saving in time for himself
and his teams and wagons is something
enormous. / daresay but few people
have an adequate understanding of what
his amount would be to the farmers of
Tennessee if it could be expressed in
dollars and cents.
In commerce transportation is every
thing. We have the markets, we have
the products, but in the majority of
Tennessee counties the profits are all
given in the effort to bring the products
to the market. A small margin saved
in the price of any product very often {
represents the difference between
profit and a loss, and business men all
the importance of having
every transaction show profit, however /
small it may be. When the savings to a
the people on these lines are compared t
with the cost of building the roads, the |,
expense of roadmaking is incense u
luential. The only difficulty that has 4
been in the way is in bringing the q
people to know that these savings are i
cal, butindirect, and not money di-
ectly out of pocket. It has been more
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Active at 81.

This would be no unusual news if men
and women would keep themselves free
from rheumatism and all aches and
pains as well as keeping their muscles
and joints timber with Billiards. Snow
Imminent. Sold by Mailing Drug Co.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-06
SUN AFFECTS EARTH's ORBIT.
Centrifugal Tendency Prevents Planet
from Being Drawn Directly To-
ward the Center of Attraction.

The earth's motion is the resultant
Of component forces. These forces
are, first, gravitation, or the attrac-
ton of the sun for the earth; second,
the momentum of the earth's mass,
which imparts to the earth the centri-
fulgal tendency or the tendency to
fly off its orbit in the direction of the
tangent. The attraction of the sun
for the earth prevents the tangential
motion, while the centrifugal ten
dency prevents the earth from being
drawn directly toward the center of
attraction.
In the illustration reproduced here,
at the points B and D the suns at
traction is the same and the earth 8
velocity is the same, but the direc-
ton of the earth's movement is not
the same at both points; that is to
say, the centrifugal tendencies at
these two points are different. At b.
owing to the action of component
forces which have brought it to that
point, the resultant tendency is slight
ly towards the sun with an increasing
velocity. At d, however, the direc-
ton of motion is slightly away from
the sun, and therefore, since the COM
ponent forces, namely, the attraction
of the sun and the centrifugal motion
at ID are different from those at B.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-06
The Bantinq system.

This scheme of diet was first pop,l.
larized by William Banting of Lon.
don, England, WSlo addressed to the
public letter on Corpulence, in 1868.
Banting suffered from surplus flesh
SO extreme as to force him to 'go
downstairs backward" He tried vari,
GUS medicines and forms of exercise
without success, until finally advised
to abstain from bread, milk, butter,
sugar and potatoes"
In lieu of these he adopted diet
OF lean meat, fish, any vegetable lex
cept potatoes, and limit of one ounce
of bread at a meal.
On this regimen Banting reduced
his weight marvelously., He found
sugar to be the most fattening-ive
ounces In one week adding one pound
to his weight. Milk, sugar. and hut.
ter are the human beans" he said,
because he found them to have the
same effect that diet Of beans have
upon horse, very fattening.
The characteristic OF the Bant-
ing diet is the great predomina-
ton of proteids. Carbohydrates, OF
which sugar and potatoes are SO
largely composed, are strictly forbid
den.
Every scheme of diet for the redus-
.tion of flesh includes advice against
variety In food. as that tends to In
crease appetite.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-06
Life Of Asparagus Beds.

How long will the asparagus bed
last? A suburban market gardener
says he has large bed about 20
years old which has about run cut.
The roots have grown thick mass
all over the field. says the New Eng
land Homestead The rows of sprouts
have widened until 1t Is difficult to
cultivate at all and the stalks have
become small. Repeated losses BY
winter killing have left large gaps in
some places To renovate such a
field Is hopeless lob and to kill out
the asparagus Is almost equally diff
cult Perhaps the easiest way 10 re-
claim the land vii! he to chop up the
surface with wheel harrow and SOW
to oats and barley. followed BY rye.
1t will take several seasons to kill
out the plants 1t may be said here
that an asparagus bed will last much
longer than 20 years II the plants are
set In wider rows and farther apart
in the row Plants which have plenty
Of room for their roots will send up
large sprouts when SO years old in
land well manfred and clean. In the
bed above mentioned the plants were
crowded only six inches to a foot
apart. with less than four feet be.
tween the rows
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-06
AIR THE GREAT FERTILIZER.
Forty Tons Of Grain to the Acre a
Possibility II Russian Plan
10 Followed.

The Russian experiments in wheat
growing by which 1t is claimed 40
tons or more of grain can be grown
to the acre are arousing attention in
many countries.
The conical pits and frequent lay
ers OF earth are not the only secrets
of the system. These Russian expe-
rimenters maintain that they have dis
covered a secret of the nourishment
of all plants. They argue that "all
the observations resulting from the
experience of the culture of corn by
bushing' shows us that the principal
condition for obtaining good crops de-
Ponds mostly on how much soil can
be impregnated with air. The pres.
ent system of manuring does not give
the earth the assistance that is ex.
pected.
If the crops increase, it is not be.
cause OF the material useo for manur.
ing. but only because by digging you
loosen the earth, and therefore tie
air has easier access to it. 1t Is sew
eral years after the manure has been
put into the ground that 1t can give
satisfactory nutriment to the plant.
ITO verify the above statement YOU
need only take three or four plots Of
ground and loosen the soil SO that the
earth should not be hard. Before YOU
SOW anything on these plots dig up
the earth on the first plot ten times.
on the second 20 times, and on the
third 80 times. and by the result of
the crops on each of these plots you
will be able to Judge the truth of the
above mentioned law of nature which
acts on the growth OF the plant.
Experience will convince that by
the ioosening of the layer of rne soil
the earth improves in quality and in
creases in weight This fact gives
us ground to suppose that the par
ticles of the air as we'll as water con-
tain as gases all the elements of
which the soil consists"
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-06

BARN MADE OF ROUGH STONE
Good Cement and Clean, Sharp Sand
Among the Essentials In Erect
ing This Building.

In replying to query as to the
best method of constructing q ce-
ment cold-storage building and a
Grange hall, r. f. Martin In Rural
New Yorker. makes the following re-
ply:
For the building we put up. S0x7O.
outer walls eight teet high in the
rear and IL feet high in front. we
used 210 bags of cement. or about So
barrels. We did not keep count of
the sand and stones used. as they
were near the building work. We did
not put any air space in the walls.
We have had the building up year,
and the walls have always been per-
tectly dry. have been told by ma,
sons that the stones forming the oIter
face of the wall will take care OF the
moisture and prevent its coming
through. Diagram shows constrnc,
on of the walls. both below and
above ground. The former. sholld
think. would be very cheap and salts,
factory for the proposed Grange hall,
as any stones can be used to puddle
in with the concrete mixture. One
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-06

flash signals. These preparations will
consist in the building of huge tele-
scope, and in experimental observa-
lions made with the cooperation of
the foremost astronomers of the
world. The object of this preliminary
work is to decide whether or not the
canals of Mars are really artificial.
In all, three years time would be
consumed in these preliminaries.
"A correspondent of the New York
Sun, who states that he is practical
heliograph man, calls attention to a
fact which seems to have been over
looked. Prof. Pickering proposes to
make mirrors of such a size that they
must necessarily. be moved by ma
chinery. His idea appears to be that
if they were each ten feet across,
there would be about 500 of them to
the Rile. The Telegraph man points
out that a pocket mirror two inches
square will do just as much work as
mirror that is ten feet square All
that any mirror can reflect is the
single image of the sun. He states
that it is possible to flash from 6 to
4S miles with a shaving glass. This
seems to be borne out by the fact
that the standard size of an army
heliograph is less than four inches.
Hence, ten-foot mirrors would hardly
be any more serviceable than four.
inch mirrors.
Prof. David Todd of Amherst col
lege also intends to improve the op-
portunity offered by the earth's prox-
unity to Mars next autumn to discover
whether or not the planet is really in
habited. He assumes that if Mars
has inhabitants, and if they are as
intelligent as we are, they may pos
sibly attempt to communicate with
the earth at that time, and that they
may employ Hertzian waves for the
purpose. 1t is his plan to take the
most sensitive wireless telegraph re-
ceivers he can find up in balloon,
in order to diminish any obstructive
influence that the atmosphere may ex-
ert, and listen for signals in space.
We wonder how Prof. Todd can tell
whether his signals come from Mars.
or whether the receivers have not
simply responded to electrical waves
sent out from the SUM-"
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-06
SELECTION OF DAIRY COWS
Many Essential Points to Be consid.
cred by Dairyman in Gathering
His Herd.

Cows for the wholesale and retail
milk trade should be selected from
the Red Polls, Holstein, Durham and
Ayrshire grades. For cream and but,
ter the Guernsey and Jersey should
be chosen. Cows from the vigorous
native cattle are often, found, having
extraordinary milking Qualities. fhe
larger mixers we ever had were
grade Durham and Ayrshire COWS
raised in the Valley of Virginia AS
rule the progeny Of these extra mix.
ers. where the dame is served by a
pure bred male OF established pedi.
gree. become the most profitable cows
The .heifer calves from such cows
should be raised-when they carry the
marks indicating good mixer This
mark is theAupward growth of the hair
on the inside of the thigh OF, the calf.
from Immediately behind the udder,
as high asdhe hair extends II the
hair is found running up in a smooth,
unbroken column. all other things be.
ing equal. with good care and careful
feeding, with a moderate amount of
wheat bran and whole oats, valuable
COW may be raised with scarcely a fail.
ure. There are. several other signs
or conditions indicative OF valuable
milking qualities-such as: Smooth
and fair-sized teats. well-placed on The
udder. large and well-defined milk
veins, slim neck. yellow. smooth skin
apparent about the eyes and nose
are sure indications of good COW Civ.
ing rich milk. The cali for the milk
dairy should be fed to make bone
and muscle. and large. well-devel
oped frame. ant' not for fat
Dairymen having an abundance of
pasture. with enough tillage land to
raise the hay and fodder and most OF
the grain. will .ird 1t the most profit.
able to raise their cows instead of
buying fresh cows to replace those
that are MIXED out. A dry COW. I'm.
less of fair siz, and in good beef con.
dition. will not bring more than ;25
Ia fresh cow without the calf cannot
be had for less than s40-and ire.
quently the COW is dear at that II
cows have to be bought 1t IS advisa ole
to buy direct from the owner, and not
from the COW dealers