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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-17
w. A. MCNEIL, Mayor.

The plot of Just A Woman's Way, 2
which will appear at the Reynolds Opera
House, Union City, Thursday night,
Dec. %, deals with the struggles of a
young wife with radical views as to the
sanctity of the marriage vow in defend
ing her home and husband against the
wiles of scheming adventuressswho, for
the while, seems triumphant. During
the action of the play, which finally
brings the true wife a hard-won victory,
extremely strong situations occur that
hold the attention of the audience until
the drop of the final curtain. A humo-
rous little love story running through
the play, between two very enthusiastic
young people, furnishes pleasant vein
of comedy and relieves the play from
too great pathos.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-17
of shall be fined not less than 81. 90
nor more than 500. 90.

There are other minor changes that
might be recommended, but the incom-
ing officials will have more time to de-
termine Just what changes should be
made, and with some passing remarks
about the appropriation to our public
school, / shall leave the people to Judge
whether this has been an admmistra-
ton for the good of all the people, and
with their verdict | shall be ally to
turn over the city government to my
successor.
Early in the fall it became known to
the Board of Mayor and Aldermen that
with some assistance form the city our
school directors could enter into con-
tracts that would enable us to run a
nine months free school, but at that
time we had no available funds, except
our sinking fund, held for cases of
emergency, so $4,000 of this fund
was used and the sinking fund ex-
hausted, to be repaid from 1909 taxes
to meet emergency cases, and to this
fund should be placed 10 per cent. Of
our gross receipts, for no institution can
afford to spend all the income, for the
rainy day comes to the corporation as
well as to the day laborer. therefore
urge this Board and advise our success
sors to add to the sinking fund from
year to year.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-17

hog of this community: it weighed $50
pounds. Oh my, how he grins.
A musical entertainment was given at
the home, Of R. A. Rogers Thursday
night. A large crowd was present and
enjoyed nice time.
There will be preaching held at Star
of Bethlehem the third Saturday night,
Sunday and Sunday night in December
by the pastor, Elder G. A. Jackson.
We are still having prayer meeting and
Sundayschool every Sunday. Every
body is cordially invited to come and be
with us. CHUMs.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-17

Undoubtedly | keep the largest and
highest grade Of picture moulding,
frames and art pictures in Union City.
The kind of things that appeal to peo-
pie of taste. -Southworth, the photog-
rapher and art picture dealer.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-17

The above figures speak for them
selves, and any comment that might
be made would not help the condition
of our affairs. But that this report
may be more readily understood, / de-
sire to call your attention to the second
and third items The streets and side
walks, as you will notice, have received
almost half the gross receipts. This
was made necessary on account of the
conditions found to exist when this
Board took up the reins Of the city
government. Our streets being dirt,
grades require constant grading, and
they have been graded three times in
the two years. Permanent stone cross
ings have been made and the entire
walk system has been made new or
overhauled, except the few feet of brick
walk. This has called for several thou
sand feet of lumber. In addition to
this our two levies have required atten-
ton on more than one occasion, but
to-day, as your retiring servant, l am
glad to announce that both your streets
and sidewalks are in good and passable
condition.
The third item in this report covers
the Marshal's salary, and this, as you
may conclude, almost wipes out the
whole of this account. The other items
in this report are too small for COM
ment, but l shall speak of the appro-
priation to the public school elsewhere.
l shall have but little to say regard
ing the past administration of this
Board, as the results are before you.
Rather I shall urge our citizenship to
realize that if we are to have live,
town each and every one
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-17
Annual Report of Mayor w. A. Nc
Neill, of Rives

To the Hon. Board of Mayor and Alder
men and the Citizens of Rives:
In compliance with the bylaws and
ordinances, submit to you my annual
report covering the financial condition
since my induction to this office:
RECEIPTS.
Cash receipts, all sources s., 500. Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-31
A New Sewe11 Ford Series


E freshest, checklist, slangest, shrewdest, quick
mSR- est wtted funniest reddest headed youngster
EG@Ra that startled an employer. By profession,
kjTRTMN an office boy! He is brother n-sprt if not
lNSM in blood, to Shorty McCabe, and surely that is
C@S4Eg a sufficiently good reference Shorty will
tinue to shine other week usual.
Torchy's innings will occur a month.
WHEN you get the heart of Torchy he is good And
w it doesn't make any difference in what you
the word either And that's what makes him worth while
Incidentally he innocent in directions as he
sophisticated in Others and that's pretty near the limit
That is a characteristic of all city bred youngsters.
NOU can't help liking Tochy. He is the kind you would
like to spank if you could keep from laughing long
enough by which you may know he is reala in the
making The loyalty of him. his genuine kindness and help
funess make you feel pretty that he going to be the
right kind of a man- he keeps out of politics.
DUT in this new series by Sewe Ford he just plain boy
~ the reservations of every fond parent when he
describes his those words When TOrchy surprises
you with superior knowledge you will please remember that
he worked newspaper office, where office boys
reach apoheosis of freshness and superiority not met
anywhere else under the Maybe he worked in that
New York newspaper office where the unwritten law
you do anything you can get away with.
MAYBE this series with it's rotous humor will inspire
AVA other office boys greater deviment that be pos
sibe-whch will give certain kind of employer
fire them the spot and another kind opportunity to point
that Torchy doesn't succeed because of his freshness
but in spite of it. What really carries him along his capac
ity and efficiency
T1HE new series begins in neyt SUNDAY MAGAZINE
The first story is called "Torchy and the Glory Be-.
AFAN AND THE SNARE" is one of Kate Mastersons
1VA brilliant sareS which she coakS social truths that
result from keen observation and wisdom in way that
ChuCinp all while absorbing knowledge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-31

VI course the snare is
feminine beauty, especially
that beauty, natural and arti-
fetal, which can be bought
or cultivated. And she does
the subject exact justice,
which is truly remarkable.
Mis- S BAYARD'S
AVA YOGI" is a weird,
strong story by Michael
White, remarkable for its
Indian color and its effect
upon a young woman from
Cincinnati, and for its plot.
1t is the kind of a story that
interests in spite of ones self.
THE PARTED CUR
l. TAIN" comes to an
end in the next issue, and
the last instalrnent is the
most absorbing of all. Then
there are other admirable
features you have noticed
we always have several we
don't talk about.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-06-27
TO A MOTHER.

Dear madam
s Do you realize that it is a great mis-.
take on your part to overindulge your
daughter?
Naturally you try to shield your
child. Naturally you try to save her
from hardships. Naturally you efface
yourself more or less and sacrifice
yourself for her sake.
That is the mother of 1t.
But your self inflicted martyrdom
may work serious harm to the daugh-
ter.
/ have in mind a good mother who
shaved and pinehed and economical.
hardened her hands, bowed her back
and shortened her life that her pretty
daughter might attend fashionable
finishing school,"
The daughter graduated and
Returning home. found herself ont
Of touch with the old farm ways. She
had learned new ways. You say her
education should have broadened and
sweetened the girl, but it did not. It
simply untitled her With new anne
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-06-27
Company For the Bonnet.

Many years ago an elderly couple
lived In a Massachusetts town. The
lady had been bereft of one helpmeet
and her second husband had twice
been left widower before the pair
were united in the bonds of matri-
mony. They were both of that tenn
permanent which causes It's possessor to
be characterized as set
On the wedding day the bride found
In the back entry on conspicuous
nall sunbonnet which had belonged
to her immediate predecessor She re-
moved 1t to oblivion in closet
Her newly welded husband made no
comment, b, t replaced the sunbonnet
on it's accus+ omed nail,
During the next few days the calico
headgear vihrated with more or less
regularity between the closet and the
nail. Then there came a day when the
bride approached her husband with E
mans hat in her hand as he was in the
act of reinstailing the sunbonnet.
IF you have that sunbonnet there =
she said firmly. II shall hang up my
first husbands hat on the next NALL
She looked at the bridegroom and
met the counterpart of her own ex-
preston. She hung the hat on the des-
ignated nail, and. although the two
people lived to be very old neither the
hat nor the sunbonnet ever moved
again till the house came into the
hands Of new owner.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-06-27
early in the baby's career who Is boss

early in the baby's career who Is hos,
you or the baby.
OF course your baby is just th,
| finest and sweetest baby in Babylon
but all the same it doesn't know whal
| 1t needs. 1t thinks it knows what Il
wants, and so it frets and cries and
kicks until something is done. And
| then
When it gets something done as its
reward for making noise and demon
stration it has learned that the way
| to get things is to make fuss.
| The baby cannot be blamed It has
been educated in the art of getting
| things by means of bowls and striy-
ings.
There is sleeping, for instance Any
body knows that babies are born with
| the perverse notion that sdaytime is
for sleep and nighttime is for keeping
others from sleep.
Even man kens that babyish pro-
pensity.
The baby needs educating, that's all
1t will require firmness to administer
the first lesson Baby will squall its
precious head off when you turn down
the light. Let it squall. 1t will
eventually save many squalls. After
the first lesson baby will learn that
night is the time for sleeping.
And so on as to everything. The
sooner the kid learns obedience the
better and happier the kid will be.
When 1t grows older it will perhaps
demand that you carry it about. That
is the survival of the primeval lazi-
ness, and there must be another lesson
else you, the mother, will go about
with dropping shoulders and careworn
face-a forlorn beast of burden.
Don't.
If you bow to the nod of the baby
boss and go about with weary feet and
aching back and racking nerves 1t is
your fault, not the baby's.
Moreover, you will cause twist in
your child's character that may give
you many unhappy hours and possible
ruin to your hopes.
You can make your babe a fretting,
unsatisfied little animal by giving 1t
everything it wants, or you cam make
1t an obedient, contented and happy
child
Your baby is not calf.
1t Is a sentient soul
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-06-27
A S25O.OOO SMILE.

Smiling Joe" Barron aged twelv,
years, has made $250,O0O-not for him
self, indeed, but for home for siel
and crippled children.
It was this way:
Some young doctors in New Yorl
city who had seen the suffering ant
lack In the tenement districts, where
| the very poor swelter in summer anf
| shiver in winter, bought cottage or
| the ocean and started charity SAM
| tarium on a small scale
Joe Barron was their first patient
Joe's back was twisted, and his legs
were crooked, and he had tuberculosis
of the bone-a sad combination of ills
But when they came to see him Joe
smiled up into the faces of the doctors
and his smile went straight to their
hearts.
And SO they took Joe out Of the hot
and dirty slums, out to their cottage,
which they called Sea Breeze" And
there they strapped him to board
and hung him out In the fresh air just
as an Indian mother hangs her pa
poose.
1t hurt him, but Joe smiled
And every few days those doctors
with the strong arms pulled and twist
ed and stretched Joe's muscles so that
the little fellow would sometimes cry
out In pair. but no sooner did they
quit trying to straighten out the kinks
In his deformed body than the smile
reappeared.
1t was the smile that would not come
Off
One day, some four years ago, Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his great friend
Jacob Riis went to Sea Breeze. Joe
didn't know the stout gentleman. who
looked at his twisted shape was the
president, but he smiled the old sweet
SMILE
And impulsive Roosevelt said to Riis,
"Can't We do something for this brave
fellowg
And Riis said, I'm going to take his
picture and tell the people about joe"
Perhaps you have seen that picture
in the magazines and the appeal that
went with 1t. And the money came
pouring in from all over the country
In large AMI small amounts enough
to build a $25o,00O hospital.
Joe's smile did 1t.
Joe's back Is all right now, and his
legs are as good as yours, and his
friends will send him to school, and
he will probably grow up strong and
useful man.
Certain 1t is that If he is given
fair chance Joe's smile will do the
rest.
Moral.-When you are disposed to
sniffle and whine about your "hard
lines" think of Joe Barron's case and
his bonny smile.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-06-27

tites and new ambitions she became q
torment both to herself and to her
mother
| The sequel?
In sheer desperation the fretting,
discontented girl ran away with a
smooth adventurer and was finally
| ruined
| An extreme case2
Maybe. But the result In this girls
| case was the legitimate outcome of the
false maternal policy that made the
girl believe she must have whatever
she wanted and that everything must
be sacrificed for her Career
She is a rare child who can be I'M
duly INDUCED and petted without
harm to her character
The tender solicitude of q doting
mother is of course noble In it's self
abnegation. but when carried to the
extreme it is dangerous.
1t may seem harsh to compel the
daughter to share the mothers bur
dens but it is best
Let your girl face the realities
You can give her a sane view of life
by teaching her how to meet and con-
quer hardships. Let her bear burdens
and grow strong in doing so. Put re-
sponsibilitfes on her and let her feel
the full weight of them
Else you will deceive your child
about, the world she lives in.
Else by your sacrifices you will make
her selfish and narrow and ungrateful
and miserable.
There is only one way to make
character Ease and freedom and lux
ury and absence of work will not do
1t. The fiber of woinanliness is de-
veloped only by responsibilities and
care and in overcoming obstacles.
Do you want your daughter to be a
strong, noble woman?
Then put her full share of lifes load
on her young shoulders and teach her
TO carry 1t obediently and eheerfully
and gracefully.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-06-27

separately; to make such rules and reg
ulations, as they deem necessary. for
the proper administration of the farm.
as well as the character and kind of
work to be performed by the inmates
OF the Work Farm; to determine wheth-
!. er or not the inmates of the Poor Farm
shall perform any work at all, ana to
provide the things necessary for such
work as may be necessary for their
health and peace of mind; and to do
all things necessary and proper for the
proper administration Of said Poor
Farm and said Work Farm, and the in
mates thereof.
sec. .. Be it further ordained, ptc..
that the chairman of said B@ard shalt
De ex-offclo secretary thereof, and he
snail give verbal or written notice ia
the other members of all meetings. des-
ignat1ng the place thereof. In ali meet
angs OF the Board, two members there
VI small constitute a quorum for the
transaction of ali business.
sec. Z. That portion of said farm
ee set aside separate from the poor
farm and work farm, for the purpose
81 caring for and providing work for
Juveniles who have been adiudyed IA.
pendent, neglected or delinnuent'
sec. .. Be it further ordained. etc.
tnat an ordinances and parts Of ordi.
nances contrary hereto. be and Aha
same are hereby repealed.
sec. y. Be it further ordained ate
enat TINS ordinance shall take affact
CATION. 1 pion1ut-
w. T. CRAWFORD. Pres
A. L. DURINGER, Clerk.
June IS, 1900.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-06-27
SHERIFF'S SALE

NO. l2,943-In the First Judicial Dia.
trlct Court of Caddo Parish I.on;s;.
ana-R. A. Chamlee VS.. Mrs. Moll;a
Il. Miller ct ais.
BY virtue of a writ of sa;znra 80
SAFE to me directed from the Honorable
First Judicial District Court Of Caado
Pansh. Louisiana, in the above entitla5
and numbered suit, / have seized apd
VIII offer for sale at public auction. for
cash according to law, without the hen.
/ eht OF appraisement, at the pr;neinal
front door of the court house of Caddo
Parish, Louisiana, during the legal
hours for sales, on
SATURDAY, JULY II, 1909, /,
the south half of southeast quarter of
section 10, township %, range Is west
Caddo Parish, La. The above property
seized as belonging to the above ia.
PENDANT, and to be sold to satisfy tba
amount specified in the said wr;1 co..
IN the sum of $5s8.8O, on the following
terms: For cash for sufficient. amount
to meet and pay notes past due Shd fen
per cent attorneys fees on said
amount, and all costs of suit, and ON
sueh terms of credit as to correspond
with and meet and pay the other note
to fan due, for $4,000, due December
l, 1909, with interest.
j. p. FLOURNOY
Caucasian, June IS. sbarife
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-06-27
TWO BOYS-PLuS.

The names of Wilbur and Orvillt
| Wright, inventors of the aeroplahe
will be written down alongside those
of Morse and Edison. And one reason
| why fame and fortune came to then
| is because
They had real father and mother
The boys got their mechanical abil
| ity from their mother and their power
Of analysis from their father. From
both paren@s they got sympathy.
Mrs. Wright is one of those rare
women who can do things with her
hands. She made sleds for her tots
and when they grew older she helped
them in everything.
When Oryille was fifteen and Wilbur
eleven the boys printed a newspaper.
They got i'm a hurry and left one page
blank. Bishop Wright promptly sup
pressed the whole edition. You see.
he was teaching his boys that work
must be well done,
Thirteen years ago the Wright broth
erS began to be interested In flying
machines. They read all the books
they could get their hands on and
watched the flight of birds whole Sun
day afternoons. lying on their backs
on thea hills near Dayton, O.
In 1900, after five years of study and
experiment. they built their first ma
chine and took It down into North
Carolina. They came back from that
summers work tired and discouraged
Most parents would have said, well,
boys, you better quit fooling with fly
ing machines and get down to bust
ness" Bishop Wright and his wife
were not that sort.
The boys found out that summer
that all the tables of calculations
made by scientists were wrong. They
must begin at the bottom and work
out the first principles.
On the 18th of December, 1908, afte-
hundreds of trial flights with glidin
machines, the first successful voyae
in the history of the world of power
driven heavier than air machine was
made.
To be sure. the Wright brothers
came 10 their own ana their own re
ceived them not. They went abroad,
and honor and wealth came And now
their own country delights to honor
these Dayton men.
How did 1t all come about?
Because these boys, doing team work.
went at scientific problem in sciell-
tific way and kept at it until they
succeeded. Yes, and because they had
a father and mother behind them.
Therefore, If your boy wants to
tinker" let him. 1t will keep him
out of mischief and develop his char.
acter. And there may be a genius in
side Of him.
And, above all, don't throw cold wa
ter on your boys enthusiasm.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-06-27

Mirth medicine?
Certainly, and good one-bettel
than half the preparations of materia
medica. 1t is one of natures rea
tonics, balm for lifes bruises, q
salve for sorrows, liniment for men
tai pain, a panacea for wounded hearts
DR.. Sanderson says:
Mirth, cheerfulness, is better slim
ulant for the tissues of the body than
drugs, which react. Laughter is an
actual life giving influence. Another
physician has said. "Fun is a food and
necessary to Wilderness as bread"
Therefo@-laugh early and often.
Most of us take life altogether too
seriously. We do not laugh enough
or if we do laugh it is q stingy sort of
mirth that does not do much good.
We laugh SO seldom we lose the dis
position, the power, to laugh. Laughter
lis habit. 1t may be cultivated
A laugh Is massage.
Metaphors aside, a good laugh is a
zeal massage treatment. When you
laugh your diaphragm gets busy. In
moving rapidly up and down it mas
sages the liver, stirring up that organ
to it's duty. 1t also affects all the or
gans beneficially.
Laugh and grow fat is a shrewd
observation Of many generations.
The old kings were wise. They
hired testers to make merriment for
them. And Lycurgus, able lawmaker,
set up the god of Laughter in the pub
lie dining room of Sparta.
Laughter is good buffer.
1t is like the shock extinguisher
folks put in the rear springs of their
automobiles. 1t helps to carry one
easily over the knobs and "thank-you-
ma'ams" of lifes rugged road 1t re-
duces friction to the minimum.
Laughter is normal
1t is fact that good health and
mental and physical harmony require
that the fun loving forces that are in
man should be released. Laughter re-
leases them. If these forces are re-
pressed one has an attack OF the
'.blues;" il totally repressed- insanity.
Laugh ana succeed.
He who bottles up his natural lnirth
helps to paralyze his own powers. A
cheerful disposition and smiling face
help to solve many a problem In bust
ness.
Men and women by thousands 60
every year to premature graves be-
cause they forget to laugh.
Laugh and stay above ground.