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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-28
PILES. PN.ES. PILES.

Williams Indian Pile Ointment 4yil cure Blind, 8leedn2a and ii',e.t,e Piles. It ahEorbs the tumors allay ' itching at once, acts aa poultice gives instant relief Williams Indiah Pile Ointment is prepared for filss and Itching Of the private parts So!d ny druggists. nat 50c and 8 nD N 4. iiams' Mfg. O., Props. Cleveland. c 'uiG by McCammon x Son.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-28
BRIDAL COUPLE
 VICTIM OF JOKE

Stamps, Ark, Dec. 27.-Gonductor Thompson of the Cotton Belt, be- tween Memphis and TeXarkana, re- ports very unusual case of wedding pranks. Last night on his train a bride was travelling alone. while her hubby was on an Iron Mountain train. J. s. Mites of Birmingham was on his bridal tour to Bronx. Texas, and on arriving at Memphis he found their tickets routed from Memphis to TeXarkana by different roads.
 We bought a heavy stock of sad dies and harness before the advance huff Sed'. Fox Bros. HdV O.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-11-05
State Normal Locations.

Prof. r. E. L. Bynum was seen last
night with reference to the article APP
pearing in the News-Scimitar in which
a certain individual who is very much
informed stated that the question of the
normal schools had been disposed of,
says the Jackson Wing. That Johnson
City got the one for East Tennessee,
GAINESVILLE the Middle Tennessee insti.
tuition and Memphis the one allotted
the western division.
Prof. Bynum was much obliged fol
the information and said tina. it was
news to him. The board had taken nc
action and has not made any sugges-
tons as to the probable outcome of the
contest.
Prof. Bynum said that within the
next few days the board would in all
probability be called together and the
matter gone into.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-11-05
Light Literature.

The annexed paper, read by Mrs.
Palmer before the w. G. 7. U. of Rives,
presents the subject of light literature
in an interesting n and we take
pleasure in reproducing it;
To me this is a very elastic subject,
and this organization is certainly look
ing to its laurels when it recognizes light
literature as one of the really great evils
of the day. 1t is a sugar-coated pill,
the aftermath of which is dregs.
Under this head is literature and liter
allure, but primarily only two classes:
They are the primarily vicious (Which
should be handled with the tongs) and
volumes upon top of volumes that sim
ply entertain, or, in other words, are
mere time killers.
Life is a divine, noble-given power
and should not be soiled with the first
class, and is too previously short for
the pursuance Of the latter. The fiction
of the present day contains much that
is to be deplored. Only recently we
read THE Marriage of William Ashe''
by Mrs. Humphrey Ward, who ranks
among the best English writer's. Pic
ture this plot-a noble, highly educated
gentleman marries q girl just out of a
convent whose mother had allowed her
virtues to trail in the dust, wen going
so far as to traffic with her step-dangh-
ter's husband. The young wife, SO
tainted from her mothers l%aXities, failed
to recognize the noble qualities Of her
studious and ambitious husband whose
heart She held in her hand, but treats
it as a bauble, flirting with another MAJ
and, like the giddy moth flying 50 neal
the candle, her wings were singed al
most i~rrevocably, OF course the cur
tain falls with the heroine in the last
stages of tuberculosis and in her hus.
bands protecting arms. But such {
waste Of life, and is it worth while tC
read Of such failures?
AS for my part give me a book tina.
any Of my children may pick up anc
read without exciting a morbid curiosity
Any book so fascinating as to give u.
no peace, except in its perusal, is sim
ply a dissipation, or drunkenness, tina
must not be condoned.
In the reading of light literature, be
it in book form or magazine or pamph.
let, we cater simply to our animal ma.
lures, and not to that divine thing-tht
soul, God given, which only thrives OF
noble thoughts and brave, courageou.
deeds.
50 in conclusion we would say, Civ,
light literature no quarter, consigning
any and everything Of this nature tina
comes under our surveillance to the puri
flying flames.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-11-05
SOUTHEAST cRITrENDoN GROVE

We notice that the hunters are busy
parading the woods for game.
A number of people from here attend
ed services at SANKEY'S Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Bryan will leave this
week to visit relatives in New Mexico.
Quite a number of people attended
the sale at Mr.. VIII Bryan's Thursday.
Miss Flora Stovall and brother, from
Weakley, were visiting in this vicinity
Monday.
The people of this vicinity are very
busy now gathering nuts and finishing
their crops.
A few people from Weakley passed
through last Tuesday on their way to
Hickman to see the President.
Much to the regret of the neighbors,
Mr.. Albert Duncan has sold his farm to
Mr.. Love Tanner and will move near
MOUNT 1elld.
Mr.. Bailey Stovall and Miss Verna
House, a prominent young couple of
this vicinity, we're united in the holy
bonds of matrimony at the home of
Rev. ]. n. Bryson in Rives last Sunday.
The groom is a hustling young farmer
Id l - NJ
and Mrs. Wyatt B. Stovall. The bride
is noble, intelligent. industrious young
lady, the daughter of Mrs. Lima House.
They are well known and loved by a
host of friends who congratulate them
most heartily. May they live long and
be happy is the prayer of a friend.
JERUsHA.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-11-05
PROSPERITY SWEEPS COUNTRY
September Business Far Exceeds
Same Month Last Year.

Washington Nov. 1.-Prosperity has
arrived, according to a statement issued
to-day by the bureau of statistics of the
department Of commerce and labor,
During September the business Of the
country and the movement of railway
freight cars reached proportions which
excelled those Of the same month last
year.
These improved conditions are most
pronounced in the coal and iroE trades.
The moyementof lumber also was some
what heavier. From Virginia and the
Carolinas the shipment of lumber in
creased fifty-six per cent over Septem-
Der Of last year,
There was a considerable slump in
the receipts of grain and flour at the
four leading seaports, and the receipts
of grain at fifteen of the principal inte-
rior markets likewise were below the
aggregate for September, 1908. A sim
liar condition is uncovered in the ship
ment of packing house products from
Chicago, the chief slump being on
canned meats, which show a relative
loss over the corresponding figures OF
1908, of approximately forty-five per
cent.
The report shows hat the September
total of cars handled was 1898, 003, or
almost ten per cent in excess Of the cor
responding month of last year.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-11-05
Columbus.

The following composition was writ
ten by the nine-year-old daughter OF
Wooster Womack, a pupil in Harper
Valley School, taught by Miss Jane
Wade, and we gladly publish it:
Columbus discovered America in 1892
and died in 1906. He was ambitious
and had a great desire to be a sailor.
The boy Columbus, by his bravery,
won the respect of all the old soldiers
and sailors, and while in Portugal he
became greatly interested in the subject
of geography. Columbus first applied
to King John, of Portugal, who had a
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-11-05
Marriage Licenses.

V. Robert and Matte Lee Gilbert.
Fred Rogers and Esther Long.
Amos Wilson and Marie Pate.
w. Walker and I. w. Lee.
Bob Taylor and Fleecy Jane Davis.
Bailay Stovall and Verna House.
John Simmons and Dee Gammons.
C. w. Beadles and Bette McFalI.
VIM. A. Holmes and Liddie Row
botban.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-11-05
{: WAR

passion for explorations, and then to
the King of Spain. He made four voy-
ages and discovered Cuba, Hayti and
many other small islands, also the
northern part of South America and
part Of Central America, which lands
he thought were part of Asia.
Thepeople of Spain were disappointed
because these discoveries did not open
to them the wealth of India, and there
fore Columbus did not receive from the
Spaniards the honor that was due him.
After his fourth voyage he returned to
Spain, broken in health and feeble from
age. GLADYS WoMAcK.
Aged 9 years. Harper's Valley.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-11-05
ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE.
on-Resident Notice.

d. G. Ransom ct al. VS.. G. H. Lee ct al.
In this cause it appearing to me, S.
F. Howard, Clerk of the County Court,
that LORNA Lacost and Alfred Lacost,
defendants in the cause, are non-resi-
dents Of the State of Tennessee and
residents of the State of Missouri, so
that the ordinary process of'law cannot
be served on them, it is therefore or
dered by me that the said LORNA Lacost
and Alfred Lacost appear before the
Judge of the County Court of Obion
County, Tennessee, on the
First Monday in December, 1909,
and plead, answer or demur to, COM
~plainants bill, or the same will be taken
as for confessed as to them and the
cause set for hearing Ok parte as to
them.
This October %, 1909.
S. F. HOWARD, Clerk.
PIERCE & Fry, Solicitors for Com
claimants. 32-4t
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-11-05
LAND SALE,

Pursuant to d decree of sale in the
case OF Mrs. Nora B. Neel ct al. VS..
ZaLie Lemonds, in the County Court of
Obion County, Tenn, on
Saturday, November 20, 1908,
at or about one O'Clock p. m, | will
expose to sale, for a division Of proceeds,
a tract of land situate in the 9TH civil
district of Lake County, Tenn, bounded
on the north and east by w. A. Feasel,
on the south by John Witt, and on the
west by Swain, and containing 80 acres,
more or less, and being the west end of
the J. l. McIntire 100 acre tract.
Terms, one-half cash, and the balance
due in II months, with interest, evil
deneed by note with approved security,
and with lien retained on realty. Sale
in front of the Courthouse door in Union
City, Tenn. Minimum price, 81, $4,000,
Further particulars on day of sale.
This October 20, 1909.
31-3t S. f. HOWARD, Clerk.
F. ]. SMITH, Solicitor for Petitioners.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-11-05
RIVES NEWS.
W. Thorn was in Union City Mon

j. W. Thorn was in Union City Mon
day.
Mr.. Mat Hovis will . move his
family to town.
Mr.. Edgar Bolts, OF obion, was with
homefolks Sunday.
Mr.. Henry Tune is extensively inn
proving his residence.
Mrs. David Commons and son, Owen,
are visiting in Sharon.
Mrs. Laura Hutchinson visited in
Obion the latter part of the week.
Three of the prominent clubs Of Nos.
Four and Thirteen are on the lake.
Miss Hattie Mai Clemmons and Mrs.
Meta Crenshaw returned Saturday from
Fulton.
We are sorry to learn that the elder
Mr.. Byrd and wife will o 0 move to
| Fulton.
Mrs. M. M. Pentecost entertained
Monday night in honor Of Misses Brow
der, of Fulton.
Miss Ethel Latimer, of Obion, was
the guest of Mrs. 0. HI. Clemmons Sat
urday and Sunday.
Misses Martha Wade and Leiron Bon
ner were guests of Miss MILFORD Farris
Thursday and Friday.
Miss Beatrice Brown, of Union City,
was a guest of DR.. w. M. Holloway
Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Chester Erwin entertained We'd
nesday afternoon, hours 8 to5, in honor
of Mrs. McCree, of Jackson.
Guests of Mrs. T. P. Palmer Monday
were Mrs. w. G. Petty, Mrs. LOWE
Dickev and Miss Alice Dickey.
Mrs. R. L. Phebus, in honor of Mrs.
Meta C~renshaw, entertained recently
with all the %perquisites of Halloween
in evidence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Monroe MCGOWAN are
keeping open house in honor of their
son, Just arrived a few days since by
way of the sheltering wing Of the ever
obliging stork.
Passing trains Sunday started fires on
the following places: Mr.. Will Moss,
the Misses Guy and 0. II. Clemmons.
Owing to the high wind it came near
being calamitous.
Rives is again forging to the front,
especially along educational lines. At
no distant day the faculty will entertain
with a benefit to refill the vast empti-
ness of the library. Then, may we not
have some good locks or take other pre-
cautions to keep the books from foreign
travels.
VIII some of our friends of leisure
consult the almanac and see if the 10
diacal sign is the cause of SO many ac-
cidents? Only a few days past Slade
Edmaiston, of Pleasant Hill, had the
misfortune to get his collar bone brok-
en-. Saturday Mrs. Sellars, Of Number
Seven, was on her way to take the train
for Memphis and in stepping out OF the
buggy too abruptly fell and was 50 bad
ly bruised as to indefinitely postpone
her trip. Monday evening Mr.. Ernest
Shropshire, on his way home with a
barrel of salt, was very badly hurt. In
going down a steep hill the salt gave a
lurch and Mr.. Shropshire, in endeayor-
ing to steady the barrel, ran his wagon
into a deep rut and was thrown out,
ANNA MARIA.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-11-05
TERMS OF SALE.

The purchaser will be required to pay
one-third cash, one-third in II months
and one-third in Is months from date
with interest from date, and notes with
approved personal security will be re-
onired and a lien retained on the land
as further security.
This the 29th day of October, 1909.
38-3t S. F. HOWARD, Clerk.
Pierce & Fry, Sol's for Compl'ts.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-11-05
Monday, the 29th Day of Novem.
Der, 1909,

at 10 O'Clock a. m. on the premises of
the first described tract, known as the
S. B. aud T. p. Finch place, in the
Eleventh Civil District, and after this is
sold the sale will be moved to the last
described four lots and these lots will
be sold separately at 2 O'Clock p. M.
same day, and then as a whole, and the
sale realizing the highest or best price
will be accepted, and Lot No. l of the
last named tract will be sold subject to
a lease of - Boyd, which will expire
Dncnmhpr 81 1911
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-11-05

You can't make a mistake by listing
your property with Forster & Forester
for they are live wires when it comes to
selling your property.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-11-05
Card of Thanks.

We desire to thank the neighbors and
friends who were so attentive and faith
full in our wife and mothers sickness
and death. Also to DIR. Prather, who,
we believe, did all that a physician
could. Signed,
]. E. FREEMAN,
A. j. FREEMAN,
G. H. FREEMAN,
Mr.. AND Mrs. G. 7. JAMES,
Mr.. AND Mrs. ]. M. KENDALL,
Mr.. AND Mrs. J. w. FREEMAN.
Mr.. AND Mrs. E. W. WILLIAMS,
Mr.. AND Mrs. w. H. FREEMAN.
You can't make a mistake by listing
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-11-05

You've tried the rest, now try the
best-Jersey Cream Flour.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-12-30
DEFINITION OF DRY FARMING
Does Not Mean for One Moment Rails
ing Crops Without Water, Which
Is impossible.

OF course dry farming, or as 1t is
sometimes called dry land farming,
does not mean for one moment farm
ing without water, which would be an
impossibiIty, but farming that n done
with a much smaller amount of rain
fall than Is normal where crops are
grown under ordinary conditions as to
precipitation. Usually such farming
Is done where the precipitation Is not
more than Is inches in the year When
the rainfall is more than Is inches In
the year, 1t is possible to grow crops
every year on the land. Where the
rainfall is less than that amount this
is not always possible.
Dhy farming is usually confined In
the United States to what Is known
as the semi-arid country. This means
a country that begins about $50 to 200
miles west of the Minnesota border
and extends westward to the Cascade
mountains. All of the land that is ar
able in the area named cannot be
farmed but much of it can. Some of
the land is arid in the absence of irri.
cation, and cannot be farmed under
other conditions. Such lands are fire.
quently found in the river valleys, but
they also comprise other lands. The
lands that are farmed on the dry farm
ing plan are usually bench lands, but
they do not all come under that class.
They also include lands that lie close
to the mountains where, in many in
stances, there Is more or less of sub
terranean irrigation.
Dry farming may be said to embrace
two kinds of farming, that is, it may
be conducted by two different meth
DDS, dependent on the nature of the
land more especially with reference to
its conformation. When the land is all
aral,le. from 100 to 800 acres is ample
for farm. When the larger portion
then from one to several sections
should be included in the farm This
large area Is necessary for the reason
that the production of this farm must
consist mainly of live stock which
must be grazed, on pastures grown un-
der dry conditions. Within these
rough and hilly lands, valleys or level
may usually be found, and
on these fodder may be grown on
which to feed the stock in stormy
weather in winter. On the farms that
are all tillable, the production of grain
is the chief aim.
Dry land farming cannot in many
instances secure more than one crop
in two years. The land, or much of
it, is summer-fallowed one year, and
the crop is grown the next. Very fire.
quently the crop grown is winter
wheat, but in some instances spring
crops also are grown. The object of
the summer-fallowing is to conserve
the moisture. The same end is se-
cured by growing a cultivated crop,
as corn, potatoes or field roots. Where
such a crop alternates with grain,
crop is obtained from the land every
year. 1t will be apparent, therefore,
that the dry land farmer will not get
so many crops from given area as
will the faxmer in country with am.
pie rain, but he will get larger yields
and this aids in putting him on a level
with other farmers in the rainy coun-
try.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-12-30
Really Is Jag in a Georgia Melon

the discovery OF criminal tendency
in the watermelon heretofore unsus.
pected.
I'VE have been experimenting with
every sort of fruit and vegetable that
contains sugar" said Mr. Wilson, the
watermelon, pears, apples, peaches,
plums, pumpkins, muskmelons, Irish
potatoes, sweet potatoes, beets and
other vegetables. The watermelon sur.
prised us. We never expected it OF
1t. The purpose is to develop the
cheapest kind of denatured alcohol fol
use as fuel
The experiments have been made
under the directions of DR.. Harvey
w. Wiley, chief of the bureal OF
chemistry. OF course it is impossible
to extract this alcohol in paying guam.
titles from melons, but we hope to do
so from sweet potatoes.
"The experiments have been made
to benefit the seacoast portion of the
south, from Virginia down the Allan.
tic around Florida and along the gulf
Sweet potatoes can be grown cheaply
in the sand of these sections. One
bushel OF sweet potatoes will make a
gallon of alcohol. The product Is a
better and cheaper fuel than benzine"
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-12-30

WAsHTNGTON.--For 90 years James
w Wilson, secretary of agriculture,
has been sounding the praises of the
American hem He has shown by sta
tlstics, pictures, reports, omelets, soft
boiled eggs and spring chickens that
the American hen beats the world.
She is not the possessor of great per-
sonal beauty, she does not aspire to
be a butterfly of fashion, but is very
fine representative of the housewife
type OF chicken. II fine feathers made
fine birds she would not be in 1t. For
the peacock is q daZzler and the roos-
ter struts with an air that cannot be
initiated by his more modest compan-
Ion who does the housework and
scratches around for the children. But
the hen, by keeping steadily ct work
ana doing the best she can has been
enabled to enrich this country by more
good dollars than all the silver mines
OF the west and all the gold of the
klondike. Statistics show that in a
single generation the American hen
lays eggs enough to make the Allan.
tic ocean one vast omelet and fill the
Pacific with scrambled eggs. Placed
on top OF one another they would
make stack 10000 times as tall as
the Washington monument and almost
as high as the price of beef.
All this has been done by the one
egg day hen. But along with the
airships and the 26,0O0ton battleships,
the two-egg hen has arrived No, she
was not produced by Luther Burbank
by grating Leghorn chicken onto a
roe herring. She is just a plain, ordi-
nary hen, who resolved to do her best
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-12-30
An Auspicious Year.

1t has been asserted by many who
have doubted the effectiveness of dry
farming methods, or have misunder-
stood the meaning of what is called,
for want of better term, dry farm
ing, that this has been a peculiarly
auspicious year.
The fact that some of the sections
of the west have been blessed with
more than the average rainfall at pc
culiarly opportune time cannot be de-
MED, At the same time there are
other sections that have been peculi-
arly unfortunate, in that rainfall has
been denied them when most needed
Not everybody has succeeded in
these less fortunate districts, but the
reports received at the headquarters
of the congress from its field commits
sloner and from farmers and others
who have taken enough interest in
their surroundings to send reports
demonstrate that those men who have
followed the methods of cultivation
advocated by dry farmers have raised
crops in the face of ALI difficulties.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-12-30
How the Government Loses Millions

by goods are brought into this country
in trunks with false bottoms to de.
ceive the inspectors, stretch to many
parts of the United States, though
passing only through the port OF New
York in the cases about to be prose
cuted
Beyond the generalization OF mil.
lions of dollars nobody officially can
estimate the amount Of taxes thus
eyaded Most of the violators OF law
in this respect are dressmakers. The
government has good deal OF evi-
dence along this line, and the prose
cutions for this form of wholesale dis.
honesty promises to be OF sensation
al character,
Collector Loeb expressed the opin.
ion that the sleeper trunk" frauds
could no longer be carried on sue
cessfully under the rules he has
adopted. These provide for a new
stamp arrangement for trunks and
limitation of the hours a trunk M
remain on the docks
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-12-30
Woman Causes a Big Scare in a Bank

several women in the long line OF
waiting patrons showed signs of faint.
ing and the widest excitement pre-.
vailed. Had bank robber descended
in the guise of a fashionable woman? ?
Put back that money!" demanded
as with one voice the banker, the po.
liceman and all the men standing in
line at the window.
Why, certainly l WILL said the
woman who had caused all the excite.
ment and who, by this time thorough.
ly alarmed at the cries OF everyone
about her, ventured an explanation
Il owe you all an apology, | believe. |
was here moment ago and forgot a
pair of gloves. left in a great hurry
and must have left them here at the
window. | had only few minutes to
catch my train to Baltimore and mis-.
took that gentlemans money bag for
them. They are just exactly that color.
you know"
Her explanation was sufficient and
smiles spread over the alarmed faces.
Good joke" voted the huge guar
dian of the peace. who breathed freely
again and sauntered away
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-12-30

THE department of agriculture has
1 come along with some good news for
those citizens in southern Indiana who.
when arrested last fall for conducting
blind tigers" set up as a defense
that they had become intoxicated from
eating watermelons. The department
has not yet analyzed the Indiana
brand of melons, but it asserts that
there is jag" in the Georgia mel
ons.
or course 1t is carefully concealed,
and Much care and labor is required
to extract It, but 1t is there just the
same. The department has proved this
beyond doubt. Out of 100 pounds of
watermelons experts in chemistry
made one-tenth of gallon of alcohol.
They also have convicted the humble
sweet potato of possessing another
spree. Secretary Wilson announced