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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-28
District No. Is

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John D. Alden, / town lots 9.20
Howard Adkens, town lot----1 3.15
Ada Amis, l town lot------- $40
Jake Adams (col) town lot 1.15
John Bransford (col) town lot 9.15
Mrs. S. A. Barrett, town lot 345
Henry Berry (col.) l town lot 3.15
Elmo Curtis, town lot----- 4.30
]. F. Carpenter, town lots 11.T
S. ]. Cannon, 3 town lots--- SO. %
Martha Crawford, l town lot lis
James Dinney, Sc acres 6005
Joseph Dickey, l town lot------ 2.90
w. NJ. Duncan, 4S acres---- 1850
Lucinda Daley, / town lot - 207
Robt Dinwiddy, l town lot sos
Henry Edwards (col.) l town lot 2.S7
James Fly, town lot--- Cos
Henry Fly, ! town lot--- 1856
Will Fulton, l town lot 800
F. E. Fulton, / town lot----- 1885
Frank Fout, town lot SIS
f. N. Henning, l town lot-- sos
Hunter Harpole, l town lot $50
Virgil Jones, town lot--- 2.SS
Lee Jackson, l town lot--- 2,S7
Arthur Lamb, ! town lot---- 1.15 |
Sacile Landers, in town lot 1.72
Wesley Landrum, town lot LII |
/. J. Landrum, l town lot 1850 3.45
Horty McCampbell, / town lot 5.37
Albert McCampbell, town lot 2.8S
Lawrence McCampbell, l town lot 3.37
Henry Mayfeld (col.) town lot go
o. E. Millikin, 3 town LOTS 1880 |
Sallie Mathews, town lot-- 2.S8
Lizzie Mathews, l town lot- 400
Mobile R. r. cabins 1925
Susie Megill, 2 town lots sos
n. S. Parker, / town lot-- $50 |
Rice A. Pierce, 3 town LOTS $500 !
Mortal Phebus, ! town lot- go
T. H Robinson, l town lott 400
John Ross, l town lot ---- 7.75
Fannie Robinson, l town lot go
Bill Swift (col) l town lot----- 1.72I
Charley Simmons, town lots III |
Lodge Shepherd, l town lot 1.72
W. NJ. Turner, 9 town lots------ 3.45
jim Turner (col) l town lot 3.45
Andy Potter, 2 town lots------- SIS
E. G. Tansil, l town lot------ 2.S7
Henrietta Tarkey, l town lot 3.45
Annie Tarkey, l town lot--- 3.45
Robert Usry, l town lot------ 5.45
Geo. Willis, s town lots 12.3
Oscar Whitaker, l town lott 4.90l
Mrs. Lee Wise, town lot------ II. 20
Wiley & Joyner, 152 acres 100. 60
Joe Williams, 2 town lots $40
Hilery Wells, town lot 430
Lee Cary, l town lot---------- 7.4O
Callicott heirs, town lot-- AGO
S. T. Hayden, 2 lots 65 acres 51.OO
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-28
To The Children.

To the boys and girls OF Obion Coun-
ty: Whether you are in school or out
Of school, il you are under the school
age, between six and twenty-one. /
want chat with you; whether you live
in Obion County or not, just SO YOU
read The Commercial. If you should
see this in print and think it favorable
to send me post card with your name
and address on it, it would be greatly
appreciated and afford me much pleas
ure in answering the same.
! would like to know who you are
and in what part of the county you live.
| would also like to know how MANY of
you school children will try to write me
the best letter and get it to me by july
l, 1909. | don 7 want you to get some
one else to write the letter; write and
compose it yourself You may write
on any subject you wish. If a farmer.
write on farming. if engaged in stock
raising, write on stock raising, or any
other subject you would like to write
about
Now, dear children, remember that
do not promise any premium, but there
is something behind this that will be
told you in due time. Now, children,
if you are going to try to have any aim
in life, now is the time to begin.
! know that Obion County has the
talent l am looking for. Pm not hunt
ing the boys and girls that have the
best opportunities, but the ones that
have taken hold Of the opportunity he
or she has had
| almost know that you children have
planted flowers around your home and
made home life beautiful and attract
i've, which ! think every one should do.
If you should write me letter or
card, write at once; it will be appreci-
ated. Your name will be entered on
big book Respectfully,
H. T. HAYNES.
Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Coal-Coke- Wood-Call Tel. 100.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-28

good public high schools, colleges, uni
versities and technical schools Of all
kinds are numerous and well filled with
boys and girls from all walks Of life and
all grades Of society students well pre-
pared to do the legitimate work of these
schools; while in those States and coun-
tries in which there are few or no good
public high schools, the colleges, uni
versties and technical schools are few,
small, aristocratic and inefficient. Ten
nessee has had few good public high
schools, even in its cities and towns,
and the number of Tennessee boys and
girls doing real college work is said to
be smaller in proportion to the white
population than in any other State in
the Union save one. In the Northern
and Western States, where the high
schools have been part OF the public
school system almost from the begin
ming and are now fully developed and
well supported, the universities number
their students by the thousands and col
lege education for leadership and tech
nical education for better service and
more remunerative labor are regarded
as the rightful heritage of all. The ex-
PLANTATION is easy. Where adequate
preparation for any line of college work
or technical training can be had in the
public high school without undue cost,
the money which would otherwise be
expended for high school education may
be saved for college expenses, and many
young men and women will get both
high school and college training who
would otherwise get neither The pub
lie high school is the open door. to the
college, the university and the techni-
cal school, for rich and poor alike, and
is for all the inspiration to this higher
work
And since no people without large
number of men and women well edu-
Gated and trained for leadership in civic,
industrial, commercial, literary and re-
ligious life and for scientific investiga-
ton, can expect to take first rank in
wealth, in art and science, or |
in the councils of the nation, the State
of Tennessee and its counties might we'll |
afford to maintain good public high |
schools, were it only for the sake of Civ
ing to all an equal opportunity to pre-
pare for admission to institutions of |
higher learning.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-28
Non Resident Notice.

Pauline Henry VS.. Courtaney Henry
Chancery Court, Obion County, Tenn
In the above styled cause it appear
ing to me, the undersigned, G. A. Gibbs,
Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court
of Obion County, Tenn, from the bill
of complaint, which issworn to, that the
defendant, Courtaney Henry, is non
resident of the State of Tennessee and a
resident of the State of Arkansas, so
that ordinary process of law cannot be
served upon him, the said Courtaney
Henry is therefore hereby ordered to
appear before me on or before the
First Monday in July,
next, that being regular rule day of
the said court, and make defense to said
bill filed against him or same will be
taken as confessed by him and the cause
set for hearing eX parte.
1t is further ordered that publication
of this notice be made for four consecu-
tive weeks in The Commercial, a weekly
published in Union City,
Tenn.
This May II, 1909.
G. A. GIBBS, Clerk and Master.
by GEO. A. GIBBS, D. G. & M.
E. j. Green, Counsel for Petitioner
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-28
WHY SHOULD COUNTIES
In Tennessee Establish and Maintain
Public High Schools?

(P P. Claxton, Professor of Education, University
of Tennessee
H. For THEIR INDIRECT INFLUENCE ON
THE LOWER SCHOOLS.
Good public high schools will
strengthen the lower schools, increase
their attendance and deepen their inter-
est. Without the high school the coun-
ty school system is incomplete There
is no goal toward which all pupils in the
public school of the county may work.
There is no system, no unifying intiu-
ence, and no recognized stage of COM
pletion; hence, many children quit
school, falling out irregularly at the end
of the first, second, third or subsequent
year, or even in the middle of school
year before the elementary course is
finished. Few remain for the second
AIRY work now given as kind of adden
dunn or appendix to the elementary
courses of some of the primary schools.
The report of the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction shows that fifty
per cent of those who enter the first
grade quit school before the third grade
and about eighty-seven per cent. quit
before they reach the sixth grade, In
States with good public high schools the
record is much better than this, and
there is already marked improvement
in the counties of this State III which
public schools have been in successful
operation for two or three years Moth
ing short Of compulsory attendance laws
will do so much to increase the attend
ance in the lower grades as the enthusi-
asm and interest fostered by the organ
ization of all the schools of the county
with high schools at their head, to give
life and vitality to all the lower schools
and to serve as a goal toward which all
children are encouraged to work, though
majority may still never attain it.
And this, again, would repay all the
cost of establishing and maintaining
public high schools, were there no other
results.
III. To RELIEVE THE LOWER SCHOOLS OF
TEACHING A FEW CHILDREN IN CLASS
Es ABOVE COMMON SCHOOL COURSE.
In still another way will the estab-
lishment and maintenance Of good pub
lie high schools help the elementary and
grammar schools In many of these
schools, probably in most of them, in
all parts of the State, there are a few
pupils, from one to six or eight, who
have passed through all these lower
grades and are trying to do work which
really belongs to the high school Much
time and energy, both of pupils and
teachers, are wasted in this way.
Two or three such pupils IN district
school take up much valuable time of
the teacher, which should be given to
the larger number Of pupils in the lower
grades. Two or three pupils in these
advanced subjects take as much of the
teachers time as fifteen or twenty in
the lower and larger classes. The five
so-called primary grades Tin most coun-
ties distributed through seven or eight
years and divided into from twenty to
thirty-five classes) should demand all of
the time of one or two teachers.
Twenty class recitations in day of
hull six hours of actual teaching (more
han most teachers have) means only
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-28

eighteen minutes to the recitation; thirty
class recitations daily means only twelve
minutes to each recitation. To take
any of this time for few pupils in the
higher classes is folly and little less than
criminal.
Nor is it to be expected that this high
er work can be done satisfactorily in
these lower grade schools. There is not
time for it, there are no laboratories, no
adequate apparatus of any kind. The
teachers of these elementary schools
have not had the preparation necessary
for this higher work, nor have they
time for the daily preparation for teach
ing all the classes of the lower and high
er grades. No teacher could do it,
whatever his previous preparation.
Again, there is always danger that
these older pupils, out of sympathy with
the work and discipline of the younger
children, may become disturbing ele-
ments in the school. A teacher who
might easily manage forty or fifty chill
dren is unable to control these four or
five older pupils, and the whole school
is demoralized. This happens in hun
dreds of schools every year.
Plainly, it would be good economy
for the teachers, the schools, the COM
munites and the individual children,
to transfer all such pupils to central
high schools, where they can be taught
more effectively and at less cost in larg-
er classes with other children of their
own age and advancement, thus reliev-
ing the elementary schools of the bur
den and bad influence and permitting
their teachers to do their own proper
work for which they are better prepared
And, for this reason alone, the State
and counties might well undertake the
burden of maintaining good public high
schools
". To GIVE TO ALL AN Equal OPPoR-
TUNITY TO PREPARE FOR COLLEGE.
There is an ever greater demand for
men and women with the education and
training of the college, university and
technical school. Such men and wo-
men are sought for leadership in all our
social, industrial and civic life, and to
them go the most liberal rewards for
service. Our democratic institutions.
our industrial and commercial progress,
our religious freedom, the application
of scientific thought and principles to
all phases of life, and the modern world
wide competition and cooperation, all
demand them and are impossible with
out them.
In a democracy which pretends to
give equality of opportunity the college,
university and technical school must be
accessible to all alike, regardless of
wealth or poverty; but without the pub
lie high school this is impossible. Few
farmers, mechanics, country merchants
and professional men are able to send
their sons and daughters away to pri-
vate preparatory schools three or four
years, pay tuition and expense of travel
and board, and then give them the as
slstance necessary to make even be-
ginning in college. Without the pub
lie high school, all education above the
most elementary grades becomes aristo-
cratic, the privilege of those who are
able to pay for it or whose parents are
so Jealous for the welfare of their chill
dren that they are willing to make a |
greater sacrifice than most men will
make. And so it happens that in those
States and countries in which there are
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-28
$3.50 to Memphis and Return

via Mobile & Ohia Railroad, account U.
G. V. Reunion, June s to 10, inclusive,
1909. Tickets on sale June 6 to 9, in
elusive, limited to return on or before
June a. Extension of return limit to
July l upon payment of fee of so cents.
Tor tickets and full particulars apply to
nearest agent of the Mobile & Ohio
Railroad
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-28
DELINQUENT TAXPAYERS
TAKE NOTICE
On the First Monday in June,

next, at the courthouse in
Union City, Obion County,
Tenn, l will offer for public
sale all the real estate belong
ing to delinquent taxpayers for
the year 1908. The following
is a list of such delinquents, the
district in which the property
is situated and the number of
acres in each tract as follows:
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-28
District No. 10

Albert Blythe (coI) l town lots 2.O3
w. NJ Brooks, l town lot---- IS
Sam Branch, town lot------ 4.S6
Billie Brown (col / town lot 81
w. /. Bynum, l town lot------ 4.O3
Mollie Cavitt (col) l town lot 1.O1
P. G. Carter, / town lot----- sos
Jim Carter (col) l town lott go
J. w Chambers heirs, / town lot LOO
B. F Chambers, 60 acres goo
L. A. Elliott, acres go
Mrs. F. n. Epperson, $50 acres 1925
Etherage & Faulks, l town lot 3.03
Lesley Freeman (col. } l town lot go
Chas Gilbert (col.) l town lot. = SOY
Mrs. Fred Green, l town lot 1850
Mrs. A. w. Gansley, l town lot go
Marshall Harwell (col.) l town lot go
VIM. Johnson (col.) l town lot 2.36
Bill Lancaster, town lot------- 1.35
w, /. Lam (col 4 town lots 1888
Ed Lenox (col) l town lot------ 2.02I
I. ]. Sittle, ] town lot------- 1.35
S. ]. Mann, SO acres 1917
Mrs. F. Martinetti, / town lot 2.36
Nelson Mitchell (col.) % acres GAP
F. NJ. Montgomery, l town lot 11.45
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-28
District No. 2

], H. Burnett heirs, 100 acres $21 go
Lyon Norton, ia acres------ SO. 45
Alice Pursley heirs, lot4-- 6.09
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-28

and if said sale is not completed on the
said First Monday in June, the same
will continue from day to day until
completed
This May II, 1909.
G. w. WORLEY, Trustee.
Union City Ice & Coal Co. sell all
kinds of fuel
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-05-28
District No. |

B. F. Chambers, 90 acres -$24. 80
Thorn. Patterson, 10 acres---- 2.70
S. H. Weaver, 200 acres liza
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-07
PLENTY OF GAME
 IN hJO MOUNTAINS
NaCo Hunters Retum From Enjoyable Hunt-0ther h.
 tereSting Border News.
lspecial to the Review.l


 NACO. Ariz., Jan. 6.-Constahle Newell of Naco made his first arrest at Naco yesterday when he captured Theodore Becker, who was on his way across the line.
 Judge Hall has opened his new of- lice here next to the Branch Bank of Bisbee. where he has one of the most convenient and commodious places in the city. He will dispense justice here and proposes to give Naco one of the best administrations of her history.
 A party Of Naco hunters have just returned from a two weeks jount in the Ajo mountains. They report a very interesting and in a degree a thrilling experience. Those compos- ing the party were Fred Gray. H. E. Bryant F.. Tapp and D. Berry. Some of the boys got lost for several days and had considerable hunting to get back 10 camp.
 They report that hunting Is good in that section of Sonora, and they there Is no trouble to get enough game to live on comfortably if you can shoot. The boys brought back three deer. two wild hogs and a considerable amount of smaller game. There are a mum. Der hunting in the Ajos and a number spending the winter there prospect ! ing.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-07
GLOUCESTER.
rhs ossatest Fishing Center h ths
 United States.

Everything smells of fish in Clouces- fer. Ii is not an odor to which any of the natives object. Nor do visitors find in 1t anything of which to com plain. for 1t is the pungent ozone of the sea. the smell of fish freshly caught Gloucester has really never known any thing else. for since its beginning. 70 preaching three centuries ago. it Id, always had fishing for it's chief indus try. and today 1t Is the greatest fish ing center of the United states and according to the belief of many. of tbe world.
 When q two inasted schooner. lade, to the gunwaies with it's cargo Of fisb comes into the wharfs the fish are ear ried in great tubs. Over these stand a company Jf cSiwr,r men who IliVc cleaned hundreds of thousands of fisli and who can make the >quick cuts and do the scraping with incredible speed Running to each tub Is a hose and ast- CT the waste has been removed an in stant under the high pressure cf wa ter from the hose cleans out the fsl completely and makes fl sweet anG ready for the next step in the opera ticn. Codhsh k dried ani sai5-,i l,e fore being scatto :he market. sgd lhe work Is nlsosdone on the vharfs. Here are ranged hundreds of tables exposed to the bright sunlight. The cleansed fish are piled up in such . manner that the warm rays get a most admirable chance at them.
 From the open air drying tables the fish are shifted to the boxing and pack. ing establishments, which arc also lo- eated along the water front, and then they are made ready to be shipped to all parts of the world. - Springfield Union
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-07
An Error In Geography.

On one occasion the British lost a point in their war with Russia by req. son of an error In their geography This was when Commodore Elliot had succeeded In blockadlng the Russian fleet in the gulf of Saghalin, on the east coast of Siberia. The Russians were in a cul-de-sac. and the British ships waited contentedly for such time as the enemy should venture to put to sea. But they waited in vain, and al Inst an investigation was made II was found that the Russian fleet had vanished. While the British commo- dore waited at the south end of the gulf, the Russian ships slipped away through the shallows at the north end into the sea of 0khotsk. Until this discovery was made the British gov. ernment had believed Saghalin to be a peninsula. Now, too late, they learned that it was an island, with a very narrow channel at the north end of the gulf running Into the sea of Okhotsk.-New York Tribune.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-07
Hay on Church Floor.

A curious custom Is annually observ- cd at Old Neston church on St. Swith- in's day. The church Is dedicated to St Swithin, and on festival day the church Is strewn with hay. Many years ago some donor left field to provide money for bread which Is dis tributed four times a year. The tenant of the Held has to supply the hay to strew the church. The custom is sup posed to have originated from the fact that on festival Sunday the parishion- CTS wear new boots, and the idea of the donor was to have the hay laid down to stop the squeaking incidental to new footwear,-LondOn Standard.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-07
Mir. Sanford Dodge, Who Win Open His Engagement in Alexander Dumas Historial Drama, The Three Musketeers, at the
 Orpheum Sunday.
FAUST.

Whether Goethe was writing for the stage, or only for the closet, when he was composing his dramatic poem, the chief legend upon which he founded 1t could not fail at any time to have at tracted dramatic authors, and must have appealed to the instincts of act Ors and stage managers. Calderon had already dealt with similar legend in Spain. Marlowe had written The Tragical History of Doctor Gausts" in England, and Germany had founded a ''puppet play" on Marlowe's tragedy, long before Goethe was born. In his biography the great master himself acknowledges the inspiration of the stage as a factor in his immortal work. There are in these days a set of az gressively cultured people. who affect an office of dramatic censorship They are always wiser than the directors of the theatre, or at least would have us believe so. In regard to Goethe they know exactly what he thought and oc- sired, and without his permission, iy- ing or dead. have delivered them selves accordingly With this class of critical patrons. the stage is still a mere puppet show, actors, rogues and vagabonds; but thoughtful students ot literature and art will always be anxious to reckon the theatre as a classic agent in the worlds intellec- tual progress.
 The great painters of cur day have shown a practical and active sympa- thy with the earnest efforts of the stage manager to realize the scene he endeayors to represent, and It will be interesting to glance at the nature and character of these efforts apropos Sf Sanford Dodges new production of Faust" which will be seen at the Orpheum theatre Monday and Tues day. Seats on sale at 1 o'clock.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-07
RENEWED ACTIVITY
 AT AACO TOWN
Many Improvements Planned. May Build Electric Car Line
 To Country Club,

c. c. Berry, one of the prominent citizens of Naco, stated yesterday that a leading business man of the border town was considering running an cleo tric line from Naco to connect with the Bisbee line at the Country Club.
 We have decided that it is neces- sary for usZtO get to doing something over here" said Berry, ''when We consider that Douglas and all our neighboring towns are making notable advances. There are lots of improve ments which would assist Naco very materially as soon as installed. We feel tha; if this is accomplished it will add greatly to the future of NaCo."