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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

Best value i'm the city.
w. G. CLAGETT Co.
! Miss Elsie Woodfn, of the vicinit,
east of the city, was in Tuesday shop
ping
Mr.. and Mrs. w. q. Massengill are a
home to their friends at 304 East Church
street.
What do you think? $4,000 Range,
at Mailing Keiser Hardware Co.
Mr. and Mrs ]. T. Perkins, of Mar.
tin, were in the city this week visiting
friends.
Miss Mollie Bourne, of Hickman,
visited her sister, Mrs. w. d. Williams,
Sunday.
You want to watch for the big 25c
window. Nailling-Keiser Hardware Co.
Mrs. Oscar Forester, of Bethlehem
vicinity, visited Mrs. w. j. Davidson
Monday.
Mrs. Jas. F. Chambers, of Shady
Grove, was a pleasant caller in the office
this week.
For diamonds see Ben Dietzel. Latest
report is Is per cent advance on Jan. l.
Mrs. Will 7. Ramsey, of Rutherford,
was the guest of Mrs Fletcher Mailing
last week.
Mrs. Gay Isbell, of Woodland, was
the guest Of her cousin, Mrs. Ina Nail
ling, Monday
Big 25c window. Good values. Nail
ling-Keiser Hardware Co.
E. B. Massengill, of St. Louis, spent
4 couple of days with his home people
here last week.
Prof Milan had the misfortune to
ose from founder a very fine Jersey
COW this week.
A call for $50 brings the coal wagon.
Union City Ice and Coal Co.
|
Mr.. Ras Bransford spent Thanksgiv-
ng in Nashville, the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Robt. Bell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert Forester spent
Thanksgiving with Mr. Forester's father
n Rives Thursday.
Cut the coal bill half in two by buy
ng a Coles Hot Blast Heater Nail
Hardware Co.
0. L. Pardue, of Memphis, was in the
ity last week visiting the home of Mr..
nd Mrs. F. w. Pardue.
Miss Louise Sharp visited her sister,
Irs. Wingo, at Brinkley, Ark, where
be enjoyed Thanksgiving.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

The Ladies Aid Society of the First
Christian Church will hold a bazaar at
Jones' Furniture Store Dec 10 and II.
The friends will please take notice and
have their donations ready.
Just received, car old-time Kenawha
salt. Don't get hard in barrel and keeps
meat Rock salt for stock.
36-2t SAML. d. WoosLEY.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Amos, of Obion,
were in the city this week visiting the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. McCorkle.
You've tried the rest, row try the
best-Jersey Cream Flour
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

Mrs. Oscar Turner, of Mayfeld, Ky.
who is the guest of her mother, Mrs. r.
Green, has been requested to sing at the
Gem Friday night for the benefit of the
Civic League.
I suggest for your consideration, l doz
fine sepia photographs of yourself as
suitable for II Christmas presents. =
Southworth' IS Art Shop.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

The bazaar for the benefit of the chill
dren s piano fund will be held at Corum
q Jackson's store. Those who desire
to contribute articles for the bazaar are
notified to bring them in. The bazaar
is given by the ladies of the Methodist
Church.
LOST-Green jade pin on First street
Nov. 49, Finder please return to Miss
Dautie Pardue at the Water and Light
Works Office.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

Mrs. Leola Young, of Bowling Green,
KY, is the guest of Miss Matte Rine-
hart.
Mems good solid work shoes at 81. %.
Best value i'm the city.
w. G. CLAGETT Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

Mr.. and Mrs ]. P. Hickman and little
son, Robert Howard, left Sunday to
visit relatives in North Carolina and
Virginia, to be absent until after the
holidays.
G. A. Nagle has opened new feed
store and stable on First street. Call
him up. Phone 544
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

Rev. Stewart, the newly appointed
pastor, will preach at Pleasant Valley
next Sunday morning, the first of his
work at that place. Rev. Stewart comes
from Martin.
Have you tried Re-nu-o-la on that
old carpet of yours? Nailling-Keiser
Hardware Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

Mrs. Walter Howell and little daugh-
ter enjoyed few days visit this week
at the home of Mrs. Howell's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Gentry Reynolds, at Ken
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

HlGu > swell ON6TCOdIS DIT S1A.OO.
w. G. CLAGETT Co.
Mrs. w. F. Holland, of Newbern
visited her sister, Mrs. Ella Britton, anC
niece, Miss BERTHE HARRISON, this week
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Futrell, Hickory
Grove, KY, returned to their home Sun
day after visit to friends and relatives
here.
Hitch your horse when in town at G..
A. Nagle's stable on First street.
Mrs. J. D. Porter, of Nashville, is in
the city visiting her parents, Judge and
Mrs. Swiggart, and family on Main
street.
The Gem has rendered benefit to
the Civic League to be given Friday
night. Special songs and films will be
shown.
Soc saved on women's $3.50 patent,
vici or gun metal shoes now selling at
$2.15. w. G. CLAGETT Co.
Mrs. Cummings and son, of Nash
vile, visited Mrs. Ella Britton and niece,
Miss BERTHE HARRISON, on Division street
last week.
Mrs. S. A. Harrison and daughter,
Mrs. Ina Mailing, were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Will T. Whitson, of Beech
vicinity, this week.
$1,000 Ranges at the Mailing Keiser
Hardware Co.
Sexton Martin reports no deaths in
Union City during the month Of No
vember. Exceptionally good health in
the city and in the county.
Mr.. Wayne Mansfield, of Shady
Grove vicinity, has returned from visit
to Blytheville, Ark, where he has been
looking after some real estate.
Ranges $4,000 at Nailling-Keiser
Hardware Co.
Mrs. Belle Berryhill left yesterday for
She had arranged to go last
week, but the trip was postponed. Mrs. |
Berryhill will visit in Mobile, Gulfport
and New Orleans. She will be in the
South most of the winter.
Don't fail to see that range for $40. 90
1t Mailing Keiser Hardware Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

Coles Hot Blast Stoves, the only air.
tight heaters made.
Mailing eiser Hardware Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

Full line brooches, belt pins, hat pins
and jewelry at Ben Dietzel's.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

From this city Mrs. Jas. Caruthers
was present during the illness of Mrs.
Arch Caruthers at Hickman and at the
funeral with Mrs. Doc Carter, Misses
Birdie, Sudie, Essie and Annie Caruth-
erS
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

Mr.. Ed Turnage, of Troy, was in the
city on business yesterday.
Misses Nell and Mary Martin spent
Thanksgiving at Woodland.
Clean your old rugs with Re-nu-o-la
Mailing Keiser Hardware Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

Walter Bigerstaff, of Humboldt, visit
ed his mother, Mrs. J. K. Postma, Sun
day.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

T. Cole is at home from Illinois.
Col. A. D. Keller was in Kenton this
week.
Fancy fruits. Howard Bros.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

What do you think? $4,000 Ranges
at Mailing Keiser Hardware Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

f. Gassaway, of Terrell, was recent
visitor here.
H. P. Taylor, of Jackson, Sundayed
in the city.
Shelled nuts Howard Bros.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-12-03

Mr.. Walker Pickard was in Waverly
an a business and pleasure trip for sew
sral days, returning this week.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
BLOOD NOT THE ONLY THING.

1t has been said that the kind of
live stock kept in a community marks
the of the cOmmunity's prog
resS as much as the kind of school
houses. In selecting live stock we
have no better guide than the we'll
recognized law Of selection Furnished
by nature. The practice Of careful
and intelligent selection should be
thoroughly understood by the farmesr
Small fiocks Of sheep. herds of cattle
and even the pig exhibit a superiority
as q result of care bestowed upon
them.
The average farmer will succeed
better in the work Of improving his
farm stock by using pure bred sires
and grading UP than by investing too
much money in high-priced breeding
animals.
Many farmers who have attempted
to breed pure bred animals have been
sorely disappointed. While they be-
stock and undoubtedly would have sue
ceeded had they given them proper
care and feeding. yet the idea seemed
so firmly fixed upon their minds that
II the improved animals were better
than the common ones they formerly
kept they would prove more profitable
than the m ones. even when
they were kept under the same con-
dltions. h theory is all wrong.
The improved breeds of live stock
have all been brought to their present
high state of perfection by selection.
liberal feeding and good care, and un-
less we are prepared to continue this
treatment we had better keep along
with our common herds and focks
that nave become more or less ac-
suStOmed to hardshipS ard neglect.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13

tanning q per cent moisture and the
company which bought it sent it back,
saying that it "a against the law to
sell it. What would be the best way
to work this butter so as to make it
salable?'-F. j. G., Dane County,
Wisconsin.
Get of moisture in butter are the same
thing Some persons use the first
term n others the second. The pres
ent law states hat butter containing
over 16 per cent water must pay a
tax of 10 cents per pound, inc it is
classified as adultered. 1t is quite
necessary that butter-makers be ab-
sOlutely sure that the butter they ara
making does not exceed the 1t per
cent liElit.
l know Of no way in which you can
be sure Of the water content of the
butter made at our factory unless
you test it from day to day. The Irish
butter test has been suggested for this
| think you need have no
fear Of exceeding the Is per cent limit
if you will ash the %granules of but
ter with cold water at about SO de-
greeS Fahrenheit, allowing the butter
to stand in this water until the
granules become hard and firm. Then
after draining off the water. wash
and allow the butter to stand in the
churn some time until it drains rather
dry. Sprinkle the salt over this and
give 1T the usual amount of working.
Excessive moisture is held in butter
that is soft and not thoroughly
drained.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13

cisco, Cal. This bea is set in a pit
with two others; those, however, are
not grizzlies.
Old Monarch, as he is known, is
said to tip the scale at 1,4O0 pounds.
The San Francisco Examiner is re-
sponsible for his capture, which was
effected o sixteen miles from San
ia Paula, CAL, on Pine
Some two years before the midwin-
ter fair Of 1872 the bear was taken,
but he does not seem to have suffered
by his captivity in the least. If any
thing he has prOspered.
During the winter his bearship eats
but little-twelve to fourteen loaves of
bread will do for the three bears in the
cage although in the summer thirty
five are needed. This is despite the
fact that he does not hibernate. Grass
and weeds, too, are given him at his
hungrier season.
Fly heart, and he will, moreover, at
tack his keeper, if given a chance SO
the keeper takes good care hat the
bear gets him in a corner. In
fact he only enters the age when he
ABSOLUTELY must.
grizzly; tWo of these, however, were
killed by their mother a she
had no place to hide them.
At the same time this full-bred dc
grizzly, whose age is estimated at
about 80 years, plays about with the
other bears in the water as gently, it
seems, as a lap-dOg.
Old Monarch was taken fifteen years
ago as a result of the attempt to cap
ture another famous grizzly, known as
old Club Foot" that had been at
~tackin1g the sheep about Pine noun
tain.
Instead Of "Old Club Foot "Mon-
arch was caught in the old log trap,
and after being roped into a sled was
chained down and then drawn out
eight miles through the wilds into a
cage, within which he was shipped to
q summer garden near Frisco.
He was later shipped to Golden
Gate park.-F. J. Koch.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13

(The Farmers UniOn.)

Farmers of North Carolina spend
about twelve million dollars a year for
commercial fertilizers. OF this amount
nearly three million dollars go to pay
for nitrogen-the most expensive ele-
ment in fertilizers, and an element
that can be supplied on every farm
n the expenditure Of a dollar to
the fertilizer trust. The COW peas, the
clOvers or the vetches will supply this
expensive me at a cost of less
than One-Siyth. of what it costs to buy
it in commercial fertilizers. The sooner
we learn this important lesson, the
sooner we will be able to throw off
some of the burden Of the fertilizer
tax. In this connection we again call
attention to the suicidal practice of
selling nitrogen in raw cotton seed at
ten cents a pound and then buying it
back in fertilizers at a cost of eighteen
to twenty cents a pound. No business
enterprise in the world could be run
upOn such methods and succeed. Sell
ing a thing at ten cents a pound and
buying it back at twenty cents a
pound would wreck and ruin the
strongest business establishment on
earth. Are you going to keep on sell
ing cotton seed at about half what
they are worth, or will it be the part
of wisdom to return it to the soil
it belongs? We have no moral
right to rob our soil to make the oil
trust and fertilizer combines rich We
must not blame the "other fellows
for taking what we foOlishly give
them. Me must place all the blame
apo ourselves, for there is no other
place to locate it.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
PROFIT IN FRUIT.

While h average money received
from an acre of apples trees will not
exceed S75, in many cases, under mod
ern methods Of high culture, proper
fertilizing and spraying of the trees to
destroy insects and fungous disease a
yield of 5000 to $500 per acre is OBJ
tanned on many farms, and there are
well-known instances where 800 has
been received for an acre of Baldwin
apples. This has been done in Orleans
county in western New York.
At Yorktown Heights, in Winches-
ter county, a farmer planted thirteen
acres to peach trees a few years ago.
Three years later he sold $500 worth
Of peaches, and the next ear the yield
brought $500. After deducting ST.
100 for expenses in the cultivation of
the crop and hiring teams to haul the
fruit to market, he put $4,000 in the
bank, making an average of $500 as
net profit per acre. The yield can be
increased largely by growing especially
fancy fruit.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
LITTLE HELPS FOR FARMERS
WIFE.

Cold meats or fowl can be kept fresh
and moist by covering with a cloth or
napkin wrung from cold water.
Grease can be removed from carpets
Or rugs by spreading lour on the spots
Immediately, renewing fresh -four as
the grease is absorbed.
Kerosene oil from an overturned
lamp. making a large spot on a carpet,
has beer known to be effectually re-
moved by persistent application OF
-four
Rough fatirons car be made smooth
by rubbing with beeSwaX or salt.
Hot vinegar will remove mortar and
paint from window glass.
Salt mixed with lemon juice viii
remove iron rust.
'TiS said common household soda
will sWeeten sour water in a ciStern.
A uaiI full of water in which hay
has been placed will rid a freshly
painted room of the disagreeable odor
caused by paint.
Vinegar in water used to wash VIM
dows will make the glass bright and
clear.
In making fruit pies if part of the
sugar and four is spread over the
bottom crust the Juice is not SO apt to
soak into the crust or to cook out of
the pie.
Grease spots can be removed from
mating b. Wetting with alcohol first.
ard then washing well with oar and
cold water.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13

reaching the roots of the crops and
also allows the soil to dry out fast
Hence it is a good plan to give
growing plants a light cultivation at
ter each rain to break this crust.
This must not be done till the soil
becomes dry, for cultivating or ploW-
ing the soil when it is wet packs and
Injuries it.
Keeping the surface of the soil fine
prevents rapid escape of soil moisture.
Water is being continually drawn up
from below by capillary action of the
soil particles.
II he surface of the soil is hard,
this soil water escapes into the air by
evaporation.
If the surface of the soil is fine and
loose capillary action is broker at the
surface, and the water remains below
to nOuriSh the roots of the plants.
In dry weather crops should be
given fine surface cultivation so thac
all moisture possible shall be retained
in the soil for the benefit of the feed
ing roots.
Making the surface soil fine to pre-
vent evaporation of moisture is called
making q dust mulch.-H. II. Shepard.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
COOLING THE MILK.

There is quite an agitation among
the Danish creamery men to ncour
age the milk producers to have water
tanks made through which the water
used for the stock is pumped. in
which the cans of milk are set for
cooling.
This old American scheme is no
doubt a great Improvement over let
ting the cans take car OF themselves,
but it would seem that. while che is
abOEt it. il would be as we'll to secure
one Of the many excellent tubular or
other milk coolers whereby the milk
is cooled virtually instantaneously to
within two or three degrees Of the
water used.
If h water pump is set going. be
it by hand or power, when milking is
commenced, a far better result is OBJ
tanned than when the can are set in
a tank, where the cooling is much
slower, even if the milk is stirred &C.
casionally or continuously, which is
but seldom done.
CT course it is desirable to have a
tank with cold water in which to place
the cans when cooled. but as the pump
has to be used anyhow this requires
but little extra work
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
NOVA SCOTIA APPLE INDUSTRY.

Annapolis valley, Nov Scotia, ia
nous for it's fine apples, is a district
only 100 miles long. This territory
ranging in width from six to ten miles.
is one great orchard, and here apples
have been grown for 200 years, but
their scientific production for CONNER
cial is Of comparatively re-
cent origin.
There are yet wide regions in this
province which are adapted to this in
dustry and new orchards are being set
out yearly, until now it is expected
that Nova Scotia will in a few years
ply a very important part in sup
plying the demand for apples in all
parts of the world where there is "a
market for this frhit.
The apples. grown in this region are
very fine, deliciOusly favored n COM
pare very favOrably with the best that
are raised in any part of the country
Something OF the magnitude of this
industry and the Improvement made
theirin may be gathered from the fact
that during the season of 18S0-S1 the
total number Of barrels exported from
Nova Scotia was a, 7S5, while the
shipment for the last week in Septem-
beB 1908, amounted to 37O,O1S barrels,
the total yield last season being esti-
mated at 5000 0 barrels.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
You Can't afford to Buy a PIANO OR ORGAN

About which nobody knows anything except the seTer-nor n instrument
hat has nothing to commend it but a low price. Don't let a low price
hide h truth of hi mattr. Try to think out the problem of time. talent
labor materiala and none tied u 2 in u factory. An intelligent study Of
these facts will tell you n o GOO instru nen ca be sod for next to nothing.
h only safec course is to go to a eputabIe Piano or Organ dealer, "a a
reasonable price n get a reliable guarantee. When o buy a. instru-
men va from HON etheres nobody to complain to. if hngs % wrong.
The greatness of thi store. the thing o n which it chiefly prides itself is its
n record of ouare n upright deaHngInt is a record of selling reliable
instruments at M lowest prices to be found in ny store, in n par o. this
country. OF the hundreds of people who have bought instruments Il
attentive and fair. Come in and see how easy We al make terms that
will enable you to u a goo Piano or Organ right here al home under a
ran hat means something.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
WATER CONTENT OF BUTTER
Moisture in Butter in Excess Of IS
Per Cent Makes the Same Liable
to a Special Tax.
Rr prnfaccnr L w arrinotnn iTni-

BY Professor E.. w. harrington, Uni
=. versity Of Wisconsin. -.
The dairy school of the University
of Wisconsin is constantly receiving
inquiries similar to the following, and
the problem outlined is of such gen.
eral interest as to make this question
and reply worthy Of publications:
''Is>not the water content of butter
and the moisture content the same
thing? Is it against the law to sell but
ter that has more than 16 per cent Of
moisture IN it? I have seen in a paper
that some butter-makers have sold
butter containing 10 per cent moisture
as extras. I had a butter-maker take
my place for two weeks. and when I
came home he had made butter con-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
State Normal and
Industrial College

Maintained by the State for the Wo-
men of North Carolina Four regular
Courses leading to Degrees. Specia!
for Teachers. Fall Session
begins September Is. 1909. Those
desiring 70 a1ter should apply as ear
ly as POSSIBLE. For catalogue and
other information. address
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
MOST FAMOUS BEAR IN THE
WEST

what is perhaps the most famous
Dear in the West today, and the n
seen oy more people proba bly, than
any other, Is h famous Hearst grizzly
OF the Golden Gate park, at San Fran
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-13
CULTIVATION IN DRY WEATHER.

Summer air beat down cultivated
soil. forming a hard crust. This hard
crust prevents sufficient air from
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-10-28
Its A Top Notch Doer.

Great deeds compel regard. The
world crowns its doors. That's whv
the American people have crowned DR..
Kings New Discovery the King OF
Throat and Lung remedies. Every
atom is health force. 1t kills germs
and colds and lagrippe vanish. 1t heals
ceugh-racked membranes and COUGHING
stops. Sore, infamed bronchial tubes
and lungs are cured and hemorrhages
cease. DR.. Geo. More, Black Jack. N.
c., writes sit cured me of lung trou.
BILE, pronounced hopeless by all doc
tors" SOC, $1.0O. Trial bottle free.
Guaranteed by all Druggists.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-10-28

At the annual meeting of the
State Agricultural Society inRal-
eigh Thursday night a resolution
was adopted urging that the5Otn
anniversary, which will be next
year, be celebrated by holding a
two-weeks' fair, jubilee exposition
and homecoming. President j.
H. Currie declared the fair the
best ever held, with the largest
attendance on record. President
Currie was elected for a thlrd
term. Col. EFF. McRae, of Max
ton, was elected vice president
from the sixth district.