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Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
5000 Houses to Be Built.

Washington.-An innovation in inter-
national relief measures is to be under.
taken by the American government in
expanding the 100000 in money appro-
priated for the Italian earthquake sui.
ferers. Realizing that great need among
the sufferers will be shelter from the ele.
ments, President Roosevelt has decided
to send to Italy material for the con.
struction of 5000 substantial but neces-
sarily very modest frame house, supple
menting this by supplying civilian car.
penters to supervise the construction if
this can be arranged.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
HOW COMMERCE FELL OFF
$500, 600 to 100000 Decrease
Through Atlantic Ports.

Westinghouse the approximately
$500,000,0 900 reduction in our foreign
commerce in the calendar year 1908
when compared with that of the pre-
ceding year, nearly SAC, 000,0 900 was in
the trade which was accustomed to pass
through Atlantic ports. This is the
statement made in a report just issued
by the Bureau of Statistics and Labor.
The falling off in the imports in the
case of the Mexican border ports, &C.
cording to the report, is about 40 per
cent, and that of the gulf ports about
IA per cent, while tae falling off in ex-
ports from Mexican border ports is
about So per cent.
New Orleans fell off from $42, OOO, 900
to $37,000,000 in imports and from
$l37 ,000,0 900 in exports.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
viii Diversity Crops.

Washington.-Mr. Joffrion, an ex-
pert on Irish potato culture, Of Rapides
Parish, addressed a well-attended
meeting of farmers and citizens of
the town at the Pionsky Opera House
a few days ago. The formers were
favorably impressed and will doubt
less take the good advice offered and
each cultivate a few acres of Irish
potatoes this looming season. This
with the promise of good deal of
sugar cane that will be planted, will
cause the much-needed Investigation
of crops, and<will in a great measure,
overcome the effects of the boil weevil.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
TO Promote a Drainage System.

Deita-The Board of Levee Commits.
siopersIof the Fifth Louisiana Leyee
Dist tiet met at Delta. Major Frank
NJ. Gen, Chief State Engineer, and
his assistant, Walter H. Hoffen, ap,
peartA and discussed conditions. A
resol itan was passed that President
MEG 9aan call a mass meeting at
an esq date at Tullah to consider
a tho sagh survey of a comprehensive
DRAIN III system. and all police juries
and c counciis throughout the Fifth
Distri ATTEND. Another resolution
pledge the revenues of the Board
for 40 and 1910 to procure
necess;tff funds for building, repairing
and eabrged such leyees as are
necessary A rule was made that per.
sons whdwant to grow rice and cross
the levea with a pipe or syphon must
apply til the President. President
McClennds report detailed the leVee
and revesment work 10Y under way
by the Sdte and Government.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
FIGHT ON SALARY INCREASES
House May Show Opposition to In
rease in Presidents Paw.

Washington.-That the senate amend.
ments to the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill, increasing the
salary of the president to $1,000 00, of
the vice-president and speaker Of the
house of representatives to $4,000 each,
with an allowance for a carriage of
$4,000 each for the vice-president and
speaker, are not to be approved without
some opposition, was shown in the sen.
ate when Senator Borah of Idaho, first
made a point of order against them as
new legislation. Mr.. Clay of Georgia,
also asked that all proposed increases
of salaries of judges, a%ggregating s32s,
500, be dealt with in the same manner,
and they will be discussed after the
other portions of the bill have been dis.
posad of
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
LATEST NEWS
IN LOUISIANA
Weevii Does Not Hibernate.

Shreyeport.-While discussing the
probable effects OF the present cold
snap upon the "hiberDated" boil wee
vii, Captain W. 3. Marston, President
of the North Louisiana Cotton Plant
ers' Association, and former member
OF the Louisiana Crop Pest Commits
sion, declared there is no such thing
as a "h~ibernated" boil weevil. He
said:
There never was such a thing as a
hibernated boil weeVil. This is the
greatest mistake the entomolOgistS
have made. The boil weevil is a tropi.
cal bug and its daddies and mammies
never knew what winter was. The
boil worm hibernates and goes into the
ground and stays all winter and comes
The boil weevil is like a house fly
OF mosquito, or a partridge, or dove
it takes shelter in bad weather only.
You can find the boil weevif out in
Texas and this State any warm day
in winter, feeding and drinking any
thing they can find, and they don't
emerge as late as June. The
Keatchie demonstrations, upon which
the en%tomologists base their conten-
tons, proved that the Weevil emerged
CO as late as June; the truth is thew
were in those cages, but some OF the1
were possibly not found until June
Early in the year they found a 10
of emerged weevils and marked them
with red ink, and these same weevils
emerged again very much later in
the year. That the winter weevll
will survive until June is true, for |
myself have carried them until the
18th Of June, but | watered and fed
them from the 10th day Of March or
cotton, Bermuda grass, etc., the
5aptos" to the contrary notwithstand-
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
DO TREES INCREASE RAINFALL?
Prof. Thomas Shaw Thinks Further
Data Is Needed Before Deciding.

The opinion is very prevalent that
the relation is close between the pres.
ence or absence Of trees and rainfall.
1t may be that such is the fact, but
the evidence is not so clear on the
whole on this question as could be de-
sired. Take, for instance, the story
told by the weather records kept at
Bismarck. n. D. For the ten years
commencing with and including 1875,
the annual precipitation was six inches
more than it was during the ten years
following. During the first period
almost none Of the soil had been
broken up. During the second period,
quite a proportion had been broken
up. The trees in the locality were
about the same as during the first
period. During the third period the
trees had increased through the plant
ing Of groves and yet the average in
crease in the rainfall was only six
inches.
During the first period referred to.
the lakes in the Dakotas were filled
to overtloWing. The water in Devils
lake at that time came up to the site
Of the present town. The water in the
lake bed is now at least five miles
from the town. Is it not easily sup
possible that Il period may come again
when the rainfall will again be as
great as it was in the ten-year period
commencing with 1915. If this were
to happen. doubtless DEVILS lake
would Ill it's banks again.
The same line of reasoning may be
applied TO Minnesota. In 1894 and
M or two Of the years following,
the weather was so dry that many Of.
the shallow lakes went dry. On every.
hand the statements were made that
dry seasons had came because the
Minnesota forests were being cut
away. But what happened? During
seasons following these lakes refllled.
The present season he greatest flood
took place in the Minnesota and Mis-.
sissippi rivers that has occurred for
many a day. 1t is well to look for
further data with reference to the re-
'ation between forests and rainfall.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
Thousand Acres Devoted to Rice.

JoResville.-A new departure In the
agriculture line Is to be strated at an
early date. Joseph E. Perez, of Drey-
fous, La, has contracted with the
owners of the Lianada and Auckland
Plantation to plant 1000 acres of rice.
A start win be made at an early
date to prepare the land. install the
pumps and lay off lateral bitches.
This will be watched with consider
able interest. Those contemplating
planting cotton this year are doing
so with grave fear of the results,
and this new venture, proving pro-
fitable. will open a new field in the
agricultural Line.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
Made Entirely Of Concrete.

angle as shown and are about six feet
in length. The bottom pieces are 1
inch thick, eight inches wide and in
any length to suit the space. The posts
are two feet high and have one side
perpendicular, and the other three
sides inclined to make the top four
inches square and the bottom eight
inches. The straight side is placed
toward the walk or wall, whichever 1t
may be. A correspondent of Florists
Review says that the weight Of the
soil and plants holds the side rails SO
firmly that an ordinary man has not
strength enough to pull one of the
pieces out.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
Pardons $50 Conyicts.

Guthrie, Okla.-In a special message
to the legislature today Gov. Haskell
submitted the recommendation of the
state board Of control, who are members
of the Kansas prison probe committee,
that all Oklahoma prisoners now at
Lansing, whose terms are more than two
thirds expired, to have less than one year
to run, or who are under IS years old, be
paroled. Such a course, if pursued, would
free about $50 prisoners and enable the
accommodation OF those remaining at the
temporary penitentiary at AlcAlGster.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23

Baton Rouge.-Mr. Favrot retires
from Congress at the end of the pres
ent session, and while he has made
no announcement of his plans, it is
believed that he will move to New
Orleans. He has had several very
attractive offers to go to different
places, but has declined to consider
any plan requiring his removal from
the State. Mr.. Fevrot's friends be-
iieve that New Orleans offers a wider
field for his talents, and that he will
make a distinct success of law in the
Crescent City.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
A New Sulphur Wash,

During the past season the depart
ment of agriculture has made an i'm
portant discovery that the self-boiled
%lime-sulphur wash is not injurious to
peach foliage when properly made and
will not produce russeting and other
injurious effects on apples. Further
more, it has been found to be about as
effective as a fungicide as the stand
ard Bordeaux mixture. Extensive ex-
periments have been carried on during
the year by the department on nearly
all of the common fruit diseases which
are preventable by spraying ana it
has been demonstrated that the above
mixture is a very useful OGa
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
Whipped Judge Asks Damage.

Paducah, Ky.-Damages in the sum of
$4,000 are asked in a suit filed in the
United States Court here by c. w.
Rucker of Metropolis, ILL.,, against 1873
alleged night riders of this section. The
majority of the defendants are promi,
nent in Western Kentucky. The plain
tiff was police Judge of E~ddyyille, KY,
when he claims the defendants called at
his home on the night OF March Is,
1908, compelled him to walk barefcoted
to the Cumberland river in his night
clothes, where they numerically beat
him with clubs.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
THROWING EGGS CHEAP.
Cost One Dollar in Arkansas to Cast
an Egg at jeff Davis.

Little Fock, Ark.-One dollar and
costs is all that it costs to throw. an
egg at a United States senator i'll Ar
kansas. When Senator Davis was
stamping the State during the late
~gubernatorial race in the interest of At
torney General Kirby, he barely missed
getting egged at Bellefont, four miles
east of Harrison. Walter Cantrell threw
an egg, intending it for the senator, but
it missed the mark and hit the gentle
man accompanying Senator Davis. For
a considerable length of time no one
knew officially who threw the egg, but
finally the truth was brought to light,
and young Cantrell was arrested. He
was found guilty today and fined 81 and
costs.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
BILL ~ FIX JURISDICTION.
Representative Humphreys Wants State
to Agree.

Washington.-In order to settle the
jurisdiction of crime committed on that
section of the Mississippi river separat-
ing Mississippi from Arkansas and Lou
~isiana, Representative Humphreys Of
Mississippi introduced in the house two
joint resolutions giving Mississippi the
power to enter into an agreement with
each of the other states named to fix a
boundary line. The resolution also grants
the right to those states to cede, each to
the other, lands that are separated from
the main body Of the state by the waters
OF the Mississippi.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
Negro Slayer Sent to GalIows.

Tullula = Jim Collier and Andrew
Washing %. negroes, have been con.
victed OF mlrde" in the first degree
at this ertn Of the Ninth District
Court, ard nave been sentenced by
Judge F. X Raasdell to be hanged.
Collier ki @ his father at Delta Point
about tw vars ago In a most brutal
manner, az was captured while re-
turning 1 seine of his crime with
the arow ,lrpose Of killing his wife,
Andrew ihington killed his wife
near Bea AXE, last August.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
WANT WARD LOCAL OPTION.
Indiana Getting Local Option Down to
Unit of Representation.

indianapolis, Ind.-A bill to repeal the
county local option law passed at the
recent special session, and a bill TO,
a township and ward local option law,
in keeping with the Democratic State
platform expected to precipitate
the most warfare of any measure
during the session, were introduced by
Representative John Sweeney. The act
simply proposes to wipe the county local
option law from the statutes.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
Four Cottages Destroyed by Fire.

H.
Alexandria.-Four cottages in the
Enterprise Addition of this city were
turned and the occupants lost every
hing that they possessed. The houses
we're outside of the limits OF the city
and were not within reach of the
water works. A heavy north wind
carried the burning fragments of the
buildings half way across the west
end section Of the city and endanger-
led the large plant Of the Red River.
Oil Company and seed warehouses,
which were in the track of the gale.
Three other fire alarm were sounded
during the night from other portions
of the city.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
CT A4racts 70 he Made Soon,

Batol Rouge.-The contract with
the bar st that were selected a little
over t e weeks ago by the State
Board 4 Liquidation as fiscal agents
will be alade in the near future. Gov
ernor saaders has officially notified
these | sflks of their selection as fiscal
agents and has advised them to make
arrang Htants for their bonds. The
contraes bstween these banks and the
State a louisiana has been drawn
up and nitted to the Attorney Gen.
erals for approval. When it is
approx, nd received the contracts
win be s!sued by Governor Sanders.
The tn re New Orleans fiscal banks
will haN il give a bond of $29S,O00
each, ar the fiscal agent banks in the
country parishes will each have to
give a b1aa of iS8, 900.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
CONDUCTOR HARRISON KlLLEp.
Slip on the Ice at Monroe and Falls
Beneath Wheels.

bnroe.-W. l.. Harrison, one of
thu best-known passenger conductors
onlthe V%icksburg, Shreveport and
Patfc Railroad, running between
Vksburg and Shreveport, was run
on by his own train here and badly
nJIgled, from the effects of which he
dtE in about an hour. Both legs
Ne cut off near the body and he
y badly bruiser otherwise. AS his
tin came into the passenger depot
he he jumped off before it stopped.
70 depot platform was covered with
and sleet, causing him to slip
d fall under the wheels of n OF
y coaches.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
REACTION AGAINST REFORM.
Texas Farmers Will Ask Reopening Of
Cotton Exchanges.

Austin, Text is learned today that
the farmers of Texas have secured their
fill of the law that banished cotton ex-
changes from the State, and they are
going to come before the present legis-
lature with a petition asking that the
law be repealed SO that the cotton ex.
changes can open again. It is claimed
that the farmers have lost $4,000, 900 in
two years since the law went into eff.
feet.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
Shiveley Wins Senatorship.

indianapolis, lnd.-At the Democratic
caucus of the Indiana legislature, after
twenty ballots, choose former Congress.
man Benjamin F. Shiveley of South Bend
for the United States senate. The last
ballot stood as follows: Shiveley ~,
Kern IS, Lamb 5, Menzies 3, Charles
Mas /.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
planters Warn Labor AGENTS.

EAlexander.-The farmers and plant,
is of this vicinity held an indigna'
On meeting and passed a resolution
'srning Tabor' agents to desist their
erations in enticing negroes away
ON the plantations to Arkansas and
Mississippi.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-01-23
CONCRETE BENCHES.
How They Can Be Made by the Farm.
er Himself.

The accompanying sketch shows the
construction Of parts to build a con-
crete bench for the greenhouse. The
parts can be made in a metal or wood
en- mold and reinforced with expanded
metal. The side rails are made in al
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-04-16

you to take immediate steps to secure
the Caldwell Park for term of years
at the expense of the city. Said park
can be secured at reasonable rental
and should be secured and new fence
installed around same. 70 this end
shall appoint, with authority to act, the
present standing Street and Sidewalk
Committee to take the matter in hand,
get it into presentable shape and pre-
sent at the next regular meeting with
such recommendation as you may
deem for the good of the public.
AS we enter upon our new duties for
the year 1909, I want to thank each Of
you personally for your kind attention
and undivided interest as well as your
prompt attendance at each Of the regu-
lar meetings. Your actions have been
such that would lead a reasonable peo-
pie to commend each and every one OF
you for your public acts.
w. A. MCNEIL, Mayor.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-04-16
ASTHMA VANISHES.
So Does Catarrh, Group, Hay Fever
and Bronchitis.

Hyomei is a confidence creator. The
first time you breathe in this powerful
yet soothing, antiseptic air, you will
know that it has marvellous curative .vir-
tues. There is nothing disagreeable
about Hyomei 1t is very pleasans'
and prompt remedy for catarrh, colds,
asthma, Group, bronchitis, etc.
If your head is so stuffed with nnu-
cous that you cannot breathe particle
of air through your nostrils, Hyomei
will open them up and give relief in five
minutes.
Why will sensible people suffer long
er, why will they wheeze and hawk and
spit and smother, when the Red Cross
Drug Store will guarantee Hyomei to
cure or money back. $1.00 is all they
ask for complete outfit.
Il have used Hyomei for hay fever,
and can pronounce it the best relief for
this trouble that / ever tried or heard
of. | have had this malady for years,
and have doctored and used many rem
edies, but Hyomei is far ahead of any
of the others, and has my hearty en-
dorsement. Mrs. M. S. Martin, Cas-
soDolis. Mich.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-04-16
A GOOD REPORT.
To the Board of Mayor and Alder
men, Rives, Tenn.

Greetings: With the close of Feb
ruary of this year we closed what might
be termed our first years administra-
ton. You will all remember that when
we were sworn into Office we took our
seats with a depleted treasury. Since
that time we have been able to manip-
ulate the finances Of the city so that we
now have a splendid balance in the
bank. This information should be a
matter of much pleasure to the citizens
of Rives as a body as well as to your
selves as Aldermen. While it is a fact
that we have nice balance in the bank,
the various standing committees in your
honorable body have not been idle.
Especially is this true of the Street and
Sidewalk Committee. According to re-
ports and information gathered, this
committee has graded about two miles
of street, built new about two thousand
feet of walk and repaired about two
thirds this amount.
In addition to the above several rods
of open ditch have been dug, ten
bridges built new or repaired. Step
ping stones have already been laid at
the principal street crossings, and, as
you know, quite few are yet unlaid
at the various street crossings where the
laying has been delayed until the spring
grading could be done. There remains
much necessary work, however, for the
Street and Sidewalk Committee to do.
The city needs about three to foul
thousand feet of new walk, most Of
which should be laid in the northern
part OF the city, with some little walks
that need to be completed on Caldwell
avenue in the extreme south end of the
corporate limits. / would therefore
urge this committee to take steps i'm
mediately to lay out this work SO thai
it may be done without unnecessary de,
lay, when building material become:
available.
You should urge the acting Marsha
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-04-16

or street overseer to continue the laying
of the stepping stones until this work
has been completed. With the COM
pletion Of the stepping stones and the
laying Of the contemplated new walks,
| fear that you would grow weary were
you to undertake to locate small town
with six or eight hundred inhabitants
that could boast of as good streets and
sidewalks as we do under a rate of tax
alton of rs cents on the one. hundred
dollars.
While the work OF the Street and
Sidewalk Committee has been COM
mendable, that of the Law and Order
Committee could be pointed to with
pride. This committee has never been
called upon on account of the conduct
of our citizens to exercise any great au-
thority The arrests have been very
few, quite few of them having been
made on account of small boys tres
passing on the railway company. This
was not, however, a serious offense ex-
cept that it would possibly grow serious
to the thoughtless boys and become ex-
pensive to the railway companies on ac-
count of accidents.
The various reports compiled from
my docket show that in the first twelve
months of our administration that only
forty-six arrests were made. Out OF
this number at least sixteen were re-
leased after being admonished that they
should have more regard for the corpo-
rate laws. OF the remaining thirty at
least six or eight were transient and
were released in order to leave town.
The remaining number increased the
fund in our treasury $4,000.
1t has now been several weeks since
anyone has been brought before me for
any cause whatever. This would indi-
cate to the casual observer that we have
quiet and peaceable town, a fact that
should raise us in the estimation of the
outside world.
We are now entering upon what we
might term new years work. Each
of you should strive to represent our
city now with more zest than you have
ever done before. We should begin to
plan in detail for the work that should
be done this year and each member Of
this board should make personal eff
Mort to curtail expenditures that will not
result in the greatest good to the great
est number of people.
At the present time we, as a people,
are enjoying the use of public park al
the expense of public and private sub
scription. / now want to urge upon
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-04-16
FOR SALE

No. IL. Fish house, corner Hauser
sts., 40x100 #. Price 800.
No. II. Farm Of rs acres, fairly
good dwelling, 2 barns, 8 wells, good
fence, in fine state of cultivation,
one-half mile from Union City.
$40 per acre will buy this land.
Long time and easy payments.
No. IS. One tract of land Of IA
acres and AZ poles, elegantly i'm
proved, 2-story dwelling, good barn,
orchard, smokehouse, wells, under
good fence, quarter mile OF good
school and church, splendid neigh
borhood, about mile from Union
City, at bargain. One-half cash,
balance on time. Can give possess
ion in next 10 days or two weeks.
No. IA. One broom cottage, To-
Gated on the east side of Glover ST..
lot S0x220 feet; for $500.
No. Is. Al acres well improved, J
miles south OF Rives; nice, new, b.
room house, new barn S0x36, good
Groom tenant house and good out
houses; can be bought for $4,000.
No. 16. 1-story frame dwelling,
situated on the west side of First ST.,
comparatively new, 5 rooms, a bar
gain for a quick sale at $3.50
Have with this property vacant
lot 50x100 deep; will sell with resi-
dence at bargain, part cash and
part time.
Good 2-story house, with lot 7Ox
$50, corner Try and Mercer sts., in
northers part of city, for only 80, 600
800 acres good land, well improy-
ed, 100 acres in cultivation, 2-story
house and new barn; 8 miles east of
Rives, at $4,000 per acre.
No. Z. Two cottages, 2 rooms
each, located on Flower ST., lot with
each lot rs 105 feet; $500 each.