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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-09
One-Dollar Bargain.

The Twice-AWeok Republic of st.
Louis, Mo-, is making special Christ
mas offer of three-year subscription
to their paper for $100 This rate will
positively not be good after December
81, 1910. Any number of subscriptions
well be accepted at this low price while
the rate is in effect, froln December /
to the 81, but positively no premiums
or cash commission will be allowed. The
$100 price is absolutely net.
The Twice-A-Week Republic is the
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-09
Lyman Twins.

The Lymans came to Union City for
a return engagement at Reynolds Opera
House last Monday night and fully sus-
tanned the reputation heretofore estab-
lished in their circuit. The Lymans
are fine pair of light comedians, crisp
and bright as new dollar bill and they
had good company and the same good
lines heard here last winter. The audi
ence was small, but the weather was
ferocious. The chorus was the largest
they have ever brought to Union City
and Patti Rosa sang in better form than
her Union City audiences had ever heard
her. She was unusually interesting in
her last work here. The Lymans sang.
They always do, and their music usually
wins the house. There is not a dull
minute in the show and every bit of it
refreshingly refined and delightful
Union City is always glad to see the
Lymans.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-09
The Kenney Bill.

Just amend Kenney road bill; amend
population so as to apply to Obion
County; amend the commissioner act
to sixteen instead Of two at salary oil
$50 per year each; create clause Civ
ing a highway commission Of three
members at 50 per day for service rem
dered, whose duty it is to open and
change roads, also buy new territory
and look after county bridges This
would take the hard part away from the
district commissioner, leaving his duty
to have work done and pay for same.
Change limit of grading March 10 to
June 10 and Oct. Is to Dec. 10 for light
grading Now a clause as how to use
money; For thing, 10 per cent; 20 per
cent for dragging; 10 per cent for cul-
verts; 90 per cent for grading. Strike
out all red technicalities until commits
sioner's hands are united so that he
can hire two or three crews in wet times
when roads ought to be worked rapidly.
insist on thing and dragging if you
want winter roads. Now a sand-clay
road from Union City to the lake-four
hills, 1Sa miles, so, 900 cost.
DoRREL HARRIS.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-09

brought about a change, and for some
time it was practically known thst Union
City would have a new postmaster.
Therefore when Mr.. Keller's appoint
ment came the other day it was but the
veriheation Of well founded rumors.
The citizens here had taken practically
no interest in the fight, preferring to let
the Republican factions settle their own
differences. Otherwise there would have
been 2 strong alignment on both sides
at home. There were personal and POI
liticaI friends on both sides. Little is
known here Of what other matters
the Department at Washington con
sidered in the contest. Therefore, as far
as our people are concerned, it was
known as a political contest and the
triumph Of the Taft-Evans Republican
faction in the State. Mr.. Keller is the
local leader of this faction and Of the
gentleman we append herewith short
sketch;
Mr.. Keller was born February %,
1858, at Bolivar, Ohio. At the early
age of three weeks he lost his mother
by death. At the age OF nine years he
went out into the world among stran-
gers, and from that time until he was
twenty years of age he made his own
living, and secured what he could of an
education. During that time, when he
was not at school, he followed the car
penter's trade for livelihood. Upon
attaining his twentieth birthday he
came west and located at Holton, Kan
sas, where he began the study Of law,
and on the 4th day of October 1874,
at the age of %, he was admitted to
practice at the bar. He tLen entered
into co-partnership with his father,
who was an able lawyer, and for nine
years remained as partner, the firm be-
ing Keller & Keller. Owing to i'll health,
resulting from overwork, and upon the
advice Of his physician, he removed to
Elk Point, arriving with his family on
the 18th day of October, 1882. He at
once entered upon the practice of his
profession, securing and enjoying a
large and profitable clientage.
Mr.. Keller became a member of
Friendship Lodge, Knights of Pythias,
at Holton, Kansas, in the winter of
1915. He also held the honorable |
position of Lieutenant-Colonel of the
First Regiment of South Dakota Ma
tional Guards.
Mr.. Keller has been resident Of this
city for ten years or more and has been
engaged in the practice of law. He has
also taken very active interest in pol
tiles, and has for some years figured in
The contests between the Republican
factions Of this part of the State. Re-
emily he led the Evans forces here and
the strength to his own adj
'antage as an applicant for the post
Mr.. Keller has been active in all his
relations, courteous, obliging,
good citizen, man of qualifications
nd no doubt will give the Government
nd the citizens of Union City clean
We extend him our
indest consideration and trust that the I
flee will grow in reputation as the city !
xpands, and that both will continue in
dvance Of the line of progress. ,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-09
Why Not This County.

The good roads epidemic has struck
every other locality almost it seems but
obion County. There is no richer agri-
cultural county in the State, and yet our
citizens prefer to remain insensible to
the advantages of improved public high
ways, or the need Of them.
The height Of no civilization has ever
been reached without a practically per-
feet overland system Of thoroughiares.
History shows this fact
The construction Of good improved
hard roads means the solution Of many
other problems. It means improved
farms, improved homes, but greater
than all it means the perfection Of a
thorough and efficient public chool sys-
tenn. 1t means that the farmer will no
longer care to move to town when he
has a good school in the neighborhood
and road accessible at all times of the
school year to the school children. 1t
means the establishment OF system Of
rural high schools and all the advantages
OF an educational system in the remote
districts 1t means the consolidation Of
the small school districts, whereas it is
now practically impossible. 1t means
a greater civilization, greater people,
a greater country. 1t means nothing
less, and no intelligent man can refute it.
As we said before, Union City alone
could well afford to donate by popular
subscription, if there were no other
means at hand, fifty thousand dollars
for immediate use on the public roads
leading from this point. 1t would de-
yelop our immediate country; it would
develop and strengthen our city.
You can talk all you please about
having the best town around us in this
tier of counties, but can the citizen
possibly hope to have thesame advantage
always without the spirit of the times
the improvement and development OF
our natural resources. Union city is a
good town and has some of the best
business men in the world, but Union
City would have been twice or three
times as large as it is with the proper
manifested in public improve
ments. Obion County would have had
twice ornearly twice the population with
an improved system of highways. But
it is not too late yet for these things. |
The opportunity is still knocking. If
we procrastinate it may he lost.
Seems to us that the adoption and
utilization Of plan to build hard road
o Reelfoot Lake just at time when the
abroad enterprise in Lake County is
would be OF untold adj
,antage to Union City and to the county.
I would be Of the greatest advantage at
my time, but particularly so just now.
OF course if the banker, the farmer,
he merchant, the business man, the
awyer, the physician does not care for
he growth and prosperity of his country
r city or for his own personal business
trough natural channels he can remain
Indifferent, but if he does want these
Kings he must help to get them, and
Mess there is a general and united
fort there is nothing to be gained.
II we are to leave future generations /
18th declining prosperity and civilza-
on then there need be no enterprise,
ut il we are to leave them a home and
country which they may inherit with {
lual pride and satisfaction to that which {
ill obtain in other sections there must |
e mutual interest in public affairs. |
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-09

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You should take advantage Of this liberal
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two good size halls. ample front and
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see or address X. KIMBERLIN,
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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-09

Christmas and Santa Claus are on the
way Children who have not mailed
their letters can do so and we will pub
fish them next week.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-28
EXPRESS COMPANIES WAGE
WAR ON IMMENSE HATS NOW
Bulky Women's Headgear Inconvenient
to Transport and Rates are
Raised.

CHICAGO, Jan. 27.-Dignified in
quiry into a comical situation will be
made tomorrow by the interstate COM
merce commission.
1t has been found that for three
years express companies have been try
ing to reduce the size of women's
hats. The hats not only take up a
lot of space but have to be handled as
carefully as glass. Express companies
appear to have increased the rates on
hats and other millinery articles. but
milliners and the wearers have paid the
excess charges rather than abandon the
fashions.
Finally milliners appealed to the in
terstate commerce commission on the
grounds that the rates not only are
excessive, but unjust. 1t is claimed
that rates on various articles that go to
make up hats have nearly doubled since
1906, and that big hats have still
further boosted the rates.
The complaint was made in the name
of the Mililners Jobbers association,
composed of So wholesale milliners job
bers west of Columbus, Ohio.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-28
NEW TEST FOUND FOR FRESH
AND BAD EGGS BY AN EXPERT
Just Put Eggs in Solution of Salt Wa
ter and Fresh Eggs Will Sink
to Bottom.

WASHINGTON, Jan. FIT is east
ly possible to tell the difference be-
tween a fresh egg and cold storage
egg without breaking the shell, and
dealers in the district of Columbia
who sell stored eggs for strictly fresh"
ones may be prosecuted and convict
ed, according to statements made to-
day by Dr. Harvey w. Wiley, the gov
ernment's chief chemist. Dr. Wiley
gave his testimony at the high cost
of living hearing being conducted by
a house subcommittee.
Dr. Wiley brought with him a large
number of fresh eggs and also some
of the cold storage variety. Drop
ping them into large vessel of water
containing a 10 per cent salt solution.
the fresh eggs Immediately sank to the
bottom and the refrigerated ones float"
ed on the surface.
When asked how he knew the eggs
were fresh, DIR. Wiley replied that one
of his inspectors had watch the hens
lay them yesterday.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-28
AmuSementS
"Top O. TIL World"

Al Grady, who appears as the friend
ly bear in the "Top O. TIL World" is
probably the most unique comedian Of
note on the stage. He has entertained
countless thousands; but no portrait of
himself has ever been published, and
in his citizens attire he is unknown
even to the stage hands. Mr.. Grady
has an international reputation. He
appeared for many years in pantomine
in England, and was brought to this
country by Henry Savage to create the
role of "Cowardly Lion in the Wizard
of o." In an unguarded moment, a
few weeks ago, the following inter-
esting interview was obtained from
him:
do l like being an animal?" re-
peated Mr.. Grady (the bear) after me.
"Well, I've never had chance to find
out whether I'd like anything else bet
ter. When you get into a stunt of this
kind you're in it till you quit the
stage The management would never
think of giving you anything else
'You were the melancholy lion in
''The Wizard of o. weren't you?" I
asked Eyes, 1 was always proud of
that part. That lion made big hit
everywhere. I almost got so l liked my
Hoy hot no h. nf
so I could hardly keep from getting
down on all tours and growing on the
street"
Hes a whole menagerie.'
1t seems that animal actors are as
proud of parts they create as are the
most ilIustrious of Shakespearan act
ors
admiringly, as the bear" mopped his
forehead and laid his skin on the arm
of the throne.
80, I've been donkey, cat, dog
lots of things. In fact I'm a whole me-
nagerie Long before I came to this
country I played animal parts in pan
tomine in London. There's a great
real more of this sort of thing over
over there than here. 1 think 1t Is
easier to be a legitimate actor
How do you get to know your part? ?"
80, just fill, in and make the most of
every opportunity. l seldom know just
how 1 am going to act until the first
night Even at dress rehearsals I do
very little of the business. like to sur
prise the managers.
Sometimes I nearly scare the chill
dren to DEATH grinned MIR. Bear"
.They think I'm going to eat em up,
and you should hear them howl, Others
call me Teddy right in the middle of
a performance. One night a man had
to bring his little boy behind the scenes
to prove that I was not real and
would not eat him. It's a great business
But the bears not half as crazy as the
lion"
At the Keylor Grand theater on
Thursday, Feb. 3rd.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-28
STATE SHOULD PROVIDE AND
HOLD ADEQUATE TERMINALS
Representative RansdeII Says This
Necessary Before Waterway APP
preparation.

BALTIMORE, Md, Jan. 27.-Speak-
ing before the Merchants and Manu-
facturers association tonight upon in
land waterways improvement, Repre-
sentative J. E. Ransdell of Louisiana,
president of the National HarbOrs and
Rivers congress, declared that con-
gress before making any appropria-
ton for river or harbor Improvement
should require as a condition that
the state or community in interest be
compelled to acquire and hold suffi-
cient water front and provide mod
ern and adequate terminals.
Mr.. Ransdell said that terminals
on all navigable waters should be
public property, but that in many
cases they are owned and operated by
railroads Tin their selfish interests
with scant regard for the rights Of
their rivals or the public"
Mr.. Ransdell said congress should
provide for the establishment of term
inals.
In cases where the water front al
ready has been acquired by private
parties" concluded Mr.. Ransdell, Il
would suggest that the public resume
ownership through condemnation UNI
der the power Of eminent domain
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-28
GOVERNMENT
LOTTERY BAD
SENATORS GORE AND BURKETT
ASSERT LAND ALLOTMENT
METHOD NOT RIGHT.
SAY 1T COSTS TOO MUCH FOR
POOR PEOPLE-WOULD Al
LOW USE OF MAILS.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81. That
there is not unanimous approval of
the present method of dispOsing of
reservation public lands by lottery was
made evident in the senate today,
when Senators Gore of Oklahoma and
Burkett of Nebraska protested against
the adoption of this method in the
sale Of unallOtted lands in the Rose
bud Indian reservation in South Da-
kota.
The question was sprung by Mr.
Gore in consideration Of the Rose
bud land sale bill" Mr. Gore offered
an amendment permitting applications
for the land to be made by registered
mail instead of requiring a personal
registration on the ground. In pre-
Sentlng the amendment Mr.. Gore said
the present system was incOnvenient
and expensive and had the effect of
cutting out the people who should be
permitted to enter the lands.
Mr.. Burkett criticised the present
system in unmeaSured terms. He told
OF the crowding of the trains and the
insufficient accommodations in from
tier towns on the occasion of recent
openings, which he said had been
marked by much crime and blood
she'd
Senators Gamble and Crawford of
South Dakota defended the present
method as the best obtainable. Mr..
Gamble declared that Mr.. Burkett had
drawn On his imagination when he
mad charged crime in connection with
recent openings.
After mild flibuster the bill was
passed.
The senate refused, however, to
proceed with the Pine Ridge bill,
which will be considered tomorrow.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-28

and most of the novelty.
But speaking of chOruses and cos
tunes, there has been nothing better
here this year Clean, fresh and pref
ty, the costuming was hard to beat and
the pretty girls looked their best in
the dresses-and lack of them-that
they wore. And the girls could sing
too, and sing we'll. So could the men,
but the chorus men, nobody ever
pays any attention to them, so what's
the Odds
Mcintyre and Heath, as ever clever
and true imitators of the "darky' had
a line of funny goods. They deliv'
cred it well, too: and it was almost
too bad the audience was not more re-
sponsive. Walla Walla people seem to
pride themselves on their reserve in
real, honest applause, which needs new
er to be stinted.
Aside from these two headliners,
there was little doing in the cast. Johr
H. Pratt, as Harry Holbrook" had a
voice and used it to a good advantage
in Romeo and Juliet the song hit Of
the evening. Fletcher Norton Der
tie Scott was given plenty to do, and
he ulu IL. Inc dctlVe part lie ulu Wen,
FLORENCE Forceen," who is otherwise
Miss Carrie Reynolds, deserves men,
ton. She worked hard and pleased
clear through. The rest of the COM
pany was mediocre with rather thin
perhaps faded-voices
But outside of this" the show was
all right. It was a change-any show
these days is that thougl1-and it kept
the audience in good humor if not up
rOarous. The show would be welcom.
again.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-28
COLONEL SEES BOOZE
Says Foreign Nations Have Better
Maps of United States Than
Ourselves

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Jan. 81
That foreign countries have maps OF
the United States which in many parti-
culars are superior to those in the pos
session of this government, making it
possible in some instances for an en-
envy to move troops with more dis
patch than could our own government
was the statement of Colonel William
A. Black, corps of engineers, u. S. A.
at the convention of the International
league for Highway Improvement to-
day
Colonel Black favored the creation of
a national highway commission and
said it should be placed under the d.
rectiOn of the war department. He
said that so far as concerned their
use by the military in time of war.
there are no public highways worthy
of note in this country.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-28
MODERN RUSKIN is FOUND
Karl Jorn, German Tenor, Gives Up
Wife to the Man She Loves; Al
so His Money,

NEW YORK, Jan. 27-In a written
statement, witnessed by the German
consul here, Karl Jorn, German tenor,
made public tonight terms of his sep
aration from his wife. Like Ruskin.
he surrendered his wife to the man
she loved.
Il have agreed" says Jorn, that
she get a divorce so that she can
marry the man of her choice. Fur
thermore, I have bound myself to pay
her $4,000 in cash and $1,000 year
until she is married again. To our
three children 1 give $1,000 a year for
the rest of their lives. 1 gave my wife
all the money I had before she sailed,
and 1 did not even have so cents to
buy her bunch of violets at the pier"
Jorn kissed his wife affectionately
before she sailed last week for Ger
many.
He met her when he was a young
man struggling for success and their
life until recently had been happy
together.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-28
zee G. York, Eminent Chinese Doctors,
Are Curing Hundreds OF
People.

Walla Walla is indeed fortunate in
having these famous doctors here.
They are men who spent long years
of study and research in China, their
native country, and upon satisfactory
evidence of their knowledge were
granted diplomas by the emperor.
China has for years been recognized
as the leader in the practice of medi-
cine and many remarkable cures have
been perfected
zee & York, in the pursuit of their
vocation, use roots, herbs and barks
of demonstrated medicinal value.
These are strong of action on disease.
but mild on the stomach and other
delicate organs of the system.
Many local people testify to the
efficiency of the treatment as given
by zee & York.
They can be. consulted in Wa1la
Walla at the corner of Fourth and
Main streets, over Pauley's cigar
store, or at IA IL First street, Port
land, Oregon.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-28
Arrested in Seattle For Robbery

STOCKTON, Cal, Jan. 21.-Joe
Johnson, who is wanted here. on a
charge of robbing Fannie Williams,
both colored of Oakland, of between
$4,000 and $4,000 in diamonds last
October, is reported under arrest in
Seattle The woman came here with
W. Cooper and j. T. Thompson. who,
she claims robbed her with the assist
ance of Joe Johnson. who maze MS es-
cape with the diamond. The man PROB
ably will be brought back. The dla-
mends have not been recovered.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-28
Tafe Cables Congratulations

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Fresident
Taft today cabled to Emperor William
of Germany the following birthday
greeting: "On this, the anniversary of
your majesty's birth, l offer you my
cordial congratulations, at the same
time conveying to your majesty the ex-
preston of the good will that this gov
eminent and people bear for your coun-
try and the wishes for it's continued
prosperity
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-28
Foodstuff Exports Fall Of.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Foodstuff
exports last year fell off heavily as
compared with the previous year,
while food stuff imports increased,
according to figures prepared by the
bureau of statistics. FoOdstuffs eX-
ported in 1908 amounted to $493,046,-
9S1. Last year they amounted to
$399,950,414. The imports of foodstuffs
for 1908 amounted to $292, 299,391
Last year they totaled 1894, 43O,1O3
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-28
Taft Does Not Care.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-President
Taft, having been asked by the Amer
lean Womans National Suffrage asso-
citation whether his order against lob
bying by the department employees
would prevent such employees from
signing a petition asking congress to
submit to the states a woman SUI
frage amendment to the constitution,
he replied in the negative.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-28
Walla Walla Passenger Train
Schedule
NORTHERN PACIFIC r. r.

NORTHERN PACIFIC R. r.
Departure For Time
PascO, Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma, Port
land, .....6 80 A. NJ. and 6 As P. NJ.
Dayton, Waitsburg Mixed ... 5 80 p. NJ.
Eureka and Pleasant View, Sunday
only Mixed .........7 :15 A. NJ.
ArriudtS From:
Seattle. Tacoma, Spokane, Portland,
and east. 9 40 A. Nj. and s 100 z. M.
Dayton and Waitsburg (Mixed) 9 100 A. NJ.
Eureka and Pleasant View, Sunday
only Mixed ..:.........3 :45 p. NJ
o. R. & N. R. L.
Departures For Time
Athena PendIeton, Echo, The Dalles, =,
AtDe PSFf PaDdcton and east 200 p p NJ
Dayton E51a Po@eroy' Colfa1 and a.,s sp0 q. NJ.
Portland, Wallula, Spokane. 10 rs A. NJ.
Dayton and way points. g 100 A. M.
Wallula and way points. 9 100 A. M.
Arrivals From:
Portland, The Dalles. Echo, Pendleton.
and Athena .:...........7 :05 P. NJ.
Spokane oolfax, POmeroy and D. Day ,
East Pendeton and Athena. o rs A. NJ.
DAYTON and way points. e 40 T, NJ
Wallula and way points 8 100 P. NJ.
MOTOR CARO-. R. N.
Arrive from Dayton and way
Leave for wailula and way
Arrive from wailula and way "
Le PVtn's for DAYTON and war 10 T. M
points 4 80 2. M.