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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-05-12
Egg Hunt

Beatrice Brown entertained twenty
Ave OF her friends with an egg hunt on
Saturday, April Is, at home on Lee
street from 5 until p. m. The house
was prettily decorated with spring flow
ers. Delightful refreshments OF cream
and cake we're served Irving Griffin
won the prize, box Of chocolates. The
guests departed all declaring Miss Bea-
trice charming hostess. Those who
enjoyed the hunt we're Lucille Craig,
Mary Ruth Pleasant, Marie sedberry,
Allie Campbell, Brownie Dickson, Lou
Use White, Kathleen Rogers, Geneva
Rhodes, Lorene Loring, Helen Wells,
Elizabeth Watts, Vivian Lowell, Pauline
Caldwell, Lewis Lockhart, Carl Wells,
D. n, George, Walter Halves, Clarence
Hunter, Heath Horsley, Irving Griffin,
John Moody, Marshall Wright, Lexie
Brown.
Coal and wood promptly delivered by
tka TTx.trsr, Cts4.- -. 4. ff~,I ~.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-05-12
Rev. Rhames Given Purse.

The clericus Of the Episcopal clergy
Of Memphis held called meeting Mon.
day at Calvary parish house and pre-.
sented purse of money to the Rev. r,
w. Rhames, dean Of the convocation
and rector Of the Church Of the Good
Shepard, in appreciation Of services in
church and missionary work. - Com
mercial-Appeal.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-05-12
Begin Construction.

Dyersburg, Tenn, April Pa crew
OF 200 men and 100 teams arrived here
to-day and will begin work on the con
struetion of the Birmingham and North
western Railroad. Work was started al
Alamo last week, and by May a crew
will begin work at the Jackson end Of
the proposed line The contractors
promise to have the line completed and
in operation from Dyersburg to Jack
son by Oct. Is.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-05-12
Good Roads Meeting.

Following are the proceedings OF tn,
good roads meeting held at Clayton on
Saturday, April %:
Several we're present and J. E. Mar
shall was chosen chairman Of the meet
ing. Committees were appointed to so.
licit subscriptions as follows: II. w.
Howard, for the country west of Clay
ton; G. w. DonneIl and F. r. Robert
son, for Clayton and vicinity.
Meeting adjourned to report on their
work, Friday, May 5.
Let's get busy.
+. r. Robertson. Sec.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-05-12
STATE OF ONO, CRY OF TOLEDO, /
IrrcAG CnrrNrv

Frank ]. Cheney makes oath that he is senior
partner Of the firm Of r. j. Cheney & Co. doing
business in the city of Toledo County and State
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum Of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every
of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of
Halls Catarrh Cure. FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my pres
ence, this 9th day of December. A. d. 1886.
fer. A. w. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Halls catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system Send for testimonials free
+. j. CHENEY s. CO.. Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggists Sc
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-05-12
Biz Game.

The baseball game OF the season is
booked for next Tuesday. May 2, at
$3.50 p. M, between Dyersburg and the
Training School at the Training School
Park in Union City. Eyerybody's com
ING
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: hat stand ran up and by means Of many
gurging Greek words. induced the over
Jealous employee to release his hold.
History fails TO state whether or not any
OF them lived happily ever after.
The devilish old gentleman in the skull
cap also figures prominently In checkroom
folklore. The old gentleman has Just been
! TO a performance at the Foolish Begee with
/ young person who may be his own
daughter or even some one else's daughter
! in this day you never can tell at all. He
wears skull cap upon his bald head which
scylla and Charybdls. the two checkers on
duty, duly demand OF him.
In vain the old gentleman explains that
he has worn the black cap for years and
years, and that he may catch his very
death Of cold II II is ever removed from
. mis- shining Uranium: Scylla and Charybdis
will have mono OF his excuses and yank
the cap from his outraged head, giving
| him a pasteboard check for It, And the
! old gentleman must needs go I'm among
the grnnlng diners where his shining pate
CLOVIS In the background OF green palms
like the cue bail on a pool table.
The tax per hat. governed by some I'M
| inscribed law. is always dime You may
| pay more. but n you try 10 pay but a
nickel YOU may possibly get away with IT,.
Not. however. without having been care
fully insulted either by word or look by
the boy who takes the blood money. You
may think from the way the lad acts that
YOU are keeping back a dishonest living
from him. That isn't the case unless the
boy is one who is addicted to the popular
| knockdown habit.
! The hat heck business i'm New York has
grown In few years into great piratical
industry. Most OF the checkrooms are run
by men who lease the privilege from the
restaurant keeper or the hotel man Thus
the restaurateur sells to the pirate the
right OF holding up and shaking down his
guests. Some very fancy prices are paid
FOR the hat-checking privileges There has
been much money made at IL lately
and bidding for stands has grown so
spirited, that the man who runs the hotel
Is the only person who makes much money
cut Of II.
The Hotel Knickerbocker receives 50 ooo
year from the man who has the hat
checking privilege. Louis Martins gets a
like amount. The prices range down from
beo paid TO the Hotel Astor To 81. 81. a,
the cafe Martin. II can readily be see,
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1T is rule of the house Sounds of rip
ping from the haU. and 1t is for the con-
venience Of the patrons,'
In other words. they will put YOU 10 $40
worth OF worry and trouble unless you turn
loose your So and pay the unjust tariff.
The hat check crime has been the father
Of many Jokes up and down our Broadway.
for II Is = happy faculty We Americans
have Of being able TO laugh while the man
with the gold brick is doing us--all OF which
makes II much nicer for the man with
the phoney building materials. one OF
these crin-and -bear-it stories has to do
with a couple of gay young bloods who
had saved up their money for Night of IT,.
with all the fancy hXings.
The two left their watches at home. put
cards OF identification In their inside pock-
cts. and hied them blithely forth with the
deliberate intention of getting IN "ori-eyed
souse." For a time all went well-as all
usually does for time. They visited cafe
after cafe. saloon upon buffet. and Sin
mills interspersed with wine rooms. They
had got along To the place where theif
shoes teklcd their feet and kept them
laughing all tie time. II one OF them said
something funny they laughed al H. and n
lie didn't say anything funny they laughed
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with any idea of certifying the island.
but with the purpose Of improving II as
n naval station. which II now Is. Good
roads have been constructed. dams have
been built, water impounded In great
reservoirs. and many other steps have
been taken which would contribute ma
terially TO the ability Of the fortress
were IL converted into one, TO resist
siege Of many months duration. Were
so large an area included within the
fortified walls, the garrison which
manned them might be almost self-sus-
tanning. being able for considerable
period 10 produce a material portion OF
the ration, and with Notifications far too
high for assault. disappearing guns or
the highest known power and a mod
crate force Of trained gunners, no vessel
would dare approach within such dis
lance as to menace the safety Of the
fort or seriously to imperil the lives Of
the gunners.
One obvious advantage. although one
on which Admiral Mahan has not dwelt,
is the facility with which target practice
could be conducted at Guam. II is prob
able that the great guns could be fired
continuously both day and night, for
weeks at a time, without menacing any
shipping within two thousand or three
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Admiral Mahan, should be established a
navy yard where small vessels, at least.
could be repaired, even If no extensive
drydock were constructed. But whether
or not such a yard is constructed the
necessity of terrifying the island is not
the less imperative in the opinion OF TINS
naval expert. for the reason that In the
absence Of fortifcations the island would
certainly be seized by an enemy in the
Pacific and by it converted into naval
base from which to menace the entire
Pacific coast Of the United States, 10 say
nothing Of Hawaii. SO generally do
naval and military experts concede the
weakness Of the Philippines as mill
tary or naval base that most Of them
found their calculations on the probable
course Of a serious war on the assump-
ton that the Philippine archipelago
would promptly pass into the hands of
the enemy. But the safety of the Pa
cific coast. they argue, would depend In
large measure on the impregnability OF
the Pacific naval bases. one Of which is
already established at Pearl Harbor, Ha
vail. and the other of which Admiral
Mahan would establish at Guam.
A large amount Of important work had
already been done at Guam under the
supervision of the navy, not, perhaps
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just the same. because II was so funny that
lie hadn't said anything funny.
You perhaps know the state. They were
about out to the haf-mile post, and were
/ lust preparing to lap themselves and Their
/ ttirsts into state of complete coma when
} the less happy OF the two happened TO no.
, tice. as he gave the hundredth dime TO the
check boy Of the same number. that lie
/ was plumb cleaned cut as to pocketbook.
/ His companion was in the same fix.
| The two Immediately went into executive
session and brought up the important ques-
I ton Of WAYS and means.
we started out with plenty OF coin"
murmured one I'm II dazed way. I'VE haven't
played any poker or bought any diamonds.
! Where could II have gone tor
The other. assuming the part OF the wan
dering echo. answered "Where?'
About this time the gaze of the first land
cd IN the Spartan youth who had just
taken over his last double nickel. and a
great light seeped into his cropping brain.
There's where II went :" he cried. point
ing 60 the Greek youth as a symbol Of his
kind The check boys got " We thought
We had enough for good. long souse with
perhaps u ~. T. as a grand finale. and here
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-13
Sees "Cbratar of the Pacific" for Little Isle OF Guam
Rear Admiral Mahan etre Has Vision of the Conversion
of Area Valued by Senator Rayner at Something
Less Than $l.50 Into Stronghold
of Immense Power.

, f1uous detail about Admiral Mahan's pro-
posal, there remains abundant oppor-
tunity for the imaginative naval con-
structor to exercise his fancy unham
pered by narrow facts or economic re-
strictions. and consideration OF the fol-
lowing plans and specifications should be
given. with a clear understanding that
they are submitted with no pride of par
entage and that the General Board and
other military authorities are entirely at
liberty TO make such alterations in or
even deviations therefrom as circum-
stiles may dictate.
Guam is approximately twenty-eght
miles long by twelve miles wide in its
broadest portion. 1t may be seen, there
fore, that by erecting solid concrete en-
placements. sloping toward the sea- say,
fifty feet high, around the entire island,
or total length of not to exceed eighty
miles, an impregnable fortress could
easily he created-one to which the name
of Gibraltar of the Pacific" could most
flttingly be given. In view Of the fact
however, that at the southern extremity
there are some peaks of over one thou
sand feet I'm altitude, that Alutum, near
the centre, is / ,0S2 feet high. and that
the northern portion falls to an altitude
Of five hundred feet and less, 1t would
probably he just as we'll to fortify only
the southern half, thus effectng q great
saving In funds and effort, and yet in
surfing for the 16-inch rifles and 12-inch
mortars a platform of sufficient height
to enable them to drop their 1,0OO-pound
projectiles on the deck Of any vessel ap-
preaching from the desired direction
without the necessity Of entering into
complicated calculations of comparative
trajectories.
n. B.-All physical characteristics here
given are as recorded after the last vol
canic outbreak, and are subject to cor
rection in accordance with changes made
by subsequent and reported earthquakes
and volcanic eruptions.
There are many features Of Guam
which lend themselves peculiarly to the
construction Of impregnabe fortfca-
tions. The southern portion Of the ISL
and-perhaps the fraction is slightly
smaler-is surrounded by a sort of nat
ural rampant which at no point is less
than three hundred feet In height. This
natural rampant, inclosing an area of
about seventy square miles. is album
hn
interstices between the irregular edges
of this natural rampant filled with earth
lined and topped with concrete. as is the
practice in constructing coast forts. the
island would certainly constitute base
as impregnable as Gibraltar.
on the west side of the island is the
harbor of Apra, which incloses an ample
roadstead Of not less than seventeen
fathoms depth. Here, in the opinion of
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smiles in the fact that Wall Street Of all
thoroughfares should begin this crusade.
Why" declare these long haired boys,
who themselves 90 without hats, and who
will talk as long as their hearers are
conscious, what right has Wall Street TO
raise a cry against the parasites of society
who grab your straw when you enter a
high priced restaurant? Wall Street Is
knocking its own perncious game-for
brokers themselves are, strictly speaking,
social parasites, and the attacked check
boys have perfect right TO call them
brothers Ha. ha! Is It not amusing"
In spite of such gbes from the long
haired ones. every man who eats In ex-
pensive restaurants and owns hat 10
with the crusaders at heart, no matter how
he may place his betting money.
The check evil is still with US. and It's
getting worse with every sunset. You
enter the gold and marble lobby Of
lobster villa with your hat at half mast
There is a reception committee arraye"
across the entrance to meet you. and every
man among them is trained tn smell n hat
a mile off and 10 get 1t into the check
room or die IN the attempt
II Is vain for you to try TO hide your
headpiece behind your back or under your
coat They will have IT from you. Some
men have even tried wearing light caps
that could easily be folded I'm pocket
but they and the caps have gone the way
of the unanimous majority; the owners
have surrendered the caps and paid the 10
cents toll.
When you put up show Of fight ana
tell the bluecoated young man with the
low forehead and the prominent chin that
you want TO take your hat I'm with you
that you sometimes talk through II, and
feel uncomfortable when II is out Of your
sight-he has a machinemade reply, which
he springs as he tears the debated l.Spama
from YOUR clinging banda
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OF young men got all worked up over the
fact that a light tax had been placed on
tea Possibly Boston is the only city on
the face OF the globe that would become
80 enraged over n tax on that gentle bev-
craze. Still. at that, there were plenty Oh
other ways 10 get around IL
They might have drunk something else
Tea isn't the only thing wherewith man
can moisten his so-called whistle mere
are water. beer. root beer. coffee, chah-
taene. cider. both hard and SOIL, ana
whole raft Of other drinks which many
contend 10 be far and away better Than the
aforementioned tea But be that as II
may. these Young men Of Old Boston rlgged
themselves up like Hiawatha musical
comedy chorus, padded out into the pay,
ttarded ships whose cargoes consisted OF
the taxed tea and threw tine boxes to the
r,s'dent dishes. who had no use in the
world for them or their taxed contents.
An that rurnpus over featherweight tax
ON a commodity that any one could easily
d. without And yet we of tins meek later
age complacenty hand out dimes ana DOL
lars when we 20 into good restaurant ior
the enforced privilege OF checking our hat
with some latter day pupil or Morgan
,efer Ia Morgan. the late pirate. and not
me well known wall street man OF the
same name.
otA say all Of us-weii that was wrong
Gr.akjng OF The Street reminds me that
certain brokers have banded themselves to-
ee,ber 10 fight the hat check pest. The
betting odds, according 10 latest reports
ore Do1 10 ] on the Pests 10 win. WINE
-. roav cheer the Indignant brokers and
tell them to sail in ana stay WIN II mos
o. US will enter a cafe the following minute
end surrender our millinery 10 some So'i
~ decadent Athens who wears oiue sun
.,udded with yellow brass buttons
certain persons with sociological 'u,hs
a, mind have found al excuse tor audIDie
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We have to go home with so per cent to
wake up with head that will feel like a
fuzzy bale of compressed toothaches. Al
the evil consequences without any OF the
joys that go before It Death to the hat
check =
Another If these tales deals with an &c
centric vaudeville musician who never wore
Il hat end who let his hair run Wild after
the manner of Paderewski or the even more
so hair tonic adj He had finished his act
at the vaudeville theatre the first night and
mixed across the Bright Way thereafter Ia
spend some 81 MS money TO feed the inner
musician. According To his custom, he
went without a bat. his careless locks iiow-
ing proudly IN the chilly breezes. AT the
door OF the food depot he was stopped by
tho inevita bile check buccaneer, who de-
manded hat.
The musician tried TO explain that he mad
no hat and never wore one But the youth.
who had but recently landed from Ellis
Island. and was determined to be true to
his first employer looked at the mead OF
the musician and assuming that his hair
was some sort OF curious fur cap, went
after r. The melody man was almost
scalped before the assistant manager OF the
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- ST Gibraltar Of the Pacific,
fortified island whose menacing
- guns will control the Unsuitable
desire for conquest of the Japanese
check the dreams OF avarice OF Great
Britain and Germany in Polynesia and
reduce the fierce Malayan pirates. II
there be any of them extant, to state
Of gentleness rivalling that of doves
such is the dream-kindness forbids the
use of the adjective Utopian-of none
other than Rear Admiral a. T. Mahan,
L. s. y. (retired).
For this purpose Admiral Mahan would
employ the little island of Guam, re-
Gently described by that erudite states
man, Senator Isador Rsyner as "a
charming spot. and one Of the most
lustrous Jewels in our Oriental galaxy.
Still further light did Senator Rayner
throw upon the natural resources and
strategic potentialities Of the little ISL
and. on both Of which Admiral Mahan
would practise his theory Of naval mill
tary conservation.
ate: Its principal products are vipers'
snakes, lizards. wild swine and castor
oil and IL the island were put up at auc-
ton to-day. with all the inhabitants In
II. beyond its value as military post II
would not bring ST 80 in any OF the mar
kets of the world. 1t must not be lost
sight Of. however. that Guam is the key
of communication upon the Paclnc
ocean and the relay point for cables to
Manila. Toxic and San Francisco 1t Is
necessary to relay messages TO Guam be-
cause Of the resistance which the sub
marine current encounters in it's journey
from Honolulu and II Japan ever came
into possession Of Guam we would De
cut off from communication with the
Philippines. except by way Of the Azores
and the Suez route and thence to the
Indian ocean
But jocular as the utterances OF the
Senator from Maryland may have been
there is nothing jocular about the pro
nossl of Admiral Mahan. whose opinion
On the value Of Guam as naval base
was recently invited by the secretary OF
the Navy. following more or less ex-
tended discussion of the question by the
Navy General Board.
OF the importance of Guam from
strategic point of view Admiral Mahan
is firmly convinced. and there Is posi-
bility. albeit a remote one. that some
recommendation in this connection Will
lie made 10 Congress by the Secretary of
the Navy. once he has induced Congress
10 abolish all obsolete and superfuous
navy yards. to appropriate sufhcient
funds to construct as many new battle
ships and auxiliaries as may be needed
and to increase the enlisted personnel to
a point in consonance with the views or
the naval authorities.
As there is an entire absence of super
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thousand miles, or exciting the slightest
protest from nervous neighbors made
historical by the defamation Of the heavy
ordnance There is a possibility that the
negotiations Of a general treaty Of arbi-
tration with Japan may retard the day
when Congress will consent TO make the
vast appropriations necessary for the
fertilization Of Guam on such scale as
is contemplated by Admiral Mahan but
that is a possibility which will In no way
deter the naval experts from giving to
the project all the serious consideration
Il may deserve.
There is little likelihood that any steps
IN the direction of certifying Guam will
be taken until Congress is completely
committed TO the plan and is ready to
make appropriations with a liberality
which will permit Of the work being
carried on with the utmost expedition.
The capture of the island by an enemy
when the work was in a partial state Of
completion would obviously convert the
works from an asset into grave menace
10 the safety Of the Pacific Coast, and for
this reason the military authorities be-
lieve that If undertaken II should be
pushed forward to completion with all
possible expedition. In fact, this same
feeling is entertained with regard to the
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naval works at Pearl Harbor, which IN
clude a monster drydock which would
prove an invaluable asset to any enemy
into whose hands it might fall.
Admiral Mahan, as is natural In ad-
vancing a new plan of such stupendous
proportions, devotes himself almost en-
tirelv TO the strategic advantages which
must accrue from the adoption of his
idea. contenting himself with almost
cursory reference to the physical as
poets of the proposition. His contention
that with a powerful navy provided with
an impregnable base within one thou-
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sand miles Of her shore, Japan would
never risk an attack on the country TO
which that navy belonged, is admitted
by all the experts TO be pre-eminenty
sound. But until some preliminary sur
vey conducted with this idea in mind
has been made IL will be impossible 70
make even an appropriate estimate OF
the cost, an element which must enter
materially into the final determination
Of the feasibility Of the scheme.
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When singleness is bliss tbs folly 10 bs
wives.
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