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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-05-10

Miss Rath Jones is visiting her grand
mother, llrs. Beckton, IN Dyer.
Miss Mary Cox, Of Dyer, visited her
many friends in Kenton this week.
DR.. ]. Richard, Of Route One, was a
business visitor in Kenton Tuesday.
Dir. Ed Ward, of Memphis, was a
visitor in the city Sunday and Monday.
Mrs. Rube Bailey has returned home
from a visit to relatives and friends in
Martin.
Mr.. R. Y. Blanks and sons, Of Treze-
want, are visiting the family Of Mr.. E.
r. johnson.
Miss Ethel Henderson, of Union City,
is visiting Miss Dixie Carroll on Quality
Hill this week.
Mr.. S. P. james and family, of Barto,
Fla, are visiting the family Of Mr..
Robt. Gibson.
Messrs. j. B. and B. L. Gibson, w.
H. Wade and S. P. James spent Tues
day in TiptonvilIe.
Miss CIella Gibson, Of Rutherford,
was the guest Of Miss Hattye Carroll
Friday and Saturday.
Mr. Carter and family, Of Nashville,
are visiting the family of Mr.. Joe Penn
three miles east of town.
Miss Ruth NJ. Price, of Kennett, Mo-,
is on an extended visit to her aunt, Mrs.
w. II. Wilson, Of this city.
Mr.. Jas. w. Ramsey returned Tues
day from a trip West, where he has
been working in peach deal.
Mrs. j. M. Stevens left Wednesday
for her home in Robinson, ILL.,, after a
week IS visit with relatives and friends.
The Baptist meeting at Concord will
commence next Sunday, conducted by
Rev. w. G. McNeely, Of Kennett, Mo.
Mr.. Will Fowler has returned from
East Lansing, Mich, where he has been
teaching animal husbandry for the past
month.
e. III. Harrison, Of Route One, had
the misfortune of being kicked by a
mule last Sunday on the left limb just
above the knee.
Mr.. @. I. Arnold and family and Prof.
H. H. Ellis and family, Of Milan, are
spending week on the Obion River
fishing and hunting.
ESQ. D. Witherington, ]. w. Has
kins and David Halliburton, of Lonoke,
are spending the week on Half Moon
Lake fishing and hunting.
While chasing some cattle Tuesday
afternoon Mr.. Will Sane had the mis-
fortune Of painful Accidentally coming
in contact with wire, throwing him
and breaking his collar bone. The ac-
cident occurred near of Mr.. Sol Shafts
residence.
A party of young people, consisting
Of Misses Kate MosIey, Ethel Hender-
son, Alta Kennedy, Dixie Carroll, Mary
Cox, Elizabeth Garrett and leila Adkis-
son; Messrs. Ashburn Clements, Henry
Feilerton, Roy Keathley, Louie Suatz,
lick Henderson and Gatha Stovall en-
ioyed Gypsy tea at Smiths Springs
Tuesday evening.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-15
II WARsHIPs FOR CHICAGO.

Chicago, Aug. 15.-Fourteen ships
of war armed with guns all the way
from the quickfire Colts to big four
inch engines of obstruction will az.
pear off this city tonight. The will
train their heavy guns point blank
on the city, as they are certain there
areNno vessels In the harbor here that
can harm them. They will take their
time and wait until tomorrow morn
ing before making known their will
as conquerors. Chicago is prepared
for the defence, however, and in the
harbor is fleet of the most destruc-
tive types of ship ever invented. Up
yard of a hundred hydroplane, capable
of making close to sixty miles per
hour are in the harbor and tomorrow
morning while the enemy" Is con-
fident of its size and armament, the
hornets of the sea are going to dash
out of Chicago's four harbors and as
sail the enemy" The hydroplane ex-
perts declare that this will be
the test by which they will be
able to prove the hydroplane
plane the best type of warship for
the future. The attacking fleet will
use its searchlights and do everything
in it's power to prevent the attack of
the little mahogany-hulled craft which
L. ~
at the speed of an express train. The
Illinois Naval Reserves, on the othe
hand, declare that all they have TO do
is to send few small caliber bullets
through the delicate skin of the boats
and they will sink. The United States
Government is greatly interested in
the experiments and has sent experts
here to watch the results of the tests.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-15

few acres for from fifty to one hun
dred and fifty dollars an acre, pro
vided 1t is not whiting five miles o.
a railroad.
About the only place l ever saw
where the people who live there car
find little fault with it, is in this
South Mississippi country The only
reason most of us are not out al
work on a farm somewhere is, that
we are tempted by good wages in a
| sawmill, or think we see so many op
, portunities in other lines. If there is
anywhere an ideal place farming II
is down here.
Almost any crop that will grow in
a temperate cline anywhere, will
reach projection here. The average
production of cotton per acre is great
err in Jones county, than it is in the
delta of the Mississippi, reputed to be
the richest land in the world. ex-
pect the reason is, that we cultivate
it little better The lands here are
most of them underlaid by a choco-
late and red loan, requiring little or
no drainage. There is all the fertility
nature placed in the land, and re-
cent experiments at the Mcneil sta
ton demonstrated that no potash is
required for any crops. Nature has
clothed the hills with numbers of
legumes, which are making constant
additions of nitrogen, leaving only
to be added for the high
est culture.
Jones county will this year pro-
duce more corn than she uses, and
in few years will export this sta
pie, from the limited territory under
The average yield is
equal to that of the great corn belt,
md within a few years, with the i'm
,rovement of methods of cultivation
n progress, will exceed it. Yields
If fifty to seventy-five bushels to the
lcre are secured by every competent
armer, and excite no comment. Yet
1ery little commercial fertilizer is
Used.
These staples are and will continue
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-15
IN TENEMENTS OF CARACAS
Portion Of South American City Tha,
Has Witnessed Many
Vlcissitudes.

In the struggling, shabby out
skirts Of the old part Of Caracas one
may still trace the necessities of the
strenuous days when a mans house
had literally to be his castle. and no
mere legal theory could protect n
against the lack Of physical invulner
ability. One may still see the dishey.
eled angles Of defense, the entrants
and re-entrants, sometimes a notched
wall, and occasionally an overhaneins
machicolation. through the floor OF
which hot oil, water or molten lead
could be trickled on the heads of the
invaders.
Often there are loopholes, now Mas.
tered up with sunbaked mud. while
here and there the faded, stained walls
show the gouging spatter Of some bul.
let, the souvenir Of stray revolution
or perhaps merely the remnant q,
some brief but conflicting love affair
The once gay red-tiled roofs are black.
ened and askew with age, and wisps
Of desiccated verdure sprout from be.
tween the cracks; ranks Of shabby
rusty-black buzzards gather on the
walls, scrutinizing in solemn vigilance
the Gathering slatterns about the patio
well-curb. nursing their charcoal fires
or beating clothes. while their plump
and naked babies shuttle together con.
tentedly in the dirt. It Is the tene
ment-house district. the White-chapel
of Caracas.-Charles johnson Post. In
the Century Magazine.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-15
FAST HYDRoPLANE FOR
eu. s. 6ATTLEsHlPs

Washington. Aug. 15.-Rear-Ad
miral Phillips Andrews. acting Score
tary of the Navy, is today receiving
plans from manufacturers throughout
the country looking toward the in
stallment of speend hydroplane fol-
each battleship the American navy
II the plans of the Navy Department
materialize. each battleship of the
navy will. be equipped with a hydr
plane within the next year. 1t is yro
posed to have the machines sustain
speed in the air of not less than
fifty miles an hour, carrying two pes
sengers.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-15

sections of some cities. You may
count them by the hundreds and they
are all practically alike; cheap tene-
ment looking affairs. each house try
ing to look as near like its neighbor
as possible, without any attempt at
individual ornamentation. The front
yard is usually bare of grass and
there is a broken board walk at the
side. Generally such houses are
boxed in with some kind Of wooden
fence that shows signs of weather
wear and the dilapidated breakage
caused by children at play.
A neat design like this costs very
little more, but what a difference in
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-15

lection, but you have got to do some
thing out of the ordinary or when
the house Is done you are not salts
fed with 1t.
Every house should be built Win
modern improvements whether the
house 10 large or small. More atten'
ton IL being paid to bathrooms win
hot and cold water connection than
ever before. The time will soon come
when a house won't rent or sell unless
1t has what are generally termed mod
ern improvements. have known
small houses to rent for eight or ten
dollars a month and l have known
houses that cost very little more to
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-15
The Land of Opportunity
u T. CAN'T IN LAUREL ARGUS

Go where you will to any new
country on the face of the earth. ant
the man who has lived there all his
life will tel. you there is fly some
where in the ointment, and the truth
Is the country is net what It Is crack
ed up 10 be. Down in Florida, when
you get there. they will tell you. truth.
fully. that you'll have a job on your
hands finding a decent drink OF water
lin the state. an dthat the pine levels
ARE nothing but sandbeds and white
clay, which stands six months of the
year under water and the balance of
the time are so dry that they crack
open like nigger's frost-bitten feet.
Grub out the stumps and plant the
land, except in a few hammocks,
which you cannot buy for love nor
money. and corn will grow three feet
tall In good season.
Try your fortune in Oklahoma.
that golden paradice, and the wind
will hold your hat against the side
of the house all day long if you put
1t there; and these winds sometimes
get SO hot that a beautiful field of
waving corn will be parched to a Gin
der in a day. Then sometimes there
is no rain for a whole year.
Go to any part Of Texas, and you'll
find some good land, but no water
In ten miles. Try Arizona or New
Mexico, and 1t never rains, and you'll
quarrel with your neighbor all of the
time over a little stream of muddy
water to irrigate land that cost 800
an acre, and finally when you get 1t,
also secure the nut grass, johnson
grass and other pests which he had. !
Go further west, to the balmy South
ern California where the roses bloom
all winter, and you'll have all the
troubles that you had in Arizona, and
besides you'll not make enough mon
ey to buy enough coal to keep you
warm in the winter. Get disguised
and go back east or north and you'll
lind that the fellow you sold your
'arm to, and thought you burnt him
n the trade, will offer to sell you a
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-15

rent for double that amount simply
because they were built attractively
and contained modern means Of heat
ing and with plumbing connections
so the different members of the fam
lily could keep themselves clean.
A great deal depends on the plan
as we'll as the convenience and the
outside appearance. It is an art that
seems difficult to acquire, the build
ing of small artistic, comfortable
houses, but 1t is an art we'll worth
studying.
Such houses should be a great deal
more common than they are. II
would prevent families who like te
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-15

to be profitably grown, the cottoI
paying in spite of the boil weevil.
No finer or purer syrup is made
than from sugar cane from Jasper ant
adjoining counties, and there is now
process of development, a great in
dustry in its production. The profit
is great and the crop sure.
In the fruit and truck crops
peaches, grapes, figs, potatoes, to
matoes, strawberries-in fact any
vegetabel or fruit-no lands will pro
duce them to greater perfection, nc
climate will ripen them at more op
perfume time for profitable market
ing, and no section has made direct
connection with the best markets,
than our section and country.
1t is but matter of short time
when the development of this indus.
try will come. The only thing that
stands in the way, is the absence of
men to produce them and reap the
profit
All that is said above can be said
of other sections.
There are roses blooming at
Christmas in other places than in
South Mississippi, but in some of
these places insiduous malaria will
sap the vitality of the man who lives
there, in other places a brackish wa
ter will accomplish the same end.
There is fertility and good health to
be found elsewhere than here, but,
maybe, the land is so high in price
that a poor man cannot buy it.
1t may even be good and cheap in
another place, but far removed from
civilization, from neighbors, schools,
churches and markets.
All these things are here--good
churches. proximity to the great mar
kets, and profitable markets of trade
Any area Of land can be obtained at
a cheaper price than in any other
part of the country.
Any man with one hundred dollars
in cash, can buy farm on terms upon
which he can pay for it. He can buy
all the land he wantsv-not swamps
and waste-but his pick d many acres
for from six to seven dollars per acre,
and get terms, too. If he prefers to
borrow the money and pay cash, the
will lend him six per cent
Of it at six per cent interest.
The future of the lands in South
is assured. They are
cheap, simply because there is so
much more land than there are peo-
Die here to till them.
But the day is coming, and COM
ng fast, when the value of these
,utover lands will be appreciated. If
men elsewhere knew what they were
We would have such an influx of popu.
alton as would surpriseus. 1t will
come in few years, and with it such
/ profit to the men who own them, as
zane to the men who bought our tim
Der twenty years ago.
G. T. CAN'T.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-15

appearance. The shape of the roof
and the corresponding roof over the
front porch with the proper placing
of windows make the difference in
the outside appearance. The colors
used in painting of course have a
good deal to do with the final finish.
A good combination of light shade of
paint for the body with darker trim
mings carefully chosen to properly
match show to great advantage in
the finish of one of these houses.
1t costs little more when building
q porch roof to give 1t so much pro
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-15

lost on all subjects pertaining TO the
ubject OF bu1111ng. for the readers Of, this
papsr. On aeoosnl q bis wids experience
u Editor. Author and Manufacturer. he
:. without doubt, the highest authority
IN all these suhtsets Addrsss all inquiries
o William A HaAfoed. No. ITS West
Jackson boulevard, Chicago. ILL.,. and only
snoloss two-cent stamp for reply.
Sometimes It 10 necessary to build
l house to ut o narrow lot. AS
general thing lots are deep enough to
aold almost any kind of house. Few
OTIS In American cities are less than
one hundred feet from front to back,
but because of expensive street i'm
provements they are often squeezed
Sideways until houses get to be very
close neighbors. It is unfortunate
hat 1t Is 30 but we have to take
conditions as we find them and make
The best Of 1t. Sometimes these mar
row lots are In very desirable neigh
oorhoods, convenient for transporta-
ZION and convenient for other reasons
and by building house to At the lot
tuch property may be made very COM
portable and attractive.
This design shows house only
eighteen feet wide, but the length is
hirty-eight feet six inches, exclusive
Of the front porch. Such a shape nee
essarily requires that one room shall
follow another. sometimes with very
long dark narrow hail. but this plan
avoids that difficulty by putting
room at the back end Of the hall and
by connecting the kitchen with the
dining-room by way of the pantry
Then the upper part Of the house is
laid out with bedroom In each end
and a bathroom opposite the upper
hallway in the center This arrange
ment requires that the bathroom shall
be lighted by dormer window, the
design of which is very neat and at
tractive. 1t adds great deal to the
appearance Of the house because It is
ornamental as well as useful Such
attachments make up the difference
between a common cheap looking
house and satisfactory, useful, orna-
mental habitation that is at once very
pleasing and interesting.
So-called cottage houses with one
gable end towards the street are as
common as house flies in the cheaper
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-15
Between cIrIs.

Say. Wayne. I've got new beau
rs he handsome?"
Handsome? Say, Wayne, he's got
a mustache that might have come Out
of Ouida's novels"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-15

live nicely from crowding into fat
buildings where they have neither
light nor sufficient air. This is an
other excuse for narrow lots. A fifty
foot lot would hold two such houses
and make comfortable living quarters
for two families instead of one
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-15

Japanese was the first foreign Ian
guage spoken over the telephone.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-26
RepoRTo OF pRoUTh DAMAGE IN
MoarAwEsr DISCOUNTED
AND DROP REsvLTs.
corn PRICE wEAkENs
~ WITH BETTER WEATHER
oats Also Lower on Evidence Of With
drawn Support and September Falls
- 3o9<-Larse Shipments Of Hess at
Various Market csntsrs Sends Pro-
visions Down With Grains.

~ Chicago, June ga disposition TO
scout At reports Of serious damage
having been done in the northwest in
cl1ned to a majority OF wheat traders
today to take the selling side.The open
1ng was. y to n lower. September
started 1t 3rO4h to $1.o4st. fall OF
x and 4 to y and Il. touched s1.o4a
and declined TO 31.o4h.
The depression continued. influenced
by the absence Of demand. The close
was steady. with September at s1.04N.
. net loss Of A0A.
Corn.
Corn sa9ged on account OF the fine
weather and promising crop outlook.
September opened unchanged to Is on
ct 71x to u and weakened to TX
ana 7lK.
A rally ensued as result Of pur-
chasing done for leading bulls The
close was firm at 721t @72h for Sep
tamber;' gain Of u OK net.
Oats.
Support seemed to have been with
drawn from oats so that the market
cropped. September started at last
nights level to y down at 40 to 4oh.
and descended to 3eA and 3s&.
Provisions.
Provisions took an easier turn In
consequence Of larger run Of hogs
here and west. Initial sales varied from
IN lower to 2h and cents up, with
September delivery s1s.s2s for pork,
311.o0 for lard, and S1o.5711 for ribs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-26
FIsst LADY Diplomat.

;
h 70 not America but Europe that .
to Be- hrst to recognize the petticoat
diplomat. Brussels, in Belgium. 10 to
b the place whsre this recognition 10
to- take place. Dr., Luisi. minister
plenipotenfiary. rspresenting ofnciaiiy
the Republic Of Uruguay. has present
Cd proper papers to King Albert Of Bel.
GUM. and will hereafter b received
at court With all the honors given to
ambassadors and ministers yof foreign
powers. And this South American dip.
lomat IL . woman. Mademoiselle Go
tide Luisi. doctor Of laws Of the Uni.
versity Of Monteyideo. The new min
lister is young. unmarried and. 1t 10
said. pretty. The secretaries and st.
tachss q tho di6sreat embassies q
Brussels are now striving n galiantsy
to make favor With the nrot woman %
arrive at dignity which had appar'
entity Dsver even been thought Of y
the most audscSous suffragettes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-26

has overruled the motion Of the plAln-
TIT for 4 new trial In the cass IS ths
0rinnell Brick and Tile C0mpaAy
atainst Henry "A. Hooknau. The Jury
decided for the dependant. It y sup
posed the case will b appealeA 70 IL
supreme court.
Ars. Nellie Walker and daughter
Helen left yestsrday for Los Angeles
TO make their home.
Peter Yates EfAnciscO. aged 20. died
In Rome. ". r., recently after . long
illness. He Was 4 member of the Con-
gfegational church Of Grinnen and
conducted = hotel here for some years
And leaves many friends here who hold
, him in high regard He il survived BY
his wife. who was Sarah A. Miles. and
four married children.
jamie simmons 10 home from Ais
year Of study 1t Pomona College In
Pomona. Cal.
Mrs. Adah stafford Is enjoying .
Alexander and children, Of Cadillac,
Mich. s
This evening Attorney. General
George Cosson will address the Chris
tan Endeavor convention in place of
oSuatOI ACAyVus WIZ - OSS0McN ~
Washington.
Mrs. Arthur walker and her husband
from Pipestone. Mimi. are visitors at
DR.. E. L. Evans home. Mrs. Walker
will be remembered AZ Flora Evans.
once a college student here.
Cyril Carney. who 10 working a. an
engineer at the Carney mines near Dies
Moines. was injured by the automobile
crank he Was using at the mine flying
back as he was cranking IL and break
ing his left wrist.
DR.. John Cogswell and E. b. Brande
drove to Chicago in Mr.. Brandes auto
last Sunday and will remains this week.
Margaret Christian 10 home from
her year Of teaching IN the Minne-
apolis high school.
Delos Hall and wife. formerly Of
Grinnell. now OF woonsocket. N. D..
have lost their little son Harold, by
appendicitis. He died in Humboldt.
iowa, after an operation. Mr.. Hall
owns a Newspaper In Woonsocket. n.
ID. s7Ss1
Miss Bertha Simmer. who went to
Iowa City for medical treatment, has
returned and resumed her duties as
assistant pastor to DR.. Marston. Of the
Congregational church.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-26
hsuereve Court Na..er,w6s.

hsnsersus csvrt saappe~sw1s.
Judge y. ". Pinckney aaia rsosn1
banquet Of lawyers responded With
two stories to show that there 10 some
humor associated with such q serious
thing - the law. In Dawsop City Z
colored man. Sam Jones By nAme. va
on trial for felony. The jad0s asked
Sam II hs desired the appointment q
. lawyer to defend him. No. sah,
said Sam. Use swins to throw my.
self on the ignorance q the cote. 80
Hero 10 story credited TO O'Coa-
nell. and illustrating the severe pen
atty imposed under the Oh criminal
law Of England - well - the grew.
some humor Of the early Englisl
Judge. The Jury had returned . yer.
dict u guilty in The CASE Of man
accused Of stealing Z valuable watch.
The Judge in sentencing the prisoner,
said. You reached for dine and found
eternity"