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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-06-14
Killed Horse.

Last Friday night q blind horse be-
longing to Lon Dyer was killed at the
home Of Mr.. Dyer west Of Union City
near the Dallas Kill. Mr.. Dyer, during
the night, heard the horse grooming
and went out to see aboutit. He found
the horse down and went over to get his
neigbbor, Mr.. Barry London, who came
back with Mr.. Dyer, and upon exami-
nation they found that the horse had
been cut open through the bowels and
an ugly knife cash made under the
shoulder. Next morning note was
found fastened on the barn with the fol-
lowing threat: II have killed your
ID horse, BY CD I'll kill you
next
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-06-14

Visitors in the home OF Mrs. G. ".
Mcdaniel, this city, this week are Mrs.
McDaniel's two sisters, Mrs. Mary Alex
ander, ofJordan, and Mrs. Hulda Helm,
OF Kennett, Mo. The ladies are aged,
respectively, 70, SO and 81, in the order
named, very remarkable longevity in
one family.
Drs. w. M. Turner and E. M Long
were in Memphis last week attending
the State Dental Association. While
there they enjoyed banquet given in
honor Of DIR. Joseph L. Newborn, one
Of the oldest practicing dentists In the
State. The Memphis dentists gave the
visiting delegates royal reception, in
GLIDING sightseeing in automobiles and
other Inequalities,
You see those refrigerators before buy
ing at Mailing Keiser Hardware Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-06-14
departure recalls life full II kind words

departure recalls life full ofkind words
and deeds and sacred memories.
Mrs. Wilson leaves husband and two
daughters. One daughter is married
and lives in Nashville. The other is Miss
Izora, located in New York City and
engaged in the loan business. The
young lady began lending money in
small sums with downtown offices, and
her accumulatlons have multiplied until
she has branch Offices ID q number Of
the Southern cities and her property is
estimated at half million.
The remains Of Mrs. Wilson were
brought here for burial Friday and in
tered at the City Cemetery with services
by Rev. Stuart.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-06-14
Only 75c to Cairo, I'LL, and Return.

Special train leaves Union City III
1874 q. M, june 20, arriving Cairo
11.S5 q. nj. Returning special train
win leave Cairo 1000 p. M, same days
For tickets and full particulars. ap-
ply to nearest agent Of Mobile a Ohio
Railroad, Or q. Il. Allen, Travelling
Passenger Agent, Jackson, Tenn.
JOHN M. BFALE.
General Passenger Agent.
st. Louis, No.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-06-14

Rev. J. 7. Hudgins win preach 1T
Pleasant Hill Cumberland Presbyterian
Church Sunday, morning and alter
noon. AT the morning hour the con-
gregation will make an offering for mis-
sions. Everybody Is most cordially In
vited to attend.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-06-14
Marriage Licenses.

w +. Bushart and Eva Cook.
silas Bruce and Leila Carman.
Claud Bryan and Pearl Bowlin.
Finley Bryant and Oyra Myers.
Ocie Yates and Irene Ridgeway.
Andy Vaughan and Abide Hess.
Harley Boone and Maude Crane.
Nicholas Muscovalley and Allie
Smith.
B. +. Beckham and Mrs ArIette NJ.
Hardy.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-06-14

You want TO smile. You want the
greatest enjoyment possible out Of life.
You want your friends to be glad they
have met you, then--drink PLEZOL,
the New Drink. At Fountains and bot
tied only by DAVIDSON PRoDUcE co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-06-14

Mr.. and Mrs. T. ]. Lowell and family
have moved to Nashville nearer Mr..
Lovell's business headquarters. These
good people are very kindly remember
cd by the friends in Union City, and
the kindest wishes 60 with them,
w. G. Reynolds has moved into his
new Office on Second street, new brick
building just completed. The new Of
fee will be supplied With new furniture
and fixtures, and the Reynolds Packing
Co. win have permanent headquarters
there.
divers Red Cross Drug Store, sells
s'GERMOL." Try 30 cent bottle, and
make life worth living.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-06-14
LOCAL AND Personal

DR.. ". A. Mailing was q visitor in
, Chicago this week.
Misses Roberts, Of Riyes. were in the
city Monday shopping.
Lawn Mowers. NailEng-keiser Hard
G. II. Sheriff., Of Paducah, was a
business visitor here last week.
Mr.. and Mrs Inais Dobbins, OF Pa
ducah. we're in the city last week.
Refrigerators $3.50 at WEHMANs.
Mrs Jas. A. Gray. Of Nashville. was
ayisitor in Union City last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. inc. W. Bennett, Of
Troy, were in the city last week shop
ping.
An kinds Of coal at Union City Ice &
Coal Co.
Col. e. E. Tansil and Robt. A. Ell
kins, Of Dresden, were in the city last
Friday
Mr.. John Caldwell, Of Dyersburg. was
in the city last week with friends and
kinsfolks.
Lawn Swings cost you only $500 at
WEHMAN'S.
DR.. B. +. Morey. Of Indiana, was in
The city this week With his friend, DR.. A.
@. Misner.
Mr. Mike Buchanan and daughter, Of
Polk, we're in the city last Saturday
shopping.
Mastic Mixed Paint, if you want to
paint your house. Mailing Keiser
Hardware Co.
w, z. Shore and Miss Hattie May
Clemmons, Of Rivss, were Sunday fis-
itors In the city
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Evans, 81 May
field, were in the city Sunday, register
cd at the Palace Hotel.
Perfection Oil Cook Stoves at Mailing
keiser Hardware Co.'S.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-06-14

Mayor Dayy Crockett, Brice Moffatt,
w. Q. Cloar and Mr.. Dodds, d. Troy,
were ID the city last Friday on business.
Mrs. Arthur Scates, Of Greenwood,
Miss, il in the city this week visiting
the home 81 Mrs. Mamie Beck, Try
street.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-06-14

Pansy" sent us a communication
from Crescent last week too late for
publication. Please send them little
earlier or get them to the mail man so
that we may have them Wednesday.
Mrs. Laura Wells leaves this week for
Bay st. Louis to look for cottage, and
as soon as arrangements have been
made the family will be located there
for the summer. The xindest wishes
arewith them.
A cali for $50 brings the coal wagon
Union City Ice & Coal Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-06-14

Messrs. John and Seid Waddel win
be at home from Vanderbilt University
this week TO spend vacation.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-06-14

Mrs. Q. Spradlin and children were
Ia the city Of Minnick last week visiting
the home Of DIR. @. s. Chandler.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-06-14

Mr.. John Church, Of Arrnory, Miss,
was in the city last week attending the
funeral Of bis father, Mr.. 4. N. Church.
Oil Cook Stoves. Nailling-ISeiser Had.
ware Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-06-14

Mr. and Mrs. /. II. Marshall, OF
Fresno, CAL, we're in the city and
county this week visiting relatives and
friends.
Mrs. G. b. Carr and Miss Anne Nc
Koun, 81 Nashville, accompanied by G..
4. Moffatt, 81 Troy, we're in the city
Sunday.
Drink PLEZOL, the New Drink.
It's healthful and invlgorating
]. w. Freeman, one Of our good
friends from the vicinity Of Ebenezer,
near Troy. was d pleasant caller here
last Friday.
Melvin Tisdale will be at home this
week nom Ithaca, N. X, where be has
been attending Cornell University, to
enjoy vacation.
You've tried the rest, now try the
best Jersey Cream Flour.
a. G. Almond, Of Dresden, was in
the city this week visiting his son, Mr..
Ernest Almond, who has been very
sick with typhoid fever.
Mrs Win Pearson came down from
Nashville last week tc attend the funer-
al Of her father. Mr.. Church, accom-
naming the remains here.
Keep your grass down with .one Of
Mailing. keiser Co.'S Lawn Mowers.
-Four arrests and fines amounting To-
$40 are placed 70 the credit Of the police
force this week, including Chief Pardue
and Oticers Noah and White
Col. and Mrs. g. T. Taylor have re-
turned 70 Union City and secured al
home on First street south. The friends
arc glad to welcome them back to our
city.
II you want the best and cheapest,
use Bon Air coal Union City Ice 4
Goal Company.
Col. G. T. TAslos leit Sunday lof Chi
cago to attend the meeting Of the Ma |
tionaI Republican Committee and the
Republican convention which follows
tho week after.
q. r. Fuqua i now connected with
fhn " &. Honea Piano "a. IL fssnar.
Mr.. Fuqua i musician and spIen-
did addition 70 the company in the
piano trade.
Biz Muddy washed nut coal il best ics
cooking, At Union City Ioe q Coal Co. |
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-06-14

DAHNKE's CREAM BREAD -
mark for imitators.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-06-14

Ice Boxes only IS. at WEHMAN's.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-03-25
FACTORY IN THE GARDEN

Isn't it possible that a good
many people might live under
far better conditions than they
do, even without any great
changes in laws and constitu-
tons?
That was the idea of a New
York publishing house when they
decided to move their business
out. of the most congested part of
the metropolis and plant it in a
garden out in the country. They
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-03-25

have made a thorough test of the
plan; it works beautifully.
Compared with real estate vail
ues in the heart of New York,
factory and home sites in the
country, even within half an
hour of the great city, cost lit
tie. Hence, the factory is built
only two stories high, with open
court and wide wings, flooded
with air and sunshine. 1t is sur
rounded by a park, filled with alf
sorts of growing things.
The workers find that they can
get a detached home on a large
lot, with plenty of room for gar
den and fruit trees, for no more
than they paid for a little fiat in
town about like a sardine box"
as one of them puts it. Oh, but it's
fine for the kiddies! They are
enjoying real childhood, not an
artificial one They play in the
grass instead of on the pave
.ments. They hear the song of
birds, instead of the raucous nois-
es of the town.
Why not general factory
movement from town to country?
In these days of rapid transit,
quick mail delivery, telegraph and
telephone, it means practically
no inconvenience to anyone and
it spells human happiness and
welfare.
Just heard of woman marry
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-03-25
100

Indian girl in New Mexico,
shoots ashes from a cigar when
blindfolded. All right, only she
can't shoot at us.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-03-25

Minsignor Bonzano made his re-
port.
When in February this year
MonSignor Bonzano received his
second summons to the vatican
he instinctively felt that another
earthquake had occurred. Hur-
rying to the vatican he bought
copies of all the daily papers on
the way. Failing to find even a
line about the earthquake, he
rushed breathless into the apart
ments of Cardinal Secretary of
State Merry del Val.
'You look surprised, monsig-
more" said the cardinal. .
'I am, your eminence, especial
ly as l can find nothing in the (,
papers about the earthquake"
well it's worse than an
earthquake this time, was Merry
del Vals reply. "The' holy father
has selected you for the new
apostolic delegate to Washing
ton"
Monsignor Bonzano will as
sumo his new duties in the United
States about Easter. This post
practically assures his ultimate
elevation to the sacred college.
FACTORY IN THE GARDEN
Isn't it possible that good
many people might live under
r L 4 u II
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-03-25

Just heard of a woman marry
ing a doctor two days before she
had appendicitis. That's fore
sight.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
WHY NOT LARRABEE PARK?
Cedar Rapids Postmaster Suggests
State Park IN Northeast Iowa to
Honor Former Governor.

Postmaster Haskell of Cedar Rap
ids is a man of ideas. He has just
been invited to go up into the north
eastern part Of the state, THE Switz-
erland of Iowa. to deliver an ad-
dress. Maybe he won't be able to go
because he is going to be busy boost
ing for a base ball park in Cedar
Rapids and for greater Coe college.
But he is getting some ideas ready
for that speech and they will include
"reminiscences of the days when he
used to work for a living up in that
neighborhood. He is going to spring
a big surprise on his audience by rec
ommending that the state of Iowa set
aside a large part of the Northeastern
corner of the state as state park.
Why not call it Larrabee Park? 1t
would be fitting memorial, he thinks,
to the great man who has just passed
away.
Up in that northeastern corner OF
the state, in Allamakee and Winni-
shiek counties and in portions OF
Clayton and Fayette counties the
country is much more adapted TO a
great park than it is to farming. The
glaciers which came through Iowa
long before Jacob Spry was born did
not plane down that corner of the
state as they did the rest of the coun-
ties. There are high hills and deep
valleys, with wealth of fine timber
which has not yet been despoiled by
the woodlands axe because there is
no easy way of getting the timber
from the hills to the mills. 1t is not
too late to save some of the best OF
this timber and some of the most
beautiful Of the Iowa scenery. Why
not make state reservation, just as
the national government makes nat
ionaI reservations jim portions of the
west and northwest? The country is
Just as beautiful and the state can
lust as we'll afford to do it. Set aside
a few thousand acres for great state
park and build good automobile
roads to it and through it.
1t may be only dream, but 1t is
dream worth thinking about. Those
who know the VIVID beauty of that
part of the state will be the most en-
thusiastic concerning it. There is no
better scenery anywhere.---Cedar Rap
ids Republican.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
Items of Interest i'm Our Public
Schools, Reported by Our
Correspondent.

A very exciting mass meeting was
held in the assembly room last Fri
day morning.
Thursday afternoon there was a
very good football game at the fair
grounds. The Freshmen and Seniors
played against the Sophomores and
Juniors. The result of the game was
"a to in favor of the Freshmen and
Seniors. The Juniors and Sophomore
say that the game was played fairly
but they will never be beaten SO bad
ly again.
The Senior class had a meeting Fri
day forenoon for the purpose of de-
Gliding on their class rings A very
pretty one was decided upon and it
is hoped that they will soon arrive.
Rep. L. NJ. Enger, secretary and
general manager of the Short Course
in Agriculture, to be held in Decor
all beginning Dec. End, addressed the
high school on Monday morning. He
especially emphasized the object OF
this course and the good that it is
expected to do
Miss Mary Kleespie, principal OF
the nlSn SCuOOl az w opCi'
Monday visiting classes in our high
school. She was we'll pleased, and
paid our school high tribute.
There will be Thanksgiving pro-
grams throughout the grades and
high school on Wednesday afternoon
beginning at two o'clock. Visitors
are welcome. The program in the
high school is as follows:
Selection-The Arrow and the Song
............. Glee Club
Original Thanksgiving Story 80.
Vera Bucknell
Solo-Lucky Four Leaf Glover -.
....... Alice Daniels
High School Paper. Alex. Grlnna
Piano Solo-Ventian Love Song.
+. Kathryn Moore
Recitation-When the Frost is on
the Pumpkin Allyn Wells
Violin Solo-Traumeri. .......
Raymond Muzzy
! Question Box.
Florence Cox, Mabel Makepeace
Piano Solo-Waltz. Kathryn Lott
Recitation THANKSGIVING Day
.Erma Gregs
Selection-Thanksgiving Song
Glee Clul
Miss Lille Void, the president o
the Anona Society, will preside as
chairman of the meeting.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
Why Fret /?

In the November American Mag
azine appears the following:
Are the trains too slow for you?
Caesar, with all of his court, never
exceeded the speed limit.
Are your wages too small? In
Europe people are content with max
ing a living.
Are the lights too dim? David
wrote his psalm by the light of a
smoky torch.
Are you ugly? Cleopatra, though
homely, bewitched two emperors.
Are you cold? The soldiers OF
Valley Forge walked barefoot on the
ice and snow.
Are you hungry? The children
of India are starving for want of &
crust of bread.
Are you tired? Why fret abou
pit? Jacob was tired when he dream
ed of the angels OF Heaven.
Are you sick? Suppose you haC
lived two thousand years ago whe1
sickness was fatal.
Are you poor? The Saviour o
Men was not wealthy.
Cheer up. Praise God that yol
live in the midst of his blessings!
why fret?"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
The Winds Tales.

At night when everything is still
The wind it speaks so loud and shrill,
And tells the strangest tales to me,
i wonder how such things can be.
1t says the moon man comes at night
And walks the streets till morning
light,
Then when he can no longer stay
He goes home by the Milky Way.
1t says a black and ugly bear
Is living on our dark hall stair,
To chase me up to bed at night,
Though never yet has canght me
quite.
And oh! the very worst of all,
1t says the gray bat on the wall
At night creeps underneath the sheet
To nibble at my tired feet
The wind it tells strange tales to me
/ wonder if they true can be?
Helen NJ. Hutchinson in Har'
per's Magazine.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
way into the NAV of the dirty river.

way into the NAV of the dirty river.
The government built ripraps and
the river washed them away. Farm
ers constructed bikes and the first
freshet ate them up. At last the wat
er could be seen from the desertd
streets of old Rockport. At present
a boy can stand on the rotten old
wharf and sail fiat piece of shale
well out into the stream. BY Christ
mas time the wharf will again be on
the river bank and Rockport will be
resurrected by the same force that
killed it three-quareers of a century
ago.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
How Dynamite Explodes.

1t is the popular impression that
dynamite seeks the line of great re-
sistance. Place a quantity of black
powder on rock and light it with a
fuse. 1t will flash, simply scorching
the stone. Place a piece of dynamite
on the same rock, and the rock will
be shattered. Hence, the rasoning,
that dynamite follows the line OF
greatest resistance. Nothing could
be further from the truth, however.
The black powder takes fire and eX-
plodes much more slowly than the
dynamite, so that the elastic air that
.incloses it, as it does everything,
gives way gradually, and the force
is lost in the atmosphere. With dy-
Mantle, the explosion has been so
sudden, the attack on the air so ms
tantaneous, that for a fraction OF a
second it actually resists. The force
of the dynamite is so tremendous
that it cannot wait, and it is turned
into the rock, which, for the instant,
becomes the line of least resistance.
An illustration of this may be seen
during display of lightning. A fork
of it strikes across the sky. 1t packs
the air so densely that it can no
longer make rapid progress in that
direction, and it turns aside, to fol-
low the line of least resistance. 1t
cannot wait for the air to yield. 1t
is the same with dynamite.-ScriD-
nnr,c
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
The Love of a Butcher Boy.

Deer heart, l am in an awful stew
How I'll reveal my love to you.
I'm such a mutton-head, | fear
feel so sheep-ish when you're near
know it's only cow-ardice
That makes these Authorizations rise
dread a cut-let her explain
A single roast would give me pain
should not like to get the hooks
And dare not steak my hopes on looks
never sausage eyes as thine,
If you would butcher hand in mine.
And liver round me every day,
We'd seek some hamlet far away;
We'd meet Lies frowns with Loves
caress,
And cleav-er road to happiness.
Graphite
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
THE RESURRECTION OF A CITY.
Interesting Narrative of the Oldest
Town i'm the West, Deserted
by the Missouri.

An Omaha dispatch to the Chicago
Inter-Ocean was to this interesting
effect:
Three-quarters. of a century ago
the Missouri killed Rockport by de-
Gliding to leave it's old bed and start
q new channel FIVE miles away. Now
the river is endeavoring to resurrect
the town, and the main stream is
flowing within $50 yards of the cid
tumbled down and decayed steam
boat docks. Before Christmas boats
will again be able to land at Rock
port and the rehabilition of the town
already has begun.
Rockport was the oldest town in
the West, and but for the vagaries
of the old Missouri, probably would
have been the metropolis. It's cen
tenary would have been celebrated a
! number of years ago had there been
+ any inhabitants there to commemo-
rate the founding. Years and years
before Chicago was thought of, OF
| before Fort Dearborn was built,
Rockport was a fourishing settle
ment. For years the only white peo-
pie in the entire trans-Missouri coun-
try lived at Rockport.
Then westward came civilization
and cities and towns sprang up be-
| side the Missouri. A house was built
in Omaha, Council Bluffs became a
good sized place, Kansas City and
Leavenworth were put on the map,
Minneapolis and st. Paul were nam
ed. But larger than any of these was
Rockport. Steamboats, which only
whistled at Omaha stopped at Rock
port for supplies. Military expedi-
lions made headquarters at Rock
port. There was a good boat land
| ing at the docks and the water as
deep and still.
| OlC lnOl nlh5 d OItdLl UOdI COul2iS
up the river could not find Rockport
The town had disappeared. The pi-
lot found himself in strange and un-
familiar waters. The boat was out
of its course, but it had followed the
stream. That same morning when
the citizens of Rockport awoke, they
found the Missouri had run away and
left them. Where yesterday the wat
err. had run swift and deep was dry
land. The river was not even in
sight.
A party of citizens started out tc
find the river. They succeeded. II
was five miles away, flowing peace
fully along the new course. Rock
port was dazed The town was Ger,
tainly doomed. The river had killed
it. The big trading posts were dis.
continued. The hotels were closed
The citizens moved away. Fort Liza
was dismantled The houses were
moved one at a time into the coun-
try and served as farm houses. FL
nally there was but a single family
living in the place. Half century
elapsed and almost all traces OF
Rockport had disappeared. One wall
of the old fort remained. And there
were also the rotting timbers of the
old steamboat wharves.
But the Missouri, after many years
of wandering became dissatisfied with
it's new bed Its current gradually
turned westward again. But instead
of devouring the miles and miles of
land in a single night, it began to
leisurely eat its way back to the wes-
tern hills. Slowly corn field after
corn field, farm after farm found its
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
Johnnie Goes Up Head.

Johnnie" asked his teacher, "ean
you give us a sentence, using the
word income in it,"
Johnnie hesitated a moment, then
Yes m he replied. The boy open
ed the door, and in come cat. -
Woman's Home Companion.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
The Ben Bear

Fur Sale will occur this week Satur-
day. 1t will be sale worth while
and those in need of a coat of that
kind will do well to come and take
advantage of the sale.-Bear's
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-11-27
Fretting.

Fretting never paid a bill,
Fretting never climbed hill,
Fretting never smoothed a road,
Never lightened any load,
Never brushed away a sorrow,
Never quicker brought the morrow
Detroit Free Press.