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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-01-19


In pursuance Of a trust deed executed
to me as Trustee by Robert F. Bats and
wife, and Geo. W Pitzer and wife, :
win offer for sale and sell on
Tuesday. February 10. 1911
at the east door OF the con-
/ In Union City, Tenn IN
powers conferred upon m@
trust deed, two tracts orsIl
land near the village Of G
Junction. lying adioini
the FIRST Of which IS bound
On the north by the UlI
Faducah junction road; o Hi
the land OF Jas. Hurt, fonlI
by + W Stone, aud BY landu
Robert; on the south by ibid
Dun4an and Joseph Robert; al
west by the 835-acre tract herei
tised, formerly owned by the
heirs, and conveyed BY them to y
Mitchell. Said tract contains S513
more or less.
The second tract Hes immedia5
west Of and adjoining the above
scribed tract and is bounded on theif
by the land Of J. W. Porter, form
owned by John Gardner; on the eas
the above described tract; on the 81
by land formerly swfied by e. DUN
and on the west by land Of l.. S. Il
and Geo. p. Moody, formerly owne
VIM. Duncan This tract contain
acres, including asds-Seluding 10
on the west side thereof, which IS
bounded as follows. Beginning st
stake in Porter's S. B. line, formerly
VIM. Duncan's N. r. corner, and runs
thence east with said Porter's line Is
poles and IA links to an iron stake;
thence south 176 poles to stake in
Duncan's N. B. line; thence west with
said line Is poles and IA links to a stake.
said Parks and Moody's 5. II. sorner,
formerly VIM. Duncan's 5. f. corner;
thence north with said Parks and
Moody's e. B. line 176 poles 10 the be-
the land herein conveyed being
the same that was conveyed To the said
Bats and Pitzer by w. G. Mitchell.
This land is sold at the request Of the
legal holder Of the note secured by d
trust deed executed by the said Bats
and Pitzer To me as trustee, recorded ia
Book 8 @. pages 500 aud 500, Registers
Office Of 0bion County. Tenn, 70 which
record reference II made for further
The terms al ibis sale will
be cash, FREQ from tie equity ofredemp-
ton, but II the purchaser desires ~ bor-
row money on the land reasonable
amount can be secured through me on
The usual terms by application being
made. A deed will be executed 10 the
purchaser BY me as Truttca.
f2-3t ID. N, WALKER, Trustee.
Union City, Tenn, -, 20, 1911
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-01-19
New York Gets the Money.


Andrew Carnegie, as a witness IL the
steel-trust investigation, characterized
Stock gamblers as parasites feeding on
values and creating none. Carnegie
added that he had never bought stocks
long or short. Asked II It were not bet
ter to play cards or gamble on horse
races he declined 70 make distinction.
Gambllngis right gambling IS the
word. No one doubts Carnegie. Neither
did anyone doubt Russell Sage or Hetty
Green. They Kept aloof from the stock
pit But fortunes have been made and
lost IN steel stocks, lambs iieeced and
whole communities buncoed by brokers
with ilatterIng Inducements. Brooklyn
Rapid Transit controlled by Sage, aas
also been used TO decoy the public ana
absorb ITS earnings. Hetty Green s
Rock Island securities were also much
gambled ln, but neither Of the three
giants IN finance appeared on change,
A trade long Or short carries with II
the privilege OF sale and delivery OF
stock Il desired It's calculated by re-
liable authority that only five per cent
OF the trades contemplates the buying
or selling oIstock outright and the trans
ferof same. The remaining ninety five
per cent Is gambling, Or trading long Or
short, otherwise futures The public
has been fleeced and bled and heeced
and bled again, time after time, year
after year, generation after generation.
This has been done with Garnegie's
stocks, sage's stocks and all sorts OF rail-
road and industrial securities. Brokers
offer tempting inducements 70 inyeigle|
the public, and behind the brokers are
the shareholders Some Of our greatest
banking institutions are guilty Of this
practice The public is always en-
couraged to buy on an advance and close
out short on decline. Il is shell
game, pure and simple, with Morgan,
Carnegie, and dozens OF the big bags
finally coping the swag. Over the wires
and through the big newspapers all sorts
OF reports are circulated deals. mergers,
increase OF dividends. etc. Ito bring
about these results. The broker first
decoys, Then he iolts the customer up
and down the commission toboggan
several points one way or the other. III
neither q these lands the game the
failure Of the broker Is announced, and
the customer who was compelled to de-
post with him Is bled.
II y plain case More chance town
IN a poker game or horse race With black
legs al around you, and yet the public
Is ready with It's perennial gullibility 70
contribute to the great fortunes TO |
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-01-19

Thelma was given at Reynolds OPP
era House il this city last Friday night,
but the weather was SO cold that the
audience was small. The play was not
wishssaading presented by good cast
and scenic equipment.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-01-19

John H. Tyers is the editor and pub
Usher Of the Riyes Chronicle which made
its first appearance this week at Rives in
thiscounty. our sister city at the junction
OF the /. G. and M. 4 O. railroads, city
and locality Of good citizens aid a fine
country. We gladly extend the glad
hand OF fellowship to Brother Tyers
and trust that his venture RAY be the
starting point Of a successful experience
in the newspaper business.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-01-19

more largely upon it. of. course ANEW
depot properly constructed would look
better. but the object, a hundred fold
more important, is to have a station Of
9he proper dimensions and sanitary reg
lations for the travelling public arriving
and departing at this point We trua
chat the preliminaries viii be arranged
and that the work Of new depot build-
ing in Union City viii begin in the
spring.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-01-19

The Fourth Assistant Postmaster
ts;vueras makes plea for the establish
ment OF parcels post delivery in his an
nual report to Che Postmaster General.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-01-19

A large portion Of the business section
Of Pembroke, Christian County, was de-
ssroyed by ere. entailing loss Of mere
shan $4,000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21
Maine Boys Forge Ahead.

The Portland Evening Express and
Advertiser has the following tn say of
the Kennebec Journals Washington
representative:
Maine boys have . way of getting
ahead. A Somerset County young man
Ernest G. Walker, who has been a
newspaper writer in Washington for,
we should say, nearly 20 years, has
Just been elected vice president of the
famous Grdiron Club. This means
that next year he will be elected presi-
dent the highest honors being reached
by the process of Succession. Mr..
Walker was one time a correspondent
for this paper and ms Washington let
ters were always bright and newsy.
New England has not had president
of the Gridiron Club since the day OF
Louis A. Coolidge, former newspaper
man who is now engaged in mercan-
tile business in Boston. Mr.. Walker
as a boy attended North Arson Acad-
envy and is graduate OF Harvard, '92."
Mr. Walkers letters and dispatches;
have another attribute, to our mind, of
vastly greater Importance than those
mentioned by our contemporary as
bright and newsy"-his reports are
always reliable, and keenly analytical
of political situations.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21

paper enterprise but of an entire sec
ton of Maine that is up and coming,
thoroughly alive to its opportunities
and Importance, and appreciative of
the fact that nothing succeeds like
success. They are stirring UP the
echoes of the Upper Kennebec valley
by footing their horns and calling at
tention to what is being done in their
line and what is possible.
About the liveliest, ceanest. most
dependable section of all New Eng
land is right there on the Kennebec.
There is brain and sinew and cour-
age; there nature has done her best
and, agriculturally, it is the spot on
which to build the garden of the
Northeast; commercially it is a
natural avenue of trade by river and
rail- that is bound to develop in the
next half century, beyond our widest
imaginings.
We congratulate the Madison Bull
letin on its gumption. and the BUSH
ness men of the valley on their grasp
of a good thing
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21
English as She is Writ.
fPiscataauis Observera

tE1ScataquiS oDSefVef.t
The following was taken from Il
Maine daily. We will let our readers
guess what one it was and also what
the writer was saying No wonder the
editor of the Portland Press. after
heading a similar article. said of the
paper from which we quote:
Here then is offered for its considera-
ton the Lords answer To Job out of
the Nhirlwind Who is this that dark
eneth counsel by words without knowi-
edge"
This is the quotation.
1t should be noted that in the New
Hampshire House of representatives
there are IS Roosevelt Republicans
and that on the same ratio of vote,
there should be in the Maine houses.
as already indicated 50 Roosevelt Re-
Dublieans ohedient to the Presidential
primaries, and not to a senatorial pri
mary perverted by the Silent Govern
ment las will hereafter he more fully
shown on pretenses suppressed debate
and which are properly characterized
by the tremendous Roosevelt majority
in presidential primaries such as
makes a Hale Burleigh United States
senator as logically impossible as an
avowed Hale Burleigh governor would
have been had not Haines pronounced
for Roosevelt before the troubles of
Rurl6igh began.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21
HOW WORLD LOST A WONDER.
Prehistoric Niagara ! Which Disap.
peared When Glacier Melted.

That one of the greatest natural
wonders of the world was lost with
the melting of the Okanogan glacier
in the state of Washington is the OPP
inion of government biologists. who
recently have studied a portion of
the river bed of the Columbia river in
connection with the Grand Coulee, the
great canyon that at one time was the
river bed.
When the Columbia river flowed
through the Grand Coulee, it made
Niagara insignificant by comparison.
This great river plunged from the up
per to the lower valley in a sheer fall
of 400 feet over the great cliffs. This
district is shown in the Moses lake
quadrangle, one of the detailed. topo-
graphic maps of the survey, made in
Incorporation with the state authorities,
which carries every important detail
of the old and the new river channels.
Moses lake is believed to have been
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21
The Excuses Are Flimsy.
tThe BRUNSWICK Record.)


The remarkable controversy among
members of the Progressive party in
Maine as to the duty of members of
the Legislature in voting for a United
States Senator is important only in the
possibility that the principle of the pri-
mary may be defeated. There was nc
Progressive party when the Senatorial
primary was held, and none of the
members of the Legislature were elect
ed as Progressives. They We're elected
either as Republicans or Democrats and
as such are bound to carry out the will
of the voters as expressed in the pri
maries. IT a member elected as a Re
publican finds that he can no longer
act with that party, and wishes to be-
come identified with a new party,
wouldn't ii be more honorable for him
to resign and stand for reelection than
to change his politics while in office
The excuses offered for going back on
the primary nominations are based en-
the November election, but that had
no effect on the complexion of the
Maine Legislature. nor did it remove
any obligations incurred in the State
campaign.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21
Forefashers, Day.

Two hundred and ninety-two years
ago today the Pilgrim fathers landed
at Plymouth Rock and cast them
selves upon the. mercy of a new and
forbidding world. Kneeling there they
thanked God for opportunities of free
worship and for His promise to note
even the sparrows fall.
They left 1t all with God, and out Of
this trust and the clean minds and
sturdy bodies of those brave people
have grown a mighty nation, admired
and respected by all the world.
The observance of ''Forefathers'
Day" has seemed to have less mean
ing in recent years than of old, posi-
bly, because of the increasing number
of days to be observed and an indis-
the present as a measure of recon-
pense for the pace of our lives in this
age.
But We should not forget the hero
ism with which those founders of a
great Christian nation faced New
England winter where aboriginal man
and even the elements of nature
seemed to oppose. Their hardships
and tribulations can never be under
stood by people of our time, although
1t be told in detail in continuous
daily serial story. We look upon
pages of history that were written in
blood and tears and anguish of body
and soul, as upon the memory of a
troubled dream, not as a reality.
Because of an error in changing the
date from the old style to the new,
the anniversary was formerly cele-
brated on Dec. 22d. but the 21st Is the
true anniversary of the landing
We owe 1t to ourselves and to gen
erations TO come, TO pause in our
headlong rush for moment, today, to
contemplate the meaning and the
marvellous outcome Of the simple faith
and unconquerable courage of the
brave few who made possible our very
existence.
Are we today facing the future with
the faith and the courage that will
not shrink before obstacles? IN 800
years can posterity review our period
with pride and reverence sndgsay that
we maintained, IN our age. the mag
nificent example set b. taat noble few
on Dec. q, 1S2o2
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21
Oriental Rugs.

Oriental rugs, SO called, are classified
in five divisions: Turkish, Caucasian,
Persian, Turcoman and Indian. The best
authorities aeem to be agreed that that
STYLE wherein the unit of ornament seems
to be of paramount Importance is found
in the Turkish division. Geometrfc de
sign marks the second or Caucasian and
distinctly floral ornament the Persian
division, while the octagon and medallion
are deliberately worked out in the fourth
or Turcoman The fifth or Indian divi-
sion lends itself most lavishly to tiny de-
tails in the elaboration of even the large
structural patterns that cover great
spaces with minute tracery.
There is a simple means of determining
whether given rug is really of the great
age that helps to make it valuable. Draw
out wool thread from the rug and try
to straighten it, the "kink' will remain
in it even after weeks of soaking in
water
The Turkish rug patterns show certain
pecularities of a talismanic form, woven
in as charms against the evil eye. The
Mecca" rug which is occasionally seen
in the Occident, is often an heirloom OF
great value, a thing of beauty made for
the use of pilgrim on his way to the
sacred city Experts sometimes careless
~ give the impression, in speaking of a
genuine Mecca" that these rugs are
made in that city. There is a tradition to
the effect that the "Gorevan" rug of Per
STA, popular weave with Western buy
ers. found its wonderfully beautiful back
ground in the effort of a certain weaver
TO initiate the sky and it's drifting clouds.
Certain of the most exquisite rugs of
Persia are decorated with Arabic charac-
tiers forming sentences from the Koran
or poetieal quotations.
The dyes employed in the coloring of
materials that go to make up Oriental
rugs have always been the despair of
Westerners. We are told of one strange
method of making the dyes of ancient
days. 1t seems that in. some places the
custom prevailed of making holes in the
beds of brooks during the dry season in
which, when the rain fell, all sorts of
vegetable and mineral substance were de-
posted and left to actsupon one another
until the dry season arrived, when the
contents of the holes We're removed by
the dyers who. grinding all together in
discriminatory, made shades that WED
with the pigeons breast in beauty and
with the clouds of sunset in variety
Harper's Weekly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21

at one time part of an old channel of
the Columbia river. During the gla-
iai period, recent as time is measured
Try the biologists, but long before the
| beginning of human history the wall
| leNs of the northern Cascades and of
the okanoSan highlands were filed
with enormous glaciers the largest of
which reached the plains before they
were melted in the warmer air of the
| lower country.
The greatest of these ice rivers of
| Eastern Washington flowed down the
tkanogan valley, which it filled To the
depth OF hundreds of feet ON reach
ing the Columbia river valley this gla-
l cier expanded and seems not oniy to
have damned the Columbia, but to
have filled its great canyon for some
| distance. The southern limit of this
great Okanogan glacier is marked by
terminal moraine many miles in
width. The moraine is formed of dirt
and rock material which was pushed
along the front of the advancing gla-
cier or carried on its surface and
| stranded where the ice melted and it
includes many huge blocks of bas;,lt
| and other rocks.
| No more impressive scene. the geo.
| logists say, can be found in the Big
| Bend country than is presented by the
| great cliffs of black basalt below Cou-
| lee City. over which now desert shrubs
are growing III the ancient channel
Crab Creek valley. which was a por-
tiop of the old channel. is plainly an
ancient abandoned stream course, sun
ken in the tasalt. During the existence
of this great ice dam the Grand Coulee
was more deeply carved, Little Crab
Creek valley was much enlarged and
extensive deposits of glacial gravel
we're laid down where the iowa of
Ephrata stands and in the vicinity of
| Moses lake.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21
Some Postscripts.

-Four German cities having proved
the worth OF overhead monorail rail-
roads, Hamburg now is building Il
line.
In the last ten years New York has
reclaimed twenty five square miles OF
land by filling it in with the city's
ashes.
An electric cigar lighter for motor
lists is carried on the steering wheel
and takes its current from the igni-
ton system.
German railroads provide cars for
invalids who can afford the extra
charge. fitted with every possible con-
venience for the sick
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21
Zeal Newspaper Spunk.

For real get-up-and get enterprise
in a country weekly our upper Ken
nebec neighbor. the Madison Bulletin,
carries off the Christmas awards Last
ity of the paper and the general air
of prosperity as evidenced by Is pages
just running over with breezy and
catchy ads. This week they havs
done II again--more than 20 columns
Of advertising.
II is not only an indication of news.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21
Editorial Comment
a Remarkable Record.
ellsworth American.

Joseph NJ. Hutchins, OF North Penub-
scot, one of the representatives, elect
from Hancock county, has a remark
able record as Il legislator. This dis
tinction is not SO much in the fact
that he has been elected for Il fourth
term, but that his service as a mem
Der of the legislature spans nearly for
ty years. He was first elected represen-
tltive in 1874, again in 1899 again in
1904, and now for his fourth term.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21
Gardeners Manners.
Uewiston Sun-Dem. J

Really, Mr.. Gardner, you need a
wider vocabulary of politeness. just
because you are farmer, that's no
reason why you should call spade u
barn-shovel You have been in the po-
lite atmosphere of Washington society
long enough to have got scented smell
ably with what they call Senatorial
courtesy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21
Editor S Letter Box

The pubncation of letter In this
department rs not to he taken as an
endorsement of its views by the
Eennenec journal THIS column is
maintained Tor the discussion or
matters oi general public interest
when kept within bounds of reason
and not ~ O iibelous or abusive
natura
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21

The stipulation that the visitor
must have important business to
transact is but the first modification
of Pres. ELECT Wilson's loud declara-
ton of the open door" policy He
and his "out guards" will be the
judges of what is "business"-a ques-
ton promising as much trouble as
Taft's over what is whiskey?"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21

The Democratic papers do not see
why Progressives members of the Leg
isature cannot consistently support
that very progressive senator Oba-
diah Gardner, with his south by north
record on the reciprocity question. OF
course not The wish is father to the
thought. The pipe dreamer sees Pro
gressives fiocking to the Democratic
standard in large numbers.-Portland
Press
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21
Honesty Prevails.

ellsworth American)
AS the days go by evidences are null
tiplying that the senators and repre-
sentatives- elect of the Maine Legisla-
ture have no disposition or intention of
violating the obligations direct and
implied. that they are under as the
results of the June primaries and the
September election.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21
We Can, Help Saying 1t.

! OF course if Obadiah wants the Re-
| publicans to violate the primary nomi-
| nation he could have no objections 70
the Democrats doing the same.-Port-
land Press
oh, but Obadiah's for and agin
decent work that way. He's FOR the
Republican reputation but decidedly
AGIN' Democratic?
Considering how hard they are work
ing performing marriage ceremonies.
the ministers and justices of thel peace
in Houston are holding up very well
indeed.--Houston Post
We had hoped that your ministers
would have the moral strength to keep
out of Texas all-envcloping hold-up
game
Getting the whale out of the Book
of Jonah seems to have been almost
as much Of relief to the Baptist BIZ
bic revises as was the original getting
out to the gertlemanly subject Of the
Standardization Times
Clever paragraph: but the whale
never was in the book of Jonah.-New
pedford standard.
\ bit a valuable hit. The question
now rcycrts to It's original form: Was
if the whale that swallowed Jonah. or
did Jonah swallow the uhale?--Eidde-
ford journal.
,rd how far does ycur own swal-
.,..-......,,.. ,,.oa,,,t aitho,. Glory ,
~" iiis 'iPs'' '',..2 80
Rehabilitation Globe.
We're gaining, 10 months ago it was
11-11-f. What will you say next year,
kennebee journal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21

DIR. Carl L. Alsberg, new chief of
the Bureau of Chemistry, is hand
some thing But, if handsome is as
handsome does" he'll have to step
some to equal homely, old Doc Wiley.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21

Here's the latest simple cure for
rheumatism! Wear an insole OF
copper in one shoe and an insole OF
zinc in the other. There's everything
necessary for making you live
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21

In case of a panic, Wilson has
promised "gibbet high as Haman's'
for the man or men nearest connect
ed. The tariff slashing starts soon.
Talk about the devil and the deep
sea-,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21

The New York Press says, editorial
~, After a man gets certain
amount of money he has to work SO
hard to hold onto it he can't get any
more" We'd supposed, until this,
that Munsey was still making it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21

If Augusta continues bubbling out
basketball leagues it'll be up to Eden
Hanks to grab in before Fred Murree
takes his title of Capital City Sports
Promoter" away from him.