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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-10-10

A. R. Henderson, guardian, VS.. Lou
lisa Henderson.
]. D. Fry ct al. vs.. George Harri-
son ct all
s. Waddell, trustee, vs.. Mrs. Hinton
Holder ct al,
A. X. Wells ct al. vs.. ]. s. McCor-
kle ct al.
o. spradlin, administrator, vs.. Geo.
A. Bedford ct al.
H. NJ. Dickey ct al. VS.. Mable Kill
Tough ct al.
DIR. ]. j. Wills ct al. VS.. West Ten
nessee Land Co. ct al.
/. N. Johnson VS.. H. @. Pearce ct al.
]. NJ. Cole, guardian. vs.. Fred Nolen.
w. w. Hatch VS.. Lillian Hatch.
Artelle Ward ct al. VS.. Kathleen Ward.
G. B. Hale, administrator, VS.. Mrs.
Allie Roper ct al. G. & M. appointed
trustee and cause continued.
John NJ. Hickey VS.. James Rumage
ct al. Complainant pays costs and dis
misses suit.
Jno P. Adams ct al. vs.. Mary George
Adams. G. & NJ. authorized to pay de-
PENDANT $3.50 and cause continued.
Beula Byars VS.. w. A. Byars ct al.
Bill dismissed and complainant and
surety taxed with costs.
]. r. McDuffie VS.. ]. L. Luker. On
motion Of defendant, bill dismissed and
complainant and surety taxed with cost.
Jake MCGEE VS.. Maggie MCGEE. Bill
dismissed and complainant taxed with
cost.
J. w. Hughey ct al. VS.. J. K. Parks
ct al. Complainant allowed until Jan.
s, 1914, to take proof.
w. A. Mailing VS.. W. L. White ct al.
To be dismissed.
N. Dickey VS.. P. A. Dickey- Com
plainant to speed cause
w. E. Roberts ct al. VS.. H. Beacham
ct al. Complainant dismissed bill and
is taxed with costs.
Mrs. Margaret Pearce VS.. T. P. Finch,
administrator. Consent decree as to
support and exemptions and commits
sioner appointed to allot homestead and
dover
w. M. Freed, administrator, VS.. Mrs.
Della Clymer ct al. G. & M. report
confirmed and case retired.
Mrs. E. j. Wilson, executrix, VS.. Mrs.
Lena Russell ct al. Order to pay debt
OF Walker renewed and case continued.
Hume R. Fields, guardian, VS.. Mil
dred Fields ct al. Action of guardian
ratified and authorized to expend bal
ance as deemed necessary and cause
continued.
Mrs. Fannie Joyner VS.. ]. S. Adams
ct al. Order to speed cause renewed
and continued
G. P. Hardy, executor, VS.. CIV. Jones
ct al Report confirmed and case re-
tired.
]. w. Ward VS.. X. A. Wright. Com
plainant dismisses bill and is taxed
with costs.
Nina Wright vs.. Herbert Wright.
Report of sale confirmed and title vested.
o. Spradlin ct AL VS.. J. A. d. Hite
ct al. Report confirmed and cause re-
tired.
Mrs. Martha A. Thomas ct al. VS..
Hugh Jones ct al. Sale report con-
tirmed and funds ordered distributed.
Mildred Hall Cox VS.. Alvie Cox. De-
cree for divorce and custody Of child.
Robt. F. Bats ct al. VS.. Passie Pitzer
ct al. Sale confirmed and title vested.
Case continued.
7. G. Robinson vs.. Andrew Totten ct
al. Sale confirmed and title vested.
Case of West Tennessee Land Co. vs.
q. Applewhite ct al. was tried Wednes-
day. Dismissed as to AppIewhite and
as to Hardy Brown by payment of costs.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-10-10

STOLEN--At Oakton, KY, Monday
night, Sept. ., a bright bay mare,
black name and tail, years old, Is
hands high. no mark except hair peeled
off above eye. She is perfect saddle
mare, slow PAGER and fox trotter. One
hundred dollars reward $50 for return
of mare and $50 for the arrest and con-
viction OF the thief. Notify H. 7. Nor
ris, Moscow, KY, Route ], or Van
Dorm Craig, City Marshal of Clinton,
Ky. 2s-1tpd
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-04
4 NATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

e Harry A. Wheeler, of Chica go, has
: started an organization to be known
Il as the United States Chamber Of
stCommerce which is intended TO be a
psgreat federation of merchants and job
: .bers to exert political influence in be-
nfflalf of merchants. According to the
saorganizer's talk at San Francisco, pop
I. ular prejudice has been aroused to the
point Of general suspicion Of the mer-
chant class and it is to be the bus
mess Of the United States Chamber
NOT Commerce to combat this public i'm
OPPRESSION.
81 A national orga nization OF business
linen is legitimate and even commend
roAble per Sc for it is true that many
dea class has brought public attention to
twts needs and to its rights by effective
aSsrganization but the Chicago gentle
:. nan. greatly misunderstands the pub
nc IL he thinks that there is any great
6efmount of suspicion Of business men
a,as turned against the individual
Sn.ylo acquires great wealth dishonesty
defr by combination which is unfair to
snhe public. Wholesale grocers. for in
LOT lance. who may have an association
:. nd paid secretary for the purpose
maintaining q reasonable degree of
arsnony within business of very
sose margins has not been disturbed
- has e aroused public protest be-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-04

cause there 10 sufficient competition In
reason but should this organization
spread until it has such power over
markets as the Standard Oil Com
pany or the steel trust, exercises pub
lie opinion would turn against the
wholesalers instanter.
Nor is it true. as Mr.. Wheeler
claimed at San Francisco. that this
national wave of popular suspicion had
extended to the banks for the business
of banks everywhere shows in it's fig
ures a greater confidence and trust in
banks than has ever existed before in
the civilized world. The public and the
banks are today in accord upon the
plan to permit banks to issue their
own promissory notes for currency,
sidered as crazy mans idea ten years
ago. The only difference of opinion ex-
listing between the populace and the
big bankers now is that confedera-
ton of banks made possible by law
should be controlled by the public Of
ficers elected by the whole people rath-
er than by a coterie of big bankers
who might use their vast power over
money TO build up multi millionaire
combinations in various lines of bus
mess.
II is a free chance that the public
is demanding today. The right of in
dividuals to make all the money they
can out Of the public is to be restricted
by the public in its own interest. In
other words. the periodical press, OF
which Mr.. Wheeler complains. is try
ing to organize the public and the
pubHcs government into protection OF
the public's interest as against the
trade organizations known as trusts
and mergers and combinations which
always seek to lay upon the public an
unjust tax for a class benefit. Bust
ness men as class are not under
suspicion today except as the indi-
yiduals engage in combinations which
will eventually pinch the public purse.
The CALLED horse may be expected to
finch in the presence of a collar.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-04
4 CHANCE FOR A REFORM PAPER"

Copies Of the Anamosa Reformatory
Press do not make the showing that is
to be expected from a publication Of its
character. The paper is very we'll
printed and good mechanically but
praise must stop there. Otherwise it
ia merely a batch Of reprint not close
rly adapted to the purposes of prison
paper for outside circulation or to the
needs and encoura cement of the in
mates or as an expression Of the gen.
eral intelligence Of the prisoners. Re-
print on "the growth of the British
navy" and other foreign news of small
interest anywhere except possibly
abroad. is scarcely up to the ordinary
even in reformatory. No Iowa news,
are arousing common interest, no orig
inaI matter of any kind is manifest in
the Reformatory Press. AS an express
sion of the refoTmator it is valueless.
In short it does not appear to be at
tempting to live up to its opportunity
except in the strictly mechanical de-
partment.
Now this criticism is intended
to be plain but kindly; for the
Reformatory Press can and should be
made a pleasure and present help TO
tn unfortunates confined at Ana
anosa There are men and women in
prison there who should be permitted
and induced TO contribute to the prison
publication from their intlligent abil-
ity. It ought to be an expression OF
/, the reformatory, not merely a folio Of
1ninterested stuff fairly well printe
and proof read. 1t ought 10 deal with
: live matters of actual present day in
terest 1t ought to be an opportunity
offered to men who have wasted oppor-
tunity. In short It should have life
and hope and humanness about ii in
one way or another. And in asking fol
an Exchange 1t should have sometime
= to exchange in return. Why not make
it so?
The Times-Republican can see, or
thinks it can see, how the Reformatory
Press may be made TO square with It's
name and 1t sincerely hopes that ire
vformatory" measures may be taken al
once toward its improvement.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-04
commeriaIized Play.
[ch,cago Trihune.l


In the presence Of 5000 men and wo-
men and 1000 children six steers were
hcisted up on a platform In one OF
Chicagos amusement parks on Sun
day night and were there slaughtered,
skinned, and dismembered in record
time. The butcher contest" was Of
fered up as amusement" to the 10000
persons by the management OF the
park. 1t was advertised weeks ahead
and drew a crowd.
Many of those who witnessed this
remarkable amusement feature" were
bitter in their denunciation of the
management Of the park. The spec
tacie. they said, was revolving. 1t was
unfit for a civilized community. Few
people. indeed, will disagree with this
sentiment.
For years we have looked on at the
commercialization of play with lndlf-
ference. Dancing in time past has been
healthful, pleasant and wholesome
amusement. Today dancing. in the
poorer sections Of the big cities. has
become synonymous with debauchery
and immortality. Why? Because men
of low character have commercialized
dancing and made the dance hall an
adjunct to the saloon, to the drink SELL
ing business. The same is true OF the
moving picture theaters. In themselves
1.-The movies may be made Of high
value as an educational aid. CONNER
cialized by unscrupulous men the NOV
ing picture theater is too often exercis-
ing a hurtful and depraving influence.
The public has not been in ignorance
regarding the character of the men who
purvey amusement to boys and girls.
They have repeatedly been shown up
by men and women interested in the
welfare Of our boys and girls as vul-
lures with no education. no culture or
aesthetic sense, absorbed only in pri-
vate gain. Still we have allowed the
commercialization OF play to proceed
without making any efforts to counter
act it's sinister influence. Perhaps the
butcher contest" In Forrest Park will
finally wake up the public to the need
Of bringing fun and play to our chill
dren thru other channels than the
present commercial agencies which mix
fun with degradation and depravity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-04
Topics of the Times

Mr.. Thaw is one Of those who can
come back and who wishes he couldn't.
The suffragists who are touring the
state collected s5.12 at Avoca. AS it
was contributed in cash this can
scarcely be considered a check" TO
the sufragist movement.
If Marshall county has an old bach
elor who is hiding $4,000 in his bed
room the old gentleman is recommend
ed to any one Of the many good and
reliable banks in the county. Let's
keep the money in the community.
Before becoming greatly excited over
the coming land lottery it would be
land to be drawn for and also as to the
price to be paid for it. This land is
not free but will be sold at prices
ranging somewhere between $3.50 and
Isl an acre. These are the appratse-
ment values and the lottery means
that the winners can take over the land
at those prices.
Watch Clifford Thorne He will be
governor some day.-Washington Dem
ocrat.
| Well, nobodys kicking, is there?
| A point for the theologians is where
is the Sunday automobile schorcher
likely to land after he has met the train
| on the grade crossing?
| Now is the time to begin getting
ready for the next state fair If there
is to be more law suits, lets begin early
and finish soon. And above all let Des
Moines keep on being decent to It's
guests. BY the way what is necessary
! in the way of building appropriations.
etc, this year?
The Sioux City Journal seems wor-
ried over the CONTINUED incumbency OF
Ed, Knott as marshal for the northern
| Iowa district 1t might be mentioned
that the Journal is not the only news
pare office in Iowa where worriment
prevails. The Manson Democrat feels
the disturbing influence also.
The weather man doesn't seem TO be
BILE to fan" September. The good Ole
month stands in the box meeting every
suggestion of rain and cooler weather
right on the nose for home run.
The safest way is to stop, look anc
listen before rushing over the grade
crossing He who stops and looks, ma!
live to drive another day.
The good, hard common sense o
Iowa voters will not be affected by tn
crashing Of anti Cummins teeth. Cum
Minis will be returned to the senate
The state needs him there and is no
likely to exchange him for the pungen
Pepper or the any half and half Q
Porter and Wade
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-04
What Become. of Your Money?

lCnlcARO DrONer JOOTldl.J
We're a long ways from knowing
just how to build good roads in this
country. and likewise maintain them.
The fault is probably due to our
tendency to experiment with a lot OF
materials and our ideas rather than
stick to one line.
Statisticians have found that altho
the average expenditure on the i'm
day. a large portion of this money
in the United States is wasted be-
cause Of the failure to build the right
type OF road to meet the local require
ments or the failure to provide for the
continued maintenance OF improve
ment.
That portion of the money wasted IN
road work in the United States each
| day would, were it eliminated, mean
tremendous advance in highway bet
| terment within a few years.
| We are learning in this country that
| investment in new roads does not be-
come economy until provision is made
| for keeping these new roads In con-
dition after they are built.
| How many counties are building
roads every year only to find a few
! months later that the effort has not
brought best results-that the road Is
fast deteriorAting? Doubtless county
road building commissions have Ions
since discovered this. but there have
been few steps taken to remedy the
trouble.
AS rule too many supervisors
handle the road building funds. They
do 1t to the best of their ability, bu'
they are lacking in the eficlenc!
which gets the highest return Tor the
dollars spent.
Allowing the new road to run doWI
in repair is one means OF wasting
heavily the original investment.
A larger mileage Of roads Tor
trained and highly efficient road builo
ing organization to build and malntair
would seem a better system than OIL
yiding the mileage UP into small lois
With the greater mileage, skiiied en-
eineer to plan and direct the roae
work and q competent force 10 WORE
under his direction would save money
to the taxpayers and at the saHle 'i'lis
provide a better road.
Road building has been declared &c
be an art based on a science. Iralhee
men whose experience has taush'
them a valuable lesson are necessary
to secure the best results drom the
expenditure Of road funds.
The average citizens enthusiasm II
working on the road does not last long
A road day. in which everyooas
gets out with pick and shovel to nuiio
good roads" is not as practicaA
means Of progress as the employment
Of experts whose labor is spent IN
most economical manner to achleVe
lasting results. which in the long run
prove cheapest.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-04

to nine years. They become attached
to their home almost as If they were
owners. are more conscientious in
their treatment Of soil and buildings,
and are more certain to return q profit
to the owner of the land, and to keep
UP the farm so that it will not de-
crease in real or apparent value. 1t Is
easy to tell a rented farm that has a
new tenant each session. AS rule such
farm is marked by vigorous
growth of sunf1owers and cockleburs,
and there is an appearance OF desola-
ton about the yards and buildings.
Just as good workman is pro-
noted to a better job, the top notch
renter becomes in time the owner OF
farm. When a renter has saved ST.
500 or $4,000. he may make the first
payment on an eighty acre farm, If ne
has the nerve to tackle the PROPOSE
ton. OF course. he must expect to be
under the bondage Of debt for num-
Der of years. but if he has fair luck.
and manages right. he is usually safe
enough in buying a farm, and risking
his savings.
know Of one man who rented
good farm for eight years. and was
enabled to make a heavy payment on
an eighty. He had saved about s1.7oO
and the eighty. without improvements.
cost $4,000. Ely skillful management.
he placed an up to date set OF build
inss on the farm for $1,000. He farms
his own eighty and an adjoining $50
acres. A few years will see him out of
debt. and IT will be difficult to sep
arate him from his home and his
farm. once 1t is paid for.
It is my observation that renters en-
Joy life as much, eat as good food
and have as comfortable clothes as
land owners OF course. it Is excep-
tional for 4 renter to own an automo-
bile. but at any rate, they do not have
to pay for "blowouts' and garages. In
eastern Kansas there Is little talk OF
the Glasses" and "the masses'-as
vet. Those who own autos take less
fortunate friends out riding. A good
many quarter section farmers" own
autos, while good many owners of
section or more do without autos
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-04
THE END OF THE VACATION.

The last of the vacationers are COM
Ing back home. Most of them look
glad to get back. Most of them are
tired. Most Of them are glad instead Of
sorry to get back into the harness At
ter all, anticipation of vocational joys
was about the best part of the whole
business. One gets as tired of vaca-
tioning as Of working. And sooner.
Funny thing this mentioning. Mr..
and Mrs. Somebody and son James and
daughter Susan hike several hundred
miles from Some Place to One Place
and Mr.. and Mrs. Someone leave One
Place to spend couple OF weeks or
SO at Some Place. And so they change
places. The shift seems to please both
parties. And when each gets back to
its own place it is with true satisfac
ton. The change is the thing. And
when all is done and over with home
is home and the best place Of all and
a fellows own work among a fellows
own fellows the best occupation to be
Qdd. sly as YOU keep II tneTe dEe no
neighbors like our own neighbors, no
town like our own town. and our own
tasks when we come right down to
the nub of it, all are the foundation of
content. Fun is all right in its way.
Visiting is a great pleasure until it
grows old. Down at the bottom Of
things, however, the work we do and
the daily task and the responsibilities
of life are the real reasons for going
on living and for being glad we are
alive.
It is a poor heart that does not
crave a vacation. 1t is an abnormal one
which does not rejoice somewhat when
It is over
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-04
Thu Raal Journalist.

A newspaper man Is newspaper
man In order to appreciate this story
YOU must realize this patent fact, and
you must let 1t sink into your intelli-
gence that writer's for newspapers call
themselves newspaper men. That Is
their class name. Every time person
with an unnaturally enlarged head
and brain that looks like peanut
struck by blight pops up and par :
ades the streets accosting people and
introducing himself as a journalist
every real newspaper man considers
him At for the receiving ward Of some
third class lunatic asylum.
These journalists are great
tribe" said Colonel Charlie Edwards
one day. You can note their pecu-
liarities II you nerve yourself up to
the point of observing them. l have
found this out: The difference between
a Journalist and a newspaper man is
that a journalist Is a fellow who wears
a high hat and cane and borrows
money from newspaper men-Tne
Popular Magazine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-04
LARCENY AS A DIVERSION
IDubuoue Times-Journal.l


A man who owns little place
within about twelve miles of a large
CITY told the writer the other day that
it had become practically Impossible
to do any fruit raising. Every Sunday
at this time of the year gangs of stroll
lers roam over his land, breaking
fences and tipping over walls. They
shake fruit trees and feast on berry
bushes.
MANY Of them bring bags in which
they STOW away all the apples. pears
or piums they can carry.
Public sentiment has always toler-
ated this minor thieving. Successful
business men and politicians rather
like to tell how they used to rob or
feeling that they would have been
mollycoddles if they hadn't. While
these older men probably never got
duct thereof. the one thing leads to
the other.
The station master in the employ
Of q certain railroad told the writer a
short time ago that when a college
athletic team went thru he always
locked up everything loose in the way
OF restaurant SilScI. Mdhy SoiieSc SIu
dents feel that room shows no char
acter of originality unless decorated
by signs stolen from some ones place
Of business.
A fruit orchard means some ones
thought and labor for years. II fruit
raising must be abandoned in any 10
cality near city or large town, II
becomes more costly to keep orchards
and gardens. Law abiding people
have to pay the bills In order that the
hoodlums may feed and feast free.
There is morally and economically
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-04
THE REASON OF IT.

webster City Freeman -Tribune1
The News-Republican does not
wish to be an apologist for Diggs and
Caminett. and Vet it can not blind
itself to the fact of the injustice of
sending a man to the penitentiary
for a long term simply because Of
the mere inciden. that he crossed
state line. Had the -Caminet-
ii outfit gone to Los Angeles instead
of Reno a trip which they originally
contemplated. the government would
have no case at all, altho the crime
would have been as nauseating and
reprehensible as if they bad crossed
state line.-Boone News-Republican
The Boone papers position Is not
we'll taken Had the culprits in ques-
ton not crossed the state line it would
have been a matter for the state laws
to deal with, as the federal govern
ment would have no jurisdiction in the
matter. Then does the News-Republi-
can wish to take the side that in the
absence Of adequate state laws to deal
with crimes of this kind the criminals
should go unpublished? The govern
ment is doing a good work in trying
TO cure an evil which many Of the
states refuse to cure. But for the ma
/ tional statute Digs and Caminettl
would go free, because their crime
was committed in Nevada and they
were and are citizens Of California.
| California would not have jurisdiction
and the authorities of Nevada would
| take little interest in prosecuting citi-
Zens of another state for such an Of
( Tense, even If the laws Of the state
| give the authorities full power. In
most states. however. parties guilty OF
such ofenses can not be prosecuted
unless the injured wife or husband
takes the Initiative and too often the
wife or husband shrinks from the
publicity such action would invite.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-04
TI1Es-REruBIICAN, 1lARsHAILrowNI owA

would statesmen. And no is.''
agrees the Webster City freeman
Tribune. ito the democratic party. The
Cannons. the Cranes. the Guggen-
helms. the Lorlmers, the Penroses and
politicians Of that stripe did more to
bring about the success Of the dem :
ocratic party at the polls than all of
the democratic statesmen now living
could possibly do"
If Huerta must get off the perch in
Mexico. as President Wilson insists, a
larger opportunity awaits him on the
chautauqua circuit or the vaudeville
stage" suggests the Sioux City Jour-
nal.
congressman Woods, newly elected
head Of the republican congressional
committee. has not been conspicuous
as party harmonizer,' says the Iowa
City Citizen, 'but it can be truthfully
said that he knows how to organize
and manage winning campaigns
There are signals on the hilltops
and in the skies that autumn is APP
proa ching" says the Burlington Hawk
eye, notwithstanding the continued
effulsency Of the thermometer"