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New Britain herald., 1914-04-22

den of 3,602 tons, 34s men and ten Al
 inch guns.
 The others are distributed as fol-
 lows: At Tampico, the English crui-
 ser Hermione, of 4,36O tons and SIS
 men, and twp six inch guns and eight
 AZ inch gun ls; at Puerto, the British
 cruiser Lancaster of $500 tons, 655
 men and fourteen six inch guns; at
 Ensanada the British gunboat Algerine
 of 1,05O tons, 106 men and six finch
 guns; at Manzanillo, the Japanese
 cruiser Idzumo of 9,75O tons, 4S3 men
 and four S-inch guns and fourteen
 six-inch guns; at Guaymas, the
 French armored cruiser Montcalm of
 9,517 tons, $40 men and seven six
 inch guns and six four-inch guns; at
 Mazatlan, the German cruiser Nurn-
 berg of 3,45O" tons, 295~ men and ten
 Al inch guns; and at Acalpaco, the
 British sloop of war Clearwater of 980 tons, 13O men and four inch guns. Sister Makes Comment. Boston, April 22.-'I hope his death will not only count for the ser vice of his country burt that it will be message to Americans to respect the men more who are ready to fight and die for them,' said Miss Minnie Haggerty, after she had been in- formed of the death of her brother. Corporal Daniel A. Haggerty at Vera Cruz yesterday.
 Haggerty's home was in Cambridge,
 where his father, three sisters and three brothers reside He was a na- .- enlistment in the marine corps he
 and as a machinist.
 E. A. Gisburne of Quincy, the elec-
 trician who was seriously wounded in the fighting at the Mexican port, was born in Providence, R. I. His parents are dead.
 Other Battleships Ready. The detail of marines ordered yes 1 terday to leave the navy yard here | for Philadelphia, to join the regiment being mobilized there, prepared to start this afternoon. The battleships 1 Virginia, Georgia and Nebraska are | expected to sail for Mexico tomorrow. Work was rushed today to put into l commission the gunboat Castine,
 which has been ordered on Mexican duty.
 Mother Becomes Hysterical. New York, April 22.-Mrs. Louis 1 Mackey, mother of John F. Schu-
 macher, who was among the killed of | the Americans yesterday at Vera Cruz, | refused last night to believe that her l son was dead and awaited official l confirmation from Washington. When l confirmation came she became hyster- ] ical.
 Charles Donaldson Cameron, one of 1 the wounded, also lives in Brooklyn. | He Is seventeen years old. Making Burial Arrangements. | The navy department is arranging 1 to bring to the United States the | bodies of sailors or marines killed at Vera Cruz, and either forward them to relatives or make final interment
 in a national cemetery, as the families
 desire. All expense of transportation
New Britain herald., 1914-04-22
MOTHER IS CHILD'S
 STOMACH SOUR, SICK
If Tongue Is Coated, or If Gross, Fey- erish, Constipated Give "California
 Syrup of Figs"

Don't scold your fretful, peevish child See if tongue is coated; this is a sure sign its little stomach, liver and bowels are clogged with sour waste.
 When listless,i pale. feverish, full of cold, breath bad, throat sore. doesn't eat, sleep or act naturally, mas stomachache, indigestion, diarrhoea, give a teaspoonful of "California Syrup of Figs" and in few hours all the foul waste, the sour bile and fermenting food passes out of the bowels and you have a we'll and playful child again. Children love this harmless fruit laxative,' and mothers can rest easy after giving it, because 1t never fails to make their little 'insides'' clean and sweet.
 Keep it handy, Mother! little given today saves a sick child tomor- row, but get the genuine. Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bottle of "Cal- ifornia Syrup of Figs" which has d!- rections for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on the bottle. Remember there are commercials sold here, so surely look and see that yours is made by the "California Fig Syrup Company" Hand back with contempt any other fig syrup.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-22
City Hen1s

Mrs. Walter Hall, ot Washington street is recovering from a serious operation she underwent at Miss Will sons sanitarium in Hartford
 A special meeting of Rev. w. A. Harty branch A. o. H.. will be held this evening at o'clock to take action pn the death of Charles F.. Sullivan.
 At city meeting last night the estimates for the fiscal year were adopted and the tax of sixteen and one-half mills was approved of.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles r. Corbin of Maple street have returned from d prolonged southern "Trip. They spent some time in Miami, Florida, where they experienced an aeroplane flight. They visited St. Augustine both before and after the big fire.
 X three nights carnival will be given in Holmes and Hoffman's hall the first three days in May by the Pastime Athletic club. Novelty danc lrg will be the feature.
 James Conroy, employed until last night in the invoice department at R usselI 6 Erwin's, has accepted a position with a wholesale hardware house in, Pittsburg, Pa Mir. Conroy hass.bsen with Russell & Erwin's for
New Britain herald., 1914-04-22
WANT FANCY DANCES
 AT JUNIOR PROM" {"

High School Pupils to Petition School
 Board For Permission to Indulge
 in Forbidden Pleasures.
 The committees in charef of the High school Junior Prom,'' which will be held on May 8, met today and voted to petition the school board to permit modern dances at their an- nual event. Tickets have not been selling as well as was expected and it is thought that the ban on all but the time worn waltz and two step is the cause of the lack of interest. The matter will be presented to the board at it's next sitting
 Hardly any members of the senior class have paid their banquet tax as yet and as result an indignation meeting of the fourth year class was held this morning The banquet committee will take no steps toward the annual banquet until the funds are forthcoming.
 Yesterday a special meeting of the Senior prom committee took place at which it was decided to hold the dance on graduation night. June 20. Music will be furnished by Judds orchestra and there will be a card of twenty dances. The students will attend to the interior decora- tions.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-22
.PIMeLY? WELL, DON I tE!
People Notice It. Drive Them or With Dr. Edwards Olive
 Tablets. ...

A pimply face will not embarrass you much longer if you get a pack age of pr. Edwards Olive Tablets you have taken the tablets a few nights.
 Cleanse the blood, the bowels and the liver with Olive Tablets.
 Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets are the successful substitute for calomel-- there's never any sickness or pain after taking them.
 Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets do that which calomel does, and just as eff fectiveIy, but their action is gentle and safe instead of severe and irri- tating.
 No one who takes Olive Tablets is ever cursed with "a dark brown taste," bad breath, dull, listless, mo good" feeling, constipation, tor bid liver, bad disposition or pimply face.
 @Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets are a purely vegetable compound mixed with olive oil, you will know them by their olive color. -..
 pr. Edwards spent years among pa tients afflicted with liver and bowel complaints and Olive Tablets are the immensely effective result.
 Take one or two nightly for a week See how much better you feel and look. 1Oc and 25c per box. The Olive Tablet Co.,, Columbus, Ohio. All druggists.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-22
l four or five years and was we'll liked | by his associates and employers.

four or five years and was we'll liked
 by his associates and employers. i, Several candidates were initiated at last nights meeting of Iron City
 lodge, N. F. o. P., in Jr. o. U. A. M.
 hah.-
 A dance will be given tomorrow evening by the New Britain lodge
 of Elks at the clubhouse on Wash
 ington street The Catholic Woman's Benevolent Legion held whist in St. Mary $
 hall last evening. The prize win
 ners were: Gentleman's first prize
 Richard Magic, gentlcmar's second
 prize, N. F. Glover, lady's first prize,
 Miss Elizabeth Farr; lady's second,
 Mrs. M. Conniff. Refreshments were served.
 Phoenix lodge, No. 52, I. o. o. F..
 will meet this evening and confer the , third degree on a class of five can- d!dates. The entertainment commit ! tee has been busy and arranged for a light lunch. Rev. Lucyan Bojnowski performed l the wedding ceremony yesterday at
 the Church of Sacred Heart for Dr. Stanislaus C. Mieczkowski of Worces- ter, Mass, and Miss Stanaura Runic,
 a. Polish school teacher of this city. The wedding was followed by recep- tion at the home of the bride on Broad , street. MT. and Mrs. Mieczkowski will ; live in Worcester, Mass
New Britain herald., 1914-04-22

and wounded up to late last night ap- proximately 150. Battleships here, Florida, Utah, Arkansas, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, South Carolina, transport Prairie and Coll Her Orion. Transport Hancock with marines reported due. American forces advance a. m. under guns of war vessels to take city, VI
 Serious fighting on the part of the Mexicans, early today, appeared to be concluded. During the night there was an, occasional shot from roofs. some times even within the. American lines, and it was unsafe to. traverse the streets. Late last night Rear Admiral Fletcher, through Con- sul w. w. Canada, sent a second mes senger, a Mexican, to endeavor to locate some one in command to tell him conditions and suggested that in the name of humanity he call off his men. The rear admiral is consider ing the throwing of shells but is re- luctant to sacrifice life merely to clear the houses of the determined few.
 The Americans have not yet occu- pied the central part of the city and more fighting may be necessary be- fore the town is in their undisputed possession.
 Toll Not Calculated.
 The losses of the Mexicans in yes-
 (Continued on Eleventh Page.) .
New Britain herald., 1914-04-22

of the dead will be borne by the United States.
 Snipers Open Fire.
 Vera Cruz, April 22.-Landing parties from the vessels of the Amer ican fleet under Rear Admiral Badger were greeted with quite general firing preached the shore at half past four o'clock this morning.
 The Mexican sharpshooters occu- pied the roofs of houses in the cen tral part of the city and were able to fire down upon the American marines and bluejackets as they neared the land from the vessels lying off shore.
 Attack Is Resumed.
 Consul Canada's latest dispatch, which was filed at Vera Cruz early today follows: Firing commenced 1t daybreak. Ships now smelling south- ern part of city. Large force landed from Admiral Badgers fleet before daylight. Copies of proclamation is- sued by rear admiral requesting at once the cooperation of the mayor and municipal authority in restoring or der have been distributed, but have been unable as yet to get in commu- nication with these officials. Major Buffers force of marines from Tam pico is now ashore. Expect the city will be quiet later in the morn- ing. Estimates of Mexicans killed
New Britain herald., 1914-04-22
MOTORCYCLE CLUB
Officers Are Elected at First Spring
 Meeting Held Last Night.

The Motorcycle club held its first spring meeting last night and made plans for runs during the coming season. Election of officers also took place, resulting as follows:
 Presid dent-Arthur Johnson.
 Secretary and treasurer-Walter Falk.
 Captain--Robert Christie. Lieut. ena mt William Voight. Directors Dave Johnson and Rich ard Gustafson. - '
New Britain herald., 1914-04-22
GOING TO ELM CITY,
Burns Club Bowlers Will Play New Haven Calcdonians Tomorrow Night

Tomorrow night the members of the Burns club bowling team will leave for New Haven on the 7:37 train. They are to compete with the Caledonians, of the Elm City, at car pet bowls.
 The Burns club was victorious over the Clan Douglas carpet bowlers in a match game last evening, the score being B to 21. For the Burns club Chalmers team score 7, Middlenas' score IT and Robb's scored 9 on the three rinks. Their respective com petitors, headed by Ptolmey, Drum mond and Gilbraith, rolled 6, and 8 respectively.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-22

of the dead will be borne by the United States.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-08-07

cRoP PRODUCING POWER or TENNESSEE.
Last year the average per acre crop
yield 10 Tennessee was $1S.O1. In In
diana it was only s17.2s, and in Iowa
only $17.0l.
In the census year the crop yields Of
Tennessee ranged from $780, per acre
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-08-07
REAL
ESTATE MAN

Credits His Cure From Malaria to
GRlGSBY'S LIV YER LAX,
the Modern. Non-Metallic Liver
Medicine.
Mr.. F. e. Gilmore, Of 209 Slaughter
Bldg, Dallas, Texas, says unqualifedly
that he was cured Of bllliousness, stom-
ach and liver trouble and constipation
by LIV-VER-LAX.
He had been a sufferer for years
from the above complaints which we're
sure indication Of malarial condition
so prevalent in this climate and his cure
is but one Of hundreds that are occur
ring daily.
LIV-VER-LAX is really wonderful
remedy and preventive for malaria and
all the obnoxious conditions that arise
from this dread disease.
Every one should protect themselves
against the malarial germ before it takes
hold and develops into serious stages.
Keep Q bottle Of LIV-VER-LAX in
the house and take a dose regularly
once week. Thus you will insure to
yourself clear eye, ambition, hope
and every mental condition that makes
HE worth while. advt
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-08-07
The Swimming Pool.

In addition to the names already fur
nished OF those who hove learned to
swim at the pool we can add: Richard
Gibbs, Lee Quinn, Harry Duncan,
Marechal Neal Duncan, Maxine Web.
ster, Ruth Moore, Inez Lovelace, Mar
garet Turner, Mary Elizabeth Murphy,
Ollie May Parks, Miss Mary Leita Web
ser, Miss Minnie Bowen, Mrs. Henry
Hassler, Mrs. Corker jackson, Mrs.
Geo. Eader.
In order to know just what is being
done at other pools In the State, the
superintendent issued a QUESTIONABLE.
The following is a summary of the tenn
peratures Of tho water for summer and
winter:
Memphis Summer, rs; winter, So.
Ward Belmont = Summer, natural;
winter, 20.
Nashville, Y. NJ. @. A.-Summer,
natural; winter, 80.
Nashville, Y. w. G. A.--summer,
natural, winter, so.
Union City High School Summer,
natural; winter, natural.
The three pools in Nashville all adj
vised against heating the water in sum
mer. Our natural mean temperature
is 71-72 degrees. One hundred and one
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-08-07
Real Estate Transfers.

A. E. Caldwell to NJ L. Frazier, 125
acres in No. 5, $4,000.
G. B. White and wife to Nelson Cole
man, two lots in No. IS, $780,
Geo. Phillips and wife to Mike Blu
chanan, 65 acres in No. 6, $3, 900.
Mrs. Clara Edwards to w. Fl. Swig-
CART, trustee, real estate in 0biop and
Lake counties, Tenn, So. 900.
Birdie Parks ct al. to M. A. FIem-
ming, real estate in Obion and Lake
counties, Tenn, 81 500.
M. A. Flemming to L. s. Parks, real
estate in Obion and Lake counties,
Tenn, $500.
v. J. Jernigan and wife to Nevil M.
Farrior, $50 acres in No. 8, "a, 500.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-08-07
lnsolvent Notice.

Having suggested the insolvency OF
the estate of w. H. Wade (col), de-
ceased, all persons having claims against
said estate are hereby notified to file the
same with the County Court Clerk OF
Obion County, Tennessee, duly anthem
ticated in manner prescribed by law
on or before the 18th day OF January,
1915, or the same will be forever barred
both in law and equity. This July the
18th, 1914. HESTER THOMPSON,
17-4t Administrative.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-08-07
$4,000

Only Oklahoma among the Southern
States in the census year raised enough
bread and meat for home consumption,
with surplus to market-some $40. 90
per inhaSitant.
OF course, Oklahoma leads the South
10 per capita wealth in the farm regions.
All the other Southern States had to
buy hog and hominy from aliens and
strangers in other States and sections
in amounts ranging from $27, 900, 900
in Kentucky to $155. 900, 900 in Texas.
All told nearly one billion dollars, or
a tAird Of our entire crop wealth, was
sent out Of the South to pay for food
stuffs that ought to have been raised at
home.
Comparing the tables showing per
capita farm wealth and per ca "a food
production, the following facts appear
In general, the greater the cotton
crop. the smaller the amount OF home
raised food stuffs, the greater the total
deficits on this score and the smaller
the per capita wealth Of the farm popu-
Iations.
The one-crop, farm-tenancy, supply
merchant system o. farming is a spend
thrift system.
II ayaiIs to create enormous farm
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-08-07
Marriage Licenses.

VIM. Evans and Jettie Murran.
L. G.. Wagster and Venie Thompson
Todd Beasfey and Mary Douglass.
A. d. Medley and Bessie Primrose.
M. w. Anderson and Mabel Griffin.
Hugh Neal and Mary Steale.
Fred Taylor and Adele Pace.
Leonard Binford and Stella Davis.
VIM. Easterwood and Nola Grassy.
CoLoRED.
Will Mccall and Lille Morris.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-08-07

In every home where there is baby
there should also be bottle of MCGEE IS
BABY ELIXIR. 1t may be needed at
any time to correct sour stomach, wind
collie, diarrhoea or summer complaint.
1t is wholesome remedy, contains no
opium, morphine or injurious drug Of
any kind. Price 25c and SOC per bot
tie. Sold by divers Red Cross Drug
Store. advt
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-08-07

DRAWING BREATH IN THE SOUTH AND
DRAWING RATIoNs FROM THE
MIDDLE WEST
The average annual consumption of
food per person in the South is around
$500. bulletin Federal Department
of Agriculture.)
The per capita production of food
stuffs in the South in the census year
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-08-07
membership tickets we're issued during
the month Of July.
Corn 60c to $l0O a Bushel Accord
ing to Location.

When you feed Doiiar Corn to hog
you want to be sure he assimiIates all
he eats--too expensive to waste.
We guarantee that hog. fed with B.
A. Thomas Hog Powder, will fatten on
20 per cent less feed than one that is
not, thus by actual test.
Get B. A. Thomas Hog Powder
from Frank G. Wehman. 1t cures Hog
Cholera. advt
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-08-07

FOR SALE Six-room house with
bath ard electric lights, located on Nor
gan street. Everything in good repair.
Will sell cheap II sold at once, on long
and easy terms. For particulars see
16-4t O. p. Bishop.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-08-07
PER CAPITA WEALTH
OF TENNESSEE FARMS
Amounts to $780,. Surprising
Both Iowa and Indiana.


In the current Issue Of the Peabody
Record, issued during the summer ses-
sion by the George Peabody College for
Teachers is an interesting article show
ing the per capita wealth Of the farm
population ofTennessee by counties, the
per acre crop yield Of Tennessee and
other matter bearing on the subject.
The following table shows the per
capita wealth by counties, beginning
with Williamson, which leads, and end
ing with Polk at the bottom OF the list.
Based on the 1910 census.
Miss Ernestine Noa.)
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-08-07

IN Lake County to $5.97 in Hancock.
Lake County ranked first in the per
acre production of crop values. but
only twenty-second in per capita farm
wealth
Lake is a good tvpe of the ane-crnp.
farm-tenancy, Wpply-merchant system
of farming. Eighty-fve per cent. Of
her farmers in the census year were
tenants and S2 per cent. OF her total
crop wealth was produced by cotton
alone.
The foodstuffs raised amounted to
only $51 per inhabitant-or $33 too
little.
The Lake County farmers lead the
State in producing crop values per acre.
They create great crop wealth from year
to year, but under her labor and crop
ping system they can retain only small
portion Of it,
On the other hand, Hancock was last
in crop-producing power; but in per
capita farm wealth the county moved
up forty-fifth from the last and out
raAked many counties Of far greater
crop-producing power.
The explanation is fairly clear. The
farm system in Hancock is many
crop, livestock, ownership farm system.
It is system under which farmers
invariably accumulate wealth.
It is type Of farming that must be-
come general in the South or we shall
every year create enormous farm
wealth, finger it for few months and
then fling it away for supplies that
might have been raised at home.
Permanent farm prosperitAcannot be
by wealth product on, but in
wealth retention.
PER ACRE CROP YIELDS IN TENNESSEE.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-11-03

BELL CITY ITEMS

Threshing rice seems to be the order
of the day with most of the farmers in
this community for the last week.
The farmers are rejoicing over the nice
weather we have been having all this
week.
Mr.. Ebert E. Hoffpauir is building a
very neat dwelling house. He has had
one or two carpenters at work
most of the time since he began the
work on his house.
Mr.. Martin Rouseaux's child that
was very sick Thursday died. He has
a little boy very sick, not hardly ex-
peCted to recover.
Mrs. Amelia o. Hayes went to Lake
Charles Friday.
Mrs. Belonie Blanchard who was
quite sick is better.
Quite a number of persons have
been sick. but they are able to be up
and at their occupations now.
The work on the public road is pro-
crossing quite nicely now, but the past
heavy rains we had prevented them
getting along as we'll and as fast as
they had expected to do.
A Friend
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-11-03
Died

The little son and youngest child of
Mr.. and Mrs. ChaS. A. DeVaSher died
Thursday morning at their home at
the Oil Fields and was buried in Oak.
lawn Cemetery in Welsh Friday, the
funeral services being conducted by
Rev. E. Nj. Stewart.
The little fellow was only eleven
months old when Pneumonia sliced
him and carried him away.
The sympathy of friends is extended
to the hereaved family.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-11-03
UP-TO-OATE AND HOWL
Advertising METHODS Adopted by al
ERterprisiug House

That The Cooper Drug 60. is fast
becoming metropolitan IN the methods
of advertising used by our merchants
to call the buying puhlic'S attention to
the many splendid values which they
are Offering, also that that the wide.
awake firm of Cooper Drug Co., are
keeping up with any just a little aheaa
of the times in an advertising respect
is again practically demonstrated by
what is perhaps the most elaborate
system of advertising ever attempted
by any business house in this section,
namely: the giving away of the beautl
full Parlor Grand Piano which is now
on exhibition at their store.
This piano retails at $4OO. each, guar
anteed for ten years. The principal
points of superiority of this celebrated
piano over any other of this class of III
StrumentS lie in the three strings in
unison with overstrung bass, the
splendidly pitched scale and true sound.
ing board which give the piano that
rich deep even tone so much admired.
In recent interview with DR. Cooper
regarding this decided innovation in
advertising, DR.. Cooper stated; I'VE
have been enjoying the patronage and
confidence of the buyers OF this com.
munity for some time now and by al
ways trying to keep our stocks
complete the saving that 'Yon can get
1t at Cooper'S Drug Co., has become a
household expression, In giving away
this piano we were actuated by double
purpose, TO show our appreciation OF
the patronage of our friends during
the past, also to encourage new trade
and to bring the many splendid values
we are now showing in all lines to the
attention of every buyer in this terri.
tory. The plan we are using in giving
away this piano is equitable and fair to
all, simply this, every person buying