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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-03-04
Also the Halo.

They've taxed my meagre income,
they've taxed my Campbell press, my
new false teeth they've levied en-, and
my wife's last winter dress; they've
taxed my, coal oil cook stove my
hritches and my clocks, my tooth
brush and my barlow knife, my
shirts aud ties and socks; my niger
soil, my razor, my typewriter and my
breath, and they'll keep right on a.
taxing till they've taxed this bird to
death. And when / lie, all dignified,
with cold, stiff, upturned feet, they'll
Likely tax my harp and wings, and
make the job CONGRATULATIONS
Guardian.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-03-04
Death of Mrs. Robert Fluety.

The death of Mrs Ella May Flue-
ty, wife of Robert Fluety, took place
last Tuesday afternoon, Mar. /, 1921,
after a short illness at the family
home in Number Twelve.
Mrs. Fluety was 35 years of age
and is survived by her husband and
five children. She was a sister of
Mrs. Sam Grady and Mrs. Chas.
Cleek and a half sister of Albert,
Jake, John, Bud, Dudley, Hays, and
another brother who resides at Polk.
Mrs. Fluety was a member of the
Baptist Church and well -Anown for
the many graces and devotions of a
Christian wife, mother and sister
Services were conducted by Rev.
Raymond White and the remains
were inferred at Ebenezer.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-03-04
Better Chickens.

The Lions Club desires better
chickens. In order to encourage the
growing of better chickens they will
give away a setting of eggs to linn
tied number of reliable farmers liv-
ing in the vicinity Of Union City.
Parties receiving these pure-bred
eggs are to return in the fall one
choice pullet from the hatch.
, The Lions desire to discourage. the
growing of small chickens.
If interested call or telephone
Glenn Burdick, chairman committee,
or Whitesell Harpole, secretary
Lions Club.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-03-04
Mutual.

Dear May" wrote the young mar
who had been turned down the night
before and craved vengeance. Last
night l proposed to you, but really
have forgotten whether you said yes
or no. These little things slip ones
mind so.'
Dear WILL" she wrote back 81
was so glad to get your letter. re-
member having said no to some one
last night, but had forgotten tt
whom. These little things certainly
do. "-Amer icanLegion Weekly.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-03-04
The Commercial, Union City, Tenn
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1921.
REV. COOK OF KANSAS CITY
AT METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. Ed F. Cook, ID, President of
of Scarritt Bible Training School
of Kansas City, to Fill Pulpit.

A message came a day or so age
that DR.. Ed F. Cook could be in this
part of the country two or three days
embracing Friday night. Saturday
and Sunday, and if it was desired h,
would fill two or three pulpits. So
it was arranged for him to speak at
Fulton Friday night, at Union City
Sunday morning and on to some 9TH
er point for Sunday night
Rev. E. M. Mathis, the pastor of
the church is sick, and it is very for
tunate that he could secure one of
the leading men of the entire church
to fill his appointment Sunday morn
ing. Brother Mathis will preach
Sunday night if he is able.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-03-04
As Spoke.

Two dusky members of the A. E. F.
stepped off the gangplank together.
"Was ,yo' all bothered wild dat NAL
de-mule?" inquired one.
Deed ah was," replied the other.
."Sho am glad to git back on terra
Gotta again. American L o n
Weekly,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-03-04

to man the machine gun in the rear
seat?"
Eyes, darling, everything has been
attended to-"
'Then put your automatic pistol in
your pocket and drive down to tine
corner for yeast cake"
Henry buttoned his bullet-prOof
.waistcoat about him and started for
the garage, followed by his wife's,
parting injunction, land do be care
full, Henry, not to stay out after
dark"
Needless to say, in these days of
motor banditry, all the precautions.
of husband, wife and chauffeur were
as naught, for an armored car, sbris-
Ting with machine gun destroyers
and masked thugs held up the yeast
cake special within sight of the gro
Gerry store and robbed Henry of the
three cents he had ON his person.
And the annual farewell" tours
of various artists, repeated times
without number, might be termed
0Mnah AdioYf Ah0tIt Not hin o. -.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-03-04
underwear advertised in the dailies.

underwear" advertised in the dailies.
-Harveyville (Kan.) Monitor.
Better prices for calf hides" says
farm publication. Probably due
to scarcity You seldom see calves
hide now.-Baltimore Sun.
"Why not teach grammar in the
schools?" somebody asks What for?
Nobody ever uses it SO far as we can
hear.-Wheeling Intelligencer.
Funny that all the young ladies
who write diaries that later are pub
lished in the yellow newspapers al
ways write them in newspaper style
Blue Island (Iil) Sun-Standard.
An eastern firm declares that it is
going to try to do business without
money. Information on the subject
will be cheerfully furnished by al
most any country editor.-Cheyenne
Wells (Colo.) News.
"Is the sawed-off shotgun in it's
holster by the steering wheel, Hen
ry?"
Eyes, my love-"
"And have you told the chauffeur
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-03-04

"Is the sawed-off shotgun in it's
holster by the steering wheel, Hen
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-05-13
NEW PARTISAN DANCE STEPS
Pleasure Seekers of the French CapI
tai Practice Futurist Movements
With Warlike Names.

Paris has something new in dahc-
Ing. She is introducing no fewer tl'h
three futlrist dances; the machine
gun. the shrapnel and the alrnans
dance.
poet of futurist tendencies is the
culprit. Being conservative enough TO
love the waltz and confessing UNI
ashamed to many happy moments dur
Ing the lancers, we trust that remorse
will be his lot.
SO far we have only read brleI
description of one Of these measures
the airman's dance, and that simply
tells us that the dancers initiate the
motions of monoplane starting on d
flight and soaring away.
The shrapnel dance should be easy
enough. for it is only necessary 10
turn up at any dancing hall and see
Deople who remind one instinctively Of
creeping barrage. There are also
plenty of buds to heighten the erect
What to make of the machine gun
dance, however, puzzles us, for al
though there are men and even "0-
men. who can talk as fast as a ma
chine gun firing, we have never seen
dance that was anything like the
real thing.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-05-13
or EVERY RACE AND TONGUE
All Peoples Of the Earth Represented
In the Millions Seeking Homes
- In This Country.

Armies equal IN size to the one we
sent 10 France land every two years
on our shores, and at the present time
millions are said To be waiting to en-
Tor. Since 1900 more than thirteen
million immigrants have entered TINS
country. and approximately one-thirl
Of our present population OF more
than one hundred millions are inlnl-
grants or the children of Immigrants
Two-thirds Of the population OF New
York state and three-fOurths OF thaI
OF our great cities are foreign born
or the children OF fOrelgn-bom par
ents. From a fourth 70 a half OF inc
pomllaton OF the large cities OF the
south are negroes. Already we are
the most heterogeneous people on
earth: here are found representatives
OF every race and tongue and culture
In the world, and still they continue
TO come IN enormous numbers. 1t u
doubtful whether any other migration
In The history of mankind compares
IN magnitude Win lIIhL VIM" '''
converglng on America during the pasl
twenty years. The sources and mag
nitude Of this migration are Indicated
by the following general summary
OF more than thirty million persons III
this country who are foreign born OF
the children Of foreign-born parents
thnrn arc from eight to nine million
Germans. four to five million lrsh
about three millions from Great BRIT
min, about three million Slavs, IRON
two to three million ScandinaVlai's
more than two million Italians aho
about two million Hebrews, WINE al
other races and nations constitute
about five millions.--EdWin Gram
Conklin, in Scribners.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-05-13

The "jazz" is dead in London, says
p. ]. S. Richardson, one of the fore
most English authorities on dancing
He declares that no new dances VIII
be popularized this year, but the fox
trot, one-step and tango, which nave
held international interest for two OF
three seasons, will be standardized
previously those taught the same
dances by different teachers found
themselves hopelessly at sea wher
they tried to dance together" he said
'A'hrough Standardization on when
the majority of dancing instructors IN
London have now agreed, a common
framework in the steps will be IN
Sured without eliminating all chance
of introducing Individual variations
Freaklsh and eccentric light gymnas-
tics' such as exaggerated forms OF
Jazz are rapidly passing out"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-05-13
nsensn With His Ears.

Paul Donehoo, blind lawyer and
musician who is in town ON a visit
from Atlanta, gets around over the
city and over the whole United States
without any assistance, because he
"hears" the walls and posts and every
other material obstacle in his path,
81 can follow the building line along
the sidewalk by sound" he says IL
can hear a tree or post very distinctly,
think 1t is a sense that every one
/ has, but that one does not develop
unless he is blind. call it sound be.
cause find that when there is an
Overwhelming noise l cannot do it."
Mr.. Donehoo walks fearlessly about
the streets, turns without hesitation at
corners and ecan even estimate very
accurately the width of the sidewalk,
always knowing when it becomes wild
er or narrower Journal
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-05-13
BEWILDERlNG TO TIE MIND
Everyday Measurements of Science
That Are Almost Beyond Com
prehension of the Layman.

One great difficulty in the study OF
astronomy is to comprehend the i'm
mcnsity of the distances and sizes in
volved. For instance, we can form no
conception of the size or distance of
the sun.
Suppose there was spherical shell
Of the diameter of the sun. Suppose
great genie should drop into this
shell, every second, night and day, a
BAH the size of the earth. How long
would 1t take to fill the shell? Would
It take an hour, day, or a week? In
feet, it would take two weeks, and
when full the shell would contain more
tban 100000 earths.
The distance to the sun is 100000
miles How long would it take a can
non ball to reach the sun, il shot from
the earth, and continued on its course
at 4 uniform velocity? In order not
to underestimate the distance some
might say year. In fact it would
than 100000 earths.
Automatically speaking, the above
distance is very short The sun is our
nearest star. Strain the Imagination
by trying to comprehend the velocity
Of light which would pass seven times
around the earth in one second Of
time. Now Stagger the brain by trying
TO think of stars, so remote from us
that a million years are required for
their light to cross the enormous abyss
that separates them from us. Think
of it! When that ray of light, which
now enters the eye, started on its
course, perhaps there was no life on
this earth.-John Candee Dean in the
Indianapolis News.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-05-13

READING BETWEEN THE LINES.

Reading between the lines Of the
conference between representatives,
OF the melon growers aid the rail-
roads with representatives Of the
Interstate Commerce Commission
in Macon Tuesday, not much hope
is felt for favorable action by the
RAILROADS toward freight reduction.
Just what action the Interstate Com
merce Commission may take Is
problematical.
Unless there is substantial re-
duclion in freight rates, melon grow
ers had just as well save themselves
time and expense III picking and
shipping anything but the first and
fianciest melons; others will not
pay the freight. The outlook IS not
good for melons, at best The class
OF people who are largest buyers
will have little if any money this
summer to buy with This will
limit sales To the wealthiest class,
which buys only small quantity.
Melons first on the market usually
bring a fancy price and these will
pay the enormously heavy freight
charges. The later melons will not
unless marketed in very limited
quantities, and growers will probab-
" save money by leaving them IN
the fields unless conditions change.
The railroads apparently need
the melons, for ireights are steadily
falling off therefore, their attitude
is hard to understand Already The
melon acreage in this immediate
territory has been cut probably fifty
per cent. by the prospect Of high
high ireights. II these heishts are
maintained, it Wilt mean the throt-
Ting Of the melon industry in South
Georgia. BY this, the railroads will
lose more than any one else. With
half million freight cars standing
idle now, it does appear that they
would Ne willing to make conees.
sions -Hltou Gazette.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-05-13
ou.r the Earth,e Shoulder.

Ocean voyages are sometimes short
ened considerably By going "over The
shoulder Of the EARTH" as the haviga
tors say, the Nebraska State JOurn0
observes. The same thing is true, o.
course. of air travel. When an at
tempt is made to fly over the Pacific
ocean from San Francisco the short
est way will not be directly across, as
a study of the map would indicate
Instead, the fiiers viii so hundreds o.
miles northward, skirting the Aleutiar
islands and in this way saving a grea
distance as well as securing the ad
vantage Of more numerous landing
places.
The earth will soon be charted fol
air travel and the lines for long dis
lance flights viii be circular mor
often than direct.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-05-13
Rift News.

Mr.. and Mrs. e. c. Richards and
family, Of Myrtle Spring, spent
Sunday with relatives here
Messrs NJ. w Bryan and Ike
Tissue were III I.cesbmg Saturday
on business
Mr.. and Mrs. $. N, Jones h,
and family spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. II Young.
Mrs. Albert Wren and Mrs. Al
len Evans spent Sunday afternoon
very pleasantly at the home OF Mrs.
G. ID. Richards,
Mrs. ", 3. West and little
daughter, Leitha, e Columbus are
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
&. d. Richards.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Mathews and
sister, Miss Matte Mathews attend
ed a barbecue near Albany on Sat
Rrday last.
Among those going to Smithyille
Saturday were Messrs Morgan
Scuggs, Simmie Lee Young, Albert
Wren, Robert Knight and Edgar
Dyes.
Mr.. Lee Suggs, of Atlanta, spent
the Weekend here With hom9folks.
Mr.. and Mrs. 7. P. Jones, of
Leslie, visited Mr.. and Mrs. d. Z.
Jones sunday
Mrs, Forte Jones aud children,
Mrs. Albert Wren and children
visited Mrs } T. suggs saturday,
Mr.. c. c. Laramore spent Sun
day night With Nh W.K. Knight.
Mrs. S. b. Camp auf family and
Mrs. Hubert Varmm visited Mrs.
G. D. Richards sunday.
Butterfly.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-05-13

Raise plenty of food stuff for man
and beast. Keep the farm. clean,
bitches and ponds drained, filth clean
ed up, well or cistern in good shape
and laugh at the low price of cotton
and the boil weevil; if you stay well
it will all work out right. Health is
the main thing; spend money to keep
well and see that your city, county
and state do their share. Public health
is public problem; the state should
foot the bill.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-05-13

The high cost of living followed by
the depression that now exists, with
The South's money crop drug on the
market at one third the cost of pro-
duction is likely to cause people to
do without proper food and clothing.
This in turn will lower the resistance
power of the individual to disease.
Public health is purchasable and
money should not be considered when
it is used for the prevention of
disease.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-05-13

Parents should see to it that when
their baby is born it has the nitrate
OF silver put in its eyes Immediately
to prevent blindness, and the next
thing is to see to it that its birth is
legally registered.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-05-13

The season Of the year for typhoid
fever is soon to begin. Why not
avoid this dreadful disease by clean
ing up, excluding the flies and vac
citation The State Board of Health
furnishes typhoid vaccine free of
charge You should take this precau-
ton row. The immunity is supposed
to last two or three years.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-05-13

There should be astrictly followed
rule in our state about vaccination.
No child should be permitted to enter
school without a successful vaccina.
ton against smallpox.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-09-23
FARM
LIVE STOCK
RUNTS ARE LOSS TO GROWER
QUESTIONABLE Shows MANY Can as
ELIMINATED by Good Breeding
and Proper FEEDING.

'Frepared by the q. s. Department OF
Agriculture)
The question. why is q runt?" has
been answered by hundreds Of live
stock raisers who have filed In and
returned questionable reports sent
out by the United States Department
Of Agriculture. These reports-near-
~ thousand Of them--show that in
ferior breeding, poor feeding, and par
asites are the three principal causes
of understood and underdeveloped en-
imals. In fact, about rs per cent Of
runtiness is traceable to these factors.
All Of these factors are under the con-
troll Of breeders or stock raisers who
by controlling them, can, In a large
degree, eliminate runts. which, accord
Ing to the reports, constitute Z per
cent OF all farm animals.
The information gained from the
reports is Of much interest and value
to live stock owners. Department
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-09-23
HELP WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS
Fsrrers In Vicinity of Grove City,
Pa, Sign Requests to Have
Herds Tested.

The community at Grove City. Pa,
where the dairy division Of the United
States Department Of Agriculture is
carrying on community extension
work, is active In tuberculosis eradica-
ton. The owners Of several hundred
herds signed requests to have their
herds tested and accredited; in fact It
appears that practically all the patrons
Of the Grove City creamery soon Will
have their animals tested. This work
originated with the bull associations
operating In that vicinity; but 1t now
extends throughout the county, and
even to the two adjoining counties.
An interesting feature Of the situa-
lion is the springing up Of the Grove
City Accredited Dairy Show
and Sales association. composed OF
owners Of accredited herds who wish
to take advantage Of the fact mat all
their herds arc clean, to cooperate 10
and sell ali their stock
On that basis. One member whe has
a ciesn herd says that after hts herd
yus tested he sold some COWS for $500
each. which. previously. he wouid have
parted. With. for half that amount he
hss1 actually offered them eee Ssoe
psSot 10 the test.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-09-23
MAKING FEED FROM SAwDusT
Wiseonsin Cows Keeping Up wetsnf
and MIX Yield and Snow No iH
Effects Frsm Diet.

HydrolIzed sawdust as a part OK
ration for cows Is apparently giving
satisfactory results In Wisconsin Inc
forest service OF the United States
Department of Agriculture reports
that cows at the agricultural college
of that state are doing as well on
ration cansisting of one-third sawdust
rs they ds5 Vhen their feed was only
one-fourth woes zeal. That IS to say,
they are keeping up their weight and
their milk production and show no Ill
sfects from the diet.
The bureau of animal Industry IS
considering the proposal of the forest
service laboratory to start feeding
trlsis with dairy animals IN which
the wood product will form a part OF
the ration and the tests Will extend
for an entire yvar at least. The hyro-
lized-wood feed for these cows will
he made at the laboratory. SO far
all the stock feed has been made from
wblte-pine sawdust. Other soft woods,
the western species, viii
be tried In the future.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-09-23

Cows Thrive on Rich Pastures.
quired for maintenance, and TWO or
three times the total nutriment. The
milk yield in the subsequent lactatiOn
period may sometimes be doubled by
this treatment. The results Of the ex-
periments are given in Bulletin 945,
1.-The Influence of Calcium and Phos-
phorus In the Food on the Milk Yield
of Dairy Cows"
In the case of cows Of which the
milk yield has been reduced by sew
eral years standard feeding, as fol-
lowed at Beltsville, greatly increased
yield can be brought about by feeding
"alternated rations with phosphate"
during the dry period. This is taken
to mean that the ordinary rations are
more likely to be deficient in one or
both of the principal BODYBUILDING
elements than In any other constitu'
emf.
Bulletin 945, 1.-The Influence Of Cal
cium and Phosphorus in the Food on
the Milk Yield of Dairy Cows" may
be had upon application to the Divi-
sion of Publications, United States De
partment of Agriculture.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-09-23
DRAINAGE INCREASES YIELDS
Lands Uncertain In Production Ar
Made Productive and Aids In
TilIage of Crops.

Drainage usually Increases the
yields and profits Of crops.
II makes lands that are uncertain
in production produce crops every
year.
1t brings into cultivation lands 9th
erwise worthless. and improves tbs
physical condition Of soil by making
1t more granular. porous, and friable.
Drainage warns the soil, and by
warming 1t causes the seed to germi.
nate more readily. producing a better
stand and a prompter growth.
Drainage aids In the preparation Of
land and the tillage of crops. permit.
ting earlier blowing or cultivation aft.
er a rain.
1t improves health conditions b.
removing the sources OF malaria.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-09-23
BUSH FRUITS NEED MOISTURE
Raspserriss and Blsekbsrriss 70 Mx,rs
Good Crop Must Have supply
Of Water.

Bush fruits. particularly rsspberrtes
and blac9ber1es. require heavy and
constant supply Of moisture during ths
fruiting season IN order to make
good crop, whether considered from
the standpoint Of quantity or quality.
Quality berries can never be produced
where the moisture supply is limited,
and often when the season IL amply
supplied with moisture the bearing
period will be prolonged an extra week
or so. Cultivation will tend to con-
serve the natural moisture In the sou
for the benefit Of the berries, but It Is
tedious job. involving a great deal
OF time and labor at a season when II
can hardly be afforded, due 10 the gen.
ecss, rush of farm work.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-09-23

A very common source OF misunder
standing is shrinkage A shipper whs
sends fruits or vegetables to market
cannot understand why his shipment
should weigh so much less on arrival
than it did at the point Of origin. Thus
the invoice weight of a car OF bulk
apples shipped from southwest Mis-
souri, on October 16, 1914, was 2,427
pounds. These apples arrived at mar.
ket on October %, and we're re-
weighed, barreled and sold. TIL.
weight of the apples at destination
was 1871 pounds, indicating a loss
of 1856 pounds, or 10 Der cent. due to
shrinkage In transit and to the
discarding Of a small quantity OF
culls and spoiled fruit. Very few ship
pers could be made to believe that
legitimate loss as great as this could
occur, even though the shipment was
graded and loaded carelessly.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-09-23
cau.. Of Earsn,s Fragrance.

The real cause OF efe peculiar fra
GRANGE OF the earth. which is uotice-
able especially In The spring and after
rains. has been found by recsns sx-
p4rnaeafers II was formerly ex-
ptaiaed Az a result OF csrtain casuiicsi
dsoo~,sso<tstonz. but has now bees Bis
covered 60 be The sanaBation Of thread
bacteria, of which sro species are par
5cusrsy odordus. Not sniy do nae
bacteria Lsolated from the soil have ths
earth fragrance. but they retain ie
when cultivated on very varied sub
stances, even on such Inorganic mater
als IS pea Soup. milk. Eiyccrtne snd
starch paste.