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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-11-03
Phone $50
COMMUNITY PRIDE.

Several of our community attended
the convention at Bethlehem last
Sunday.
The. Walker children, who have
been out few weeks harvesting,
have returned to school.
The box supper at Bethlehem was
very successful. Everyone had a
pleasant evening and the sum of $34
was realized.
Our girls added another victory at
Clayton Saturday, score 28-11. We
play Woodland Friday (to-day) on
our own court. Come out and see
good game.
On next Sunday w. B. M. day
will be observed at Beech Church.
Rev. R. E. White will preach and a
short program will be rendered. This
is very important service and we
urge the membership to help us. All
are cordially invited 70 attend serV-
ices at Beech at all timec.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-11-03
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Miss Jessie Callicott, of Rives, wa
a visitor in the city last week.
Mrs. Frank Moore and daughter
of Obion, were visitors this week il
the city.
For Ice or Coal call $50.
DR.. c. E. Upchurch goes to Mem
phis next Tuesday to attend the Tri
State Dental Association.
Mrs. Harris Parks is spending the
week visiting her sister, Mrs. Harry
Driver, at Osceola, Ark.
Mrs. Robert Clark and son, Of
Number Four, were in the city Sat
urday as visitors and shoppers.
For ice and coal call $50.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. o. Bradford and
Mr.. and Mrs. W. W. Morris, of Full
ton, attended the funeral of Mr.. ]. A.
Coble here last Sunday.
Mrs. W. Fox and Mrs. Ed Parks,
of Obion, were in the home of DR..
and Mrs. Upchurch as visitors Mon
day night.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Brice, of Nash
vile, were here Sunday attending the
funeral of Mrs. Brice'a father, Mr..
J. A. Coble.
old HATS made like new at the
Blue Bell, price 81. Across from the
depot.
Gourly Hynds, Cayce Kinney,
Innes Dobbins and DR.. Nolen Hughes,
Of Fulton, were in the city last week
attending the football game.
Mr.. Porter Dunlap, candidate for
Railroad and Public Utilities Com
missioner, was here last week min
Cling with the people of Obion Coun-
ty.
divers Drug Store pays the cost
of trial by refunding your money
if Hyomei fails to relieve that cough
or cold you have.
Mr.. ]. D. Coble and Mrs. O'Guinn,
of Mount Pleasant, Tenn, were in
the city Sunday attending the fu-
neral of their brother, Mr.. ]. A. Co.
BILE.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Dave
Yates are interested in the news of
a granddaughter, who is little Miss
Sovering, born in Chicago to Mr.. and
Mrs. Ray Sovering last Sunday.
Strengthen your stomach and
Danish indigestion; Mi-O-Na is guar
anteed by divers Drug Store to do
it or money back.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-11-03
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Wedding Announcement.
By ANNE LATIMER.

By ANNE LATIMER.
One of the most beautiful affairs
of the fall season was the luncheon
given on Thursday at one O'Clock by
Miss Helen Chapman in her home on
East Cypress street, which she ten
dered complimentary to Miss Helen
Marshall.
The rooms threwn open for this
occasion were artistically decorated
in various colorG Of chrysanthemums.
In the dining room was pink color
motif, pink chrysanthemums and
ferns being Used in decoration, and
the lights were also shaded in pink.
The appointed table had as a center
piece a large pink rose resting on
mirror and IN the heart of the rose
nestled small bride From this rose
extended small pink ribbons to each
plate and ct the end of the ribbons
were tiny pink baskets filled with
pink and white candy. The place
cards were dainty little hand-painted
brides and grooms. A five course
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-11-03
Matinee Music Club.

At the meeting of the Matinee Mu-
sic Club Oct. 81 Miss Sullivan led on
the subject, stephen Foster AS an
American Folk Song Writer" There
are two distinguished forms of folk
music: One spontaneous and Plebe-
ian in origin, the other more literary,
However, it ig long way from Eos
ter's simple songs to Parsifal or a
Strauss opera, but if we have any
real American folk songs, they are
Stephen Fosters intimate and heart
felt tunes. The program was pre-
sented as follows:
My Old Kentucky Home" Cos
teri, chorus by club.
"a Southern Lullaby" Ode Lecne)
Miss Adams.
"Egeria" (Krocger), Miss Arnold.
Calm as the Night" (Bohm), Miss
Mayes.
Morse Song" (schunann), Miss
Woodrow.
(a) 20 Solo Mic" OBJ "Arabesque"
Ode Capua), Miss Clemmons.
Now is the time to have your
old HATS made new, price S1.-Blue
Bell Hat Shop, across from the de-
pot.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-11-03
Busy Plant.

AS an evidence of the business
which the Reynolds Packing Co. is
doing 70 pieces of express were for
wardcd from this station at one time
last Saturday. The business is grow
ing and it is matter of congratula-
ton to the company and all the
friends of the institution.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-02-10
Two Cabinet Officers May Be Jobless

1.-TWO cabinet members may find
themselves Jobless before the
end of the year under the pro-
visions of the governmental organiza-
ton Of the administrative branch of
the government.
The committee has already decided
to unite the War and Navy depart
ments. necessitating the discharge of
one surplus cabinet member-either
Secretary Of War Weeks or Secretary
Of the Navy DENLY.
1t also has under consideration the
merging of the Commerce and Labor
departments, just as they were some
years ago. This consolidation, If car
ried in effect, would leave either Sec
rotary Of Commerce Hoover or Secre-
tary of Labor Davis without a job in
the cabinet.
The creation OF one new cabinet
post is provided for In the reorganiza-
ton scheme. The new department will
be known as the department Of public
welfare and will seek to assemble I'M
der one head a number of the govern
mental agencies now attached In H.
logical fashion to departments with
which they have little concern.
In 1t may be grouped such govern
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-02-10
New u. S. Veterans Vocational Schools

~ PENING of the United States
I Veterans Bureau Vocational
schools at Chillicothe, o., for
merly Camp Sherman, marks the In
auguration of new policy In reha-
bilitating the disabled veterans.
Formerly the trainees were farmed
out to various institutions. The vet
Grams now will be taken out of these
schools and placed in the government
institution at Chillicothe. The govern
ment will not take students out Of
accredited universities and colleges
where veterans bureau trainees are
taking professional courses.
The school at. Chillicothe is being
rapidly equipped with modern labora-
tories and shops for classes In cleo
trical work, printing, steam-fltting,
engraving, carpentry, architecture and
bookbinding, as well as courses along
agriculture, animal husbandry, dairy
Ing, cheese and cream making. forest
ry and similar lines.
The closest attention will be paid
to the health Of these disabled vet
Grams. A modern hospital will be
maintained on the campus. with an
adequate medical and nursing STAFF
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-02-10
ROAD
Bull DING
ScRUBBING- BOARD SURFACES
Bureau Of Public Roads Building Exc
perimentaI Highway to Deter
mine Cause of Waves.

prepared by the United States Department
OF Agrfculture.)
What causes a "tarred" road to de-
velop that peculiar scrubbing-board
surface is question that has been
worrying the highway engineers quite
as much as the long-suffering public.
AS often as not the symptoms appear
in a macadam road that has been
treated with asphalt. But the trouble
is largely confined to roads built with
tar or asphalt Concrete and brick
roads never develop such surface,
and ordinary dirt roads seldom do.
The bureau of public roads Of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture is building at the Arlington
(va.) experimental farm an expert
mental roadway 10 feet wide In an at
tempt to discover the cause Of the
trouble. The road is laid out In the
form of circle with 9O-foot radius.
and its circumference, 565 feet in
length, Is TO be divided into sections,
each of which WIFI be surfaced with
different kind of asphalt or tarred
surface.
The experimental sections will be
built exactly like actual road surfaces
and when completed they will carry
''traffic" as much like actual traffic
as II is possible to devise. The "traf-
fic" will be supplied by a driyerless
motortruck which will be held to the
circular path by means of a long arm
extending from the center The course
of the truck will be altered from time
to time so that the entire width Of the
roadway will be travelled.
1t has not been possible to determine
the cause by observation Of actual
roads because there are too many I'M
known quantities. The defect may be
due to distortion of the earth under
the road surface or to defects in the
surface itself. 1t is probably caused
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-02-10

wv ASHINGTON - The United
w States navy is 997 per cent
pure American. Secretary
DENLY Is proud of his navy and said
that 1t was the best navy in the world,
backing his statement by figures re-
Gently compiled by the bureau of navi-
CATION, which show that on July 1 ma
tive-born sailors represented 91.S2 per
cent; naturalized men, 200 per cent;
colonial natives, 4.S9 per cent. and the
remainder aliens. The last-named num-
Der only 352 men. At the end of the
fiscal year the navy comprised 119,205
men, of which number 109,457 we're ma
tives, $500 were born In Guam, Samoa,
the Philippines or Virgin islands, and
1857 were naturalized citizens.
The figures also show it Is hand
picked navy. for, out of 1898 APP
plicants. only 1880 were accepted.
1t is healthy navy afoat and
ashore, according to the statement of
the surgeon general.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-02-10

mental agencies as the public health
service, the children's bureau, the wom-
ems bureau, the bureau OF pensions,
the bureau of education, and the In
dian service.
Three or four knotty problems Of
reorganization stand in the way of the
completion CT the committees report.
and President Harding at an early
date will be called upon to umpire
the differences. 1t has been the under
standing all along that the President
would make the final decision in any
disputed questions creating deadlock
In the committee, which hopes to COM
plete the work In time to lay it be-
fore congress and enact 1t into legisla-
ton before the end Of the present
session.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-02-10
OILED ROADS ARE APPROVED
Operation Must Be Performed lnteili-
gently or It VIII Make Con-
ditions Worse.

The American Highway Bulletin.
which approves of oiled roads, OBJ
serves that oiling must be performed
intelligently or it will make conditions
worse Instead of better. According to
this authority it is useless to oil dirt
road which is not thoroughly drained
and properly graded. 1t Is waste OF
money to oil road which does not
have a smooth hard surface free from
dust. If the surface is uneven, oil
collects in shallow depresslons and
softens the surface 80 that after the
first heavy rain the travel tends to
make mudholes at these places. II
there is dust on the road. the oil COM
bines with the dust to form sort OF
mat, which the travel over 1t quickly
breaks up into large fakes or scales.
But II the road is in proper condition
to receive the oil and the, right kind
Of oil Is used, the oil percOlates into
the pores of the earth for depth Of
several inches, sealing them with an
asphaltic binding material which
unites the surface into tougher mass
than the original surface The oil
cannot make the road any harder. for
only stone or gravel will accomplish
that, but 1t will prevent the dispiace-
ment Of the earth particles under any
loads which an earth road IL adapted
to carry. If the oiled surface Is Inn
mediately covered with thin layer Of
clean, hard sand, the travel win not
disturb the oil and the travellers will
.ufrer less Inconvenience.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-02-10
By Their Leaves Ye Shall Know Them

ciate what It means to the fruit grow
er to have the uncertainty removed
from the purchase Of his nursery
stock" says statement issued from
the experiment station.
This fall, with the support of the
Massachusetts, Fruit Growers asso-
citation, DR.. Shaw applied his identifi-
cation method to 5000 apple trees in
nurseries In this state. To the amaze
ment Of the nursery men, he threw out
nearly 10 per cent of the young trees
for masquerading under false
name.
DR.. Shaw's investigation involved
study of leaves of 200 varieties of ap-
pie trees collected from orchards of
distant states as well as in New Eng
land. He discovered that always there
were certain characteristics invariable
In leaves of the same variety and a
great many points of difference be-
tween leaves of different varieties.
During his years of research, he ap-
piled his leaf tests to 1,l0O young APP
pie trees as he set them in his own ex-
perimental plots. Only one tree turned
out. when 1t came into bearing. to be
different from his marking.
DIR. Shaw does not pretend that any.
body can Identify fruit trees by their
leaves. But study, he says, will enable
the fruit grower to distinguish any
given variety In the nursery.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-02-10

TTOW to know apple trees by their
10 leaves. and not alone by their
fruit, bids fair to become part
of the business of the successful or
chardist as result Of seven years re-
search by the experimental station of
the Massachusetts Agricultural college
at Amherst. Systematic study of the
leaf characters of young apple trees
conducted by DIR. J. X. Shaw, expert
pomologist, has enabled him to an
nounce a new method of Identifying
nursery stock that promises to remove
one of the most serious risks of fruit
growing.
"For no one who has not purchased
and set out block Of trees labeled
Mcintosh only to find eight years
later that the supposed Mcintosh trees
were all Wolf river, variety almost
worthless In New England, can appre-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-02-10

rescues him. imploring her cousin,
Pembroke to go to the jail and release
the unfortunate foreigner. Pembroke,
however, believes the stranger to be
an impostor and therefore, instead of
going himself. sends messenger with
the money. Had he gone he would at
last have met Thaddeus face to face.
Nevertheless such a meeting cannot
be avoided indefinitely. Lady Tine
mouth Is an old friend of the Somerset
family and at her house the two men
finally confront one another. On rec
ognizing his friend Pembroke is filed
with joy and Immediately reproaches
Thaddeus for never having searched
him out. 1t Is then that Sobieski tells
him of the letters that have been re.
turned to him. Pembroke is puzzled.
He admits, however, that his father
has always cherished hatred for Po-
land and forbidden his son ever to visit
that country. Hence Pembroke has
never told him of his stay with the
Sobieski family.
But having now discovered Thad-
deus, the young Englishman confesses
everything to his father, and begs him
to welcome to his home the Polish no
BILE who has saved his life.
Sir Robert Somerset flies into pas
sion.
He tries by every means In his pow
er to break up the friendship.
Then 1t develops that years before
Sir Robert, under the assumed name
Of Sackville, went on journey to Po-
land and while there met Therese So
bieslSi, whom he married and basely de-
serted. What wonder that ever since
he has lived in the constant dread of
being overtaken by some native of the
land of his crime; or that he shrinks
from beholding the son who has 1t in
his power to blazon abroad his shame
and denounce the present heir to the
Somerset estates as Legitimate?
1t is an ugly tangle, but the author
touches it lightly and strengthens 1t out
with a gentleness Sir Robert Somerset
little deserves.
Thaddeus is glad to be the English
mans son and the brother of Penn
broke Somerset. Since, however, he
has pledged his word never to forfeit
the name of Sobieski he must retain it;
he also prefers to keep his parentage
secret; nor will he put forth any
claim to the property That Pembroke
is to inherit.
Just why the Polander fails to resent
the treatment Sir Robert has accorded
his mother is point Jane Porter
glides pleasantly over. The youth is
given a fortune by his titled father,
marries Lady Mary Beaufort and be-
comes an English gentleman.
The book is spirited and interesting,
but it is of that sentimental school OF
old-time novelists who bring us to the
realization that standards have shifted
very vitality since the days when con-
tinual tears, swoons and Paintings,
we're deemed necessary and desirable
accomplishment of heroes and hero
ines.
Copyright, 1919. by the Post Publishing
Co. (The Boston Post) Copyright in
the United Kingdom. the Dominions, its
Colonies and dependencies. under the
copyright act by the Post Publishing
Co., Boston. Mass. u. S. A. All rights
reserved
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-02-10
Old Meteorltes Scarce.

Meteorites Of indicated great age are
not found In museum collections, and
1t Is suggested that such specimens
may disintegrate and disappear from
the rocks within a relatively short
time after falling.
The British museum. however, has
lately acquired slice Of somewhat
less than a pound from meteoric iron
that is believed to represent an ancient
fall.
The slice is from one Of two similar
masses that were found in January,
1905, within few miles of Dawson,
Klondike, and from their position deep
in the oldest gravels Of the district,
are thought to have rested there since
the Pliocene age. or before.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-02-10
NATIONAL CAPITAL
GiG AFFAIRS aiiIB
Navy Is Nearly 100 Per Cent American

1t is a well-behaved navy, too, as
only 6S per cent of the total number
of discharges were dishonorable. and
but Cos per cent of the total men in
the service during the year deserted
Good conduct medals In the service to-
falling over 5000, some men having
eight to their credit also testify TO
the character of the enlisted men.
The distribution of men by states
gives New York the lead in both ma
tivity and residence; 1882 in the for
mer and ALTO in the latter. Pennsyl-
1881 and 9.299, respectively. The ma
tive sons list gives third place to
Massachusetts, fourth to Illinois and
fifth to Texas.
Out of the total, 119,2O5 sailors.
there are i10.024 white, 5,545 Fill
pinos, 1858 negroes, 1876 Chinese, 80
japanese, 1870 Samoans, 249 Cha
mooros, 296 Hawaiians, 1877 Porto
Ricans and SO American Indians.
The American navy also is young
navy, 1855 being under twenty-one !;
two-thirds of them are twenty-four
and under, and only 904 are above for
ty-fve, although SO are over sixty and
Still active.
Eight per cent of the enlisted men
are married, total Of 9,836 men. Over
half the men have had previous sea
service and 449 Of them have served
over twenty years.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-02-10

Every accommodation has been made
for the married trainees to insure the
comfort Of the student and his family
Model cottages have been built and
furnished by the government.
The administrative head Of the
schools Will be Colonel Symmonds.
who was chief Of the public service
commission of Cuba in 1898.
Plans are made for the accommoda-
ton Of 5000 or more students at the
Chillfcothe school.
The National Vocational schools
will take the place Of many inferior
types of schools formerly giving in
struction to veterans.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-02-10
CANDLES GROW ON TREES
Remarkable Fruit Found in Islands
Of the Pacific, and Same
Other Places.

The candle tree Is to be found In
the Pacific islands. The nut which 1t
yields produces a large quantity of
oil, and the kernels Of this candle
nut are strung together on stick
and lighted as a candle. The fruit of
the candle tree is usually about forty
two inches long and about an inch In
diameter. OF yellowlsh tint the fruit
as it hangs on the tree looks exactly
like a collection Of wax candles. Not
only have these wonderful trees been
discovered In the Pacific islands but
it is recorded that some have been
known to thrive In the isle of Wight.
Then there Is the japanese wax tree,
the fruit Of which is mostly pure wax.
This is used for making wax candles.
The "wax fruit" which this remark
able tree bears grows in punches, just
like grapes. In China, too, a won
derful wax is obtained from shrub
called the Stillingia Sebifera. This
tree produces punches Of berries, and
In the autumn, when these are quite
white and the leaves have put on their
autumn color" beautiful. striking
nature picture Is presented. And.
finally luminous mushrooms have been
reported. This may seem Incredible.
but the fact remains that DIR. w. Fl.
Harvey has recorded that when in
Port Jackson, In some woods one
night, he was able to see the time
from his watch by the aid of the light
from some luminous "agarics" (mush-
rooms).
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-02-10

Jane Porter,
ID 2 { ttsh novelist,
was born mt Dur
ham In I7z8. Her
life and literary
reputation W ere
closely linked with
those of her Sis
ter, Anna Maria
POr ter. novelist,
and her brother,
Sir Robert ker
p or er, painter
and traveller. Az
ter their fathers
death In IT'D.
their mother re-
moved to Edin-
burgh, where the
children. as they
grew older, had
their love of r0-
nance stimulated
-a.s
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-02-10
Gate for Crossings.

A new safety gate for railroad cross
ings is designed which stretches across
the road like the old style gate. but 10
flexible and elastic, so that 1t gives in
stead Of breaks when run into. The
gate will force the vehicle backwards.
away from danger.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-02-10
A Daily Prayer.

Keep back thy servant also from pre-
sumptuous sins; let them not have do
minion over me; then shall ! be up
right, and shall be innocent from the
great transgression. Let the words OF
my mouth, and the meditation Of my
heart be acceptable In thy sight, O
Lord. my strength. and my Redeemer.
Psalm 19:13-14.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-02-10

ny ALTON
with Flora Macdonald and the young
walter Scott. The sister. Anna Maria,
published n long series of works dur
ing the years between 1877 and 1880,
but In the meantime, Jane Porter,
..whose Intellectual power, though
siower Of development and I'm express
sion. was greater than her sister's,-
published her FIRST work, serhaddeus of
Warsaw (Is03), which gained for her
an immedi popularity. It was trans
lated into several languages. and won
for the author the election az canoness
OF the Teutonic order OF st. Joachim.
Some years before the Appearance of
seott's 'sWaverley,r Jane Porter at
tempted the national romance in her
"scottish Chiefs" The story of WAL
lace had been q great favorfte with
her since childhoody and the poem of
"Blind Harry" Henry the MinstreD
was doubtless well known to her. The
book lacked historical accuracy and she
made the figure of Wallace q rather
ter, yet her picturesque power Of mar
ration saved the story from oblivion.
Miss Porter's later works include
"The Pastors Fireside." "Duke Chris
tisn of Lunenburg,'. "Coming Oute and
ssThe Field OF Forty Footsteps.. She
wrote In conjunction with her sister,
"Tsles Round Winter Hearth. She
wrote also some plays and made fire.
quept contributions to current periodi-
calls.
Miss Porter Joined her brother in
Russia for . time. but at his death
she returned to England to reside with
her eldest brother at Bristol. where she
died on the 24th OF May, 1850.