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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-20

Since President Harding declared
his intention of interfering in the
strike situation, all the parties to the
two big labor controversies have be-
gun to seek a spot on which to alight.
All strikes ever called have ended in
time. Those existing at this time will
prove no exception to the rule. Prob
ably neither the railway employees nor
the miners are DESTROYS that the gov
eminent should assume operation of
the industries with which they are
connected. They could not hope to
obtain the granting of their demands
from that source. Their sentiments
on the subject of government opera
ton probably are shared by the own
ers of the properties. With both
parties agreed on this matter it ap-
pears probable that they will be able
to agree on points which now are
holding them apart.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-20
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.


was laying on the setting room
floor wishing vacation was all yeer
GROUND insted of Jest summir and pop
was writing a letter at mas desk and
had a ideer saying Hay pop our
fletcher told us once that germs grow
quicker in milk than they do in eny-
thing.
She was quite rite and that's the
reason the law compells the milk COM
panies to take SO meny saniterry pre-
cautions pop sed.
Well how is that, opo, do germs
like milkr I sed.
They're crazy about 1t, pop sed.
How abou microbes, do they like it
too? 1 sed
Jest as mulch, II not more, pop sed.
And backteria too? i sed.
You bet, pop sed, and I sed. G. that's
a good thing to know, aint it pop?
Splendid, pop sei, and I sed, I'm
glad I found 1t out.
Nolledge is power, pop sed
And he kepp on writing his letter
and / sed, Well hay pop?
Watts a matter now? pop sed.
If milk is libel to be so full of
germs and microbes and things wy
cant have a glass of grape Jooee for
brekist and suppir insted of q glass
of milk? I sed.
Because Y is a crooked letter. now
either go to bed rite or get up off the
floor one or the other. pop sed.
Wfch 1 got up off the floor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-20
George MqtthetD Adams
Daily Talk
OTHERS.

OTHERS
What a word this is ANYWAY
others. What would you do, what
would I do witheut-others?
striving unleas it is made a part of
the general scheme of others.
Try to get along without others in
any way, and see what happens.
No one has & taste of real happi-
ness until he has served. until he has
felt the rebounding appreciation OF
others.
Even the birds and animals under
stand. You rarely see them alone.
They must have their kind with them.
None of us are self-made. We are
all others-made.
have had an opportunity of watch
ing many workmen OF late. I note
that they work together. that they
each depend upon the other-and at
lunch time they do not draw away
separately but all get together for a
wonderful time over their sandwiches
When an organization becomes ex-
ceedingly perfect, they talk of It as
a machine" even tho it is made up
of human beings. And that is be-
cause each man or woman works in
accord, as one wheel meshes with an
other.
One of my favorite lines is one I
has inspired me over many years
Here 1t is: HE climbs highest who
helps another upr
Only as we truly feel the touch of
others as we so along are we able to
understand what Is really back of
happiness apart from others.
So If you want to be happy. begin
by thinking of ethers--then start do
ing something for others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-20

up in front of a broadcasting machine
and his image appear in every police
station in the country equipped with
a suitable receiving instrument. De-
tectives could be called in to look at
him and identify him as his picture
is shown on screen, or photographs
can be made by radio and filed away
in police stations for future use
The instrument would have tacti-
cal value in event of war. A battle
on sea or land could be watched as
1T occurred from the offices of the
chiefs in command at Washington
But the greatest volume of business
when radio pictures are in use will
come from the homes, Mr.. Jenkins
concludes. BY sending music on one
wave length and pictuFes on another
an entire opera may be enjoyed thru
both ear and eye Looking in, as well
as listening in, is to be the next indoor
family sport.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-20

curries Lucy made doughnuts and
layer cakes, feather-light bread, berry
pies. dumping stews-dishes on which
the Varneys for generations had
thrived.
The Junior varney. tho he seemed
to be on the best of terms with his
fatEer, was cast in a different mold.
In his university days he had become
engrossed in the study of sociology
and economics. Flatly refusing to
to account in money making, he had
accepted post as professor in his
university and was spending his first
vacation in the preparation of his
masters thesis. Tho he was some
thing of a dreamer, Lucy soon discov-
cred that he was no idier. When she
went quietly below stairs before the
other servants at s O'Clock in the
morning TO prepare hot bread for the
early breakfast young Yarney was al
ways at work in his study.
At the end of two months Lucy and
George Varney, jr., had become the
best of friends BY the end of the
summer friendship had gradually ma
the son of the Varney with the Midas
touch.
The Saturday following the plight
ing of their troth the senior Varney
appeared in the kitchen when Lucy
was preparing breakfast.
seized both her hands, tho they were
foury from some biscuits just under
way.
ut was exactly my idea" he told
her. Il wanted George to marry.
George has a brilliant mind and a
brilliant future. I DON'T quarrel with
him over his choice of a career-but
he'd got a lot of fool ideas in college
knew he'd never marry any of the
girls he's met. He's just enough of
a socialist and a dreamer to steer
clear of that sort of an alliance. So
when you came in that morning 1
spotted you at once as the girl he'd
select if he had chance to find you
for himself If he found you working
in the kitchen all the better
But how in the world did you de-
eide it all SO quickly 2"
The elder Varneys laughed. 1.-THE
Varneys never were slow" he said.
BY the way, it only took you two
winks to decide to accept my Offer
Copyright, 1922, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-20

1t is becoming evident that the
Muscle Shoals problem is to be settled
on a basis of politics instead of bust
ness This means of course that the
Ford proposal will not be adopted, but
this fact will not stop the government
from continuing TO squander money
on the plant as it is doing on its
merchant fleet. If Uncle Sam could
find somebody who would accept
Muscle Shoals and his ships as a gift
he would have accomplished one of
the greatest economies in the history
of the country One white elephant
has generally been considered a sur
plus but the United States has come
into the possession of two Muscle
Shoals apparently is not giving Henry
Ford anything like the amount OF
worry that it is causing the senate.
He goes right along making and mar
keting automobiles, apparently undis-
turbed by what the senate is doing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-20
Dorothy DIX Talks
Family Curinsitr-a

/
| Undoubtedly. there is no other one
thing on earth more trying, and more
wearing on nerves and temper than
this peering, prying, poking curiosity
of the old, but it has its pathetic side
as well. 1t means that the old have
no life of their own, no hopes, no plans
for the future. They only live thru
those about them. They must take
their pleasures yicariously. They
must feed on other peoples interest.
Nothing happens to them, :. They
have no adventures. Nobody writes
them gay and interesting letters
Their own friends are as dull and dead
as they are. Nothing is going TO hap
pen to them but a funeral, SO they
must snatch what they can out of
other peoples lives.
| Surely, when we think of that we
should not begrudge them the cruin BIS
Of interest that fall from our over full
table, and we should bear more
patiently the endless questioning about
| matters that are no concern of theirs.
| 1t is troublesome, and tiresome, to
| have to stop to explain to an old
woman that it was Mary Jones who
just called on the telephone and she
said that her cook had left, and her
| baby had the Group, but that meager
and innocuous piece of news gives the
| old lady omething to think about for
the next two hours. 1t is a hideous
bore to have to recount to an old man
every single step of your progress
downtown and back, but it gives a
touch of interest to his long day, and
surely these things shall be accounted
unto us for merit when we, too, come
! to the time. of life when we are
spiritual parasites. living upon the
fresh young lives of our children and
grandchildren.
Senility, however, is the only excuse
| ia r1ailxy PT1ri01ifU Hinder fhrRa-
score-and-ten it is absolutely unjusti-
| fable, and anyone who INDUCES in
| the vice should be boiled in oil as the
only punishment that fits the crime.
Every decent human soul has its
reserve. 1t has its secret chamber
across whose door mo Admittance'' is
| written. 1t has its love of privacy
| that it Jealousy guards and it reseuts
as an indefensible offence having
these outraged.
The unacknow1edged wish of almost
every heart is to be able to live ones
own life without being watched, and
without having to give an account for
every single act one does. The highest
to be called upon for explanations and
excuses. This is impossible in the
average home where family curiosity
gets in it's deadly work, and where
without having to tell about the old
one having worn out, and how one
happened to need a new one. and at
what shop one bought it, and what
one said to the clerk, and the clerk
replied, and so on, ad nauseum.
1t is to escape family curiosity that
families break up and go live as far
from each other as they can.
The moral of all of which is that
we should abolish the questionable on
the hearthstone. Perhaps If we ruth
lessly suppressed our curiosity in our
youth we would ask fewer questions
when we are old, and SO be less of an
affliction to those who have to endure
u.s.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-20

natural conditions in this country, in
Guiding rock formation and depth of
mines are considerably more condu-
Give to safe mining. Ignorance, care
lessness and indifference are respon-
sible for our high accident rate" Of
fetal figures are cited showing that
for the last nine years an average of
2.ss6 men have been killed annually
in our coal mines and that during the
first quarter of the present year alone
566 coal miners have been killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-20

The National Retail Dry Goods as
ISOLATION declares itself opposed to the
proposed tariff because rates have not
been constructed in a scientific. nom
partisan. non-poIitical manner; be-
cause it carries higher rates on most
finished products than a sound. pro-
tective principle requires; because it
will tend to raise prices to the con-
sumner; because it will tend to restrict
imports necessary to the international
commerce of the United States and in
SO doing will damage the interests of
all those on whose exportabIe surplus
the international price has vital and
direct influence, namely, the farmer.
the cotton grower. the producer of
metals, and the exporting maEutar-
turer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-20

Instead of devoting its time to in
effectual discussions of the tariff, the
bonus and the ship subsidy, the senate
would do well to turn its attention to
the solution of some of the real prob
lens which confront the country. The
president has undertaken to handle
the coal and railway situations and
may need the assistance of congress
before he completes the job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-20

The Russians continue to hold up
the parleys at The Hague by their re-
fusal to consider the return of con-
fiscated property. More progress
might be made if Russia were disre-
garded for a time. and attention were
devoted to curing the ills of some of
the other nations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-20

Mr.. Gompers is reported as express
ing the belief that President Hard
ing,s effort to bring about a reopen
ing of the mines will not affect the
coal supply to any great extent. But
the federation head frequently has
guessed wrong.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-20
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-20

Germany has just laid France $12-
100000 on account. This country
would like to see the Frenchmen pass
the money along in this direction.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-06-30
Democratic Ticket.
For Representative.

BRATTON We are authorized to an
nounce S. r. Bratton as a candidate tor
reelection as Representative from Obion
County in the General Assembly Of Ten
nessee, .ubject to the action of the Demo-
cratic party,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-06-30
PUBLIC NOTICE

OF THE QUALIFICATION OF Elk.
ECUTORs AND EXECUTRIX OF
THE ESTATE OF o. DIRCKs, DE-
CEASED.
Public notice is hereby given of
the qualification of the undersigned
as executor and executrix of
the estate of O. Dircks, de-
ceased, on May goth, 1922,
in the County Court OF Obion County,
Tennessee. All persons having claims
against the estate of o. Dircks, de-
ceased, are hereby required ITO file
the same with the Clerk of the Coun-
ty Court of Obion County, whether
due or not, proven as required by law
and within the time required by law.
This the 9Th day of June, 1922.
c. N. LANNOM, Executor.
MRS. MARY M. DIRCKS,s Il
11-4t Executrix.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-06-30
The Chautauqua.

The people of Union City are never
quite satisfied unless they are ia
vored With an occasional visit from
the centers of music, art and litera-
ture, and they have welcomed this in
connection with the chautauqua spir-
it. They were therefore this week at
tending in good numbers the elev-
enth annual meeting of the Redpath
Chautauqua in Union City. 1t is the
worst time of all the chautauqua
meetings held at this place, and
therefore the sale of tickets this year
was a little short of the usual sales.
Heretofore there have never been
any losses except the loss of time in
the ticket campaign, but those who
enjoy the chautauqua work are will
ling to devote some time for this pur-
pose. The program this year was in
teresting. We have no accurate way
to measure the talent in comparison
with former meetings, excepting as
the performances appeal to us.
Whether the cost is more or less to
the management is not a concern of
ours, but there have been some
mighty fine things in the 1922 pro-
gram. The superintendent, Mr..
Hughes, has been very kind and ac-
commodating. He has with him a
gentlemanly corps of assistants, all
fine young men. Mr.. Hughes is him
self at home on the stage and his an
nouncements are looked for by those
who expect to hear exactly what is
coming for the next day at the tent.
The kindest regards to the man
agement and all concerned.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-06-30
FOR SALE.

BY order of the Chancery Court,
the home place belonging to the s.
P. Harris estate will be sold on
Tuesday, June 81, 1922.
at $3.50 pm. on the premises. This is
a valuable piece of property, being
10-room brick residence with base
ment, garage, barn and large garden
size of lot 1872 feet by poles; also
another house and lot on College
street near the M. & 0. r. r. where
Mr.. Kelley now lives. All persons
interested in this property may have
the privilege of inspecting same at
any time from now to the time of
sale.
See circulars for full description
of this property.
TERMS OF SALE-One-hal cash,
balance IL months from date with
interest 1t will also be sold as
cash proposition, and the sale bring
ing the most money will be accepted
by the court. 11-3t
w. G. REYNOLDS,
Administrator.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-06-30
When Packets Ran the 0bion River

More than so years ago packets
ran from Memphis up the Obion Riv-
er. They carried great cargoes of
cotton and took back merchandise.
Phe last of these lines was the steam
er Verona. She was about 100 feet
long and 25 wide. She ran between
Memphis and Obion, Tenn.
To-day, % years ago, the Verona
hit a snag two miles this side of
Obion and sank. The trade was fad
ing out because railroads had made it
impossible to get freight, so she was
allowed to remain where she sank.
On the same day the steamer City
of Sheffield, owned by the St. Louis
& Tennessee River Packet Company,
hit a hidden obstruction while pass
ing over Grand Chain in the Ohio
River near Cairo and sank in five feet
of water. She was raised and gave
the company considerable service af-
forwards.
The City of jacksonville, owned by
the Louisville & Cincinnati Packet
Company, sank opposite Madison,
Ind. % years ago to-day. She was
en- route up stream and in backing
away from the wharf at Madison,
hit a stone dyke. A long hole was
torn in her hull and she sank rapidly,
proving a total loss. The accident oc-
CURED at AIS o'clock in the morn
irr Memphis Commercial Appeal.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-06-30
Street Work Begins.

Commissioner of Streets Hopper
and a force of expert mechanics
t'rigged up" the new engine and
street working machin 1ry Monday.
They 'tuned 'er up" down on West
Jackson street, and ploughed and
graded the old rock street to the en-
tire satisfaction of all the interested
spectators. The good work is now
on and will continue until all our old
worn-out driveways have been made
like new. After the scarifying or
blowing and grading, then comes the
new topping and finishing by the ia
nous penetration" system.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-06-30
To Build New Home.

Mr.. G. T. Smith, architect, Of Pa
ducah, was in the city the first of
the week comforting with Mr.. Harris
Parks. He has prepared plans and
specifications for a new residence to
be erected by Mr.. Parks on beauti-
full lot on East Main street, Bids are
now being received, the contract to
be awarded at once and the work
pushed to completion. 1t is to be a
handsome home of modern Dutch
cottage design, eight rooms, large
basement and convenient attic, The
location selected is known as the H
Lyon lot, one of the most desirable
in the city, and Mr.. End Mrs. Parks
expect to be lat home" to their
friends in the early fall.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-06-30

MAIN STREET, in the town of I'm
ion City, Tennessee, from First
street to the east line CT Home
street in said town.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-06-30
PROPERTY OWNERS TAKE NO
TICE-FRONT FOOT ASSESS
MENT NO. IL.

MAIN STREET, in the town Of I'm
ion City, Tennessee, from First
street to the east line CT Home
street in said town.
Take notice that the Board of
Mayor and Aldermen of Union City,
Tennessee, on the 9Th day of June,
1922, passed a Street improvement
Ordinance No. IL, to provide FOR the
improvement of Main street in the
town of Union City, Tennessee, from
the east line of First street to the
east line of Home sti Get, includ-
ing intersections, by repairing,
draining, curbing, guttering and
paving with Sheet Asphalt on Con-
crete Base, and doing all work Incl
dent to such improvements pursuant
to Chapter 8 of the Acts of the First
Extra Session of the Legislature of
the State of Tennessee for the year
1913.
According to said ordinance and
said statute, two-thirds of the cost
of said improvement is to be borne
by the abutting property owners on
said street and the intersecting
streets, and one-thir1 by the town
VI .OulUu OlIy, lGHu6SS60. Auu Sdlu
Board of Mayor and Aldermen will
meet at the Recorders office in the
town of Union City, Tennessee, on
the 3rd day of July, 1922, at $500
pm, to hear any remonstrances or
protests against the making of said
improvement or improvements. Full
details, plans, specifications and es-
Inmates of the cost of said improve
ments will be on file at said Record
ers office on or before said date, sub
ject to the inspection of any proper
ty owner affected by such improve
ment. And on said date and at said
meeting all persons whose property
may be affected by such improve
ment may appear in person or by
attorney or by petition, and protest
against the making of SUCH improve
ment, the material to be used and
the manner of making the same.
Said ordinance is on file at the Of
flee of the City Recorder, subject to
inspection by any person interested,
and said ordinance is also set out in
full in the Union City Commercial
of Friday, June %, 1922.
This June 21st, 1922.
]. W. WOOSLEY, Mayor
w. d. KEISER, City Recorder.
Published in the Union City Com
mercial June %, 1922.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-06-30
Woman Thinks She
Can't Talk Enough

II had gall stones for IA years and
suffered severely from gas, collie and
indigestion. Doctors wanted me to
go to the hospital, but 1 took Mayr's
Wonderful Remedy instead and am
now feeling fine and better than
ever did. 1 can't ak enough about
this remedy" 1t is simple,
harmless preparation that removes
the catarrhal mucus from the intes-
final tract and allays the in1am-
ma-ion which causes practically all
stomach, liver and intestinal all
ments, including appendicitis. One
dose will convince or money re-
funded. Sold by divers Red Cross
Drug Store and druggists every
where.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-06-30
John Whitehead, Marshall White
head, James Whitehead, FIJI.
Whitehead, Leila Ward and Her
Husband L. H. Ward.
G. M. Martin ct ais. VS.. Lille Tansil

C. NJ Martin ct ais. VS.. Lille Tansil
ct als.-Chancery Court, Obion
Couny, Tennessee.
In the above styled cause 1t APP
pearing to the Clerk and Master from
the bill of complaints which is sworn
to, that the defendants, John White
head, Marshall Whitehead, James
Whitehead, F. HI. Whitehead, Leila
Ward, and husband B. H. Ward, are
non-residents Of the State Of Tennes-
see, so that ordinary process Of law
cannot be served upon them. 1t is
therefore hereby ordered that the
said above named defendants appear
before the Clerk and Master of the
Chancery Court of Obion Coun-
ty, Tennessee, on or before
the First Monday of August,
1922, that being rule day of said
Chancery Court, and make defense to
the said bill, or the same will be TAX
en- as confessed by them, and the said
cause set for hearing ex-parte. as to
them. 1t is further ordered that pub
lication of this notice be made for
four consecutive weeks in The Com
mercial, weekly newspaper pub
lished in Obion County, Tenn. 1874
This June 10, 1922.
GEO. A. GIBBS,
Clerk and Master.
BY nellie F. Marshall. D. c. g. M.
]. w. Rankin, Sol. for Complt.