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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22
Death Near Ruthville.

Hafford Provow, of Water Valley,
passed away yesterday afternoon at
$50 at the home Of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs John Provow, near Ruth
vile. He was 20 years of age. He
was highly respected in his communi-
ty, was member of the Methodist
Church in his home town and a good
citizen.
He is survived by a grief-stricken
wife and one little daughter, faith
er and mother, and one sister besides
many friends and other relatives, who
sympathize with the bereaved fam
ily.-Fulton Leader.
The funeral party arrived here yes
terday afternoon and the body was
laid to rest at East View at $3.50.
Mr. Provow was married about three
years ago to Miss Elsie Woodfin, of
this city. He had resided here for
some time and was on a visit to his
parents when he became ill four
weeks ago. The young wife and lit
tie baby girl have the sympathy of
host of friends in this community.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22
ROUTE THREE.

Mr.. and Mrs. L. T. Holiday are
spending this week with relatives
in Paducah.
Henry Jackson went to Union City
Friday.
]. L. Glover attended the Tennes-
sec Kentucky Baptist Association
near Camden, in Benton County last
week.
Mrs. John Isbell is spending this
week at Dawson Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Minor Ferguson have
taken into their home a little nine
months old orphan child to raise.
Mrs. Bradley carried her little af-
fiicted boy to Memphis last week and
had his leg operated on, piece of
the bone being removed. The little
fellow was doing very well at last
report.
The Woodland Mills Baptist
Church has called the Rev. Montez,
of Jackson, to the care of their
church He has accepted the call
and will enter on the work the first
Sunday in October.
Elonzo Bryant has rented from
John Duncan the Journey farm in
Number Three and will move there
in the near future.
The ice cream supper at Crystal
last Friday night was decided sue
cess financially. The proceeds will
be used for the benefit of the new
consolidated school building which
is being erected there.
Mr.. J. D. Alexander, who was
stricken with something like sun
stroke in Union City last week is re-
covering. :
Born on the 18th to Mr.. and Mrs.
Jim Marshall, twin girls, weighing
So and 81 lbs. respectively, COM
bined weight Is lbs. Mother and
babe are getting along fine.
There will be an entertainment at
the Woodland Mills schoolhouse next
Friday night the 22d. The proceeds
will be used for the basket ball team.
Messrs. j. L. Glover and M. L.
Glover and Frank Fowler were
among the Masons who attended the
Masonic funeral of Delbert Wilson at
Crescent Tuesday.
Mrs. Henry Jackson has trans
ferred her music class from her home
on Route Three to the home of Mrs
T. M. Flack in Woodland Mills for
the convenience of the public school
pupils. She spends. Tuesdays and Fri
days of each week at Mrs. Flack's
giving music lessons.
Messrs. Alton and Clyde Maupin
went to Fulton last Monday to visit
their brother, Thelbert, who has been
critically ill for some weeks. They
found him much improved.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22
PLEASANT HILL.

Miss Allie Miller is visiting in
Newborn this week.
Miss Carmen Forbis spent the day
with Miss Maple Barnes Sunday.
Miss Matte Howell, of Polk, is Wis
iting her cousin, Miss Gladys Rice.
Mrs. Martha Forester was Wis
itor in the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
F. M. Forester Monday.
Aunt Sarah Holloway, of Rives,
is visiting her granddaughter, Mrs.
Walden Calhoun, this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Walden Calhoun and
children were Sunday visitors with
Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Talmage Johnson are
the proud parents of fine baby girl
which arrived Saturday night.
Mr., and Mrs. Dick Forester and
children, of Troy, were Sunday Wis
itors with Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Forres-
ter
Mr.. and Mrs. Ewell Summit, of
Henderson, Tenn, spent few days
with Mrs. Summitt's mother, Mrs.
Tom Walden, this week.
Miss Mary Lee Wise entertained
the young people Friday night, it be-
ing her eighteenth birthday. Every
one reports a jolly good time.
Mr.. Edgar. Pope and Miss Minnie
Forester were united in marriage
in Union City on Monday afternoon,
Sept. 1S. The bride is native of the
Pleasant Hill vicinity and the groom
a resident of Union City.
NICY.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22
Death of Mrs. O. H. Jones.

Mrs. Jones, wife of Mr.. OH. Jones,
who has been in declining health for
a year, died at the family home near
Shady Grove Church on Tuesday, the
18th inst, and the remains were in
tered at Shady Grove with services
at the church by Revs. ]. H. Thomas
and G. w. Evans. Mrs. Jones leaves
husband and four small children.
She was the daughter of Mr.. Gordon,
of that vicinity and a member of the
Methodist Church. The kindest con-
dolences are extended to the be-
reaYed.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22
Bermuda Permits Autos,

Bermuda has given way and will now
have automobiles, under public con
troll. A majority of the legislative
body of Bermuda has at last agreed
to permit a system of motorbusses for
passengers and freight. Private mo-
torcars, however, will stay under the
bfh.
After religiously excluding the mo-
torcar and permitting only horses and
bicycles, Bermuda has declared for the
motorcar, but only as public con-
veyance with its operation and man
agement subject to strict surveillance.
The Nations Business.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22
rrUuf Go!tlng Hero.

Lord Riddell, who made many Amer
lean friends at the Washington con.
ference, speaking at a recent luncheon
at the Criccieth Golf club, London, re-
lated:
"The greatest hero in golf history
was a Scotsman, who In the year ITO
used to start playing at dawn and end
by putting at the last green by candle
light
Matters reached such stage that
his wife, an innkeeper, applied for a
separation order. This enabled the
man to make one Of the most pathetic
declarations in history.
LET her have the business he
said, provided she gives me sufficient
to clothe and feed myself and provide
myself with golf balls
"The magistrates must have thought
1t very proper disposition of the
marital property, because they de-
creed accordingly, and the gentleman
lived to be ninety-five and continued
his vocation"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22
UNDERWOOD.

Mrs. Oscar Jones died at her home
east of town Tuesday morning after
long Illness and was buried at Sha-
day Grove Wednesday with services
conducted by Rev. Evans assisted by
Rev. Henry Thomas. She leaves
father, Mr.. Dave Gordon, brother,
Jim Gordon, husband and four chill
dren.
Mr.. Hafford Provow died Tuesday
night at the home of his mother near
Fulton, KY, where he has been sick
since taken suddenly i'll while at the
Fulton fair. He had been proprietor
of barber shop since buying out
John Ross several months ago. He
is a son-in-law of Mr.. John Woodfn,
the grocer in adjoining building, and
leaves wife and little daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. Pursley are
expected home soon from three
weeks visit among relatives in Tex
as, where they have been seeing the
sights OF the oil fields. They will also
visit Mr.. Pursley's brother in Mem
phis.
Several patrons of Underwood
School have expressed themselves as
pleased with the beginning of the
new term with Mr. Bryant, of Nc
Kenzie, principal and Mr.. Baulch
and Miss Bynum assistants. A pro-
gram is being prepared to be given
by one division of the literary So
ciety Friday afternoon. The meet
ing will be in the afternoons instead
of at night SO that more of the pa
irons can attend.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22
Death of nelhert Wilson.

Delbert B. Wilson, IS, prominent
farmer of the Third District, died
Monday morning of typhoid fever,
following an illness of many weeks.
Mr.. Wilson was a graduate of the
Union City Training School and
spent several weeks as teacher in
the Walnut Log vicinity. He is sur
vived by his mother and one brother,
Rice Wilson, of this county. Funeral
services were conducted Monday af-
ternoon by Rev. Banks and the body
was laid to rest in the cemetery at
Crescent.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22
Beech Church.

Rev. r. e. White began his pasto-
rate at Beech last Sunday. The
preaching days have been changed
from second and fourth Sundays to
first and third.
The Junior C. E. meetings are very
interesting, as are the teacher train
ing class meetings.
Sunday school at 10 o'clock every
Sunday. All invited. Come.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22

the total enrolment last year. Sew
erai men volunteered to haul gravel
to go about the doors and to build
walks. Mr. Ed Russell, Mr.. Ed Har-
mond and Mr.. W. H. Latimer were
appointed a committee to see about
getting the roads worked leading to
tho school.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22
Saw One on the CEILING.

whats a plesiosaurus ~ asked Mr..
BIBLES.
"a prehistoric monster that lived a
long time ago" said Mr.. Jagsby.
"What did it look like?"
Like something that never was. 1
could have given you a pretty good de-
scription of plesiosaurus after my
last illness-the one that caused me
to sign the pledge. Birmingham Age
Herald.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22
Forgotten Great Ones.

"The old Thespian who played with
Booth and Barrett has about disap-
peared."
Its just as well If he showed up
in Hollywood he wouldn't make much
of an impression, The beauteouS
stars. the directors and the eminent
producers probably wouldn't know
whom he wis talking Ut."-Bir.
mingham Age Herald.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22

Now that the women have adopted
bobbed, bushy hair, what will the
football players do for a mark of
distinction memphis News-Seimi-
tar.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22
vnarge VIII Be Made only For Auto
Races and Style Shows.

Grandstand seats will be free each
afternoon of the Memphis Tri-SCate
Fair, Spet. 23 to 80. At most fairs
throughout the country there is a
charge for grandstand privileges, but
the directors of the Memphis exposi
ton adopted policy last year to allow
any and all persons to occupy seats
in the big structure without any
charge.
In view of the fact that there is a
great amusement program taking up
the entire afternoon each day, with
such things as harness horse racing,
the finest outdoor vaudeville, band
concerts, dog races and other splendid
amusement features, the free use or
the grandstand will be an added in
ducement for hundreds of persons to
enjoy one or more days at the big
Memphis exposition.
An admission charge will be made
for the Style Show on Wednesday and
Thursday nights This event will be
the biggest feSturs ever staged in the
South.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22
u. S. is SENDING
EXHIBIT TO FAIR

The United States Department OF
Agriculture will have big display
covering 1000 square feet of floor
space at the Tri-State Fair, September
1880, it is definitely announced.
Working models, instruments and
appliances of all kinds used in vari
Gus activities of the department will
be on display to show how work OF
everyday value to the people of the
country is performed.
The Bureau of Animal Husbandry
will exhibit self-feeders for hogs, the
various breeds of swine poultry house
and colony growing houses, trap nests,
illustrate methods of culling the farm
flock, methods Of tick eradication, a
COW barn and milk house for small
herd, organization and work of bull
associations, methods of treating hog
cholera and other farm diseases, the
handling of sheep, and many kindred
things, any one of which will be OF
great value to farmers of this territory.
In addition, the Bureau of Plant In.
dustry will have an exhibit bearing on
kinds of plant diseases, methods of
procuring good seed corn and forage
crops, types of rice and oats heads,
tree surgery, apd much other matter
of much educational worth to any
farmer.
Other bureaus of the governments
great agricultural department are to
share in the exhibit so that it will be
splendidly rounded out to give highly
interesting and instructive information
of the governments work and meth
DDS.
The Ely miner., 1922-02-03
CANDLES GROW ON TREES
Remarkable Fruit Found in Islands
of the Pacific, and Some
Other Places.

The candle tree is to be found in
the Pacific islands. The nut which it
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 a yellowish tint the fruit
as it hangs on the tree looks exactly
like 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 a 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" a beautiful, striking
nature picture is presented. And,
finally luminous mushrooms have been
reported. This may seem incredible,
but the fact remains that DR.. w. HI.
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).
The Ely miner., 1922-02-03

The Victorian girl, according to the
English authorities, was much better
mother than the modern feminine
athlete, because she wisely conserved
her store of vital and nervous energy
for the crisis of motherhood instead OF
wasting it daily on the tennis court,
golf course or hockey field. This sur
prising assertion seems to have made
serious impression upon England,
where there is now strong move
ment for milder school athletics for
girls.
But American physical culture ex-
perts, speaking for and TO American
girls, have little sympathy with the
Britishers. Most of them are inclined
to say absolute tommyrot," and thus
dismiss the subject.
But when one discusses the subject
he-or she--is apt to talk very
much like DR.. Dudley Sargent. He is
physical director of Harvard. But he
is also head of the Sargent School
of Gymnastics In Cambridge. Mass,
which indicates that he probably
knows considerable about athletics
and girls. Incidently, the photographs
reproduced herewith-with the excep-
ton of that of Molla BjUrstedt NAL
lory, who is put in for good measure
are of girls doing athletic stunts at
his school. Dr. Sargent says:
1T is unfortunate that such state
ments have just enough truth In them
so that they cannot be contradicted
in their entirety. 1t is true, of course,
that many women do have trouble at
childbirth, but it is unfair to say. that
it is because of athletics. Athletic
training is ideal for women; it de-
velops just the muscles of the alb
domen and the lower part of the back
that she is compelled to use in this
crisis.
"Overindulgence, overtraining-that
is another thing altogether. | do not
believe in that. l have fought ex-
cesses all my life. / do not believe
in the entertaining, for instance, that
leaves boat crew in entire collapse
once the. race Is over.
II believe that these girls who
specialize in tennis, who play all the
time, all over the country, are the
ones who would be sure to have
trouble in the crisis of motherhood.
Such women are tight, tense. keyed
up all the time and muscle bound.
There is vast difference, you know"
Or. III. N. McCracken, president of
Vassar college, thinks that the Objec-
tion of the English educators TO ath-
letics is based upon All inferiority
complex Victorian ladies have lately
had to endure more scornful pity from
their modern granddaughters. Their
waists were pinched, they have been
told, their minds inactive, their clothes
were clumsy and they were physically
weak (witness the fainting habit) for
lack of fresh air and exercise. "Ah."
they reply at last, but we were bet
ter mothers"
"sThe argument advanced by the
The Ely miner., 1922-02-03

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 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 filled
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.
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 it develops that years before
Sir Robert, under the assumed name
of 'Sackville, went ON journey to Po-
land and while there met Therese So
bieski, 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 it in
his power to blazon abroad his shame
and denounee the present heir to the
Somerset estates as illegitimate?
1t is an ugly tangle, but the author
touches it lightly and straightens it out
with a gentleness Sir Robert Somerset
little deserves.
ThaddeuS is glad TO be the EngllSn-
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 a point Jane Porter
glides pleasantly over. The youth is
given 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 vitally since the days when con-
tinual tears, swoonS and Paintings,
were deemed necessary and desirable
accomplishment of heroes and hero
ines.
Copyright, 1919, by the Post Publishing
Co. (The Boston Post0 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.
The Ely miner., 1922-02-03

Z
with Flora Macdonald and the young
published a long series OF works dur
Ing the yeats between 1897 and 1880;
but I'm the meantime, Jane Porter,
"'whose intellectual power, though
slower of development and I'm express
sion, was greater than her SISTERS
published her first work, "Thaddeus of
Warsaw" (1S03), which gained for her
an immediate popularity. 1t was trans
lated into several languages, and won
for the author the election canoness
of the TeutOnic order of st. Joachim.
Some years before the appearance of
Scott's ''Wayerley,o Jane Porter att
tempted the national romance In her
Scottish Chiefs" The story of Wal
lace had been great favorite with
her since Childhood; 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 a rather
sentimental conception of the charac-
ter; yet her picturesque power of mar
Miss Porter's later works include
E'The Pastors Fireside," "Duke Chris
tian of Lunenburg," "COming Out, and
E'The Field of Forty Footsteps" She
wrote I'm conjunction with her sister.
"'Tales Round a Winter Hearth" She
wrote also some plays and made fire.
quent contributions to current pertodi-
Gals.
Miss Porter Joined her brother I'm
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, 1880.
The Ely miner., 1922-02-03
Old Meteorites Scarce.

Meteorites of indicated great age are
not found In museum collections, and
it 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 a 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.
The Ely miner., 1922-02-03

damages, was to be set in the pillory
in some open market town, and there
publicly to have both ears cut off, his
nostrils slit and cut. and scared with
hot iron, $50 as they remain for a
perpetual mark of his falsehood." the
unhappy forger to finally lose all his
possessions and be imprisoned for
life.
In 1884, according to Edward 81.
Smith, in the Saturday Evening Post,
forgery was made a capital offense
without benefit OF clergy" which meant
that man might not escape the gib-
The Ely miner., 1922-02-03

medicine-preventive, curative, stiInu-
lating and certain"
If DR.. Copeland enjoyed the med
icine ball, he should make tour OF
the Scenic West and national parks
next summer and see what comfort
able and suitable clothing and hiking,
mountain climbing and riding are do
ing for the American young women.
And if he can get away right now he'
should make circle tour of the Rocky
Mount, Yosemite and Mount Raj
nier National parks, where the winter
sports are now in the doing-skiing,
snowshoeing and tObogganing. Anyone
who can believe that these young wom-
en- are becoming physically untitled
for motherhood is hopeless.
Some time ago an article was
printed in The New York Herald
about the improved physical cOndi-
tion of young women. 1t was wide
spread search that led to every part
of the country and especially to all
the women's colleges. In sum, the
facts collected showed that girls Of
today are bigger, stronger, healthier
than ever before, and in passing it
was also learned that this Larger"
to matrimony, that their added inches
and increased strength did not take
from them the instinct of mating and
motherhood. Unless these signs fail,
the generation to appear will have bet
ter chances for health and success in
life than the two or three which in-
mediately preceded it.
In connection with the question Of
"Athletics for Women?" the corset
controversy has again broken out. 1t
naturally would, for the girls of today
are leaving off cOrsets and the per
feet 36' of yesterday is today in the
discard. Says DR.. d. NJ Dunn, head
of the woInen's department of the
Life Extension Institute, in the Fore
cast:
"These winds of contention have
swept everyone into three groups:
Those who stand for the total aban-
donment of the corset; those who ac-
cept it unthinkingly as mere adjunct
to dress; those who, believing it can
be reconciIed with laws of health,
take it seriously enough to select 1t
with the greatest care.
"More than year ago the Interna-
tional Conference of Women Physi-
clans assumed the first position,
adopting the principle Of No Corsets
for Women.
"To the older generation this ques-
tion has almost a neral significance.
They themselves We're brought up in
corsets almost. from babyhood and new
er questioned either their Place in the
toilet or their effect upon the health.
Midway between these two extremes
are they who DO not condemn the cor
set wholesale nor accept it on fashions
terms, but believe it useful If con-.
forming to health in make and fiji"