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machine shops, towers,, bridges, trolley cars hundreds of dif
ferent models from the sets. We handle the Erector and rec
ommend it. We have sets at every price to fit every pocket
book. Drop in and see them, and get free booklet
"The Toy Like
Every set contains a big assortment of parts such as girders,
wheels, gears, angle irons, bolts, nuts, shafting, etc., and illus
trated instruction bosk.
Ours is the Store
For the Boys
Boy Scout Air Guns and Rifles,
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Stephens and Winchester Rifles,
Shot Guns, Hunting Coats,
Bicycles, Tool Chests,
Boy Scout Knives.
IF WE HAVEN'T GOT WHAT YOU WANT
WE'LL GET IT
FRANK C. WEHMAN
Pruning Fruit Trees.
The aim of every grower, even if
only a few trees are to be had, should
be to produce annual crops of high
quality fruit. This is impossible un
less systematic pruning is practiced.
The work of pruning cannot be learn
ed in a day. In the beginning, one
must exercise a little common sense,
and in a short while the art will be
acquired. First-class tools are in
dispensable. Secure a pruning saw,
hand shears, and a pair of long
handled loopers. Study the individ
ual tree and decide upon the parts to
be removed before beginning to
work.
The peach can be severly pruned
each season. This is essential in or
der to keep the bearing surface close
to the ground. An open center tree
is most desirable. Each winter re
move from one-third to two-thirds of
the past season's growth. The growth
of the peach is always progressive,
and unless kept in bounds the fruit
ing wood will be far above ground
a brush-pile in the'air.
Due to the widespread ravages of
FAMILY AVOIDS
SERIOUS SICKNESS
By Being Constantly Supplied With
Thedford'i Black-Draught.
McDuff, Va. "I suffered for several
years," says Mrs. J. B. Whirtaker, ol
(his place, "with sick headache, and
stomach trouble.
Ten years ago a friend told me to try
Thedford's Black-Draught, which 1 did,
and 1 found it to be the best family medi
cine for young and old.
I keep Black-Draught on hand an the
time now, and when my children feel a
little bad, they ask me for a dose, and it
does them more good than any medicine
they ever tried. ...
We never have a long spell of sick
ness in our family, since we commenced
using Black-Draught."
Thedford's Black-Draught is purely
vegetable, and has been found to regu
late weak stomachs, aid digestion, re
lieve indigestion, colic, wind, nausea,
headache, sick stomach, and similar
symptoms.
It has been in constant use for more
than 70 years, and has benefited more
than a million people.
Your flrupgist sells and recommends
Black-Draught. Price only 25c. Get a
Package to-day. rtcta
Thousands of boys like you are
having barrels of fun with this
toy. i ou can make battle ships,
V torpedo boats, derricks, cranes,
Structural Steel"
the fire blight, care should be exer
cised in the pruning of the pear trees
and those varieties of apples that are
susceptible. This disease is exceed
ingly destructive to tender, succulent
growth, and since heavy pruning in
duces wood growth, it is essential
that care be exercised to remove only
a moderate amount of wood - each
year. Remove and destroy all dis
eased branches, disinfecting pruning
tools and wounds with a solution of
corrosive sublimate (1 part corrosive
sublimate to 1,000 parts of water.)
C. J. Hayden, in The Progressive
Farmer.
All-Corn Feeder.
The following are a few experi
mental results to show that it does
not pay to feed corn alone to hogs,
but it does pay to provide some feed
rich in protein to balance the corn:
1. The average of 26 experiments
with 226 hogs showed it cost S7.25
a hundred to produce gains with
corn alone, ranging from $5.12 to
$16.04.
2. With 2.2 pounds of skimmilk
to one pound of corn it cost $4.02 a
hundred pounds of gain, and with
corn alone $8.38.
With corn and shorts it cost $6.98
per hundred pounds gain and with
corn and shorts and skimmilk added
it cost $4.71.
3. With corn alone it cost $7.19
to produce 100 pounds of gain, and
with corn and tankage (one of tank
age to nine of corn) it cost $5.18.
In another test in Nebraska it cost
$7.28 for 100 pounds of gain when
corn alone was used, and $6.59 when
corn and tankage (one to nine) were
used.
4. In a test in Alabama it cost
$7.38 to produce 100 pounds of gain
with corn alone and $5.75. when one
part of cottonseed meal to two parts
of corn was used. .
In Texas It cost $10.85 with corn
alone and $9.08 with cottonseed meal
(one to two). Cottonseed meal
should not be used for more than
three or four weeks.
5. In an Alabama test it cost $7.15
to produce 100 pounds of gain with
corn alone and with soy beans graz
ing and one-fourth ration of corn,
$2.69 counting cost of corn at 70
cents a bushel and the cost of the
soy beans at $8.50 per acre. The
Progressive Farmer.
Have you heard the new music hit,
"I Want Some One to Love Me?". Get
your copy at Caldwell 's Book Store.. 3Gtf
SIXTEEN COUNTIES WILL
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vrtrun An em nnn
Arcnu 40,uu,uuu
Building Beter Roads in Tennessee
Department Helps.
(By O. M. West, Assistant Secretary
State Department of Highways.)
Nashville, Tenn., Deo. 4. Sixteen
counties in Tennessee are now or
soon will begin the expenditure of a
total of $34572,000 in building better
roads in Tennessee. Of these sixteen
counties thirteen are in East Ten
nessee, two in Middle Tennessee and
one in West Tennessee.
Five other counties will hold bond
elections this month on the issuance
of a total of $1,400,000 more which
will, if all carry, make a total of $4,
972,000 to be spent in Tennessee dur
ing the coming year in building bet
ter roads.
Various counties in the State have
issued approximately. $30,000,000 in
bonds for roads during the last ten
years. All road work done in the
State is by the counties and the State
does not give any aid to State or
county roads. However, . under the
bill creating the State department of
highways and fixing the automobile
tax provision is made whereby the
State will aid in maintaining roads.
This will be done with the automo
bile tax thru the department of high
ways. This will be the first State aid
given roads since 1801 when the
Legislature mande an appropriation
to rebuild and complete the old War
ton road from Nashville to Bristol.
This was the old buffalo trail sur
veyed in 1797 by government engi
neers and built by State aid. The
proposed Bristol-t'o-Memphis high
way follows largely this old road.
The law creating the State depart
ment of highways and the tax on
automobile, traction engines, motor
cycles, motor trucks and all motor
driven vehicles, provides that the de
partment of highways cannot spend
more than ten per cent of the tax in
maintaining the department and that
the remainder shall go back to the
county from which it is collected to
be used in maintaining roads desig
nated by the department.
This fund will probably not exceed
$130,000 next year, but will give
some counties fairly good sums for
road maintenance while in others it
will only enable the State depart
ment to give practical demonstra
tions of how to repair roads and in
struct the county road authorities
along these lines.
Under this law all owners of auto
mobiles, motorcycles, traction en
gines and motor trucks Wust pay
their State tax January 1 of each
year and any sale made during the
year requires the purchaser to pay
the same tax, whether it be a new
or a second hand car. It is made a
misdemeanor, punishable by a fine
of from $5 to $50 for the party sell
ing a car not to report the sale and
name of the purchaser to the Sec
retary of State at Nashville within
three days after the sale, and the
same punishment is provided for
those who do not pay the tax.
This law was gotten up by auto
mobile owners over the State as an
encouragement to better roads and
officials of the department of high
ways are laying plans for some prac
tical road work with this fund next
year. The repair work to be done is
under the supervision of a State
highway engineer.
The counties in Tennessee now en
gaged, or goon to be engaged, in
building pike roads are: Anderson,
$157,000; Blount, $300,000; Carter,
$365,000; Claiborne, $250,000; Cum
berland, $200,000; Franklin, $350,
000; Grainger, $200,000; Hamilton,
$200,000; Hawkins, $500,000; Hum
phreys, $250,000; Marion, $100,000;
Meigs, $100,000; Rhea, $100,000;
Scott, $300,000; Sullivan, $200,000;
Union, $100,000.
Counties io hold bond elections
during December are: "Giles, $500,-
000; Rutherford, $150,000; Smith,
$150,000; Stewart, $200,000; Wash
ington, $450,000.
J. J. Murray, Secretary of the State
Department of Highways, is investi
gating the plans being used in many
other States in working State con
victs on the roads Instead of in mines
and factories in competition with
free labor. He is also in correspond
ence with many citizens of the State
and the plan seems to meet with al
most universal favor. If this plan is
adopted by the Legislature it will
mean that various counties in the
State will get their pro rata of State
convicts to work on their roads at
State expense and will, it is claimed,
do more good for better roads than
any other movement and at the same
time take the convicts from competi
tion with free labor and also give a
more humane . method of treating
convicts. As soon as this plan is
fully formulated Mr. Murray will
present it to the people of the State
as one of the forward movements of
the present administration.
STOMACH MISERY
niiiRKiY VANISHES
Your money back if you want it is
the way in which .Oliver's Red Cross
Drug Store, the popular druggists, are
selling Mi-o-na, the great dyspepsia
remedy.
This is an unusual plan, but Mi-o-na
has so much merit and is so almost in
variably successful in relieving all forms
of indigestion that they run but little
risk in selling under a guarantee of this
kind.-
Do not be miserable or make your
friends miserable with your dyspepsia.
Mi-o-na will help you. If it doesn't,
tell Oliver's Red Cross Drug Store that
you want your money back and they
will cheerfully refund it.
A change for the better will be seen
from the first few doses of Mi-o-na and
its continued use will soon start you on
the road to perfect digestion and enjoy
ment of food.
Mi-o-da has been so uniformly suc
cessful that every box is sold under a
positive guarantee to refund the money
if it does not relieve. What fairer prop
osition could be made?
Oliver's Red Cross Drug Store give
their personal guarantee of "money
back if you want it" with every box of
Mi-o-na that they sell. A guarantee
like this speaks volumes for the merit
of the remedy. Adv.
Sounded Ominous.
"Did the dealer say he would send
our coal around next week?"
"Yes, he said he had our coal
slated for Tuesday."
"Slated, eh? I don't altogether
like the sound of that."
Non-Resident Notice.
Carrie Patterson vs. Ike Patterson.
Petition for Divorce.
In the Circuit Court of Obion County,
Tennessee.
In this cause it appearing from
the return of the Sheriff that the
defendant, Ike Patterson, is a non
resident of the State of Tennessee,
and resident of the State of Ken
tucky, so that the ordinary process
of law cannot be served upon him,
it is therefore ordered by the Court
that the said Ike Patterson appear
before the Circuit Court to be held
on the first Monday of January,
1916, at the courthouse in Union
City, Tenn., and plead, answer or
demur, to a bill filed against him for
divorce or the same will be taken
for confessed and the cause set for
hearing ex parte. It is further or
dered that this notice be published
in The Union City Commercial for
four consecutive weeks.
This November 12, 1915.
H. M. GOLDEN,
Clerk of the Circuit Court.
Joe A. Gordon, Atty. for Compl't.
Non-Resident Notice.
Lizzie Fountain vs. Percy Fountain
In the Circuit Court of Obion County,
Tennessee.
In this cause it appearing from
the bill, which is sworn to, that the
defendant, Percy Fountain, is a non
resident of the State of Tennessee,
and a resident of the State of Illinois,
so that the ordinary process of law
cannot be served upon him, it is
therefore ordered that the said Percy
Fountain appear before the Circuit
Court to be held on the first Monday
in January, 1916, at the courthouse
in Union City, Tenn., and plead, an
swer or demur to a bill filed against
him for divorce, or the same will be
taken for confessed and the cause
set for hearing ex parte. It is fur
ther ordered that this notice be pub
lished in The Union City Commercial
for four consecutive weeks.
This November 30, 1915. 36-4t
H. M. GOLDEN, Clerk.
Pierce & Fry, Sols, for Pltf.
Non-Resident Notice.
J. L. Alexander vs. Emily Alexander.
In the Circuit Court of Obion County,
Tennessee.
In this cause it appearing from
the bill, which is sworn to, that the
defendant, Emily Alexander, is a
non-resident of the State of Tennes
see, so that the ordinary process of
law cannot De servea upon ner, n is
therefore ordered that the said Emily
Alexander aDnear before the Circuit
Court to be held on the first Monday
in January, 1916, at tne courtnouse
in Union City, Tenn., and plead, an
swer or demur to a bill filed against
her for divorce, or the same will be
taken for confessed and the cause
set for hearing ex parte. It is fur
ther ordered by the Court that this
notice be published in The Commer
cial for four consecutive weeks.
This November 30, 1915. 36-4t
H. M. GOLDEN, Clerk.
J. W. Burney, Sol. for Pltf.
Non-Resident Notice.
Callie Johnson vs. Frank M. Johnson.
Petition for a Divorce.
" In this cause it appearing from the
bill, which is sworn to, that the de
fendant, Frank M. Johnson, is a non
resident of the State of Tennessee, so
that the ordinary process of law cannot
be served upon him, it is therefore or
dered that the said Frank M. Johnson
appear before the Circuit Court, to be
held on the first Monday in January,
1916, at the courthouse in Union City,
Tenn., and plead, answer or demur to a
bill filed against him for a divorce, or
the same will be taken for confessed
and the cause set for hearing ex-parte.
It is further ordered that this notice be
printed in the Union City Commercial
for four consecutive weeks.
This November 24, 1915. '
H. M. GOLDEN, Clerk.
35-4t ByT. L. Lancaster, D. C.
Lannom & Stanfield, Atty 'a for Compl't.
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