The commercial., June 10, 1921, Image 8

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Dodge Brothers announce a sub
stantial reduction in the price
of their cars, effective June 8;
;Cittfeei Aefo Goo ;
, Richard Semones, Manager
. Dodge Brothers Dealers
Phone 166 . Union City, Tenn.
OUR MOTTO-
Not How Cheap
But How Good!
We want your business solely upon the ' merits of . our
goods and service. ' It pleases us to PLEASE YOU
J If we please you tell others,
if not, tell us. ,
' ' '
We still have some of those cheap
Canned Goods. .
You think of us ana we will look for you. , When you
trade with us we will trade with 'you.
Tie GROCER
LP.GRISSOM
Groceries and Meats
lit GROCER
to Your Taste
Made Ju s t
And Always the Same
Tfqu secure uniformity of
strength and flavor in your meal
time drink,by the portion used.
teMi poshm
i.'
(instead of coffee or tea)
can be made instant
ly by measuring the
powdered Postum
with a teaspoon,
placing the contents
in a cup, then .adding
. hot water.. Better for
nerves and digestion.
"There's a Reason
t Willi
Instant n
O Postum
A BEVERAGC
Wade by Postum Cereal Ca,Inc.. Battle Creek, Mich "
llarpole-Walker Furniture Company
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
WHITESELL HXRPOLE - I. L RANSON. JR.
T , 432 AND 32
: OFFICE PHONE 99
UNION CITY, TENN.
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354 AND 216.3 RINGS
The Commercial sent to Obion County points, $1 .00 per year,
anywhere outside the County, $1.50. It's worth it.
The Commercial, Union City, Tenn.
, v FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1921.
WHEN FLOODS SWELL
ARKANSAS RIVER
Denver, Colo., June 4.- Flood-
swept Pueblo Is a city of 42.908 in
habitants, according to the figures
of the 1920 census, and la situated at
the conjunction of Fountain Creek
with the Arkansas River. The city
is divided into two parts by the Ar
kansas, and Fountain Creek, a trlb
utary about twenty-five miles long,
comes boiling down through a moun
tain canyon and. empties into the
larger stream virtually in the' heart
of the city.
Fountain Creek, so named because
of Its picturesque turbulence charac
tefistie of mountain canyon streams,
tx one of a network of 'creeks -and
streams that hurry down to the Ar
kansas from the cnows of the moun
tain ranges around the city. Turkey
Creek, Rock Creek, Chico, Black
Squirrel, Hard Scrabble, Red Creek,
St. Charles River, Greenhorn River
theso are a few of the tributaries
of the Arkansas within a radius of
soventy-flve miles of Pueblo. Pueblo
itself is about 4,665 feet 'above sea
level.-:
Approximately 100 miles to the
west of Pueblo la the continental di
vide, and on the eastern slope this
network of Btreams is multiplied,
myrlad3 of rocky watercourses hur
trine into the Arkansas. Even in
times of ordinary rainfall and melt
ing of mountain snows, tho Arkau
tas, by the time it' has reached Pueb
lo, In a stream of good size; in times
of abnormal rainfall and cloudbursts
the Arkansas becomes a treacherous
torrent. It was so in this flood.
Pueblo wis swept by a flood on
May 31, 1894, when Fountain Creek
was swollen to a torrent by a down
fall of rain and series of cloudbursts
all along the eastern slope of the
continental divide. According to the
newspaper reports printed on June 2,
1894, the flood of twenty-seven years
ago was similar : to mat reported
from Colorado to-day.
An indication of the tremendous
force and power of the Arkansas may
bo gained from the fact that its Roy
al Gorge, situated about forty miles
west by northwest of Pueblo, be-,
tween Canon City and Parkdale, Is
considered , one of the continent's
greatest examples of the driving
power of a river. In a comparatively
short time in geologic history the
river has torn down a gap in the sol
id granite more than 2,600 feet for
a distance of a little more than eight
miles.
Pueblo itself is county seat of
Pueblo county and second city in the
State, and is about 120 miles south
east of Denver and about seventy-five
miles from Colorado Springs, which
lies between the two cities. Its
railroads are the Atchison, Topeka
ft Sante Fe, the Colorado ft Southern,
Missouri Pacific, the Chicago ft Rock
Island and the Denver ft Rio Grande.
The principal public institutions
are the State insane asylum; St. Ma
ry's hospital and sanitarium, with
1,000 patients annually; Minequa
hospital, built at a cost of, $300,000,
and severa 1 private sanitariums
There are two systems of public
schools, one on each side of the res
ervoir, two high schools, public and
parish schools' with 16,000 school
children, Loretta Academy, the Mc
Clelland public library with 14,000
volumes, law libraries and the State
mineral palace and park. A complete
collection of the minerals of Colorado
GREAT DISASTERS
FLOODS, QUAKES, ETC, I
Pueblo Flood Worst Disaster Since
Sinking of Eastland. '
Flooding of Pueblo and other Col-
orad towns with a report of 250 lives
lost is the worst disaster that has
befallen this country since the sink
ing of the stetamcr Eastland at Chi
cago in 1915 with a loss of 812 lives.
Vlth the last ten years more than
2,000. lives have been lost and mil
lions of dollars' worth of property
destroyed by flooda of American riv
ers. The most memorable were:
. The overflow of the Mississippi in
April 1912," with a loss of 500 lives
and the destruction of $3,000,000
worth of property in scores of towns
and cities in Louisiana, Mississippi,
Arkansas and Tennessee, -
In March, 1913, the Ohio and its
tributaries overflowed with serious
effect3 upon a large region including
the cities of Dayton, Hamilton,
Zanesville, Columbus and Cincinnati.
About 700 lives were lost in all, 212
of them at Zanesville in one day and
150 at Hamilton. The property loss
exceeded 120,000,000.
v.
More than 200 persons lost their
lives in a flood which overran the
Valley of the San Luis Rey River in
California in January, 1916.
The Rio Grande overflowed it3
banks following heavy rains in, July,
1916,- and several hundred persons
perished, mostly on the Mexican side
of the river. There were 75 deaths
at El Paso and hundreds were made
homeless.
The greatest American river flood
occurred when virtually the entire
city of Johnstown, Pa., was de
stroyed on May 1, 1889, by the
breaking of the Conemaugh dam just
outside of it, The exact loss of life
was never determined but reliable es-
tmates placed the number of lives at
about $2,500. V
A great part of the damago to Gal
veston, Tex., in a terrific hurricane
of September, 1900, was done wa
ter blown in from the Gulf of Mexico.
More than 3,000 persons died and
pro"" rty worth 120,000,000 was
destroyed. i
Other disasters of the last two de
cades in which the toll has been
heavy, include: ' '
1902 Eruption of Mount Pelee,
30,000 lives lost.
1903 Iroquois theatre fire, Chi
cago, 575 lives lost. " v
1904 Burning of steamer General
Slocum in the East River, New York,
1,400 lives lost. "
1905 Japanese steamer Mlkasa
sunk by explosion, 599 lives lost.
1906 San Francisco earthquake
and fire, 452 lives lost, property loss
estimated it $350,000,000. !'
1906 Valparaiso, Chile, earth
quake, 1,500 lives lost, property dam
age about $100,000,000. '.
1907 Kingston, Jamaica, earth
quake, 1,100 lives lost, property dam
age about $25,000,000. '
1908 Earthquake in Sicily and
Calabria, 76,483 lives lost. '
1912 Sinking of steamer Titanic
in midocean, 1,517 lives lost.
1912 earthquake in- Turkey,
3,000 lives lost . "
Sinking of Spanish steamer Prin
cipe de Asturias off the coast of
Spain, '500 lives lost.
1912 Sinking of Japanese steam
er Kicker Maru off the coast of Ja
pan,' 1,000 lives lost. . 1 'v"
1914 Sinking of steamer Empress
of Ireland in St. Lawrence, 1,024
lives lost. ' . " '
1915 Earthquakes In central It
aly, 29,978 lives: lost.
Torpedoing of .steamship Lusitania
1915 Torpedoing , of steamship
Lusitania, 1,198 lives lost.
1915 Overturning of steamship
Eastland at Chicago, 812 lives lost.
1916 French auxiliary . cruiser
Provence, sunk in Mediterreanean,
3,270 lives lost.
1916- Chinese steamer Hsln Yu
sunk off coast of China, 1,000 lives
lost. : "
1917 British warship Vanguard
blown up at her dock in a British
port, 800 lives lost.
WE
WOULDN'T
HANDLE
POOR
OIL STOVES
IT WOULD
NOT PAY US
NOR PLEASE
YOU
YOU CAN COOK
BETTER WITH
BETTER THINGS
FRET
ABOUT
OUR
THE HOT WEATHER. COME IN
OIL STOVES AND HAVE HOT
DON'T
AND BUY ONE OF
WEATHER JOY. v
THESE STOVES ARE PERFECT BAKERS,- JUST LIGHT
THEM, ADJUST THE FLAME AND THEY WILL DO THE
REST. NO FEAR OF BURNING YOUR FOOD. THE FLAME
CAN'T CREEP UP-IT IS SO ADJUSTED THAT IT STAYS
AT AN EVEN HEAT.
THEY COST SO LITTLE AND COOK SO PERFECTLY
YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT ONE COME IN.
' ICECREAM FREEZERS
WE HAVE THE KIND THAT REALLY FREEZES CREAM
IN A HURRY. ANY SIZE YOU WANT AT A PRICE
N YOU WILL LIKE. ZJt
: l :
PREPARE FOR SUMMERTIME. BUY
ONE OF OUR SANITARY REFRIGERA
TORS OR ICE BOXES 'AND YOU WILL
ACRE WITH US THAT YOU HAVE THE
BEST THAT CAN BE BOUGHT. i
DON'T FORGET THAT WE
HAVE A NICE ASSORTMENT
OF CROQUET SETS JUST
LIKE THE ONE YOU WANT.
G. & E. ELECTRIC FANS.
COMPLETE ASSORTMENT
OF BOTH DESK AND 'CEIL
ING TYPES. REMARKABLE
PRICES.
PORCH AND LAWN SWINGS. WE HAVE
A NICE LINE OF SWINGS. DON'T BUY
UNTIL YOU HAVE SEEN OUR SWINGS
AND KNOW OUR PRICES
THE
HOME OF THE MAJESTIC RANGE.
OUR HARDWARE WEARS.
Frank C Wehman
THE HOME
of New York .
Insures Against
FIRE, LIGHTNING
and TORNADOES.
Writing Farm and :
City Property.
Ask your Banker
Ask your Lawyer
Ask your Merchant , c i
They will tell you that a Policy in ,
,f !" means surd indemnity against loss.
ARE YOU INSURED?
IF NOT, WHY IOT? ; v
The cost is comparatively trifling, and no one has the least assurance
that his home and personal property may not be changed by FIRE
at any moment from their present beauty, usefulness and comfort,
to a. smouldering heap of ruins or shivered to pieces and blown into
the next township by the relentless storm demon. There is but
safe and wise thing to do and that is
INSURE IN THE HOME
Office Phone '.
Cumberland 261. Home 251 .'
W. t. JACHSON & CO.
Agents , ;
Union City, Tenn.
one
- '
are In the palace. . '
The five banks have a combined
capital of more than $800,000 and
deposits of more than $15,000,000.;
The largest majority of the popu
lation ; are native-born Americans,
about 2,000 are Indians, 1,000 Aus-
trians and 1,500 colored.
GISI'S STATEMENT WILL
HELP UNION CITY
Say They Deserted.
Elvin McCoy and William J." Bap
tist, arrested here last week and held
in jail on charges of vagrancy and
carrying pistols, have admitted to
Sheriff Watt Cherry that they are
soldiers, from Camp Pike, Ark., and
have asked to be returned to that
Camp. The proper authorities were
notified and an officer was sent here
to get the boys.' f , .-- r'! I
Many women will profit by the fol
lowing statement of one of their sex:
"1 was afraid to eat on account of
stomach trouble. Even rice did not
agree. After taking Adler-i-ka I can
eat anything." Adlcr-i-ka acts on
BOTH upper and lower bowel, remov
ing foul matter which poisoned stom
ach. EXCELLENT for gas on the
stomach or, sour stomach. Guards
against appendicitis. It brings out
poisonous matter you never thought
was in your system. Sold by leading
druggist everywhere, in Rives by T.
J. Bonner & Son,' druggists.
- Sometimes they make tho man
: . - Civilian Clothes?. ,
Notice to
Buggy Owners.
' -, , .- i
Before you buy a new buggy get
my prices on Painting and Rubber
Tiring. I also have twenty sets of
Rubber Tire Wheels for sale. One
set of these will make your buggy
as good as new. ;
Cumberland Phone 43
R.A.PARDUE
, W0EK SHIKTS ;
48c apiece at 1
PHIL HYMAN'S CUT-PRICE STORE"