The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-12-06

Push on Reeltoot Lake has new
school beginning Monday.
G. 2. Harris leaves tonight tor
Nashville to spend the winter.
Rev. Ed Watson has accepted a
call to return to the Baptist church
at Obion.
Candidates Howard and Hefley
returned to-day from a canvass over
portion of the county.
Misses Maud White and Ida Jer-
nigan visited DR.. and Mrs. V. j
Jernigan at Obion this week.
Mr.. and Mrs, e. B. Chester have
returned from a wedding tour of
the East to their home in Rives.
Mrs. Lura Pruett, returning from
Moscow, passed through Union
City returning to Dresden to-day.
Come out to-day and see the show
windows down town, Many of them
are handsomely decorated with hol-
iday attractions.
To-day's news from Mr.. Lewis,
Mrs. Preston's father-in-law, is
that he is still very low and not ex-
pected to survive.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arleigh Beadles
have moved from Moscow to Union
City and are occupying a residence
near the city school.
John Dahnke, DR.. f. L. Shackel-
ford, r. B. France and A. ]. Brack-
in, of Dyersburg, attended the
social given by the Elks this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Coldwell, of
Louisville. spent few days at the
home of Mrs. Coldwell's parents,
DR.. and Mrs. F. M. Mckee, this
week.
I r. p. Hicks is still very sick
man from his wounds received from
the falling of the gravel bank in
No, 10. We hope he will soon i'm
prove.
Editor Grimes proposes to issue
the Argus from his big Cottrell
press purchased at MayfieId recent
ly, and began putting it up this
week at Kenton.
News reaches us from Polk that
Mike Buchanan is improving grad
ually from his long spell of sick
ness. His friends are glad to hear
of it.
Regular services at the Presby-
terrain Church by the pastor, Rev.
DR.. +. L. Ewing, next Sabbath,
the 18th inst. Everybody, especial
ly strangers in the city, welcome,
The business of County Court
transacted by Judge Caldwell this
week is as follows: Mrs. Ellen
Goldsby, appointed guardian of her
child; Mrs. Leip, executor of N.
Leip, deceased, and Mrs. Elizabeth
Yater, executor of w. c. Yater,
deceased.
B. HI. Whitley was called to Tip
tonville this week to attend the
funeral of his brother-in-law, w. ].
Foster, whose death occurred last
Sunday morning. Mr.. Foster was
a highly esteemed merchant of Tip
tonyille, about 40 years of age, and
his wife was formerly MISS Mary
Whitley, of this place. The funeral
took place Monday.
Pat Garrett, an old Confederate
soldier, died Wednesday night. He
was about 90 years of age. Several |
weeks ago the Daughters of the
Confederacy made arrangements
for Mr.. Garrett to enter the Confed-
crate Home at Nashville, but the
old gentleman was not able to
make the trip, and continued to
grow worse until his death.
Miss Belle Farris, formerly an
Obion County belle, Rev. Farris i'm
forms us, was married on the 9th
of November at her home in Los
Cal, to Mr.. John Flynn,
popular railroad engineer. Miss
Belle has many friends back in
Tennessee who wish her much
and The Commercial
wants to join them in its congratu-
lations.
DR.. !. H, Roper received tele-
phone message late yesterday even
ing calling him to Harris to see
Esham Jernigan. who, while bird
had accidentally shot his
left hand nearly off. DR.. Roper
went out and amputated three fin
gers and dressed the hand and left
him resting easy. He was shoot
ing birds with a double-barreI,
had fired one barrel
and was reloading the gun when in
some way the other barrel was dis
charged.
Coming to the opera-house on
Friday, December -, the great
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