The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-06-28
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.


/ Mrs. J. D. Littleton and children
returned Tuesday from Humboldt,
where they spent several days Wis
iting the families of William H.
Lilies and Albert L. Weddington.
Tom Underwood and Miss Annie
Sloane, of Moscow. were married
at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at
the residence of Clerk S. F. How
ard in this city by Squire Fl. S.
Sacra.
w. d. Flack, Of Woodland Mills.
shipped this week via. the N, c. &
St. L. R'y a steam wheat thresher
and outfit to El Reno, Okla. Ter,
where he expects to operate in that
fine wheat country during the pres
ent season.
Rev w. D. Jenkins attended the
Commencement at Vanderbilt Uni
yersIty last week. Rev. Jenkins
graduated from that University
when he finished school, and being
familiar with a number of people
connected with the institution and
many associations surrounding it,
he finds much pleasure in paying
an annual visit to see his friends
and the old campus, beautiful
park, in which is situated one of
the greatest universities in the
United States.
Mrs. w. T. Craig, of Dyersburg,
Mrs. T. e. Gleason, Of Hickman,
and Mr.. Frank Jameson, OF Castil-
ian Springs, are visiting their sis
ter, Mrs. o. ]. Carpenter, on North
Second street. Also MIR. and Mrs.
Wilder Carpenter and family are
visiting the formers mother, Mrs.
o. ]. Carpenter, and a family re-
union is being held. Owing to Sc
we're illness, Mrs. ]. b. Swaney,
Mrs. Carpenters only married
daughter, cannot be present. This
is the first time Mrs. Gleason, Mrs.
Carpenter and Mr.. Jameson have
met for thirty-three years.
w. L. Bailey gave an exhibition
of the Manville Fire Extinguisher
on the street Saturday. He built
box about eight or ten feet high
and filled it with split pieces of
pine. The extinguisher consists of
large tube filled with a powder
mixed with carbonic acid, etc, and
when the box OF wood was envel-
oped IN flames the powder was
thrown at the bottom OF the fire.
Coming in contact with the heat
carbonic acid gas is produced and
the fire is Immediately under con-
troll. A preparation of this kind is
now being used in the large build
ings, which are provided with tubes
at short intervals apart, sufficient
to consume the fire at any place.
Pas sing over the road to Troy
Monday we were very forcibly re-
minded of what we have read of
the golden wheat fields. The we'll
developed fine product on the large
sire tches of farms along the way,
gathered in shocks on carpet of
the same golden-tinted straw,
looked more like the unalloyed pre-
clons metal than anything we have
seen for years. The binder had
finished its work and now and then
one of those big, noisy engines and
threshing apparatus could be seen
completing the work OF the harvest
The grain will be as large and fine
in quality as any ever grown in the
soil of this country, and will rank
with the high grades of some Of the
famous wheat belts of the States.
We feel like congratulating our
young friend, Chas. Crockett, trav-
cling salesman for the Ely-Walker
Dry Goods Company at st. Louis.
His father, Cave ]. Crockett, in
forms us that Charley received at
the beginning of his present year
very fiattering promotion, which
was substantially more than double
his former salary, and now, as he
is about to complete his years work,
news comes that he ranks fourth
on the road tor that mammoth es-
adjustment, employing hundreds
Of statesmen. This is surely
splendid recoiupense, and no less
deserving is the young knight of
the grip, whom we have known for
years and whose diligence and fine
business faculty have secured his
success.
Hawks, the lecturer, gave two
very fine discoures Sunday. One in
the morning was delivered at the
9. p. Church to good audience.
This was fun OF practical and
pungent truths, spiced with the
speakers original style of humor.
N the evening he spoke at the
First Christian Church on the char