The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-10
CRONANVILLE.

PlChlllS, duu Inc sturdy Olu ldl ulClo
are wanting to see some golden
sunshine" about now. Cotton has
declined little ten cents per Hmm
dred-very suddenly. 1t came tumb-
ling all IN one dark night.
Saturdays and Sundays the
streets are crowded to their ut
most capacity by the kinky-haired,
thick-lipped and broad-tooted sons
of D1a bolus whose nimble fingers
pull, with so much ease and dexter
ity the, feecy staple from it's rest
ing place in the burr and the hen
from the roost.
A company of Cronanville young
ladies, consisting of Misses Mandie
Dublin, Ollie and Katie Dunning,
accompanied by Vernon Dunning,
spent Sunday afternoon with Miss
Hattie Vaughn and sister, Miss
Bette, who has been suffering
from meningitis. While there the
T. Fl. Davis, a towboat with five
empty lumber and log barges in
tow come down. The girls thought
it was a packet and came near
"slinging their arms off" trying to
hail her.
VIM. G. Austin, VIM. T.. Dublin
and E.. II. Dublin, all of this viii
lage, spent Sunday at the Upper
and Lower Slough. At the latter
place they were shown through the
nice new school room prepared by
Esq. ]. w. Haley for a private
school. He has employed Miss
Opal Gates as instructor. She is
graduate from Jackson, both in
literature and music and she will
give instructions in both. The
room is a neat building 16x24 feet.
1t was made of nice light pine and
is in sections, fastened together
with bolts. Thus it can be taken
apart and carried to any other
place on wagons, and as every sec
ton is numbered can be put to-
gether again in proper order. The
Squire believes it his duty to edu-
cate his children to enable them to
fight the battles OF life. Every
community needs Squire Haley in
it.
Last Saturday night Frankly
Tharp, Alias Smith, a negro wo-
man living in one of Jim Jones
shacks, gave a swell ten o'clock
supper and an all-night ball. She
had spared no means to make her
supper enticing to the burly coons
and their "gals." Indeed she had
$1.50 gobbler, a wheel-barrow
load of bread fresh from the bakers,
some half dozen fine hens and
many other dishes as toothsome as
any mentioned above; besides she
had on the corner of the table a
fifteen gallon key of fine apple
cider. The big burlies ate and
drank, sharing both meals and
; cider with their women" and
everything glided along as smooth
as hot knife through butter till
about all the cider had disappeared
from the key and was distributed
. among the "sport1es," some of
whom had as much as their lower
extremities could carry (even with
much difficulty were some carried).
There was big crowd as thick as
they could walk. Some were get
ting bad. About two o'clock they
were desperate. Some one recall
ed a quarrel between herself and
certain ''cullud gemon" whom she
had noticed to pay considerable at
tention to some other "ladles."
This was all to much-she could
not stand it. So she got some two
or three negro bucks and white
man-must l say man?-interested
in the affair, and while her alleged
enemy, his brother and friend
: stood near the door and betN cen
them and the light, she, accompa-
MED by her two black friends and
one white friend, opened fire on
them and poured volley OF 38's
: through the crowd. John Mitchell,
one of the quietest and best negro
lads of the community, received a
: severe wound in the leg. About
: three o'clock DR.. Buck was called
| to see him. Lights were insufficient
for the work that was necessary to
get the lodged ball, so he waited
till day light, then he returned and
traced the ball more than half
around the bone, and when he
found 1t and examined it, it proved
| to be SO and fattened like some
one had prepared it for sinker for
( fish line. The Doctor knows his
: business and it did not require
much time to get the ball, nor did
the boy suffer much. The Doctor
says he will be up in week OF so.
He was not the one they were
shooting at. Albert and Dave
Branch were the targets they were
| aiming at.
: UNCLE BILDAD.
Bread and cakes baked daily a
Dahnke's.