The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-03
R1vEs ITEMS.

A little sample of winter is this
Mrs. Ora Pyles is sick at this
writing.
Ed Crittenden is in Arkansas
prospecting with view of locating
in that state.
Mrs. Matte Clemmons visited
her friend, Mrs. Con Moffat, OF
Union City, Wednesday.
G. J. Gardner made a prospect
ing trip to Piggott, Rector and 9TH
er places in Arkansas this week.
Mrs. Mary Moore is having erect
ed fine barn on her lot in South
R1ves. Our city continues to grow.
Misses Daisy Prewett and Eunice
Shore and Mrs. r. L. Harper are
reported sick from attacks of the
slow fever.
]. B. Harper left last week for
Piggott, Ark, where he has the
contract to furnish timber tor the
Shankle & Co. hoop mill.
Rev. Brown, of Kenton, the new
1y elected pastor of the c. P.
Church at Pleasant Hill, will fill his
appointment at that place Sunday
and Sunday night.
Mrs. Clinton Callicott returned
Wednesday from Prescott, Ark
She reports the death of her little
nephew, the son of Mr.. and Mrs,
Pied Call1cott, Jr., at that place.
Theo Drewry, of Hickman, KY,
has bought the homestead OF J. M
Park, near Pleasant Hill, and is
having fine residence erected neal
the site of the old house in which
Mr.. Park now lives.
The friends and patrons of the
Stovall school in Number Seven tel
us that their school, taught by
Prof. Wade Freeman, is doing fine
and is really about the best schoo
that has been taught there tot
years.
]. w. Bush is arranging to run a
private telephone line from the
post office to his residence near the
A. R. P. Church. J. H. McCaw is
also preparing to run private line
from his residence in Rives to his
farm in the country.
DR.. J. L. Dickens, of Dyer, for
merlv President of Bethel College,
Mckenzie, delivered an able lecture
at Pleasant Hill Tuesday night
DR.. Dickens is a profound thinker
and a pleasing speaker, and those
who heard him Tuesday night
highly praise his lecture.
The students of the Rives schoo.
have reorganized their literary and
debating club and gave their first
entertainment last Friday after
noon. At the reorganization Hal
lett Olive was elected president ano
Miss Dora Call1cott secretary. The
society expects to give public en-
tertainment some Friday evening
to which all are invited.
The Pleasant Hill c. E. Society
held an interesting social at the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Tilmor
Mitchell last Friday night. Those
present report a pleasant evening
and a profitable meeting. The best
and most highly compllmented par
of the program was the recitation
of Miss Beatrice McCaw and the
address of Clinton Callicott.
The Obion County Educationa
Association will hold it's next ses
sion at Rives Saturday, October IL
and the.teachers and friends of ed
ucation in general are requested te
come and assist in making this the
best meeting of the kind ever held
in this county. Everything posi-
BILE will be done to make the meet
ing pleasant and profitable. Bar
becued sheep will be served in
abundance and not only shall the
mental man, but the physical also,
be sumptuously fed. 1t is hoped to
have some of the best educational
talent present that day that West
Tennessee affords.
Miss Reynolds tells us that she
feels especially proud this month
of the work her music class is do
ing. Last week she gave the class
most rigid written examination,
feeling that 80 per cent. would be a
fine average for any of the class to
make. But on grading the papers