The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-07-18
RIvEs ITEMS

Sam Harper returned Saturday
last from weeks stay e Dawson.
Mesdames Jane Wade and John
Head visited friends in Rives Mon
day.
Mrs. t. ]. Bonner and little
daughter, Aletha, are visiting IN
Kenton this week.
Miss Francis Reynolds, of Ken
ton, will spend next week with her
friend, Miss Leiron Bonner.
Miss Mary Latimer, of Beech,
has been employed to teach the
public school at Pleasant Hill.
Mrs. Johnson, wife of Rev. P. f.
Johnson, returned Tuesday from a
visit to her parents near Mckenzie.
At called meeting of the Ma
sonic lodge last week Oscar Glenn
mons was made a Fellowcrat Ma
son.
Mrs. Jennie Lattimer and family,
of Mississippi, are guests of Mrs.
Lattimer's mother Mrs. t. B. Moi
fatt
ED. A. G. Freed will begin a Sc
ries of meetings at the Christ ian
Church IN R1ves the first Sunday in
August.
The date for holding the union
tent meeting IN Rives has been
fixed for the fourth Sabbath il
August.
Win Stovall has purchased the
Wright Hotel, now run by Mrs.
Davidson We wish Mr.. Stovall
success in his new venture.
A number of young people from
Rives and Pleasant Hill, chape-
roned by Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Wade,
are spending the week on Reelfoot
Lake
G. M. Pannybaker, who has been
day operator at the |. c. Office here
for nearly two years, has been
transferred to Henning. Jim Glenn
mons, Jr., has been promoted to
Fanny bakers place in the Rives
office.
Prof. w. H. Cook has returned
from GAINESVILLE, Tenn, where he
was engaged for a month as in
structor in the State Institute. He
reports himself delighted with the
city and the Institute in which he
labored.
Will Alexander. son of J. S. AL
exander, of Rives, and son-in-law
of Col. Hume r. Fields, lost his
dwelling and household goods by
fire Monday at noon. Willis many
friends extend him sympathy i'll his
great loss.
Our physicians report considera-
: BILE sickness in Rives and commune
ty. Among those sick we note
Mrs. D. Bond, Bob Shankle, Miss
Matte Bean, Miss Lizzie Guy ano
child each of Jim Davidson anc
]. e. Forester.
Prof. A. w. Freeman will beg1r
t the public school at Stovall's Acad
envy September l. Wade is destined
r to rank among the best educators
of Tennessee, and we congratulate
the people of that district in secur
ing his services.
It. ]. Bonner, Geo. Stovall anC
Geo. Bolts, assisted by Waite
Mofatt and w. H. Cook, surveyed
Monday the route of the new lev,
soon to be constructed from thu
lower river bridge to the bluff nea
Uncle Jesse Conn's.
. Anselmo Harris, while election
J eering in No. 7 last week, lost hi
fine saddle horse, which died from
l. nervous excitement and heart tail
S ure, caused by fright. Ask Boz
Oglesby, Mr.. Harris competitor
!, for an explanation of the horse
# fright.
To "Rusti," "Bildad," rus T
/ Kuss" and others: STRAY ]. Bird
b can no longer make lofty nor dis
tant flights, as his ponderosity ha
so increased that lie must stay clos
~ to old terra frna. He tips til
scales now at just $50 pounds even
However he hopes to be present a
the next session Of the Old Maids
Il Convention aud meet some of tn
= fair and charming maids of Th
!, Commercials reportorial staff.
STRAY j. BIRD.
. Vacation Days.
i Vacation time is here and the Chi