The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-11-21
cRoNANvILLE.

have been very thankful for wa
l, broken up by heavy downpour o
n rain Saturday night that continue,
through Sunday.
: The price of seed cotton has de
s clined to such low fgures-&.2
per hundred-that some of our wis
farmers are ginning. At the pres
ent market price of lint cotton the
seed cotton ought to bring So. 81
. per hundred. By ginning and sell
ing at present market price it will
net more than $3.50, but by hold
ing till February or March when
: cotton will be doing better than it
is now, we feel safe in saying that
it will equal $500 in the seed.
| Brother Holifeld, one of the old
est and most popular Methodist
ministers in West Tennessee or
| West Kentucky, died very suddenly
on Friday, IA, at the home of Berry
Blalock at Mayfeld, where he was
making his home. Paralysis was
the cause. Brother Holiheld, up to
a short time since, had been "a citi-
zen of Lake County, and has some
landed property here. By all de-
nominations he was recognized a
lgreat power in the religious field
and was highly respected by all
For some time past it had been
so that on Saturday nights one
could get pint or quart of 'bust
head" in nearly any cotton row,
around negro shacks where they
were having balls. But now the
''head push" of the moonshiners or
bootleggers has made an exodus
and 1T is to be hoped no one else of
such degraded character will
come into our vicinity again. A
few Saturday nights past Sheriff
Carlein came up to see if he could
remedy the affair. Accompanied
by the invincible Wick Wray he
took a position near the house of
a suspect and awaited develop
ments. They got the desired in
formation and Immediately set up
hot chase. 1t was not negro,
as some had thought, but proved to
be white MANN color-known as
Stanley Z. Rayburn, blacksmith
by trade, and who had been up to
some time back employed by w. T.
Dublin, being of negligent and
unbusinesslike disposition he had
been dismissed. He had been
dealing in illicit liquor all the
fall. Rayburn ran so fast that it
was impossible for the Sheriff to
keep close enough to ascertain
what direction he went. He is
from Murray, Ky.
We are most ashamed to tell the
readers of The Commercial the vote
polled in our county on the fourth.
But as we are the news condenser
from our vile we will tell it. 1t
was something less than 200! We
cry out in the strains of P. HI. O..
Shamel Shame! In August our
district-Number Seven-po1led
about as many votes as the entire
county-eight districts-did in the
recent election. IT there had been
1 candidate Cor two) who filled him
self to his utmost capacity with
oooze, or Kyle, or Cream Ale, and d
tolerated crap shooting and other
Unlawful and immoral practices, he o
would have been backed by some Ii
'thers OF the same class who would
lave rushed in all the negroes that v
lie could get to the polls IN order to r.
introduce pollution and political
eruption into the management a
f public affairs. Lake County has y
sufficient number of voters to en- a
title her to a representative in the A
if she would hustle
hem out to the polls. But as long
S one voter goes to the polls and 81
our go some where else or fail to c
o anywhere she will have to de-
end upon her mother county
'bion-to select her representative. "
We are in favor of the adoption of u
he Australian Ballot system of
citing and changing the August
lection to November. Why should
'e have two elections in one year
hen one would serve all purposes an
3 well? Let's hear from some of ca
lie bold thinking correspondents in
n these two changes. al
UNCLE BILDAD. ial
Worm Destroyer. bo
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