The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-04-17

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Hon. ]. H. Mcdowell, Miss Fannie
Mcdowell and Miss Minnie Barks-
dale will attend the West Tennes-
see Baptist Sunday school conven-
ton, A ,ril 21-23, at Whiteville,
Tenn. Rev. Kendrick is president
of the West Tennessee Baptist
Young Peoples meeting and will
call the meeting to order.
The Commercial is in receipt of a
beautiful catalogue of the Ameri-
can Telegraph College, Memphis,
Tenn. Aside from being a work of
the printers art, showing beautiful
scenes in Memphis, it contains all
the particulars of this growing in
stituticn and sets forth the mag
niicent advantages IN the profess
sion of telegraphy. Young men
and women could not choose more
pleasant and profitable profession.
Catalogues may be secured by pos
tai card request and will be mailed
free upon application.
Roy w. Martin, who is we'll
known to all our people, was hon
ored the past week by Governor
Frazier appointing him as one OF
his staff, with the rank of colonel
Roy is one of our most popular
young men, and the honor has been
most worthily bestowed, and we
may say with a degree of pride
that he will add dignity to the gov
ernor's staff, for he looks every inch
military man in his bearing while
wearing a civilians dress. Our
people feel that the mark OF honor
paid to Roy is one of honor to our
little CITY, and all stand ready to
extend congratulations, = Martin
Mail.
On account of collision on the
l. c. railroad track a few yards
north of the crossing at kives last
Sunday morning freight engine
was thrown over the bank and bad
ly crippled and the freight cars it
ran into were very badly dishgured.
The fireman leaped out and lodged
in a patch of briars, his only injury
being general scratching.
Through the courtesy of the M. &
o. and the N, c. & St. L. companies
the passenger trains from Rives to
Paducah Junction and return were
sent around by the way of Union
City.
A large crowd went to Hickman
Saturday to see the battleship Ar
kansas. AS Joe Kirby used to say, |
there were upwards of good many
and the sights were new to most OF
them. The officers and men were
very courteous to the visitors. The
Georgia Lee was used as a trans
fer boat to carry the visitors to the
monitor, which was launched near |
the opposite shore and nearly on a
line north from the railroad station
at Hickman. In the evening the
search lights were thrown up
and down and about the stream in |
every direction. AS they were
thrown down it seemed as if you
could almost hear them slap the
water. The captain of the Convey
or reported the sale of 5000
tickets, which, at two bits apiece,
would make very nice days work,
at least very good salary for a
young man. Hickman was lively
town, much more so than we have
ever seen it. The merchants were
in good humor and full of business.
They say arrangements are on foot
for the building of new several
hundred Thousand dollar factory.
Hickman is a mighty good oh city
and there are lots of good people
there, We had the pleasure also of
meeting several OF our old-time
friends, among whom were Sam
Parker, Jack Millett, "Chudie"
Swayue, Tom Thomas and others.
List your property with us. We
look after tax and general improve
ments, and then we get the rent.