The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-04

Charles Johnson was here from
st. Louis Sunday, spending thu
day with friends. He has resigned
the position as chief clerk in thu
M. g. o. office here and accepted {
better position with a commission
firm in ST. Louis. He made the
M. & O. company an excellent mar
and was very popular with the citi
zens of this city. We wish him
mighty well in his new home.
Mr.. G. A. Wade, who has beer
engaged with r. T. Curtin as dry
goods salesman for more than year,
left this week for Tishimingo, Ind
Ter, to be employed in similar
capacity for a Western dry goods
firm. Mr. Wade is a first. class
salesman and an elegant gentle
man, and we trust he will find him
self comfortably and pro6tab1y
domiciled in the new field.
Mr.. Robert Bats, for many years
Western Union Telegraph operator
AMI railway train dispatcher, was
last week promoted by the M. & O.
Railway Company as chief clerk, to
succeed Mr.. Charles Johnson. Mr..
Bats has been connected with the
local business Of the railroads since
he was a boy, and understands
it thoroughly. The company has
placed another good man IN their
office.
Revs. Holder and Barrier are in
charge of very interesting re-
vival meeting which has been in
progress for two weeks at Horn
beak. Rev. Sam Wynne furnishes
us the intelligence that there had
been up to Tuesday from 90 to IS
conversions as a result of these
services. Rev. B. L. Holder is
there also assisting his brother.
1t is said to have been so far
glorious season tor the cause OF
Christ.
Mr.. VIM. Wagner, of Plnckney-
vile, ILL.,, will be here on Tuesday,
the Sth INST, to take charge of the
new organization known as the
Union City Cornell Band, which was
to have been under the direction of
Mr.. r. A. Robinson, of Spanta, he
having declined on account of bust
ness demande at home. Mr.. Wag-
ner has the reputation OF being
fine musician, having trained the
Pinckneyville and other fine Illinois
bands. The Pinckneyville band is
one of the best we ever heard, not
excepting bands composed entirely
IF professional talent. The solo
trombonist, who was here last
March with Robinson's band from
Sparta, is a son Of Mr.. Wagner,
md is now employed as soloist in
st. Louis. Mr.. Wagner hopes to
meet all the members of the Union |
City band at the band room Tues
lay night. There are over twenty
members and we hope they will all
,e present.
Mr.. Dan Penick left this week
or Covington to enter the great
mercantile house of ]. H. Flippin
I Co., as chief salesman in the dry
,oods department. Mr.. Penick
las been engaged here for num-
'er OF years with the department
of Morgan & Hardy Bros,
nown as one OF the best informed
nd practical dry goods statesmen
4 Obion County. He is native ]
f Virginia, one of the F. F. VS., if {
GU please, but with this cavalier
lement he has also the thrift of
he Eastern Yankee and a keen :
act for business. Mr.. Penlck
lnded in Union City many years
go when a youth and has gradually :
nd substantially evolved from S
lie smallest assignment in the re- r
Ill business to one of the first mag 4
itude in Union City. We trust
: will find his new position
.easant as we'll as profitable, and Y
; the years come and go he will Il
ak great and strong in the same i
easure. if not greater than be-
re. Will be pleased to state that
rs. Penick and family will re-
ain with us until spring. f
Hunyadi Water at Moss. It,