The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-07-17
CRoNANvILLE.
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nice condition now, but are needing
raj; &c :sc;;sstteen the the s;soo;a;i
an put more vigor into the grow
ing crops. Those on the ridge are
in greater need of rain than the bot.
tom farmers.
| On last Sunday Mr.. Mitch Oaks
and Miss Clara Provost were quiet
| ly married at Hevill lane, by Rev.
Edgar T. Thorn. Mitch was a son
OF Alonzo Oaks, of near Upton
vile. and Miss Clara is daughter
of Sam Provost, a prominent far
mer of the Bessie vicinity.
Edgar I. Thorn continues to at
tract more and more of the church.
going people to his church at this
place. He is a plain, simple talker,
yet reasonable and torcible; anyone
can comprehend him and be great
ly benefited thereby.
Martin Condor and family, of Bes-
sic, spent Saturday and Sunday in
the village as the guests of Mrs.
Condor's father, w. Tom Dublin.
Mr.. Condor is an extensive cotton
grower of his section and reports
crops as in reasonably good condi-
! ton.
J.W. Haley, of Number Seven,
spent day or so at New Madrid,
Mo-, last week, looking for some
corn. He located quite lot, but it
was in remote section and he was
unable to find anyone over there to
haul 1T to the river, onsequently lie
returned cornless.
One morning the past week, a
man came through our gate wear
ing one arm in cloth supported by
looping over his head, and repre-
senting the arm to be broken and
begging aims, saying that he was
en- route to Hickman. But the fact
of the affair was, he was an impos-
tor.
E, Thos. Dublin, justice of the
peace, disposed of replevin case
between Mrs. Jane Trout and Sub
B. Rhodes. Mr.. Rhodes, a mer-
chant at Slough Landing, having
sued VIM. Trout, son of the widow
Jane Trout, and secured judgment
before the above mentioned justice
and levied on a horse, supposing it
to be Vim. Trout's, but which
proved to be the property of Mrs.
Trout, and not subject to execu-
ton for another persons indebted
ness. The horse was delivered to
Mrs. Trout.
E. Thos. Dublin, wife and son
Erie spent Sunday in the village as
guests of w. Tom Dublin. He re-
ports crops as blooming up" at
present, although some of his
neighbors are just through planting
corn. Look out neighbors! the Katy
dds say that frost will come plenty
soon to nip that late corn.
Uncle Andy, we are not afraid of
getting into trouble with Violet.
We admit that it was our own
blunder, and when we have amply
to our gifted cousin, am
sure her graciousness will give us
a complete pardon. No, we would not
mar the feelings of one of The Com
mercial's most gifted and brilliant
correspondents for any considera-
ton. We assure our friend Violet
that we were not angry and did not
intend tor any of our remarks to
offend her in the least, hut if they
did we humbly and sincerely ask
her forgiveness.
eye gods and little fishes! poke
stalks and leather brooches! John
Barleycorn, clod hopper, and Clip
sy, the fortune teller, have formed
a partnership concern. Old John
IS to be captain and no doubt will
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adorn himself in a suit of ring,
streaked and striped prints and
display new tin sword and
10 the wild exciting war dance of
The Comanches, while Gypsy takes
Ter book of oracles and augurs for
lis victory, and last but not least
comes the Hobo to bring up the
ear and report the progress made.
We are indeed sorry that it was
tor us to attend the pic
tic, but the fact is we had business
IN that day that claimed our per-
,ona1 a tfantinu