The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-03-06
NEWS FROM RIvEs,
Aud still ii II is muddy.

Allen Wade is visiting his sister
Mrs. Ella Brown, at Mountain
Grove, Mo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Knox Harper visit
ed Mrs. Harper's parents in Kenton
this week.
Rev. G. D. billiard will preach al
the Methodist Church Sunday morn
ing and night.
Mrs. Maggie Frye, Of Fulton, is
spending the week with her mother,
Mrs. John F. Clemnons.
Ernest Shropshire, Esq. of Pleas
ant Hill vicinity, has bought a lot
in the Caldwell addition.
Pleasant Hill Lodge No. 1856, A..
F. & A. NJ, will meet in regular
session Saturday at 10 a. m.
Mrs. J. Brien Anderson and her
little son, Clearance GULL, visited
relatives in Newbern this week.
We regret 10 note the continued
illness of Uncle Tone Hauser. His
general condition is not so good as
it has been.
T. c. Callicott, Walter Agnew,
Rev. F. P. Johnson and others at
tended the Obion Presbytery at
Trimble this week.
Miss Marietta Latimer, of Beech,
after an illness of three weeks from
mumps, has returned to her place
in the Rives school.
Tom Harper is rushing work on
his new house near Pleasant Hill
Church. When completed he and
wife will move to it.
Lee Wade is having his dwelling
house south of Rives remodeled and
enlarged. When completed he and
wife will have delightful home.
R. L. Phebus left Monday night
for Louisville to buy goods tor the
coming season. He has built up a
fine trade IN the last three years.
Warner Bryan is with G. J. Gard
ner in the grocery department of
his store. Larr1e Clemmons has
been transferred to the dry goods
department.
r. i. Harper, of the firm of Cum
mings g. Harper, is in st. Louis
this week buying his spring and
summer goods, and will doubtless
select splendid stock.
JUS: before time for services to
begin at the Christian Church last
night the roof of the build
ing was discovered to be on fire.
However the fire was extinguished
before much damage was done.
The Rives Hoop Mill firm has Sc
cured the services of Lee Dickey to
the cutting and fur
nishing of raw material for the fac
tory. Lee is one Of the best timber
men in the state, and we predict
that the mill will come nearer rum
ming on time this year than ever.
Among those sick we note Misses
Ava Scoggins, Eva Pyles, Eunice
Shore, Mabel Shankle, Mozelle
Lille Armstrong; Mrs.
Phemia Clemmons; Messrs. Ralph
Chester, Leslie Shore and Allen
Clemmons. Most of those sick are
suffering from mumps.
Some of the leading social and
commercial promoters of R1ves are
considering the establishment of
at this place, and some
energetic printer might find it to
his interest to investigate the ad-
vantages offered here. Rives is
rapidly forging to the front, and all
the world can't keep her down.
o. H. Clemmons says that the
petrified man recently on exhibition
in your city ''looks perfectly nat
ural." We ask you who read this
not to conclude rashly that Oscar
was chum and companion of the
specimen in their young days. A
Munchausen Club has just been or
ganized here to compete with the
Ananias Club for the annual medal
by the ten Past Masters of
he latter club.
And still the wedding march goes
On. Tuesday Noel Purs1ey and
Miss Perdida Callicott, both of Dis
.rict 4, drove to your city and the
pastor of the c. P. Church made
he twain one. Wednesday Adolf
ohus Thorn, of near Rives, and |
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