The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-07-10
RIvEs ITEMS.
We are needing rain.

we are needing rain.
The dust and heat are getting to
be unbearable.
Miss Hattie Clemmons returned
this week from a weeks visit to
friends III Kenton.
Work is progressing nicely on the
A. r. P. house of worship, which is
being remodeled and improved.
We regret to note this week the
illness of Miss Eudora McCaw and
hope that she may soon be well.
Albert Chess and family have
moved to Brownville, where Mr..
Chess is employed by E. B. Chester,
in the mill business.
]. W. Bush and Mrs. Kate House
are expecting their sister, Mrs
Langford, of Donaphon, Mo-, this
week to spend the summer with
them.
Mr.. and Mrs Knox Harper, Miss
Joliet Reynolds, of Kenton; Miss
Laura Head and Ernest Byrd are
at the Lake this week hunting,
fishing and having a general good
time.
Miss Maggie Wallace, who has
been confined to her bed for tour
months, much OF the time at death S
door, is reported some better at this
writing, and her physician, DR.. E.
H. White, thinks now that she may
soon recover.
Mrs. Isaac Reeves, after long
attack of dropsy, died last Friday.
Her remains were inferred Satur-
day at the Pleasant Hill cemetery.
Mrs. Reeves was a most estimable
lady and her bereaved husband and
family have the sincere coincidence
of the entire community.
Allen Wade, Rev. e. P. Lindsay,
Walter Agnew and Misses Sallie
Wade and Beatrice McCaw lett
Monday night for Denver, Colo,
and other places to be absent for
three or four weeks, They were
accompanied by Misses Hattie Nc
Rec and Mary Napier, of Union
City and Mrs. F. ]. Smith, of Troy.
Prof. w. H. Cook has returned
from a months work as instructor
IN the State Institute at Jackson.
He reports splendid institute and
a delightful time. There were even
200 teachers enrolled as active
workers in the institute lip in the
primary and 88 III the secondary
department-and only eight of
these were men. Will someone ex-
plain this remarkable low percent
age of men in this institute?
Uncle Tone" Hauser had his an
nual family reunion at his country
home Tuesday. All his children
we're present, all his prospective
sons-in-law and all his sons-in-law
except Sid Calls and Blake Crit
tenden. Besides these who gath
cred about the festal board of I'm
Gle Tone, there were present Uncle
Abe Crittendon and wife. Mr..
Hauser, who is now about so years
old, says that these annual reunions
make him feel young again and
serve to tide him over another year.
Birdie May, the six-year old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Keffer, of this place, met death in
horrible manner Tuesday after
noon at 4.30 o'clock. She was play
ing on the break beam of a freight
car on the l. c. side track when an
engine bumped the car, knocking
the little girl from the car and run
ming over her lower limbs. One
leg was severed below tn knee and
the other was crushed and mangled
up to the hip joint. Drs. f. H.
White and T. P. Callicott did all
that could be done, but she never
revived from the first shock and
died at go that evening. Funeral
services were conducted at the
Cumberland Presbyterian church at
10 a. m. Wednesday, after which
the remains were inferred at the
Pleasant Hill cemetery. The be-
reaved family has the sympathy of
all who know them.