The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-07-03
SAMBURG.

Webb's Store, had a new girl to ar
rive Sunday.
John Shaw, the hustl1ng merchant
and farmer. sold fine lot Of hogs
last Saturday.
J. H. Fox, who runs Mr.. Burdicks
seine, had a new girl to come to his
home Saturday.
John Smith, of Webb's Store,
was up at Spout Springs lately and
passed back Monday.
Henry Dahnke came down the
other day to go fishing, but chang
ed his mind and went 'ducking"
D. B. Lyon, on whose farm gold
dust was found several years ago,
has fine crop of corn, cotton and
tobacco.
Some parties are down here with
the machinery for boring for oil,
and are making preparations as
fast as possible to get to work.
Will keep you posted as the work
progresses.
Sam Applewhite caught himself
! fat coon the other day. He also
caught ninety-three pounds of trout
last Friday; so for that day he is
one coon and So so ahead. That's
doing tolerably well, amt it?
4 curious chicken freak is to be
seen IN this neighborhood-big
chickens, middle sized chickens and
little chickens running around stark
naked, not feather on 'em. There
is a proba bility that some mules
also will be found in the same con-
ditiou if they amt kept up.
An outrageous piece of vandalism
was perpetrated in the Park last
Thursday. Some visitors put a
negro (their cook in a hoop set net
belonging to John Dean, and the
negro cut his way out, running the
net, which was worth ten dollars.
Mr.. Dean is an old man and not at
all able to sustain such loss.
have quit "batching," camping
out and sleeping with the skeeters;
am domiciled with Mr.. and Mrs.
J. f. Smith, in the northeast 'sub-
urbs of Samburg. They have a
family of several bright, intelligent,
handsome boys and girls, polite
and well. behaved. Mr.. Smith is a
farmer and has about 20 acres in
corn and cotton. Mrs. Smith
makes her own butter and has plen-
ty of milk and about $50 chickens.
Claud and Clyde, 3-year-old twins
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Shaw are
typical Lake babies, and are always
"on the CO." Last week while
rumaging round in the rear part OF
the store they found an open box
full of rice and proceeded to put in
all their spare time in scattering il
about. Every time they threw a
handful of rice above their heads
they would yell out, "It's snowin'
it's snowin', which led to the dis
covery of what they were doing
after about half the box had beer
emptied.
Esq. Convey got through "layins
by his potato crop last Saturda.
just in time to rest all day Sunday
The Squire is exactly right abou
resting on Sunday. The fish
erman's life is subject t.
much exposure and man.
dangers, and the man who can't ge
in enough work during the sil
days of the week is certainly stand
ing in his own-well, he must drinl
heap, to say the least of it, o.
squander his money some othei
way. 1t pays any man to rest one
day in the week, no matter how
pressing apparently his circum
stances may be.
There was quite little "trou'
breeze" stirred up on the Lake the
other day by a discussion of the
Lake question between a Unior
City visitor and several fishermen
At one time the discussion grew
pretty warm-in fact, Spic-i-er thar
usual, and threatened to be morf
than a war of words. Better coun'
sci prevailed, however, and the
Union City man was cooled off by
falling out of a skiff into the Lake.
Lake men as a general thing, are a
l-e-e-tle touchy on the Lake ques-
ton, no matter which side of the
question you open up on, and It