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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
DISTRICT ONE.

Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Scott and
little son, Eugene Mcclure, OF
Mcconnell, visited Mrs. Scots
mother, Mrs. w. z. Massengill
Thursday night and Friday.
Mr.. Willie Bynum, of Ark, is
visiting his mother, Mrs. John
Roland, this week.
Miss Lima Myles, of Fulton,
began her school at Old Jackson
Vile last Monday.
Mrs. j. J. Melvin, of Paducah
Junction, visited her friend, Mrs
w. Z. Massengill last Thursday
Mrs. B. E. Dodd and sons
George and Paul, of Martin, visit.
ed Mrs. Dodds' sister, Mrs. A. B
Cheatham, Thursday night anc
Friday.
Mrs. S. Weaver has returned
home after spending several week
at Austin Springs.
Miss Anna Belle Cutler VISITED
her friend, Miss Mai Belle Naylor
Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. S. A. Harrison and daugh
ter, Mrs. w. j. Mailing, and littl
son, Cecil, visited Mr.. W. z
Massengill's family last Monday
Mr.. Jim Chambers has beeI
quite sick for the past week. W
are glad to know he is improving
Mrs. Beadles and children, 0
Mayfeld, visited Mr.. j. +. Cheat
hams family Saturday night an
Sunday.
RUBY.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
Fruit Growing and Truck Farming Along
The Cation RaltH

Is the name of a new and finely IL
Illustrated booklet just published by
the Cotton Belt Route. 1t tells in
their own words the story OF those
who have "gone West" and achieved
great success growing peaches, straw
berries, pears, grapes, tomatoes,
onions, melons, potatoes and other
fruit and truck on lands that formerly
sold for So to $40 an acre and now
weld 800 to $500 per acre net in sin.
gle season. Write for copy, free, also
how to secure home in the South
west for the rent you pay in the East
or North. X. w. LABEAUME,
Cotton Belt, q. i. & i. a.
St. Louis, Mo.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
Real Estate Transfer.

L. S. Parks and wife to w. Y.
Pickard, $50 acres in No.13,S SD, 600.
L. S. Parks and wife to ]. T. Will
son, 624 acres in No. II, SIS, 500.
w. T. Harris ct al. to G. O. Har-
ris ct al, 221z acres in No. 2, ST, 112.
Mary S. P. Clark ct al. to w. M.
Mailing, lot in No. -, $50.
W. NJ. Thomas and wife to f. j.
Smith, 563 acres in No. II, $1,000.
]. T. Walker, Jr., to G. S. Hardy
ct al, lots in No. Is, 81, 500.
H. H. Barkman to Gertrude Wal
lace, lot in No. Is, S325,
=. A. Seay and wife to Mrs. n. b.
Sellars, 6 acres in No. 10, 5000.
e. H. Russell and wife to Mary
A. Jones, 86H acres in No. 10, 5000
Anna Boon and husband to w. f
Killough, lot in No. ?, 5000.
]. 7. Easterwood and E. w. Will
son to F. c. Lowell, lots in No. Is
$500.
Mary A. Stovall to G. W. Stovall
IS acres in No. 7, $500.
r. ]. Jackson ct al. to G. w. Sto
vail, IS acres in No. 7, $500.
J. Richards to G.. w. Stovall, II
acres in No. 7, $3.50.
B. f. Powell and wife to ]. M
Clark, lot in No. 16, $3.50.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.
Tom BlNFoRD ct al, Chancery Court,
VS.. Obion County,
j. A CHoATE. Tenn.

VS.. ODl0n county,
J. A CHOATE. Tenn.
In this cause it appearing to the
satisfaction of the Clerk and Master
from the bill of complaint, which is
sworn to, that j. A. Choate. the de-
PENDANT, is a nonresident of the State
of Tennessee, so that the ordinary
process Of law cannot be served upon
him, he is therefore ordered to appear
at the Clerk and Masters office, at the
courthouse, in Union City, on or be-
fore the first Monday in October next,
and plead, answer or demur to com
plainant's bill, or the same will be
taken as confessed by him, and said
cause set for hearing ex parte.
1t is further ordered that this notice
be published in The Commercial, a
weekly newspaper published in Union
City, Tenn, for four consecutive
weeks.
This August 10th, 1903.
G.. A. GIBBS. G. & M.
Waddell & Waddell and ]. f. Carpen,
ter, Counsel for Complainant
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
rNsoLvENT NOTICE.

The insolvency of the estate f. B.
Sparkman. deceased, having been sug-
gested to the County Court for Obion
County, Tennessee, all persons having
claims against said estate are notified
to appear and file the same, authenti-
Gated in the manner prescribed by
law. on or before the Goth day If Feb
ruary, 1904 This the Goth day Of
August, 1908
f. O. SPARKMAN,
Administrator.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11

dent Of the soldiers div. ding the
outer garments of the Lord and
casting lots for the seamless one.
He pointed out how these garments
signifed the natural and spiritual
sense of the Word in which the
Lord comes clothed to man The
literal sense can be divided an It
is that sense on which the olog1cal
soldiers base their dogmas and
contend for them while the seam
less garment is the spiritual sense.
The true sense of scripture is
spiritual, all natural things being
types of spiritual things. On Mon
day he delivered sermon on !" ne
Image seen by Nebucheduezzar,
but we have space for only a bret
synopsis of the last sermon on
"Charity; or what does It mean 70
love thy neighbour" The text was
the parable of the wise and foolish
virgins, He said that the common
idea of charity is to give to the
needy and to be kindly disposed.
But a person may give to the poor
and be "good natured' without
being in state of true charity.
There are two essentials OF char
ity; the first essential OF charity is
to shun evils as sins. A person
may 30 good, but if he does not
shun evils as sins, the good he does
is not really good. 1t is done tor
the sake of gain, or reputation, ana
is therefore dehled by the self-llte.
One may shun evils not as sins, but
because they wish to be considered
good. or for fear of the loss OF repu-
tatlon. or for fear of punishment.
Unless evils are Stunned as sins,
they are only covered over, and IN
the other life man INDUCES IN them
openly, when all restraints are re-
moved. The 'foolish virgins are
those who have lamps, but no OIL;
they have faults, but no charity,
they have the form of religion, but
not it's essence. "Oil' corresponds
to love, and he who shuns evils as
sins, that IS, who ceases to do
wrong because God teaches us we
should do so, opens his heart to Him
and He flows in with his good love
and gifts man with true charity.
The second essential of charity is
to perform a good use, for that is
the way we contribute to the good
of the neighbor. Man has been
created to become form OF use, or
a form of charity. The neighbo1
, to be loved is not only the indl'
: vidual, but every form of society
, which performs use. Thus the
q city is our neighbor, the country
: and the church, each according tt
the use it performs: In fact
"good" is the neighbor. Wher
. man loves good, he loves the Lord
and becomes united to Him. There
fore the heavenly life in this para
BILE is likened unto marriage
!, the union of man and the Lord
! And the Lord is said to know thos'
who are thus in charity, but thos'
q who are only IN the forms OF re
5 ligior He is said not to know
q They are not spiritually related tt
q him. To perform the two essen
4 tails of charity makes one wise
: but he who is outwardly pious, bu
! does not shun evils as sins is reall..
foolish. ...."
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
Farm for Sale.

One hundred acre farm in District
No. 3, east OF Reefoot Lake, with
two good houses, IS acres cleared,
Is improved, for sale at bargain
or exchange for smaller place
Farm known as the Carpenter
place. Call on or address It. M.
Bingham, Spout Spring, Tenn.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
SEAL CIGAR CASE LOST.

Lost-One seal cigar case with
silver monogram &c. P. H." Re-
turn to this Office and get reward.
Lost between Union City and Obion
river.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
III Years q Dnsnantic.

R. H. Foster, 318 S. I'd ST., Salt Lake
City, writes: Il have been bothered
with dyspepsia or indigestion for q
years; tried many doctors without re-
lief; recently / got bottle of Herb
inc. One bottle cured me ] am now
tapering off on the second. l have
recommended it to my friends; it is
curing them, too" SOC at NaiIling'I
Drug Store.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
The Outward Way.

/,
Think you not that Hope is gone?
Let's keep on!
Every dark will have its dawn
Let's keep on.
Do the storms with stars arise?-
Let's keep on!
Gods great Mornings IN the skies
Let's keep on!
1t is news now, to hear that
Poe was ten years writing the
Raven. But this will give his IT.
repressible critics another oppor.
tunity to write a dozen or so ad
ditional magazine articles about
him.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
Come Up,

Parties owing me for season on
colts will please come forward at
at once and settle or send to me at
Porter & Radebaugh's, jewelers..
HENRY o. HEAD, Jr.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11

"Now good digestion waits on appe-
tite, and health on BOTH"
If it doesn't, try Burdock Blood
Bitters.
For sale at Moss Pharmacy,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
a1usT M alienated
Vie STATE


/ start ter hunt de postum DIES ez hap
py ez kin be,
En- laugh ter see him winkin Of his
shiny eye atmeI
But when climb ter git him, a cy-
clone hit de tree
En- blowed me on de yuther side of
Jordan!
IL.
l say ter Mister Rabbit: Now you
comm ter de scratch,
En- fer once in dis creation you is
gwine ter meet you match!''
But when I jumped ter git him he
wuz ia de brier patch,
En- / landed on de yuther side of
Jordan!
o, de tarryfyin' problems in de weary
worl' terdayl
You go ter hunt de roses, en- it's
twenty mile ter May!
But-keep de fiddle goin', en- we'll
dance de worl' away,
'Twel it lan's son de yuther side
Of Jordan!
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11

FOR SALE-Some nice single
comb White Leghorns and White
Plymouth Rocks, cockerels and
pullets at $1.00 each, if taken soon.
For particulars address M. M.
Mitchell, Union City, Tenn.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
If Love Be Ours.

If Love be ours,
The cruel thorns will blossom as the
flowers,
And in the Night
God will reveal all mysteries of Light!
f. L. s,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11

September 20 has been set tor
the re.opening of the Methodist
church in Union City. The congre-
cation has not worshipped in the
auditorium for several weeks, hav-
ing held all the services in the Sum
day school room, while the other
was undergoing repairs. There
will be a special program for the
day which will be made public later
on. The pastor is especially desir-
GUS that all the members be present
that day, morning and evening
Now that we have overhauled the
house and made it me re nearly as 1T
should be, let us as members OF the
Church of God, see that our walk
and conversation be such as is be-
coming to the children or God. Let
us conscientiously look into our
hearts, and ascertain if there needs
to be any repairs made there we
may be sure that none worship him
in the house builded for that pur-
pose, who do not give him the first
place in their hearts. Let us re-
new our zeal and diligence i'll the
things of God.
Sincerely yours,
w. ]. Mccoy.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
The World w ay.

God gives us strength to do
His great work, day by day
The phantoms to pursue
On the Elusive way.
To dream that all the stars above
Are only messengers Of Love-
God give US strength to trust
That even his storms have light;
To sanctify the dust
Where sleep the dead in Night.
Even strength and faith-in sorrows
given
To reach from earth to heights Of
heaven!
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
Thankful For Any.

Some one asked an author:
''About what hour do you dineg"
To which he replied: "At any
hour the Lord sends dinnerw
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
Brother Dickey's Sunday Sayings

Brother Dickey's Sunday Sayings.
Eff, ez dc sayin' is, de good dies
young, what world full er gray
headed sinners dis must be.
No, Satan amt in dis worldly
weather. De weather what he in
would roast beefsteak ten mile off.
Some folks don't want ter 90 to
heaven in hot weather, kaze it
puts 'em too much in de mind er
de yuther place.
Eff you owes debt ten Satan;
don't bother bout it. He'll never
give you any trouble, 'twel he's
ready ter foreclose de mortgage
on you.
De highest church steeple don't
always mean de highest religion.
De sweetest v1olets is sometimes
found in de lowest valleys.
Pray ez we will ter de Lawd fel
wisdom, we always leave our UNI
brellas home when it rains.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS.

S. F. Wynn, pastor Of Cayce Git
cult, will preach at the Methodist
church next Sunday morning and
evening W. J. Mccoy, the pastor
here. will go to Zion church, on
Cayce Circuit. and will preach at
HOO a. m. and 400 p. m.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11
Sincerely yours,
w. ]. mccoy.

Fish Bros. are selling their stock
at cost to quit business.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-09-11

Fish Bros. are selling out every
thing.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-01-23
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
MUNIOIPALs
COUNTY OFFICIALS

ID VI Roberts, Judge sup. Court, Eastman, Ga.
J.F DeLacy, SOl'r Sup Court. Eastmen g
Court, Spring term Il weeks) LIST and End
Mondays in March Fall term. two weeks)
1st and 2nd Mondays in September.
). B. Clements, County Judge, Irwinville.
T.. Kennedy. County Solicitor, Fitzgerald, Ga.
Court-Monuhly term, End Monday in each
month; Quarterly sessions, 2nd Monday
in January, April. July and October
BOARD OF EDUCATlON-T. ]. Luke.
chairman: Dan Tucker, Jacob Hall, Joshua
Troup, Lucius Paulk, John Clements.
John Clements. School CON-.
Court. 1st Monday In each month.
J. j Lee, Ordinary. Irwinville, "
Court, LIST Monday in each month.
E.. r. Smith, Sycamore: Jacob Dorminy,
Dorminy's Mill; L. r. Tucker, Ocilla; County
Commissioners.
Court. 1st Monday in each month.
J. 81. Young, Clerk Sup. Court. TrwinviIle. Ga
D. A. McInnis, Sheriff, ......, Irwinville. Ga.
Norman DormineY, Tax Rec. Dormineys Mill
D. ]. Hogan, Tax Collector, ......O cilla. Ga.
NJ. w. Howell. Co. Treasurer. Fitzgerald, Ga.
S. Glaze, County Surveyor. Fitzgerald. Ga.
VIM. Mccormick, Coroner. Fitzgerald. Ga.
JURY COMMISSIONERS.
J. A. J. Henderson, David Clements, J. NJ
Barnes, T. ]. Clark, Jacob Dorminey, H, w .
BuSsey.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-01-23
Calendar Uc,,uee Circuit.

D. M. Roberts, Judge, Eastman,
Ga, Jno. F. DeLacy, Solicitor-9en-
eral, Eastman, Ga,
Pulaski county Second and third
Mondays in February and August.
Irwin county-First and second
Mondays in March and September.
Wilcox county-Third and fourth
Mondays in March and September
Twiggs county-First Monday in
April and October.
Telfair county-Second and third
Mondays in April and October.
Montgomery couuty-Fourth Mon.
days in April and October and weeks
following, respectively.
Dndge county-Second ard third
Mondays in May and November.
Each court, except for the county
of Twiggs, to cit for two weeks, or
as much thereof as the business of
The several courts may require.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-01-23

receive the gift of the Holy
spirit" Here the Holy spirit
makes repentance and baptism
antecedent to "remissions of
sins" ''Repentanceand Baptism"
in this passage are divinely we'd
ded by the Holy spirit. What
one is for the other is for. They
stand or fall together, as every
one can see. Turning to Rom.
1910 we read, For with the
HEART man believeth unto right
eousness; and with the. mouth
confession is made unto saliva
ton" Here the Holy spirit
makes belief with the HEART"
q emphasize with THE HEART, }
and confession with the mouth
proceed righteousness and saliva
ton. Let us sum up, or combine
these statements from Gods
holy word and see what we have,
and see how persons become
christians" under the immediate
guidance, supervision and direc-
ton of the Holy spirit in New
Testament times. Com bining
these statements we find that a
man must first believe in Christ
with his heart" secondly, re-
pent of his sins; thirdly, confess
Christ with his mouth; fourthly,
be baptised. After which they
MUST LIVE CHRIsT-must live
faithful, consistent lives, in the
faith and consistency of Christ's
gospel, or they will be damned
atlast. Beloved, these conditions
complied with in apostolic times
constituted men christians, and
the same conditions complied
with from the heart, will consti-
tute men christians in our times.
For it is philosophical axiom,
that like causes under like Cir
cumstances always produce like
effects. Faith in Jesus with all
the heart, (Acts $50 genuine,
hearty repentance, confession
and baptism constituted men
christians in A. D. 80. The
same faith, the same repentance,
the same confession and the same
baptism will constitute men chris
tians in A D. 1908.
If not, why not?
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-01-23
THE GREAT HIGHWAY.
Automobiles and the New York-Ch1a
caEO Road.

The owners of racing automobiles
have brought that machine, which
might be useful, into such disrepute
that it is pleasant to find one of them
engaged in useful public service. Colo
mel Dickinson of Springfield, Mass,
left recently on an automobile trip to
Chicago which promises to strengthen
the movement for good roads, says the
Brooklyn Eagle. He is treasurer of
citation, which hopes to have a line Of
smooth, hard highways connecting the
two cities. The distance is some $50
miles, of which only 800 miles are Of
good macadam. The association, which
numbers some 1000 members, will ask
the next legislature to bond the state
Of New York to build good state
highway, and Mr.. Dickinson seems
confident of state help in Ohio. 1ndi-
ana he regards as the enemy's country.
There Is no question that smooth,
hard highways would be of immense
benefit to farmers and not be merely a
convenience for the owners of auto
A9oOAASD HAA O4SSSASSs ~ LAS pCCA
shown over and over again that the
farmer could draw four times as heavy
loads to market with the same span of
horses over properly made road as
over the average roads through even,
lsvel country. The roads ought to be
made and kept in repair from local
taxation by the towns and counties
through which they run. But cooper
alton between such neignboring divi-
sions in the matter is more difficult to
secure than uniform divorce laws
among the states or uniform trust leg
islation. One long, fine road as an OBJ
ject lesson might be worth even state
cooperation for its effect upon other
communities
If the automobile can be used to pro-
note interest in that movement, tbs a
good thing, but farmers are not going
to vote taxes for roads which would be
practically speed courses for these ma
chine wagons and on which it would
be dangerous to drive their family car
ryalls. Colonel Dickinson and his as
ISOLATION should take the racers of
their favorite machine in hand. If
they could suppress those public nui-
sances, their good road movement
would thrive better.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-01-23
BY Trolley to VesuVius.


1t is stated in Nature that
Messrs. Cook, the tourist agents,
have put forward proposal to run
an electric railway to the crater of
Vesuvius from the naval arsenal in
Naples to take the place of the
funicular railway now used. The
faculty of science in the University
of Naples has forwarded a strong
protest against the scheme to the
Italian government on the grounds
that it would interfere with the
seismic and magnetic observations
and records which are made at the
university.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-01-23

this question. But in the light of
New Testament teaching, this
question is as simple as the ques-
ton, How to become a Mason. "
To constitute a man a Mason,
four things are necessary. %
Believe in Masonry. CD Ac-
cept Masonry as a system. 60
Be indicted into Masonry. az
Live Masonry. This is clear, as
you all can see. A man becomes
a christian, firstly believing in
Christ. Secondly accepting
Christ. Thirdly being in
Quoted (baptised) Into Christ"
(Rom. 6:3,4D Fourth--by living
Christ-reproducing the Christ
life in his life.
The New Testament is an un-
UNCONVENTIONAL book. Simply be-
cause the last chapter and the
last verse of it was written nearly
500 years before there were any
denominations. Hence let us turn
TO that book for an answer to this
question. The conditions upon
compliance with which persons
become christians are presented
by Christ, Peter and Paul and
other divincly inspired teachers
in the New Testament. Turn
ing to its inspired pages we read,
Go We into all the world and
preach Quot EXPLAIN the gospel
to every creature, he that be-
lieveth and is baptised shall be
saved Mark 16:15. 16. Here
Jesus makes belief and baptism
antecedent to salvation. Turn
ing to Acts 2:3S, we read what
the Holy spirit said to inquiring
believers who asked, Men and
brethren what shall we do?"
The Holy spirit (using Peters
vocal organs) said, Repent and
be baptised every one of you in
the name of Jesus Christ for the
remission of sins and You shall