The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-03-20
RIVES NEWS.

Fled now are allthe sullen mur
nfurs Of the North.
Allen Wade has returned from
Mountain Grove, Mo.
Chas. Lippard and family arr
moving this week to Newburn.
w. I'll. Cook made a business tr1I
toJaekson last Monday evening.
Mrs. Knox Harper visited hei
parents in Kenton Monday anc
Tuesday.
Rev. p. F. Johnson will preach al
the c. p. Church in Rives Sunday
morning and evening.
Misses Ava Scoggins, Verna Cal.
licott and Marietta Latimer and
c. Shankle are reported sick this
week.
Prot. o. Z. Weeks is teaching a
spring school at the Cummings
school house and reports good work
being done.
Miss Da1sie lMcLeoid, our music
teacher, spent Saturday and Sum
day last with her aunt, Mrs. Bea-
dies, in Obion.
The firm of McCaw and Shrop-
shire, in connection with their neat
business, carry small line of gro
ceries and general line OF edibles.
ESQ. j. B. Caudle and his daugh-
ter, Miss Willie, Miss Mary Turner
and others went to Hickman and
Columbus last Sunday to see the
high waters.
Rev. E. P. Lindsey, pastor of the
Al. r. p. Church at this place and
Polk, will leave next week for
South Carolina to be absent three
or four weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Harper will
move this week to their new home
near Pleasant Hill church. DR..
Callicott will occupy the house
where Harper now lives.
Isaac Reeves informs us that his
wife, who has been very low for
several monthsfrom dropsy, is some
better. and he now has hopes of her
complete restoration to health.
Messrs. McCaw & Shropshire are
arranging to put in a small stock
of groceries and general feed stuff
in connection with their meat bus
mess. predict for them success.
The many friends of lads" Har-
rison, of District 7, regret that Mr..
Harrison's mind has become unbal-
anced, and tears are entertained
that the trouble may result in COM
plete lunacy.
The Rives camp of the w. O. w.
held their regular meeting Tuesday
night and transacted important
business 1t appears that the play
which the Woodmen have been re-
hearsing for public presentation
has gone into state of inocuous
desuetude.
We have Just made little calcu-
( lation and find that the salaries of
the railroad employees of Rives, in
cluding the wages of the section
hands, amounts to more than S8,-
900 annually. Nearly all this is
spent in Rives. This is evidently
a help to our little town.
# Hon. T. ]. Bonner tells us that
his niece, daughter of Wilkes Bon
ner, of Dallas, Tex, recently under
went surgical operation for apen-
dicitis and that she is improving
rapidly tromthe effects of the dis
ease and the operation. The
Young lady was in school at Wash
inpton, D. c., and was taken i'll
while there.
At a meeting of the Directors of
the Riyes Farmers and Merchants
Bank a few days ago S. D. Glenn
mons was unanimously elected
cashier. We congratulate both
the bank and Dave in this selection
of cashier. A better choice could
not have been made. Dave is a
man, born and reared and educated
in Rives; young, energetic, indus
trious, social, and thoroughly under
stands the duties of the position to
which he has been elected, and we'I
predict a successful career in his
chosen profession. Here's to you,
Dave, and may you some day be at
the head of Morgan's and Rocke-
fellows counting56ouse in Wall
Street. 81
If our present Legislature sue
ceeds in passing half the bills intro
duced into that body seeking to
create new commissions and boards
it will take all the revenue OF
the state to pay these boards
their salary. We expect to see