The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-05
SOUTH FULTON, KY.

Mr.. Editors: AS I have just been
reading The Commercial and see 50
many things in it that is news to
me and the mention of so many
people through your communicators
that am personally acquainted
with, only makes it the more newsy
to me. / am not a regular reader
of The Commercial, as don't get
it every week, but read it with the
profoundest interest when / am
lucky enough to secure one. 1t is
one of the best papers ever pub
lished in West Tennessee or any
other old place, saying nothing
about John Barleycorn and Gipsy.
Fulton is still forging TO the
front, especially since it has become
dry town, yet it was the cry by
many when the local option cam
paign was on, that if whisky was
voted out of Fulton it would kill it
dead as Heck, and weeds would
grow in the middle of the streets,
and the deuce would be to pay in
general, and blind tigers would be
in tull force on every corner. But
while the large, gentle drops of
snow are falling softly this evening
/ am proud to say we have no blind
ii ers or bootleggers and that the
town is IN better shape than ever
before. The business men report
better business than when we had
saloons and the city financially is
in better shape than ever before;
and as result otherwise it is sell
dom | see a drunk man, and very
few arrests, fights and killings, and
we all know that the open saloon
in any town breeds all these things
and leads to all forms of dissipation
and low degraded life. South
Fulton is out of debt for the first
time in its history, without the help
of the saloon. Yet heretofore, un-
til the saloons were put out little
over year ago, she had the benefit
of the tax from eight saloons. Sa-
looms are detriment to any town
or community and no one is bene-
flied by the sale of whisky except
the dealers themselves. This old
saying "You vote whisky out and
it will kill the town, is too absurd
to be repeated any more, and it
only shows that a man don't know
what he is talking about or he
would stop this old stereotyped
saying. There are hundreds and
thousands of contented men and
women in the United States to-day
where the open saloon has been
told to step out. And Fulton,
like all other towns that have rid
of saloons, has peace,
prosperity and happiness, instead.
MIR. Cathey, formerly of Union
City, but who has been living with |
his son, Esq w. II, Cathey. OF near
Pierce, died last Thursday. Mr.. |
Cathey was SO years of age and had
been afflicted many years with a
cancer on his nose.
Ernest Fall, Clarence Reed, Chas.
Browder, Ed, Hannephin. Roscoe
Crittenden and Fenner Ellington
spent Sunday in Union City.
Every opportunity l have to get a
copy of The Commercial ! read it
with much pleasure, especially the
of John Barleycorn
and Gypsy, both of whom | am inti-
mateIy and personally acquainted;
and John Barleycorn viii. re a d
this letter and wonder who on earth
that scalawag can be- and of course
Gypsy has the advantage of John
along this line, as they are .fore
and after taking in their knowledge
Of knowing things. John Barley
corn often in his communications
leads me back to- many of my old
stamping grounds and brings to
mind many people that the mention !
Of their names is pleasure to me.
Such as the Tanners, Wilson's, Nc
Alisters, Turner'S, Bonners, Shores,
Phebuses, Wades, Corrys, G. mp
IONS, Catrons and many others |
could name IN the country, and
here is Alex Forester. Ben Akin,
Capt. Jim Oliver and Sol Ward, of
he Pleasant Valley neIghborhood,
and B. II Whitley, Geo. Adams,
Tom Brown and hundreds of others
who live in Union City could men
ion that are tried friends, and |