The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-06-30
THE NASHVILLE TOURISTS
Union City Welcomes Representatives O
the Chamber Of Commerce.
Reception at Reynolds Opera House Under the Di-
rection Of Hon. L. S. ParEs--Vistors are
Charmed With Robnson's Band.

IN the seventh story OF 4. u
Watts new bank building. This
building will be a monument tt
Mr.. Watts and Union City people
should feel proud Of him. Al
Union City is invited to the open
ing of the new twelve story build
ing. If all the ladies will be gooC
they can have a Nashville man.
Miss Wootson Davis sang ''Sup
pose You Ask Me" and as an en-
core "Annie Laurie" in an exqui
site manner. r. Il. Burch cOmpli
mented Miss Davis and the band
He spoke also Of Union City'i
splendid opera house and said thai
ut was no wonder that any resident
hated to leave Union City. He
spoke of the great natural wealth
of the State made apparent on this
trip. He was impressed on bis
approach to this section by the
strong men and earnest women.
This is .he favorite country of the
Volunteer State. He said that
Nashville was the home of Jack.
son, Polk and johnson and they
felt that she was entitled to some
sort of supremacy. They were
enIarging theindustrial field. They
had iron furnaces, inexhaustible
fields of coal, fertilizer, forests Of
hardwood, grain, attractive freight
rates, cheap cost of living, cheap
fuel. With these things Nashville
is destined to be a great manufac-
turing center. They had also all
the vim and enterprise that was
needed. The trouble was that raw
material was sent North and
bought back at an enormous in
crease in price; that the day is
come with the spirit to keep the
money in Tennessee,
Mr.. Leland Hume said that this
welcome was reward enough for
the entire trip. He wished to
emphasize one point that the men
on this excursion were all single
men. 1t was true that Eugene
Shannon had a wife and children,
but he had been nominated Greater
Nashville Shannon and as such he
had come to marry Union City.
He was struck with the resource
fnlness of our people and he was
prepared to meet them face to face
with the greatest Park in Tennes-
see. Nashville is the Athens of
the South. 1t is filed with bnsi
ness men and they were prepared
to offer goods at bottom prices.
We can take your sons and daugh-
ters and send them back educated.
was the peer of any city
In the land in the journalistic
field. He promised they would
come back, and he asked for all
their trade. (Applause.)
PRAISE FOR WEST TENNESSEE.
r. Houston Dudley praised the
reception accorded BY Union City
and by West Tennessee. He COM
plimented the Cumberland Tele-
phone Company. The Chamber
0f Commerce was assuring the
coming to Nash
vile that the people Of Tennessee
would buy their goods. They
we're assuring the people of Ten
1essee that they would get the
pest from Nashville at the lowest
prices. The speaker said that
Nashville had been given liberal
lmount of business from Union
City, bat not as much as they
wanted. If they could not show
t clearly to Union City's interest
o trade with Nashville they didn't |
want it. Nashville in ten years
viii have 250,000 population. The
Chamber Of Commerce was made
ID Of pushing young men and they
we're going out after business.
Mr.. Parks assured the party i
hat they would get the preference
u an even break.
Hon. Joseph E. Washington