The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-08-06

RIVES.

tO OAOlSs
/ The second severe drought Of the sea
son was broken Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Pybas Rogers has come in hom
from Nashville.
Messrs. 0. H. Clemmons, Johnn!
Dicky, Felan Kilgore, Grover Petty
Ernest Shropshire, Dave and Foun
Holloway attended to business Monday
in Union City.
Miss Eunice Shore has arrived home
from Dawson.
Friends and patrons of the school put
in some good work Tuesday in grading
the school campus.
Mr.. John Dickey, here for seyera
weeks, left Tuesday for his home, Graf
ton, Texas.
Miss Lilly Marlin, en- route to Poplar
Bluff, Mo-, where she has position
in the public schools, was this week a
guest here of her brother, T. G. Mar
lin, of the depot force.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Caldwell and Mr..
and Mrs. E. T. Mitchell were over in
the county site first Monday.
Mrs. John Bittick and daughter, OF
Paragould, Ark, are guests of Mrs.
Holland Bittick.
Mrs. Floys Carter and children are
visiting relatives in Medina.
Rev. e. P. Lindsay, Of Memphis,
has been here part of the week with his
family in the home of Mrs. Jane Wade.
Miss Mary Watson, of Fort Gibson,
Okla, and Miss Laura Lou Hamilton,
of Kenton, were recent visitors in our
town between trains. Miss Watson,
daughter of Prof. Watson, several years
past was resident here.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Caldwell are
spending ten days at Gulfport, Miss.
Mr.. Redmond and daughter, Of Vicks-
burg, Miss, have been guests Of Mrs.
Jerry Spikes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Byrd have re-
turned from Forest City, Ark. Miss
Thelma Blankenship, niece of Mrs.
Byrd, accompanied them home and will
be here several weeks.
Tuesday week, the 18th, Rev. N. B.
Hardeman, of Henderson, begins a
series of sermons at the Christian
Church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Houser, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hubert Shore and Misses Mabel
Warren, Mary Warren, Aletha Bonner,
Amy Moss, MIR. Cathon Bonner and
others report splendid days outing
on the river.
There will be call meeting OF the
W. G. T. U. Thursday afternoon at the
M. E. Church. Time, 8 o'clock. IT is
requested that every member be pres
ent, as several items of important BUSH
ness is to be transacted. The roll call
will be favorite passages of scripture.
Miss Mary Cummings, OF Kenton,
spent last week with relatives in this
locality in and out of town.
Mrs. Ernest Carter and children, of
Martin, we're over this week, guests of
Mrs. 7. A. Cummings.
The county union of the w. G. T. U.
held an executive session in the home
Of Mrs. R. L. Phebus, corresponding
of the county union. Sep
tember was set for holding a conven-
lion here and program drafted. Since
4 lecturer will be sent in by Mrs. Hol-
man, the pragram was made as concise
and short as possible. Mrs. Knox Har-
per, as president, placed her resigna-
ion before the committee. It was ac-
,epted. Mrs. Floys Carter, OF Rives
Rural, generously accepted the vacancy
rs president pro tenn.
The current issue of the American
Magazine is an all round number.
Hempfeld, by David Grayson, is an
idyl in prose. The Bird House Man
stories are as restful and entertaining
as Freckles or Laddie, by Mrs. Porter,
and the story by Taintor Foote, entitled
Dumb Bells Check" is as fine dog
story as we ever read and would make
\ fit pamphlet for distribution by hui
name societies.
o. E. S. meets in regular session We'd
nesday afternoon. Time, $50.
When we see that firm has turned
Town a contract for munitions of war
10 the amount of $4,000, 900, we feel
encouraged for termination of hos
,ilities across the water. However, this
.heory almost gives way when a we'll
informed friend comes along and says,
Just you trace that back and you will
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