The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-04-19
RIVES

With no equinoctial spring rain:
and wintry weather in April termi
mating Wednesday afternoon last
with a fall of snow, we can see the
wisdom in Joe Joe and other weather
prophets keeping client. Nothing is
as it once was.
Mr.. Wilson Petty left for Nash
vile this week to accept a position
with the Government.
Mrs. Jennie Latimer, of Charles
ton, Mo-, was a guest during the
week of her sister, Mrs. o. H. Glenn
mons.
Miss Virginia Starne5 and little
brother, James. of Obfon. were over
this week with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Bolts are at the
springs for the benefit of Mr.. Bolts
who for several weeks has been in
valided with rheumatism.
Mesdames Herman Dietzel, of I'm
ion City, and Mary Emma Taylor. OF
Memphis, were recent guests of the
day of Mrs. jas. Scoggins, to meet
Mrs. A. M. Burton, of Nashville, an
old acquaintance.
With Prof. Cravens as scout master
we now have team of twenty-five
or more Boy Scouts.
Misses Felts Houser, Hattie Mai
Starnes and Grover Petty and Wilson
Petty enjoyed a motor trip, to Obion
the first of the week.
Cecil Agnew, of Fort Lecvenworth,
comes home this week in c farewell
visit to his father and sisters.
Mr.. Sam Dickey and Mr.. George
Corbitt are this week reported on
the sick LIST.
Mesdamcs Jas. Olive, Floys Car
ter and Mrs. Dora Petty were among
the large attendance Tuesday Of the
Rcd Cross. Four machines were
kept busy. Another machine has
been donated for use.
MI Odul ASACW 10 AGflu6 uCOp
we'll dug with the intention of in
stalling water conveniences for his
residence.
The Rural w. C. T. U. met We'd
nesday with Mrs. Hall in an all-day
quilting. This quilt was pieced in
the county seat union of outing
scraps from Red Cross garments and
given to the county organization of
the w. G. T. u. The Rives union
furnished the cotton. The quilt is
to be sold for benefit of the Red
Cross.
The drouth was broken in a gent
ly saturating rain Monday night,
followed Wednesday night by one not
so gentle, accompanied with consid-
erablc wind. Corn will now go into
the ground rapidly. as the majority
of our farmers are ready, only wait
ing for a season. There will be a
large acreage of corn in Number
Four.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. C. Underwood
enjoyed a motor trip Sabbath to
points in Lake County.
Mr.. Grimes, of Englewood, has a
music class at the Pleasant Hill
church, which yet runs for several
weeks, just on Saturday nights and
Sunday afternoons.
Sabbath guests of Miss lima Lee
Holloway were Misses Annie Mai
and Minnie Starnes.
DR.. White reports the recent ses-
sion of the Tennessee Medical AS
ISOLATION in Memphis very satisfac-
tory. This is the eighty-seventh ses-
sion of the association which is
United States. OF especial interest
was the various discussions of Mai
Bell, famous surgeon who has seen
three years service in the war zone,
and gave graphic descriptions of the
havoc of war and what a surgeon
may do in reconstruction. DR..
Sharp, of New York City, surgeon
of renown, illustrated by moving
pictures taken at the time some of
his successful operations on the
brain for foreign obstruction.
Hambones' lamentations that his
people of color in Siberia are going
over the top in opposite direction
from the enemy is pathetic, but as
usual laughable
Miss Lizzie Stitt, of Union City,
was the Sabbath guest of Miss Mar