The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-03-22
RIVES.

| Nj. T.. underwood is driving new
Overland.
Mrs. Francis Elan is in Trenton
this week for the Presbyterial meet
ing in conjunction with Presbytery
of the C. P. Church. Mrs. Elan is
corresponding Secretary Of the Board
of Missions.
David Clemmons and family, of
Obion, were here for services Sun
day and visitors with Mr.. and Mrs.
w. L. Clemmons.
Rev. ]. S. Moffatt, of Erskine Col
lege, S. c., will address the A. r. P.
congregation on the first Sabbath in
April
Ed Welch, for several months sta
toned at Camp Sewer, has been in
on a furlough, guest of his sister,
Mrs. Henry Barker, here and Mrs.
Homer Craver over in the county
seat.
B. j. Wade holds the record for
early corn planting. We judge Mr..
Wade has already more than a hun
bred acres seeded on his farms to
corn ipRhis vicinity.
Meso es Will Hamilton and
Floys G. pr were in town Satur-
day shopping. Mrs. Carter tells us
Mrs. Gilreath, in her lecture, won
several members for the Rives Rural
with free-will offering of twenty
five dollars.
Mrs. Ernest Carter and children,
of Martin, were here the past week
with Mrs. Carriers aunts, Mesdames
T. A. Cummings and Walter Warren.
]. F. Holloway is now member
of the honk, honk crowd.
Miss Sarah Agnew spent the end
of the week with relatives near
Troy.
Mrs. Fount Barnes, of Obion, has
been over visiting her mother, Mrs.
Julia Turner.
Jessie Starnes and wife, of Obion,
were Sabbath visitors in the home
of Mr.. Will Starnes.
Holden Turner, for several years
clerk in the T. A. Cummings grocery,
has joined the farming forces Mr..
Turner will cultivate part of the
John Houser farm.
Leslie Shore, John Thorn and w.
E. Shropshire are all drawing the
line over old Beck these ideal farm
ing days.
Mr.. Will White, former resident
of Number Four but for several years
resident of San Diego, Cal, has
lately moved to Portlant, Oregon,
seeking better climate for his wife.
Postmaster Hal Cotton has been
out of town attending the bedside of
his father, Mr.. Joe Cotton, whose
home is in Covington. For num-
Der of years Mr.. Cotton has been a
valued member of the West Tonnes
see State Normal at Memphis.
A patron of the Sunny Side school
reports the school closes Friday of
this week in special exercise by
the pupils for the benefit of the Red
Cross. A precedent, we believe, in
this locality that is worthy of imita-
ton by other schools as they go into
vacation.
Mrs. Glennie Phebus and Miss
Euline Cummings attended Presby-
terry in Trenton this week. Mrs.
Phebus gave a response to the well
come address in the Presbyterial
meeting, while Miss Cummings had
reading in the Tuesday evening
session of the Woman's Board of Mis-
sions.
Not that farm labor is so scarce
but that a large class believe in
charging enough for four days work
to give them two of leisure, the gov
eminent may find it necessary to
draft the ineligibles to the army or
navy for civil service turnout all
| branches of industries. Besides the
| leisure class of work when they
| feel like it and quit when they
please" there are still few tramps
on the road that would be less a
nuisance if impressed into hay MAX
ing or helping to save the corn, oats
and wheat. 1t is fact that so
many of the brawny young men be-
ing called out has made the scarcity
of labor acute, yet for number of
years the easy-going class began the
trouble the end of which is not yet.
| T. c. and L. A. Callicott were rep
resentatives of the local G. P. con-
gregation at Presbytery this week.
In more ways than one the war
is taking its toll. The high cost of
living and the prevailing scarcity of
! farm labor is decimating the high
school classes here to an alarming
degree. This is a mistake that al
ready is being felt in England where
laxity in the child labor laws is
lowering both the physical and
mental standard A reasonable