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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20
Coming to Union City.

DR.. George M. Saunders, general
manager of the Saunders Optical Co.
of Nashville, Tenn, was in the city
a few days ago and secured good
location for branch Office in Union
City next door to Pink Benefits
store, corner of First and Washing
ton streets. The Saunders Optical
Co. is the largest retail dealers in
spectacles and eyeglasses in the State
and have main Office and grinding
plant at So Arcade, Nashville, Tenn,
and branch Offices at Lewisburg, Fay
etteville, Shelbyville, Murfreesboro,
Pulaski, Springfield, Huntingdon and
Martin, Tenn, and will soon have
q branch office in Union City. DR..
Saunders has rented from Mr.. Pink
Bennett the building formerly oc-
cupied by Frank Williams as a bar
Der shop and will visit our town
regularly once month spending
two days a trip. People of Union
City and Obion County will have a
good opportunity to secure the very
highest grade of optical work at very
reasonable prices.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20
D. P. CALDWELL IN CITY.
Union City Legislator Looking Into
Educational Interests.

Senator D. P. Caldwell, of Union
City, Tenn, was a Memphis visitor
yesterday. The Senator was busy
getting a line OH the educational in
tercsts of this portion of the State.
He reports the West Tennessee State
Normal in good condition and with
q splendid faculty.
The only need for Normal, he says,
is to be remembered by the Legisla-
ture with the usual appropriation.
He says he is of the conviction that
the entire Legislature will support
the educational interests of the State
and all reforms advocated by Gov.
Roberts.
Senator Caldwell has been promi-
nent in school affairs of the State,
and in the recent election proved his
service to the public by the case with
which he secured reelection to the
Office he held in tho State councils.
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20
Red Cross Nursing Service.

The effort to enroll nurses for
service in our military establishments
will not be changed by the prospects
of permanent peace, states Miss
Jane A. 'Delano, director of the Red
Cross nursing department at nation
al headquarters. Miss Dclano re-
minds the people that of the re-
sponsihility of caring for the soldiers
as long as they arc under arms.
Whether in actual warfare, in re-
construction work, in American
camps and cantonments, If a soldier
is in need of medical care he must
and will have it. Illness is likely to
increase this winter and nurses will
be badly needed. Then, too, physi-
clans and nurses will play an i'm
portant part in the rebuilding of the
invaded European countries. 1t IS
there that tuberculosis, typhus, in
fluenza, mal-nutrition and exhaustion
will cause much sickness and suffer-
ing and according to a recent state
ment made by Surgeon General Ire
land our men will need skilled care
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20
Estimating the Cost.

Austria Hungary lost four million
killed and wounded during the war,
according to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Copenhagen.
Eight hundred thousand men were
killed, including 1900 officers.
The German losses were placed at
6,330,000 by the socialist Vorwaerts
of Berlin on Nov. 20. The news
papers estimate, which was unoffi-
cial, said that up to Oct. 81 1,5S0,000
German soldiers had been killed and
the fate of 100000 was not known.
Four million soldiers were wounded
and 400, 900 were prisoners.
The British losses in all theaters
of activity, including killed, wound
ed and missing, were officially placed
at 3,049,991 on Nov. 10.
OF the total, 65S,665 were killed,
including $1,000 officers. On official
announcement from London said that
one million men had been killed or
were dead thru various causes, it be-
ing explained that the earlier total
of killed did not include the men re-
ported missing who actually lost
their lives nor those who died from
sickness.
American casualties have been Of
ficially announced as totaling 1885,
1T. OF this number, 36,154 were
killed and died from wounds. Slight
ly more than 1900 deaths were
from disease or causes not classified.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20
The Red Cross and the Refugees

One of the Red Cross problems at
this time is to care for the thousands
of refugees who are fiocking back to
their homes from the various places
to which they were driven by the
Boche. The streets of Paris are liter
ally filled with them and to give
them transportation, clothing, food
and the like is taxing the French Of
ficials to the uttermost, but it is just
what the Red Cross is equipped to do.
The refugees are met by French Of
ficials but the American Red Cross
workers are beside them and togeth-
er they work to provide clean beds,
hot meals, warm clothing and sympa-
thy. To those who must remain for
awhile until friends are located there
is shown q health farm just out of
Paris, conducted by the Red Cross
and here many are taken, especially
children, and are given medical at
tention, fresh air.. milk and eggs.
But all long to get back to the old
homes and are miserable until they
are on thier way. The tragedy of
what they will find of destruction
and desolation is also helped by the
Red Cross whose constant work is to
aid these people to start life anew.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20
DR.. BONDURANT ENDS LIFE
BULLET FIRED INTO BRAIN
Prominent Physician, Dependent Over
Protracted Illness, Kills Self.

Dependent on account of his
health DR.. A. A. Bondurant, one of
Cairos most prominent physicians
and surgeons, ended his life by send
ing a bullet into his brain at Cairo,
ILL.,, on the 7th inst.
The tragic and unexpected ending
of the life of so prominent and useful
citizen came as a shock to the
community as well as to his friends.
DR.. Bondurant shot himself thru
the temple. He died shortly after
the shot was fired.
DR.. Bondurant was native of
Fulton County, KY, where he was
born on December 8, 1850. He at
tended Louisville Medical College at
Louisville, KY, to complete his edu-
cation, and Bellevue Hospital, New
York, to finish his medical education.
He embarked in the practice of medi-
cine at Charleston, Mo-, where he
married Miss Mary Baker, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. David Baker of that
place, on September s, 1875. About
26 years ago they removed to Cairo,
and DR.. Bondurant has practiced here
since. About six years ago he built
the Bondurant Hospital on Seventh
street, a thoroly modern hos pital
building, which he conducted with
success for time, but the task was
too great for his strength, which
broke under the strain, and he was
forced to close it. Since that time
he has devoted himself to his private
practice and to the care of his health.
DR.. and Mrs. Bondurant had ten
children, six of whom survive Three
sons are in the service-Lieut. Flint
Bondurant, in the medical branch of
the service at Fort Oglethorpc, Ca;
Lieut.. d. s. Bondurant, in the avia-
ton service in France, and Private
Lonnie Bondurant, in the field hos
pital service in France. Three daugh-
ters surviving are Mrs. J. w. Brans-
ford, of Yazoo City, Miss; Mrs. Will
liam Storrs Hinton, of Douglas.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20
Who Wrongfully Receive Allotments.

Nashville, Dec. 1.-THE Blu
reau of War Risk Insurance has ask
ed the State Council of national De-
tense to continue it's efforts in report
ing persons who wrongfully receive
allotments from soldiers or sailors,
and all county councils are urged to
be vigilant in running down such
cases and reporting them to Wash
ington, especially during the period
of rehabilitation.
There are cases whore dependents
of former soldiers and sailors are
still receiving cllotme1ts, after such
soldier or sailor has been discharged.
There are cases where persons are
receiving allowances who ere not en-
titled to them under the provisions
of the Act.
There are women named as the
wives of men but who are not their
wives, and cases where allowances
are being received in the names of
children who ere not living.
All such cases should be reported
to the chairman of your county board
in order that the Bureau of War
Risk Insurance may be Immediately
notified. "Unjustifiod allotments
and allowances breed q tendency to
idleness," says Maj. Rutledgc Smith,
and tend to cripple the morale Of the
community. Besides, they increase
the already large expenditures which
the people are forced to meet thru
taxation"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20
GENERAL PERSHIRG
COMMEnDS WORK OF
AMERICAN RED CROSS

Washington. D. c., December IT.
General Pershing has commended
the work of the American Red Cross
for the soldiers of the American Ex-
peditionary Force in the following
statement issued from his headquar-
tiers in France:
1.-THE American Red Cross is the
recognized National organization for
relief work with the Army and Navy
in time of war. It. is thru this or
ganization that the men and women
of America contribute their funds
and their labor for the relief and COM
fort of the men in service. To the
millions of women whose hearts and
hands are consecrated to the service;
to the millions of the men, rich and
poor alike turnout the country who
have contributed and sacrificed and
even to the millions of children of
our schools who are doing their part,
it should be made clear that the re-
lief and comfort contributed by them
thru the American Red Cross to the
men in service is essential. The
Commander in Chief desires to ex-
press, for the entire American Ex-
peditionary Forces, the deep sense of
appreciation of the service being rem
dered by the American Red Cross.
"Signed by Command of General
Pershing.
JAMES w. McANDREE,
"Chief of Staff"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20
LILLE AMID TEARS OF JOY
SHOUTS "vIvE L'AMERIQUE"
People Fed by U. S. While Under
Hun Hoof Grateful to U. S.

washington, Dec. 16.-Gratitude
TO the American people. shown by
the people of Lille. for food furnished
the French city during its occupation
by the Germans, is the subject OF
letter written by Mai. Anthony L.
Geyelin, the first American officer to
enter Lille after it's evacuation by
the Germans, to Herbert G. Hoover,
chairman of the Commission for Re-
lief in Belgium.
.It was a wonderful sight" says
the letter, which was made public to-
day, Ito see those happy people
thronging the streets of Lille by the
thousands on the day that President
Poincaire arrived, and to think that
the men and women and children OF
America were feeding them and actu-
ally saving them from starvation,
for there were 100000 people to feed
and no food in the town except what
your commission had furnished.
81 wish that you and your col
leagues and all the good people at
home who have so generously and
faithfully provided for invaded
France and Belgium could have gone
along the front from Lille to Bruges
during the week of liberation and
seen the tears of Joy and gratitude
roll down the checks of those poor
people, whose lives you have saved.
/ wish you could have seen them
frantically waving their hats and
handkerchiefs and the little flags
they had hidden for this day, and
heard the cheers that rang in our
ears from morning till night: 'Vive
L'Amerique! Vive L'Amerique! 1t
is you who have saved our lives
without you we should have died of
hunger"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications. as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness. and that is by constitu-
Tionai remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube is infamed
you have rumbling sound or imperfect hearing.
and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the
result and unless the inflammation can be taken
out and this tube restored to its normal coud-
ton hearing will be destroyed forever: nine cases
out of ten are caused by Catarrh. which is moth
ing but an infamed condition of the mucous
surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case
OF Deafness Caused by catarrh) that cannot be
cured by Halls catarrh Cure. Send for circu-
lars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. Ohio.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20
To Jake Ephlin and Brooks Ephlin.

To Jake Ephlin and Brooks Ephlin.
John White, Admir-, ct ais. VS.. Sarah
Farris ct ais
Chancery Court, Obion County, Ten
nessee.
In the above styled cause it ap-
pearing to the Clerk and Master from
the bill of complaint, which is sworn
to, that the defendants, Jake Ephlin
and Brooks Ephlin, are non-residents
of the State of Tennessee, so that
ordinary process of law cannot be
served upon them. 1t is therefore
hereby ordered that the said above
named defendants appear before the
Clerk and Master of the Chancery
Court of Obion County, Tennessee,
on or before the First Monday of
February, 1919, that being regular
rule day of said Chancery Court, and
make defense to the said bill, or the
same will be taken as confessed by
them and the said cause set for hear
ing ex-parte as to them. 1t is fur
ther ordered that publication of this
notice be made for four consecutive
weeks in The Commercial, a weekly
newspaper published in Obion Coun-
ty, Tenn. Seat
This Dec. IA, 1918.
GEO. A. GIBBS,
Clerk and Master.
Pierce & Fry, Sol. for Complt.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20
RED CROSS NOTES.

Attention is again called to the
large quantity of yarn that is on
hand TO be made up into knitted
articles. Don't forgot to call and get
some that you may have a part in
this work.
The following donations are CRATE
fully acknowledged: J. F. Bud
worth, $3.50; Pleasant Valley Club,
$37.35; Old Fremont school, $40;
Mrs. ]. P. Cox, $3.50; Mailing Camp
bell Concert Co., $116. For home
service work from Troy branch, $50.
For home service work from Mason
Hall auxiliary, $50.
CHAIR. PUBLICITY COMMITTEE.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20

Wyo., and Miss Vela Bondurant, who
with her mother are the only mem
bcrs of the family now in Cairo
Cairo Bulletin.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20

Sporting goods for Xmas Guns,
Hunting Coats, Dads Lanterns, Balls,
Bats and Mits have headquarters at
WEHMAN'S.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20

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divers Drug Store.
Union City Ice G Coal Co.
Morgan Verhine Co.
W. G. Clagett Co.
I. S. Kirby.
Mailing -Keiser Hardware Co.
Tisdale- Jackson-Atkins Co.
Corum & Jackson.
Hefey Grocery Co.
Elva Caldwell.
Reynolds Packing Co.
Gem Cafe, Hamilton.
McAdoo Coal Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20

Wait for the twenty-five cent win
dow at WEHMAN'S before you do
your Xmas shopping. 1t will be on
display in a few days.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20

Farmers Exchange Bank.
Overland Sales Co.
Union City Steam Laundry.
Childs Speciality House.
]. A. Coble, Son & Co.
Shatz Bros.
John T. Walker G Co.
Old National Bank.
B. C. Bramham.
DR.. w. M. Turner.
Third National Bank.
Union Iron & Steel Co., H. Shapir,
Mrs. F. E. Arm.
R. H. Rust, Ford Dealer.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-20

Union City Garage, G. V. Andrews.
Union City Manufacturing Co.
Dahnke- Walker Milling Co.
J. G. Burdick.
Blue Bell Dry Cleaning Co.
Howell Grain & Feed Co.
Red Star Drug Store.
Bushart & Son Foundry.
F. G. Wehman.
Reeves Grocery Co.
Chas. Dietzel.
Dahnke's Cafe.
E. P. Grissom.
C. T. Moss Lumber Co.
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TREND OF IT ALL.

The Liberty Bond quota of the little town of Superior, Arizona,
was $1,000. Did the residents of Superior do their bit? They did. IN
stead of contributing $1,000 they made it 100000, or thrty-Sx times
the minimum quota. This item is not given special publicity because 1t
is especially remarkable. Other communities, small and large may prove
to have been equally public spirited. Some may have even surpassed
it in point of the proportionate number Of contributors, which, after all,
is the farest test of public spirit. This incident is noted chiefly because
it fairly represents the awakening of the America that is to win the
war. &
We r. discovering ourselves. We are discovering each other.
The proud and the humble n learning in the war that each la VIZ
tues to command the respect of the other. The rich and the poor ar
learning to be mutually forbearing and reciprocany helpful " e ar
learning, some of u who haven known it before that the bank
er is not necessarily an extortioner the capitalist a thief. Some
who have never realized it ar coming to understand Ia the snaho"-
est and most unjustifabe measurement of a man is by tn money e
has in a bank n the amount his wife can spend o n hnefy. we nav
learned to value the man who drives rivets @ r raises a to- OF
America is learning real values these days. Men n nave peer
rated as constituencies pirates are donating services invaluable TO ee
government. Men, rated unpromisng and Disappointing are prov
ing to be self sacrfcing heroes indispensable to wel-belng. women
classified as social dead beats or silly counterfeits and butterflies are
finding solid anchorage in public service. We who have believed
selves so very different in u views are coming to prize the view and
impulses w e entertain in common. Some OF use a ever Deeh seC
ting u citizenship O straight.
We n learning from everybody n earth, including u enemies,
and they are learning from us, and about u.s. some things they and we
ought to have known long ago. When the world rights up again and
stands O n an even keel it will be a better understood world. We SHAH
have a larger speaking acquaintance.
(. The above from a recent edition of the Los Angeles Elk
bids America be of good cheer and look onward
and upward. If, as the Express1Tribune says, we are dlscoy
ering ourselves. We are discovering each other; The prouc
and the humble are learning in the war that each has virtues t
command the respect of the other. The rich and the poor are
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-05-24
THAT HIRED MAN.

That hired man at Washington City, F. D. Lander-that
man who had so conducted his newspaper work at Hattesburg
that he thought it best to hike to the pleasures of the Nations
Capital, before the Skids were placed under his business at Hat
tiesburg, that man who admits that he is on somebody's pay roll
to write, who is both the monkey and the organ grinder for the
dancers in our Junior Senator's camoufagIng about his attitude
towards the war and towards the administration on the war be-
fore the water got so hot, seeks to discredit the administrations
insistence upon the espionage bill, which is now a law, as we'll
as its attitude towards almost everything else pertaining to
efforts to protect this country against the hellishness of German
ism, makes this insiduous inquiry:
SIS it necessary, in order to curb the tongue of a blatant few who
izen the right to speak the truth, with good intentions and justifable
ends? Will the congress seek to abridge the constitutional rights of
free-born. loyal American citizens in order to reach a few whose words
of mouth, if they are in the least diIoyal or sedihous, will not carry
and traitors talk out In the open?"
To which the Vicksburg Herald answers:
REST easy. Mr.. Lander. There will be n o Infringement of the
right to speak the truth, of every, or any, American citizen, whose
speech does not support or favor the cause Of the German empire O its
allies * + : OF oppose the laws of the United States; whose language is
not dsoyal, profane, sedihous, contemptuous or abusive about the
American government, constitution, army. navy, flag n uniform. MI:
Lander writes to know if spies. DR. traitors talk out in the open Well,
they won't do 10 much in tn. future. Neither will United States ser
tors n their organs stir up sedidon and revolt against the draft a IN
the past" t - - " u N.
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learning to be mutually forbearing and reciprocally helpful"
the war will have accomplished great things at home, in giving
us a true vision of each other: Undoubtedly there will be a pet t
ter national spirit-the fact is in these parts there was very lit
tie national spirit and what is true of this section is in a measure
correct as to other parts of the country. We were too much CEN
tered on business and too many had gone pleasure mad. 1t was
getting to be too much of every fellow for himself and the devil
and Tom Walker take the hindmost.
Our flag is not going to trail in the dust but we shall have
to pay the price and out of all the bloodshed and carnage, Will
come a higher and better life, then even the most callOus can
not think that the war was in vain. God reigns. He never lost
an opportunity of this kind yet to lead his people to the noun
tain heights. He will not do so now. America, America, the
land of the free and the place where God has arranged for the
frution of the best in the life of his creatures. When this war
is over and victory is ours-as it is sure to be-then the people
of this country will stand shoulder to shoulder as they have new
er done before.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-05-24
CORN is KING ALSO IN THE SOUTH.

Some of the Southern newspapers are showing a DISPOSE
ton to boast of the enormous crops of corn which are now beng
raised in the ten states which were formerly known as the cot
ton states. They are quoting government statistics to show that
in 1915 the ten cotton states produced a total of 774,045,OoO
bushels of corn. as against a total of 663, 4O5,0 900 bushels pro-
duced in ten of the most productive states of the East and west;
difference in favor of the cotton states, 1lO,64O,OOO bushels.
In 1917 the cotton South's corn yield was 665,738,OO0 BUSHES,
as against 626, 81, 900 bushels produced by the same ten East
ern and Western states listed in the group for 1915; difference
in favor of the cotton states, 38, 1921 900 bushels. Under this
showing it must DE admitted that Southern cotton planters have
wisely taken advantage of a rational system OF d1Versltylng
crops-Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-05-24
OUR JUNIOR SENATOR is MAD.

The address to the people of Mississippi which was given
to the press only a few days ago and which appeared in the
Commercial Appeal of last Sunday, shows that gentleman to be
waxing wroth. The language of his address shows the trend OF
his mind and that he is indeed apprehensive about the election SI
outlook. With all his discussing he said naught about the Ship
purchase bill which he helped to defeat when the war started
and which defeat cost the farmers of the South 100000 ,O0O.
We all know how cotton dropped to 6 and Z cents and about the
"Buy a BALE movement, all because the shipping trust had rails
ed freight rates so high that cotton could not be shipped across
the ocean, Certainly those who are in favor of 6 and Z cents
cotton will want to keep the Junior Senator in the United
States Senate.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-05-24
UNPOPULAR FARMING.

The day will come when the farmer who takes more
plant food out Of the soil than he puts back will be very un-
popular man. We are gradually coming to the point where
we must build for the future and where the question of soil
fertility will be SO generally understood that rObbing the soil
will be recognized as such, and the man who practices that
kind of farming will be looked down upon by his neighbors.
The soil is not a mine from which any man is at liberty to with
draw dividends in the form of crops permanently, putting
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nothing al all back. The soil must not be exhausted to the
point where profit ceases. Generously enriched with essential
plant foods, it will contine to produce profitable crops with
out end. Practicing a system of permanent soil fertility is not
only profitable, but is the only method fair to future genera
tons. = II