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

An interesting meeting was held
at Sunnyside Monday night, April
8, for the purpose of organizing a
community club for that section.
County Agent T. H. Dougherty and
Miss Luther assisted in the organi-
zation of a community club. Mr..
Dougherty discussed the various ad-
vantages in organizing and bringing
together the community for the
study of their own problems. Miss
Luther discussed the part that the
women could take in organizing and
developing the community. About
As representative men, women and
children were present. DR.. d. c.
Maddox was elected president, B. ".
Jernigan secretary.
The club will meet on the first
Monday evening in each month. Mr..
w. "A. Parrish, Mrs. Tom Myers and
Mrs. B. v. Jernigan were appointed
as a committee to prepare programs
for the meeting. Mr.. Dougherty
plans to have one or two demonstra-
tions iy. the community and thru
these ttke farmers will study their
agricultural problems.
The ladies and girls will meet
every Wednesday afternoon to sew
for the Red Cross and French or
phans. Miss Luther will meet with
them once every month. At these
meetings all problems pertaining to
farm and home life will be discussed.
Mrs. D. C. Maddox, the chairman.
took up collection with which to
buy materials to begin their sewing
for the French and Belgian children.
A number of short talks were made
by both the men and women, pledg-
ing themselves to do what they could
to make the club success. Their
ambition is to make Sunnyside the
banner community club of Obion
County.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-04-19
LETTERS OF INQUIRY.
On an Easy Method of Avoiding the
Necessity.

At the request of the Official U. S.
Bulletin we publish the following
statement:
Owing to the enormous increase OF
government war work the govern
mental departments at Washington
are being flooded with letters of in
auiry on every conceivable subject
concerning the war and it has been
found a physical impossibility for
the clerks, though they number an
army in themselves now, to give
many of these letters proper atten-
tion and reply.
There is published daily at Wash
ington, under authority of and by
direction of the President, govern
ment newspaper-The Official U. s..
Bulletin. This newspaper prints
every day all of the more important
rulings, decisions, regulations, proc
lamations. orders, etc., ETC., as they
are promulgated by the several de-
partments and the many special COM
mittees and agencies now in opera
tion at the National Capital. This
official journal is posted each day In
every postoffice in the United States,
more than $4,000 in number, and
also may be found on file at all Ii
braries, boards of trade. and cham
bers of commerce, the office of the
Mayors and Governors and federal
officials.
BY consulting these files most
questions will be found readily
answered; there will be little neces-
sity for letter writing; the unneces-
sary congestion of the mails will be
appreciaLIy relieved; the railroads
will be called upon to move fewer
correspondence sacks, and the mass
of business that is piling up in the
government departments will be
eased considerably. Hundreds OF
clerks now answering correspondence
will be enabled to give their time to
essentially important war work, and
fundamentally patriotic service
will have been performed by the
public.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-04-19
High School Board Meeting.

The High School Board of Obion
County met at the courthouse last
Saturday at l p. m. All members,
]. M. Chambers, chairman, G. L.
Ridings, secretary, d. A. Dean, G. G.
Dickinson, ]. E. Isbell, c. G. Mar
shall and w. w. Pierce, were pres
ent. The following business was
done:
1t was ordered by the board that
all warrants be paid to the teachers
of the respective schools designated
as High School by the board, but no
money will be paid to these teachers
till all necessary monthly or annual
reports are filed with the secretary
of the board and no money will be
paid unless the teachers hold High
School certificate.
1t was ordered that the board
ratify contracts made with teachers
by the local boards where the High
Schools are located, but the board
reserves the right to reject the Sc
lection Of any teacher for sufficient
reason.
Local boards please see that no
teacher is employed unless he has
High School certificate or is sure
of getting one before the school be-
gins.
AS Oak Grove, in Civil District
Number Eight, did not claim the
money allotted, and urged that Ken
ton be given the preference, the
board allotted $3.50 to Kenton for
the year 1917-1918.
Let the local boards of the re-
spective High Schools notify the Sec
retary of the High School Board how
much money is due the different
High School teachers in their schools
and he will issue warrant for same,
provided the reports are in and the
teacher has High School certificate.
Very Respectfully,
J. M. CHAMBERS, Chair.
C. L. RIDINGS, Sec.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-04-19
Teachers Certificates.

To the teachers and directors of
Obion County: AS teachers are now
making arrangements for their next
years work, let me call attention to
two or three things that are neces-
sary for your consideration.
Before you can teach you need to
sign a contract for tho work and
you cannot make legal contract
till you have a certificate. Direc-
tors, please take notice and see that
the teacher has a certificate before
you make a contract. There is a
penglty of fine of $25 for failure
to make a contract. The samc ap-
plies to a director or directors who
issue warrant to teacher who has
no certificate. The same penalty ap-
plies to the trustee for cashing a
warrant so issued. To protect the
trustee, the county superintendent
gives him list of all teachers hold
ing certificates and no others can
get warrant cashed. I will soon
have plenty of blank contracts in
the Office and teachers or directors
may get them at any time.
1 ask all teachers who have not.
done so to send in their monthly re-
ports, and il your school has closed,
send the complete report. A blank
for this is found in the back of the
register. Some teachers send the
register but fill to fill this blank.
If you have contracted for school,
please let me know. wish to keep
a list OF all schools with teachers.
Yours very truly,
G. L. RIDINGS. County Supt.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-04-19
Card of Thanks.

We take this method of thanking
our many friends for their loving
kindness and words of sympathy dur
ing the sickness and death of our
darling little son and grandson,
Joseph Victor. We especially thank
DR.. Prather for his untiring efforts
to save him. May Gods richest
blessings be with all Of you.-J. A.
Ratliff and Wife, q. L. Williams and
Wife. A. E. Ratliff and Wife.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-04-19

Among the names in the list of
casualties in last Fridays papers was
Corporal Frank Wheeler. appearing
as one of the number severely
wounded. This may not be our
Frank from Number Two. but IL it
is the parents will be notified by the
War Department.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-04-19
CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG
IN "THE COMMON LAW"
At Reynolds Theatre on Monday,
April 81, 1918.
CAST.

The story of the screen version OF
Robert W. Chambers widely read
novel, 1.-THE Common Law" in which
Clara Kimbell Young will appear at
the Reynolds Theatre on Monday,
April 21, is one that will appeal to
every patron of motion pictures.
Valerie West, an educated and
cultured girl who has become an
artist model thru force of circum-
stance, falls in love with Neville, q
painter for whom she poses. Her
love is returned, but owing to the
artists social connections, Valerie is
convinced that a marriage would
ruin his career. She offers herself
in love to the man of her heart and
the day is set on which she is to
come to him under ''the common
law"
Thru a chain of incidents of un-
usual dramatic power, Valerie con-
quers the objections of Neville's
family and in his end the lovers find
themselves free to be united in the
safer and more conservative bonds of
the law made by man.
The characters in the story are
distant metropolitan types of un-
usual interest, and as produced by
Director General Albert Capellani,
the picture promies to be the sensa-
tion of the coming season.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-04-19
RESTRICTIONS ON MAILING OF PARCELS TO AMERICAN
ESPEDTTIONARY FORCES
Office of the Postmaster General,
Washington, March %, 1918

Order No. 1853 washington Narch 20 1910
after for members individuals
Expeionary Europe shall not
he accepted mailing articles
only of ddressce approved
by executive officer of the
organs which he is connected
A. S. BURLESON
Postm Gener
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-01
A War Corporation

THE bill recently introduced in congress for
i the creation OF the WAR Finance Corpora
ton" with a capital stock of five hundred million
dollars all Of which is to be subscribed by the
United States, should be regarded, says Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo primarily as measure
to enable the banks. both national and State banks
and trust companies to continue to furnish essen
tal credits for industries and enterprises necessary
or contributory to the prosecution OF the war.
The government has made and is making
through tine Liberty Loans such large demands
upon the lendable capital of the country that the
banks often have been prevented from giving
needed help to private enterprises, some OF which
are performing vital service in connection with
the war.
The War Finance Corporation is designed as a
war measure to give relief from this condition dur
ing the period of the and Secretary McAdOo
asserts that the mere existence of the corporation
would Of itself do much to maintain confidence
that its actual aid would be necessary only in rela-
lively few cases = g.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-01
PASSENGERS ARRIVED

FROM IIAWAII-Mr. and Mrs. |. ! APP
Eler W},ho f.. +: JSnkns e. G. jenkins, e
aud Mn. W. s. Cannon, Mr.. and Mrs.
4 Rohertson and child. Mr.: and Mrs ii.
Miss NJ. Todd. A. y. Webster, MIR and
Mrs. y. W. Campbell. Lieutenant Com
n @"H d p %nd Mrs = g. Scott, g. + Hall
Master ii Jenkins H. A. Peterson Mr..
and Mrs. l. ITarnard. Mr.. and Mrs. j.
NJ. Sawyer. Mr.. and Mrs. J. A Kelly. Mr.
and Mrs. W F. Rosensteel. F. B. Smith.
May, W. G.. B0rd, F. J. Allen, f. S. Aid
rich, u. Hampton Mr.. and Mrs. il. ].
W n Mr. ,, and Mrs. r. f. Lee; DR.. T. 8.
w. VnIlk. W O. MoIr. H. =. Norris,
John Maxam Dr NJ. loses. Miss f. Cart,
ley. Mrs lI"lcalh, Mr.. and Mrs. A. J.
Jackson. Miss A, f. Murray. Miss II. NJ.
scott, Miss T.. Chapman; Fred Henderson,
g. Is. Dickson, NJ. II. Mugleston, Miss f.
ross. Muster Castle. Mrs: A. n. Erskine,
Mrs NJ Marks ms +. +. steeEe, pr. A.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Il. Palmer and child,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. RIsIey. DR. J. A. liar,
rar. F. NJ Avery, =. ID. Costello, Mr.. and
Mrs. A; Keutsen Mr.. aud Mrs. J. Il.
mex" Mrs. r. Ono IIiramotO, +. X. Ichi-
kawa, Hamamoto; Masura Tamio, Mrs. n,
4 Moore, Miss Moore; Mr.. and Mrs, X.
Miss NJ Freltas Master A. SOuEa. Mr.,
and Mrs. r. IL. Buckingham, Miss Il. p.
buckingham. Miss T.. ]. Anderson, Miss
NJ. l., Tope, Mrs. George II. Thompson
r. Mullen. Mrs. KOZumi, Miss KOzumi
Kushira, Frank AK Jr., KubOta, Glenn 7
ChOng, \. Tokushiro, Mr. and Mrs. s.
TakanO, lshida Seka0, r. Keama. NJ. Te
rakawa. W =. LPnhArt $. SuganO.
FROM MAII--P II ToWnsley l.. TOhri
ner, Miss u. Mayer. Mr.. and Mrs. G
Tum0ka, Mrs. *. TakAhashi. George ]
Russell, G.. A. Bruins, l.. II. Bean. q. A.
WptIpl ETuuk ATmatTOnR G Hu1RR
s. Kai Y. SuchirO. J. V. Fernandes, n
Il. MedcrOs, L. Tanaka, MatsumOt NJ
Takayama. Mr.. and Mrs. IwamOtO and in
FAINT. Mrs. Fujimura. Nagahisa. NJ KurO
sunni Mrs. Kekawa and child, s. Saito
Mr.. and MIS-. TakumotO aud three chill
dren. 7. Gurakawa, Mrs. Sewa, X. va
sudH.
ny str President from San Francisco
February 20 J G. Austin. Mrs Jack Be
win, {. {. Bruce. Miss Helen Cohen, W
j.. Egilh"rt Mrs. Margaret Ferguson, Miss
FlorT II Filkin. Mrs q. l.. Fraser, q. J.
Fraser Ir. q. l.. Fraser. Miss X. Fraser
Mrs. y FugimOri and children, \. Gawne
Mrs. Evelyn Goff Miss X; Graham; Mrs
IIaz"ltimr Mrs. Thomas IIazeltine. Miss
Helen NrII"nn, A. Rosenberg Mrs. D.
Egilhcrt, Thomas IIawlcy. Mrs Thomas
IIHwIel y braun Lum ON, G. w
ILurd II Lille. Mrs. Park Martin, Mr.
Mclean Mrs Mclean. W. NJ. MintOn
Mrs. W VI MIuton, Mrs. Teresa O'Brien
J. =. Orr. e. w. ROsefeld, Thomas smith
Miss |. Stanley, william Thompson, Mrs
Charles Tietien. A. G. Turner, Miss Hilds
Turner Miss Lily NJ Webster, Mrs. Ethel
WIcke, Alfred wilkes.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-01

The British War Office made this an
nOuncement in the London Times of
January IA, 1918, to gazette officially
the gallant exploit of former resident
of Hawaii, who. although severely
wounded, served his feldpiece and
brought it up from the rear to support
an infantry attack.
1t is a brief notice, but in those
few sentences tells of an exploit which
won him one of the coveted decorations
which Great Britain bestows upon the
brave. The decoration was the Mill
tary Cross.
Arthur Purvis was born at Kukui-
haele, island of Hawaii. His father,
Herbert Purvis, who is now q captain
in the army, is still serving at the
front. Arthur Purvis is now GONZALES
cling from his wounds in London hos
pital.
An islander who sends the London
Times clipping to The Advertiser calls
attention to many islanders or persons
well known in the Islands, serving the
British cOlOrs, among them being c. p.
Rookie, who is now lieut.. colonel, com
handing the End Royal Warwickshire
Regiment. He was invaded home
for months and then worked until he
was again fit for service. He was dis
abled by colhding with n traction en-
CINE. The opponents being unequal,
Rookie came off second best.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-01
No Wonder Pay
Check Doesn't
Last Very Long!

WASHINGTON February 26-ANer
age wholesale prices have increased
seventy five percent since the war be
gan, according to n review made pub
lie by the bureau of labor statistics.
Most of the adv ance has been within
the last two years.
From January to December of 1917
the wholesale prices of farm products
increased thirty nind percent; food,
thirty two percent; clothing, twenty
eight percent; lumber, twenty
percent; drugs, sixty percent; house
furnishing goods, thirty seven per
cent. Almost the only relief afforded
the householder was ten percent de-
crease in fuel and Lighting. Metals and
metal products decreased five percent
Retail prices have fuctuated at a
relatively lower level than wholesale
prices Dressed poultry and granulnted
sugar only of twenty eight important
foodstufs show a lager percent Of in
crease in the retail than in the whole
sale prices.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-01
Giving Up the War

THE neurotic OF both sexes professional and
i amateur alike are fearful about the present
state of the war. Sometimes, say Golfers, it is
speech in the senate a long interview with some
tourist lust back from France or stray letter III
the newspaper but the tone is always the same.
France is CALAMITY bleeding to death with
piteous smile on her classic features; Italy is brok
en- and subugated Great Britain doggedly holds
on. hoping against heartsick hope that the United
States will save the Allies from impending extinc-
ton, etc. etc, until the particular alarmist in
question has exhausted his vocabulary. Collier 5
has done what it could toward urging our nation
to play all adequate part in the war. sometimes
one thinks that almost any sort OF fire alarm stuff
is justified if only it will stir people to quicker
action. The sooner we strike and strike hard the
more lives We will saveD But there IS II" use tax
ing a bnd-eye view Of what IS gong ON. O the
great powers in Europe. (,crmanyS SITUATION Is by
much the most miserable, the burden ON her peO-
pie is bv far the heaviest More "Nrturcs' on
those unmportant fronts where victory Is possible
always mean more burdens for the German peO-
pie. France has risen to her full national power,
greater now than ever, and by failing Bolo Call
auN and that whole venomUuS tribe she has estab-
lshed her strength for the duration Of the war.
Italy is united now in her reverses has baked the
inv adler. and will help overcome him. Great Bri-
tain is ORGANIZED for the war far better than Ger
many because the people themselves are in the
thing and know it is for their cause. The
great and horrible Allied industry Of killing Ger
mans on the western front never ceases day OF
night Control of the and that Slow increas
ing grind of death. are certain to down the leu
| tonic allies in time. 1t will do SO II only France
and Great Britain stay in the war. 1t i, Germany
that is bleeding to death. Germany that is desper
ately hanging and seeking some way out The
Kaiser yels victory because his people must no.
know that. Why should our winners play hi!
game for him?
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-01
PERSONALS

John Doherty, engineer Of the Pacific
Guano 4 Fertilizer Company, is home
again convalescing from an operation.
j. c. Cohen will sail for the main.
land on business trip next Saturday.
He will be accompanied by Mrs. Cohen.
Capt. Robert J. Barr, First Infantry,
Schoneld Barracks, was discharged yes
trrday under cable instructions from
Washington. The officer was in the in.
fantry reserve corps.
r. s. AIdrich, president and general
manager of the Consolidated Oil In.
vcstment CO., who has been in Homo.
lulu for short stay, will leave for
the mainland Saturday. 49,
j. F. McCorkle, superintendent Of the
Won Hamm Young automobile repair de.
partment, will leave for a short bust
ness trip to San Francisco in the steam,
cr ManOa. He will be absent for about
three weeks.
Oliver =. Soares and Manuel r. Pere.
ira were elected by Court Canoes No.
$40, Ancient Order of Foresters, on
Tuesday evening as delegates to the
biennial convention of the Subsidiary
High Court to be held in San Francis.
co beginning May u. Court Mauna
Kea No. 1854, A. o. F., has elected
Judge Tristan +. NJ. Osorio as its dele
gate to the same convention.
Edwin II. Glib, son of James Glib.
manager of Honolulu Plantation, Is now
first lieutenant in Company NJ, 342d
Infantry, Camp Grant, Illinois. He
gave up an important position with J.
r. white, of Kansas City, to enter the
R. o. r. G! at Fort Sheridan in August.
At the close of the camp he received
his commission as first lieutenant. He
is graduate of Punahou, class of 1912
and where he was prominent in athletic
and other school activities.
Major William S. Martin, who died
at Camp Travis, Texas, recently, was
formerly stationed at Schofeld Bar
racks, with the Fourth Cavalry. During
the Spanish war he entered the ser
vice as a volunteer and in 1901 join ed
the Fourth Cavalry, rising from the
ranks to n commission. At the begin
ming of the war he served with the
French, but when America declared
war he returned and was given a com
mission as captain in the U. s.. Army
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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-01
BECKaEY may Join
n CANADIAN filters
British Subjects On Big Island
Waive Exemption and Be- q
come Subject To Call

Henry c. Beckley,. of Honolulu, is
considering joining the tBrittSH cor,
tingent scheduled to feaveltioh6Iulu ON
March 10 for Vancouver and join the
Royal Flying Corps Of the Canadian
service.
Capt. H. Gooding Field, seleetiys draft
officer, received information from Hilo
yesterday that several British subjects
residing on the Big Island have waived
their claims for exemption as resident
aliens, and also their dependency
claims, and registered for the draft.
They have been placed in Glass I, max
ing them subject TO q call to service,
-' They are desifous $50 Captain Field
Is informed, Of getting permission to
leave the Territory for Canada to en-
list in the British and Canadian forces
This question has now been taken
up with E. l.. s. Gordon, the British
consul, by the seleetive draft officer, to
determine whether or not the necessary
permission can be given in view of the
strict requirements of the selective
draft law.
So far, the draft officials have taken
the stand that all persons classed in
Class must be physically examined
| by the proper medical examining
boards, and will still be retained in
Glass !. Otherwise their status will not
be changed, and they also may not be
allowed to depart.
No restrictions have been placed on
registrants in the deferred classified
ton lists by the selective draft author
tiles, as the first call in the event of
| an announced quota for men of Hnwa
ii would come from Class ].
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-01
VIGILANCE CORPS TO
ROUND UP DEl|NQUENTS

Suggestions have been made from
the provost marshal office in Washing
ton to the local selective draft officer
to make use Of the American Protec.
tive League in rounding up draft de
linquents and deserters, the letter being
signed by Maj. f. w Fullam, ad
jutant- general, provost marshal = office
lnasmuch as there is no branch of
the league established in Hawaii, and
there has been no real necessity for
aid in rounding up such delinqueuts
other than the services of the police
department and of the federal attor
ney's Office, Capt. II. Gooding Field
selective draft officer, will turn the let -
tiers over to the Hawaiian Vigilance
Corps Of the American Defense Socic
ty. 1t is believed this will Obviate the
organizing of still another organization
i'll Hawaii, of which there are now
such large numbers
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-01
MUCH AMMUNITION
SEIZED ON VONDEI

In recent raids on the Vondel, while
loading at San Francisco preparatory
to sailing for the Dutch Indies, by way
of Honolulu, the police neutrality
squads of San Francisco succeeded in
uncovering 5000 rounds of ammunition
aboard the steamer. AS a result of the
discovery, two sailors have been arrest
ed and lodged in the city Jail.
While the search on the Vondel was
being made, police officers raided the
liner Peru, bound for South American
ports, and revealed q plot to smuggle
a quantity Of arms and ammnnitibst
into Mexico. Two oilers of the Peru
were arrested and the ammunition and
arms seized. -
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-01
COULD USE FAIR SITE
BUT DON'T WANT IT

Malcolm A. Franklin, U. 8. Collector
of Customs, yesterday notified George
H. Angus, chairman of the fair com,
mission, that he had received author.
ization from the treasury department
at Washington, to permit use of the
federal building site for the territorial
fair in June.
This is in answer to a request sent
to the department by the fair commits.
sion some time ago, and since the
request was mailed the commission has
decided upon Aala Park as a more de.
sirable location and is preparing its
plans accordingly.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-01
Military Cross Is
Won By Former
Resident Of Hawaii
Coveted Decoration Bestowed
Upon Arthur Frederic PurVis
For Conspicuous GaIlantry and
Devotion To Duty After Being
Wounded
THE MILITARY CROSS

1t. ARTHUR FREDERIC PUR-
Wis, Scots Gds,, Spec. Resi-, attd.
NJ. G.. Gds-For conspicuous gnl-
lantry and devotion to duty when
in charge of machine-guns. He
showed exceptional skill and
GOODNESS in guiding his guns
forward in support of an in
fantry attack, j and although
severely wounded just after
reaching the objective he
insisted on continuing to direct
the consolidation and to site the
gun positions, remaining in charge
until he became incapable through
weakness.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-01
A LIFE SAVER,

1t is safe to say that Chamberlain =
Collie, and Diarrhoea Remedy has say
ed the lives of more people and relieved
more suffering than any other remedy
in existence. 1t is known all over the
civilized world for it's speedy cures of
cramps in the stomach, diarrhoea and
all intestinal pains. For sale by all
dealers. Benson Smith 4 Co., Ltd,
agents for Hawaii-Advt.