The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-01-11

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c. L. Jones has purchased resi-
dence in Moore addition from r. 1
Phebus and moved his family t
town.
Carl Witherspoon, of the Moffat
vicinity. entered school Monday.
Mrs. ]. F. Holloway, for severa
months an invalid. is grateful to he
friends for many special favors dur
ing the holidays, and gives us tn,
pleasant task Of reporting same thr,
The Commercial.
Our municipal election comes of
Saturday Find out If the candidate.
have an iron-clad plank for the com.
plete humiliation of weeds before
casting your vote. Their view on
compulsory cultivation of vacant lots
would neither be amiss.
The party that installed the heat
ing plant In our school building was
here lately trying to correct its mon
strous deficiencies. The plant has
never given satisfaction to the ex-
tent of giving an even and permanent
heat over the entire building. The
teachers and pupils have been heated
too hot and cooled too cold until you
would think they had become tenn
pered as IL iron. However their
iong-drawn-out patience has ceased
to be virtue and this trouble has
become a white elephant that de-
mands correction or we will find our
selves minus first-class teachers and
out-of-town pupils.
The men to the number of fifty or
more strong went on a strike Mon
day from being housed up with cold
weather and SHOWS and attended
County and Circuit Court in the
county seat.
III. G. Davidson is right on the
cigarette menace. We might as well
get up a popular subscription to send
the young men rough on rats or any
other poisonous dope. In this State
a statutory law is broken in the sale
of cigarette papers.
Miss Callie Byrns is frequent
business visitor to Fulton, taking
chiropractic treatment.
Jim Hite has purchased the Jas.
Alexander property in north Rives.
Prof. and Mrs. Cravens spent the
end of the week at Gardner. visiting
Mrs. Mollie Cravens, mother of our
principal. Mrs. Cravens has recently
sustained double fracture of limb
just above the ankle.
The Medcraft Club met socially
with the president Miss Aietha Mary
Bonner, on West End avenue Friday
afternoon. A contest, First Aids
for Gloomy Subjects for 1915"
proved pleasure indeed. Mrs. Les
lie Shore came off winner of the
prize, hand painted cushion. Miss
Bonner proves an ideal hostess, GER
tainly foe to the "glooms.' A salad |
course was served as the evening
shades were approaching.
Only 3k yards shall be used to
make dress, so the garment makers
of Chicago in recent convention de-
cided. The breadth and height of
a person seems not to have been in
the reckoning. To continue this in
teresting subject we clip the follow
ing from late issue of the Literary
Digest:
In anticipation of what may come
into operation in this country next
year, fashion, says Washington
dispatch to the New York World, has
already decreed severe lines for wo-
mems this years gowns" Frills and
are to be tabu as meas
ure of war-economy, and both men
and women, IL they want to bel
stylish, must be patriotic"
Such. in fact, is a decree by the
Entente Allie as handed down thru
the Council of National Defense of
the United States in cooperation
with Paris designers. Wooden clothes
will be particularly affected. A saw
ing Of % per cent. on our annual
wool consumption is expected from
doing away with useless belts, deep
hens. pleats, and patch pockets"
This economy will be extended to
silks and other cloths to conserve raw
and manufacturing re-
BY summer the decree will be in
effect Fall clothes for 1918 will
be decidedly war-garments." After
extensive conferences with New York
and Paris designers 1t was decided
by Washington authorities not to
put the decree into effect this year.
because to do so would work harm
thru its effect on. clothes industries
already prepared for the seasons
1t is not believed in washington
that women's skirts will be shortened
Is consequence of these changes,
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