The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-09-20
RIVES.

homes.
Miss Missile Harris this week Wis
tied in Nashville
H. A. Tune and family, Mrs. Orie
Brown, Misses Hattie Mai Clemmons,
Sadie Fry and Erma Pruett spent
Saturday in the county seat.
Mrs. Lum Carter, of Cotton Plant,
Ark, was a guest the past week OF
the Misses Guy.
Midshipman K. w. Palmer visited
Prof. and Mrs. S. B. Hays in Bright
on Saturday and friends in Memphis
Sabbath.
Miss Cecil Olive was in town Tues
day.
w. ]. Caldwell is having his resi-
dence on Parsonage row overhauled,
prior to moving in from the country.
Mr.. Len Wagster will move out to
the Caldwell farm.
E. T, Mitchell attended to business
in st. Louis few days since.
Seven couples of young people
undertook to storm Miss Alctha Bon
ner Thursday evening but found the
parlors gaily decorated in patriotic
designs and colors and an unique
contest, backwards" socially,
laughable stumbling block, hence "a
little bird must have told" The af-
fair was in honor of Midshipman K.
w. Palmer, who, Tuesday, returned
to Annapolis.
The memorial service held here
Friday afternoon for the late Marion
| Marlin was largely attended. The
following program, interspersed with
songs, was very impressive in it's en-
| tirety: Req ding of 23d Psalm by
Rev. McCaslin. Reading of obituary.
An appreciation by Mrs. 7. j. Bon
ner. Marion Marlin as q school boy
by Prof. Cravens. Thepatriotism of
Marion Marlin, Rev. Boyd The fact
that Marion was a Christian consoles
us, Hon. T. ]. Bonner. A soldiers
need of Christ, Rev. j. H. Thomas.
An open meeting, led by Rev. Ran
son. Marion Hamilton Marlin, born
April 2, 1899, died from wounds re-
ceived in France August 81, 1918,
age 10 years, months and 10 days,
VIZ NJ Int ysan
June 5, 1917, was a member of M.
E. Church, South, Rives, Tenn, by
profession October, 1913, pastor in
charge ]. T. Bagby.
The sgd Division is now in active
service on the battlefront. Capt. w.
B. Caldwell is in this division.
Mrs. Ora Pyles, ill for several days,
is reported convalescing.
The c. P. Missionary Society will
hold public woman's board of mis-
sions program next Sabbath evening.
Five car loads of hogs were ship
ped out of here Tuesday night con-
signed by B. ]. Wade and w. L.
Clemmons. An estimate of near
100000 is placed on the amount Of
live stock shipped from this point
the past ten days.
Some very valuable drainage by
Strengthening and deepening bitches
is noticeable in the central and
mort barn ri IF fowp
The union meeting came to close
Sabbath evening with eight CONVEX
sions. 1t is the general opinion that
the churches are greatly benefited in
every way by Rev. Ranson's series of
sermons.
Gunner NJ w. Palmer, U. S. ~,
here the past three weeks on a fur
Tough visiting his parents, DR.. and
Mrs. T. P. Palmer, returned to his
work at Norfolk, Va, Wednesday.
Mrs. Nettie Sparkman, wife of w. |
w. Sparkman, was claimed by death
Sept. IA, 1918, at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. P. M. Thomp-
son, near Bethel, Maury County, |
Tenn, age % years. months and
10 days. A husband, five brothers |
and two sisters mourn her loss. The
brothers are Charley and Henry, of |
Jim, of Lawrenceburg; |
Joe, of Rives; Walter, Mrs. Mamie |
Baker and Mrs. Ida Kirkpatrick, all |
of Santa Fe. Only a few weeks since
as a near neighhor we visited Mrs |
Sparkman, who for the past three |
years was a resident of this district
In her declining health she went to |
her parents near Columbia, where
Friday last she passed away, pre-
coded only short time by her aged |