The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-11-29
over THE COUNTY
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
RIVES.

RIvES.
Monroe MCGOWAN has returned
from st. Louis.
Miss Ola Petty attended M. E.
Conference the past week in Jackson.
Mrs. Jas. McLeskey, of Union City,
has been visiting the flu patients in
the home of Mayor Shropshire. The
Mayor is able to be out on the streets
again.
Mrs. Edward Scoggins the past
week visited her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. M. P. Wilson, in Newbern.
Mr.. Dave Witherspoon, farmer
west of town, had the misfortune to
lose fine mule Friday. The mule
died almost suddenly a few hours
after an early morning feed, and was
a financial loss of near four hundred
dollars.
Mrs. Mars w. Palmer, of San Fran
cisco and lately of Norfolk, Va,
where her husband has a wireless
naval station, is the guest of DR.. and
Mrs. T. p. Palmer at Moffatt Heights.
School is again in recess because
of flu. This time it is in true epi-
demic form, a dozen families or more
being stricken. Among those are the
families of Dave Woody, Jerry Spikes,
Rev. J. L. Boyd, Woose Womack, O.
H. Clemmons, D. e. Tucker, T. A.
Cummings, Claude Woody and the
Mayor.
Miss Missie Harris was a recent
social visitor in Troy and Polk.
Miss Bonner, treasurer of the War
Relief Fund, congratulates this COM
munity in not only reaching it's
quota but going beyond by fifty per
cent.
Martin Forester soon leaves the
Robinson vicinity to occupy his own
farm known as the Dan Webster
place.
Miss Sadie Fry, Wrath Morris and
Master Billy Cravens are reported on
the flu list.
Mesdames Jas. Scoggins and Mon
roe MCGOWAN were Saturday shop
pers in the county seat.
Mrs. w. l.. Clemmons and daugh-
ter, Miss Hattie Mai, were social
visitors in Union City Saturday.
Elder Freed, of Henderson, begins
pastorate with the Christian
Church in January. This church last
Sunday assumed the support of four
French orphans.
We have come to rely so much up
on President Woodrow Wilson as our
civil sponsor that there is a reluctant
feeling to have him go abroad He
can rest assured that millions of peo-
pie of this great commonwealth will
note his daily travels and wish him
a bon voyage and an early and safe
return.
The domestic science class has
moved out of the basement to the
southern alcove of the auditorium.
The class has very neat furnishings
in the way of tables, dishes and
stoves. A very fine four-burner oil
stove was the gift of the school
board
While out assisting with the milk
ing Mrs. Matilda Houser recently
sustained bad fracture of the hip
by having one of the milk cows run
over her. The accident is greatly
deplored because of Mrs. Houser's
age.
Miss Bette White is visiting with
relatives in Union City.
DR.. Taylor, of Kenton, was a re-
cent visitor Of relatives here.
Mr.. Joe Cotton, of Covington, is
again seriously i'll. Postmaster Cot
ton has made several visits to his
father, whose condition, he reports, |
only slightly improved.
Young Mr.. j. r. Tune, of Troy, |
in Sundays casualty list as
lead from wounds, is near relative
If H. A. Tune.
DR.. T. P. Palmer attended to busi-
ness in Troy Tuesday.
Mesdames E. T. Mitchell, Knox
Harper, Glennie Phebus and Miss
Aletha Bonner were recent social
visitors at Moffatt Heights with Mrs.