The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-01-31
RIVES.

Agnew visited in Union City Mon
day.
Mrs. w. H. Cravens and mother,
Mrs. Childress, spent Friday and
Saturday in Gardner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pybas Rogers were
end of the week guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. McCaw. Mrs. McCaw has the
flu
H. A. Tune has the flu. Mr.. Tune
is our new road commissioner, APP
pointed at recent session of County
Court.
Mrs. Wilce Allen was a recent Wis
itor in the county seat shopping.
Mrs. Clarence Bryson has returned
home from Moffatt.
Last week we failed to report the
quota for Eastern Relief was largely
over-subscribed.
Mr.. Carmi Davis returned Satur-
day from business trip to points in
Texas.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Head and Mr..
and Mrs. Dave Byrns have this
month passed the fiftieth year of
their wedding anniversaries. These
make the third couple, Mr.. and Mrs.
Holland Bittick being celebrants Of
several years past.
A quiet wedding was consummated
Sabbath afternoon in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Starnes, when
they gave their daughter, Miss Hat
tie Mai, in marriage to Mr.. Wilson
Petty, Rev. ]. L.. Boyd performing
the ceremony. The contracting
parties are very popular thruout the
county. Mr.. and Mrs. Petty soon
take up residence near Union City.
The coils are fast drawing closer
around the bootlegger that may
catch not the man behind the gun,
but the man behind the man, that
sells the rum. Officer Bradley has a
habit of meeting the befo' day and
other morning trains. Oftentimes,
woeful is the culprit and great is the
haul of alcoholics from Cairo ward.
If Cairo should tumble into the
Father of Waters, as we have heard
people wish, it's sodden, Shiny, poi
sonous wetness would drown all the
finny tribe, which in their decay
would float to the top and kill all
the feasting fowl of the air.
Mr.. Walter Warren found his roam
horse in the Woodland vicinity Sat-
urday, but whats his name and
where's his hame" that stole the
horse Friday night, for a cross-coun-
try ride, is yet unknown.
Edgar Shore has been out on a.
ten days business trip thru the
South.
Supt. B. A. Vaughn was in town
Saturday.
Mr.. Allen Wade is expected home
in the early part of February from
the vicinity of Boston.
Quite a few friends congregated
under the parental roof of Mrs. Will
son Petty Tuesday afternoon to show
er the bride. Articles, both useful
and beautiful, thought to be requi-
sites for matron just taking up
housekeeping wcro many. The hon
Gree, in her attractive, unassuming
way, gratefully acknowledged favors
of friendship, extending a cordial in
vitation to call again in her new
home.
Mrs. Bob Mabry, of Union City,
was a late visitor with her daughter,
Mrs. Putnam Reeves
We are not militaristic and we
don't want to be. Germany was;
hence her downfall With the ex-
'ception of larger navy, which we
now have and will see further ex-
banded, we need take no apprehen-
sion for future wars. A few months
of intensive training, backed by the
wealth of our country, easily put to
rout the forty years of military train
ing of Germany. Just now there are
questions of vast more Importance.
1t remains for the returning soldiers
to decide by their vote as to the
adoption # universal military train
ing, its length and scope. Their ap-
prevail will probably go no further
than brief stretches of camp life
with it's cordons of structures to aid
the young man to properly develop
into the years of his majority.
There are petitions and petitions.
The one so largely signed the past
week, protesting to the Legislature
the repeal of the present statute law
against selling cigarette papers and
cigarettes, is indeed pertinent to
child welfare. While adults addicted
often claim no personal harm, all
agree that the mind of a child is so
depleted by the odious habit that
an education is impossible. 1t was
q mistaken kindness to send this kind
of habit-forming dope to home camps