The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-08-15
A REAL LIVE
COUNTY TOWN
SHAW'S PARK
Transformed Into City Beau
tiful-New Improvements
and Sanitation.
WORK OF WARDEN CALDWELL
Baseball Doings and Cleanup Cam
paigns Make Lake Resort Speci-
ally Attractive and Inviting.


Col. R. H. Caldwell, game warden
for the past year on Reelfoot Lake,
has with specially and well directed
efforts and the authority vested in
him by the great State of Tennessee,
been engaged in the work of improv-
ing and reconstructing the Reelfoot
Lake fishing and hunting headquar-
tiers and accommodations, especially
that portion of the lake shore known
as Shaw's Park, twenty miles west
of Union City.
Shaw's Park has grown, especially
during Mr.. Caldwell's term of office,
to a village of some two or three
hundred people, and instead of the
unsightly and crude appearance of
the old-time streets and homes, and
the unpleasant odors of decaying fish
at the docks nearby, the eye now be-
holds a village beautiful as it falls
upon the view at the foot of the
bluffs and the air is full of the breath
of nature and new-mown hay.
Coming down to plain facts, Mr..
Caldwell has caused general clean
up of the docks and premises of fish
garbage, and now this refuse matter
is taken out hundreds of yards and
buried in the deep waters of the lake.
There are four docks in the vicinity
of Shaw's Park and heretofore these
places were very unpleasant.
After this work had been given
due attention the next step was to
get Tom Sawyer and his whitewash
brush and literally transform the
whole village until it scintillates and
vies with the sun in shimmering
beauty.
Mr.. Caldwell informs us that in
addition to all these changes Mr..
Albert Nation, who has charge of the
hotel at the park, is now Offering
first-class accommodations to the
public, the local and visiting hunts
men and pleasure seekers at the lake.
The dinners are the very paragon
of cuisine in quality and quantity
and the lunches are also in excellent
taste. There are many visitors there
now every day. One day last week
Mr.. Caldwell counted rs autos and
campers of many more at one time in
the park. This is taking place almost
every day.
The hard-road pike from Whites
Landing on the Lake County side is
now under construction, which will
be Joined at the park by the Mem
phis-to-Bristol Highway, and this
work is to take place in the immediate
future. The engineers are now sur
veying the route thru Obion County. |
In addition to all these interesting
facts, Mr. Caldwell has organized the
amusements interests at the park. |
He has two ball teams, which have |
been making an enviable record this |
summer Games have been arranged |
with many of the towns of two or |
three thousand population, and the
club is almost practically invincible. |
Only one game of the series has been |
lost. 1t will be interesting to give
the names now connected with the |
clubs First is the big team as fol-
lows:
Cloyd Shaw Clyde Shaw, Dee
Shaw, Arthur Cartwright, Levi Crit
fifth, Ebert Spicer, Obey Jones, Henry
Richardson, Kirk Parker, Charley
Brooks, James Hutchcraft. Team
manager, Walden Ficle.
The personnel of the r. H. C. team
is as follows: Bill Grooms, Vivian
Dickey, Amos Spicer, Aubrey Ander-
son, Billie Ficle, Herman knight,
Golden Denton, Herman Shaw, Lex
Rady, Marshall Murphy. Team man
ager, Charley Brooks.
The teams are ready to entertain
propositions for games with other
good ball men. These are among
the Invest organization at the lake.
One of the most interesting and
novel attractions at the lake is the
performance of an expert sling-shot
operator, a young man named Chas.
Taylor. This young man has evident
ly been studying the secrets of King
David, for he has learned to do many
wonderful things with the sling shot.
He has not killed giant, but does
kill birds on the wing, almost every
shot. His work has been witnessed
by numbers of people who are ready
to vouch for the fact that he can
break three marbles out of five toss
ed up in the air before they drop.
He steps back ten feet and lights
.hree out of five matches which have