The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-09-12

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urday, Oct. II, as the day for conduct
ing the fair here.
Jackson.-After three days in con
vention the farmers of West TENNESSEE
completed very interesting and elab
crate program.
Brownsville. = The Haywood coun.
ty court, at special meeting, voted
100000 in hard-surfaced road bonds
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Selmer-Mrs. L. r. Littlefield OF
Adamsville, East McNair county, has
celebrated her ninetieth birthday.
Trezevant.-A twelve-days' revival
meeting closed at the local Baptist
church.
Pulaski.-The Pulaski high school
opened with an enrolment of 1888.
Gallatin-Plans were discussed at q
meeting at the community hall FOR the
campaign to convince the voters of the
county to furnish one-third of the
money for a road sixty miles long
which the federal and state govern
ments are proposing to build through
| Sumner.
Ripley.-William Tucker, Jr., of this
city, has been elected organizer of the
Big Hatchie Baptist association and
will launch an aggressive campaign a:
once to raise the associations quota
If the 75,000O00.
Newborn. - Comr-ete reports Of the
registration in Newbern shows that
662 people registered here. of which
12S were women.
Medina. = The Medina High School
opened with large attendance and
flattering prospects for a successful
fall and winter term.
Nashville. More than a hundred
members of the Tennessee Dental AS
ISOLATION attended the fifty-second an
nual convention of the association.
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Memphis. = Unless their former
vaccination took" all prospective pu-
pills for the city schools must be vac
cinated before they will be allowed to
attend.
Memphis. The Tri-State Packet
Company applied for charter. The
purpose is to perform all acts con-
nected with running of steam boats
or packet lines.
Memphis.-The valuation of the
building done in Memphis during Au-
gust totaled $1,297125. This shows
an increase of $1,1s9.6S5 over the
same month of last year.
Knoxville. About $50 delegates
from the Southern Knitting Associa-
ton, which Is division of the Ma
tional Hosiery and Underwear Manu-
facturers' Association. will meet in
Knoxville.
Memphis. - Plans to bring together
all the Y. M. c. A. secretaries in this
territory who served overseas during
the war are being worked out by DR..
e E. George, general secretary of the
local Y. M. c. A.
Jackson.-With the institution of
regular passenger and freight service
from Jackson to Middleton. Tenn, the
G. & M. N railroad has completed
its line to the Gulf of Mexico, with
Mobile as its southern terminus.
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Memphis. The weighing of the
hay and grain on the official scales
of the Memphis Merchants Exchange
will be accepted by all railroads east
of the Mississippi river as official and
reweighing will be unnecessary.
Newbern. - Charlie W. Glass, form
er editor of the Newbern Tennessean,
who has seen eighteen months serv-
ice in Paris, France, has returned 20
his home here and has gone to Tren-
ton, where he has purchased the Tfen-
ton Gazette
Chattanooga. Declaring that Of
liCo uOluCIS, HiOu III puUllC llIc dHO
men high up in the business world
were buying liquor and drinking H.,
Judge Sam D. McReynolds in his
charge to the grand jury called for
their indictment.
Memphis. Collector OF Customs |
George P. Woollen received the larg |
est single shipment of imported goods
from France that has reached Mem |
phis from the overseas republic sincs
the signing OF the armistice. Duty
on the imports was $1,631.
Jackson. - Il appeal to every man
in Tennessee who loves his home and
his state and its great institutions TO
stand by the constituted authorities
in these perilous times" declared Gov.
A. H. Roberts in an address to the as
sembly OF West Tennessee farmers.
Jackson. - Community develop
ment, socially, economically, financial
" and otherwise, was the underlying
.opic OF discussion at the opening ses-
sion of the annual meeting of the West
Tennessee Farmers Institute al