The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-09-19
LATE STATE ITEMS.


union this year at Manchester, on
Sept. q.
attanooga-Eleven grocery clerks
and three wagons are handling the or
ders that pour into the postoffice for
surplus army food.
Columbia. Thirty-one applicants
took the examination for teachers GER
tificates at the special examination
held in this county
Clarksville.-The public schools OF
the city of Clarksville opened the 1919
1920 session with the largest enroll
ment in their history.
Shelbyville. Fire destroyed the
large ice plant in this city. The loss
is estimated at about $4,000, with
about $1,000 insurance.
Jacksonville charter OF the Martin
Tool Holder Company, a new. manu-
factuaring concern to be located In
Jackson, capitalized at 100000, was
filed in the office Of the county reg
lister.
jackson. - A sweet potato ON the
Florida yam variety, ~rown on the
farm Of Col. C. G. Bond, near this city.
is on exhibition at the West Tonnes
see fair. The potato weighs i've
pounds and twelve ounces.
Newbern.-Gran l.. Williams, one Of
the best known farmers and stockmen
of Dyer county, recently shipped to the
st. Louis markets two carloads Of An
gus steers, which topped the Tennes-
see cattle at s17.25 hundred.
Columbia. - Meetings of the COM
mittee on permanent organization of
the Middle Tennessee Farmers Insti-
tute will be held at Cookville on Dec.
10, Tullahoma on March 1, Dickson
on May ! and Columbia on June l.
jackson. = The unceasing watchful-
ness of the police force in Jackson
and the gradually increasing fines by
Mayor J. D Johnson on auto speeders
have had the effect of breaking up the
dangerous habit of reckless driving
in Jackson.
jackson. - Gen. w. A. Collier, COM
mander-in-chief Of Forrest Corps, U. G.
v. has appointed Chester G. Bond OF
this city aide on his staff, with the
rank of colonel, with instructions to
report for duty at Atlanta for the re-
| union.
Rosemark-The first community
fair to be held at Rosemark and the
third one to be organized in Shelby
county will be held at the Rosemark
high school on Sept IS under the aus.
pieces OF the parent-teachers' associa'
| ton.
Memphis.-Bids for contracts to erect
the Oakville memorial sanatorium fol-
| the treatment OF tuberculosis In Mem
phis and Shelby county will be sought
by the board OF trustees by Nov. l, II
present plans for the sale Of bonds arr
carried into effect.
entreville.-Centrevill real estate
has never been more active than al
the present time. No less than q
dozen dwellings have been sold in the
past ten days, and many more salei
| could have been made if the dwellings
had been available.
Jackson.-As an indication Of thu
prosperity of this community and thu
further fact that there are more home
owners and home seekers here tha'
before, real estate deals for August
1919, as shown on the county register
books, total nearly 100000 more thar
those for August of last year
Columbia. The combination sal,
of stock and farm equipment at Sleep!
Hollow by J. l. Finney & Sons ant
Thomas Brothers aggregated littl'
over $1,000
Sea .
McMinnville. - The Southern Com
mercial School began its second regu
lar term with splendid enrollmen
Of enthusiastic young men and young
won en-.
Union City.-C. q. Kirksey ha
rented large brick building on FRS
street and will open up the first com
nunity potato storage house in thi
county.
Columbia Superintendent of High
ways Frank A. Butler left for Nash
vile to bring back with him the tire,
trucks contributed to the state high
way commission by the department
of agriculture.