The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-10-01
LIONS CLUB SMOKER
BOOSTS GOOD ROADS
Meeting Tuesday Night at the City
Hall. Visiting Speakers.


this week by having smoker Tues
day night at the City Hall. There
were soEe visiting speakers and
quite an interesting meeting with a
large attendance was held. The min
listers were represented. DR.. Turner,
the president, as usual was ready
with his good grace and bon mot.
Quite a number of the singers
were present and there was double
male quartet entertaining with the
Lions Club songs, a very delightful
part of the program.
After grace came the luncheon
with largess of Col. Hugh Smiths
Coca Cola, and then the business of
the evening, which included the
work of tie county association. Mr..
Walter Reynolds, president of the
county association, reported on the
Gibbs road, the work of which is
progressing without hitch and ac-
cording to Hoyle. He then took up
the work of the county roads, and
with some suggestions from other
sources a plan was adopted to send
delegation from the club on stated
occasions to the various civil dis
tricts for cooperation in road work
and to stimulate the work in every
pert of the county.
Mr.. Bratton proposed a plcn to
take the members of the County
Court over the Gibbs road next Tues
day and show them what the people
of Union City and community have
done. The idea is to meet them with
lunch served by the ladies at noon
at the courthouse next Tuesday and
then take cars for a drive to Gibbs
over the new road. This was adopted.
After business Rev. Clark was
called on for some remarks and he
responded very heartily, saying that
he was in thoro sympathy w:th every
progressive civic movement end that
he had not been able to be present
at the meetings and to aic IN the
work as much as he desired. He
lkened the knockers to the billy
goat. The boys tried to baptize the
billy boat. They tried first to put
him under the water. They did not
succeed, and then they tried first one
end and then the other without sue
cess. Finally they cried sprinkle him
and let him go to hell. The minister
said he was a booster all the time.
Major A. S. Frost was called on
for an address The Major was here
In the interest of the U. S. Army.
He reviewed the work that is now
being done to make soldering a bet
ter game. The Government is now
giving it's soldiers vocational train
ing and other educational branches.
He is being taught to prepare him
self for both military and civil duty.
He is enlisted for three years and
when he is returned home he is
prepared for the responsibilities and
duties of life as many of our boys
are not who do not enter the army.
It is one of the greatest things this
country has done, and our people
should respond freely to the call for
military service. Major Frost said
that he was now connected with the
good roads movement of Shelby
County and hopes soon to be able to
discuss that subject.
The minister, e. L. Crystal, re-
sponded very graciously and timely
in some remarks indorsing the work
of the club in the city and county.
He spoke of town in Missouri near
Joplin which was visited by some
New Yorker. They had some new
buildings which the home repre-
sentative was showing him. With
pride the citizen told the New Yorker
one had been built in three months,
another in four The New Yorker
replied that his people did these
things in the course of few days.
The next new house was hardware
store, a very fine building. The citi-
zen got wise and being asked how
long it to- for the construction of
that building, replied that he was
not in town yesterday before it was
started and he didn't know.
The club took vote as to its reg
ular meetings, and it was decided to
meet every Thursday night at the
City Hail.