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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-24
COUNTY COURT LAND SALE.

Hark Lynch ct al. VS.. Nettie Brock
well.-In County Court at Union
Il City, Tennessee
In obedience to a decree of the
County Court at Union City, made at
the September term, 1920, in the
above styled cause, will, on the
18th day of October, 1920, at or
about o'clock, pm, in front of the
east door of the courthouse, in Union
City, Tennessee, sell to the highest
and best bidder the property in said
decree described, being two tracts of
land, the first of which is described
as follows: Lying and being in Civil
District Number One of Obion Coun-
ty, Tennessee, and bounded as fol-
lows: Beginning at stake, 1t be-
ing the N. e. corner of the land al
lotted to Mrs. Martha Lynch, as
dover, and in the S. B. line OF w. w.
Morris, runs thence east one deg.
north SO poles to stake in the road,
thence south IL degr. east 80 poles
with caid road to stake, thence
south one deg. east with said road
81 3-5 poles to stake, thence west
5 dogs. south with said road 102 AS
poles to stake, 1t being one of the
S. e. corners of the homestead al
lotted to Mrs. Martha Lynch, thence
north with the homestead and dover
allotted Mrs Martha Lynch, 1913
poles to the beginning, containing
80 1-160 acres more or less.
l will divide the above tract by
line running east and west across
said tract so as to divide it about
equal, and sell it as two separate
tracts, then will sell it as whole,
and the sale that brings tie most
will be accepted as the sale.
Second tract lies in the same dis
trict, county and State as above
tract, and is described as follows:
Beginning at stake in the middle
of the road, Dr. Bryant's N. e. cor
ner, runs thence east 81 poles to a
stake, thence south one deg. east
rs AS poles to stake, thence west
/ " dogs. south 81 poles to a stake
in the road, thence north 2 " dogs.
east rs As poles to the beginning
and being 29 acres of the 34-acre
tract bought by Joe Lynch from Nor
ris.
Terms of sale will be one-third
cash, balance in one and two years,
with notes bearing interest from
date of sale, with good personal Sc
curity, and a lien retained on said
land as further security.
Said sales will be made excluding
the crops for the year 1920.
27-3t r. H. BOND, Clerk.
This Sept. %, 1920.
]. A. Whipple, Sol. for Petitioner.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-24
NOTICE.

We want to assure the people who
subscribed to the Herman Dietzel
road repair work fund that we have
not yet found a real competent man,
but have one in view, and just as
soon as practical will put him on the
job, so don't get impatient for this
is a very important work and your
money is going to be spent judicious-
ly, and when we put pur man on the
work will call for your subscription.
JAKE CALDWELL, Chair.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-24
Death of DR.. J. s. Anderson.

DR.. James Sneed Anderson, wei
known physician, died at the Baird
Dulaney, Hospital, Dyersburg, on tn,
night of Sept. 16, 1920, of uremi'
poisoning after an illness of 'severa
months, aged "a years.
DIR. Anderson was brother of DR.
j. B. Anderson, of this city. He was
reared in Rutherford County, neal
Murfreesboro, and from there at.
tended the South Kentucky College
at Hopkinsville, where he graduated
He then entered the medical de-
partment of Vanderbilt University
an received there the degree of doc
tor of medicine.
Some twenty-six years ago DR.. Ad-
kerson was united in marriage to
Miss Lorine Hodges, or Unity, Ill
They located at Mount Pelia, Tenn,
nineteen years ago and at Newbern
ten years ago.
LIZ AuhCioOu 10 0ul FlFCut Wy
mother, SO years of age. who resides
near Franklin, Tenn; his brothers,
DIR. j. B. Anderson of Union City,
Geo. M. Anderson, of Franklin, c. P.
Anderson of Granger, Texas, his
sisters, Mrs. Turner Bradford of San
Antonio, Texas, and Mrs. w. III. Fax
on of Hopkinsville, KY,
DR.. Anderson became member of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
when young man. He was a man
of very fine intellect, rather quiet in
his manner, but was regarded as a
man of the highest sense of profess
sional and personal honor and abil-
ity. He became very widely known
in his practice at Newborn and was
in the midst of his best life work
when overtaken with illness. He
entered the hospital at Dyersburg
and after a short time was thought
to be improving. The unwelcome
news was received here by his broth
err, DIR. J. B. Anderson, to come at
once to Dyersburg, that the patient
had relapsed.
The remains were shipped here to
the home of DR.. Anderson on Try
street and the funeral services took
place Friday afternoon at O'Clock,
conducted by Revs. w. B. Cunning
ham and e. L. Crystal. After which
the Masons took charge and escorted
the remains to East View Cemetery,
where the rites of the Masonic Lodge
were conducted in honor of the de-
ceased.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-24

Chancery Court, Obion County, Ten
neSSee.
In the above styled cause it ap-
pearing to the Clerk and Master
from the bill of complaint, which is
sworn to, that the defendants, viz,
Charlie Montgomery, John Mont
gomery, Lizzie Montgomery, and
Martha Montg merry, chill
dren of Bob Montgomery; Charlie
Montgomery and his daughter,
Willie Lafayette Montgomery;
Tom Montgomery and his chill
dren. Bonnie Montgomery. Bernice
Hornsby, Opal Montgomery and
Louise Montgomery P lea ! Q
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-24
RIvES NEWS.

Miss Sadie Frye, OF Fulton, is a
visitor of Miss Hattie Mai Clemmons.
Rev. T. p. Pressly, of Troy, was
with the A. R. P. Church Sabbath
morning. ~
An infant daughter is reported in
the home of Mr.. and Mrs Bliss CAL
licott.
Miss Missile Harris was in town
Tuesday for the lyceum program and
a visitor socially with Mr.. and Mrs.
McAdoo Harris.
Rev. j. H. Thomas, of Dyer, comes
Sunday in the first appointment of
this, his fifth year consecutively of
ministry with the Cumberland Pres
byterian congregation. We might
say this term of years is second en-
listment as Rev. Thomas in previous
years had ably served this pastorate.
Sabbath evening the Woman's Board
of Missions gives it's annual program.
Miss Mildred Boyd, of Brighton,
is the guest of Miss Eunice Shore.
Mrs. Lee Wade and son, william,
are spending ten days at Red Boiling
Springs.
T.. c. Callicott and wife, Geo. w.
Stoval, w. ]. Caldwell and wife, Mr..
and Mrs. Holland Bittick and Mrs.
Frances Elan were attendants of
Presbytery at Bethlehem Church
Tuesday.
The Knox Knox Concert Party
gave very high-class program here
Tuesday evening. Our next number
comes in November.
The Book Club meets with the
president, Mrs. w. H. Cravens, first |
Saturday Afternoon in October.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Edwards spent |
the end of the week in Fulton. Mr.. |
Edwards mother came in with them,
returning to her home Tuesday.
Our baseball team has VIGOROUSLY
in the past ten days crossed bats
with Mount Pelia and Troy.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-24
Reelfoot Lake Oil Wells.

w. H. Klenke, of Aurora, ILL.,, was
a visitor in Union City this week and
tells us that he is in position to
say that boring for oil in the Walnut
Log and Rogers wells is to be re-
sumed by interests which have taken
over some Of the property. These
parties are men of practical expert
ence and able to put over this work
when they see fit to do so. Mr.. Klenke
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-24
Bank Nice-President
Tells How ZIon Iron Tonic Helped His Daughter
After Operation for Appendicitis.

Read this letter from Mr.. J. B. Kelly
vice-president Of the First National
Bank, Graceville, Fla: my daughter
had been in bad health since last April.
She was operated on for appendicitis.
She has been taking Ziron for two
weeks. Her appetite is better than 1t
has been. Her nerves are better, and
she says she feels better know
that Ziron is good for weak and feeble
people" zaF
Ziron Is a scientific, reconstructive
tonic, prepared from valuable strength
building ingredients, for weak people
with thin blood. Druggists sell Ziron
on money-back guarantee. Try It.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-24

Montgomery and his children,
Martha and other unknown chill
dren; Medora Jackson and her
children, DR.. ALT Jackson, Will
Jackson, Mary Jackson and other
unknown children; Mary Garbard
and other unknown children of
Mrs. LeYisa Garbard I; Henry Gray
and Eddie Gray; Mrs. Beulah Tay-
lor; Mrs. Lizzie Cato and chill
dren, Jack, Charlie, Henry, An
drew, Elva and Annie; Miss An
ME Gray, Mrs: Jessie Bowser;
Walker, ALT, Will, Pat and George
Edwards and Mrs. Lawder, chill
dren of MRS. ElYa Edwards; Lille
DeSamburg; Montgomery Horn
beak and children, Helen and Far
I ley; Hugh Hornbeak; Mrs. Ruby.
Lille; Mrs. Annie Perry and
daughter, Mrs. Helen Briggs, and
her children, Anna, Henry, Aileen
Briggs and other unknown chill
dren; Mrs. Ethel Hudson and her
unknown children; Mrs. Stella
Yates and son, Lawson Yates;
Mrs. Elizabeth Miner and her son,
James Miner; Paul and ALI Horn
beak; Mrs. Anna Belle Johannsen
and her children, Albert and Will
lizard; DR.. G. Tate Scott; DR..
Woods Noble and his children, An
ME, Perry and Nell; Alpha Noble
and his children, Mary and Cor
nelia Noble; and all the un-
born and unknown children or
representatives of all of the living
persons mentioned and named in
this caption are non-residents of
the State of Tennessee, so that
ordinary process of law cannot be
served upon them. 1t is therefore
hereby ordered that the said above
named defendants appear before
the Clerk and Master of the Chan
Gerry Court of Obion County, Ten
nessee, on or before the First Mon
day of October, 1920, that being
the first day of the Chancery
Court, and make defense to the
said bill, or the same will be taken
as confessed by them, and the said
cause set for hearing ex-parte as
to them. 1t Is further ordered
that publication of this notice be
made for four consecutive weeks
in The Commercial, weekly
newspaper published in Obion
ounty, Tenn. 24-4t
This August 80, 1920.
GEO. A. GIBBS,
Clerk and Master.
C. N. & H. H. Lannom, Lannom & |
annom and Geo T. Mccall solicit
,rS
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-24
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.

Delany Wellington VS.. Ernest Ma
this ct als.-In the County Court
Obion County, Tennessee.
In this cause it appearing from
the bill which is sworn to that Err
nest Mathis, Major Mathis, Lucy
May Mathis and Hester Mathis, &C.
PENDANTS, are non-residents of the
State, they are therefore hereby re-
quired to appear on or before the
Fourth Monday in October, 1920,
before the Clerk of said Court at his
office in Union City, Tennessee, and
make defence to the bill filed against
them in said Court by Delany Wed
dington, or otherwise the bill will
be taken for confessed.
1t is further ordered that this no
tice be published for four consecu-
tive weeks in The Commercial, Tn
ion City, Tennessee. This Septem-
Der 23rd, 1920. I27-4t
R. H., BOND,
County Court Clerk.
J. A. Whipple, Atty for Complain
ant.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-24
Death of F. w. Marshall.

Mr.. Frank w. Marshall died at
his home in Number Two of Obion
| County on Sunday afternoon, Sept.
10, 1920, after a few days illness of
congestion, aged 81 years
Deceased was born in Trousdale
County, Tenn, and came to Obion
with his parents while very young.
About thirty-three years ago he was
united in marriage to Miss Charles
Eta Hale. There are four children
of the marriage left with their moth
er to mourn the death of the good
man as follows: Mrs. Herman Stan
field, Mrs. Dick Roberts, Miss Vera
Marshall and Miss Ella Marshall.
There are also brothers and sisters
surviving as follows: Jas. Marshall
of Huntsville, Tenn, John Marshall
of Portageville, Mo-, Mrs. John Mum
gle of Marston, Mo-, Mrs. VIM. Jones
OF Marmaduke, Ark, and Mrs. Will
Sanders of Illinois.
Mr.. Marshall was a member of the
Baptist Church and esteemed as a
christian gentleman and fine citi-
zen. He was farmer and lived
close to home life and family cares.
He in all things honored God and
served his fellowman faithfully and
usefully.
Services were conducted by. Rev.
Butler and the remains were in
tered at Beulah Cemetery.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-24

If you will visit our plant and see
the products that you like made by
experts, and handled in way Of
which you can heartily approve, you
will never be willing to accept meats
Of doubtful character, to enable your
merchant to make an extra half-cent
a pound. Do you know how the meat
you eat has been prepared?
REYNOLDS PACKING co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-24
FTER any serious illness. the
S,-sx &hsuc va, ro+ica x,hov, vn,,

N FTER any serious illness, the
"A first thing you notice when you
begin to get around is your lack
Of strength and energy-a tired. weak
feeling. 4
The sooner you get your strength
back the better. The thing to do IL
to eat plenty Of good. nourishing food,
get all the fresh air you can, exercise
ccnservatiyely and take ziron Iron
Tonic three times a day.
Your doctor win tell you this Is
sound advice. and urge you 70 follow It.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-24
Preaching.

l will preach at Mount Zion Sun
day morning at IL o'clock, at Salem
at 3 pm. and at Mount Zion at 1880
pm. We hope to see all the people
present. Sunday school will open at
Salem at pm.
G. w. EVANS.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-24
Filling Station.

1t is understood that the gasoline
filing station on the Grissom. corner
is to be in operation shortly with C.
s. Talley as manager and Arthur
Hamilton assistant
This concern is owned by stock
company and the plant was COM
pleted early in the summer.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-24

says that by no means will these
tests be abandoned until the wells
are sunk to the proper depth. Our
people here will indeed be glad to
see the work resumed.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-24
For Sale by Forester & Forester.

One 166-acre farm, right at I'm
ion City, all in cultivation. on high
way, well fenced, two-story house,
two big barns, silo. A good one; on
terms. See Forester & Forester.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-02-26
Run Down and LiStIess Condition
May Make You a Target for
the Flu"
Because Blood is Very Probably Thin
At THIS TIME OF DANGER TAKE
PEPTO. MANGAN. IT BUILDS
RICH, RED BLOOD.

No, matter how well you usually
are, if Temporarily you are run down,
you're a target for influenza
Contagion always gets liStless peo-
pie first. Whether they realize it or
not, their blood Is thin and under.
nourished--in no condition to fight
off the germs it meets everywhere,
IL Is a wise precautionf to take a
good tonic at this time of danger
some we'll known builder Of red, Wig
orous blood, like Pepto Mangan
And If you did not think of this
IN time if Won are, now recovering
from fight with influenza your
blood will need help for weeks after
you think the danger is past
Take no unnecessary chances.
Get Pepto- Mangan and start taking
it.today ePepto ,Mangan. is an .ef-
fective blood builder that has had
the endorsement of physicians for
years
l'epto- Mangan is sold by drug
gists in either liquid or tablet form.
just AZ preferred There liz no diff
ference in medicinal value. But be
sure you get the genuine Pepto-
Mangan. Ask for Guides Pepto
Mangan and be sure the name is on
the package ,Advt)
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-02-26
BOY SCOUTS IN
YOUNG ARMENIA
Strangest Troop of All In Con.
stantinopIe Being Made into
Good Citizens.

American Boy Scout training IL aid
fng prominently in the rehabilitation
Of hundreds Of little Armenian boy
refugees from the Turkish massacres,
who have been organized into scout
troop in Constantinople as the solution
Of one Of the most troublesome prob
lens that confronted the Near East Re.
lief workers in that city.
Hounded and driven for four years,
having seen their parents and relatives
slaughtered or worse by Turks and
Kurds and themselves forced to beg.
steal or do almost anything to exc out
the barest existence, these boys had
completely lost their moral sense when
they finally found refuge In the Near
East Relief orphanges.
The boys had been clad in rags for
30 long that they had forgotten how to
take care of clothes. This was tragedy
when the Near East Relief had need Of
every pair of shoes and of every suit
of clothes for new boys constantly com.
ing in.
Then the boys were organized az
Boy Scouts and given their uniforms.
They began to be careful of their
school clothes as well as Of their uni
forms.
They had been so often hungry they
had come to steal without compunc-
ton. When they first entered the or
phanages they continued to steal. One
boy stole purse from his American
teacher For two or three weeks after
he became Boy Scout he was obvious
~ uneasy. One day he came to her
with the purse in his hand.
~ don't want to give It back" he
said reluctantly, But have to. I'm
a Boy Scout now"
To form more scout troops to trans
form these little. unfortunates into
good citizens, is one OF the. reasons
why the Near East Relief, ! Madison
avenue, New York city, u making he
eppeal Cor fand&
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-02-26
A FAMILY
MEDICINE
In Her Mothers Home, Says This
Georgia Lady, Regarding Black
Draught. Relief From Head
ache, Malaria, Chills, Etc.

Ringgold, Ca Mrs. Chas. CASTOR,
OF this place, writes: 81 am q user
of Thedfords Black-D raught; in fact,
It was one of our family medicines.
Also in my mothers home, when l
was a child. When any Of US child
Sen complained Of headache, usually
caused by constipation, she gave us
q dose of Black-Draught, which would
rectify the trouble. Often In the
Spring, we would have malaria and
chills, or troubles Of this kind, we
would take Black Draught pretty reg
ular until the liver acted well, and
we would soon be up and around
again. We would not be without IT.,
for 1t certainly has saved us lots OF
doctor bills. Just dose of Black
Draught when not SO we'll saves Q
lot Of days in bed"
Thedford's Black-Draught has been
in use for many years In the treat
ment Of stomach, liver and bowel
troubles, and the popularity which It
now enjoys Is proof of Its merit.
If your liver is not doing its duty,
you will suffer from such disagree
able symptoms as headache. bilious
ness, constipation, indigestion, etc.,
and unless something is done. serious
trouble may result.
Thedford's Black Draught has been
found a valuable remedy for these
troubles. It Is purely vegetable. and
acts in q prompt and natural way.
regulating the liver to its proper
functions and cleansing the bowels OF
impurities. Try It. Insist on Thed'
seFd'a che ssissnsi ana Ssnuina . %
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-02-26

Of the horrors of Turkish massa cree
.ann deportations. Saved by nm Ameri'
can woman. she has come to this coun,
try and entered Oberlin College.
With her came fourteen other Arme.
ninn girls In charge of Miss Adelaide
: Dwight, Near East Relief worker,
who has been Instrumental In helping
TO save hundreds OF thousands of their
people from death by starvation. Miss
Dwight, who Is not given 10 exagger'
alton Hnd has seen conditions at first
hand, says more than million people
are facing death by starvation In Ar
lnenis and will perish unless America
aids
Herself an eyewitness to the slaugh-
ter OF hundreds of helpless women
and children by the Turks and vic
tim Of the deportations. Miss Dake-
stan, an unusually pretty girl, says
q there is untold suffering In Armenia
and Syria She praises the efforts OF
the Near East Relief, formerly the
American Committee for Armenian and
Syrian Relief, to save as many OF
these people as possible At Erivan
the capital Of the Armenian republic.
one hot meal Is given out daily. and by
this relief alone the citys death rate
has been cut from thousand daily TO
an average of twenty. At Alexandra
pol, where the refugees from Turkish
Armenia were driven by thousands the
situation Is appalling, Miss Dakesian
says 1t is to avert these wholesale
deaths that Near East Relief Is making
a nationwide appeal for funds.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-02-26
CHURCHES Plan "A
BUSY PROGRAM
Interchurch World Movement
Outlines Activities In South
For Months Ahead

Beginning with campaign of edu
cation of the church member to his
financial obligation to the church, &
comprehensive and continuous pro
gram of activities from the present
time through the month of June has
been decided upon by the Interchurcl
World Movement in the South. This
campaign of education in the duty OF
giving to the support of religious ac
tivities is commonly known in the
movement as the Stewardship cam
paign. 1t will eliminate on Washing
tons Birthday in the observance OF
National Stewardship Enrolment Day
in all churches participating in the
movement, February % this year
CHANGING to fall on Sunday.
The Stewardship enrolment observ.
ance will be followed by the observ.
ance of Sunday, February goth, as
Life Enlistment Day of Prayer for
Students. February this year, for the
first time In forty years, will have five
Sundays. This fifth Sunday observ,
ance is to be made a day of signif-
canoe throughout. the, Interchurch
World Movements organization
The month of March is to be given
over to the promotion of the campaign
for life-work and evangelism, culmi-
mating in the observance of Acknow
edgment Day on Palm Sunday. which
this year falls on March 18th. Every
church taking part in the movement
is expected to hold special evangelis
tic services during The month, Dur
ing March also there are to be held
a series of state pastors conferences
in the principal cities of the South
to bring the pastors more closely in
touch with the purposes and scope OF
the Interchurch World Movement in
its relation to the individual church,
community and denomination.
Join the Church Day and Commit.
ment Day, when thousands of new
members are expected to be received
into the churches in the South, will
be observed on Easter Sunday, April
4th. This day will be marked by
great ingathering Of Christians in the
churches inspired with the thought
and determination Of doing a greater
service for Christianity.
The next fortnight in April will be
spent in active preparation for the
great financial campaign to be con-
Quoted April 21st to May I'd, inclu-
sive. Local teams and committees
will be organized and thoroughly drill
ed in the duties to be expected OF
them in the making of this canvass
for funds to carry out the constructive
of the churches.
Throughout May and the early part
of June the Movement will be directed
toward the organization and perfec-
ton Of conservation and extension
plans. Later in June summer confer
ences Of missionary education win be-
go.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-02-26

Ii Christ, on the uay he was born,
mad slarLed on tour 10 preach III
every vlilage IN INDIA, lie wound sun
nave 10000 more to visit.
We now believe we have found u
way by which the leaders OF the Prot
estant churches can sit around COM
mon table and have the Christian pro.
gram of the entire world laid before
them. BY means of the lnterchurch
World Movement we can see where
the Methodists are, and where the
Baptists are We can see the general
outline of their forces, their present
status in this great world struggle,
and may also have some idea of the
unoccupied places. and what may be
done by all of us to enter these unoc-
cupied parts Of the. world field which
Christ sent us to occupy.