The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-05-07
The Commercial, Union City, Tenn.
FRIDAY, MAY Z, 1920.
RIVES.

RIVES.
Messrs. Will. Starnes, Knox Har
per, Roscoe Kitchell and Claud'
Woody are giving their homes I;
new coat of paint. Bill Edwards
has bricks on his lot for enlargins
his home.
H. D. Webster and family were in
town Monday, guests in the Hubert
Shore home.
The bible class met Wednesday
with Mrs. w. v. Carter. The lesson
continues in the Gospel of St. Mat
thew. A study book by Elder Dallas
Smith is ordered.
BY all means let us have a moth
ers' pension and do away with
such heart-breaking incidents as
that narrated the past week in our
contemporary, the News-Banner, in
which a woman puts her children on
train to enter an industrial insti-
tuition in Nashville. Possibly this
mother may regain her health and
even if she doesn't, should we, a
christian citizenship, deprive her of
the companionship of her children?
Rev. jamie McLeskey, of Memphis,
has been here on a social visit.
H. P. Cotton attended to business
interests in the Reelfoot oil fields
Saturday and en- route home Sabbath
went down to Covington for visit
with his mother.
Rev. e. p Lindsay, of Memphis,
attending presbytery at Troy, was a
visitor Friday in the Wade home.
w. v. Carter and Dr. T. P. Palmer
are waiting upon court over in the
county seat.
Jas. McCaw and wife, of Union
City, were Monday visitors.
Mrs. Chas. Montgomery, of Ken
ton, was a mid-week visitor with her
sister, Mrs. Knox Harper
A Charles Dickens program is the
study tomorrow with the Book
Lovers Club, which meets with Miss
Missile Harris.
Only few more days until the
close of school. Exercises ON May
20 and 81 include an evenings en-
tertainment by Miss Bogle's music
class. There will be play, Deacon
Dubbs," on the following evening
In this play, which we. judge is
comedy, Miss Euline Cummings is
supported by the full cast as follows:
Misses Marjorie Morris, Louise
Sarah Taylor, Annie
Mai Starnes and Messrs. Lexie Har-
per, Wade Moss, NJ T. Warren,
George McNeill and Dorence Woody.
Representative villagers are Ruth
Boyd, Mamie Osborn, Pauline Gar
rett, Claud Callicott, Bruce Hooper
and others. We hear that we are
soon to loan to our neighborinig
town, the county seat, the estimable
family of Mr.. and Mrs. Burt Glenn
ents.
DR.. E. H. White is home from a
of the American Medical
in recent session in the
historic town of New Orleans. This
is the largest medical organization
in the world. There were 1850
registered, including Mayo
Brothers, the famous surgeons of
Rochester, Mimi, DR.. Billings, of
Chicago, and DR.. Lambert, of New
York. In fact every State was rep
at this session. From our
own locality, besides DR.. White, were
Doctors Hibbitts, Prather and Rob-
erts. The program was executed in
sections in the various large halls of |
The city. Between business sessions
he medical fraternity of the hostess
city ably entertained the visitors
Win SlSHt-oSSlHS CllpS GU. Ohe vi
he landmarks, the Grand Opera |
House, we learn with regret, was |
recently burned.
Rev. Nelson, who has the pastorate |
If Bethany, near Guntown, Miss, |
Visited the A. r. P. Church Sabbath |
morning in address on the text, GAL |
So, And let us not be weary in |
we'll doing:for in due season we
hall reap if we faint not" Rev.
Nelson was an attendant of the pres
,ytery the past week in Troy.
Inclement weather prevented a
tudy Sunday evening of the total
eclipse of the moon, due to rise par
tally eclipsed and emerge by nine
,'clock.
In the high school department
light are taking part in the tenn
'erance essay contest this afternoon.
several take part in the fifth and
ixth grade contest for a medal, The
,ublic is cordially invited to, attend.
begins at one O'Clock