The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-17
RIYEs NEWS.


! George Mcneil left Tuesday for
session at Castle Heights.
Mrs. Frank Williams, of Memphis
is visitor with Miss Callie Byrni
| Mr. Knox Wade and mother are i
Memphis visiting Rev. and Mrs. Z
/ P. Lindsay.
Miss Willie Mai Connolly, of PotC
Okla, was visitor part of the wee
with Mrs. Jas. Hight.
H. L. Lanieye and family, of tn
Bluff City, were recent visitors wit
W. L. Clemmons and Geo. F. Bolts.
Mrs. John Marable, en- route from
Waverly to her home in Missouri
was an end of the week visitor will
Mrs. Press Callicott.
Miss Florence Bolts reports yer,
large music class. Miss Bolts tool
special methods during the summel
in the Boston Conservatory.
G. B. Fisher, of Muskogee, Okla
homa, and Martin billiard and fam
lily, of. Weakley County, were Satur.
day guests Mr.. and Mrs. Moss Fisher
McAdoo Harris has sold his inter
ests in the blacksmith shop to Ros
coe Kitchell, accepting work ON the
road for the Canvas Decoy Co., oi
Union City.
H. P. Cotton and wife were end OF
the week visitors to Covington in a
farewell visit with our postmaster's
mother, who leaves this week for res
idence in Abilene, Texas,
The near cloudburst Friday after
noon greatly damaged the roads and
hedges here and only few miles
east took on the nature of a tornado
in the vicinity of Alamo Church,
which was wrecked The school
house was also destroyed, we are
told. Miss Olga Hogan, a former
resident here, has the Alamo school
and Mrs. Laura Crockett, prominent
in T. U. circles, we are glad to learn,
escaped, though barn only a few
feet from her home was demolished.
Recreatively there is plenty hap
pening.. Last week we had several
nights of movies; with big circus
and our first lyceum number in the
near future. About the circus we
don't know, but there cannot too
much be "neised about for the five
number high class lyceum course.
We are indeed fortunate to have such
artists come to us. The Knox Con-
cert Party, with most pleasing and
varied program, comes first. The
season tickets are only two dollars.
Boost school interests by making this
feature a successful annual return
event.
In literature as elsewhere we find
cross currents. In September Book
man we have a review of Chas.E.
Chapin's How Came to Be in Sing
Sing" then find actually the story
beginning in last Sundays Com
mercial Appeal. Not since Henry
Watterson's "reminiscences of Fifty
Years." off the press last year, have
we had facts so charmingly attired.
To read of the Russell Sage Founda-
ton, pen picture Of his parsimoni-
Gus kinsman as given by Chaplin,
would be remote, yet extravaganza
brought Chaplin to the tragic act of
killing his wife two years ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Knox Harper and
daughter, Miss Ruth, were attend
ants in Jackson of this division OF
the Farmers Institute, where Miss
Ruth, charming brunette, assisted
in the fashion demonstration of
styles for school and street, and won
particular praise, taking on the or
der of uniform for school use. For
several years a announcement on
school dress has been urgent that
any girl in the rural district may
attend in town or city and not feel
like the ugly duckling." With Mrs.
Harper as vice president of the wom
ans department, Obion County and
this community especially is compli-