The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-03-04
STRAWBERRY CLUB
MEETING SATURDAY
Strawberries and Cream"

The writer knows very little about
growing strawberries, and still less
about producing cream. But he does
know that combination appeals very
deliciously to the palate, and even
the sound of these two words coupled
together rings up the curtain and
throws upon the screen OF imag1na-
ton wonderful pictures and pessibil-
tiles.
We are told this soil will produce
fine Strawberries abundantly. We
arc told we have the climate, land,
water, prettiest milk maids and
everything needed for the best dairy
farming in the world. We are told
the best car load of chickens that ev-
er cackled was shipped from this sec
ton. In short, we are told that OD1-
on County is the Garden of Eden"
say, we are told. We don't know
(and haven't been told yeti but per-
haps that's the reason so many men
seem to think they are old Adam and
Just wait for Eve to pass the apples.
And some of the others crow so much
they must think they are the "big
rooster" responsible for so many fine
chickens.
But listen, old boy! You remem-
Der old Adam was turned out and
made to go to work, and sometimes,
even, the big red rooster has to help
scratch for the brood. Now If there
ever was a time in the history of
ObiCn County for the old adams"
to 90 to work, and the old, young,
big and little roosters needed to
scratch" it's now, in the good year
of 1921.
We do believe with all our might,
if Obion County is not the Garden
of Eden" it certainly is the Land OF
Promise" and like Joshua Of old,
let's be led up on the mountain top
and view the land flowing in STRAW
berries and Cream" and few eggs
minus the nogs-for the faithful old
rosters).
Let's get out of the wilderness!
The wilderness of boggy roads, the
wilderness of one-season crops, the
wilderness of no market for produce,
and worst of all, the wilderness of
small town" politics.
Why, don't you know, we could
build that sign board at Gibbs as
high as Haman's gallows, and write
in letters of fire, "See Union City
First" and unless we also build I'm
ion City likewise, those big |. G.
trains will continue to go by that
flag station so darn fast, our sign will
look like a comets tail, and the fell
lows that will see Union City first"
will be the same guys that have been
seeing 1t first, last and all the time.
And don't you know, should we,
with the help of Providence, finally
build that concrete road to assist the
fellow to see Union City, that unless
we produce something to HAUL over
it,. it will only serve to wear out his
horses shoes and our Ford tires, and
we won't be able to bug more on
credit.
But "Get thee behind me, Satan,"
and let us look at our promised
land, Obion County, the biggest agri-
cultural factory in Tennessee; capa-
Bile of producing the finest products
under heaven, those that come from
the soil, and in abundance. not only
the big crops, but the by-products,
poultry, eggs, butter, cheese, honey,
wax, all kinds of vegetables, fruits,
BERRIES, and a thousand others
that can be grown, lots in places now
waste, and by labor now idle, and
produce a continual golden stream
from Christmas to Christmas, thru
our banks and our shops, and serve
the strawberry" of pleasure with
the rich cream" Of living in our
homes.
Will you join the Strawberry Club
Saturday afternoon and help us make
Union City a strawberry market?
Come to the Courthouse Saturday af-
tarnoon at 2.3O A LION