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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-11
EXECUTORS NOTICE TO CRED
ITORs AND TO ALL WHOM IT
MAY CONCERN.

Notice is hereby given to the cred
itors of Mrs. S. J. Cannon, deceased,
and to all others whom this may con-
Germ, that l, Harris Parks, duly ap-
pointed executor of the last will and
testament of the said Mrs. S. ]. Can
non, qualified as such in the Obion
County Court on July 9th, 1922.
All persons, firms, corporations or
others holding claims, debts, notes or
other demands against the said Mrs.
s. J. Cannon, deceased, whether due
or not due, are hereby notified to
properly prove, authenticate and file
the same with the County Court
Clerk of Obion County, as required
by law, on or before August 4th,
1928, or the same will be barred.
This August LIST, 1922.
HARRIS PARKS,
Executor of last will of Mrs. S. J.
Cannon. 19-4t
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-11
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.

Mitchell Polk, Col, VS. Julia Polk,
Col.-Petition for Divorce
Circuit Court, Obion County, Ten
nessee.
In the above styled cause it APP
pearing to the Clerk from the bill
of complaint, which is sworn to, that
the defendant, Julia Polk, COL, is a
nonresident of the State of Tonnes
see and resident of the State of
Missouri, so that ordinary process of
law cannot be served upon her. 1t
is therefore hereby ordered that the
said above named defendants appear
before the Circuit Court Court of
Obion County, Tennessee, on or be-
fore the First Monday of September,
1922, and make defense to the said
bill, or the same will be taken as
confessed, and the said cause set for
hearing ex-parte as to her. 1t is
further ordered that publication Of
this notice be made for four consec-
utive weeks in The Commercial, a
weekly newspaper published in Obion
County, Tenn,
This July 81, 1922.
19-4t j. N. RUDOLF, Clerk.
Geo. R. Kenney Sol. for Complt.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-11
NONRESIDENT PUBLICATION.

To Irving McDearmon.-TD. Vaughn
ct al. VS.. j. w. Vaughn ct al.-In
the County Court Of Obion County,
Tennessee.
In this cause it appearing from
the bill, which is sworn to, that Irv-
ing McDearmon is nonresident of
the State of Tennessee, so that ordi-
ncry process cannot be served upon
him, he is therefore hereby required
to appear before before the clerk of
this court, at his office in Union City,
Tennessee, on the Fourth Monday in
1922, and make defense to
tie bill filed against him in said
court, or otherwise the bill will be
taken as confessed as to him. 1t is
further ordered that this notice be
published for four consecutive weeks
in the Union City Commercial. 1874
This July 21st, 1922.
r. H. BOND, Clerk.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-11

On last Tuesday evening buffet
supper was served at the Carr home,
northwest of town, to the bridal par
ty and few intimate friends who
had assembled for rehearsal of the
-Uhlman wedding.
The house with its artistic decora-
tions of pot plants and cut flowers
made a perfect Getting for the party
CT happy young people.
After the rehearsal the guests
were invited into the dining room.
There on the table lay the wedding
cake, wreathed in flowers and sur
mounted by miniature bride and
groom, its beauty enhanced by fes-
toonings of tulle ending in large
rosettes at the table edge.
The guests were presented with a
dainty fruit salad, after which the
bride cut the cake, followed by the
guests. Kathleen Arnold cut the
slice with the wedding ring in it and
to Gene Campbell and Howard Ar
mold, respectively, fate awarded the
button and thimble. A delicious ice
course was then served.
The bride-elect wore an evening
gown of American Beauty crepe and
lavender maline.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-11
DIXIE HIGH SCHOOL.

| Miss Allean Pitzer was absent from
school last week on account of sick
ness.
Misses Eunice and Thelma Brown
Murle and Mildred Kersey, Lucille
Hammond and nellie Hauser visited
school last week.
The ice cream supper was COM
plete success everybody seemed to en-
Joy it.
Miss Gennette Pepper was absent
Monday.
Miss Bess Reeves and Mrs. Leila
Killion visited school last Thursday.
The Elementary Literary Society
was called to order by the president,
Mr.. Edwin Park, Monday August z,
1922. The following program was
read by the secretary, Mr.. Jimmie
Yates.
Scripture Reading Evelyn Cloar.
Recitation-M audine Pepper.
Reading Vivian Edwards.
Duet-Lillian and Eula Glover.
Jokes-Ircne Grooms.
Music-Lillian Glover
Current Events-Max Rice.
Debate: Resolved: That 2 horse is
more useful than a car"
Affirmative-Mi Mildred Jackson, AL
len D. Pierce Neg&tive-Pete Clack,
Estelle Greene.
The affirmative wen TIE favor of
the judges.
Song-Mr. Marshall's pupils.
Mcssrs. Charlie Kersey and Chick
en- Capps visited school last week.
The Platonian Society will put on
their program next Moniayafternoon,
August IA. Everybody invited to
come and give them a cheer.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-11
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Carr-Uhlman.

/ Carr Uhlman.
On Wednesday evening at 1880
O'Clock, Miss Selma Carr, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Carr, was mar
| led to Mr.. Walter Conrad Uhlman,
Of Canton, Ohio.
The place of ceremony was deco
rated with ferns in the form of a
pyramid in a white background. The
dining room where the many beauti-
full presents were displayed, the hall
and library through which the bride
and bridesmaid came, We're decked i'll
q profusion of flowers and greenery
Preceding the ceremony Miss
Louise Choate, of Hickman, sang
80, Promise Me" ard Because" in a
most impressive manner. Miss Choate
has fine voice and a most pleasing
enunciation. She wore a gown OF
jade cut-velvet chiffon end carried
leen Arnold, her accompanist, was at
tired in blue satin with silver lace
trimming and rose picture hat. 10
the strains of Wagner's Wedding
March played in Miss Arnold's most
artistic manner the bride and her sis
ter, Miss Lois, as her bridesmaid,
slowly approached through the libra
ry and hall, the bridegroom and his
best man preceded by the little ring
bearer, Aggie Lou Rippy, coming
through the dining room. 1t was
picture not soon to be forgotten. The
bride, at all times one of Obion Coun- |
tvs most beautiful daughters, was
lovely in her wedding |
crepe with white picture hat and car
rying a shower bouquet of bride
roses and lilies of the valley. Her
bridesmaid, in blue satin gown
over-draped with gold lace and rose
picture hat added very materially to
the charming scene.
Immediately after the ceremony
Mr.. and Mrs. Uhlman left for st.
Louis, the bride wearing handsome
suit of dark blue with hat
% match.
Mr.. Uhlman is a travelling sales
nan and Mrs. Uhlman will travel
with him for month or so, when
hey will go to housekeeping in Chi
ago.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-11
LAND SALE.

A. F. Ellsworth ct al. VS.. r. G. jack
son ct al.-In Chancery Court at
Union City, Tennessee.
In obedience to a decree of the
Chancery Court at Union City made
at the April Term, 1922, in the
above styled case, l will, on Satur-
day, the 18th day of August, 1922, at
about 2 o'clock pm, in front of the
East door of the Courthouse in Union
City sell to the highest and best bid
der the property in said decree de-
scribed, being a tract of land lying
and being in Sd Civil District of
Obon County, Tenn, and described as
follows:
Being part of tract of land
decided to A. F. Tittsworth ct ais. by
deed recorded in Book o, page 371
of the records of the Registers office
of Obion County Tenn, beginning at
a beech with beech pointers, the NE.
corner of the original Calhoun zoo
acre tract, running thence West
177M poles to an ash, ash and beech
pointers; thence South 45 poles to a
stake in the w. B. line of the above
mentioned Calhoun tract, thence
EaSC Il 70 pOleo " q otohO ~
e. B. line of the Calhoun tract,
thence North As poles to the begin
ming, containing SO acres.
TERMS OF SALE-Sale will be
made on a credit of one-half in seven
and one half in twelve months, in
bar of the equity of redemption.
Notes of the purchaser, secured by a
lien to be retained on the land and
also by good personal securi-
ty will be required. The land Will
be sold subject to a lien to secure
debt to the Union Central Lie In
surance Company, of which debt the
purchaser will assume one-fourth or
about 100000.
This goth day of July, 1922. 1913
GEO. A. GIBBS,
Clerk and Master.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-11
SALE OF LAND.

BY virtue of venditioni exponas,
issued by the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Obion County, Tennessee, in
the case of G. H. Summers, VS.. j. D.
Walker, at the May, 1922, Term of
said Court, / will sell to the highest
and best bidder for cash, at the East
door of the Courthouse in Union City
Tennessee, on
Monday, the 25th day Of August, 1922
the following described real estate:
Situated in the 9Th Civil Dis
trict of Obion County, Tennessee, To-
Gated about / n miles west of Horn
beak, bounded as follows: On the
North by the lands of G. w. Petty;
on the South by the land of j. B.
Short; on the East by w. w. Cross,
and on the West by ]. B. Short, con-
tanning / " acres, and located there
on a 4 room house. 17-3t
This the 18th day of July, 1922.
J. w. CHERRY,
Sheriff of Obion County.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-11
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION.

Notice is hereby given that on the
18th day of July, 1922, / was ap-
pointed and qualified as the Admins
traitor of the estate of T. A. Threl-
keld, deceased, and that all persons
having claims against said estate
are requiredd by law to file their
claims with the Clerk of the County
Court of Obion County, Tenn, with
in twelve months from said date,
duly verified as required by law.
This July IL, 1922. 17-4tpd
DEWITT THRELKELD,
Admir-. of estate of T. A. Threlkeld,
deceased.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-11
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.

Roby Porter VS.. Willie Porter.-Pe-
tition for Divorce.-Circuit Court,
Obion County, Tenn.
In the above styled cause
it appearing to the Clerk from
the bill of complaint, which is sworn
to, thct the defendant, Willie Porter,
who is a nonresident of the State of
Tennessee and resident of the State
of Ohio, so that ordinary process of
law cannot be served upon him. 1t
is therefore hereby ordered that the
said above named defendant appear
before the Circuit Court of
Obion County, Tennessee, on or be-
fore the first Monday OF September,
1922, and make defense to the said
bill or the same will be taken as con-
fessed, and the said cause set for
hearing ex-parte as to you. 1t is
further ordered that publication of
this notice be made for four consec-
utive weeks in The Commercial, a
weekly newspaper published in ODion
County, Tenn. 18-4t
This July 81, 1922.
J, N, RUDOLF, Crerk
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-11
BANKRUPT SALE
OF
Valuable City Real Estate and Machinery
Western District Of Tennessee.
In the Matter Of Union City Motor-Impemen CoNo 1850

Under and by virtue of the power and authority conferred
upon the undersigned R. H. Rust Trustee in Bankruptcy
OF the Union City MotorImpmen Co., bankrupt of the above
styled matter in Bankruptcy by order of the Hon. S.
Homer Tatum Referee in Bankruptcy, made the 3Oh day
OF June 1922 and pursuant to the directions contained in said
order made notice is hereby given all whom may
cern that the undersigned trustee aforesaid will offer for sale
the highest and best bidder the terms hereinafter
toned certain real estate and interest in real estate hereinafter
described belonging the said Union City Motormplement
Co., bankrupt also certain machinery belonging to the said
bankrupt, on
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-11
Notice of the Sale of Bank Stock.

l, Harris Parks, executor of the
last will of Mrs. S. j. Cannon, de-
ceased, will sell on Aug. 18th, 1922,
at 1880 pm, eleven shares of the
capital stock of the Farmers Ex
change Bank; sale at the office of
said bank. 20-1t
HARRIS PARKS, Executor.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-11
TO L. S. PREWITT.

A bill for divorce has been sworn
to and filed in this Court, which bill
AYERS that you are nonresident of
the State of Tennessee, or that your
residence is unknown, so that the
ordinary process of law can not be
served upon YOU This is, therefore,
to notify you, the said L. S. Prewitt,
defendant in above styled cause, to
appear before the Circuit Court of
Obion County, Tennessee, on or be-
fore the first Monday in September,
1922, and make defense to said bill
filed against you or the same will
be taken for confessed and proceeded
with exparte as to you. 10
]. n. RUDOLF, Clerk.
Morris Bros, Sol. Complt.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-11
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.

Mrs. Lou Prewitt VS.. L. s, Prewitt.
Petition for Divorce.-In the
Circuit Co@rt of Obion County,
Tennessee.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-11
KATHERINE DAHNKE HARR0D.
LULA DUGGER. U. L. WILLIS,
CLAUDE PIERCE. TRUDE HAIR
RISON AND HUGH CALVIN
SMITH

SMITH.
The Mercantile Trust Co. ct alr. VS..
Robert Davidson ct als.-Chancery
Court, Obion County, Tennessee.
In the above styled cause it appear
ing to the Clerk and Master from
the bill of complaint, which is sworn
to, that the defendants, Katherine
Dahnke Harrod, Lula Digger, U. L.
Willis, Claude Pierce, Trude Harrison
and Hugh Calvin Smith are non-resi-
dents of the State of Tennessee, SO
that ordinary process of law cannot
be served upon them. 1t is there
fore hereby ordered that the said
above named defendants appear be-
fore the Clerk and Master of Chan
Gerry Court of Obion County, Ten
nessee, on or before the First Mon
day of September, 1922, that being
a rule day of said 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 conscc-
utive weeks in The Commercial, a
weekly newspaper published in Obi
on County, Tenn. 20-4t
This Aug. 7, 1922.
GEO. A. GIBBS,
Clerk and Master.
Pierce and Fry, Sol. for Complt.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-11
TUESDAY, AUGUST %, 1922,

the premises occupied by the said bankrupt at Church and
Second Streets in Union City, Tennessee and beginning
1870 o'clock M, and continuing until the sale is completed
and necessary adournng said sale from day to day.
FIRST TACTsd the Union City, Tenn,
building Bankrupt bounded North
Mary sue the South by vacant owned by the Bankrupt Hereinafter dcrbedG
alley and
Foundry
SECOND TRACTBg
Hugh Smith formerly DahkeG the East
betting paner
in occupied Bankrupt
the thache describes
TERMS OF SALE
months
the balance in eighteen months and for the deferred the
personal
will enanda to
He
z. II. RUST, Trustee,
Union
Bankrupt No. 1850.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-11

CIUTK GHU MHSJtT
Pierce and Fry, Sol. for Complt.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-11-25

Nation countrywide call
assembly An Address to the NatiOn:"
THE undersigned citizens
bias with urge all pub
oppose all their power the recurrence
of the crime shame the
prevent punish Iynhngs
they pledge their the officers the face of
excitement discharge Congress
Of ynchng and mob muir
to end scourage"
conference appealed for Fed
against lynch MURDER
Negro agitators and Northern politicians?
Among the sgners Governors senator's
juris and clergy
fnanciers pubcis business
professional and Thwine
Jordan Wheeler; religious denomina
ton Among them were Dr. Eliot president emeritus
President Taft Cardinal Gibbons Charles Hughes Attorney
General Palmer Dr. Anna Howard Shaw Henry Dyke
But-the best
Twenteght States and the District
the 100 Of be
Twenty of the southerr1ynhns
ALABAMA: Former Governor Emmett oNea
Georgia. Governor Hugh William H.
Fleming the Rev. and Mrs John Dh Hammond F.
Reese, Episcopal Bishop
Kentucky: Breckenridge
Quincy Ewing.
mississippi A. T. stOyal R. Bingham J. C VIII
W. weatherord
Tennes Bishop Thomas GalOr
Virginia. Dnard Huntey Henry st George
Tucker
Northern vote-sseking
Of the patr
southenersho arranged
indeed does
investigation Of and
against mob violence throughout the United
which have unspotted by
ding
far forcefuly Republican Harding
Northernbon ynching before the
world and searingl his
to aw--else every
States Constitution
There Rgbts-Natonal or state-tha
fearely--eways
Regardless whet the States should the
Nations own adaps
ton Of ancient Magma Chna han If It paper2
against the National Constitution
men action San Antonio (Texas) Express.
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..BY NneRo AeITAroRs AND NORTHERN PoIHIoIANs2-

Read-in AgeHerads
Federal Court dealings with mob
n
deplorabe meaure"he AniLynching
Northern politicians voegettng
purposes prove
AgcIerald. Express peinfny pride
fully incompatible
this will But
statutory
UNFOLDING
these
debauhes all
antsocial
home and into the public school
Express Thrty-sixth
nyncng bill unlike
adoption
proposition
DISTINGUISHED
repeated for the hundredth meouching the
duyhat reported out
the strongest best Representatives
luton
single ynching
fanny suffered ynchings
only has it suffered than three
heads ynchng
Not
single State investigation of optrages against
the States Bin of Rights, Constitution
80 Negro agiaors and Northern poll
tcians for getting > : >"
City, he National Conference on
conducted rhe prevalence in
States Of the spirit ynhng too often
with nhuman cruelty the inability the public
authorities to punish the ctia threaten
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ONLY HALFWAY RIGHT.

The 18th session of the Baptist general convention Of
Texas envened in its closing hours by the speech Of Dr.
Mcconnell who challenges Negroes and perpetuate
the spirit of kindly feelings between the two races.
In his speech he warned Negroes that the task of solving the
problem Of racial hatred had passed from white Negro hands
He said in part: The white Christians should pray that mobs
and riots should cease but let tell you that greater
sby upon Negro leaders and particularly upon
the Negro preachers He spoke particularly of vicious and vile
literature which hate netting sent out by Dubois from
New York
Any familiar at all with the history of the kindness
and genuine charitable feen- which constantly finds expression
gifts of money advice and influence by the white Bapsts Of
Texas to their Negro brethren Of he denomination would
not think of atbu thought to the gent man
and reverend who voice to the words above And yet
tough impulse Which caused their utterance hrhy
charitable they do not convey the whole truth.
None viii conted that it not the duty of Negro leaders
80 dspe racial hatred with all of the energy that is
them u by stretch of imagination could any pre-
that TIE theirs alone Hatred by
stucted Rather it is true that it exists generally in the
hearts Of neghbors the daily occurrences which
Iotice proof of its existence
AID may again stated that Ill of the vic propaganda
which could be broadcast would fall lfecepve
it for the that all too often vicious acts
against which pOaeres have given t. resent
them
It seems to us that it is the job Of Negro rather than white
Christians in the Southland to pray that mobs and riots
should Prayer their only power Political powe law
press instruments wholly the hands If white
Christians mobs to their depredatons it must be
white Christians realize the wrong them
back the prayers Of Negro Christians with their equally power
full acts of reform.
The American racial situation is its most pepexng problem
should FORM is doing in Increasing degree the
basis of careful STUDY for Christians and gentlemen More and
all realizing that it win be adjusted iv by
exercise Of and Christian Tolerance ta by
other Nor it be Justly adiudged the particular
duty Of any single group to bear the ba for its
studied
Cooperation the Christian spirit Of understanding to be
sought above all ese Thus only win relief coe Such course
lays burden upon black and white Christians and leaders alike
Fer without one the efforts Of the ether are valueess
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LIBERIA. A LAND OK OPPORTUN-
ITY AND GREAT RICHES.
From an African Travellers Note
book by Maynard H. Jackson.
(By A. N. P.)
1t strikes the writer with peculiar
force that so large percentage OF
late visitors to the Republic OF LII
IBERIA have got so discouraging an
opinion of the resources and oppor-
tunities of the country when tne
facts of the situation present sucn
"a tremendous controversion. Liberia
is perhaps, and is so considered by
Europeans, the richest part OF Az
RIGA: this is a very broad statement
to make but the reader will realize
that England has done everything
In the category of diplomacy, hon
est and dishonest, to steal the little
Republic and that this great nation
of Exploiters does not covet the
poor places Of the world.
There are several reasons for the
underestimation of the little Repub-
lies possibilities by the casual traV-
eller; most visitors are afraid to
risk the hardships of the country
outside the Capitol City and the
River settlements, and miss the re-
gions of real promise in the matter
Of commerce and production; the or
binary visitor is not in a position TO
Judge economic possibilities, ordi-
narily being a specialist in very df-
ferent lines; too often 1t is the ear
and not the eye which forms the
channel of information in the Re-
public. These are very serious short
comIngs and should not permit the
writer or speaker to belittle such
great opportunities as do certainly
exist.
The writer was able to visit the
Careysburg section where the Liber-
ian Development Company, an En-
glish Company working in conjun-
ton with the Liberian Government a
few years back mined gold, built
roads, and a railroad and were en-
joying a very profitable develop
ment before they were elected by
the Government for alleged fraud.
It is not these mineral resources
which the undoubtedly present but
rather indeterminate at this time
which form the present opportunity
in the Republic. Such staple articles
of export as coffee, piasava (tough
palm fibre), palm oil and palm
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police never found trace of them.
Two of the other murdered women
were found in desoluate and re-
mote section of Argentine; two
others were found in wild places
adjacent to the old city Of Rose
dale and the fifth body was found
under shrubbery on the direct route
to the crooks graveyard" near
Nearman.
The police have been able to
make but little headway in solving
the mystery Of the latest death. Be
yond the fact that Mrs. Dudley left
her home at 1909 North Eighth
street about 1880 o'clock Saturday
night and that single shot was
heard several hours later from the
general direction of the weed patch,
they learned nothing, they say.
Wheeler Dudley. husband of the
woman, was questioned by the po-
lice, but was unable to throw any
light on the murder, according to
the detectives.
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KILLS WOMEN; HIDES THEM IN
WEED PATCH; GLOATS OVER
CRIMES.
Shoes and Stockings of Each Of Vic
Tins Removed and Carried Away
Police Unable to Find Clue.


Kansas City, Kas., Nov. 23.-A
mysterious slayer with penchant
for shooting women in the left tenn
pie. claimed his fifth victim here
Saturday night. The body Of Mrs.
Lizzie Dudley, rs, was found by
Policeman George Chess Sunday
morning in a weed patch near the
Eighth street and the Northwes-
tern tracks.
Henry Smyth and John Mogle, de-
tectives, assigned to the cases, say
that peculiar facts that have related
to each of these murders seemingly
have linked them all and talk has
been revived in police circles of a
heartless murderer who lusts for
the blood of women.
Each of the five Colored women
killed before the Dudley woman
went to her death in the weed patch
were shot in the left temple and
examination of the body of the Dud-
ley woman reveals that she, also,
was shot in the left temple.
In one particular, however, some
of the attendant facts of the other
murders differ from that of the
Dudley woman. The shoes and
sockings of each of the others were
removed and carried away. and the