The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-01-13
LIONS AND ALDERMEN .
HAVE HOUSE WARMING
Mr.. Bass, of Nashville, and Members
of City Council.


ent. This was to be day will
representatives Of the Cumberland
Telephone and Telegraph Company
but they were not present. So il
was turned into a get-together day
with members of the new Board oil
Mayor and Aldermen and the Lions
Club.
Mr. Bass was present as a guest
of j. G. Burdick, Jr., together with
Mr. Hodson, of Terre Haute, Ind
Mr.. Bass was very much pleased to
| be with the club. He complimented
the club as an indication Of live
wire citizenship and he knew the
people of Union City are public-spir-
tied. He spoke of his friend, Mr..
Burdick, now interested in the move
ment for better train service, and he
said that he had met him quite fire.
quently in Nashville on his missions
to railroad offices.
Mr.. McGruder was also present as
a guest of the club in the interest of
dairying. He did not favor going
into dairying as an investment but
growing into it gradually. He
thought it would be worth the at
tention OF our people to investigate
the matter.
Mr.. Burdick, Sr., as a member of
the New Board of Aldermen, re-
sponded to an invitation to make a
few remarks. He said that he had
revised his view of public matters
and that he had become specially in
terested in the affairs of Union City
and it's city government. He pro-
posed to give this work his attention
and his efforts would be directed to
the best interests of Union City.
Mr.. Luther Andrews was called on
next and responded, as he always
does, with something interesting. He
was encouraged to go forward with
the splendid record and example
made by the last administration,
which had left the city in fine con-
dition. He was for a bigger and
better Union City, and told story
Of the petrified city, where every
thing was pertified, even a petrified
possum in midair as it leaped from
4 tree. There was some doubt about |
his, that it could not exist under
he laws of gravity, but the story ran
hat gravity itself was petrified
Here the president, DR.. Turner,
ook occasion to say that the newly
elected board was one of the finest
n its personnel that had ever been
lected, and that the members were
apable of great things. He said
hat law enforcement would be one
f the pressing problems in Union
'ity, and that the board must have
he cooperation of the Lions and
II other organizations in Union City.
lie said that it was our duty to sup
ress botlegging.
Mr.. Walker Kerr said that the
oard could not function properly
Mess the city got behind it. The
of law is encumbent not
My on the officers of the law but
pom every individual citizen, and
remained with our people as to
ow well this work is done.
Mr.. Ellsworth, as one of the re-
ent claimants to oratory, was called
n by the president, and this gen. l
eman, who developed the most pop t
lar vote in the election, arose with 7
big, bland smile to admit the truth I
the claim and give an account of
Is aims and purposes as member b
the board. We was in all respects c
accord with the sentiment express a
for bigger and better Union City
Id for the enforcement of law. :,
Mr.. Howell Bransford, retiring c,
ember of the old board, made some :,
tinted remarks concerning the con- a
let of some of our own people and !;
i'd that he was heart and soul with E,
e work of the new board in the n
forcement of law. He was in IA a,
r of getting behind the board in a,
work and supporting its every \,
cd movement.
Pastor Baker made some remarks r,
of the newly elected
ard, and spoke encouragingly Of
} spirit of cooperation between
) citizens Of Union City, the club
other organizations with the
ard of Mayor and Aldermen.
supt. Ranck. of the City schools.
$ called on and spoke in kind for
work Of the new board. Mr..
nck has always 6od lsited fine
rit in his CON a sss.ss h the pub Gl
affairs Of UI Testin\ He is IN
ested in eve Co: lent that &C