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OAK RIDGE. 'Hot! hot!! hot!!! RIVES NEWS. Miss Missie Harris lias returned fron? Fulton.' , Come Tuesday to the W. 0. W. grand function. Clinton Callicott for some ten days has been in Dawson. Mr. and Mrs. It. L. Harper have re turned from Dawson. Grady Chitwood, of Number Seven, was on our streets Monday. Mrs. Lucy Sinkler, of near Troy, is the guest of friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wade, of Number Seven, were in the city Saturday. Hardy Petty and sister, Miss Ola, were visitors of Miss Agnes Palmer. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cununings attend ed church at Crittenden Grove last Sab bath. Luther Moffat, of Obion, was a re cent guest of his mother, Mrs. Nan Moffat. The tent meeting begins on tlie fourth Sunday with the Rev. Smith, of Sharon, officiating. Mrs. Hyatt and Mrs. Hamilton, of Trenton, were recent guests of Mrs. Byrd on Home Mreet. Mrs. Holland Bittick, who a few days ago sustained a fracture of her right hip, is resting fairly well. "' Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Thorne were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thur man Phebus, west of Union City. It is voted that the Union Sunday school picnic will be on Sept. 8, at some place to be designated later. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bittick came in from Memphis Saturday night and are the guests of Mrs. W. J. Caldwell. Messrs. Will Gould Harris and Hor ace Wade and Mesdaines Wyly Bradley and McAdoo Harris are on the sick list. . Miss Aletha Bonner has installed an elegant piano in the drug store and will try over the newest music for her friends. Mr. Davis, the insurance hustler, of Union City, and Mr. Alex Forester, the real estate man of the same place, were here on business Tuesday. Anna Maria. ELBRIDGE. Prof. R. H. Bond is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Fred Carroll has been on the sick list this week. Prof. Adams seems to be getting along nicely with his school. Dr. S. E. Chandler and quite a lot of his friends took an outing on the lake last week. Our crops are all laid by. The corn seems to be extra fine and cotton is fruiting well. L. D. McKenzie and family visited Mr. Sampson Tyler's family at Burton Ridge last week. Mr. Willie Via, of Caruthersville, Mo., has been here this week visiting his father, W. A. Via, Mr. J. S. Glover and wife visited Mr. Will Kendall and family, of Hornbeak, last week and report that they were roy ally entertained. Our Baptist meeting closed without any visible results, but we do hope Bio. Miles left some thoughts with our young people that they will long remember. Hooligan. PLEASANT HILL. Miss Carrie Callis attended church at Bethel last Sunday. Mr. Talma ge Johnson spent Saturday night with friends in Rives. Many from hero and Whiteside spent last week on Reelfoot Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Press Callicott are the proud parents of a baby girl. Rev. Cunningham was the guest of Mr. Elias Callis and family Sunday. Mrs. John Sedherry and son were the guests of Mrs. Zona Fitzgerald recently. The school at this place, which com menced Monday, Aug. 2, is doing finely. Miss Ruth Callicott, Lillian Arnold and little J. E. Sedherry are on the sick ist this week. Mr. Robert MeGowen, of Ebenezer, was the guest of his sister, Mrs. Henry Callis, Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Arnold entertained many of their friends with ice cream and watermelons recently. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Callis and son were the guests of relatives at Ebenezer Sunday and attended church nearby. The meeting closed at Whiteside last Thursday with about thirty-eight pro fessions. Many from here attended regularly. Mayflower. Call 150 Un;on City Ice. & Coal Co. and get summer prices on coal. EBENEZER. Miss Lucile Taylor went to Union City Saturday. Miss Allio Garrison visited relatives at Hornbeak this week. : Mr. Kirk Brown returned from Daw son Springs last week. Miss Canimio Curry returned from Red Boiling Springs Saturday. Miss Aly Cunningham, is spending this week with friends near Bethel. Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Garrison visited Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Sturgis last week. Mrs. Hodges is very low of typhoid fever at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Litchford. Miss Gertie Hutchinson entertained a number of her friends at a'Tjirthday party Saturday evemug. Mrs. Nannie Cunningham and daugh ter, Mrs. Wincie Dickey, spent Monday with Mrs.' Leslie Inman at Obion. Those interested in beautifying the cemetery at H.uenezer cnurcn are re quested to bring dinner and meet there Friday, Aug. 13. Matilda. WHITESIDE. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Press Tate a tine 10-pound boy. A number of our farmers are still making hay and having some baled. Mr. Allen Howell and family visited . .. . ! T Cli 1 o.,.1 Cim. relatives west oi xroy oaiuruay ouu day. Mr. Jas. Rogers and family, west of Polk, spent Sunday with Mr. Sid Cooley and family. Mr. and Mrs. John Wilder spent , Wednesday night with Mr. and Mrs. Dan Fitzgerald. Quite a number of people from Troy and Pleasant Hill vicinity attended the revival at this place. Mrs. Dr. Jones and children returned home Sunday, accompanied by Mrs. Jones' parents and brother. Mr. Arch Tate and family attended church at Troy Sunday and spent the afternoon with relatives there. Mrs. Walter Clark is spending the week with her sister, Mrs. Dave Jim merson, and family near Troy. Mr. Dick Andrews is having two car loads of tile unloaded at Polk and hauled out on the Blanton land. Mrs. Grace J. Caldwell, of Fremont, is spending the week here with her daughter, Mrs. Robt. Irwin, and family. The brush arbor revival closed here Thursday night after a two week's series of sermons by Revs. Lee Rhodes, Smith Williams and Boston with upwards of thirty-five conversions. Mr. and Mrs. Gid McRee entertained quite a large number of friends and relatives Wednesday at a nice dinner of barbecued lamb and other nice dishes, including ice cream and cake. There were about fifty people present, two preachers among the number, and we had singing and prayer service in the evening. Scribbler. NUMBER SEVEN. The weather is very hot and dry and news very scarce. Miss Fannie Milner returned Tuesday from a few days stay with her sister at Polk Station. Mr. Joe Scates and son are very low with typhoid fever, and Mr. Charley Bell's little girl is very bad with the same disease. Miss Johanna Collier, of Mount Pelia, had the misfortune to lose her gold watch, which was stolen one night last week. Esq. Howard, of Union City, after visiting many places in Texas, returned homo Aug. 11. Mr. Howard says the weather is extremely warm ifi Texas. We learn that on last Sunday Mr, Jas. Howard and Miss Esther Carter and Mr. Will Chapel and Miss Bertha Jackson, of our vicinity, were married Hie citizens of Kives and vicinity are making extensive preparations for the Woodmen picnic and barbecue at that place on Tuesday, the 17th inst. Hope they will have a nice day and a large attendance. Mr. Buford, of Dickson, Tenn., is transacting business in this vicinity. He is representing the Independent Life Insurance Co. of America, Nash ville, and has sold quite a number of shares of stock in "Numbers Four and Seven. The Crittendon Grove meeting is pro gressing nicely and there seems to be great interest manifested. There have been two or three converted to Christ and the outlook is good for a glorious meeting. Bro. Thomas and assistants are conducting the services. Health is not so good in the Seventh district as has been. The doctors have been complaining of health being dis tressingly good for some time. "The tunc has changed and they report sev eral cases of typhoid fever and many kinds of sickness, keeping them busy day and night. Daisy. Mr ' Jas. Moss, of Lake County, is visiting friends here this week. .... ': Mrs. J. J. Puckett, 'of Elbridgc, at tended preaching at Oak Ridge Sunday. The protracted meeting began at El bridge Sunday with Rev. Ben Fuzzell in charge. Elder T.A.Smith, of Fowlkes,, began a series of meetings hearts Sunday, to continue indefinitely, II. V. HuffsUitter and family spent last week' at Shaw's Park and report plenty of fish and a nice time. J. A. Hutchison, of Baird, Tenn., has returned home after an extended visit here with friends and relatives. "Mr. Billie Edwards and wife, of Horn beak, were here Sunday to hoar the Gospel expounded by Bro. Smith. Mrs. C. D. Ragsdale sustained a pain ful accident last week. She was "pour ing up" some starch when, by some mishap, it splashed into her face, burn ing her severely. We are glad to report wheat thresh ing over and a goodly portion of the wheat marketed. We are prone to be- ieve the farmers "knead the dough" so bad as to dump their whole crop on the market at once. However, it might be a pregnant idea, as some are inclined to believe, wheat will go down. But how about cotton? It will certainly be high, as the crop has almost failed in the cot-, ton States. Uncle Zebe. ' BETHEL. ' Mr. Budd Moss went to Polk Saturday. A large crowd attended church here Sunday. J. N. Sanders and sister were in Pro- temus Saturday. Mr. Fenn Stubblefield, of Protemus, was here Thursday. Grandma Harmon is visiting her son, Buck, near Union City. Mr. James Pendleton, of Protemus, mingled with friends here Sunday. Mr. Belcher, of Number Ten, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Chas. Kirk. Oh my! how the wedding bells will ring in this community in the near fu ture. Mr. Walter Phillips and wife, of Nash ille, will visit relatives here in the near future. The Misses Haslip delightfully enter tained a large number of friends to an ice cream supper Wednesday night tin honor of Mr. Geo. Cunningham. Mr. Wm Martin and wife, of Union city, and Mrs. Barnett ana son, ew ton, of Helena, Ark., were pleasant callers at the writer's home Sunday. Misses Dane Brown and Delia Ray- burn, of Kedron, accompanied by Mr. Virgil Brown, attended church here Sun day night. Trixie. Non-Resident Notice. Mrs. M. Iris Brown and Farris Brown and May Brown, who sue by their next friend and uncle, W. C. Farris, vs. Laura W. Brown, Louise Brown and I. S. Brown, Jr., defendants. In this cause, it appearing from the petition filed in the County Court of Obion County, Tenn., before A. J. Law son, County Judge for Obion County, on July 20, 1909. and which is sworn to, that the defendants, Laura W, Brown, Louise Brown and I. S. Brown, Jr., are non-residents of the State of Tennessee, they are therefore hereby required to appear on or before the First Monday in September, 1909, before the Clerk of said Court at his office in Union City, Tenn., and make defence to the petition filed against them in said court by Mrs. M. Iris Brown et al., and as above styled, or otherwise the petition will be taken as confessed. It is ordered that this notice be published for four consecutive weeks in The Union City Commercial. This July 22, 1909. lS-4t S. F. HOWARD, Clerk. F. J. Smith, Solicitor for Petitioners. LAND SALE. The J. S. Moffatt Co. vs. J. A. Calhoun Pursuant to an order of sale in the above-styled case pending in the Circuit Court of Obion County, Tenn., and is sued by the clerk of said Court on the 10th day of July, 1901', 1 will expose to sale for cash at public outcry to the highest bidder, in front of the Court house door in Union City, Tenn., on Saturday, the 21st day of August, 1909, at or about one o'clock p. m the one-half undivided interest of the defendant, J. ACalhoun, in 100 acres of land, more or less, situate in the 3rd civil district of Obion County, Tenn., bounded on the north by the lands of J, A. Calhoun, on the south by Mosier, on the east by Sanders and on the west by Hicks, and being the one-half inter est in said lands that the defendant, J, A. Calhoun, inherited from his deceased sister, Mrs. Brown. Said one-half un divided interest in said 100 acres, more or less, will be sold as aforestated as the nronertv of the defendant, J. A. Cal houn, pursuant to said order of sale. Tli'ts July 22nd, 1909. F. J. Smith, Attorney for Plaintiff. T. J. Eastehwood, Sheriff of Obion County, Tenn ut o o o I TflaMW. UP'" i i 0 .. ; it , . r'" ' rwi .'art. ii 1 1 hi We are offering this week, ending Saturday evening, Aug. 1 4, at 6 o'clock, 7,000 extra free votes with every $10.00 turned in on subscription, new subscribers, renew als and back subscriptions. Next week, ending Aug. 21, the same offer, with the ex ception that the extra free vote will be reduced to 6,000, will be made. The extra free vote will be given to everyone for every $10.00 turned in on subscriptions as stated. The third week the extra free votes will be reduced to 5,000 and diminished 1,000 votes each week until the close of the contest. As we have stated, this is the most important period of the contest. Everyone can readily see that the vote offered for subscription this week is larger than it will be at any time during the remaining weeks of the contest. The work done this week counts more than at any other time, hence it is important that those contestants who are really in earnest to do their best right now. There is nothing new to report this week, except that the contest is one week nearer the close, and that ten dollars turned in this week secures more votes than the same amount will secure next week. The contestants, as was reported last week, are running close together. , The watch, awarded to Miss Milner, has been delivered. It's a beauty and is well worth a choice place in any jewelry case. One of the fine pianos can now be seen in the Union City Bank & Trust Co.'s building. See it. Examine it. Get busy, girls. The Close Read this ad carefully and guess. The Commercial, Union City. LAND SALE. J. L. Owens et al. vs Rena Brad- shaw et al. In the County Court of Obion County, Tenn., before the Hon. A. J. Law son, County Judge. Under a decree of sale of the date of August the 10th, 1909, in the above styled cause, on Saturday, the 4th Day of Septem ber, 1303, at or about 1 o'clock p. m., in front of the courthouse door in Union City, Tenn., I will expose to sale to the highest bidder a tract of land situate in the Ninth Civil District of Obion County, Tenn., containing 1131 acres, more or less, bounded on the north by i leming, on the east by Puckett, on the south by Chandler, and on the west by Lippard, and being about a half mile south of Elbridge, and being the same lands once owned by N. L. Prather. Terms of sale One-half cash and the balance on a credit of 12 months, evidenced by note bearing six per cent interest, with personal security and lien retained on land. Further particulars on day of sale. This August 10, 1909. (21-3t) S. F. HOWARD, Clerk. F. J. Smith, Solicitor for Petitioners. Non-Resident Notice. Georgia Manley ( Chancery Court vs. of Grant Manley ( Obion County, Tenn. In the above styled cause, it appear ing to me, the undersigned G. A. Gibbs, Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Obion County, Tenn., from the bill of complaint which is sworn to, that the defendant, Grant Manley, is a non resident of the State of Tennessee, his present whereabouts being unknown, so that the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon him. The said Grant Manley is therefore hereby ordered to appear before the Chancery Court of Obion County, Tenn., on or before the first Monday of October, 1909, that being the first day of the regular October term of the said Chancery Court, and make defense to the bill filed against him by the said complainant, Georgia Manley, or same will be takeh as confessed by him, and the said cause set for hearing ex-parte. It is further ordered that publication of this notice be made for four consecu tive weeks in The Commercial, a week ly newspaper published in Union City, Obion County, Tenn. This August 9, 1909. G. A. Gibbs, Clerk and Master. By Geo. A. Gibbs, Jr., D. C. & M. Geo. R. Kenney, Sol. for Compl't. Piano -Contest.. I 1 ,1'! ' ' ' 1 1 J ill1 f I fr, ' i I I . j i"vrssMiH p ti iii i 'mini iorvjt'ui(w- hi I i lit 11 i l mill hi i in II 1 1 I' H' in i nili Hi"" i' UN i n I Hill I i i 1 J iii ' i i !i i " 11 1111 ! mm Ml ii , SALE OF REAL ESTATE. W. E. Jackson et al. vs. Pauline Henry and Courteney Henry, r defendants. In the County Court of Obion County, Tenn., before A. J. Lawson, County Judge. . Pursuant to a decree of sale in the above-styled cause rendered on the 9th day of August, 1909, I will expose to sale, at or about 1 o'clock p. m., in front of the courthouse door in Union City, Tenn., on Saturday, September 4, laub, the following property in Union City, viz: One residence lot fronting to the east on South Fifth street, 424 feet deep by 64 feet and 7 inches front, and bound ed on the east by South Fifth street, on the south by the residence of John Dick Cloar, on the west by the "Winstead" tract, and on the north by Squire Cole's residence, and being the same premises recently occupied as a residence by the late W. S. Jackson, deceased; also the store-house lot of the late W. S. Jack son, on which is located the store-house, vehicle and implement building, barn, etc., said lot being 100 feet front by 80 feet deep, and being bounded on tne north by Jackson street, on the east and south by Sam Lowe, and on the west by Troy street. Sold for a division of pro ceeds.' Terms One-third (1) cash, the balance in one and two years, with six per cent interest, evidenced by note with approved security with lien retained on property. Further particulars on day of sale. (21-3t) S. F. HOWARD, Clerk. F. J. Smith, Solicitor for Petitioners. NON-RESIDENT NOTICE. L. S. Parks, vs. Sam Hovis, Delia Taft, KnoxTaft, Bettic Taft, Allie May Taft et al. . In the County Court of Obion County, Tenn., at Union City. In this cause, it appearing by affidavit that the defendenU, Delia Taft, Knox Taft, Bettie Taft and Allie May Taft are non residents of Tennessee, they are there' fore hereby required to appear on or before the first Monday in September, 1909, before the clerk of said court at his office in Union City, Tenn., and defend the bill filed against thenu et al. by L. S. Tarker, or otherwise the bill will be taken as confessed. It is further ordered that this notice be published four consecutive weeks in The Union City Commercial. This the 5th day of August, 1909. S. F. Howard, Clerk. F. J. Smith, Solicitor for Petitioner. i i i 1 1 IM i i i mm M in il il III I T. A Tan S AT.T! F. J. Smith, administrator of John R. Hovis, vs. Safn Hovis et al. In the County Court of Obion County, Tenn., before the Hon. A. J. Law son, County Judge. By virtue of a decree of sale in the above cause of the date of August the 9th, 1909, I will expose to sale in front of the courthouse door in Union City, Tenn., at or about 1 o'clock p. m.f on Saturday, the 4th Day of Septem ber, 1809, : 33 acres of land, more or less, situate in the Sixth Civil District of Obion County, Tenn., and bounded on the north by Buchanan, on the east and south by Dahnke & Coble (formerly Anselmo Harris), and on the west by a tract of 16$ acres that was set apart to Mrs. S A.' Hovis as the widow of John R. Hovis, deceased, for her dower, and being a part of a 50-acre tract conveyed to John R. Hovis by T. J. Polk and W. A. Polk. Said land lies near Hall's mill and about two miles southeast of the town of Polk; sold to pay the in debtedness of the estate of John R. Hovis. Terms Up to $700.00, cash, and any balance over this on a credit of 12 months, evidenced by note bear ing six per cent interest. Further par ticulars on day of sale. This August 10, 1909. (21-3t) S. F. HOWARD, Clerk. F. J. Smith, Solicitor for Petitioner. Non-Resident Notice. Nellie Swift vs. Jim Swift, Pending in the Circuit Court of Obion County, Tennessee. In this cause it appearing from affi davit attached to bill, which bill is sworn to, that the defendant, Jim Swift, is a non-resident of the State of Tennessee, so that the ordinary process of law con not be served upon him. It is there fore ordered by the clerk of this court and he is hereby required to appear at the next term of this court, to be begun and holden on the First Monday in September, 1909, at the courthouse in Union City, Tenn., and plead, answer or demur to com plainants bill filed against him for di vorce, on the 22 day of April, 1909, in the office of the clerk of this court, by Nellie Swift, or lie same will be taken for confessed and proceeded with ex parte as to him. This July 29, 1909. J. A. REEVES, Clerk Latiiiom and Stanfield,; Attys. for Coumlt. K 20