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THE COMMERCIAL
Marshall & Baird, Union City, Tenn
fRIDAY, MAY
9, 1913.
Kt red at the poet office at Onion City, Ten
as second-elas mail matter.
Announcements.
For Register.
MILNKR We are authorised to announce R. J.
(!!) Miluer as a candidate for Register of
Obion County, subject to the action of the
Iiemocratic party. General election to be held
Bret Thursday in August, 1914.
WIT.KKRSON We are authorized to announce
W. T. Wilkerson a candidal for Heitinter of
Ciliiou County, subject to the action of the
Democratic party. Election first Thursday in
Aueust, W14.
Chautauqua at the Whipple Lot
At a meeting cf the Business Men's
Club and subscribers outside of tbe clu
to the Chautauqua ia Union City at th
City Ilall last Friday night it was de
cided to change tbe location of the Chau
tauqua meeting this year back to the
Whipple woods lot on the western horde
of the city just west of the Catholic
r Church on Church street. A few weeks
ago the advisory committee of the Bust
ness Men's Club, which has heretofore
acted In behalf of the city in making
contracts and arranging for the Chau
tauqua, selected tbe fair grounds as the
proper place for the Chatauqua meet
ing this yea with the idea in view of
making it a permanent place of meet
ing. There was a decided protest against
this move, and as a consequence the
meeting was called to arrive at the wishes
of the ticket holders and guarantors,
Quite a number of representative citi
sens were present and after considerable
parliamentary attacks and pointed re
marks a vote was taken, which resulted
largely in favor of the Whipple lot. This
action was made unanimous, and the
committee instructed to act accordingly,
The fact was developed that many had
purchased tickets last year with the un
derstanding that the place of meeting
would be the same, and that argument
' was almost altogether instrumental in
r causing a return to the Whipple lot
This place, of course, is a little nearer'
from the business center of the city
probably one-third, but the committee
had selected the fair grounds on the
idea that they were public grounds, free
of cost, with plenty of driveways, shade,
water and other necessary conveniences
and accommodations. The committee
acted for what was thought to be best
under the circumstances. The public,
however, seemed to be very much dis
satisfied, and so the Chautauqua will be
held again this year at the Whipple lot,
The fact of the business is that the
larger Chautauqua organizations do not
hold their meetings in the city limits.
Many of the associations have bought
or leased grounds of numbers of acres
just across the city suburbs.' Of course
umbers of these are reached by trolley
lines. They have some accommodations
we have not. But we have a better
automobile road to the fair grounds than
we have to the Whipple lot. It is a
little more convenient to walk to the
Whipple lot in many cases, but a large
majority of those who attend the Chau
tauqua will ride to the grounds whether
the meeting is at the fair grounds or the
Whipple lot.
What we are saying now is not to
argue against the Whipple lot, but to
show why some suitable grounds with
ample accommodations should not be
made a public reservation or leased for
permanent annual Chautauqua meet
ings at this point. We suggest or rather
believe that a vote should be taken at
the meeting this year just before the
close, or rather when most of the ticket
takers are present as to what their wishes
are in the matter. They are the people j
who should decide tbe question. Last
year a number of those who were selling
tickets declared emphatically that the
.Chautauqua would be a failure if held at
the Whipple lot, and some of us had a
terrible time showing why the jockey
lot was out of the question. The writer
took it upon himself alone to go out and
look up a lot somewhere that would
take the place of the jockey yard, and
the Whipple lot was the only place that
could be found that was practical, out
side of the fair grounds, and the fair
grounds were not considered at all by
the committee last year. Everybody
cow knows that the jockey yard would
have dismissed the Chautauqua senti
ment in Union City entirely. No speak
er or muicin either cares to enter n
megaphone contest with the rumblings
and Bhriekings of switching freight
trains.
We hope that the Chanlauqua meet
ings will be made a permanent institu
tion in Union City. The first meeting
tnff was a crreat success, and it the re
turn engagement is as good there is no
doubt that the meetings will continue.
So let's get some suitable grounds that
cwl be made permanent, and let the
ticket takers of one of the large audi
ences vote oa the matter. .,
Madam Bernhardt, the actress, is prob
ably the most advertised woman in the
world. She is a great woman, no doubt,
but the idea of making practical talks
about cooking with the suggestion of
sauvaigne at five dollars per bird is
rather far fetched. The Madam is drop
ping out of beij profession as an actress
and is undertaking to keep in the lime
light of newspaper suggestion. She
has never lost the art of advertising,
and that was the secret of her success
Madam Duse was as great an aclress
but she didn't advertise. According to
critics of international reputation, who
saw all the great actresses, Rachel stood
alone as the genius of tbe feminine
stage world.
' Helen Keller, one of the most re
markable women of the present age,
now devoting some of her time to the
King and Queen of Spain in the train
ing of one of their little children, un
fortunate like herself, sees insurmounta
ble troubles ahead of President Wilson
She has implicit confidence in the Fres
ident's ability and in his statesmanship,
but she fears no man living is able to
stem the tide against popular govern
rueut to check the influence of cor
porate aggrandizement, and to level the
pillars of republican temples. Miss
Keller, as a student and a keen ob
server of events, understands the con
tending influences of the present day
thoroughly. At the same time she is
satisfied that the Administration is thor
oughly in earnest in its work of politi
cal reform the men who are most to
be trusted of all those who have aspired
to the head of the Government. But
our country is in the throes of the
money power, Miss Keller thinks, and
republican institutions are in danger,
The little woman, with ber keen intu
ition, and a soul as spotless as the lily
feels the weight of an intense patriot
ism, and laments the inroads of these
deplorable conditions.
Boosting Obion County.
luere seems to be an idea among
thinking people that we have .one of the
grandest counties in an agricultural
way that there is in the State, jand we
think that this idea is well founded
For a very large majority of all of the
agricultural products that are indigenous
to all temperate countries will grow here,
or I will say that they will grow luxu
riantly here if they are properly cared
for. With these facts as a basis it
should be "our preogative to acquaint
tbe public with our good fortune of be
ing the possessors of such a goodly
country. So that by tins means we
may be enabled to establish an agri
cultural rating with our sister counties,
or with the State and with other States
that are second to none. To accomplish
the desired aim it is necessary on our
part for unity of action and co-operation.
There has been efforts already in va
rious ways to accomplish these ends,
but the results have not been satisfac
tory. ;
We are aware that as an agricultural
community we are as yet in our swad
dling clothes and have not got a good
many things that more age will give us.
The newspaper men have done a good
work. The Business Men's Club of
Union City and the other towns are
constantly at work, while the hot air
club of Union City and the Ananias
Club of Rives are always on the job.
We suggest now that we combine all of
these forces and come together as one
co-operative band of workers, and in
conjunction with tbe help of the good
women, girls and boys of the county.
All who can raise a rare plant or flower,
and each with an extra sample of his or
her products, whether corn, pumpkin,
potatoes or what not, come on the, tenth
of September and help tbe agricultural
man at the Union City fair to embellish
the egricultural hall with that profusion
of quality, variety and beauty that will
surpass by far anything that we have
ever had. Why not help do this work
and make this fair a grand success,
thereby giving your county one of the
very best boosts in a local way possible,
and by doing this you will add another
item to the design. By loading and
helping the agricultural man still on to
a higher degree by enabling hira to put
vour products on in a more effective
way S3 a county exhibit at the Tri-State
and State Fairs, thereby placing in your
proper nick as a progressive people as
the very best evideuce of yourinten-
tions and desires. Delivering the goods
is the best evidence of business. Ad
vertising and hot air will attract atten
tion. But actual artistic display of the
real products is convincing and Is the
culminating evidence in our text.
The West Tennessee Fair Association
and the Business Men's Club of Union
City have asked me to make a county
exhibit at Memphis and Nashville re
spectively, and to make good on this
point I will be bound to have help. So
let's all get busy and help in this special
work. So if you will volunteer and join
me in this work will you indicate as
much to me by letter, stating what you
will make an effort to furnish. I make
a special offer to all who may want to
send something to the Memphis or
Nashville fairs and cannot attend in per
son. If they will intrust their exhibits
in my care I will put them on exhibition
and do the very best for them that I
can, and deliver the goods and premi
ums, should any accrue, back to first'
hands. If the people of the county
would go to work and send in as many
as fifty or a hundred individual exhibits
it would only intensify our text.
Asselmo Harris.
Nature.
' When April conies around each year
It seems all nature gives a cheer,
As If the world had waked from sleep
To wonderful appointments keep.
The trees must all be clothed in green;
The grass should hasten and be seen.
The little birds begin to sing
And all the earth with joy-bells ring.
Sweet buds burst through and form a Sower:
Borne change is taking place each hour. .
The fields that looked so cold and bare
Will reap of nature's gift their share.
Now when a month has passed away
And glided into sunny May,
We scarcely nature recognise
In such a beautiful disguise. -
F.,R. H.
WAR ON BUGS.
Not a bug left to tell the tale when
you fight them with Ross "Dead
Quick" spray. Bed bugs, ants, fleas,
mites, lice, potato bugs, etc, die the
moment it is applied. Kills their eggs
too. , , .,
Nice and clean for home use. Refuse
substitutes, they are not like it. Sold
in Union City at Oliver's Red Cross
Drug Store. advt
SENATE BILL NO. 283.
CHAPTER 186.'
An Act entitled an Act to create an in
dependent school district out of parts
e4 niKflnn anrf OKirtnfiriitnf iaa
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Tennes
see, That an independent school district
is hereby created and establiseed out of
parts of the counties of Gibson and
Obion, to be known as "Mason Hall,"
and bounded as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the mouth of Dillard's
Creek; runs thence with original line
of old district to tbe end of lane, Mrs.
J. C. Hollomon and Lee Thompson's
lands: thence east with that lane to
Grassy Creek; thence up Grassy Creek
with the Kenton and Fairview road to
the T. L. Marsh place, known as Erwin
Fowler's place;" thence southwest to
the land between Bradford and Beard;
thence west to the Troy and Yorkville
road; thence north with the road to Dil
lard's Creek; thence with said creek to
the beginning.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That
the County Superintendent of Public
Instruction of Gibson County shall ap
point one School Director for said inde
pendent school district who shall be a
citizen of Gibson County, and tbe Coun
ty Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion of Obion County shall appoint two
School Directors for said independent
school district who shall be citizens of
Obion County who shall serve until the
the next regular county election; when
their successors shall be elected by the
qualified voters of said district.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That
the School Directors hereinbefore pro
vided for are empowered to collect from
school directors of the territory out of
which this special district is created all
money due the school children belong
ing to the special school district herein
established. -
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That
this Act take effect from and after its
passage, the public welfare requiring it.
Passed March 26, 1913.
NEWTON H. WHITE,
Speaker of the Senate.
' W. M. STANTON,
Speaker of the House of Representa
tives. Approved April 2, 1913.
BEN W. HOOPER, .
Governor.
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Seven cardinal reasons why you should be interested and
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For information call manager.
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INOOSPORATID
Folk Day Big Event.
Big interest is being taken all along
the line of tbe Redpath Chautauquas
this season in the fact that Gov. Jos. W.
Folk, of Missouri, is to speak upon the
subject, "The Fight for a State." In
some of the cities he is to visit, arrange
ments are already being made for him
also to address the Chamber of Com
merce at a luncheon, and in other places
i twenty-five to thirty automobiles will
meet him at the train.
Gov. Folk is one of our greates , pub
lic men. The State of Missouri, it will
be recalled, endorsed him as their can
didate for the Presidency before the
Baltimore convention. . His own fight
for his State, where he cleaned out
the race track gamblers and otherwise
wrought reforms against most strenuous
odds, is well known.
The Ice Box you are looking
for is at WEHMAN'S and the
price is cheap.
Non-Resident Notice.
Moss Johnson, Petitioner,
Mrs. Joe Harpole et al.,1 defendants.
To Mrs. June Clark and her husband
Charlie Clark, residents of the State
of Kentucky, Mrs. Ethel Johnston
and ber husband Thomas JoLuston,
residents of tbe State of California,
andT. S. Johnston, whose residence to
the petitioner is unknown, defendants.
In the County Court of Obion County,
Tennessee, before the Honorable Geo.
R. Kenney, County Judge.
It duly appearing in this cause by pe
titioner's petition, which is sworn to,
that the above named parties are de
fendants and non-residents of the State
of Tennessee, so that the regular pro
cess of law cannot be served upon them,
they and each of them are therefore
hereby required to appear on or before
the
FIRST MONDAY IN JUNE, 1913,
before the County Court Clerk at his
office in Union City, Obion County,
Tennessee, and make defense to ,tbe
petition filed against them et al. in said
court by Moss Johnson, petitioner as
above styled, or otherwise tbe petition
will be taken as confessed.
It is further ordered that this notice
be published for four consecutive weeks
in The Commercial, a weekly newspaper
published at Union City, Obion County,
Tennessee.
This April 16, 1913.
3-4t C. 8. TALLEY, Clerk.,
J. L. Mosfbr, Sol. for Petitioner.
NON-RESIDENT NOTICE
To Josie Verhine and her husband
E. H. Verhine, George Woods,
Alfred Hughlett, Moses Hughlett,
Mrs. Iva Bennett Roper and her
husband Clyde Roper, - Gray
and , 1 11 Gray and Nellie Gray
Gordon and her husband Logan
Gordon. '
Mrs. Fannie Davidson Moss et als.
Vs.
Jcsie Verhine et als.
Chancery Court, Obion County, Ten
, nessee. 1
In tbe above styled cause it appearing
to tbe Clerk and Master from the bill of
complaint,, which is sworn to, that the
defendants, Josie Verhine and her bus
band E. H. Verhine, George Woods,
Alfred Hughlett, Moses Hughlett, Mrs.
Iva Bennett Roper and her husband
Clyde Roper, - Gray and Gray
and Nellie Gray Gordon and her hus
band Logan Gordan-, are non-resident:
of the State of Tennessee, so that ordi-'
nary process of law cannot be served
upon them: it is therefore hereby or
dered that the said above named defend
ants appear before the Clerk and Mas
ter of the Chancery Court of Obion
County, Tennessee, on or before the
FIRST MONDAY OF JUNE, 1913,
that being a regular 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 ez-parte as to them.
It is further ordered that publication
of this notice be made for four consecu
tive wccki la TLeCMUiuiercial, a weckiy
newspaper published in Obion County,
Tennessee.
This April 16, 1913. ,
GEO. A. GIBBS. JR..
3-4 1 Clerk and Master.
W. E. Hudgins, Sol. for Compl't.
N..C& St. L. TIME TABLE.
Arrive Union City.
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