The commercial., February 06, 1914, Image 3

About The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?

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The Last Gall on Mens' and Boys'
li SUITS OVERCOATS
We have the Lowest Prices that will be made this
season. See us for REAL LIVE BARGAINS.
for choice Men's $18.00 to $25.00 Suits and Overcoats.
$I0.9S for values up to $17.00.
$3.4 O f?ets yur choice of Boys' Suits and
Ovefcoats up to $9.00.
Reduced Prices on Men's High-Grade Raincoats.
Special Bargain Counter
of Men's, Women's and Children's $2.00 and $2.50
Shoes. Choice of the lot only 89 cts
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Office Phone 77
Night Phones
W. L. White 83
G.B. White 224
White's
Furniture and Undertakers. "
ShadesMattings, Rugs and Druggets
We have one price for all. Our goods are marked in
plain figures. We have a rest room for Ladies and
will be glad to have them call and make use of same.
G. B. White. W.L. White.
OBION.
W. K. Wells returned Monday from
Missouri where he purchased a car load
of fine mules for his firm.
Work on the H. Forcum residence is
nearing completion.
C. 0. Earner, of Memphis, assumed
the duties as cashier of the Peoples
Bank at Kenton the first of the month,
Henry Flowers resigning. Mr. Earner
is a nephew of Q. W, Eeed, of Obion.
A recent lottor from C. C. Brown at
Hot Springs, ArkM to friends here states
that he is gradually improving.
Attorney T. O. Morris perfected the
organization the first of the week of the
Forcum-James Cooperage Co., the cap
ital stock paid in being $50,000.
T. C, Harris, of Mount Moriah, passed
through Obion Tuesday en route to Un
ion City to spend several days.
Luke Marshall and wife, of Troy.were
in the city Monday shopping. .
Mrs. Jim Wallace, of Dyersburg, was
the guest of her .mother, Mrs. S. A.
McCoy, Saturday..
Miss Lena Eines is the guest of Mrs.
Neil Moore at Halls this week.
J. S. Cox was in Union City a few
lays this week on business.
Bom to Jess McMackin aud wife, of
near Folk, on last Wednesday night, a
7-poiind girl.
Ltjstcr Fryor and wife, of Folk, are
here this week on a visit to W. A. Cook
and family.
Mrs. E. W. Smith visited J. H. Fryor
and family at Troy several days last
week.
Henry Anderson and daughter, of
Troy, left this week for ad extended
visit to points in California.
E. A. Johnson and wife, of Fulton,
were in the city Sunday visiting their
;son. VT J. Johns.
Clark Moore arrived Sunday night
from a trip out West.
W. E. Albright and wife, of Glass,
-are the proud parents of a fine boy,
Lorn last Thursday.
Born to Chas. Geuring and wife on
.last Saturday, a fine sou.
Born to Clarence Fox and wife on last
Friday morning, a fine boy.
O. M. Harris has bought out the gen
eral merchandise store of G. Nichols at
Glass and in connection with the post
office will run an up-to-date store at
that place.
TROY.
News has just reached here of the
death of F. Farns worth, on Dec. 27 at
his home in Santa Anna, Cal. Mr.
Farns worth was a former resident of J
this place, being a kinsman of Messrs
E. C. and Joseph Moss.
Messrs. W. A. Smith and Folk Mc
Donald left Wednesday morning for
Helena, Ark., to attend the funeral of
their friend, W. D. Eoeves, who was
killed there Tuesday afternoon in an
automobile Occident.
Mrs. Mary Hailey, of Bonhoma, Okla
homa, visited here Monday.
W. E. Lancaster, of Union City, was
here Monday.
Troy was represented in Union City
Monday by G. E. McDade. John Car
mack, J. W. Scearce, Walter Myers,
Luke Taylor, Gid Jackson, Jim Smith,
Steve Bennett and J. E. Moffatt.
KENTON.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Arnold, who have
resided in Dallas, Texas, for the past
six months, returned home Monday
night
Miss Amie Peel was a visitor in Dyer
Sunday.
Mrs. Henry Watts is visiting her pa
rents in Murray City, Tenn., this week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Sullivan spent
last week with their daughter, Mrs. E.
L. Gish, Union City. '
Mr. and Mrs. Lebron Clements, of
Eives, visited Mr. aud Mrs. A. L. Hurt
last Sunday. ,
Mrs. Gentry Eeynolds and little grand
daughter, Francis Montgomery, visited
in Union City this week.
Charles Ward, upholsterer, located
in the Moms Block, on Mam street,
first store west of Methodist church.
Box couches made to order. Phone 43S.
, RIVES.
Misa Jonnie Gibson, of Henderson,
has been the guest of Miss Mabel War
ren for a few days.
Mr. E. T. Mitchell has been out for
several day?, down the I. C. buying
cuttle. .
Mrs. T. Pi Callicott visited relatives
at Pleasant Jlill several days of the past
week.
It remains to a barnyard fowl to solve
the problem of the high cost of living.
This fowl daily delivers to a family of
three a three-yolked egg, providing a
daily breakfast menu of eggs.
Master Ki Wade Lindsay, of Mem
phis, was with his grandmother, Mrs.
Jane Wade, several days the past week.
Misses Mabel and Clare Littleton, of
Union City, were week-end guests of
Miss Hattie Mai Clemmons. ,
Messrs. Will Smith and Moroe Mc-
Cowan were in Union City Monday.
The latter sold threo mules at a good
price.
Eev. W. O. Weir has returned from
a visit to Memphis.
W. E. Shropshire, F. J. Holloway
and T. P. Palmer were in Union City
Monday.'.
Mr. Dan , Holloway has moved his
family to the W. L. Clemmona farm
just south of town. Mr. Hurley, of
north Eives. has moved into the resi
dence on Caldwell avenue formerly oc
cupied by Mr. Holloway.
This district was well represented in
Union Citv Monday. The doctor, the
preacher, the peddler and the tinker
were all there.
Mr. Griff Hogan has moved his fam
ily into north Eives .instead of on Par
sonage Eow as reported last week. I
Miss Martha Wade spent the greater
part of the past week in the Bluff City,
guest of hsr sister, Mrs. E. P. Lindsay.
Mrs. E. T. Mitchell is just borne from
a several days' visit with Mrs. George
Nolen in Obion. .
Owing to the illness of a member the
social meetiDg planned for the 12th
inst. has been abandoned by the local
W. C. T. U.
Dr. J. S. Adkerson now occupies office
rooms in the Stirling grocery building.
We are indebted to Mrs. C. C. Jordan,
of Bunnell, "Fla., for a copy of the first
issue of The Florida Good News,"
published by the State W. C. T. U. and
very ably edited by the State president,
Miss Winnie Neal, in Jacksonville. An
item of especial interest to our local
union is that Mrs. Jordan, only recently
moved to the Peninsular State, is a, char
ter member of a W. C. T. U. at Bun
nell of twelve members and 1s also cor
responding secretary of the Union.
Truly by their white ribbons ye shall
know them.
The first of the week Mrs. Gentry
Eeynolds, of Kenton, spent the a few
days with her daughter, Mrs. Knox
Harper.
The I. C. Eailroad is double tracking
from Gibbs to Dyersburg, a distance of
thirty-six miles, more or less. The new
track will not take the straight coarse
as surveyed several years back but will
parallel the main track. This course
meets with the approval of those whose
property would have been condemned
if the' straight cut had been made. The
approximate cost of the new track will
be $20,000 per mile.
The sudden death by heart failure of
Mrs. Mandy Forrester, of the Pleasant
Hill neighborhood, Thursday night was
a shock to her relatives and numerous
friends. Mrs. Forrester prepared sup
per and retired in seemingly good health.
She awakened almost speechless and
was dead before Uncle Gentry, her hus
band, could call anyone in. Aunt
Mandy," as she was familiarly known,
for a quarter of a century, had Been a
member of the Christian Church. She
was the mother of ten children, nine
of whom are living and all married but
one. The remains rest in the Tleasant
Hill Cemetery.
Mesdames T. B. Moffat and O. H
Clemmons have returned from a very
pleasant visit with relatives in Charles
ton. Mo.
B. J; Wade is spending a few weeks in
the balmy climate of Florida.
The Eight Honorable T. J. Bonner
has returned from the recent conclave
of Masons in Nashville and reports an
extra large attendance, estimated above
a thousand. Mr. Bonner is now the
Supreme Grand Master of the State,
thereby acquiring numerous honors and
perquisites. As per custom, a large oil
painting of our townsman will be added
to the treasurers of the Masonic Hall,
Mr. Bonner , also by his recent office
wears a handsome diamond emblem
rine. a precedent set several years past
by a Grand Master who . donated this
elegant ring to the order to be always
worn by ruling Urand Masters
NORTHSIDE.
After the pleasant spring weather we
are being treated to a slight touch of
winter.
Mr. Jas. Caruthers has been slightly
indisposed but is better at this writing.
Harry Harper, of the cuy, visited his
aunt here last Sunday.
Mrs. E. M. Long and babies visited
Mrs. Long's mother-in-law Monday.
A gloom of sadness pervaded our town
and surrounding country when the tel
egram was received last Tuesday an
nouncing the sudden and very sad death
of Mr. Dick Eeeves, a former citizen of
Obion County but late of Helena, Ark.
He met his death in an automobile ac
cident. Mrs. Oscar Forrester, of this vicinity,
attended the funeral of her mother-in- j
law, Mrs. Gentry Forrester, last Satur
day. Mrs. Forrester died very suddenly
last Saturday at her home near Pleasant
Hill Friday night, the 30th ult.
Friends and relatives here sympathize
deeply with Mr. Jim Chiles, of Obion,
whose son died last week at his father's
home. Young Mr. Chiles had been on
a visit to Eoswell, New Mexico, in search
of health. Not receiving much benefit
tie came back to die near his loved ones.
SHADY GROVE.
Quite a large crowd attended Sunday
school last Sunday.
r Mr. and Mrs. Knight's little boy is
improving. ,
Miss Prather Hamilton is the guest
of her. sister, Mrs. Davie, at Dyersburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Portor Harris and chil
dren, of Fulton, visited Mrs. Tom Hamilton.
Mrs. Tearl Potter, of Betblebern, vis
ited her sister, Mrs. Fred Hubbs.
Mr. and Mrs. Hfom Cheatham, of
Gibbs, was at Mr. J. D. Hicks', the
guest of Mr. J. E. Wheatley.
Mrs. Mamie Tucker, of Harris, was
the guestof her sister, Mrs. Fred Hubbs,
and family.
Mr. Fred Jones and sister. Miss May,
of Terrell, was the Saturday night and
Sunday guest of Mr. John Woodfin and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Eeece and children
were the Sunday guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Olive.
The farmers had just begun to plow
and plant their potatoes when the rain
came and drove them in. Guess they
will wait awhile now.
Mr. Herbert Hardy, who is attending
the Training School at Union City, spent
Saturday night and Sunday with his
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Woodfin. Black Eyes.
Home Furniture Co. handles good
linoleum. Phone 99.
Pictures framed on short notice.
.".."' Ligon Furniture Co.
JR. X. CUIRLIM
Our First Showing' in
Spring
Tailored
Stilts.
in Blues, Tans, Wisteria Green and
Tango Models of the latest creation.
Spring Cotton and Wash Fabrics
in great variety
Crepes in white and colors
Ratines in plain and fancy mixtures
Odd Lot of Suits & Skirts
at Prices to Close
Suits, $4.98 and $6.98
Skirts, $1.48, $1.98 and $2.48
GOOD VALUES.
All Winter Merchandise
at Great Reductions
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In the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division
of the Western District of Tennessee.
Godwin Bros., Bankrupt No. 648 in Bankruptcy
Pursuant to an order to me directed as Trustee in Bankruptcy
of Godwin Bros. I will on
Friday, the 1 3th Day of February, 1 914
at 1 o'clock p. m., near the corner ot Washington Avenue and First
Street, in Union City, Tennessee, offer for sale .to the highest
bidder, for cash, '
One Brecht Supply Co. Ice Refrigerator, Meat Racks, Two
Maple Meat Blocks, Lot of Market Tools, Four Sections of
Walker-Bin Co. Cabinets, Tobacco Cabinet, Five new Show
cases, One Brecht Refrigerator Meat Cabinet, Two National
Cash Registers, Two Pair Computing Scales, One Platform '
Scale, One McCaskey Iron Safe, One McCaskey Account
Register, One Office Desk, One set Office Railings, Two Ceiling
Electric Fans, One Oil Bowser, One Oil Tank, One Electric
Hobart Sausage Mill and attachments, Two Desk Chairs,
Electric Wiring, Two Delivery Wagons, Paper Racks, One
Vegetable Cabinet, One Heat Slicer.
The foregoing items of fixtures will be sold first separately for cash and next
as a whole on terms of one-half cash and the balance in six months with per
sonal security and the sale adopted bringing the greater amount.
All of the items of fixtures are practically new, having been used by Godwin
Bros, for only a few months and can be inspected upon request to me.
Those Owing Godwin Bros. Take Notice.
I will also sell to the highest bidder for cash all of the accounts and notes
due the firm of Godwin Bros, remaining unpaid upon he day of sale and a list
of such accounts and notes will be furnished upon inquiry from me.
, This the second day of February, 1914. ,
W. E. HUDGMS,
Trustee in, Bankruptcy.