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THE COMMERCIAL
Entered at the post office at Onion City. Ten
nessee, as second-class mail matter..
Marshall & Baird, Udioo City, Tenn
FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1915.
Announcements.
For Trustee.
BRATTON. We are authorized to announce S.
R. Bratton as a candidate for Trustee of Obion
County, subject to the action of the Democratic
party in the pnmary election aaiurany, un-. i,
1915.
JACKSON. We are authorized to announce W.
E (Ellis) Jackson a candidate for Trustee of
Obion County, subject to the action of the
Democratic party in the primary election Sat
urday, Dec. . 1915.
FINCH We are authorized to announce T. P.
Finch of No. 11, as a candidate for Trustee of
Obion County . subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic party in the primary election Saturday,
Dec. 4. 1915.
HORNBEAK We are authorized to announce
P. D. Hornbeak a candidate for Trustee of
Obion County, subject to the action of the
Democratic party in the primary election Sat
urday. Dec. 4, 1915.
MOFFETT. We are authorized to announce
Henry Moffett as a candidate for Trustee of
Obion County, subject to the action of the
Democratic party in the primary election Sat
urday, Dec. 4, 1915.
EASTERWOOD We are authorized to announce
T. J. Easterwood as a candidate for Trustee of
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ocratic party in the pnmary election Saturday,
Dec. 4, 1915.
JPOORE We are authorized to announce J. I
Poore as a candidate for Trustee of Obion
County, subject to the action of the Demo
cratic party in the primary election Saturday,
Dec. 4, 1915.
For Tax Assessor.
HOWARD. We are authorized to announce I. J.
Howard as a candidate for re-election to the
office of Tax Assessor of Obion County, subjec.
to the action of the Democratic party in the
primary election Saturday. Dec. 4, 1915.
NOAH. We are authorized to announce Will P.
Noah as a candidate for Tax Assessor of Obion
County, subject to the action of the Democratic
party in the primary election Saturday, Dec. 4,
1915.
For Sheriff.
MASSEY. We are authorized to announce T. R.
Massey as a candidate for Sheriff of Obion
County, subject to the action of the Demo
cratic primary election Dec. 4, 1915.
CHII.ES. We are authorized to announce Enloe
Chiles as a candidate for Sheriff of Obion
County, subject to the action of the Democratic
party in the primary election Saturday, Dec. 4,
1915.
McCAIN. We are aurhorized to announce J. R.
(Bob) McCain a candidate for Sheriff of Obion
County, subject to the action of the Democratic
primary election Saturday, Dec. 4, 1915.
have never seen an ostrich race
There are quite a number who have
not even seen an ostrich. It will
be an interesting sight.
But the fair will be good from
every standpoint, if the same good
management can make it so, and
the prospects are at present excep
tionally good. Come and be with
during fail1 week. Make it a point
to be here. After all the greatest
feature of the fair is the annual
unions of relatives and friends. They
can meet here at the fair, and make
it not only convenient for them
selves but beneficial to the fair
get together.
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Will those who owe The Commercial
for subscription please let this remind
them to send or come and pay up or
notify us whether or not they want the
paper continued. Please attend to this
while you think of it. ,
Notice, Committeemen.
Notice is hereby given to the mem
bers of the Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Obion County, Tennessee, to
meet in the county court room on the
first Monday in September, 1915, at 1
o'clock p. m. for the purpose of con
sidering the change of date for holding
the primary election recently ordered,
and for such other business as may prop
erly come before said committee.
J. L. Fry, Chairman.
E. J. Green, Secretary.
Our Fair.
The snake editor was sick last
week and failed to get a word in for
the fair to open here on the 15th of
September. Under the guidance of
the president, W. C. Farris, the sec
retary, J. W. Woosley, the board of
directors, and others the fair at
Union City has been built up to one
of the best institutions of its kind
We say that our fair is one of the
best county fairs ever organized, not
merely for the privilege of boasting
but from the mouths of hundreds of
people who saw the last meeting
here two years ago. One man, who
had traveled all over the middle and
southern circuits and who has been
connected with county fairs for
practically a lifetime, stated that
the last meeting of this fair was as
good as he ever saw, undoubtedly
the best, he said, of that year. But
verybody said it was a good fair,
and when public opinion indorses a
thing there is no better proof of its
success. There is another thing that
speaks well for our fair. It is a fact
that it has been the means of bring
ing together more of our county peo
ple and the different communities all
around us than anything else for
jears. The crowds from the various
parts of the county and adjoining
counties have increased every year.
The largest crowd of visitors ever
attending the fair was here two
years ago. The receipts of . that
meeting were nearly ten thousand
dollars. There were no profits, be
cause the profits were put on the
fair to make it a good one. It is a
lamentable fact that the people of
Union City have not attended the
fair in large numbers, but it is a
greater commentary upon its success
that it has been attended by im
mense crowds outside of the city.
The mere fact of being able to at
tract out-of-town people to our fair
is the strongest indorsement we
could have.
The same strong effort will be
made this year for the success of
the fair. Already quite a number
of special features have been booked.
The ostrich and race horse track
contest will a novel and attractive
one. This will be seen every day.
'There are numbers of people who
Uncle Henri Throws a Fit.
Colonel Henry Watterson, the
brilliant sage of Southern journal
ism, is mad, and he says a thing or
two, says he:
"It is the last straw that breaks
the camel's back.
Long ago should the Count von
Bernstorff have been given his pass
ports. Now he must. And, along
with him, the whole Imperial outfit
will have to walk the plank. The
country has suffered enough in its
dignity and in its peace. Invaded
by a horde of Secret Service Agents,
Who found here a body of Reservists
already organized and prepared to
meet them," there has been no time
when Germany was not making war
upon us. Its hirelings have threat
ened us with civil strife. They have
threatened us with political destruc
tion. The time has come when we
shall send the officials away , and
compel the domestic leaders, the sub
sidized editors and volunteer spies to
know their place. It may be that
not until we have hanged a few of
them will they learn that'the United
States is a Government and that
America belongs to the Americans.
We have neither right, nor reason
to doubt the President. His atti
tude admits of no further parley,
equivocation or delay. The people
en masse demand the suspension of
all relations with Germany, and we
believe he will promptly answer the
summons. Berlin will ascertain,
when it is too late, where we Stand.
To Hell with the Hohenzollern and
all his agents, his works and his
ways, and up with the Flag of the
Republic!"
J. C. Burdick's plan to get the peo
ple of Union City together and agree
on a municipal ticket next year is a
good one. Mr. Burdick's idea is to get
rid of factionalism in city politics by a
mutual arrangement of things, and
thus promote a better feeling and a
more practical working system. The
plan is to get a ticket suitable to every
body as nearly as possible. That is as
much as a steer can do. Mr. Burdick
wants to forestall a bitter factional fight
in the future as well as to heal the dif
ferences of the past, and no one could
really object to this. In fact it would
be a very wise step to bring our people
together for a mutual understanding,
and there is good reason to believe that
such results could be brought about.
Mr. Burdick is not a candidate but be
is a good conservative man. He has
friends on both sides and would make a
good man for Mayor if the people cen
tered on him.
There is not an abler, cleaner, better
man in Tennessee than Hon. James B.
Frazier. His public record as Governor
and Senator was without a blemish. He
is one of the State's very best and fore
most citizens. In ability he ranks with
the ablest. Chattanooga Herald.
Yes, but James is the man who said
be wouldn't. But the temptation was
too great, and the stately icicle from
Point Lookout fell. He turned things
over to John Isaac and there's where
the fireworks started.
Honestly, if we were Mr. Patter
son, we would nave kept out of the
Senatorial race this time, anyhow.
There are too many people who are
ready to say, "I told you so." Some
will charge that he simply made the
change of-heart in order to get into
the race. Martin Mail.
Emperor William of Germany,
with several of his Generals, has en
tered the captured fortress of Nov-
ogeorgievsk, the last Russian strong
hold in Poland to stand out against
the German advance. The Emperor
reviewed the troops and expressed
his thanks to them for their accom
plishment. No vital change is re
corded in the fighting in Poland and
the Baltic provinces. A desperate
battle is being fought along the
Kovno-Vilna railway and the Nie-
men River.
Five causes for industrial unrest
are found in the report of Thruston
Ballard, member of the Federal In
dustrial Relations Commission. They
are low wages, unemployment, de-
velopmen. of large industries, long
working hours and insanitary condi
tions and unsatisfactory rural con
ditions.
Simple Simon Shies a Brick. . ..."
The Courier-Journal has received
simultaneously from several corre
spondents a clipping from the Chi
cago Tribune upon the Frank case,
which, not content with excoriating
the Georgia mob, turns upon all the
people and institutions of the South
with the ferocity of a roaring Bengal
dry-goods clerk.
One might, expect to read such a
melange of ignorance and malice in
the Bungtown Bugle. But, coming
from the journal made famous by
Joseph Medill, he wonders whether
its waning influence and adverse
fortunes have left It quite bereft of
mental rectitude and ' moral ac
countability, or whether in the fre
quent change of editorial writers in
cident to a double and sometimes
disputed ownership, one of those
stupid old muck-rakers long out of
a job has not contrived to impose
himself upon a careless, or - impe
cunious management".
In any event, the subject matter
is too undiscriniinating and splenetic
to hurt unless it recoils and hits the
Tribune itself in the pit of the
stomach, or rips the seat of its
breeches. .
. Here is a sample of the toploftical
blatherskiting characteristic of the
greenhorn who thinks he can write:
The murder was not by a mob
but by vendetta, which is de
termined, cunning, resolved and
cruel. A. vendetta is possible in a
low social organization, one which
has not learned self-control, which
has not been sufficiently trained in
the rudiments of education to sub
mit itself to the restraints necessary
to the orderly processes of society
The South is backward. It
shames the United States by illit
eracy and incompetence. Its hill
men and poor whites, its masses of
feared and bullied blacks, its igno
rant and violent politicians, its rot
ten industrial conditions, and its rot
ten social ideas exist in circum
stances which disgrace the United
States in the thought of Americans
and in the opinion of foreigners.
'When the North exhibits a dem
onstration of violence against law by
gutter rats of society, there is shame
in the locality which was the scene
of the exhibition. When the South
exhibits it there is defiance of opin
ion.
"The South is half educated. It
is a region of illiteracy, blatant self-
righteousness, cruelty and violence,
Until it is improved by the invasion
of better blood and better ideas it
will remain a reproach and
danger to the American republic."
To be sure, such stuff might be
trolled off by a loose, unprincipled
space-writer in quest of cheap . no
toriety. Or, it might be dope. But,
assuming it by chance the crude put
cropping of an immature and un
traveled mind, a word or two, hav
ing an educational purpose, may not
be wasted.
Our tyro says the South is back
ward. So it is, and so unhappily is
the North, the East and the West.
He says it is "half-educated." It is
that, too, and likewise Chicago, and,
in truth, this bumptious provincial
himself, as his creed abundantly
discloses. Would that we were all
of us wiser and better. But such as
we be we be; and much alike; in
each of the States and sections of
the Union a most homogeneous peo
pie; under the skin the same medley
of good and ill; of courage, patriot
ism, greed and gall.
The use of the word "vendetta"
indicates that our youth has been
reading "The Corsican Brothers."
He should not fail to read "The
Castle of Otranto," and "The Count
of Monte Cristo," to give him at
mosphere and perspective and im
prove his style. He might, indeed,
if he turned his attention to verse,
aspire to become ultimately known
as "The Sweet Singer of the Stockyards."
That the South is "a reproach and
a danger to the American Repub
lic" would seem, if we may ascribe
any serious meaning to such scrib
blings, to be a covert attack upon
the President of the United States,
whilst the chatter about "the in
vasion of better blood and ideas,"
unthinking calumny directed against
several not inconspicuous Americans,
among them Washington and Lincoln.
The management of the Tribune
should either get itself a space
writer who knows something and has
a little sense of responsibility, or
else it should take this bumkin
down into the cellar and have him
bored for the simples. Courier-
Journal.
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On account of our export trade being cut off,
we are making a special price on our
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Quick Work.
Charley White, colored, resisted
arrest and with a big gun fired a
number of shots at Martin's marshal.
He was finally captured. All this
was on Saturday. Monday he was
carried to Dresden and before night
he had been indicted, tried and sen
tenced to the penitentiary for 21
yers.
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Loses Mail and Outfit. .
. W, N. Clements, one oi The Com
mercial's good friends at Martin, called
to see us Saturday and ordered his paper
continued. He informed us that the
heavy rains last week caused considera
ble damage to corn and tobacco, and
said in attempting to cross a submerged
bridge over a small stream near Hynds
ver on Route 3, Abe Caudell, United
States mail carrier, was swept down
stream with horse and buggy. He saved
himself by banging onto a fence against
which the swollen waters carried him.
His horse was swept on down the stream
and drowned. All mail carried by Cau
dell was lost in the water. Caudell
clung to the fence for several hours be
fore be was rescued by passersby.
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To Ella Boykin:
.. Will Boykin vs. Ella Boykin.
In the Circuit Court of Obion Coun
ty, Tennessee, y
In this cause, it appearing- from
the original bill which is sworn to,
that the defendant, Ella Boykin, Is
a non-resident of Tennessee, she is
therefore hereby required to make
her appearance before the Circuit
Court of Obion County, to be held
at the courthouse in Union City,
Tennessee, on the first Monday in
September, 1915, and plead, answer
or demur to complainant's bill for
divorce filed against her, or the
same will be taken for confessed and
the cause set for hearing ex parte.
It is ordered that this notice be
published in The Union. City Com
mercial for four consecutive weeks.
This August 5, 1915. " 19-4t
H.M.GOLDEN, Clerk.
W. M. Miles, Sol. for Compl't.
Non-Resident Notice.
Clara Pierce vs. Luther Pierce.
In the Circuit Court of Obion Coun
ty, Tennessee.
In this cause it appearing from
the bill, which is sworn to, that the
defendant, Luther Pierce, is a non
resident1 of the State of Tennessee,
so that the ordinary process of law
caanot be served upon him. It is
therefore ordered that the said Luth
er Pierce appear before the Circuit
Court, to be held on the First Mon
day in September, 1915, at the
courthouse in Union City, Tenn., and
plead, answer or demur to a bill filed
against him for divorce, or the same
will be taken for confessed and the
cause set for hearing ex parte.
It is further ordered that this
notice be published for, four con
secutive weeks in The Union City
Commercial. .
This August 2, 1915. 19-4t
H. M. GOLDEN, Clerk.
A. D. Keller, Solicitor for Compl't.
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Non-Resident Notice.
Ethel Greer vs. Edgar Greer.
In the Circuit Court of Obion Coun
ty, Tennessee.
In this cause it appearing from
the bill, which is sworn to, that the
defendant, Edgar Greer, is a non
resident of the State of Tennessee,
so that the ordinary process of law
cannot be served upon him. It is
therefore ordered that the said Ed
gar Greer appear before the Circuit
Court to be held on the First Mon
day in September, 1915, at the court
house in Union City, Tenn., and
plead, answer or demur to a bill filed
against him for divorce, or the same
will be taken for confessed and the
cause set for hearing ex parte.
It .is further ordered that this
secutive weeks in The Union City
Commercial.
This August 2, 1915. 19-4t
H. M. GOLDEN, Clerk.
Lannom & Stanfield, Solicitors for
Compl't.
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Iave Union City.
EAST BOUND .
No. 5.7.45a.m. No. 3.3.05p.m
No. 93.9.55 p.m.
WEST BOUND.
No. 92.7.10 a.m. No. 412.50 p.ni
No. 6 7.52 p.m.
W. W. LOVELACE, Agent.