The commercial., October 29, 1915, Image 2

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. Mission Study.
Mission study is . of vital impor
tance to all missionary work. The
needs and the opportunity thruout
the entire world to-day are so urgent
as to call for missionary education,
nur educational secretaries have
planned the very finest study courses
for mission study classes, and with
the true missionary spirit, which is
an essential factor in every well
rounded Christian character, the
study of missions will produce such
results as a better knowledge of
the Bible for every Christian, a
deeper prayer life, a wider oppor
tunity for presenting missionary in
formation. The purpose of mission study is
not only to acquire information, but
In Intensive cultivation whereby men
and women may become aroused to
become leaders of the church in the
prosecution of missionary enter
-orison.
In mission study classes we do not
APk merely to have successful meet
inss. or to create a vague interest
what w do ask is a
M.nnM.,1 attitude of life, and such
an increased sense of responsibility
hnt will result in definite action.
w. want to advance the kingdom
f r.nd bv training Christian women
for leadership in all departments of
flTinrch work.
When we face the fact that half
the world has never heard of Christ,
we face a task set us by the Master
himself. We want the world and its
needs so impressed upon our hearts
that we shall not be content to leave
this task unfinished. Oh, if every
American woman would only give
something of her time, her prayers
and her money to this task of estab
lishiner the nations of the earth up
on the principles of righteousness
and love and developing Christlike
ness in men and women.
Mianinn Rtiidv has aroused thou
sands of persons to study more in
telligently, to give more liberally, to
pray more earnestly and to volunteer
for service.
The goal of the missionary "work
for 1915 is: "A Mission Study Class
in every Auxiliary."
Read at Mount Zion District Con
ference.
MRS. W. M. WARTERFIELD.
First Christian Church.
Services are announced by the
pastor. Rev. Roger L. Clark, for next
Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Everybody invited.
Diphtheria.
Dr. Bond, county physician, re-
ports a great many cases m uiyu
theria in different sections of the
county. At Troy in No. 6. at El-
hridire in No. 9, at Harris in xno. x.
at McConnell and Pierce in No. 16.
cases have been reported by me
nhvsicians. One case In Union city,
little Wayne Armstrong, who is on
-arav tn recovery. One deatn nas
been reported at Hams.
Challenge.
wo the football team, the coach
and principal of the Training School,
challenge the football team, coacu
and superintendent of the ruonc
School to a game on any date oe-
tween November 9 and November zu.
The 13th. Friday, or 20th, Friday,
preferred. The game to be piayea
on T. S. Park, owing 10 ewuun..
iro.v, tonm to share gain alter ex
pense of advertising and lining field.
tm, team to furnish two omciaio.
tu uh of either team shall not
A. UV w-
in this canacity. The om-
oiQia tn he referee, umpire, headline
o nd field iudjte. Referee and
!. tr. alternate from one half
UUlluv vv .
to another.
Signed
Miller Everett, Capt.
F. C. Aydelott, Coach and Prin.
COMMUNITY CLUB FORMED
George R. James Heads Forest Hill
Farmers' Society. j
J. II. McDowell, president of the
Shelby County Farmers' Institute, and '
rrof. Davis of the West Tennessee Ior
mal School, organized -a community so
ciety at Forest Hill Saturday.,
George E. James was elected, presi
dent. C. M. Scath, vice president, and
L. E. Reese, secretary. The women of
the community brought basket dinners
and spread on the grass a bountiful sup
ply of barbecued meats, fried chichen,
pies and cakes.
These societies, subordinate to the
county institute, are being organized all
over the State by direction of the Com
missioner ot Agriculture of Tennessee
in co-operation with the Memphis Busi
ness Business Men's Club movement,
looking to a closer union of the producer
and consumer, with profitable farming
as a basis for action. Memphis Com
mercial Appeal. v
Tf xtnnr rliild starts in its sleet), erinds
its teeth while sleeping, picks at the
nose, has a bad breath, fickle appetite,
pale complexion, and dark rings under
the eyes; it has worms; and as long as
they remain in the intestines that child
will be sickly. WHITE'S CREAM
VERMIFUGE clears out the worms,
strengthens the stomach and bowels
and puts the little one on the roaa w
health and cheerfulness, rrice zoc per
bottle. Sold by Oliver's Red Cross Drug
Store. Adv. .
Death of Little Girl.
Edith Rovelle Hall, aged two years
and six months, died at the family
home near Harris last Wednesday
morning after a short illness of
diphtheria. She was the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hall, who have
the sympathy of the entire communi
ty in their sad bereavement.
. Hay Forfeits Bond.
Twi-chiirfr. Tenn.. Oct. 28. When
court oDened this morning to resume
the Hay trial, the prisoner, who was
under a $2,500 bond, failed to make
hia annearance.
It is alleged that Hay, a furniture
resDonsible for the deatn
of employes, he being the beneficiary
named in life insurance policies car
ried by them.
Officers were sent out and re
ir.aj otatinsr to the court that
TTflir had left town early last night
for Darts unknown. Search was at
once begun for the fugitive, but he
has not vet been apprehended, ine
jury which heard the first day s evi
dence was discharged and the court
is proceeding with other cases. Much
excitement prevailed here to-day
over the escape of Hay, the entire
county taking much interest in the
Better look up your .old suit and
overcoat and let Metcalfe, Florist,
t QnHrv and Drv Cleaner, make
them new.
U1
riio Nov; "Gypsy" Goo
The Footwear Hit of the Whole Year
Made with a single seam from tip of toe to top of boot
Choice of either button or lace model.. Made of fine bright,
finished surpass kidskin and dull finished soft goatskin.
Perfect fitting and comfortable. Fine welt-sewed soles.
As usual, the first appeorance of the Gypsy in
Union Uitv is at Morean-V ermne o. r riceo
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WALDEN'S GROCERY STORE
ON EAST MAIN STREET
FIRST DOOR WEST OF THE M. E. CHURCH, IS A
CHEAP CASH STORE-
I want EGGS, BUTTER and PRODUCE a .all times at; market prices
I handle a general line of GROCERIES and FEED STUFF-BRAN
CORN CHOPS, and all kinds of feed you want. FLOUR and MEAL
AT LOWEST CASH PRICES.
WM. WALDE
THE STAR GROCERY CO.
Dhnnp No R?4 414 East Main Street
UNION CITY, TENN.
Do YoiiP ESFiclc
' AND
Congrctc Work
Before Frost and Save Money
Don't wait, or it will be too late
WE HAVE A COMPLETE STOCK OF
Brick, Lime, Cement, Rock, Rock Dust, Sand
and different shades of Pressed Brick
to make Fancy Mantles,
We also have full directions in pamphlet form
should you want to do your own concrete work
We have specialists in each line of work a
different man for each job that specializes his
particular work. No job too large or too small.
Any information in our line gladly furnished
free to our customers,
T. L.' BRANS FORD & sons
Phone 28-VV Union City, Tenn.
Local Letter Postage.
Drop a letter with a local address on
it into a city box and the carrier takes
it to the office. There the mail clerk
handles it, and the distributing carrier
conveys it to its destination. This in
volves the services of three men, and
the cost stamp to the sender is two cents.
Drop a similar letter, addressed to New
York, into a local box, and the carrier,
the office clerk, the mail wagon driver,
the railroad post clerk and the office
clerk and carrier in New York all give
it a certain amount of attention, and it
travels hundreds of miles no less than
six persons "give it a lift," and the cost
to the sender is the same two cents of
local delivery.
In the great sum of national expenses
this seems a very unequal charge, and
that is why several public men are inter
esting themselves to have letter postage
fnr Inoal deliveries cut to one cent. The
postoffice authorities themselves recog
nize the inequality of the cost between
the long and short hauls.
It is easy to see what a saving this
one-cent postage would be to the people
who send out monthly bills, and to oth
ers who pay the bills by check returned
through the mails. Under the present
system the goverment gets four cents
for every bill thus sent and paid, which
is a fine "pick-up." The reason a re
ceipt is not returned is because it would
take an extra two cents. A firm with a
large monthly credit business pays out
hundreds of dollars annually in sending
out its bills. Of course, they should pay
whatever it is worth to the government
to distribute the letters, but the conten
tion is, ought they to overpay; and is
it not worth less to the authorities to
handle the mail three times locally than
six times in getting it to New York
Senator Weeks is much interested in
the matter of reduced postage for cities
and towns, and has announced that he
will bring the matter up before Congress
at its next session. It will prove a very
popular measure thruout the country
if the desired end can be reached with
nut loss to the Postoffice DeDartment.
i psa than mi vears aero letter Dostage
was three cents, and the cut to two was
regarded as a public benefaction. Com
mercial Appeal.
CANT DENY IT.
If This Had Happened Elsewhere
Instead o& in Union City Yon
Might Doubt It.
The average man is a doubter. - This
ia nnt. nnmrisinir the nublic have been
hiimhueeed so freauentlv thev are skep
tical. Proof like the following will stand
investigation. It cannot be disputed.
W. E. Webster, farmer, Fifth and
Florida avenue. Union Ditv. savsi
suffered from kidney and bladder trouble
for maov vears. Whenever I have used
Doan's Kidney Pills they have brought
me immediate relief. I think anyone
having disordered kidneys will do well
to trv Doan's Kidney Pills."
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy get
Doan '8 Kidney Pills the same that
Mr. Webster had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props., Buffalo, N, Y. Adv. .
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury
as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell
and completely deranfte tne wnoie system wnen
emcnuK n mi""" .- ' " ;
articles should never be used except on prescrip
tions from reputable physicians; as the damagfe
they will do is ten fold to the good yon can pos
sibly denve xrom mem. naiis mi i n vum
r 1 Ki. xt I rii.nfv a, fn Tnlrrin. O.
DHl)UliU.luiw ''J ' J - " '
. mAM.nr anil IS til t (-Tl mtprnAllV.
COEiaius iiw ; r
acting direcUy on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system, in. Duying rxan a,vjimiiu -uic
be sure you get the genuine. It is taken inter
nallv and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney
&Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price 75c per bottle.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Roosevelt for "Line-Up."
For once Col. , Roosevelt heartily
seconds and supports a position taken
by President Wilson, as indicated, in
the Colonel's speech to the Knights
of Columbus in New York Tuesday
night when he went even lartner
than the President . in scoring the
hyphenated Americans who placed
the interests of other countries be
fore the interests of the United
States. In fact, some who heard the
Coloned the night of the day after
Mr. Wilson had delivered himself of
his address on "America First," and
soundf his clarion call to Americans
to "lme-tip" and show where they
stood, were of opinion the Colonel's
speech was a pretty close echo of the
President's speech, only expressed in
more vigorous and direct vernacular
than Mr. Wilson permitted ' himself
to employ.
"There is no room in this
country for the hyphenated
American," almost shouted the
Colonel. "You can't hoist two
flags on . the same flagpole and
not have one underneath!"
And by the hyphenated Americans,
the Colonel explained, as Mr. Wilson
had explained, he did not mean for
eign-born American citizens, but he
meant those citizens, whether native
or foreign-born, who, place a hyphen
and some other word before "American."
"When I refer to hyphenated
Americans I do not refer to nat
uralized Americans. Some of
the very best Americans I have
ever known were naturalized
Americans Americans born
abroad. But a hyphenated
American is not an American at
all. This is just as true of the
man who puts 'native' before
the hyphen as of the man who
puts German, or Irish, or Eng
lish before the hyphen."
" "Americanism is a matter of the
mir-it arirl of the soul." said the
i" -
Colonel.
The President had defined Ameri
canism as a "principle" and a "spir
it."
"For an American citizen to
vote as a German-American, an
Irish-American or an English
American is to be a traitor to
American institutions; and
those hyphenated Americans
who terrorize American politi
cians by threats of the foreign
vote are engaged in treason to
the American republic."
Thus the Colonel vigorously de
clared.
And the President had said:
"There is too general an im
pression, I fear, that very large
numbers of our fellow citizens
born in other lands have not
entertained with sufficient in
tensity and affection the Aeri
can ideal; but their numbers are
not large. Those who would
seek to represent them are yery
vocal but they are not very in
fluential." The Colonel said:
"The one absolutely certain
way of bringing this nation to
ruin, of preventing all possibili
ty of its continuing to be a na
tion at all, would be to permit
it to become a tangle of squab
bling nationalities, an intricate
knot of German-Americans,
Irish-Americans, English-Americans,
French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans
or Italian
Americans, each preserving its
separate nationality, each at
heart feeing more sympathy
with Europeans of that nation
ality than with the other citi
zens of the American republic."
The President had said:
"We stand apart unembroiled,
conscious of our own principles,
conscious of what we hope and
purpose so far as our powers
permit for the world at large,
and it is necessary that we
should consolidate the American
principle. Every, political ac
tion, every social action, should
have for its object in America
at this time to challenge the
spirit of America; to ask that
every man and woman who
thinks first of America should
rally to the standards of our
life." .
The Colonel said:
"The man who calls himself
' an American, citizen and who
yet shows by his actions that
he is primarily the citizen of a
Your Interest is Mine
This is a Mutual Affair
WE ARE DEALERS IN
Tea Rose Flour ;
Club House Can Goods
Fountain Square Coffee
Fresh Meat MarKet
NONE BETTER
Quick Service, Courteous Treatment and
Full Weights is our Motto
WHITE'S OLD STAND
E. WHITE
PHONE 66
foreign land, plays a thoroughly
mischievous part in the life of
our body politic. He has no
place here, and the sooner he
returns to the land to which he
feels his real heart-allegiance,
the better it will be for every
good American."
The President said:
"I am not deceived as to the
balance of opinion among the
foreign-born citizens of, the
United States, but I am in a
hurry to have an opportunity to
have a line-up and let the men
who are thinking first of other
countries stand on one side
biblically, it should be to the
left and all those that are for
America-first, last and all the
time on the other side."
It will thus be seen that these two
foremost protagonists of the oppos
ing political doctrines of America are
at one of the most vital issue that
now confronts the American people,
menacing the very life of the nation,
the principle that President Wilson
has enunciated as "America first. -
It has been the habitual practice
of the politicians in the past to. ap
peal to the hyphenated Americans as
such the Irish-American, the :;Ger
man-American, tha Italian,5 the-Scandinavian,
the Polish and other
strains and creeds rather than as
Americans, pure and simple, that
there is no doubt great excuse for
RfimB of these thinkins: that tneir
former nationalities and leaning are
more important and worthy to ' be
considered than American interests
and principles.
This is an error and abuse that
must be checked and remedied.
To paraphrase the words of Abra
ham Lincoln. , This nation cannot
permanently endure half alien and
half American.
Let the "line-up" proceed and let
the watchword of all patriotic citi
zens, of whatever nativity and creed,
be "America first." .
Let those who are for some other
nationality first stand on one side to-
p-ether whether it be on the left
hand or the right, and let true Amer
icans stand together whether it be on
the left or the right.
It will be quite soon enough for
Americans who are for "America
first" to consent to be considered the
goats when they are thus shown to
be in the minority of their country
men. Knoxvllle Sentinel.
Department of Food and Drugs,
Upon investigation, this depart
ment finria that it has been a time-
honored custom for people in the
country to place in containers, sor
ghum molasses, maple syrup and
honey as well as various farm pro
ducts, for the purpose of placing on
market. They seem to be unaware
that the State laws specifically state
that they shall contain no salicylic
acid as a preservative. If Sodium
Benzoate is used for this purpose,
it shall not be over one and one
tenth of one per cent, and so stated
on the label.
Also that containers shall bear a
label, and if contents are adulterated
.a 4 nmt Yvionnnr it TTi 1 1 R r hft
so stated on the lable. The label at
the same time must state the net
weieht of contents. It has come to
our notice that the producers in the
rural community are selling these
commodities without following out
any of the above instructions.
I take this occasion to warn them
as well as the merchants purchasing
same and re-selling to his patrons,
that we will be compelled to prose
cute all parties concerned, under the
laws of this State. Our reasons for
this are manifold. We find, that in
a large number of cases, goods are
being adulterated '. and ... that short
weight is being given,, and that there
can be no check made upon the mat
ter as long as containers do not carry
labels of any description. Merchants ,
mm ho wnmeri that hereafter should.
inspectors "of this t Department find
goods of 'any- character on their
shelyes,:' such as, suggested above,.
they1 shall" immediately condemn and
Drbsecute the offenders as . violating
the Sanitary Food Jaw' of' this State.
I sincerely hope ' that ' the- good
people of this community will re.cog-
nize the -reasons we have for taking--thisv
action ' and will, co-operate with
us by following out' the law in- every
detaiLi'.-i.vfl: '
in? fiTi 'nnon-retiuest -to this De
partment will be' furnished' with a
copy of the law governing this mat
ter. ' HARRY L. ESKEW,
Commissioner.
Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 16, 1915.
Non-Resident Notice.
Home Furniture Co.
vs.
M. E. Holcomb et als. '
Chancery Court, Obion County. Tenn.
Tn the alinve stvled cause it aDnearinsr
to the Clerk and Master from the bill of
complaint, which is sworn to, that the
defendants, M. K. Holcomb and Robert
Hall, are non-residents of the State of
Tennessee, so that ordinary process of
law cannot be Served upon them, it in
therefore hereby ordered that the said
above named defendants appear before
the Clerk and Master of the Chancery
Court of Obion County, Tennessee, on
or before the, first Monday of Decem
ber, 1915, that being a 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 ex-parte as to them. It
is further ordered that publication of
this notice be made for four consecu
tive weeks in The Commercial, a weekly
newspaper published in Obion County,
Tennessee.
This October 29, 1915. r -GEO.
A. GIBBS,
31-4t Clerk and Master.
By E. Littleton, D. C. & M.,
A. J. Harpole, Sol. for Compl't.