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i i 'I ' ' : t. i - i 5 ' 3 4 J 1 Si WHEN IN TOWN CALL AT" For Dinner or a Nice Lunch. We study to please. The place you get service. I A sanitary place to eat For ladies as well as gents. We want you to feel at home when in our place of business E P. WRIGHT ucceoor to A. EL Kirkland. CLASSIFIED ADS TOR SALE Sweet potato Blips. Mrs. W. W. Holloway, Harrison and Ury street, telephone 384J. 10-4t FOR SALE Two fine full-blooded Duroc Jersey male hog3, weight about 150 pounds each. Phone 334-J A. E. Kirkland. 9tf SLIPS FOR SALE Porto Rica yam, Nancy Hall, Triumph and Florida yam, queen and yellow yam, $2.50 per thousand. Phone 302J. J. B. Akin, Union City, Tenn. , WANTED A furnish od room by a young man of good character. Must be a southeast room on fir3t floor. It mu3t be near business dis trict. Give full description of room in answer. Address D. S. M. care Commercial. 10tf WANTED Motormen and Con ductors, experience unnecessary; be ginners 26 cents per hour. Perma nent work. No labor trouble. Free lodging for one month. Also one good car barn man. Mobile light and Railroad Co., Mobile Ala. 10-3 Insolvent Notice. Having suggested the insolvency of the estato of Mrs. Ora Craver, de ceased, to the County Court of Obion County, all persons having claims against said estate are hereby noti fied, to file the same with the County Court Clerk of Obion County, duly authenticated in a manner pre scribed by law, on or beforo the 29th day of August, 1918, or the same will be forever barred both in law and in equity. This May 16, 1918. 8-4t O. B. WHITE Administrator. Union City and Hickman TAXI-CAB LINE CARS LEAVE HOTEL . Hotel 7.30 a.m. Hickman 7.30 p.m. Cars in Service from Hickman to Fulton Daily. Rate ..$1,00.. ..each way. Trip made anywhere from Hickman during the day. Special rate for Sunday trips. Phone Union City 560-J. C. H. PATE. I AM NOW PREPARED TO WASH YOUR CAR AND STORE IT Giving you the best ser vice possible. Call 544 for TAXI Service. Calls answered day or night. Preston Houser The Liveryman. m in near Eqoy Yourself More Take Your Vacation I th Redpath Chautauqua The 10096 Program Chautauqua Week Here June 21-28 ElVtS. Saving hay, threshing barley and clover seed and corn planting have kept our farmers busy indeed. Irvin B. Griffin, of Union City, a selectman of only a few weeks sta tioned at Camp Jackson, S. C, writes his sister, Mrs. Claude Bott3, all is well. Young Mr. Griffin already ranks as a corporal. Rev. Doughitt, a student of the National Teachers and Business Col lege of Henderson, was here Sabbath last with the Christian Church. Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Snow, of Ful ton, were end of the week guests of Miss Missie Harris. Mrs. Ernest Carter and children, jf Martin, are vacation guests of Mcsdames T. A. Cummings and W. E. Warren.' In the lovely and com modious Warren home are also Messrs. Jay Warren and H. D. Bur nett, of the Waverly vicinity, other wise known as Big Bottom, a large acreage of alluvial land on Duck River, which now is thickly popu lated with some of the "salt of the earth." Mrs. Nelle Bone, of Brownsville, has been in socially, guest of Mrs Eugene Dufford. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Botts are ex pected in this week from Metropolis, 111., to vi3it in, the home of Geo. F, Botts. Mrs. Eugene Stovall, of Jackson, has been at the bedside of her moth er, Mrs. J. S. Bean. Wo are glad to state that there is some improvement in the condition of Mrs. Bean's seri ous Illness. , Miss Johnny Woody has been in Obion this week, -guest of her cousin, Miss Esther Fox. Miss Felts Houser, of the Wood land Mills vicinity, was a recent guest of Misses Hattie Mai and Min nio Starnes. Misses Bennie and Ellen Fox, of Obion, were guects of the Misses Warren for the school cloning. Members of the O. E. S. will take notice that next Wednesday after noon at regular time a memorial service will be observed for. Mrs. Ella Holloway and the late R. L. Phebus. The taking away of these members is a loss locally, but a gain for that Grand Celestial Chapter, a house of many mansions prepared for those that love God. The corn crop i3 being set back by continued replanting to the third time. It is evident that the seed corn is deficient in vitality. One of our promiont farmers, Horace Wade, believes the germ was frozen in the exceedingly cold weather last win ter. The school year has comc and gone. It has been a successful school session, notwithstanding the recesses for conservation of fuel and the fol lowing enforced home-staying .dur ing the bitter siege of ice and snow and other rough ripples across the sea of discipline. The enrollment exceeded anything in the past history of the school. Only two nights of entertainment were given. Thurs day evening Miss Bogle had her class in recital in a splendid program in which the pupils showed progress and reflected the watchful care that Miss Bogle had given her instruc tion. Friday evening we had the four-act play, "The Claim Allowed," which, as the plot was unfurled from act to act, assured the immense audience that the. promise of the pupils and teachers to put on the best play ever seen here was making good. For want of space we forbear delineating the several prominent characters and various features of vaudeville between acts that kept the audience either in laughter or tears. Since the pro ceeds were to be given the Red Cross, entrance fees were abandoned and a chance given the audienco for a free will offering. Interest was shown in an offering of more than fifty dol lars. The personnel of the above put the play on at Obion Tuesday evening in which, we dare say, 'our versatile correspondent there will tell us about in this issue of the good old Commercial. Ireland is called on to furnish 50,000 volunteer recruits and be tween 2,000 and 3,000 monthly to maintain the Irish divisions. The men who enlist are promised the in ducement cf legislation to insure that land bo available for them after tho war, ; ! I Social and Personal Vickery-Brown. Mr. Dorsey Vickcry, this city, and Misn Carrie Brown were married at the home of the bride at Terrell on Sunday afternoon, June '3, Rev. But ler officiating as minister in charge, Mr. Vickery has been connected with W. H. Morris here for some time as workman in the shoe shop, He is a native of Buffalo, Tenn., and a young man of fine character and industrial habits. He is a mute and so is his bride, who is a daughter of Mrs. Julia Brown at Terrell, a very highly esteemed lady and her daugh ter a very charming girl. Mr. and Mrs. Vickery are honey mooning at the former home of the groom at Buffalo, Tenn. ill U. C. H. S. Juniors : Entertain Seniors. The Juniors of the U. C. H.!S. en tertained the graduating class and the junior and senior faculty last week with a luncheon spread on Miss Kathleen Burdlck'3 lawn. Everyone Joined in the games and good time3 with hearty enjoyment. Hoover Tea.. . Miss Katherine Dahnke enter tained the U. C. H. S. graduating class and the Junior and senior High School facutly Friday evening at 6:30 with a Hoover tea. The rooms were tastefully decorated with pa triotic colors, and small tables cov ered with snowy linen were placed here and there. A luncheon of three delicious courses was served, preserv ing the Hoover idea thruout. Miss Griffin Leaves. Miss Ruth Griffin left the past week for her homo in Union City, Tenn. She had been visiting her brother and sister-in-law for some three or four months. Soon after her arrival we found that she was an excellent singer and forthwith the music committee engaged her to take care of our leading soprano. She has endeared herself to the whole church. She ha3 a well trained voice and in addition knows how to sing right from the heart. Our people urged her to stay, but of course she had to return. Our best wishes go with her. We hope she may come on a visit again and when she docs she will find the doors of our church and homes open to her. Christian Builder. Macon, Ga. Rives Bed Cross Notes. The hen shower wa3 quite a suc cess and. a nice sum of about $50 was realized. Several colored people gave hens and are so willing to do their bit. We have secured the school build ing for work rooms now, and will be more comfortable. Those desiring wool and instruc tions along knitting may come on Thursday. We have plenty of sweat er wool and will soon have our sock wool. A collection was taken last Fri day night at the school play for the Red Cross work, and as usual Rives came up in the same patriotic spirit with about $58. Won't every woman that can do so come to the rooms either on Tues day, Wednesday or Thursday and help work; This is not work for any individual but for a great cause, the American Fed Crocs, without which our boys, as well as others, would suffer. We living at home in com fort can surely spare one afternoon a week to help in this grand work. MRS. KNOX HARPER, Sec. TE0Y. Earl Neel went to Memphi3 Thurs day to enlist in the quartermaster corps of tho U. S. Army. Prentice Riddlck left last Friday for Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga., where he will do Y. M. C. A. work. Miss Glenn Rochcllo returned home Friday from Ward-Belmont College, Nashville, where she attend ed school during the pa3t school year. The ladies of the F. D. S. Club of Troy met with Mrs. P. W. Moffatt last Saturday and disbanded for the summer. Mrs. B. B. Maxwell and little son, John Ba3il, are in Union City this week visiting relatives and friends. Tho Red Cross ladies are making a drive for' several pillows this week and have already received about fifty nice ones. Miss Corinne Clark is up again after several wesks illness. Mrs. J. E. Wells, of . Greenville, Pa., has been a visitor in the home of her sister, Mrs. J. O. Bennett, for the past few day3. Time Is Ripe. "Beyond the Alps lie3 Italy." "What aro you driving at?" "This year I expect some of the graduates to give ua something real ly thrilling on that subject." Why More Sheep Can be Raised. The food committee at Washing ton estimates a world decrease of 54.000,00 head of sheep since the war began. It requires the fteece of twenty sheep for each man in the service The entire wool clip of the United States, if suitable for military pur poses, would only clothe 2,000,000 fighting men. Much of the American wool, is not suitable for army pur poses. Every fleece of American grown wool is a direct contribution to in creasing' the shipipng tonnage avail able for carrying supplies to Europe. Only ten per cent of the farmers of the United States now keep sheep One ewe to each three acres on one fourth Of the farms that have no sheep would double the number now in the country. Tennessee has only 675,000 head of sheep to-day. This represents a decrease, of twenty per cent since 1910. It would be possible to keep one sheep on every three acres of im proved farm land in addition to the livestock' already maintained. On this basis, improved farm land in Tennessee would care for 3,600,000 head of sheep with a total value, on basis of present prices, of $72,000,-000. The above does not take into eon- sideration something over 10,000,000 acres of unimproved land, most of which could be utilized as sheep pas ture, and would support one sheep to every six acres. This would give us an additional number, approxi mately, 1,500,000, or double our present number. Our Government says that mutton and wool production in this country can be increased greatly admits of no doubt. This can be accomplished by developing sheep husbandry on farms, especially in the Eastern and Southern States. Steps should be taken in the East and South to do away with the sheep-killing dog menace by State or local action. Large results can be secured by im proving methods of breeding and management on the range; by secur ing the restocking of improved farm lands with sheep; by the larger use of forage crops and pastures; by en couraging sheep and lamb clubs; by the elimination of parasites; by pro tection against losses from predatory animals; and by having lambs ready for market at from 70 to 80 pounds weight, thereby requiring a mini mum of grain to finish them and making possible tho maintenance of larger breeding flocks. Swiss Cattle. The Swiss Federal Government has by decree fixed the maximum price at which farmers may sell cat tle for slaughter as well as the prices at which various qualities of butch er's meat may be retailed. Farmers may demand no more than 23 cents per pound for flrst-cla3S fat beef cat tle. The price applies to cattle sold on the farm. If sold in a city or other distant market C03t of trans portation may be added. With the exception of sirloin and fillet cuts, retailers may ask no more than 40 cents per pound for beef. The weight of bone must not exceed 25 per cent of the total weight sold. Invest Carefully. There's money In Honey Good business men say. And many A penny Is picked up that way. We gaily Read daily How profits are wrung. Bee farming Is charming If you don't get stung. One Hundred Per Cent. 'I see everyone who lives in Plunk- ville bought a bond." "Yep, one hundred per cent that's us." "So every man in town was willing to buy?" , "No, a few hung back, but they don't live here any more." Their Best Feature. April showers Bring May Flowers To the shops. Showers in spring Also bring Big war crops. Very Unusual. "I see a bill recently passed Con gress without a dissenting vote." "What of it?" "I didn't suppose it possible to propose a bill so reasonable that everybody would vote for it." Answers To Correspondents. . "This dear girl must be new at housekeeping." "What's her plaint?" "She wants to know what kind of soap you use for washing lettuce." Q) A riPrfif&llmfl3flll JR4 ii WOjp M JfRiSL till of Powdered Soap m m m M v r jt That's enough GRANDMA to use for a whole pail of water. Then clean anything. My how it does take oft the dirt! Hard on dirt but easy on tho hand. Washes clothes and give them the sweet odor of freshness and deanK- t. Doesn't harm the finest lingerie or tho baby' clothes. Savea soap because yon measure out only what you need. It is extravagant and wasteful to let bar soap waste away in water and to rub off twice as much as you need. GRANDMA'S Powdered Soap Your Grocer Has It! "An Integral Part of Our National Defense" President Wilson says t " President Wilson on Dec. 14, 1917. wrote th President of the International Lyceum and Chautauqua Association as follows : "Your speakers, going from community to community, meeting people in tbe friendly spirit engendered by years of Intimate and under, standing contact, have been effective messengers for the delivery and Interpretation ot democracy's meanings and Imperative needs. The work that the Chautauqua is doing has not lost Importance because of war. but rather has gained new opportunities for service. Let me express the hope that you will let no discouragement weaken your activities, and that the people will not fail in the support of a patriotic Institution that may be said to be an integers! part ot the national defense." Vice-President Marshall says : "There is no place where more good can be done to the government and to ths cause than upon the Chautauqua platform. Tbe people who need information will be there, and, more and more as the years SO by, persons who can get it are availing themselves oi that avenue." Secretary of War Baker says : "I am constantly facing the splendid molts of the work done by the Chautauquas In this country in creating and sustaining a sound patriotic public feeling, and in carrying forward the great national enterprises which the government is necessarily bringing to the atten tion of our people; and I want you to know that as an officer ot the government I not only appreciate tbe Importance of the lecture plat form as a means of communication and expansion, but also appreciate the work which yoo and your siaocVitft are doing as a conUlbution to our National cause. . . ' Two years ago wo might have done without Chautauquas. but wa cannot do without them today. Read teWeek'sFestalPro0tnatbComing Then Buy Your Season Ticket at $20 And 10 Per Cent War To REDPATH CHAUTAUQUAE . Tulltothe Brim': Spend Your Vacation at Home 4 FIRST AFTERNOON Iniyorfuc loe y Exercises Concert , ..............Th Croatian Orchestra FIRST NIGHT Coneert.jj. , ...To Croatian Orchestra Lecture 'the Sonny Side of LuV' .Lou J. Beairhamp SECOND AFTERNOON Crand Concert Alfred Hues Bergen and Assisting Artists SECOND NIGHT EscblBusmsH'a THIRD AFTERNOON CooeMt ... Violin and Piano tvT'Hi'"g''1 Chancellor Geo. H. Bradford THIRD NIGHT Grand Concert.. Miss Margery, Maxwell, Soorano of Chicago Grand Opera Company, with Assisting Artists FOURTH AFTERNOON Eectsi?03noarics 'Christine Prederics FOURTH NIGHT LectuftaChecawboar London, England FIFTH AFTERNOON ' ectuw"6tnsrWe (Chicago Newspaperman) " "" FIFTH NIGHT V-r The Chocolate Soldier" rJW Opera (Complete "reduction by company ol 30, including orchestra) SIXTH AFTERNOON Coneert..... Chicago Orchestral Band Exhibition of War Posters ot tbe Allied NaUons , SIXTH NIGHT Lecture "A Soldier of the Sky". Capt George Frederick Campbell SEVENTH AFTERNOON Concert Dunbar's Orchestra Tbe Man Who Stayed at Home". . . . .. . . ........... ... . ... . . .Clarissa Harrokl (Thrilling Reading of War Play Showing Ramifications oi German Spy System) Exhibition of 100 Raemaekers War Cartoons ..... ... SEVENTH NIGHT Dunbar's Rsvoe, Featuring ths Grand Parade of tbe Affle.... REDPATH CHAUTAUQUAl Chautauqua Week Here June 21-28