The commercial., June 07, 1918, Image 3

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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
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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
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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