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DR. E. M. LONG
DENTIST
Over Wehman' Hardware Store
Union City, Tenn. .
Telelphonee
Office 144; Residence 595-J
DR. E. M. LONG
DENTIST
Over Wehman's Hardware Store
- Union Gtjr, Tenn.
Telephones
Office 144, Residence 595-J
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UNION CITY, TENN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22,1920.
VOL. 29, NO. 31
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LIONS CLUB MEETING
WITH OBION PEOPLE
Good Roads Movement All Over the
V County "Carrying On."
The Lions Club met with the peo
ple of Obion last Friday night with a
rousing reception: Mr. Bob Fox met
the party, including the president,
Dr. Turner, and the speakers and
boosters, and entertained with a
lunch, serving some of his famous
ice cream,; which was enjoyed im
' mensely. '
The meeting was held at the city
hall, pr. Turner presiding,. Dr. Hen
ry Oliver was Introduced and offered
another one of his Inspiring argu
ments for good roads organization.
It takes organization to accomplish
achievements, and without organiza
tion wo .can have no Improvements
of any kind.- It takes strong organi
zation for good road3 and the Lions
Club 4s behind this organization.
The president of $he Obion County
Good Roads Association) Wf 0. Rey
nolds, made a talk, concerning the
county's attitude to, good roads, the
insufficiency of the county road tax,
the position we have been placed In
for receiving benefits from the State
Highway Department, especially for
the Jefferson Davis highway, and last
he discussed, the proposition to levy
a vehicfe tax for good roads. This
proposition was taken UP by the
County Court and it failed. Mr.
Reynolds believes that it Is Just and
proper that persons" owning vehicles
as well as automobiles should pay a
special tax. They use the roads con
stantly and get the most of the bene
fits to i) derived from the use of pub
lic roads. Foe instance the men
hauling logs and others. In wagon
traffic do a greater portion of the
damage, and cause most of the ex
pense of keeping up the roads. They
should therefore bear their propor
tionate part of this expense, and it
fa nothing but right to havo a vehicle
tax.
Mr. Hugli Smith, secretary-treasurer
of the Obion County Good Roads
Association, spoke of good roads con
struction,, the cost of same and the
methods of handling the proposition.
Mr. Smith 1 a practical man and is
familiar with the 'financial part of
the game. .He Is also a booster and
one that backs up hi3 Judgment' with
his money. . . . .
R. H. Rust, ' the live wire, had
something to say. for the public high
ways. He Is the authorized Ford
dealer in the "county and the name
goes with all that is progressive in
public enterprise.
Mr. Kelley, the engineer, discussed
the technical points and routes, es
pecially the work in which he has
been engaged.
Mr. Burdick is a booster who has
no speech to make but is in the game
from start to finish with his big
honk-honk and his pocketbook.
The Obion citizens were called on
and Esq. Buchanan recited some of
the history of the county public
highways. He studied the road laws
and is familiar with all of them, H
is convinced of the need of good
roads and is always interested In ev
erything and every move for good
roads improvements. He thinks we
should have a better road law, and
advised a general counsel of the peo
ple on the proposed new road law for
Obion County. It is understood that
a meeting of members of the County
Court is to be hold October 28 to con
sider this law. It is an important
matter and everyone ' interested
should be present and try to get a
suitable law for the county. .
Mr. Luther Mcffatt had some time
ly remarks to make on good roads.
Dr. Darnell made an Interesting
address oJS-Tod roads. No one knows
the need of gfod roads like the physi
cian. He appreciates the work of
good roads and is usually a strong
advocate of improved roads. ; Dr.
Darnell Is a man of general progress
ive ideas and public spirit. He is con
vinced that Obion County should
have a better system, of public high
ways. The roads sbould be. thoroly
overhauled and when that is done
they should be systematically kept
in condition with bedding and drain
age! not half way but a perfect sys
tem of highway improvements. ''
3. M. Campbell, one of the pioneers
In good roads work in the county,
made . some , suggestions for good
roads. He thinks money can ;, be
caved by securing right of way for
wide roads from one side of the old
roadbed instead of working cn both
sides. This eliminates a considerable
part of the cost. Mr. Campbell has
superintended a larger portion of the
road work that has been done in the
vicinity of Obion and to his credit
there are numbers of good roads in
that locality.
Mr. Bob Fox spoke of the Jeff Da
vis highway and the importance of
tho route going by way of .Trimble,
Newbern, etc. He directed his re
marks to the work of improving the
roads to Elbridge and JSornbcak. A
fund for these roads has already been
secured and a larger subscription is
to be solicited. Whereupon a num
ber of volunteer subscriptions were
offered at this meeting as follows:
H. M. Oliver, $5; R. H. Rust, $5; Dr.
Turner, $5; Hugh Smith, $250.
Mr. Morton, civil engineer, con
nected with the State Highway De
partment, spoke of the work of sur
vey of tho Jefferson Davis highway.
He stated that the survey carried the
highway by way of Trimble, as pro
posed by tho Obion people.
Mr. Ward, a well known citizen of
Obion, made an interesting talk on
good roads. He spoke of the method
of the County Court In building
bridges. Ho did not mean to reflect
on the Intelligence of the court, but
it seemed to him there should be
some system of uniform bridge build
ing. A bridge 20 feet long should
bo built of the same kind and size
of materials and of uniform strength
and character that all other twenty
foot bridges are built and the same
method shorn 1 be adopted for all of
the bridge".. There should al30 be a
law, if possible, to increase the width
of ' the wagon ' tires.' The narrow
tread cuts and .digs ruts in the roads
that- are not necessary when wide
tires could be adopted. Along other
lines Mr. 'Ward made some sugges
tions. The Obion branch of the Obion
County Good Roads Association was
organized with Bob Fox as chairman
atid one of the bankers as secretary
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The meeting adjourned with - a
complete spirit v of co-operation for
good roads in Obion County. '
LOCAL SHIPPING AND
TRAFFIC DISCRIMINATION
Mr. McGee, of Jackson, Meets with
the Lions Clnb.
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The Southern Interior Traffic As
sociation, with headquarters at Jack
son, Tenn., was represented in Union
City last week by Mr. A. J. McGee,
the secretary and really the active
and authorized agent of the associa
tion. .' 1
Tho old-time discriminations in
tho long and short haul rates ha ire
foeen the bone of contention for more
than twenty years, and recently this
association was organized to combat
these inequalities in the southeast
ern territory. Traffic divisions are
divided into groups one for the
eastern and middlo west territory,
one for the west and one for the
southeast. Especially In the east and
middle States have these troubles
teen settled, but in tho south they
are operating to the detriment of the
interior towns. , In fact for a period
of twenty or thirty years the rail
roads have practically choked the
commercial Interests of the Interior
towns of tho south and transferred
the activities of business to the river
terminals. The press protested and
individuals protested, but they might
as well have undertaken to move a
mountain. There was no organized
effort to take up the work of adjust
ing freight rates until the Southern
Interior Traffic Association was or
ganized. You might as well say no
work was done until Mr. McGee un
dertook it for the association and he
was here in tho Interest of the asso
ciation. Part of the .work undertaken
by Mr. McGee has been accomplished.
He has met with the Interstate Com
merce Commission and secured par
tial . relief, but not at all what is
needed. He wants Union City to
Join the other townsv in this work,
and he is asking nothing that we
cannot ; do .or sbould not do. It la
our own. interest as well as other In
terests for whicV he is working and
he knows what' he is doing. He is
familiar with the game a.u is doing
a good work. A committee was ap
pointed to take up the organization
in Union City. . The east t, the cam
paign is smalland Mr. McGee says
we will be benefited whether we Join
or n6t,-but it will help him In the
work if he can secure our member-
SENATOR MELUR ON
CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP
Speaks Sunday Night to a large
Audience at C. P. Church. (
Senator K. D. McKellar addressed
a large audience at the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church ' Sunday night
on "Christian Citizenship," more
particularly a discussion of the
League of Nations. The auditors lis
tened with the most profound atten
tion to the address which continued
for an hour, every minute of the time
revealing in the speaker's lucid man
ner the history and the meaning of
this epochal instrument.
Senator McKellar is one of the first
and foremost men of the Senate sup
porting the covenant, and he stood
thru all the trying periods of that ill
fated measuro firm and steadfast in
his support.
He cited to begin with that It was
courageous' statesmanship that ac
complished our national strength.
Referring to the patriots of the
American Revolution, the timid To
ries and the triumph ot American
independence, the progressivo states
manship of Thos. Jefferson in the
purchase of tho Middle West, the an
nexation of Texrs ana extreme west
ern territory and the countries of
Hawaii, Porto Rico, etc.; Mr; Mc
Kellar speke cf the more recent prog
ress of America in the world-wide
movement for Christian citizenship
and a universal league for peace.
Goine into details Mr. McKellar
recited the progress of the covenant,
the first draft of the league and its
reception everywhere It was then
that the army of objectors began to
protest. There were seven great ob
jections to the covenant, made prin
cipally by Mr. Lodge, Mr. Root Mr.
Hughes, Mr. Taft and other Repub
licans, alonf: with a few Democrats.
At this particular time the President
was called from Versailles to sign
some bills. These seven oDjeeuuuu
were presented to him and he took
them with him back to Europe and
every one of tho seven objections was
accepted and incorporated in the
covenant without a single change.
This happened before the mild res-
ervationists and the opposition to the
league made their last fight in the
Senate. The objectors were not sat
isfied. They began to rail on Article
Ten and other features of the cove
nant. Thereupon Senator McKellar
proposed to Senator Kenyon that
they would select two other Senators
and meet to compromise the differ
ences. Article Ten was modified by
this conference to a moral instead of
a legal obligation ana oiner minor
changes all taken to the objectors.
About that time some one of the
President's emissaries to Europe be
came offended and a piece of political
Intrigue took place. This represent
ative to the European court brought
a message back purporting to come
from Lloyd George to Senator Lodge
that England would accept anything
Mr. Lodge had to offer. And so the
League of Nations covenant failed in
the United States Senate. '
This much) for the history of
league legislation. The remainder of
the address had to do with the text
of the league and waB indeed one of
the mcst interesting exponents of
that instrument, really a surprise
and indeed a treat to practically the
entire audience. , '
Senator McKellar spoke under the
auspices of the Christian Endeavor
and through the Individual efforts of
Dr. Ira Park to bring him to Union
City.
BLip. We should by all means Join.
The agreement already made cov
ers class rates only, under whichi all
shipments less than car load lots are
made, and the rates are yet to be
fixed on all carload shipments that
are called "commodity" rates.
The discrimination forces us and
other interior towns to pay more
freight than shippers are paying for
twice the length of haul cr distance
in miles otherwlHa from water ter
minal to the other end of the line.
; This is unjust and unfair discrim
ination. It is really prohibitory and
every effort should be made to correct
It, or In time there will be no interior
trading points simply rural com
munities. .' ' '
Our large and small shippers can
not afford to neglect this work. .
.It is a unique way Oliver's Red
Cross Drug Store has cf selling
Hyomei, a guaranteed treatment for
catarrh. Money back if it fails.
Public Speaking
Hon. Weber Wilson, of Mississip
pi, has an appointment to speak here
at the courthouse at 1 o'clock p.m.
on Saturday, October 23. Mr. Wil
son 13 one of the leaders of the Dem
ocratic party in. his own State and
comes, as an able and interesting
speaker. He will be here to-morrow
to precant the cause of the Demo
cratic ticket.
Governor Roberts will be here
Tuesday, October 26 for a speech at
the courthouse in Union City at 7:30
p.m. Governor Roberts will address
our citizens in the interest of the
Democratic ticket and everyone is
cordially invited, especially the la
dies, to be present.
A burning sensation in the
throat, and chest means bad diges
tion; ,and digestive trouble is the
starting point for many serious dis
eases; particularly kidney disease.
Betteri take Prickly Ash Bitters and
put your stomach and digestion in
sound condition before serious troub
le begins. Price $1.50 per bottle.
Sold by all dealers.
Illness Strikes
'Unexpectedly,
and often creates unusual needs, which
cannot wait. Make Cobb's Corner your
FAMILY DRUG STORE; you will
find there everything for ordinary and
unusual wants. A hurry call or phone
message, No. 96, always receives imme
diate attention. r1
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Cobb's Cornier Drug Store
Our Motto: "Service."
Phone 96.
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F. L. Pittman.
W. T. Harris.
L. Pittman & Company
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KINDLING. COTTON SEED MEAL and HULLS
-Wholesale and Retail.-
Place your order now for your winter coal. Prices are
still advancing. Cars are very scarce, labor at mines
striking, winter will soon be here. Close prices for
immediate delivery.
OFFICE AND YARD
West Main Street.
Cumberland Telephone 346
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THE COR
The Ford Sedan with electric starting and lighting system and
demountable rims with 3)4-inch tires all around, for every day in the
year has no equal as a family car. Just as popular on the farm as it;
is in the city. In fact, it fits the family demands in every vocation of
life. Large, roomy seats, finely upholstered, plate glass windows make
it an open car in pleasant weather, while in rainy and inclement
weather it becomes a closed car, dust-proof and rain-proof. It is
ideal for social functions, the theatre, or parties ; carrying the children
to school, or for touring. It is notonly comfortable, but really cozy,
and above all, economical in operation and 1 ;
, maintenance, and has all the Ford merits of
strength and durability. We solicit your order
for one. Come in and see it. -
R. H. RUST
Authorized Ford Dealer.' Phone 400
UNION CITY, TENN. '
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