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Here June 14
FOR SALE.
A house and lot for sale, situated
on the northwest corner of Court
Square in Union City, Tennessee.
Apply to A. J. Earpole at his law
office on. Washington arente. 2-4t
Ihe Commercial, Union City, Tenn.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3. 192i.
FIRST TRADE DAY
BRINGS FAIR CROWD
AND HOT WEATHER
Open Yesterday in Union City with
Music, Etc
Union City boosters put on the first
one of the" two trade days yesterday,
with a good crowd, and every store
waiting on a good trade. The Hick
man band came in with a fine organi
sation of musicians under the leader
ship of A. J. Hunsiier, giving us a
forenoon viait on First street. The
band has been organized only a few
months but Mr. Hunsiker is pro
ducing sonie fine results. The instru
mentation is fine, and Hickman can
boast of its band music. The con
tests wore -all in full swing but no
decisions ennounced before we went
to press. Everybody was pleased
and the proa'se of a good trade to
morrow is ravorablo.
OKLAHOMA RAGE RIOT.
Tulsa County Placed Under Military
law.
Oklahoma City, Okla. .June 1.
Seventy-five persons, whites and ne
groes, nave been killed In the race
outbreak in Tulsa, according to a tel
ephone message to Gov. Robertson
here to-day from the Chief of Police
at Tulsa.
Martial law was ordered by Gov
ernor Robertson at 11:15 a.m. to
day, and Adjutant-General Barrett
was placed in command of the city.
The order was given over the long
distance telephone. The martial law
order was extended to include all of
Tulsa County. The order placed the
Adjutant-General in command of the
city and county.
The Governor's telegram to the
Adjutant-General follows.
"I have declared martial , law
throughout Tulsa County and am
holding you responsible for main
tenance of order, safety of lives and
protection of property. You will do
all things necessary to attain these
objects." ' s ;
Tulsa, Okla., June 1. Nine white
men are known to have been killed in
the race clash that broke out here
last night and raged until noon to
day, with Chief of Police Gustafson
estimating the-negro dead at 65.
In addition scores of whites and
negroes have been wounded and vir
tually the entire negro quarter is a
mass of ruins, the result of fire. The
loss is expected to be large. '
The disorders broke out following
the arre3t of a negro accused of at
tacking a white girl , and continued
sporadically throughout the day.
This evening Tulsa wa3 quiet with
the city under martial law and its
streets patrolled by troops of the
Oklahoma National Guard. Officials
were hopeful, that, the worst of the
trouble had pased and that the com
ing of dawn would find normal condi
tions restored.
However, they did not relax their
vigilance and it was stated that ev
erything was. in readiness to handle
a grave situation should one arise
again. ' ;
No accurate check of the dead had
been made at a late hour and nn
official estimates ran from the known
list of 10 whites and 70 negroes dead
to an opinion of Police Inspector
Charles Daley, second In command of
the police force, that the list would
reach 175 dead.
The exact total, officers said,
would probably never be known as
a number of negroes perished in the
flames which consumed the entire
negro district.which formerly housed
about 13,000 negroes including wom
en and children.
A few feeble flames light sections
of the burned waste to-jiight while
a few lone walls rise against a back
ground of smouldering debris. ,';
NEGROES HUDDLE TOGETHER.
Stunned by the enormity of their
loses from a few hours of mad riot
ing their homes and possessions
wiped out by fire and relatives or
friends of many of them dead.dying
or wounded the negro population of
this oil Metropolis of the southwest
huddled to-night in the fair grounds
guarded by State troops. The hope
lessness of their condition appeared
to overcome many of them.
Cries of children and the moans of
negro women who called out for a
husband or a son who had been shot
down gave the scene a pitiful touch.
, For the most part the refugees
were well cared for under the, 'emer
gency as the Red Cross organized
again on a war footing, brought food
and comfort to the sufferers.
The refugees who had been gath
ered in the Western League baseball j
park and Convention Hall during the
day were sent to the Fair Grounds in
the afternoon by motor cars and
trucks, escorted by troops.
Inside the park the several thou
sand negroes milled about before the
grandstands under a hot sun-
Scores of Red Cross workers dis
tributed food. Barrels and tanks of
ice water wcro brought to the park,
NEGRO AGITATORS BLAMED.
Negro agitators were blamed by
the authorities for the trouble. The
negroes had been worked into a ra
cial frenzy by inflammatory articles
in negro newspapers and by radical
speakers.
While horror has been expressed
by hundreds of Tulsans at the action
of the mob in making a clean Bweep
of the negro settlement, investigation
discloses that the negroes were either
expecting or preparing for trouble
for the whites, it was charged late
Wednesday evening.
In almost every second house burn
ed there were explosions as boxes of
ammunition were touched by the
blaze.
Police say that I. W. W. and other
malcontents nave been stirring up
animosity between the blacks and the
whites for months and recently the
Tulsa Star, local negro paper, has
been urging the negroes to demand
racial equality, it is said.
The city is under martial law to
night. Persons without military per
mits were ordered oft the streets at
7 o'clock and street car service was
discontinued at 9 o'clock.
Alarming reports were received to
night from suburban towns. These
said armed forces of negroes were
moving on Tulsa to renew the fight.
Other reports said bands of negroes
who fled Tulsa during the rioting
were being attacked by. white posses.
None of these reports had been con
firmed up to a late hour.
The property loss to-night was es
timated at approximately $1,500,000
THREE ABE WOUNDED.
Farmers Fight ' Over Settlement of
Debt.
Fred Brannon and Miles . Rain
water, of the Reelfoot Lake vlccinity.
are badly wounded and Ed Stroup,
of Lake County is in a critical con
dition, due to shotgun wounds re
ceived, officers claim, at the hands
of a man named Lovett. The shoot
ing occurred near the Obion-Lake
county line. It appears that Bran
non, accompanied by Rainwater, went
to the home of Ed Stroup to have him
secure a debt which Stroup owed
Brannon. Upon arriving there they
found Lovett and Stroup quarreling
over financial matters. Lovett, think
ing that Brannon and Rainwater had
come to take the part of Stroup,
opened fire with a, shotgun, it is al
leged, with the result that Stroup is
in a very serious condition and Bran
non and Rainwater were painfully
wounded. !
Given Preliminary Trial.
Vortle Wyatt, of the 12th district,
of this county, has been bound over
to tho Circuit Court, charged with
housebreaking and stealing. A pre
liminary 'hoaring was had Wednes
day beforo Squlro Gauntlett, and
young Wyatt was brought to Union
City yesterday by Deputy Sheriff J.
Lee Hughes, and placed in Jail n ab
sence of bond. . ,
Bought Grocery Store.
F. E. Renck is trow owner and pro
prietor of the stock of groceries and
fixtures, formerly owned by G. C.
Avey, Collego and Hone streets. Mr.
Ranck is now in charge and offers
liberal inducements for your patron
age.
Frices of meat animals (hogs, cattle,
sheep, and f owls) to producers of the
United States decreased 9 per cent from
March 15 to April 15, according to a
report issued by the Bureau of Crop
Estimates, United States Department of
Agriculture. In the last 10 year prices
paid formeat animals have increased 4.5
per cent during the middle of April.
The report shows that on April 15 the
index figure of prices for meat animals
was about 37.9 per cent lower than a
year ago; and 16.3 per cent lower than
the average of the la9t 10 years on April
15. The statistician of the department
point out that the high prices - paid for
meat animals during the last few years
is the'result of increased demand dur
ing and immediately following the war,
and that the present prices are approach
ing those which maintained during nor
mal times preceding the war.
Leaves a Big Hole. ,
The people in Watsonville who
claim that newspapers aren't read,
don't know the awful commotion that
is created when some one's -name is
left out of the report of an entertain
ment. Watsonville (Calif.) Pajaron-
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Ice all the year. Call 150.
Your Sunday Dinner
How about a nice Veal Roast for your Sunday Dinner?
We supply the merchants of this town with every thingjthat is
good in the meat line.
Say, friends, did you ever buy such fine meats as we
have been furnishing the merchants in all your life?
Every merchant in this town trades with us. That is 1 00"
per cent Hard to beat and we certainly appreciate that The
fact is that all the merchants in the entire territory are our
friends. There is a reason. We give them service, we give
them quality and we give them satisfaction. It is their pack
ing house.
Remember to call for our products.
Reynolds Panto Co.
THE HOME
.of New York '
Insures Against "
FIRE, LIGHTNING ;
and TORNADOES.
Writing Farm and "
City Property, -
Ask your Banker -
Ask your Lawyer ,
Ask your Merchant -
They will tell you that a Policy in
v T JH SE H O MfaE
. . means sure indemnity against loss.
ARE YOU INSURED?
IF NOT, WHY NOT?
The cost is comparatively trifling, and ho one has the least assurance
that bis home and personal property may not be changed by FIRE
at any moment from their present beauty, usefulness and comfort,
to a smouldering heap of ruins or shivered to pieces and blown into
the next township by the relentless storm demon. There is but one
Bate and wise thing to do and that is . '
INSURE IN THE HOME V
Office Phone (
' Cumberland 261. ' Home 251
W. E. JACKSON (EL CO.
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,' . Union City, Tenn.
Is Youv Meal
time Drink
Your Friend ?
A good many people who like tea
or coffee find that tea and coffee
don't like them.
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Nervousness, sleeplessness or
disturbed digestion is proof.
Postum Cereal
furnishes a satisfying
cup without irritating
nerves or digestion.
Thousands who have made
ihe change keep on with
Postum because it's bet
ter lor them.
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There's a Reason
Sold by all grocers
Made by Postum Cereal Cojnc,
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Union City,, Tennessee
BEHIND OUB GLASSES
is the efficiency of expertness. No
one under any circumstances should
'select his or her own glasses. It re
quires expert skill to select exactly
the proper lenses. Don't try to be
your own doctor as far as your eyes
are concerned. Come where they
can get the skille service they
should have. .
DR. S. E. ALLMOND, Optometrist
. 218 First Street.
Mrs. Cam Park, Assistant.
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