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FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1922.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Attorney E. H. Lannom went to
Nashville Friday for a two-days busi
ness trip.
Mrs. Tennie Kersey leaves to-day
lor Corinth, Miss., to visit her niece,
"Mrs, P. M. McHugh.
Mr. Chas, G. Nay lor, of Mountain
-Grove, Mo., wa a visitor here last
week.mingling with old-time friends.
Mr. J. R. (Uncle Dick) Hughes, of
Memphis, is here for a few weeks
visit in Union City and community.
Mrs. Belle Berryhill left last week
for New York City. She will be lo
cated in Greenwich Village and will
be interested in playwriting.
Mr. and Mrs: J. A. Morgan left
Friday for Shelbyville, Tenn., to
spend a few days visiting with rela
tives and old-time friends. .
Are you going to buy a fan this
spring? If you are, see us first.
Averitt Electric.
Mr. Geo. L. Porter left this weak
lor Crockett, Texas, where he has
been located for a few months. Mr.
Porter "has some interests in Texas
claiming his attention.
Katherine Hendrick McVay is a
.late visitor in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. G. R. McVay in Chicago, arriv
1 ing via air route from Storkland. Spe
cial greetings to the litle visitor and
Tier parents from Union City.
Mrs. D. A. Peeler left yesterday
lor Chattanooga to visit her daugh
ter, Mrs. Smith, also to attend the
Bible conference, now in session in
that city. From Chattanooga Mrs.
Peeler goes to Greenville, Tenn.,
she being a delegate from the local
church to the General Aaoembly
of 1 the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church.
We have the best FAN on the
MARKET. Prices are right. Aver
itt Electric.
Rev. J. L. Hudgins, tho highly es
teemed editor of the Cumberland
Presbyterian, was here this week vis
iting the home of his 3on, Attorney
W. E. Hudgins. Rev. Hudgins is in
terested in the movement now in
progress in Nashville to buy the Van
Leer Kirkman home on the Franklin
pike to be offered as a location for
the university school of the Cumber
land Presbyterian Church.' This home
comprises 400 acres and residence, a
beautiful school site. It is offered
for $157,500 and the citizens of
Nashville are campaigning for funds
to buy it for the school. If they suc
ceed another fine school will prob
ably be added to the university city
of the South.
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NUMBER SEVEN.
Gay Hogan has accepted a position
In Union City.
Brother Banks preached to a large
ciowd Sunday morning at Obion
1 Chapel. . '
Lexie Hogan, of Rives, spent the
week end with his parents in Num
ber Seven.
Mrs. fj, A. Howard and family vis
ited in the home of Mr. Howard's
parents Sunday. ,
Miss Sadie Stovall, who has been
teaching at Dixie High School, is
.glad to be at 'home again.
G. W. Stovall, C. C. bickerson, R.
S. Bower and Sam Bryson were busi
ness visitors in the county seat
Thursday.
The farmers took advantage of the
good weather last week and sowed
oats, but no corn has been planted
at this writing and still it rains.
Calvin Stovall returned from Mem
phis Sunday. He reports that his
brother, E. W. Stovall, is improving
a'ter undergoing a serious operation
' about two weeks ago.
A few of our young people went
to Stella Ruth, in Weakley County,
Saturday night to attend the com
mencement exercises of the "high
school at that place.
The farmers who go to town in
buggies and wagons will "be pleased
to learn that the town of Union City j
has decided to put a watering trough
on the hitching grounds.
"W. F. ' Alelxander, our" road con
tractor, is doing some good work on
some of our roads, but the Union
City and Kenton road, our main road
throuzh Number Seven, is being sad
ly neglected. Mr. Supervisor, please
take notice.
The Christian Endeavor had a spe
cial Easter program Sunday after
noon. Delegates gave a full report
of the convention at Newbern. Af
ter program everybody took part in
the egg hunt. Carnell Turner and
Mary Thomas won first prize. Lexie
Penn and Edna Ruth Hogan wen
second prizes, both being a large bas
ket of candy. We have 30 active
, members, about 20 Juniors and a
large number of honorary members,
but need more. Con.e and help us
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usiriess. Statement 'that is
a Great HiimaorRecord- ; v
HELPING 13,000,000 PEOPLE .
About 19,000,000 people are in
sured in the Metropolitan over 16,
000,000 under weekly premium pol
icies. The weekly call of Agents at
the policy-holders' homes provide a
wonderful opportunity for health
and welfare work.
The Company has accepted the op
portunity and to-day is at the fore
front of public health work in Amer
ica. ' 1
HOW. WAS IT DONE?
Records kept by the Metropolitan Life InsuranceCompany- show an extraordi
dary decrease in the death rate among its Industrial, or weekly premium, policy-hold;
ers. Comparing 1921 with 191 1, for example, there were 55,000 less deaths in 1 92 1
than there would have been if the 191 1 death rate had prevailed. ; ',
What brought about the great saving of life? , ,
The general public health movement progress in medical science and sanitation
other causes, perhaps. But a very great factor has been the tremendous health
campaign carried on by the Metropolitan itself. This page tells a part of the story.
FOB THE NATION'S HEALTH
144 health exhibits and emergency
hospitals at county fairs last year;
295 "Clean-up" campaigns; agitation
by Agents for health legislation; na
tion-wide campaigns against special
diseases; sickness and sanitary sur
veys; a study of 'municipal health
departments; leadership of practical
ly all American research work relat
ing to influenza these are some in
stances of the Metropolitan's activity
in the interest of public health.
14,000,000 VISITS BY TRAINED
NURSES :
Free nursing service is given to
Industrial policy-holders in 2,800
cities and towns. Trained nurses not
only heal the sick but teach right
living. About 14,000,000 visits have
been made 2,116,875 in 1921
alone. Numerous letters tell of lives
saved.
DISCOVERING DISEASE INTME
Free medical examinations often
disclosing incipient disease in time
to cure it, are granted to Ordinary
(annual premium) policy-holders,
Bubject to reasonable conditions.
HELPING THE EMPLOYER
TO HELP
Employers insuring their em
ployees under Group policies are ad
vised regarding health conditions
and accident prevention, while the
employees receive the benefits of
nursing service and welfare literature.
238,000,000 PIECES OP
LITERATURE
Attractive booklets and pamphlets
in great variety, dealing with the im
portant phases of health and dis
ease, and prepared by leading ex
perts, are distributed broadcast. So
far, 238,000,000 . copies have been
distributed 25,000,000 in 1921.
In addition, 18,000,000 copies of
The Metropolitan, a health maga
zine, are issued annually.
A CITY THAT IS WATCHED ;
In Framingham, Mass., the Metro
politan is leading the way in a great
experiment, watched by health au
thorities throughout the country, to
demonstrate what proper municipal
health regulation can do. Deaths
from tuberculosis have dropped from
121 per 100,000 to 40 per annum. .
METROPOLITAN
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Life Insurance Company
Incorporated by the State of New York. A Mutual Company.
HALEY FISKE, President. FREDERICK II, llCKER, Vice-President
Business Statement, December 31, 1921.
Assets ........... $1.1 15,583,024.54
Larger than those of any other Insurance Company in the World. '
Increase in Assets during 1 92 1 .. : $1 34,669,937.37
1 . Larger than that of any other Insurance Company in the World. .
Liabilities ........ i .. $1,068,341,845.04
Surplus..., ....... : : ..- $47,241,179.50
Income in 1 92 1 : ;. i - $301,982,699.39
Larger than that of any other Insurance Company in the World ' " . .
Gain in 1921 $38,462,919.41 ,
Larger than that of any other Insurance Company in the World
Total Insurance placed and paid for in 1921 $1,564,789,607
More than has ever been placed in one year by any other Company in the World.
Gain in Insurance in Force in 1 92 1 .'.
Greater than that of any other Company in the World.
Total Amount of Outstanding Insurance
Larger than that of any other Company in the World.
Ordinary, (that is, exclusive of Industrial) Insurance in Force $3,892,267,274
Larger than that of any other Company in the World.
Number of Policies in Force December 3 1 , 1 92 1 25,542,422
More than that of any other Company in America.
Number of Policy Claims paid in 1921 323,531
Averaging one claim paid for every 27 seconds of each business day of 8 hours.
Amount paid to Policy-holders in 1 92 1 $91 ,348,472.98
Payments to policy-holders averaged $630.16 a minute of each business day of 8 hours.
Dividends to Policy-holders payable in 1922, nearly.,.........'. J 1 6,000,000
Amount paid policy-holders and Beneficiaries since Organiza- v"
tion, plus Amount now Invested for their Security ... ,$2,047,692,135.07
GROWTH IN TEN-YEAR PERIODS
$625,695,325
$7,005,707,839
HOMES FOB 17,744 FAMILIES
In the investment of its funds, the
Metropolitan is now giving prefer
ence to loans which will aid housing.
During 1920 and 1921, the Company
made and pledged loans of $68, 080,
017, on new dwellings and new apart
ment houses, providing homes for
17,744 families. '
GREAT DECLINE IN
; DEATH RATES
The death rate among Industrial
policy-holders reached Its lowest
point in 1921 31.9 per cent lower
than in 1911. The rate from typhoid
decreased 71 per cent; tubercu
losis, 49 per cent; Bright's dis
ease, nearly 30 percent; infec
tious diseases of children nearly 37
per cent., The "Expectation of Life"
of white males (reckoned from age
10) increased 4 years. .
Year
Dec.31,1891
Dec.31.1901
Dec.31,1911
Dec.31,1921
Income for Yr.
$11,423,496.68
38,017,163.59
98,135,273.71
301,982,699.39
Assets at End Of Yr.
1891
1901
$13,626,948.21
74,771,758.56
352,785,890.36
1,115,583.024.54
- Surplus at
End of Year.
1891
1901
1911
1921
$3,088,833.18
9,938,694.23
32,939,469.87
No. of Policies
in Force at
End of Year
1891
1901
1911
47,241,179.501921
2,281,640
6,234,302
12,007,138
25,542,422
Outstanding
Insurance at
End of Year
$258,707,763
1,076,977,204
2,899,878,087
7,005,707,839
Yr.
1891
1901
1911
1921
The Company issues policies from a Hundred to a Million Dbllars of Insurance.
In fact, its Ordinary is now larger than its Industrial.
The Company also issues Health and Accident Policies minimum $5,000.
PUBLIC APPRECIATION.
The American people have made
the Metropolitan the greatest life in
surance company in the world, with
$7,005,707,839 insurance in force.
It leads not only in Industrial but
Ordinary. More than half of its bus
iness in force is Ordinary $3,892,
267,274 which is more than that of
any Company in the world.'
, THE FUTURE
The Metropolitan will continue its
endeavor to offer the best there is in
life, health and accident in urance,
and to save human life. . Continued
growth will give the Company still
greater opportunities to serve the
American people in insurance pro
tection and in the conservation of life
and health.
CREATE
IN ASSETS
IN INCOME
IN GAIN of EACH
IN BUSINESS PLACED
IN BUSINESS GAINED
IN BUSINESS in FORCE
IN ORDINARY BUSINESS in FORCE
IN REDUCTION of MORTALITY
IN HEALTH nd WELFARE WORK
"The Company OF the People, BY the People, FOR the People." John R. Hegeman
Judge Makes Erroneous
Prediction Regarding Lawyer
"About one clean shirt is all I
thought he would ever wear. He
had fallen away to a mere shadow;
was as yellow as saffron and often
doubled up with pain. Doctors con
tinually gave him morphine and were
about to operate for gall stones.
Mayr's Wonderful Remedy quickly
restored him to perfect health
again." It is a simple, harmless
preparation that removes the ca
tarrhal mucus from the Intes
tinal tract and allays the inflam
mation which causes practically all
stomach, liver and intestinal ail
ments, including appendicitis. One
dose will convince or money re
funded. Sold by Oliver's Red Cross
Drug Store and druggists every-
Statistics of women's colleges cov
ering a period of 50 years show the
average college girl of to-day is six or
seven pounds heavier than the col
lege girl of 1870.
Wrap Soap in Money.
Paris, April 15. Even the depre
ciated Austrian bank notes have
their commercial value. Street hawk
ers have discovered a novel method of
pushing the sale of their wares. They
sell cakes of soap for one franc, each
cake being wrapped in an Austrian
100 crown note. The hawker ex
plains to the purchaser that although
the note is now worth 10 centimes
after the Genoa conference the crown
will come back , to its real value
when the wrapper will pay the cost
of the soap a hundred times over.
When to Regrind Cylinders.
When a motor has lost Its power,
lacks compression, pumps oil, fouls
its spark plugs, develops a knock or
piston slap, and consumes oil and
gasoline out of proportion to the
service rendered, it is an assured fact
that the cylinders need regrinding.
The mere, fact that the Bolshevik
delegates at Genoa broke bread with
the French is no evidence of tran
quility. That hungry, bewhi3kered
bunch would risk an arm to grab a
sandwich out of a lion's cage. Mem
phis Commercial Appeal.
Wall Paper at prices ranging
5c, 8c, 10c, 12c and up per roll.
RED SPOT PAINT & GLASS CO.
Defeated for mayor of a Western
town, a woman candidate charges
that the opposition bought Its suc
cess with money and liquor. The
naughty things! Who would have
thought that politicians would ever
descend to such a level? Memphis
Commercial Appeal.
Any one interested in a monu
ment of any kind will do well to
write me for prices; I have furnished
some of the finest work in Union
City which shows for Itself. , My
prices are reasonable.- Now is the
time to make your selection. Can
have it ready to erect when spring
opens. Ask my customers about me.
If you buy from me, you will never
regret it. Win appreciate any favor.
H. M. FINLEY,
5I-tf Humboldt, Tenn.
SHERIFF'S SALE OF LAND.
By virtue of Two Venditioni Ex
ponas from the Circuit Court of
Obion County, Tennessee, In the
cause of Lovelace-Farmer Company
vs. Elza Jones, Ellis Jones and J. A.
Jones (Stayor), and in the cause
of N. A. Vaden & Son vs. E. E. Jones,
Ellis Jones, J. A. Jones and O.'H.
Jones, directed to the Sheriff of said
county, I will sell to the highest
bidder, for cash, at the East door
of the Courthouse In Union City,
Tennessee, at one o'clock p.m., on the
29th day of April, 1922, a certain
lot, on which is located a dwelling
house, situated in the 13th Civil Dis
trict of Obion County, Tennessee,
and in the Corporation of 'the town
of Union City and bounded and de
scribed as follows:
- Beginning at a point on the South
side of Gibbs street at the Mobile &
Ohio Railroad right of way, in1 the
town of Union City, Tennessee", runs
thence West with the South side of
Gibbs street 70 feet to a stake in the
Kennedy property, formerly owned
by J. C. McCaw;. thence South with
the said East boundary line of the
said Kennedy property 115 feet to a
stake on the North boundary line
of Clarence Bruer property; thence
East with the North boundary line
of the said Bruer property 70 feet
to the Mobile & Ohio Railroad .right
of way; thence North "with the said
Mobile & Ohio Railroad right of way
115 feet to the beginning corner.
This is a portion of the Major W. L.
Alexander property that F. T. Nail
ling; and wife Eva "Nailling pur
chased of J. C. McRee and wife,
which deed is duly recorded in Book
8-G, page 278, of the Register's of
fice for Obion County, Tennessee, to
which reference is hereby made for
a full description of said lot. This
property was levied on as the prop
erty of J. A, Jones.
In the cause of Lovelace-Farmer
Company vs. Elza Jones, Ellis Jones,
and J. A. Jones (Stayor), the lot
above described will be sold subject
to the homestead of J. A. Jones, but
not in the cause of N. A. Vaden &
Son vs. E. E. Jones, Ellis Jones, J. A.
Jones and O. H. Jones.
This the 5th day of April, 1922.
J. W. CHERRY, Sheriff.
THE MILLING HOSPITAL
SEVENTH YEAR .
A Modem Surgical Institution. -Competent
Trained Nurse
OR. W. VCNAILLING. 1 . . .Chief Su
Union City, Tnn.' P.clL TKt.ii. 41.
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