The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1914-12-31
MASON NOTES.

Among those who visited relatives.
friends or sWeethearts hereabouts
Christmas times were the following:
Mrs. DR.. Hansell, of Egypt, Miss; Mr..
Dan B. Gooch, Selmer, Tenn; Royce
and Noel Herring, Memphis, Tenn;
Frank Martin, Forth Worth. Texas;
Adrian Fink, Providence, R. l.; Miss
Aline Smith, Memphis; Miss Patricia
Perry. Brownsville, Tenn; George
Jackson, Douglass, Ark; j. n. NJ.
Taylor, Memphis; Miss Elizabeth
Wood, Memphis; Rev. Mr.. Sears, Ken
lucky; Rev. V. r. Smith, Memphis;
w. H. Clement, Memphis, and many
more that we cannot recall.
Louis and David Transou, who are
attending Vanderbilt University, are
home for the holidays, likewise Gar
land and. Harvey Hendricks, Keeble
Heron, L. c. Hamblet and Hewitt AL
Wis. who are students of the Fitzger
and & Clark school at Tullahoma,
Tenn.
Several good horses have died re-
Gently around here with blind stag
gers, rotten corn is credited as the
cause.
In a negro poolroom In the south
part of town Christmas day, Al John
son, shot and mortally wounded Billie
Jones, both colored. Jones lived until
Sunday night about 9 o'clock. "Bust
Skull booze" and gambling was the
cause. johnson was arrested and is
in the Covington Jail. This is the
third murder to orr credit in,about So
months, Two of them can be traced
directly to bootleg whiskey. What's
the use with all our good Tennessee
laws and not an officer to enforce
them?
Fire, Fire, Fire! rang out Saturday,
afternoon, C. L. Taylor's house was
supposed to be on fire, false alarm, al
though smoke was issuing from be-
tween the chimney and the weather
boarding, the house was not on fire,
and again Monday morning the same
residence of H. H. Sanders on East
| Washington street. The fire started
! in the attic from an overheated pipe
! but little damage resulting.
Bryan Marshall, the "day lady, at
| the telephone exchange has proven
himself a veritable hero or heroine
and deserves Carnegie medal for the
! service he rendered our telephone sub
scribers. in notifying them that Mr.
Blanks house was ON fire.
Some of our merchants have com.
menced an inventory of stock, trying
to find out where they're at" finan
cially.
Mrs. Mary Elcan, who has beer
quite i'll for several days, is reported
much improved.
! Rev. E. M. Peters delivered TIVE
very eloquent sermons at the Meth
odist church Sunday.
Rather quiet the past few day
around these diggins" only one muir
der, few fights and two fires.
The Christmas ball given by tn
elite of our social set Monday nigh
was an event of the season, many out
: presence. Hamby'S orchestra of Mem
r phis discoursed sweet and melodiou
music 4Et
Prayer meeting at the Christian
church next Wednesday night, and a
the Methodist church Thursday night
We anticipate the attendance at bot
will not be so large as at the bal
Monday night.
j. n. Moseley, who has been house
up for several weeks with an ulcer
ated limb, was able to be down tow
, this week.
In the past two weeks we have ha
an assortment of weather that woul
suit the most faStidiouS-sunshin
rain, sleet and snow, mud hub dee
one day and "friz" up tight the mex
we come strong with any and a
kinds of climate
Mr.. B. Augustus Somervill is HON
He has been sojourning in the wild
of Arkansas and Oklahoma the pas
, six months.
1t will be moving day" among til
: renters and share troopers, some fe'
know where they viii Ii: mt, man
don't.
Robert Barton will go to Arkanss
. In few days for an indefinite perio,
Mrs. G. S. Walker has been quit
: i'll the past week.
Mr.. j. E. Campbell, the architec
says that he will have the new scho,
building completed in two more week
Our college boys will all return |
] their respective schools January S3r