The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-07-28

a stenographic position in Rock
-lwOod, arrived here Monday, t
spend some time with her sistel
Mrs. w. B. Summers.
i Misses Alice and Louise Timber
lake have returned to their HON,
at Undertake, after an EXTENDED
visit with friends and relatives il
Henderson and Trenton
] Mrs. Earl Ellington and littl,
daughter Of Paducah, are here Wis.
iting the family of j. W. Threadgill
in whose household Mrs. Billingtor
was reared by her sister.
| Jim, the young son Of Mrs. Sulf
Muse, was taken ill with an attack
of bilious fever last Monday. Hi;
brother, Will Scott, was reported
some better at that time.
The committee will meet at An.
tioch cemetery on the first Satur.
day in August, at o'clock p. m, to
! let out contract to clean off the
cemetery.
JOHN WASH FEsMIRE, Sec'y.
After spending Sunday here and
returning to Memphis, Mrs. C. G.
Gathings again returned to Lexing-
ton Tuesday, accompanied by her
two younger children, Mary Sue
and AL.
Milton Edwards has returned
home from Deming. New Mexico and
Tucson, Arizona, where he has been
for several months in search of
health. Milton looks improved and
will probably return in the near flu
ture.
Rev. Marvin c. Yates, pastor of
the Southern Methodist church at
Saltillo, was here Monday on his
way to Fulton, where he will assist
in holding a campmeeting near the
city.
There will be a big Odd Fellows
celebration at SCOTS Hill on Sat-
urday Of this week. Robert l.
Fine, grand master Of the order,
will be the orator of the day. Every
body invited.
Mrs. G. L. Dennison and two
younger children, of Decaturville,
returned Tuesday to their home,
after Spending several days here
visiting the family Of Charlie Smith
and other relatives.
Chas. Reed, a former Lexington
merchant, but now travelling for
New Orleans syrup and coffee COM
pany, has been visiting his friends
and relatives in this vicinity. Chas.
looks we'll and prosperous.
c.. L. Humphrey and family Of
Paducah, KY, are here visiting Mrs.
Humphreys sister, Mrs. Marvin
Fisher. We are informed that Mr..
Humphrey is considering again
making Lexington his home.
Mrs. F. H. Watson, Of Jonesboro,
Ark, arrived here several days ago
to visit her parents at Chester
field and to give her deposition in
the Chancery law suit Of F. H. Wat
son, ct al VS.. Miss Robbie Glenn
mentS, ct al.
The extensive work done by L. 7.
Fielder in overhauling and remod-
cling the interior Of the former
Gathings' place an Main Street, will
soon be finished and Mr.. Fielder
and wife will have one Of the most
comfortable homes in Lexington.
News was received here Tuesday
that Hubert E. Dennison had ac-
cepted a position as adjunct teach
er of history in the University of
South Carolina. During the past
two years he has held a position in
the West Tennessee Normal at
Memphis.
Gil Gideon returned Friday from
Detroit, Mich, where he had gone
to try to secre position in an au-
tomobile factory, on account of
there being so many more men
than there were positions. In one
of the factories visited, 700 appli-
cants were ahead of him.
DR.. f. G. Maxwell and Miss Callie
Walker were married last Sunday
afternoon near Chesterfield. DR..
Maxwell is one Of our county's best
physicians and Miss Walker, the
daughter of L. L. Walker, is very
popular in her neighbcrhood We
wish them success in their married
life.
Miss Allie Mae, daughter Of DR..
P. H. Mccall, is on her trip to points
in the East, won in the Memphis
News-Scimitar contest. Miss Nc
Call made her departure from Lex