The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-08-11

!. Jake. They have also visited rel
lives here.
Fireman Harry Dennison hs
! been laying off from work for som
time on account of a bad eye, 0
, account of which he was in a Jacl
son infirmary last week. He no.
hopes that the afflicted member
} improving.
Prof. and Mrs. ]. o. Brown too
in many points in Henry county
Tenn, and Galloway county, KY, il
their Studebaker car last week
They were accompanied home from
Paris by Mrs. Browns brother, Mi
|. H. Dale and sister.
Attorneys John F. Hall and E. W
Essary went to Memphis Tuesda!
night to spend Wednesday taking
dispositions in the P. j. DennisoI
will case. They were accompanied
by Attorney W. H. Denison, who i.
one of the defendants in the case.
The family Of AL. E. Beasley wa.
made happy last Saturday evening
by the arrival of AL. F., Junior, The
third child and second son. Mrs
Beasley has done we'll and the
youngster gives promise Of making
such a man as his excellent daddy.
G. W. Golf made a trip to Nash.
vile in the last weekend, accom-
panying his sister-in-law. Mrs. E. E.
Massey, of California, who has been
visiting in the Golf home. Mrs.
Massey made the trip to Nashville
to attend a Seventh Day Adventist
camp meeting.
Matt C. Barry, who had a job in
the Eastern Hospital for the Insane
at Beardeu, near Knoxville, has
written his mother from Rankin,
near Pittsburg, Pa, where he has a
job. Matt is not yet eighteen but
is big enough to get by with his
nearly 200 pounds.
Hon. John L. Hare, of Alberton,
was here Monday. The honorable
John made a good race for Trustee
and seems to take defeat as good
naturally as he would have accept
ed victory, We have differed at
times from Mr.. Hare, but this coun-
ty has no more staunchly honest
man than he.
Mrs. Tom Joyner arrived from
her home in Memphis last Monday
accompanied by her younger sister,
Miss Enid Sims. Mrs. Joyner and
husband will soon 90 to Salt Lake
City to make their future home.
Miss Enid Sims will remain here in
definitely with her mother, Mrs. 7.
W. Sims, and her sister, Miss Marie
Sims.
Lon B. Riley, a former Lexington
boy and excellent printer who was
made in The PROGRESS Office, and
who is now in a successful job
printing business in Jonesboro, Ark,
has been here visiting the family of
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Riley, by whom
he was reared. Ions wife and lit
tie son were already here when he
arrived in the last weekend.
J. R. Fielder, Henry Barry and
Valentine Barry left Lexington last
Saturday afternoon on the North
bound train and were joined at
Martin by W. Curry Barry on their
trip to Chicago, Detroit, Washington,
New York and other points IN the
North and East. They sent back
the first report Monday, from Chica-
go-that the weather was awful
hot, but that all were we'll and hav-
ing good time. They will be away
about two weeks, returning via Gin
cinnati and Nashville.
Rev. j. H. Cason returned last
week from visit covering two
weeks in which he went to see the
following members of his family:
His father, W. C. Cason, and sister,
Mrs. C. W. Nichols, at Jackson,
Tenn; his brother Rev. J. c. Cason,
at Sharon, Tenn; his sister, Mrs. R.
M. Phipps, at Fulton, Ky; his broth
er, Rev. 7. F. Cason, at Water Val
ley, KY, and his brother, W. M. Ca
son, at Clarksdale, Miss. While at
Clarksdale, the visitor took an auto
spin through a 10000 acres cotton
farm, and on the 9th Of July help
ed work the great highway from
Fulton, KY, to Martin, Tenn.