The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-11-22

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be held with Mrs. w. S. Mayes on
Saturday. December /. at 8 o'clock.
The annual roll call and fellow
ship meeting in the First Baptist
church will be held on the first Sun
day in December
Mrs. Mollie Stitt, who has been
suffering from an attack Of grippe
for the past several days. is inn
proving.
Capt. Richmond P. Hobson viii
speak in the First Baptist church in
this city Friday night, November 30,
at 1880 o'clock. His subject will be
America in War.
Mr.. Charles E. Faux contracted
severe cold last week and was con-
fined to his bed for several days but
is up again and able to attend to
business.
-Thurston Faux, son Of Mr.. Jesse
Faux, of the Clopton vicinity. was
taken by his father to the CARLY
Ramsey Hospital, Memphis, Thurs
day and placed under treatment
there for an abcoss.
Anyone who has any discarded
clothing, shoes or other wearing APP
parel suitable for children will be do
ing good deed by sending them to
Mr.. Ben Lowenhaupt at the Enter
prise Co., as he will send them to the
orphans at the Dunlap Orphanage.
The District Sunday School Con-
ventiOn that was to have been held
with the Garland Methodist church
on November 18th was postponed I'M
til next Sunday, November 25th, at 2
pm. All Sunday schools in the Sec
ond, third and twelfth civil districts
are urged to send representatives.
Rev. W. f. Huey, of Havana,
Ark, who visited the family of his
father, Mr., s. 0. Huey, of the Salem
neighborhood, on his return from the
A. r. p, Synod at Fayetteville, Tenn,
returned to his home Monday. Mr..
Huey delivered an address before the
Y, p. c. U. at Sharon church Sunday
night,
Three cars of corn have been
shipped from here during the past
two weeks BY the Covington Milling
Co., and q carload of hogs was ship.
ped By the same eompay Tuesday.
1.-THE other fellow now has His com
crib and smskehCuse in Upton coan-
ty instead Of our county having it's
corn Qgih and Rmokehouse elsewhere,
Tbs Sunday school Of ST. Mat
thews Episcopal church was reor-
gained Sunday with an enrolment
ct Is persons DR.. A. C. McCabe will
be superintendent for the two Sun.
days Of each month that he is in
Covington and he appointed Mr. Troy
Mccall as lay superintendent and
Mrs. j NJ Green as secretary and
treasures
Mr.. George A. Sanford has been
elected 10 the position Of Secretary
Of the Business Mems League Of
Helena, Ark, and will enter upon the
duties of his position on December /.
As secretary Of the Covington Bust
ness Mems Club and Industrial agent
of Upton county Mr. Sanford has
done splendid work, and we can
sincerely recommend him to the Hele-
ma business men as being all that
they are looking for.
The friends Of Mr.. VIM, Calhoun,
who is in the hospital corps Of the
u. S. army at Des Moines, Ia, will
be glad to learn that he is recovering
from an attack of pneumonia at the
base hospital there. Harvey Misen-
heimef, another Covington boy who
is taking a course in wireless tele-
graphy at Harvard University, Cam
bridge, Mass, has been confined to
the Chelsea Hospital, an operation
on his ears having been necessary.
He is now recovering steadily, how
ever, and thinks his hearing will not
be impaired,
Salem (colored) church in the
10th district, made splendid record
in raising money for the Y. M. G. A.
war work fund. Rev. R. A. Clark,
accompanied by Messrs. j. H. Flip
pin, A. B, Cobb, w. H, Bailey and
c. N. Volz, visited Salem Sunday af-
ternoon in the interest Of that work
and after a speech made by Mr.. Clark
a cash contribution of S125 was
made. Messrs. H. N. Hall and M A.
in a very short time on Sat
urday evening, secured $3l for the
above fune at Smiths Grove (col-
ored) church.
On account of the recent loss Of |
the Touring mill at Ripley, quite a
large number of Lauderdale county |
people have lately been patronizing |
the FIGURING mill in Covington. With |
the highway in good condition the
from Ripley to Covington is
not so great after all, and Lauderdale
county people are fortunate in having |
such reliable and up-to-date insti-
tuition located even that distance from |
them. The Coyington Milling Co. is
abreast Of the times and never loses
an opportunity Of adding to the ia
cilities Of its plant,
--Messrs. S. r. Forbess and Barney
Feezor, Of Simonton; ESQ, S. K.
Drummond, Of DrummOnd; w. W.
Templeton, Of Aioka; Scion Beaver,
Of Beaver, and R. u. Tracey, Of RAN
iolph, were among the visitors here
Wednesday. Mr. Forbess stated that
shereywere no new cases Of smallpox
in the, immediate vicinity of Simon
ton; that the quarantine had been
raised and that business had gotten