The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-04-12

Selmer.-The fifth Sunday meeting
in the Unity Baptist association will
be held with the Middleton church
Friday, April 27.
Huntingdon. The farmers union
store al this place bought 22O00
pounds of poultry and 1,4OO dozen
eggs during a four days sale.
Rives.- Claude Bolts, a steckman Of
this place, was bitten by a mad deg.
The dog was fayorite collie and was
riding in Bolts automobile at the
time
GAINESVILLE Two and a half mil
lion pounds of tobacco were burned
here, when two warehouses were de.
stroyed by fire, causing a loss Of $780,
600 or more
Gleason.-W. E. Harrison a farmer
and merchant Of Greenfield with store
and warehouse at Limbs, 10 miles west
Of Sharon has filed voluntary peti
ton in bankruptcy
Jackson-L. D. spragle Of Phila-
delphia has been made general man.
ager Of the Citizens gas company OF
Jackson, and has assumed control Of
the company's affairs.
Knoxville Dreading an operation
for appendicitis, Miss Allie Wolfen-
barger, aged 81, drained the contents
of two-ounce vial of carbolic acid.
dying just as the physician reached
the scene,
Alamo The regular April quarterly
court met here and only one day was
required in transacting the business
before the court. w. A. J. Riddick,
chairman, presided, and evory magis-
trate was in attendance.
Knoxville.-Fo only cents per
meal 1870 children are being well fed
at the Knox county industrial school,
as shown in the quarterly report of
Miss Leah Fletcher superintendent,
to the Knox county court.
Lexington.-Th Henderson county
teachers association will hold a meet
ing in the college hall here April IA,
presided over by Prof. Otis e. Holmes,
county superintendent. The associa-
ton is composoE of abot 100 teachers.
as4ea
Memphis. determination of base
hospital unit and it's equipment is
task which the Red Cross society has
placed before the Memphis public as
a concrete opportunity for the tri-state
city to materially aid the fighting
forces of the United States.
Knoxville First Lieut.. Ashby De-
Dusk, Of Company H, Second Infantry,
Middlesboro, KY, National Guard, has
received orders for the company to get
ready to entrain The company re.
Gently returned from the Mexican Dor.
der, but is ready and anxious to en-
ter the service again.
Bristol Compartment cars arriv-
ing here from Yellowstone National
park carried eighty head of young
elk for use in stocking the govern
ments newly-acquired mountain lands
extending from White Top to within
ten miles of Bristol. Due to the long
journey, five of these elk were dead.
Jackson.-W. A. Hassen, aged "a,
Syrian peddler, in applying for natu-
ralization papers at the office of Cir
CURT Court Clerk w. F. May, stated
that he would fight for the United
States in any event, whether this
country got in war with Germany or
even Syria He has been in Amer =
four years
Knoxville provisions of
federal land grant act, Of which
University of Tennessee is a be
ficiary, all graduates under 40 ye
Of ageg~afe subject to conscriptior
officer the army of the United st;
in time of stress. Dean Hoskins
Inmates that 1900 graduates are ar
able to this law.
Knoxville.-Col. J. W. Camp
commander of the Henry NJ Al
Camp of United Confederate Vete1
has offered their services TO the p
dent in case of war to serve in an.
pacity that the president may Sc
to use them. Col Campbell is
years of age, but says he is read
help defend the flag.
Nashville.-A troop train carr
300 recruits from Fort Thoma
Douglas, Ariz, and a northb
Louisville & Nashville freight
met in a head-on collision a few
dred wards Southwest of the dep