The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-10-11
Live Upton County Local News

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MIR. w. Al. Moore and family
now occupy the Jacket place on
Elm street.
Mr.. G. E. Galloway, Of Dyersburg,
returned home this morning after a
visit to his brother-in-law, Mr.. WI
M. Simonton.
Mrs. Georgia Maley, who has
been very sick. is reported seine
better lately.
meeting will be held at the
Business Mems Club tonight( Thurs
day3 at 1870 o'clock in the interest
of fthe second Liberty loan.
-Messrs r. v. Downing, Walter
Bowden and Dick Smith, all Of the
18th district, have all lately had deep
wells dug on their farms.
Mr.. Alfred Boyd has purchased
from Messrs w. B. and G. L. Kinney
the store building on the east side
Of the square formerly occupied by
Ports g Gwinn.
Mr.. j. A. Roberts, representing
the firm Of H. w. White & Co., OF
Jackson, Tenn, arrived here Tuesday
and is now buying cotton in the Gov
ingt0n market. There are now nine
buyers in the local market and five
seed buyers, hence the farmer
should be able to get all that is
coming to him.
49,. - Co.,;,, e.+on ara crow
ing enthusiastic over registration
day. Miss Jessie Buford as chair
man, with her corps Of assistants.
has thoroughly organized the town
and d full vote is expected on reg
istration day The registration will
be held at the grammar school be-
tween 5 a. M, and 5 p. m.
There had been 1,647 bales Of
cotton received at the compress here
up to Wednesday night. as against
| 12,441 to same date last year. The
! staple is bringing % cents in the 10.
cal market this morning and SEED
$40. Seed have sold here as high
as S81 within the past week.
Much interest has lately beer
revived in the Oriental Order of Hu
, mility, an order that had great ruI
i here thirty odd years ago. The Of
ficers Of the local hut say that i
any community in the county wishes
: to establish hut, and will send flv'
/. men to Covington any meeting nigh
to join the hut here that they WI
I aid them in establishing one in thel
] own community.
} Mr. N. B. Ports received q tele
gram Tuesday night bringing i1lfof
alton of tfe death of his brother-ij
!. law. Mr.. MI. w. Kerr, at his home i
! MCGEE, Ark The remains wer
brought to Covington Wednesdaa'
night and the burial occurred in III
Munford cemetery. The decease
was a son Of the late Miller ker
E and was born and reared in tkis coun
s ty and was about 63 years Of age a
d the time Of his passing away. III
wife. who was Miss Emma Jones, Q
this vicinity, survives him, as do tW
sons and two daughters. Mr. ker
= had been making his home in Helen
!. and MCGEE, Ark. for about 10 year
: prior to his death
i d. w. Griffith's great MASTERPIECE
n 'oThe Birth Of a Nation" that ia
V been given before appreclative az
diences in every city in the South 9
well as in the east, was presente
+ on the screen at the Cozy Theate
/ Tuesday afternoon and night.
n fairly good crowd saw the matlne
+. performance, but at the evening pei
y Torrance every seat was taken an
e many people were turned ava.
g Some Of the best actors in the cour
= try figure in this great nroductloIl
Il chief among whom are Henry
Walthall, Mae Marsh, Lillian us
4 and others. The MAY was great
! appreciated by both audiences mel
! and we have heard nothing but Y
I, highest praise of it. Both the ola!
Of the Civil War in the South ar
4 the dark days Of reconstruction a.
4 pictured in way that gets close !
4 the heart Of anyone raised IN DIX,
y land and its great climaxes wou-
: melt heart Of stone.