The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-12-20

-Messrs. jill and C.M. Smith, OF
the Oak Grove neighborhood, killed
two porkers one day last week that
tipped the beam at $40 pounds, dress
ed.
Mr.. Thomas Addison, of Red Bud,
told us Saturday that his son, Mr.
Warner Addison, killed large chick
en- hawk on their place Friday, which
measured AZ inches from tip to tip.
The hawk, Mr.. Addison is satisfied,
had carried off as many as 10 young
pigs from his farm.
The marriage of Miss Ruth Nc
Millen to Mr.. Robert Franklin Willis,
Of Upton, was solemnized on Tuesday
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock at the As
ISOLATED Reformed Presbyterian church
corner Eastmoreland Avenue and
Pauline Street, Memphis. The cere-
mony was said by the Rev. DR.. E. P.
Lindsey.
There will be a musicale at the
home of Mr.. P. D. Moore, Mt Car
mel, Friday afternoon, December %,
at 2:30 o'clock, for thte benefit of
the Red Cross. An interesting pro-
gram will be rendered, and an. adj
mission fee Of Is cents will be
charged for adults and Is cents for
children.
Mr.. ]. E. Alexander, former well
known and popular Covingtonian,
writes us as follows from De Land,
Fla: "Please find enclosed money
order for $1.O0, as per request. Will
be glad to get your paper, as / love
the people of Upton county, and the
state of Tennessee, and will always
call it home"
"A friend of ours said to US re-
Gently that he had three hogs that
had not cost him more than $4,000,
and at the present prices they would
bring on the market not less than
$125.00. Just little pasture, some
feed and attention every day. He
said a hog is less trouble and costs
no more than worthless dog.
Mr.. Grady Kelly left last week
for Memphis, where he enlisted as
clerk in the U. S. Army. From
there he was sent to jefferson Bar
racks, st. Louis, and will later be
sent to Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. James
G. Owen has been called into the
service and is filling the position of
Exemption Board clerk lately filled
by Mr.. Kelley. Mr.. j. w. Darby is
also now employed regularly on the
board.
Mrs. Stella Caps, of Hickman,
KY. sister Of Mr.. J. M. Polk, Of
this city, died in the Baptist Me-
mortal Hospital, Memphis. Saturday
morning at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Capps
was operated on for gall-stones at
the above hospital on Wednesday of
last week, and never recovered from
the shock. Her remains were shipped
back to Hickman for interment. Mrs.
Capps was AZ years of age and is
by her husband and three
sons.
"A friend wrote US on Thursday
Of last week that Hatchie river was
frozen over from bank to bank, the
ice being from four to five inches
thick. Messrs. J. R. Tillman and Jim
Smith cut the ice across the river
with an axe, something that hasn't
been seen in Upton county in over 40
years. r. B. johnson, colored, who
lives on the Workman place near
Flatiron Point, told US Friday that
Fish lake and the other lakes in the
bottom were frozen over and that the
ice on them was from FIVE to six in
ches thick, something that hasn't been
seen before for long while.
For the first time in half a |
the Mississippi river is froz-
en- over just this side of 0sceola,
Ark, according to a telegram re-
,eived Monday by the Hottum- Ken
nedy Dry Docks company" says the
Memphis Scimitar of December II. |
This, it is believed resulting in
the ice flow Monday, and
also accounted for big drop in the
river when the official measurement
showed the stage to be near zero
mark" Parties here from the Pill
Jerk neighborhood Monday, stated
hat Hatchie river was frozen over
solid, that people were walking across
he river, and that the ice was
-hick enough to hold IN horse. /