The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-01-25
LOCAL NEWS
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The Leader pays prompt and
special attention to mail orders for
job printing.
Messrs. Lotion Owen and J. w.
Dawson made another carload ship
ment Of cattle to ST. Louis Saturday,
The contract has been let to Mr..
J. T. Jackson, of Memphis, for the
laying Of $1,000 worth Of concrete
pavements at Atoka.
"A dog belonging to 7, L. Hayes,
Of the 18th district, manifested very
strong symptoms Of rabies Sunday
and was killed.
Mr.. 7. S. jackson and family have
moved from the Bolick place, at old
Bloomington, to the vicinity Of Stan
ton.
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ing column works wonders for others.
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Mrs. J. B. Anthony, of the Simon
toms Store neighborhood, who lately
underwent an operation at the Lucy
Brinkley hospital, Memphis, is steadily
improving.
Mr.. ]. ]. Peeler and family have
moved from the R. S. Barrett old place,
on the north end Of North Main street,
to the Capt. W. 7, Boyd place, on East
Liberty, with Mr. Sam Gray and
family.
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item, don't assume that we already
know it, but tell us or phone us about
it promptly
The revival services, in the First
Presbyterian church will begin Sun
day, January %. Rev R. F. Kirk
patrick, D. d., will do the preaching
and Rev. c. L. Harper the singing.
There will be two services. each day,
at 1920 a, m. and 1880 p. m.
Mr.. j. R. Wamath has rented
the w. A. Drumwright place.. at
Leighs Chapel, and will move back
here from Senath, Mo-, about Febru-
airy | and again make Upton county
his home,
There has been more snow so far
this winter than any time for the past
six years. On January 6, 1910, there
was a snowfall of Ia inches and the
mercury went down to zero, There
were also a number Of other SHOWS
the same winter,
Now is the time to have that
spring order for printing done. Let
the Leader do the work for you. Let
us hear from you, either in person or
by mail.
Mr.. Thomas Addison closed deal
Friday with Messrs. w G. Ackard and
S. NJ. Spears, of Van Horn, Tex, for
AZ head of horses and mules. Mr..
Addison has taken these mules to Red
Bud farm, in the 15the district, and
will place them on pasture there.
The, gentlemen above named have
had 4 large drove of horses and mules
here for some days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Hunt pleas
antly entertained few friends at
their home, at Tabernacle, with a din
ner party on the evening Of Friday.
Barbecued hare was one of the fea-
lures of the menu served, and the
evening was much enjoyed by all.
We are told that two daughters
of julius Matthews, colored, who lives
half mile south of Mt. Carmel, were
crossing the overflow of Townsend
creek, just north of the Sigman place,
the road being covered with water for
some distance, when the mule they
were driving stepped off into ditch,
became entangled in the harness and
was drowned. The women waded out
to safety
Mr.. ]. L. Hatchell, who lives on
DR.. L. A. Yarbrough's place, one mile
south Of the city, informs us that he
drew up a bucket of water from his
we'll few nights ago and found live
catfish about five inches long in the
bucket. The fish had evidently been
in the well, he thinks, for quite long
II lille and evidently got there in some
way when it was very small.
The largest transfer ever record
ed in Laudefdaie county. except that
of the property of the l. c. Railroad
company, took place Monday when the
Anderson-Tully Co., of Memphis,
transferred its lands, lying in the 5th
Civil District of this county, to the
Mengel Box Co. for consideration Of
$475,0O0 cash. = Lauderdale County
Enterprise.
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do you want to buy anything? If so,
let the Leaders thousands of readers
know about it in our classified column.
Mr.. Clarence w. Hall, who has
lately been in Denver and Canon City,
Colo, returned to Covington Friday
night and left the first Of the week
for visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
w. E. Hall, in York, S. C. From there
he will go to Saranac Lake, N. Y,
and enter sanatorium for treatment.
His many friends here hope that he
may be speedily benefited by the
treatment there.
"A number Of friends of Ernest
Billings enjoyed the celebration of his
14th anniversary at the home of his
mother, Mrs. ALBERT Bringle, at Bur-
lison, Friday evening. An elegant
O'Clock dinner was the first feature of
the evening, and later other features
of amusement were much enjoyed by
those present
Julius Hall, a colored man about
SO or "a years of age, who made his
home on Mr.. w. C. Towards place in