The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-10-11
LOCAL NEWS

ing ASS1idA4y a. ttte Enter PAA9S W.
Mr.. w. A. Lemmonds, of Randolph
/ is now clerking at j. G. BaddOur's.
Mr.. ]. R. Harrison is building a
five-room house for E. NJ. Downing
IN the 18th district.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Cole
man, Of the COtten's lake vicinity, q
daughter.
Don't forget that Saturday, 0c-
tober Is is registration day for wo-
men in Tennessee.
Mr.. A. G. Whitson, of the Liber-
ty neighborhood had the misfortune
to lose valuable mule Friday.
-Messrs A. L. Hancock and Will
son Harris, are new additions to the
salesforce of the Covington Supply
Company.
Five trains from the north load
ed with soldier boys passed through
here Monday morning bound for the
soldiers camp at Hattiesburg, Miss.
Joe, little son of Mr.. Haywood
Archer, of the Mt. Carmel neigh
borhood, is suffering from an at
tack of pneumonia.
Mr.. w. R. Samuels will shortly
begin the erection of a two-story
office building for Mr. G. L. Rice at
Ripley.
There were so tickets sold from
Covington to parties attending the
great Barnum & Bailey show in Mem
phis, Monday,
Mr.. Sam McClanahan has pur-
chased the J. E. Walker place one
and a half miles northeast of the
city for consideration of 500 an
acre
Considerable frost fell here on
Friday night, killing potato and to-
mato vines and nipping the cotton
leaves. The thermometer went
down to SO degrees that night.
Bishop Thomas F. Gailor of
Memphis will preach in Trinity
Church, Mason, next Sunday October
IA, at o'clock. Everyone is given
cordial invitation to attend.
Mr.. Dan Vandergrift is having a
number of tenant houses built on his
two places Oh the old turnpike road
in the 18th district. Mr.. H. e. Wal
ker is experimenting the work.
Mr.. j. A Thornton has lately
purchased the w. A. Mcclure place
of Sc Ia acres, mile and quarter
north of Garland for considera-
ton of $4,000.
Mrs. James Rayner has been suf-
fering from an attack of paralysis
for the past several days at the
home Of Mr.. James Parker, in the
Mt. Carmel vicinity.
Quite a good deal Of new corn
has been sold here this week, find
ing a ready market at So barrel.
The crop is bountiful in Upton
county.
The house lately occupied by
Mr.. Clyde Montgomery on the north
side of the square is being over
hauled and the firm Of Wnite d Joy
will shortly occupy the place with
their grocery and meat market.
DIR. c. L. Hays, county health
informed us Saturday that
there were two well developed cases
of smallpox at Munford, and six
other cases between Simonton and
Beaver.
--Messrs. John and A. R. Corder
and J. w. Pool, of the Liberty neigh
borhood, killed dog, Thursday, in
the public road, between Liberty and
Holly Grove, that they are satified
was suffering from rabies.
Mr.. L. E. Thomas has moved his
shoemaking establishment to the
store next to Elcan's Bakery, Gracey
& Anderson's automobile agency now
occupying the place left vacant BY
Mr.. Thomas.
Owing to much travel over the
county roads in autos the dust IS
as deep at this writing (Monday) as
was ever known before. Unless
these roads are dragged after the
next rain, we may expect bad roads
next winter.
The thermometer went down to
so degrees Monday night and the
first killing frost Of the season fell.
Considerable ice could be seen Tues
day morning The frost will cut off
the cotton crop to considerable ex-
tent.
Mr.. J. R. Delk showed us Mon
day curiosity in corn twin ear
each enclosed in its individual
shuck. He also showed us an ear OF
Iowa Silver Mine corn measuring 19
inches in length. Both are on exhl-
bition at this office.
The new aviation field at Mil
lington has been officially named
Park field. The field occupies GAG
acres and 1000 men are daily en-
ployed in the work which is progress
sing well. A great number of people
from this county are employed there
Mr.. Rome Payne, Jr., and fam
lily left the last Of the week fol-
Kenneth, Mo-. where they Will IN Iu-
ture make their home. Mr.. Payne
will still be in the employ of the
Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph
Co.
Miss Sue Flowers has been suf-
fering from an attack of malariai
fever for more than two weeks past.
Miss Marmaduke Bell has been fill
ling her position as teacher in the
Tabernacle School during her abb
sence.
&C. E. Roberts, signalman on the
U. S. S. Vestal. now in an Atlantic