The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-01-11
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lar. Iarner D1ekey is building a
dwelling on the NJ. 7. Elzey place, III
re dolly Grove neighborhood.
Miss Emma Belashmit is assist
ne Miss Pattie Ralph in teaching
lhs school st Hazel Grove.
ar n. A. Kinney has lately sold
ms farm of Al acres, in the 18th dis
tflet to Nj. Van Bringle for a con-
slasfation Of sl4Q0.
Mr. 4. Nj. DeBakery has moved
q the city from the Detroit vicinity
and occupies the J. S. McClanahan
place Oh Peete street
Miss Eleanor Stevens, Of Wilson's
Chapel, who has been suffering from
an attack Of pneumonia, is now con-
valescent
Lewis Green, of the Burlison vi
cinitV, while cutting wood Friday,
struck his foot with the axe, cutting
q very deep cash in it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Whitening
ton and Miss Sarah Anderson moved
Saturday from Detroit to Dyersburg,
which place will now be their home.
Mr.. Peter Holloman has just
completed a store on the w. j. Hug
gins place, at Pleasant Grove church,
and will open up stock of groceries
there this week.
Mr.. H. G. Hopkins has moved
from the Myers place, in the vicinity
of Oak Grove, to the l.. E. Hall place,
in the vicinity Of Mt Carmel, which
he now owns.
Mr.. Heath Workman, of Holly
Grove, while at work on house at
Garland on Thursday of last week,
fell from ladder distance Of about
15 feet and had his hip badly sprained.
Miss Nancy Walk, daughter of
MIR. Hale Walk, of the Bride vicinity,
has been suffering from an attack of
maiarial hematuria for the past sew
erai days.
Mr.. j. R. Delk and family have
lately moved from the G. H. Allen
place at Chapel Hill to the M. A. Ray
place, three and half miles east Of
the city.
Mr.. Archer Terrence and family
have moved from the Addison place,
on Maple street, and now occupy
rooms with Mrs. Mollie Fields, on
West street.
Mr.. Ed Smith has moved to the
place lately occupied by Mr.. I. W.
Doyle, in Cloverdale addition. Mr..
Peter Fredrickson has moved to the
G. r. Collins place in Cloverdale.
Mrs. j. E. Blaydes and family,
who moved from here to Nashville
last summer, have moved from that
city to Memphis and will in future
make that city their home.
Rev. j. B. Smith, the well-known
colored Baptist divine, has well
earned the name of ~the marrying
parson". His record of marriages for
the month of December was an even
dozen.
Mrs. Paul Gillespie entertained
few friends with Welsh rarebit at
Her home Friday night to honor her
guest, Miss Mary Maud Barret, OF
DyersDurg.
Vanderwarder' sublime The
Lord Is Ny Shepherd" was the offer
tory at the FIRST Presbyterian church
Sunday morning. sung by Miss Gracey
McNeely, who Is possessed Of voice
with rare quality.
Miss Flora Lee Peeler, who has
lately been in the employ OF the For
tune lard Drug CO., Of Memphis, has
returned to her home in this city and
IS again employed as an operator IN
thu local telephone exchange.
Mr.. W. E. McClanahan, who has
lately been travelling for the DeCamp
Glass Casket Co., is now travelling IN
West Tennessee for the wholesale dry
goods house Of Lennon & Gale, OF
Memphis.
The little son Of Mr. j. G. Tate,
Af the Phelan neighborhood, aged two
months. died at / o'clock Saturday
morning, after a weeks illness, and
was buried the same afternoon at
o'clock at Charleston graveyard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Matthews have
moved from the Slate place, four
miles south of the city, to the Upton
Mace, six miles south. Mr. Will Had
lev and family will occupy the house
vacated by them.
Prof. j. A. Gotten was confined to
his home for several days last week
81 account of illness, but was able to
return to Memphis Monday morning
and resume his duties in the West
Tennessee Normal school
Rev. Chesley Bowden preached to
i large congregation in the Munford
Baptist church Sunday morning at II
o'clock. Mr.. Bowden will preach IN
the church of the above denomination
at Garland next Sunday morning at Il.
ESQ. j. Lauderdals Richardson Of
ficiated Saturday morning at 1880
o'clock in the wedding Of Mr.. Arthur
James and Miss Linnie James. The
ceremony was said in the Office of
County Clerk G. P. Simonton in the |
courthouse.
Mr.. A. B. Pickett, of Shreveport,
II. arrived here Thursday night on a |
visit to his mother, Mrs. S. A. Pickett,
who has lately been dangerously i'll |
II the home Of her daughter, Mrs. G.
B. Gillespie. Mrs. Pickett's condition,
however, is now much better.
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