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The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
POPULAR OFFICIAL RESIGNS

Mr.. ]. M. Polk, assistant cashier Of
the Union Savings bank, rendered his
resignation on Monday, to take effect
today. Mr.. Folks resignation was ac-
cepted with regret by the directors of
the above named institution and the
board adopted resolutions praising
him highly as a valued and efficient
officer and in recognition of his ex-
cellent qualities as a man.
Mr. Polk will become manager in
this territory for the American Cen
trail Life Insurance company, of In
dianapolis. Mr.. Polk formerly filled
the position Of cashier Of the Coving-
ton Savings Bank & Trust company
and has held the position he resigned
for the past few years. He has
large circle of friends throughout this
section, made by his genial manners
and uniform courtesy.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
LUCY AND BYARS-HALL
I'm BASKET BALL CONTEST

Both the boys and girls teams of
Lucy high school will meet the Byars-
Hall teams Friday night in what are
expected to be two fast, hard-fought
contests. The Lucy athletes are ex-
pected to arrive on the north-bOund
train at 1902 p. m. and the game will
start as soon thereafter as can be
conveniently arranged. In all proba-
bility, the whistle win blow for the
FIRST contest at 7:45 p. M, and this
means that something good in the
way Of sport is going to be uncOrked.
AS for the boys team, Mr. Woodson
says that they are in good conditions
for anything in the way Of clean
game, from the kind that our fathers
used to play to the rough and tumble
latter day brand. Since this is to be
the first game since Christmas, the
local lads are keen for a fray and
they are going to be given chance
to show wllnat they are worth. The
game win lagin with the same lineup
that was nsed in the fall, but there
may be a shift of pOsitions in the
second half.
Miss Drane reports the girls team
as being in good condition, with the
exception of the absence Of Miss Luz
cile Bailey, who has been out this
week on account Of sickness. If she
does not improve sufficiently to re-
port for her place as running center,
the team win be seriously handi-
capped, In practice, the girls team
has been showing up unusually well
and the chances are that they will
walk away with the big end of the
score Friday night.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
METHODIST INSTITUTE

Following is the program for the
Upton County Methodist Institute,
to be held in the First Methodist
church in Covington, on February %
and %, 1917:
Thursday Night, February %
Sermon by Rev R "A. Wood.
Friday, February %
$500 a. m, - Devotional exercises,
conducted by Rev. A. H. Bezzo.
9:l5 a. m.-"0bject of Upton Com-
ty Institute, Rev, w. c. Waters and
Will Howard
9;40 a. m.-"The Secret of Minis
terial Success and Failure"-(D I'm
the Pulpit, Rev. w. T. Garner and w.
w. Templeton. (2) "Out of the Pull
pitt, Rev. C. f. Norman and G, A..
Girdner
1920 a. m.-"The Sunday School
| Q) 'The Leaders, Their Equipment
and How to Secure Them, w. L.
Rose and j, w. Corbett. GU "The
Pastors Relation to the Sunday
School,, A. w. Russell. (S) 1.-THE
Church in the Sunday School and the
Sunday School in the Church. How
to Secure?" Rev. S. M. Griffin. OPEN
discussion.
HOO a. m.-Sermon by Rev. Syl
Fisher, followed by sacrament of the
Lords supper.
Lunch in the church.
Thursday Afternoon
LAS = Devotions by Rev. L. X.
Wadsworth.
200 - "The Correctional Claims.
What? How? When?" Rev. S. r.
Hart.
2;1O-"S Stewardship, Rev. Robt. A.
Clark.
2:2O-"The Relation of the Minis
try to the Church'-(1) "What the
Station Expects of It's PASTOR, H.
R. Rose and G. B. Rhodes. (2) "What
Country Charge Expects of Its
PASTOR, j. R. Proctor, S. X. Drum
mond and w. H. Barton. (3) "The
Obligation of the Church to the Min
istry', j, l.. Richardson and W. E.
Miller.
3:2O-"The Preacher and the Wo-
mans Work., Mrs. John Y. Peete.
3:30-"What Shall Be Our Goal for
the Year ?"-Five minute talks made
voluntarily.
Adjournment.
We are anxious to make this one of
the best Institutes the county has
ever had and we trust that not only
those placed on the program will at
tend, but many others from each
charge in the county will attend, The
ladies of the First church will serve
lunch for all who come in the dining
room Of the church, and let's have a
great meeting Of this the first insti-
tute of the year. We feel that this
program if carried out will be very
helpful one and so we urge every man
on the program to be present and
take his place.
WALTER BROWN, President,
ROBT. A. CLARK,
SYL FISHER, ~
]. L. RICHARDSON, VI
Program Committee.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
FREE DELIVERY OF MAIL
FOR CITY OF CONVICTION

Postmaster R. H. Green has lately
been notified by First Assistant Post
master General J. c. Rooms that free
city delivery will be established in
Coyington on May /, 1917. A carrier
and substitute are to De appointed for
that position.
Those who expect to receive mail
by the carrier must make arrange
ments for a slot in their door or a
box for the reception of letters. The
patrons will be required to comply
with the rules and regulations of the
postoffice department.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
REVIVAL MEETING AT THE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

The meeting at the First Presby-
terrain church is exciting considerable
interest and good congregations at
tend the services which are held morn
ing and evening. The pastor, Rev. R.
P. Walker, has the assistance of Rev.
DR.. R. F. kirkpatrick, pastor of the
Chelsea Ave, church, of Memphis.
DIR. Kirkpatrick is bible student
and consecrated man who commands
the undivided attention of his audience.
The music, under the direction Of
Rev. c. A. Harper, of Somerville, with
a choir made up of members of the
various choirs of the town, is an in
spring feature of the services.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
MEETING HELD HERE TO CON-
SLIDER PENDING LEGISLATION
Petitions for Exemption from General
Road Law - Opposed to Proposed
General Primary Law.

A meeting of a majority Of the
members of the county court and a
number Of citizens was held in the cir
cult court room Saturday morning at
10 o'clock to protest against being
placed under the provisions of the
General Road law, now pending in the
legislature. Hon. V. Kimbrough was
elected chairman of the meeting and
Esq. G. w. Beasley secretary.
Judge Stephenson read the bill and,
after a brief discussion, resolutions
were offered petitioning Senator W.
A. Johnson and Representatives j. D..
McClanahan and A. !. Dorsey to have
Upton county exempted from the pro-
visions Of this, or any other, general
road law that might come before the
Legislature. The resolutions recited
the 1act that Upton county court had
elected road commissioners who had
entered upon their duties and made
contracts for the working Of the roads
for the next two years. The resolu-
lions were unanimously adopted.
The bill is long and makes many
new departures in the management Of
road and bridge work, and it was not
practical to digest the measure at a
single hurried reading. In view of the
fact that, in the nature of things, it
is an experiment, and this county is
now under a special law, it was deem
ed expedient that this county should
be exempt until this new law had been
tested and found to be practical.
The meeting also went on record, by
resolution, in opposition to a pending
General Primary law, and strong res
olutions were adopted requesting the
members representing this county in
the senate and house to vote against
it, This bill provides that a general
primary be held under the direction
and control of tie county election COM
missioners. It was argued that this
takes all party control of the primar-
les and vests it in officers named by
the state.
Acommittee was appointed to draft
amendments to the law authorizing
the election of county Judge, extend
ing his jurisdiction and providing that
the grand jury, at the circuit court,
could be called together the first Mon
day of the month by the county Judge
to pass upon such misdemeanor cases
as were in Jail. 1t was urged that a
great saving to the county could be
secured. 1t was especially stated that
the only added cost would be the per
diem of the grand jury when called
in extra session.
The meeting then adjourned.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
IN THE COUNTY COURT

The following proceedings were
had in the county court: P. B. Nc
Williams, ct al, VS.. William McCaskey,
ct al, decree for sale Of land entered;
Richard Aston, ct al, VS.. Julia Smith,
ct al, decree for sale of land revived
and renewed; W. L. Shelton, guardian,
VS.. Jessie Rose, decree allowing en-
crOachment upon the corpus of the es-
tate allowed for educational purposes.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
ROBBERY AT DEPOT

While the agent and Office force in
the Illinois Central depot were absent
at dinner Sunday, between the hours
Of 1915 and lilo o'clock, the office
was entered by some unknown person
and the safe robbed of $67 in green
backs. There was about $40 in silver
in the safe, but this was not disturbed.
So far the robbery is a mystery and
no clew has been discovered that
would lead to the identity of the
guilty party.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Henry Simpson and Victoria Tins,
Ben Wright and Ruth Blalack.
SiIas Sargent and Isabel Cubbs,
Isaiah Stevens and Corinne Brown.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
!. N. 5. FlrgL Methodist Church

Il. M. S. First Methodist Church
The Ladies' Missionary society of
the First Methodist church met in the
parlors of the church at the usual
hour Monday afternoon. A large
number of members and visitors was
present and they were pleased to have
their pastor, Rev. R. As Clark, meet
with them. Mr.. Clark read very in
tcresting and inspiring paper on mis-
sions, after which the ladies deter
mined they would try to do more in
the future than they had done in the
past.
During the meeting, the pastor, in
Wis usual impressive manner, installed
the officers for the new year. This
was also a re-installation ceremony,
since the old officers had done such
good work that the society felt they
would accomplish more by holding
them in service another year.
At the close Of the installation cere-
mony, Mrs. Rose, with her able assist
ants, served delightful refreshments.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01

Mr.. Felix Garner, Of jackson, Tenn,
visited this city Tuesday.
Frank I.ackey left today for Akron
o., where he will be employed in the
plant Of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber
company.
Miss Della Matthews, who has beer
spending the past several months at
the home Of her nephew, Mr.. P. A.
Gibbs. returned to Bolivar this morn.
log
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
AMONG THE CHURCHES
First Baptist Church

Chas. Z. Wauford, Pastor
Preaching by the pastor at IL a. m.
No services at night on account of
the revival at the First Presbyterian
church.
BY. p. u. at 6 p. m.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01

The pastor will preach next Sunday
morning at IL o'clock, the sermon fol-
lowed by the communion. There will
be no evening service on account of
the meeting at the Presbyterian
church.
Sunday school at 9:45, promptly
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
at 1880.
/ urge all of my congregation to at
tend all of the services you possibly
can, Sunday school, prayer meeting
and the preaching service.
ROBT. A. CLARK, Pastor.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01

An astronomer estimates that sue
cessfuI signalling to Mars would re-
quire flag as large as the State Of
Maine attached to pole five hundred
miles high.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01

A Kansas inventor has patented a
lever attachment for cameras to wind
their films, making more rapid snap
shooting possible and preventing dou-
bic exposures.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
First MethOdist Church

B. ". p. U. at 6 p. m.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30


N T. Wilcox, of the Mississippi River Power
company.
eve must build, so that every step forward
makes future steps easier and longer and then
when once our work is done it will stay DONE"
has been the guiding principle of c. w. Kel-'
logg, manager of the big power company.
eve want more than factories; we want fac
tories that make the getting Of other factories
easier" said an officer of the Keokuk Indus
trial association one day.
And that is why the getting of these three
metal companies is considered the biggest thing
possible for any town to do in one year.
Making the Prince of Metals.
Ferro-silicon cannot be made anywhere one
may like to live. Today it is made at Keokuk,
on each side of Niagara Falls and at Balti-
more with electric current from McCalPs
Ferry. To make it requires immense quanti-
ties of electricity, and this current must be ex-
ceedingly cheap.
Silicon is metal found as a component of
some jewels in milady's necklace, of the best
glass, surrounding gold and more precious
metals and occasionally found approximately
pure as sand or rock Combined with sodium,
it makes a water proofing for concrete and the
most elegant splint for a broken arm. Com
bined with iron, it makes steel that is the
prince of metals, and today hardly any good
steel is made without it.
This prince of metals is useful IN trans
formers because of it's electrical resistance; it
goes into locomotives, fine machinery of all
kinds and many forms of railroad equipment;
it has almost as many special uses as steel
itself.
The Ice Cream Freezer of the Gods.
To make ferro-silicon, the iron and the sill
con must be united not merely mixed. To
properly /rearrange the molecules requires the
superlative force of an electric furnace 1t is
done at Keokuk in gigantic ice cream freezers
heated to the t1nost-literally hotter than the
hell described in holy writ
Imagine a big barrel like that of an ice
cream freezer but made of carbon; imagine
the bucket of the ice cream freezer replaced
by big stick of carbon in the center of the
barrel Now instead Of ice and SALT imagine
the circular space between filled with mix
tre of iron and silica, the latter being an oxide
of silicon found in the form Of sand and rock.
Instead of freezing cream, imagine heat in
thousands of Degrees the hottest heat possible
for man to make, amidst that iron and silica.
The heat drives the molecules of the silica sand
apart, and the silicon unites with the iron:
After awhile, spigot at the bottom is opened
and the fluid melted ferro-silicon runs out
ready for market after it is cooled
lust as the arc light is electric current flow
mo from one carbon stick to another, so the
ferro-silicon furnace is electric current flowing
from the central big carbon cylinder to the big
carbon barrel through the silica and the iron
packed between them
The plant contains numbers Of these tur-
naces At night it is a spectacle worth coming
miles to see and visible for long distance
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rCanetoI
Of Plant Caef
ndand lake owaaI einth

Demand and
The romance Of metals is blooming brightly
in the particolored lights of electric furnaces
in Keokuk today.
The mysterious hard lead, coming into use
SO rapidly that it is hard to keep production
and plant growing as fast as the demand, is
made only in Keokuk. It is a romance of in
dustrialisr in itself.
Pure zinc coming out of vast watts by the ton,
while few years ago a few grains in the
laboratory was all that was possible, is being
made in Keokuk-more of it in Keokuk than
in any other state than Iowa. It's romance
leads to the big telescopes in the great astrono-
nical observatories and to the mile long lines
of artillery firing barage curtains against the
Bosche in Flanders.
Ferro-silicon is the index of the new know
ledge Of alloys, and alloys are the synonyms
of much that is romantic and wonderful IN
modern metalurgy 1t is being made here in
Keokuk in large and increasing quantities.
Biggest Thing in the Whole State.
There have come to Keokuk comparatively
recently perhaps, the three most important
manufactures that ever started plants in the
state of Iowa. They are the United Lead COM
pany, the River Smelling and Refining com
pany, and the Electro-Metals company.
Beginning about a year ago. they all have
had to greatly increase their plants to supply
constantly increasing demand for their pro-
ducts. Somewhere between one and two mil
lion dollars represents the increase in plant
within the year made by these companies. Ten
wears ago. a million dollar plant in Keokuk
would have been talked about days. nights
and Sundays in this town.
Now, only small fraction Of the popula-
ton knows anything about it. Keokuk does not
fully appreciate what has come to her IN these
three plants with their romance OF metals and
their tremendous industrial outcome.
It is time Keoklk was told about it IN detail
But the Beginning of Many Things.
Iowa has stepped to the front into fore
most place in the making of metals in the
United States.
And each of these big industries is but the
foreru1mer of many more. They were induced
to come here with much pains, because each IS
basic industry upon which many other mdus-
tries naturally depend and which are natur,
ally in time surrounded by many other klno Oh
factories.
One industry trails another in the business
of metals. The zinc plant already mere IS apt
to be followed by copper refining plant, ny
all sorts of factories making things out OF
hrass and by bronze works-and multlCude
Of things are made of brass and bronze IN
these DAYS The lead plant has future posi-
hilities of attracting other industries that are
large but more indefinite today, because TINS
lead industry itself is only about year old.
Ferro-silicon spells a hundred things IN steel'
and steel builds many kind Of factory products
Making the Fundamentals Right:
"Get the fundamental conditions rlght anC
the rest is easy" has been sort OF slogan "
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30


down the Mississippi river. This plant started
rather large but it has had to multiply itself
within it's first year and now spreads over a
large tract, including vacated streets down IN
the old lumber mill district
The Mystery of Metals in Alloys.
The layman probably thinks that pure zinc
needs only care in the making. The chemist
knows that purity in any metal is 50 difficult as
to be practically impossible of attainment,
even in the laboratory on small scale.
Some muzzes of big naval guns blew off to
the irritation and danger of our brave seamen,
because there was mere trace OF sulphur III
the steel from which the guns were made.
Long before the present war, that was cor
rected The history Of metals is full OF strange
effects from the least trace OF certain metals
in mixture of other metals. Often three sort
metals mixed make a hard alloy; or some hard
metals mixed make an alloy very soft The
subject Of alloys is as interesting as the work
of Sherlock Holmes ever was. We have learned
that we must use in all alloys metals OF the
greatest possible purity.
Brass and bronze are alloys, and zinc is
component of each of them. Hence pure zinc
becomes important in making bronzes ana
brasses. Also, brass and bronze for the accu-
rate parts of artillery, telescopes, microscopes
and other things must be of the very highest
oualitv Hence pure zinc is important TO
America and her allies in the world war, I'M
pO1tant to astronomers searching Ine heavens
and measuring parallax to an lntlnltesslmal
part of a degree important to pathologlsts
seeking the cause and cure of disease, and I'M
portant to every kind of scientist and every
patriot
In the Skies and the Bottom of the Sea.
Keokuk is making much of the zinc IN use
TODAY that is as pure as it is possible to make
anv metal. It has as much right to be called
nure zinc as distilled water has to be called
pure water It is as near hundred per cellI
pure as anything made by mankind.
This pure zinc goes out from the plant to
increase the usefulness OF warriors, sclentlsts,
fine machinery and big engineering projects.
It goes everywhere and travels all over the
world. finally in combination with other metals
in brass or bronze It flies over German
trenches in the valves Of aeroplane engines; 1T
is shot into the Bosche trenches IN shrapnel
casings. It is in the sextant that locates the ship
of the mariner; it is under the sea IN the SUD-
marine.
It is made in Keokuk, like the other two
metals, because of the large quantity OF cheap
electric current obtainable here. tank as
large as several city blocks is filled with an
acid solution containing zinc; INTO the TANK
hang hundreds of large sheets of metal; enough
electricity is turned on to plate the metal
sheets with pure zinc to thickness OF some
fraction of an inch Then the pure zinc IS
peeled off and the metal sheet replaced 10
load itself again with the pure zinc metal. Inc
output is tens of tons every day. and the nrSC
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The Telegraph Service Of The
Daily Gate City and Constitu-
ion-Democrat is received over
our own leased wire.
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down the Mississippi river. This plant started
rather large, but it has had to multiply itself
within it's first year and now spreads over a
large tract, including vacated streets down in
the old lumber mill district.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-06-28

Pleasant Valley Development Co., at
25 cents cubic yard, was authorized.
E. E. Mckee, president Of the Pleas
ant Valley Co., and it's principal own
er, was present and stated that he
had an offer from the railway COM
pany for the chats at so cents q cubic
yard but that his company was de.
veloping the famous Iron Mountain
lake as pleasure resort and realize
the importance to them of having
this material placed on the roads Of
the county. For this reason he said
he would sell the chats to the county
at half the price offered by the rail-
road company and furthermore would
donate free all of the chats needed in
improving the public roads on the
Iron Mountain property. He also
said he expected to construct three
mile driveway around the lake out Of
chats he would reserve for this pur-
pose. The court acted very wisely,
We think, purchasing these chats.
Any one who has seen the roads in
the vicinity Of Iron Mountain knows
what superior road dressing ma
terial they are. They are said to be
the best and most durable material
for this purpose in the State.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-06-28
Barbarity Outdone.

Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TennJ
In connection with the story that
Germany's cry within her borders Is
for "fats and oils, oils and fats" to
run her machinery, the following
paragraph is going the rounds Of the
press:
A revolving story has been told in
some of the British newspapers about
the manner In which Germans have
been disposing Of their dead soldiers.
tits told there is an offal factory near
Coblentz, to which the bodies Of the
dead are taken and converted into
fats, oils, fertilizers and food for hogs.
It is too horrible for belief. but the
story has been printed, and it is claim.
ed admitted by some Of the German
newspapers.
II this 10 true, II by any possibility it
COULD be true, then has "kultur'
mixed her drink from the cesspool OF
naturalization and qusffed 1t from
the skull cup Of her dead self!
A country that could so treat the
dead who died for her is lower In the
scale OF life than the vultures that
feed upon the unburied bodies In the
battles wake.
Every American who ever read q
line Of Goethe or sang stave Of Wag.
ner would be glad to know the state.
ment was without color OF fact,