The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-07-12

improvements NA AsAAs " Va Ek9ul83tt' IS
house in the way Of painting.
Mr.. Roscoe Proctor has opened
up 2 store in the place formerly oc-
cupied as an Office by DR.. Wilson at
BHrlison.
The meeting that was to have be-
gun at the Macedonia church next
Sunday has been postponed and will
not begin until September.
Mr.. Alex Martin, who has been
with the well digging crew on the /. C.
railroad, is now on the night force at
the city light and water plant.
"A Sunday school will be organic
ed next Sunday afternoon after the
arbor meeting three miles east of
Gift, conducted by Rev. Chesley
Bowden.
Mr. j. H. Dane has succeeded Mr..
]. E. McDougald as foreman of the
RialtO section on the Illinois Central
railroad. Mr.. McDougald has Joined
the Seventh Railway regiment for
service in France.
Mr.. w. G. McGaughey began the
work the first of the week of making
the addition to the Standard Oil Coz
barn in this city. The addition will
make the dimensions of the building
81 by 20 feet.
Mrs, Nancy Miller Hill will de-
liver an address in the A. R. P. church
in this city next Sunday evening at
7:15 o'clock on the subject of mission
conditions in Egypt, where she spent
three years in teaching.
Mr.. Grover Estes and Miss Eliza
Byars, daughter of Mr.. VIM. Byars,
both of the Phelan vicinity, were mar
ried at the Methodist church at Phe-
Ian at IL o'clock Sunday morning,
Rev. Syl Fisher officiating.
Thirteen naval recruits were sent
from Memphis to Port Royal Satur-
day. Among the number were Sam
A. Williamson, of Burlison; Ernest
M. Massey, of Quito; billiard ]. Muir
ply and Homer P. Lloyd, Of Ran
dolph.
Esq j. f. Ports and wife have
purchased the Capt. D. j. Wood old
place on High street from Mr.. Sam
Gray for consideration of $1,000.
Mr.. Ports, we understand, expects to
move his family to the city on the first
of next year.
Ed Taylor, colored, who lives on
Mrs. Hennie Taylor's place in the 9th
district, was shot by A. D. Blackwell,
colored, in crap game at Canaan
church last Sunday. A shotgun was
the weapon and Taylor was wounded
in the hip and lower legs, but not
seriously.
Mrs. j. A. Ferguson returned
Saturday night from Chicago, where
she attended the bedside of her
daughter, Mrs. R. D. Clements. Mrs.
Clements was successfully operated
on for appendicitis in the Washington
Park hospital on June 80, and is now
steadily recovering,
The horse of Mr.. Heck Perry, of
the Gilt Edge neighborhood, became
frightened at a passing auto near the
home Of Mr., Grad Baskin Sunday
afternoon and ran away. The buggy
was overturned but luckily Mr.. Perry
was uninjured and only slight dam
age was done to the buggy.
Mrs. R. S. Calhoun went to Mem
phis Sunday morning to attend the
bedside of her son, MIR. Robert Cal
houn, who was successfully operated
on in st. Joseph's hospital there Mon
day for removal of tumor. His friends
will be pleased to know that he is
getting on very well since the oper-
alton.
Mrs. May Jane Baskin, wife Of
Mr.. Yerby Baskin, died at her home
near Holly Grove Saturday afternoon
of congestion, after weeks illness,
and was buried in Indian Creek ceme-
terry at o'clock Sunday afternoon.
She was about 65 years of age and is
survived by her husband and several
children.
The cooperative revival meeting
will be held in the Munford Presby-
terian church by Rev. E. 0. Whitwell,
of Norman, Okla, assisted by Miss
Fern Miles, of Guthrie, Okla, who
will have charge of the music, begin
ming Sunday morning, July Is, at IL
o'clock. Everybody is given cordial
invitation to attend these meetings.
Rev Cleanth Brooks, who was
employed at the last meeting of the
Memphis conference of the Methodist
church to look after the educational
interests of the church, made an adj
dress in behalf of that work at the
First Methodist church Sunday even
ing at s o'clock, and was heard with
interest by large congregation. Mr..
Brooks was accompanied by his wife.
"A communication from Mr.. ]. r.
Anderson, Of the Atoka vicinity, in
tended for publication in our last
weeks issue, reached us after the
paper had been printed. Mr.. Ander-
son stated that he had gathered a cot
ton bloom from his field on July a.
Crops, he stated, were small but well
worked and in good shape, but that
prospects for corn were rather dis
couraging.
"A double murder or rather
murder and suicide was committed
Wednesday morning at the home Of
Cush Gingery, colored, between
Orysa and Henning. Gingery killed
his wife and then himself. He is
brother of the two famous Gingery
negroes who killed two officers near
Durhamville several years ago and
have never been apprehended.-Lau-
dardale Countv FnfarnriSe