The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-06-13

1870 $780,
Miss Katie Lou Shoals music
pupils at Kerrville gave most en-
joyable recital at that place Thursday
night. Misses Margaret Gotten and
Ursula Elan assisted in rendering
the interesting program.
pr. W. P. Holloway, late Of Gar
land, who has lately been sick in the
base hospital at Camp Jackson, CO.
lumbia, S. c., will be transferred to
TT. Oglethorpe, Ca as soon as ne
Is able to report.
Mr.. ]. f. Stiles, of South Coving
ton, returned Saturday morning from
a visit to his daughter, Mrs. E. A.
Brown, who is suffering from an at
tack Of continued fever at her home
in Memphis.
Mr.. E. o. Phillips, formerly Of
Brighton, who has lately been keeping
books for a lumber concern at Craw-
louisville, Ark. has gone to st. Louis
where he has begun training for a
soldier at Jefferson Barracks.
-Messrs. Arnold Maley, Green Hill,
Sanford Garner, VIM. Mechanism and
lanes Shelton attended most en-
ioyable dance given by the young men
at Brownsville in the opera house
there Thursday night.
The following are among the
Young ladies from this county who
left Monday morning to attend the
normal school in Memphis: Misses
Corrie Pickens, Mormon Deverell,
Katherine and Louise O'Neal, Kath-
crime and Maud Gill;
Rev. J. E. Miles went Saturday
morning to Quito, where he preach
ed for the Baptist congregation on
Sunday morning and night. Mr..
Miles now breaches there on the sec
ond aud fourth Sundays in each
month, morning and night.
A most enjoyable social enter
tainment was the ice cream supper
given for Red Cross benefit at the
home Of Mr.. w. H. Hise, of the Pisgah
neighborhood, Thursday night. More
than twenty dollars was the sum
realized for the above worthy cause.
Mr.. J. H. Corder, Of the Liberty
neighborhood, spent several days in
Crockett county last week, having gone
over to attend the funeral Of his
granddaughter, Miss Corder Belle
Smith, who died at her home at Crock
EFT Mills on Tuesday Of last week.
Little Gordon Moore, son of Mr..
John Moore, Of the 18th district, who
has been suffering from the effects of
an attack of diphtheria several
months ago, is nov improving stead
ily, the little fellow having recovered
his voice, and hopes now are enter
tanned for his permanent recovery.
We miss number Of local and
personal items each week by people
assuming that we already know about
them. We can't know about your
visitor when he or she comes or goes
on night trains, so o3lige US by let
ting us know about these and other
matters.
-Steel-frame awnings are being
erected in front of the stores of MA.
Walker, R. T. Somervell, S. G. Mont
gomery, J. w. Smiths meat market,
Alexander Drug Co., and Joe Naifeh,
on the east side Of the square, TAX
ing the place Of the old wooden avn
ings. R. B. Shelton has the contract
for the work.
Lightning struck the kitchen adj
joining the room in which Frances
Gibbs, colored, on Esq. ]. H. Flowers
place in the Tabernacle neighborhood,
was sitting, on Wednesday night Of
last week. A plank was badly torn
up, but strange to say, the woman
sustained no injuries whatever, though
she was within 10 feet of where the
bolt struck.
A dispatch from Jackson, Tenn,
to the Memphis Commercial Appeal
under date of June 6, says that Miss
Grace Everett, daughter Of Judge
Sidney J. Everett, Of Jackson, won
the Strickland medal at the final COM
mencement exercises of Union Uni
versity. This medal is offered to the
senior preparing and delivering the
best thesis. Miss Everett spoke on
"War, the Greatest Drama.
The appearance Of our court
house yard with its patches of weeds,
bald places, broken-down seats and
pieces of trash scattered about is a
disgrace to our town and our county,
and is commented on unfavorably by
all visitors to our town. We have
too good town to be hampered by
such conditions, and we hone the good
ladies will take the matter in hand
again and improve condition there.
Lieut.. J. Elliott Biaydes, formerly
of this place, later of Bessemer, Ala,
who has been in the medical depart
ment of the army at TT. OgIethorpe,
Ca, has recently been transferred to
TT. Crockett, Galveston. Tex. Ia
a letter to the Leader DR.. Blaydes
says: Received today a forwarded
copy of the Leader Though three
weeks old, enjoyed reading the locals
very much. Am stationed here in the
post hospital, which has most like
able CORPS of medical reserve men
connected with it. Galveston being
great seaport town. hence the forts
for the guarding Of the CITY. Am
iooking forward to the next issue Of
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