The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-05-23


/ Farmers are all about through
planting; aarly corn worked out, ano
cotton choppilg IS ia full swing this
week. Farmers are getting on nicely
with their crops.
This IS Red Cross week, and Almyra
community is endeavoring to do "heI
lbit" IN this great work The Red
Cross is truly the greatest benevo-
Elent relief work ever known. Every
day it is relieving suffering among
all classes of people all over this big
world. 1t may be that it may help
your boy, my boy, or our neighbor's
boy far away from home in the
great war. More than 100000 peo-
pie Of all classes belong to the Red
Cross. II You DONE belong to that
great band of workers, why not2 Go
today and ioiR
( Prof. H. FL. Robson, of Covingtonr
addresser the Sharon people Sabbath
night in the interest Of the Red Cross.
/ The Y. P. c. U. suspended their
services that night in favor of the
/ Red Cross meeting. A fairly good
audience was present. At the close
of the address a voluntary offering
of more than 500 was taken up,
which would have been considerably
more but for the fact that several
of the people of the Sharon and AL
myra community had during the day
attended similar services at Macedonia
Clopton and Salem, and had made con-
tributions there. At the close of the
services the matter was nut into the
hands Of a good committee, who will
see that this community comes up to
her quota.
Mr.. ]. A. Green, county surveyor,
was in this community last
Thursday surveying a contested piece
of land on the Shelby and Upton
county line between the land of a..
A. Kelley and T. L. Handy. This
particular land line has been contest
ed for several years past, and has
been surveyed at different times by
different surveyors, and twice sur
veyed this spring-first by Mr.. c. G..
Richardson, of Memphis, and last by
Mr. Green.
Mr.. W. A, Ellison, of Memphis, is
this week with Mrs. Ellison visiting
relatives in this community. Mr. and
Mrs. Ellison are among the oldest
living settlers Of this community,
having been married here so years
ago last February. Mr. .Ellison's
grandchildren, Victor and Miss Thel-
ma Blaydes, brought Mr.. Ellison up
from Memphis, returning home Sab
bath afternoon.
Mr.. C. L Mccain, of Jonesboro,
Ark, spent a few days visiting his
cousins, III. H, and J. G. Mccain, of
Idaville, the first of the week.
Mrs. Mary Baird, of Brighton,
is spending the week with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. w C. Wright. Mrs. Baird's
youngest son, w. B. Baird, was one
of the first young men to be called.
to the training camps, and is now
in the trenches in France.
Mrs. Jesse Rawlins and little son,
Jesse, Jr., of Rosemark, are spend
ing this week with her father, Mr.,
N. M. Kelley. Her husband, Mr..
Jesse Rawlins, was in the second
quota of Upton county to be called
to the army.
Mr.. Dewey Kelley the youngest
son of Mr.. n NJ Kelley, of Almyra,
who has for some time been working
in Memphis, came up Saturday eve
ming to visit homefolks. He left
Yesterday morning and enlisted in
the army. The young man has not
yet reached his majority in age. He
was accompanied to Memphis yester-
day by Mrs. N. M. Kelly. his broth
er and sister, John and Miss Matte
", and Mr.. Parnell Brown. They re-
turned home yesterday afternoon in
their car.
Prof. H. Fl Robson. superintendent
of education, laid off the grounds
Monday for the new schoolhouse for
the negroes in the 9th district. It is
being built on lot bought from
Richard Saddler, mile west of
Wright's store. This school will be
a consolidation Of the two school
houses in the southern end of the
9Th district. Mr.. J. P. Sasser has
the contract for erecting the house.
Help the Red Cross
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