The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1918-11-22

Mrs. Eula Moore has been a Flu
patient this week.
Rev. Fleetwood Ball was reflect
ed secretary of the Tennessee Bah
fist convention held at Shelbyville
last week.
Mrs Buford Lancaster, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs Will Connally, ar.
rived Tuesday night from Oklahoma
City, to visit her parents. Buford
is in the army.
Miss Bertha Unidentified has re-.
turned to Sophie Newcomb College,
New Orleans, after spending a week
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W.
II. Unidentified.
The boys overseas are billed by
the War Department to start home
within week from last Monday.
First $4,000 from England and all
that bunch will be on the way back
before next week is out.
Rev. Tom Hearn, formerly of
Decaturville, now an Oklahoma
evaneelist-and by the way, an
old friend of ours preached in the
M. E. Church, South Sunday night
Bro. Hearn is contemplating future
connection with the Memphis Con-
ference.
Mrs. j. F. Stewart was hostess of
the Review Club Tuesday afternoon.
The president, Mrs. j. C. Moore,
presided. The ladies responded to
roll call with the name of an early
settler Of Tennessee. After the
regular routine Of business, Mrs. j.
O. Brown very effectively gave the
story of Who Was the Minute
Man." The club will meet Dec. 3
with Mrs. w. B. Allen.
Roy Moore, young white man,
stepped from the train from Padu-
cab, Tuesday at noon, carrying a
suit case and was promptly nabbed
by Sheriff Wright and deputy v. N.
Blankinship. The aforesaid suit
case contained twelve quarts Of
liquor-and Moore soon languished
behind the bars Of jail He made
bond. }'i ss
R. 0. Burnett, a travelling man,
with residence at Corinth, Miss, was
taken i'll with influenza, in the
DAVIS Hotel, on Wednesday of last
week and Mrs, Burnett here last
Sunday to be with her husband,
who has continued confined all this
week with an aggravated but not
complicated case of the Flu.
E. Harwell, formerly Of SCOTS Hill,
and late Chief Pharmacist mate on
the U. S. S. Tanning, was in Lex
ington last Thursday having recent
ly re enlisted in the Navy. Mr.. Har-
we'll is the man who went over
board from the U. S. s. Tanning,
when the German U-boat was de-
stroyed and rescued oneof the Sub
marine crew. Mr.. HarwelIs mother,
Mrs. Frances Harwell's still lives
near Scots Hill.
Thirty-nine carloads of big
hogs said to be enroute from East
Tennessee to FIT. Worth, Texas, pass
ed Lexington the first of the week.
There were "a hogs to the car and
their weight estimated at an aver
age Of $50 pounds, each made the
value of the whole shipment $122,-
$50, as calculated at Is cents per
pound by Ernest Hay and Bob Hart.
The lard out Of these hogs, when it
reaches the consumer, will probably
very closely approach the aggregate
value Of the whole train, as above
estimated.
The little fair held here last Sat-
urday, showing progress in hog
raising by means Of pig clubs. corn
improvement in yield through Boy
corn clubs, the work Of the girls
and women in the canning clubs.
could not fail to crafty those who
are hoping for and working for the
betterment of Henderson county.
Notice is served right now that the
next fair held in Lexington-a pam
Henderson county affairs going
to he a pretty extensive one and