The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-09-19
ALMYRA GLEANINGs


imade business visit Wednesday o.
last week 20 his farms in the Almyrs
community, returning to Memphis
that evening.
i On last Friday afternoon Mr.. and
Mrs. W. A. Ellison, Mrs. A. B
Blaydes and her four sons, Of Mem.
phis, came up on a visit to Mr.. and
Mrs, F. P Spain. They came through
the country in Mr.. Ellison's large
touring car. Mrs. Blaydes and sons
returned home Saturday evening, but
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellison will remain in
the community a week or longer, Wis
iting relatives and old friends.
L Mrs. Anna McGaha and daughter
iin-law, Mrs. Floyd McGaha, of Bolton
visited the formers father, MI Rob-
lert N. Harrell, of the Macedonia
lneighborhood, last Sabbath, and spent
! that night with her brother. j. L.
Harrell and family, Of AlmyTs. d
Master William Byrnes, of Wilmar,
Ark, who the last several weeks has
been visiting his uncle and aunt, Mr..
and Mrs. j.. A. Wilson, of Idayille,
left Monday to visit other relatives in
Water Valley, Miss, and from there
will return home.
Mrs. d. ID. Hart, of Wilmaf, Ark,
who for some time past has been
visiting her daughters, Mrs. j. L.
Moore and Mrs. ]. r. Wilson, Of Idaz
willie, leaves, this week to visit her
son, MF. Clyde Hart and family. Of
Harrisburg, Ark. - .,..s
Mr.. Charles Hendren, Of the Ida
vile neighborhood, who was an al
ternate draftee in the last contin-
gent to leave this county to the train
ing camps, was called last Thursday
and left that day for Camp Wads-
worth, Spartanburg, S. G.
On Wednesday of last week Mr.. RIA.
Sage went to Memphis with. his son,
Moody, and nephew, Montrose Stone,
where the two latter applied for en-
rollment in the military department
of the West Tennessee Normal. They
went down in Mr.. John Kelley's car,
accompanied by Mr.. Kelley and Mr..
S. 0. ,Huey. The same day Ernest
Davis, a son of Mr.. E. M. Davis, Of
this community, also made application
to enter the military department Of
the normal,
At the close of last Sabbath morn
ing's. service in Sharon A. r. P.
church, Rev. w. C. Kerr. who for
nearly seven mchths past has had
charge of this church, announced that
at the end Of this month he would
resign heer take charge of the A.
R. P. church in Covington. Mr.. Kerr
came here in the early part of the
year stranger to most of the peo-
pie, but during his stay here he has
endeared himself very strongly not
only to the members of his church,
but to all who have made his acquain-
lance in the county. The people of
this section regret to see him leave,
but what is Sharon's loss will be Gov
ington's gain.
The Y. p. c. U. Of Sharon had a
very interesting service on last Sab
bath night. On next Sabbath night
they expect to have on the program
Miss Stella Wilkinson, who will have
a paper on the subject: Blossoms from
Bible characters. Miss Wilkinson.
IS tie efficient principal Of the Mac
edonias school, 5s .&
The good people Of the sharon COM
munity recently had y zeal old-time
road working. They reopened up an
old road from the Somerville and
Randolph road, beginning at the old
Grove school lot, and run
ming south through the farms of Rev.
R. w. Mcdaniel and Mrs. Spain and
the farms of others to the county line
at Mr.. r. N. HarrelPs place, dis
tance of about mile and half. A
petition is now in the hands Of r. L.
Taught, highway commissioner, pray
ing that this road be made public
road. The Shelby county people are
opening up the same road from the
county line to the Macedonia church |
and new high school, distance Of
ess than mile. When this road is
it viii be both useful and |
to this part Of our county
md that of Shelby around the Mace
lonia section.
A tenant house on what is now
,nown as the old Daeus place in the
extreme southeast corner Of No. s,
vas destroyed by fire one evening
asst week about dark. 1t belonged to
NEGRO by the name of Lee Virgins,
Hhe cause of thefire was an accident.