The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-02-14
GREAT MASS MEETING
METHODIST CHURCH
ELIMINATION OF B. M. c. MEET.
ING THURSDAY NIGHT


ING THURSDAY NIGHT
House Crowded to Seating Capacity
Prayer, Patriotic Songs and Flo
ouent Speakers--Parts Our State
and Our County to Play in War.
Patriotic citizens-men, women ana
children. to the number Of many hum
dreds-assembled in the First Meth
odist Church in Covington Monday
afternoon at 1880 o'clock to near
what our part in the great Worid
war will be. A..
The great mass meeting was tine
continuation of a meeting of the BUS
mess Mems Club on Thursday eye
Ming preceding, at which time WON
davis meeting was determined upon.
Men. women and children from. both
ritv and county were there, and the
seating capacity Of the large audlto-
RIM was taxed to it's capacity. WIN
an audience which sat with unabatea
interest through a program wnlcn
took more than two hours 70 carry
out. All seemed to be thrilled WIN
the shirt af patriotism and with the
raal;zation of the fact that we are
II the greatest war in history, ana
that every person who doesn't carry
Gun. whether man, woman OF
child must be q soldiers helper IN
this great conflict, and that there U
No place for the Stacker, the knockef
and the vagrant. sM
Rev DIR. e. H. Williamson, OF Mem
mis-. had been invited to be the prln,,
einaj sneaker Of the occasion, ana
fallv expected to be on hand, but was
nreyented from coming, we are tolo'
III i misunderstanding as to the time
IL the departure Of the last. morning
train coming out Of Memphis. i,
The meeting was presided over by
Mr. n G. Howard, who had been
tba nresiding officer Of the 3. IA: Y.
meeting On Thursday night. After
The SINGING Of "America," he called
IN Rev. G. e. Wauford, pastor OF the
FIRST Baptist Church, for the lnvo-
cation. After this Mr. Howard mace
4 patriotic speech, in which ne re,
farred to the previous meeting ana
il ina duty Of all, and especially 70
tha aone-talent" men in the great
struggle, .uo4o,.,,
Mr. j. Winfield Darby. secretary
of I'M Covington Business Mems CLUB,
was next called upon to state tne
object Of the meeting, which ne dld N
well-ctosen words, telling Of our duty
and our part in the plan Of the great
var work. and also told Of the recent
great meetings in Nashville and Mem
phis, in which our duty as to food and
fuel were so plainly laid down by
men who know, and the part our
state and our whole country ~ ex,
pected to play in conservation and
aiding our soldier boys.
Hon. w. M. Simonton, county fuel
administrator, was the next SPEAKER
and he made plea for all to obey
fhe rules laid down bv our. govern
ment He also stated that our people
must learn to use something else be-
side coal for fuel. He read the report
of the committee appointed at the
r. M. G. meeting Thursday night to
look into the advisability Of estab-
fishing local war fuel company OF
association. The report OF the above
committee is as follows;
eve. the committee appointed by
the Business Mems Club to investl-
gate the advisability of forming q
war fuel company, beg to report as
follows:
eve recommend the formation Of
CORPORATION to be known as. the
Covington War Fuel Company, with q
canital stock of $2,500,00, divided
into shares Of $500 each. The pur-
nose Of the Company will be TO In
duce as many people as possible to
hurn large percentage of wood, and
II furnish wood to the citizens OF
covington as cheaply as possible. II
has been suggested that after allow.
inc 4 reasonable dividend as interest
IN the money and cost of depreciation
n lie property, to turn over the SUR
pius to the Red Cross. We think
that the organization Of such COM
pany is practicable, ana that II Woulu
result in much benefit to the COM
nunity and to the country at large,
both IN the saving Of coal for the
Government and in furnishing the
Citizens of the town fuel with which
to keep them warm.
mThe fuel administrator and best IN
formed men Of this and other States
baI;eve that the coal situation VIII
- more acute during the year 1919
Than II was in 1917; that enough coal
will not be mined to furnish the gov
ernment their requirements and 70
keeD the people warm, and for these
reasons it viii be necessary to pro.
vida other fuel to take the place Of
coal. For these and other reasons we
hone the people viii subscribe liber,,
alIv for the stock in this concern, ano
tins tislI help the government in its great
undertaking. .4.a
w. M. SIM0NT0N,
GRANT REID,
JAS. J. MILLER,
r. v. DOWNING.
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