The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-09-26
LOCALNEWs

that wheat crop.
Don't forget to sow that rye
patch.
Mr.. J.E.Thornton, Of Garland, IS
now employed in the shoe depart
ment at w. H. Bailey's.
If you know Of local or person
al item, please tell the Leader about
it, or phone it in to US. Call 10.
Miss Ruth Richardson is now
keeping books for the firm Of Fort
ner & Ralph.
"A son was born Friday night to
Mr.. and Mrs. c. L. Shoaf. of the
Phelan vicinity.
Mrs. Nathan Sullivan, Of RAN
dolph, was stricken with paralysis
last Saturday, and has since been con-
fined to her bed.
Mrs. T. G. Hamrick, of the Idaville
vicinity, who had been confined to
her bed for three weeks with rheu-
matism, is able to be up again.
Mr.. Amos Curtin came up from
Upton few days ago and has begun
work at the Covington Cotton Oil Co.
He will move his family here later.
Mrs. H. C. Barron, of the Mt.
Carmel vicinity. has received news
of the late safe arrival of her broth
err, Claud Dickson, overseas in France.
Mr.. w. H. Hargett, of Henning,
was in the city Saturday. He ship
ped a carload of cattle and hogs out
Of here for st. Louis that day.
Rev J. H. Hubbard, of Nashville,
preached to good-sized congregations
in the First Baptist Church here last
Sunday morning and evening.
Mr. ]. A. Bringle, Of the Burli-
son vicinity, who had been confined
to his bed with malarial fever for
10 days, was able to be in the city
Saturday,
Relatives in the Burlison neigh
borhood of Ashley Price, late of Camp
Pike, Little Rock, Ark, have received
news of his safe arrival in Fran
news of his late arrival overseas.
Mr. Paul Fortner has accepted a
situation as travelling representative
in West Tennessee for the Ashner
Fruit & Produce Co., and will make
his headquarters in Memphis.
Relatives of Corporal Ode C.
Harris, colored, of the Atoka vicinity,
have received news of his recent safe
arrival overseas. He is a son of Ida
and Haywood Harris.
Mr.. M. F. Jackson is papering
Mr.. J. B. Kings house in the Sun
nyside vicinity. Mr.. King recently
had the house thoroughly overhauIed
md new rooms and porches added
Mrs. Richard Bryan, of this city,
went to Memphis Sunday, where she 4
vent to have an operation perform
I'd for the removal of tonsils at one
If the hospitals.
"A revival began in the South
Jovington Methodist Church Sunday,
and will continue for week or 10
lays. Rev. j. A. Kelly is Assisting /,
he pastor, Rev. E. l.. Ledbetter.
Mr.. David Luttrell returned Fri
lay to his home in the Garland vic I
nifty from Camp Sheridan, Ala. He
received an honorable discharge from
he camp there on account of phys
cal disabilities
Relatives of Mr.. Marshall Shoaf,
Who has been in France for some
line, have received information that
lie is confined to an army hospital
n Paris, suffering from an attack Of
fever.
Mr.. w. G. Sanford, who has been
as manager of the Bolivar
county compress at Cleveland, Miss,
mas returned from that place, and is
low employed at the Churchill COM
press here, as weigher.
Mrs. Annie Ralph was called to
Memphis Saturday morning to attend |
The bedside of Mrs. Will Ralph, who
was quite sick She had just under
gone an operation at one Of the hos
pitfalls there.
Mr.. Ted Finley and Miss Eula
Lee Todd, both of the Solo noighbor-
hood, were married in the sheriff's
office in the courthouse at $50 o'clock |
afternoon, Esq. Lauderdale |
officiating.
Lewis Currie, colored, who lives
On Mr.. Peter Fyfe's farm, sold bale
IF cotton here Monday that weighed |
693 pounds, and with the seed brought |
S268.25. The bale sold for 31.80. |
Currie has 80 acres that he says will |
make 18 bales.
Supervisor ]. M. Jackson went |
Sunday to Fulton, KY, to attend a
meeting held in the roadmaster's Of
flee there to discuss the new scale of |
wages for foremen, laborers and |
of way men on the Hi
nois Central railroad.
The two-room tenant house on
the McClelland place in the Detroit |
occupied by Pars Var