The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-01-17
Mentions Of the Doings and Happenings
Among Your Friends and Their Friends

Judge R. B. Baptist has been con-
fined to his home on account of i'll
ness for the past several days.
See advertisement in another part
Of the paper of Upton county hog
sales day on Thursday, January 26.
Don't forget the hog sales day
to be held at Munford, Gilt Edge,
Mason and Coyington on Saturday,
January 26.
Mr. E. L. Moorer, of Henning,
is now in the employ of the Coving-
ton telephone exchange as combina-
ton trouble man.
MIR. D. M. Garrett and family
have moved to the P. A. Gibbs place
on East Pleasant avenue, which Mr..
Garrett lately purchased
-Drs. H. w. and W. w. Sale are
attending the bedside of their moth
er, Mrs. G. B. Sale, who is still crit
ically III in Memphis.
Mrs. j, w. Mcbride, Of Memphis,
announces the engagement and ap-
preaching marriage of her daughter,
Carolyn Wilson, to Mr. Charles Speer
johnson.
Deputy Sheriff Ed Roberts re-
turned Tuesday night from Nash
vile, where he went to place Sher-
rod Barnes,of the Campground neigh
borhood. in the Industrial school.
Rev. A. C. McCabe, of Dyers-
burg, will conduct services in St.
Matthews Episcopal Church here next
Sunday morning at II o'clock, the
weather permitting.
Mrs Sallie Warmath, wife of
Mr.. Roger Warmath, accidentally fell
on the ice at the home of her faith
er-in-law, Mr., j. r. Warmath, in the
Leigh's Chapel vicinity, Wednesday,
and her arm was broken.
The 18-months-old son of Mr..
Don Mills, of the Holly Grove neigh
borhood, died at 3 o'clock Wednesday
morning of whooping cough and
pneumonia, after an illness of 10
days. and was buried at Indian Creek
burial ground the same afternoon.
City Marshal G. C. Phillips, of
Brighton, who is visitor here this
morning, reports that he has Just
rounded up 10 crap-shooters in his
town. They were each given fines
and costs of from $4.85 to $3.50 and
were released.
-Messrs. S. T. and w. A. Easley,
of the Simonton vicinity were visit
ors here Wednesday, The latter stat
ed that his brother lately killed two
owls, one Of which measured 49, inch
es from tip to tip, and the other SO
inches,
MIR. Sam Lowenhaupt, the pop
ular carrier on rural route No. 6, out
of Covington, has been confined to
his shOmae for some time on account
of illness. He is able to be up, but
on account of the condition of his
health, has obtained 30-day leave
Of absence in the hope that his
health may be restored thereby.
Several of the mail carriers on
the rural routes have been unable
to get all the way around on their
routes this week on account of the
bitter cold the coat of ice and snow,
and frozen streams making it great
hardship on both man and horses.
The weather will no doubt be normal
soon, and the patrons of the route
carriers are asked to use little pa
thence until that time.
Miss Agnes Whipple, of Nash
vile, who is State leader of the Bap-
fist State Mission Board, spent Tues
day in the city, the guest of Judge
W. A. Ovens family. She left We'd
nesday for Jackson, Tenn. She came
here to be present at the quarterly
institute of the Woman's Missionary
Union of the Big Hatchie Association,
which was to have been held in the
First Baptist Church here Tuesday,
but which was postponed on account
of the bad weather.
Edward Smith, son of Hon. Sher-
rod Smith, was awakened Thursday
morning about 4 o'clock by a dense
smoke in the room, and upon investi-
cation it was found that the floor of
his room was on fire, and quite
large hole had been burned in it. 1t
was bitter cold night, and water
was scarce, most of it about the
house having been frozen, but with
the small quantity in the young mans
room that had not been frozen, the
flames were extinguished The floor
caught either from fire rolling down
on or popping out on the floor.
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