The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-07-04

MIR. Leslie MCGOWAN is clerkine
at the Enterprise.
Mr.. Guy Drummond, Of Nun
ford, is confined to his bed with an
attack Of fever.
MIR. VIM, L. Byrd and Miss Lily
Bryant, both of Garland, were mar
ried Saturday night, Esq. R. H.
Erwin performing the ceremony.
Rev. R. A. Clark went Friday to
Whiteville to attend the Jackson dis
trict conference meeting, going as
a representative of the board of mis-
sions Of the Memphis conference.
Miss Lavergne Clements, Of Mum
ford, who lately underwent an OPP
Grafton for appendicitis in the Bap-
fist Hospital, Memphis, is steadily
improving under the treatment there
Gen. N. A. Upton, of Coyington;
VIM Ringstaff, Of Detroit, and John
NJ. McCalla, Of Rosemark, left here
Sunday night for Knoxville, Tenn,
where they will enter the University
of Tennessee for war training
james Roosevelt, colored, son of
Laura Small, of the 7th district, was
unloading a pistNl Monday morning,
when it was discharged, ne ball
passing through the thick part of his
hand.
There was good attendance at the
singing at Leigh's Chapel Sunday
by the people from both Upton and
Lauderdale counties. A good program
was carried out, and it was a most
enjoyable event.
Mrs. Alice L. Wright died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. David
in the Oak Grove neigh
borhood, at noon Thursday, and was
buried in the Walton graveyard at
IL o'clock Friday morning, the funeral
services being conducted by Mr.. al
Maxwell. The deceased was 48 years
Of age, and is survived by a daugh-
ter and two sisters.
Mr. j. L. Richardson was relieved |
Of his purse by pickpocketk in Mem
phis as he was boarding street car
there Friday night. There was
great crowd incident to the leaving
If the soldiers for Camp Gordon, and
Mr.. Richardson felt his pocket being
ugged at, but was unable to locate
he party in the jam. He had ten
dollars in money, some receipts and
'ther papers in the pocketbook.
-Tipton county had furnished up
o last Friday IT'S soldiers for the
lrmy. The local exemption board
las received a call for 80 white
men for FIT. Thomas, KY, on July
!; for so negroes for Camp Sher-
nan, Chillicothe, Ohio, between July {
5 and 20; for so white men for
amp Gordon, Ca, between July %
nd 27, and for seven white men for
amp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss, on
uly 16.
Many weeds are propagated only G
v seeds. Weed seeds are produced t
4 large numbers along roadside1, |
ence rows and ditch banks, in vacant j
ields and in waste places, and the /
eeds are scattered by wind, water, \
irds and other agents. By cutting \
reeds before the seeds are sufficient |
7 mature to terminate an enormous |
mount Of trouble and labor and loss I
Duld be avoided; but only the most n
farmers do this.
"A card to the editor Of the Leader n
rom Prof. B. 0. Duggan, at San An v
onio, Texas, states that he has r
lst received a letter from Prof. H.B. n
andlin, saying that he has been o
lken into the army and ordered to Q
,port at Corpus Christi, Texas, for i
lty in the hospital there. Prof. &
M. Woodson is in the st. Thomas b
ospital in Nashville, and expects to +,
hist in the coast artillery as soon Il
J he is able. q
Rev. Charles E. Wauford has 4
cen notified that his application u
# a chaplaincy in the army has p
zen accepted, and he has been or lC
cred to enter the school for the G
aiming of chaplains, which will be II
Id at Camp Taylor, Louisville, KY, Y
,ginning July IL. The school will NJ
st six weeks. Mr.. Wauford left St
riday afternoon for Alexandria, n
enn., to spend a few days with his N
other, but will return for the reg
ar services at the Baptist church
lily z. The evening service there
that Gate will be his last sermon
folA leaving for camp on the 18th. as
Mrs. Mary Brodnax Maclin, wild =
' of the late John Wilkins Maclin ~ ~
ID daughter Of the late RI. Brodnax, 8
ed at her home in the vicinity of - -
ceiling at o'clock Friday evening, Il
ID the interment took place in the e. g;
mily burial ground at her home on - -
e afternoon following her death. q =
lie deceased was rs years of age at D.
e time of her passing away, and -
is a lovely Christian character, a r.
elong member of the Presbyterian =. ~
urch, and was much beloved by all y, "
10 kntw her. She is survived by w. ~
re daughters, Mrs. r. O. Riley, Mrs. -
I. Williamson, Misses Imogene, ~
ice and Willie Maclin. y
The extra labor required to keep s
eds under control is probably the
eatest economic loss which they
use. Labor is too much needed al;
I other lines of farm work and tic
ould not be used in fighting weeds 10,
they can be eradicated in any
Ter way. Yet weeds must be con- gu
lied if maximum crop yields are
be secured. In this respect sheep l3
a aid in the farm labor problem.
ey will eat most weeds, and on 20
Y farm will greatly reduce the
lount of hand labor needed to hold CO..
eds in check in pastures and grain liza