The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-11-21

AS1 hah al tue SouutIgs II YOU
wish to contribute to the Roosevelt
Memorial fund, send us your name
and the amount of your contribution.
We are doing this simply because mo-
body else would do it.
Rev. J. Carl Mccoy of Memphis,
will preach here next Sunday morning
and night in the Baptist church. He
is a preacher of extraordinary talent
pastor of the Temple Baptist church
and everybody is urged to hear him.
Mrs. ]. w. Stewart, sons Thread
gill, Dick and Vergil and Miss Eva
Edwards went to Jackson last Mon
day, overland. Mrs. Stewart is hav-
ing DR.. Heron treat one of Virgil's
eyes which was hurt several weeks
ago.
/ Elder E. L. Hinson, OF Linden, was
here last Sunday to fill his monthly
appointment at lions Rest Primitive
Baptist church, near Undertake. Ell
der Hinson is well-known citizen Of
Perry and formerly was sheriff Of
that county
Our old friend, Mr.. Thos. G. Hardin,
two miles North of town, has been
ailing for several weeks and has been
confined to his bed for about two
weeks, We fear he is not improving
as rapidly as we should like to hear.
Mr.. Hardin we regard as one of the
best men Of the county. = ~
Will Kent returned Wednesday
from the Sardis community, where he
has been looking after gathering corn
on the farm he has sold to Jim Ben
son and Of which he will hold posses
sion next year. Mr.. Kent says the
farm made 800 barrels of corn last
year and will make 600 this year.
Last Tuesday afternoon a South
bound freight train, w. H. Beaton
conductor, picked up at Hollow Rock
Junction a car of AZ bales of cotton,
which caught fire in some unknown
way before reaching Undertake,
where it was side tracked and cut
loose. The car and entire contents
were consumed.
Mrs. Cooper Sweat, on last Sunday
at about the noon hour, suffered col
lapse from which she was unconscious
for some forty minutes and it requir-
ed the work Of two physicians and Mr..
]. w. Page to restore her to con-
seriousness. Mrs. Sweat continued to
improve until she was able to sit up
Tuesday morning.
The Coca Cola Bottling Company
have installed one of the most up-to-
date bottling and sterlizing plants on
the market. Every bottle before it
is put into the cases thoroughly in
spected and there is no chance for
anything but the best to get by. The
friends of the company are invited
to come and take look at the new
plant.
Mrs. Pattie Pool Brofft, of Fort
Smith, Ark, arrived here last Satur-
day and spent the night in the home
of her cousin, W. V. Barry, whom she
had not seen n twenty-five years or
more. She was on her way to visit
relatives in Saltillo and on Sunday
Mr.. A. L. Hughes, wife and two chill
dren came over by auto-all enjoying
dinner in the Barry home.
The Wright family, resident in
Lexington, received a wire Monday
announcing that Herschel Frazier,
son of John Frazier, of the Roby Vi
cinity, was killed Sunday in Western
Texas. Herschel was said to be fine
young man, % years old and had
served in the army in the late war.
He was nephew of Mrs. w. d.
Wright.
Rev. P. d. T. Roberts, who was pas
tor of the Lexington Southern Meth
DIST church last year and has served
Crystal circuit, near Hickman, KY,
this year, has published in book form
his beautiful Banquet of Flowers"
which he read to the children one
Sunday in church here. Brother Rob-
erts is children's specialist in his
work-and by the way, the children,
as well as the elders, would be mighty
proud TO see Bro. Roberts returned to
Lexington charge next year.
A party composed Of Miss Eunice
Noe, Raulie Yates, and Miss Adams,
1.-THE latter milliner in the ]. r. Mont
gomery store) accompanied by John
A. Mccall, John Potts and Howard
Pearson went to jackson last Sum-
dav Tina 81 a rfin0 m, har NAV "a Iaek