The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-07-17
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LOCAL NEWS


Mr.. viii Coats and Miss Carrie
Durham, both of the 18th district,
were united in marriage Sunday.
Margaret Evelyn, little daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Gragg,
has been quite sick for the past sew
eral days.
Mr.. c. T. limbs, who was con-
fined to his bed for a week on ac-
count Of illness, is again able to be
up.
Dan, son of Mr.. Dan Herring,
4 of the Mason vicinity, is suffering
from a severe attack of spinal menin-
gifts.
Mr.. J. R. Delk, Of the Chapel
Hill vicinity, informs us that he has
a -year-old seeding apple that
ore a small quantity Of apples this
year.
A. B. Busey, Jr, is still confined
to his bed at his home at Pleasant
Grove with typhoid fever. Several
other cases of typhoid fever are re-
ported in the same neighborhood.
Esq. Jim" said when attending
a baseball game few days ago, that
they didn't play ball like that in
the "good old days" when he used
to play. The boys used to Choose
up" in those good old times.
Mrs. ]. G. Baucum, of the Gains
vile vicinity, has received news of
the arrival of her son, James Kennie,
from overseas at Newport News on
July z. She is expecting him home
within the next few days.
The twin children of Mr.. Bud
Powell, of the Rialto vicinity, died,
one on Thursday night and the other
Sunday. Both the children were
buried in the Townsend graveyard
Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. D. Smith will
entertain the Christian Endeavor So
ciety of Bethel church in their home
Friday night, July 10. In connection
with this social the Ladies' Mission
airy Society will serve ice cream.
Everybody is cordially invited.
Judge S. E. Stephenson and wife
are celebrating the Both anniversary
of their wedding by taking trip to
western North Carolina and to the
judges former home in York, S. G.
They left Sunday for a visit to Ashe-
vile, and after a few days stay
there will go on to York.
After a service of more than
two years in the United States navy,
Mr.. Sturgeon Allen returned to his
home Thursday evening, having re-
ceived his dischar~a at Atlanta, Ga.
For nine months previous to his re-
turn he was ON the repair ship
Bridgeport, stationed at Brest.
The ]. T. Fargason Grocery Co.
/ is having a new roof nut on and
having other improvements made in
their warehouse. Mr.. John Corbitt,
of Munford, has the contract for the
work, and is assisted by Messrs.
L. Adams, S. E. McClerkin and Doug
las Corbitt.
The speed fiends are getting
quite bold again, and some of them
will have to be brought before the
mayor and fined to make them slow
down again. The fines he imposed
on the speeders few weeks ago
made them slow down, and resulted
in much good.
| The third quarterly conference
will be held at Elm Grove Saturday
and Sunday by Presiding Elder W.
C. Waters. This will be the begin
ming of the protracted meetings on
the Covington circuit. Rev. L. R.
Wadsworth will assist the pastor,
Rev. ]. A. Kelly, and will do the
preaching at Elm Grove.
Mr.. Ebert Mcbride, who was
with the 83rd division overseas for
more than a year, and who was with
the army of occupation in Germany
for several months, arrived in Boston
harbor on July 5, went from there to
Fl. Oglethorpe, Ga, where he receiv-
ed his discharge, and arrived at his
home in this place Sunday.
Lieut.. w. L. Brownlee, who was
overseas for 10 months attached to
the hospital service Of the A. E. f.,
arrived in New York on the Levi
athan july 5, received his discharge
at Camp Dix, N. j., and arrived here
Friday. His wife has been spending
the time during his absence over
seas with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
T. r. Hanna.
There was a considerable wind
storm here and in other portions of
the county Friday afternoon. A good
many trees and telenhone wires were
blown down in Covington, as were
also the smokestacks at Harvey &
Pullen's cotton gin. A large tree
was blown across the house of Mr..
liter Nolen at Garland, doing con-
siderable damage to one room of the
house.
In difficulty between two ne
groes, John Dowell and Fayette Hall,
at the house of Curl Hall, colored
in the Sunnyside neighborhood, Sun
day morning, Dowell was shot in the
arm by Wiseman with a shotgun,
and was painfully, though not seri-
ously wounded. Hall made his es-
cape after the shooting. Dowell
lives on the ]. B, King place, and
Hall on the D. B. Rice place.
-Children's services were held in
the Atoka Methodist church Sunday
night, with most interesting pro-
gram. The program consisted of an