The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03

Get busy next week and clean up
your yard and premises.
Mr.. Herbert Sanders went to|
Memphis today, where he will be OPP
Grated on in the Baptist Hos
pital for appendicitis.
Mr.. ]. l. Coleman has moved
from the Murphy place on Elm street
to the w. l.. Rose place on BoyceI
avenue,
Senator Mcclellan, one Of the
most eloquent advocates of the league
of nations, will speak in the court
house at ! o'clock next Monday af-
ternoon. Come and hear him.
Miss Corinne Gotten will go toI
Bells on Friday night to give a recit-
al. There will also be a musical
program given by the Bells home tai
ent.
Next week is Cleanup Week I'M
Covington. Everybody is expected to-
clean up back yards and entire prem
Uses and put them in a proper sanif
Itary condition. The city's wagons
will haul the garbage away for you
The Mason municipal election is
to be held next Tuesday. Mr. John
T. Marshall is an aspirant for mayor,
J. S. Phillips for marshal, J. N. Nose
ley for recorder. For aldermen, B..
L. Hamblet, ]. I. Karney, ]. NJ Mar
shall, G. T, Poindexter, Louis Tran
sou and H. H. Sanders,
-All persons having accounts
against Upton county, which should
be acted upon by the quarterly coun-
ty court next Monday, must file
same, duly approved, with the county
court clerk on or before next Satur-
day at II o'clock noon, or the court
will not consider them until the July
term.
Mrs. G. R. Gibbs, Mrs. John Y.
Peete, Mrs. G. B. Gillespie and Mrs.
J. H. Flippin went this morning to
Memphis to attend the Woman's Mis-
sionary Council of the southern Meth
odist church, which convened in the
First Methodist Church, that city,
Wednesday evening for session Of
eight days.
Mr.. R. /. Wright, a progressive
young farmer Of the Clopton vicin-
Iity, has purchased Fordson tractor
and complete set Of implements from
III. B. Shelton, including disc pillow,
harrow, rake, crusher, etc, which he
will place in use on his farm. This
is a great labor saver and aid to him,
now that the labor question is such
a problem to farmers and all other
lines Of business.
Twenty-one counties forming the
western part Of Tennessee have been
organized into unit for the war saw
Iings stamp campaign, to open in ear
nest Immediately following the COM
ling Victory loan drive. Practically
all details have been arranged with
bankers and firms in West Tennes-
see for the sale and distribution of
the stamps. Mr.. J. Winfield Darby
has been appointed county director
of Upton county.
Mrs. Julius A. johnson received
a radiogram Tuesday from her hus-
band, Capt. Julius A. Johnson, telling
of his safe arrival in Charleston har-
Dor on the u. s. s. Huron. Capt.
johnson has been overseas with Uncle
Sans fighting forces for the past
several months.
Mrs. Short, widow Of the late /.
III. Short, died at the home Of her
son, Mr.. Martin Short, in the vic
| nifty Of Clopton, at / o'clock Tues
day morning, Of blood poisoning, af-
ter an illness Of only a few days. The
funeral services were held at the res
Iidence Tuesday afternoon at o'clock,
conducted by Rev. T. Riley Davis,
after which the interment took place
in Clopton burial ground. The de-
ceased was a member Of the Baptist
church, and was GA years Of age. Her
son, mentioned above, and several
daughters, survive her.
A dispatch from Washington,
dated March 20, spoke of the home
ward movement Of the Twenty-sixth
division. Mr.. Ebenezer Paine, Of
this city, is a member of this division,
land is expected to land at BostoI
with the other troops tomorrow. The
war department announced that the
transport Mt. Vernon sailed from
Brest Thursday, and was due at
Boston April A, with Maj. Gen. Harry
iC. Hale in command, and 2O2 officers
and 5,518 men of this, the first ma
tional guard division to 60 to France.
Only about so per cent Of the men
on the Mt. Vernon will 10 to Camp
Devens, Mass, for rehabilitation, the
remainder, representing requirements,
being assigned to various camps in
the east, middle west, south and Pa
cific coast.
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