The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-02-27
LOcAL NEWS

"A son was born Sunday to Mr..
and Mrs. Marvin Morrison.
"A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. M. A. Hartsfield Monday.
Plant tree the day your SOL
der boy comes home There is no
better way to mark the event.
Don't forget that the Leader
pays special attention to mail orders
for job printing Of every description.
If you know a local or person
al news item of any Importance,
please tell the Leader about it.
The Covington Milling Co. made
another carload shipment of hogs to
st. Louis Monday.
Mr.. w. P. Bailey has bought
lot in Knob Heights from Mr.. j. F.
Dawson, and expects shortly to build
a dwelling.
Little Miss Louise, daughter of
ESQ. and Mrs. j. F. Ports, who has
been sueffring from an attack of in
fluenza, is now improving.
Don't forget to set out those
shade trees. Now is the time to do
the work, and it will enhance both
the beauty and value of your prop
erty.
Look over your stock Of CONNER
cial printing and if you find your
self in need of letter, bill or note
heads, statements, envelopes, etc,
send the Leader mail order,
Mrs. Sallie Pace accidentally
stepped off the back porch at her
home Friday night as the result Of
which she sustained some very pain
full bruises.
Mrs. O. L. McClain, of the 18th
district, who has been quite sick for
the past few weeks, was taken to
Memphis for treatment in one of the
sanitariums there.
Frank, the seven-months-old son
of Mr.. John Sanders, Of the 18th dis
trict, died Thursday night of pneumo-
MIA, after a weeks illness, and was
buried Friday at 2 o'clock at Mt.
Lebanon.
Maj. M. A. Walker has lately
received three-inch rifle shell used
by the allies on the western front.
The shell was sent him by H. L.
Bogue, a Upton county soldier boy,
who is now in France.
The infant child of Mr., Thomas
/ ITo4abo1l x,,Lo 1;xyae IN 4bn GbacfaY,
Byrd place in the 9th district, died
suddenly Friday night and was bur-
led on the day following at Smyrna
burial ground, near Burlison.
\ The firm Of Primer & Gillespie
will begin April l the building of
"a 50,000-bushel capacity sweet pota-
to warehouse. This win enable this
firm to buy potatoes from the farm
ers from the fields as they are dug.
Mr.. w. G. McGaughey has the
contract for adding a new room
and overhauling the dining room Of
Mr. c. L. Kinney's dwelling opposite
the city school building Work was
begun Monday.
/ Mr.. j. G. Turnage, of Munford,
was visitor in this city Monday.
He informed us that his son, Mr.. j.
H. Turnage, who was badly hurt by
being thrown by mule last week,
was improving.
Thomas j. Brandon, Of Dover,
grand master of the Tennessee Ma
sons, died in a Nashville hospital
Friday night. He was cashier Of a
bank at Dover Thomas Steele, Jr.,
Ia prominent attorney of Ripley, sue
leeds as grand master,
Mrs. Smith, of Jackson, Tenn,
who was visiting at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. f. A. Tarwater, at
Mason, died there Sunday, after a
weeks illness. Her remains were
shipped back to Jackson and the
burial occurred there Tuesday.
Mrs. Dora Kruger and son,
Glenn, who have been making their
home in the Burlison vicinity, left
Monday evening for Armorelle, Ark,
where they will now make their home
and where the former will conduct
hotel
Presiding Elder W. c. Waters
preached from the pulpit of the First
Methodist Church last Sunday morn
ing and night. ; Rev. 7. L. Hancock
will preach from that pulpit, next
Sunday morning, and Rev. H. S.
Spraggins, pastor Of Memphis First
Chuch, at the evening hour.
DIR. A. C. McCabe has been APP
pointed by Bishop Gailor as delegate
to the Episcopal convention to be
held in Chattanooga Monday. This
meeting is to consider the raising Of
the million dollar fund.- Gen. Leon
ard Wood is to preside. -Dyersburg
Gazette.