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The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-03-13
TO BUY PARK FIELD

A dispatch from Washington to
the Memphis Commercial Appeal on
date of March IL, says:
Formal steps were taken today by
the officer of purchase and storage,
war department, to acquire by pur-
chase Park Field, near Millington,
Tenn, which was recently recon-
mended by the general staff as a per-
manent aviation training school, The
fact that students are being trans
ferred from Park Field to Florida
and California, is due to the fact that
the failure Of Congress to pass the
army appropriation bill prevented the
development of the programme to
make Park Field a point Of concen-
tration as contemplated in the left
over measure. Until a programme
for Park Field can be determined
upon and executed the Florida and
California schools will be the prin-
cipal points of concentration for stu
dent flyers.
Indications are favorable to the
selection of Memphis for an air SER
vice academy. Secretary Baker, as
already known, is inclined to Mem
phis, and the army officers in whose
hands the matter rests are understood
to be equally sympathetic. An in
vestigation now under way will soon
determine whether the proposed acad-
envy is to be established in Memphis
or some point in California.
AS already stated, the fact that
Park Field is to be made permanent
will probably serve as lever to
throw the air service academy to
Memphis, whose proximity to the
training field will facilitate the CO.
ordination Of the work of the two in
stitutions.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-03-13
CONNER-TIPToN WEDDING

AT the home of the brides brother
Mr.. J. V. Conner, in Louisville, KY.
on Wednesday, March 5, Lieut.. W. c
Upton, of Covington, and Miss Thel
ma Conner, of Russellville, KY, were
married, Rev. ]. H. Prother perform.
| ing the ceremony in the presence Of
few intimate friends and close
relatives.
Lieut.. Upton and bride left after
the ceremony for a bridal trip to
New York and other important east
ern points, and expect to arrive at
their future home in this city about
March is.
This wedding unites two of the
oldest families of Upton and Lau-
derdale county. The young groom is
a son Of Gen. John A. Upton, one of
our most prominent lawyers, for
whose grandfather our county was
named, and the bride is a member Of
the prominent Ripley family of Con-
ners, being a daughter of Mr.. Verser
Corners, formerly of that place, now
Of Russellville, KY. The bride is a
lovely and highly accomplished young
lady, a sister of Mrs. W. w. Sale,
and is already favorably known to
many of our people, having visited
here on several occasions. The groom
is brilliant young lawyer and won
many honors for himself in the great
overseas world war which closed No
vember II. The young man was a
member of Company E, 371st regi,
ment, and was in the Champagne Of
fensive in the great nine days fight
with Gen. Gourand's Fourth French
army. At one time all the other
officers in his company were killed
or wounded, and he took command
but was only slightly wound
ed, this being on October l..
He was on the western front from
the middle Of June until the sign
ing of the armistice on November IL.
The many friends of this prominent
young couple wish for them the
greatest future prosperity and hap
piness.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-03-13

drunkenness. $40 fine and costs.
State VS.. Abe Fields; carrying pts
toll. $50 fine and costs.
State VS.. Bob Montgomery ant
Dave Green; larceny. Not guilty al
to first party; second party sentenc
ed to 10 days in workhouse.
State VS.. Ernest Atkins; murder
One to five years in penitentiary.
State VS.. Tom Terry; carrying pts.
tol. $50 fine and costs.
State VS.. Buck Cannon; Carrying
pistol. $50 fine and costs.
State VS.. Clyde Stevens; carrying
pistol. $50 fine and costs.
Staet VS.. Madison Crawley; carry
ing pistol. Dismissed on payment Of
costs.
State VS.. Madison, Crawley; felon-
ious assault. $50 fine and go days in
State vs.. H. T. Craig; larceny. For
fixture of bond.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-03-13
PARK FIELD AERO POST
IS ORDERED CLOSED
ONLY TWO AVIATION FIELDS TO
BE RETAINED
However, Assurance Given That Park
Field Will Later Become One Of
Governments Permanent Aerial
Stations.

Washington, March 11.-Coincident
with the announcement today that
Mai.-Gen. William L. Kenly had been
replaced as director Of military aero
nautics of the army by Bryce
William Mitchell, it was learned that
orders have been issued for the ces-
sation of aviation training at all
fields in the United States except
two; to be designated by Maj.-Gen.
Charles T. Menoher, director of the
air service, These instructions take
effect March is and thereafter the
work done at other fields than the
two to be selected will have to do
only with the storage and maintenance
of equipment.
All aviation personnel that can be
spared will be discharged by March
81 and the flyers retained at the two
training fields to be kept in opera
ton will be so far as practicable,
those who desire to remain in the
permanent military establishment.
These orders represent an effort to
keep rehabilitation up to schedule and
get the total of discharges to the
100000 mark by the end of the
present month. The canceIIing Of
Gen. Kenly's war time rank and his
assignment to his own branch of the
service, the field artillery, in his per-
rank Of colonel, was said to
be in line with this policy Of reduc-
ton all along tie line.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-03-13
DYERSBURG PREsBYTERIANs
TO BUILD NEW MANSE

The First Presbyterian Church of
Dyersburg, a small organization Of
100 members, has pledged in bankable
notes $4,000 to remodel their church
and build brick manse for their new
pastor, whom they have just called.
His salary will be $4,000 and the
use Of the manse.
This is splendid example Of after
war vision and service. 1t should
challenge the attention of other
churches.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-03-13
BIN, c. SECRETARY
DISCUSSES TOPICS
MAKES REPORT ON ACTIVITIES
OF THAT ORGANIZATION
Discusses Good Roads, Hog Cholera
and Many Other Things Which
Are for the Development and Bst-
terment of County.

A committee has been appointed
'Iby the club, the secretary and the
mayor being members, to have gen
eral cleanup of the town of Coving-
ton. A week will probably be ap-
pointed for that purpose, and it Is
expected that much cleaning and beau
tifying will be done, "The City Beau
tiful" will be the motto.
The club was called together on
Monday night of this week by COM
mittee reresenting the government
and the cotton acreage reduction or
ganization. The acreage reduction
organization was represented by Hon.
y. P. Matthews, Of Whiteville, and
the government by Prof. Refer and
Prof. McAmis, of the agricultural
department of the state university at
Knoxville. The purpose Of the meet
ing was to further stress the neces-
sity Of the reduction of the cotton
acreage and to suggest line Of sub
stitute crops most needed. The mat
ter will be taken up with the district
committeeman heretofore named, and
the club was charged with the respon-
sibility of holding conferences with
the people of the county in order to
get the matter properly before them.
These conferences will be held as
soon as the roads will admit Of the
committees driving to the country. 1t
is hoped that the message of the
government delivered through these
committees will be received kindly
and thoughtfully by our people.
DR.. Ellis, of the hog cholera con-
troll division of the agricultural de-
partment, spent Wednesday in the
Covington community under the aus
pices Of the club. Other communities
might have had the benefit Of the
services Of this expert. whose work is
free, if they had applied to the club
as was suggested in last weke's Lead
er.
The new Upton county road COM
mission is getting into action, and
we NAV expect something to be done
with the roads in the near future. II
however, our people do not get all
they expect, they should remember
that the commission goes in with
more than $4,000 overdraft standing
against the road fund. This over
draft is distributed among the dis
triets. there being only four districts
that have balances to their credit,
and these balances are small.
We are asked by the national war
varden commission, Of Washington.
D. G., to urge the necessity Of our
people having gardens this year and
canning, driving and preserving, Just
IS they did last year. Fresh vetse-
tables. they say. are both healthful
ind profitable. besides adding greatlv
% the nations food supplv Most Of
,ur peonle do not need to be told the
vaIne If the garden. but some do need
o be reminded that we arr vet labor
ne under abnormal conditions. and
hat the world IS Still short Of food.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-03-13
First Preshyterian Church
letter day, March I6.

Red-letter day, March I6.
Sabbath school, $3.50 am. Mr.. and
Mrs. Dean will be present, Mrs. Dean
melting with the ladies', and Mr..
Dean will address the congregation
at IL am. Special music.
Christian Endeavor Gas PM
Regular services at 7:30 pm.
The Every Member Canvass will
begin at 2 pm. Every family in the
church will be visited and the heads
of the homes are urged to be ready
10 see the canYassers.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-03-13

Protracted meeting viii begin al
Elm Grove church next Sunday, and
win be conducted by the pastor Rev.
J. A. Kelly. Servires viii be held at
n ght only.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-03-13
MARRIAGE LICENSES

David L. Goddard and Laura Keath-
ley.
Gilbert Jackson and Willie Strong,
Willie Mae Dixon and Siv Ann Polk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
Dr. Wells on '"The Power
 of His Resurrection

Before a large congregation Easter sun day Dr. Preston B. Wells, pastor of the Highlands Methodist church. chose for the subject of his morning sermon, The Power of his Resurrection"
 E'The Christian faith stands or falls with the resurrection of Jesus. It is the Keystone of the arch of Christianity Utter desolation enfods the incarnation and the cross if Christ be not risen. Paul mentions the five-fold catastrophe of an incarnation ending in death uncroWned by resurrection. He says: "If Christ De ndt risen then is our preaching vain and ydur faith is also vain. Ye are in your sins. We are false witnesses of God They which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. Then he exclaims exultingly; But now is Christ risen from the dead.
 TO Paul, this was the supreme wonder It was the source from which he drew the strength. the inspiration, of all his la bors He found his hope in the light which shone from the empty tomb. He al- firms that it was By the Resurrection that Jesus was declared to be the Son or God with power.
 "We do not forget the emphasis which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
|R| CHARD W. AUSTIN | D IFS IN WASHINGTON
Flo rmer Tennesse Repre- sentative Succumbs to
 PeritOnitis
By Associated Press

Washington, April 20.-Richard w. Auatin, representative in Congress from the Second Tennessee district from 1907 until last March 1, died here today from per Etonitis. The body was taken to mig ht to the Austin home in Knoxville, who're the funeral will be held
 Fl former Representative Austin was Dor in Decatur, Ala, in 1857, and was a g raduate of the University of Ten nesB Bee. He served nine years as United States marshal for the eastern Tennes- see district, and in 1906 was appointed United States consul at Glasgow, Scot land. A year later he resigned to ac- cept the republican nomination r-Con- gre$s from the Second Tennessee dis trict and was elected. He was reelected to Hhe Sixty-second. Sixty third, sixty foufth and Sixty-fifth congresses. Since his retirement at the close of the last session, MT Austin has been engaged in the practice of law in Washington.
 Brief services were held at the home here tonight by the Rev. Henry Noble Cou den. the chaplain of the House of Reuresenta tives. The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at o'clock at the Second Presbyterian chu Fch in Knoxville and the burial will be in that city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21

served and we will know each other
 We cannot obliterate miracles from the Bible; life would not be worth liv- ing without them. We can prove dfvin- ity only by miracles. Paul was preach ? ing to certain Saducees at Corinth of the wealthy class. who did not believe in the resurrection. but thought men were as beasts. and sought to explain away facts. It is oftentimes a. hard to explain facts as to explain them away We know that Christ did rise from the dead because the Bible says so.
 The Roman soldier was ever noted for punctilousness and conscience in the performance of duty yet the cordon of Roman guards could not prevent the escape of Christ's body from the tomb and orthordox Christians believe He
 was raised and that His disciples saw Him afterward.
 If we deny the resurrection of Christ we make Him an imposter ana we take out the central figure of Chris tianity, and His power to save is set aside and the world is reduced to an archy. Denial means loss of your hope and mine-the life hereafter, the inn mortal spirit
 we believe He rose; now sets at the Fathers right hand will come again when when cemeteries will give up their dead earthly afflictions will pass away and we will be happy because God gave His only son to die for our sins.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
Brief Account OF Sermons
 Preached Ln Local Churches

Paul placed upon the death of Jesus. His ground of rejoicing was the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. At the same time his supreme interest lay not alone in the fact that Jesus had died. His esti- mate of the death rested upon the truth of the resurrection The dead of whom he speaks is the Living One, who has conquered death. who has come forth tri- umphantly, and who liYeth to die no more
 'The fact of the resurrection and its importance filled the thought of all the leaders of the early church. Like some towering peak, it was never lost to thelr view.
 Jesus himself staked all upon His ris- ing again He spoke of it as the su- preme proof of Hiss Messiahship.
 The resurrection, therefore, is funda- mental to the Christian faith. If Jesus rose. His loftiest claims are confirmec from the throne. If He still sleep in the silent grave if the Syrian stars still look down upon His lonely tomb, then His claims are disproved His life is a failure, the church is without a founda- tion, and the future is without hope 'The spiritual transformations of the world are the living evidence of the resur- rection power of Jesus. The skeptic may answer the logic of the books, but he can find no answer to the argument that comes from the saintly lives of men.
 ''If Christ be risen, then what?
 His loftiest claims are confirmed from the throne He is declared to be the Son of God with power The gates of mercy are open Death has met it's Conqueror, and grace and hope now span the tomp' The risen Christ is the guarantee or our resurrection and immortal life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
Knights Templar at
 WOOdlaWn Church

Dr. c. Ross Baker pastor of WoodlaWn Baptist church preache l yesterday morn ing on "The Morning Light of Hope and Progress The Woodlawn Commandery No. 31 attended divine service. It was a capacity house, some stood up-others went away. Dr. Baker said in part
 ''I am, glad to preach about the morn- ing because we celebrate the day whose morning meant so much to the world. With the physical light which dawned that morning came the light of the sub lime truth on which the Christian faith rests. It was a glorious sunlight that streamed above the Judean hills, but that morning there rose a more glorious sun, the Sun of Righteousness, to set no more forever
 "Death, darkness, ignorance, sin, were conquered and the rays of heavenly light began their endless journey around the world. Jesus Christ dead and buried left the world as dark as before; Jesus Chrlst buried and risen threw upon the sky or all generations the morning light Of hope and progress.
 Death must come, or what men cal death The body must be laid in the grave. Life, that great throbbing mys- tery, must go on in other spheres The soul of man shall live What mock cry life would be without the resurrec- ton. What a Father God would be 1T he had provided no hereafter. Think of man with his unfolding intellect, his ex- banding powers, his thrilling hopes, his intuitive outreachings being thrust into hole in the ground and that being the end of him. Oh, how reason revolts at this. How faith spurns it. How love re- fuses it. Aye, the morning of resurrec- ton will dawn and the soul shall rise triumphant above all it's earthly environ ments Christ's resurrection is prophe- cy and proof of our resurrection. "Thank God for the Easter assurance that Christ has gained for us victory over the grave, and that in him God has given to us eternal life. We will not mind laying down the tools at the end of the day: there is always a tomorrow One does not need to bound his purpose with the grave.
 ''He may rise above the dirt philosophy that prompts to meanness and despair He may embrace eternity in his thought and exclaim:
 ''rhe high that proved to high, the heroic for earth too hard
 The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky
 Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard
 Enough that he heard it once-we snail hear it by and by.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
"Christ Risen From
 the Dead"- "-Dr. Hobbs

At the First Baptist church Dr. J, k. Hobbs preached an appropriate sermon on the goth verse of the 10th chapter of the First Corinthians, But NOW Christ Is Risen From the Dead" ~Dr. Hobbs said, in part:
 "The word Easter is not found in the Bible but comes from idoiatrous names -Catholicicism introduced 1t into it's list of church festivals, and commem- orated the resurrection of Christ. Catho- lies were wise in selecting this special time of the year for this celeDratlon, though there is no scriptural authority for believing that Christ rose from the dead in spring time.
 But winter having just passed the breezes blow more gratefully, the freshness of the trees in their emerald green and the flowers raising thelr heads from the dead seem typical or the resurrection-beauty is on every hand with song birds to enliven us' ana seem the best inspiration of man, ana make it d proper time for this general celebration of the resurrection.
 Paul spoke of the spiritual resurrec- tion of a material body when he said the body should be sown in corruption and raised in interruption: sown in nor tality. raised in immortality; sown In a natural body and raised in splrlt- ual.
 .'Christ's raised body was not actually material: if so in His case, so in ours, Our bodies are sown as mortal but Win be raised spiritual with characterlstlcs which note the mortal. lmperfections will be obliterated, and replaced with perfections Our features will be pre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
| finding Life at the
 Gates of Death

At the First Christian church yesterday nE Eorning pr. Robert N Simpson spoke to a large audience about Finding Life at story of the resurrection the account of the women who went with annointing spices to anuont the body of their Lord and heard from the lips of angels the glad tidings He is not here, but is ris- eh." pr, Simpson said in part;
 ''These women made the greatest or ehrthly discoveries in finding the fact o; resurrection Suppose they could have u sed those aromatic spices. Suppose they cbuld have carried out their tender-heart- ell purpose Christianity would be of no more worth than Confucianism; the use of the proverbs of dead teacher as rules of conduct. But they were unuse1 spices, and they have filled the world and the centuries with their fragrance
 They have annointed a new era with the balm of Gilead. They have given to the Christians Bible the sweetness Of un- dying flowers pressed between it's pages.
 What would make the grave of ldved one most desolate? Weeds, where a green turf should be? The falling of
 thistle-down where roses should cast tl cir velvet petals on the sodded mound! ! The strangers path across It, instead oi the loved ones beaten road to it? ROD that grave of the fact of a resurrection and you have made it desolate indeed.
 '"These women had the happiest ot earthly experiences. They found lie al the gates of death. You turn over rock ir the field thinking it has killed US surface measure of grass. but you ma h1lndred fragile stems tipped With vel To VI seed leaves, that have needed some hand to roll back the stone from their sdpulchre. You have found lie at the
 ghtes of death. When life and death
 bAttle under your roof and after the crisis of birth you find the life of the wife shared to you and the life of the pape born to you you have experienced the idv of finding life at the gates or death, f'Through everything it runs, this thread of life-in the stem of flower, Tn the rdot of a tree, in the marrow of bone, irI artery and cell. Pick up that crlm- sdn thread and follow it and it will lead i'd the looms of God. These women were given a better mission. They came to Id uent a dead friend but they were sent to tell the story of His resurrection lha- is the message Christ wants on our IDS ''If we stand in the midst of dylng enterprises in the church. He would pu1 ol, our lips the story of the inVincipie Christ who can make dying enterprlses live again. If we stand in the midst or | lives dead in trespasses and sins, lie would have instead of a vail of distress l in our throats a message of life on our i lips If we stand in the presence or worlds wreckage He would have Us voice
 the good tidings of the resurrection or | a new world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
BOILER MAKER FOR |. &N. R. R.
 FIF FTE EEN YEARS
Montgomery M an Had Suf- fered From Rheumatism,
 Kidney and | Liver Trouble.
 Flu" Knock ted Him AL most Out-7Claims the New Medicin e, Dreco, Has Given Wondarf Results.

q am now taking my second bottle of Dreco, and I'm feeling better than 1 have in many months past.' declared Mir An thony Gunter, who resides al 30 Darcey street. Montgomery. MT. Gunter has beer with the Louisville and Nashville for the past b years and is highly esteemed by the company.
 For nine months have suffered terri bly from rheumatism and have spent about s2o0 with q specialist seeking re- lief, but nothing seemed to do me ans eood. My joints ached and my muscles were sore.
 T also had trouble with my liver, which was sluggish. and dizzy spells often struck me. My bowels were bound up and I had to take medicine continually for this trouble l became nervous and my sleep was poor. giving me but little rest.
 q was down in bed with flu when l read in the Sunday paper about Dreco. The first thing Mondny morning my wife got a bottle for me. On Thursday l was cut of bed and l went back to work or Saturday, and haven't missed a day since, although l was out in the rain and sof soaking wet l have not felt any bad et' fleets at all.
 My rheumatic pains are all gone; bow els move regularly My liver is active and 1 sleep sound Dreco is q great med icine, and has built up my general sES- fen, yyonderfully ReaI ly it worked won ders in a remarkably short time. and i rladIv recommend Dreco to the public"
 Dreco is now sold by all progressive d,ugrists throughout the country and is biobIv recommended in Birmingham by Jacobs pharmacy
 Dr. Tharp the well known Dreco eN- ,ert has headouarters at Jacobs phar- macy to meet the local public and eX- nlain the merits of this great remedy. Soc him today. Dreco is also sold in Bes- seroer bv the Fulton Drug Co.,, in Fair fie1d Inv Halls pharmacy; in Wylam by the Central pharmacy.