The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1920-08-12

| miss Florence Johnson, daughIer
Of Mr.. ]. A. Johnson, is reported as
sick with fever this week.
The banks of Covington were
cloesd on Thursday, August 5, on ac-
count of election day.
Mr.. D. C. Click, of the Mason
neighborhood, is having extensive re-
pairs made on his dwelling this week.
Miss Elise Ports, who has been
sick with typhoid fever, is reported
as slightly improved this week.
Mr.. W. D. Boston, who has been
attending the bedside Of his mother,
who is quite i'll, returned to his home
Monday.
-Messrs F. M. Franks and Albert
G. Franks arrived here Saturday from
Savannah. Tenn. Mr.. Franks is con-
sidering this as possible location.
Rev. Thomas Hail. who has been
a missionary to Cuba. occupied the
pulpit of the M. Carmel Presbyterian
church Sunday at the II o'clock hour.
Rev. Mr. Hall is visiting relatives
here.
The bid of 1896 of T. R. Elcan
for the J. S. Finley bankrupt prop
erty. which was sold at auction last
week, was disallowed by the referee
in bankruptcy. johnson Bros. raised
the bid to $500 and this bid was con-
firmed and the property was turned
over to them.
Mr.. Harvey Misenheimer, who
has been in the naval service as a
radio operator for three and one-half
years, and in which he has seen much
foreign service on the cruisers Pitts
burg and Olympia, returned home
Thursday, having received his dis
charge from the navy.
Mr.. ]. e. Mills left Sunday for
st. Louis where he will attend the
One Hundred Thousand Dollar Club
of The Missouri State Life Insurance
Company. The members of this club,
af-er their meeting in st. Louis will
take trip to Chicago, Cleveland and
other points.
Mr.. Sam Stephenson shipped ~
crates Of dogs Thursday. Mr.. Steph-
enson states that in the past week he
has shipped 81 dogs. These dogs
were CONSIGNED to all parts Of the
country. Five of them were shipped
to customers in Mexico and seven
were sent to Canada.
The members of the Bible Glass
and Sunday school of the First Pres
byterian churchI enioved a delightful
picnic dinner Thursday evening at 6
o'clock at the Grammar School
grounds. Everything imaginable in
the line Of good things to eat was
served.
Mr.. Dick Bryant had a painful
accident Thursday morning, when he
was kicked in the right eye by a mule.
Mr.. Bryant, who is logging for Mr..
Charles Hill, was hi,ching up his
team preparatory to starting his
days work when the accident occur
red. His wound was dressed but at
present it is impossible to tell whether
he will lose the eye or not.
Miss Virginia Andrews of Polk,
Tenn. who is the guest of Mrs. ]. G.
Wilson, was the honoree at delight
full lawn party given by Mrs. Wilson
at her home on East Liberty street
Friday evening. About Is couples
were present. Progressive converse
ton was enjoyed. AT late hour
delicious ice course was served in
charming manner.
The funeral Of Miss Annie
Goode, who died at the home of her
mother in the Munford neighbor-
hood Wednesday afternoon, was held
at the Goode home, Rev. G.. W.Tracey
conducting the services. Interment
was in Townsend graveyard at noon
Thursday. Miss GoOde had been suf-
fering from tuberculosis for some
time. At the time of her death she
was Al years of age. She is sur
vived by her mother and several
brothers and sisters.
The property owners along the
Mt Carmel road are holding a com
munity road working this week. Their
intention is to work this road to Mt.
Carmel and then organize the prop
cry owners along the road and carry
the work on until the Shelby
county line is reached. Work is being
done on the bitches, the overhanging
limbs being cut away and the road
widened and graded. This public
spirited movement should be en-
couraged, and the residents along
the road from Mt. Carmel to the
Shelby county line certainly should
carry on the work. The county road
commission paws half the expense.
Newt Ports, son of Mr.. Ben
Ports. of this place, and John Pennel,
son of Mrs. Cora Pennel, took the
notion Sunday that Edison was, in
way, laying down on his job as an
inventor of electrical devices, so in
the course of their playing they
fourd two live wires at Mrs. Pencils
that we're touching and were splitting
sparks. They secured a dimes
worth of gun powder and poured it
en- the wires. The nowder flashed
and the two boys were painfully
burned on their hands and arms.
Newt Ports had his face just little
too close to the experiment and the
result was that his eyebrows were
singed in addition to the burns on
his hands and arms The boys have
come to the conclusion that Edison
is doing very well in the experiment
ing line and he can have their share
Of it.