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The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-25
EPWORTH LEAGUE is
HIGHLY ENTERTAINED

The Epworth League Of the First
Methodist chuch was most delight
fully entertained on last Tuesday
evening by Miss Helen Pennel, one
of the newly elected officers.
The beautiful lawn, brightly illu-
minated with electric lights and
with it's natural decoration of grow
ing plants, was an attractive place
for the merry-making. The punch
bowl. wreathed in lilies and clematis,
was a thing Of beauty as we'll as re-
freshment. Miss Helen, assisted by
her sister, Miss Mary Pennel, intro
duced novel game after another and
there was not dull moment from
start to finish Among the games
that the young people enjoyed were
the Musical Hunt for Peanuts"
"Spilling Beans" Blowing Out the
Cradle" "Blind Mans Bluff" and
"Under the Christmas Tree"
In the matchmaking contest Miss
Ella B. Bell carried off the honors,
winning a box Of candy.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. d. Hamilton were
present and entered into the zest Of
the games as heartily as anyone
else. +ATsaMsE
Delicious sherbet and cakes were
served and the guests took their
leave, saying that they had never
attended a more enjoyable league
party,
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-25
HARDWARE COMPANY WILL
RETURN TO OLD STAND

Mr.. W. R. Samuels has been given
the contract to completely remodel
the Craig building, formerly occu-
pied by the Tennessee Hardware
Co., and which was badly damaged
at the time the Covington Supply
Co. building was destroyed by fire.
The remodeling is to make a practi-
cally new building, having many i'm
nrovements over the former one.
The building, which formerly had
two entrances, will now have
but one entrance, which will be in
the center. New show windows will
run the entire lengtht of the build
ing.
1t is expected that the work will
be completed by October Is, when
the Tennessee Hardware Co. will re-
turn to its old stand The hardware
company is planning to have new
fixtures and an entirely new ar
rangement in the store.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-25
]. M. WILSON DEAD

Mr.. John M. Wilson, aged 40 years,
died at his home three miles south Of
Covington Monday morning about 9
o'clock, following brief illness Of
malarial hematuria.
Mr.. Wilson was native Of Upton
county, having beeBaborn and reared
in the Bird civil district near Detroit.
Early in life he connected himself
with he Walnut Grove Cumberland
Presbyterian chuch. His untimely
death is sincerely regretted by
large number Of friends throughout
the county.
The funeral was held at the FAM
ilv residence Tuesday morning at 10
o'clock, Rev. ]. A. Baird, pastor Of
the A. r. P. church at Rives, con-
Quoting the service, after which the
burial took place in Munford ceme-
terry.
He IS survived by his wife, Mrs.
Maggie Wilson, seven children and
five brothers. as follows: Harvey
and P. D., Of this city. and Shelby,
w H and Calvin Wilson. Of this
county. II -
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-25
MILK TESTING

Unless you draw the milk correct
ly and sample it correctly, it is use
less to have good milk tested.
Prof. H. B. Sandlin has tested
over a hundred samples at the high
school and probably hal fthat num-
Der have been accurate tests.
Mr., Sandlin's suggestions are:
l. Draw all the milk at one time
and in a large vessel.
2, Strain and pour from vessel for
two or three times.
3. D 'aw sample from the entire
amount after you have mixed thor
oughly before you allow it to set.
4. Bring in before it sours.
If you will follow these rules you
can get a very acurate sample of
your milk, and Mr.. Sandlin can tell
Just what amount of butter fat your
cow gives. It is not guess work, and
ne invites you to be present at the
time it is tested.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-25
LIVING COST DECLINES

The cost of living decreased eleven
tenths of one per cent during July,
according to figures mayie public
Monday by the National Industrial
Conference. Prices are still 62 per
cent higher tran the July, 1914, level
and only POS ner cent lower than
the peak reached in July, 1920.
Declines during July were IN
clothing, which dropped S.5 per cent
and in sundries. which dropped IL
per cent. Food prices. the report
said, went up 3 per cent.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-25
WILLIAM 7. GRANT JOINS
THE SILENT THRONG

MT. Wlillam H. IfauL, aged 10
years, died at the home Of his son,
Mr.. Joseph w. Grant, near Coving-
ton, Saturday afternoon. The end
came after an illness Of several days,
due principally to old age.
The funeral was held Sunday
morning, Rev. w. r. Pickett, pastor
Of the Liberty Baptist church, Of
which he was a devoted member,
conducting the service, after which
the remains were inferred in Mum
ford cemetery.
Mr.. Grant was a gallant Confede-
rate soldier in the army Of Northern
Virginia. He was most highly es-
teemed. About IL years ago he
wrote an article, "My Life's His
tory" which gives as follows an ac-
curate account of his long and
eventful life:
wv. I. Grant was born in Chester
county, s. G., January Ia, 1916, and
received a limited education in the
public schools of that county.
IL Joined the iConfederate army
April l, 1862, and was assigned to
Go. e, Fifth South Carolina Infan-
try, experiencing the ups and downs
in said army for three years; was
struck twice by she'll fire and par
ticipated in the famous Battle
Above the Clouds" on Lookout
mountain. In the retreat from
Richmond to Appomatotox court
house was in Gen. Lees command,
and saw Lee and Grant when they
met between the Confederate and
Union lines to fix the terms Of sur
render. After leaving the field of
surrender. | walked home and re-
sumed nv studies in school through
1866.
"In September, 1865. / was at
tending a Methodist revival meeting
at Armenia Campground, and on one
occasions after a most wonderful
sermon by Presiding Elder Pritch-
ard, | was struck down under con-
viction and remained thus for eight
or ten hours Thereafter I Joined
the New Bethel Missionary Baptist
church, York county, S. c., and was
baptized BY the pastor, Brother W.
II. Horton.
"0n November 20, 1867, | married
Mrs. Hannah Wright, who had two
children by a previous marriage. In
December, 1859, came to linton
county and returned in October Of
the following year to bring my fam !
lly. | settled near Mt. Carmel
church. We have reared to manhood
three sons. The five children are all |
living on this day, March 2, 1910. |
We received our letters from the
South Carolina churches and Joined
the Covington Baptist church, and
n 1875 the memberships were trans
feTred to Liberty church. | have
reared my children by the reading Of
Gods word and family prayers dur
ing their entire lives.
I'm 1895 | united with the Joe
Brown Bivouac and acted as chap
ain in our meetings. Am now En-
sign or Color Bearer Of the organi-
zation. ! have been a subscriber to
my church paper, the Baptist and
since 1871. Never was in
! lawsuit nor a witness in case;
never was summoned before the
grand jury. ! was one Of the Jurors
n a murder case-the first hanging
n Upton county after the war.
lever used intoxicating liquor in my
life, nor tobacco or coffee since the
var"
The deceased is survived by his
.hree sons, Joseph W., James M.
ind Jesse L. Grant, Of this vicinity.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-25
MARRIAGE LICENSES

white Warren Leslie Rose to Lii
lie Nav Myers. Clarence B. Davis to
Margaret L. Bacon, Burtis Edward
Hathcock to Martha Elizabeth Glow
er, Warren L. Lavelle to Cleo Green,
James G. Howell to Daisy Moore.
Colored-Leslie Jackson to Matte
May Dehart. ODDS Hall to Bertha
Fayne.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-25
TEACHERS TRAINING
COURSE FOR B. H, HIS
GRAMMAR AND HIGH SCHOOL
WILL OPEN SEPTEMBER 5

Pupils Shall Report For
Examination Unless Students
Have a Good Vaccine Scar, Must
Be Vaecinated--YOung Men and
Women Who Can Not Go To State
Normal Urged To Take Training
Course.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-25
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INTERESTING LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Told IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS

TITTI IIITT rTIT
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-25

OF IS Prospective Contributors "a
Made Pledges - Tithers Respond
Liberally-TOtal Pledges $s,7s5-
Church Hopes To EndOw Seven
Scholarships For Benefit of Cow
ington Young PeOple-Presbyte-
rians Are Jubilant.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
: A Popular Hangman

to an aristocratic "afternoon tea" for
which he was always we'll dressed on
professional duty, as ''F1ofmeister Lang"
There was some CONSERVATION when his
identity was discovered, but this soon
gave place to fever of curiosity, and
women surrounded him for hours with
fusillade of questions-and stole his
pocket handkerchief as momento Of the
occasion.
Women offered him anything he liked
to ask if he would enable them to be
present at an execution. He could take
a certain number of men as his assist
ants, giving in their names beforehand,
but he never took even men who had
not some genuine scientific ground for
asking, and never women, though there
were many women who were quite will
ing to act as his actual assistants. He
never had to execute a woman and was
heartily glad of it.
If only for its sidelights on super
stition this is a remarkable book. Lang S
prc-War correspondence, much of which
his wife often burned unopened, con-
sisted mainly of requests for locks of
hair, his own or else from a patient
and for all imaginable articles that had
been touched by him or by hanged
murderer. And Lang himself is not
| without superstition. He always carries
| about with him tiny sl<ein containing
| a thread from each silk moose he has
| used to launch a man into eternity.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
GOMPERS DEFENDS
HIS STAND AGAINST
SOVIET RUSSIA

Washington, April 8.-Samue1 Com
pers, president Of the American Fedora
ton Of Labor, this week announced as
"tnpatriOtic Americans" those labor
leaders who have severely criticised his
refusal to indOrse the Russian soviet
government or to urge its recognition
by the United States
Flat refusal to rctraCt in the slight
est from his position was expressed by
Mr.. GOmpers in a long letter to the Cen
trail Trades Union of Kalamazoo, Mich,
Phoenix. Ariz., Laramie, Wyo., and
other similar labor organizations which
had adopted resolutions condemning the
present administration of the federation
for its Russian stand, as subservient to
capital and against the best interests Of
the workers. The action OF these bodies,
the letter said, apparently was on con-
illusions drawn from utter mlslntorma-
ton" of the true situation in Russia
In the many years | have been an
official of the American Federation of
Labor" the letter said, no document
has been received by me containing more
misin formation or conclusions based up
on a lack of knowledge. 1t is true that
have read much of the propaganda
that is being circulated throughout the
United States in favor of the bOlshevlk
government of Russia and it is true that
the letter adopted by the Kalamazoo
Trades and Labor Council gives voice
to that propaganda.
''In these days it is past understand
| ing how American citizens can bring
| themselves to aid and comfort a propa-
ganda that has for its purpose the de-
struction of the trade labor movement in
America and the overthrow of our re-
! public"
The letter quoted from numerous
| official announcements of the Russian
government as to the necessity for mil
| es of labor should be moved about, ord
cred and sent from place to place in the
same manner as soldiers and commented
on measures Trotzky had taken to force
the return to work of railroad and bank
employees who had VOLUNTARILY" quit
their positions.
Does the Kalamazoo Trades and La
Dor Council support this program for
the United States?" Mr.. Gompers in
quired.
He declared that 'the communist par
| ty in Russia-the real rulers of that
country-nuibered less than 10000
members" This was shown, he said, by
the fact that while each member of the
| party was entitled 10 oil allowance vi
two popnds of bread a day, less than
! 10000 applications for that allowance
were made to the food commissaire.
| Assertion of the Kalamazoo central
body that unemployment in America
would be relieved by lifting the en-
barge on Russia, Mr.. Gompers denied or
the ground that there is no such enbar-
go, and if there were, lifting it would
| have no material effect on trade relations
1T may be news to you that the great,
articles sent TO Russia, outside of MUM
amounted 70 only s4O,00Good"
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
APPEAL AWARD ON
GROTON WAGES
Government Not Satisfied to Have
Iron Works Handle
$4,000.

New London, April 8-Notice of an
appeal was filed in the superior court
by the United States of America
through the 7. S. Shipping Board Emer-
gency Fleet Corp. from the decision of
Judge Banks in the placing of the I'M
claimed wage fund, approximating $l8,-
600 at the disposal of the receivers of
the Groton Iron Works for payment of
receivers commitments.
The two funds have been the source
of contention between the receivers, the
Groton Iron Works and the Emergency
Fleet Corp. for several months. Pro-
vision for the disposition of the funds
was not made in the order of the super
ior> court a year ago ordering the Gro
ton Iron Works plant and its assets to
be returned by the receivers, and the
determination of the funds has been the
subject of several hearings here, all
three parties claiming ownership.
Throughout the entire controversy
Lawyer Arthur NJ Marsh of Bridge
port, representing the Emergency Fleet
Corp, has maintained that the govern
ment would not submit to the iurisdic-
ton of the superior court until the final
hearing last week, when he said that he
would submit to the jurisdiction of the
court and abide by the consequences
Now comes the appeal from Judge
Banks decision.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
ASSESSED VALUATION
OF NEW HAVEN
OVER $685., 100000

Town 1Cerk Doughan has received
from the board of assessors the usual
annual report and tabulation of the
property assessed for taxation in the
city of New Haven for transmission to
the state tax commissioner and the same
was forwarded to Commissioner William
H. Blodgett. The report and tabulation
is as follows:
Dwelling houses, 1862, and valuation,
$83,65O,546; 5,762 barns, sheds, store
houses private garages. etc, $3,002 ,7O8;
1882 houses and building lots, $685.
274; 700 stores. saloons, shops, theaters,
banks, halls, hotels, offices, public gar
ages, stables, etc, $17 ,584 $50; 537 build
ings used for mills and factories, $l6,
274,965; 1,141 acres of land, $18O,455;
Il $40 horses and mules, $11,73O; 118 neat
cattle, $3,525; 207 sheep, goats, swine,
etc, $4,000; 117O6 auto and motor
vehicles, $8,071 ,824; carriages, wagons,
and BICYCLES, $8O,571; watches and
jewelry, $1O2, 326; furniture, libraries
and musical instruments, sos, 607; goods
and merchandise, $19,O93,358; vessel
property. net earnings. $5S,20O; cash on
hand and in bank, $2O9,170; other tax
able property, $1O,755; 10 per cent. ad
ditional on lists not given in, 81 ,610,
567; total value of taxable property as
corrected by board of relief, $685. 66,
326; valuation of exempted property,
SIT, $50.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08

One of Vienna's most respected citi-
zens, writes the Vienna correspondent
of the London Daily Mail, is Josef Lang,
the last imperial and royal executioner
of AUSTRIA" a handsome and imposing
old gentleman in his Doth year, who is
still active deputy chief of the fire
brigade in Sinmering, the suburb in
which he resides, and probably the most
popular man in the district.
His volume of "reminiscences, just pub
lished, and edited by DR.. Oscar Schalk,
reveals him as a man of humane and
generous disposition. He has brought up
Is children, of whom only two were his
own. He became executioner at As, hav-
ing been successfully carpenter, soldier,
stoker and coffee-house keeper.
He is very proud of the fact that his
longest execution took only 65 seconds,
the shortest As.
But the. most interesting of his dis
closures relate to women of all classes
who sought interviews with him at
which they often made determined anna
tory advances. Some were content to
look into his eyes or touch his hand.
Many craved a thread of silk which had
formed part of moose actually used by
him. Superstition was their main in
ccntive.
He was once, on going to the gov
crnor's house to report himself, as he
was bound to do on arrival, introduced
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
Sales Tax Will
Net Huge Sum
Will Take Billion and Quarter
Out of Pockets of Poor
Consumer.

Washington, April 8.-New revenue
legislation designed to keep the govern
ment's tax income up to $4,000. 100000
began to take definite shape this week,
when Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon
received from Senate leaders a tentative
draft of a tax revision measure.
After a conference upon the proposed
tax changes with Secretary Mellon and
Government Actuary Joseph Mccoy, the
main features of proposed program
program were outlined by Senator Smoot
of the senate finance committee to in
Cludc the following:
Imposition OF a straight sales tax of
One-half of one per cent. upon practically
all sales by manufacturers and mer-
chants; repeal of the excess profits tax,
and scaling down of the higher sur
taxes to a 81 per cent. bracket.
Senator SmOOt asserted that the pro-
posal for the sales tax of onc-half of
one per cent. would raise for the treasury
$1,25O,000,000 and possibly in excess of
that figure.
The aim of the senate leaders, Senator
Smoot said, is to rcadjust the tax laws
so that the wealthy will not find it pos
sible to escape liability to the government
by investing their funds in tax exempt
securities
by bringing the higher surtaxes
down to 81 per cent. the rich will not
have the temptation to place their billions
in bonds that are not taxable" Senator
SmOOt said.
THE government must get its share
of the taxes from this source That is
not now possible through the retention
of high surtax rates that drive million
aires into tax exempt investments of all
kinds
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
WOOD HACKERS SUED
FOR $l2,465 BY HOTEL
Broken Chairs Included in Bill
Rendered for Rent and
Service at Chicago.

Chicago, April 8.-The campaign COM
mittee for Majo General Leonard Wood
when he was a candidate for republican
nomination for President. today was
sued for $12,465 for rent and other ex-
penses by the Congress Hotel. The bill
against the committee covers the months
of April, May and June, 1920, when the
committees headquarters were at the
hotel.
Members OF the committee named in
the suit included: William c. Proctor,
who was chairman; Major A. A.
Sprague, J. J. McGraw, Ponca, Okla,
vice-chairman, and Fred Stanley, of
Wichita, Kansas.
Items named in the hotels sworn bill
of expenses included $4,000 for parlors,
where headquarters were maintained, and
81 ,3o5 for meals. Other items covered
broken chairs, laundry bills shoe shines
and room rents.
The hotels account showed total
charges of So. 465, towards which a cash
payment of $4,000 was made May l.
according to the bill.
Colonel Proctor has brought suit
against Major Sprague for $4,000
alleged to be due on joint notes signed
to cover funds obtained for the cam
paign.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
WILLIAMS REPEATS
CHARGE THAI STEEL
COMPANY lSGOUGER

Washington, April 8.-Repeating his
previous charge that the Steel Trust was
guilty of ''uncOnscionable' prohteering
during the war and is today seriously
interfering with the work of reconstruct
ton, John Shelton Williams, formerly
controller of the currency, has addressed
another letter to Judge Ebert H. Gary,
in which he specifically points out that
unnecessarily high prices for steel are
in large part responsible for the present
conditions of the railroads.
Mr.. Williams says the roads are pay
ing three times as much for steel cars
as they did before the war. In addition
the roads are forced to pay 8 per cent.
or more for money which they formerly
secured for 5 per cent. The net result
is that the interest charge against
freight cars has gone up about five hun
dred per cent.
The remote. but distinctly connected,
cause of the present troubles of the
railroads, Mr.. Williams says, 'is the
principle so many of the roads enforced
years ago, of extorting all the traffic
will bear" The Steel Trust, he con-
tinues. may containe to exploit the pub
lie, but in the end it, too, will be called
to book for its disregard of the ethics
of business.
ct seems to me that the same rule
that applies to the citizen should apply
to the conduct of a corporation COM
posed of citizens,' Mr.. Williams adds.
1.-THE good old rule. the simple plan,
that he shall take who has the power
and he shall keep who can is not utop-
ian and is not good business, and in this
country is not possible as a perma-
nency, as proved by many 1amentable
Incidents
Judge Gary is assured that it is in
his power to quiet disturbances now ex-
listing and more which are threatening
by abandoning policy Of "hogging.
You can not, Judge Gary" says Mr.
Williams, defend a reduction OF wages
at the same time that your corporation
is gathering in such profits for share
holders as those to which | have direct
ed attention."
Mr., Williams repeats his allegation
that the profits of the Steel Trust while
the nation was at war were so large that
the wages of every worker and official
could have been doubled and leave bal
ancc sufficient to pay dividends of COM
mon and preferred stock, meet all in
tcrest and depreciation charges. taxes
and extensions and a substantial balance
for surplus.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-08
LOS ANGELES LABOR
UNION WIDE AWAKE

A few weeks ago the 'Better Amer
lean Federation of Los Angeles had the
city council come across with 81 1000 from
the city treasury to investigate the reds
and radicals among the workers and
drive them out of town. A committee
of the Central Labor Council then went
before the city fathers and demanding
that similar sum be voted to probe the
Better American Federation and ascer-
tain if its members were responsible for
nationwide compaign of false adSertis-
ing that has brought thousands of I'M
employed into Los Angeles to face
hunger and want. The union laborites
put the matter SO convincingly that the
finance committee of the city council has
recommended that the money be appro-
priated. Those live wires in the Angel
City are right on the job.