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


went minor surgical operation last
week and is improving.
Mrs. H. +. Dickson underwent
an operation at the Baptist Memorial
Hospital in Memphis Tuesday Of
this week. At the last report she
was resting well.
Miss Blanche Hathcock is now
employed in the office Of Sheriff C.
N Volz in the capacity of steno-
grapher on the second floor Of the
courthouse.
Nellie, wife of Bob Brandon,
colored, died Tuesday and was bur-
led Wednesday, She was respected
by. both white and colored people of
this city.
Rev. L. A. Cody, Of Dyersburg,
will begin a series of sermons at the
Munford Presbyterian church today
CThursday). The public is invited
and urged to attend these services.
The brick work on the Coving-
ton Supply Go. building was com
pleted this week, and work on the
interior Of the building is being
pushed rapidly in an effort to COM
plete it throughout early this fall.
Among those who attended the
Merchants Cotton Safes Convention
held in Memphis this week on Tues
day were Messrs. G. L. Ralph, v. L.
Ogilyie, L. p Flippin, I. Fl. Lowen-
haupt and Major M. A. Walker.
Tom Flowers, colored, met a
horrible death Sunday evening after
suffering from tetanus or lockiaw
for only three days. Last Friday he
stepped on pointed piece of baling
wire, the tetanus infection setting
up in few hours afterwards.
Prof. H. B. Sandlin, instructor
OF the Smith-Hughes Agriculture
Glass, entertained that body of stu
dents Wednesday afternoon at Shell
tondale farm. Watermelons were
served and the class found much en-
joyment in the swimming pool.
The Covington baseball team
met the Ripley club at the athletic
field here Friday and Saturday, win
ming both games. The score in the
first game was s to s and in the
second 5 to 3. The local team is
composed of players from both the
town and county.
Rev, Chesley L. Bowden is as
sisting Rev. r. o. Arbuckle in a re-
vival meeting at Stanton this week.
He was also engaged in similar
meeting at Puryear, Tenn, recent
ly. Next Sunday he will fill an ap-
nointment at Pleasant Grove at
$3.50 pm.
"A bull belonging to Mr.. w. C.
Dumas, Of this city, ran amuck last
Saturday while being driven past the
G. M. & A. Co. He saw his reflec
ton in q large plate glass window
of that firm and dashed against it
with all his strength, crushing the
glass into many pieces.
Lem, the 2-year-old baby boy Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Hamilton, of
Brighton, died Tuesday morning of
congestion. The funeral was held at
Poplar Grove church Wednesday
morning, after which the remains
were inferred in the church ceme-
terry.
The meeting at Oak Grove
church, held by Rev. w. R. Pickett,
was closed Wednesday morning.
There were % additions to the
church and a number of renewals.
Nineteen were baptized by Rev.
Pickett at the conclusion of the SER
vice Wednesday,
Rev. H. Rufus Rose, who recent
ly submitted his resignation as pas
tor of the Methodist church at Lex
ington, Tenn, in order to pursue an
advanced theological course in Yale
University, spent several days Of
this week with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. R. Rose, of this city. Rev.
Rose has been a member of the
Memphis conference only few /
years and has shown remarkable
success as a minister.
The Leader received two bottles
Of boil weevils this week from diff
ferent sections of the county. One
was sent in by Mr.. T. B. Peeler, Of
District No! IL, who states the
weevils came from a farm in his
and that six insects
were found in one bloom. Mr.. Peeler
states that the army worm is also,L
1oing some damage in his section. 4,
The other bottle was sent in by Mr..
9. P. West, Of Upton. Both were
he genuine cotton boil weevil.
r. A. Burse was tried before
United States Marshal j. Lauder
lale Richardson Monday on the
,harge Of operating a still in Lau-
lerdale county. He waived exami-
ration and was bound oyer to the
'ederal court under a $500 bond, and
Ipon failure to bond was returned
o the Lauderdale county jail. Burse
vas arrested at Double Bridges
bout 10 miles from Ripley by Sher- !
IF ]. T. Coughlin and Assistant
Deputy Marshal George R. Ellis and
brought to Covington Monday for ,,
rial.
"A protracted meeting closed
Sunday evening at the Presbyterian
hurch at Mt Carmel after much in
crest mad been manifested. The
Meeting was held by Rev. Albert t
Keller, Of New Zealand, who deliver
d strong and forceful sermons in a !
vay that impressed his large con- {
Tegations, and having Travelled {
widely he had many experiences to g
elate in a most pleasing fashion. t
)uring the meeting II additions
we're enrolled on the church regis c