The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-04-01

II they have ever been uttered, soms
of the best newspapers in the country
have failed to hear it.
The streets of our town are being
| graded and other improvements are
being hoped for.
The newly elected officials of our
land and country have promised the
American people great things. We
want to now feel results. We stand
/ for the good of the people.
School closed at Cross Roads last
Friday.
Guy McMinn, of the Clarksburg
High School, was here Sunday on so
cial business.
Jesse Rush and wife visited in the
home of B. E. Todd and wife, Satur-
day night.
Pat Mccall and family, of Ches-
i terrified, visited in the home of B. w
Walker and family the first of the
week.
Miss Dora Howell visited in Lexing-
ton last weekend.
When the war for liberty was
fought and when CORVALLIS surren-
dered to Washington at York Town
the Colonists were proud we know
i This was attested when the news
reached philadelphia, as the old mar
Ewho began to ring the Liberty Bel
for Congress to meet died of Joy.
There will be preaching at Stray
Leaf, Route l, Sunday.
One of the heaviest rainfalls of the
season fell here Sunday night.
Miss Ruby Walker, West Port, has
returned to her home after visiting
the family of L. L. Douglass.
In colonial days, Charleston, S. G..
was the most fashionable city in
America.
The housewives eggs seem to bt
summerworthless, yet to the boy who
has come ont of school to work on the
farm this summer, they seem to b
worth more than for many day, this
being attested by college student Of
Indiana, who recently began working
on the farm, ate eight eggs and was
just ashamed to call for more.
L. E. Mincey, of Yuma, was here
Sunday.
/ A large Baptist church is being
erected in Yuma.
Don't forget. At Cross Roads next
Saturday night. Doors open at sever
o'clock.
| John Cunningham and Afford Jow.
ers, hustling young farmers of Rout,
/ l, were here Saturday.
Not until man loses his head does
he realize that two heads are better
than one.
Rev. A. U. Nunnery preached al
Yuma, last Saturday night.
A total of 9,211,295 automobile:
were registered in the United States
in 1920.
A representative of the Inter.
national Harvester Company was here
| last week with the Wildersville Hard
ware Company.
| J. R. Morgan, of Farmville, was
| here Saturday.
/ E. Bolen, wife and child, visited il
| the home of Clyde Walker and wife
Sunday.
| Onie Derryberry and wife, visited
relatives near Farmville last week.
| T. d. Birchett, of Route 8, was herr
Saturday.
Mrs. Earl Robins and sister, Mis-.
Bertha, visited E. Bolen and wife, a
Yuma last week.
Miss Ruby Hester left the first O
the week for Martin, where she vii
enter the Hall-Moody Institute for re
view work.
! Gus Martin, representing Noble
OVERLY & Co., of Memphis, was her
Saturday
j. w. Below, of Yuma, was her
last week.
Mrs. j. c. Britt visited relatives
in Yuma Sunday.
Howard Williams, of Lexington
spent the weekend with home folks
Jesse Flake and Graden Bolen wer
in Carroll county on business tn
first of the week.
Curtis Ross and Miss Irene Wolfe
of your city, were the guests of Mis-
Dora Howell Tuesday night.
j. P. Parker was in your city Mon
day on business.
b. +. Todd and wife visited his pa
rents, ]. E. Todd and wife Sunday.
Attorney ]. w. Murphy, of Hunt
ingdon, was here the first of tn
week.
1t is the fish that never opens hi
mouth that never gets caught.
Drummer c. B. Jones, of your city
, was here Monday on business.
/, Mesdames j. d. Sanders, C. E. Par
ker, E. E. Coble and Walter E. Rush
hustling young farmers, of Cros
Roads, were here Monday on business
i Merchant E. R. Horn, Route
made business trip to Jackson tn
first of the week.
Thomas A. Walls, of Yuma, wa
: here Monday.
Toof Fronaborger was in Cairo, Ill
the first of the week on business.
Joe Derryberry, Route l, was her
Monday.
Rural carriers Todd and Ringgol,
did not carry the mail Monday on &C