The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1922-07-13

The residence Of Mr.. Joe Hollo-
way on Upton street is nearing COM
pletion and will soon be ready for oc-
cupancy.
Rev. o. H. Richardson, Of Mar
tin, will preach at Liberty Sunday
morning and at Oak Grove in the
afternoon.
A protracted meeting will be-
gin at the Garland Baptist church
Sunday morning, July Is. Rev. W,
R. Farrow, of Amory, Miss, will con-
duct the meeting.
Tonight at 8 p. m. Rev. J. R.
Edwards, pastor of the A. R. T.
church at Fayetteville, Tenn, will
preach at the a. r. P. church here
The public is cordially invited.
Elder W. c. Cooke, of Tracey
City, Tenn, will preach at the local
Christian church Sunday at IL a. m.
and at 8 D. m. The public is cordially
invited to attend each service.
Mrs. w. S. Mayes entertained
Wednesday evening in honor of her
guests, Mrs. R. P. Walker and daugh-
ter, Miss Maynita, Of Lewisburg,
with Gypsy tea in Confederate Park,
near Ripley.
The following marriage licenses
were issued during the past week:
Paul Read to Ida Creel, james F. R.
Doyle to Maud Mai Creel, Ed Smith
to Mrs. Birdie Upton, carson SOmer-
vile to Lilly Bell Taylor, Waddell
Jones to Emma~Piggee.
Mr.. George Turner has rented the
residence Of Mrs. J. R. Ashe in the
Haynie division. Mrs. Ashe accom-
panied her daughter, Mrs. Phil Stone,
Wednesday night to Orlando, Fla,
where she will make her future
home.
The municipal election held in
Brighton Monday resulted in the
election of the following officers: J..
M. Smithson, mayor; G. L, Forsyth,
recorder; T. D. Huffman, marshal;
w. L. helms, L. X, Baird, W. S. De
wese and Leon MORRISON aldermen.
AS a part of the program in inn
proving the public square, arrange
ments are being made to remove all
electric wire poles from the square.
They will be placed in the alleys and
their removal will add considerably
to the outward appearance Of Coying.
toms business section.
Il. R. Graves & Co., local cotton
merchants, have established branch
offices in Memphis on the seventh
floor of the Mccall building. Mr..
Graves, head of the firm, is also
orming connections with correspond
ing firms in Arkansas and Missis-
sippi.
The banks of Covington and Tip.
ton county are closed today in observ-
ance Of the birthday Of Gen. N. B,
Forrest, the great Confederate cav
airy leader during the civil war. For
rests birthday was made state
holiday by an enactment Of the last
legislature.
Circle No. 8 of the Presbyterian
church will give d New Cooking
Demonstration" at the home of Mrs
w. s. IMayes next Wednesday after
noon from 8 to 6 o'clock. Each lady
present will be presented with an
aluminium pie plate. A small adj
mission fee will be charged at the
door.
The improvement of the public
square in Covington, except delay
in receiving certain kinds Of con-
struction material, is progressing
nicely, with the prospect that the
square will be paved by August Is.
gThe concrete curbing now under con-
struction will be completed the lat
ter part of this week.
Mrs. Birdie Upton and Mr.. Ed
Smith, both of Memphis, motored
through the country from Memphis
Sunday to Covington and were united
in marriage in the pastors study of
the First Baptist church, Rev. Ed
ward Stubblefield officiating. The
couple returned to Memphis by auto
mobile the same afternoon.
The annual camp meeting at KEEL
ley's Chapel, District No. 3, will begin
Thursday, July o. Elder A. G. Wat
kins, of Kansas City, Mo-, has been
engaged to conduct the meeting,
which is destined to be very success
full one, large number of people in
that district having made advance ar
rangements for camping rights during
the meetingy
The county workhouse gang,
working the road between Atoka
and Idaville, have greatly improved
that highway this week, a large
number of citizens in that commun-
ity cooperating in the work. In
places where it has been necessary
to widen roads in this county, prop
erty owners have been perry consid
crate by giving their land for the
right-of-way.
The lot just off the public square
on East Liberty avenue has been
cleared of all rubbish, and the ante
quated residence which stood on that
site for the purpose Of erecting a new
and handsome funeral parlor by Mr..
R. S. Maley, local undertaken. The
contract for the erection Of this build
ing will probably be let the latter part
of this month and construction will
begin in the near future.
Mr.. J. E. Wages, farmer on the
rlace of DR.. L. A. Yarbrough near the
Upton Cotton Mills, reports that he
had found a number of large cotton
bolls in his field Monday, July 10,
which is unusually early. He has
three acres in cotton that was planted
in April. early planting being one Of
the most effective means Of combat
ting the boil weevil. He states that
his crop thus far is free Of any boil