Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-07-29
Local and Personal.

Mrs. Z. P. Tatum is in Meridian for a
short visit.
Mrs. W. r. Connor and children are
visiting relatives lea Stone. Ala,
Misses Lucy Ferris and ~Juanita Scales
ARE home from a visit to Houston.
Misses Mabel and Eva Rivers OF Me-
ridian are guestsof Miss Roberta Jones.
Mrs. N. Scales, Misses Mabel and Ha-
eel Scales and Bessie Ferris are home
from Biloxi.
DR.. and Mrs.R. l.. Holiday of Cooks
vile are TO be congratulated on the ar
rival of a fine girl on the 10Th instant !
Mr.. A.. A.. Skinner and his aunt, Mrs.
NJ. K. Skinner Of the Delta, are visit
ng relatives at Fox Trap and Dancy.
Miss Gertrude Bumpas of Aberdeen
is a visitor here, guest of Mrs W. b
Mrs. Mcmillan returned to
Aberdeen this week
Mr., and Mrs, T. Evans, Mrs, =. l."
Patty and Glenn Patty have been at
Lauderdale Springs this week, Others
from here at the Springs are Mrs. Z. c,
Scales, Miss Edna Bush, Miss Mary X.
Oliver and Miss Ruby Cockrell.
Mr.. Fred Holberg, Of Meridian, is
visiting relatives in the city.
Mr.. j. w. Knight, Of Shuqualak was
in the city Thursday.
Mr.. j. Il. Riyes went to DeKalb
Thursday on legal business.
Mr.. J. b. Hill and grandson, of Ma
shulaville, Were in Macon last Tuesday
Miss Annie A. McDavid and Miss
Mary Minor Holman are at LauderdaIc
Springs. X
Attorney II. II. Brooks was in Column
bus several days this week on legal bus
mess.
Mr.. j. W. Wootten, a prominent
merchant of B~rook;ville was in the city
TUESDAY.
Mr.. John Carr, one Of the prosperous
farmers of the prairie, was in the city
Thursday aud sold thirty five bales of
cotton at the top figure,
Miss Tennie Combs, daughter of Mr..
j. G, Combs of Shuqualak, hasbeen Wis
iting the families Of Mr.. S, NJ, Thomas
and j. p. Hunter this week.
Mrs. A. +. Rush returned last Thurs
day IRON Scranton, whore she had been
TO visit her daughter, Mrs, Wyatt Bush.
On accountlof the strict quarantine she
had some difficulty in getting through.
Mr., Mat Clark of the Hotel Royal,
Mobile, has been in the city this week.
We could not learn whether he was AZ
refugee from the yellow plague that is
threatening the coast, or just visiting.
Judge Robert Hudson, Of Pearsall,
whose boyhood days were spent
at Woodlawn, i've miles east Of Shuqua-
lax, is visiting the scenes of his child
hood for the first time in years.
Mr.. Chas. Clay, merchant and planter
of Dancy, was in the city Wednesday
and reports the crops very spotted in
his neighborhood.S lie thinks that two
thirds of what was made last year is a
very liberal estimate,
Mrs, J4E. Rives. accompanied by her
sister, Miss Rosalie Baptist, returned
from West Point Thursday. She was
called there last week ON account Of the
illness Of her brother, Mr.. John Baptist.
Attorney +, W.. Brame and Mr., A. c.
FAINT returned home this week from an
overland trip to Jackson, where they
have been on a mission, the purport OF
which they would not divulgc, but it
is believed that it was in the interest of
one of the several railroad projects
which have a route through that coun-
try, which is the finest timbered section
in the state, in Contemplation, Mr..
FAINT went, it is supposed, as a timber
expert to make report on the amount
and qualityo of the timber in that section
Togo is t~heiname of a new p~ostofice
in the northeast portion of the county.
and Mr.. A.G. Cunningham is the. post
master. II is located at his store.
The sincere sympathy Of our people
has been felt for Mr.. and Mrs. A. l..
Thames in the critical illness of their
infant son, whose little life has been
despaired Of several times this week.
Rev. Mr. Duron will preach to the
soldier boys Tomorrow, instead Of last
Sunday as stated in the Beacon.
There will be no services at the Baptist
Church.
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