Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-07-22
Personal and Local Items

tives in Columbus.
Mr., and Mrs. Whitman Davis are
with Mrs. w. l.. Featherston.
Mr.. Richard Dare and children are
visiting relatives in Carrollton, Ala.
Miss Minnie Downer of Alicevllle,
Ala, is visiting relatives in Macon.
Mr.. Joseph Scott is at home after a
two-months stay in Punta Gorda, Fla.
Mrs. Clara Faser Patrick and daugh-
tiers are with Mrs j. O. Faser this
week,
Mrs. F. w. Fooce and baby of Hat
tiesburg are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. +.
V. Yates.
Miss Augusta Smith gave a dinner
on Thursday in honor of the visiting
young ladies.
Mrs. P. II. Hunter and Miss Gladys
Mauldin are visiting friends in Me-
ridian this week.
Miss Viva Harrison returned Thurs
day night from a visit to friends in
Sherman, Texas.
Misses Mena Blumenfeld and Helen
Weir of Starkville are visiting Miss
Constance GIadney.
Mr.. and Mrs. J.. H. Williams are
in Hot Springs, Ark, where they viii
spend several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jno. l.. Baker of Birm-
ingham, Ala, is visiting Mrs. Baker,
sister, Mrs. Chas. Hardin.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Minor of Shuqua-
lax attend the German given by the
young people Monday night.
Miss Clara Hunter of the Macon Mel
camille Co., is spending her vacation
with the homefolks near Elon.
Captain and Mrs. T. j Stokes have
been visiting relatives in Kosciusko fol
d fortnight.-COlumbus Commercial.
Miss Annie Belle Thomas, the eIdest
daughter of Mr.. S, Nj. Thomas, has
peer i'll this week with malaria fever.
Mrs. Felix Chapman and daughter,
Mary Paine Of Columbus spent severa.
days this week with DIR. and Mrs. Minor
Mrs. A. r. Blackwood and Mr..
Crawford Blackwood of Birmingham,
Ala. are visiting Mrs. F. E. Carleton,
Mr.. Richard Redwood of the Peoples
National Bank. Mobile, Ala, is visiting
his grandparents, Rev. and Mrs. j.. Fl.
Buck.
Messrs. j. E. and Walter P. Jones OF
II ofkiaChYyr~ 90 loI 70 MoonC fH;r
week on account of the death of their
grandmother, Mrs. F. A. Bachelor.
Miss Daisy Pruitt entertained at
Bunco Wednesday afternoon in honor
of her guest, Miss Burke of Waverly
and Miss Rainey of Mayhem.
Capt. J. II. Jamison, once a PROM
rent citizen and politician of this
county, died in Nashville last week
Later the BEACON will give an extern
ded account of his career.
Master Willie Dale Carr has again
disappeared and it is rep orted that he
is in Nashville. Being such a terribly
eligible subject, whenever Mr.. Carr
leaves home the report gains current
IIIdC liz Will DIIIS DdCh d DIIOeS dHO
it is hoped that he will not again dis
appoint his friends.
A mad dog ran amuck in Macon
Thursday afternoon, and was not killed
until Friday morning at Mr.. Smith
Hollis cotton yard. 1t is thought that
he had bit a number of dogs. The
board of aldermen met this, Friday
morning and passed an ordinance re-
quiring all dogs to be muzzled OF kept
off the streets.
Things that grOw,-vegetables,
chickens, etc, are spoken and written
about this year in the superlative de-
gree. So many people have the big
gest cabbage, the largest onion, toma-
toes, beets. etc, that it lard to find a
comparison. In the chicken line,
though, the most remarkable thing
that we have heard of was a chicken
on Mr. P. H. Hunters place, that was
Matched on the 9th of March and layed
her first egg on the 10th of July.
There was no nature-faking in this;
the Beacon's informant is altogether
reliable and is in no way affiliated with
the famous Annanias club.i
Lies Real Lesson.
He is the best cholar who has
learped to live well,-pumas,