Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-05-13
Personal and Local Items

spent Sunday in Macon.
DR.. ]. o. Morgan of the A. & NJ.
spent Sunday in Macon.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Lee Ford visited
relatives recently in Mobile.
Mrs. Gus Mcleod and children are
visiting relatives in Cincinnati.
Mrs. e. C. Scales and son are visit
ing friends in Louisville, Miss.
Mrs. II. A. Minor, Jr., has returned
from a visit to friends in Gulfport.
Mr., Joe Scott left this week for
Pnnta Gordo. Fla, to spend a month
or so.
Mrs. w. P. Minor is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. H. T. Saunders IN
Starkville.
Mrs. Jas. G. Horton and son are Wis
ting Mr.. and Mrs. T. C. Harvey near
Crawford.
Mr. Raleigh Brewer of Searcy'
Ark, is in the county on a Vlslt 10
relatives.
Mr.. Ben Allen was called to Colum-
bus yesterday on account OF the illness
of little Catherine.
Messrs. Jim and Tucker Madison
and Mrs. ]. l.. Madison visited relatives
in town this week.
Miss Olga Dotherow Of BrooksVllle
spent several days this week with her
sister, Mrs. Lat Madison.
Mr.. L.. F. Holberg attended the
meeting of the State Hardware Asso-
citation in Columbus this week.
District Attorney Harden H. Brooks,
Jr., is holding his first court this week
in Oktibbeha county, at Starkvltle.
Messrs. C, L. Heinrich and Hon. l.
L. Dorroh attended the meeting of the
Grand Lodge, K. of P. at Greenwood
this week.
Mr. M, A. Crosby arrived in Macon
Thursday from a trip to South Mlsslss-
ippi where he has been in the interest
of the Agricultural Department.
/ Cashier E. v. Yates Of the M. & F.
Bank went to Natchez sMonday to at
tend the annual meeting of the State
Bankers association.
Mrs. Jas. Swami, accompanied by
DR.. Murphey and her sister. Mrs. ]. B.
Elkin, was taken to the st. Joseph hos
pital in Memphis, for treatment.
Mrs. Alfred Downs, who il most
pleasantly remembered here as Miss
Katherine Shelton, with her infant
daughter is visiting her aunt, Mrs. L.
w, Griggs.
Sheriff A. D. Binion spent several
days this week at Indianolo on bust
ness. He says that the crops in the
delta are as backward as they are in
NOxubee.
Miss Emily Clemens of Columbus
visited her home-folks a few days this
week. She has accepted a position in
Gulfport and will soon make that city
her temporary home.
Mr.. Jesse Sparkman of C~ooksville,
was in town Tuesday. He says there
has not been a rain in his section since
the middle of March, and the drouth is
becoming distressing.
Mr., G. w. Higgins, a former we'll
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neighborhood, but who left Noxubee %
years ago, and has since been a citizen
of Florida, has been on a visit to his
sister, Mrs. Jos. Nicholson.
MI. Victor M. Murphey, in the ca
pacity of civil engineer, recently COM
pleted a water works and electric light
plant at Hartselle, Ala, and is now do
ing some work of the same nature at
Kissimee, Fla.
Mr.. H. B. Gurler went to Jackson
this week on business connected with
his dairy. He is now shipping from
SIS to $50 worth of cream each day to
that city. He recently turned his herd
of Jerseys into an alfalfa field and in
creased the milk one-third.
Messrs. Gieb and Goodman, who
started the soil survey in Noxubee and
afterwards made the survey of Adams
comfy. have returned to Noxubee for
a short stay. Mr.. Gieb will leave
next week for Wisconsin to do similar
work