Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08
Personal and Local Items

tives this week. !
Mr.. w. NJ. Henderson spent several
DAYS this week out of town.
Miss Alice Bush has been the guest
of Mrs. S~pessard this week.
Miss Laura Hibbler is visiting her
sister, Mrs. w. NJ. Jones, Sr.
Mr.. Joseph Scott has been confined
to his bed several days this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. w, Brame were in
in ST. Louis several days this week.
Mrs. j. Il. Williams has returned
from a visit to relatives in Meridian.
Mrs. F. P. Ivy has returned to Mu!-
don after spending several days In Ma
con.
Mr.. Edward F. Martin of Memphis,
Tenn, spent Sunday with his home
folks.
Mrs. H. H. Brooks, Jr., has returned
from Texas to the delight of many
friends.
Mr.. w. A. Cheatham and Mrs. Bar
nett Poindexter spent Wednesday with
Mrs. A. Lee,
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phis, where he has be9n taking a busl-
ness course.
Miss Fannie May has returned from
Meridian, where she has been visiting
her sister, Mrs. Cooper,
Mrs. l.. M. King who has been a pa
tient in st. Joseph's hospital, Memphis,
is reported much improved.1
Mrs. N. H. Harrison left Tuesday for
a visit to friends in Houston, Texas
She will be away about two weeks.
Mrs. Walton Martin has beer. quite
i'll at her home east of Macon this week.
Her condition at this writing is much
improved.
Mrs. Claude B. Rives was in town
several days this week. the guest of
Mrs. A. Klaus. She will make West
Point her future home.
The ladies of the Home Mission Soci-
ETY. gave quite and enjoyable Sock So
ciaI'' in the base hent of the M. +.
church Thursday evening.
Misses Ida Smith and Fannie Scott
and Mesdames Price and Conner were
the Macon delegates to the Methodist
Woman's union in Columbus this week,
Little James Horton in playing Fri
day fell headlong in a pile of trash cou-
tanning sons broken glass, in his yard,
and was severely though not danger
ously cut on the forehead and in his
hand.
DIR. Dillehay, who was a citizen OF
Meridian when that town was a village,
and was as jealous of Macon as she is
now of Jackson and Vicksburg, spent
several days this week with his daugh-
ter, Mrs. DR.. Grsffin.
Mr.. T. L. Brown, of Hattiesburg has
taken charge of the Arctic Ice and Coal
Co., and will commence the manufac-
ture of ice in a short time. Mr.. Brown
has had years of experience and is
thoroughly equipped in every respect
to make the plant a success. Mr.. and
Mrs. Brown are Occupying the resi-
dence of Mr.. H. H Brooks, Sr.
Mr. Chas c.. Clay has had land pros
pectors here this week from Nebraska,
Indiana and Illinois. They were much
impressed with the land and the prices
here, but the county roads cooled their
enthusiasm m They could not III
derstand why such land was left so in
accessible,
Mr.. A. D. Binion has just purchased
the most modern and improved power
hay press outfit. With four or five
hand an ordinary ten hour run will bale
6O0 bales of hay. Mr.. Binion has much
land in alfalfa, and as grogress breeds
progress, he now installs the best
equipped hay presses in this section.
DR.. and Mrs. Thompson have as THEN
guests James H. Thompson and wife,
of Dixon, H., and B. j.. Wheeler
and wife and daughter, of Pau Paw,
Ill. They spent the winter near Mobile
and stopped for a visit and look ovel
our Prairie belt. Mr. Wheeler is Pres
ident of State Bank of Pau Paw. They
like our country and climate.
A splendid line of Misses and chill
drens Is and SOC sailors, also the pic
mic hats in the fancy effects. PATTY
BROS. Cash Store.