Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-09-16
Personal and Local Items

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Our store will be closed. Tuesday,
October 4th 1910, and Thursday, oct.
13, 1910. A. KLAUS & &C.
Miss Elma Pruit has returned to her
school in Meridian.
Miss Cecile Cole has peer with Mrs.
C.. C. Clay this week.
Mrs. K. S. Skinner is the guest of
Mrs. w. M. Jones, Jr.
Mrs. Fl. H. Brooks, Jr,, is spending
the week in Columbus.
Miss Augusta Smith has taken choree
OF her school at Mr.. Allie Swans.
Miss Marian Patty will attend the |.
l. & G.. at Columbus the coming session
Mrs. M. N. Dismukes spent several
DAYS with Mrs. S. J. Ames this week.
Mrs E. c.. Scales and Miss Edna
Bush left Tuesday for BlOunt Springs,
Ala.
Mrs. b. M. Borgess. and daughter,
c. rol, n. of BroOkville, are visiting rel
atives in town.
Mr.. Walter Anderson, of Wesson,
spent several days this week with Dr.
and Mrs. Minor.
Mr.. H. C. Goodnight, of Franklin,
KY, spent several days this week with
friends in Macon.
Mrs. Willward and her father, Mr.
VIM. May, Of Lexington, KY, are with
relatives in the county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mat Madison are now
occupying the C ttage recently vacated
by Mr.. VIM, Barnes, Jr.
Miss Bessie Boggess left Sunday for
Louisville, KY, where she will go to an
Infermrry for treatment.
Mrs. L. A. Nicholson and children
left Saturday for Memphis where MIR.
Nicholson has secured a position.
Messrs. J. L. Ormsby, E. B. Boyd
and E. V. Y t s attended the Kentucky
State Fair at Louisville, this week.
Miss Sadie Williams entertained the
BuncO Club Wednesday afternoon
Miss Hazel Scales was the successful
contestant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Loyle Shannon moved
in.o the cottage on Pulaski street this
week recently vacated by Mr.. and Mrs.
Hester.
Mrs. Volker and Mrs Mihms, of
Phi ladelphia. Pa, and Metzinger, of
bIOOhINlV IN LIZ dIC NlSlLlHS LIS
Charles Hardin.
Prof. j. L. Carpenter and Mr.. jim
Madison, of ProOkville, were in town
Wednesday. Prof. Carpenter spent
several months this summer in Havana,
Cnba.
Miss Edna Bush will open her school
of music on Friday, September twenty
third at the residence of Mrs. Jim
Swami.
Miss Emily Clemens, who has been
spending her vacation at home, return
to Columbus Wednesday and will re-
sumo her duties as stenograpeer at the
R,fIge Cotton Oil mills.
Rev. Mahaffey and wife, of Brooks
vile, spent several days this we K with
Rev; and Mrs. King. Mr.. Mahaffey
conducted the services at the Baptist
church Wednesday night.
Mr.. Arthur Sessions arrived in the
city Thursday direct from Panama,
where he holds an important position
who came to the States several weeks
ago. and has been visiting relatives in
Texas, arrived in Macon Friday.
Mr., and Mrs. Ben Hunter, of
Marshulaville, nave the sympathy of
friends in the loss of their ~ven-y
old daughter, Matte B., who died
Tuesday night after a short illness with
congestion The funeral took place
Wednesday afternoon at 3 O'Clock at
Salem graveyard. Rev H. M King
conducted the services at the grave.
On the inside or the third page of
THE BEACON will be found an interview,
taken from a Baltimore paper, with
''Col. James N. LaPrade, a cotton
planter of Macon, Miss" anent the
boil weevil. We cannot say who it is
being interviewed under an assumed
name. but Maj. Boyd and Messrs.
Yates and Ormsby have been up in
that country for the past week, and
suspicion naturally rests upon one of
them.
Mrs. Will Boyle. of Seattle, is visit
ing her native city for the first time in
eighteen years. She hopes that MIR
Boyle will join her before she returns
home. Mrs. Boyle is well remembered
here as Miss Mary Jarnagin when she
was one of the brightest and most at
tractive young women in the state. 1t
was here hat she and Mr. Boyle, now a
lawyer OF national reputation, were
married and made their home for some
years. Mrs. Boyle is visiting the
McCaskillS.
Round Trip Tickets to Knoxville, Tenn.
Via Mobile & Ohio Railroad, account
Appalachian Exposition. September r.
October IL, 1910. Tickets on sale Sept.
II to October II, slimited returning to
reach original startieg point not later