Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-10-20
Personal and Local Items

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Mrs. Deupree Patty is visiting friends
in Meridian.
Mr., C. d. Featherston was in Meri-
dian Tuesday.
Miss Alma Dinsmore is the guest Of
the Misses Currie in Meridian.
Miss Olive Hughes left a few days
ago to open her school at Mcleod. Miss.
Miss Alice Clement left Sunday to
take charge of her school in Lowndes
near Columbus,
Mrs. J. L. Ford spent several days
in Meridian this week at the Fair, and
incidentally visiting relatives in the
city.
Mrs. N. H. Harrison and Miss Viva
Harrison returned Tuesday from Brock
lynn. N. Y, where they have been for
several months.
Misses Mary Dent and Annie Belle
Thomas of the I. l. & and MIR. Shelf
Thomas of the A. h M. spent a day or
two at home the e.. d of week.
Lloyd Shumaker. ST., of the bank of
Macon has been qnite i'll this week with
fever. His sister, Miss Marie, has al
SO b. en- ill but is now much be ter.
Quite a number from Macon visited
the fair at Meridian this week, among
them being Tom Boggess. Geo. Gous-
set, Berkeley Maury, Nelson Sherrod.
Mrs. John G. Ward and her mother,
hrs, Paulsen left last Monday for New
York, where Mrs. Paulsen will spend
the winter. Mrs. Ward viii return to
Macon in a few weeks.
Mr.. Noah Scales. who has been in i'll
health for some time, spent the week
in Mobile, where he wens for treatment.
He returned home today and is some
what improved.
The Study Circle was welcomed
Thursday by Mrs. E. B Boyd English
E~ssayists of the nineteenth century
furnished an instructive programme.
Quotations from Ruskin, a paper on
Warren Hastings by Mrs. Boyd and a
comparison of Macaulay's and Carlyle's
styles by Miss Bessie Price were read.
Mr.. ard Mr. W. H. Harvey snlchild-
rem, of Wiz ans, have been on a visit
for several dsyst to MtlJ A. Lee and
family. T " cone eve IN heir auto,
making ! trip eos tarksyille, where
they visii d RELATIVES, in less than half
a day.
Hon la-din Brooks il 10 Starksville
this WI i in attendance Of the oktibe-
ha CT sit Court, IL seems that the
court aere win BE- an exciting term.
Sixts Zoe bills were found in the first
two Ays. Biihn falling to appear in
the .enry- Bilbo mstter, Judge Carroll
Use q ain ATTACHMENT for him.
fsr. Frank Skinner, of Dancy, was in
was in the city today. He says that
Dancy is still growing, will soon have
its ninth store. the Hubbard Bros will
move there from the Boykin place. He
says that $50 cars of alfalfa was shipped
from Dancey this year and from the
number of acres that will be put in this
fall the amount shipped will be more
than doubled next year.
Several autos started to Columbus
this morning with parties to attend the
Fair. Among them was Mr.. Geo Rich
ardson and Mayor Hort on, who got as
far as Deerbrook, when Mr.. Howard
Scales had to 60 out and and rescue
them, their machine having broken
down. Mr.. Walter Conner nth Messrs.
Harkins and Carleton were bought
back by Mr.. Leo Cole.
Messrs ,Boggess and Gurley recently
shipped a car Of hogs and a mixed car
of hogs and lamDs to st. Louis. They
received a good price for the lambs but
very little for their hogs, due to the
fact that hogs from a large section Of
the west were being rushed to market
on account of a threatened epidemic of
cholera. Mr.. Gurler stated that there
had not been such q glut on the pork
market in years and they were unfor-
tunate in shipping just at that time.
Mrs. DR.. Morgan and Mrs. Saunders
of Starkville are visiting their parents,
MIR. and Mrs. W. P. Minor.