Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-10-04
Personal and Local Items

Mr.. and Mrs. viii Cheatham Of Prai-
RE Point are in Memphis.
Miss Halbert of Crawford is the
guest of Mrs T. W. Crigler.
Mr.. H. W. Field of Calyx is the new
man in the M. and F, Bank:
Mr.. W. L. sherrod was a business
visitor to Memphis this week.
Miss Aida May of Montgomery is the
new ST. nographer at Cavett& Cavett's
Mr.. Van G. Cavett has been townthis
week in the interest of his insurance
business.
Mesdames Featherston and Stewart
went to Meridian on a shopping trip
this week.
Mrs. ]. T.. Sargent is spending the
week with her sister, MRS. Griffith in
Clay county.
Mrs. Jas. L. Henderson and daughter
of Albany, Ca, are visiting friends in
Mashulaville.
Rev. N. G. Augustus was in the
county this week looking after his
farming interests
Mrs. w. L. Sherrod and daughter,
Miss Carrie Lee, were shopping in Me-
ridian this week.
Mr.. Sam Tate of the Noxubee County
Hardware Co., was in Mobile ,.on bust
ness this week.
Mrs. Chas. Hardin is visiting her
sister, Mrs. W. NJ. King, Of Birming-
ham, this week.
Mr.. A. d. Binion has been in the
delta this week looking after his farm
ing interests in that section.
Miss Ida Smith, Mrs. Clara Rogers
Mrs. Matte Lonstreet were among the
shsppers in Brooksville this week.
Miss Ada Simpson is a patient in st
Joseph's hosnital in Memphis. She
was accompanied to Memphis by DR.
Murphey.
Rev. John Park of the Methods
church left this week for Memphis
where ne will be a patient in DR.. Mau
rvs Infrmary.
Miss Cecile Cole is in Shannon on {
visit to her sister, Mrs Miller. They
attended the Tri-state Fair in Mem
phis last week,
Miss Marian Patty left Monday fol
Mobile, where she will enter Provi
dence Infirmary for a course to fit her
self to become a trained nurse.
Mrs. Chas Strong, who was operated
on for appendicitis in DR.. Watkins in
Urinary, Montgomery, is improving rap
idly. She is expected home next week
Mr.. Edmund Patty has gone to Caly,
to accept a position with Mr.. c. S
Field. Mr.. Robert Patty, who filled
the position last year, is o with {
St. Louis Shoe house.
Mrs. William Allen left this week
for Shreveport. She went to be with
her daughter. Mrs. Tatum. who under
went an operation for appendicitis in
hospital in that city recently,
Mr.. Jas. G. Horton was in Memphis
this week, He succeeded in securing
the agency for the Ford Automobile
Co., a display advertisement of which
will zen in another column.
Mrs. N. H, Harrison and Miss Viva
Harrison returned last Saturday after a
two months stay in Canadian summer
resorts, Mrs. Linton Thompson re
Gently returned to New York from Eng
land, where she spent the summer with
friends.
Much regret is felt in business and
social circles in Macon over the going
away of Mr.. and Mrs. Lat Madison.
Both have won the cordial esteem and
liking of this community and Macon re-
grets losing such pleasant and valuable
citizens and residents.
MI. Clifton Hunter has the BEACoN's
thanks for a lot of bunch yam potatoes.
Mr.. Hunter is one Of the few farmers
in the prairie who has a better crop
than last year. While his cotton crop
is not up to the average he has three
times as much corn and more hay and
fodder than he ever had.
In another column will be found the
card Of Mr.. j. R. Evans who is going
to handle real estate in the western
portion of Noxubee county. In some
respects this kind of soil is the best
land in the world. Land owners who
derire to sell off part of their holdings
will do we'll to list their lands with him.