Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-06-06
Personal and Local Items

Miss Laura Hibbler is visiting rela.
tives in Birmingham.
Miss Ruby CockreIl is the guest this
week of Mrs. E. T. George.
Mr. G. B. Baskerville, of Birming.
ham. is in town on business.
Mr.. William Patty, of Columbus,
was in town several days this week.
Miss Alma Dinsmore returned Thurs.
day from a visit to friends in New Or,
leans.
Mrs. Price Ivy and children are visit.
ing her mother, Mrs. John R. Dins.
more.
Mrs. Mary Kate Pope. of st. Louis,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. w. E,
S okes.
Mr.. VIM, Hopkins, of Parchman, is
in the county on a visit to relatives and
friends.
Mrs. 7. W. Crigler and family left
this week to spend several weeks near
Crawford.
Master Lucien Dent is spending the
summer with his great aunt, Mrs. Lille,
at Trinity, Ala.
Mrs. Jesse Bass Joyce and her two
children from Gulfport are visiting her
father, Mr.. Joe Bass.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. H. Harrison spent
several days last week in Columbus,
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Flynn.
Miss LaPerle Crigler spent several
days last week in Columbus the guest
Of Miss Martha Carpenter at the l. |.
& C.
Mrs. S. j. Ames and Mrs. E. P. Lu.
cas- spent several days this week with
Mr.. and Mrs E. H. Smythe in Brooks.
vile.
Mrs. j. C. Cannon and Dot Pruitt
were among those who attended Joan
of Arc, played by the l. l. &C. girls
last Friday.
Mr.. Leonard Martin, who has been
taking a literary course at Cumberland
University, Lebanon, Tenn, is at home
for the vacation.
Mr.. j. l.. Wilkerson, of Paulette.
passed through Macon Monday en- route
to jackson to spend a while with his
son, J. G. Wilkerson.
Mr.. Sam Harkins, who has been a
patient at the Mobile Infirmary for the
past three weeks, is at home and is
able to attend to business.
DR.. Murphey and sons. Charley and
Gene, and Master Nelson Sherrod left
last Sunday afternoon for Norfolk,
Washington and other cities of the
North and East.
Monday being the first of the month.
there was more than the usual number
in town from the county. From Shu-
qualak were Messrs Lewis and L. F.
Anderson, J.. w. jenkins, DR.. Perry
AMI others.
Mr.. Conrad Smith was in town Thurs
day to meet his wife, who has been on
a visit to her daughter at Strong, Miss.
Mr.. Smith says the crop in his neigh
borhood is two weeks late, but he has
never seen cotton grow as fast as it
has the past two weeks.
Mr.. George Russell was in town
Wednesday. In speaking of crop con-
ditions he said he had been to Noxar a.
ter and to Louisville, Miss, in the
last few days and he found the people
along the route to both places very ap-
prehenslve of the outcome of the crop
this year on account of the boil weevil, |
and were destroying all the weevils that
could be found. He said he heard of
one farmer in Neshoba who had found
1900 weevils in a n~ine-acre patch.
Mr.. Jas. Robertson, a merchant of
Deerbrook, and one of the largest
planters in the county. was in town
and Tuesday. He was here
his last years cotton crop and
inally disposed of it to Jos. Newberger
It II "a cents. He said he had never
cen prettier cotton growing weather
han the last few days and the plants
long the road seemed to have grown
inch from the time he went home
donday until he came back Tuesday.