Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-11-21

ing a few days in Scranton.
Mrs. Leon Dent and son Of MeLeO
were visitors in town this week.
Mr.. Chas. P. Selleck Of st. Loul
visited relatives in Macon recently.
Mrs. Ann DantHler and Mrs. Johl
Cunningham are visiting Mrs. Miller II
West Point.
The friends Of Mr.. j. Lee Ford vii
regret to know that he has been quit
i'll this week.
Mr.. and Mrs, Nee. L. Sanders. Of
Fox Trap. were among the shoppers II
town this week.
Mrs. A. 7. Dent and little daughter
Anna Louise, r visiting Mrs. 7. P.
Crymes in Hattiesburg.
DR.. ]. E. Jones of the Presbyterian
church and Hon. A. T. Dent are at.
tending the synod in Laurel.
Mesdames w. P. Snowden, L. F.
Holberg and Miss Ably Woodward are
visitors in Brooksville this week.
The local wal fans had their atten-
ton diverted from Mexico and the Bal
kans for a few hours last Saturday.
Mr.. J. F. Jones visited his daughters.
Mrs. Chambliss in Laurel and Mrs.
Hauenstein in H%attiesburg, last week.
Miss Mary Patty delightfully."- enter
tanned the Seven-hand Euchrc Club on
Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Julian Bog
CESS Won the prize.
Mr.. Elmer X. Amos, of Shelbyville,
Ind, arrived in Macon this week with
his family and they are occupying the
Yates College.
Mrs. Deupree and her sister Mrs.
Moore spent a few days of this week in
Macon. They will become residents of
Macon on the first of December.
Miss Lallie Dorroh, accompanied by
her brother, Mr.. l. L. Dorroh, went to
Mobile this week. She will probably
undergo an operation for appendicitis.
Mrs. Shelf Thomas is at home from
Meridian, where she has been for two
weeks e patient in DR.. Turner's hospi-
tai. Sne is cUn~valescing fast and will
soon be we'll.
Mr.. Frank Harper, from west of
Brooksville. who has been a reader of
tie BEACON from as far back as he can
remember, paid this Office his usual an
nual call this week.
Mrs. Leo Cole is with her daughter,
Mrs. Chas. Clay in D%emopolis. She
raj called there by the illness with
pneumonia Of her granddaughter. Mary
Sykes Clay. Her condition, we are
glad to report, is much improved.
The following from Macon attended
Rally Day at Mashulaville Wednesday:
Hon. and Mrs. Walter Price, Mr.. and
Will Cavett, Mr.. Richard Dare, Mrs.
James Swami, Mr.. Warren Jackson,
Misses Ada Mai Zepernick and Alma
DInsmore.
Mr.. Chas. Peters friends will be
glad to know he is fast recovering from
an operation for appendicitis at DR..
Turner's hospital in Meridian. He was
accompanied by Mr.. George Russell,
who remained with him until all danger
was vel.
Col. Sam McCants, of the Mississippi
National Guard. has been in town sew
eral days. He is here for the purpose
of collecting government property. A
notice pertaining to this will be found
on first page.
Mr.. Chas. Huckaby, who was famil-
iarly known to the older citizens of
Noxubee as Buck, was on a visit this
week to his nephew. Mr.. j. B. White,
of Dinsmore. Mr.. Huckaby is now a
resident of Yazoo City. where he has
been since he left Noxubee fourteen
years ago.
Mrs. Tenie Featherston is a patient
in the Mayo Brothers infrmary, Roch-
ester, MINI. Her friends will be glad
to know she is fast recovering from a
rather serious operation which was per-
formed the latter part of last week.
She will probably not return home for
a couple of weeks.
Mr.. VIM. S. Blackford, of Baltimore,
vice-president of the Maryland Life In
surance Company, spent several days
in Macon this week. Mr.. B~lackford's
own large land interests in Nox-
ubee and he came down to inspect land
here. He was much i'm
pressed with the agricultural resources
and the progress of the county.
The best potato crop we have heard
Of this year is that of Mr.. J. S. Csrpen-
ter of Prairie Point, a western farmer
who moved to Noxubee several years
ago. and who is better pleased the
he remains here. A portion of
Mr.. Carpenters potato crop is of the
Triumph variety and from 500 slips he
gathered TN bushels. which, accord