Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-09-26
Personal and Local Items

was a visitor in Macon this week.
Mr.. George Williams. Of Crawford,
was a visitor in town Thursday,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walton Martin spent
Sunday with relatives near Macon.
Miss Kidd and Miss Mauldin. Of the
millinery store. have both been i'll this
week.
Mrs. DR.. Patton and family. Of Bir'
mingham. are visiting DR.. and Mrs.
Stanley.
Miss Alma Dinsmore spent several
DAYS this week in West Point and Co
lumbus.
Jim Tyson is about on clutches, due
to a hurt received in a strenuous game
of football.
Messrs. Ed Robbins and Tom Wilker-
son of the Cooksville country were IN
town Thursday.
Mrs. H. T. Saunders, of Starkville,
is spending a few days with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Minor.
MI. and Mrs. Dan Mosby, of Column.
bus, have been the guests this week OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Dorroh.
Mr.. Lutz, of the Eberly Wheel
Works. returned this week from a visit
to his home in Hagerstown, Md.
Mr.. George Russell was in town this
week on his way to Mobile to buy goods
for the firm of Q. P. Russell & Co.
Mr.. Arthur Murphey returned We'd
nesday to Sewanee. Mrs. Murphey
will probably join him a month later.
Mr.. Longstreet Cavett, of Jackson,
spent several days this week with the
family Of his uncle, Hon. E. D. Cavett.
Miss Nell Allen returned to her home
in Macon Saturday after a visit to
friends in the city. Columbus Dispatch.
Miss Mamie Warren Jones left last
Sunday for Eureka Springs. Ark, where
she will be a student at Crescent Col
lege.
Miss Bessie Borgess. will leave next
week for Chicago, where she will take
a course in domestic science at the
University.
Mr.. T, j. Evans is at home from a
trip to New York. He will leave in a
few days for Cuba, where he has Sc
cured a position.
Mr.. v. M. Murphey left last Sunday
for Ruston, La, where he will be en-
ployed as engineer in laying sewerage
for the city.
Misses Sara Fisher Ames, Nellie
Smith, Elma Pruit and Annie Belle
Thomas left Wednesday for the Indus
trial Institute & College.
Mr.. Ed Tripplett from west Noxubee
was in town Wednesday. Between the
drouth and boil weevil his neighborhood
will not make more than half a crop.
Shelf Thomas, Henry Gene Martin,
Everett and Thomas Hubbard are the
boys who returned this week to the
A. & M. College for the session.
Mrs. w. v. Stewart is at home from
a visit to her sister in Baldwin, Miss.
Her niece, Miss Mary Bell, of Deer
brook, will be with her this winter. and
will be a student in the Macon High
School.
Mrs. H. L. Owens returned Thursday
from Memphis. where she has been for
two weeks with Mr.. Owens, who is a
patient in an infirmary. Mr.. Ovens
condition, we are glad to report, is
much improved.
Mr.. w. P. Jones, cashier of the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce, Hattiesburg,
spent a few days in Macon this week.
He was en- route to H~atriesburg from .
two weeks vacation which he spent at
Battle Creek, Michigan.
Mr.. W. G. Stewart, of the Fairport
n%eighborhood, was in town Thursday.
The weevil has done enough damage in
his neighborhood this year to fully con-
him that some other crop except
will have to be raised.
Mrs. J. w. Deupree, Mrs. W. A.
Moore and Mr.. Wayne Bush, of Brooks
vile, are spending several days in the
city the guests of Mrs. E. B. Stinson
at her home on College street.
bus Dispatch.
Mr.. Labe Freeman, long a promi-
nent citizen of Noxubee and of Brooks
vile, has moved to the metropolis of
Noxubee and hereafter will be a citi-
zen OF Macon. Macon welcomes all
such good citizens as MI. Freeman. He
is domiciled with his family in Mrs.
Browns house lately purchased from
Mr.. E. B. Cole.