Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-04-17
Personal and Local Items

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mother in Meridian.
Miss Sara Fisher Ames Of the !. |. 4
Z. spent Easter Al home.
Miss Lillian Jordan Of the |. l. & c
is spending the week end at home.
Mrs. Sarah Walker, Of Birmingham
is visiting her sister, Mrs. John Stages
DR.. ]. E. Jones and Hon. A. T, Dem
attended Presbytery at Tupelo thi'
week.
DR.. Launcelot Minor Of Hollywood
visited bis sister, Mrs. A. T. Dent this
week.
Mrs. L. A. Nicholson and children OF
Clarksdale visited Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F.
Ames.
Miss Ella Welsh Of Shuqualak has
been the guest this week Of Mrs. Ed.
Hardin.
Misses Etheldra Spessard and Rita
Binion are visiting Mrs. J. C. Roberts at
the A. & M. College.
Miss Viva Harrison left Wednesday
for Brookljn. New York to visit her
sister, Mrs. ]. L. Thompson.
Mrs. Kathrine Murphey, of Memphis,
spent a day or two the early part of the
week with Mrs. T. S. Murphey.
MI. W. L. Williams, the youngest
old man in the country. was confined to
his home last week, but is cut again.
Mrs. Thos. Boggess. accompanied by
her mother, who has been visiting her,
went to Texarkana this week for a
months stay.
Mr.. Wistar Holman, who has been Ill
for the past month with rheumatism. is
out again, but will not be able to re-
sumo his work at Jordan Bros. for a
week or MORE.
Mrs. Clara Davis of Meridian was the
guest several days this week Of Miss
Ada Mai Z~epernick. She returned
home Friday morning and was accom-
panied by Miss Zepernick.
Mr.. Artie Murphey went to Memphis
last week expecting to bring back an
Overland auto. He ran in to a rain
storm when out of Memphis about sew
enty-five miles and had to store the ma
chine and wait for better weather.
Mr.. Jim Dinsmore, the Beacon's
longest subscriber, was in town this
week. He has not been well for sever
al months, and his weight has been
greatly reduced, though he is SELL an
average size man.
DR.. D. S. Barclay, veterinary surgeon
and dentist, a graduate of the Kansas
City Veterinary College, and assistant
to DR.. Ranck, state veterinarian. is 10
Gated in Macon, with office in the Jor-
dan Furniture store. He is prepared to
make tuberculip test or cattle and hopes
to build up a practice in that as well as
In veterinary work that will justify him
in making Macon his permanent home.
Our good friend, Thomas Jackson
was in town this week for the first
time in several moons. We know this
to be true as the first thing he did after
getting to town was to visit the barber
shop and lose his locks. Not that he is
ashamed OF this sign of his political
faith, as nothing gives him more pleas
ure than to say II told you so"-that
the Democrats as well as Republicans
had finally adopt the policies Of the
Populite party.
w. w. Shannon, D. ]. Todd, w. A.
from Macon, C. s. Field and
Lewis Anderson of Shuqualak and j. M.
Chappell of Winston went to West
Point Tuesday to attend a sale Of thor
oughbred cattle. Bulls were bought by
Messrs. Cheatham and Todd. MIR. Todd
the Jacoway place in the north
part Of the county several
years ago, and is n of the most en-
thusiastic boosters for this section who
has ever come Sonth. He is making
good and 10 more than pleased.
The Mississippi Medical association
met this week in Columbus and those
who attended from this county were
Drs. Murphey. Hubbard and Stanley
Of Macon, Perry of %Shuqualak, Jamison
and Green of Brooksville, Lusk Of Cliff
and Richardson of Deerbrook.
The association was addressed by sew
eral lights in the profession. among ,
them being Drs. Eliot and Bass of New
Orleans and Smythe of Memphis. A
of people in this county are ac-
luainted with these three doctors in a
professional way.
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