Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-01

Miss Annie Lou Elkin is visiting
relatives in Meridian.
Miss Fannie Murphey of Newton is
visiting Mrs. S. L. Murphey.
Mr.. and Mrs. viii McGhee of Deer
brook spent Thursday in Macon.
Mesdames Moore and Deupree are
visiting Mrs. J.. S. Cavett at Sunshine.
Judge H. Dent Minor of Memphis
spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. T..
Dent.
Mrs. Ed. r. Owens spent several days
with Mrs. Van Cavitt in TupelO this
week.
The cemetery association will meet
with Mrs. Dantzler Tuesday afternoon
at 4 O'Clock.
Miss Mary Holman, of Meridian, has
been with her mother, Mrs. Feb Hol-
man. this week.
Mrs. Bragg. W 10 has been the guest
of Mrs. W. C. Swallow, has returned to
her home in Columbus.
Mrs. E. E. Dantzler is visiting friends
IN Deerbrooks. Mrs. Cunningham is
with relatives in Cliftonville.
Miss Ably Woodward leaves Monday
for Jacksonville, Fla. where she will
be sponsor for the Sons of Veterans.
MI. Richard Redwood of the Peoples
Bank, Mobile, spent a day or two this
week with Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Buck.
DR.. and Mrs. S. H. Hill, of Carroll
ton, Ala have been in Macon several
days this week attending chancery
court.
Prof. and Mrs. Mcmillan are in Hat
tiesburg where they were called on ac-
CONT of the illness of Mrs. McMillan's
mother.
Cashier Yates, of the Merchants and
Farmers Bank, spent Monday, a holt
day, in Demopolis, Ala, with his friend,
Mr.. Chas. Clay.
The friends of Mrs. J. 0. Faser, who
is a patient in DR.. Turner's hospital in
Meridian, will be glad to know she con-
tinues to improve.
DR.. and Mrs. S. H. Hill of Carrollton,
Ala, have been in town this week on
business pertaining to the settlement of
the Harlan estate in chancery court.
Mr.. G. J. Robertson, of Deerbrook,
was in town Tuesday. He has just re-
turned from Birmingham, where he
went to see about having his residence
rebuilt that was destroyed by fire a
month or SO ago.
Miss Frances and little Lucian Dent
are guests in the home of DR.. and Mrs.
Price Ivy of West Point. where Lucian
underwent a slight operation of his
throat. He will be able to return home
today.
Mrs. VIM. o. Barnes, Jr., and little
Mamie returned Thursday from a two
weeks visit to Miss M. E. E.. Griggs in
Washington, D. C. Mamie was very
much disappointed when she saw the
president at the theatre that he did not
wear a crown and dressed in brass
braid and buttons.
A very beneficial and much-needed
rain fell Tuesday night. 1t seemed to
be general all over the county. The
government guage in Macon registered
1.8O Wednesday morning. Heavy rains
have been reported all over the state,
Crystal Springs reporting the heaviest
fall, yer three inches in one day.
Mrs. H. T. Saunders, Mrs. W. w.
Magruder, Mrs. Jas. Lucas and her
son, Mr.. Yates Lucas, of Starkville,
were in Macon a day or two this week.
They came through the county in an
auto and found the roads in passable
condition except at Crawford, where
they had to take to the railroads right
of-way for a short distance to keep out
of the mud holes.
Rev. R. H. Purser, of the Baptist
church, will leave today for Brook
haven, where he will preach the dedica-
tlon sermon of a new $50, 900 church
the Baptists of that city have just com
pleted. Mr.. Purser, for a number of
years, was pastor of the Baptist church
in Brookhaven. There will be no SER
vices, except Sunday school, in the
Baptist church in Macon.
Farmer Emmett Cavett, who was in
town Tuesday, is authority for the
statement that Mississippi has more
registered Berkshire hogs than any
state in the union. There was a time
only a few years ago when the razor
backs were as plentiful as the pure
breds are now. The same interest is
now being displayed in breeding beef
cattle and a few years from now a
scrub cow or yearling will be the ex-
ception instead of the rule.
A cemetery association has been or
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