Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-11-13
Personal and Local Items

Miss Ida Smith Is visited friends IN
Starkville this week.
Mrs. F. Price Ivy and children have
returned to West Point.
Miss Nellie Smith, Of the 1. 1. & c.,
has been at home this week.
Miss Ada Mai Zepernick Is at home
from g visit to her brother in Laurel.
Miss Helen Owen, of Passadena, CAL,
is visiting her sister. Mrs. N. Scales.
Mrs. L. S. Shumaker has been con-
fined to her bed for the past ten days.
Mrs. Lat Madison and her sister, Miss
Olga Dotherow, of BroOksville, were in
town Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. @. Herbert and lit
tie daughter spent Sunday in West
Point with friends.
Mrs. Lewis Shull has been at the bed
side of her father. Mr.. W. L. Williams
for the past two weeks.
Misses Sara Fisher Ames, Falton
Rives, of the I. I. & c., will spend Sat-
urday and Sunday in Macon.
The basket ball team, Of Shuqualak.
played the Macon High School team on
the locals ground this afternoon.
Mrs. Massie Neville, Of Meridian.
spent several days recently with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Raleigh Brewer.
William and Hampton Williams, OF
Washington, Ga, were called home by
the illness Of their father, Mr.. W. l..
Williams.
Mr.. Curtis Bennett and little son
William, who have been visiting Mr..
and Mrs. W. F. Allen. have returned
to West Point.
Mrs. v. C. Cavett, who has been with
her sister, Mrs. w. O. Barnes, Jr.,
for some time, returned to her home in
Tupelo today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Mays and Miss
Frances Wildwood of Lexington. KY,
returned home Friday after a months
visit to relatives in the county.
Mr.. Spencer Jones, who has been
at the A. M. College for several months
has been at home this week recuperat-
ing from a recent spell of illness.
Mrs. Deupree and Mrs. Moore spent
spent several days this week with their
neices, Mrs. Cavett at Sunshine and
Mrs. Mcintosh neal Deerbrook.
The Young Ladies' Fo, eign Mission
airy Society of the M. E.' church will
give a Bazaar on Friday, November 20,
in the room next to DR.. Stanley's office.
This a good opportunity to buy a hand
some Christmas present cheap.
DeYampert Brame, who has been
suffering from a kidney trouble for
some time, was taken to New Orleans
last Sunday. He was accompanied by
DR.. Murphey and bis father, Mr.. T. W.
Brame. His early recovery is earnestly
hoped for.
Mr.. D. ]. Bonham, of Carlinville, ILL.,,
who bought Mr.. Charles Strong's place
near Cliftonville, about a year ago. has
been IN the county this week looking
after his farming interests. Mr.. Bon
ham says his sectioni in Illinois suffered
from a drouth, and that with the chinch
bugs. which has been bad fortwo years.
Mr.. W. B. Kirby, of Columbia, Miss,
has been on a visit this week to his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. E. o. Kirby.
Mr.. Kirby is superintendent Of the
light and water plant at Columbia. He
says they have had the boil weevil in
that section for several years but made
a better crop this year than they have
since the pest made its first appear
ance. AS the farmers r now raising
all their food stuff, they are in a better
position to hold their cotton at the
present prices than in this section.
"We have the finest crops Of all
!, kinds" said a man from east of Brooks
. vile, who was in town Wednesday,
"that we have had in several years
and but for the boil weevil, whichpunc.
tured every square that was formed
after the first Of August, Noxubee
would have gathered the largest cotton
crop she has ever raised. have never
seen farmers 90 busy as they are now,
! making hay, gathering potatoes, plant.
ing oats. On the Shaver place, which
{ was recently bought by a Mr.. Freeman,
fifteen double plows have been running
all the week, and several hundred acres
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