Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-07-10
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brighten the parched fields, set tn
flowers abloom, the grass to growinl
and the crops of corn and cotton 4
doing their best, and thus the refresh
ing showers made Dame Nature t
smile and usher in lovely day t
gladden. both man and bird and beast
And so it happened in Noxubee, W,
had Glorious Fourth.
1t fell ON Saturday, the busies
day of all the week with our mer
chants, and they therefore agreed to
keep open for that date, and to Sc
apart Monday, the sixth. as holiday
There were dinings and picnics. ant
barbecues here, there and everywhere
too numerous to mention, and toe
many to write about.
There was one, however, near Ma
con, of which The Beac on desires tc
make particular mention and to EN-
phasiZe.
The story cannot be better begur
than by reproducing the invitation
the names of the Committees and the
programme, all of which were elegant
" gotten up and beautifully printed
on stylish linen paper
You are Cordially Invited and
Welcomed
to participate in the
Seventh Annual Fourth Of July
Reunion and Basket Picnic
of the
Mississippians of Northern Birth
to be held at the
Richforks Plantation
three miles north of Macon, where
Macon and Columbus and Brooksville
Roads Fork.
COMMITTEES.
Tables-Mrs. George Shaver, Mrs.
Philip Goussett, Mrs. George Rich
mond, Mrs. G. B. Richmond, Mrs Jay
Carpenter, Mrs Owen Todd, Mrs. A.
A. Daniels, Mrs. w. D. Shaver.
Reception-Mrs. Charles Ogden,
Mrs. Frank Harris, Miss Nettie Gous-
sett. Mrs. Ernest Amos. Mrs. George
Hummer. Miss Marie Weyburil, Mr..
George Shaver, Mr.. Philip Goussett,
Mr..Chafles Ogden. Dr. F. A. Thomp-
son, Mr.. ID Shaver, Mr.. M. c.
fWeybnrn.
sFinance--Mr. H C..Wocd. MrgGeo
Shawer y w (, 5, s.yA-
~ invitationr-Mr. M. c. Weybufn,
Mr.. Philip Goussett.
Entertainment-Mr. P. N. Chase,
Mr.. L. w. Graham.
PROGRAMME.
$50.
Girls Contest-Skip the rope, IL to
20 wears old; Ball Bouncing, IL to 20
wears old; Fat Girls Race, free for all.
Boys Races-Sack Race, IL to 20
years old; Three Legged Race, IL to
20 years old; 100 Yard Race, free for
all.
First prizes. 7sc to $l.OO; End prize,
Soc; third prize 25c.
10 to II Noon
Base Ball Game-Fat Men VS.. Lean.
H. B. Gurler, captain Leans; Geo.
Shaver, Fats. Played in shade with
indoor base ball.
II to 1.30-Dinner.
1:30EBusiness Meeting
Boys Tug Of War-Free for all.
Ball Throwing Contest-Boys IA to Il
years old. Three prizes
Swings. Quoits. See-Saws.
The organization, "Mississippians
of Northern Birth" deserves more
than a passing notice. The worth of
its membership to this section is sim
ply inestimable.
The Association is indeed body of
enterprising, thrifty and patriotic peo-
pie.
1t was organized some years ago for
the purpose of bringing together at
stated intervals the friends and ac-
uuaintances of other days in distant
cline and here fostering the spirit OF
brotherly love and keping alive sweet
memories of their old homes and ma
tive land.
July Fourth, 1914 was the Seventh |
Annual Picnic and Reunion.
The attendance on that occasion was
more than one hundred and thirty-hve,
the total membership at present ex
ceeding two hundred. The member
ship is composed entirely of new
comers. that is to say of persons who
emigrated from the middle western
and northwestern states within the
past decade to establish homes and seek
fortunes in Noxubee County. one of1
the very blacklist sections of the black
region. Jas. K. Vardaman, the Junior
Senator from Mississippi, had in mind
when he made his famous--or, as some
view it, nfamous-speech few
months ago on the bill to provide for
agriculture extension
work between the colleges in the sew
eral states, at which time he declared:
at is startling fact that am 60
ing to announce at this moment that
everv white woman in the black belt of
the South today is living in state of
siege. The sons of those faithful. we'll |
behaved servants-or slaves, = if you
prefer-with all their superior school
book learning and improved opportun
ties, have become the rapist and the
robber. The care, the protection. the
that are thrown around the
white woman are thousand times
more rigid-greater vigilance is kept Il
han were thrown around our mothers 4;
100 years ago on the frontiers, where
he wild man and the wild beast roam
d at will. These are facts, and you can
not deny them. The Senator from
Minnesota can not understand that;
,rt if he should live in that black belt ,
II the South for little while--if his
wife and daughters couid live tferc.
hey would sooa feel the dHinpeninsi'
a.