Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
Personal and Local Items

1T. j.. 4, Jones mas returned run !
visit to relatives in Georgia.
A son was born Monday, May 25tt
to DR.. and Mrs. LowreylClement.
Mrs. Heath Chambliss and son,
James, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. J.. F.
Jones.
Mrs. G. A. Mathews and children Of
Rio, La, and visiting Mrs. Henry Her
man.
Miss Fannie Scott left Friday tc
spend several weeks with friends In
Starkville.
Mrs. A. T. Dent and son, Lucian, and
daughter, Anna, spent Monday in Ma
shrlaville.
Miss Maybelle Cooper. of Meridian.
who is visiting in %Cliftonvlle, spent
Sunday in Macon.
The Cemetery Association will meet
with Mrs. E. E. Dantzler at 4 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. ]. H. Williams was called to
Meridian Wednesday by the serious ILL
ness of her mother.
Misses Etheldra Spessard and Rita
Binion are visiting Mrs. Whitman Davis
at the A. & M. College.
Misses Dora Evelyn Conner and La
Perle Crigler will be the guests in
Starkville next week of Mrs. Sid
Crigler.
Mrs. E. C. Hughes and granddaugh-
ter, Lillian, are spending a month in
st. Louis with Mrs. Hughes daughter,
Miss Olive.
Miss Eleanor Jones returned We'd
nesday from Belhaven College in Jack
son and has as her guest Miss Marie
Halle, of Florida.
Mr.. Frank O'Byrne, of Clifton. was
in town this week. He says, that so
far, no weevills have made their APP
pearance in his neighborhood.
The Walter Barker Chapter, U. D..
c., will meet Wednesday afternoon af-
%ternoon, June 3, at a o'clock, at Mrs.
l.. F. Holberg's.
Mr.. W. E. Avery spent several days
in Laural last week attending the
meeting of the Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows at that place. He represented
the Macon lodge.
The young people enjoyed a very
delightful dance Wednesday night at
the armory in honor of Miss Kathleen
Oliver and her two visitors, the Misses
Flowers, of Albany, Mo.
Misses Nancy Patty and Mary Emma
Richardson lett Wednesday evening for
the A. & M. College, where they will
be the guests Of Miss Sadie Duvergne
Roberts during commencement.
Messrs. E. E. Dantzler, Morgan
Adams, Nelson Stevens, Allie Swarm,
J. Tom Sargant and Ell mitt Cavett
enjoyed a successful fishing trip to
McCarty Lake Tuesday and Wednes-
day.
Mesdames Washington and Jack Cot
trell and children, of West Point, have
been the guests of Mrs. John Binion, of
Fox Trap, and Mrs. Julian Borgess. in
Macon. They retu ned to their homes
in West Point Friday.
Winfield Sargent returned this week
from Marion, Ala, where he has been
attending school the past session. He
sustained his reputation both as a stu
dent and in athletics, in both of which
he is above the average.
Mr.. R. D. McArther, a former citi-
zen of this county, nov living at Re-
form, Ala, were among the large par
ty from Pickens, who came over last
week to view the good roads and alfal-
ia fields Of this county.
A party of road commissioners from
Warren county, with Engineer Thomas,
was in the county this week looking at
our good roads. 1t is the opinion of
those who have rel them all, that
Noxubee has the best gravel roads in
the state.
A party Of youngsters, c%haperoned
by Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Horton, have
enjoyed a few days and nights this
week at the club house on Howard's
LAKE. The boys were Masters JAS.
Horton, Jr., Roby Bush, Erie Scales,
Harvey Crigler, Frank and Richard
Hickman and William Hardy Evans.
Mr.. W. W. Mcleod, of Columbus,
has been in the county this week with
friends and relatives. He was in his
son-in-law, Mr.. Will Nuckols' cotton
field yesterday and fonnd several boil
weevil. There is no doubt that the en-
tire county is pretty well infected. Re-
ports from wei the state are to the eff
feet that the infection is greater for
this time of year than ever before.