Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-09-25
Personal and Local Items

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Mrs. Jane Woodward has been quite
i'll for several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Hibbler returned
last Saturday to Chattanooga.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harden Brooks return
ed Monday from Columbus.
Rev. r. o. Brown left this week for
Chattanooga to visit his children.
Mrs. Charles Hardin is visiting her
sister, Mrs. King in Birmingham.
Mrs. ]. H. Williams who has been
i'll for several weeks is convalescing.
Mrs. L. A. Nicholson and children,
of Clarksdale, are visiting Mrs. J. f.
Ames.
The friends of Mr.. vester Mullins
will regret to learn he is i'll at his home
near Cliftonville.
Miss Edna Lockard, of Meridian. was
the guest day or two this week of
Mrs. ]. E. Jones.
Miss Mary Holman. of Meridian.
spent day or two with her mother,
Mrs. F. B. Holman this week.
Mrs. Lotrie Yates is at home again
after visit of several months to her
daughter, Mrs. F. w. Foote in Hatties-
burg.
Mr.. Milton Woodward. of Louisville,
is in town to see his mother, who is
very i'll. Her condition is considered
critical.
Miss Mabel Sessions returned to Bir-
mingham Wednesday after spending
several days with her mother, Mrs.
Lucy Sessions.
Mr.. Thomas Stennis is student at
the A. & M. college. His name was
omitted last week from the list publish
ed in this paper.
Miss Annie Ella Ames returned this
week from Jackson, Ohio. where she
spent several months with her aunt,
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Miss Sara Fisher Ames with her
guest, Miss Spurrier, of Greenwood,
left Wednesday for the l. I. & c., where
they will attend school.
Misses Nannye Guy and Genevieve
Adams and Messrs. Henry Adams and
Jesse Guy are students of the State
Normal college at Hattiesburg.
Mrs. A. l.. Neville was in town Mon
day to meet her daughter, Miss Annie.
Miss Annie has just returned from Ash
vile, N. c., where she has been for the
summer.
Miss Kathleen Oliver, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs Goode Oliver. returned
this week from Mobile where she under
went an operation for appendicitis about
two weeks ago.
| Mr., V. M. Murphey, civil engineer,
who has been building roads in Scott
rounty for the past several months, is
at home for spell, or until the war
| clouds roll by.
Mrs. Mamie Winston Gardner, of
Missouri; Mrs. Nellie Shelton, of Ala
hama: Mr.. Jos. Shelton, of Hattiesburg;
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Downs, of Chatta-
nooga; Mr.. and Mrs. John Windham,
of Cochrane and Mrs. Van Cavett, of
Tupelo came to Macon to the funeral
Ct Mr.. W. w. Winston.
Among the friends and relatives
from distance coming to the funeral
of Hon. Walter Price were Miss Ida
Miller from Goodman, Mr.. and Mrs.
sgd Conner and Mr.. Jas. Moore, from
Hattiesburg; Capt. T. J. Stokes and
Mr.. W. H. Rose, from Columbus; Mrs.
DR.. Robert, from the A. & M. college;
Mrs. Sue Hamm, from Meridian; and
Mrs. A. E. Going, from Benevola, Ala.
The heaviest yield of oats that was
grown in the county the past season
vas grown by Mr.. Glenn Patty at Big
bee Valley, who made 375 bushels on
five acres, the only fertilizer it receiv-
ed being a lespedeza sod that was
turned under when the land was plow-
ed in the fall. This was reported by
Mr.. Philip Goussett, who threshed and
measured the oats. Mr.. Goussett said
the oats would weigh as pounds to the
bushel.
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