Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-01-16

Mr.. Gus Mcleod spent several days
In Brooksville this week.
Miss Ada Mai Zepernick will return
Sunday from Strong. Miss.
Attorneys Harden Brooks and Forest
Allgood are in Jackson on business.
Mr.. J. w. Haddon is visiting his
friend, Mr.. Day, In New Orleans.
Mrs. j. F Ames spent several days
this week with relatives in Starkville.
Mrs. Ernest Hall. of Meridian. is the
guest this week Of Mrs. J. H. Williams.
Mrs. Weeks. of Ackerman, is visiting
her sisters, Mesdames Snowden and
Holberg.
Mrs. F. Price Ivy and children, of
West Point, are visiting Mrs. John R.
Dinsmore.
Mrs G. B. Richmond, Jr.. of erich
forks" is Spending the week with Mrs.
w. L. Sherrod
Mrs. w. P. Snowden and Miss Ably
Woodward spent several days of this
week in Meridian.
Mrs E. C. Hughes is still on the sick
list. Her friends hope to soon hear OF
her improvement.
Mrs. Bessie P. Williams left Tuesday
for Oxford. where she will be librarian
at the University.
Messrs. w. L. Sherrod and G. B.
Richmond made business trip to Lum-
berton this week.
Mrs. Waller, of Crawford, was the
guest of her sister, Mrs. J. A. Lee,
several days this week.
Miss Ida Smith left Thursday for
Columbus. where she will spend two
weeks with Mrs. Stinson.
Mrs. Mary Kate Scales and her sister,
Mrs. Frances Brady. both of Mobile,
are guests at the Hotel Macon.
Mrs. Ed Miller and little daughter,
Virginia, of West Point, spent several
days recently with Mrs. Emmett Dantz-
Ter.
Miss Maud Hunter was the lucky
young lady who drew the big stick of
Christmas candy given away by A. L,
Hughes.
Mrs. L. I. Yates returned Saturday
from Hattiesburg, where she has been
for several months with her daughter,
Mrs. F. w. Foote.
Miss Olive Hughes, who has been do
ing stenographic work in Tupelo. spent
a few days at home during Christmas,
then made her brother. Dannle, visit
in St. Louis, and accepted position
and will remain there.
Mr.. W: T. Britton, who lives some
times in Mississippi and then again in
Alabama, was in town this week for
the first time September. Just now he
is citizen of Alabama and says that
he is praying nightly and devoutly that
the blatherskite element in politics will
not prevail. We hope he will be more
fortunate in having his prayers answer
ed than the Beacon was.
Mr.. George Wade returned this week
from visit to Carksdale, where he
went to attend meeting of the Plant
ers Bank at that place, of which he is a
member. He is also interested in the
Sunfower Lumber Co., as well as other
industries in the delta. He says that
the entire delta is booming in business
way and they almost reached the high
water mark of prosperity the past year.
The visit this week, for the first time
in eleven years, of Mrs. R. w. Jones,
of Monroe, New York, was a matter of
great pleasure to her friends in Ma
con. She was accompanied by her
eight-year- old daughter, who was on
her first visit to the South. Mrs. Jones
mother. Mrs. Jennie Hill, sof West
Point, was also with her. They were
the guests while here of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. v. Yates. Mrs. Jones left Thurs
day afternoon for New York; Mrs. Hill
will remain few days with friends.
DR.. W. H. Rowan, of the State
Health Departm ent, spent day or
two in Macon this week. He made
short address to the students of the
High School Tuesday morning and an
attempt was made to address the dairy
men at the court house the same morn
ing, but only few were present, due
to the fact DIR. RowBn did not give suf
ficient notification of his intended visit.
He inspected the diaries of Mr.. Wey-
burn, Gurlvr & Minor and Mr.. Coffman,
and found them o. K. DR.. Rowan was
here year ago and says that while
conditions are not what they should be,
they are in much better fix than what
they were when he was here last.
Mr.. Timms, cashier of the defunct
Cotton Exchange Bank at Brooksville,
who was nlaced under bond of S12 600 II