Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-06-05
Personal and Local Items

Miss Hattie Grace is visiting relatives
in Meridian.
Miss Liley Field of Mobile is visiting
Mrs. j. F. Jones.
Mrs. Chas. Strong visited Mrs. ]. @
Poindexter this week.
Mrs. R. Brewer spent several days
1ecently with friends in Columbus.
Mrs. Deupree and Mrs. Moore are
with Mrs. ]. S. Csvett at Sunshine.
Mrs. A. E. Mobley will leave Sunday
for Russellville, Ky.. to visit relatives.
Mr.. Charlie Duggan. of Mobile, spent
Sunday with his father, j. NJ. Duggan.
Mrs. F. Price Ivy and daughter Of
West Point are with Mrs. John R. Dins-
more.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Skinner and
Mrs. M. S. Deale are shopping in town
today.
Mrs. Emmett Smith and baby of
Strongs, Miss, are visiting Mrs. Abe
Douglas.
MIR. Frank Dantzler of Meridian Wis
tied his brother, Mr.. Emmett Dantzler
this week.
Mr.. Leonard Martin left Sunday for
Starkville, where he has accepted a DO
sition for the summer.
Mrs. Whitman Davis and children of
the A. & College are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. W. L. Featherston.
MI. F. H. Whitaker, assistant princi-
pal of the Agricultural High School,
left this week for his home in the delta.
Mrs. Ernest Noffsinger, of Califor-
MIA, is expected home next week to
visit her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. P.
Minor.
Mrs. Jennie Cunningham Patty, who
has been teaching in Chicago for several
years, is in Paris, where she will spend
the summer studying.
Mr.. FINS Woodward, general mana.
ger OF the Ice, Light and Water plants
of Louisville, spent several kaps last
week with relatives in Macon.
Mrs. Richardson and Mrs. T. Y. Hen.
drick, both of Meridian, mother and
daughter of Mr.. Chas. Grace, spent
several days this week with him.
Miss Marie Jordan spent several days
in Columbus last week. Her sister,
Miss Lillian, who has been attending
school there, returned home with her.
Mrs. Campbell of Okolona and Mrs,
Miller of Shannon have been with theil
mother, Mrs. Leo Cole, who has beer
i'll this week. She is now much better
Hon Joe Stennis of LauderdaIe, ont
of the most distinguished members o.
the legislature, and a veteran there fol
many terms, was IN Macon last Satur
day.
Mr.. S. M. Irion of Columbus spent
several days recently with his daughter,
Mrs. VIM. Stages. His health, which
was not good during the winter, is now
much improved.
Mrs. Q. S. Field. Miss Callie Field,
Miss Perry. Miss Neville. and Mr.. Her
vey Field. They came to Macon tt
meet a visitor who came on a..train thai
does not stop at their town. S~huqualak.
Hon. Albert Woodward, a distin.
guished member of the Louisville bar,
was in Macon this week in the interest
of his candidacy for chancellor. His
announcement will appear later in the
BEACON.
Miss Edna Bush left this week for
Jackson to visit her sister, Mrs. Erie
Scales. She was accompanied by Mas
ter Erie, who continued as a pupil OF
the Macon schools after his parents
moved to Jackson.
Every farmer reader of the Beacon
should read the letter in this issue from
Roland Tuner, assistant manager un-
der Mr.. Plunkett of the Agricultural
Department of the Southern. Railway.
The letter contains many truths that
are we'll said and should be Of profit to
every farmer.
Mr.. Ben Boggess of Brooksville was
in town this week. He returned a few
days ago from Indiana, where he went
to attend the funeral of his grandfather
Mr.. Haffey, who will be kindly remem-
bered by many of our older citizens,
Mr.. Haffey lived to a ripe old age, 81
years, amounting to 1886, 900,
Mr.. Bob Combs had the great mis-.
fortune last Tuesday to have his leg
crushed so badly that amputation is
feared. The accident occurred in the
store of Mr.. Leona Combs ..and was
caused by a tank of gasoline falling or
him. DR.. Turner of Meridian, wa
called end thought it advisable to wait
a day Of two before determining wheth.
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