Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-02-20
Personal and Local Items

tives in Meridian.
Mrs. Nelson Stevens is visiting her
sister. Mrs. Tucker.
Mr.. W. L. Sherrod is visiting home
folks in Bells, Tenn.
Mrs. j. E. Slaughter and children are
visiting relatives neal Gholson.
Mrs. Clements. of Baldwin, is the
guest of her sister, Mrs, w. V. Stewart.
Miss Ably Woodward is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Ben Borgess., in Brooks
vile.
Miss Lille Clemens will leave tomor-
row to visit her brothers family in
Mobile.
Mrs. Jas. G. Horror will leave Sun
day to visit Mrs. VIM. Hall IN Mem
phis, Tenn.
Mrs. Whitman Davis and children, of
Starkville, are with Mr.. and Mrs. W.
L. F%eatherston.
Mrs. Ruth Price and Miss Sallie Ko-
ger, of Brooksville. were guests of
friends in Macon this week.
Mrs. George B. Richmond, of erich
forks is spending the week with her
mother, Mrs. W. l.. Sherrod.
Mrs. Charles Williams has returned
to Oxford after spending ten days with
her sister, Mrs. Ben Price.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Richardson, OF
Louisville, are spending the week with
Mr.. and Mrs. George Richardson.
Mr.. Van Shumaker left Wednesday
afternoon to accept a position in Column
bus, Ohio. He has the best wishes o.
many friends.
Mrs. Brame has been quite ill this
week with the grip. Mr.. Brame re
turned to Jackson Monday, but was il
Macon again Thursday afternoon.
Miss Kidd, who was with the MILL
merry store of Mrs. Stephenson last year
spent a day or two last week with Mrs
Longstrect. She will again return t
Macon for the coming millinery season
Mr.. and Mrs. G. R. Thomas recently
moved to Vicksburg, where Mr.. Thorn
as is engaged in civil engineering work
They have made many warm friends
in Macon who regret that they hav'
moved.
Mr.. Walter B. Patty will leave to
morrow for St. Louis to buy a spring
and summer stock of goods. When HI
returns he will tell of his new good
and bargains, which he always picks up
in the Beacon.
A noted Christian Science lecture,
and instructor of national fame, made
an address at the Grand Opera House
in Meridian Wednesday night. Mr.
and Mrs. Will Cavett and Mrs. E. D
Cavett from Macon went down to at
tend and Big Bud anne up from Jack
son to renew his faith.
A reunion of the family of Mr.. ant
Mrs. George B. Richmond. Sr. will
take place next week at their home,
"Richforks, two miles north of Macon,
when they will be visited by theil
daughters and sons-in-law, Mr.. ano
Mrs. E. L. Harris. of Boston, and Mr..
and Mrs. J.. R. Anderson, of Elburn,
Ind.
Mr.. M. Il. Halstead, the Peanut King
of NOxubee was in town this week.
Mr.. Halstead has converted the OLE
Boykin place in east Noxubee, which
has been growing cotton for more than
half a century, into a peanut and hay
farm. He had fifty acres in COOLERS
last year and expects to increase his
acreage the coming season. He says
he has sold enough seed in his section
to plant 1000 acres.
Uncle Charley Heinrich is recovering
from a wound in the head which he re-
ceived more than a month ago while 60
ing to his room. The wound has caused
him a great deal of suffering and an
noyance, the latter because he has been
unable to lift his cap when speaking to
the ladies, for unlike Tom Sawyer he
was too gallant and considerable to show
his ''sore head'' to prove his seeming
lack of manners was really excusable.>