Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-08-20
Personal and Local Items

Mr. E. v. Yates has been in New
Orleans this week on business,
Mrs. W. H. Smith, OF jackson, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Herbert.
Mrs. W. v. Stewart, o fPrairie Point,
was the guest this week of Mrs. S, W.
Harkns.
Miss Ida Miller left Wednesday for
a visit to friends in Durant and Good
man, Miss.
Misses Ola Mae jackson and Nannye
Guy are visiting relatives in Shuqua-
lax this weekend.
Mesdames f. f. Dantzler and j. A.
Ewing left Tuesday for a visit to rela-
tives in C~liftonville.
Mr.. S. B. King, a former citizen of
Macon, now living in Okolona, was in
town on business this week.
Mrs. J. NJ. Morgan and daughter, of
Okolona, have been the guests this
week of Mrs. Marion Harris.
Miss Louise Deupree and Mr.. Lige
Deupree of Memphis are the guest this
week of Mesdames More and Deupree.
Mesdames J.. E. Dorroh and R. L. v.
Yates. Miss Ethel Yates, Mr.. Edwin
Harkins motored to Columbus Wednes-
day.
Mrs. VIM. Dozier of Mobile has been
on a visit to home-folks in Macon. Mr..
will arrive Sunday to spend his vaca-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. X. C. Smith are happy
to have with them their children and
grandchildren for another summer re-
f%union.
Prof. Fletcher Jackson, of the Norm
al college, Hattiesburg. is in Macon
looking after his farming interest in
the county.
Miss Augusta Selleck, of st. Louis,
is visiting relatives and friends in Ma
con. She is the guest this week of
Mrs. Ed B. Owens.
Miss Nancy Patty will accompany the
party composed of Mr.. and Mrs. j. E.
Dorroh and Miss Ethel Yates to the
Panama Exposition. They will leave
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs, Victor M. Murphey anc
children stopped in Macon a few days
this week while enroute to their home
in Florida from a visit to their former
home in Kansas City.
Two of the Commercial Appeal
book prizes were won in NoXubee coun
ty. Mr.. j. l.. Carpenter Won The
sixth prize, 500, and Mrs. Marvin
Lathram, of Shuqualak, one of thu
small prizes.
Miss Edna Mcleod, of Brooksville
leaves Monday, August 23d, for Nash
vile, where she will join a party 0
tourists. Before returning she vii
visit the many places of interest NTH
West, including the Exposition.
Mr.. Noah Scales was down town TO
a short while Thursday morning for tn
first time since his attack something
over a month ago. He reported him
self as feeling all right except for tn
weakness inevitably following such
spell of sickness.
Rev. Mr.. Duren arrived in MacoI
Wednesday night about ten O'Clock o.
his way back to Columbus from a tri]
to the coast, where he had been for
week or two with his family. He wa
travelling in an auto and finding tn
roads so bad his family took the trail
at McHenry.
A number of changes among the res
idents of Macon will be made on tn
first of the month. Mrs. Skinner an.
Mrs. Angie Ames, who have been oc
cupying Mrs. Dinsmore's cottage hav
moved to Mrs. 7. J. Evans residence
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert are occupying
the cottage vacated by Mrs. Skinner.
Henry Wood, of Winston county
should receive the solid vote of thi
county for State Land Commissioner
He is thoroughly honest and capable
has never figured in factional polite
and is peculiarly fitted for the position
This is not an advertisement, but tn
honest opinion of the writer, the pub
Usher of this paper.
The first bale of cotton received il
Columbus this year was from a Noxu
bee farmer, Mr.. A. G. (Tobe) Cunning
ham, of Togo. 1t weighed $50 pounds
classed good-middling and was sold t
the Tombigbee Mills for &c per pound
A bonus of $751; so was collected from
the local merchants. Mr.. Cunningham
has on hand his last years crop, and i
is to be hoped that the cruel war vii
soon be over and that he will get for i
a much better price than his first bal
brought.
DR.. George B. Clement, of Meridian
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