Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-08-06

AAiHcc, VI DTUOhSNulc, are VIII MO.
Downer this week.
Mr.. Will Stages. Of Columbus. has
not given up his citizenship in Noxubee
and was in town this week to vote.
Mrs. C. H. Spessard will have as her
guest next week Mrs. Milton Spessard,
of Uniontown, Ala.
Mrs. j. II. Williams and daughter,
Miss Lula B., left Wednesday morning
for Hot Springs. Ark.
Mayor J.. G. Horton attended a meet
ing of the express agents and officials
in Meridian this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Cavett and Mr..
Van Cavett left Tuesday for the San
Francisco exposition.
Mr.. Gus Minor, who is now in the
insurance business in Meridian, spent
several days this week at his old. home.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. S. Baker, Mr.. and
Mrs. Gardner Lee and Mrs. William
Binion, of Dancy, Ala, visited the city
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mahorner and children
and Mrs. M. T. Mahorner, of Mobile.
Ala. will spend the month at their old
home east of Macon.
MIR. H. F. Martin and little daughter,
Katherine, have gone to visit Mrs. d.
D. Reeves, at Stanton, Tenn. and
friends in Somerville, Tenn.
Mrs. H. H. Brooks, of Meridian, spent
a week with friends in Macon before
going to visit her father, MIR. Lee
Windham, zeal Dancy, Ala.
Miss Bradley, of West Point, who
taught in the school here for a year or
two, was the guest this week of Mrs.
H. E. Dorroh and other friends in
Macon.
County Attorney Allgood was in
Brooksville, Thursday, to prosecute
a blind-tiger case in Justice Johnsoh's
court. George Smith, colored, was
fined 500 and costs.
Mrs. Bessie Price Williams is a pa
tient in a hospital in NewOrleans where
she will undergo al operation for ap-
pendicitis. Her brother, Mr.. Ben
Price is with her.
Mrs. Julious Klaus entertained the
Euchre club Wednesday
afternoon at the home of her sister,
Mrs. E. T. George. Mrs. Spessard
was the prize-winner.
Mr.. ]. T. Moreland. of Mobile, vice
president of the Dunlap Mercantile Co.,
was in Macon a day or two this week
on business; he was the guest while
here of Mr. S. M. Harkins.
Mr.. and Mrs. w hitman Davis, of Stark
vile. who have been visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. w. L. Featherston, left Wednes-
day for Rochester, MINI, where Mrs.
Davis will be a patient in Mayo Bros.
hospital.
Mrs. Moore ard her daughter, Miss
Jones, of Kosciusko, have
been the guests this week of Mrs. R.
5. Coleman. They went to Nashua
vile Thursday afternoon to spend a
few days with Mrs. Jack Eichelberger.
Nh. w. H. Poag, of Rockhill, S. c.,
has been visiting the scenes of his
earlier days in Noxubee this week and
has been the guest Of Mr.. and MI. j.
Murray. He says that the crops
the Carolinas and Georgin are
'uffering even more from the drouth
han what he has seen in this section.
Judging from what he saw from the
ar windows, the prospect for a
:rop is exceedingly poor.
Messrs. Lewis Anderson and George
were in town this week to be
before the Board Of Supervisors anent
he Shuqualak and Macon road. Al
most all the travel between these two
owns this summer, or rather the past
.wo summers, has been by way of
Mahorner's bridge, the distance being
wenty-four miles. fourteen miles fur
her than over the old road, which has
'een impossible. AS the Count of
donte Cristo remarked when he
from his long confinement,
everything comes to him who waits"
it is now probable that travel
yer the neare route between Macon
nd Shuqualak will Don be passable. as
dr. Mauldin and his road-builders have
'een putting the road in shape the
asst two weeks. 1t is to be hoped the
commissioners OF the two districts
Vill see that the road is kept open.