Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-10-22
Personal and Local Items

Mrs. ]. G. Horton will leave Sunday
to visit friends in Memphis. Tenn.
Mrs. viii Dozier of Mobile, is at
home to attend the Bush-Smith nuptial.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hickman were
among the visitors to Meridian Thurs
day.
Mrs. W. NJ. Jones, Jr., has been
spending the week with Mr.. Jones in
Meridian.
Miss Viva Harrison spent the week
with her aunt, Miss Mary Holman in
Meridian.
DR.. Jas. R. Rigg of Mt. Pulaski, H.,
has been in the county several days
this week.
MISS Ethel Dorroh, who is a teacher
in the High School at Tupelo, spent
the weekend at home.
Mrs. Whitman Davis and children of
the A. & NJ. college. are guests of MI.
and Mrs. W. F. Featherston.
Mesdames Jamison and Tate of
Brooksville, have been the guests this
week of Mrs. John Holman.
DR.. G. f. Goodrich of Norenci, Ari-
IONA, spent several days recently with
his brother-in-law, Mr.. H. C. Wood.
Mrs, j. W. Holt left Monday for
Charlottesville, Va, where she will
spend the winter with her daughter,
Mrs. Elliott.
Mrs. A. E. Going of Gordo, Ala,
who has been visiting her sons, Messrs.
Lon and Gus Williams, returned home
this week
Mrs. Windham Coleman spent sever
al days recently with her daughter,
Mrs. w. A. Crocker, in Tuscaloosa.
Mrs. Croker returded home with her.
DR.. j. f. Jones of the Presbyterian
church, attended a Presbytery held in
Baldwin this week. He will preach in
Scooba Sunday.
Mrs. Curtis Herbert and daughter
and Mrs. Julian Borgess. will visit rel
atives in Jackson next week, ard in
cidentally take in the State Fair.
Mr.. Dale Bell of Deerbrook, was in
town Tuesday. Mr.. Bell says he will
from nov on do newspaper farming
in other words, will diversity.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Cavett were in
town Wednesday. Mr.. Cavett says he
has a fine stand on a ten-acre field OF
crimson clover he recently planted as a
cover crop.
Miss Mabel Sessions, who recently
graduated as a trained nurse in a Biz.
mingham hospital, will arrive Sunday
to visit her mother, Mrs. Lucy SEES
sions.
A large number from this county at.
tended the Meridian Fair this week.
Macon, Brooksville and Shuqualak were
all we'll represented, as well as the in.
terror.
Mr.. Joe Bass has just returned from
Memphis, Ala: where he has beer
weighing up two hundred tons of cottor
seed which he purchased for his mil
from Mr.. A. H. Cooper.
Messrs. w. W. and Loyle Shannon
and their families and Miss Lallie Dor
rob attended the Meridian Fair this
week. They went through the country
and reported the road in splendid con-
dition.
Mrs. J.. B. Binion has been quite i'll
the pest week or two with pneumonia.
Her friends will be glad to know she
is much improved. She has been nurs-
ed during her illness by Mrs. Kinnley
Mcleod, who is a graduated nurse
from the Charity hospital, New Or
leans.
Mr.. Chas. NJ. Murphey, son of DR..
and Mrs. E. M. Murphey, who is in his
second year at the University of Miss
issippi, has been made instructor of
physics and will have charge Of the
labratory work of undergraduate stud
ents. Mr.. Murphey's course at the
Macon High school was distinguished
for scholarship, and his friends are
glad to see him winning distinction at
Oxford.
Uncdlled for Letters.