Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-09-24
Personal and Local Items

spent Tuesday in Macon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gardner Lee we're In
town Friday on business.
Mr.. and Mreermsby are visiting rel
atiVes near Louisville. Ky.
Miss Ruby Cockrell is the guests this
week Of Miss Mamie Warren Jones.
Miss Earline Perry. Of ShuQualak,
came up to the millinery opening Friday.
Miss Mary Kate Hunter, Of Meridian,
spent the weekend at home last week.
Mrs. C. H. Spessard visited her
daughter, Miss EiheldrA. at /. I. & c,
on Thursday.
MIR. Morris billiard, son Of Mr.. Hen
~ billiard. Of st. Louis, Is visiting rel
atives in Macon.
Mrs. Willis G. Clark, Of Birmingham.
Ala, IL visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. E. Hibbler.
Mr.. Ed Maury has been confined to
his bed this week. suffering from q
spell of malarial fever.
Mrs. Wyatt M. Jones and little Miss
Carrie Hibbler Jones are visiting Mr..
and Mrs. J. E. Hibbler this week.
Mr.. John Sullivan and two daugh-
tiers, Misses Ethel and Amanda, Of
Fearn Springs, were in Macon Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Cavett returned
Thursday afternoon from New Orleans
where they have been for several days.
Mrs. T. S. Baker and Miss Mourine.
Mrs. Billy Binion and Mrs. O'Neil, Of
Dancy, Ala, were in town shopping
Friday.
Miss Minerva Farmer left yesterday
for the University Of Mississippi where
she will take a special curse of study
this winter.
Mr.. Walter P. Jones, cashier of the
National Bank of Commerce at Hatties-
burg, stopped in Macon a day or two
this week from a trip to the Pacific
coast.
Mrs. John M. Couric and little daugh-
ter, Charlotte, of Thomasville. Ca.
who haye been visiting Mrs. Wyatt M.
Jones, are now with Mr.. and Mrs. ].
E. Hibbler.
Messrs. E. v. Yates and J.. G. Hor.
ton left Wednesday for Nashville to ct.
tend the Jackson Highway meeting. A
number from Brooksville and Shuqua.
lax also attended.
Miss Alma Dinsmore returned yester.
day from West Point. where she has
been with her mother, who is conva.
lascing after an operation which she
underwent IN New Orleans several weeks
ago.
Mr.. H. M. Ballinger and family are
with Mr.. T. W. Brame. MI. Ballingel
represents Swift d Co. in this section
and We are glad to report that he anc
his family will become residents of Ma.
con.
Mr.. Robert Holt, who has been spend.
ing his vacation at home with his moth.
er, Mrs. ]. W. Holt. returned to Texas
the early part Of the week. He recent.
ly received a promotion as manager
of travelling statesmen and his territory
is North Louisiana and East Texas,
with headquarters at Shreveport.
Mrs. M. C. Stewart, from near Craw-
ford, was in town Thursday. He says
that his experience this year with the
weevil has fully convinced him of the
necessity Of changing the method Of
farming. Cotton that is nearly should
er high and would, under former con-
ditions, lmake a bale to the acre, won't
make a bale to five acres.
Mr.. A. H. Cooper and family have
been spending the summer at his Gres-
ham place in Noxubee, and the rumor
is that they may again make their
home here. It will be matter of great
pleasure to many psople II this turns
out to be a fact. Mi. Cooper for q
long time was one of this county's larg.
est planters and merchants and has al
ways retained a large interest here as
we'll al a lively interest in the county's
welfare. 1t would seem very appro-
pirate for him to again make his home
where he achieved the first successes of
a remarkably successful career, and he
and bis family would be most cordially
welcomed as citizens and habitants Of
NOxubee.