Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-07-30
The Grand Round and the
Grand Rally.

did that ancientI and honorable
community entertain the candi-
dates, their f~eIlow-citizens of
Noxubee and of Kemper and
Winston counties. Hashuqua
followed suit the next day and
Mashulaville. Thursday. There
were good, big crowds at all the
meetings, but the gathering at
Mashulaville was tremendous !:
but had the crowds been much
larger, the hospitality of the va
rious neighborhoods would have
proved ample enough to have fed
them all. On Friday, the 23d.
the Lynn Creek people entertain
ed their guests in the shadow of
their fine consolidated school
house, one of the best in the
State the crowd there rivalled
that at Mashulaville. These meet
ings were briefly noticed in last
weeks BEACON.
AT Shuqualak on Tuesday. the
9th, something we'll over 1000
people were royalty welcomed
and fed. Mayor Aretsky or
Yaretsky-as the emergency of
the occasion may require-pre-
sided over the speaking with his
accustomed grace and brevity.
Brooksville, the ablest town of
its size in the world, plenteously
filled the hearts and the stomochs
with hospitality and fine %victuals
of a crowd as large as was that
at Shuqualak the day before.
Mr.. St. John competently presid-
ed over the speakers stand here
as he did at Lynn Creek.
Every precinct upheld perfect
ly the old traditions of Noxubee
hospitality and courtesy, and it
could not have been done better
at a single place thanit was done
There is one fly in the ointment
people will talk while the poor
candidate is speaking.
The Grand Rally at Macon.
The grand rally at Macon,
which always close the series,
was a marked success this year.
T~hirty-fve carcasses to be bar
becued, 1000 loaves Of bread and
something over 200 basket din
ners were part of the provisions
for dining the three thousand or
more people present. The fol-
lowing committees were in
charge and performed their re-
spective duties we'll. Macon
! showed herself worthy of being
the county site and the capital OF
the best county in the State:
Committees for Barbecue, July 3Oth,
1915.
General Committee-A 7 Dent. ] B
Elkins, W A Williams. Wood Young.
L L Cole.
Basket Committee-Miss Ethel Dor
ron, Mrs Will Cavett, Mrs Ola May
Jackson. Mrs Murray Rogers, Miss
| Sallie Love.
Ice and Water Committee-E T
George, J E Dorroh, Julian Boggess.
Finance Committee Richard Dare,
| C H Spessard, A Klaus.
Carcass Committees w Adams,
Ladd Mauldin, C R Bush, J 7 Lockley,
| Paul Augustus, A G Williams.
Cooking Committee w Holbrook,
Elias Card, Felix Grace, w L Bush.
Committee on Seats and Tables-L
w Graham, w M Lamberson, j H
Williams,
In the ladies' witness room in
the court house were chairs for
tired ladies and colored women
to wait on them and tend to the
babies and sleepy children. The
Supervisors room was devoted
to the receipt and care of baskets
before the dinner. Seats for
many hundred people were
placed before tho speakers
stand, which was on the south
side of the court house. The
splendid shade trees in the court
house yard let but little sunshine
in on the people.
Hon. A, T. Dent, chairman of
the General Committee, was mas
ter of ceremonies, introducing
the speakers and presiding over
the whole affair. Special police
men had been provided by Mayor
Horton to preserve order and to
prevent confusion, and every
thing passed off smoothly and
pleasantly.
Henry w. Grady said: When
every farmer in the south shall
eat bread from his own fields and