Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-10-01
PERSONAL and Local Items

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Mrs. Ben Borgess., of Broohsville,
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. L. F..
Holberg.
Miss Mary Price returned Wednes-
day from stay Of a month or more in
Jackson, Miss.
Miss Mary Dent, of the Agricultural
High School, will spent the weekend
with home folks.
Judge Kimbrough, of Danville, ILL.,,
will be the guest next week of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. @. Swallow.
Mr.. W. w. Bloemer, of Batesville,
Ind, will be Mr.. Feibleman's office as
sistant at the firm of A Klaus & Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Brame, of Rankin
county, were called to Noxubee this
week by the illness of Mr.. Cunning
ham, Mrs. Brame's father.
Mr.. Calvin Sargent was taken quite
seriously and sudden ill last Monday
afternoon. His condition has improv-
ed and he is expected to beup in few
days.
Mr.. j. H. Mcdonald and little daugh-
ter, Mary Louise, returned Wednesday
afternoon from Hattiesburg, where the
latter has been patient in hospital
for several days.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Anderson and
Misses Ruth and Annie McNees, of
Shuqualak, and Mrs. Ellene Baker
Eindley. of Laurel, visited Mrs. Renie
Clark this week.
Mrs. w. P. Snowden and Miss Ably
Woodward returned Tuesday from a
Three months stay in the West. Besides
taking in the'exposition at San Fran
cisco they visited relatives in Southern
California and Texas.
DR.. Jones, of the State Sanitary
board, made an inspection of Macon
this week and was tolerably we'll pleas
ed with the conditions he found the
market and grocery stores. Said Ma
con was one of the best screened towns
he had visited
Mr.. w. S. Shearer, of Missouri, has
been in the county this week looking
after his fan ming interests. He bought
several years ago the Jamison place
near Cliftonville, and is much pleased
with the grass lands of the county. and
thinks it destined to be the finest stock
country in the United States.
Mr.. Julius Klaus returned the early
part of the week from the markets.
Neither the boil weevi nor the war
prevented him from buying heavy and
he says they will have the largest line
of fancy and staple dry goods and no.
lions they have ever carried. See their
stock before ordering off,"
Hundreds of acres of land have been
prepared to sow oats and wheat and
the rains this week have put a fine sea-
son in the ground. The oat acreage
will probably be doubled over last year
and considerably more wheat will be
planted, as every one who have been
eating homegrown flour this year are
well pleased and have made converts.
Mr.. Allsup, of Springhill, Tenn, has
recently purchased from Mr.. w. w.
Shannon 32O acres of the Eiland place
about four miles southeast of Macon,
which he will improve and make his
permanent home. Mr.. Allsup came
from Tennessee more than year ago
rented farm and made thorough in
vestigation of conditions before buying.
He is delighted with Noxubee and feels
sure there is great future here for
those who raise stock and diversity.
On account of the condition which the
boil weevil has brought Macon as
cotton market, Maj. E. B. Boyd is To-
Gated in New Albany, Miss, for the
balance of the season. Mr.. Boyd came
to Macon from Columbus about twenty
years ago, and has been in the cotton
business here ever since, and it is with
deep regret that we lose him, as he is
held in high esteem, both socially and
in a business way. There are many ups
and downs in the cotton business, as
every farmer and merchant knows, but
there is not man in the county that
can say aught against Maj. Boyd in any
deal he has ever made.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. c. Swallow and Mr..
j. A. Campbell started to Meridian in
their auto Wednesday afternoon at
O'Clock. They had been warned that
the gulf storm was approaching at a
rapid rate, but thought they could
make it. They got as far as DeKalb
or mile this side, when they had to
abandon the car and return next day
over the Snoody Valley railroad. Mr.
Campbell says the roads through KEN
per have improved hundred per cent
and he believes they could have gone
into Meridian over the fine sand-clay
roads from DeKalb on, could they have
COTTON over the last hill. The road had
been newly worked, and the rains had /
put it in such bad condition it was i'm
possible to climb it.