Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-12-03
Personal and Local Items

Miss Ethel Dorroh has returned L
Tupelo.
Miss Ida Miller spent Thanksgiving
with Mrs. Price.
Emmett Roy Dent has been Ill fol
abe past week.
Miss Etheldra Spessard has been IL
for the past week.
Hon. A. T. Dent made a business
trip to Starksville Tuesday.
Mrs. N. H. Gentry is the guest Of
her daughter, Mrs. Nj. P. Kidd.
Mr.. G. T. Heard, of B~rooksville, was
in town on business a day or two this
week.
Mr.. Robert Earl Skinner, mayor OF
Carrolton, Ala. was In town on bust
ness this-week.
Mesdames Dantzler and Cunningham
spent several days this week with rela'
tives In West Point.
Misses Tabb Avery and Wheeler
guests of Mrs. Hickman. returned to
the I. l. & C. Sunday.
Messrs. Hinkle and Swami of the A.
& M. college attended the dance in Ma
con last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Cooper and Miss
Theodosia returned the early part OF
the week in West Poini.
Miss Louise Stennis of the l. l. & G
spent two days recently her sister. Miss
jamie Stennis of Macon High School.
Mr.. and Julian Holt of Meridian ant
Miss Mary Clyde Holt, were guests o.
their sister, Mrs. D. D. Patty, las
Sunday.
MI. and Mrs. J. B. Garden and Sol
Charles Edward, of Meridian spen
Thanksgiving with Mr.. and Mrs. l.. W
Graham.
Miss Mary Kate Hunter, accompan
led by her mother, Returned from Me
dian last Monday. Her condition is i'm
proving rapidly.
Jas. G. Horton. local agent for tn
Ford car delivered a new touring ca,
to Mr.. Frank A. Harris and runabou'
to Mr.. r. Brewer, Jr., this week.
Misses LaPerle Crigler and Dais.
Parker are spending the weekend will
Miss Bailey Carr, of Crawford, who il
entertaining twenty young people IL
her lovely home.
Miss McAlpine and Miss Ponsom stu
dents of the l. I, & c., were the guests
during the recent Thanksgiving holi
days of Mrs. Charles Bush and Mis-
atheldra Spessard.
News has been received from st
Louis that Mr.. j. T. Sargent, Jr., i
greatly improved in health. This will
be read with pleasure by his great mum
oer of friends here.
Mr.. Gurler is in DeKalb, Ill.,, visit
ing his married daughters. His alb
sence from the county at this time wa
very much regretted by Mr.. Hatch ant
others of the More Profitable Farm
ing" campaign, who knew him in I'LL
nois and as does every one in Missis
sippi who knows him, holds him in higl
esteem.
Marshal Maury wishes THE BEACos
to state that the ordinance prohibiting
dogs from running at large unmuzzlet
is still in force and he hopes that own
ers will not become careless and allow
their pets and hunting dogs to risk theil
lives on the street. The law is man
datory and he has no discretion in thu
matter and carnot Disseminate between
a worthless eur and a valuable dog. S.
please be careful.
Mr.. Logan Cline sold to Mr.. Collier
Hardy, of Lowndes county, this weel
four carloads of tile for underground
drainage and one car of hollow tile fol
a silo. A number of the Hardy Broth
ers moved to Lowndes county from Vir.
GINA several years ago ard have made
ideal citizens and farmers. AS al
evidence of their faith in the country
two years ago, in the face of the boil
weevil's invasion, they inve sted $500,
900 in lands adjoining their original pur
chase. Some of this bottom land wa
tiled a year or two ago and last year
with a full infestation of weevil a Gro,
of from a half to a bale to the acre wa.
gathered. With cotton at 12c and seet
at 81 a ton money in tile is the safes
investment that a farmer can put hi
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