Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-01-08
Personal and Local Items

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Is the guest of Mrs. Mary Harris.
Mrs. Will Cavett left for Birming
ham Wednesday to visit relatives.
Miss Sue Lee Weir will leave Satur
day for her home in Birmingham.
Messrs. Jas. Mcdonald and sFranl
Skinner, of Cochran. were in town to
day.
Harrison Patty left Tuesday for At
lanta, where he is taking a course ar
chemistry.
Mrs. Will Tucker has been quite III
this week, though her condition Is III
60 way'considered dangerous.
Spencer Jones, Walter Patty, Shelf
Thomas and Thomas Hubbard returned
to the A. & M. College Wednesday.
Mr.. Richard Hunley. who has been
visiting Mr.. Will Cavett for several
weeks, left Thursday for his home in
Birmingham.
Miss Nancy Patty has also been III
this week with appendicitis. The at
tack is not severe and it is hoped an
operation can be avoided.
Miss McMillin of Hattiesburg has ac-
cepted position in the high school of
Macon in the place of Miss Newton, who
ia filing Miss McMillin's place In the
Hattiesburg school.
Mrs. Sam Cunningham and children
of Brooksville. Misses Mabelle and The
odosia Cooper of Memphis. Ala. and
Mr.. lobe Cunningham of Togo, visited
Mrs. Emmett Dantzler this week.
Miss Annie Lou Elkin. daughter of
Mr.. J. B. EIkin. has been quite i'll this
week with appendicitis. She will pro-
bablv he taken to New Orleans in the
next day or two for an operation.
A telegram announcing the arrival of
daughter to Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar D.:
Brown. of Clint. Texas. was received
in Macon this week. Lucy Ferris, for
her maternal aunt. is the babv's name.
Messrs George Russell. of Nashua
vile: G. S. Field, of Calyx and Tucker
Madison, of Brooksville. were in town
this week attending meeting of the
hoard of directors of the Merchants
and Farmers Bank.
Mrs. Henry billiard, of st. Louis, is
visiting relatives in Macon. She says
that she left st. Louis in zero weather
and found people in Macon walking
round in their shirt sleeves. A large
number of western prospectors were on
the train coming south and were much
impressed by the many evidences of a
milder climate that they observed from
the car window.
We learn from Mr.. Ed Hihhler "hn
is in town today. of the death yester-
dav at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Jas. Sparkman, at Cooksville, OF Mr..
Sanders. His body was taken to his
former home in Greene county. Ala.
for interment. Mr.. Sanders was a
Confederate veteran and the BEACON
published year OF so ago an account
of Mr.. SANDERS visit to Gettysburg
battle field, where he met Federal
soldier that he had captured during
that famous battle. Mr.. Sanders &C.
copied an invitation from the Federal
soldier and went with him to his home
in Michigan and warm reception was
given Mr.. Sanders.
Mr.. J. R. Carpenter, from west of
Brooksville was in town this week. Mr..
Carpenter says that his cotton crop this
year was the best he has ever raised
since he has been farming, due to the
fact that he cut his acreage to half and
worked his crop.fast and often. From
1876 acres he gathered 100 bales and it
is probably as good a crop as has been
raised in the county in a number of
years. Mr.. Carpenter does not dread
the boil weevil and thinks that his meth
cd of cultivation will keep them in
check to such an extent as to insure an
average crop most any year.
Rev. and Mrs. r. T. Colt ard little
son of Soochun, Korea, spent several
days the early part of the week with
DR.. and Mrs. ]. E. Jones. Rev. and
Mrs. Colt have been doing missionary
work in Korea for several years and
Mr.. Colt made an interesting talk on
the work there and Mrs. Colt, clad in
the Korean costume made an urgent
appeal to the Union Missionary socie-
ties of Macon. Mr. Colt is nephew
of the Rev. A. B. Colt, who was the
much-loved pastor of the Presbyterian
church in Macon for several years and
Mrs. Colt is the daughter of the late
Chief Justice Thos. Woods. They left
Tuesday for Shuqualak to visit Mrs. @,
S. Field, Mrs. Colts cousin. They will
return to Korea in April.
Diamond Bar Pin-Lost today FRIDAY
on Streets of Macon. Leave at Beacon