Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-09-10
Personal and Local Items

week in Brooksville.
Miss Callie Field. of Calyx, is the
guest of Miss jeanne Ferris.
Mrs. H. N. Scales and Howard, Jr,,
are in Columbus for a few days.
Mrs. Warren Stewart is spending a
few days with Mrs. Lamberson.
Miss Chita Beasley. of Tennessee,
has been the guest of Miss Sue Lee
Weir.
Miss Lois Kelly. of Morton, and Miss
Ruby Ford. of E~nondale, are the
guests of Miss Nellie Holt.
Mrs. Jas. G. Horton and son. James,
are spending the week with Mr.. and
Mrs, Harvey, near Crawford.
Mr.. M. A. Crosby, of the United
States Agricultural Department, has
been spending a few days in the coun-
ty.
Mr.. Thornton, with Cavett & Cavett,
will spend his vacation next week with
relatives and friends in Maymond and
Fayette, Miss.
DR.. and Mrs. Purser and Mr.. l. L
Dorroh have been in Columbus this
week attending a meeting of the Bap-
fist Association.
Mr.. N. Scales has an entirely new
force with Mr.. L. S. Shumaker, book
keeper, Mr.. Kelly, of Water Valley,
and Mr.. Harris Gilmore.
w. M. Jones, Jr., will leave Friday
night for Nashville. Tenn, where he
will meet his wife and children. They
will return home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Williams and Mr..
and Mrs. w. A. Williams motered to
Benevola, Ala, last Sunday and spent
the day with their mother, Mrs. A. E.
Going.
Miss May Dell Williams will leave
Saturday for Columbus, to spend sew
eral days with her sister, Mrs. Louis
Shull, before leaving for Washington
Ca, where she will make her home.
The teachers of the High school will
be domiciled this winter as follows
Miss Stennis with DR.. and Mrs. Jones
Misses Coleman, Huddleston and Hop
per with Mrs. Price and Mrs. Stewart
with Mrs. Carleton.
Mr.. L. S. Shepherd and family made
a trip in their auto recently through
several counties in Alabama, Pickens,
Hale and Tuscaloosa. Mr.. Shepherd
who was in town Wednesday, said The
crops in all these counties were about
the same as they are in Noxubee.
DR.. and Mrs. Nader and little daugh.
ter, Helen, of Mobile, were among the
attendants at the Beasley-W Weir nuptia
this week. Mrs. Nader will be re.
membered as the charming Miss Hattie
Bethea. from the Fox Trap neighbor-
hood.
Prof. and Mrs. McMillin ard Mr..
and Mrs. Long are occupying Mr..
Warren Stewards home Mr.. and Mrs,
Dare are occupying a part of Mrs.
Lees resinence Mr.. j. r. Evans and
family are in the Scales cottage, in
front of the John Hauenstein place
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Mcleod will take
the cottage Vacated by Mr.. Evans in
front of Mr.. Ames'.
1t was the pleasure of the publisher
of the Journal Monday to meet his
school boy friend, Leo Cole, of Macon,
who was in Tupelo on business. Mr..
Cole is one of the most extensive
planters of Noxubee county and one
Of its best citizens. He motored to
Shannon Tuesday evening with Mr..
and Mrs. M. NJ. Miller. to be their
guest for several days. Mrs. Miller
is the daughter of Mrs. Cole. -Tupelo
Journal.
Last Sunday a party composed Of
Messrs, Edward Stevens, Spiva Doug
lass and Misses Maud Gavin, Ollie
Parker and Mrs. j. T. Douglass mo-
tored to Allenville, Ala, which is sew
eral miles from Demopolis, Ala, to
visit Mr.. C. T. Douglass and family.
They returned Monday night. They
found good roads all the way, and the
beautiful country homes, with we'll
kept grounds, denoted a high degree of
prosperity. The rolling prairie Sec
ton, east of Demopolis, is a delight to
the eye. Mr.. Glen Douglass, who
moved to that section about three years
ago, has 700 acres in one body-a per
feet square-in alfalfa, and .he is fat
tening 500 hogs for market.
Mr.. Robert Holt, who is travelling for
the Diamond Match Co., with head
quarters in Houston, Texas, has been
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