Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-04-14

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visit her parents near Crawford.
Miss Jennie Cunningham, Of Togo,
is visiting Mrs. E. E. Dantzler.
Mrs. Will Cunningham spent sew
eral days with relatives this week.
Messrs. W. l.. Sherrod and G. B.
Richmond were in Memphis on several
days recently.
Mrs. DeYampert Brame is in Macon
for a short stay with the family of MIR.
T. W. Brame.
DR.. ]. E. Jones and Hon. A. 7. Dent
were in Satillo this week attending
Presbytery.
Mrs. John Tyson, Jr. spent several
days this week with her aunt, Mrs.
John A. Tyson.
Mrs. J. L. Ormsby Of Mcleod, spent
the week. end with her sister, Mrs.
Walter Connor.
Chas. Scales, Jr., a student at the
University of Mississippi. is al home
for a few days stay.
Miss Frances Dent mas been the
guest this week of Miss Theodosia
Cooper at Prairie Point.
Miss Edna Bush attended the
Shakespearean Ter-centennial celebra-
bration in Columbus this week.
Miss Willie May Jones. who was the
guest of Miss Sallie Tyson. returned
home the early part Of the week.
Mrs. Gill and daughter of Mobile,
who have been the guests of Mrs. j.
B. Elkin, will return home Saturday.
Mrs. w. P. Minor spent the week
with her daughter, Mrs. J. f. Ames at
her country home five miles west of
Macon.
Misses Lizzie Stewart, Nancy Patty
and Corinne Patty are spending the
weekend with Mrs. G. P. Waller in
Crawford.
At an election held in Shuqualak
this week Miss Mary Dent was elected
music teacher for the public school for
the ensuing year.
Miss Annie Nichols and her niece
Mrs. Mat Conn of West Noxubee,
spent Tuesday and Wednesday with
Mrs. T.. w. Brame.
Miss Georgia Lucas won the $40 Of
fered by the Business Mems Club of
Memphis for the best written "Come
to Memphis in May" article.
Mrs. j. B. Elliott and son of Char
lottesville, Va, who have been with
relatives in Macon and Meridian for
the past month, returned home last
Sunday.
Mrs. R. L. Rhymes was in Tupelo,
her old home, several days this week
to attend the wedding of her sister,
Miss Riley. to Mr.. Bettersworth of
Bonneville.
Mr.. Walter Hunter and J. W. Eich-
elberger took a number of students of
the Agricultural high school to the A.
& M. College Thursday, to witness the
ball game and the Shakespeare play
by the Ben Greet players.
Mr.. A. ]. Shattuc, a high official of
the British & American Mortgage Co.,
which has been loaning money on farm
mortgages in Noxubee and adjoining
counties for 80 years, spent part of
Thursday here. He was taken over
the good roads and shown our lands,
which he praised highly.
Mr.. Harrison Patty, Miss Estelle
Patty and Mrs. Glenn Patty of Bigbee
Valley were in town Wednesday. Mr..
Patty graduated in medicine in the
Atlanta College of Pharmacy recently
and last week he passed successfully
an examination in Jackson before the
State Pharmaceutical board.
Business in the automobile line has
been exceptionally good lately. Mr..
Horton advises the Beacon that he has
sold and delivered the following cars
in the last ten days: N. C. Triplett,
Ford Runabout; j. P. Swami, Ford
Touring Car; Bostick Lumber Co..
Buick Six.
Quite a large crowd in autos went to
Cliftonville yesterday to attend the
clay pigeon shoot at Mr.. Vester Null
inns. It was only a pactice shoot, no
prizes being offered and most Of the
crowd were amateurs. DR.. Bush was
the only mar from Macon making a
clean score, breaking ten pigeons in as
many shots.
MIR. Jesse Sparkman of Cooksville
was in town Tuesday. He says his
section hasn't a great deal of alfalfa
but there is a large acreage in bur