Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-25
Personal and Local Items

attorney Hopkins, OF Louisville, 81
tended court in Macon this week.
Mr.. ]. E. Bowling, of Brooksville
was in town a day or two this week.
Miss Mary Kate Hunter. of Meridial
spent the week with her home folks il
Macon.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Brooks, of Mer
idian, spent the week in Macon witt
friends.
Mrs. Tom McHenry spent a few day
in Meridian lately, the guest of Mrs
j. B. Garden.
Mr.. N, Scales has been confined t.
his bed this week, suffering from
severe attack of the grippe.
Miss Rosa Spann, a senior at the Il
|. & c., spent the weekend with Misses
Mary and Frances Dent.
Mr.. A. Neville, of the Prairie Point
neighborhood. was in town Monday fol
the first time in a month or more.
Mr.. Rol Brewer is in town for the
first time in several months. HiG
health, which was very poor for a lone
time. is now normal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Llewellyn Hatchett, Of
Columbus, spent several days in Macor
this week, having toured down in theil
handsome car.
Miss Bigger, of Xenia, Ohio, who
has been the charming guest of Miss
Annie Ella Ames for the past SIX week:
returned to her home Sunday.
Mr.. W. M. Lamberson left last Sun.
day afternoon for New York, where he
will purchase his spring and summer
stock of dry goocs, notions, etc.
Misses Annie Ella Ames and Bigger
spent the weekend in Columbus. as the
guests of Miss Sarah Fisher Ames,
who is a student of the I. I. d C.
Mr.. and Mrs Richard Dare have NOV
ed into their new home, the Allen place,
which they purchased the early part
of the week from Mr., A. H. Cooper.
Mrs. Leo Cole spent several days last
week in Demopolis where she went m
greet her new granddaughter. She
was accompanied home by Charley
Clay, Jr.
Mrs. w. P. Snowden had the follow
ing guests from Brooksville this week
Mr.. and Mrs. Glover Wilkins, Miss
Mabel Woodward mi the Misses
Gaines.
Mrs. C. E. Wise, of Jackson, Tenn,
who is the charming guest of Mrs. Ben
Price, has been the honoree for a num-
Der Of social functions during her two
weeks visit in Macon.
Mrs. ]. W. Deupree, who has been
suffering for several months with rheu-
matism, is still in Hot Springs, at 223
Wilmington avenue, and is improving
so slowly that her physician fears it
will be some time before she will be
able to return home.
Mr.. ]. S. Cavett shipped in recently
a car load of ear corn from North Mis-
sissippi, which he will crush and feed
some graded steers for the st. Louis
market. 1t will probably be the first
load Of corn-fed stock shipped from
this point. Mr.. Cavett has marketed
several times before meal and silage
fed cattle, and is trying the corr by
way of comparison. He took three
young pure bred Angus bulls to a sale.
in Montgomery, Ala, several weeks.
ago, but sold only one animal.
Mr.. M. V. Friday. a former highly
of citizen of the Soule Chapel
.neighborhood, but who has been living
heal Columbus for several years, was
in town Monday. Mr.. Friday has been
very successful In truck planting, but
says he has found that it is more pro-
ftable to grow late vegetables than
early as Yearly every one has an early
and very few a late crop. With irriga-
tion his crop is assured every year. and
he has never suffered from a failure.
The highest article of food on the
at the present time is Irish po-
tatoes, and this stable article of diet is
now selling at So a bushel for eating
and So for the seed variety. 1t is the
common belief that this vegetable can
not be saved in this climate, yet MI.
M. Campbell, living across the riv-
er brought TO the BEACON Office this
week a fine sample of potatoes that he
last August. He left them in
The ground and has been eating from
hem all the winter and he gathered
what was left last Saturday and got
,wo and a half bushels.
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