Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-22
Personal and Local Items

Ala, has been the charming guest OF
Miss Mary Emma Richardson.
Mrs. Clarence Hearon Of Birming-
ham spent a day or two last week with
her cousin. Mrs. Ed. NJ. Murphey.
Mr.. L. F. Holberg has been confined
to his bed all the week. He thinks he
will be to attend to business tomorrow.
The jackson Highway Ideal Country
Club met and passed a delightful even
ing at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
B. G. Richmond Sept. IL.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. C. Tucker. Mrs.
Nelson Stevens and Mr.. T. W. Crigler.
Jr., went to Meridian Wednesday in
Mr. fuckers car. They will spend
several days.
Mesdames C. D. Featherston, ". l..
Featherston, S. w. Harkins and Edwin
Harkins spent the week end at A. & M.
College, the guests Of Mrs. Whitman
Davis.
Miss Willingham is delivering at the
High school this afternoon her ad-
dress on the campaign against illitera-
cy in Mississippi. An account OF her
address will be published in next
weeks issue of the Beacon.
Mr.. Walter Windham of Cochran.
Ala, visited his daughter, Mrs. VIM.
Conror a day or two this week. He
says that it will take thirty acres OF
cotton to make a bale on the uplands
of Pickens and the bottom lands were
swept clean of all vegetation by the
July floods.
The friends of Percy Lucas, Jr., will
be glad to know that he is slowly i'm
proving, after being operated on for
pleurisy. He was taken sick last
week while at school at Mashulaville
and was brought home. DR.. Murphey
and DR.. j. W.. Echford of StarkvilIe
performed the operation.
Misses Mabel and Myrtle Grace left
Sunday for a few days visit with
friends in Meridian before leaving for
Austin, Texas. where the former will
resume her duties as instructor OF
Home Economics in the Senior High
School and the latter will do post.
graduate work at the University OF
Texas.
Mrs. J. Lin Thompson and daughte,
Muriel arrived today from Montreal
and will spend a while with Mr.. and
Mrs. N. H. Harrison. Mrs. Thompson
and daughter left their home in
Brooklyn, New York, for Canada soor
after the outbreak of ~infantile par
alysis, and will not return to New
York until the epidemic has abated.
Four autos, with sixteen occupants
from Pickens, Greene and Sumter
counties, Ala, we're in town one day
this week looking into the creamery
and dairy business. BY next fall the
farmers all the way to the Atlantic
coast will be trying to find a way to
beat the weevil. The farmers above
mentioned have had two experiences
with the pesky bug.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. W. Shannon and
Mr.. and Mrs. Mrs. Loyle Shannon re-
turned last Friday from Lebanon,
Tenn, where they have been for two
weeks visiting Mr.. j.. S. Shannon. They
went by way of Pickensville to Tusca-
loosa, Birmingham and thence to De-
catur and Pulaski, and the entire trip
of ATS miles each way was made with
out a puncture. They found the roads
very good and made an average speed
of 80 miles an hour.
Mr.. julius Klaus returned last week
from Chicago, where he went to buy
goods. He has been going to the
western markets for a number of years
but he never saw such evidence of
prosperity, and it is not a question of
getting buyers for the goods but of
getting the goods for the buyers and it
was almost a game of grab for the
staple goods that are in demand. The
labor conditions are the same and jobs
are now looking for the men. One of
the statesmen in Marshall Field 8 told
him they need $50 boys but there was
no use advertising for them as they
could not be had.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mat Mahorner and
Miss Nellie Mahorner reached Macon
yesterday afternoon from Mobile,
They spent Wednesday night in Meri-
dian. coming to their place ten miles
east of Macon the next d.. Mr.. Ma.
horner has been making the trip for
several years and notices each year the
improvement in the roads. Much of
the road this year, he says, shows the
effect of the July storm, but other sec
tions were much improved. They had