Macon beacon., 1917-03-09
Personal and Local Items

Mrs. Merle Miller, or shannon, spC n
last week end with Mr.. and Mrs. Leo
| Cole
Miss Anna Deale and her brother
Mr.. jeff Deale of Mcleod are In towr
town.
Miss Mary Emma Richardson Il
spending the weeks end with friends II
Columbus.
Mrs w. o. Barnes was quite i'll sew,
eral days last week, but is now much
improved.
Mrs, Tom Cockrell was the guest
last wet k of her daughter, Mrs. John
Tyson, Jr.
Mr. Minor Ames. student at the
Blue Mountain College, is at home for a
short stay.
Mrs. E. V. Yates and daughter,
Maude, returned Sunday from Men,
phis, Tenn.
Mrs. Ed Murphey left Friday for
Osyka, Miss. to visit her sister, Mrs.
W. H. Grace.
Mr.. H. L. ]. Barnes of Meridian was
in town last Sunday to see his mother.
who has been ill.
Mrs. J. E Dorroh and Miss Cracken,
teachers of the high school, are visiting
the Meridian schools.
Mrs. Walter Connor and daughter
Katherine. are visiting MIR. and Mrs.
J. c. H. Jones in Memphis.
Mrs. Edna Spessard will leave Sun
day for Meridian and will be with her
sister, Miss Mary Holman for some
time.
Mrs. w. II. Hickman returned last
Saturday from St. Louis, where she
has been to purchase her line of millin-
cry.
Miss Helene Carleton has been i'll
with grippe for the past two weeks.
For that reason her name is conspicuous
by its absence on the high schools hon
or roll.
Mrs. Will Connor, who has been at
Ashville, N. c., for several months,
has returned and is now with her par.
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter d. Wind
ham, at Cochran, Ala.
Mrs. W. L. Featherstone spent sever
al days recently with her daughter,
Mrs. Whitman Davis, at the A. & M.
College. She was accompanied by her
little grand daughter
Measles. which has been epidemic
over the state for some time, has
broken out in Macon, and several chill
dren are reported i'll with it. Two
children of Mr.. Egger at the hotel
Macon have been sick this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hardin Brooks, of
Meridian, were in town several days
this week. They came up to see "The
Fall of Nation" which was shown at
the picture show this week. They
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. D. M.
LutZ.
Mr.. and Mrs. U. W. Mullins of Cliff
ton are in town today. The Beacon
has failed to announce the marriage.
which occurred in Columbus about two
weeks, of Mr.. U. w. Mullins to Miss
Sallie Cunningham, daughter of the
late A. G. Cunningham.
Mr.. Rufe Swindle. of Gholson, for
mer supervisor of District Four, was
il town this week for the first time in
several months. He says a number of
people in his neighborhood has suffered
this winter from cold and the grip and
there has been several cases of pneu
monia, one death occurring.
After leasing their place east of
Macon, Mrs. Schimmel and her daugh-
ter-in-law, Mrs. Clara Schimmel and
children went to Birmingham to live.
Mr.. Jim Irion has very successfully
their property for them since
Mr.. Schimmels death and they will oc-
cupy one of his cottages in Birmingham.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Hibbler, of Nc
Leod, are the guests of Mrs Wyatt M. |
Jones. Mr.. Hibbler says the consoli-
dated school building at Cooksville,
built by contractors from Meridian, is
nearing completion, and that the teach
ers home, built by Mr.. Jones. of Ma
shulaville, is about ready for occupancy,
Charley Barnes, who has been at
work in st. Louis for the past two
was seriously i'll with pneu-
monia in hospital in that city last
week. His parents here were kept
posted as to his condition has mubh i'm
proved and he will probably be able to
come home next week. Since Charley's
improved Howard left st.
Louis for Mexico.
Goodyear tires are best, ask any car
'wner who has them on car. Book.
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