Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-03-02
Personal and Local Items

Mr.. Hungerford OF SCOOPS visite.
his parents this week.
Mrs. Lamherson has returned from
a visit to relatives in Winona.
Mrs. John R. Dinsmore is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. DR.. Ivey in Yves.
Point.
Miss Minerva Farmer has been thu
guest OF her sister, Mrs, Sessions, thi;
week.
Mr.. C. D. Featherston is in st. Louis
buying bis spring and summer stock OF
goods.
Mrs. Jack Holman was called to
Brooksville to see her father who is
quite sick.
Miss LaPerle Crigler spent several
days this week with Miss Bardwell at
the |. /, & c.
Miss Mary Holman of Meridian,
spent the week end with her mother,
Mrs. NJ. E. Holman.
Mrs. McAdams of Fearn Springs, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. j.. W.
Chapel this week.
Miss Lizzie Stewart returned yester-
day from a months visit to relatives
In Crawford and Columbus.
MISS Mary Lou Green was called to
her home in Aberdeen this week by the
death of her aunt, Mrs. Elkin.
Miss Mary Emma Richardson spent
the weekend in Starkville, the guest
of Miss Sadie Duvergne Robert.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Hibbler of Nc
Leod spent several days last week with
their daughter, Mrs. W. M. Jones.
Mr. Frank Dantzler of West Point
has been the guest several days this
week of his brother, Mr.. Emmett
Dantzler.
Mr. Mcleod Murray of Memphis
was in Macon last Saturday to attend
the funeral of his grandmother, Mrs.
Mary Mcleod.
Night Policeman Smith Holt has
been off duty severa! days recently on
account of a severe attack of the
grippe. He is now some improved.
Mr.. Lamberson returned the early
part of the week from St. Lonis and
New York, where he went to buy his
spring and summer stock of goods.
Mrs. Bachman of Johnson City,
Tenn, who has been visiting her
parents, Mr., and Mrs. Gregory for
the past month, returned to her home
Thursday.
Owing to the steadily increasing de-
mands of the public Mr.. Osborne Kir-
by has added a five passenger auto
mobile to his transfer service and
has already built up a good. business
in that line.
Mrs. j. A. Lee, who has been visit
ing relatives in Crawford and Colum-
bus for the past month, has returned
home. She was accompanied home by
her daughter, Miss Bessie, who will
remain a few days.
Mr.. Walter Stokes was in New Or
leans on business this week. At a
meeting of the East Mississippi Hay
Growers association, held in Meridian
about three weeks ago, Mr.. Stokes
was elected president.
Mrs. John Harper and her father,
Mr., Hungerford, returned the first
part of the week from Memphis, where
the forner has been a patient for sew
eral weeks in st. Joseph's hospital.
Her health has much Improved.
Mr.. Owen Todd of Clifton attended
court in town last week. Like every
other farmer in the county Mr.. Todd's
crops were a failure-with the excep-
ton, he says, of soy beans, of which
he made several hundred bushels and
disposed of a good portion of them at
e. so a bushel. He says there is no
better feed for everything on the farm
except chickens, and it makes them
TOO fat to lay well.
Mrs. Julius Cannon, Mrs. VIM
.Featherston, Mrs. Tom Patty and
Miss Mary Murphey attended the meet
ng of the North Mississippi Confer
ence held in West Point this week.
The full report of the meeting ap-
oeared in Thursdays Commercially
peal, and a paragraph of the report
"The supreme recognition of
and best work done went to
he Young Peoples Society of Macon.
They received the banner.
Miss Sadie D%uvergne Robert of the
A.. & NJ. College, has been the guest
his week of Miss Mary Emma Rich
lrdson. She was the recipient of sew
'ral receptions this week, given in her
lonor.