Macon beacon., 1917-03-23
Personal and Local Items

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Mr.. and Mrs. Hungerford spent this
week in Wahalak.
Miss Viva Harrison is spending the
week end in MeIidian.
Mrs. w. T. Connor is at home again
after being away for several months.
Mr.. L. E. Zepernick of Laurel is
visiting relatives in town and county.
Miss Woods of Aberdeen Is visiting
Miss Green at Mrs. NJ. E. Harris.
Miss Jennie Morgan, a student at
the l. l. & c., spent last week end at
home.
Mrs. c. C. Adams, of New York
City, is the guest of her sister, Mrs.
Jas. A, Campbell.
Miss Matte B. Hunter spent last
week end with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. M. Nj. Hunter
Mr.. George D. Russell of Nashua
vile was in town Tuesday for the first
time in month or two.
Mrs. E. C. Binion left Friday for
Tupelo. and from there will leave for
her home, Houston, Tex.
Mrs. NJ. A. Culpepper and little grand
son James Campbell Jr.. visited rela-
tives in Columbus this week.
Mrs. B. A. Cleary of Bell Buckle,
Tenn, arrived Saturday to spend sew
eral weeks with her daughter, Mrs.
W, NJ. Jones, Jr.
Messrs. Charley Scales and Sam
FAINT Cockrell. students of the Univer-
sity of Mississippi. spent several days
at home this week.
Mr.. J. R. Dugan of Macedonia was
in town Tuesday. He has been sub
scriber to the Beacon more than forty
of the sixty years Of his life.
The Messrs Zeaman and their neice,
Miss Zeaman, were called to their for
mer home in Iowa last week by the
death of their mother and grandmother.
Mrs. H. N. Scales left Wednesday
for Jackson to join Capt. H. N. Scales,
who returned that day from Texas,
where he has been with the Mississippi
troops for the past three months.
Mr.. and Mrs Plunkett, of New York
City, stopped in Macon day or two
this week while enroute home from
Florida, and while here were the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. N. H. Harrison.
Albert Ferguson, colored, was tried
before Judge Cockrell and sent to the
county road for six months on charge
of enticing labor from the state. He
was operating out of Murphysboro,
Tnen.
Mr.. j. A. Dinsmore of Prairie Point
was in town this morning. He sayg
they had almost water spout in his
section Wednesday, and the darkies
from the Bigbee river say that the
river rose 20 feet in short time, and
it is over all low lands.
Mr.. Dale Carr, of Deerbrook. was in
town Tuesday. He says that continued
wet weather has delayed somewhat the
preparation and p anting of crops, but
it would take only few days of good
weather to catch up. He thinks it has
been the fault of the elements and not
the failure of the farmers, that has
caused crop failures in the county the
past two years, but 1917 is new year,
and there is no reason why it should
not be a bumper crop year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Ogden returned
the early part of the week from their
old home in Missouri. where they went
with the remains of Mrs. Ogdens father,
Mr.. Creswell. Mr.. Ogden stated that
almost the entire west had suffered
from n drouth. which has prevailed
since last summer. There was only a
slight snow this winter and what fell
came in such way as te do little good
in putting moisture in the ground. The
corn and wheat were partial failures
for that reason last summer. He has
heard that good rains have fallen since
he left,