Macon beacon., 1917-06-08
Personal and Local Items

Mr.. Windam Ohver, OF Birmingham
has returned home.
Miss Daisy Swami is attending the
Normal in Hattiesburg.
Miss Dora Evelyn Connor is attend
ing the normal at the |. |. & G.
Mrs. Mary Holt and daughter. Miss
Mary Clyde arrived home Monday.
Misses Ethel and Parmelia Yates are
visiting Miss Malle Field, at Calyx.
Miss Inez George of Meridian is the
guest for the week Of Miss Eleanar
Jones,
Mr.. Lige Dupree, of Memphis, is Wis
iting his auntS Mesdames Dupree and
Moore.
Miss Etheldra Spessard of Meridian
is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. M. E.
Holman.
Miss Kathleen Rhymes of Crystal
Springs is visiting her brother. Mr.. X,
l.. Rhymes.
Miss Julia Holberg is attending the
normal at Sophia Newcomb College in
New Orleans.
Miss Margaret Kinard of Danyille.
Ky, is the guest of her aunt. Mrs, Sal
lie E. Murphey.
Mrs. j. T. Sargent. Jr., and daugh-
ter, Anna Ivy, will leave in the morn
ing for St. Louis.
Deale Binion and Dot Pruit left Mon
day for Enid, okla, where they will
work in the wheat fields.
Mrs. Shelf Thomas and Miss Ruby,
of Jackson, and Mrs. Lyle, of Lauder
dale, are visiting relatives.
Mrs. W. c. Herbert is visiting her
parents, President and Mrs. W. H.
Smith at the A. & M. college.
Miss Bessie Boggess is at home for
the summer, and at present is with her
sister, Mrs. Ed. M Murphey.
Mrs. Angie Adams will leave Satur-
day morning for Jonesboro, Ark. to
visit her daughter, Mrs. P. Anderson.
Miss Lucille Shelton, teacher in the
Lynn Creek Consolidated school went to
the A. & NJ College this week TO at
tended the normal
Mrs. Wyatt M. Jones, Sr., end chill
dren left Tuesday for Bell Buckle,
where they will spend the summer with
Mrs. Jones' parents
At the governments request full
list of all who registered last Tuesday
will be published in next weeks
Beacon.
Miss GeneYieve Adams, one of
the teachers of the Salem High
School, left Monday for A. & M.
where she will attend the six weeks
normal.
Mrs. T. T. Patty, Misses Julia Stokes,
Matte Bell Boswell and Mary Hale at
tended the quarterly meeting of the
Methodist Missionary societies, held at
Crawford this week.
Mrs. Roberta Skinner, accompanied
by her brother, Mr.. Wyatt Jones, Jr.,
and his wife, was taken to Meridian
last Friday afternoon. and was oper-
ated on for appendicitis Saturday morn;
ing at DR.. Turner'S hospital She has
improved steadily since and will proba-
bly, be able to return within week.
T. W. CrigIer, Jr. and Stanley Jack
son attended the reunion at Washing
ton this week and also went TO New
York. The former is a member of the
Noxdbee Cavalry company, his friends
think he would be more useful to his
country as an aviator as he IS never
happier than when travelling at the
rate of one hundred miles an hour, and
the speed on terra firma is all OBJ
stacle to bis happiness.
Mr.. A. G, (Artie) Murphey was
called to Sewanee, Tenn, this week
leaving Thursday, tn enlist in an am
bulance corps which is being recruited
at the University of the South. A
federal officer is there to hold phe phys
ical examination and if he passes he
will not return to Macon but will go at
once to a mobilization point. Artie is
little light in weight but is every bit
of man when it comes to handling |
and driving a car. He is very anxious
to pass, as it will be the best opportu-
nifty to get into active service.
Later-Mrs. Murphey received let
ter from her son today saying that he
had passed the examination and woulc |
leave for training camp at Allentown,
Pa. The chances are that the first let
ter from Somewhere in France" will
be from Artie.
The Stork.
Chesley Lewis (for his father and
grandfather) is the name of a son that