Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-11-23
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erai Gays Mobile this week.
Mrs. r, r~r9uoiale. of Jackson, Aj5,
i visiting Iar sister. Mrs. Albert Pr.m.
Mrs Jcl7sou. az Durant, Miss, is
visiting fsr daughter, Mrs. j. E.
Br1ome.
Mr.. Miner Ames and friend, Mr.. ] l..
Lucas, Wis Ted Mr.. and MIS-. J. F. Ames
last weekend.
MS j Il. Williams ard daughter,
Miss Lula T., have returned from a
visit to Meridian.
Nese-s. Morgan Adams, Allie Swami,
E~me.t Dsn'z'er AMI Allie Swsnn. Jr,
are in the delta on a h%untinr trip.
Lieut. ". R Rainey. while playing
football at Camp Beaurerard this week.
had the misfortune to have a rib broken.
Mrs. Patrick. of Laurel. arrived in
Macon to attend the Yates-Field we'd
ding. She is the guest of her sister,
Mrs. Chas. Hardin.
Senator Vardamsn will speak in Co.
lumbus Wednesday afternoon, Nov. %,
at 1:90 O'Clock, As will be seen in notice
elsewhere in this paper.
Mr.. A. T. Dent returned the early
part of the week from a trip to Wash
ington and New York, where he visited
his brother, William.
DR.. J. E. Jones left Wednesday for
Georgia to visit his old home at Cedar
town for a short time. He will also go
to Atlanta to hear the great and only
Billy Sunday.
Mrs. John Conner, of Hattiesburg,
we'll known in Macon as Miss Annie
Faust, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Wal
ter Price, at the Agricultural High
School, Mashulaville.
The Light and Water Plant of Macon,
to meet expenses, will be forced to in
crease rates or water and lights. Supt.
Bush giv,s the reasons for so doing in
another column of this paper.
Mr.. T. j.. Wilkins, Jr., of Brcoksville,
has sold his place three miles west of
Brooksyille to Mr.. Ed. P. Million of
Richmond, KY. He is offering his stock
for sale as will be seen in an advertise
ment in this Issue of The Beacon.
The friends and relatives in this
county of Mrs. Sarah Ames Williams
will he interested in a story in this
weeks Saturday Evening Post by her
son, Ben Ames Williams. The young
man has been one of the editors of a
Boston paper for several years.
Jack II Gin, from the U. S. Ship
Vestal, is at home on a ten days fur
Tough. FL several months his ship,
which is floating machine shop, has
heen aten ing the big dreadnaughts do
ing patro duty along the Alta tic
Coast.
Mr.. Leo Cole, Jr who has been in
Honolulu or about two months, passed
a bar examination in that city on Octo-
her 9th. Six other young men stood
the exami alton at the same time, three
Of them bong native Hawaiians. Mr..
Cole IS wi h Tie law firm of Thompson
& CathcaYt. one of the Oldest law firms
IN the island.
In the 'stork news last week The
Beacon announced the arrival of a
dGugi .er 10 Mr.. and Mrs. ". L Bounds
when it should have beta "Roone "
Their first were twins, a boy and a girl.
md they are fine, lusty youngsters-as
fine a pair of three-year-o'ds as can be
found in many a days travel.
Rev. Mr.. Broyles and Mr., W. f
Stokes left the early part of the week
for Oxford to attend conference. 1t is
the earnest wish of a large number Of
friends that Mr.. Broyles be returned to
Macon. A strong effort has been made
to have him moved to Starkville, but a
petition, largely signed by the good
people and sinners of Macon, requested
that he be returned here.
Mr.. j. N. Lipscomb, who has been
doing demonstration work for the U, S.
Department in West Virginia for sew
eral years, since his graduation at the
University of Wisconsin, has been e.
lected as agricultural commissioner for
Kinds county, in this state. Mr.. Lips
comb mad the good sense and good taste
to come back to Noxubee for his bride
a year or more ago. and we are glad to
get them both back into the State.
Sergeant Max Williams and wife are
visiting the formers mother, Mrs. S. E
Williams. Max is the first soldier who
has returned from Camp Pike, and the
drilling he has been through has taken
nothing from his handsome appearance
and he looks as keen as a race horse, in
fact neither Gibson, Flagg or any of
the artists could draw IN paper a more
typical looking soldier boy. And if
Max makes anything like as good a
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