Macon beacon., 1917-10-12
Personal and Local items

turned home Thursday.
Mrs. W. P. Minor returned the first
of the week from a visit to her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Saunders in Sta kville.S
Mrs. NJ. f. Holman left this week for
Meridian and will spend the winter
there with her daughters, Miss Mary
and Mrs. Spessard.
Mr.. D. ]. Todd sold this week to "a
Mr.. Stern of Arkansas. Mrs, Daisy
Parker Hackett.s place near Paairie
Point containing 55s acres.
A number of cattle have died this
week from paspalum poison in East
Noxubee Messrs M. r. Halstead and
Earl Skinner have each lost several
head.
Mrs. Howard Jones went to Jackson
Wednesday to see her son who is i'll
with pneumonia. The little fellow. a
deaf mute, was sent to the State school
a week or two ago.
Miss Viva Harrison left Wednesday
afternoon for st. Louis. where she will
study music and harmony this winter
She will probably visit her sister, Mrs.
Thompson in Brooklyn, New York, be-
fore returning home.
Mr.. Robert Holt, who is travelling au-
ditor for the Diamond Match Co.. was
in town for a day this week to see his
mother, Mrs. Mary Holt, and sister,
Mrs Elliott, of Charlottesville, Va,
who is visiting her mother.
Light frosts have fallen two nights
this week, the lowest temperature being
95 Wednesday night. Egg and pepper
plants, both very tender, show little eff
feet of the frost, but trees are turning
golden and the grass on the meadows is
taking on fall look.
Mr.. Field, who was in town Monday.
stated that his gin had been running a
day less than two weeks ard had ginned
more cotton in that time than the whole
of last season. He sold while in Macon
100 bales of cotton at several Joints
above 26 cents, which was the highest
price ever paid here since the war.
Cotton sold later as high as 26.564.
Among the members of the cavalry
company spending few Gays at home
I this week were Capt. J. N. Holman,
Lieut.. w. R. Rainey, William Kirby,
Francis Connor, Dave Black, Sides.
Ladd Mauldin, Roy Egger. 0. M. Hum
phries, Milton Chappell, Jasper Lips
comb and Sam Card.
Gen. and Mrs E. H. Woods and son,
of Kentucky. are visiting the family OF
Mr.. c. s. Field at Calyx. Gen. Woods.
who owns one of the finest stock and
grain farms in Barron county, Kentucky,
was in town Monday with Mr.. Field
and says that the crops in his section
are abundant. Gen. and Mrs. Woods
will visit friends and relatives in the
delta before returning home.
The farmers of the county are buster
than they ever were at this time of the
year. 1t was for that reason that 9
better display was not made of beet
type of cattle at the stock show last
week. There is not OILY cotton and
corn to gather, but hay, peas, soy anc
velvet beans, potatoes, molasses tc
make. 1t is absolutely necessary tc
take advantage of the pretty weather
that is prevailing to get the crops out
of the fields, and it is no time for rest
or recreation.
Mr.. S. j. Feibleman. after a stay ct
a year and half in New York, has re-
turned to Macon, arriving last Monday
noon, aud is again with A Klaus & Co.
of which firm he is member. Travel
ing, especially from the north to the
south, he says is very inconvenient. due
to the fact that passenger traffic has in
creased and the railroads have taken of
many of their trains. 1t is also causing
= poor mail and express service from the
north.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mat Mahorner and theil
70 little daughter have been at the Hote
- Macon this week. Mr.. Mahorner's Wis
n it here is for the purpose of closing uI
the. sale of thel Mahornerl place, eigh
}. miles east of Macon, which he has sole
, to Mr.. John F. Moore of Omaha, Neb
n This is the largest land deal that hal
to taken place in the county since Mr.
= Ames sold Is, 600 acres to the Montgom
s. cry brothers of Moline, Ill. The con
VI sideration for the land, with the cattl,
y on the Mahorner place, is said to b,
a. something over $50, 900.
Mr. ]. A. W. Lowrey, sawyer at San
: Adams mill, eight miles southwest O.
Macon, had narrow escape with hi
: life Tuesday morning about nine 'clocl
n when his overcoat sleeve caught in
- set screw on pulley. The boxing wa
becoming heated and he leaned over t
feel it when his sleeve caught and jerket
him down on the frame of the mill will