Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-01-26

Cashier Boggcss of the Bank Of Ma.
cor. made a business trip to the delta
this week.
Read the mule ad. of W. w. Shannon
in another column of This Issue, See
his fine mules,
Mr.. w. T. Conner is in Asheville, N.
c., with Mrs. Conner, who is spending
several months there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewellyn Hatchett of
Columbus have been the guests at the
Hotel Macon this week,
Miss Dora Evelyn Counor Of the |, |.
& c., is spending the weekend with
Miss Etheldra Spessard.
Mrs. George Richardson and daugh-
ter, Miss Mary Emma, are visiting rel
atives in CORTLAND, Ala.
Jim Dorroh, who suffered from an
attack Of pneumonia, IS well enough
to be at work again at d. c. Jordan's.
Mrs {. D. F~eatherston, after a three
weeks visit to her mother at Moss
Point, Miss returned home Tuesday.
Mr.. VIII Patty spent several days re-
Gently with his sister. Mrs. Charles
Combs at Sidon, near Greenwood, Miss.
Mrs, Rhymes and Miss Katha-
yine Rhymes Of Crystal Springs, are
the guests this week of Mrs. r. L.
Rhymes.
Miss Mary Kate Hunter, who has
been stenographer with the firm of
Tbreefoot Bros, & Co., at Meridian, is
al home.
Carroll. the young daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Phil Gregory, was very i'll a
day or two this week, but has entirely
recovered.
Miss Sara Fisher Ames, a senior Of
the I. !, & c. is spending this weekend
at home and has as her guests seven
OF her classmates.
Niss Daisy Swami, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. J. P. Swami, was i'll last
week with pneumonia. She is much
improved and Is able to set up.
Miss Ada Aust was called home
Thursday by the serious illness Of her
father and father, Mr.. and Mrs. J. c..
Aust, Who live near Calyx. Miss Aust
was accompanied by her sister, Mrs. j..
R. Lockley.
Little boys and other children of a
larger growth, should remember that
they are violating a federal law when
they kill robbins and other migratory
birds. A notice received from the u
S. Agricultural Department, calling at
~tention to the Migratory Bird Law
still being in effect, IS printed in on
other column.
Attention is called to ar announce
ment Of The Merchants and Farmers
Bank in another column. They state
that they will make loans to farmers
who contemplate borrowing from the
Federal Loan Bank, and the loans will
be taken for terms not to exceed one
year, the borrower having the privilege
Of paying of the loans at any time by
giving 30 days notice.
MIR John Cavett, Of Sunshine, was
in town Wednesday, and speaking of
the rad condition Of the roads, stated
that the road through the Cavett Bros.
place was in a worse condition than it
had been for several years, but that
they commenced to drag it as soon as
the rain stopped. Dragging, he says,
helps to run the water out of the ROAD
bed, as well as filling up the ruts and
it dries out much quicker.
Messrs. c. s. Field and L. T. Ander-
son, of ShuquIak, and T. w. Madison,
Of Brooksville, were the out-of-town
directors Of the M. G. f. Bank, who
were present at the regular annual
meeting Thursday. Mr.. Geo. D. Rus
sell, Of Mashulaville, and other out-of-
town directors were not able to be
present on account of the extremely
bad roads.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Merchants and Farmers Bank held this
day, an extra cash dividend of 80 per
cent was declared. As their regular
10 per cent dividend was paid on Jan
uary 2, this makes 100 per cent cash
dividends paid since January /, and
this leaves them capital, surplus and
undivided profits of over SlO0, 900. This
is one Of the oldest and most successful
banks in the state. They paid an extra
dividend Of 80 per cent in January, 1911.
and annual dividends of 10 per cent
since then. Their deposits are over
oue-haii million.
TT. ~xu