Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-11-30

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DI1EsaN-W WELSH Mr.. Rickam Gland
ius Dickson, Of Shreveport. La. ar
n0unceS HE engagement and approach
ing marriage Of his sister, Sue, to Mr.
Thomas Russell Welsh. Lieutenant O
R. G., the wedding to occur at an early
date.
The Walter Barker Chapter Y. y c,
will meet with Mrs. Deupree Wednes.
day. December 9Th, at 8 p, m.
Friends of Mr.. Ernest Hunter will
regret to know Of his illness, with
pneumonia, at Camp Beauregard, La.
On account Of the high death.rate from
this disease at the different canton
ments, his illness is causing his family
much uneasiness.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Ames entertained
at a Thanksgiving dinner at their home
on the Bush place three miles north of
Macon, Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Minor, DR..
and Mrs. Maughs Brown, Mrs. H. T.
Saunders and Mrs. Alex Ames of Stark
vile.
Mrs. Joe L. McMillin, of Macon, is
visiting her brother-ln-law and sister,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Grove on Fifth
street. She will be their guest until
after Thanksgiving and will be joined
in a few days by Mr.. McMillin. Hat
tiesburg American.
Mrs. Harden Brooks arrived in Macon
Tuesday and will be the guest for sew
eral days of Mrs. Annette Tyndall.
She has been with her father rear
Dancy, Ala, for the past two weeks.
Maj. Brooks is now at an officers
training camp at Fort Sill, Okla.
Lieut.. Chas Jones arrived home Thurs
day from Leon Springs, Texas, where
he had been in training for several
months. He had had very little mill
tary experience or training before going
to the camp, and that he was able to
pull down a first lieutenancy is very
gratifying to his family and friends.
Mr., Gurler returned last week from
a visit to his old home in northern Hi
nois. He was accompanied home by
MIS-. Ga Ter, who will spend the winter
here. Mr.. Gurler says that the corn
crop III the section where he visited is
an almost complete failure, due to the
cold, vet summer, There was hardly
more than ten days Of real crop. grow
ing Weather the entire summer, and
-he early frost in August put on the
finishing touches. Those who had silos
some of their crop in that way.
Even in central Illinois, the real corn
)elt, the crop is shorter than it has
loen in years, and the farmers there,
says, are in a worse condition than
hey have been since 1859. The condi-
ions nave been changed entirely, as
bis section, for the past month, has
jaep shipping thousands Of bushels Of
.orn. Whether it goes north we cannot
ay.
Dir Tom Jackson was in town We'd
and while here sold Mr.. Gus
icLeod $485 worth Of melilotus seed.
he same price had been offered by a
KANSAS firm, but he put an advertise
nent in The Beacon and sold them to a
peal man. Mr.. Jackson said he sowed
3 acres in oats two years ago and had
splendid yield, making plenty Of feed
or all his stock for the summer of 1916,
nd afterwards got two good cuttings
1 hay-and there's no better hay than
1elilotus. This spring he had a splen-
i'd early pasture for his dairy cows. at
time, on account of the drouth, there
'as very little grass anywhere else.
hen this summer he cut the last cut
with a binder and run it through a
nrasher, just as he would oats, and
Did the seed for the amount mentioned
bOVe,