Macon beacon., 1917-06-15
Personal and Local Items

| granGmother, Mrs. ID. Nj. Harris.
Mrs. Hungerford and Fay left Wed
nesday to visit relatives in Memphis.
Miss Sallie Spann Swami arrive,
home Saturday to spend the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. j. Wilson are visit
ing Mrs. Wilson's parents in Kentucky
Mrs. Bessie Price Williams, of lit,
Bena, is visiting Mrs. J. H. Williams.
Miss Ruth Clement, of Meridian, i
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Herber
Dorroh.
Mrs. Henry Watson and children, O
Strongs, are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Conrad Smith.
Mrs. w. L. Sherrod, Mrs. G B
Richmond, Jr., and son, are visiting
relatives in Memphis.
Mrs. DR.. Campbell, of Okolona. ha'
been visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Leo Cole, this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Windham, Of
Cochran, Ala, visited their daughter
Mrs. W. T. Conner this week.
Leonard Barnes, who has been at
tending one of the high schools ir
Memphis returned home Monday.
Miss Theodosia Cooper, who has beer
attending school in Philadelphia for the
past winter returned home Tuesday.
Mrs. H. N Scales and son have been
at home with Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Oliver
this week. They will return to Jack
son next Tuesday.
Mrs. Wilson and children, of Paducah,
KY, and Miss Sarah Dupree, of Texar-
kama, are the guests of Mesdames
Moore and Dupree.
DR.. and Mrs. Lex Hubbard, of Birm-
ingham, have been visiting relatives in
Shuqualak this week. They will re-
turn home Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Waller and Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Hayden, of Crawford,
were the guests last Sunday of Mr.. r.
c. Patty and family.
Mr.. Jim Bush, bookk ee per at the
Bank of Macon has been ill for the past
week. He was able to resume his dl.
ties Thursday morning.
Mrs. Josie Cook Mcleod, who is a
graduated nurse, is attending Llewellyn
Oliver, who has been very i'll for some
time with kidney trouble. His con-
ditlon is considered critical.
Mrs. Curtis Herbert and little daugh-
ter, Roberta. returned Tuesday from a
weeks stay at the A. & M. College
with Mrs. Herbert's parents, President
and Mrs. w. H. Smith.
Mrs. Roberta Skinner returned last
Monday from Meridian. where she has
been patient for the past week in DR.,
Turner's Hospital. She will resume
her duties at Klaus & Co., after the
first of the month.
Mrs. G. B. Dorroh had the misfor.
tune to fall while going down the steps
in the rear of her residence last SUM-
day morning about 7 O'Clock, and broke
the small bone of her left arm just
above her wrist.
Mr.. John Clark, of Dancy, Ala, was
in town Thursday. He says the Bigbee
has fifteen foot rise but his mme.
date neighborhood hasn't had emo rgh
rain to wet the ground good in nine
weeks.
The biggest news item in the Beacor
this week is the list of those who
answer the FIRST call of their country
on Tuesday of last week, and registered
In the sixty-eight years of its existence
the Beacon has printed some news item:
of vital interest to the people of Noxu
bee but there is nothing that will be OF
more historical interest than this list
Fifty years from now it will be re aC
with as much interest as a list of those
who went to our war more than half a
century ago.
Messrs. Tom and Will Bush, Ton
Tyson, Winfield Sargent and DR.,
Maugns Brown spent couple of day;
this week at Burnside lake in Neshobs
county. They found the roads splendid
all the way. Before the railroad was
built through and made Burnside Sc
accessible, it was considered the best
fishing place in East Mississippi, but il
is now said that you can't catch any
more than you can eat. In the ole
days it was more that days trip, but
now over good roads the 45 miles II
made easy in two hours or less.
Twenty members of the Red Cross
Society met at the courthouse Tuesday
afternoon and formed an auxiliary Of
the Columbus Chapter, which is head
quarters for several chapters. Very
interesting talks we're made by Rev. E
Nash Broyles and Rev. Percy Calvin