Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-05-11
Personal and Local Items

Mrs. j. F. Jones went to Columbu:
Thursday to see Mrs. H. A. Minor.
Mr.. Charles Jones, of Montgomery
is visiting Mr.. Wyatt NJ. Jones, Sr.
MIR. W. M. Cavett is in Clarksdalt
this week looking after his farming in
terests.
Mrs. Will Dozier, of Mobile, is visit
ing her parents, MIR. and Mrs. l. 7.
Smith.
DR.. j. C. FAINT, of the University OF
Mississippi, spent Thursday and Friday
in Macon.
Capt. Sam Clark, who has been
stationed in Jackson, is at home on a
short furlough.
Col. E. B. Boyd, who is stationed at
Holly Springs, spent a day or two at
home this week.
Sam FAINT Cockrell, who has been at
tending the University of Mississippi,
returned home Tuesday.
Mrs. w. H. Rose, of Columbus. spent
several days this week with her mother,
Mrs. John r. Dinsmore.
DR.. Chas. Bush left Tuesday for
Jackson to attend the annual meeting
of the State Medical Association.
Mrs. Patterson, of Augusta, Ark,
who has been the guest of Mrs. E. T.
George, returned home Tuesday.
Prof. Thos. Hubbard, who has been
teaching in the Agricultural High
School, at Kossuth, Miss, is at home
for the vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cunningham, Mrs.
U. w. Mullen and Miss Lillian Mullen,
of Cliftonville, were guests of Mrs. EN-
NETT Dantzler Tuesday.
Mrs. John r. Dinsmore has closed
her home for an indefinite time and left
Wednesday for West Point to visit her
daughter, Mrs, Price Ivy.
Mrs Susie B. Stevens has been quite
i'll for several weeks, and her condition
does not improve much. Miss Fannie
May, professional nurse, is now with
her.
Mrs. Tom McHenry, Mrs. Holberg and
Miss Edna Bush motored to Columbus
Thursday evening to attend the recital
given by Miss Margaret Wilson, daugh-
ter of President Wilson.
Mr.. Phil Jones, of the Yellow Pine
Pharmacy, Hattiesburg, visited home
folks a few days this week. He says
he hasn't made up his mind whether to
get married or go into the trenches.
Mr.. E. V. Yates was in New Orleans
several days this week attending a
meeting of the directors of the Mort
gage Securities Co. He returned home
Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. Warren Sessions returned Wed
nesday from the Canal Zone and he is
spending a short time with his mother,
Mrs. Lucy Sessions, before enlisting in
the army. Work on the zone, he says,
has been suspended until after the war.
Mr.. John R. Dinsmore left Tuesday
for Little Rock, where he will enter
officers training camp. He has had
several years military training, having
been a student for four years at the
Bingham Military school in North Car
DINA.
Mr.. R. L, Oliver, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Goode Oliver, who has been living in
Memphis for the past year, passed
through Macon Thursday en- route to
Fort Oglethrope. Ca, to enlist in the
army.
Mrs. A. G. FAINT, Mrs. Roberta Skin
ner, Mrs. l.. L.. Cole Miss Jeanie Fer
ris and several others, went to Column
bus Thursday evening to attend the
musicale given at the college chapel by
the presidents gifted daughter. who is
giving a series of concerts throughout
the country for the benefit of the
American Red Cross Society.
Mr.. Jas. L. Hibbler, of Chattanooga,
secretary and treasurer of the Hibbler-
Barnes Co., of that city, was in town
several days this week. He says that
he had some business in a town a hun
dred or so miles from Macon and could
not resist the temptation to come back
to his old home and shake hands with
the best people on earth. Says the
longer he stays away from Noxubee
the better he loves it, and in fact he
would rather be a lamp post in Macon
than a courthouse in Chattanooga, or
any other city. He left Thursday for
Washington city on business.
Lonzy Roberts colored waived trial and
was put under a bond of 5000 to await
action of the grand jury, on a charge