Macon beacon., 1917-06-29
Personal and Local Items

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the normal at the A & NJ, college,
Mrs. W, NJ. Jones. Sr., and daughter
are visiting Mrs, Grove in Pamela, Ala.
Mrs Julian Holt, of Meridian, has
| been the guest this week Of Mrs. Mary
| Holt.
Attorney |. l.. Dorroh made business
trips to Meridian and Memphis this
week.
Miss Mary Emma Richardson returned
Sunday from a visit to frierds in Tus-
cumbla, Ala.
Miss Bessie Boggess is visiting in the
home of her brother, Mr.. Ben Boggess
in Brooksville.
Mrs L. A. Nicholson and children
of Clarksdale are the gnests of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. F. Ames.
Mrs. Buerer, of Genoa, Ill has been
the. guest this week of Mr.. and Mrs.
Striker near Prairie Point.
Mrs. Whitman Davis and children of
the A, & M. college are the guests of
MIR. and Mrs. w. l.. Featherston.
Mrs. Minnie Zealey, and Miss Nell
Alice Brady, of Searles, Ala, have been
the guests this week of Mrs. p. c.
Barkley.
Mr.. and Mrs, DeYampert Brame re-
turned Wednesday from Chicago, where
the former has been studying in a Bible
school.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Richmond left
last Saturday for Weymouth, Mass,
where they will spend the balance of
the summer.
Mr.. Edwin Harkins, who has been in
Mobile for several months, is at home
for visit to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Sam Harkins.
Mrs. Murray Thompson, of Gulfport,
arrived last Sunday and is the guest of
her parents, DR.. and Mrs. Wyatt near
Prairie Point.
Miss Mary Kate Hunter left yester-
day for Lauderdale. where she will be
the guest for several days of Mrs. 7.
c. Lyle, Jr.
Mrs. F. A. Thompson is visiting rela-
tives at her old home in Indiana, She
left last Tuesday. ..afternoon. Mrs. Wal
ter Stokes carried her to.the train in
her car and helped to give her pleas
ant goodbye.
Rev. Mr.. Broyles, of the Methodist
church, went to the A. & M. college
Wednesday and made an address be-
fore the student body at the Normal
which is being held there.
Mr. George Lowering, of Shabbona,
ILL.,, has been in the county this week
looking over our lands. While here he
was the guest of Mr.. D. B. Todd, of
Prairie Point.
News of the critical condition of Mrs.
H. A. Minor was received in Macon
this afternoon. DR.. and Mrs. Muir
phey, Mrs. Dent and other relatives
will go to Couumbus.
MIR. Robert Holt, travelling auditor
for the Diamond Match Co., with head
quarters in New Orleans, was at home
day or two this week on visit to his
mother, Mrs. Mary Holt and sisters,
Mrs. d. Patty and Miss Mary Clyde.
Misses Mable and Myrle Grace, daugh-
ters of Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Grace, re-
turned last week from Austin, Texas,
where they have been teaching the
past year, They will return to Texas
this fall, having been reelected to fill
the same positions.
The many friends in the county of r.
E. Barres will be glad to know he is re-
covering from an operation which he
recently underwent in a hospital in
Chicago, where he with number of |
other Macon boys, have been at work
for the past two months.
Mr., A. G. Williams, his partner, Mr..
Somerville ard mother, Mrs. A. E.
Going, came over from Alicevile, Ala
last Monday. Mrs. Going will spend
the week with her son, Mr.. W. A. Will
liams and family, five miles west of Ma
con. Mrs. Going's frieuds will be glad
to know her health has much improved,
Mr.. George Wade returned home the
early part of the week from the delta,
where he has been for the past month
looking after his farming interests
there. He says the crops in the delta
are not much more advanced than they
are here, and month late, owing to
the cold, wet spring and the drouth
that has prevailed since the crop was
planted.
Mr.. D. B. Todd, of Prairie Point,
was in town Thursday and stated that
a fine rain fell at his place Monday
evening and a LIGHT rain again the neyt