Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-11-02

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Field were the guests of Mrs. Chas.
Hardin on Wednesday.
Mrs. C. F. Carnes and sister, Mrs.
Egger, visited their brother, MIR. w. E.
Ashley at Baldwin, this week.
Mrs. DR.. Abbott and children of West
Point were the guests last week of Mr..
and w. o. Barnes, Mrs. Abbott's pa
rents.
Mrs. C. F, Carnes and daughter, Mrs.
Clifton Lucas, of Kosciusko, have been
the guests for several days of Mrs. E.
E, Egger.
Lieut.. and Mrs. w. R. Rainey ar
rived in Macon last night from Jackson
and will be the guests for severol days
of DR.. and Mrs. Murphey.
Misses Mary and Gladys higgins and
Ouida Cole of Waynesboro, students of
the |. |. G., were the guests of Mrs.
Wyatt Jones, Jr., last week end.
Mrs. Eroe and daughter of San An
tonic. Texas, are the guests of Mrs. S.
w. Harklrs. Mrs. Eroe will be remem-
bered in Macon as Miss Alice Madison.
Mr.. j. F. Jones returned Thursday
afternoon from a ten days visit to his
daughters, Mrs. Hauenstein in Hat
tiesburg and Mrs. Chambliss in Laurel.
Miss Edith Brown, of Meridian, is
visiting Miss Eleanor Jones. = She will
be a bridesmaid in the marriage of
Miss Jones to Mr.. MACPHERSON next
Wednesday.
Miss Lynda Wyatt, who recently
graduated IS a trained nurse, will be
located in Meridian. She has been Wis.,
iting her home-folks at Prairie Point
this week.
MI. and Mrs. A. H. George and Miss
lnez George Of Meridian will be the
guests of Mr.. E I. George the coming
week. They will come to attend the
ones Mcf nerSOn wedding.
Mr.. Tom McHenry left Tuesday for
New Orleans, where he will join a par
ty Of delta friends for a bear and deer
hunt on the famous McIlhenny game
preserves OF Avery's Island.
Miss Louise Wyatt, who has been in
Mobile for several years. has been on a
visit home this week. She will leave in
a few days for Little Rock to visit her
brother, Victor, who is in camp at Fort
Root.
Mrs. A. Klaus received a telegram
last Monday morning announcing the
death in Chicago, the evening before
of Mrs. Louis Frank, Mr.. Frai.k was
in business in Macon for several years.
the firm being Frank G. Zagor.
There were several changes Of resi-
dence in Macou. Mrs. Llewellyn OH
yer is occupying the Patty cottage next
to the Lyceum theatre; Mr.. LutZ has
moved to the Shannon cottage vacated
by Mrs. Oliver, and Mrs. j. C.. Loren
will occupy the other Shannon cottage
on the same street.
Miss LYDIA Will Wyatt, who has been
a stenographer in the Gressett Music
house IN Meridian, visited her parents,
Or. and Mrs. Wyatt at Prairie Point
this week. She has accepted a posi-.
ton as stenographer in the office of Mr.
K. S. Wilson of the Agricultural De
partment, A. G. M. college.
DR.. Hamilton Gaines, of Memphis.
and Mr.. VIM. Pratt Gaines, of Miami,
Okla , have been in the county several
days this week looking after their farm
ing propeaty. The latter, with Mrs
Gaines and daughter. will be with Mr..
and Mrs, Herbert Dorroh for several
day 8. They have been visiting DR.. and
Mrs. Geo. Clement in Meridian for
some time. Mrs. Gaines was Miss
Alice Clemens.
Congr essman E. S. Gambler spoke to
a large and attentive audience at the
Lyceum Hall last Friday evening. He
told with force and vigor on the doings
of congress since the announcement of
the war and causes that led the coun-
try INFO the cataclysm. Except when
a native son was rNnning Noxubee has
given MIR. Gambler a big MAORI
ty. At the last election there were
only 81 votes against him. After the
speaking a reception was rendered him
at the Hotel Macon.
Mr.. j.. E. Dorroh of Battery F came
upl Thursday morning to spend a day or
two with home-folks. He received a
telegram the same afternoon calling
him hack Immediately. This means ev.
that his company will be moved
from Jackson TO some other encamp-
ment, either to Alexandria or Admission
There he's been some sickness among
the troops for several weeks, a number
benz IN the hospital suffering fir, IN
measles and mamp7, and there are sew.
ardl cases Of pneumonia. We have not
heard that any Noxubee troops are III.
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