Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-03-01
Personal and Local Items

in Columbus.
Mr.. Jesse Sparkman, of Cooksville,
was in town Wednesday.
Misses Marian Patty and Carrie viii
liams are spending the weekend in Me-
ridian.
Miss Mary Huddleston spent the
weekend with her father and sister in
Meridian.
Mrs. Warren Stewart and Miss Mary
Harkins are spending the weekend in
Meridian.
Mrs. James Lipscomb. of Jackson, is
visiting the home of her father, Mr.. z.
7. Dorroh.
Mrs. Wherry. of Durant. Miss, is
the guest of MIR. and Mrs. E. Wherry
this week.
Mrs. Ed. Allen and son will leave to-
morrow Saturday for Shreveport,
where they will join Mr.. Allen.
Miss Lala Lenow, of New York, is
the guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
H. j. Lenow. in the Fox Trap neigh
borhood.
Mrs. Hickman returned today from
St. Louis and has on display a sample
of as beautiful a line of hats as has
ever been seen in Macon.
Mrs. Ross Little left last Sunday
morning for Alexandria to join Mr..
Little, who IL in the medicrl depart
ment at Camp Beauregard.
Colonel and Mrs. Ed. Hibbler left
for their home at Mcleod this week.
Mrs. Hibbler has spent the winter in
Macon with her daughter. Mrs. W. M.
Jones. Sr.
DR.. j. E. Jones and Misses jeanne
Stennis, Helene Carleton and EN- Yates
went to DeKalb last week to attend a
meeting of the Sunday Schools of this
district.
Prof. Rice, Of the Cooksville- Paulette
Consolidated School, was in town Tues
day. The school will be opened Monday
for the first time in about two months,
having been closed by an epidemic of
measles and pneumonia.
Captain and Mrs. Holman arrived
home Thursday, Capt. Holman failing
to pass the final examination on account
Of an auto accident he was in neal Co.
lumbus last summer. when his leg just
above his ankle was badly cut.
Mr.. John Douglass had the misfor-
tune Wednesday to lose his smoke house
containing the meat from fourteen hogs
and a large quantity of other food stnff.
With meat and all other foodstuff as
high as it is now selling the loss is in
deed heavy.
Mr.. S. M. Irion, a former citizen of
Macon, but who has lived in Columbus
a number of years, was a visitor in
Macon Thursday. He is advertising in
this issue the residence and store prop
erty at the depot, which he will sell at
a bargain.
Mr.. Abe Douglass was called to Gulf
port yesterday by the news of the ILL
ness of his sister, Mrs. D. A. Simpson,
A telephone message from Mr.. Lee
Simpson yesterday stated that his
mother was some better but he consid-
cred her condition critical.
Mr.. ]. F. Edwards and daughter,
from west of Brooksville, were in town
yesterday. Mr.. Edwards has been i'll
with the grippe since the first of the
year, and on that account and the wet,
cold weather, he is much behind with
his farm work.
Mr.. Walter May, who spent his boy
hood and a good portion of his young
manhood days in Macon, but who has
been in the real estate business in Chi
cago for a number of years, spent sew
eral days here this week. He was on
his way back to Chicago, after a visit
to Texas, where he has farming inter
ests.
Mr.. W. I, Britton was in town We'd
nesday for the first time in nearly two
months. He and his family have beer
down with the mumps, measles and
pneumonia, an epidemic of all these dis.
eases having stricken down half the
people in his neighbornood. The fami.
ly of Mr.. Ed. Robbins is now quite i'll,
and a trained nurse, Mrs. Kinney Nc
Leod, is attending them.
Albert johnson, associated with Mr..
Jordan in a meat market, has been
very i'll this week, suffering from an af.
lection of the brain. He has been I'M
conscious a good portion of the time.
He has suffered for some time with a
diseased eye, and an army surgeon ad-
vised him several months ago to have
it taken out, warning him that it might
cause him serious trouble. His condi.
ton is considered critical.
Mr.. Pickens Norwood, one of the