Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-16
Personal and Local items

Master Emmett Roy Dent is visiting
relatives In Memphis.
Miss Mary Evelyn Cavett Is the guest
Of her aunt, Ms. Deupree.
Mrs. C. D. F~eatherston and son are
visiting relatives on the coast.
Miss Alice Bush is in New Orleans at
tending a Red Cross meeting.
Miss Frances Dent. who has been Wis
iting her sister in Brooksville.
Mrs. Vera Simmons Of Enondale. Miss.
is a new salesday with Klaus & Co.
Miss Elizabeth Bass is visiting her
brother. Mr.. Joe Bass in Lamar. Miss.
Mrs. Walter Conner and daughter
Catharine are visiting relatives in Mo-
Mrs, Murray Dantzler from Mont
gomery is visiting her brother, Sheriff
Mcclure.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allie Swami have gone
to Camp Pike to visit their son Lieut..
Porter Swami.
Marshal Joe Maury and family have
been enjoying On outing on Hashuqua
creek this week.
Miss Eppie Cunningham and Miss
Lillian Mullins spent the weekend with
Mrs. E. E. Dantzler.
Mrs. V. Morgan Morris and little
daughter of Montgomery, Ala, are Wis
iting Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Sargent.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. R. Baker and. son
John Randolph from Tupelo. are visit
ing friends and relatives in Macon.
Mrs. Howard Scales and children are
the guests of Mrs. Llewelyn Oliver.
Maj. Scales is now enrote to France.
Mr.. julius L, Klaus and Mrs. Ro-
berta Skinner haue been in Chicago
this week selecting a fall and winter
stock for Klaus & Co.
MIR. and Mrs, Ben Coleman of Kiser,
Ark; are visiting relatives in the
county. Mr.. Coleman says they have
splendid crops in this section.
Mr., F. B. Collier of Clanton, Ala,
Ala, was in town on business this week.
While a resident of Macon several
years ago MIR. Collier was in the law Of
flee of Mr.. Geo. Richardson,
Mrs. Annette Smyth Tyndall left
Thursday for Virginia to visit friends
and to meet Mrs. Matt e Cavett Thomp-
son in Washington, where they will 60
to Old Point Comfort to enjoy a mnch
needed vacation.
The ball game yesterday between
Brooksville and Macon resulted in a
score of IA to II in favor of the latter.
Brooksville in the past has hadthe rep
u~tation Of having a better team than
Macon, but the latter has pra cticed
considerably this summer.
Almost unprecedented hot weather has
prevailed for the past ten days. Three
days last week the governments Their
mometer registered over 100. the high
est Saturday, 1903. It was 101 yester-
day and feels today al If it was los.
The heat and the drouth has caused
great damage to crops.
Mrs. A. D. Binion and daughter, Miss
Ethel, are expected home Saturday
from Memphis, where the former has
been a patient in an infirmary for tho
, past month. Her friends in the county
will be glad to learn that she is very
much improved.
/. Many of the boys who we're drafted
this summer are on their way to France
along with some of the boys who have
been in camp two years. A letter was
received this week from Edward Gran.
ford, who has been with the Beacon fol
the past two years, until he was drafted
the latter part of May. The letter was
mailed from a camp on the Atlantic
coast and he stated that he expected te
be on his way across the briny deep ir
the next few days. and expressed the
hope that the scrap would not be ovel
before they got there. They have beer
put through two months of very strenu
GUS training and feel fully fit to tackle
the Hun. 1t is to sincerely hoped, wher
these boys come home, they will be abls
to tell of the sights they saw when they
marched through Berlin. There are
many who wish they will be able to tel
of the ruins they viewed as they march
ed into the city.