Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-01-04
Personal and Local Items

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Mrs. Herbert Dorroh and son are
visiting relatives in Meridian.
Mrs. C. D. Featherstor and son are
visiting relatives in Moss Point.
Miss Danelle Yates returned We'd
nesday to her school in Stanton, Va.
Mrs. r. f V. Yates visited her
daughter, Mrs. Hervey Field at Calyx
this week.
Mrs. Vivian Jackson and children
spent several days recently with rela
tives in Caledonia.
Mrs. Ed Allen and her mother, Mrs.
S. E. Williams spent Friday with
friends in Brooksville.
Mrs. T. w. Crigler and Mrs. E.
Wherry visited RELATIVES in Crawford
several days this week.
Miss D. D. Jordan left Monday for
Meridian, where she will be a student
at the Meridian College.
Prof. T. F. Jackson, of the South
Mississippi Normal College, spent sew
eral days with relatives here the past
week.
Mrs. j. W. Holt left Wednesday for
Charlottesville, Va. where she will
spend the winter with her daughter,
Mrs. Elliott.
Prof. Thomas Hubbard, who is teach
ing in the Agricultural High School at
Kossuth, Miss, was at home for a few
days recently.
Tom White Crigler, Jr., left today
for Poughkeepsie, n. Y, where he will
be 3 studens in the we'll known business
college in that city.
Sergeants Porter Swami and Spiva
Douglass, of Camp Beauregard, are
among the few chosen for the officers
training camp, opening in February.
FINS Carleton, Jr., went to Meridian
Sunday afternoon and was operated on
Monday at DR.. Turner's hospital for ap-
pendicitis. His condition since is re-
ported as favorable.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. H. Hill, of Dancy,
left last week for Memphis. where they
will be for a few days with Mr.. j. L.
Hughes and family. Mr.. Hill will
probably farm next year in the delta.
Mr.. John Thomas, living one mile
east of Macon, had the misfortune one
day last week to have his hand badly
mashed in a large gasoline engine. One
finger was broken and it was otherwise
bruised.
Miss Irene Hubbard, Home Econom-
les Agent for Pontotoc county, was at
home several days last week. Before
going to Pontotoc she had an offer to
fiji the same position in Norfolk, Va,
but preferred to stay in her native
state. ,-
Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Scott and daugh-
ter, Sara Alice, of West Point, and Mrs.
H, D. Watson and children, of Strong,
spent Christmas week with Mr.. and
Mrs. K. C. Smith. Messrs. Asa and
Henry Watson arrived in time for the
Christmas tree, and also had two days
OF tine hunting.
Mr.. Charles Clay, of Demopolis,
spent several days recently with friends
and relatives in Macon. His children
were much disappointed in not being
able to spend a part of their Christmas
eolidays with their grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. Cole, but were kept away by
the epidemic here of measles and whoop-
ing cough.
DR.. L. w. Crigler, of New York City,
has been visiting his old home in Oktib-
beha county. There was a family re-
union one day this week at the home of
Mr.. I. W. Crigler in Macon, when he
had as guests his brothers, Walter,
Lewis and s. d, and his sister, Mrs. X.
l. Carpenter, who was accompanied by
Mr.. Carpenter.
Mrs. David Buck is again a resident
of Macon. She arrived here last Fri
day from Tucson. Arizona, where she
has been living with her son, Joseph,
for a number of years, ano is occupying
her residence in the north part of town,
that she moved from when she left Ma
o more than Is years ago.. Mr.. Jo.
seph Buck, who was in the Wells Fargo
express office in Tucson, is now in train
ing at some army camp.
Two soldiers from Camp Shelby were
arrested in ~Brooksville Thursday night
and were brought to Macon by Sheriff
Mcclure. The boys names were Pleas
ant and Beard and they were from
Madisonville and Hopkinsville, Ky.
The officers at Camp Shelby were mott
fled, and they wired back that while
the boys would not be charged with de-
s%ertion, to hold them and a guard
would be sent for them. The boys said
they had no intention of deserving, but
that they got on a spree Christmas