Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-21
Personal and Local items

Mr.. Thos. McHenry is on a big
game hant with friends in Colorado.
Mrs J. A Hooks ard children of
Clarksdaie, 7 the guests Of Mrs,
mos. MeHenry.
Miss Viys Harrison returned today
from st. Louis, where she has been
studying music since last fall.
Do not fail to attend the baseball
game in Macon on the 2Sth inst at
four O'Clock. The agility of some Of
the players will be surprising to their
wives.
Mr.. and Mrs. J.. Fl. Williams re-
turned Monday from Dallas. Texas,
where they have been on a visit to
relatives. Mr.. Williams did not learn
of the death Of his brother Hampton,
and il was then too late to attend the
funeral.
There will be iodine, ant;septic. tur.
pentine and all kinds Of medicine on
the grounds when this great game is
play ed for the purpose of alternating
any stiff joints or wounds that the
players may suffer.
Mr.. VIM. Parks was in town Tues
day. He has fully recovered his
health, which was bad for sevsral
months last summer and fall, and now
feels fully equal TO the task of making
the race for sheriff again next sum
mer.
The friends of Mr.. Dayton Dent will
regret to learn of his critical illness.
His bro;eer, Mr.. w. E, Dent of New
York. has been at his bedside for the
past two weeks and his sister, Mrs.
John r. Dinsmoge from Columbus, was
with him this week.
Mr.. Vester Mullins was in town
Thursday and sold to Klaus & Co,
about 100 bales of cotton for some
thing over 81 cents. This was several
cents below the highest market price
paid by this firm for cotton less than
sixty days ago. For one who is cut
ting his third crop or alfalfa this season
from 300 or more acres the loss of a
few thousand doesn't bother him a
great deal.
The biggest baseball game that has
been pulled off in years will be played
by gentlemen over the draft age on
the 28th inst. The game will be
played on the school grounds and will
begin promptly at four o'clock.
would suggest that every married lady
be on hand so she may be able to as
certain whether her husband is decrepit
or a good runner.
Mr.. Mevin Taylor brought in several
apples last week from trees that he set
out as sprouts fifteen years ago. He
dug up the sprouts fronean apple tree
that his uncle, the late Nick Cotton,
set out in 1848, the year the Beacon
was established. They have not borne
for three or four years but this spring
the boys of the Salem school, under
Prof. Jones, sprayed nearly all the
orchards in his neighborho0d. and he
sprayed his trees, with the result that
ne has a fine crop of all kinds Of fruit.
There is more and better fruit in the
county this year than ever before in its
history.
The idea that the extreme cold
weather tile past winter had killed the
boil weevii has been knocked into q
cooked hat. EN- Cavett says he found
a grown weeyil in his cotton a month
ago, and though they have not been re-
ported in any large numbers, so far,
a wet or dry July will mean a gain or
loss of considerable more than a mil
hon dollars to the farmers of this
county. It's a gamble Of the most
hazardous kind Our farmers, fortu-
nately, recognized this fact some years
ago and it is Astonishing how many
other ways of making a living. even if
they don't make money, than there
was ten years ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. S. Field from Calyx
were in town Wednesday to attend the
W. s. S. committee meeting. Mr..
Field says weather conditions in his
part of the county has been so near
perfect he is afraid something is sure
to happen later. They have not had
the washing rains and hall that has af-
the prairie section of the county
and barring the late frost in April the
weather has been simply ideal. The
boil weavil, he says, has not made its
appearance except on the river and
creek bottom lands, and though it
be counting the chickens before
are Matched, he has bought bag.
ging and ties for 500 bales of cotton.