Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-03-08
Personal and Local Items

Deen very Ill lhls week win DEohChIIIS'
Miss Jeanne Boyle. of Meridian. is
visiting friends in Macon for q few
days.
Mrs. Futroye, of ShuQualak, was
among the out-of-town visitors on
Tuesday.
Miss Maydell Williams, of Washing
ton. Ca, is the guest of Mrs. j.. H.
Williams.
Mrs. Julian Holt and Miss Mary Clyde
Holt spent the last week end with Mrs.
Deupree Patty.
Mrs. Leo Cole has returned home
from a visit to her daughters in Sham
non and Okolona.
Miss Etheldra Spessard attended the
annual George Rife dance at the A. &
M. College on Friday evening.
Mrs. Lucian Minor and children, of
Brooksville, are the guests of Mrs. w.
P. Minor and Mrs. j. F. Ames.
Mesdames ]. L. Klaus, W. B, Patty,
Curtis Herbert and J. j. Scott were
visitors to Columbus Thursday.
Mesdames Patterson and Jacoway and
and Miss Mary Jacoway, of B~rooksville,
were shopping in the city Thursday.
Mrs. Hervey Field: of Calyx, spent
Wednesday with her parents, and was
accompanied home by her mother, Mrs.
R. E. V. Yater.
Nh. Thos. McHenry left today for
Hot Springs, Ark, for a stay Of two
weeks or more. Mrs. McHenry will
accompany him as far as Memphis,
Tenn, where she will visit friends.
Mrs. Harden Brooks returned to Me-
ridian Monday, Her friends are glad
to know she has recovered from a Sc
we're attack of pneumonia, contracted
while visiting Mrs. D. M. Lutz in De-
cember.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Helm arrived in
Macon last Sunday from Little Rock,
Ark, where the former is agent for an
implement company. They returned
after spending a few days with Mr.. W.
u IIolco anl fono;l,,
Mrs. Jas. G. Chandler returned Tues
day night from C~hickasha. Ok, wqere
she has been for the past month or a
visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. nm.
Roges. Her friends will be glad toknow
that her health has much improved.
Robert Weyburn returned the frst.of
the week from Chicago, where he went
to enlist in the army. He failed o pass
the physical examination and returned
to Macon to take his chances with the
draft. He is present at Horizons
garage.
Mr.. E. E. Hammond, who was in the
drug business in Macon for several
years, has been here seAeral days this
week as agent for the Edison Talking
Machine Co. He has demonstrated his
mtchine to interested audiences at Mr..
Horizons garage.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Bush left the early
part of the week for Roche; ter, Mimi,
where Mr.. Bush will be treated by the
famous Mayo Bros. He ha, been suf-
fering from a stomach trouble for the
past year, and for that reason was
forced to give up his position as book
keeper at the Bank of Macon.
Mrs. Jim Guy returned this week
from Freeport, Texas, where she has
been on a visit to relatives. She had
the pleasure, while in Texas, of seeing
an walton camp. and many ~aeroplanes
in the air, and many big ships loading
sulphur for the munition plants from an
harbor heal the sulphur mines.
Mr.. William Dale Bell, who was
among the four white men who left
with the second draft last Tuesday, had
been teaching in one of the prominent
schools in Tennessee, and had made an
effort to get into an officers training
camp but was rejected or account of a
defect in his hearing. Like the mani he
Is though. he is just as pleased to serve
his country as a private as he would be
as an officer.
Prof. F. J. Hubbard, supervisor of
vocational training in the state under
the Smith Hughes law, was in the
county this week and spent Wednesday
at the Salem school locking over their
equipment. which he pronounced good,
and says it is one of sixteen schools of
this class in the state which is qualify
ing under the law for federal aid.
Mr.. D. F. Allgood received telegram
last Friday announcing the critical ill
ness of his brother, Mr.. jeff Allgood,
at his home in Timpson, Texas. Mr..
Allgood left Macon more thoD 40 years
aga, and has since lived in Texas. He
has a wife and two married daughters.