Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-03-22
PERSONAL and Local Items

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trip to Memphis this week.
Attorney Win E. Ward of Starkvil
was IN Macon on business yesterday.
Mrs. w. W. and Mrs. Loyle Shame
VISITED relatives in Memphis this week
Mrs. W. o. Barnes Jr., is spendin
several days in Hattiesburg this week
Mrs. F. E. Carleton went to Birming
ham this week to visit relatives and I
90 some spring shopping.
Mrs. W. H. Smith. of the A. & NJ
College, is visiting her daughter. Mrs
Curtis Herbert.
Mrs. Emmett Dantzler and Mrs. Bet
Tie Lee are visiting Mrs. VIII Cheathan
at Prairie Point.
Miss Georgia Lucas of Memphis wa:
here Wednesday to see her brother
Capt. Vim. Lucas.
Misses Alice Bush and Fannie Ma,
are in New Orleans inspecting the Rec
Cross rooms and work.
Mr.. Will Allen went to Winshester.
Ala, this week to attend the funeral OF
MS brother, Major Ben j. Allen.
Mayor and Mrs. j.. G. Horton left
yesterday for a few days stay in Men,
phis.
Mrs. j. I. Sargent has been i'll several
days this week, but is some better at
this writing,
Mrs. George Hairston and Misses Net
tie and Laura Mae Hairston of Craw-
ford have been visitors in towr this
week.
Mr.. Thos. ]. Evans, who has been in
uncle Sans employee as a civil engi-
neer for the past month or two has been
in Macon this week.
Mrs. j. M. Couric and little daughter.
charlotte, of Brunswick, Ga, were
called here last week by the illness of
the formers father, Col. Ed. Hibbler.
Capt. William Lucas spent a day in
Macon this week, enroute to Camp
B~eauregard from Aurora, ILL.,, where
he has been for the past two months.
Mr.. John W. Patty went to Meridian
yesterday and will return TODAY with
his sister, Miss Marian Patty, who has
been a patient in DR.. Turner's hospital
for ten days.
Mrs: W. W. and Mrs W. L. Shannon
and Misses Eleanor Shannon and Miss
Lallle Dorroh left Wednesday for New
Orleans, where they will be for several
days.
Mrs. G. s. Glover and Miss Mavdell
Williams, who have been the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Williams for the
past two weeks, returned to their
homes in Georgia today.
Mr.. end Mrs. X. C. Smith of Prairie
Point were in town yesterday. Mr..
Smith says he has in all his corn, which
Will be more than last years acreage,
ana most of his cotton, some of the low
la IDS being too wet to plant early.
William Earl and Willis Ward Dent,
sons OF Mr.. Dayton Dent, have been at
nome this week on a ten days Through.
they, were with the troops on the Mex
lcan border last summer, and have been
at camp ~Beauregard all winter. They
nave both been in splendid health and
nave not been sick a single day. :
Mr.. Edmund L. Patty of Dancy was ,
IN town Thursday. He says they had a
me shower in his n%eighborhood Tues
lay. and cotton and corn are both COM t
.ng up, and the country is beginning to {
out on a real spring-time appearance. q
ne expects to have a good cutting of d
IN a week or ten days. d
Col. Ed. Hibbler, who was considered '
usly i'll last week with pneu- e
mona, IS much improved and is now n
considered out of danger. His daugh- u
Mrs. Jack Griffin, of New Augusta, =
nd Mrs. Clarke, of Ashyille, N. c.. y
re still with him, Mr.. Jim Hlbbler re- y
urned to Chattanooga yesterday. p
Mr.. J. C. Creole, at an expense of b
everal hundred dollars, has added a e
tltchlng machine to his shop, and an Il
xpert workman from the factory was
ere this week to install it. Mr.. Gre Il
les shop is HOW fitted with all the Il
iodern improvements and he is row in fC
position TO turn out more and as good tC
'ork as can be done in any city. W
The friends in Macon of Mr.. and Mrs. II
rnest Noffsinger will be glad to know Z.
the formers promotion. He is now d,
rst assistant to the first vice preside Mt a. a.
the Southern Pacific Railroad. and VI VI
IS moved from Stockton to San Fran ~
SEQ. Mr.. Noffsinger has gained some y ",
'omotlon very year or two since he ~, =
ent to California, and it is hoped that u'
5 progress will continue. VI
DR.. R: A. Haggard, formerly of Ma re
ulaville and S%huqualak, but now of co
erlgold, in the delta, was in town this ca
eek. to put an end, if possible. to his Sc
reatened military career. before it mi
gins. The doctor is thirty-four years alb
age, and therefore not sub iect to an
art, but in some way he was regis do.
and he had to make two trims to {
'Xubee to straighten it out. US
Mr. Dewitt has been appointed fore mc
IN of the sheet metal work on the ioi
latlon buildings now being erected in NV
Point, and will leave Macon next W
ek and will be gone probably two GA
'nths. Mr. Dewitt is not only an ex- All "
It worker in tin, but has had a y num- an
OF years experience in vulcanizing. Iat
l Tor several months has been doing an
work in his shop in Macon. When er
returns he expects to add more ma
merry and be able to turn out much ypoII
work than formerly. Che