Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-02-22

Ine iaCCer,
Mrs. R. C. Patty was called to Rolling
Fork the first of the week by the Sc
rious condition of her father, who suf'
fered a stroke of paralysis.
Mrs. w. o. Barnes, Jr., Mrs. f. 7.
George and children and Miss EtheI
Cavett attended the Cavett- Walden we'd
ding in Tupelo on Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. A. T. Dent received a telegram
this week announcing the safe arrival
of his son, Albert, in France. He was
the last one of his sons to enlist and the
first to get across.
Mr.. Henry Patty, who has been en-
ployed in a drug store at Belzoni for
several months past has been i'll for the
past ten days and returned home the
early part of the week.
Mrs. Kinney Mcleod returned the
early part of the week from New Or
leans, wne she went to attend her
niece, who was i'll in a hospital. Mrs.
Mcleod is now ready to attend anyone
who may need her services as profess
sional nurse.
There has been an epidemic of mea-
sles. pneumonia and %whooping cough in
the Paulette and Cooksville neighbour
hoods. Mr.. j. II. Wilder and three
children were very i'll for several weeks,
and a professional nurse attended them.
The Consolidated School has been sus-
pended for several weeks.
Mrs. R. W. Jones and little daughter,
Margaret, of Monroe, N. Y, spent sew
eral days this week with Mr.. and Mrs.
E. V. Yates. She was en- route home
from Laurel, where she had been visit
ing Mr.. Spratley Jones and family.
Mrs. Jones' mother Mrs. Jennie Hill,
of West Point, was also here.
Nh. Robert Weyburn, who has been
employed at Ferris Bookstore since his
father sold his dairy farm several
months ago, left this week for Chicago,
where he will enter a naval training
school. Robert is held in high regard
by all who know him. and it is hoped
that he will return here to make his
home when the war is over.
Mr.. w. T. Barley Coleman re-
turned yesterday from Natchez, where
he went the early part of the week to
attend, as a delegate of the Nashua
vile lodge, the regular meeting of the
Grand Lodge of MasoCs. Mr.. Coleman
is one of the oldest Masons in the
ty and has been a regular attendant of
the Grand Lodge meetings for many
years.
Mr.. S. ]. Feibelman returned from
New York the first Of the week, where
he went about the first of the month to
purchase spring and summer goods for
A. Klaus & Co. Mr.. Feibelman says
the weather when he first got to New
York, was very cold and there was
much suffering and discontinue, even
in the big business establishments, due
to lack of fuel. There is much talk of
peace and the opinion prevails generally
that the war will be over before next
fall.
State Food Administrator Harding is
furnishing a schedule of prices of food
to the larger cities of the state, a price,
list appearing almost daily in the Meri-
dian and Hattiesburg papers. So far
none have been received in Macon, but
the grocers here say that the prices
are about the same as the
schedule Of the administl ator, and
where there is a difference it is lower,
consequently we do not consider it
would be of any benefit to the buyers
Of the county to publish the administra-
prices.
There were more taxes collected dur
ing the month of January than ever be-
fore in the same length of time in the
Of the county, and speaking in
vernacular Of the the street, the
she.iff's office was some busy place.
The total collected for the month was
Sl26, 465.66. Much credit is due to
Sheriff Clark for the manner in
the work was dispatched and the
courteous manner in which every one
treated. The state auditor has ex-
'ended the time for settling with the
state thirty days, but Mr.. Clark was
'eady for his settlement as early as
my past year.
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