Macon beacon., 1918-11-01
and Local items

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several days this week.
Miss D. D. Jordan of KOsciusko,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Beard.
Mrs, J. E. BOggess and son are
visiting relatives in Holly Springs.
The family of Mr.. Jas. Chappell
have been very i'll this week with
the flu.
Mr.. C. A. Hughes is in st. Louis
looking after the selling of car
load of cattle.
Mrs. W. w. Shannon returned Fri
day after a several weeks visit to
relatives in Lebanon, Tenn.
Lieut.. and Mrs. ]. E. Dorroh left
Monday for Charlotte, N. C. where
Lieut.. Dorroh is now stationed.
Mrs. Jno. A. Moore and children re-
turned this week from visit to Mrs.
Moore's brother in Washington City.
Mrs. Chas. Hardin returned home
last week after a visit to her daugh-
ter, Mrs. S. P. Walker at Pascagoula.
DR.. ]. C. FAINT of the University
of Mississippi spent several days
this week looking after his farming
interests.
Rev. and Mrs. DeYampert Brame
were called home Tuesday form Fort
Worth on account of illness in Mrs.
Brame's home.
Sallie Bishop, who for more than
three years has been the faithful and
efficient cook for Mrs. Vivian Jack
son, died October 28th in hospital
in Meridian.
There has been steady decline in
the cotton market all week, due, it is
said, to the prospects for peace. Cot
tonton is now selling from rs to 27
cents pound.
The rainfall last Monday amounted
to $50 inches. On the same day
more than inches was registered
at Columbus, and more than 6 at
Waynesboro.
Mr.. Tom White Crigler is at home
from the naval station at New Or
leans on a thirty days furlough to
recuperate from an attack of grippe.
He is in the radio service and is so
well pleased he intended remain af-
ter peace has been declared.
Mrs. Wells who has filled the ex-
acting position of chief operator at
the local telephone exchange for the
past year most efficiently and agree
ably to the patrons of the Office has
resigned and will join Mr.. Wells at
a cantonment in Ohio.
Masters Leonard and Owen Barnes,
who have employed inMacon for the
past month, will leave tomorrow for
Memphis to join their mother. The
former has been with Murphey's
Drug Store and the latter with the
Book Store.
Mr.. Albert Prim, who went to Mo-
bile several months ago to engage in
essential war work" is again in Ma
con with Klaus & Co. He says his
present position is more to his liking
and his size. His family will join
him in week or two
Mr.. Robert Holt of the Diamond
Match Co., spent the weekend with
his mother, Mrs. j. W. Holt. His
headquarters arein New Orleans, and
he says the recent epidemic caused
more CONSERVATION and demoraliza-
tion thanthe yellow fever or the
thereatened epidemic of bubonic rla-
que afew years ago.
The friends in Noxubee of Mr.. |.
B. Warren will be glad to learn that
he has received his commission as
Lieutenant at Camp Hancock, Ga.
Lient. Warren came to this county
from Kentucky several years ago and
bought a place in the Fox Trap
neighborhood. He enlisted in Capt.
Holman's company.
The teachers of the high school
will return home tomorrow if the
health authorities decide to let the
schools open. Miss Joiner has been
with her parents in Tupelo, Miss Ew-
ing with her sister in Columbus and
Misses Huddleston and Stennls at
their homes in Harpersville and De-
Kalb. The last two were victims of
the grippe during their enforced hol-
day.
Mrs. and Mrs. o. G. Hildebrant ar
rived in Noxubee yesterday from Gar
rison, Iowa. They came in their
Buick car and were on the road ele-
ven days. Bad, rainy weather had
prevailed over he entire route, and
they found that the almost unprece-
dented rainfall of Monday last had
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