Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-02
Personal and Local Items

Mrs. Matte Cunningham is visiting
relatives in Cliftonville.
Mrs. Tam and baby left this week for
Indiana to visit their former home.
Miss Daisy Swami Of Clarksdale is
visiting relatives in town and county.
Mrs. Ed Allen and son of Shreves-
port are visiting Mrs. S. E. Williams.
Mrs. Ernest Wherry is visiting her
aunt, Mrs, Walter Crigler in Crawford
Mrs. James Beard left this week for
Memphis to visit Mr.. Boards mother.
Miss Beth Boggess is visiting her
aunt. Mrs. Vadah Cochran, of Holly
Springs.
Mrs. Robert Etchson of Shreveport
is the guest of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. F. Allen.
Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Richmond left
this week for their old home in Elburn,
ILL.,, to visit relatives and frieuds.
DR.. and Mrs. G. B. Clement will ar
rive Sunday and will be the guests OF
their daughter, Mrs. Herbert Dorroh.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Tucker will leave
in their car Monday for Tupelo, where
they will visit relatives for several days.
Missile Borgess., who has been teach
ing in the summer school at Raleigh, N.
c., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Ed. Muir
phey.
DR.. JIG. FAINT of the State University
and MI. A. E. FAINT of Gulfport, spent
the first of the week looking after their
farming interest.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. S. McHenry and fam
lily accompanied by Mr.. Wade's family
of Drew, Miss, motored to Biloxi, to
spend several weeks.
DR.. Jas. Eckford and Mr.. J. d. NAL
lory of Starkville were in town Monday.
They were accompanied home by Misses
Fannie Dele and Mary Eckford and
Mesoames F. J. Brown and EdB. Owens
Miss Annie May Martin, who has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. Douglas
Reeves at Somerville, Tenn, for the
past two weeks, with the auto party of
relatives who came from Somerville to
visit Mr.. and Mrs. Martin.
Mr.. Ed. Maury returned this week
from Schlater, where he has been since
the first Of the year. He is a Varda-
man mar no more jam the Beacon will
pub ish a card from him next week
give his reasons for not supporting him.
Mr.. Sam Cockrell went to Indiana
last week and bought direct from the
farmers as fine a lot of mares as was
ever brought to the county. He ex-
tended his trip to Washington and spent
a couple of days with his son, Sam
FAINT, who has been living in the Capt.
toll City 8 nee March of last year.
Hon. w. D. Windham of Pickens was
in town the early part of the week. He
has been a subscriber to the BEACON
for more than half a century, and his
mother, who is now near the century
mark in age, has been a reader of the
paper since it was established in the
late 40's.
Mr.. w. R. Rainey returned home
from Camp Beauregard Tuesday and is
is with her parents, DR., and Mrs. Muir
phey. Lieut.. Rainey was at home,on a
furgough and was called back by wire
Wednesday of last week. A number
from this county, who have been at
Camp Beauregard for more than a year
are probably on their way to France.
Prof. W.. B. Jones returned Wednes-
day afternoon from Camp Mcclellan,
near Admission, Ala, where he has been
for the past two months. and it will be
good news to his many friends here to
know that he will again teach the Sa-
lem school. He was accompanied to
Macon by MIR. P. d, Ferris, who has
been employed id Admission for several
months, They found the roads between
Birmingham and Tuscaloosa very bad,
due to having been recently worked and
also to the rains that have fallen lately.
They report the crops through Alabama
very fne-better than on this side of
the river.