Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-23


Mr.. Shearer Tyson of Atlanta, Ga,
is visiting relatives in Macon.
Mr., and Mrs. ". C. McCullar are
visiting relatives near Bonneville.
Mr.. Dan Hill, Sr., of Memphis is in
Mocon attending court as a witness.
Mr. Emmett Dent from the Battleship
Rhode Island, is at home on a furlough.
Mrs. Wyatt Jones, Sr., is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Clark in Ashville, NC.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Williams from
Ittabena, Miss, are visiting Mrs, Allie
Swami.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Parker from
Carrollton, Ala. are visiting their sis
ter, Miss Parker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brady of Birmingham
are the guests of Rev. and Mrs. P. G..
Barley.
Miss Lucille and Eppie Cunningham
have been the guest this week of Mrs.
Emmett Dantzler
Miss Mary Dent left today for Bar
low, in Copjah county. where she is
principal of a consolidated school,
Mrs. John Harper and little daughter
Pearl are visiting MIR. and Mrs. Hun
gerford at Inverness, in the delta.
Miss Nancy Patty returned the latter
part of last week from a visit of several
weeks to Mrs. M. H, Welch at Eagle
Pass, Texas.
Miss Annie Scott left last week for
Washington to accept a government
position, Her home address there is
200 A. street. s. E.
Mrs. Fannie Jarnagin Brown will
leave today for Chicago, where she will
resume her duties as teacher in a high
school in that city.
Mr.. and Mrs, j. P, Swami and daugh-
tiers came to Noxubee from Clarksdale
in their car. They are with Mrs. j. b
Elkin and other relatives.
Messrs. d. D., j. w. and w. B, Pat
ty, and w. M. Lamberson have been in
st. Louis this week buying their fall
and winter stocks of goods.
Mr., and Mrs. A. Il. Maclean and
daughter Helen of Gotha, Fla, and
Miss Liley Field of Mobile, are the
guests in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. G.
5. Field, Calyx.
Hon. Harden Brooks is attending
court. He has been in the mountains
of North Carolina all summer and re-
turned home only short time ago. He
feels much better but his appearance
indicates he has been a real sick man.
Mr.. W. F. Patty, accompanied by his
daughter, MISS Lizzie Patty, left today
for Greenwood. where they will make
their future home, Miss Patty goes to
accept a position with the Overland Mo-
tor Car company Of that city.-Colum-
bus Dispatch, !
Miss Galloway Kirby spent several
days this week with Miss Etteldra SPECS
sard in Meridian. They both returned
to Macon Tuesday in time for the mas
bue dance at the German clubs pavil-
ion, which was the most enjoyable af-
fair of the kind that had taken place in
Macon in many a day.
Mr.. Thos. Rosser from the cruiser
Nashville, is a home on a vacation. The
year he has spent in the navyIhas given
him a fine idea it is to be an American
citizen and he expressed himself in no
uncertain terms of the voters at his
home box, Gholson, casting their bal
lots for a pro-German instead of u pro.
American. And he didn't tell it behind
their backs,
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Douglas and chill
dren of VauDorn, Ala, are visiting rel
atives in the county. Mr.. Douglas says
they have fine crops in his section,
They came over in a car and found mag
%nificent crops of corn and cotton all the
way until they reached Gainesville. and
from there to Cochran, the drouth had
caused great damage, GIN this SIDE of
the river condition were much better,
Mr.. Paul Augustus spent several days
recently in the delta. He found the
crops as a general thing, very poor, due
to the drouth One of the places he
visited, that Of Mr.. NJ, H. Davis at Gar
cha, Issaquena county, he found a mag
%nificent crop of cotton, with a promise
of from three-quarters to a bale an
acre on 500 acres. Mr.. Davis lived on
the Keyes place for several years.
Mrs. Curtis Herbert and little daugh-
ter Katharine Roberta are spending a
few days with friend in Macon. The
loss of Mr., and Mrs. Herbert as citi-
zens of Macon is very much regretted.
Mr.. Herbert is now prescription clerk
with Harrington & Waiver, Columbus,
and thsy are domiciled at 7l3 Main
utraaS in ibat oitu Thipkipo that he