Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-06-14
Personal and Local Items

Laurel, are with Nj. and mrs. ]. F
Jones.
Mr.. ]. Fl. Williams Is spending hi
vacation with relatives in Houston
Texas.
Mrs. Howard Scales and sons O
Alexandria. La, r visiting RELATIVES
in Macon.
Mr.. and mrs. Jas G. Horton spen
several days this and last week in New
Orleans.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Murphey O
Greenwood, are the guests of DR.. anC
Mrs. E. M. Murphey.
Mrs. Abe Douglass returned Tuesday
from a visit to her daughter, Mrs, Mil
Ter Allen of Memphis.
Mr.. Warren Jackson of Camp Beau
regard. is visiting his parents. Mr.. anc
Mrs. 7. w. Jackson at Prairie Point.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Richardson anC
son of Louisville. spent several days
this week with Mrs. Emma Richardson.
Mr.. Henry A. Minor. who has beer
visiting his sister, Mrs. A. T. Dent
and family, returns today to Washing
ton.
Mrs. DR.. Campbell and little step.
daughter of Shannon, have been the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Cole this
week.
Miss Annie Ella Ames, a student ir
the lnfrmary in Columbus, Ohio, is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
F. Ames.
Mrs. Steve Maxwell of Clarksdale
and Mrs. Davis and daughter of Mem
phis are visiting their father, Mr.. D.
C. Jordan.
Mrs. Walter Price, after stopping a
day or two with friends in Macon, left
last Thursday for New Orleans, to be
with her niece, Mrs. J. S. Conner.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Goussett and a
part of their family. will leave tomor-
row in their Ford car, for Natchez,
where they will visit with relatives
and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Henderson
motored to W4nona Sunday to spend
the week and were accompanied home
Friday by Mrs. Morris Burroughs and
Dorothy Witty.
Val Yates and Tom Tyson will leave
tonight for Newport, R. l., to enter a
naval training school. Eugene Muir
phey and Tom S%tennis, probably others
from the county are already there.
Mr.. Curtis Herbert has been in
Starkville several days this week. Mr.
Herbert is closing out his drug bust
ness in Macon and sold his soda foun-
tain to a drug firm in Starkville.
Henry Eugene Martin, son of Mr..
and Mrs. H. F. Martin, after five at
tempts to enlist. succeeded at last and
left last Monday night for Norfolk,
Va, to go into training for the navy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Josh Cavett went to
New Orleans the early part of last
week. Mr.. Cavett returned home
Tuesday of this week and Mrs. Cavett
remained and will be a patient in the
Tuoro infirmary for a week or more.
Mrs. Edgar Brown and Mrs. Marvin
Lathram spent several days in Macon
this week with relatives and friends.
They returned to Mayhem Thursday
where Mrs. Brown and children will be
for several weeks before returning tc
their home in Clint, Texas.
Mrs. Lottie Yates left last week for
Hattiesburg to be with her daughter,
Mrs. Frank Foote. who will leave in a
few days for Denver, Col. Mrs. Yates
will also go to Denver in a short time
and will be accompanied by Mrs.
Foote'S children and also her grand
daughter little Miss Maude Yates.
Miss Cora Sessions returned home
last week from Colorado, where she
has been teaching the past semester.
Mrs. Sessions had the pleasure of hay
ing all her daughters home with the
exception of Mrs. Britt, for the first
time in several years. Those being
here were Miss Cora. Mrs. Dora South
all, Mrs. PEBBLES of Philadelphia, Miss
Mabel Sessions and Mrs. A. C. FAINT.
Aeroplanes from Payne field, West
Point, are daily, almost hourly visitors
to Macon now and on Thursday after
noon four were in sight at one time,
flying at a low altitude. the numbers
on the machines being easily read. One
of them broke up a base ball practice
game east of the school building. The
aviator dipped suddenly and the boys.
thinking he would light, scattered like
a covey of patridges with a hawk after
them. Julius Klaus, manager of the
team, fell in a six-foot ditch in his eff
forts to get away.
The friends of Mr.. EN- Cavett will be
glad to know that he is recovering from
an operation for appendicitis. which he
underwent at DR.. Rush's infirmary in
Meridian last week. When he was
taken i'll last Thursday night he was
alone in the house, his brother and
family being IN New Orleans and he
suffered considerably before DR.. Bush
could be summoned Friday morning.
DR.. Bush accompanied him to Meridian
and he was operated on at once. His
condition was found to be very serious.
and a delay of a few hours would have
endangered his life.