Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1920-10-01
Personal and Local Items

/ Mr.. JET Hale of Dallas Texas is
visiting his father.
Miss Bessie Boggess is visiting
friends in Shreveport,
Mrs. ]. n, Williams is a visitor at
the Memphis fair this week.
Mis- Herberta Moore, who has been
on the sick list is much improved.
Mrs. Minor Dent is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Nelson in Leland, Miss
/ Messrs. Ed Windham and Gardener
Lee of Dancy were in town Wednes-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L, Sherrud are
spending few days in Memphis this
week
! Mrs. 7. w and Mrs, Billie Tate of
Brooksville Were shoppers in Macon
Thursday.
Mr.. ard Mrs. ]. NJ. Gaines OF
Brooksville were Macon visitors on
Tuesday.
Mrs. W. L. Little and Mrs. Ernest
Hunter were visitors in Broiksville
Wednesday.
Mrs. S. w. Harkins and Mrs. Whit
man Davis were shoppers in Columr
bus yesterday
Mrs. Olir Ray is entertaining the
Wesley Cleaner Sunday School Class
this afternoon.
Mrs. Fannie Patty, Mrs Glenn and
Miss Estelle Patty were among the
shoppers in town Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Prim left this week
for Birmingham. Their home will be
occupied by Mr.. Shepherd and family
Mr.. Tom White Criger, Jr.Awill
| leave on the first for visit to Mem-
| phis, jackson and Chattanooga, Tenn
Miss Mary Hill, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. l.. Hill went to Meridian
! today to enter training school a
Turner's Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Lambersor Mrs. WyaI
Jones and Miss Annie McCaskill at
: tended the funeral Of Mr. Aust il
;, .iinnsville Wednesday
Those who attended the Memphis
; fair this week are Mr., and Mrs. josh
! Cavett ard daughter; Messrs. Nelson
S Stevens and Allie Swami
Mrs. Bette Lee returned las
: Saturday from Joplin Mo. Mr.. anc
, Mrs. Pennington Of that city are the
parents of another daughter
Mrs. Ernest Wherry and daughter
y will leave Sunday for visit to Mrs
W.. R, Rainey in West Point and t.
MES. CASTOR Guess in Durart
Mrs. Thos. Mehahry entertairs<
! this evening at six o'clock dinner an,
s. picture party in horror of her daugh
ter; Miss Martha Linda's 10th birth
day.
Mrs. Gal Owens and Miss Alic,
Bush returned this week from visi
a of several weeks to Mrs. H. b. RigE
k the formers sister in North Yakims
d Washington.
4 Mr.. T. S. Boggess returned THU
week from trip to Nofthera Arkaa
3 sas and the Mississippi delta and alsr
Spreading day or so at the Memphi!
fair. Tht beef cattle ard hog exhibits
! were fine he says; but the Jerseys
\ in which he was more Interested; wa
: very poor; there being nai six cows
en- exhibit. The cotton .croIs in Ark
arsas he found very good; but tbs
) pllee Of long stapl- had gone below SO
hen they TAD been offered so cent.
for their crop.
\ Messrs. Boo Long and J G.. Wilker
= sor Of Dancy wsre ia Town Wednes
. day. Mr.. Long is Just back from {
n trip through the deha and he say
that short crops and low prices hav,
5 knocked the bottom clean Out Of tina
: section, They have made money
a hard over fist for the past serera
|, years and without saving a cent fol
/ an OFT year OF rainy day, they spfn
{ all they made and mortgSged the mex
years crop, which they failed to make
: The delta conditions are only an eXag.
. Grafton of what Exists here as ever,
thinking man knows. Mr.. Lang bs'
small farm, about 1850 acres, il
/. Lefiore. county and he is very anxious
to sell it. One Of the prospective
buyers is the negro who has rented it
When asked If the tenuant did not
/, have AIRY money Mr.. Long said, "No
but he has three big automobiles, cost
ing from $1,000 TO $4,000 and arr
are standing out in the weather" He
said he asked the negro why he bought
, them and he replied well, l had the
money ard jest had to spend it for
something