Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1920-09-17
Personal and Local Items

Miss Annie May Pierce will attend
school in Meridian this session
Messrs George Walker, ST.. and Wal
ter Crigler Of Crawford were Macon
visitors Wednesday.
Miss Mary Clyde Holt left last
week for Clarksdale where she Will
teach the coming session.
Miss Katharine Waller and Mrs.
George Waller Of Crawford were Ma
con visitors this week.
Mr.. Richard Dare, who has been
confined to his bed for the past ten
days is much improved, his condition
growing better since Wednesday.
Miss Theodocia Cooper, who has
been spending part of her vacation
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. H,
Cooper has returned to school in
Philadelphia.
Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Campbell ac-
'ompanied by their daughter, Miss
Mary Louise left Wednesday for Jack
son, where the latter will enter as
student in Belhaven college.
Mrs. Simmons took advantage of
the holiday at Klaus store and spent
few days with relatives in Meridian
Mrs. Vadah Cochran from Holly
Springs is visiting home folks.
Mr.. Howard Swami of the First
National Bank, Jackson, has returned
to his work after aweek's vacation,
given to him for having the neatest
set of books of any Of the bookkeepers
in the bank
MIR John Morgan deserves the prize
for raising the largest sweet potatoes,
(some say in the world One potato
weighing l01bs. The potato was
bought by Mr. King and shipped to
Tenn.
Deputy Sheriff Hunter was in Jack
son several days last week making the
final report of taxes for NoXubee
county to the States auditor. With
Sheriff Farrar he also attended Fed
eral court as witness.
Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Ferris, who have
been visiting relatives in Macon for
the past week, returned to their home
in Laurel today. Mrs. Ferris spent
several days with her sister, Mrs. Jno.
Windham in Cochran, Ala. the first of
the week.
Mrs A. D. Binion returned Friday
from two weeks visit to her daugh
ter, Mrs. S. V. Cochran of Holly
Springs, the latter returning with her
Mrs. Binion's return home was timely
and very happy to 'Mr. Deale" as he
had developed several blisters on his
hands trying to warm his supper.
Robert Weaver, employed as vul-
canizer in the Coat shop recently pur-
chased from Mr. Dewitt, had the
misfortune to fall and crush his leg on
the court house steps last Tuesday at
ternoon. 1t was a great misfortune
to him, but he suffered no pain and re
fused to call doctor, but with the as
sistance of crutch returned to the
shop. He left that night for Brm-
ingham, where for Sl25 he expects to
get new and better limb, the one he
crushed being wooden affair.
A fifteen year old son of Mr.. r, w.
Penick, living on the Eiland place
mile and a half southeast of Macon
was bitten by poisonous snake, sup
posed to be water mocassin, last
Saturday evening, and suffered IN
tense pain from it, The little fellow
was driving up the COWS from the pas
ture when the snake struck him, and
though he felt the pam at the time did
not realize until he sJt to the house
that he had been bitten by a snake.
DR. Withers was called and lanced the
swollen ankle several times and drew
out the poison.
We received from our old friend, or
rather our old time friend, T. H.
Hurst, known among his friends as
"Doty" Hurst. an editorial from Var /
daman's Weekly with the request to
publish. We are sorry, for our old
friends sake, that we will not grant
his request, but whenever Mr.. Hurst |
sees Vardaman's obituary in the paper
we wish he would call our attention to
it, as we will be glad to publish it.
Like Miles Indian-it is our opinion
the only good Vardaman is dead
one. And if Mr.. Vardaman thinks
that the Beacon is detriment and a
menace to the welfare of the state we
will allow him the same privilege of
saying with all the eloquence he is
capable of that we should be dead.
damned and delivered.
The friends in Macon OF MIR Cliff (.
Harkins of Aliceville were glad to see
him last Wednesday, as it has been
about fourteen years since they had
that pleasure. The twnty five or
more years since he "cerked" in Ma
con for Capt, Griggs has wrought
many changes, and there are few ia
miliar faces on the streets of Macon
now, Mr.. Harkins was in company
with Messrs. Chapman and Rife of
Ahcevllle, who came over to NoXubee
to buy some Jersey cattle they had
seen advertised in the Beacon.
Mr.. E. V. Yates will leave Monday
for Excelsior Springs, Mo-, where he
be one Of thousand or more agents of
the New York Life Insurance Co., to
meet in their annual conclave. This
trip is an award to all those agents of
the company who have written bust
ness to the amount of $l25,000 or more
and that Mr. Yates is one of them is
evidence that he has been doing some
business in his line, and that like, old
Wine is growing better with age, as