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WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED THURSDAY OF EACH WEEK AT
MCCRORY. ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Office at McCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class mall,matter.
June 11th, 1901
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COUNTY
Representative—
E. M. CARL-LEE.
Judge—
J. F. SUMMERS.
Sheriff—
W. R. CAIN.
Circuit Clerk—
Wm. MOORMAN.
County Clerk—
ED B. CARL-LEE.
Assessor—
W. B. FAKES.
OUR NEW SUBSCRIBERS.
Below is a list of those who
paid us in f.dvance for the News
since our last issue.
F. M. Goodbar, Lonoke, Ark.
COUNTY’S OFFICIAL RETURNS.
Report op County Democratic
Central Committee Giving
Total Vote Cast for Each
Candidate for County and
State Officers.
To the Woodruff County Demo
cratic Convention :
We, your committee, beg leave
to report that, pursuant to your
directions, we appointed judges
and clerks to hold a primary elec
tion at the various voting precincts
in Woodruff county on March 25;
that said election was held and re
turns made to us; that said re
turns have been canvassed by us,
and the various candidates for the
different offices received votes in
said county as follows:
For Governor—Donaghey 589,
Kirby 552, flinemon 84. Secre
tary of State—Ludwig 669, Clary
552. Auditor of State—Oathout
323, Jobe 900. Treasurer of State
—Yates 1239. Commissioner of
State Lands—Coffman 1227. Com
missioner of Mines, Manufactures
and Agriculture—Tncker 1227.
Railroad Commissioner—Crockett
716, Bellamy 498. Attorney Gen
eral—Andrews 958, Norwood 272.
Associate Justice Supreme Court
(long term)—Wood 734, Humph
reys 453. Associate Justice Su
preme Court (short term)—Hart
835, Fulkerson 351. State Super
inteudaut, of Public Instruction —
Cook 1231. For Congress—Ma
con 948, Goiug 280. Prosecuting
Attorney—Vineyard 492, Wil
liams 741. Representative—Carl
Lee 733, Keating 514. County
Judge—Summers 694, Henri 546.
Circuit Clerk—Moorman 1249.
County Clerk—Winfree 483, Carl
Lee 757. Sheriff—Simpson 476,
Cain 7 6 2. County Treasurer—
Mills 613, Jackson 632. Assessor
—Fakes 1225. Coroner—Gordon
84. Surveyor—Billingslea 3 8 8.
We also find that the following
township officers were nominated
in the various townships, towit:
Augusta Tp. Justices of the
Peace—R. P. Stamps, H. L. Byrd.
Constable—Clarence Eskew.
Cache T p. Justices o f the
Peace—W. L. Armstrong, D. C.
Berry. Constable—Brad Brady.
Cotton Plant Tp. Justices of
the Peace—W. F. Fespermau,
Will Rosser. Constable—R. E.
Bowen.
Dent Tp. Justices of the Peace
—W. M. Stadler, L. H. Pierce.
Constable—None elected.
Barnes Tp. Justices of the Peace
(only one elected)—R. A. Jones.
Constable—J. E. Holleman.
Freeman Tp. Justices of the
Peace (only one elected)—W. T.
Cisco. Constable—L e n Smith.
Caney Tp. Justices of the Peace
—John Decker, S. B. Wilson.
Constable—T. H. Patterson.
White River Tp. Justices of
the Peace—T. C. Griffin, T. S.
Knight. Constable—W. B. Hae
kett.
Devicw Tp. Justices of the
Peace—S. F. Watson, J. T. An
gelo. Constable—J. S. Haggard.
Pumpkin Bend Tp. Justices of
the Peace—J. P. Simmons. Con
stable—W. M. Ball.
Respectfully submitted,
J. Haralson,
Clayton Hailey,
W. T. Trice,
Committee.
Memorandum—Through an ov
er-sight, the name of Senator
James P. Clark, candidate for
United States Senator, was not
placed on the ticket, hence no
votes were cast for that office.
Inasmuch as he had no opposition,
we recommend that the convention
direct that the entire vote cast in
the county be certified up as being
cast for him.
COriPANY “Q” INSPECTED
Last Saturday, the local military
boys put on their very “best” for
inspection. Maj. James K.Thomp
son Com. Ft. Roots, inspected the
Company and found every thing,
excepting a few guns in good or
der. Every officer and all the men
except eight privates were present
and with the inspection the boys
put up placed them second best
company in the state.
The Batallion Staff of which Maj.
Keating, of this city is at the head,
was also inspected. The Staff
consists of the following officers :
Maj. R. B. Keating, McCrory;
Adjt. C. N. Clark, Osceolo; Lieut.
Q. M. C. B. Cook and Sgt. Maj.
K. H- Carson, McCrory.
AMPUTATED LEGS AND WINGS.
New Cook Got Away from Hard Work
of Plucking Feathers.
The new cook—aa green a daughter
of Erin as that verdant country ever
sent over the seas—said ahe could
pluck the ducks. The ducks in ques
tion were only three, but they were
the pride and joy of the heart of the
master of the house. He had spent
four blessed days In Virginia sitting
out In a cold, damp, dirty blind to get
them. And to help eat them, he had
asked the cronle to whom he had fre
quently boasted his skill as a marks
man.
The lady of the house was In bed
with the grip, but so overwhelming
was the joy of the cook when she had
divested one bird of his feathers that
she must needs bring it In for ap
proval.
"Sure, there was crowds of feathers
on ’em,” said the girl, as, with a grin
as broad as her brogue, she stood In
the doorway exhibiting the now down
less duck.
“But, Katie—” The lady of the
house fell back on her pillows, speech
less. “What—where In the world are
the legs and wings?" she asked when
she could speak.
"To be sure, I cut thlm olf. The
feathers wouldn’t come off so I took
them off altogether, m’m," the girl
said. And to this day It Is a Joke
among the friends of the young duck
hunter that he has to knock oft both
the wings and legs of his game to
capture them.
YALE MEN HAVE BIGGER LUNGS.
Dr. May of Michigan Find* That Naw
Haven Freshman Excal Hla.
Dr. May of the University of Mich
igan has compared the statistics of his
freshmen class with those of the Yale
freshmen. He develops the fact that
In one particular only have the Yale
freshmen any decided advantage, and
that Is In lung capacity. The figures
are 2S6 against 243.
Dr. May ascribes this to the great
er opportunities for physical training
In the schools of the east The aver
age age and weight of the eastern
1011 man Is slightly greater. Yale has
more habitual tobaoco users. Of the
Michigan freshmen 23.76 per cent use
tobacco customarily, while 46 per cent
tiBe It at Yale.
Dr. May reports that 146 of the 800
students he examined wore glasses,
but more should have had them. Of
the students abont 160 suffered from
various deformities, such as stoop
shoulders, flat feet and curvlture of
the spine. However, they are better
physically the* the 1910 class at
Michigan, and Dr. May hopes that
his 1912 class will have bigger lungs
than the Yale men.
What He Meant.
Park row at 1 a. m. and a policeman
and a sailor In conversation.
“Keyslde, keyslde!" said the sailor.
“ 'Ow will HI reach the bloomin’ key
side?”
“Gwan wld ye. D’ye think I'm a
locksmith, that I know about yer old
key and Its side? There's one key
and lock I’ll be after glvln’ ye, and
that's a cell. Move on, now.”
“Keyslde! Hi said keyslde aa plain
as Hi could, bllme!”
Just then a highbrow who had been
to the post office buying stamps so that
his rejected contributions would come
back to him stepped up.
“The man wants the keyslde, what
ever that Is, and I dunno,” said the po
liceman. ”1 believe he's looney and
I’ll run him In."
“He wants the quayside—the docks,”
said the highbrow, as he directed the
man to the water front, while the po
liceman said:
"Well, I'll be -!”—New York
Press.
Man’s "Beauty” Nap Before Danoe.
It has been Bald that a woman can
dance for six consecutive hours and
at the end of that time looh perfectly
fresh; whereas a man after dancing
for ten minutes has rumpled hair and
a wilted collar. Nevertheless, the girls
who “came out” In society early In the
season are beginning to look wan and
weary. It is a rattling pace for sweet
eighteen or twenty, and they cannot
stop until the gong sounds. Certain
young men who are deep in the social
game will work all day, then danoe
until 3 a. m. and yet not look half as
tired as any of the buds. One of these
men confided to a friend yesterday
that he had found a way to "oatch up"
In sleep. When the day of a danoe
comes he leaves his oQlce at 4 p. m.,
hurries home, goes to bed, gets a few
hours’ sleep. Is called at eight o'clock
In plenty of time to bathe, dress an4
go leisurely to his hostess’ house.
Time She Began.
It was Saturday on a New York sur
face car. A woman sat with her lit
tle daughter, who, to all appearances,
was seven or eight years old. The
conductor came for the fares and the
woman gave him a flve-ceut pleoe.
"Is the little girl with you, rnadamT”
asked the conductor.
"Yes,” assented the woman.
"Her fare, please," said the man.
"But—I never have paid for her,"
began the woman.
"And does that prove »'«♦ you’re
never going to?” asked the conductor,
taking the fare reluctantly tendered.
Wise Woman.
Miss Coach—Yes, we’re engaged.
Mrs. Oldun—Indeed? I didn’t know
you were so fond of him.
Miss Oueoh—Ah, he is my Ideal.
Mrs. Oldun—Oh; he’ll outgrow that.
—Philadelphia Press.
HOME LIFE OF THE JAPANESE.
Marrying for Love Comparatively Un
known In That Country.
Tn nine families out of every ten
wives are said by a famous Japanese
to obey their husbands, not willingly,
but through fear. Foreigners pen
etrate rarely Into the Japanese home,
and this because the Japanese are
careful not to show them their fami
ly life. Love marriages do not exist
In Japan. No doubt there are cases
where wife and husband learn to love
eaoh other after marriage; It Is mere
chance. If they learn of a man who
has married for love they consider
him contemptible and immoral. Opin
ion places love of woman on a low
scale because the Japanese do not dis
tinguish between passion and love.
They keep their blood as pure as pos
sible. Before contracting a marriage
they study carefully the genealogy of
the consort-elect. The woman who
cannot prove her blue blood can not
expect a good match. To the object
of preserving pure and honorable an
ancestral line all other considerations
In matrimony are subservient. A fa
ther whose only child is a daughter
exerts himself to find a husband for
her, and this husband he invites Into
his own home. The daughter and the
son-in-law establish their household In
the paternal homestead. This Is for
the purpose of perpetuating the wom
an’s family.
CLEAR CASE OP PROVIDENCE.
Shrewd Uncle Jim Wlllleme as ■ Pub
lic Benefactor.
In a New Jersey town the other day
the council passed- an ordinance that
the scales used in all the grocery
stores should be officially tested. Uncle
Jim Williams had been in trade for 21
years, and when his scales were tested
they were found two ounces short on
every pound weighed out to customers.
The thing was gossiped about, and
something was said in the papers, and
so at the next Thursday evening
prayer meeting the short-weight
brother felt that something ought to
be said. He admitted that the scales
were found to be wrong and that for
over 20 years he had been selling 14
ounces for a pound, but he wanted to
state the other side of the case—the
side the public had not yet heard.
“Tes, friends, it’s true about the 14
ounces,” he said, “but on the other
hand, what have I been doing with ax
handles? The regular price is 26 cents
each, but through some absent-minded
ness I have been selling them all these
years for 20, and it the buyer was not
satisfied with that I threw in a door
knob or a barn door hinge. It seems
like a ease of Providence; in fact, it is
a case of Providence, but if any of my
customers feel that they owe me any
thing on the deal they can come
around to the store in the morning and
cancel the debt”
The Right of Children.
All children nowadays have aright
to good teeth, and if in after life they
fail to possess them they may natu
rally feel aggrieved with neglectful
parents.
Dentistry has so far advanced that
with ordinary care the teeth stay
Bound.
Insist upon perfect cleanliness of
the teeth from babyhood, even at the
cost of wails and groans from the
youngsters and unremitting watch
fulness on the part of mothers and
nurses.
Take children to the dentist at
least four times a year, and it will
save both teeth and big bills later.
If teeth are to be straightened have
it done before the boys and girls get
to the sensitive age when they object
to being disfigured by plates and other
appliances.
School for Little Mothers.
Mme. Jeanne Girard of the Parts
Academy of Medicine has founded a
school for little mothers that Is prov
ing a great success. It is located In
the very thick of the working quarter
of Paris and Is run in connection with
L’Unlon Famlllale, which la a school
for older mothers.
Here the older mothers are taught
household economy and hygiene. They
are taught how to feed their families
and to make their homes comfortable
and attractive at the least possible
expense. It has been found that $5 a
month, if properly spent. Is an ample
allowance for food for an adult.
In the school for little mothers, girls
of ten or lees are taught the care of
babies. Besides attending to the
chlld'B physical needs they ars taught
how to attract Its attention, and how
to bring Its memory Into play sad how
to make It think.
Current Chat.
The city housewife was suspicious.
"I don’t like the color of that milk,"
she remonstrated; "it looks as though
a current of water had passed through
It"
“Ton are doing me an injustice,
ma’am,” replied the crafty milkman;
“It Is a eurrent of eleotrlolty. We have
disposed of the milkmaid and our cows
ars now milked by the new electrical
process.”
•avlng Himself.
“You don’t mean to say," remarked
Wise, “that you made a present of that
16 to BorrowmanT”
"Yes,” replied Markley; “I had to, to
save my own self-respect”
“I don’t understand; I thought you
loaned it to him.”
“So I did; not knowing any better.
But now I don’t want anybody to be
lieve I was ever foolish pnmigh to as
pect It backT ,
COUNTY CONVENTION MEETS.
Delegates To State Convention
Selected—Instructed T o
Vote As a Unit On All
Questions, and To Cast Vote
for Bryan.
From the Free Press.
The delegates to the county con
vention met at the court house here
last Saturday.
The meeting was called to order
by Chairman R. E. Fitzhugh, and
the minutes of the last meeting
were read by Secretary A. H.
Campbell.
After the reading and adoption
of the minutes, the chair appoint
ed the following committee on cre
dentials: B. A. Fletcher, R. R.
James and J. L. Conner.
The following shows the num
ber of committeemen to which
each township was entitled, after
the election commissioners had
cast up the vote for state officers:
Augusta 6, Riverside 1, White
River 1, Point 1, DeView 3, Cot
ton Plant 3, Freeman 1, Caney 1,
Dent 2, Pumpkin Bend 1.
The commissioners were in
structed to certify the state vote to
the state convention; that the
remaining funds from the money
collected to hold the primary elec
tion be distributed among the
county commissioners.
The funds collected for the pur
pose of holding the election were
$152.00
EXPENDITURES
By poll books, SI 1.40
“ printing tickets, 4.50
*’ express on same, .40
" making ballot boxes, 6.00
“ locks for ballot boxes. 1.60
“ repairing old boxes, 1.00
“ delivering ballot boxes, 5.00
“ incidental expenses, 8.00
*' exp. 16 voting precincts, 06.00
Total expenses, tl 18,00
By balance on hand, 88.10
*15100
The following names constitute
the new County Central Commit
tee, by townships:
Augusta: J. H. Dale, T. E.
Bonner, C. C. Heckart, R. K.
Fitzhugh, A. H. Hamilton and I.
H. White. Riverside: S. E. Dent.
White River: Lum Spradlin.
Point: Sanford Davis. Barnes:
W. E. Jelks. McCrory: W. B.
Kyle and A. J. Porter. DeYiew:
James Melton and J, T. Angelo.
Wiville: W. P. Merrill. Howell:
D. C. Berry. Tip: R. C. Cody.
Cotton Plant: Bob Trice, R. R.
James and Charlie Meehan Sr.
Freeman; O. L. Crawford.
Caney; B. S. Carleton. Morton:
R. W. Humphreys. Meredith: J.
T. McCleary, Pumpkin Bend: J.
M. Brooks.
J. H. Dale and A. H. Campbell
were elected chairman and secre
tary, respectively.
The following delegates were
elected to the state convention
which meets on June. 4, 1908;
Augusta: J. H. Dale, B. A.
Fletcher and H. M. Woods. Cot
ton Plant: W. T. Trice. Mc
Crory; W. B. Kyle. Hunter: B.
S. Carleton. Alternates: A. H.
Campbell, R. B. Keating, E. M.
Carl-Lee, A. J. Porter, D. C- Ber
ry and S. E. Dent.
The following resolution was
read and adopted:
Be it resolved by the Woodruff
county Democratic convention now
assembled, that their delegates *1
the state convention which
m Little Rock on the 4th., dav t
June 1908, shall be instructed to
cast their votes for the greatest
living American—the L»l« *
leader, William Jennings Bryan
for the Democratic nomination for
President of the United States
A motion was made and sec0nd
ed to the effect that the delegation
named by this convention to a*
tend the Democratic state, judicial
and congressional conventions
shall vote as a unit on all que8’
tions coming before that body'
whether the same be for the nom
ination of officers or otherwise
and in case of a division on any
question arising before the con
vention, or in any caucus held by
any of the delegations comprising
this congressional or judicial dig
irict then the delegation shall be
polled by the chairman therof • a
majority of said delegation shill
control the vote of the entire dele
gation and the chairman of said
delegation is authorized, when
the delegation is so polled, to cast
the vote of the entire delegation as
directed by the votes of a majority
thereof. This motion, upon being
put before the convention, was u
nanimously carried and the delega
tes to all the conventions were so
instructed.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
Whereas : The Lord has seen
fit to take from our midst and
ranks on March, 26,1908, our be
loved brother, Mayberry Smith,
who leaves four children and a
host of friends to mourn his death,
a gloom hangs over the commun
ity, and this local union suffered
an irrepairable loss. Therefore
be it
Resolved : That this union
has lost a faithful member and
the community an excellent char
acter. That we, the members of
Pull Tight local union No. 2639,
tender our deepest sympathy to
the bereaved children and friends
of the deceased, and to condole
with them in their sad loss. Be it
further
Resolved: That a copy of
these resolutions be spread on the
minutes of the Union; a copy sent
to the bereaved children, and a
copy be sent to the Arkansas
Union Tribune and the Woodruff
County News for publication.
Signed: M. A. Jones,
James Goodwin,
J. E. Holleman.
Committee.
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