Good Things
To Eat
Are to be found at our
store. We are here for bus
iness, and if you will give us
your trade you can live cheap
and well.
Our stock has been enlarg
ed and will be added to as
the demands justify. Good
Goods, Lowest Prices, Prom
pt Service and Courteous
Treatment are all we can
promise. Price our goods
and we will prove all that
we claim.
Ray mon d ’s
Grocery.
WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED THURSDAY OF BACH WEEK AT
McCBOKY, ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Office at McCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class mail,matter.
June Uth. 1903.
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COUNTY
Representative—
E. M. CARL-LEE.
Judge—
J. F. SUMMERS,
v 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 advance for the News
since our last issue.
S. L. Holt, R. 1, Mrs. L. A. P.
Beard, R. 2, and E. L. Pritchett,
McCrory, Ark. G. Stark, DeView,
Ark.
CITY DADS nEET.
The old council met in regular
session Monday night. Mayor
Burkett having resigned some
three weeks ago and the Mayor
elect R. B. Crossett having taken
his oath of office upon Burkett’s
resignation, presided over the
meeting.
Alderman R. B. Keating was
elected recorder pro tern, II. W.
Jernigan Recorder, being absent.
Minutes of last meeting were read
and approved. Reports of officers
and committees were read and ac
cepted.
Ex-councilman R. M. Comer was
allowed a voice in the meeting.
Mr. Comer having moved out of
the corporation was no longer a1
town officer, yet he was allowed j
the privilege of voting.
The question of the alderman’s
salary for the past year was
brougt up and after some discus
siou Alderman Fletcher Lewis
arose and remarked that he had al
ready drawn his full salary of $12.
00 for the past 12 meetings, and
made a motion that each alderman
be paid $12.00 each, regardless of
the fact that the law only allows
an alderman $1.00 for each regu
lar meeting that he attends. This
motion was seconded but we are
glad to say that it failed to carry.
There are 12 regular meetings in
each year, or rather one each
month. The old council failed to
meet three different months, name
ly August, October and March.
If Mr. Lewis’motion had have carri
ed the city tax payers would have
paid out at least $18.00 for ser
vices that were not rendered, at
all—paid for something they did
not receive.
We believe our eit}r officers
should use the tax payers’ money
just in the same manner that they
would their own.
The old council then adjourned
and the new couneilmen were soon
sworn in by Mayor Crossett.
The following committees were
appointed by Mayor Crossett.
Street committee: J. *W. Wilder,
J. C. MeCrory and J. I. Cain.
Finance committee: W. B. Dou
gherty and F. Lewis.
Ordiance committee: J. C. Mc
Crory and J. W. Wilder.
Board of health: Mayor Crossett,
Dr. B. Howell, Dr. H. P. Hargis
and F. Lewis.
A motion was made and carried
that the marshal’s salary for the
present month be reduced from $35.
to $30.00. Alderman J. I. Cain
having been the cause of this cut
in the city’s expenses. Mr. Cain
first contended that the salary be
made $25. but finally succeeded in
getting it reduced to thirty.
Applications for the marshalship
were next read, J. P. Taylor, June
Dallas and M. E. Mott being
the three applicants. J. P.
Taylor contended for $35.00. June
Dallas offered his services for $25.
five dollars per month less than the
salary and ten dollars less than his
competitor. The salary wauted by
Mr. Mott was not given. Mr. Tay
lor was elected Marshal at the reg
ular salary of $30.00 thus causing
an extra expense to the tax
payers of sixty dollars a
year. Those voting were: Aider
men J. I. Cain, W. B. Dougherty.
J. C. MeCrory, F. Lewis and J. W.
Wilder. The vote was made sec
retly and stood as follows: Taylor
3, Dallas 2, Mott 0.
The MeCrory Mercantile Com pa
uy was granted permission to move
their old store building in the street
next to Atkinson’s livery barn
while their brick building is under
construction.
Having no futher business the
council adjourned.
WANTED-A BOY.
Wan ted—a boy. A brave, co ur
ageous, manly, hopeful boy; one
who is not afraid of the truth ; one
who does not know more
than his parents; one who has the
courage to say “no” and stick to
it; one who hates deeiet, one who
is willing to begin at the bottom of
the ladder and work upwards; one
who thinks it unmanly to smoke;
one who thinks an education is
worth striving for; one who is wil
ing to obey his superiors; one
who knows his home is
better than the streets; one who
dosen’t believe marvelous tales
told in the papers, and will not
read the vile stuff; one who won’t
cheat in a fair game; one who
wont be a sneak, one who won’t do
a mean act when unseen ;and won’t
spend all he earns or gets: one who
thinks he should respect himself,
and keep in decent appearance;
one who wont torture dumb animals
one who won’t do a dirty act for
another boy who is to cowardly
to do his own meanness ; one who
loves to do right. Wanted—a boy
a whole souled, earnest, honorable
square boy. Where can he be
found? In your neighborhood? Is
he a member of your family? Do
you know him ?
The day when the hod carrier
was compelled to climb a ladder
with his burden are past. A rope
and pully now fills the bill.
r
E. L. HAMILTON
FURNITURE AND STOVES.
BUY A NEW ROYAL SEWING MACHINE
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MORE HOLIDAYS.
We live too fast in America. We
have not enough holidays—not en
ough resting places—not enough en
termision in our work-day world.lt
were better if oftener t-o have laid
aside its tools—traffic and trade
stopped, now and then, to consider
its aim and end.
There must be an oasis in every
desert. The black Sierra has its
sunlit valleys. There are smiling
nooks even among the Cordilleras.
Halting places there are, great
rocks and their shadows, even in
the dreariest land. He who builds
up a shelter for the storm-beaten
and foot-weary pilgrim over the
road traced by the great caravan
is a benefactor to his race and his
memory should be cherished while
holidays are observed.
Holiday time! Who would care
to know whence came the cus
tom. Enough to know that care
per force must smooth his wrinkled
front, and fun and frolic for the
time rule the hour. It were folly
not to enjoy the glimpses of
sunshine that comes through the
cloud rifts, short lived and evanes
cent though they be. They prove
there’s brightness beyond—that no
clouds are so dense but stray beams
may penetrate them.
Rosy faces, wreathed and jojous,
welcome the festive season. With
its monitions, its reminders, its
regrets and its hopes, comes the
happy holiday. It is well that the
ancient builders set up mile posts
on the highways of time, else it
were a dull and tire-some road.
They remind us of the vanguard,
the millions that have gone be
fore—the great army that has gone
out and on—who shall say whith
er? Listening, we hear the tramp
the tramp of the mighty multitude
echoing and re-echoing down the
corridors of time; we think of the
thousand holidays gone and mil
lions of light hearts and love-lit
eyes gone, too, with them. Dead
holidays, dead hearts, dead bones.
THE Q1RL YOU LIKE.
She is the girl who is not “too
bright and good” to be able to
find joy and pleasure all over the
world.
She is the girl who appreciates
the fact that she cannot always
have the first choice of everything
in the world.
She is the girl who is not ag
gressive and does not find joy in
inciting aggressive people.
She is the girl who has tact
enough not to say the very thing
that will cause the skeleton in her
friend’s closet to rattle his bones.
She is the girl who, whether it
is warm or cold, clear or stormy,
finds no fault with the weather.
She is the girl who, when you
invite her any place, compliments
you by looking her best.
She is the girl who is sweet and
womanly to look at and listen to,
and doesn’t strike you as a poor
imitation of demi-monadine
She is the girl who makes the
world a pleasant place because she
is so pleasant herself.
And, by and by, you come to
think of it, isn’t she the girl who
makes you feel she likes you, and,
therefore, you like her?
We sometimes hear a clergyman
consoling a distracted mother over
death of her darling child by tel
ling her that a mysterious Provi
deuse has taken it from her for
wise reasons and that she must find
comfort in her bereavement.
What! Has God snatched from lov
ing parents a loving child just
bloomiug into youth? Does the
Creator of harmony produce dis
cord ? Does the author of health and
beauty smite his noblest work ere
it is finished—a work into which
He has endowed with aspirations
and possibilities as high as Heaven
itself? It is a libel upon Him, who
has fashioned the human body so
wonderfully and fearfully wrought
that may withstand ravage of time
for a Century. God does not mur
der nor torture his children. He
rather tries in a thousand ways to
induce them to keep the laws of
nature, which if obeyed, would
carry them to ripe old age. He
rather tries in every way to pro
long life after we have forfeited
every right to it and we have be
come useless drones.
The home paper is the mirrow iu
which those at a distance see us.
When you help your home pa
per you help your town and indirect
ly help your self.
There are pillows wet by sobs;
there are gentle sensitive natures
seared and warped; there are old
time friends seperated and walking
their lonely ways with hope dead
and memory but a pang; there are
cruel misunderstandings that make
life bare, these are but few of the
sorrows that come from the crime
of the tongue.
We have no prejudice againt the
neatly dressed, nice appearing boy
while we do detest the fellow who
goes around looking like a bunch
of hard luck, but a girl looking
for a model husband should be car
ful. If you don’t know one when
you see him ask mother—she will
regonize him at sight.
Just as like as not your wife
feels awfully poor because you car
ry the purse and do not give her a
fair show. She may want to make
a few presents at Christmas and
can not even do that. You mean
all well, but please be more
thoughtful.
We will offer a little free advice
to the young men and young ladies
who read this paper. Never mar
ry until you are sure that single
life is a failure and under no cir
cumstances marry until you find one
that will have you. Be sure you
are right, and then go ahead.Boys,
remember that a girl rigged out
in ribbons and paint may look good
enough to eat; but that smile how
ever, may be made to order and
come off with her best clothes.
All honor to the man who earns
his living b y honest toil. He,
is above all others, who is always
pulling for better things. He is
always on the community band
wagon. He is the first resident to
greet the stranger and tell him that
he is visting the best town in the
state. He is ready to fight, at the
drop of a hat, the fellow who will
ingly runs down the community’s
best along with its worst, and
there is something inspiring in his
cordial invitation to the chronic
croaker to“move somewhere else.”
There is too little brightness in
the lives of woman in the country.
They have too little help in their
domestic occupations. The nurse
in a house where there is a baby to
care for ought to be s%t down as
one of the regular expenses as
the potatoes for the family. A
mother’s health, both mind and
body, is worth more than addition
al acres of land, or finer stock.
The heart should not be allowed to
grow old. Life should not have
lost its charm, the heart its spirit
and the body its elasticity at 40
years. And yet how many women
are faded and wan, and shattered
in mind and health, long before
they are forty. All the joy of life
is not in youth’s morning, If we
so will it, we can to the last mo
ment of life, be at least negatively
happy.
The purpose of store advertising
is not merely to sell goods but to
sell more goods—to make more
friends, build up the patronage
that will not only stick but grow.
Newspapers reach the greatest
number of people in immediate
vicinity in the most natural way
at least expense and they’re there
fore the best mediums for stores.In
a newspaper you follow the lines
of least resistance—you follow
the stream—you talk to an au
dience already assembled, to the
people who want to read—their
mental cosmos is right—they are
on your wire, and they won’t ring
off if you hold their interest. At
traction is the basis of all advertis
ing—the store is the sun, the cus
tomer the planets that revolve
around us.
LAST
WEEK
JUST A FEW TRUTHFUL ITEMS.
We
bou ght 200 pounds of butter,
400 dozen eggs,
300 pounds of coffee,
5 barrels of sugar,
$100. worth of produce,
$35. worth of candy,
20 gallons of ice-cream
and lots of other things.
MONDAY MORNING AT 10 O’CLOCK
We did
not have Any eggs at all,
Not a pound of butter,
Only 30 pounds of coffee,
No sugar,
2 dozen bananas,
No ice cream,
$3.00 worth of candy,
And a few other things.
IS THIS DOING BUSINESS?
To-day
we have Plenty of everything
to eat and are willing
to sell at the right price.
Wood & Son
ASSESSOR’S NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that I will be at the
following named places on the dates set op
posite thereof for the purpose of assessing the
per captia. and personal property of Wood
ruff county for the year 1908 towit:
JUNE
Fitzhugh Monday 1st.
White Church Tuesday 2nd.
Campbell & Crittenden's Store
Wednesday 3rd.
Riverside Thursday 4th.
DeViow Friday and Saturday 5th. & 6th.
Pumpkin Bend Monday 8th.
Morton Tuesday 9th.
Meredith Wednesday 10th.
Hunter Thursday Friday and
Saturday 11th. 12th. & 13th.
Tip Monday 15th.
White Hall Tuesday 16th.
Wiville Thursday 18th.
Howell Friday and Saturday 19tb & 20th.
Cotton Plant Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday Friday & Saturday 23rd. to 27th.
York's Store Monday 29th.
Maberry Tuesday 30th.
JULY.
Gregory Tuesday 7th.
Revel's Store Wednesday 8th.
Fakes' Chapel Thursday 9th.
Grays Saturday 11th.
Fakes Station Monday 13tb.
McCrory Thursday Friday and
Saturday 16th. 17th. & 19th.
Augusta Monday Tuesday and
Wednesday 20th. 21st. 22nd.
Augusta township Thursday Friday and
Saturday 23rd. 24th. & 25th.
I will be at my office in the court house in
Augusta. Ark., until August. 15. after which
time penalty will be attached.
Wai.tkb B. Fakes. Assessor
Woodruff county.
It is said that three of the stingi
est men in the country were in
town yesterday. One of them will
not drink as much water as he
wants unless it be from another
man’s well. The second forbids
anyof his children from
writing anything but a small hand
as it is a waste of ink to make
big letters. The third stops his
clock in order to save the wear and
tear of the machinery. All of
them decline to take the county pa
per on the grounds that it is a ter
rible strain on their spectacles to
read newspapers, even in daytime.
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