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EDTT' O IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY and woodruff county
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McCRORY, ARKANSAS, OCTOBER 17, 1919.
NUMBER 13
«rW EPOCH IN HISTORY
OF OUR GROWING CITY
r;c Lot Sale Will Give More
Room for the Expansion
of Our Business and
Residence Property.
Tomorrow Saturday, the
bio- lot, saie will be held in
McCrory and no mistake can
be made in buying some of
these choice lots that are to
be sold to the highest bidder.
The sale includes more man
100 choice business and resi
dence lots in. the Walter W.
Raney addition to the Town
of McCrory. This property
has been held until recently
bv the railroad company ever
since McCrory was established
more than 30 years ago and as
a consequence the town has
had to grow around it.
Mr. Raney recently platted
the property and has sold it to
the Hayes Realty Co., of
Springfield, Tenn., and they
are going to sell it at auction.
The property is located adjoin
ing the railroad and statibn
and Edmunds Avenue, the
main thoroughfare of the
town, runs through it.
If you want to make a real
investment, one that will make
you money, go out to the sale
Saturday morning at ten
o’clock and buy some of these
valuable lots. McCrory has
only needed more room to be
come the best towrn in the
county and now the opportuni
ty is here.
FORERUNNER OF SICKNESS
Medical authorities agree
that idigestion and constipa
tion are the forerunners of at
least half the ills of mankind.
Don’t let a mass of partly di
gested food poison your whole
system. When your food isi
being properly digested, you
are free from billiousness, sick
headache, sour stomach, bad
breath, coated tbngue. Fol
ey’s Carthartic Tabiets, a very
wholesome physic, thoroughly
cleanse the bowels without the
griping- or nausea, sweeten the
stomach and invigorate the
bver. Red Cross Drug "Store.
For Sale: Wood heating
stove. See Miss Annie Turn
er at the Fakes Merc. Co.
Adv. 10-10 4t.
DR. C. P. HARRIS
DENTIST
McCRORY, ARK.
Office Hours: 8-5
SELECT YOUR SEED NOW
'HIS year we had a wet, cold spring, immediately followed by a long, se
« 1 ^ere drought and hot weather. This kind of a season usually causes a
shortage of all kinds of farm seeds, with much of the seed weak. We may
expect next spring high priced seed and large quantities of weak and dead
seed lor sale. Every Arkansas farmer should protect himself from these con
ditions by selecting good farm seed now and storing it through the fall and
winter in such ways as v,r;ll keep it strong and vigorous. Where a farmer
cannot get good seed from his own crop, he should get this fall from his
neighbors the farm seed he will need next spring.
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be saved, because much of the seed that looks good in the fall, will in the
spring be found to be poor. It will be easy to sell any surplus of good seed. I
Home raised seed of every farm crop will give better yields than equally as j
good seed irom a distance. Seed corn brought a distance of 50 miles pioduces
a smaller crop than seed corn of equal quality and breeding raised on the 1
form where it is planted. Heavy losses are sustained every year by Arkansas j
cotton growers planting seed grown in other States that is not adapted to local
conditions and frequently is from inferior bred and low yielding crops.
Ears of corn for seed should be selected while on the stalk, as a strong
stalk is as necessary to getting a good yield as is the ear. A corn disease that1
seriously cuts down the yield is prevalent. One of the strongest indications
of this disease is weak stalks that break easily in a strong wind.
Select cotton from those parts of the field that produce the highest yields.
Have a special picker go ahead of the regular pickers and gather the cotton
for seed from the best plants. Store the cotton for seed in a dry, well venti
lated place in such a way that it will not heat. Have it ginned separately at
the close of the season, when there is time to thoroughly clean the gin of
ether seed.
There will be less cowpea seed for sale next spring than there was this j
year. Every farmer who can, should have this fall the seed he will need.
Spanish peanut seed was scarce last spring, and sold for twice as much j
at planting time as it did when gathered. Good stands are seldom secured
except from hand-picked seed.
Velvet beans are generally a failure this year because weak and dead
seed shipped in by Alabama dealers was planted. It is the most valuable crop
introduced into,the State in 50 years, and every farmer "who can, should se
cure U ome grown seed this fall.
I
A M &
Arkansas Profitable Farming Bureau,
Board of Commerce, Little Rock, Ark
TER YOUR COTTON
“■a’■HE loss from planting Aveak or heated cotton seed is from $7 to $30 ail
[ acre. The loss from letting cotton stay on the stalk until it becomes
weather stained is from $15 to $60 a bale. Cotton ginned when it. is damp is
damaged $5 to $25 a bale. The heaviest loss and the most general loss in
Arkansas is the damage caused by letting the bales lay unshelteied out doors
through the fall and winter. Conservative cotton men estimate that this
loss averages twenty-five million dollars a year in Arkansas.
Four bales of cotton laid on the ground all last fall and winter. When j
sold they contained 600 pounds marketable and 1.100 pounds damaged cotton, j
The damaged cotton brought 2 cents a pound, the good cotton 30 cents. Loss,!
$308.00.
A bale that weighed 450 pounds when ginned, laid out doois all \Aintei.
In the spring it weighed 927 pounds, and when sold there were only 20 pounds j
of marketable cotton in it. The damaged cotton in it was worthless. Loss
on one bale, $166.40. Some glowers let their cotton lay out doors because it
makes a bale weigh more and they think that the extra weight brings more
money.
Four hales laid on the ground through the fall and winter. When received
at the compress no good cotton could oe tound in them, and they were thrown
away. Loss to the owner, $600 and the freight.
Ten bales kept off the ground on timbers, but without shelter, contained
when sold 1,000 pounds damaged cotton. Loss, $300.00
Twenty-four bales were kept last winter on poles out doors. When mar
keted last summer they contained 3,576 pounds damaged cotton that brought
1cents a pound, 30 cents less than the good cotton in the same bales. Loss,
$1,072.60. There is less loss when the bales are laid on poles than when they
are left on the ground, but the loss is heavy.
Cotton growers often think that such losses happened last winter only.
The loss wits more severe last winter than usual, but the looses ate enoimous
every year. Three years ago 50 bales laid unsheltered on the ground until
| summer. When sold, 23,000 pounds were so badly damaged that it was thrown
i away, and vuat cotton could he used In these 50 bales brought $250.00.
Can You Afford Such Losses?
Cotton should be picked as fast as it is ready, and before it can become
weather stained. It should be ginned when it is ?Jiy, with no dampness from
dew. rain or the ground. It should be sent to a warehouse or put in good shel
ter as soon as it is ginned. The loss from not sheltering cotton runs from
$15 to $200 a bale.
GOOD FAMILY GONE
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jimer
son and children moved the
past week to Conway where
they have purchased a home
and will reside in the future
and in this news item, Mc
Crory has suffered a loss of
one of our best and most high
ly respected families.
Mr. Jimerson, who is travel-,
ing salesman for the Memphis
Coffin Co., and who represents
Morris Bros. Marble Works
of Memphis, has been one of
our citizenship who has al
ways stood for that which was
right and uplifting. In our
war work, church and school
improvement and any other
progressive undertaking, he
has taken a leading part and
it is with the deepest regret
that we see them go else
where.
These good people have
gone to Conway for Mrs.
Jimerson’s health which we
hope will continue to improve
and may they again some dav
return to McCrory is the wish
of their many friends.
WATCH YOUR HENS
Hens that do not lay do not
pay. You can make these non
layers pay you for the feed
they eat by giving them B. A.
Thomas’ Poultry Remedy each
day. Tonic, egg producer and
used for gapes, bowl troubles
and other troubles incidental
to poultry. Red Cross Drug
Store. adv
GENERAL DIRECTORY
District and Co. Officials
Circuit Judge.J. M. Jackson
Pros.Atty.John E. Miller
Chancery Judge AyL. Hutchins
County Clerk, WalterJimerson
Circuit Clerk, ....Geo.Haralson
Sheriff and Col., R.H.Smith,Jr.
ChiefDep’tySheriff, E.C.Marsh
Treasurer, .Roy Mitchell
Representative, ....J. T. Angelo
Surveyor, .Alex Beilis
Assessor, .. Chas. Jackson
State Senator, .Ed Roddy
Sup’t. Schools, ....W. N. Wilkes
McCrory City Officials
Mayor, .Walter B. Fakes
Marshal, .Gid Capshaw
Recorder, Maynard K. Wherry
Treasurer, ....Geo. W. Barber
Council meets first Monday
.night of each month in office
of The Home News.
School Directors
McCRORY SPECIAL —Dr.
R. L. Fraser, Pres.; G. G. Mc
Crory, Sec.; L. J. Dilliard, J.
W. Neely, D. M. Huff and
Walter W. Raney, Osro Taylor,
A.E.Ridgway and John Pulley
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