the home news
published every Friday at McCrary, Ark.
WALTER W. RANEY, Ed. and Pub.
Subscription $1.00 per Year in Advance.
Phone: 40
Entered as second-class mat
ter August 26, 1915, at the post
office at McCrory, Ark., under
the Act of March 3, 1879.
Friday, December 14, 1917.
Wiville
Roscoe Bowers was at home
the first of the week.
Melvin Matkin was at home
from Gregory, Sunday.
C. C. Campbell returned home
from Clarendon Sunday.
Everybody seems to enjoy the
snow as hunting is all the go.
Bryan Merrill returned home
from Memphis and Little Rock
Wednesday.
Ready now at old prices
Fresh lots of Foley’s Honey
and Tar Compound are selling at
before-the-war prices. This puts
this wellknown cough medicine,
ready for use, in homes at less
than it costs to buy and mix the
ingredients yourself, and all the
bother and muss is avoided.
There is no better remedy for
coughs, colds, croups and iagripe.
Sold by Red Cross Drug Store.
Mr. J. L. Stair of Altamont,
111., is here looking after his
land interests.
The person who took from my
store one black-and-white shirt
Dec. 6, will please return same
and no questions will be asked,
otherwise you will be prosecuted.
John Shearer. Adv. pd.
Misses Ida Tarpley, Bess
Jones, Della Jeffries, Elizabeth
Holland and Johnnie Harris and,
Mesdames 'Dora Bradley and R.
0. Jeffries went to Memphis '
Saturday to see the play, Ben |
Hur.
Material is now being placed
on the lots for the two-story
store buildings to be constructed
for Mr. F. Lewis and Mr. J. E.
Comer which are to replace the
frame building destroyed by fire
several weeks ago.
Mr. J. C. Gray, principal of
our high school, did not go to
Little Rock Saturday to volun
teer for the reason that he
would have had to gone to bis
home at Conway - to secure pa-,
pers necessary for his volunteer-!
ing from his county exemption
board. Because of his train be
ing several hours late here he
could not have made connection
at Little Rock for Conway. Mr.
Gray has already been called be
fore his county board and was
exempted because of a minor
physical defect.
Your Soldier Boy
Wants a present. Carson’s
have safety razors, brush sets, 1
folding clothes hangers and other (
useful gifts. You can also sup- i
ply your wants in toys from their !
big stock which is now on dis- ^
play. Adv. ■
Messrs Vernon E. Huff and
Glenn D. Harris enlisted in the
services of Uncle Sam at Little
Rock this week.
Miss Ruth Anderson, our '
county demonstration agent, has
gone to Mount Pleasant, Texas,
to spend Christmas with home 1
folk. She has finished her *
year’s work here and may not
return. The position is open to ]
her and we hope to have her \
with us again in 1918.
How to check croup quickly
There is one reliable remedy
for croup that every mother
should know. Mrs. Sweet Clary,
^nte, Va., writes: “I think Fol
ly’s Honey and Tar is the best
nedicine I ever tried. My little
son nearly had croup. I gave
lim one dose and it stopped him
coughing in about five . minutes.
Relieves coughs, colds, “lagrippe.
sold by Red Cross Drug Store.
Trade with our advertisers.
Mr., C. Crotzer spent last week
n Memphis.
Mr. S. J. Matlock of Paris,
rexas, arrived Saturday for a
veek’s visit to friends and rel
ieves.
Mrs. Alva Lee Neely, of Little
Rock arrived Tuesday and is the
?uest of her grandmother, Mrs.
5. A. Petitt.
This was no Joke
J. E. Colver, 103 Labor Temple,
Los Angeles, Cal., writes: “I
have had about 56 years of ex
perience with all sorts and kinds
of carthartic remedies, some
good and some a joke. When I
got wise to Foley Cathartic Tab
lets for constipation I got in
right. The best I ever used.”
Do not gripe, no unpleasent after
effect. Sold by Red Cross Drug
Store.
If you have cattle or hogs for
sale, call or write W. J. Mitchell,
McCrory, Ark. Adv. 15-14-tf.
Snow fell here last Friday
night to a depth of about ten
inches. Another snow storm
came Tuesday adding about
another inch to the one which
had already fallen.
Appropriate Gifts!
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When you think of a present to give
for Xmas let it*be some of the following
useful as well as appropriate items:
Dressers
Beds, iron or wood
Kitchen Cabinet
Rocking Chairs
Dining Chairs
Dining Table
Cedar Chest
Rugs, Etc., Etc.
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