THE HOME NEWS
Published every Friday at McCrory, 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, JULY 26. 1918
FROM CHARLIE WRIGHT
The following letter receiv
ed by Geo. Wright from his
brother, Charlie, who is in the
United States Navy, was hand
ed us for publication and will
no doubt be of interest to our
readers.
New Port News, Va.,
July 13, 1918
Mr. Geo. Wright,
Dear brother, as we have
just gotten here this morning,
will try to write you. I am
well and hope you are too. I
will try to tell you of our trip
as we had a very thrilling one
We left an Atlantic port Sat
urday, June 15, at about 10 a.
m. with about 4,000 troops
aboard. We had the 113th
regimlent of the 29 division.
They are New Jersey boys,
President Wilson’s boys you
know. They are a jolly bunch.
Everything went well through
Saturday and Saturday night,
though we knew that subs
were in our vicinity. At 7:30
Sunday morning, June 16, a
sub was sighted by our ship,
the alarm was given, we all
got to our guns and wiithin 20
minutes there was one German
sub less and a great possibility
that there were two less. It
was great sport even if one
does get a little shaky about
the knees. Our guns account
ed for one, that’s a positive
fact and the destroyer claims
to have gotten one. Our guns
only fired two shots, making a
direct hit with the second, but
to make sure of a good job the
cruiser that was convoying us
ran over the spot where the
sub was and dropped depth
charges and to give you an
idea of what one of these
charges will do, just think of
what an ordinary stick of dyna
mite will do and then imagine
a charge of T. N. T., the high
est explosive known, weighing
400 pounds will do. They jar
the sea for a radius of a mile
or more. The subs fired two
torpedoes at us but made a
miss, one of our guns bursted
loose from her mount and cut
a gash in a pointer’s head just
over his eye that took five
stitches to fix him up. It also
knocked the gun captain down
but we could well afford that
for one sub to our credit. I
have this much to say that if
the Kaiser thinks that the peo
ple, especially the soldiers and
sailors of this country will be
come' awe stricken because of
j his sub activities, he is very
| much wrong. It only inspires
j them to do more and when one
j goes to France and sees what
I the real condition is among the
| people and believe me, I have
| seen very little, I am sorry that
I can’t get to go further inland
and see what is going on near
the front, and I certainly would
like to see what the fighting
has done to the country.
I feel very much convinced
that we are carrying over a
very bitter pill for the Kaiser
and when he faces that 113th
that we carried over on our
last trip, he will know it, and I
am sure that the entire Ameri
can army has the same spirit.
After our Sunday morning
fight we proceeded without
further trouble, and landed at
a French port on the morning
of June 27, just one month to
a day from the time we left
| there on our return trip. We
I stayed there until July 1st and
j left about 11a. m., of that cUy.
I There were eight transom s
' convoyed by eight destroyers.
Everything went well until we
were 10 hours out just at dusk,
everything was progressing as
peacefully as could be expect
ed when the Covington who
held a position on our port side
and just a little forward of us,
was struck by a torpedo. She
was struck on the port side in
the engine rooms and of course
stopped at once. The explo
sion made her list fearfully to
j the starboard but within a very
short while she righted her
self and began to settle slow
ly. She stayed afloat 18 hours
sinking the next day at 3:30
p. m.
Well you have often heard
it said that “Its an ill wind that
blows nobody good” so there
is very little doubt that if the
torpedo that struck the Cov
ington had missed her it would
have hit us. The Covington
was a good ship and a hard
loss to this country as she
needs all of her transports very
much. She was a German ship
and the first German to go
down. So I guess the Germans
were very much elated but I
think their elation will be very
short lived. To see a ship pro
ceeding as peacefully as if she
was human, hit and become
helpless, thrills you with a
feeling of sympathy that is
hard to describe. The George
Washington and the DeRalb
stood her while the rest of us
made knots and believe me we
made all we could. Standard
speed was forgotten for a
while and the ship that could
run the fastest came out ahead
After the excitement was over
we proceeded together for 3
or 4 more days and then each
fellow beat it all alone. We
had no further excitement, just
two more incidents worth men
tioning, and that was a break
down while in the sub zone off
the American coast which last
ed for several hours and the
last was a waterspout, as they
are commonly called, but as
you well know is a cyclone.
We came very near firing into
it. We had orders to stand by
ready to fire when the word
was given. Wish they had
let us fire for I would like to
have seen what effect it would
have had.
Well here comes the worse
part of the whole trip. As you
might think, we all wanted to
go to New York for we can
have a *great time there, and
this place and Norfolk is the
last place in the world for a
sailor so yesterday morning
at 10 o’clock we pulled into
old North River. We passed
Coney Island, the Statue ofi
Liberty, New York, Brooklyn;
and Hoboken. We were all
glad so here comes an officer
and asks an Executive Officer
what his orders were and he
answered that he had none, so j
the officer said to stand by un-j
til he came back and says you i
! will proceed to New Port News;
immediately. Well I won’t at-1
tempt to tell you all I heard i
I said by the crew and officers, j
Will close for now, hope to j
■ hear from you when I get my
mail, write me soon,
Your brother,
Charlie Wright.
| U. S. S. Princess Moloika,
-Buy W. S. S.
ECHOES
From Red Cross Work Room
I
The crowd of girls that met!
at the parsonage Monday after j
I noon would convince anyone j
that knitting is still the order
of the day. The sock thread
given out is very course and
will necessitate about 40 stit
ches, or for those who knit
tighter, perhaps about 46 or
48 stitches instead of 56 to the
sock.
We have plenty of surplus
thread, let’s all get busy and
have our quota of knitting by
the last of September.
Those who left finished work
were Mesdames Ida Raymond,
M. J. Thompson, Velma Best,
Misses Fannie Taylor, and
Mary Taylor, one sweater each
and Miss Martha McCollum, i
Mesdames James, Taylor, and
Pulley one pair of socks each
and aunt May Williams two
pairs of socks.
The circle will meet Mon
day afternoon with Mrs. J. G.
Pulley.
Mrs. J. R. NELSON.
-Buy W. S. S.
Miss Minnie Morris, who has
been visiting friends at Parkin
for the past week came home
yesterday much to the delight
of her many friends.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Following is the report of
the condition of the Bank of
McCrory, McCrory, Woodruff
County, Arkansas, at the close
of business June 29, 1918.
Resources
Loans and discounts 124,706.00
Loans on real estate 40,636.12
Overdrafts secured
and unsecured. 3,511.58
U. S. Bonds . 9,920.00
Co. and city scrip.... 426.90
Furniture and fix.. 1,800.00
Banking house . 3,300.00
Other real estate.. 3,600.00
Cash Items . 1,775.41
Cash due from re
serve banks . 159,514.75
Total .349,190.76
Liabilities
Capital stock naid
up . 25,000.00
Surplus fund cer. 5,000.00
Undivided profits .... 8,832.13
Notes rediscounted 21,605.76
Ind. dep. in
cluding pub.
funds . 275.072.7b
Time certificate
of deposit. 13,137.66
Cashier’s cks. .. 542.43
Total amt. of all
classes shown 288,752.87
Net dep.288,752.87
Total
349,190.76
State of Arkansas:
County of Woodruff:
We, H. W. Jernigan, presi
dent, and G. W. Barber, cash
ier, of the above named bank,
do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the
best of our knowledge and be
lief.
H. W. Jernigan, president.
G. W. Barber, cashier
Attest: H. W. Jernigan, J.
F. Morgan, T. C. Bull.
Subscribed and sworn to be
fore me this 13th day of July,
1918.
C. B. Cook, N. P.
My commission expires Oct.
18, 1918.
-Buy W.S.S.
FLIES NEVER BOTHER
In the summer flies worry
an animal. Get a bottle of
Farris’ Healing Remedy, costs
but 50 cents, makes a pint
worth $2.00. Apply it to the
wound. Flies will not bother
it. Get it today. You may
need it tomorrow. We sell it.
Red Cross Drug Store. Adv.
-Buy W.S.S.
Land for sale: 200 acres, V*
mile of Hunter, 35 acres open,
balance timber, good roads and
water and new railroad being
constructed by land. Call or
write Home News Editor, Mc
Crory, Ark. adv.
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