GOOD ROADS DAY,
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29
To Every Man and Boy In
Woodruff County Who
Wants Good Roads:
Wednesday, June 29, 1921,
has been set apart as Good
Roads Day and “Your County
Calls You.” Close your stores,
.offices and business places and
take a shovel, hoe, team or
work tool such as you have
and work that day, June 2J,
on the roads.
Either report to your over
seer or form community road
gangs and work where you
want to, but don’t fail in this
patriotic duty to your county.
Your district is entirely out of
funds and the collector will
report the smallest collection
in history.
Don’t be a slacker. Notify
your overseer right now that
you will be on hand, or begih
to organize your road gang.
County Overseer and
E. M. Carl-Lee.
Cotton Plant defeated Au
gusta at Augusta Thursday in
a game of baseball, five to
four.
Quit worrying your neighbor
by borrowing this paper from
him. Subscribe for it yourself
the price is only one dollar a
year, six months sixty cents.
The remains of Mrs. Malin
da Fannie Best, age 46, who
died Nov. 28, 1889, were dis
interred by Undertaker Walter
W. Raney and shipped to Jud
sonia Wednesday, June 1,
1921.
PARODIST ALW*yS WITH US
That Forrr. of Copying Famous Writers
Never Seems to Lose All Its
Popularity.
Does your memory go back to the
time when every one was writing
parodies of the Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayyam? When it was considered
very literary to know all about
Omar and when all the writers,
both would-be and professional,
were reducing the hypnotic quat
rains to modern terms? The news
papers were full of “Omars Up-to
date,” and quite a lot of them got
into the magazines before the craze
died down.
After that, the parodists sought
other inspiration, but found no ma
terial that suited them quite so well,
until, a few years ago, one of them
chanced on the Diary of Samuel
Pepys. What a rich vein! The
parodists went mad over it, and
have been digging there ever since.
Almost anybody can fill up a col
umn with chronicles in the Pepys
style, while the clever writer, by
this means, can easily make himself
entertaining. Some other original
genius will soon take the place ol
Mr. Pepys in the regard of the copy
ists, for the popularity of the cre
ative masters of literature is more
or less changeful, dependent upon
time or circumstances, while the
work of the parodist goes on for*?
ever.—Ohio State Journal. ^
SUNSHINE BILLIARD
PARLOR
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Candy.
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NEW JEWEL THEATRE
High Class Motion
Pictures.
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WALTER W. RANEY
Phone 40
UNDERTAKER AND
LICENSED EMBALMER
Auto Hearse
Calls Answered Day or
Night. McCrory, Ark.
SLANG FHRASE. BUT POPULAR
Visitors' Criticisms Mot Likely to Have
Much Effect on Use of Ex
pressive Sentence.
Those of us who prefer homely,
slangy short cuts to the more round
about linguistic meanderings of the
truly cultured have for long been
addicted to the use of the phrase
“You bet you,” as signifying ac
quiescence or approval or co-opera
tion or enthusiastic concurrence. I
believe that as far back as pre-Civil
war days Charles Dickens observed
with pain—and so many gaucheries
in our land did pain Mr. Dickens—
that we, as a people, generally were
addicted to the emphatic utterances
of such an exclamation when as a
matter of fact nothing partaking of
the nature of a wager had been sug
gested even remotely. To this good
day the thing puzzles some of Mr.
Dickens’ fellow islanders. There is
a sort of visiting Englishman, who,
on being asked whether this or that
appeared to him satisfactory, re
plies, “Not *arf,” meaning that it is
wholly so; but for the life of him
he cannot conceive why we, in our
efforts to express the same thought,
should resort to this Yankeeism.
Yet perversely we do persist in it.—
Irvin S. Cobb in the Saturday Eve
ning Post.
VERY MAD, INDEED.
The postoffice departments of the
new7 European governments are
driving the German stamp collec
tors insane, one Berlin hospital hav
ing set aside a special section for
philatelists who have gone mad try
ing to keep their collections up to
dave in the fhce of a constant stream
of /new issues pouring from the
presses?*’ /M
“A HAT A DAY NECESSARY*
“One hat a day . is quite reason
; able for a society woman.” This
was the comment made by a mem
ber of a fashionable woman’s club
on the surprise expressed by a coun
ty court judge at a Spanish actress
ordering five hats in one day. “A
woman should wear a hat until she
is tired of it,” she said, “if only
for a fortnight, and then give it to
her maid. But a hat a day is quite
reasonable. One should remember
that a woman’s hair is part of her
| hat and she has often to wear the
hat all day. She has to arrange her
hair to accommodate the hat and
then she keeps it on at home and
at bridge in the afternoon.”—Lon
don Mail.
FATALITIES FROM FIRE.
In the United States last year
burns, excluding those received in
conflagrations and in railroad, street
car and automobile accidents, were
responsible for 6,380 deaths, or 9.1
per 100,000. The death rate from
burns was greater than that for the
preceding year. 8 per 100,000, and
was also greater than the rate for
any other year covered by the bu
reau’s records with the exception
of 1907.
FRUITCAKE LASTED LONG.
S. T. Stull of Frederick, Md.,
has a small part of a fruitcake baked
by his wife, now dead, in 1872. A
piece of the cake was sent to Presi
dent Wilson and another piece was
sent to Billy Sunday, the evangelist,
both of whom acknowledged the
gift. Russell Stull, son of the own
er, who was a bugler in Company
A, One Hundred and Fifteenth in
fantry, carried a part of the cake
through the war.
PLEADS FOR HYGIENIC HOMES
Writer Claims Those of Opposite Or
der- Are Prolific Cause of Many
Nervous Maladies.
In an age when the nervous sys
tem craves cheerful, tranquilizing,
inspiring suggestions as never be
fore, people too often choose home
adornments that create a positively
gloomy, even a morbid atmosphere.
Others too often adorn their homes
with commonplace pictures of un
inspiring themes, bric-a-brac equal
ly commonplace, and books—if they
buy books at all—that suggest only
banal, perhaps vulgar, ideas.
And if they are people of more
than average income they are as
likely as not to inflict real torture
on their nervous system by an over
crowding of their homes with “com
forts” of all sorts—superfluous
tables and chairs, ornamental con
veniences which they seldom use.
Some day, perhaps, we shall have
in our schools really adequate
courses in home hygiene. We must
have them if ever we are to cope ef
fectually with the rising tide of
nervous maladies already so terribly
in evidence. For in the causation
of these, one cannot insist too em
phatically, unhygienic homes play
a stjikiug pjfefc-i—BP Addington
vBruce>tin Chi/a|o Daily News.
GENERAL DIRECTORY
Courts—Northern District
CIRCUIT COURT—Third Monday in
February and August.
CHANCERY COURT—Second Mon
day in January, May and „<ember
COUNTY COURT—First Monday 'ln
January, April, July and October
PROBATE COURT—Fourth Monday
in January, April, July and October.
Courts—Southern District
CIRCUIT COURT—First Monday in
March and September.
CHANCERY COURT—Third Monday
in January, May and -•ember.
COUNTY COURT—Second Monday in
January, April, July and October
PROBATE COURT—First Monday
following that of the Northern Dis
District and Co. Officials
Circuit Judge.J. M. Jackson
Pros.Atty.John E. Miller
ChanceryJudge AyL. Hutchins
State Senator, .,Ed Roddy
Representative ,.E. W. Chaney
Sheriff and Col., W. N. Wilkes
County Judge ....E, M. Carl-Lee
County Clerk ......Roy Mitchell
Circuit Clerk, ....Geo.Haralson
Treasurer .E. E. Blaylock
Surveyor, ..Alex Beilis
Assessor, .Chas. Jackson
Sup’t Schools ....J. T. Caughley
McCrory City Officials
Mayor .Dr. C. P. Harris
Marshal, .O. Settlemoir
Recorder .V. E. Huff
Treasurer, ....Geo. W. Barber
Aldermen: ,R. A. Drewery,
Geo.Raymond, H.P. Riggs,Jr.,
W. P. Musgrove and T. E. Dye.
School Directors
McCRORY SPECIAL — J.
P. Taylor, Pres.; G. G. Mc
Crory, Sec.; L. J. Dilliard, W.
O. Scales, D. M. Huff and
Walter W. Raney.
WILL NOT STAND FOR MICE
Girl Workers of Pittsburgh Insist They
Are Not Particular, but Line
Must- Be Drawn.
Bears are not pleasant to have
about an express- office, particularly
when their cages are the worse for
handling. Snakes can be tolerated
and porcupines are much worse in
looks than in real life. But white
mice on the express platforms are
positively unbearable and the young
women who drive the small pack
age trucks on the big platforms of
the American Railway Express com
pany at Pittsburgh positively refuse
to labor when they are about, ihe
express company foreman argue1 i
until blue in the face, but the girls
would not work on that big plat
form nor within several hundred
feet of it.
Daily white mice, guinea pigs and
other animals are shipped in large
numbers from Pittsburgh to hospi
tals and laboratories throughout the
country. One nighL a short time
ago was the first time any escaped,
and the express company officials
are hoping it will be the last. Said
the foreman: “I don’t think these
girls would run if that big blaek
bear in that heavy box over there
got out, but when that big crate
toppled off a truck and the litl e
white mice streamed out you should
have seen the rush of skirts.
sij, tins platform is not big enough
for white 4miee rand women chauf
feurs” , , •