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McCRORY, Arkansas.
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WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED THURSDAY OF EAOFI WEEK AT
McCRORY, ARKANSAS.
E. C. KRAHER, Editor.
Entered at the Post-OtHee at McCrory.
Arkansas, as Second-Class mall,matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One Year. In advance. $1.00
ANNOUNCE H ENTS
Prosecuting Attorney
We arc authorized to announce Hon. P. R.
Andrews of Autrusta as candidate for prosecu
ting attorney of the First Circuit, subject to
the action of the Democratic party.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
The News is authorized to announce ATTY.
E. C. KRAMER of McCrory, as candidate for
Representative from Woodruff county in the
Thiry-fouth General Assembly of Arkansas,
subject to the action of the Democratic party.
The News has the pleasure of
presenting its boss, E. C. Kra
mer to the Democracy of Wood
ruff county as a candidate to
represent the interests of the
good people of Woodruff county
in the next General Assembly.
He will from time to time give
his opinions in regard to the po
litical status of our county and
do so fearlessly and with unglov
ed hands.
Woodruff county is soon to
have another newspaper. The
PTee Lance to be edited by Rev.
W. T. Pope, Rev. V. M. Town
send to become the business
manager. It will be a semi
monthly news journal published
in the interest of and for the
Negro’s material, social, intel
lectual and religious advance
ment. The first issue to appear
Saturday, January 11, 1902, the
printing of same to be done by
the Free Press Publishing Co.—
Free Press. v1 *•> 'r
It is the priviJege and pleasure
V of the Free Press this week to
^present to our readers the name
of our brother Atty. E. C. Kra
mer, of McCrory as a candidate
for Representative to the State
Legislature. He was reared in
Pope county, this state, but for
the past few years has been a
resident of Woodruff county,
having heen engaged in school
teaching for the past eight or
ten yeers. At. the present he is
engaged in the practice of law at
McCrory and is thoroughly iden
tified with the best interests of
Woodruff county. Socially he
possesses a genial disposition,
always true to his convictions of
what de considers right, i*egard
less of the opinions of others.
Politically he is a stanch Demo
crat and has always been a
strong advocate of his party’s
principles. Should he be the
choice for the position to which
he now aspires, judging from his
ability and honest, conscientious
character, it is safe to predict
that a high grade of service will
be rendered by him while hold
ing the position.—Free Press.
Prom talk that is now current,
it seems that the candidates of
I Woodruff county are now going
| to rush things proper by having
j the primary held in this county
one week prior to the date set by
the Democratic State Central
I Committee. In other words,
some of the candidates want
March 22 for the primaries in
this county. Nothing definite
however, can be said of this un
til the county central committee
has met.—Free Press.
Where is this talk current?
Nowhere, but in Augusta. We
ask why should this be the cur
rent talk? The only reason we
can see is to benefit the Augusta
candidates by such an extra elec
tion. The people are slow to go
to the ballot box anyway and to
have two primaries so near each
other, would cause a great many
to remain away from the poles.
Augusta has her voters so well
posted that they wonld come to
the poles at midnight to elect one
of their men, bnt the citizens as a
general thing are not so constitu
ted and the “Augusta current
speakers” know this only too
well. The News is opposed to
the current talk and thinks it.
economy pi time fco- have both
primaries the same day. If there
is any other reason for this one
week sooner primary business,
we would be glad to learn it.
| On last Wednesday Miss Lena
[ Holland in company with her
; friend Miss Lyda Wright of
| Beards and her cousin Mr. Ever
ett Jordan of Troy, N. C., paid
the News office a very pleasant
visit. We trust that this Troyan
will be so well pleased with Ark
mwmmrn.
Come to see my stock of gen
era! merchandise! In my Gro
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ce^y department, ifinecandies, PigB, raison
Pulverized Sugar, Mince-meat. * -5- * ❖
XMAS TOYS of all kinds, A car load <
Flour fresh from the mills
and DeView, Akansas
ansas that he will sing the prais
es of her beauty and firtility for
evermore. If the North Caroli- i
nans knew that their was such a!
place as Arkansas, there would
not be enough people left in old
Zeb Vance’s state to hold the
next election.
A UooJ Reccommendctlon.
“I have noticed that the sale on
Chamberlain’s Stomach & Liver
Tablets is almost invariably to
those who have once used them,”
says Mr. J. H. Weber, a promi
nent druggist of Cascade, Iowa.
What better recommendation
could any medicine have than for
people to call for it when again in
need of such a remedy? Try them
when you feel dull after eating,
when you have a bad tast in your
mouth, feel billious, have no ap
petite or when troubled with
constipation and you are certain
to be delighted with the prompt
relief which they afford. For
sale by Dr. J. B. Neal of McCro
ry and A. S. Thompson of De
View, Arkansas.
GRAYS.
Received too late for last week.
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Holder of
Zent Arkansas are here visiting
their children H. H. Holder and
Mrs. Hodges.
Miss Mag Shelton left Sunday
for Memphis, and Mason, Tenn.
She was accompanied as far as
Memphis by Horace Gowan and
Miss Winfree. Miss Mag expects
to be gone two or three months.
The young people were given a
party at the home of K. L.
Strk id and Wednesday night. A
good time was reported.
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Miss Mag Wmfree returned
home Wednesday p. m. after a
ten days’ visit with friends in
Grays.
Dr. Waldrop reports Will Yar
bor and children improving. The
little ones have been very low
with congestion.
Mr. and Mrs. Ila Stewart en
tertained their relatives at din
ner last Friday. There were 84
present.
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Atkins re
turned to DeValls Bluff Tuesday
! having spent Xmas with the lat
ter’s mother, Mrs. Lucy Moore.
Mr. and Mrs. Carnie of Sum
1 merville, Tenn.. are visiting Mrs.
Miller west of Grays.
T. J. Atkins and wife, Mrs.
: Jelks and Misses Mattie and
Alice Moore dined with W. P.
Musgrove Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Wallace are at
home to their friends at Mrs.
| Cal lie Strickland’s.
LAW NOT ENFORCED.
Mr. Editor: May I ask a few
questions through the columns of
your paper and afterward give
my reason for asking,
j I ask is law a farce, is justice
a misnomer? This question pro
pounded it’s self to me after
hearing a trial before a magis
trate’s court where a trio of
rj would-be-young-men invaded the
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precincts of a quiet home while
in a state of Bacchanalian revelry
and with blasphemy and obscene
language and with all the venom
that his Satanic majesty- could
inject into their minds, they
drove the mother and daugh
ters in doors to shelter from the
storm of debauchery with which
they were surrounded and when
the father, the defender of the
home, would seek redress for
his grievances before the law. he
is jeered at and forced to take the
hard earned cash from his
pocket to pay the cost, the jury
bringing a verdict of not guilty
while all the evidence was pos
sitively for the plaintiff. Now
Mr. Editor we claim that that;
virdict has established a preci
dent that is far-reaching in its
influence for evil and wrong do
ing. It ignores the sanctity of
the home; it dispises morality
and decency; it laughs at the an-,
protected mothers and daugli- j
ters; it adds injury to insult; it
breeds and fosters mob violence;
it tells the fathers plainly that
their only redress is the shot!
gun; it emboldens the acquited I
and places the aearaond’s smile
on his face; it briugs shame and
confusion to the law abiding citi
zen; it prevents justice and judg
ment.
Now, I would ask whither are
we tending':* Looking at the
matter as it really is, we believe
that our question must be ans
wered in the offirmative. Yours
for the right, Loyalty.
UNCLE BILL’S FIRE.
On last Saturday morning:
about five o’clock, W. B. Dough
erty’s house caught fire; sup
posed to have caught from a spark
from the chimney. As soon as
Uncle Bill “discivered” the aw
fulness of the situation, he fell
upon his knees in prayer and of
fered up this supplication “Our
God, thou who art a refuge in
time of trouble and distress!
Send thy humble servant a good
big shower, in fact a rain, a gully
washer. And Oh, God! Send it
now for I am burning up. ”
Uncle Bill was doing his very
best, when his wife pulled him
up and said to him: “Bill, get
up and do what you can first and
when that fails, you can pray.”
Of course, our Willie is very
obedient so, he climbs upon the
house and began to tight hre.
• In the mean time, Miss Nina
is running and screaming fire
over the neighborhood trying to
arouse the people to come to their
rescue. She ran across cotton
fields and corn stalk patches and
when she would come to a slash,
she would leap in the air turn a
summer-set and land on the op
posite side. She would climb
barbwire fences as nimbly, as a
monkey climbing a pole and so
excited was she, that she did not
know’ where she lost her apron,
but afterward found pieces of it
hanging on the fence where she
had crossed. On her return, she
actually beat the St. Louis Iron
Mountain & Southern’s agent in
a foot race back to the fire.
Uncle Bill with the aid of his
ffiends soon had the fire out.
But he has not finished his
; prayer yet. He with his red cap
! on, told us that he was going to
hunt up a carpenter to put a
house on his top.
We hope Uncle Willie will some
day complete the incomplete and
may never again be bothered
with such a misfortune as that
of last Saturday.
TIP.
Eeeelred too late for last week.
J. D. Meatlock spent Xmas in
Jonesboro.
Freeman Dupree is visitlug
relatives in our burg.
Miss Maggie Winfree has been
visiting in Grays this week.
Ola Scales of McCrory was
in town the first of the week.
i Miss Ola Quillin is visiting in
. our neighborhood this week.
■ E. M. Fowler has moved over
on his farm across the bayou.
E. W. Chaney and family spent
the holidays with relatives near
FINE BERKSHIRE HOGS
H B Angus,
McCrory, Arkansas.
We have good teams and earejnl
drivers.]
After a short rest, we have again started
a lively stable and we invite our old friends
to come and see us on Main street west of Shearer’s Store.
HcCrory, .%.$..%. Ark.
Grays.
Ed Hartin and Harry Hall of
DeView were down Saturday of'
last week.
Mr. Ab Smith was visiting his
brother, our hustling little mer- ■
chant, Wednesday.
Clyde and Ed Scales, of Brink- i
ley, spent the holidays with their ;
aunt. Mrs. Mann.
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Mrs. Caudle has been sick for
some time; Miss Emma Poor is;
therefore living there at the
present.
What kind of a represenative
would a man make that never
knew his name until he was 12
years old.
Ask R. B. Caudle and J. F.
Brummett what their experience
will be at the “big meetin” next
summer.
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Prof. Love joy spent Xmas
with home folks at Wheatley. He
resumed his work in our public
school again Monday.
John Clayton has a Xmas gift
everyone should see. It is valu
able. He is not ashamed of it
for he wears it just over his eye.
Most of our boys seem to have
gotten too much of their Xmas
from McCrory; we have there
fore had plenty of “cussin” and
“fightin.”
Albert Hartsell and family, of
Missouri, visited the latter part
of last week at J. D. Kelton’s and
were accompanied by him and
his family to Jackson county.
We had the pleasure of listen
ing to an excellent sermon Sun
day, delivered by our pastor,
Bro. P. E. Taylor. We certainly
have a pastor that we may well
be proud of.
Our county is flooded at
present with the “speech of Hon.
James K. Jones’’ and resolutions
made in his behalf. If he don’t
mind he will have to forfeit some
of his “trust stock” to pay post
age. We hollow hurrah for
Clarke.
Some of our boys went to onr
friend Tucker’s one night last
week to have some fun and of
course they had it. Just as they
thought they were safe away
with Mr. Tucker’s favorite char
iot, he happened to hear them
and proceeded to catch them and
did part of them at least, for the
others had long since taken the
warning given by the firing of a
gun and had left the others far
behind. Our friend, after catch
ing the boys, tried some of his
“big” ugly words to get his
chariot back, but they did not
avail, he then tried persuading,
but to no advantage, he then
thought of his “Jessie Moore”
and everybody except the only
two runners there was in the
crowd soon set things right. He
then had the greatest joke possi
ble on the boys and went with
the crowd. But the next morn
ing to his astonishment things
were as bad as ever and the joke
is never run only where the boys
run it.
A Cure for Lumbago.
W. C. Williamson, of Amherst,
Va„ says: “For more than a
year I suffered from lumbago. I
finally tried Chamberlain’s Fain
Balm and it gave me entire relief
which all other remedies had
failed to do.” For sale oy Dr. J.
B. Neal of McCrory and A. S.
Thomson of Deview, Arkansas.
REMARKABLE CURE OF CROUP.
A Little Boy’s Life Saved.
I have a few words to say re
garding Chamberlain.s Cough
Remedy. It saved my little boy’s
life and I feel that I cannot
praise it enough. I bought a
bottle of it from A. E. Steere of
Goodwin, S. D., and when I got
home with it the poor baby could
hardly breathe. I gave the med
icine as directed every ten min
utes until he “threw up” and
then I thought sure he was go
ing to choke to death. We had
to pull the phlegm out of his
mouth in great long strings. I
am positive that if I had not got
that bottle of cough medicine,
my boy would not be on earth to
day.—Joel Demont, Inwood,
| Iowa. Sold by Dr. J. B. Neal of
McCrory and A. S. Thompson of
DeView, Arkansas.
The Ideal Restaurant “ the place to get
5 5 n n n. n 5 ij n First class rieals
Served Promptly
at all hours and at reasonable rates. I constantly have on hand all
kinds of sandwiches, oysters in any style, pies, cakes, lunches, in
fact eveything usually kept by a First -class Restaurant,
Anything in my line is first class
O. A. Dilts. Proprietor.
fleat Harket and Restaurant.
We shall endeavor to always have on hand the
Best and Choicest Heats obtainable.
And wheu you want a good meai, call and see us. Oysters
and Celery on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Meals at all hours.
Yours For Business.
Greer and Company.