THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Wherever Ford cars have pieneered, Ford ser
vice has kept pace. It is the factor which
strengthens the personal relation between Ford
owners and the Dompanv. To get the best pos
sible service from your Ford car, bring it here
when it needs attention and get the benefit of
Ford supervision throughout. We use the gen
uine Ford parts and give you the benefit of the
regular standard Ford prices.
Runabout $345, Touring Car $360, Coupelet $505,
Town Car $595, Sedan $645 — all f. o. b. Detroit.
Place your order now.
RIGGS BROTHERS,
McCrory,
Arkansas
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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, December 28, 1917.
Mr. John Wright of Magazine
spent Christmas with friends and
relatives here.
Ford cars will save you money
in the long run. Riggs Brothers,
McCrory, Ark. Adv.3 30tf
Mr. J. H. Jones returned last
week from Vanndale where he
visited friends and relatives.
Mr. W. R. Fraser and family
spent Xmas with Mrs. Frazer’s
sister, Mrs. B. Brewster of this
city.
We both lose money if you
don’t see me before selling your
cattle or hogs. W. J. Mitchell,
McCrory, Ark. Adv. 12-14-tf.
Private John Johnson of Co. A,
154th Inf., 39th Div., Camp
Peauregard, La., spent a portion
of the holidays with home folks. !
Fred Doesn’t Care
Norfolk, Va. Doc. 20, 1917.
Mr. Walter Raney,
McCrory, Ark.
Kind Sir: —
How is McCrory? I am going
to write just a few words that I
want you print to in the county j
paper, The Home News, and also
please send my paper to the ad
dress below. This is what I
want you to print:
To Arkansas
I don’t care where they send me,
Or what it is I have to do;
And I don’t care what may hap
pen,
Or where I am when we get 1
through.
But I do care for you Dearie!
With your dreamy eyes so blue,
So while I am fighting over here,
My heart is home with you.
I would be glad to read a few
lines from anyone back home.
Your Friend,
Fred Manasco,
U. S. N. Training Station,
Company 92. Norfolk, Va.
How to check croup quickly
There is one reliable remedy
for croup that every mother
should know. Mrs. Sweet Clary,
Ante, Va., writes: “I think Fol
ly's Honey and Tar is the best
medicine I ever tried. My little
son nearly had croup. I gave
nim one dose and it stopped him
coughing in about five minutes.
Relieves coughs, colds, lagrippe.
sold by Red Cross Drug Store.
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TRACTORS USED IN ENGLAND
American Machine Is Meeting With
Pronounced Favor, and Many Brit
ish Farmers Are Investing.
Intensive cultivation is not the
only thing that American farmer^
can learn from others. In England
farmers are using tractors for plow- i
ing, reaping, hauling and light |
power purposes on a scale that puts
in the shade the country where the
best tractors are made, observes the
New York Commercial. In some of
the Canadian provinces the local gov
ernments have assisted farmers in
buying tractors. American consuls
report that with British farmers, 1
usually the most conservative of
mortals, tractors are becoming very
popular because a tractor enables a
farmer to do better work with a
smaller staff and it is adaptable to
various uses for which power is re
quired on the farm.
Several American manufacturers
of tractors are well represented in
England and their sales are growing
fast. Demonstrations of tractors in
operation stimulate demand and
country fairs afford good opportuni
ties for this. Becently a great plow
ing match for tractors as well as for
horse-drawn plows was held in con
junction with the annual county fair
at Brantford, Ont., which attracted
hundreds of farmers, and numerous
orders were booked for deliveries to
farmers’ clubs all over western On
tario.
MAKING VACCINES IN CHINA
Four Laboratories Manufacture Small
pox, Plague, Typhoid and Other
Disease Preventatives.
There are at present in China four |
laboratories for the manufacture of j
vaccines, while preparations are un- !
der way for the establishment of a
fifth one, at Peking, according to the
Scientific American. The laboratory
at Hongkong manufactures small
pox, plague, typhoid and other bac
terial vaccines.
In Shanghai there are two labora
tories—one conducted by the munici
pality, and manufacturing smallpox,
typhoid and other vaccines, and the
at her a small laboratory manufactur
ing smallpox vaccine only, and con
ducted by a Japanese firm. The mu
nicipal laboratory, aside from manu
factoring vaccines, also administers
the Pasteur treatment for rabies.
A fourth laboratory is located at
Nanking, and manufactures small
pox vaccine. This vaccine is sold in
Nanking and vicinity at a price ap
proximating 5 cents, United States
currency, per tube.
GERMANY'S COPPER SUPPLY.
Where Germany is obtaining her
present supplies of copper is a ques
tion of considerable interest says the
Scientific American. Before the war
she obtained most of her copper from
the United States, taking over one
thifd of our exports. She had a large
?tock at the outbreak of hostilities,
but this must long before now have
been depleted. Since Germany has
extended her sphere of influence it is
probable some supplies are coming
from other countries. The Serbian
copper mines are now being inten
sively exploited by the Germans and
Austrians, and good copper deposits
are also said to have been found in
Poland. Work has begun in lead
and copper mines in*Kielce, and in
Miedziana, Lysa Gora and Olkuss
the methodical exploitation of these
ores has recently been started.
COST AND POWER OF BIG GUNS.
There are now on the ships of the
United States navy, according to
Walter S. Meriwether, 124 guns of
14-inch caliber, built at an aggregate
cost of $10,000,000. Writing in the
Scientific American, he says that
this cost does not include the car
riages, "which weigh almost as much
and whose recoil gear must take up a
shock equal to that of 20 Pullman
coaches running at 70 miles an hour
and brought to an instant stop.”
OF COURSE.
Mechanic—The propeller is at the
front of the machine, madam, and
can make 10,000 revolutions a min
ute.
Visitor—How very interesting. I
suppose it is put at the front so as
you shall be able to count them.
ACCOUNTING FOR IT.
"They say the death rate of the
country is decreasing.”
"Well, I suppose, for one thing,
most of the Maine guides have been
drafted.”
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New Year Greetings |
To our many friends
and patrons we wish
each a New Year filled
with abundant happiness
and prosperity.
Cullum’s Barker Shop
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