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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.
Entered as second-class mat
ter August 26, 1915, at the post
office at McCrory, Ark., under
the Act of March 3, 1879.
Friday, May 19, 1916.
Democratic Nominees
For Governor—
C. H. Brough
For Congressman—
T. H. Caraway
For Prosecuting Attorney—
P. R. Andrews
For Sheriff—
Alex McGregor
For Circuit Clerk—
L. W. WlNFREE
For County Clerk—
Walter Jimerson
For Treasurer—
Roy Mitchell
For County Judge—
A. L. Hutchins
For Representative—
Ross Mathis
For Assessor—
Edgar Miller
For Road Overseer—
J. L. Bronte
ARKANSAS PRESS MEET
(Continued from page two)
girls, who distributed flowers at
the reception, so fascinated the
excursionists that they were
“kidnaped” and taken to Piggot
to be left at Paragould on the re
turn trip. They were: Misses
Nina Simpson, Jack and Helen
Vandervoort, Roberta Johnson
and Hazel Reedy. It was the
pleasure of the editor and wife
to meet these beautiful young
ladies and they made this part of
the excursion the happiest and
best of all. They declared they
too would be on tne trip next
year even if it became necces
sary to indulge in “matrimony’’
to become a member. As soon as
one of the ladies learned we were
from McCrory, we were deluged
with numerous questions about a
certain “Red” of whom we later
learned she was asking about a
young man of McCrory whose
name is Jeffries.
At Marmaduke the train made
a brief stop and several hundred
residents greeted the train at the
station. There was no program.
Rector received the party cor
dially. Again a band and many
automobiles met the train and
after a drive over the town the
party returned to the City park,
near the train, where the come
dians of the party and the town
orators amused the scribes and
W. D. HINSON
McCRORY, ARK.
Jeweler and Optometrist
A COMPLETE LINE OF
Watches, Jewelry and
Optical Goods.
I am the only Optome
trist in Woodruff Co.
townspeople during the two hours
wait.
HAVE VAUDEVILLE SHOW
A. W. Parke, in a clown’s
make-up, captured the drum from
the Rector band and aided by
Burton Bunch, Fred Pattee, T.
E. Wood, Ray Gill, J. W. Bolin
and others, staged a vaudeville
show, in which the impersonation
of Teddy Roosevelt was the hit of
the program. Mr. Wood, the
“orator,” Mr. Bolin, the “Yod
ler,” and Mr. Bunch, all-round
comedian, added to the perfor
mance. At the conclusion of the
vaudeville show, the loud-talking
telephone carried on the special
was set up in the band stand and
Secretary of State Earle W.
Hodges, seated in the train, ad
dressed the crowd over the tele
phone.
The stop at Piggot the best
town in Clay County, ended the
most successful excursion the
Arkansas Press Association ever
made and the editors began re
turning to their homes.
After a dinner and a reception
that ended at 10 o’clock, the Cot
ton Belt Special, which carried
the party of 150 editors and their
families more than 400 miles di
agonally across the state from
Texarkana to Piggott, left there
at 10:15 o’clock for Argenta.
The excursion and side trips,
over the Cotton Belt branches
carried the scribes through the
timber belt in south Arkansas,
the rice belt in east Arkansas
and the rich farming section in
the northeastern part of the state.
Two of the largest lumber mills
in the state were visited and two
of the state’s agricultural schools
at Magnolia and at Jonesboro,
and a score of cities and towns
received the excursionists along
the route.
The end of the excursion Sat
urday night was one of the most
enjoyable events of the trip. The
train carried the Rector band to
Piggott, where it was met by the
| Piggott Concert band at 6 o’clock
After a reception at the station,
the two bands headed the excur
sionists to the Clay county court
house lawn. There the Piggott
women’s Civic Club had prepared
an excellent luncheon. While the
visitors ate the two bands played
alternately and other musical
numbers were given. A recep
tion and band concert followed
the dinner.
Five high officials of the South
western Telegraph & Telephone
Company toured the St. Louis
Southwestern railroad in Arkan
sas, with the Arkansas Associa
tion, and a complete long distance I
telephone equipment was operat- j
ed upon the special train for the ;
convenience of the editors.
General Manager S. A. Lane, ]
was personally in charge of the;
telephone service. His thought-1
fulness made it possible for prac
tically every newspaper man in
the state to enjoy the pleasures
of the trip, as the guest 0f
the Cotton Belt railroad
At every stop of the train
wires were tapped and the editors
could talk with their homes and
keep in touch with their business
affairs.
Qute a few of the editors pre
pared their “copy” on the run
and .telephoned it in, thus
keeping the printers busy,
where otherwise they would
have been forced to return
to their homes. The edi
tors are very grateful for the ser
vice, which they say made the
trip a pleasant one, in as much
as it permitted them to keep their
mind free of business worries,
for they always knew now the
business was going back at home.
Home For Sale.
Five room cottage, good loca
tion, for sale cheap. See H. A.
Walker. Adv. tf.
Cabbage and tomato plants for
sale. Call at Proulx’ residence.
Adv.
For Sale: One two-horse bug
gy, used only six weeks, new
set of double harness, and one
good horse, for cash only. Call
or write, B. Brewster, M. D.,
McCrory, Ark. Adv. 38-tf.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DR. G. F. MAYNARD
Licensed Deputy State
Veterinarian
AUGUSTA, ARKANSAS
Sick and emergency calls answered
Promptly
B. BREWSTER
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office phone 39, Residence 16
Office in rear of Farmers &
Merchants Bank building.
H. P. HARGIS
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Phone No. 49
Calls answered day or night.
J: H. WEST
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Calls answered promptly
day or night.
Grays, Arkansas
G. W. BARBER
NOTARY PUBLIC
AND INSURANCE
McCRORY DRUG CO.
Everything in the drug line
PHONE NO. 42.