Good Things
To Eat
Are to be found at our
store. We are here for bus
iness, and if you will give us
your trade you can live cheap
and well.
Our stock has been enlarg
ed and will be added to as
the demands justify. Good
Goods, Lowest Prices, Prom
pt Service and Courteous
Treatment are all we can
promise. Price our goods
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we claim.
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WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PDBUSHID THURSDAY OF BACH WBKK AT
McCKOBY, ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Office at MeCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class mall.matter.
June 11th, 1902.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One Year. In advance. $1.00
DEHOCRATIC TICKET.
COUNTY
Representative—
E. M. CARL-LEE.
Judge—
J. P. SUMMERS.
Sheriff—
W. R. CAIN.
Circuit Clerk—
Wm. MOORMAN.
County Clerk—
ED B. CARL-LEE.
Treasurer—
C. L. JACKSON.
Assessor—
W. B. FAKES.
TIP’S ANNUAL PICNIC.
The Farmers Union annual pic
nic will be pulled off at Tip, Ark
ansas, Tuesday, July, 21, 1908.
Everybody cordially invited. Bring
well filled baskets. A list of the
speakers will be announced later.
E. W. Chaney,
County Sec.
If you love, love more. If you
hate, hate less. Life is too short
to spend in hating any one. Why
war against a mortal who is going
the same road with us?’ Why not
expand the flower of life and hap
piness by learning to love, by
teaching those who are near and
dear, the beautiful lesson? Your
form may be bent or ugly, but do
you know that the most beautiful
flowers grow in the most rugged,
unsheltered places? The palace
for care, the cottage for love. J{ot
that there is no love in a mansion ;
but somehow if we are not very
careful, business will crowd all
there is of beauty out of the heart.
—" " • •
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Jeweler, Optlcan and Engraver.
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry
Silverware, Etc. Etc.
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DEPUTIES SAVE PRISONER
FRO/! LYNCHING.
Randolph Young, Negro, Charg
ed With Attempted Assault,
Is Rushed Across Country
To Newport.—Citizens In
Close Pursuit.—Every Road
Guarded And A Large Mob
Surrounds Augusta Jail, So
Negro Is Taken Elsewhere
For Safety.
Augusta, June 28.—After an
all-night run through fields and
forests, with a mob of infuriated
citizens ready to lynch their pris
oner scouring the country, Dep
uty Sheriffs J. L. Garrett aud
Charles Blackman arrived at New
port early this morning with Ran
dolph Young, a negro, aged about
25 years, who lives at Augusta and
who was placed in jail at Newport,
where he is held on the charge of
attempting to criminally assault
Miss Ira Edwards, aged about 21
or 22 years, daughter of R. F. Ed
wards, a prominent and well
kuown farmer, who lives four
miles east of Augusta.
Young, it is alleged, attempted
to assault Miss Edwards at her
home yesterday afternoon. He
' was frightened away after a fight
with the girl and arrested shortly
afterward by the two deputies. The
sheriff learned that a lynching par
ty was waiting for the negro at Au
gusta and that all roads were
guarded by members of the party
intent on getting Young. He im
mediately sent the negro to New
port in charge of his two deputies.
The trip was made across country
and took up the entire night. It
is believed that an attempt may
yet be made to lynch Youug, as
the feeling among the citizens of
this place is unusually high and
tense.
A negro, alleged to be Young,
passed the Edwards home about
3 o’clock Saturday afternoon. He
repassed the house shortly after
and stepped into the yard. He
asked Miss Edwards, who was
alone, for a drink of water. She
said that she would get him one,
and, taking a dipper, started for
the well. As she did so the negro
seized her by the arm and shoulder.
She screamed and started to run.
As she did so she fell, pulling the
negro down also. The fall broke
the negro’s hold and Miss Ed
wards sprang up aud out the back
door, starting toward a field where
her father and brother were work
ing. Realizing his danger the ne
gro ran in the opposite direction
and made good a temporary escape.
Sheriff Cain and deputies were
immediately notified and they
started toward the Edwards home.
They met a driver on the road who
told of having met a negro of the
description of one who had at
tempted to assault Miss Edwards.
The negro was seen by the driver
going towards Augusta aud the
officers returned to this city, where
they found and arrested Young.
Then they took him out to the Ed
wards home, where Miss Edwards
identified him as the negro who
had attacked her. The deputies
started back towards Augusta with
the negro, but Sheriff Cain, who
had gone in advance, to observe
the situation, learned that an or
ganized mob was waiting to lynch
the negro, and that 200 men had
surrounded the jail.
The deputies were then dispatch
ed toward Newport with the pris
oner. They traveled, accompanied
a part of the way by the sheriff,
overland, going through forests
and fields as they had learned that
all roads were guarded. They
walked to Tupelo, 15 miles distant,
where they secured a hack. From
i there they were driven to Newport.
I Young has a bad reputation at
this place. Miss Edwards is a
member of one of the most re
spected families in the county.—
Gazette.
A ten foot concrete side walk is
being laid from Shearer’s corner
north to the post-office. The town
will lay concrete crossings between
the post-office and McCrory Mer
cantile Company, aud Shearer’s
store and the Fakes Mercantile
i Company. Let the good work t o
Ion. We are glad to note the
| many improvements beiug made.
j FARMERS’ EDUCATIONAL I
I
AND
CO-OPERATIVE UNION
I
OF AMERICA
■J
There Is no 3ort of sense in plant
in a crop which is already a drug on
the market, as your main crop. Plant
pigs and poultry; they are the mort
gage lifters of this fair land of ours.
Dairymen claim that $500 worth of
grain removes $300 worth of elements
from the soil, but that $500 worth of
butter removes practically nothing.
This Is a matter that all good farm
ers should look to.
You can not go on forever cropping
a soil without wearing it out, unless
you at the same time replenish its
fertility by the addition of some sort
of soil help. Don’t let the rains car
ry your farm off to the sea.
Don’t scab on the brethren by urg
ing them to reduce their cotton crops
while you increase your own. That
sort of a man isn’t fit to belong to a
union of cutthroats. He is a sorry
sort of a dirty, fleay doyn, with apolo
gies to the canine.
The Union makes no fight on any
class. It simply stands for its own
rights, the right to co-operate in buy
ing and selling, educate and render
brighter the social life of the farmer
and his family. The merchant who
Is opposing this is making a serious
mistake.
Texans are learning the value of al
falfa. A few years ago It was a curi
osity in that State, but now it is found
a staple market product in ail mar
kets. It has developed Into one of the
most profitable crops in the State,
even being more reliable than King
Cotton, and the demand for it is on
the increase.
There Is hardly a first-rate farm in
all the South that would not be bet
ter off If it had a few stands of bees.
These tireless little workers are of
vast benefit as polenlzers among many
plants, and there is something about
the home with bees near it that the
home without these little friends never
seems to possess.
The Journal steadfastly refuses to
recognize any man as a farmer un
less he tills the ground himself and
looks to the fruits of the ground for
his reward. If he is too old to work
he is a superannuated farmer—a man
who has been a farmer, but is not one
now. If he is looking for his reward
In the increase in the price of his land
aside from the improvements, he is
to- that extent a land speculator.—
Abilene, Texas, Farmers’ Journal.
There are three things In the horse’s
make up—the breed, the raising and
the training—that It pays to look aft
er. Any one of these, neglected,
spoils the horse; any two of them
omitted, and you have a beast not
worth the room he takes up In the
world, but all of them neglected pro
duces an abortion that is of no use
to itself nor to anybody. w Sometimes
creatures who call themselves farmers
■neglect all three of these things; many
neglect two of them, and some, one
of them, and yet get along pretty
well; but it is the “pattern farmer”
who looks well to all of them, and he
wins success for his trouble.
The writer is a fellow who has to
live in town now, but he caught seven
crates of blackberries on the market
a few Saturdays ago, and bought all
of ’em. He worked like a dog—don’t
■mention how the good little woman
worked, too—till 12 that night. In
the morning, however, he had the
pleasure of seeing 49 quart Jars and
18 half-gallon Jars of solid packed ber
ries on the kitchen floor. The fruit
oost $7; the rubbers—the best ones
we could find—cost (6 dozen) 60
cents, and the fire about 26 cents; the
Jars are Mason’s, and we use them
year after year, so you see, outside
of our labor we are out $7.85 for 85
quarts of the best and most solid
packed berries you ever saw. This
makes the price a little less than 10
cents, and we have paid 20 cents for
the tins containing about half the
fruit that Is in one of our Jars. All
the apparatus we used was a great
big granite dishpan and a large, strong
basting spoon. Heat the berries till
they get to boiling good and then put
them quickly into the Jar with the
spoon, then get your rubber top an
quick and screw down well. That is
all there is to It, except to put the
Jars in a coo) place somewhere till
ready for use.
It does not take any more land to
raise cookie burrs than it does corn,
peanuts or alfalfa, but it takes as
much; and you have to pay taxes and
Interest on that land in burrs. See
the point T
While the flies are thick as poor
men’s troubles, don’t neglect the
colts. They need the best of care and
attention now. The sort of horse you
raise depends on the attention you
give the growing colt. See that he
has plenty of water, shade and salt,
and the rest, supposing you have a
good pasture, he will attend to him
self.
With spring fryers going like hot
cakes at 50 cents apiece, what’s the
use of worrying about the cotton
crop?
Pecans and Cotton.
Did you ever stop to think, whea
planting your cotton crop year after
year, says Aubrey Frink, of Mao
cloney, Fla., In Cotton Journal, that,
your land was simply giving you ona
orop annually, and that It was not
Increasing in value to you, and that,
work hard as you might, you were at
best getting only a small remunera
tion for your work? Have you nev
er wondered how you could make prac
tically the same crop on the land,
and a/t the same time, by expending
a small additional amount, you could
have your land Increase from year
to year In value and within a few
years be producing for you yearly a
better return than you could possibly
get out of your cotton?
Have you ever considered planting
pecan trees of some of the finer vari
eties In your cotton field and work
ing them along with your cotton crop,
getting just about as much per acre,
and practically making your pecan
orchard free of expense, save the first
cost of the trees and the planting of
them?
Pecan trees should be set 50 to 90
feet apart each way, and this would
mean only 17 of 18 pecan trees per
acre. These trees can be bought from
50 cents to $2 per tree, according to
size, and this would be the only ex
pense until your trees were large
enough to require some attention In
the way of fertilization for nuts,
when they would soon be producing
enough nuts to be worth more than
the whole acre of cotton.
Some of the best varieties ore Van
deman, Stuart, Schley, etc., and It is
always desirable to use budded or
grafted trees, for the trouble and ex
pense of working the trees over from
seedlings is much more than the dif
ference between seedling and budded
or grafted trees, as sold by nursery
men.
There Is a good market for the finer
pecan nuts, and prospects are that
it will be many years before there
la really a supply of them. They now
sell in market from 10 cents per pound
for the poorest grades of nuts up to
50 cents ao $1 per pound for the fin
er kinds. And a tree, when In full
bearing, which generally requires
eight to ten years, will produce sev
eral hundred pounds of nuts annual
lq. Think this matter over, and see
if you won’t come out considerably
ahead by setting sobe budded or
grafted pecans the coming winter In
your cotton fields.
The Third Is the Farmer's Profit.
The old couple were eating their
first meal with their son after his
return from college.
“Tell us, John,” said the father,
“what have you learned at college?”
"Oh, lots of things,” said the son,
as he recited his course of studies.
“Then,” he concluded, “I also stu
died logic.”
“Logic,” said the old man; “what
Is that?”
"It’s the art of reasoning,” said the
son.
“The art of reasoning,” said the fa
ther, “what is that, my boy?”
‘Well,” replied the Bon, “let me
give you a demonstration. How many
chickens are on that dish, father?"
“Two,” said the old man.
“Well,” said John, “I can prove
there are three.” Then he stuck his
fork In one and said, “That is one,
isn’t it?” ^
“Yes,” said the father.
“And this is two?” sticking his fork
in the second.
“Yes,” replied the father again.
“Well, don’t one and two make
three?” replied John triumphantly.
“Well, I declare," said the father;
“you have learned things at college.
Well, mother,” continued the old man
to his wife, “1 will give you one of the
chickens to eat and I’ll take the other,
and John can have the third. How is
that, John?”
The above story, picked up from an
unknown source, Is, after all, a pretty
good illustration of the farmer’s profit
in a cotton crop. The expense gets
the first chicken, the speculator gets
the second and the farmer gets the
third—a logic bird—and that is what
he makes on an average crop of cot
ton.
Entitled to His Earnings Only.
We are perfectly willing that a man
shall have any Increase that may be
offered him in the price of his land
over what it cost him, if such in
crease is offered because of his hav
ing improved the land and made it
desirable. We are not willing that he
shall have one cent of lnorease that
comes as a result of other vacant
lands becoming monopolized by spec
ulators, thus making ‘the available
land scarce and hard to get. In other
words, let a man get all he can for
his work, but don't let him monopolize
God’B work and reap a profit from that
to the impoverishment of hie fellow
man.—Abilene, Texas, Farmers’ Jour
nal.
This is the time of the year to gath
er in all the crop of picnics, and Union
picnics are the best Bort of advertis
ing in the world. Get busy and make
a lot of people “sit up and take no
tice.”
Well, if you took decent care la
putting in that garden, and gave it rea
sonable attention afterward, yon have
already had a big profit from it, and
the crop ought not to be half gone.
If you planted all those trees that
you should hajye planted last fall and
i winter, you should take time to see
j that they are kept free from being
! choked out this year by grass and
weeds, and It sometimes happens that
a bucket of waieT or two will pull
a tree over a hard dry spall. Ixmk
after the trees; it will pay big.
KAN. CITY HEAT HARKET
Choice, fresh Meats, Fish, Vegeta
bles, Dairy and Poultry Products, and
Country Produce.—A Variety of Good
Things to Eat is What We Endeavor to
Offer the Trade at All Times.
HOnER VEAZEY
CARD OF THANKS.
Mr. Editor: I desiie to say
to the good ladies of McCrory, and
especially those who furnished the
excellent music Sunday, June, 21,
for our memorial service, that, we
as a band of brothers wish to say
that our souls were filled with di
vine love as we listened to the
beautiful strains of that soul stir
ing music. It filled every soul
with joy to know that so many
good Rebekahs, though they were
unconcious of the fact, were in
McCrory.
I want to tell you that on the
26th., day of April, 1819, in the
City of Boston, there was a gather
ing of five men that were brought
together by a call that had been
sent out by one Thomas Wildev.
This man in an upper room, placed
himself in a certain attitude and
repeated a form of an obligation.
The four men took the same obli
gation, the same being administer
ed by Thomas Wildey. They then
promulgated certain principles,
setting forth their objects and pur
poses. In the main, we, today,
take the same obligation and teach
the same principles towit: To the
ladies we are anxious to say our
Institution is not unmeaning ; and
yet need hardly say it, for the de
velopement of her principles so
clear in the practice of our worthy
members that all observers can see
them readily. The following may
be counted as a brief epitome of
Odd Fellowship. God's father
hood and man’s brotherhood; are
for others; friendship; love and
truth and trust in God. This is
the watchword of Odd Fellowship,
and like the motto that has just
been refered to, it adorns the prin
ciple chair in the lodge room and
it is proper to state that from the
first movement made towards be
coming connected with the order
until the last mysteries in Odd Fel
lowship are disclosed “trust in
God” is inculcated and enjoined.
An atheist could never gain ad
misson through the door into a
lodge room, for the mysteries of
iniation, and the same of all sub
sequent developments until the
Grand Encampment is reached, to
gether with the wonderful test of
Abraham’s faith in God, is refered
to,who, by faith when he was tried,
offered up Issac; and he that had
received the promises offered up
his only begotten sou, of whom it
was said in Issac shall thy seed be
called.
This Grand Man was placed as
N. G., hence he was the first Past
Grand in America. He lived to
see our beloved order grow and
prosper and he was made the first
G. M. of the first Grand Lodge
and yet the order grew to where
they needed a Sovereign Grand
Lodge. This same old man was
the first G. S. of the Sovereign
j Grand Lodge.
I The services Sunday were in
memory of this grand man, not
only of him but of all Odd Fellows
who have gone on to join that
mighty Caravan of workers who
have crossed that mystic river to
reap the reward of their labors.
We hope some day to be able to
more fully show our appreciation
by helping to organize a Rebekah
lodge at this place that some of
you who lnwe expressed a desire
aud all who will and are eligible
may band yourselves together
that you may do more good (if
possible) than you are now doing.
I expect in the near future to say
something of the origin and work
of the Rebekah branch of Odd
Fellowship.
Again thanking the ladies for
the many courtesies shown McCro
ry Lodge No. 273, We are frater
nally, W. E. Pollett, et al.
DEVIEW.
By Our Regular Correspondent
Miss-Craver, of Union
City, Tenn., is visiting her sister,
Mrs. Harry Hall.
Miss Bertha Cannon visited
friends on the Bayou from Satur
day. till Monday.
John King has been laid up for
several days with sore throat. The
cause is not known.
The farmers are up with their
work and are expecting a big time
on the glorious 4th.
Black berries were never better,
and the women and children are
making use of the abundant crop.
Mrs. S. A. Bishop is at home
after a two week’s stay at Ward,
with her sister and other relatives.
Mrs. Rose McCauley came in
Saturday to take charge of the
DeView school, which opens Mon
day.
Frank Johnson, who has been
employed by M. H. Albritton, left
Friday for his home at Tucker
man.
Mr. W. H. Neely, and mother
in-law, Mrs. S. A. Holland spent
Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Rufe
Warner.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hall are
entertaining a bouncing big boy,
who made his arrival on Monday,
June, 22, 1908.
After an absence of 3 weeks, I
will send in some dots. General
Green has been crowding us so we
had not time for news.
Now as the farmers are up with
their work, picnics, ice-cream sup
pers and fish-frys are getting quite
numerous, although the fish have
not bitten well.
E. L. Pritchett, and family, re
turned Tuesday from a few days
visit in Augusta.
Canned Goods.
Call and inspect our line. We han
dle all kinds of canned goods. Afresh
supply of cakes. Fresh bread Friday
and Tuesdays. Best home killed meats.
JEFFRIES, MARSH & CO.