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McCRORY, ARKANSAS
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FRAME BUILDINGS.
WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED THCKSDAY Of KACH WBKR AT
McCROBY. ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Office at McCrory
Arkansas, as Seoond-Class mall.matter.
June 11th, 1903.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year. In advance.
COMPANY “O” IMPROVES.
Company “G” is having its ar
mory fitted up in true military
style, having: secured the services)
of oneot its recruits, J. J. Murphy
by name, who has served his time !
iu the regular army, to install up
to-date rifle racks which are made
to accomodate the eight pieces of
each perspective squad in the order
as they come, aud having each in
dividual's company number stamp
ed above hi« firing piece. There
will also be a separate rack made for
the accomodation of all the pieces
of every seargent in the company
and numbered in the same manner,
and the squad boxes, one for each
squad, for the storage of their side
arms and equipments, will remove
a great inconvenience, both at
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home in the armory and abroad in
camps, which has here-to-fore been
experienced. Three more cheers
for Company “G."
CITY ELECTION.
The town election passed off
very quietly in this city Tuesday,
and a very small vote was polled.
Following are the new officers who
will take charge of the town affairs
Monday night, May, 3, 1909, to
serve one year;
Mayor, R. B. Keating; Record
er, W. B. Fakes; Aldermen, R.
Bruce Fakes, Walter Jimerson, C.
B. Cook, H. T. Raney and Chas.
E. Riggs.
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C. B. STEWART
Director Second Regiment
Band.
301 Hollenberg Building
Little Rock Ark.
Complete Stock of Sheet
Music and Musical
MERCHANDISE
Teachers Supplies a
Specialty
^^lail orders promptly hilled..^
New horses and Riggs. Courteous Treatment
H. D. SWAYZEE
THE LIVERYMAN
Commercial Trade Especially Solicited. ’Phone 48
F. P. WRIGHT, Pre*.
A. J. PORTER, Ate. and Tr*a*
Purchasing Agency
CAPITAL $25,000.00.
INCORPORATED
General Merchandise.
FRESH GOODS COMPLETE SfOCK
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Eat Fresh Meat.
If you are buying your meats of us
you have the satisfaction of knowing that
they are pure, fresh, and home-killed. We
buy and sell only the best. A trial will tell.
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Farmers Educational
—AND
Co-Operative Union
Of America
Where Wili it End7
What has become of the courage and
backbone of the farmers In market
ing their cotton slowly?
Last year Texas farmers held or to
their cotton nobly, while the farmers
of the Eastern States sold rather fast.
This year the best, the amplest, the
most substantial arrangements have
been made by our State Union offi
cials to relieve the distressed cotton
that we have ever had, still the farm
ers seem to be panicstricken.
The cotton over the principle part
of the belt opening unusually early
the farmers all seem to be in a race
to see who can get it ginned and all
of it to market first. Their conduct
in this matter is the rankest madness.
That is a strong term to use, but why
mince words or speak in velvet tones
while this high carnival of folly is
in full swing.
As Mr. O. R. Hightower, secretary
of the Farmers' Union national com
rnltee says: "Public sentiment in the
South is largely responsible for these
low prices. The lack of full and cor
rect Information among the farmers
and the strength of the old habit of
rushing their cotton to market as fast
as gathered is responsible to a large
extent for the present conditions.
Speculators know more of the farm
ers’ condition than the farmer ever
dreams, and they use this knowledge
to its fullest extent. They know when
they have once got the farmers’ faith
in the market broken and have them
stampeded to market they can Just
keep cutting the price and the farm
ers will feed the marker the faster.
This season, somehow, tne farmers
started into the season in a pessimis
tic frame of mind. They seem to fear
a repetition of last season’s bank tie
up; still they do not hesitate to de
posit what spare change they have
with the banks. On the whole, the
farmers, of whom I am one, have
many of the characteristics of an
enigma.
i lie IVOO IV tiiV t
business Interests In ♦be South this
season on account of such blind, meth
odleas rushing the market, has already
run Into the millions. When will It
end? When will the farmers learn
that a little careful study of the
world’s cotton market and the condi
tions of business that affect it will
enable them to put more intelligent
business methods into their crop mar
keting that will enable them to make
more money and have more of the
comforts of life with an eight-hour
day than they get now under this old
system of tolling from sun till sun at
all seasons of the year.
Often when I have been soliciting
subscriptions among farmers for our
Union papers have I been told: “1
haven’t got time to read. It takes
me all my time to make a living. 1
try to take a county paper to sorter
keep up with things at home, but
half the time don’t have time to read
It.”
There Is no practical remedy for
the farmers’ condition outside of or
gantzatlon. Organization without a
disposition to co-operate and act in
concert throughout the cotton belt is
worthless. If a man Is unwilling to
be taught better and saner methods
of doing business the organization can
not help him, but he can through his
Incorrigible ignorance and stupid folly
become a millstone about the neck oi
the organization and that condition
largely prevails today.
Those who would save this loss of
so man millions of dollars to the
farmers of the South are prevented
from doing so by this crowd, who
never have time to read anything
heavier than Hostetter’s Almanac.
Farmers' Union men, let us rally
our forces and do what we can to
stop this dumping, this everlasting
bearing the market. If you must have
money for any purpose and you cannot
get a loan on it stored in your ware
house at home, for the love of your
family and your country don’t sell it
at such prices as are now offered, bul
ship it to some one of the cotton fac
tors at Galveston in the care of J. 0
Albritton and draw two-thirds of its
present value at 6 per cent, the loan
to continue till you order the cotton
sold.
X nig muucr UI snipping miuo ie a
very simple affair and if you don't
understand it go to your railroad agent
for Instructions; though if you are a
Union man your local secretary has
complete instructions for you. Yon
may say there is no use for me to hold
my bale while everybody else is sell
lng. That argument is the refuge ol
knaves and fools and will not be re
sorted to by a self-reflecting man whe
has ordinary intelligence. If every
body should adopt that theory and put
It In practice the wheels of progress
Charles McLaren of Orange county
California, discovered a pitchfork it
the heart of a tree which is aearlj
five feet in circumference. The trunk
was perfectly round and smooth ant
showed no signs of decay.
American shippers who shipped i
large amount of corned beef to L>ondoi
found that the English do not tak<
kindly to It and they were obligee
to ship It back to this country.
Sometimes it)£ politician gets
hut don’t knop'^irho hit him.
.
hit
would stop with such a jar you would
be ready to swear we had had an
earthquake.
Come, let us get busy. Whatever
else you do, attend your local meet
ings. Don’t miss a meeting. Talk this
cotton business. Talk it in your meet
ings and talk it at home. Talk it
when you meet your neighbor, get in
the habit of talking up the slow sell
ing movement. We don’t talk this plan
of marketing slow enough to get real
ly in touch with it. We all agree
that it is the proper thing, but some
how we can’t get It down that it ap
plies to ourself. Mr. Jones and Mr.
Smith ought to put their cotton in the
warehouse and if they are in debt they
ought to take their receipt to the bank
and borrow money on it and go and
liquidate his bacon and bread bill, hut
me? Oh, I—I—I can’t store my cot
ton and hold it. I owe so much I
just have to sell. Then I go ahead
and sell my crop at, say 8 1-2, and
It don’t pay me out, while Jones and
Smith stored theirs and borrowed
enough money on it to ease their
creditors and eventually sold for 10
or 12 cents and paid out and had some
money left. Which or who acted wis
est? What have you to say, Brother
Peter Tumbledown?
Before this paper reaches you two
great meetings will have convened,
one at New Orleans and the other at
Memphis, Tenn. Both meetings will
be held for the purpose of devising
some plan or means of boosting the
cotton market. No doubt there will
be some practical plan evolved at both
meetings, and the two meetings tak
en together might easily mark the
greatest epoch in the history of the
production and marketing of cotton In
the South. But, my brother, don’t be
foolish enough to be caught holding
a sack open for those meetings to fill
with dollars while you wait.
After all It is up to you and me.
Union and nonunion farmers, to make
those meetings living results. They
will be as powerless as a babe In its
TTintlifir's arms ?/!thout our mwijmit'a*
tlon. If they recommend a plan we
must do our best. Let us print “best”
in large capital letters, for to do our
best means extraordinary effort, if
need be, to accomplish a purpose.
Say, have you read Mr. J. A. Tay
lor’s market letter of Oct. 18? Mr.
Taylor Is president of the National
Glnners’ Association. I quote from it:
‘‘Nine years in ten we have from 2
to 3 cents per pound more In Decem
ber or January than we have at this
time of year. Trade conditions are
improving and by the first of the new
year will likely be back to normal or
even better, and the world will take
all our crop at very much higher prices
than are now prevailing. If you owe
money that is due borrow from your
banker at a reasonable rate and pay
your debts and hold your cotton, only
selling as you have to in December
or January or later.—W. A. Strick
land in National Co-Operator.
Th« Country School.
The chief need of the country in the
little district schoolhouEes is not for
better institutions, says the American
Farm World, but -for more practical
training for the multitude In those
matters that vitalize industry and ex
alt their calling or profession. We
need a school system in our country
districts that will tend to elevate and
widen the business of farming.
The country schools should be
brought more closely into relation
with the everyday life of the pupils,
that they and their parents may feel
that the training that they receive has
some definite connection with their
life work.
We need Instruction in our rural
schools that will put the children in
closer touch with the work of the
farm and awaken in them a keen and
intelligent interest in their surround
ings. Unless we can educate the chil
dren along this line there is small
hope of our agriculture in the future.
Such training would go far toward
wiping out the prejudice against
farming as an occupation and would
plant in the minds of the young people
a respect for and an interest in their
environment, and istead of deserting
the farms they would remain and de
velop the land.
A farmer was anxious that his son
should become a minister, and for this
laudable end he sent him to college
for four years, but to his great disap
pointment the youth balked at the min
istry and set himself up as a horse
trader. The old farmer told his grief
to a neighbor, who, however, took a
more optimistic view of the matter.
Oh, I wouldn’t feel so bad about that,
he said. As a hoss trader Bill will
probably lead more men to repentance
than he ever would have done as a
preacher.
How long, how long will the farmer
continue to sell cotton on the street?
Just as long as the little pig-headed
heeler can buy it: Who gives the
heeler the power to buy? The farmer i
Then, farmer, take away that power
and your heeler is dead, with three
Ds on his box and face downward.
No use shirking the work when you
are fighting the vermin on your poul
try, and you should fight thorn every
day. They cause more loss one way
and another than all other troubles
combined. I have known twice as
much feed to be given to lousy birds
as was necessary, and then there j
wouldn't be any gain in weight.
Does the farmer contemplate sur
render under the present clrcum
stances? No, wake up, brethren, and
let the Farmers* Union make ^tnor»
history.
W. B. FAKBS
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