You Read the
Other Fellow’s Ad
| You are reading this one.
That should convince you
that advertising in these
| columns is a profitable
proposition; that it will
bring business to your
store. The fact that the
other fellow advertises is
probably the reason he is
getting more business than
is falling to you. Would
it not be well to give the
other fellow a chance
To Read Your Ad.
In These Columns.
WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLJSHBD THtJRSDAT OF BACH WBHK A."
McCROBY. ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Office at MoCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class mail,matter.
June 11th, 1903.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One Year. In advance. tl.OO
ricCRORY WINS PRIZE BANNER.
City op Vapors Successful In
Effort to Land Next Meet
ing—McCrory Winner o f
Beautiful B a n n e r—Temple
Location Left to Committee.
Hot Springs gets the 1909 con
vention of the I. O. O. F. Grand
Lodge. The City of Vapors won
out in the coutest with Little Rock
by a two to one vote, splendid tes
timonial to the good work of the
“boosters” from that city.
The matter of the location of
the next meeting caine up at the
morning session todaj . Hot Springs
and Little Rock were the only
candidate for the honor, it having
been conceded that with the won
derful growth of the order in the
past two years that only these cit
ies have sufficient hotel accomoda
tions for the convention.
location of temple.
me matter oi me location or tne
temple was also taken up and after
a lengthy discussion it was decid
ed to leave the matter of the se
lection of a site to a committee of
seven members to be named by
the incoming grand master at the
final meeting this afternoon.
This committee is empowered to
recieve offers from various cities
desiring the temple, together with
the concessions they will make
to secure it and report at the noxi
meeting.
Up to this time Little Rock anci
Hot Springs are the only cities
which have signified a desire tc
secure the temple, but it is expect'
ed that several other cities wik
make strong bids for it.
The location of the templi
means the permanent location o
the Grand Lodge meeting point
the location of the grand officer!
and many other benefits, asidt
i from affording the city a spleudie
new business and office building
MCCRORY WINS PRIZE BANNER.
A feature of the forenoon ses
sion was the awarding of the prize
membership banner to McCrorj
: Lodge No. 273.
This banner was promised bv
■ Grand Secretary Paul to the lodge
in Arkansas which initiated the
largest number of candidates or
April, 26, 1908, and there was a
merry race between the lodges foi
the honor.
; This morning Secretary Paul an
nounced the winner (McCrory No.
273) and unfurled a most beauti
ful silken banner suitably inscrib
ed with the name of the lodge, etc.
and in a brief speech Secretary
Paul presented it to Dr. W. E.
Pollett, the representative of Mc
Crory Lodge.
On April 26 this lodge initiated
59 members, which was the great
est number for that night in Ark
ansas.
This plan was offered by Secre
tary Paul for the purpose of
increasing the membership in the
State, and the result of the contest
was that 3,646 members wen
initiated in the lodges of the state
on a single night—April 26—Ark
ansas Democrat, Oct. 28.
McCRORY GETS NIGHT
RIDER NOTICES.
Last week night rider notices
were mailed in the McCrory post
office to the McCrory Cotton Com
pany and the Planters Gin Com
pany to close down their gins and
to Maj. R. B. Keating and Capt.
H. P. Riggs stating that they did
not like the military company and
to Harry Melton demanding that
he quit guarding the gin. All five
; notices were signed “N. R.”
i As a result of this damnable act
; a mass meeting of the Farmers
j Union and Business Men’s League
1 was called last Saturday at 2 :0C
! o’clock. W. B. Kvle was elected
chairman and Dr. J. W. Morris, ol
DeView, Secretary pro tem. A
resolution committee was appoint
ed by the Chairman and the fol
lowing is their report:
RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas: The gins of the
I town of McCrory have been notified
i to shut down by the order of some
i person, or persons, and since some
people believe that there is an or
| ganization behind the revolution
ary movement, we, the Farmer.'
j Union and Business Mens League
| in mass meeting assembled de
nounce as arbitrary, unlawful, auc
uncalled for, any and all acts ol
violence, intimidation, or incin
diarism, and pledge ourselves te
To the Young Man
seeking something especially nobby
and uncommon in suitings and over
coatings, we suggest an inspection of
the 500 handsome Fall and Winter
fabrics displayed in our tailoring
department.
The assortment is from Ed. V. Price
& Co., famous as the largest makers
in the world of GOOD
Tailored-to-order Clothes,
and embodies the most attractive
patterns in browns, tans, drabs, greys,
olives, smokes, stone and wood
colorings.
Have a suit or overcoat made from
your own selection of style and fabric,
just the way you want it, unsurpassed
in style, shape, fit and quality, for
about half what a small tailor would Poor Bottc Noreit, s.«k.
1 . No. 519
charge you.
HOLLAND, The Tailor
WE DO CLEANING AND PRESSING.
j aid in suppressing all such acts,
' and call upon all gocd citizens to
! aid in protecting the rights of cit
i j izeus and the safety of property.
We believe it to be necessary to
have the cotton ginned, since the
farmer has no place to store seed
cotton, and that the man who stops
the gin is the farmer’s worst ene
my, since the cotton must be
gathered before the bad weather,
or a large part will be lost, aud
the man who destroys the crop,
or prevents the gathering of it, is
\
an enemy to his country.
The spreading abroad of these
reports of violence and intimida
tion are injurious to our reputation
and productive of a feeling of un
rest, therefore we call upon all
good citizens to aid in giving
publicity to these resolutions,
We also denounce the demand
for the resignation of the officers
of the National Guard. We have
the utmost respect for the officers
and members of the Guard and
would not dispense with the ser
vice and protection of the same,
and pledge them our hearty sym
pathy and support.
Several addresses were mn.de
among the leading ones being those
of Prof. B. L. Hayes, of the . Me
Crory School and R. C. Cody
President of the Woodruff County
Fanner’s Union. Prof. Hayes being
an efficient educator and speaker
wove beautiful words into his
speech and made the same one
well worth listening to. His talk
was well delivered and his hearers
received it with great applause.
When Pres. Cody’s voice was
heard there was altogether a dif
ferent flow of words being used by
the speaker. Mr. Cody in his
simple unblended speech gave his
hearers his idea of a night rider
at the conclusion of which there
was a great applause. Mr. Cody
gave these infernal unrefined clab
ber-brained persons known as
night riders all that was due them
as far as speech roasting was con
cerned. He went so far as to state
that if he was fortunate enough to
get in-side the Pearly Gates in the
world beyond and there proved to
be night riders there that he would
at once ask for a ticket to the oth
er place. This of course caused
great laughter but nevertheless he
made a grand talk and spoke his
sentiments freely. The applause
at the close of his address was an
endorsement from everyone in the
room of what he had said.
Asto any trouble resulting from
night riders in this section, none
is expected as it is thought that
there are not more than three tier
sons in the organization. The
ginners have been compelled to
cancel their insurance and of
course are being guarded. The
gins have not and will not close
but will continue to gin every day.
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Wedding invitations for sale at
the News office
While the trusts by extortion
increase living expenses, there is
no economy in bachelorhood. From
an economic point of view, it is
far easier to get along with a wife
than without one. An old bache
lor, who can prosper in this mo
noply ruled age, is a bird, wheth
er he can exhibit any pinfeathers
or not.
Try and make a live, enterpris
ing place out of your home town,
and when working for its institu
| tions or speaking well of the town
and country remember you are
accomplishing all the more for
yourself. Don’t be foolish enough
1 to idle away valuable time predict
ing failures and thereby decrease
the value of your property.
Farmers Educational
—AND—
Co - Operative Union
Of America
It is wonderful how important the
farmer becomes along about election
time. This year he has even called
forth the solicitude of the president,
who has appointed a committee com
posed of college presidents with one
editor to enliven things—this com
mittee to inquire into the conditions
of agriculture. The election will be
over when the committee reports.
The Function of Warehouses.
I am glad to see the boys presenting
the proposition to store cotton at
home and market through the ware
houses. I hope some good ideas will
be forthcoming. This is a very deep
subject, my brothers, and you will do
well to give it your best thought and
not jump at some hastily concocted
theory. Two things you must bear in
mind: Shy lock will always be well
pleased if you will so arrange your
products that will enable him to levy
a tax against them—$3,000,000 insur
ance on the Texas cotton crop is a
sweet morsel. Money borrowed on
cotton certificates is quite an adjunct,
and is just a new method of letting
the other fellow eat your oaks while
you hold it.
The paramount question with the
farmer is, "How Can I Avoid Interest
and Rent?” and with Shylook, “How
Can I Get Interest and Rent? When
the farmer bulks or concentrates hi;
products in any commercial center,
dependent on others than himself for
protection as to its safety, this affords
an opening for taxation—by the other
fellow.
If you don’t expect to market all
your cotton in one, two, three or four
months, nothing can be gained by
storing it in either your local or cen
tral warehouse. We need a ware
bouse, however, in every railrad town,
or central shipping station. Your
warehouse should be large enough to
hold say from one-tenth to one-half
the cotton tributary tp such a shipping
point.
If you don’t expect to eat a whole
year’s rations at one meal why cook
It all at once? Do you want a bread
pan large enough for fifty when there
are only two in your family?
How many farmers do you think
would market through a warehouse
system If you could cut out from two
to eight months’ storage and insur
ance? I know a few.
I admire an all-wool-and-a-yard-wide
Farmers’ Union man that says he will
hold until the bagging rots. We need
you very much. I was absent from my
local three times in four years, and
was sick twice. Never missed a county
meeting. I know all the boys. But,
brethren, we must be practical. If
you can’t carry the log roll it. If we
have a method the boys won’t co
operate under, fix one they will; there
is more than one way to get a boy to
work. Look and see what you have
butted your head against. Be sure you
know. I am looking and listening al
ways. Fraternally—J. J. Deaver, in
National Co-Operator.
Another Lesson for the Farmer.
The International Cotton Federa
tlon, composed of manufacturers of
cotton goods In Europe and America,
held its fifth annual congress at Paris
in July. Although this organization
was begun in 1894 and at first pro
fessed to be for the purpose of en
couraging the production of raw cot
ton in Europe and Africa, it was cer
tain that it would not stop at that.
The main purpose of the federation
is now made clear in the following
resolution, which was adopted last
month;
"Resolved, That whenever there is
a lack of raw material, or when the
manufactured articles exceed the de
mand of any country, the adoption
of short time running mills is the
only real remedy; and that all asso
ciations be requested to perfect their
local organizations in order to put
short time into operation whenever
it may be considered necessary."
Here Is a fresh object lesson for
the cotton farmer. While he talks
sentimentally about his duty to grow
all he can and supply the world with
clothes, the manufacturer gets down
tv business and resolves that ‘‘when
ever there is a lack of raw material
or when the manufactured article ex
ceed the demand” he will run his mill
on short time. No sentiment in the
proposition to him. No matter that
famines or floods have made the peo
ple too poor to buy all the cloth he
can manufacture—rather than supply
It at a lower price he will run his
mill on half time.
This is the system by which all in
dustrial trusts control prices. They
curtail the output at the first intima
tion that the demand for their goods
is not keen. The labor organizations
are conducted along the same lines.
Nobody, these days, but the cotton
farmer, tries to produce all he can for
market. And the farmer could be the
most independent of all, if he would
learn the lesson of keeping the world
hungry for his products by limiting
those he has to sell and raising a full
supply of those he consumes at home.
' Then a better system of marketing
i will supplement this and bring the
prosperity the farmer deserves.
DOGS KILLED THE PANTHERS
Monarchy of the Jungle No Match fop
Flock of Specially Trained
Domeetic Animals. j i
_ i
An unusual sight was witnessed |
in Bbavnagar in the course of some
native sports, says the London Tele
graph. Specially trained dogs of his
highness the Thakur Saheb were let ,
loose on two full grown panthers.
About 8,000 people assembled on j
the maidan to see the event. The
arrival of his highness with the Ma
harani Saheba was the signal to
commence the fight. When the j
cages were opened the panthers slow
ly crept out, but finding themselves
hemmed in by such a large mass of I
people they slunk back again and |
lay apparently watching for a chance i
to pounce upon the nearest bystand- i
ers.
The dogs, however, on being let 1
loose, at once attacked the panthers
in a body, speedily overwhelming
and killing them. It is said that the
dogs were previously dosed with
some sort of snuff that deadened
their scent.
TOO SMALL A DOG.
A New Jersey man was excitedly
relating to a friend the harrowing
details of a burglary in his house
the night before.
“A most daring robbery!” ex- j
claimed the outraged man. “It was
still early; my wife and I had re
tired; and Susie and her voting
man were in the parlor. Our dog
was in the dining room. Despite j
all that that crook had the nerve to j
enter the dining room and rifle it j
of every bit of silver we had. Not
satisfied, he even stole the clock off
the mantelpiece. What do you |
think of that?”
“Well,” said the friend. “I don’t
see what else you could expect. Fido
is only a watch dog, you know.”
SELF-INTEREST.
A rea' estate firm had lots for
sale in a r.ew suburban addition.
The young, enthusiastic member J
was writing the advertisement, elo- I
quence flowing from his pen. He
urged intending purchasers to seize
the passing moment.
“Napoleon not only met the op- |
port unity, he created it.”
The senior partner read this line (
in the advertisement slowly and ji
carefully.
“This fellow Napoleon.” he ob- ;1
served, quizzically, “what's the useij
of advertising him with our money ?” j I
—Boston Post. j i
A SAVING MI8SION.
_
A certain minister was deeply im- i
pressed by an address on the evils of \
smoking given at a recent synod. I
He rose from his seat, went over to ’ j
a follow minister, and said:
“Brother, this morning I re
ceived a present of 100 good cigars. (
1 have smoked one of them, but now j
I’m going home and burn the re- i
mainder in the fire.”
The other minister arose, and said
it was his intention to accompany j
his reverend brother.
‘T mean to rescue the ninety and
nine.” he added.
NOT FOR HER.
“And so you refuse me?"
“Yes, Willie;! I never could marry
a man w’at goed under a bat like
dat!”
NOT HIS FAULT.
Suburbanite—You are half an
late this morning.
Letter Carrier—Yes, ma’am; the
sections of stovepipe I have to wear
inside my trousers legs on account
of the dogs you keep along this
street hamper my movements,
ma’am.
GENTLE EGOISM.
"People did not regard Shake*
speare as a very great poet in his
day.”
“No,” answered Mr. Stormington !
Barnes. "But if I could have had
I an opportunity to read his lines to
♦hem I am sure I could have con
vinced them.”
flake
Per
fec
tion
Perfection is no trifle”
—Mlcheal Angelo.
This, then is the
story of Mieheal An
gelo—Without em
bellishment — Told
for your edification
—but more especial
ly to call your atten
tion to our store.
We never disappoint.
WOOD &
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Where
You
Get
All
Good
Things
FIRST.
DEVIEW.
By Our Regular Correspondent.
Henry Harris -Ir. is prospecting
in Texas, this week.
Mrs. Walter Yarbrough, of Jud
souia, was with DeView friends
last week.
Mrs. Ida Winters, of Wynne,
is spending *his week with her
mother, Mrs. Maggie McElroy..
After several days visit to rela
tives in Ackerman, Miss., Mrs.
Lee Barrentine returned home
ruesdav.
J. N. Chaney, and family, vis
ited White river bottoms in search
jf hickory nuts. They report the
?rop short.
Messrs John Burkett and C. M
Drossett left Monday for Little
Rock to attend a meeting of the
Grand Lodge of the I. 0. 0. h
Ask A. J. Marsh if he eau n- ^
member where he was on Oct.,
1864. or any other Confederate
soldier who was with Gen. Pric*
on his march to Moscow.
A few more weeks of611®11
eather as we have had and t e
jtton crop of 1908 will be near v
athered. Some of the farmers
re in 2, 3, and 4 bales of being
irough. The manager of the
tate farm sold 300 bales of cotton
: 10* cents, and 61 bales of last
ear’s crop at 9* cents. This was
bout 10 days ago when we were
dling at 8* oeuts. Maybe if
le farmers would put on ship®
nr cotton would bring a bette
price.
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