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Jones and Clarke speak at Au
gusta next Tnursday.
Charlie Meehan was on our
.streets this week.
Tom Austell of Wynne was in
McCrory Wednesday.
McCrory witnessed her first
frost this morning of this season.
Our friend C. M. Crossett of
DeView was in town Wednesday.
Col. W. T. Echols of Cotton
Plant was in our city the first of
the week.
Bro. Knight will preach at
Earle the newly organized church
next Sunday.
Will Wilder made a business
trip to Howell and intermediate
points last Tusday.
uon t rorgei tut; pruiracwu
meeting to begin next tiunduy at
the M. E. Church, (South.
Dick Izard an insurance agent
of Mariana, was in McCrory on
business the first of the week.
Miss Bernie Angus left
Wednesday for Wivilie where
she will spend sometime visiting
friends.
Miss Perrin our new principal
left today for Augusta to take
the examination for teacher’s
license.
The Misses Cora Phillips o.
McCrory, and Jennie fork of
Searcy paid us a little visit Mon
day last.
Robt. Hailey, brother of our
townsman Clayton Hailey, was
doing business with our mer
-chants the first of the week.
Rev. S. D. Johns and wife left
Wednesday for SenatoDia, Pano
ra county Miss., where they will
pay a few weeks visit to their
children.
Mrs. J. L. Love of DeView
wants us to inform “Bill”
Dougherty that she has just as
.smart chickens as he has. They
•also climb trees, etc. (She thinks
however that it is starvation
driving Mr. Dougherty’s chick
ens to such desperate straits.
St op and Think!
30 cents per hundred gins
and wraps your cotton at the
Round Bale Gin. Then we
will BUY IT, giving the
HIGHEST CASH PRICE,
always from
to 1-4 cents per pound'
more than you are
offered by square
cotton buyers.
. \ Do you like money? Well,
this year of all years, while
I the cotton crop is short, yotl
/ should gin with us and get
all there is in it.
Very truly,
HcCRORY COTTON
CO.
Senator W. E. Ferguson was
in town Wednesday.
Dr. A. J. Marberry of Texas,
was in our city the first of the
week.
Leo Jones, quite ill for the
past two weeks, is now improv
ing rapidly.
Bob and John Cook of Fair
Oaks arrived here Wednesday on
a short visit among friends.
P. M. Lemon went to Memphis
Tuesday evening where he went
to purchase fixtures for his new
pool room.
Mrs. C. W. McCrory has been
quite ill the past week but from
last reports we are glad to learn
she is very much improved.
Capt. Robert Smith le$t
Wednesday for Searcy to have
his grinders worked on and at
the same time see his home folks.
Mrs. Berta Montgomery and
children of Searcy who have
been visiting here for some few
days past, left Wednesday for
their home.
Read all about the baby in
Fakes Mercantile Co’s add in
this issue. They have some
good things to offer you and it
will pay you to call on them.
The new building belonging to
C. W. McCrory, has now been
put in place and will soon be oc
cupied by Mr. P. M. Lemon
who will run a pool room there
in the very near future.
Mr. Ola Scales is now clerk
ing for the Thompson & Gregory
firm at Grays. Mr. Scales is
very proficient in this line of
work and is an excellent sales
man.’
James B. Parker, the negro
who struck the terrible assassin
of the president and hurled him
to the ground is a waiter at a
cafe at the Buffalo exposition.
The American people propose
giving him as a token of their
esteem a tip of a hundred thous
and dollars or more.
Mrs. Jerry Arnold, daughter
and grand-children arrived from
northern Arkansas Wednesday
and wiU make this their fu
ture home. Mrs. Arnold is also
the grandmother of our friend
and fellow-townsman Henry
Cariker. We welcome them
among us.
The clergy enjoy a joke at each
other’s expense as much as the
carnal minded. A Methodist
preacher said to a Baptist. “I
dreamed 1 went to Heaven, last
night, and I saw no Baptists
there and inquired for them and
was told they were coming by
water and had not yet arrived.”
“I also dreamed I was in Heav
en,” said the Baptist preacher
“and I saw no Methodists, and
learhed the reason was because
they'were outside on six months’
probation. Ex.
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NEW GOODS!
We are daily receiving new goods which we expect
to sell at the lowest prices possible. We have Calicos,
Domestic, Checks and Ginghams at 5 cents per yard.
Splendid Assortment and latest styles in Underwear
and Hosiery, Blankets and Comforts. : : :
We sell Hamilton-Brown Shoes, none better, from
25 cents to $3.50 per pair, guaranteed. Will give baby
born this year its first pair of shoes free of charge.
Have given away 25 pair already.
Our $2. Ladies’ Shoes are equal to a $2.50 shoe.
Our line of Pocket Knives can’t be beaten in town.
Our stock of Bridles, Whips, Breeching, Strap Goods,
and Saddles is complete. A Nice Blanket FREE with
each Saddle purchased. : : : :
For GROCERIES and HEAVY HARDWARE, let
us make you prices. Call on us before buying. We
will endeavor to please you. Yours respectfully,
FAKES MERC. CO.
Dr. Harrison of For
dyce, Ark., was a visitor in our
little city last week.
Miss Jessamine Perrin of 3
Batesville who will be at the
helm of the McCrory school dur- ,
ing the coming session arrived }
here last Monday. She is a pleas- 1
ant and agreeable lady and will ’
no doubt make a success of the j1
school.
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Hamilton Riggs and Joseph <
Crossett made a trip to Howell 1
last Sunday. On the way there :
they met the B. & B. train at
which the boys became very
much frightened, likewise the '
horse. But Joseph, being equal '
to the occasion got out and |
shoo’d the train on. Then tran- j
quility reigned supreme.
Last Saturday, September 14, j
1901, a big, bouncing boy baby ;
arrived at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. J. Marsh of Wiville. It :
was a 9-pounder and so much
confidence has our friend Will in
the future greatness and present
capability of his son that he has |
already entrusted all his busi- :
ness affairs to him. Mother j'
and babe are doing well while j;
Will has gone fishing. j.
The city council of Jonesboro
at a recent meeting passed an
ordinance punishing persons
who appear on the streets of the
city in a drunken condition, in a
fine of any sum not exceeding
five dollars. This is a good
measure. If a man wants to get \
drunk thats’ his business. But j,
peop’e who are opposed to such ;
carryings-on should not have to j
carry the burden of it by being :
annoyed by their disgusting con- '
versation and conduct.
Charlie Cook, our progressive
and enterprising groceryman
has erected a private telephone
line from his store to the McCro
ry Cotton Company gin and if
he deesn’t wait on you with the
punctuality that he is so gifted
with, at the present, you may
know he is talking to his new ,
phone. He says its alright. This
makes three private phone lines
for McCrory one running from
the Fakes Mercantile establish
ment to the home of Fletcher
Lewis and the other runing be
tween Dr. L. A. Jelk’s office to
Mrs. Malone’s home. This in
conjunction with the telephone
exchange to be put up here in
the very near future will cause
McCrory to take on a cosmopoli
tan appearance.
Mrs. Hicks and Miss Lamb of
rip were in McCrory today.
Miss Ruth Shearer left today
or Arkadelphia where she will
■e-enter the Ouchita college.
The citizens of McCrory ob
served today as one of mourning
)y having memorial services at
he M. E. Church, a synopsis of
vhich will appear in our next
ssue.
The city has at last started
juilding the new side-walks.
■Some of the walks have already
jeen finished and they are ai
■ight. They will now be three
blanks in width.
J. M. Morgan, of Eight Mile,
Jackson county, and a very
igreeable gentleman paid our
office a pleasant little visit while
n town. He informs us that,
while the crops in his neighbor
hood are not as good as desired,
pet he says they will realize
ibout 1 bale of cotton to the acre
ind about 15 bushels of corn to
:he acre, this being the average
pield.
Among the new adds appear
ng in this issue are those of the
McCrory Cotton company Gin
ind The Ideal Restaurant just
opened in the Marshal Patterson
store room by Roberts. Shirrod.
these gentlemen desire your
patronage and have something
;o say to you in their adds that
,vill pay you to read.
Among our new subscribers
this week are the following:
Miss Fannie Jones, Oxford, Ohio;
A B. Winfree, DeView; W. H.
dnowlton, C. W. Stanford and
J. L. Strickland, of Grays; J. G.
Dupree of Tip. Who says the
Mews isn’t forging to the front?
Dur circulation is almost equal
:o any paper in the county and
is read by just as many people
is any paper in the county, and
jur paper is only five months
dd. This is no vain boast but an
ictual fact.
While at Wiville recently it
was the pleasure of the writer to
risit the Belgian hares belong
ng to our friend Love Banks.
\lr. Banks took pains to show us
:hrough the entire lot. explain
ng to us the profit that rabbit
culture of this kind will insure*
to persons so engaged. Meat,
he informs us can be raised at
one cent per pound, it being of »
white, juicy nature and consider
ed by epicurians as a dclicatesse'
in the meat line. These rabbits
besides being good meat produc'
ers, weighing all the way from 5
to 10 lbs each, are very prolific
and disease proof—a very hardy
animal. Rabbit culture accord
ing to Mr. Banks is a good in
vestment for everyone desiring
cheap and at the same time very
excellent meat.
“the bull fight.”
The latter part Of last week
our friends John Shearer and
Major J. B. Dent left for near
Clover Bend, Arkansas, to attend
what these gentlemen term a
“bull-fight,” which took place at
the home of P. W. Tucker. Mr.
Shearer on being asked if he en
joyed himself while gone said,
“By George, we had a fine time.
Tucker’s place is out a ways
from the railroad and there were
hacks to receive us and take us
out to the fight, and when we
came back home they brought
us back to the railroad in hacks.
As soon as we arrived the fight
began. We had everything good
to eat and drink. Everything
to drink from fresh beer on ice
to the best champaign.” He
says the way they fought “it,”
(alluding to the bull-fight) was
! enough to raise a common school
boy to the senate. Prom the
looks of his eyes and countenance
in toto, we are led to believe that
Mr. Shearear did not shift his
part of the fight on someone else
but undoubtedly he was always
in the thickest of the affray.
We haven’t seen the Major or
even heard of him, and have al
most come to the conclusion that
he must have been shot, provid
ing any shots passed during the
encounter. As we were not
there, we can not speak of this
as one with authority; and if we
had we would have been so
actively engaged looking after
our own neck that we wouldn’t
have noticed him.
One thing is dead sure the
fight was easily won by the men
present, composed of some 12 or
15 good fighters, personal and
intimate friends of Mr. Tucker
from various parts of the state.
It has been the custom of Mr.
: Tucker for a number of years to
! invite these friends to a kind of
! reunion, at each of which he has
proven himself the quintessence
of hospitality and brotherly love.
It was replete with success.
Water Cure tor Chronic Constipation
Take two cups of hot water
! half an hour before each meal
: and just before going to bed, also
' a drink of water, hot or cold,
about two hours after each meal.
Take lots of out door exercise—
walk, ride, drive. Make a regu
lar habit of this and in many
cases chronic constipation may
be cured without the use of any
medicine. When a purgative is
! required take something mild
j and gentle like Chamberlain’s
1 Stomach and Liver Tablets. For
sale by Dr. J. B. Neal of McCro
ry .aud A. S. Thompson of De
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The Ideal Restaurant
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is the place to get
First=class Meals
Served Promptly
it all hours and at reasonable rates. I constantly have on hand
ill kind of sandwiches, oysters in any style, pies, cakes, lunches*
in fact everything usually kept by a first-class Restaurant.
I have two separate apartments, one for the whites and one
for the colored, and invite both to come and try me when in need of
Anything in my Line.
Everything will be kept neat and clean and in First-class Style.
ROBERT S. SH1RROD, Proprietor.