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Published every Friday at McCrory, Ark.
WALTER W. RANEY, Ed. and Pub.
Subscription $1.00 per Year in Advance.
Phone: 40
Entered as second-class mat
ter August 26, 1915, at the post
office at McCrory, Ark., under
the Act of March 3, 1879.
Friiay, September 21, 1917.
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SOMETHING LARGE
Do you know what is meant
by the announcement recently
made by Secretary McAdoo, that
$9,000,000,000.00 would be spent
by the government and our allies
within the United States during
the next year?
Do you know what Nine Bil
lions signifies? It means this:
If a man had commenced work
the day Christ was born, the
birth of the Christian era, 1916
years ago, and received a salary
of $8.00 for every MINUTE of
time from the moment of His
birth to twelve o’clock Midnight,
December 31, 1916, including an
extra day for leap year every
four years, he would have re
ceived $8,061,914,880.00 or $938,
085,120.00 less than the snm
which will be scattered broad
cast during the next twelve
months among the one hundred
and five millions of people of the
United States.
If you do not believe it, here
are the figures: There are 526,
600 minutes in a year. Add an
extra twenty-four hours for leap
year every four years, and mul
tiply by 1916 years and you have
1.007,739,360 minutes. Think of
it. Only One Billion, seven mil
lion, seven hundred thirty nine
thousand, three hundred and
sixty minutes in the entire
Christian era of 1916 years.
Keverse the problem by begin
ning at the present date and
spreading the proposed expendi
ture of nine billions of dollars
over the past ages at the rate of
One Dollar for every minute of
time, and the calculation would
take you back something over
Seventeen Thousand years.
Do you begin to understand
what a Billion Dollars is? It is
a pleasure prospect to contem
plate. We like it. Therefore,
let us fancy a man of bygone
ages who controlled the gasoline
market, or had a Henry Ford in
come Sixteen Thousand years
ago, and made it his business to
distribute One Dollar bills every
minute of his time, night and
day, to all of the people of the
earth for Sixteen Thousand
years. The total of his pay roll
would amount to $8,409,600,000.
100. In other words, he would
j have a bank balance that would
enable him to continue his good
work for a couple of thousand
years into the future. In a nut
shell, all of the people of the
earth would have been either
spendthrifts or bond clippers.
That is the meaning of Nine
Billions of Dollars scattered over
a period of Seventeen Thousand
years. Now crowd the entire
Nine Billions of Dollars into
twelve months, and go out and
tell your neighbor, if you have
the conscience to do so, that
there will be a lack of prosperity
in this country and no opportun
ity to make money during the
next twelve or fifteen months.
Let your pessimistic friends play
the part of plain idiot, if they
want to, Nobody cares.
If that Nine Billion Dollars is
forthcoming according to the
promise of Secretary McAdoo,
and he evidently knows what he
is talking about, we will not
worry about the high cost of liv
ing, internal revenue tax, or the
price of gasoline.
Think it over, it will make
you sleep better.—Hiawatha
Lumber Company.
Junior League
Following is the program for
the Junior League, which will be
rendered at 5 o’clock p. m., Sep
tember 23, 1917:
Subject—Children In Mission
ary Lands.
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Leader—Eloise Raymond.
Song—Jesus Lover of My Soul.
Vocal Duet—Willie Anderson
and Lillie Taylor.
Scripture Lesson, Mark X. 13
14 —Edith Jeffries. Romans X.
14-15, Fay Taylor.
Piano Solo—Doris Kyle.
Our Little Neighbors Across
The Sea:
First Junior—Mary Raymond.
Second Junior—Frankie Hen
derson.
Third Junior—Fannie Taylor.
Song—Rock of Ages.
Song- Teil It Again.
Benediction.
Have Dr. Westbrook who will
be here a week do that dental
work for you. His work is re
liable and his prices reasonable.
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Wagons that stand up and give satis*
factory service because they are made en
tirely of air-seasoned oak and hickory
and have many necessary improvements.
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'agon is made of the Best Material, and Workmanship •’*
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‘ Seasotung Afl Wood Stock is Air-dried end FnIIy Seasoned.
iPefaits Ground in our own Mill*, from Pure Lead and Linseed Ofl. Boxes-foor coats on the outside; two
b on the inside. Gears-three coats. Runningputs dipped in Boiled Linseed Ofl before Paioting.
[G—THE'JOHN DEERE WAGON -is guaj-antoed very light draft. BECAUSE-The WheeU carry the
£*et dish. The Axles have accurate gather, so the wheels ran straight ahead. All altaine have the
par pitch, to the heaviest load: ip carried phunbegokee. “ £ •*• ' •.
ff guarantee that every stick of-Timber in the JOHH DEERF WAGON :is the bast grade of
]__OAK AND HICKORY. Any part found defective in
—--J ! either Material or Workmanship, within One'Year
^ai lty | from date of purchase, will be cheerfully replaced.
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“The House on the Corner with Prices on the Square”
f McCrory, Arkansas
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