Good Things
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Are to be found at our
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your trade you can live cheap
and well.
Our stock has been enlarg
ed and will be added to as
the demands justify. Good
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promise. Price our goods
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we claim.
Raymond’
Grocery.
WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED THURSDAY OE BACH WEEK AT !
McCHORY. ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered fit the Post-OfBoe at McCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class mall,matter.
June Uth, 1903.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One Year. In advance. *1.00
DEHOCRATIC TICKET.
COUNTY
Representative—
E. M. CARL-LEE.
Judge—
J. F. SUMMERS.
Sheriff—
W. R. CAIN.
Circuit Clerk—
Wm. MOORMAN.
County Clerk—
ED B. CARL-LEE.
Treasurer—
C. L. JACKSON.
Assessor—
W. B. FAKES.
A LETTER FROM OUR
FRIEND, TOM BURKETT.
We are in receipt, this week, of
a letter from our esteemed friend,
Tom Burkett who is now spending
several weeks in the western conn
try trying to regain his health,
which we publish below. Among
the most interesting subjects of
which he writes is the Texas State
Capitol.
THE LETTER.
Austin, Texas, July, 25, ’08
Mr. Walter W. Raney,
McCrory, Arkansas.
Dear Editor:—
I arrived in Austin at six
o’clock Friday evening, feeling
very tired after finishing the long
trip. The Iron Mountain routed
me by the way of Dallas aDd Fort
Worth, rather a round about way.
as I thought, but never the less, I
am glad to have come the above
route as it gave me a better chance
to see the country.
I arrived at Fort Worth at 2:00
C. L. ADAnSON,
Jeweler, Optlcan and Engraver.
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry
Silverware, Etc. Etc.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
TWELVE MONTHS.
R BP AIR WORK A SPECIALTY.
AUGUSTA.
ARKANSAS.
McCrory
Hotel.
FIRSTCLASS ROOMS
And GOOD FARK.
Your Patronage Re*
spectfully Solicited.
MRS. JOHN C. VRAZEY, Prop.
p. m., lying over there until 5:00
p. m., giving me a few hours to
see some of the city and get a lit
tle rest. I think Fort Worth a
grand city. It has a population
of $45,000 and one of the finest,
union depots south of St. Louis.
The building has all the conven
iences necessary for the traveling
public. Good artesian water is
furnished which you know is a
scarcity in Texas. Fort Worth
has the best record for health and
a less percentage of deaths, of any
city in the state. A fine country
surrounds the city.
Crops look very well, but small.
I saw several farmers yet plowing
in their cotton.
Austin is a very nice city, but
will not compare with Fort Worth.
Austin is the Capitol of Texas and
has one of the finest state capitols
located here of any state in the
Union.
I made a trip through the build
ing this morning and must say it
is a grand structure. I managed
to get up about 200 feet and get a
good view of the city and sur
rounding country. Will give you
a description of the building,
which is of brown granite stone,
and the cost of same, which is as
follows •
Length, east to west, 600 feet;
south to north, 300 feet; heigth
from ground to top of dome, 313
feet; heigth of Goddess of Liberty
14 feet; Texas emblem, the lone
star which is secured in the hands
of the Goddess of Liberty, is 5-£
feet in diameter; number of doors
in building 560; windows, 900;
rooms, 258. The building, proper,
covers 3f acres of ground. The
amount of stone required to build
the above was 1,200,000 tons, or
25,000 car loads, which was ship
ped 700 miles. The state gave
for the building, 6,000,000 acres
of public lands, valued at $2.00
per acre, making the building cost
the enormous sum of $12,000,000.
Well, Walter 1 don’t know just
what I will do as yet, or where I
will go, but anyway I will remain
here until I get rested up and re
ceive my mail. The water here is
not very good. You may imagine
how unpleasant it is, after drink
ing good water liae we have in
Arkansas. I will keep you in
j formed asto my whereabouts so
that you can mail me the News,
which I appreciate more than ever
before.
I will close for this time but
will write you again. With best
wishes for you, the News and all
my friends, I am,
Your Friend,
Tom Burkett.
NOTICE.
I desire to announce to the
young men and young women of
Woodruff County that I shall be
glad to give beneficiary appoint
ments to the State University to
such as desire them. These ap
pointments entitle the holder to
free tuition in all departments at
Fayetteville. A matriculation fee
of teu dollars is charged each stu
dent who enters.
Board, including rent, lights,
heat, laundry, and table board,
at the boy’s dormitories this past
year averaged $10.97 per month.
The three boys’ dormitories have
capacity for about three hundred
students. The women’s dormitory
will accomodate one hundred girls,
and a competent matron of high
character will be in charge. Board
at this dormitory, including rent,
I lights, heat and table board aver
| aged $10.77 per month. Some of
the lady members of the teaching
! force will board at this dormitory.
The session just closed has been
' a most prosperous one, the attend
ance reaching nearly 1200 at Fay
ettevill alone.
The University of Arkausas is
maintained and supported by the
State for the benefit of Arkausas
boys and girls, and I shall be grat
ified to see a larger representation
from Woodruff County in the
University next session than has
been heretofore.
Remember that the number of
appointments is not limited. For
catalogue and further particulars,
address President John N. Till
man, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
J. F. Summers,
County Judge.
Subscribe now for the News.
HUNTER.
By Our Regular Correspondent.
Mr. Stannard is back from
Missouri on business.
Sure the rose buggy was seen
out of the shed Sunday night.
John Stair, and family, spent
Sunday with McCrory home-folk.
Ennis Ward, of Zent, was a
business visitor in this city Satur
day.
Dr. M. A. Porter, was called to
Penrose in a professional way
recently.
Thos. Wilson, spent last week
with his son, Rev. C. F. Wilson,
at Wiville.
Chas. Vanderburg was a busi
ness visitor in Cotton Plant one
day last week.
J. N. Lee was seeing after his
duties in the fair-sex line at Cot
ton Plant Monday.
Miss May Sisk, Penrose’s pop
ular school teacher, was home on a
short visit recently.
Chas. Brinueman in company
with a “friend” was out for a
pleasant drive Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, of Pen
rose, were spending a few days
with Hunter friends, recently.
J. F. Summers, our efficient
county judge, who resides at Au
gusta, was a visitor here Sunday.
Misses Zella Hunt and Effie
Wilson were the charming guests
of McCrory friends Saturday and
Sunday.
Yes, there are nickles and Nick
les, but we have learned of one
case recently where the nickle was
below par.
M. H. Patterson, of Augnsta,
came in the 26th. He intends to
remain here several days in the
interest of his telephone system.
Jas. Bruner is spending a few
days in Hunter. He is now re
siding at Heber but formerly re
sided in this city. He reports
crops as being very short in that
section.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
Whereas: Brother L. E. Easley
died July, 26, 1908, therefore be
it
Resolved : That Cody local
union No. 664 has lost an earnest
and faithful member; the com
munity a good citizen, and the be
reaved family their untiring stay
and hope, and the light, and hap
piness of their home. Also be it
further
Resolved : That a copy of
these resolutions be sent to our
county official organ, the Wood
ruff County News, for publica
cation. T. H. Record,
Committee.
rilSS McFALL, HOSTESS.
Miss Pauline McFall was hostess
to the Junior Musicians’ Club on
the afternoon of the twenty third.
On account of the change of time of
meeting, a number of the members
were absent; which necessarily
made the programme short. Those
who participated, rendered their
parts beautifully and reflected
much credit upon themselves. An
“Operetta” was discussed, much
interest and euthusiasm being dis
played in same.
Immediately after the rendition
of the programme, dainty refresh
ments were served by the hostess,
who was gracefully assisted by
little Miss Rubye Hargis. Dur
ing the social hour, Misses Ida
Tarpley, Ruth Ilailev aud Ellen
Lewis delighted all with beautiful
piano numbers. The visitors were
Miss Laura Black, Mrs. Tarpley
and little Miss Margaret Hargis.
Each voted Miss Pauline an ideal
hostess and all were sorry when
the hour of departure arrived.
Mrs. Henry S. Taylor will be
hostess to the J. M. C’s August,
the 27th.
TRUE SON OF NEW ENGLAND
Skipper Pinned His Faith to the Cod
Under All Circumstances and
Conditions.
Kate Field once visited the Isles
of Shoals, and went fishing with an
New England skipper. During the
voyage she interviewed the old salt
on the fish question, with the follow
ing result:
Said I to the skipper:
“What do you consider the best
fish for boiling?”
Skipper—Boiling? Why cod, to
be-sure.
I—And what is best for baking?
Skipper—You couldn’t have no
better fish nor cod for baking.
I—How is it with broiling?
Skipper—I never tasted no better
fish, for broiling than cod.
I—What is your opinion about
frying ?
“Frying!” repeated the skipper,
scratching his head; “why, what
would you fry but cod ?”
I—What fish is best for general
purposes ?
Skipper—General purposes! Cod
can’t be beat for general purposes, I
tell you!
SCARED.
Dusty—My pants are getting frayed
at the bottoms.
Rusty—’Praid of what? Your shoes?
EVOLUTION OF DRESS.
In a recent book on “The Evolu
tion of Dress,” Mr. W. M. Webb
shows that many details of modern
dress, generally regarded as prod
ucts of caprice or accident, or of the
invention of tailors and milliners,
are traceable to primitive forms, and
that fashion in costume is the result
of a process of evolution in which
early ideas continually crop out. The
earliest form of dress seems to have
been the shawl, or wrapper, and
fringes date back to the first loom.
The hatband is traced to the original
fastening of the first cloth head
dress. Puttees are as old as Mycenae.
A mystery yet unexplained is the
sewing of the buttons on the right
hand side of a man’s coat and the
left-hand side of a woman’s.—
Youth’s Companion.
POLICEMEN WITH EYEGLASSES.
Attention was called some time
ago to the fact that a policeman in
uniform carrying a baby in his arms
was a fairly rare sight. There is an
other almost as rare. Very few per
sons have 6een a policeman on dutv
who wore glasses and no one has seen
a policeman who sported spectacles.
In the station houses occasionally
the desk man will use eyeglasses as
he is writing up his book. It is a
good deal like looking for bearded
policemen. There are few of them.
Indeed, in the new generation of po
lice officers even the mustache is un
usual.—N. Y. Sun.
MEN AND WOMEN.
Father Vaughan of London,
preaching on marriage, remarked
that a woman said to him: “When
you have seen one man you have seen
them all, in all their moods and
tenses. They are all alike.” His
reply was: “It may be so, but wom
an is like an irregular French verb
and unless a man studies her in all
her peculiar moods and tenses he will
misconstrue and so misinterpret her,
much to his disadvantage.”
WILL LIVE SIMPLE LIFE.
Count Venzel Ivaunits, a minister
of Bohemia, who was married recent
ly on his sixty-first birthday to a
beautiful peasant girl of 20, has pre
sented his mansion in Brunn, valued
at $160,000, to the University of
Prague. The count and his bride
have decided to live the simple life.
NO HOPE.
“I hear tell dat de place what
Satan live at freezes over in de win
ter time.”
“Well, all you got ter worry ’bout
is how hot it is in summer!”—At
lanta Constitution.
Correct System of Marketing.
Th* Farmers’ Union seeks to teacn
the farmers the science of cooperative
ly marketing the products of their
farms and the benefits of cooperative
marketing over that of competitive
marketing or street peddling.
While it is true we have taught our
selves that competitive marketing was
proper and right, and have been taught
this by our commercial friends, yet
while we were competitively market
ing our farm products, our commercial
friends were practicing cooperative
marketing of their goods.
They having learned that were they
to force their goods upon the world’s
markets (as the farmer has his prod
ucts), having no regard for the world’s
demands nor the prices offered, selling
at any old price and within about
three months all of the goods neces
sary for the world to consume in
twelve, would work havoc to their bus
iness. The world would take advan
tage of such foolish marketing and
bid prices down to such a low point
that there would be no profit left for
them, and they would be forced to
quit the business.
But the farmer will force upon the
market, within about three months, a
crop that it takes himself and family
twelve months to make and gather
and the world almost twelve months to
consume, having no regard for the
world’s demands nor the prices offer
ed.
He goes to market single handed,
does not belong to any business or
ganization, does not know what the
rest of the farming world is going to
do as regards the pricing and selling
of farm products, he has no system,
no plans, no conception of scientific
business methods, but pours his prod
ucts in a single handed way upon the
organized speculative world, vainly
hoping that the organized speculator
will pay him sufficient prices that will
give him something to exist upon while
making another crop for these organ
ized speculators to gamble on. No
class of business could market in such
a slipshod manner and even exist.
But the old farmer living next to
nature can allow himself to be sleeked
out of his year’s work and the next
year nature comes to his relief again.
Quite different with the commercial
world. Even the manufacturer
would not think of marketing his goods
in such a reckless competitive way.
Come, let’s look into the system of
marketing as in use by the manufac
turing and commercial world:
First, the manufacturer, instead of
throwing his goods upon a depressed
market in a reckless, slipshod, com
petitive manner, places them in a
warehouse, preparing to hold for a
price that will give him a profit, and
knowing as he does that the only way
by which he can hope to get these
prices is by cooperating with every
other manufacturer, therefore he be
comes a member of the Manufactur
ing Association, and through this hs
sociation they are able to place a min
imum price on the goods, and with the
goods properly warehoused they are
able to force the consuming world to
pay them their price; and the jobber
or wholesaler are forced to pay them
their price, and they in turn, having
had no voice in pricng the goods when
they bought them, are forced to price
their goods as such prices as will give
them a profit; hence they can not af
ford to rush into the world's markets
wi’h l heir goods and sell at any old
price as does the farmer, but are foro
ed to cooperate in pricing their goods.
So they take the goods and place
them in a store house (as it is called)
which is nothing but a goods ware
house, and they belong to the Mer
cantile Association, through which
they are able to price uniform or mini
mum prices, and with the goods in
the warehouses they are able to hold
the goods away from the world until
the’ world will pay their prices. Thus
when the retailer goes to buy goods
he has to pay the wholesalers’ price;
and when the retailer gets them, in
stead of peddling them out at any old
price (as the farmer does his prod
ucts) he places ’em in his store or
warehouse, preparatory to holding
them for a price. And the majority
of these gentlemen belong to the Mer
cantile Association and with the goods
properly wareffoused they are able to
price and hold for that price, thus
forcing you and me as consumers to
pay that price.
Now, what, the union wants to do is
to teach the farmers this scientific sys
tem of marketing. Let the mercantile
world become our school master. Open
your eyes, brother farmer, and adopt
the" same system of marketing the
products of your farm that the com
mercial .world has used for ages. It
is no new system, but on old, time
tried. demonstrated success, and will
do for the farmer what it has done for
the successful commercial world. So
get into the Farmers’ Union and help
to build and operate these warhouses
and become masters of your own
prices.—Joe E. Edmonson, Assistant
State Lecturer for Texas, in Nation
al Cooperator and Farm Journal.
The house with glass windows and
any ordinary system of ventilation
will always be damp in winter, the
dampness coming from the exhalation
from the lungs of the birds occupying
the house. This dampness shows as
frost on the walls in cold weather and
is present as a vapor at all times.
There are two classes of poultry
keepers—those who bre»<* for fa»cy
and those who breed for market, and
neither of them has any need for the
old mongrel fowl. That la as true
as the gospel.
JURY LIST.
Following is a list of the grand
and petit jurors selected to 8erv„
at the August term, 1908. of tu
Woodruff county Circuit Jrt
Northern district, which convenes
at Augusta, Monday, August 17
1908. ' 6.1/,
GRAND JURORS.
Jno. G. Haralson, A. L. Crit
tenden, Fred W. Shoap, h ,
Byrd Steven Davis, Lee Miller’
R. T. Jett, R. T. Harville I g'
Airhart, W. P. Yarbrough, Clay
ton Hailey. E. T. Wherry, W. M
Keating, Matt Taylor, W. h iW '
Murtry.
ALTERNATES
A. S. Thompson, W. O. Scales
T. C. Griffin, J. N. Chaney, R q
Blakely, Z. T. Woodward. ’
PETIT JURORS
W. M. Sale, J. H. Dale, Arthur
Rushing, A. Wiener, George
Haralson Sam C. Bailey, Doug
lass Berry, Hugh Sowlos, Fred
Watson, E. L. Kittrell, T. E
Stanley, H. B. Carter, M M
O’Neal, R. E. Dent, J. W. Har
k°r.’ u?-Crossett* Charley
Knight, Ed Hardin, N. J. Haves
E. L. Hamilton, George Rarber
John Atkinson Jr., Strother
Taylor.
ALTERNATES
Chas. Anderson, James Tay
lor, Berry Holder, R. E. L
Spradlin, Harry Amerine, Wal
ter Stephenson.
Mr. Hubert Howell of this city,
who is prominently connected
with the wholesale drug firm here
of Howell & Howell, was quietly
married Sunday evening, July, 26,
1908, at 8:00 o’clock in front of
the Baptist church at Cabot, to
Miss Myrtle Parish of that city,
Rev. J. M. Davis officiating. The
bride is the accomplished daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Parish
the former of whom is a promi
nent planter near Cabot. The
newly-weds arrived in this city
Tuesday where they will make
their future home.
NOTICE.
Notice Is hereby given that I will, as ad
ministrator of the estate of Chas. Sturdivant,
deceased make application to the Woodruff
Probate Court at its July term, for an order
to sell the following real estate belonging to
said estate, for the purpose of paying debts of
said estate.
Lots 1, 8. 3, 4, and 6 Block 1. in Sturdivant
Edition to Town of McCrory.
(Signed) J, H. Bkidi.kmah.
Administrator of the estate of Chas. Sturdi
vant.
NOTICE OF FILING PETITION.
Notice is hereby given that James T. Mc
Cleery, and others, will flic a petition In the
Woodruff County Court at Its July term 1908
praying that a road be established in Wood
ruff County as follows:
Commencing at the South East Corner of
Section twenty live. 25, Township, seven, 7.
North Range, one, 1 West, running thence
West on Section line between Sections, twen
ty live, 25, and thirty six, 36, and twenty six. 26,
and thirty five. 35 and twenty seven. 27, and
thirty four, 34, to the North East corner of the
North West Quarter of Section thirty three,
33, Township, seven, 7. North Range one, I.
West and running between Sections thirty
three, 33, and thirtv four. 34, intersecting with
the Hunter road: also commencing near the
' South West corner of the South East Quarter
I of Section twenty five. 25, Township seven. 7,
! North Range one. 1, West running north cross
ing the Cotton Belt Railroad on half Section
twenty flve. 25, intersecting Bayou Road.
Jas. T. McCleery. et al.
NOTICE OF SALE.
Notice is hereby (riven that we, the under
signed Commissioners, by virtue of the au
thority contained in an order of the Woodruff
County Court, rnnde at its July term. 190?. will
on the 15 day of A ukust, 1908, at the West door
of the Court house in Augusta, Arkansas offer
for sale and sell at public outcry to the highest
and best bidder, the East half (EH) of Section
Sixteen (16), Township Eight (8), North,
Range Three (3) West
Terms: Said sale is made for the purpose of
procuring other quarters for the poor of
Woodruff County and the purchase price will
be payable us follows:
*2000.00 cash 10 days after date of sale.
*3000 00 cash January 1st., 1909, and the resi
due of the price may be paid in \\ oodrun
County Warrants or cash at the option of the
purchaser on or before April 1st.. 1909.
No bid will be received, unless propose
purchaser agrees to comply with the terms
herein set forth and the right to reject am
and all bids is reserved.
j. G. Habaiaos.
E. T. WHi«8f.
Commissioners,
GENERAL DIRECTORY.
Court Session*.
Circuit Court. Northern Dlstrict.-MetO
Third Monday in February and August,
them District-First Monday in Marcn
September. H. N. Hutton, Judge.
Moorman, Clerk.
Chancery Court. Northern District.
First Monday in May and December. -
ern District-Second Monday in FeJ*“a Uor;
September. Ed. D. Robertson. Chancellor.
WiU Moorman Clerk. .
County Court.-Meets First M°,'da^niII)t.r9.
ary, April. July and October. J- *•
Judge: T. E. Simpson, Clerk.
Probate Court Meets Fourth M ^
January. April July and October. •
mers Judge T F Simpson. Clerk