THE HOME NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY and woodruff county
VOLUMN
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, AUGUST 8, 1919
NUMBER 3
FARM BOYS and girls
TO HAVE BIG DISPLAY
Provision is being made in
the plans for the Arkansas
rentennial Fair to be held at
little Rock, Nov. 17-22 for a
Hhnlav by the farm boys and
girls of the state and I am anx
ious that this shall be one of
,he leading features of the ag
ricultural section. The yonng
„eople have made a wonder
ful progress in their club work
and have some interesting
things to show as a result of
their study find training, ac
complishments that indicate
that Arkansas is rearing a
generation that will be a cred
it to the profession of farming
the greatest calling to which
a boy or girl can aspire, for
the farmer and the farmer’s
wife are the mainstays of the
industrial structure of the
land.
Young people have much to
learn from an exposition of
this kind and older people will
be entertained and instructed
by seeing the attractive ex
hibits that will be gathered
from every county in the state.
The county agents who are di
recting the training of the boys
and girls have promised their
cooperation in organizing the
club exhibits and the manage
ment of the Centennial move
ment has promised that liberal
prizes will be offered in this
department and that ample
space will be allowed for an
attractive display.
Several thousand boys and
girls »are members of the va
rious clubs organized through
the Extension Division of the
University of Arkansas and I
hope that it will be possible
for all of them not only to send
exhibits to the fair, but to
come to the Centennial and to
take part in the great enter
tainment which will celebrate
Arkansas’ one hundredth birth
dav.
If a great fair like this is to
benefit any body it is the boy
^nd the girl of the farm whose
impressionable minds are very
eager for knowledge. I want
to make the Centennial not only
a patriotic celebration but an
educational institution in the
!'^jcipati°n of which the
children of today will receive
a substantial gain.
JIM G. FERGUSON.
WATCH YOUR HENS
Hensthat do not lay do no
l /* * °u can make these noi
>veis pay you for the feed
n!ley eat by giving them B. A
da\°maT P.oultry Remedy even
u,: \ ,lonic> egg producer anc
ana gapes> bowel troublei
tn « °liler troubles incidenta
StoreUtry* Cross Druj
Tuplff" ,^rank Barber spent
ay ln Memphis shopping.
IT IS RUMORED THAT
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W. J. “Bill” Waggoner of
Lonoke, recently returned from
k ranee, will be a candidate
for Congress from the Sixth
District.
There have been no guber
anatorial entrants for more
than a week.
C. P. Newton, Speaker of
the House, is the only avowed
candidate for Secretary of
State.
Harvy Parnell, representa
tive from Chicot county, will
probably be ,a candidate for
Commissioner of State Lands,
Highways and Improvements.
Senator Utley of Saline and
representative Bohlinger of
Yell are opposing candidates
for attorney general.
There may be a dark horse
in the race for Chief Justice.
Joe Joiner, representative
from Columbia county will be
a candidate for Prosecuting
Attorney.
Lewis E. Sawyer of Hot
Springs, speaker of the House
in 1915, was in Little Rock
last week and advised his
friends that he is seriously con
sidering making the race for
Congress from the Sixth Dis
trict.
Should he do so and be
elected, he says the first thing
he would undertake would be
to nationalize corporations en
gaged in interstate trade.
He would introduce a bill
providing for the incorpora
tion of such companies by the
government just as they are
now incorporated and under
supervision of the states wfiere
they are domiciled.
Mr. Sawyer insists that this
is the only method by which
the government will ever be
able to control such corpora
tions. “It would be easy to
handle the packing companies
if we had such a law now,” he
said.
Under proper encourage
ment the south might itself be
come one of the largest con
sumers of its raw cotton. It
can never become one of the
principal markets but it can
use enough so that it will be a
factor in dictating the market
of its principal product. In
Little Rock, for instance, there
were 2,021 bales of raw cotton
and linters consumed in the
mattress factories and other
mills of the city. This was in
creased the following year to
3,917 bales, while for the 1918
19 season, the consumption in
creased to 6,498 bales, or more
than three times what it was
two years ago. This may be
largely due to tihe increased
demand by two large factories
located in that city. *
Miss Thelma Smith left the
first of the week for Sommer
ville, Tenn., where she will be
the guest of friends for a few
days.
EVANGELISTIC MEETING
Evangelistic services are be-j
ing held each night at the'
Christian Church in this city.i
Evangelist J. W. Bolten, re-,
cently of Utica, Miss., is doing
the preaching. Bro. Bolton!
has been employed as general
evangelist by the Arkansas
Christian Missionary Society! j
Before coming to Arkansas,
the brother was president and
treasurer of the Mississippi
Christian Missionary Society. .
These meetings will continue !
all next week, until the third
Sunday, August 17. There will
be services every night and j
each Sunday morning.
The public is cordially in
vited to attend. Let everybody
come.
PROPRIETARY STAMPS
Dealers are warned in a!
statement issued by the Bur- j
eau of Internal Revenue thatj
proprietary stamps by means
of which the tag on toilet and
medicinal articles is collect
ed must be cancelled when the
article is sold. Recently there
have been received by the Bu
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i ^au numti v/uo un^aii^uiiv^u
stamps taken from taxable ar
ticles purchased at drug stores
Regulations 51, relating to
the collection of the tax on
toilet and medicinal articles,
provides that each stamp af
fixed to a taxable article must
be cancelled in such a manner
as to prevent its further use.
“If possible/’ the regulations
state, “the stamp should be af
fixed to the outside of the con
tainer of the taxed commod
ity so that upon opening the
same the stamp will be des
troyed. ‘The initial or name
of the vendor, together with
the date when the stamp was
affixed or cancelled, must ap
pear on the cancelled stamp.”
This provision, the Bureau
states, will be strictly enforc
ed.
The penalty for making use
of a stamp to denote the tax
imposed without cancelling a
stamp is a fine of not more
than $100.
Maynard Werry Sundayed
in Wynne.
Mrs. Walter Angus of Ca
bot is the guest of Mrs. H. P.
Riggs, Jr., this week.
Miss Julia Woodall of Pres
cott was the guest of Miss
Mary Piercey this week.
Chief Deputy E. C. Marsh
was over from Augusta Satur
day on official business.
Miss Lena Roddy Cullum of
Augusta was a pleasant guest
of McCrory friends this week.
Mrs. D. E. Cummins of Pres
cott is the pleasant guest of
her daughter, Mrs. J. R. Pier
cey.
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BEEDE KILLS MAN
News was received here to
day, Friday, of the killing of
Charlie Reese, age about? 35
years, by Wyant Beede at
Beedeville, yesterday about 12
o'clock in the store of Beede &
Beede.
It is said that Reese had
been drinking and engaged in
a difficulty with Walter Beede
and that although he received
the bad end of the fight, was
not satisfied and is alleged to
have remarked that he was
going home and get his gun
and come back to clean up the
Beede boys.
He later returned and it is
said that Wyant Beede order
ed him to leave the store and
when he came back again in a
fighting mood, Wyant Beede
shot him twice in the breast,
killing him instantly.
PLAN BIG PARADE
It has been said that if all
the members of fraternal or
ganizations who should be in
Little Rock during the week
of the Arkansas Centennial
Nov. 17-22, were"to march in
the big fraternal parade that
is being planned, there would
be fewer spectators than* the
marchers. Those who are not
members of some fraternal
organization are said by the
statisticians to be in the minor
ity.
Flans are being made tor
the greatest fraternal demon
stration ever witnessed in the
state, as a part of he celebra
tion of the state’s one hun
dredth birthday. The details
are not yet worked out, but
fraternal Jeaders are back of
the movement ancP promise it
shall be something that will at
tract the attention of people
from all parts of the state.
A call has been issued for a
conference to be held Satur
day Aug. 9, of the state man
agers of all fraternal socie
ties operating in the state, at
which time definite plans will
be decided upon and a pro
gram outlined.
The program will undoubt
edly include a fraternal par
ade in which all organizations
will have a representative,
with banners and floats if they
wish. This would conclude
at the city park with address
es by some of the most promi
nent fraternal leaders of the
country. An invitation will
jbe extended at the meeting of
the National Fraternal Con
gress in Detroit, Aug. 26.
Harold Holder arrived home
from France this week much to
the delight of his many friends
Mrs. W. O. Scaies left today
Friday, for a visit to friends
and relatives in Little Rock.
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