THE
HOME
NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
VOLUME 2.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH, 30, 1917
NUMBER 35
WOORUFF CO. FAIR AS
SOCIATION PERFECTED
Was Organized In This City Monday. Fair toi
Be Incorporated and Everyone Should
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Subscribe for Stock Liberally.
As a result of the great show
ing made last year at the First
County Fair, a permanent organ
ization was perfected in this city
Monday following the well ad
vertised and largely attended
sale of Shorthorn registered
cattle.
Many prominent farmers and
business men from all sections of
the county attended the sale and
likewise the meeting which re
sulted in the organization which
will be known as the Woodruff
County Fair Association with its
headquarters at McCrory.
About 25 attended and the fol
lowing officers were elected: Mr.
W. E. Jelks president and Mr.
L. W. Sturdivant secretary. A
board of directors will be elected
later. Committees to solicit
subscriptions for stock and do
nations were appointed for dif
ferent sections of the county.
Messrs J. F. Morgan, W. E.
Jelks and L. W. Sturdivant
were appointed a committee to
solicit the people of McCrory
who should subscribe liberally
for the stock as the Fair will be
of more benefit to this place than
any other town in the county.
Our merchants and business men
should put their shoulders to the
wheel NOW and show to the
other towns in the county that
we are ready and willing at all
times to do our part. Let every
one subscribe liberally and help
boost the Fair which will be the
GREATEST advertisement our
town and county can ever secure.
A new line of floor covering at
E. L. Hamilton’s. tf Adv
Mrs. James H. Porter arrived
Sunday from Helena for an ex
tended visit to her father, Col.
H. B. Gray and family.
Mrs. W. W. Eckhardt arrived
Sunday from her home in Winns
boro, La., for a month’s visit to
her mother, Mrs. M. E. Powell,
and other relatives and friends.
Mrs. H. P. Riggs and two chil
ren, Mona Gray and Mary Ham
pton, and Miss Elizabeth John
son left today, Friday, for a visit
o relatives and friends in Cotton
ant. They will return home
Sunday.
First in Woodruff
Mrs. Walter W. Raney paid her
poll tax Wednesday the 28th.
Judge Moorman, who is doing
the office work for Sheriff Alex
McGregor, stated that she is the
first woman in Woodruff County
to qualify as a legal voter. The
lady states that she does not
think women should vote, but as
this privilege has been granted
and others will take advantage
of it, she too will make use of
her right of suffrage.
New Fords Here
Riggs Brothers, local distribu
tors, received this week a car
load of new Fords which go to
the following customers: Messrs
J. W. Wilder, Dr. L. A. Jelks,
W. L. Armstrong of Tip, George
Cook and H. D. Angus. The
firm has orders for several other
cars which are expected to ar
rive soon.
Screen doors and screen wire
at E. L. Hamilton’s. tf Adv
Mr. Luther P. Jones, who has
been visiting his sister at Lang
ton, left yesterday, Thursday,
for Blytheville.
The Cradle Roll and Junior
Missionary Society will have an
Easter egg hunt at the home of
Mrs. Ross Jeffries, Saturday af
ternoon at 2:00 o’clock, April 7.
Mr. I. T. Shannon, who has
been managing the mills of the
Kelley Handle Company at Lang
ton and DeView, left yesterday,
Thursday, to accept a better po
sition with the same people in
Tennessee.
Nash’s Remedies
The Remedies that
Are Guaranteed
For Sale by
RED CROSS DRUG STORE
Town Elections
Next Tuesday, April 3, the vo
ters of the several incorporated
towns of this county will select
the officers to serve them for the
ensuing year. The Home News
has printed and delivered all of
the ballots to be used at McCro
ry, Cotton Plant, Augusta, Hun
ter and Patterson the only towns
that are incorporated. Every vo
ter should go cast his ballot for
town officers and be just as much
interested as in state and county
elections. Elsewhere we publish
a list of candidates in each town
as has been certified to us by the
election commissioners.
Revival Begins Sunday
The Rev. Raymond Browning,
evangelist, of Littleton, N. C.,
will begin a series of meetings at
the Methodist Church Sunday
morning. Mr. Browning is one
of the ablest ministers in the
Lord’s service and needs no intro
duction to our people, he having
held a great meeting here a few
years ago. Everybody cordially
invited to attend all services.
S. S. Association
The twenty-ninth Annual State
Convention of the Arkansas Sun
day School Association will con
vene in Pine Bluff, Ark., April
24-26. Every white Sunday school
of the state is urged to send at
least three delegates besides pas
tor and superintendent. A dele
gate should be sent from each of
three general divisions of your
Sunday school, namely:—Ele
mentary, Secondary and Adult
Divisions.
Prof. T. W. Shannon of Dela
ware, Ohio, author, editor and
lecturer of nation-wide fame,
will be one of the Convention
speakers. One address which
Prof. Shannon will deliver is en
titled, “Forests Protected—Hogs
Inspected—Children Neglected.”
Every father and mother of the
state and every teacher of boys
and girls should hear that lecture.
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To the Democrats of the
First Congressional District
Woodruff County offers to you
| a candidate for delegate to the
I Constitutional Convention in the
person of her able and honorable
judge, Mr. A. L. Hutchins of
Augusta. It is indeed a pleasure
to The Home News, a newspa
per published at McCrory in his
county, Woodruff, to recommend
him to you as being a gentleman
whose character is above re
proach.
Judge Hutchins, who is now
serving his second term, is thor
oughly capable of representing
the people of this district in the
convention and, if elected, will
no doubt prove one of the lead
ers among those who go there.
For several years before enter
ing the political arena Judge
Hutchins was superintendent of
the public schools in his town and
the universal expression is that
he was one of the most competent
and practical men they ever had.
The work and teachings of this
manly character which were im
planted in the minds of the boys
and girls, who are today young
men and women, stands out as a
living monument to the subject
of this sketch.
He is the only member from
Arkansas, representing h i s
church, on its general Sunday
school board for the South and is
also a member of the board of
trustees of the State Normal.
He is an active advocate of good
roads, better schools and church
es which instrumentalities affect
the development of a community,
large or small. In conclusion let
us again state that no mistake
can be made in sending the above
gentleman to the convention.
Strawberry Pickers Wanted
at Judsonia, Arkansas, two cents
per quart paid for picking, fami
lies or large parties will be fur
nished houses or tents, picking
starts about April 25th and lasts
a month. For information write
W. C. North, President and Man
ager of the Judsonia Fruit and
Vegetable Growers Association,
Judsonia, Ark. 3-30-3t Adv
Mrs. Fannie Rozelle and two
children of Tupelo were guests
| of friends and relatives here
I this week.
Agent R. C. Thompson left
Thursday for Brinkley where he
| will reside in the future. Mrs.
'Thompson and son, “Bill,” will
join him in a few days.