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To Eat
Are to be found at
store. We are here for
iness, and if you will give us
your trade you can live cheap
and well.
Our stock has been enlarg
ed and will be added to as
the demands justify. Good
Goods, Lowest Prices, Prom
pt Service and Courteous
Treatment are all we can
promise. Price our goods
and we will prove all that
we claim.
Raymond ’s
G rocery.
WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED THURSDAY OF BACH WEEK AT
McCROBY, ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Office at McCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class mail,matter.
June 11th, 1908.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One Year. In advance. #1.0gj
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Announcement*.
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Prosecuting Attot^ey :
We are authorizejyto announce J. M. Vine
yard, of Helena. 8 A candidate for the office
of Prosecuting Attorney for this, the First
Judicial District, subject to the action of the
democratic /arty.
The NEWS is authorized to announce R. J.
Williams of Forrest City, as a candidate for
the ofJce of Prosecuting Attorney for this,
the First Judicial District, subject to the ac
tion of the democratic party.
' Circuit Court Clerk.
\ The News is authorized to announce Wm.
Moorman, of Augusta, as a candidate for the
office of circuit court clerk of this county sub
ject to the action of the democratic party.
County and Probate Court Clerk
We are authorized to announce F. B. Win
free, of Tip. as a candidate for the office of
county and probate court clerk of this county
subject to the action of the democratic party.
The News is authorized to announce Ed B.
Carl-Lee of Augusta, as a candidate for the
office of county and probate court clerk of
this county subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic party.
Sheriff and Collector.
We are authorized to announce T. Eck
Simpson, of Augusta, as a candidate for the i
office of sheriff and collector of this county :
subject to the action of the democratic party.
The News is authorized to announce W.
R. Cain, of Augusta, as a candidate for the of
fice of sheriff and collector of this county sub
ject to the action of the democratic party.
Tax Assessor,
The News is authorized to announce W j
B. Fakes, of McCrory, as a candidate for the
office of tax assessor of this county subject to
the action of the democratic party.
Representative .
The News is authorized to announce Elmo
M. Carl-Lee. of Augusta, as a candidate for 1
the office of representative of this county J
subject to the action of the democratic party.
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The News is authorized to announce R. B.
Keating, of McCrory. as a candidate for the ■
office of representative of this county sub
ject to the action of the democratic party.
County and Probate Judge.
The News is authorized to announce J. F. |
Summers, of Augusta, as a candidate for the 1
office of county and probate judge of this
county subject to the action of the democrat
party.
The News Is authorized to announce Esq.
Chas. N. Henri, of Pumpkin Bend Township,
as a candidate for the office of county and
probate judge of this county subject to the
action of the democratic party.
The News is authorized to announce Esq. S.
F. Watson, of McCrory, as a candidate for
the office of county and probate judge of
this county subject to the action of the demo
cratic party.
Treasurer.
The News is authorized to announce C. L.
Jackson, of Grays, as a candidate for the
office of Treasurer of this county subject to
the action of the democratic party.
For Mayor.
The News ts authorized to announce J. W.
Duley as a candidate for the office of mayor
of the town of McCrory, Arkansas, subject to
the action of the democratic primary April, 7,
1908.
OUR NEW SUBSCRIBERS.
Below is a list of those who
paid us iu advance for the News
since our last issue.
J. W. Collier(R.2, McCrory,Ark.
Grace Angus, Boonville, Ark.
Every community is cursed by
a class of people who make it their
business to attend to everybody’s
business but their own. Such
people are the meanest specimens
of depraved humanity which an all
wise Providence permits to exist
on this green earth. It is well
known that almost every person is
sometimes disposed to speak evil
of others; and tattling is a sin
from which very few can claim to
be entirely exempt. But the ob
ject of this article is to call atten
tion to that distinct class of tattlers
who make tale-bearing the con
stant business of their lives. For
tunately we have but few such in
this community, but no commun
ity is entirely free from them.
They pry into the private affairs of
every family in the neighborhood,
they know the exact state of one
! neighbor’s feelings towards anoth
er; they understand everybody’s
faults, and no little blunder or
misdemeanor ever escapes their
vigilant watchfulness. They are
, i' 'licularly well posted on every
'thing connected with courtship and
matrimony; know who are going
to injury and can guess the exact
time when the golden knot will be
tied. They watch every movement
of parties suspected of matrimoni
al intentions, and if there is the
slightest chance to create a disturb
ance, excite jealousy, or “break
up” a match, they take immediate
advantage of it and do all in their
power to keep people in a constant
state of vexation. They glide
[quietly from gentleman to lady,
from mother to daughter, from
father to son, and into the ears of
all they pour their dark, bitter
whisperings of slander and abuse,
and at the same time pretend to be
the most sincere friend of those
they talk to. Their black and
nauseous pills of malicious slander
are sugar-coated with smiles and
honeyed words of friendship.
Tattlers are confined to no par
ticular class of society. They be
long to all classes, and operate in
all. We fiud them among the
rich and the poor, “upper ten”
aud the “lower million,” in the
church and out of it. They are
people who have no higher am
bition than to be well informed in
regard to other people’s private
business, to retail scandal to their
neighbors, and exult in fiendish
triumph over the wounded feelings
and bruised hearts of their inno
cent victims. Our contempt for
such graceless creatures knows no
bounds, and we can find no words
in which to express its infamy.
What punishment they deserve we
cannot know.
Some say that rents are too
high, that land values are too
high, aud that there is no money
in farming. It is true to a certain
extent that money is not piled up
so rapidly by the agriculturists
uow as in the past, but there are
good and sufficient reasons there
for. The day has gone by when
the seed can be sown and the de
velopment of a bountiful crop left
in a great measure to nature.
The day has come, and sometime
ago, that the farmer must study
his land as does the merchant his
stock of goods, as does the manu
facturer his machinery. Our land
here is rich and fertile, but it must
be carefully looked after, or short
ly our farmers will abandon it as
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“killed out,” when the fact will
be that it is only tired of poor til
ling. When our farmers look af
ter their laud, carefully studying
its adaption, weigh carefully their
stock and feed and get the best
possible results from the combi
nation, then will land pay a high
rate of interest on a value ot $150
or even more per acre.
THE GAMBLER’S CHANCE
Richard A. Canfield, the big
New York gambler, who has
recently been in the limelight of
publicity because of a lawsuit,
puts the gaming proposition in
unique form : “If you play with a
gambler long enough.” says Can
field, “ho is bound to win your
money. He can’t help but get it.
When you play with me in round
numbers you put up $100 and
against that I put up $90. Now
figure how long you can keep do
ing this. You may win my money
now and then, you may break me
temporarily, but as long as you
play against me at the odds of 100
to 90 in the end I’ll have your
money.”
Canfiled ought to know. He is
reputed to have made $5,000,000
in the gambling business. It is
said ve has not personally touched
a card in twenty years. He in
trusts the business of his establish
ment to subordinates and relies
with mathematical certainty upon
returns. Canfield puts it very
plainly. If you go into the gam
bler’s game he has 100 chances to
your 90. If you stay in the
game long enough, and the major
ity of the players do, he will get
your pile. It is simply science,
skill and luck pitted against abso
lute certainty. The end is known
McCRORY
HERC.
CO.
OUR
GOODS
SATISFY.
from the beginning.
That is where the average man
who gambles makes his fundament
al mistake. He imagines that
good fortune will beat the law of
mathematics. He bets on the
theory that good playing and luck
will enable him to overcome the
stubborn fact that 10 is one more
than 9. Canfield says what every
one ought to know: When you
go up against the gambler’s game
you go up against a dead sure
thing. The gambler’s game is not
“game of chance” at all. Chance
has nothing to do with it. It is
financial robbery done scientifical
ly. Gambler Canfiield’s frank
statement will have little effect,
however. There will always be
the man who fancies he can change
9 into a bigger figure than 10.
Without An Enemy.
Heaven help the man who|imagines
he can dodge enemies be trying to
please every body. If such an in
dividual ever succeeded, we should
be glad of it—not that one should
going thru the world trying to find
beams to knock and thump his
head against disputing every man’s
opinion fighting and elbowing and
crowding all who differ from him.
That, again, is another extreme.
Other people have their opinions
—so have you; don’t fall into the
error of supposing they will re
spect you more for turning your
coat every day to match theirs.
Wear your own colors in spite of
wind or weather. It costs the vac
cillating and irresolute ten timesthe
trouble to shuffle and twist than it
does honest, manul independence
to stand its ground.
TlflE DOES IT
Time has a wonderful power in
taking the conceit out of persons.
When a young man first emerges
from the schools and enters upon
the career of life, it is painfully
amusing to witness his self-suf
ficiency— he would have all the
world to understand that he has
“learned out”—that he is master
of all knowledge, and can unravel
all mysteries. But as he grows older
he grows wiser; he learns that he
knows a great deal less than he
supposed he did, and by the time
he reaches to three score years, he
is prepared to adopt as his own
the sentiment of John Wesley, who
said: “When I was young I was
sure of everything; in a few years,
having been mistaken a thousand
times, I was not half so sure of
most things as I was before. At
present I am hardly sure of any
thing but what God has revealed
to man.”
NOTICE.
Whereas: P. R. Andrews is a
candidate for Attorney General
of the State, and Hon. R. B. Ma
con is candidate for Congress of
the first congressional district
and Hon. R. J. Williams, is a can
didate for prosecuting attorney
of the first Judicial district and,
Whereas: the democracy of St.
Francis county impose confi
dence and faith in the ability and
integrity of each of these gen
tlemen and believe that they will
fill these respective offices to
which they aspire with credit to
themselves and honor to the
public,
Now,Therefore: Be it resolv
ed by the democratic central
comittee of St.Francis county
now duly In session, that we en
dorse the candidacy of each of
these gentlemen and reccom
mend them to the voters as men
in whom they can place confi
dence and who will serve the
public ably and well if elected to
the offices to which they aspire.
Given under our hands by or
der of the Committee this the 16,
day of March, 1908 Signed,
J. P. McDonald, Chairman,
J. O Rush, Secretary.
Farmer’s Union.
All locals of the Farmer* Un
ion of Woodruff county are re
quested to elect delegates to rep
resent them at the next meeting
of the County union which con
venes at McCrory, April, 3 and 4.
E. W. Chaney, County Sec.
You Read the
Other Fellow’s Ad
You are reading this one.
That should convince you
that advertising in these
columns is a profitable j
proposition; that it will
bring business to your '
store. The fact that the
other fellow advertises is
probably the reason he is
1 getting more business thau
is falling to you. Would
I it not be well to give the
other fellow a chance
To Read Your Ad.
In These Columns.
After all there is a good deal in
talk. Let a man talk dull times
and it is infectious, everjbody
talks dull times. Instead of rust
ling around to take care of what
business there is, they all go sit
down and mope over dull times.
If a customer does happen to drop
into one of these “dull times"
stores he actually gets frightened
out of one-half as much as he ex
pects to buy, because things look
so blue. He catches the spirit of
the store and resolves to hang on
to all his money with a death grip,
even if his business goes to pieces
on account of running short of
goods to fill up the empty shelves.
The bug-bear of hard times should
be sat down upon. It is doing
more to kill business than any
thing else. Tell a man he is sick,
keep it up, and you will eventual
ly hound him to de^th.
A FACT!
Needles are not sharp at
both ends. An eye is as im
portant as a point. In buy
ing don’t strive to be all
sharpness.--Judgment
ought to be at one end of
your efforts. Keep your
On our store. Our line is
the most complete in town,
Everything new; Our prices
right, and our service up to
the minute.
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pupils who have access to news
papers at home, when compared
with those who do not, are better
readers, better spellers, better
grammarians, better punctuators,
and read more understandiugly,
and obtain a practical knowledge
of geography in almost half the
time it requires others. The news
paper is decidedly an important
factor in modern life. , This will
not be disputed by any one who
has taken the trouble to investigate
the matter for himself.
Success in life does not always
mean wealth, fame or position.
You may be poor in all of these
but you can be rich in mind and
character. The world within you
must be developed before you ean
enjoy the world without you. If
you have wealth put some of it into
brain power and you can never
lose it. If you are poor you can
not afford to be poor in both mind
and pocket. You can have the
wealth of a trained mind and a I
noble character. Rely on your
own efforts. Thousands of worthy j
persons have obtained an education ,
without the assistance of wealth or!
friends. You can do it. Success!
often depends on the sacrifices I
made and obstacles overcome. To J
succeed in anything requires hard,!
honest work. Determine to do the
best you can with the faculties God
has given you.
LIST OF APPOINTriFNTS.
The office seekers of Woodruff
county will address the people in
the interest of their respective can
didacies at the following places on
the dates mentioned opposite each.
In making up the list, the Salt
River Steamer is to leave at six
o’clock on the evening of March,
26th.
Ebenezer,
Cotton Plant,
Hunter,
Pumpkin Bend,
Barnes,
Tipp,
Howell,
White River,
Riverside,
Point,
DeView,
Wiville,
Augusta,
McCrory,
Salt River,
March 5.
March 6.
March 9.
March 10.
March 11.
March 12.
March 13.
March 16.
March 17.
March 18.
March 19.
March 20.
March 23.
March 24.
March 25 6:00 p. m.
McCrory
Hotel.
FIRSTCLASS ROOMS
And GOOD FARE.
Your Patronage Re
spectfully Solicited.
Wanted!
To buy all kinds of Country Produce
such as Hides, Chickens, Eggs, Butter,
Vegetables, Etc. In fact, anything rais
ed on the farm in the produce line. High
est Market price paid for same.
A. J. PORTER.