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THE HOME NEWS
Published every Friday at McCrory, Ark.
' WALTER W. RANEY, Ed. and Pub.
Subscription $1.00 per Year ii> Advance.
Entered as second-class matter
Aug. 26, 1915, at the post office
at McCrory, Ark., under the act
Of March, 3, 1879.
Friday, September, 10, 1915
CONCERNING OUR SCHOOL
CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE
the district it is estimated we can
find more children of schoolastic
age located as far away from
our present high school as those
who reside at Jelks and certainly
the patrons in that section would
request that a school be estab
lished in that territory. The
board certaianly would also have
to give them-a school just as they
had done at Jelks. What is true
of the southeastern portion is
possibly true of the northern
part of the district, therefore it
is plain enough to see that the
directors can not establish such
precedent Decause oi tne
fact that it would be impossible
to carry out such a plan to all.
Another thing to be considered
is the facilities of getting to
school from Jelks as compared
to that of geting to it from the
southeastern section. The roads
will naturally be better from
Jelks than from the other direc
tion, and yet, that is not all for
we have livery teams and auto
mobiles running daily to and
from Jelks and most all the time
during the winter months a local
freight both vvays every day up
on which the pupils may make
the trip, rain or shine. In the
southeastern section they have
no train, or livery team and
autos, so by making a compari
son, we readily find that the
pupils at Jelks are ideally located
Perry Holland
TAILOR
“Clothes for Men Who Care”
as compared with the others just
spoken of.
The Home News takes the po
sition that to establish a school
at Jelks would simply mean to
establish a precedent which could
not be carried out and maintain
the higher grades we now have
for a reason that can be ex
plained in three words—lack of
funds.
We feel sure that the writer of
the above letter is laboring under
a false impression about the po
sition the board takes in this
matter any way. He frankly
states that he knows nothing of
the finances of the district, and
we believe that is largely the
reason he takes the position that
he does.
AFTER A GOOD SCHOOL
We are glad to have with us
again as residents J. M. Kellogg
and family of Cotton Plant and
Walter Reneau and family of
DeView. Mr. Kellogg moves
here to have charge of the Eck
hardt & Lennon heading mill and
Mr. Reneau has moved here sole
ly for the purpose of giving his
children the benefit of the higher
grades of high school work which
his children could not get at De
View they having finished the 7th
grades there. If our school
board was required to maintain a
small school in each section of
this district, the school we now
have here would be only a 7th
grade school instead of a 10th
grade as at present. Which
would you, Mr. and Mrs. Patron,
rather have, the 7th or the 10th?
We believe it best as we now
have it, don’t you?
Miss Ora Brewer of Augusta
is the guest of Miss Hazel Mus
grove this week.
Miss Ida Tarpley leaves today
to again take charge of the music
department of the Harrisburg
High School.
Mrs. I. E. Thomas returned
Wednesday to her home at Lone
Oak, Tex. after a week’s visit
to her father, A. J. Marsh.
Mrs. R. L. Little and son,
Wayne McCauley, of Judsonia
spent a portion of the week with
her brother C. P. Best and other
relatives.
Died: Fall of the year is the
time to put up monuments and
tombstones and for anything in
that line see W. H. Jimerson,
McCrory, Ark. 6-2 Adv
W. E. Jelks has been spending
a portion of this week in Augusta
on the Equalization Board, which
is composed of Dr. J. W. Morris,
Steve Davis and himself.
Mrs. S. M. Yancey, son and
neice, Miss May Williams, have
returned from a month’s visit to
relatives in Tennessee.' They re
port a very pleasant vacation.
GROWING WHEAT HERE.
C. Blair who lives across the
Bayou in Pumpkin Bend hauled
63 bushels of wheat to town
Saturday. He states that he
will harvest about 175 bushels
fron the 15 acres, 100 of which
hehassoldto Thompson Hailey
Co. at $1.00 per bushel, and that
it required four mules to pull the
load he brought to town.
Mr. Blair has proven that
wheat will make good here as he
has a good crop and fine grade
of wheat some of which is now on
display in the above firm's win
dow. He has bailed 400 bales
of wheat straw for feed that is
worth about 50c a bale making
the crop from the 15 acres bring
about $375.00 Let Arkansas feed
herself by following Mr. Blair's
example.
WOODMEN UNVEILING
Upon invitation of the Wood
men of the World Lodge at Til
ton, Rev. H. T. Raney of this
city preached at the church in
Pumpkin Bend Sunday morning
and assisted the Tilton Choppers
with the unveiling ceremonies in
the afternoon when they unveiled
the monument of the late Boyd
0. Kirkland, who was a member
of their camp. Following the
morning services a sumptuous
dinner was spread on the ground,
and about 250 or 300 people were
present.
J. H. Crossett and H. Arnof
are home from the California
expositions.
Mrs. J. F. Morgan returned
Wednesday from a month’s visit
to Mrs. Thad C. Hartin at Bran
don, Texas.
Mrs. J. W. Rankin and daugh
ter of Eight Mile returned home
yesterday, Thursday, from a visit
to her parents at Tilton, Ga.
Joe H. Stanley and E. J. Hohn
of Little Rock and Bolivar Con
ner of Augusta were here Mon
day for the purpose of buying the
bonds for the Bayou Drainage
District No. 1 when they are ^of
fered for sale.
Forrest Greer played second
for Judsonia in a three game se
ries of base ball last week against
Weldon at the latter place. Wel
don lost the first day’s game 6 to
0, but won Friday’s 6 to 4 and
Saturday’s 8 to 1.
J. W. Neeley, one of the new
members of the school board,
has been very busy this week
mowing the lawn, grading, mov
ing fences and whitewashing the
trees and out-houses on the
school grounds. He is the right
man in the right place and we
are glad to have him as such.
His work has improved the iooks
of things wonderfully and the
work he has done is noticeable
blocks away.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
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B. BREWSTER
Physician and Surgeon
Office phone 39, Residence 16
Office in rear of Farmers &
Merchants Bank building.
H. P. HARGIS
Physician and Surgeon
Phone No. 49
Calls answered day or night.
J. H. WEST
Physician and Surgeon
Calls answered promptly
day or night.
Grays, Arkansas
L. B. WINFREE, J. P.
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