THE HOME NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
VOLUMN 6
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, SEPT. 10, 1920
NUMBER 8
news from grays
Items of Interest Concerning
the People of that Good
Town in which You May
Be Interested
We are glad to note that
Grays now has a string band.
Mr. Fink Hayes of McCrory
spent Sunday with homefolk.
Misses Lucy and Willie
Fincher spent the week-end at
Hunter.
Mr. and Mrs. Weaver of
North Little Rock visited
friends here this week.
Mr. C. B. Cook Jr., of Little
Rock was a pleasant caller at
the Hayes home Monday eve
ning.
Mr., and Mrs. Phil Angelo
of Auvergne have been visiting
relatives here for the past
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Vance Thomp
son returned home Saturday,
after spending their vacation
in Memphis.
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Perkins
of North Little Rock, returned
home Tuesday, after spending
a few days with hOmefolk.
The young people of this
town enjoyed a dance Mon
day evening, given at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wilson.
The people of Grays were
highly entertained by a mu
sical at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Fitz Tuesday evening.
Mr. H. G. Crotzer made a
flying trip to Humbolt, Tenn.,
last week. Mr. Crotzer says
crops are looking fine in Hum
bolt.
Mrs. -Patrick of Little
Rock returned home Tuesday,
after spending the week-end
vith her sister, Mrs. Ed Tay
lor. She was accompanied
home by her little nephew,
William ‘Gray Taylor.
Eighty-Year-Old Soldier
W. H. Clough, Co. E, Ward 5
Soldiers’ Home, Cal., writes:
‘Foley Cathartic Tablets keep
me in a better and natural
shape than any medicine I
ever have taken. I am almost
eighty years old.” Foley
Cathartic Tablets relieve in
digestion, sick head-ache, bil
iousness, sour stomach and
similar ailments. For sale by
the Red Cross Drug Co. Adv.
Mr. W. N. Dunehew was a
Little Rock visitor this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. W. Bar
rentine of Wynne are guests of
McCrory friends and relatives.
Mr. Walter Scales left Tues
day for Roawell, New Mexico,
to re-enter the New Mexico
Military Institute.
CLEAN-UP
Have you cleaned up your
premises? If not, you had
better get busy and do so at
once. Cut the weeds, remove
all tin cans, bottles, glass wire
and junk of any kind, other
wise you may be hailed into
court and fined. Look around
and see what your neighbor
has done toward making Mc
Crory a clean place in which
to live and if you will clean-up
you will feel better. Have
just a little civic pride and
clean-up your premises and do
it now.
W. W. RANEY, Mayor.
NOTICE
Rooms and board for sev
eral of our teachers are need
ed for the coming term. We
appeal to those who can fur
nish these accomodations to
notify G. G. McCrory, secre
tary, or C. T. Willis, superin
tendent, at once.
Respectfully,
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Protect Your Child-and Others
The beginning of school
brings coughs and colds to
many children. School doctors
know one coughing, sneezing,
snuffing child can spread in
fection. At the first sign of a
cold it is well to give a child a
dose of Foley's Honey and Tar
Compound, that safe, reliable
cough medicine. Contains no
opiates. For sale by the Red
Cross Drug Co. Adv.
Mr. L. G. Jones of Wynne
was a Little Rock visitor
Wednesday.
Messrs J. W. Mullens and
Ed Harris of Jelks were in Lit
tle Rock on business this week.
Rev. A. J. Porter will leave
Sunday morning for a three
weeks visit to Ardmore, Okla.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Yar
brough who have been touring
! the past three months in the
jstates of Colorado, New Mex
ico, Texas and Oklahoma, are
| now at Pratt, Kansas.
' expect to go to southern Texas
j where they will make theii
future home. Mrs. Yarbrough
| will be remembered as Miss
Lottie Angelo.
We are glad to note that sc
many of our citizens have
cleaned up their premises and
cut the weeds. It is a mark oi
civic pride and a good sign
that a progressive citizen re
sides there. The few whc
have not comlied with the lav
might profit by doing as theii
neighbors have as some of the
“slackers” may be given a lit
tie reminder in the way of $10,
00 and the costs.
1
PREACHER IS JAILED
Refuses to Give Testimony In
Clark Circuit Court.
• Arkadelphia, Sept. 2.—Geo.
Oliver, a Holiness preacher has
been placed in jail here by
order of Judge G. K. Haynie
for refusing to testify in Cir
cuit Court in a case against
certain young men of Okolona
neighborhood who are charged
with gambling. He was one
of the state’s star witnesses,
and had previously appeared
before the Grand Jury giving
evidence which assured the in
dictments. When placed on
the witness stand his memory
“relapsed” and he would
reply to practically all ques
tions, “I don’t know.” The
judge thought a while spent
in jail' might “refresh” his
memory.—Arkansas Gazette.
LEE GEORGE GETS BAIL
Searcy. Aug. 27.—Bond for
$8,000 has been given by Lee
George, charged with first de
gree murder in connection
with the killing of Bliss Chap
man a week ago. Bond was
first refused, but after a hear
ing of the case before County
Judge White, it was decided
to make this a bailable case.
George admits killing Chap
man but pleads self-defense
and that the act was just
ifiable from the fact that
Chapman had made insulting
remarks to George’s wife, and
that he was defending the
sanctity of his home.
The killing occurred on the
main street of Beebe about
10 o’clock at night. George
was arrested next day and has
been in jail here until yester
day. His trial will be held
at the January term of the
White Circuit Court.—Arkansas
TO FIGHT MOONSHINING
Treasury Department Tightens
Its Regulation On Stills.
Washington, Sept. 8.—In an
effort to end illicit distilling of
intoxicating liquor the Treas
ury Department today de
cided to tighten regulations
around the sale of stills and
add another check to its means
of tracing down their users.—
Gazette Sept. 9.
Mrs. Ora Houser spent Sun
; day in Memphis..
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Thomp
■ s o n, our accommodating
i station agent and operator,
will leave tomorrow, Saturday,
■ on a month’s vacation which
i they will spend in Pheonix,
• Ariz., and Los Angeles, Calif.,
and other poinaji shrdlucmfwy
places of interest.
AVIATORS PERFORM
DEATH DIVES FOR
VITAGRAPH PICTURE
Spectacle of “Nose Dives” to
Provide Instruction for Fu
ture Pilots of the Sky.
Tail spins, nose dives, side
slips and overturns by air
planes in a battle scene pro
vides thrills in the Vitagraph
feature “Daring Hearts,”
wtfiich will be shown at the
Jewel Theatre Thursday Sept.
13.
Francis X. Bushman and
Beverly Bayne are starred in
the film.
The airplane spectacle was
enacted by a group of the
most daring fliers in the
American army aviation sec
tion. It constitutes one of
the greatest exhibitions of
trick flying ever put upon the
screen.
Mr. Bushman appears in
this episode as an American
ace fighting five enemy air
men high above the battle
ground. He is seen to turn
his machine gun on one after
another of the Huns, and in
turn three of the latter’s ma
chines swirl into a death fall.
See this picture next Thurs
day Sept. 16.
The Springfield Business
College wants our best girls to
prepare for secretarial
positions. Guaranteed slalary
from $75.00 to $120.00 per
month. Very pretty catalog
mailed free. Adv. ltp.
The most beautiful catalog
ever published by the Spring
field Business College will be
sent free to every young per
son in this vicinity who wants
employment at $100..00 a
month. Write J. A. TAYLOR
Springfield, Mo. Adv. ltp.
The Worthy Grand Matron
of the Grand Chapter of the
Order of the Eastern Star of
Arkansas will visit the Mc
Crory Chapter Monday eve
ning Sept. 13th. All members
of the Order are urged to be
present at this meeting to re
ceive instructions from the
Grand Matron. She requests
that the Master and other
members of the Blue Lodge
give her an audience of
twenty or thirty minutes pre
ceding the opening of the
chapter.
DR. C. P. HARRIS
DENTIST
McCRORY, ARK.
Office Hours: 8-5
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