THE HOME NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY and woodruff county
VOLUME 2.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 27, 1916
NUMBER 13
The Most Prosperous Times
In American History are
Now Before us.
There is no doubt in the minds |
if the American people that we
are having the most prosperous'
times in the history of our land.
Almost the rest of the world is j
at war and destroying each other j
while Americans are at peace en
joying the greatest prosperity;
ever witnessed in our history, j
The banks are full of money; |
the farmers have plenty of food ;
that was grown at home; the
factories are running on full time
schedule; the merchants have
collected what was due them,
and in fact we are living at such
rapid speed in such prosperous
times until we have no time to
think of nothing but “more
money.” The streets of Little
Rock, in our own State, are full
of people shopping every day,
and every town in the State is
full of people going to and fro
shopping with the bright dollars
that are rapidly falling into their
hands. It seems that America
is a bank within itself. We are
| all happy and marching along
1 with the great wealth of this
| country. There are men that
| can borrow twenty-five dollars
I on a note that heretofore could
not secure one dollar at the
bank.
What is all this prosperity
beaming from? From the good
management at the head of our
great government — Woodrow
Wilson, the great president who
has so well kept us out of the
horrors of the miserable war in
Europe. He has kept faith with
die American people and given
them more constructive legisla
tion than any one president since
the foundation of our govern
ment. The American people are
going to return Woodrow Wilson
to the White House on Novem
or 7th together with a congress
that is in sympathy with his
great ideas. There can be no
more panics in the history of our
government because President
1 son has advanced and had
Passed a law that prevents the
oney kiHgg £rom preyjng upon
ne citizenship of these United
eS le£islation along the
iJn11? line is a great P^ce °E
s a ion, and his other legisla
°n is equally as great. He has
tJ'°rage to stand up and do
atwhichisrightand it shall
support of the peo
TK ne United States.
fore etkm0Cratic party has be'
good men fPe°PIe °f Arkansas
for office from Govern*
or down to township officers,;
and the voters of the state are
going to enter the polling places
marching along not with heads
bowed down in sorrow as to what
to do, but with proud heads pro
claiming for the Democratic tick-'
et from president down, lou
are going to see the greatest
sweep of things you have ever
seen before. There has never
been a time before the people
having in their hands the offices i
that rightfully belong to them.!
They want honest legislation
and they have secured it they j
are satisfied.
Meet me at the Fair, McCrory, \
Oct. 31. Adv.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gartrell
arrived Sunday from Nesbitt,
Miss., fora visit to her sister,
Mrs. H. B. Gray.
As It Should Be
According to reports from re
liable sources M. H. Patterson,
independent candidate for coun
ty judge, met with a cool hear
ing at Hunter and Cotton Plant
last Saturday where he had ad
vertised to speak. Less than
half a dozen people went to hear
him at Hunter and only one or
two people at Cotton Plant and
as a result of which he failed to
address the voters at either
place.
Messrs W. E. McCain and E.
C. Marsh spent Sunday with
friends in Memphis.
Messrs T. A. Jeffries and T. C.
Bull were in Mississippi the first
of the week on business. They
report great damage done by the
boll weevil in that state.
Want Products For The
County Exhibit.
Farmers Urged to Assist in Mak
ing County Agricultural Ex
hibit a Great Success.
County Agent R. H. Abbey
is working hard to make a suc
cess of the County Agricultural
Exhibit, to be held at McCrory
on Tuesday, October 31.
He is very desirous of having
a good display of the farm pro
ducts of the county and urges
all farmers to send in something
for the exhibit. Read the list of
prizes in this paper.
Oats on Every Farm.
In most counties of Arkansas
winter oats will produce as many
dollars worth of feed as will corn.
The oat straw will have a big
value for feed and for bedding
for farm animals and thus add to
the supply of barnyard manure.
Following the oat crop cowpeas
may be seeded for hay or for
plowing under to be followed by
oats or wheat or with rye for
winter pasture and this to be
plowed under in the spring and
the field planted to corn or cot
ton. The Extension Division of
the University of Arkansas and
U. S. Department of Agriculture
has been recommending winter
oats for every Arkansas farm
and this is about the limit of
time. Ordinarily, it is not safe
to seed winter oats after Octo
ber 20 in northern Arkansas or
November 1st in southern Ark
ansas. Make good seed bed and
use drill if posible.
Swat The Peddler.
Arkansas now has an infesta
tion almost as bad as the boll
weevil in the shape of all sorts
of peddlers and agents. Farmers
should not be fooled by these
smooth tongued fellows who of
fer to sell on the installment
plan. Their goods are inferior
to the goods sold in our home
stores for the same money • and
our home merchants sell with a
guarantee that is worth some
thing. In one county ten “stove
agents’’ swooped down and in
one week sold two hundred sixty
stoves at eightyfive dollars and
the manager bragged about it
and admitted that his men told
two lies to start with. (1) That
it was the best stove and (2)
that it was cheap at eighty-five
dollars. In fact it was inferior
in quality to the thirty dollar
stove handled in that county seat
town.
To the Democratic Voters of
Woodruff County:
As Chairman of your Central Committee I feel it my
duty to call your attention to the fact that there is some op
position to the regular Democratic ticket.
Former Senator M. H. Patterson is running as an
independent Candidate for the office of County and Pro
bate Judge.
In our Primary Election last March he was a candi
date and with all other candidates he filed the following
Pledge signed by himself, the original of which is on file
with me as Chairman of your Central Committee:
PLEDGE
“As a candidate for the Democratic Nomination
for the office of County Judge in the Primary Election
to be held on the last Wednesday in March, I hereby
pledge myself to abide the result of the Primary Elec
tion and to support the Nominees thereof and declare
that I am not and will not become the candidate of any
faction, independent or otherwise, either privately or
publicly suggested, other than the regular Democratic
Nominee. Signed: M. H. PATTERSON.
This 25th day of March, 1916.
As is well known Judge Hutchins received the
Nomination defeating his opponent by over 250 votes.
The character of our Democracy is too well known for it to
be necessary that I urge you to do your duty by the party
and help roll up a large majority for every nominee of the
party. D. H. ECHOLS, Chairman.
Woodruff County Democratic Central Committee.