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WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED THURSDAY OP BACH WEEK AT
McCRORY, ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Office at McCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class mail,matter.
June 11th. 190*.
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One Year. In advance. 81.00
MONUMENT UNVEILED
Woodmen Assemble at the Odd Fel
lows’ Cemetery to Honor Their
Dead Brother,Alfred J.Black
Gum Wood Camp No. 108,
Woodmen of the World, unveiled
a very handsome monument last
Sunday at the above cemetery
near DeView, which they had
erected to the memory and to mark
the grave of their deceased brother,
Alfred J. Black, who was a de
voted member of Gum Wood Camp,
McCrory, Ark., in his lifetime.
Visiting Woodmen from other
Forests were also in attendance
and participated in the ceremonies,
there being about one hundred
and twenty Woodmen in line, and
altogether nearly a thousand per
sons present to witness the cere
monies, which took place at about
3:30 o’clock. Rev. H. T. Raney
was the orator of the day, and H.
E. Wood commanded the degree
team.
Everything passed off in good
form, and the occasion was most
impressive, and one long to be re
membered for the good lesson
taught.
POPULAR LADY CONTEST.
This paper will co-operate with
the Arkansas State Fair Associa
tion in giving one of the most in
teresting and generous voting con
tests ever offered.
Beginning .July 1st a Vote Form
will appear in these colums. Ev
ery one of these forms, properly
filled out, will constitute one vote
for the State Fair Queen from this,
the first Congressional District.
The lady receiving the greatest
number of votes from the total
cast through the various papers in
this district will go to the State
Fair as an honored guest. Her
expenses will be paid to and from
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the fair. She will be royally en
tertained in one of the best hotels
in Hot Springs. She will go
to and from the fair grounds in a
special carriage. She will be
dined and feted and delightfully
entertained during the entire ten
days of the state fair. She will
reign one day as the Hostess and
supreme Queen of the State Pair.
On the other days she will be a
prominent personage in the court
and retinue of the ruling queen.
This will be a great honor and a
high social distinction. Tne
Women’sFederatedC lubs of Arkan
sas are co-operating with the state
fair and the press of Arkansas • in
carrying out this contest and the
final canvass of the votes will be
made by the State Fair Committee
of the A. F. W. C.
In addition to the votes cast by
clipping the coupon from the pa
pers, votes can be secured by
bringing to this office paid in ad
vance subscriptions. Every lady
securing paid-in-advance subscrip
tions for the Woodruff County
News will receive one vote for
each five cents of the amount of
money thus paid.
This is a contest that is state
wide in its interest and one in
which each congressional district
will vie with every other in the
selection of a State Fair Queen
that will be the pride of her re
spective district and worthy of
this high honor.
Since the adjournment of the
last General Assembly, it has
been circulated in some parts of
the county among the military
boys that it was the fault of the
county’s representative that
certain bills introduced in
in the Senate and passed by that
body, failed in the House. The
following letter of a recent date
shows how Mr. CarlLee treated
the matter:
Powhatan, Ark., June, 17, ’07.
Hon. E. M. CarlLee,
Augusta, Arkansas.
Dear Friend:
I have intended writing you
since I came home from Little
Rock but have been so busy In
my office I just haven’t had time
to do so. I want to thank you
in behalf of the Arkansas Nati
onal Guard for the hard work
you did for us in the last legisla
ture. I firmly believe that you
deserve the largest amount of
credit for the $5,000.00 deficien
cy military appropriation, of any
member in the House, as you
know the bill only passed by one
vote, and of course I would love
to have seen the Patterson $35,
TOO.OO appropriation passed but
you know that was a matter of
impossibility for that to have
been done, as we only barely
passed our five thousand dollar
ieficiency bill.
Any time I can serve you,
command me. With best wishes,
l am as ever, Your friend,
W. K. Surridge,
Col. 1st. Ark. Regt. Inf’t.
Arkansas National Guards.
Said a well known business man
;o us the other day: “It would
lot hurt you to occasion lly mention
>ur business in the paper. It
vould help to fill up, you know.”
STes, we might do it. We haven’t
he least idea on earth that it
vould hurt us, and it would, as
le suggests, help to fill up. We
night do all this, but at the same
ime, thank God, we do not have to
lo it unless we feel like it. It
rould not hurt him, neither, to
:ome around and say: “Give me
i column or a half column of space
'or an advertisement, and here is
he money for it.” By doing this
le would become a deserter to
hat grand army of dead-heads
vho expect the newspapers to con
inually note the improvements
diey make, by giving them free
puffs, and for which they never
pay a cent. It is high time for all
classes to learn that a newspaper
is a business enterprise, the same
as a dry goods store or a grocery,
run for a living for its owner.
McCRORY
HERC.
CO.
OUR
GOODS
SATISFY.
When you want a good job of
printing done just take your copy
to a printer and tell him to do you
a good job, and he Will. If you
think you know more about the
business than he does and select
your paper and instruct him what
type to use and all the little de
tails, you will get a botch job. A
printer working under instructions
from one who knows nothing
about the business, no matter if
he is an expert, cannot get out a
neat job.
The force of patent examiners in
the patent office is composed of
technically educated men. As
soon as they become versed in
patent office practice, their services
are at once in great demand by the
large manufacturing concerns, and
also by the patent attorneys in the
country. These outside firms and
corporations are willing to pay
much better salaries than the gov
ernment gives them in their pres
ent situations. The result is that
each year there is a large number
of resignations, Last year over
fifty skilled examiners resigned
from the service, to enter into the
employ of private concerns, at a
large increase of salary. The
government finds it almost impos
sible to keep these places filled,
and the result has been that the
work of the patent office has been
put to great inconvenience by hav
ing to wait a long time before their
applications are passed upon.
If some day the newspaper man
should print the contents of his
waste basket there would probably
be a riot. There would certainly
be trouble in many homes, arrests
in some directions, shot guns in
others, trouble all around. But
the patron never sees the waste
basket. He only glances at the
beautifully printed pages, com
plains if one letter in fifty is up
side down, growls his disappoint
ment if one name in five hundred
has happened to go wrong, kicks
because his communication, signed
“Tax Payer,” has been condensed
into respectable English, frowns
J. T. O’FALLON
Contractor and
Builder.
Estimates on build
ings of all kinds.
Interior decorating and
sanitary plumbing a speci
alty. A portion of your pat
ronage respectfully solicit
ed. All work honestly done.
because the editor didn’t take his
advice about publicly warning his
neighbor against throwing more
melon in the alley, and is gener
ally disgruntled, not so much at
what he fails to find. He knows
his share of the waste basket, but
if he could have one look at the
contributions made to that recep
tacle by his neighbors and friends,
he would thank God for the exist
ence of a man with sufficient intel
ligence and courage not to print
all he knows, and to temper even
that which he does print.
Usually a man who ha* been
fooling the people with whom he
has dealings in any line—official
ly or otherwise—seems merely a
look-er-on, when he is about to
be brought to the limelight.—
Woodruff County Free Press.
DEVIEW.
By Our Regular Correspondent,
Jake Bishop was in Bald Knob
last week.
The cotton crop is thirty days
later than last year.
A. S. Thompson was in Little
Rock last Thursday, on business.
Mr. Short, of Searcy, was with
his brother-in-law, Dr. Morris,
Sunday.
Edgar Pritchett, and family, of
Gregory, visited relatives here,
Sunday.
Featherston James, who was
cut in a fight a few weeks ago, is
able to be out again.
Mrs. Short, of Searcy, visited
her brother, Dr. Morris, last week,
returning home Monday.
Master Guthera Bishop, son of
Jesse Bishop, deceased, arrived
last Tuesday from St. Louis.
Geo. Hall, and little son, of
Weldon, were guests of Mr. Hall’s
nephew, H. C. Hall, Sunday.
Engines For All Pur
poses.
RIGGS BROS.
AGENTS.
J. W. Neely, and family, of
north of McCrory, visited the
family of Frank Wright,last week.
Mrs. Thompson, and daughter,
visited Ed Woodward, and family,
of Tupelo, Saturday and Sunday.
Sam Womack an ex-resident of
DeView, but now of Bradford,
was the guest of friends here the
first of the week.
Misses Alice and Hallye Barren
tine, of Weldon, are visiting their
many friends and relatives in our
midst this week.
Porter Best went to Newport
Sunday to meet his little nephew,
Wayne McCauley, who has been
at Springfield, Mo. .
Rev. «T. A. Thomas, of Judsonia.
will preach at Beards next Sunday,
June 29. He was for many years
pastor of that church.
Rev. A. J. Porter preached a
fine temperance sermon at Beards
last Sunday. Brother Porter is
all O. K. when it oomes to lectur
ing to the young men.
F. P. Winfree says that just be
cause he is friendly and likes that
glad handshake, some of his
friends accuse him as being a can
didate and as he already holds
three offices, he doesn’t care for
any more.
The open session of Jordan un
ion, F. E. & C. U. of A., held last
Saturday at Beards, was a com
plete success. The opening cere
mony consisted of a song hy the
quoir after which followed a pray
er. J. P. Boyle then lectured for
about one hour and thirty minutes.
He is a fine speaker and if the
farmers would take his advice
there would be less meat, corn and
hay shipped into our country, and
more money in our pockets.
THE HOflE CIRCLE COLUMN
Pleasant Evening Reveries—A Column Dedicated to Tired
Mothers as they Join the Home Circle at Evening Tid«
CRUDE THOUGHTS FROfl THE EDITORIAL pen.
To one engaged in business it is
vital to know as much as possible
of the disposition and ability of
the customers to meet their obli
gations, since the percentage of
“desperate” notes and accounts
must be reckoned at the end of
the year if the proprietor would
know his actual financial standing.
There will always exist the need
for this caution so long as human
nature continues to be human na
ture. Our town is practically free
from that class of individuals
known as the professional dead
beat, hence the bad debt collector
finds this field an altogether un
profitable one in which to operate.
There is probably no man en
gaged in the newspaper business
in this state, who is not acquaint
ed with a man whose excuse for
discontinuing his subscription is
that he already “has more papers
than he can read.” It is only an
excuse offered to ameliorate the
presumed lacerated condition of
the editor’s feelings. It has no
such effect, for in the first place an
editor never worries over the loss
of a subscriber except when he
leaves the country without paying
up arrearages. But why not be
truthful and say to the honest
newspaper man just what you feel
in your heart. Go into his den,
ask him how much you owe, pay
the delinquincy and tell him frank
ly that you don’t want his disrep
utable, blackguard sheet any long
er. Say to him in a sorrowful
tone of voice that you deeply re
gret his inability to publish a
newspaper worthy the name and
advise him to sell his plant to
some man with a thimble full of
brains and seek some occupation
which does not require much wear
or tear of mind. Do this and
then you can go away with the
comforting assurance that the ed
itor respects you for your candor
and will cherish no hard feelings
because yon choose to borrow; his
paper instead of buying it.
THE OPTIMIST.
The optimist, while he sees
much of the evil, sees also much
of the good. He sees more of the
beauty, hears more of the music;
his mental vision is keener, his
spiritual insight deeper. His
whole view of life is one of prom
ise. When the problems, vexa
tions, and temptations come, he
stands squarely in his path, and
by attitude and expression de
clares his firm belief in that ulti
mate good. He has many exper
iences, and sometimes he fails;
but he rises stronger in resolution
for having discovered a weakness.
There is in him something that
never yields. He looks upon evil
as something to be overcome. He
makes effort, in proportion to this
does he elevate himself to a higher
plane of life. He has a mission in
the world, and proceeds to do his
work. This is usually done with
out demonstration. His force i
like the sublime forces of the unjS
verse—silent, hut always acting
Like the pessimist, his life and
thoughts are contagious; unlike
the pessimist, he is always wel
come. If the two come face to
face, he will never yield to the lat
ter’s influence. He knows that
eternal truth and goodness are
working through him, and he be
lieves in their ultimate triumph.
WORK MAKES MEN.
Work makes men. Luck some
times fails. Pluck nearly always
wins. To succeed in anything one
must over-come obstacles. Force
and fiber are built by hard-shipg.
Grit is as necessary in the making
of a man as gumption. Hardships
are not always handicaps. Often
they are for the better. You will
understand this better in twenty
years. Meanwhile permit one
who has lived that twenty years
and more to advise you in this.
Hang onto your job until you are
sure of a better one. Dependable
boys are in demand. And no boy
can be depended upon who does
not finish the task he sets his
hand to do. However disagree
able our work, do it thoroughly.
Do it better than the average boy
will do it. In that way you will
come to be known as a dependable
boy. And mind you this: Men
everywhere are looking for capable
honest, gritty, dependable boys.
The sooner you let people know
that you are that kind of a boy,
the sooner you will get a better
job. And don’t be in a hurry to>
give up the work you already have.
Be sure something better is offer
ed. Wait awhile. Do your work
well. Promotion will come. And
do not envy the boy who has am
easy time. You would much bet
ter pity him. He has a good time
now, but some day he must “make
good.” With his flabby muscles
mid his easy habits and his many
wants, he stands a far poorer
chance than you. Remember
above all, young fellow, you are
making a man of yourself.
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