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WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED THURSDAY OY BACH WEEK AT
McCROBY. ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Office at McCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class maU.matter.
June 11th. 1903.
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George Raymond McCrory Ark.
LATER RETURNS MAKE
NO CHANGE.
Official Figures Do Not Cut
Down Norwood's Lead For
Attorney Genera l—A n
drews Still Claims Victory.
Belated returns received yester
day failed to make any change in
the attorney general race, in which
Hal. L. Norwood seems to be lead
ing P. R. Andrews by a com
fortable margin. What few add
itional returns were recieved last
night made only a slight change in
the figures as given iu the Gazette
yesterday morning. The returns
from Cleburne county raised An.
drews vote in that couniy from 756
to 902 but they also raised Nor
wood’s vote from 303 to 341 The
returns from Nevada county show
ed Norwoods vote in that county
to have been 821 instead of 739, as
previously reported, and reported
and Andrews vote to be 549 instead
of 546. These and other minor
changes were not sufficient to cut
down Norwood’s lead to any extent
and he still has the majority of ne
arly 8,000 on the face of the ret
urns.
There are still a number of large
counties from which the offical re
turns have not been recieved and
the vote in these counties is not
included in the above figures on
which Norwoods present lead is
estimated.
MB. ANDREWS’ STATEMENT.
The statement given out by Mr.
Andrews is as follows:
“Notwithstanding the fact that
my opponent, Mr. Norwood,
claims, through the figures as re
ported in the Gazette of March 31,
that he has defeated me for the
nomination for attorney general
by a majority of several thousand
votes, I deserve to assure my
friends and the public in general
that these statements are grossly
inaccurate. Several counties in
which Mr. Norwood is reputed to
have received good majorities, in
fact, gave me large majorities. In
j othei’ counties Mr. Norwood did
receive majorities, the figures in
the report referred to are exagger
ated:
“I shall cheerfully abide the will
of the Democracy of the state when
it is ascertained by the duly con
stituted authorities of the party,
whatever the result may be. The
votes will be officially counted and
the returns canvassed by the State
Central Committe, as well as the
various county committees. Un
til then any claim made by either
my opponent or myself must be
conjectural.
“I feel confident that when the
official returns are in, I will be
nominated by a majority of from
4,000 to 6,000 votes.”—Gazette.
Wednesday, April, 1st.
TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF
WOODRUFF COUNTY.
I want to thank my friends who
supported me in the campaign just
closed. We made an honest fight,
and I appreciate the generous de
sire of my friends to support me,
because of my advocacy of clean
government and honest methods
in our county affairs. We made a
gallant fight, and, while we have
lost, I feel that the fight has not
been in vain, for I believe the tax
payers of Woodruff County will be
benefited in the future.
To my friends who did not sup
port me, I hold no malice what
ever, toward them, for I believe
they thought and believed 1 was
honest in my charges, but let their
sympathy control them.
To the good women, I want to
tnank you for your influence in
my behalf for advocating honest
county affairs.
To the young ladies, I want to
thank you for letting your sweet
hearts hang on the old gate while
you were trying to get him to
promise to give me his support.
This is leap year and I am willing
to assist you by signing my name
to a marriage license.
To all the boys, I sure did appreci
ate the interest that you took in
my behalf. Never mind, however,
there will be another day when
you can vote. Now, I will say to
the voters of Woodruff County, I
am a democrat and always cheer
fully and gladly bow to the will of
the majority- To them that sup
ported me and to them that did not
support me.
I will and shall in the future
give you the same administration,
in this, the county clerks office,
that I have in the past and I shall
try and go out of this office on the
31st day of October, 1908, with
clean hands, and feeling that I
have done my duty to all alike.
“If he that in the fields is slain
Be in the bed of honor lain,
He that is beaten may be said
To lie in honor’s truckle-bed.”
Your Friend,
T.^Eck. Simpson.
Every farmer who provides him
self with a beautiful home, sur
rounded by green lawns and wind
ing paths, a well cultivated farm,
and all that makes life pleasant, is
a blessing to any neighborhood.
Were there no tramps, no paupers,
but if all classes could be induced
by proper training to become self
reliant citizens, useful, first to
themselves and indirectly to their
fellows, by bearing each his share
of the world’s progress, the mil
leuiurn would be on its way hither.
You will not pass through this
world but once. Any good thing
that you can do, or any kindness
that you can show to any fellow
being, do it now; do not defer or
neglect it for you will not pass
this way again.
E. L. HAMILTON
FURNITURE AND STOVES.
COMPLETE LINE OF WINDOW SHADES
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CO.
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SATISFY.
The Road To Success.
The world is wide. If you wish
to be somebody, “pitch in," The
brave always have friends. Where
others have gone you can go. If
the old track don’t suit you, make
a new one; somebody will walk in
it. Don’t hurry too fast, espec
ially till you know the road or be
come acquainted with your team.
Mind your own business and look
after it yourself. Don’t stop to
club whifflts or to retail gossip.
You may grow weary, but remem
ber this is not a world of ease, and
rest lies beyond. Success is never
obtained in a country like this
without effort. If you fail once,
try again. If you fall down, get
up. If it is dark, strike a light.
If you are in the shade, move
around; If there is shade on one
side there is sure to be sunshine on
the other. It takes longer to skin
an elephant than a mouse but then
the skin is worth something.
Never be content with doing what
another has done, excel him. A
trade is a good thing to have; it is
better than gold—brings a larger
premium. But to make a premium,
the trade must be perfect —no sil
ver plated affair. Determine in
your mind to be a good workman,
or let the job out. Learning a
trade is different from eating mush
and milk—mechanical education
does not slip down without chew
ing. Never slight your work,
never. Every job you do is a
sign. Poor signs are against suc
cess. People always speak well of
a boy who minds his business and
who seems to be disposed to be
somebody in time. This is a queer
world; many people are watching
us, and help often comes when
and from whom we least expect.
Confidence is the safe in which
men often deposit rich treasures,
and as you prove worthy so will
your reward of success be. There
is a reward in success, which none
but those who strive can enjoy.
Deserve success and it will come.
The rods of rancid rot daily
printed in the big city papers
about the unclean rich, their say
ings and doings, their comings and
goings; what they eat and how
they eat it; what they drink and
how much of it; what they wear
and how, when and where they
wear it; minute write-ups, with
pictorial illustrations of every dud
worn by brainless women, full
description of every garment, in
cluding the embroidered and hem
stitched clothes, they wear—all
their fulsome nauseous stuff,
drooled out daily in the big pa
pers—by the column and by the
whole page —a sort of gross pan
dering to riches—a servile wor
ship of snobacracy; a putting of
the forehead to the ground when
the money moloch passes down the
street, does more to stir up the
devil in a man than all else com
bined. This sort of man worship
may go all right in countries
where one man is acknowledged to
be better than another, but it will
never go in this land of the free
and the brave; and the sooner the
big papers let up on this daily
flouting of money in the faces of
decent people, the quicker all sorts
of devilishness will cease to be a
menace to our government.
Resolve to see the world on the
sunny side and yon have almost
won the battle of life at the outset.
DEVIEW.
By Our Regular Correspondent.
Gid Stark visited Memphis mar
kets last week.
Mrs. Sarah Barrentine is visit
ing her son, J. H. Barrentine, at
Weldon.
Miss Eula Brown visited home
folks at Beebe, from Saturday un
til Monday.
Ed King, Wife, and little daug
er, visted relatives at Wynne, the
first of the week.
•T. T. Angelo and Jas. Melton
were elected delegates to the coun
ty Central Committee.
Messrs T. W. Greer and M. H.
Albritton left Monday on a tur
key hunt across the bayou.
The DeView school closed last
Friday. Miss Roberts left Satur
day for her home in Searcy.
Mr.-Measles, and family
came in Sunday from Mississippi,
to make this his furture home.
J. T. Angelo and S. F. Watson
were elected Justices of the Peace,
and J. S. Haggard, Constable, for
DeView township.
The District School No. 22, at
Beards closed a very successful
term last Friday. This is Miss
Ford's second term. Miss Ford
left Saturday for her home in
Searcy.
Now that the political wrangle
is over, let everyone pledge him
self to do all he can to make the
men who have been nominated to
office the best officers the county
ever had.
The primary went off very pleas
antly. The voters voted their
choice and went home. A very
heavy vote was cast. Everybody
voted except G. T. Hay. It is
supposed that he went duck hunt
ing, or slept on his rights.
ON TO COLLEOB.
If you have a boy or girl in your
home, of the proper age, who has
an ambition to go to college, and
the necessary educational prepara
tion, supply the opportunity, even
at some sacrifice on the part of the
rest of the family. Most parents
are willing to do everything in
reason for their children, but not
every parent can see the desirabil
ity or necessity of furnishing a
college education for their off
spring. They argue that they had
none of these advantages in their
youth and that they got along all
right and therefore the children do
not need it. Can a boy plow corn
any better with a college diploma
sticking out of his pistol pocket,
or can a girl make better pies be
cause she can conjugate the verb
“to love” in three different langu
ages! To this we would answer,
Yes.
By this we do not mean that the
college bred farmer can turn a
neater or truer furrow than his
country cousin, who never attended
anything but a district school.
But the college bred farmer will
have a larger and truer conception
of life. Because his mind has
been broadened and developed,
the best that is in him has had a
chance to develop, and he will go
through life splendidly equipped
to make the best of everything. A
college education seldom converts
a fool into a wise man, but if there
is anything in one, it brings it to
the surface and enables him to
make the best use of such facul
ties as nature has endowed him
with.
Who knows what that bright boy
or girl of yours might develop into
if given a chance! Because your
life may have been narrow and
cramped, denied you, don’t with
hold them from the young people,
who in the struggle of life in the
years to come, will need the full
measure of the powers that now
lie dormant and latent within
them. Give the boy or girl a
chance, and if nothing else comes
of it, they will be better men and
women for the time spent within
college walls. And better men
and women is the crying need of
the world, yesterday, today and
forever.
A SHORT ROAD TO J1ISERY.
Begin by fancying that no one
cares for you; that you are not of
any use to anybody—a sort of
nonentity in the household, where
your place would not be missed,
but easily supplied. Reflect on
your want of beauty, and lead
yourself to believe that no one can
love a plain face, or think you
agreeable because there are others
more charming. Fancy that every
one who looks upon you makes a
mental comparison which militates
against you in favor of some one
else. Imagine that every word
said in jest is only meant to cover
a deeper and more painful mean
ing—that every article of wearing
apparel you don is criticised and
ridiculed. Do all this and your
tendency to morbidity of feeling
will so increase that in a very
short time you will become one of
the most miserable of human be
ings.
HOW TO MAKE A QOOD WIFE
UNHAPPY
See your wife seldom as possible
If she is warm hearted and cheer
ful in temper, or if, after a day’s
or a weeks absence, she meets you
with a smiling face and in an aff
ectionate manner, be sure to look
coldly upon her and answer with
monosyllables. If she forces back
her tears and is resolved to look
cheerful, sit down and gape in her
presence, till she is fully convinced
of your indifference. Never think
you have anything to do to make
her happy, but that her happiness
is to flow from gratifying your
caprices; and when she has done
all a woman can do, be sure you
do not appear gratified. Never
take an interest in any of her pur
suits ; and if she a6ks your advice
make her feel that she is trouble
some and impertinent. If she at
tempts to rally you good-naturedly
on any of your peculiarities, never
join in the laugh but frown her in
to silence. If she has faults
(which, without doubt, she will
have, and perhaps may be igno
rant of) never attempt with kind
ness to correct them, but continu
ally obtrude upon her ears:
“What a good wife Mr. Smith
has!” “How happy Mr. Smith is
with his wife!” “Any man would
be happy with such a wife!” In
company never seem to know you
have a wife. Treat all her re
marks with indifference. Be very
affable and complaisant to every
other lady. If you follow these
directions, you may be certain of
an obedient and heart-broken wife.
Who does not dread the visitor
who starts, then thinks of some
thing else to say; rises, and then
thinks of another subject of con
versation ; nearly reaches the door,
and then has another revelation;
reaches the door, and, most prob
ably holding it open, is aroused to
a degree of mental brilliancy that
threatens his health and that of
his host or hostess by long detain
ing of both in a cold draft while
he discourses? What a tax on the
patience and politeness of the
listener, who vainly strives, by
assenting instantly to every prop
osition to end the interview and
break the restraining bond of po
lite attention.
Wedding invitations for sale at
the News office
You Read the
Other Fellow’s Ad
You are reading this one.
That should convince you
that advertising in these
columns is a profitable
proposition; that it will
bring business to your
store. The fact that the
other fellow, advertises is
probably the reason he is
getting more business than
is falling to you. Would
it not be well to give the
other fellow a chance
To Read Your Ad.
In These Columns.
Do not keep your politeness to
put on with your good clothes, be
cause if you do you will surely
forget it sometime when you most
wish it, and even if you remember
in which pocket you have it you
will be lost, and plainly show that
it is not natural. Cultivate po
liteness, not only for what out
siders will say, but beeause it is
the right thing to do, one of your
many talents to make good use of,
and anything that improves al
ways increases our self-respect as
well as the good opinion of the
world.
McCrory will have as her guest
tomorrow and next day, Friday
and Saturday, the Woodruff Coun
ty Farmer’s Union, composed of
fifty or sixty delegates from the
several different local unions in
this county. We hope that every
citizen of our town will extend to
this worthy set of men every thing
in their power to make them feel
cordial and welcome.
Notice For Publication.-Isolated Tract
Department of the Interior. United State*
Land Office. Little Rock, Ark., Flab., K,
1908—PubUc land sale.
Notice is hereby given that, as direoted by
the Commissioner of the General Land Office,
under the provisions of the act of Congress ap
proved June 17. 1906 (M Stats., 517). we will of
fer at public sale to the highest bidder tt 10
o'clock, a. m , on the 11 day of April 1808, uzt
at this office, the following tract of land: W.
XN.E.K Sec, 6. T. 7. N. R 3 W.
Any person claiming adversely the above des
cribed land are advised to file their claim! or
objections on or before the time designated
for sale. H. H. Utus. Register.
J. E. Bunch, Receiver.
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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.