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VOLUME 1.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1916
NUMBER 50
Woodruff County Sunday
School Convention.
The Annual meeting of Wood
ruff County Sunday School Con
vention convened in the First
Methodist Church, Augusta,
June, 29-30.
Full delegations were present
from Augusta, Cotton Plant,
McCrory and DeView, and a
meeting calculated to revive or
ganized work in Woodruff Coun
ty resulted.
Mr. Frank L. James of Little
Rock, State Secretary of the
Arkansas Sunday School Asso
ciation, was the Dean of the
Teaching Section of the Conven
tion and the principal speaker.
Able addresses were delivered
by Rev. S. M. Yancy of McCrory
and Rev. C. G. Partridge, Jr., of
Augusta. Other local speakers
also attended the sessions of the
Convention and delivered help
ful addresses on different phases
of Sunday School work.
The Convention adjourned
Friday evening after having
elected the following officers to
serve during the next Conven
tion Year:
H. C. Argo, Cotton Plant,—
President.
R. M. Hutchins, Augusta,—
Vice-President.
C. B. Cook, McCrory, —Secre
tary-Treasurer.
0. C. Wilcoxin, Augusta,—
Adult Superintendent.
Mrs. J. F. Angelo, McCrory,—
Secondary Superintendent.
Mrs. Minnie Woodruff, Howell,
—Elementary Sup’t.
Mrs. W. P. Musgrove, McCro
ry,—Educational Sup’t.
DISTRICT I.
Townships—White River and
Augusta—Rev. C. G. Partridge,
Jr.—President.
DISTRICT II.
I own ships—Barnes, DeView,
Pent, Pumpkin Bend—J. E.
Melton, McCrory, Route 2—Pres
ident.
DISTRICT in.
Townships—Point, Cache, and
• half of Caney—Fred Huene
teltd, Gregory-President.
DISTRICT IV.
Townships—Cotton Plant, Gar
en, S. Half of Caney- Hon.
Koy D. Campbell, Cotton Plant,
r resident.
The convention unanimously
a res°lution which
makes the executive officers ol
vention the executive
***** the body, with fuli
of c„kS t0 P^ace and date
CorviS<^Uent meetings of the
rani nntl?n- The matter of ar
the future programmes for
unty Convention was alsc
Have Your Soil Tested.
The testing* of soils is rather
an expensive piece of scientific
work and the Arkansas Agircul- <
tural Experiment Station with 1
about one-fifth the appropriation
given to similar stations in other
states has not been able to do
much of it. The new soils labor
atory recently established will
permit Professor D. F, Hunger
ford to test a good many soils
for acidity, physical conditions 1
and general fertility. Write
Professor Hungerford, Fayette
ville, for suggestions as to tak
ing your soil samples. The work
is free, other than the postage '
on the sample sent in.
referred to the Executive Com
mittee.
The Convention urges upon the
district presidents of the four1
districts, the vital importance of
holding quarterly conventions in
their respective districts during
the next Convention year. The
convention further urges that
the district presidents keep in j
close touch with the State Sun
aay fccnooi Association, oi whicn |
Frank L. Janies, Little Rock is
i
the General Secretary.
The Convention adjourned to
meet subject to a call of the
Executive Committee.
r
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
When over half the motor cars in America
today—about a million and a quarter—are of
one make, there must be a mighty good rea
son. In every kind of service, under all con
ditions of road and weather, Ford cars have
proved to be the most dependable economical
and efficient servants of men. The Coupelet
$590; Runabout $390; Town Car $640, Sedan
$740; f. o. b. Detroit. On display and sale at
RIGGS BROS.
McCrory, - - Ark.
Moving Time.
The Methodist Sunday School
will hold their last session in the
)ld church building Sunday July
)th. After that time we will
neet in the school house where
will also be our preaching ser
vices. Let us have a large at
tendance at our Sunday School
the last day in the old building,
the rooms of the school house
will be assigned to the different
classes at this time. We certain
ly appreciate the kindness of
the school directors in permitting
the use of the school building
while our new church is being
erected.
C. B. Cook, Asst. Supt.
Car load of the celebrated “S.
& P.” flour just received.
Planters Mercantile Co. Adv. It.
Dr. Frasier, wife and baby, of
Bradford spent a portion of this
week with friends here and at
DeView.
The building committee of the
.vicLiiuuisL v^xiurcii let a, cururaci
Saturday to T. F. Campbell of
Little Rock to build a new brick
church in this city to cost $11,
100. 00. Work will begin at once
on razing the old church building
which has been sold to A. A.
Anderson for $100.00. The new
building will be 75x96 feet.
Save Your Seed.
It is both extravagant and dan
gerous- to be buying seed every
year. There is always danger of
getting many seeds of noxious
weeds. It is reported that in
another state ninety per cent of
seed oats brought from outside
the state last spring had Johnson
grass seed. Let Arkansas far
mers study the seed question and
save all their own seed of the
clovers, alfalfa, rye, wheat, oats,
corn and vegetables and save
money and thus guard against
adulterations. A good farmer
told the writer recently
that he had ten acres of sweet
clover and that it all came from
a small bundle of sweet clover
that he got from along the road
side three years ago. The Ex
tension Division of the Universi
ty of Arkansas and the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, Fay
etteville and Little Reck, is mak
ing a campaign for saving Ark
ansas seed. If in doubt see the
county agent.
Dr. J. R. Piercey is home from
a week’s visit to Hot Springs.
Esq. L. B. Winfree helped
“operate” the drug store during
his absence.
Misses-Barnes of Pine
Bluff, Bess Drexler of Wynne
and Sylvia Tanenbaum of Harris
burg were guests of Mrs. H.
Arnof yesterday, Thursday.
Mrs. Walter W. Raney was
delighted to have as her guests
today, Friday, the Misses Helen
and Janice VanDervoort, two of
Paragould’s most beautiful and
charming young ladies. These
popular society girls were en
route home from a ten days’
visit to friends in Little Rock
where they witnessed the big
preparedness parade Tuesday,
the 4th.
There are many reasons why
this is the best country in the
world, but here is one that ranks
first on the list. Twentythree
people southeast of town went
to the home of their neighbor
and friend Tom Rubottom, this
week and with ten of their culti
vators, two 2-horse plows and
13 hoes, worked out his crop,
placing it in first class condition.
Mr. Rubottom has been unfortu
nate in having quite a lot of sick
ness in his home this spring
which resulted in the loss of his
wife recently. Such work as
his neighbors have done for him
is indeed commendable and we
are sure is highly appreciated.