THE HOME NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY and woodruff county
VOLUME 2.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER, 8, 1916
NUMBER 19
Arkansas and Sunshine.
We are in receipt of a copy of
the Effiingham, 111., Democrat of
the date of Nov. 9, in which we
note is published an interesting
letter from Arkansas written by
two former sons of Effingham
and who are now two of our most
progressive and highly respected
farmers. The letter follows:
From Arkansas.
Gourdneck, McCrory P. 0. Ark.
November 1, 1916.
Dear Mr. Editor:
As old citizens of Effingham
county and steady subscribers to
our old home paper, we often
regret that no notice appears in
your esteemed paper of our do
ings here in sunny Arkansas;
and as we cannot blame anyone
but ourselves for such a sad con
dition prevailing, we would kind
ly request space in your valued
publication, in order that we
might, in a way, keep in touch
with our friends and acquain
tances in the North. Do not
fret, my dear Mr. Editor, we
shall not trouble you too often,
but we cannot afford to continue
unnoticed any longer.
Of course, Mr. Editor, we
know that you have grown fast
and solid to the soil of Illinois
and as such you must be inclined
to smile, when Arkansas suggests
itself to your mind; Many people
are inclined to do so; we our
selves, we acknowledge to our
sorrow, did so in the past, be
fore we knew better by personal
experience.
But Arkansas is, according to
our present convictions, the very
best state in the Union, especial
ly for a man of little means who
desires to work himself up; and
a northern farmer, moving down
here will easily concede after a
fair trial that he never had half
a chance to make good until he
came to Arkansas.
I he climate here is wonderful,
almost the same as that of the
Pacific coast. I have never seen
such a succession of fine and
lovely days as we have here,
and although we have a taste of
ad weather when the tail end of
one of your northern storms
rushes over our pleasant fields,
ese periods are very short and
y far milder than what you
ave to contend with up there,
^hen we moved down here we
were afraid, to a certain extent,
u we might lose our health
,n Sllccumb to an untimely
i.e j .We had heard so many
a things about Arkansas that
Don’t Patronize
Us
Just Because We Are
Home People.
If you can order a watch
or article of jewelry of
equal quality at a price
cheaper than I will sell it
to you, it is to your interest
to do so.
BUT YOU CANT
Be fair with us. Give us
a chance to supply you.
We will be glad to sell
you anything in our line at
any price that you may find
listed by any one.
Yours for a square deal.
W. D. HINSON
Jeweler
McCrory .*. Ark.
we could not but believe part of
the calumnies spread abroad
concerning our state, but now,
after having lived here for about
three years we find that our
health is better than it ever was
before. We feel splendid, fit
and full of life, and could not
wish for anything better.
Our crops are excellent indeed.
Did you ever see a farmer that
did not complain of weather and
crops? Well, we do not only not
complain, but we are more than
satisfied, because we are doing
better than we dared to expect.
The main thing that has been
bothering us since we came here
was the fact that we had no
church conveniences. A church
building had been promised us
by the agent up North who
handled this land and sold it to
us. He failed to make good his
promise and we must say that
we were greatly disappointed.
We almost felt like giving up,
but finally decided to stay. At
first we went to Brinkley to
church, but as that is 20 miles
away, we made arrangements to
have mass at certain intervals at
home in one of our residences
I
which we had greatly improved
in the meanwhile. For a year
we have had mass regularly ever
since and now that we are finan
cially able to do so, we have de
cided to put up a neat little
church, so that we can have ser
vice every Sunday and also pro
vide room for the many natives
interested in our church. Of
course now, we shall not try to
build a cathedral, but we intend
to spend about $1500.00 to make
a fair beginning.
In conclusion, my dear Mr.
Editor, allow us to extend to you
and all our friends up there our
most cordial greetings and best
wishes.
Thanking you for the courtesy
of your column, we are
Yours Very Truly,
Ben Starman,
John Koors.
Mr. 0. E. Johnson of Langton
returned home Thursday from
Memphis where he visited his
wife who is in a hospital. He
states that there is now some
hopes of her recovery but that
she will have to undergo another
operation.
McCrory’s New Pastor.
A change has been made in the
pastorship of the Methodist
Church of this city. Rev. S. M.
Yancey goes to Rogers and Rev.
Lark of that city is to move here.
While we regret to have to give
up our present pastor and his
good wife we learn that we are
to have with us another who is
his equal, and this being the case
a fair exchange is no robbery.
We join the many friends of Rev.
and Mrs. Yancey in wishing
them great success and much
happiness in their new home,
and to the newcomers we extend
a hearty welcome. Brother Yan
cey goes to a good town in north
west Arkansas which has about
6,000 inhabitants and a new
church which cost about $26,000.
00, while he leaves as good a
town as there is in the state with
a new $15,000.00 church which
has just been completed under
his pastorship.
Mrs. Rule Wise,
Died: Wednesday, Dec. 6,
1916, at 9:00 o’clock p. m., at
her home in Earle, Lula Florence,
wife of Mr. Rule Wise of Earle,
Ark. Deceased was the daugh
ter of W. J. and Eliza Vanland
ingham and was born at McCro
ry, Ark., July, 7, 1894. She was
married to Mr. Rule Wise at De
View August, 2, 1915.
The remains were shipped to
McCrory yesterday, Thursday,
and laid to rest in the Fakes
Cemetery. The remains were
accompanied from Earle to this
place by Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Vanlandingham of McCrory and
the husband and his sister, Miss
Jessie Wise of Earle. -
Brazeale-Raymond.
Married: Saturday night at
the home of Esq. A. J. Stapp of
near DeView, Miss Nona Ray
mond to Mr. Cleave Brazeale,
both of this city. The groom is a
popular young man of this city
and is well liked by everyone
while his bride is the charming
daughter of Mr. J. 0. Raymond,
one of our oldest and best citi
zens. The Home News joins
their many friends in wishing
the happy couple a long life of
happiness and prosperity.
Profs. C. C. Hunnicutt and D.
V. Meisenheimer of Cotton Plant
were in McCrory Saturday at
tending a meeting of the Board
of Commissioners for county un
iformity of text books.