Good Things
To Eat
Are to be found at our
store. We are here for bus
iness, and if you will give us
your trade you can live cheap
and well.
Our stock has been enlarg
ed and will be added to as
the demands justify. Good
Goods, Lowest Prices, Prom
pt Service and Courteous
Treatment are all we can
promise. Price our goods
and we will prove all that
we claim. ^
Raymond’s
Grocery.
WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED THURSDAY OP EACH WEEK AT
McCROBY. ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Offlce at McCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class mail,matter.
June 11th, 1902.
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But if there’s one thing in the
world about which it is possible
to get all the facts it’s matrimony.
Part of them are right in the house
where you were born, and the
neighbors have the rest.
The dram shop is a robber.
It robs the fireside and intellect.
It is the foe of dependent little
children. It compells them to
start at a disadvantage in life, be
cause of their own need and the
father’s degiadation.
So sure as right is right and
must triumph over every wrong,
so this agitated question of temp
erance will be settled by fun
damental law, protecting the lives
and homes and property of all a
gainst dangers of the rum traffic.
We do not look upon the rum
seller as one worse than all his fel
lows about him—fact not so bad
in one respect, for he has a cash
motive, and we, except in our share
by the price of a license to ruin
us, get nothing but tears, poverty,
degradation and woe.
License is a upspurer. It is a
meddlesome intruder—a damaging
interference with a better state of
things. Blinded by the smoke of
liquor logic, we have to often as
sumed that the normal statues of
society is that of free whiskey,
and tnat lisence has become a real
restriction.
Never forget that you are a part
of the town, and that your own de
portment helps to make up the
strangers estimate of the place.
Sell all you can and buy all you
can at home. Every dollar that is
carried or sent away from home
makes the town that much poorer.
If you have the means invest in
something that will give somebody
employment. Do not kick at a
proposed improvement, simply be
cause it is not at your own door.
As it is with right and wrong
good and evil so it is with failure
and sucess. Perservence is the
chief ingredient of the compound
that brings success. There may
be other elements required—and
usually there are—but without this
one the mixture is ineffectual. Tal
ent, intellect—genius itself—may
all combine for a certain end, but
if the force of persistant industry
is not behind them, they will lag
upon the road and never reach the
goal.
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E. L. HAMILTON
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FURNITURE AND ST0VE5.
BUY A NEYV ROYAL SEWING MACHINE „
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CREATED A BRISK DEMAND
French Scientists Responsible for Fed
That Caused a Famine In
Blue Dishe*.
“It is hard for merchants and
manufacturers to foresee the fancies
of the public,” said the proprietor of
a large New York store. “Take the
demand for blue fruit dishes, for ex
ample. All of a sudden, about six
months ago, housekeepers all over
town began to ask for fruit dishes of
glass or china in various shades of
blue. There were only a few such
dishes on the market. The supply
was soon exhausted, and before an
other consignment could be secured
our clerks were pestered to death by
importunate women who wanted to
know why on earth we didn’t keep in
stock plenty of those blue dishes.
Finally we investigated the source of
this craze for blue dishes, and found
that it originated in the statement
of French scientists that that color,
on account of certain action of the
rays of light, helps to keep fruit
fresh. Whether there is any truth in
the theory I can’t pretend to say,
but the women evidently have faith
in it and are backing up their belief
in a most substantial manner.”
Jones—Say, old man, you look like
a fur-bearing animal with that big
fur coat on.
Smith—Well, a man has to be very
furbearing when he runs an auto like
mine. Forbearance and patience are
(outside of cuss words) the most Im
portant words In an autolst’s vocabu
lary.
THE CARE OF TILING.
The home of tiling is Italy. There
it is used for hallways, dining rooms
or bedrooms, and always it is in per
fect condition, shining, smooth, and
unspotted, as it should be. Inquiry
brought forth the information that
soap and water are never used, but
linseed oil and turpentine are mixed
and applied frequently with a stiff
brush. This dry, the floors are pol
ished with wax.
The Italian tiling is mostly the
mosaic work on a coarser scale, or
else concrete, and the secret of tak
ing care of it is well worth knowing.
THE WRONG ONE.
Mr. Gunson took two cigars from
bis pocket, carefully selected one and
handed the other to his guest.”
“Fine cigars,” he remarked, strik
ing a match. “Two for a quarter.”
The guest puffed a light into his
cigar and blew a cloud of smoke into
the air.
“Two for a quarter?” he asked.
“Yes,” replied Mr. Gunson,
proudly.
“Sorry I didn’t get the 20-cent
one,” remarked the guest, sadly.—
Judge.
DOESN’T SEEM TO HELP.
"I am suffering from klepto
mania.”
“How long have you had it ?”
“I haven’t had it at all, it is my
well-to-do customers who have it;
wouldn’t it be possible to have them
take something for it?”
“That is usually the trouble with
those suffering from kleptomania,
they take too much for it.”—Hous
ton Post.
SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT.
Borus (struggling author)—I was
surprised at the favorable reception
accorded the little farce comedy I
wrote last month. But what did
your dramatic critic mean by sug
gesting that I write another one be
fore I retire?
Naggus (literary editor)—He
didn’t put it quite that way. He said
you ought to write one more and
then quit
A LA CARTE.
“I received your majesty’s mes
sage,” said the new missionary.
“Did I understand you would do me
the honor to oall upon me and dine
to-morrow ?”
“Almost correct,” replied the can
nibal ehief. I said I would call ind
dine upon you to-morrow.”
HAD THE BUSINESS INSTINCT
Btamlngly Unanswerable Argument
Put Forward by Mos« to Well
Meaning Critic.
Mr. Carmack, until recently sena
tor from Tennessee, enjoys telling
the story of a darky in that state,
who, in a way, is something of a
philosopher.
Some one was saying to Mose one
day: “You’re always in trouble,
Mose. Why, can’t you try to be bet
ter? You’re a likely sort of darky,
and you could get along very well if
only you’d behave yourself—keep a
steady job, instead of drinking bad
whisky and getting yourself behind
the bars half the time.”
“Excuse me, boss,” said Mose,
with a grin, “but it looks to me like
I makes more money this way. When
I works hard I gets seven dollars a
month and my board. When I gits
arrested the jedge he says to me that
it will be ten dollars or 30 days.
How kin I afford to work for seven
dollars a month when I’m worth
three dollars more in de lock-up?”
—Illustrated Sunday Magazine.
DISCRIMINATION.
“They have got the ‘down with
women’ sentiment pat at my board
ing house,” said a business woman.
“If it is a woman, the talking waiter
yells down the dumbwaiter, ‘Bacon
and eggs fo’ a lady.’ Up comes one
egg, one roll, and piece of bacon as
big as a postage stamp. If it is a
man, he calls down, ‘One breakfast.’
Up comes two eggs, two generous
slices of bacon, two rolls, and if
there is meat besides, a piece of
meat. But we girls almost went on
a strike the other morning when we
found before our plates saucers con
taining just three wizened prunes,
and before each man’s plate a saucer
with four prunes. I think it is dis
criminating pretty close when they
give a man one more prune than
they give a woman, don’t you?”
G008E SENTRIES.
“‘Silly goose’ is an expression
which should be used by the extreme
ly ignorant alone. No bird of my
acquaintance,” says J. Cyril Crow
ley, “requires more patience to shoot
with gun or camera, especially the
latter. When feeding you will find
flocks varying in size on open
ground, and nearly always on such
ground that a stalk is impossible.
“On the outskirts of these flocks
are sentries with heads erect, eyes
and ears alert, the slightest sound
or movement and you are detected—
true descendants from the ancient
preservers of Rome.”—Country Life.
ON SECOND THOUGHT.
“Guests without baggage,” deli
cately hinted the hotel clerk, sizing
him up, “are usually required to pay
in advance.”
“That’s all right, pard,” said
Uncle Jes Struckitt, pulling a large
wad out of his pocket and beginning
to peel off a $1,000 bill.
“Your—er baggage is entirely sat
isfactory, sir,” hastily observed the
hotel clerk, breaking out into a cold
sweat
ACCOUNTING FOR IT.
“Old Jorkins left his son nothing
but a pittance out of hiB big for
tune.”
“What else did you expect ?
Didn’t Jorkins start life as a bar
ber?”
“But what had that to do with
his disinheriting his son?”
“Force of habit, you see, made
him cut his heir.”
EARLY HABIT3.
“That last speaker,” said the first
guest at the banquet, “was quite en
tertaining.”
“Yes,” replied the other, “and
he’s a self-made man, too.”
“I can’t say, though, that I liked
his delivery. It was rather slow.”
“Oh, naturally. He began life as
a messenger boy.”
WHAT HE GOT.
“Did your husband get any en
couragement at the races?”
“Yes,” answered young Mrs. Tor
kins.
“One of the bookmakers called
him ‘old sport’ and told him he was
a good loser.”
A FRIEND’S QUERY.
Tom (with a sigh)—I’ve been
hugging a delusion for nearly six
months.
Jack—Well, why don’t you marry
bar?”
We
Realize
That
The
Farmer
Is
King
Because we know he is the man
upon whom we must all depend.
Our object is to make it worth
while for the farming class of people
as well as others, to become our cus
tomers.
To do this, we have been very care
ful of our buying, and have some
prices which are consistent with the
hard times of which you hear so
many merchants speak, but as yet
we have not felt.
Our prices are right; Our goods
are right, or we’ll make them so
And we are not ashamed to say, our
trade is growing every day.
If you want to have money for
Christmas, better trade now with
WOOD & SON.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
Whereas, An All-Wise Father
has removed from the family cir
cle of our esteemed sovereign, Dr.
H. P. Hargis, a daughter, be it
Resolved, That while we mourn
the absence of one they prized, we
know she has passed from this
world of sorrow and toil to a bet
ter place in the world beyond.
Resolved, that our order, the
Woodmen of the World, teaches
the hope of immortality and leads
us to dwell on the beautiful traits
in human nature; that it assures
us that the golden chain that
binds us in life can not be severed
in death.
Resolved, That our hearts go
out in tender sympathy for the
bereaved, and that a copy of these
resolutions be sent to Dr. and
Mrs. Hargis and also to our home
paper, the Woodruff County News,
for publication.
H. T. Raney,
H. M. Albritton,
Walter W. Raney,
Committee.
There are mighty few young
people who go into marriage with
any real means. They get their
notion of it among the clouds
where they lived while they where
engaged, naturally about all they
find up there is wind and moon
shine, or from novels which al
ways end before the real trouble be
fore tho real trouble begins, or.
they keep on, leave out the chap
ters that tell how the husband finds
the rent and the wife the hired girl.
The one greatest corruptions of
morals and every day school of
crime is the saloon. The saloon
by its very influence both active
and passive, breeds demoralization
corruption and crime, to an Jextent
that nothing else approaches. Its
very presence, insinuating, accus
toming men to look upon debuach.
and crime with impunity, tends to
an extent scarcley comprehended,
to benumb and deaden the keener
sensibilitits along all lines. We
live in a clouded moa-al atmosphere,
made so by the fumes of strong
drink, to a degree that few of us
can imagine. The effects are felt
in all branches of the social fabric.
This cause of crime is most tangi
ble why not turn all forces towards
its obliteration.
SWASTIKA
Mrs. Walter Fakes, assisted by
Mrs. G. B. Fakes, was hostess to
the Swastika Club, Saturday, May
9th. Owing to the absence of
several of the members, the pro
gram was rather short. “Origin
of women’s clubs” was the sub
ject of a bright and interesting
paper prepared and read by Mrs
Carson.
The piano numbers by Mrs. H.
S. Taylor, and Mrs. W. T. MeCain
were highly appreciated, and re
cieved hearty applause.
The club guests were: Mrs.. Gant
Harrisburg,Mrs. H ackett,Augusta,
Miss Fanny Spivy Gadsden, Tenn.
Delicious refreshments were
served, and a delightful social hour
was engaged.
As the sun was sinking behind
the tree tops, the ladies departed
for their homes with many pleasant
thoughts of their kind and genial
hostess.
The Club will meet with Mrs.
Carson as hostess May 23.
HUNTER.
By Our Regular Correspondent.
E. B. Hunt made a business trip
to Brinkley.
We are still having plenty of
ram and mud.
Lauranee Morris moved from tho
country to town last week.
Mr. Cherry, and family, are re*
siding at Hunter, again.
S. C. Hunt made a flying trip to
Brinkley one day last week.
John Neely, of Pine Bluff, spent
the past week with Homer Wilson.
S. B. Wilson and J. N. Lee
were at Cotton Plant, Friday,,
on business.
D. G. Cherry, who had charge of'
the Bemis section was removed,
and Mr. Olds takes his place.
Bart Bounds visited Mrs. Mal
den, in the Allen Holme’s neighbor
hood a few days the past week.
We are glad to know that Mr.
and Mrs. J. L. Stair’s baby, which
has been quite ill, is improving.
John Linsey, of M arked Tree
will move to Hunter in a short time
to work on the section at this place.
Miss Mary Crissman went to
Fair Oaks, to visit her sister, Mrs
Minnie Hollingsworth for a few
days.
The school election at Hunter
was quite warm. Chas. Brinne
man was re-elected and S. C.
Hunt was elected to fill the vacancy
of J. F. Deason, whQ has moved
away.
The Hunter base ball team was
challenged to Wheatly, last Satur
day, to play. It rained some in
tho afternoon but not enough
keep the boys from playing. Bun
ter was in the lead, as she alwajs
is.
KAN. CITY HEAT HARKET
Choice, rz sh Meats, Fish, Vegeta
bles, Dairy and Poultry Products, and
Country Produce.—A Variety of Good
Things to Eat is What We Endeavor to
Offer the Trade at All Times.
HOnER VEAZEY