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EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
VOLUME 1.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,1915
NUMBER 7
SCHOOL OPENS MONDAY.
The McCrory High School will
be opened on Monday, Sept. 13.
We are planning to begin our
school-year with an Educational
Rally Day, the following program
to be rendered.
10:00 - 11:15—County Judge
Hutchins will speak.
11:15- 12:00—Prof. J. W. Kuy
kendall, for twenty years supe
rintendent of the Fort Smith
Schools, and now a candidate for
the State Superintendent’s office,
will speak.
At twelve o’clock dinner will
be spread on the grounds and in
the lower hall of the school build
ing, and all our patrons and
friends are asked to bring bask
ets and partake of dinner with
us.
2:00 - 2:45—Prof J. L. Bond
State Supervisor of the Rural
Schools, and now a candidate for
the office of State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, will speak.
2:45 - 3:30—Mr. C. W. Watson
State Agent in charge of dem
onstration work, will speak.
At 3:30 Miss Emma Archer,
Assistant State Agent, will give
Canning Demonstration. The
following is an excerpt from a
letter recently received from
Miss Archer: “I prefer to can
tomatoes as a demonstration it
you can possibly get them. One
gallon will be enough if they are
good tomatoes. Apples and
peaches will do if you can not
get the tomatoes.” Please bring
along a few good tomatoes; in
case yours have all been used,
bring a few apples and peaches,
or some late beans, or corn. We
believe that Miss Archer’s dem
onstration will be of special in
terest to the ladies, particularly
the girls, of our city and vicinity
yet the men are invited to take
notes for the sake of future ne
cessity, in case their wives and
others, do not avail themselves
of the opportunity.
11 our present plans material
ize, we shall have the best band
in Arkansas, and one of the best
that attended the San Francisco
Exposition, the Wynne Band, to
furnish our music.
Let's get a good start this year
by all who have the least interest
in the McCrory High School get
ing together. One of the most
sacred gifts we receive from the
Almighty is the opportunity we
have to commingle and exchange
good fellowship. The happiest
person in the world is the one
who can make the most friends.
This one opporounity will not
come again; let’s use it. See the
teacher who will associate with
METHODIST REVIVAL SUNDAY
The annual revival services
will begin at the Methodist
Church next Sunday morning.
After Tuesday Rev. M. N. John
ston of Holly Grove will do the
preaching. All the people of all
the churches are urged to attend
the services and lend their every
effort to make this a great re
vival.
your child for many months,help
him form character, strengthen
his mentality, mold his soul;
and talk with her about your
child’s disposition, temperment,
home opportunities for study,
how much you are going to co
work with her, and give her an
opportunity to learn how much
she may depend on you for help,
encouragement advice and sup
port for the school-year. Such
a talk will help both parent and
teacher. We haven’t a teacher
who doesn’t intend to do her
dead-level best this year, but it
is just half as good as it can be
when the teacher or the parent i
fails to keep in touch with the I
other.
If you have a few good pictures,
pictures on the school room
walls should be as good as any
in the home, flower-pots, flowers !
flower seeds, advice, suggestions
encouragement, vim, interest,
a kind word, smile, or a lunch ;
basket, bring it with you Mon
day, Sept. 13. I know that
Monday is an inopportune time
for our good ladies to bring
lunches, but don’t bring so
much, bring just enough. Fakes
Chapel folk are fine dinner
spreaders, but I never saw or
heard of the time they didn’t
have twice as much as they
needed, thanks to their good
judgment when supper time
came; but let’s each bring a lit
tle and all have enough. Many
men would starve were it not
for the goodness of the ladies to
prepare almost in every instance
more than they can eat; but this
will be one day, with a most ex
cellent dinner prepared and
spread and eaten, we hope that
all—with war, rumors of war,
and local contentions left at
home—shall see the rift in the
clouds, talk about school and ed
ucation, and make merry.
The school children need not
bring books on the first day, but
they should do so on Tuesday, at
which time they will ascertain
the books they will be required
to have for this school-year. All
beginners six years of age and
above must be in school within
two weeks after the opening
MISS HARRIS ENTERTAINS.
Last Friday evening Miss
Johnnie Harris delightfully en
tertained a number of her friends
at the beautifully decorated
home of her mother, Mrs. Dora
Bradley.
Little Miss Dora Harris presid
ed at the punch bowl where she
served each guest with punch.
After an evening of much
merriment the guests were in a
novel way formed in couples and
shown to the dining room where
they were bountifully served
with cream and cake.
At eleven o'clock the guests de
parted each assuring the hostess
they had spent a most pleasant
evening.
Those present were: Misses
Blanche Powell, Jewel Daniel,
Joye Ellington, Bernace Baxter,
Fannie Hamilton, Louise Kyle,
Bessie Roddy, Ruth Best, Mar
garet Hargis, Lottie Johnson
and Mary Piercey, and Messrs
Will McCain, Elmo Marsh, Elmer
Wilder, Turner and Roger
Fakes, David, Nudy and Ellis
Arnof, Lester Lewis, Harry Mus
grove, Walter Jeffries and Fred
Mosley of Bradford.
A. R. Beck manager of Goold
& Co. of Memphis, was a busi
ness visitor here last week.
day, else it will be necessary for
them to begin with a new class
after Christmas. Pupils in the
fourth grade and up will be re
quired to purchase and use dic
tionaries. Penmanship will be
stressed more than usual this
year. School children are re
quested to bring their song j
books. Each pupil, for sanitary !
reasons, should have an individ- ■
ual drinking cup. It’s an excel- j
lent idea that each pupil have j
for his own individual use all the!
books that he will need, even
tho they must be second-hand.
School will be opened at eight
o’clock and work begins at eight
thirty, as usual.
Miss Effie Dunlap of Brinkley
will be our music teacher; Miss
Rebekah Witherington of Mun
ford, Tenn. will have charge of
the school expression depart
ment. Miss Dunlap will prob
ably charge $4.00 per month for
tuition; Miss Witherington $3.50
per month. With new teachers
in these two departments of our
high school work, we hope and
trust that you will encourage
their work and give them your
support to the fullest extent.
Respectfully,
T. W. Woodbury,
Principal.
CONCERNING OUR SCHOOL
Editor Home News:
Having read your article in last
week’s paper I feel that I should
speak a few words through your
paper, fearing that your article
might be a little misleading. 1
have taken no part in trying to
get a school at Jelks except that
I have said there ought to be
a school at Jelks and I still
• say that. I also signed a peti
i tion presented by Mr. Patterson
j for a school at Jelks. If there is
; anyone who is interested in the
advancement of education who
I will honestly say that they do not
need a school there, I would like
to meet him and talk to him about
it. I am only speaking of what
is actually needed, not of the
ability of the District to do. I
am perfectly ignorant of the fi
nancial condition of the District
and do not want to be quoted as
knowing the least thing about it.
I have always tried to do all I
could to help those who could
not help themselves. There are
children who, if they are com
pelled to spend their school age
in Jelks without a school, would
never learn to read because they
could not go to McCrory on ac
count of their tender age. Ev
eryone knows that after a child
has attained a certain age, with
out attending school, there is not
a very bright future for them, so
iar as an education is concerned.
Whatever I have said, or done,
I assure you has been done in
good faith and no selfish motive
has ever entered my mind. A
school at Jelks would not help
me make any more staves, neith
er would it help me to make any
better ones. Will you kindly not
mention my name in connection
with this matter any more as it
always makes me blush to see
my name in the paper.
Your Very Respectfully,
L. C. Baxter.
OUR REPLY
The above writer takes the po
sition that there should be a
school established at Jelks. Let
us look at the other side as there
is always two sides to every
question. In the first place, no
one would contend that a school
would be a bad thing anywhere,
so do not understand us to be
taking that position.
Anyone can readily see that
if the school board should estab
lish a school at Jelks it would be
setting a precedent, so in order
to see if it could do this, it is
necessary to follow it up, there
fore let us investigate the
matter.
In the southeastern portion of
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