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McCRORY, ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1901
COLD WEATHER
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Will soon be here and you can not ahord to neglect your
Footwear when health and comfort are at stake.
When you Buy SHOES of us you
When You Wear
Star - Five - Star
$2.50 Shoe
You will find the fit, finish and
wearing qualities uacquaied
for the price.
Hailey &
YOU MAKE
NO MISTAKE
as to QUALITY and PRICE.
We will Guarantee Satisfac
tion. We have other things be
sides Shoes to sell. We will sell
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS,
CLOTHING and HATS as cheap
as anyone.
Buy your WINTER UNDER
WEAR from us.
In our GROCERY DEPART
MENT you will find everything
as low in price as is possible to
sell. Remember we handle
nearly everything in the Mer
cantile line and our price onever
ything is made in view of the
fact that crops are short.
Atkinson.
TO THE HONORARY WORLD’S FAIR
COMMISSIONERS OF WOODRUFF CO.
You are earnestly requested to
meet at my office in the town of
McCrory on Tuesday Nov. the
fifth, for the purpose of complet
ing our organization and to con
sider the best means to give our
County an honorable place with
her sister counties of our state at
the St. Louis Fair in 1903.
We hope all the honorary mem
bers will attend this meeting.
Yours for success,
E. C. Kramer, j
Vice Pres, for Woodruff Co.'
A LITTLE ROCK LETTER.
Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 29. ’01.
Woodruff County News,
Me Crory, Arkansas.
Dear Editor: When I first ar
rived here, my doctor assnred
me of a speedy recovery and
here I am yet. It now looks
doubtful as to when I will be able
to return.
I often dream of that return
trip from Augusta and how I
was helped out of that perdica
ment. The doctor says that is
exactly my ailment and unless I
can banish the thoughts of that
episode from my mind, he does
not know when I can come home.
Now Mr. Editor, I don’t mind
forgetting that incident, but my
memory will continue to linger
as to the where-a-bouts of that
ten cent- fiish-story-book.
Give my best regards to all my
friends and, say, if you come
across my book, please take good
care of it for me, and under “no”
circumstances loan it to anyone.
Hoping to soon be able to come
home, I am, Your friend
COMPETENT MEN ARE EAGERLY
SOUGHT. [BY J. G. SCHURMAN]
It is true that there is an in
creasing, and, just now, an unus
ual demand for college-bred men
in all walks of life. The prescrib
ed preliminaries to legal and med
ical education are, step by step,
approaching graduation from col
lege, and have reached it, in some
instances, while these profession
al courses themselves have been
extended and deepened, till they
are now nearly or quite on a par
with the old liberal training with
which they are coordinated in the
modern university. Astoengin
eers,—fifteen years ago, the man
ufacturers of machinery had to
be coaxed to take those pioneers,
the Cornell men, into their shops
and give them a chance. But where
one went, many followed. Last
spring, when the class of 1900
came to graduation, every stu
dent in this branch was eagerly
bid for two or three times over.
One great electrical firm alone
asked to be given the entire
class. There is observable, too,
a gradual incease in the call for
college-bred teachers in the pub
lic schools, and this demand will
grow by what it feeds upon.
All this is but the sign and
symbol of an increasing com
plexity and organization in our
civilization.. Rough-and-ready
methods are going out and the
untrained handy-man with them.
In all directions, as expanding
American manufactures and
commerce come into competition
with those of Europe, it is daily
obvious that the higher skill and
intelligence, making the closest
use of its resou&es, will win.
Nowadays, to do the work of the
world as the world will have it
done, requires that a man be
trained to the exactitude of
scientific methods, and that he
be given the wide mental outlook
and the special training which
he can acquire in the university,
and nowhere else.
A boy’s essay on girls.
Girls is a queer kind of var
mint. Girls is the only thing
that has their own way every
time. Girls is of several thou
sand kinds, and sometimes one
can be like several thousand oth
er girls if she wants to .do any
thing. Girls is all alike one way
—they are all like cats. If you
rub ’em the right way of the hair
they’ll pur and look sweet at you,
but if you rub ’em the wrong
way they’ll chaw you. S’long as
you iot a girl have her own way
she’s nice and sweet, but just
cross her and she’ll spit at you
worse nar a cat. Girls is also like
mules, they’re headstrong. If a
girl don’t want to believe any
thing you can’t make her. If
she knows it’s so she won’t say
so. Girls is little women if they
are good, and if they ain’t good
then nor v/hen they get big
they’re vixens—thats what fath
er said mamma was once when she
chased him around the kitchen
with a red-hot poker, ’cause she
was mad at him. Brother Joe
says he don’t like big girls, but
he does like little ones, and when
I saw him kissing Jennie Jones
last Sunday and told him what
he’d said, he said he was biting
her ’cause he didn’t like her. I
think he hurt her, for she hol
lered and run, and there was a
big red spot over her cheeks.
This is all I know about girls,
and father says the less I know
about them the better off I am.
THREE WINNING QUALITIES.
(BY JOSEPH WHEELER.)
Honesty, ability and capacity
are the greatest foundation stones
of any man’s career. They are
also as necessary to build up and
maintain a strong character as
pillars and beams are necessary
to hold together a ten-story build
ing. Without them, a man is a
weak being, at the best; with
them, he is all that the world can
desire.
I can hear the young man say,
“How can I secure these valuable
materials? How can I find them?
Where do they exist?
Young man, they exist every
where in the perfect life. The
atmosphere is just as full of them
as it is full of the valued oxygen
that gives us life. The man who
inhales the oxygen can also in
hale honesty, utility, and capaci
ty. Once in his body, unlike the
oxygen of the air, they never
leave.
Just makeup your mind that
you will be a man along these
lines. Just say to yourself, “I
will!” Make up your mind that
you will. Say to yourself: “I
will be a man,—a true, noble,
fearless man. I will study. I will
read, I will live for all that is
good in the world, and I will save
my money,—
“Not for to hide it in a hedtre,
Nor for a train attendant;
But for the glorious privelege
Ot being independent."
It is a simple task to acquire
these qualities. It is far more
simple than learning the A, B, C;
and, once required, they stick
for life.
THE KENTUCKY LETTER.
(continued.)
it has a depressing effect on all
‘classes of business and people
do not spend as much as when
times are more encouraging.
The credit system is practiced
it seems to a large extent in the
mercantile business in Arkansas,
but this is necessary on account !
of the kind of crop that the rent
er raises. A man can rent any
number of acres of land and
plant a crop of cotton and during
the cultivation of his crop the
merchants will furnish him if he
can be relied upon to pay when
his crop is picked and sold.:
When his crop is picked, he |
brings it to the gin and has it
ginned and when the cotton is
sold, he first pays the person
that he rented the land from,1
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then next, the merchant. The
merchants seldom loose any
thing on this plan of doing busi
ness unless crops are very short!
indeed.
This year some of the land
renters say that they will barely
raise enough cotton to pay the
rent but should there be no kil
ling frost until late the yield will
be greatly increased.
The cotton is planted about the
first of April and is ready to be
gin picking by September 1st,
and the picking continues until
February the year following. A
one hundred and fifty or two
hundred acre field in cotton just
ready to pick makes a pleasing
sight to the eye, making a snowy
like surface almost as far as the
eye can detect. Cotton picking
affords employment for a large
number of hands during that
season, they are paid so much
per hundred pounds for picking,
and the average wages amounts
to from $1.50 to $2.00 per day for
a cotton picker.
The timber business in Arkan
sas from what I was told is very
extensive. Staves and bolt tim
ber are being gotten out in large
qualities continually and shipped
to buyers. The lumber industry
is large; the saw-mills and the
work of shipping the lumber at
different points in the state af
fords employment to a small
ormy of laborers, as it were. The
lumber is mostly yellow-pine and
sweet gum, popular being rarely
ever seen unless it is shipped in
from other points.
(continued.)
Jumped on a Ten Penny Nail,
The litte daughter of Mr, J..'Eh
Powell jumped on an inverted
rake made of ten penny nails, and
thrust one nail entirely through
her foot and a second one half
way through. Chamberlain’s
Pain Balm was promptly applied
and five minutes later the pain
had disappeared and no more suf
fering was experienced. In three
days the child was wearing her
shoe as usual and with absolute
ly no discomfort. Mr. Powell is
a well known merchant of Pork
land, Va. Pain Balm is an anti
septic aud heals such injuries
without maturation and in one
third the time required by the
usual treatment. For sale by
Dr. J. B, Neal of McCrory and
A. S. Thompson of DeView, Ark.
We sell all kinds of
FURNITURE, STOVES,
F LOOR OIL CLOTH, MATTING,
TRUNKS, CUTLERY,
COTS, DOORS,
TINWARE, SHELF HARDWARE,
WINDOWSIIADES, CURTAIN POLES,
CHAIR BOTTOMS, WOVEN WIRE,
WINDOWS, WINDOW GLASS,
EASELS, MATTRESSES, SPINGS, SEWING MACHINES,
We have the best sewing machines on the market. Call and
see me and I will try to interest you.
E. L. HAMILTON.
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Fancy Candy a Specialty %
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If you are in need of anything in the General Mer
chandise line, YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY BUYING
NOW. To make room for my fall stock, I will sell at a
VERY BOW FIGURE all my Summer Stock, Prints at
cost. I have a complete line of Drugs* Stationery, Cut
lery, and Undertaking Supplies. Yours for business,
A. S. THOMPSON, DeView