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EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
VOLUME 1.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3,1915
NUMBER 6
McCRORY CONTRIBUTES
A petition was hurriedly circu
lated in McCrory last Saturday
for the benefit of the flood suffer
ers at Newport to which our peo
ple subscribed to the amount of
$40.00. The same has been for
warded to the relief committee
at Newport and those who con
tribued were as follows:
W E Jelks.$2.50
G L Carson.... . 2.50
T T Lail. 1.00
Dr J W Morris. 1.00
J G Pulley, Marshal... 1.00
A A Taylor. 1.00
E S Parkes. 25
Osro Taylor. ,25
J A Pulley.25
H T Miller.25
C C Simmons. 1.00
I M McCuan. 1.00
E T Wherry. 2.50
J F Morgan . 1.00
LW Sturdivant.50
John Shearer. 1.00
J A Cullum.50
OJ Johnson.50
T C Bull. 1.00
H D Swayze. 1.00
G B Fakes. . 1.00
J E Atkinson. 1.00
G G McCrory.1.00
G W Barber.; 1.00
J W Neely.50
C Crotzer. 1.00
E B Wood. .•. 1.00
Dr E P Yeager. 1.00
J P Hailey. 1.00
EC Marsh.*... .50
A D Stafford.50
CP Best. 1.00
A J Marsh .50
Clayton Hailey. 1.00
Cash.50
H T Raney.50
R E Holder.50
E C Caudle.50
L L Cole. 1.00
A Comer.50
H S Taylor.50
T J Fakes. 1.00
Walter W Raney.50
J E Comer. 1.00
j R A Gray.50
T N Taylor.50
C L Jones.. . .50
Total.$40.00
DENTIST COMING
Dr. R. L. Thompson, with
Crain & Thompson, of Wynne,
will be in McCrory attheWaver
ly Hotel Tuesday, September, 7,
1915, for five days only. If your
teeth need filling or cleaning,
don’t fail to see Dr. Thompson.
He is reliable and his work is
satisfactory. Adv
Mrs. J. R. Piercey and daugh
ters, Mary and Ruth, returned
last Saturday from Prescott.
Shall the McCrory Special
School District be Divided?
Citizens at Jelks will ask County Court to form
a New District. McCrory Should Act.
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Through the efforts of the little home paper our school was
very materially assisted in a financial way a few years ago, and
now it falls our lot to again help in what way we can to keep it
among the class of high schools to which our directors, principals
and others have placed it in the way of preventing, if possible, and
honestly, a division of the school district. We publish above a map
showing the boundary lines of the McCrory Special School District
which we hope you will study. The heavy black line is the boun
dary of the district. It is proposed to divide, or take away all of
that portion of territory lying west of the section line between
Sections 8 and 9, 5 and 4, 32 and 33, and 29 and 28.
The McCrory Special School District is threatened with a |
division of its territory. Hon. M. H. Patterson and some other
public spirited citizens of Jelks will cause a very valuable portion !
consisting of about six sections of land or about 40,000 acres, and
five and one-half miles of railroad to be taken from our school dis
trict if their plans succeed. The supreme question confronting
everyone interested in any way in the McCrory High School today!
is,—Will it be Taken Away? h
in tne beginning let us state tnat we noia naugnt against ivir.
Patterson or any of the other good people of Jelks in any way; in
fact we are their friends and consider them our’s and we admire
the public spiritedness which one can’t help but see, hear and feel ;
when in their growing little town, and whether they succeed, or
fail, in their efforts to take some of our territory, we hope to re
main as in the outset—friends. i
On the west a rough estimate shows that there are about 22 (
white families with about 61 children of school age within one and
three-quarters’ mile distance from Jelks and none of these reside ;
within one and three-quarters of a mile of the McCrory school 1
building.
On the east there are about 26 white families with approxi
mately 74 children of school age living east of McCrory and beyond
a line drawn one and three-quarters mile from McCrory, or we may
say living more than one and three-quarters of a mile away from the
McCrory school building. !
iNow, it tne people on tne extreme west side oi tne district
are entitled and should have a school building and a
teacher, certainly the people on the extreme east side (with ap
proximately more children) should also be given a school and
teacher. Then, the people of the northern side of the district may
come up and ask that they too should have a school.
To grant these wishes would almost paralyze the present
school we now have, qnd until we are convinced that we are wrong,
we shall contend that the McCrory Special School District should
not be divided, and we are going to do our level best, honestly, to
keep it from being done so.
We should suggest that our citizens over the entire district
study both sides of the above question carefully as this is a matter
(Continued on last page)
TRAIN HITS CHILD
Ora Irene, 17 months old child
of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Jones who
reside at Jeffries Crossing west
of town was struck by west
bound train No. 223 Tuesday
noon. Although the engineer re
versed his engine and applied the
emergency brakes the train could
not be stopped until it had
knocked the child from the track.
At this crossing thpre are two
fences, one of which no doubt
prevented the engineer from see
ing the child until too late to pre
vent the train hitting it.
Mrs. Jones stated that she had
left the child playing in a room
and that she did not know it had
left the home which is about 100
feet from the railroad until she
heard the train whistle. The
child, it seems, tried to cross the
track and it was 'struck by the
train, knocking it to one side of
the right-of-way. It was badly
bruised about the head and body,
but it is not thought that its in
juries will prove serious.
The engineer backed his train
to this city bringing Mrs. Jones
and the wounded child to Dr.
Brewster who dressed its wounds.
The engineer who again passed
through here on No. 223 yester
day, Thursday, stopped his train
at the home and gave the child a
big doll and a box of candy, also
expressing his regrets of the ac
cident and hopes of its complete
recovery.
I. P. Phillips and son of Lang
ton were driving east in his wag
:>n and met the train about 200
yards east of the home and as
the train passed they talked of
the rapid rate of speed it was
making, when immediately they
leard the whistle and almost by
:he time they could look back,
Mr. Phillips stated that the train
lad stopped. He said they heard
:he mother screaming and was
ilmost an eye witness to the ac
cident. The child was reported
yesterday, Thursday, as improv
ng as nicely as could be expected.
CARD OF THANKS
To our many friends in and
iround DeView who were so kind
;o us during the loss of our hus
oand and father the past week,
we wish to extend our most sin
cere thanks. Adv
Mrs. Lena Stark and family.
T. C. Bull and family and Jess
Daniel and wife returned yester
day, Thursday, from Brinkley,
where they attended the funeral
of Mr. Bull’s sister, Mrs. Ander
son, who died Tuesday.