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EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY and woodruff county
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, NOVEMBER, 7, 1919
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NUMBER 16
sign the petition
Petitions are now being cir
,,fed in various parts of the
Sty asking Judge Simmons
“Convene the quorum court
/the purpose of re-consider
• /the question of retaining
% county agents. Practically
Sryone in this section of the
Sty wants «?e demonstra
work continued and as
S work is for the exclusive
benefit of our farmers we
Le it will be continued in
Woodruff County.
COMMUNITY CLUB
The Community Club held
fe first meeting Monday eve
ning at 6:30. About 100 per
sons attended and much in
terest was manifested. The
Club will hold its next meeting
Monday evening, Nbv. 17, at
6:30 at the Jewel Theatre. If
you have not joined the Club,
you should see Mrs. W. T. Mc
Cain, the secretary, at once and
have your name enrolled as a
member. The fee is 25c for
those between 12 and 18 years
of age and $1.00 for all over
18. W. W. RANEY, Pres.
STREETS IMPROVED
Our street committee, Mes
srs E. T. Wherry, and T. N.
Taylor, have had some very
much needed street grading
done this week for which our
citizens feel grateful, and we
hope they will continue the
good work. They are also at
work on a plan to light our
main streets which will be
another commendable improve
ment.
Tells How He Was Helped.
Janies McCrery, Berrien
Center, Mich., says he was
troubled with kidney and
bladder trouble for two years
and used several kinds of
Medicine without any benefit
but Foley Kidney Pills gave
him relief from aches and
Pains and stopped sleep dis
turbing bladder ailment. They
.P backache and rheumatic
pa.lns, eases lameness. For
p by the Red Cross Drug
Co- Adv.
Died: Thelma, age about
„ven years, child of Mr. and
26^1910 D^is’ Sun(lay- Oct.
1 ;yiy- the remains were
\t0l/ *_rest in the Fakes ceme
^ Monday, the 27th.
fj&- l' p- Taylor, manager
hJ \Samtary Barber Shop,
^etarned from Memphis
atJe ae underwent an oper
Wn , ancJ is now back at his
frionri ° delight of his many
skull S’u-^^e P°rti°n of his
W Wh!ch was removed a
^eeks ago was replaced
a Part of one of his ribs
HEALTH AND A
HAPPY NEW YEAR'
The Red Cross Seal—as millions of
Americans know it today, is an agent
of happiness and health. It was orig
inated in 1907 by Mifis Emily P.
Bussell of Wilmingfoii, Delaware, who
learned through Jacob Riis of some
what similar seals ihat Avere sold m
Norway for the purpose of raising
ft.nds with which to fight tubercu
losis.
Miss Bissell persuaded the Ameri
can Red Cross to take up the idea
with the result that seals were sold
In a limited number of ctommiuni
iies in 1908. The sale yielded a rev
enue of approximately $3,000. The
Red Cross then decided to issue the
seal each year and 1o turn the pro
ceeds over to the National Tubercu
losis Association and its affiliated
societies for the purpose of financing,
the camDaigm against tuberculosis.
The number of seals sold in, America
increased by leaps and bounds until
in 1917 the total reached 180,000,000.
This year the seals are again on
sale beginning November 12. More
than half a billion seals have been
printed for distribution to state and
local agents. In addition to the seals
“Health Bends” in denominations
ranging from $5 to $100 are to be sold
in lieu of seals to large contributors
who do not send out a sufficient
quantity of mail ir December to
make use of all the seals they would
like to p.irchase. The combined
quotas of all the state organizations
call for more than $6,500,000 to carry
out the intensive educational cam
paign being conducted by the Na
tional Tuberculosis Association and
its 1,000 affiliated societies.
Tuberculosis kills producers—
chiefly men and women between the
agee of 16 and 45.
Tuberculosis workers—active men
and women in the homes, the office
and the shop.
Tuberculosis menaces every com
munity, ■"very home and every indi
vidual. and yet tuberculosis ia cur
able and preventable.
The National Tuberculosis Associa
I tion and Its 1,000 affiliated state and
local organizations wape a continu
ous winning war on tuberculosis.
The prevention lies largely in rigWt
living, in building up a strong bodily
resistance. Eight out of ten persons
are infected at some time in their
lives, according to figures of the Na
tional Tuberculosis Association, the
leading agency in the United States in
the fight upon this disease. This or
ganization is sponsor for the annual
Red Cross Christmas Seal sale, from
which the funds to carry on the work
throughout the year Are chiefly de
n\ ed.
T DO YOU KNOW
Tuberculosis kills annually 3,000
people in Arkansas; 160,000 people
in the United States.
The world war killed 6,500,000 peo
ple.
Tuberculosis killed 8,000,000 people
in the same time.
The chances are 20 to 1 you have
an unsuspected tuberculosis infec
tion; 1 to 9 you will be killed by
tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis costs $1,000,000,000 a
year in the United States; $14,000,000
a year in Arkansas.
Tuberculosis is communicable, but
If is curable and preventable.
Arkansas’ one sanatorium at! Bonne
ville contains 140 beds, for early
cases only.
Red Cross Seals are sold to raise
money to educate our people on the
prevention and cure of tuberculosis
by lectures, pictures, literature, em
ployment of visiting nurses, establish
ing dispensaries, clinics, hospitals,
etc Arkansas’ quota this year is
$150,000.
Approximately 90 per cent of the
funds raised by the sale of seals Is
spent in our own stare, the remainder
being divided equally between the
National Tuberculosis Association
and the American Red Cross, which
owns the seals.
The Arkansas Public Health Asso
ciation, which sells Red Cross seals
In this state, last year did demonstra
tion nursing in 18 counties and 147
different communities. It maple m
total of 2,051 nursing visits to 640
tuberculosis patients in these commu
nities. Its nurses examined 6,371
school children. 75 per cent to &0 per
cent of whom needed the doctor or
dentist
It has established six local county
associations, doing their own educa
tional and nursing work. It has given
lecture courses in 25 teachers' insti
tutes this summer; and. together with
Junior Red Cross, enrolled 30.000
children in the modern health cru
sade. It works in co-operation with
the State Departments of Health and
Education.
This terrible menaoo to our chil
dren must go. The war is on. Will
YOU enlist?
"Health to all our nation,
Pass the word along!”
— Arkansas Public Health Associa
tion.
Tuberculosis causes 150,000 deaths
in the United States every year.
More than 1,000,000 persons in this
country are suffering from active tu
berculosis.
Tuberculosis is spread largely by
Ignorance, carelessness and neglect.
Drive the menace of tuberculosis
DR. C. P. HARRIS #
DENTIST
McCRORY, ARK.
Office Hours: 8-5
FOOLISH PARENTS
How unwise and foolish
some parents act in rearing
their children. Education
seems to count for naught with
some, it seems, when rumors
run wild that diphtheria,
measles, mumps or any other
disease is with us. The first
report is sufficient and the
children are stopped from
school.
This week the editor saw
four small boys, each about
eight years old, playing in the
alley between Main and Sec
ond Streets. We asked them
why they were not in school
and to our astonishment they
said, “We are afraid to go to
school because we might catch
diphtheria/’
Foolish parent, if you will
not send your child to school
until the directors close it be
cause of some epidemic or
contagious disease, why don’t
; you keep him at home away
from other children?
We believe that the law will
require every child to attend
school unless the directors
close same and we think every
parent violates the laws of
the state when they keep
their child out of school when
no such action has beep taken
by the board.
You are not lessening tne
danger of your child catching
a disease when you take him
out of school and then allowr
him to play with other children
on the streets and in the
alleys. If you must take him
out of school, keep him at
home.
Don’t Disregard A Cold
A neglected cold may de
| velop into most serious sick
j ness. The influenza and
! pneumonia that swept the
country a year ago were pre
ceded by an epidemic of colds.
Foley’s Honey and Tar will
check a cold if taken in time.
It loosens phlem and mucous,
clears air passages, eases
hoarseness, stops tickling
throat. For sale by Red Cross
Drug Co. Adv.
Mrs. Ellen Atkinson Burrow
has resigned her position as
i music teahcer in the McCrory
High School.
Dr. and Mrs. H. Y. Swayze,
of Center Point, Texas, were
here this week on a visit to
the latter‘s brother, Mr. W. E.
Jelks and other relatives.
Little Misses Bessie May
McKnight and Helen Jackson
of Augusta were guests of
Little Misses Alta and Sarah
Neeley Saturday and Sunday.
Misses Florence and Lou
: venia Jelks of Batesville re
I turned home Thursday after
| a visit to their uncle, Mr. W.
. E. Jelks, and other relatives
and friends.