THE HOME NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
VOLUME 3
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, APRIL 19, 1918.
NUMBER 39.
OUTSTANDING ACCOUNTS j
DeView Road District
Because of some statements>
that have been made which
might be misleading, I here
with give the correct figures
concerning the outstanding in
debedness of DeView Road
District for the purpose that all
may be correctly informed:
Balance on tractor.... $634.00
Other indebtedness .... 493.55
Total . $1,127.55
Taxes due, about .... $2,600.00
Indebtedness . $1,112.55
.
By Balance ....$1,472.45
J. L. BRONTE, Overseer.
Mr. L. G. Jones was a Little
Rock visitor this week.
Mrs. H. W. Burrow visited
in Memphis the first of the
week.
Mr. C. B. Cook was a busi
ness visitor in Jonesboro Wed
nesday.
Miss Johnnie Harris of Me
Crory, is spending a few days
in Little Rock.
Mr. M. H. Patterson of
Jelks, attended court in Mari
ana Wednesday.
Mr. W. B. Fakes received
this week a car load of Chevro
let cars for which he is agent
in this locality.
Miss Ellen Lewis accompa
nied her mother, Mrs. R. A.
Cartwright, to a hospital in
Memphis this week.
Mrs. Lena Stark, daughter
and son, Miss Marietta and
Mr. Norman Stark, of DeView,
were Augusta visitors Tues
day.
Mesdames J. F. Morgan and
T. J. Fakes and baby, T. J., Jr.
returned today, Friday, from a
two weeks stay in the Vapor
City.
Lightening struck the tele
phone wire at Mr. W. A.
White’s home Tuesday night
and set fire to same but no
great damage was done.
Miss Esther Thompson of
Galloway College, Searcy,
spent Saturday and Sunday
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
A. S. Thompson of DeView.
Lieut. Dawson of Camp Pike
snoke at the Beard’s church
Wednesday night and the
Methodist church in McCrory
Thursday in the interest of the
Liberty Loan.
The many friends of Mr. and
and Mrs. L. B. Colwell are glad
to see them back in charge of
thier popular cafe. They cor
dially invite you to call and see
them at their old stand.
Prof. J. C. Gray dismissed
school on Thursday in order
that teachers and pupils could
attend the North-east Arkan
sas contest at Newport. All
the contestants are in ‘Tip
top” condition and prospects
for winning honors are good.
A big delegation of teachers
and students will accompany
the contestants.
ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS
By Richard H. Edmonds in Manufacturers Record
Savagery, in comparison with which the toma
hawk and the poisoned arrows of the savages of old
were saintly, has raised its head and strikes its awful
fangs deep into the heart of civilization.
Women, pure and holy, sweet as the angels of
God, are ravished by the bestial brutes whose teach
ings for years have been to take whatever you want
wherever and whenever you have the power, of lands,
of money and of all other forms of material things and
of all the holier and more priceless things of life.
Innocent babies, whose lisping tongues enchant
and whose wondering eyes light the pathway to
Heaven, are killed as though they were ravenous
beasts, and their sufferings jibed at by the inhuman
monsters turned loose, filled with all the vileness of
their hell-begotten lives.
Fields are made desolate, churches and cathedrals
are blotted out, wells are poisoned, whole villages are
swept as by the besom of destruction, and awful dev
astation unequaled in all the long years of men’s ex
istance on earth reigns wherever Germany’s accursed
army moves. Milions of men, the flower of the world’s
civilization, have with their bodies, fertilized a thous
and battlefields, and millions of orphaned children and
widows, fathers and mothers and sweethearts, bereft
of loved ones dearer than life itself, cry to Heaven from
hearts crushed by earth’s most fearful anguish, and
still the awful reign of ruin and death goes on.
And why all this suffering?
Why these murdered men, women and children?
Why these broken hearts?
Why the bones of the babies and mothers bleach
ing the pathways through the forests and over snow
and ice as they fled from burning homes to escape the
ravisher’s oncoming?
Why?
Because Germany through the years has been
planning its hell-devised scheme of conquest, its plan
for world domination, based on a definite, pre-deter
mined campaign of world-wide intrigue and lying and
thieving and murder and rape that Kaiser Wilhelm,
the sylphilitic child of sylphilitic parentage, and his
rotten-hearted, rotton-souled military clique might
build a world empire for their aggrandisement and the
perpetual power of themselves and their descendants.
This is the inescapable fact. This is the mad-dog
that is at large. This is the roaring lion seeking to de
vour your wife and other loved ones and your country,
and you must either fight or run, and if you run you are
sure to be destroyed.
Fight then, we must, and as sure as God is in
Heaven, as sure as right is better thap might, as sure as
good is superior to evil, as sure as Heaven is better
than hell, we shall win, though the way be long and
bloody.
Let us then glory in thfe contest. Let us pit our
right and truth against Germany’s Satan-devised might
Let us enter upon the crusade with the old crusader’s
spirit of old and thank God that we fight under his
banner and in His cause.
Then, “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” for the very
angels of Heaven might envy you this supreme oppor
tunity to sacrifice that you may save civilization from
barbarism, Christianity from atheism, women and
children from brutal beasts, and the plaudit of the
Master—“Well done, good and faithful servant, enter
thou into the joys of thy Lord.”
This space patriotically donated by the editor.
Mr. J. G. Pulley returned
Wednesday from Wynne,
where he was called Monday
to the bedside of his relative,
Mr. A. M. Morris. We are
sorry to note Mr. Morris’ death
which occurred Tuesday morn
ing at 10:05 o’clock. The de
ceased was one of Cross coun
ty’s oldest and most highly res
pected citizens, being univer
sally liked by all.
More than half a hundred
interested citizens from Cross,
Woodruff and Jackson coun
ties attended the Bayou De
View Drainage meeting held
in this city Tuesday.
HON. P. R. ANDREWS
For Re-Election
We are authorized to an
nounce this week that Hon. P.
IR. Andrews of Helena, is a
candidate to succeed himself
; to the office of prosecuting at
torney. Further mention will
be made later.
Serg. Maj. O. M. Winfree,
who is stationed at Camp Pike,
is home on furlough to see his
father and other relatives and
friends.
Mr.H.S. Taylor, who is with
the B. F. Avery Plow Co., with
headquarters at Jonesboro,
was the guest of his father, Mr.
T. N. Taylor Tuesday.
Col. H. B. Gray spent Sun
day at Camp Pike where he
was the guest of his son and
our esteemed friend, Mr. R. A.
Gray, who is now* in the army
there.
Mr. E. W. Wilder who is sta- ,
tioned at Camp Beauregard,
La., arrived Thursday morning
on a ten days furlough. He is
the guest of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Wilder.
Hon. E. M. Carl-Lee and
Judge A. L. Hutchins have
been in Little Rock this week
attending to their duties as
members of important commit
tees of the Constitutional Con
vention.
Misses Rena Berry, Pauline
McFall and Ora Lee Hunnicutt
and Sgt. Maj. O. M. Winfree
and Walter (Red) Jeffries
were attendants at the big
dance at Cotton Plant Wednes
day night.
Mr. Roger E. Fakes of Hen
drix College, Conway, is home
for a visit to homefolk. He is
jthe delighted owner of a new
Chevrolet car which was pre
sented to him this week by his
grandfather, Dr. G. B. Fakes.
| Messrs. J. A. Diffey, Mike
Meehan and Jay McGregor of
Cotton Plant, H. O. Penrose
and Jas. Engle of Hunter, and
F. H. Cole of Hillemann, at
tended the Bankhead Highway
Association in Little Rock this
week.
Messrs. J. H. Crossett, F.
Lewis, C. M. Crossett, G. D.
Harris, H. D. Angus, E. L.
Hamilton and son, Thorp, and
the editor spent a couple of
days in Little Rock this week
attending the Bankhead High- 1
way Association.
' Messrs. Jack Dixon and
Price Ford have rented the
room over the McCrory Drug
Co., which has been occupied
by the W. O. W. lodge and are
equipping it for a picture show
The Woodmen have moved to
the Wherry Hall.
Mr. Walter B. Huff has been
promoted from a second Lieu
tenant to first and is now at an
eastern port from which he
will soon sail for France. We
are glad to note his promotion
land join his many friends in
congrtulating him upon hav
ing won same.