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Entered as second-class mat
, August 26, 1915, at the post
mce at McCrory, Ark., under
he Act of March 3, 1879.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10^1919
The Home News’ Service Flag
E. Dupree
R. K. Crail
BANKHEAD HIGHWAY
Col. T. S. Plowman, presi
dent of the Bankhead National
Highway Association, has re
turned from Chicago, where
he attended a meeting of the
Highway Industries Associa
tion and of the Good Roads
Conference. While there he
interested these two organiza
tions in the building of the
Bankhead National Highway
and also introduced a resolu
tion endorsing the Bankhead
Federal Bill appropriating
$100,000,000 annually for the
next five years for the building
of good roads. President Plow
man was most cordially receiv
ed at these conventions. He
met many people from the
states of Virginia, Georgia,
North Carolina and South Car
olina, and the west who are
^rested in the Bankhead
Rational Highway. They are
Jd enthusiastic in regard to
the same.
President Plowman and sec
retary Rountree with the Ex
ecutive Committee of the
dankhead National Highway
association hold a confer
ence early in January and dis
p]ans for making the third
tinnUa ™eetin2 of the Associa
m-’ which will convene at
15 tqra o^nellS' Texas> April
est p ’ one °f the great
heen °hdd”ti0nS that haS GVer
The officials of the Bank
head National Highway Asso
ciation are arranging a great
automobile tour from Balti
more, via Washington, Rich
mond, Raleigh, Charlotte, N.
C., Greenville, S. C. Athens,
Ga., Atlanta, Tupelo and Hol
ly Springs, Miss., Memphis,
Little Rock, Hot Springs, Tex
arkana, Dallas, Ft. Worth to
Mineral Wells. Sec. Rountree
has already received a num
be rof letters from interested
parties stating that they are
organizing parties from their
respective towns to make the
trip.
Col. Bennehan Cameron,
Stagville, N. C. is chairman of
the tour committee from Mem
phis to Washington. He has
already commenced to organ
ize the tour and has the prom
ise of a large number who are
quite anxious to go from the
states of Virginia, North Car
olina, South Carolina and
Georgia to Texas in April.
Every indication points to a
successful tour and that the
joint meetings of the United
States Good Roads Associa
tion and the Bankhead High
way Association will be the
greatest good roads gathering
ever held in the United States.
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chant of Bearsville, W. Va.,
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one of my patrons had a small
child taken with croup about
midnight. Came to my store
and got Foley’s Honey and
Tar Compound. Before morn
ing the child entirely recover
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