m
T. D. Ruffin of Morton, was in
town Tuesday.
C. II. Raney returned to Mem
phis Wednesday.
C. B. Cook’s little son has been
quite sick this week.
Master Elmore Wilder is visit
ing friends at Wynne.
Vic Stephenson of Revells,
was in our city Tuesday.
Miss Georgia Cole is spending
the glorious fourth at Judsonia.
Bob Crossett of DeView, was
in our city on business Tuesday.
Sam Kyle made a business
trip to Memphis last Wednesday.
For a good knife or razor try
Dr. J. B. Neal. He keeps none
other.
Horace Gowan, of Grays visited
among the fair folks of our city
Sunday last.
Our friend John Shearer left
for Memphis to transact some
important business.
Joe Taylor, who lives north of
McCrory, paid this office a pleas
ant visit last Saturday.
M. H. Patterson’s new resi
dence in the north end of towu
is now progressing nicely.
Mr. R. M. Comer will spend
the fourth at Hot Springs and
enjoy the baths while there.
Joseph Crossett and Hamilton
Riggs went down to Wiville Mon
day night to attend a dance.
Luther Murphy of Brinkley,
came up Monday and is spending
the week visiting the family of
John Shearer.
Miss May of Tennessee arriv
ed here Wednesday and will
spend sometime visiting her
friend Miss Nina Riggs.
E. D. Marsh of Wiville, was in
our city last Saturday on busi
ness. We acknowledge a visit
from him while here.
Will Marsh and Minnifee Par
nell, of Wiville, were in our city
Last Friday, paying the News a
friendly call while here.
Harry Mann accompanied the
railroad agent at Martin, Walter
Angus, to Martin on a pleasure
trip last Sunday afternoon.
Rev. Mooreliead, the presiding
elder of the Helena district of
the M. E. Church, South, preach
ed for us last Sunday night.
Mrs. Berta Montgomery, and
her little son Earl of Searcy were
here attending the bedside of her
sister-in-law, Miss Mattie Mont
gomery.
Mrs. Martha Crossetthaa been
on the sick list this week. Her
many friends hope for her a
speedy recovery. We are glad
to learn that she is now much
improved.
Mr. H. H. Hudson, the flying
scroll man, came to McCrory and
told us a few secrets. On the noon
train Friday he left for Searcy
prospecting.
wanted: 30 men to cut cord
wood, 5* miles south-east of Mc
Crory on the J. O. Raymond
place. Money ready whenever
wanted. M. R. Portek.
Tip now enjoys the benefits of
a daily mail. Our friend Henry
Harris who is a number one dis
penser of Uncle Sam’s mail has
the contract of carrying it.
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When in Need
of Chill Tonic you will find the
following tonics in my 6tock:
Wintersmith’s, Plantation’s,
Grove’s, Wood’s, Bull’s Riche’s,
Snider’s, McGee’s, Blue’s.
You can find
a full line of Patent Medicines
and a nice fresh stock of Pre
scription Drugs.
Your patronage solicited.
A. S. THOMPSON,
foeView* Arkansas. ^
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“SPRING”
is the time to have a
your Painting (lone. Why
not let some one do the [
§; work who is a practical
PANTER.
§ I write signs, hang paper, [c
5 do all kinds of Interior deco- £
5l decorating, in fact anything
b usually done by a painter,
c prices consistent with good
gj work. Give me a trial.
JOHN O’FALLON
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Painter.
Will Wilder visited among liis
friends at Riverside last Sunday.
Quite a number of our young
people are going to spend the
4th down on Cheatham lake.
We have two important items
that were crowded out of this
issue. They will appear in our
next.
Miss Annie Sue Wilder left
Wednesday for Wynne, where
she will spend the glorious
fourth.
R. M. Comer accompanied by
our little brother Esq. E. C.
made a business trip to Augusta
Tuesday last.
Mrs. J. S. Carver and Mrs.
S. J. Huff came up from Blum,
Texas Monday morning and will
spend a month or more visiting
here.
The colored school under the
tudorship of Prof. G, M. Blake,
opened last Monday and now the
school children's voieesi can be
heard again.
The quarterly conference of
the M. E. Church, South, held at
Fake’s Cliapel last week, is said
to have been well attended and a
good meeting is reported.
MissLaura Avery, who spent
a few weeks visiting among her
parents and friends at Tilton,
returned to MeCrory Saturday
and will make this her future
home.
Listen! We will print the re
turn on 100 good envelopes for
you or your friends for 50 cents.
Give us your printing. Good
work and reasonable prices is
our motto.
Who is the new barber in town?
He is Bob Shearer of Greenville,
Miss., and he is up-to-date.
Come on boys and lets try him.
Where is he? Why. at Will Raney’s
old stand.
We have turned out quite a lot
of job work the past week and
heartily thank all who so favored
us. If you need anything in the
printing line remember the News
can do it, and do it right.
Among those who have enroll
ed their names to our subscrip
tion list since last issue we note
Messrs. E. L. Billingslea, Col. C.
B. Mills, P. R. Andrews, and Ed
S. Carl Lee of Augusta.
Bob Shearer of Greenville,
Miss., is now attending to the
wants of the people in the' tonso
rial line. He is a good barber
and merits the patronage of
evei’yone in need of his services.
Saturday evening a hack full
of folks who like to be clean,
made a trip to the river below,
where they enjoyed themselves
bathing. This is a most desira
ble place for bathing purposes.
Miss Delia Rutherfoi’d of
Moorefield and who so efficiently
taughrtrin our school during the
session just closed, was ming-1
ling among her many friends!
here Saturday and Sunday, j
Sunday afternoon she left for j
Wiville where she lias been em-!
ployed to teach the summer term j
of school. Knowing of her abili
ty as a teacher, we feel no hesi
tency in congratulating the peo-1
pie of Wiville in having secured
her services.
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Miss Ruth Shearer is now the i
proud possessor of a line New- j
Foundland puppy, the gift of her j
friend Miss Rutherford.
Misses Lizzie Angus and Daisy
Chaney visited at Grays this
week. We wonder if they got
any “soda pop” while gone.
Just received a new line of
Window shades, 25 different pat
terns, all 7 feet long, 25c, 50c and
75c each at the Furniture Store.
Our friend Joseph Crossett
paid a visit to Howell Sunday
last. On his return he mingled
with the fair folks of Riverside.
O. H. Raney of Memphis, a
nephew of Mayor li. T. Raney of
our city visited in our city this
week. He ordered the News
sent to his address while here.
Miss Oma Scales, who has
been visiting at Searcy for some
time past returned home last
Monday, much to the pleasure of
her many friends.
H. H. Hudson returned
Wednesday morning from Sear
cy. He ieft on the noon train
Wednesday for his home in Ten
nessee where he will remain
some time.
Willis Cook, the crack pitcher
was in McCrory the first of the
week. The past season Mr.
Cook has been doing some excel
lent ball playing having been as
sociated mostly with the Coving
ton nine of Tenn.
J. W. Godby likes the way we
run the paper and showed by
his actions that he wants the
News to prosper, he having or
dered the News sent to him at
DeView. Thank you brother,
may others follow your example.
Dr. J. B. Neal who paid a visit
to Indian Territory returned
home the latter part of last week.
He reports a pieasant, but hot
and dry time, while gone. Dur
ing his trip he paid a visit to his
brother T. T. Neal at Keokuk
Falls, Ind. Ter.
Clay Gray, Oscar Lewis
Henry Haggard, Hugh Shearer,
Carlton Barkley went down to Sev
en Mile lake below Gregory
Point, where they will spend a
few days fishing and otherwise
having a good time.
Wm. Daugherty and Bruce
Keating made a trip to Cache
river below Martin Saturday
evening. Mr. Daugherty says
Bruce knows how to do the back
tuch act. Talk about sand
spouts, he said they went from
him in all directions.
Miss Sallie L. Poster o Arka
delphia, arrived in McCrory last
Saturday. On Monday she took
charge of the public school at
Beards south of town. Miss
Foster is a school-mate of Miss
Ruth Shearer and is said to be
an excellent teacher.
The colored first nines of
McCrory and Cotton Plant
played an interesting game of
ball here last Friday afternoon,
and, of course, the McCrory boys
walked away with a score of 21
to 7. McCroryites, both white
and colored, are ‘ right there”
when it comes to playing ball.
Monday night a crowd of
young ladies were seen prome
nading up and down the side
walks with a guitar and Mando
lin. What it all meant we are
unable to say and no one seems
to be able to throw any light on
the subject. They were either
‘‘midnight marauders” or com
mon sei*enaders.
We are under obligations to
our worthy and accomodating
agent Mr. E. Edwards for favors.
Mr. Edwards has worked in al
most every capacity on almost
every railroad everywhere al
most ever since railroads have
been in use and he is a gay
young spark yet. In one year’s
time he could tell the difference
between a passenger and freight
train by the way the conductor
was dressed. At present he is
ticket agent at this place and liis j
courteous and strictly business j
methods have made many friends ,
for him.
Miss Annie Sue Wilder accoin-1
panied by her little friend Miss
Ollie Holder of Newport, paid
her accustomed and appreciative
visit to the News sanctum last
Tuesday. Miss Ollie made the
devil smile one-hundred times
for the dollar paid on subscrip
tion. Miss Ollie will spend quite
a few days visiting among her
many friends here.
M. J. Johnson called up to see
us Tuesday morning and got off
the following. He said that
while Bob McDaniel’s seldom
sings anything but “Home sweet
home,” he went out of his
usual fantasia Tuesday morning
and was singing “What is home
without baby?” like a South
American warbler. He says
Bob is still singing that song and
when asked why he changed
songs he says, “Why, I have got
the largest, prettiest, most per
fect, 10 pound boy baby, with
nice long black hair at my house
you ever saw. It came into this
world early Tuesday morning
and I ’ll bet he will be president
in a few years.” Of course Bob
knows all babies are good and
their parents are proud of them
but he thinks his boy is just a
little better than any<me else’s.
Mrs. McDaniel and the infant
are doing well, while everyone
says no hope is entertained for
Bob and all say that he is a
changed man.
R. W. Stoker was in town
again Tuesday and paid the News
$1. for his subscription for one
year. Bob always has some
thing to do. Sometimes he goes
around the saloons and other
places looking at drinks and
cigars. If the proper stamp is
not on everything, Bob takes it
“straight” away. When not
doing anything else he occupies
himself farming, and he has a
good farm. He says, among
other things, he has a very fine
patch of watermelons and some
of them are already ripe. He
devotes most of his time now
runningafter watermelon thieves,
adjusting the sporting world and
delivering speeches. He habit
ually wears a pleasant smile and
a very loud necktie. When an
election is about due Bob takes
the stump and other things.
Bob is onto his job and is like
the Kansas crow, you can’t work
him. He is a friend to his friends
and doesn’t like his enemies a
little bit. We are going out to
see Bob and his watermelons
some of these nice, -warm days.
Last Monday Mayor Raney,
Charlie Raney, Charlie Hamer
and the devil Walter Raney spent
the day after the finny tribe.
They first made a trip to Cache
river on the Dr. Battle farm but
finding the fish a little shy they
shifted their belongings to White
lake where they caught all kinds
of fish. They report a good time.
One peculiar accident befell our
friend Hamer. He is yet full of
boyish tricks and of course tried
to have a time out of something.
A hog happened upon the scene
and then Charlie thought he
would force the pork to take an
afternoon bath much against the
desire and better judgment of
Mr. Hog. He got the hog out in
to the lake all right, and was
vainly endeavoring to force it to
swim over when our friend the
mayor who also “can’t give up
his wild and foolish ways” push
ed poor Mr. Hamer, clothes and
all, in after the hog. This of
course brought on talk and a look
from Charlie depicted vengeance
and Mayor Raney caught it. In
a short while thereafter a boat
ride was planned and all entered
the boat, but not before the may
or pulled off his “only suit of
clothes” and hung them on a tree
on the bank. He feared a bath
at the hands of Hamer. Hamer
says he kept the mayor elothes
less in the boat, while the sun
came down about 103 times a
second on him, as long as he
could, and said he thinks he got
even all right. We know he did
as Mr Raney has been looking as
if he had crossed the Sahara!
Desert, ever since.
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WE ARE STILL SELLING
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* Poney Stel Plow ft, 1.90 Number S Plows 3.00
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* BestLeaf Tobacco perlb. .85 Li on Buffer per lb. . / 3\
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j* Arhucklr Coffee, perlb . U\ 3 runs Tomatoes', /Jo
* Ladies’ Shoes, . 73 to 1.00
-i- New stock of Stone Churns. Everything loir for C.ISH.
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New stock dried fruit. Large stock tMason's fruit Jars.
4*
£ Fresh stock of ehnu nit ion, Loaded Shells of all kinds. Pre
4- servesin buckets and jars, country dried peaches, perlb. .Oil
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* California evaporated peaches, per lb. .JO. Choice pure
Molasses, Sorts per gallon. Calico bets per yard. lam
agent for Peter’s Diamond brand Shoe.
JOHN SHEARER,
flcCrory and DeView Ark.
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FAKES’ MERCANTILE COM PAN V
INCORPORATED
DEALERS IN
General Merchandise,
Agents for Deering Mow ers.
and Avery Cultivators.
McCrory, - - Arkansas.
For Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars,
Tobacco, etc.,
-GO TO—
VACARRO& WILDER,
We handle the James E. Pepper, Richland liquors, and our
Jessie Moore and North Carolina Corn, both favorite $;L00 a gallon
can’t be beat.
flcCrory,
Arkansas
We sell all kinds of
FURNITURE, STOVES, TINWARE SHELF HARDWARE.
FLOOR OIL CLOTH, MATTING, WINDOW SHADES, CURTAIN POLES,
EASELS, DOORS, WINDOWS, WINDOW GLASS,
SCREEN DOORS, SCREEN SASH, SCREEN WIRE, WOVEN WIRE,
COTS, MATTRESSES, SPRINGS, SEWING MACHINES,
We have the best sewing machine on the market. Call and
see me and I will try to Interest you.
E. L. HAMILTON.
Esq. Harry Mann paid the
News a short visit Wednesday.
Our friend Capt., R. H. Smith
left last night for Searcy where
he will spend the glorious Fourth
of July.
Mrs. Linard Slayton of Searcy,
came over Wednesday and is vis
iting the family of her father
Neal Allen.
Brother J. D. C. Cobb, editor
of the Jonesboro Times was in
McCrory the latter part of last
and the first of this week. Sun
day he delivered a sermon to the
good people of DeView. While
in our town, the News acknowl
edges a pleasant, brotherly call
from Bro. Cobb. Mr. Cobb has
been in the newspaper business
at Jonesboro some twenty years
past and has prospered at the
business. While a good editor
he is also much devoted to the
cause of Christ and he has done
much good work in the ministry.
He is an old and close friend of
A. S. Thompson, of DeView,
whom he visited while here.
EXCURSION TO LITTLE ROCK.
The St. L. I. M. & S. Ry. will
sell tickets for the Mid-Sum
mer Carnival at Little Rock, on
July 3, 4, 5, and 6th, limited un
til July 7th, McCrory to Little
Rock and return, for one fare for
the round trip.
Those wishing to take advan
tage of the Homeseeker’s and
Harvest excursion call at the
office. E. Edwards, Agt
Will You?
have a good time on the
Fourth? To do so go to
'Charlie Cook’s Grocery,
where you can secure what
you need to eat. : :
Will have a large bill of
goods in this week, including,
Everything Good to Eat.
Fresh TOMATOES on hand
the last of the week. :
I handle the famous
Hoydt’s Bread,
always fresh as I get itt
twice a week. : :
Come and see me. :
Charlie
Cook
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IRON riOONTAIN ROUTE TIME TABLE.
GOING EAST.
Pass-senger No. 180 arrives McCrory, 4:48 a. to.
No 151 - " 11:40 a. m
GOING WEST.
Passenger No. 153 arrives McCrofj', i 1:40 a. to.
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