THE HOME NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
VOLUME 3.
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McCRORY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1917
NUMBER 21
McCRORY VOLUNTEER |
DIED LAST SUNDAY
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private Otho Stokes Who Enlisted with Company A from
This County Succumbed at Camp Beauregard
The sad news of the death of
one of “ our soldier boys” was
recieved here Sunday, the tele
gram stating that Private Otho
Stokes had succumbed at Camp
Beauregard, La., to an attack of
measles and pneumonia.
The remains arrived here
Wednesday and were laid to rest
in the Fakes Cemetary Thursday,
Rev. J. R. Nelson conducting
the funeral services and quite a
large number of sorrowing
friends and relatives attending
to pay their last tribute of res
pect to the first volunteer from
McCrory who gave his life for
his home and country. Private
J, E. Marr of Co. A was detailed
to accompany the remains home.
The deceased enlisted with the
company of volunteers from
Woodruff County, now Co. “A,”
154th. n fan try, 39th. Division a
few months ago but was since
transfered to a machine gun
company of the same regiment.
Reports state that he was a good
soldier and well respected by all
his comrades.
He leaves a father, Mr. T. W.
Stokes of Beedeville, a wife and
three brothers, Messrs. S. L. and
W. W. Stokes of McCrory and
J. M Stokes of Beedeville and
a large number of friends to
mourn his loss. The News joins
with every citizen of Woodruff
County in extending heart-felt
sympathies to the bereaved wife,
father and brothers.
Co. A/s First Loss
The first death in the ranks of
Company A from this county
happened at Camp Beauregard,
La., last Friday when Private
Arthur H. Parker succumbed to
an attack of measles. Thus the
first of our volunteers has given
his life for the U. S. A. and al
though he did not live to see
service in the trenches, he goes
to his reward as great a hero as
any of his comrades who may
fight our battles on foreign soil.
Loth officers and enlisted men
of his company are sad over the
ioss of their comrade and the en
tire citizenship of Woodruff
County joins them in extending
heartfelt sympathy to the be
haved relatives.
Cook-Howell
The many friends here of Mr.
Willis Cook of Fair Oaks will be j
interested to learn of his mar- j
riage Sunday, Nov. 25, 1917, to j
Miss Ida' E. Howell of Jackson, j
Tenn. The ceremony was said!
by Judge S. Castleman at the!
home of the groom's mother, j
Mrs. M; J. Julian, in Wynne, at1
2:00 p. m. on the above date and j
was witnessed by only a few j
relatives and intimate friends of |
the contracting parties, to whom j
was served a sumptuous wed
ding dinner. The happy couple j
are row at home to their friends
at Fair Oaks where Mr. Cook is
a valuable employee in the ser
vice of the Cotton Belt Railway
Co. We ioin ‘Troc’s*. many
friends in extending congratu
lations and wish for him and his
a long life of happiness and
prosperity.
Anti-Malaria Campaign
Lake Village, Dec. 11,—The
City Council has accepted the
offer of the International Health
Commission, made by Dr. Tay
lor, for an anti-malarial cam
paign, and appropriated $1,500.
The total cost will be $3,000 of
which the commission provides
half. Favorable results from a
similar campaign waged in the
surrounding country resulted last
year. — Gazette.
We are informed by Dr. Gris
wold that the International
Health Commission stand ready
to co-operate with any city or
village in Woodruff county that
cares to take up an Anti-Malaria
Campaign similar to that in
Lake Village.
Died: Friday night at 12:00
o'clock, Dec. 8, 1917, at the
home of her grand parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. V. Justice of near
Jelks, Little Ruth, age four
years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Louis F. and Annie Justice.
The parents moved here three
weeks ago from Baltimore, Md.
Membraneous croup caused the
child’s death and the remains
were laid to rest in the Fakes
cemetery Monday. We extend
heartfelt sympathy to the be
reaved family.
Health Officers Meet
Dr. R. N. Smith, of Augusta,
County Health Officer, and Dr.
Don M. Griswold, of McCrory,
Director of the Woodruff County
Rural Sanitary Campaign, at
tended a meeting of the health
officers of the First Congression
al District in Wynne last Friday.
The fact that so many physi
cians are being withdrawn from
their practice to help in the
great mobilization of troops
makes the necessity greater than
ever before to retard the des
truction resulting from any and
all preventable diseases.
Such preventable diseases as
smallpox, typhoid fever and ma
laria are almost unknown in our
army of the present day and
such a desirable state of affairs
can be brought about in any sec
tion of the country by the use of
the well recognized and estab
lloViorl TirV>inVi rwni-nnf
unnecessary illness and death
The meeting at Wynne was
presided over by Dr. Ludlow, of
Jonesboro, a member of the
State Board of Health, who ex
pressed his sincere hope that
health officers and physicians
would co-operate to the end that
the preventable diseases be
eliminated from this section of
the country.
If a devastating epidemic of
disease should come while so
many of our physicians are with
our troops, the death rate at
home might be fully as great as
in the front line trenches.
Dr. C. W. Garrison, of Little
Rock, State Health Officer, was
present and told of the good
work being done in numerous
other sections of the state. The
meeting was pronounced a suc
cess by the health officers who
also voted to make the same a
semi-annual affair under the
chairmanship of Dr. Ludlow.
New County Examiner
The many friends of Mr. W.
N. “Bill” Wilkes will be glad to
learn of his having been ap
pointed examiner of Woodruff
County to succeed Mr. T. W.
Woodbury who has resigned and
is now in charge of the schools
at Crawfordsville.
Mr. Wilkes is now in charge
of the schools at Grays and has
had several years experience in
school work having taught in
several districts in this county.
We join his many friends in con
gratulating him upon his ap
pointment to this very import
ant place.
Let Us Help You
Over the Top
Let each American help some
one enjoy this Christmas, for
America will need a cheerful
Christmas this year more than
ever before as it will not be long
before you will be reading in the
papers of our boys being num
bered with the slain over in the
foreign countries.
It will be hard to keep back
the tears when you read of the
loss of your friends over there,
somebody's son, somebody’s
brother and perhaps somebody’s
father will be among the list.
In order to aid you at this
time, we have placed our entire
stock of Ladies’ Skirts, Coats
and Suits ac a twenty per cent
reduction in price.
Below are some of the bargains
we have to offer at this time:
Fortythree Ladies’ Skirts are
placed in this bargain list as fol
lows: Light weight, blue and
gray mixed, Wool Skirts, trim
med with buttons, formerly sold
as hierh as $7.50. reduced to $5 00
Ladies’ medium weight, wine,
green and black plaids Skirts,
trimmed with hercules braid and
formerly sold as high as $4.50,
reduced to $3.20.
Ladies’ medium weight, black
and white plaids, trimmed with
pockets and belts which former
ly sold at $6.00, reduced to $4.90.
In our Ladies’ Ready -to wear
Department you will find ten
ladies suits. Five of these suits
are blue serge, fur trimmed, and
were formerly $16.50 values, now
reduced to $12.90. Some of
these suits are blue garbadine,
military style and formerly sold
at $15.00 but we are now closing
them out for $12.90. We have
three $8.00 Suits which will be
sacrificed at $4.00.
We have reduced prices on 20
of our Ladies’ Coats six of which
are plaids, trimmed with plush
buttons and belts. All of these
were bargains at $12.00, but we
have also reduced them to $10.60.
We have about one dozen La
dies’ Sport Coats which will be
sacrificed at $2.25.
In Children’s Coats, we have
about 40 that will be disposed of
during the next ten days, ihese
are real merchandise and to ap
preciate their values you will be
compelled to visit our big store
during the next ten days.
We hope every person reading
this announcement will take ad
vantage of these bargains. Per
haps your children or your wife
or children do not need anything
in this line, but can't you think
of someone not so fortunate? If
so, then make it your duty to
give that person some of these
bargains.
We would be very ungrateful
if we failed here to express our
appreciation to our friends for
their liberal patronage during
this year and we shall be glad to
supply your wants throughout
the coining year. Adv
PLANTERS MERC. CO,