THE HOME NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
VOLUME 1.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1915
NUMBER 20
SIX PAGES, 1,000 COPIES
The Home News comes to you
this week with six pages, all
home print. This is caused by
the large whole-page Christmas
and sale announcement from the
stores of Fakes Mercantile Co.
and H. Arnof & Sons. Their
stocks are large and by reading
their newsy ads you can readily
see that they have a large assort
ment of ideal Xmas presents
for father, mother, sister or
brother.
We have printed 1,000 copies
of this issue and if you receive a
sample copy, and like the home
paper, we will be delighted to
enroll your name on our ever
growing subscription list. If you
have a relative or friend who
once lived here, have us send
them the home paper next year
as a Christmas gift. It will be
highly appreciated, we are sure,
and one that will not be forgot
ten within a few short days.
While doing your Xmas shop
ping don’t forget to call on the
local merchants who are interest
ed enough in your trade to solicit
the same through the columns ot
this paper, and by so doing you
will help to give McCrory a lar
ger and better newspaper, for
without the proper pataonage in
an advertising way, no one can
publish the paper that he would
like to give the people. Tel]
those who advertise that you
read their ad and it will help
dhem, you and ourselves.
GINNING REPORT.
Following is the number of
bales of cotton ginned by the
various gins in this section from
Thursday of last week to Wed
nesday of this week, inclusive:
Jernigan Merc. & Gin Co.91
Fakes Mercantile Co.,.5S
Gray & Co ..Grays.32
Planters Gin Co.,.31
A. S. Thompson, DeView7,... .3C
McCrory Gin Co.,..26
Total.27C
TOTAL THIS SEASON
Fakes Mercantile Co. 1531
A. S. Thompson, DeView,.. 1494
Cray & Co., Qrays,.1172
Jernigan Merc. & Gin Co_967
Planters Gin Co.772
McCrory Gin Co .... .754
Total_ 6702
Cotton was selling for 12e
cents a pound and seed for $40.00
a ton at McCrory Wednesday.
Cotton seed on the local mar
ket jumped from $35.00 to $40.00
a ton Saturday. Our farmers
will be planting cotton seed next
spring in the same manner as
sweet potato slips if the price
goes much higher.
Map of the
McCrory Special School District
Again we are called on to warn the people of the McCrory
Special School District against a division of its territory, and we
rally to its cause feeling as before that we are doing as we see it
that which is right and best for the educational interests of boys
and girls in the whole district.
A petition is now being circulated by Hon. M. H. Patterson.
This petition calls for the present district to be divided. If the same
is done the present school here will beyond any doubt have to be
reduced from a tenth grade to a ninth or eight grade school.
The present total revenue of the whole district is about $5,000.
' Mr. Patterson is asking for five miles, or more than half, of
the railroad taxes which go to the school beside he wants to cut off
about six of the 22 sections of land in the district which taken as
a whole means that about one third, or $1,500 of the total revenue
$5,000. will be taken away.
The present funds received is none too great to maintain
the presents ten grades and anyone can see that if $1,500 is
deducated from the $5,000 what the result means. We warn you who
have not signed this petition to divide the district ( and that is exacly
! what Mr. Patterson is trying to do) to not do so.
We want to be understood that we are not “fighting” Mr. Pat
terson, but are fighting against the district being divided. We
like the above gentleman and consider him our friend both person
ally and politically, but this is not a personal matter nor is it a
political matter with us.
We are again publishing a map or the district that you may
see just what is asked. Mr. Patterson asks that the section line
running north and south between sections 28 and 29, 32 and 33,
4 and 5, and 8 and 9 be made the dividing point. The heavy black
line is the boundary of the present school district.
There is but one thing to consider in this matter and that is
whether or not the educational interests of the children of the
entire district would be lessened or improved should a division be
made. In a real spirit of fairness to all, we can not see that it
would be improved, but on the other hand would be greatly im
paired. We say again, KEEP IT INTACT.
ONE BALE NETS $130.10
The largest bale of cotton
brought to town this season so
far as we know was brought here
yesterday, Thursday, by C. M.
Elam and sold to Goold & Co.
for 13%c per pound and the seed
to Thompson-Haley Co. for $40.
per ton. The bale weighed 713
pounds and netted Mr. Elam
$95.63 and the weight of the
seed was 1,724 pounds and
brought $34.47 making a total of
$130.10 for one bale of cotton
which is the most we know of a
single bale bringing this year.
The cotton is of the Sturdivant
variety and was grown on the
Sturdivant farm near Tip. .Mr.
Elam is a prosperous farmer and
knows how to raise other crops
beside cotton.
CALVES AND HOGS
T. C. Tucker states that he
has a cow not yet four years old
which is the mother of four cal
ves, two of which were twins
that arrived recently. He also
stated he sold two hogs for #49.
BO which weighed 271 and 222 Ids.
He kept two that weighed 257
and 223 pounds. Had he sold
these which he refused to do,
the four would have brought
him $97.30. The four hogs
were purchased from J. M.Cand
lish last spring for only $10.00.
If Mr. Tucker living in town can
prosper as this, there is no tell
ing what he would do in the
country.
MOVES TO McCRORY
C. M. Crcssett has sold his
farm consisting of 196 acres near
DeView to A. S. Thompson post
master and merchant of that
place for $9,800.00, which is
equal to $50.00 an acre. He has
purchased the house and lot
which has just been vacated by.
Dr. J. R. Piercey and the other
home on the corner just south of
that one from J. W. Wilder for
$1,200.00 and has moved his
family here. Dr. Piercey has
moved into the home owned by
H. S. Taylor. We gladly wel
come Mr. Crossett and family to
our town.
Fakes-Schupp
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Morgan
announce the approaching mar
riage of their daughter, Miss
Janie Schupp, to Mr. Turner J.
Fakes, the wedding to take place
at 3 o’clock on the evening of
Wednesday, Dec. 29, 1915, at
the home.