THE
NEWS
EDH^ !N THE INTERF "T OF * cCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
McCRORY, /
CANSA5 FRIDAY, DEC. 19, 1919.
NUMBER 2 2
XMAS GIFTS
Although Christmas gifts are
not clue to be presented to the
recipient until the 25th Santa
as already begun his big task
f remembering everyone this
ear and he has summonsed out
ride help in order that ail of his
presents will be delivered. In
giving orders he failed to in
struct his new assistant, Mr.
Stork, to be sure and wait un
til the 25th. and as a result four
presents were delivered . this
Friday morning to three differ
ent homes where we are sure
the presents he has sent will
make the 1919 Yuletide one long
to be remembered. The happy
recipients were as follows:
Born: To Mr. and Mrs. L. IT.
Best, Friday, Dec. 19, 1919, a
girl- - -—-v ‘ "
Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Davis, Friday, Dec. 19, 1919, a
boy. ' --^
Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Ridge, Friday, Dec. 19, 1919,
twin boys
Mr A. Henard of Wheatley
was a McCrory visitor Mon
day.
Mir. C. P. Best was in Mem
phis on business the first of the
week.
Mr. M. A. Jones visited
friends in Wynne the past
week.
Mrs. Tom Summers of Mc
Clelland is visiting home
folk here.
Mr. Alvin (Pete) James is
home from Cincinnati for the
holidays.
Deputy Sheriff E. C. Marsh,
°f Augusta, was here on busi
ness Tuesday.
Mr. Jack Johnson of Cotton
Plant was the guest of home
folk this week.
Mr. John King returned
Saturday from a visit to
mends at Wynne.
Mr Grayson Dilliard of
tnerry Valley was a visitor
here Wednesday.
Ford for sale, cheap, in first
^ass condition. E. C. Caudle,
McCrory, Ark. Adv. 10-24tf.
NEW JEiWEL THEATRE
Class Motion |
Pictures.
Spend Wednesday Nights |
at Church and the rest
°t them with us.
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W- W. RANEY, Prop.
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WILLIAM DUNCAN!
VITAGRAPH!
“Blake’: i “^mastn g Barriers” will be
at the -Jewel Theatre every Monday
beginning January, 5. See him.
Pay up your subscription to
the News. $1.00 a year in ad
vance.____
"Married- Lieut. Walter B.
Huff of McCrory and Miss Ag
nes McGhee of Kingsland.
Ford for sale, in good run
1 ning condition. Ed Harris,
Jelks, Ark. Adv. 10-31-tf.
Let Carson's grind your sau
sage. They have a power
mill and can grind up your
sausage meat in short order.
Adv. 12-5tf.
Mr. H. D. Angus was in
Little Rock Saturday on busi
ness where he and Mr. A. N.
Middleton have opened a
plumber’s shop.
Master W. B. Angus, Jr.,
tvho was recently bitten by a
rabied dog, has fully recover
ed after having been success
fully treated.
Because of a break in the
burner of our typesetting ma
chine, several important news
items are unavoidably left out
this week.
For the new road it will re
quire 24,500 cubic yards of
gravel, which will require
about nine hundred cars.
Parties wanting to contract
for the unloading and haul
ing of this gravel by the yard,
will please see me.
GROVER McCRORY.
Adv. 12-19-19tf.
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FRANKS-CRUMP
A beautiful home wedding
was solemnized in McCrory,
Tuesday morning, Dec. 16,
1919, when Mr. Louis Wigfall
Franks, of Orange, Texas,
and Mrs. Ada Virginia Crump,
of Richmond, Va., were mar
! ried at the home of Col. and
| Mrs. John Shearer,
i The ceremony was said by
Rev. Guy Murphy, pastor of
the M. E. Church. The wed
ding march, Mendelsshon’s,
was played by Mrs. Shearer,
sister of the bride, while
Shumann’s Traumeri was soft
ly rendered during the cere
mony.
The spacious parlor was
beautifully and artistically
decorated with Christmas de
signs of holly and red ber
ries.
The bride was gowned in a
traveling suit of blue with ac
cessories to hamonize. She
was an attractive visitor to
or city arid made many friends
while here. The groom is a
prominent real estate dealer
of his state. They imme
diately left for Sudan, Texas,
where they will make their
future home.
BIG SHOW COMING
Coming: The world’s great
est picture—“The World
Aflame”— at the Jewel Thea
tre, Thursday, Jan. 1. Two
shows, 2:30 and 7:30 o’clock.
Admission 50 • c. You will
have no cause to regret hav
ing seen this great and won
derful Frank Keenan pro
duction. Don’t miss it.
SMALL TRACT OF LAND
ON EASY PAYMENTS
I will sell my land east of
McCrory within one half mile
of new. hard road, in three 80
acre tracts with a house on
each. Each of these tracts
have some land in cultivation.
I only want a‘small payment
down and will give long time
on balance in yearly payments
Pick out the 80 you want and
write me your, offer and how
much you can pay down. I
also have 400 acres one mile
of Hunter, unimproved, cut
over bottom land which I will
sell in small tracts.—Dr. C. F.
Burkhardt, Effingham, 111.
Adv. 10-24tf.
SUNSHINE BILLIARD
PARLOR
| Chili, Hambergers, Cigars |
Tobacco and Candy
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j “A Place for Gentlemen” .
RANEY & SHUE, Props.
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