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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
County Officials.
County and Probate Judge,
SheitiT,
Circuit Clerk,
County Clerk.
Assessor,
Treasu rer.
Surveyor,
T. E. Stanley
J. B. Kittrell
I'M. S. CarlL.ee
L. B. Winfree
Cras. Buchanan
Eugene Billingslea
A. J. Black
Court Sessions.
Circuit Court meets third Monday In Februa
ryand August.
Woodruff Chancery Court.—Third Monday
In May and December.
County Court.—First Monday In January,
April. July and October.
Probate Court meets fourth Monday In Jan
uary. April. July and October.
DeVlew Township Officials.
Constable, John Hatcher
Juslces of Peace. W. W. Best and J. T. Angelo
City Officials.
Mayor, H. T. Raney
Recorder. W. B. Kyle
Marshall. W. N. Simmons
Aldermen: C. W. McCrory. A. D. Stafford,
Ii. T. Wherry. C. Hailey and H. J. Cariker
Church Announcements.
M. E. Cli'ireh, South. S. L. Cochran, pastor.
Services every first anil third Sunday. Sun
day School every Sunday at 9:30 a. in.. Dr. G.
II. Fakes. Superintendent. I’rayer-meetinK
every Wednesday nicht at 7:30 p. in.
For pure fresh drugs go to Dr.
Neal’s Drug Store.
Mrs. Lissie Self is visiting
relatives and friends in McCrory
this week.
Rev. Barentine of DeView,
preached to our people Sunday
morning.
Wilson Comer and our little
brother E. C. made a trip to Wy
ville Sunday last.
Miss Katie Bishop and Claude
Douglass are visiting Mrs. J. M.
Raymond in Jackson county.
Wanted 100,000 live woodpeck
ers in good health, to start a tooth
pick factory.—Hugh Shearer.
Jesse Roy and A. H. Mustin,
Sr., of Tupello were in our city
Saturday last and called to see
our “devil” while in town.
Miss Ellen Atkinson returned
home last Thursday from Weldon,
where she visited relatives and
friends the first of the week.
Miss Alice Wilson of Searcy,
sister of Miss Mattie Montgom
ery has been visiting friends and
relatives in our midst since last
issue.
Yv. lj. Fakes called at the INews
office Monday morning and or
dered the people’s popular paper
sent to C. H. Durham, Tampa,
Florida.
’Squire Best informs us that a
crowd of young people serenaded
him very nicely at his home on
Possum Creek last Saturday
night. Tire young people also
serenaded Jeff Spradlin at the
same time.
Our city council should pass
an ordinance to protect the old
bachelors of our town. Only a
few days ago two young ladies
inveigled one of our old bache
lors and merchants into a grocery
and compelled him to treat to a
nickle’s worth of candy. This is
tor> bud, they should have pro
tection.
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sewing machines repaired or
pianos and organs tuned and re
paired by one who understands
his business may come to C. L.
Jone’s store, where I WILL
GIVE YOU FIRST-CLASS
WORK at the RIGHT PRICE.
J. J. ERWIN.
es, clocks, and
If you want a good razor or
pocket knife go to Dr. Neal.
Our friend J. W. Wilder came
up last weekand enlisted for the
News.
Sam Kyle made a business vis
it to Memphis Sunday returning
Monday night.
The marriageable age of wo
men is anywhere between six
teen and death.
One jennett 15i hands high,
well proportioned, for sale by
Brant Angus. 2t.
Misses Kate Bishop and Daisy
Holland visited on Possum creek
the first of the week.
Charley Anderson and Drew
Douglass went to Jackson county
on a hunt last Monday.
Mr John Jiminerson is now
dealing out the distilled spirits
for Vaccaro “just out of town.”
Lum Johnsey an old McCrory
boy who now resides at Cotton
Plant was on our streets this
week.
Miss Ella Bishop visited on
Possom Creek Saturday and Sun
day the guest of Miss Claudia
Douglass.
E. D. Marsh and wife of Wy
villecarae up Saturday and spent
Sunday visiting friends relatives
in our midst.
S. L. Cochran, our pastor, left
Monday for New Orleans to at
tend the Southern Methodist
Missionary Conference.
The News acknowledges a
visit by the Mrs. Mollie Perkins,
Myrtle Taylor and Duncan, Miss
Etta Baswell and J. E. Miller.
P. H. Y. Burris of Grays, was
in our citv the first of the
week and placed this office under
obligations for an order of job
work.
Miss Ella Doyle of Searcy was
visiting friends in our city the
latter part of last week, from here
she went to Wyvillc and vicinity
where she paid a short visit.
Miss May Marsh of Wyville
who has been ill for sometime
past came up to McCrory last
week, and is now much improved.
We hope for her full recovery soon.
Rev. N. W. Womack was in our
city Tuesday. He is now in the
stereopticon business having
given an entertainment at De
View, Grays and Wivillc this
week.
On last Monday evening the
mayor of our city H. T. Raney, in
looking for the marshal, whose
services he needed at the time,
entered one of our grocery stores
where a lady was in charge.
She asked the mayor if he wish
ed to purchase anything and he
told her that he was looking for
tne town marshal. The bright
.young lady promptly and smiling
ly told him that they were just
out of that particular thing but
informed him that a car-load
would be in on the next train.
Mrs. Minnie Duncan of Bright
Star, Miller county, came over
in answer to a telegram to attend
the death bed of her mother, Mrs.
W. M. Matthews, whose demise
occurred last Thursday morning.
When she arrived here her
mother had already passed into
the great beyond.
Monday afternoon the Misses
Anna and Clara Cochran and Liz
zie Angus paid our sanctum sanc
torum a pleasant little visit.
They had just returned from a
tour of the neighborhood where
they had purloined among other
things some very pretty iiowers.
The News hereby expresses
thanks for the nice large boquet
of lilacs it received from them
during their visit.
Our townsmen C. W. McCrory
Clayton Hailey and Marshal Pat
terson made a trip to Little Rock
last week. While there they got
a good look at our law makers
and judging from the way things
are carried on in the legislature
they say we cannot expect any
more than we are receiving at
their hands. Pandemonium is '
said to reign incessantly during
the whole day.
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Bernie Angus was on the sick j
list the first of the week.
Editor Brooks of the Free
Press was in town Tuesday.
Dr. Dale was in McCrory on
pi'ofessional business the first of
the week.
Doctor Vaughan of Richmond,
Ark., was visiting among us the
first of the week.
Walter Angus, E. Edwards and
Gordon Gifford made a trip to
Memphis Sunday last.
Miss Bertha Jennings of Wel
don is visiting the families of C.
W. McCrory and J. T. Atkinson
this week.
Tennis has been brought to
life again. The young people of
our city had a game the first of
the week.
Andrew Jimmerson, of Brink
ley brother of our tombstone
agent Will Jimmerson is visiting
among us.
Our friend Jack O’ Fallon was
quite sick the first of the week
but we are glad to note he is now
rapidly recovering.
W. M. Matthews desires to ex
press his heartfelt thanks to all
who so kindly assisted him and
family in their bereavement.
In the absence of the postmas
ter, Dr. Neal, Col. Stafford very
efficiently handled Uncle Sam’s
mail for our people the first of
the week.
Dr. W. T. McCain one of the
foremost and most popular
doctors of McCrory was some
what under the weather last Sat
urday, having had one of those
“southern shakes.”
C. M. Crossett, the original
Crossett after whom all others
were named, and the man who
discovered America, came up and
subscribed for the News the lat
ter part of last week.
Miss Reebie Buster a winsome
young lady of Riverside, was a
visitor in our city the first of the
week. She returned to her home
Tuesday afternoon accom pained
by our friend Joseph Crossett.
An Oklahoma post-master sent
the following notice to the postal
department: “Sur i wish to no
tify you that on next Wednesday
this offic will be shet as i am gone
dear hunt. You kin fire me if
you see fit, but I’ll give you apint
er that i’m the only man in the
nayborhood that kin rede and
write. ”—Ex.
Walter Angus who holds down
the position of agent at Martin
Junction for the C. O. and G. and
the Iron Mountain railways is
the proud possessor of a “brand
new second hand” railroad bicy
cle. He says he can now enjoy a
good warm dinner every day as
it only takes him about fourteen
minutes to make the trip from
Martin to McCrory.
In the fire at Cotton Plant Wed
nesday, April 17, the two build
ings of Dr. James, occupied by
C. D. Anderson and Ed m.
Vaughan and Company were
totally destroyed, insurance $600.
Rives Brothers building and
stock were totally destroyed, in
surance $1,000. The newr bank
building was also materially dam
aged.
The many friends of Miss Ruth
Shearer will be gratified to learn
of the proud record she is making
at school at Arkadelphia. Her
report for the third quarter end
ing April 6th was shown us and
it speaks for itself. She received
90 per cent in all of her studies
and in most of them her average
was 98, 99 and 100 per cent. We
congratulate Miss Ruth upon hex
success.
Quite a number of our citizens
attended the preliminary hearing
of Neal Rasberry and Clay Gray
which took place at Augusta on
Monday. The charge against
the two young men was that of ^
fleecing one name Gibson of Au- j
gusta, out of quite a number of
simoleons while Gibson was un
der the influence of liquor. As (
no convicting evidence could be
pi-oduced against our boys they j
were allowed to go on their way. j
We are in receipt of Vol. 1, No.
2 of the Woodruff County News, a j
new and brilliant torch light of
liberty, for the illumination of
the dark recesses around about
our sister town, McCrory. We
offer the glad hand to the editor
and hope he may thrive upon the
custom ry menu of th% country
editor^ which consists of the crust
for breakfast, a hope for dinner
and a disappointment for supper.
The county now has four papers
and the Arkansan rises to move
that they chip in and open a bank
insome prosperous town, the Ar
kansan will undertake to furnish
the sack if the others will provide
the crowbar and the nerve.
—Cotton Plant Arkansan.
Many people are aware that
printers have a language of their
own, unintelligbleto the uninitiat
ed. The following up-to-date
orders give an idea of the print
ing office lingo: ‘Billy, put Sir
Charles Tupperonthe galley,and
finish up that murder you com
menced yesterday. Setupruins
of Helculaneum and distribute
the smallpox. Lock up Laurier
and slide M ’Carthy in the hell
box and leave the pie alone until
after dinner. Put the lady’s
form to press and go to the devil
and put him to work on Deacon
Fogg’s article on Eternal Punish
ment.’ Now this is all simple
enough when translated by the
printer into English, and not
i near so rough as the reader may
I imagine.—Ex.
It is said that when a man be
comes the father of a bouncing
girl baby there is then but one
thing to make him happier in the
world and that is to be the father
of y “bouncing baby boy.” Our
friend J. M. Haggard came upon
Monday last and subscribed for
the News. While here he exhib
ited the picture of his four-months
old daughter, of whom Mr. Hag
gard is especially proud. He
says there are other girls in
town, but none are so winsome
and pretty as his daughter Agnis.
Of course it would be unwise for
us to say that she is the prettiest
baby in town, however, she cer
tainly is a pretty baby and our
friend can well be proud of her.
As beauty is one of the essential
features of young womanhood we
predict much trouble at our
our friend’s home when Miss Ag
nes becomes a young Miss.
The case of Ada Lewis and Mol
lie Hunt (both col.) charged with
disturbing the peace on last Sat
urday was called before Mayor
Raney last Saturday evening and
each fined $5.00 and cost. Gab
is a great thing among some wo
men. A woman’s lips are the
rose, and her tongue is the thorn,
and when excited as the above
mentioned women were on this
occasion, they usually start off
like a steam calliope and like the
Idaho savages, “all h—1 can’t
stop them.” On Monday Ada
was arraigned before the mayor
upon the charge of assault and
battery. Ada didn’t seem to
think she had had $5.00 worth out
of Mollie on Saturday and ac
cordingly laid for her adversary
with a “small size tree” with
which she deiflt out several blows
on her opponent. Of course this
brought on mo£e trouble in Court
and the mayor says she had over
reached herself to the extent of
$2.50 and cost in meting out her
revenge. We wonder if she got
her moneys worth out of the last
“assault.”
OBITUARY.
C. C. Powell, dead! Such was
the sad news received Friday,
April 19, 1901. Although most
of his friends were aware of his
condition, yet when the end i
came, it came as a shock to the
entire community.
“Lum,” as he. was familiarly
known was about 40 years of age,
his death being the result of
mania apotu.
He was a good citizen and
his friends were legion. The
News joins the many friends in
offering condolence to the be
reived family.
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HERE WE ARE
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Best Flour, second patent - - -
Poney Steel Plows -
Number Eight Plows -
Best Leaf Tobacco, per pound
Lion Coffee or Arbuckle Coffee per lb. -
Ladies’Shoes -
New stock of stone churns, Everything Low for
CASH. Country dried peaches 6cts. California Evap
orated Peaches, lOcts. Choice Pure molasses, 35cts per
gallon. Calico, Gets per yard.
John Shearer.
to have better goods than everybody, if we did we
might twist the truth.
WE DO NOT CLAIM to sell cheaper than every
body else, if we did our customers might get mad.
WE DO NOT EXPECT to sell all the goods that
are sold, if we did we would be disappointed.
But we
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a share of your patronage if we can justly merit
the same.
Our stock is complete in every department.
We keep nearly everything that the trade de
mands at prices that will meet all legitimate com
petition.
We are agents for
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same. Anyone contemplating buying a mower
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Sign Writer, Painter and Paper Hanger
interior Decorations neatly done, in fact I m prepared to do
anything usually done by an up-to-date Painter and at Prices
consistent with Good Work. The best is always the cheapest.
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and if you’ll give us your trade you can live cheap and well.
Our stock has been enlarged and will be added to as the
demands justify. Good goods, Lowest Prices, Prompt Ser
vice and Courteous Treatment are all we can promise.
Price our goods, and we will prove all we claim.