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EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRQRY and woodruff county
VOLUMN 4
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, JANUARY 31, 1919.
NUMBER 28
FROM WAYNE RIDGWAY
Somewhere in Germany,
Miss Johnie Kidgway,
Df will drop you a few lines
in answer to your letter of a
few davs ago. I surely was
Irlad to hear from you. How
are all the folks, just fine I
|!*ne I have never felt better
' nce I have been in eGrmany.
You see I am making my home
here for the present any way.
I am about 20 miles from Cob
linz, on the Rhine, I have been
hiking for over a month and
vou know just about how I
feel. I am enjoying myself
verv well now, but I think I
would enjoy myself much bet
ter in the States. Well, I have
spent six months in actual sei
vice now and have made it
through so far and think I will
in the future. I hope so any
way. If I ever get back to the
states I am through with over
sea service for a while anyway.
Well there has been several
of the old boys bumped off, I
jl • „ 1. T nwi /-> Avilir Ann from
til ill IV JL Will -
home that came over with me
that has not been hurt. I think
God has been with me ever
since I have been over here
and I got my first letter just
the other day since I have been
here. Well I do not know when
1 will get home, but I hone it
will be soon. I think I will be
home for the Fourth of July
any way.
I want a big dinner when I
?et there. Well, I will close
for this time so answer real
soon, your loving bud,
WAYNE RIDGWAY.
-Buy W.S.S.
HONOR SOLDIER ROYS
Though the war is over, the
fendrix College students have
not lost their enthusiastic loy
lty. With the same spirit
hat led over 500 Hendrix men
o join the colors, the student
ody now proposes to erect a
uitable memorial in honor of
he soldier boys who went out
rom the college to fight for
mmanity. They are attacking
he problem in a businesslike
way too. They have organiz
'd a Hendrix College Students’
Memorial Association and are
101 only contributing them
_olyes, but through this asso
ciation they are appealing to
!! °i(i Hendrix men and the
fiends of the college every
where to share with them the
nvilege and the honor of
meeting the monument. They
nopose to put approximately
Brv>° thousand dollars into it.
e monument will be placed
, a consPicuous place on the
'amnus and will have a full
rnen arid the t>art
3Vhey and the college
“iayed in the war.
-Buy WS.S.
County Judge J.
ni°sin 9°tton Plant, was
,l^ness visitor in this city thi
HENRY PRICE HARGIS
i
Dr. H. P. Hargis was born in
Shelby County, Tenn., May 21 j
1862, died in McCrory, Ark., j
January 15, 1919.
In about' the year 1884 he
came to Arkansas, and began
the study of medicine under
Dr. Burney of Des Arc, contin
ueng until he entered upon the
practice of his profession, later
graduating from the Memphis
Medical College.
At about the age of 14 he
united with the Methodist
Church at Macidona, in Shelby
County, Tenn. The doctor has
often said he had loved and
trusted God from the days of
his earlv childhood.
On April 12, 1896, he was
married to Miss Edna Stephen
son and to this union seven
children were born, two of
whom having died in early
childhood. Five are left to
mourn the death of a loving
and devoted father.
Soon after his marriage he
and his wife moved to and set
tled in the town of McCrory,
where he has spent the remain
! der of his useful life. He at j
| once identified himself with all i
j interest for good in the town
; and community and it was not
! a Question as to where Dr.
Hargis stood on all questions
of right or wrong, for all who
knew him knew that he was
always to be found on the side
of right. He was a man in1
whom the people had the pro
foundest confidence, and his
council was sought by both old
'and young. |
| He was for a number of;
years a member of the town
council and member of the
board of directors of the Mc
Crory Higs School, also health
officer for the town. He never
betrayed a trust, and to what
ever position he was called he
devoted the best effort of his
life. (
When the Masonic lodge
was reorganized and moved
from DeView to McCrory, Dr.
Hargis became one of the
charter members, also a char
ter member of the Eastern Star
lodge. In his professional life
no man was truer than he, for
his patients he would give all
his strength and skill and no
doubt his days were shortened
because of his sacrifice for
others. Dr. Hargis could not
forget a favor or kindness
shown to him, though the fav
or might have been small it
had a largeness of meaning
for him.
He loved the Church of God
and rejoiced in the triumph of
his Lord’s Kingdom, his aims
and ideal of life were such as
mold into a beautiful charac
ter, and make the world better
because of his having lived in
it. He loved his family and
his home and wished for his
children that they make good
men and women, he did all in
his power to give them the
best opportunity possible. The
doctor through the years has
sought to do the very best for
his family and, at the time of
his death he leaves them well
provided for.
Dr. Hargis was a sufferer
for a long time, never being a
strong man, but he never com
plained but with patience he
waited for thb call of his
DEVIEW NEWS
“Tater digging” is all the go
now.
The “Kid Legion” was very
much in evidence Sunday night
over at the little church.
Mr. Ed Cook was down
Wednesday looking after his
many business interests in De
View.
Hen Tom Jackson has dis
covered that he had to either
quit “Brown’s Mule” or go to
work. He has been picking
cotton this week.
We know several boys who
would have gone to the show
Saturday night is they had a
girl each. Aint you girls very
much ashamed, keeping these
poor boys from enjoying them
selves?
You ought to see Oscar
Chappel put on agony since he
has moved to DeView. He can
put a tailor made cigarette in
his mouth and talk for hours
about this being just the place
for a fast young man like him.
Mr. White would like for
someone to break the news, to
little Johnnie, that his gate has
hinges and will close almost
as easily as it opens. Now,
John, gates are real, gates are
earnest, but cows and pigs are
more so, and we advise you to
quietly close said gate if you
value the friendship of Mr.
w nite.
-Buy W.S.S.
For sale:— six eighty pound
shoats, Otis Jernigan, l-24tf.
-Buy W.S.S.
Eggs for hatching, pure bred
Columbian Wyandotte chick
ens, called the “birds that lay
in the snow.” $1.50 for 15.—
Mrs. L. A. Jelks. adv ltp.
-Buy , W.S.S.
All kinds of bonds, Earle W.
Hodges and W. Hicks, Mal
lory Agency. Phone Main
5076. 318-319-320-321 Boyle
Bldg., Little Rock, Ark., will
buy your Liberty Bonds at the
highest market prices for cash
or assist you to carry them.
Write wire or phone 1-31-2L
Heavenly Father ti come lip
higher.
His going away casts a sha
dow about us the way will not
be auite so cheerful and bright
because he is not, but some day
we shall meet him in that Citv
above.
He leaves a wife, five child
ren, Misses Ruby, Margaret,
and Amelia, H. P. Jr., and lit
tle Wesley: two brothers, Alva
of Memphis, Tenn., and James
Wesley of McCrory.
In the absence of the pastor
the funeral services were con
ducted by Rev. F. A. Lark, a
former pastor and Rev. F. U.
Champion of DeView charge.
His body was laid to rest in
the Fakes Cemetery.
'‘Servant of God, well done,
Thy glorious warefare's past,
The battle's fought, the race
is won,
And thou art crowned at last.'*
J. R. NELSON, Pastor.