THE HOME NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
VOLUME 2.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, JUNE, 15, 1917.
NUMBER 46
County Club Boys and
Girls Meet in McCrory
The girls and boys of the Wood
ruff county canning, corn, pig
and poultry clubs met at the
Methodist church in 'McCrory
Tuesday. It was intended as a get
together, get-acquainted meeting,
County Demonstration Agent
Strickland having recently taken
charge of the work here and
having been too busy vaccinating
hogs to get around among them,
and also to encourage a spirit of
co-operation among the girls and
boys. And the meeting certainly
accomplished the desired objects
mnct arlmirflhlv.
Miss Anderson, the County
Domestic Science Agent and
Demonstration Agent Strickland
devoted their time to looking
after the comfort of, getting ac
quainted and advising with their
pupils, and delegated the speech
making part of the program to
visiting agents and citizens of
MeCrory.
Mr. T.W. Woodbury, CountyEx
arniner, presided at the opening
exercises at the church, frequent
ly interjecting appropriate re
marks that had the effect of put
ting the young visitors at ease,
with a decidedly at-home feeling.
Mr. C. B. Cook of MeCrory de
livered the welcome address. He
didn’t know he was going to do
it until just a few minutes before,
when Mr. Strickland went to the
store and asked him to come on
down to the church. Usually,
welcome addresses are rather
formal, replete with high sound
ing, eulogistic phrases. This
one was not. It was an earnest
heart-to-heart talk of encourage
ment to the girls and boys, in
language they could understand.
He told them our people were
glad to have them here; that the
church was glad to be able to pro
vide them a pleasant, comfort
able meeting place, now and here
after; that the people and the
business men of McCrory are
back of him in offering aid in
their work for betterment in the
future. And every fed and lassie
knew he meant it.
Mr. H. K. Sanders, State
Agent in charge of pig clubs,
and Mr. W. J. Jernigan, State
Agent in charge of corn clubs,
gave interesting and instructive
talks, explanatory of the work in
their respective clubs, with just
enough of pleasing and appropri
ate narrative and anecdote to
keep up interest and spur their
hearers on to better work.
Miss Helen Brown, District
Domestic'Science Agent, a mag
WOODRUFF COUNTY CHOSEN
For a Campaign Against Disease and Unsanitary
Conditions, to Make Ours a Model County.
WOODRUFF COUNTY has been selected by the In
ternational Health Board of the Rockefeller Foun
dation and the Arkansas State Board of Health as
the one county in the State to which will be given a public
health demonstration. Work starts immediately and will
continue until October 1.
Our county is very fortunate in being able to get this
work, for it will mean much in improving the health condi
tions of all our people.
Dr. D. C. Absher, who represents the International
Health Board, is in McCrory and will have direct supervis
ion of the work throughout the county. He will be assisted
by three or more other workers.
The work will probably be begun in McCrory and will
later be carried from here to all parts of the county. It will
start with a general health survey to determine the health
conditions, the water supply, the drainage conditions, the
sanitary conditions, etc. Following the survey, each indi- t
vidual is to be examined for hookworm disease, and those i
found infected are to be treated free. Typhoid vaccine is
to be administered free to those who co-operate in the work, i
and a free medical examination of school children will also |
be made for those co-operating. The medical inspection of j
school children will include examination of the mouth, eyes,
ears, nose and throat. ,
Instruction as to the cause and prevention of the more
•’ common diseases will be given by means of lectures and lit
erature. To this end, the doctor in charge will deliver lec
tures before such meetings and organizations as desire them.
He will also arrange to give a number of lectures illustrated
with stereoptican pictures, and literature on all these sub
jects will be distributed.
Finally, improvements in sanitary conditions will be
made at every home and at every public place, so that ty- !
phoid fever, dysentery, hookworm disease and flies will be
reduced and the lives of many of our citizens will be pro
longed.
This is a rare opportunity for the people of this county
and it behooves every citizen to give the work full and
hearty support. It is an opportunity for our county to gain
a reputation for cleanliness and healthfulness. In short, we
may become the model county. What will we do about it?
netic little woman, made the hit
of the day, with the children at
least, and with all the grown
ups who have not forgotten the
youthful viewpoint. To use a
street phrase, she “caught on
right from the start.” It was
quite evident that she had cap
tured the sympathy of the young
Americans within a few minutes.
She taught them some jingling,
rollicking club rally cries, and
with only two or three repetitions
the children were making correct
responses heartily and in perfect
time. She was serious, too, and
her serious advice sank deeper
in the minds of the children by
reason of having gained their full
sympathy.
At the conclusion of the exer
. cises at the church the club mem
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bers were taken in automobiles
furnished by McCrory business
men to the home of Mrs. Mus
grove, where they enjoyed a
splendid dinner that had been
| prepared for them by the ladies
; of McCrory, served on tables un
^er the shade trees on the beau
tiful lawn. The dinner can best
be described by a comment of a
youngster from a near-by commu
nity, made while eating: “They
told us at the church that they
were going to give us a lunch,
but this looks to me more like a
great big dinner, for here is
everything good to eat that a fel
low could ask for.”
The afternoon was devoted to
cannning demonstrations con
ducted by the domestic science
agents, and to general inter
Arkansas Wins Again—
Thanks to Her Capitol City
The Federal Government has
selected a site six miles north
of Little Rock, near Fort Roots,
for the location of one of the
training camps for the big army
now being raised. The camps
will occupy an area of about
13,000 acres. The building of
permanent barracks will require
thirty million feet of lumber and
the employment of ten thousand
carpenters, other mechanics and
laborers until September 1, at a
total cost of about nine million
dollars. There will be one or
two divisions of 28,235 soldiers
each encamped there permanent
ly. me pay roll tor each divis
ion, exclusive of the money that
will be paid out for subsistence
of men and horses, is estimated
at $2,500,000 per month.
A greater part of the benefits
derived from this tremendous
addition to the State’s wealth
and population will necessarily
be reaped by Little Rock and
Argenta, and they deserve it for
the gallant fight they put up to
secure it against competition that
at first seemed insurmountable.
But they will not get all the ben
efits. Our mechanics and labor
ers will find employment at good
wages and under best conditions.
Our lumber must be purchased at
good prices. A cash market will
be provided for all the surplus
products we can raise, and some
of that good money will be spread
out all over Arkansas. The State
at large owes a debt of gratitude
to Little Rock and Argenta.
change of ideas between the pu
pils and their instructors regard
ing the work in the various clubs.
The club agents and club mem
bers all realize that the day was
very well spent and that the les
sons of community of interest and
goodfellowship taught and learn
ed will be productive of much
good. The ladies and gentlemen
of McCrory, who acted as hosts
to their young friends, feel well
repaid for their efforts and are
ready to do it all over again.
At the Methodist Church
Rev. H. M. Ellis of Memphis
will occupy the pulpit at the
Methodist church in McCrory
next Sunday, in the absence of
the pastor, Rev. F. A. Lark, who
is visiting relatives in the East.
The Methodist congregation ex
pect a large crowd to hear Mr.
Ellis, who enjoys the reputation
I of being a very able preacher.