Good Things
To Eat
Are to be found at our
store. We are here for bus
iness, and if you will give us
your trade you can live cheap
and well.
Our stock has been enlarg
ed and will be added to as
the demands justify. Good
Goods, Lowest Prices, Prom
pt Service and Courteous
Treatment are all we can
promise. Price our goods
and we will prove all that
we claim.
Raymond’s^
Grocery.
WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED THCB8DAT OF EACH WEEK AT
McCROBY. ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Office at McCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class mail.matter.
June 11th, 1901.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One Year. In advance. *1.00
DEHOCRATIC TICKET.
COUNTY
Representative—
E. M. CARL-LEE.
Judge—
J. F. SUMMERS.
Sheriff—
W. K. CAIN.
Circuit Clerk—
Wm. MOORMAN.
County Clerk—
"ED B. CARL-LEE.
Treasurer—
C. L. JACKSON.
Assessor—
W. B. FAKES.
TIP’S ANNUAL PICNIC.
The Farmers Union annual pic
nic will be pulled off at Tip, Ark
ansas, Tuesday, July, 21, 1908.
Everybody cordially iuvited. Bring
well filled baskets. A list of the
speakers will be announced later.
E. W. Chaney,
County Sec.
MUTILATED STAMPS NO GOOD.
Mutilated stamps can not here
after be used, and letters bearing
such stamps will be held two
weeks for recovery. If not claimed
at the end of that time will be seut
to the Dead Letter Office, accord
ing to the recent order. A corner
torn off or any other mutilation or
defect makes the stamp worthless,
though permission is given indi
viduals to perforate the stamps
they use with small instrument for
purposes of identification. That is
intended to prevent the theft or
mutilation of private mail.
C. L. ADArtSON,
Jeweler, Optlcan and Engraver.
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry
Silverware, Etc. Etc.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
TWELVE MONTHS.
REPAIR WORK A SPECIALTY.
AUGUSTA.
ARKANSAS.
McCrory
Hotel.
FIRSTCLASS ROOMS
And GOOD FARR.
Your Patronage Re~
spectfully Solicited.
MRS. JOHN C. VEAZfiY, Prop.
BEST TIME TO CHOOSE HAT
When Woman Was Looking Her
Worst Chosen as the Proper
Period for Selection.
Two women had been shopping
nearly all day and were as warm and
weary as the circumstances warrant
ed. As they were handed their
change at the last counter one ex
claimed : “Now for an ice cream
soda and home 1”
“Not for me,” returned the other,
with a martyr-like expression on her
face. “I’m going to buy a hat.”
“A hat? Why, you’re all tired
out and your hair is coming down.”
“I know it, and that is the very
reason. When you start out well
brushed and fresh almost any hat
will look good on you, but one that
looks decent on me as I am now is
the hat I want. That will be a true
test. I always buy my hats when I
am looking a little worse than usual.
So you go for your ice cream soda,
while I choose between a Merry
Widow and a ‘Soul Kiss.’ ”
“No, no,” protested the first, “I’ll
try on a few, too, just to cheer my
self up.”
VICIOUS BLACKBIRDS.
Thousands of savage blackbirds
infest the city, and in some of the
suburbs they are so bold and vicious
that dogs are kept on the jump avoid
ing them, men on bicycles are some
times chased for blocks and pedes
trians pecked on the heads if they
happen under trees where there are
: nests. The birds usually fight in
| pairs.
I If a man with a very white hat
comes along they swoop down, beat
it with their wings and clam at it
with the rage of wounded eagles.
Frequently they aim their sharp
beaks at the victim’s eyes and he has
difficulty in defending himself. The
painful yelping of cornered canines
attracts flocks of the birds and then
the fur flies.—Los Angeles corre
spondence San Francisco Chronicle.
KIS8ED THE PUP GOOD-BYE.
Persons who went down to see the
American liner Philadelphia sail for
Southampton witnessed thia scene
on the pier:
A man wearing a long raincoat,
accompanied by a handsome woman,
arrived carrying a shaggy-haired yel
low dog. As the pair neared the
gangplank the man turned, and,
i kissing the dog on the muzzle, hand
! ed it to the woman, the while ad
! dressing it:
| “Now, baby, take good care of
! mamma, and be good to her until I
get back.”
Then he turned and, kissing the
woman good-bye, boarded the ship.
There was no cheering.—N. Y.
Times.
SHRINKING VALUES.
I
i
"Hello, Teddy, got a new suit?"
"No, sir; It’s papa’s old one.”
"Ah, did mamma cut It down?”
"Oh, no, sir; papa had It washed!"
MAKING BOAT FROM A TREE.
Charles Holman is constructing a
Dew boat. He discovered a catalpa
1 tree that has a perfect shape for the
purpose.
| It will be constructed on the
steamboat style, and the catalpa tree
makes one solid piece from the top
of the bow to the stem, it having
just the curve necessary to make a
good shape. The boat will be de
signed primarily for passenger serv
i ice, will be about 26 feet long and be
equipped with a six horsepower gaso
line engine.—Morehouse Hustler.
WA8 ON.
Latewed—Your brother is such a
considerate boy, my dear.
Mrs. Latewed (suspiciously) —
Why, pet?
Latewed—WThy, I asked him up to
dinner this morning and he wanted
to know if we had a cook, and when
I told him you did the cooking wilh
your own sweet hands he absolutely i
refused to come for fear it would I
make you extra work.—Toledo1
i Blade.
Farmers Educational
—AND—
Co-Operative Union
Of America
A Nature Creed.
I believe In the brook as It wanders
From hillside Into glade;
I believe in the breeze as it whispers,
When evening’s shadows fade.
I believe in the roar of the river
As it dashes from high cascade;
I believe in the cry of the tempest
i ’Mid the thunder’s cannonade.
; I believe in the light of shining stars,
I believe In the sun and the moon,
: I believe in the flash of the lightning,
I believe in the night bird’s croon,
I believe in the faith of the flowers,
I believe in the rock and sod,
For in all these appeareth clear
The handiwork of God.
Why the Boys Leave the Farm.
8. A. Hover, of the Missouri state
normal school, gives some good rea
sons why the boys leave the farm. He
says:
One reason is because our methods
of instruction in the country schools,
until very recently, all tend to lead
the boy cityward. Most of his
text books are written by city people,
and many of his teachers are brought
from the city to instruct him in city
ways. Captains of industry have been
held up before him as models, and
little or nothing has ever been done
to put him in touch and sympathy
with his country surroundings.
On the contrary he has been taught
that the country is a good place to get
away from that, the city only could
supply his mental and bodily wants
to the full. Until recently we have
had no text books on the different
divisions of agriculture that have been
adapted to the needs of the country
boy, and never a word of Instruction
from any of his teachers upon the sub
ject. The idea with both country teach
ers and country parents has often
been to get the children away to the
city where they would have better edu
cational advantages.
This is all wrong, but fortunately,
the country is waking up to the injus
tice that has been done and reforms
are being inaugurated in many places.
Work With a Will.
A Farmers’ Union member In giv
ing his Ideas of unionism as applied
to the farmer, says:
“We -want to organize till we have
a large majority of the farmers of the
Btate enrolled as members, then we
will know where our forces are and
who to depend upon In time of action.
“Our business department should be
so complete and co-operative that we
would have a channel through which
every member could secure equal priv
ileges and benefits. Some of the coun
ties are succeeding along this line
while some are doing nothing. We
can so combine and co-operate as will
benefit every one. That would mean
brotherhood, co-operative union.
“If we take up the complicated
questions that come before us. It must
be with a will and determination that
means success, for, after we have tak
en a stand and failed we are worse off
than before we began if that failure
was for lack of effort.
“To succeed we must take a very
broad view of the subject, whatever
It be, for other Interests are necessa
rily affected by it.
"Whatever we undertake must have
a very careful and intelligent Investi
gation; then after a knowledge of the
situation, push the matter to a success
with all the co-operative force of the
union.
“If we wish to build for the union
it must be done on plans that are
common sense, practical, safe. They
may be opposed for a while, but the
light will succeed."
Teaching of Agriculture In Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma law requiring the
teaching of agriculture in the public
schools, it Is claimed, places the new
state far In advance of any of her sis
ter states in this respect.
In addition to agriculture, the law
provides a system for teaching horti
culture, road-building, stock feed
ing and domestic sciences and
economies in the common schools.
Secondary grade schools are
provided for in each of the five su
preme Judicial districts, two to be lo
cated each year until all are estab
j lished. Each institution is to have
an 80-acre farm as an experiment sta
tion, and besides the regular work,
short courses for the instruction of
farmers are to be given each year.
The district schools are to cost $20,
000 each and $12,000 per year is al
lowed for maintenance. Teachers are
to be instructed in agricultural topics
in the normal schools and the A. & M.
College Is to be the cap sheaf of the
system.
Have you a bed of gravel or of
coarse, sharp sand? If so then you
have material for much building. Con
crete Is more and more used, and those
who use it properly find it best mate
rial. There is no need for expensive
machinery. Do not be led to make
; costly investments In machines.
Milk quietly, cleanly, quickly and
thoroughly. Cows do not like un
necessary noise or delay. Milk at
nearly the same hour each night and
morning, and milk the cows in the
sane order.
Farmers and the Farmers' Union.
How does the Income from the farm
er’s labor In proportion to his hours
compare with that of other laborer*?
j In discussing this question there
: are several factors to be taken Into
consideration. First, moat farmers
are part capitalists, as well as laborer,
and we must credit a part of his In
come to his capital. His teams, har
ness, implements, feed, and seed, and
also his land. If he is a land-owner,
are so much capital, for which we
must allow a reasonable income. Sec
ond, the families of farmers can and
do help more toward earning the living
than the families of other classes of
laborers. Even a six-year-old child,
on the farm, can do many little turns
by which It can “earn its salt," and
even earn a part of Its bread.
In order to make the comparison as
nearly equal as possible, take the case
of a farmer who works another man’s
farm for one-half the income (or pos
sibly less), having everything fur
nished him by his landlord. Then the
living of the family may be said to
depend entirely upon their labor. But
even in this case the different members
of the family have a much better op
portunty to assist In earning the liv
ing than In the cases of most families
living in town.
Now, a wage-earner in town is sup»
posed to be able to support a family
In respectable style, almost entirely,
by working eight hours per day when
he has steady work. Thanks to the
results of organization. But where
can we find even one farmer who can
do this, unless he has a considerable
amount of capital to assist his labor,
to say nothing of all of them doing
so. Even a man who owns a five
thousand dollar outfit, consisting of
land and supplies, must work more
than eight hours a day in order to
make ends meet properly and lay up a
little each year for old age.
Now, we don’t want to be understood
as begrudging the wage-earner what he
has gained by means of his union, for
we believe in labor unions, as well aa
In farmers’ unions. The point Intend
ed is to show that farmers ought to
strive as earnestly and as successfully
to Improve their conditions, as wage
earners have done and are still doing.
The farmer’s independence that we
hear so much about is a nice thing no
doubt, but he should have an income
sufficient to support and educate his
family in a manner befitting an Ameri
can citizen. And In order to secure
this he must devote enough time,
money and earnestness to his union
to enable him to price his own pro
ducts.—Union Farmer.
Women and the Farmer#' Union.
Mrs. S. C. Mlrrell, writing to the
Jasper, Florida, News urging women
to take an active interest in the Farm
ers’ Union, says:
“I think the ladles can promote our
privileges very much by Joining the
union and working for it, while our
fathers, husbands, and brothers are
endeavoring to solve and master the
business problems that confront us.
“Since I joined the union and
learned more about its principles, the
better I like it, and hope that it will
succeed. Sisters, let’s join in the bat
tle for justice, equity, and the golden
rule, then, when we have succeeded we
can enjoy the victories as much as
any one.
“There are so many things which
require the best thought and action of
the farmer. The financial exchanges
should be so adjusted, that when the
farmer has anything to sell, he could
realize as much profit on his invest
ment as any one else. We should
raise everything that we need if pos
sible and buy only the luxuries. An
other subject, and I think the greatest
of them all, is the education of our
boys and girls. Oh, how we wish
fhem educated and refined, but so
many have to be denied the opportu
nities and privileges that shouM fit
them for the positions of life.
"If the tillers of the soil could get
their share of the wealth which they
produce, they could have more money
to spend, spare their children long
er from the farm and give to them the
much needed advantages that their
cousins of the cities have."
Of the 19,493,441 bales of cotton
manufactured for the 12 month# from
Sept. 1, 1906 to Aug. 31, 1907, two
thirds or 12,885,626 bales were from
the southern states. And the 1907
crop is not only nearly 2,000,000 bales
short bu 3,000,000 bales or
more are being withheld from
the market, making a total
shortage in the south’s supply for the
factories nearly 5,000,000 bales. Cot
ton ought to go to 15 cents.
No flock will pay unless healthy and
vigorous. If your fowls are often sick
when those of your neighbors appear
in good health, both having good
management, it indicates a constitu
tional defect of some kind, and a lack
of vigor. Usually it requires too much
time to attempt to breed vigor into
such fowls, and nothing short of a com
plete change of stock can effect a cure.
If you can have help enough to keep
your household machinery in perfect
running order without making a ma
chine of yourself, do so by all means.
White floors are lovely, shining tin
ware is very fine, spotless window*
and highly polished silver are a do
light: the mending basket, emptied
every week is much to be desired,
but there are things of more import
ance, and if it all depends on one
pair of hands, one back, and one set
of nerves, for Heaven's sake, for your
sake, for your children'* qpJie, don't*
KNIVES FROM SHARK’S TEETH
How Natives of the Paclfle Islands
Utilize This Dreaded Enemy
of the Sailor.
The natives on some of the Pacific
islands, being provided with neither
metals nor any stone harder than
the coral rocks of which the atolls
they inhabit are composed, would
seem badly off, indeed, for material
of which to make tools or weapons,
were it not that their very necessity
has bred an invention no less ingeni
ous than curious and effective. This
is nothing less than the use of sharks’
teeth to give a cutting edge to their
wooden knives and swords. The
mouth of the shark contains 300
teeth, arranged in five rows, all
closely lying upon each other, except
the outer row, and so constructed
that as one tooth is broken or lost
another takes its place. The teeth
are not only pointed and keen-edged,
but are finely and regularly serated,
so that the cutting power is greatly
increased. Indeed, so great a fac
ulty have these teeth for wounding,
that the implements and weapons
upon which they are used have to be
handled with great care. The King
mill islanders make many strange
articles of sharks’ teeth.
NO USE FOR BEDS IN BAGDAD.
About 60 per cent, of Bagdad’s
population possess no beds. These
poor people rest on blankets spread
on the floors of their houses in the
winter and on the roofs in the sum
mer. Owing to the excessive heat of
these regions sleep is made impos
sible elsewhere than on the roof or in
the open gardens. It is an interest
ing sight to see how the women at
sunset emerge from their houses to
prepare the evening meal on the roof,
and spread the bedding for the night.
Inasmuch as the climate is very dry,
there is little to fear from exposure
to the night air. While a consider
able number of the roofs are sur
rounded by lattice work to insure a
certain amount of privacy, by far the
larger number are quite exposed to
the gaze of curious and inquisitive
neighbors.
FAMOUS WOMEN OF OLD.
rew things interest succeeding
generations more than the love af
fairs of bygone celebrities. Whatever
our attitude may be toward those
who in our day defy the conventions,
there is no denying our consuming
curiosity about famous women who
in the past have strayed from the
path of virtue. Of all the names, in
deed, handed down to us in history,
it is a significant fact that those
which command our greatest inter
est and sympathy are invariably
those who, like Cleopatra and As
pasia, Diane de Poitiers and Mary
Queen of Scots, Lady Hamilton and
the various women of the salons,
were distinguished by conduct which
would not have permitted of their
remaining on our visiting list to
day.—Ladies’ Field.
THE GAMEY ALEWIVE8.
The alcwives are running at Por
ter’s mill stream, and will be up here
in a day or two. These alewives are
a very gamey fish. The usual mode
of catching them when you haven’t
a good fly is to wade out into the
shallow water around the furnace or
under Hills’ mill, and grab them
with your hands and sling them
ashore. This method may not ap
peal to the true sportsman, but doe»
first-rate for those who want to
pickle a barrel or two of the juicy
gaspereau.—Calais (Me.) Adver
tiser.
NOT IT8 MEDIUM.
“Truth,” sententiously remarked
the press agent, who had just prof
fered a “true story that really hap
pened,” “lies at the bottom of a
well.”
“Yes,” drearily remarked the dra
matic editor, “and it is one of the
things which hot air can’t raise from
there.”
A DOMESTIC DIPLOMAT.
“How do you manage to get so
much of your way in your family?”
“Very simple, I assure you. When
my wife and I differ, I find out be
forehand what she wants and then
order her to do that way. Naturally,
she does mine.”
A DAY DREAM.
“Why that rapt expression?" In
quired the first grafter.
“1 was building a castle in tha
air,” answered the second grafter.
“And overcharging, eh, on all ma
terial ?”
COULDN’T TAKE A JOKE
that way.
D. C. York and two men named
Dunham and Durane engaged in a
difficulty in York’s store, about
seven miles from Cotton Plant,
last Monday morning, jn the
course of which Durane wa9 fatally
shot. Prom the evidence thus far
elicited the affair seems to have
been the culmination of a long 8e
ries of acts and threats on the part
of the two men to intimidate D. C
York, who, with his brother Wab
ter, occupied the premises. These
acts, it is alleged bv the state’s
witnesses, were not meant serious
ly but were merely designed for
the purpose of having “fun” w^h
the elder York. That this was not
York’s understanding of the mat
ter is shown by the facts that he
had repeatedly left his house and
lay in the weeds to escape from
them; that he had often made
them presents, and but recently
gave one of them ten dollars in
the hope of inducing them to
cease their persecutions.
But that “unwritten law” which
condones so many heedless acts of
poor humanity, has no mercy for a
fool. These men had failed to
learn that even the worm will
turn, bo last Monday, when they
entered York’s store, and in the
rookos that followed, Durane seiz
ed a cleaver and avowed his unal
terable determination to cut York’s
head off, the latter did what any
man of sense would have expected
him to do—rushed behind his
counter, got a .44 Colt and fired
point black at the breast of his
assailant.
Stunned by the shock Durane
ran out of the store and in the di
rection of the York dwelling, the
gate of which he attempted to op
en. Walter York, sitting on the
porch, had heard the firing, and
thinking they bad killed his bro
ther and were coming to kill him,
began firing at Durane. The lat
ter turned and ran on down the
road, followed by Walter York,
who continued to fire at the fleeiug
man until Durane fell and died in
the road.
The Yorks were brought to Cot
ton Plant and detained in custody
until Wednesday, when, after a
preliminary examination by Jus
tices Fesperman and Patton, the
elder York was discharged and
Walter York bound over to the
circuit court.—Cotton Plant Ark
ansas.
NOTICE OF SALE
Notice Is hereby (riven tb»l we. the under
signed Commissioners, by virtue of the au
thority contained in an order of the Woodruff
County Court, made at its July term, 1008. will
on the 15 day of August, 1908. at the West door
of the Court house in Augusta. Arkansas offer
for sale and sell at public outcry to the highest
and best bidder, the Hast half (E)4) of Section
Sixteen (16). Township Eight (8). North,
Range Three (3) West
Terms: Said sale is made for the purpose of
procuring other quarters for the poor of
Woodruff County and the purchase price will
be payable as follows:
j $2000.00 cash 10 days after date of sale:
$3000 00 cash January 1st., 1909, and the resi
due of the price may be paid in Woodruff
j County Warrants or cash at the option of the
p ircboser on or before April 1st., 1909.
j No bid will be received, unless proposed
purchaser agrees to comply with the terms
herein set forth and the right to reject any
' and all bids is reserved.
J. G. Haralson.
E. T. Whirbt,
Commissioners.
GENERAL DIRECTORY.
County Officials.
Senator
Represenative
County and Probate Judge
Circuit Clerk
County Clerk
Sheriff
Treasurer
Coroner
Surveyor
Assessor
Examiner
M. H. Patterson.
E. M. Carl-Lee.
J. F. Sommers
Will Moorman.
T. E. Simpson.
W. R. Cain.
C. B. Mills.
Steve Davis.
E. L. Bllleng8lea.
W. a Fakes.
A. L. Hutchins.
Court Sessions.
Circuit Court. Northern District,-Meet
rblrd Monday in February and August, bou
.hern District-First Monday in March auu
September. 11 N. Hutton. Judge,
Moorman. Clerk.
Chancery Court, Northern District. e
First Monday in May and December. ou
;rn District—Second Monday In February a
September. Ed. D. Robertson. Chancellor.
Will Moorman Clerk.
County Court.-Meets First Monday In J»nu
try, April. July and October. J F. Somm
fudge; T. E. Simpson. Clerk.
Probate Court.-Meets Fourth
I a nu ary, April July and October. J
ners, Judge: T. E. Simpson. Clerk.
Public Examinations.
'eachers- Public Examinations Third1
r and Friday In March. June. - r
and December.
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