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RAYMOND’S
GROCERY.
WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED THURSDAY OF BACH WEEK AT
McCRORY. ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Offlce at McCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class mall,matter.
June 11th. 1902.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One Year. In advance. #1.00
DEHOCRATIC TICKET
COUNTY
Represen tative—
E. M. CARL-.LEE.
Judge—
J. F. SUMMERS.
Sheriff—
W. R. CAIN.
Circuit Clerk—
Wm. MOORMAN.
County Clerk—
ED B. CARL-LEE.
Treasurer—
C. L. JACKSON.
Assessor—
W. B. FAKES.
DEnOCRATIC SPEAKING.
J. T. Coston, of Osceola, who is
speaking in this section in the
interest of the Democratic party
will close his tour Saturday when
he speaks in the afternoon at Au
gusta and night at MeCrory. Ev
eryone is cordially invited. Every
Democrat should hear these ad
dresses.
ARKANSAS STATE
NORITAL SCHOOL.
At Conway September 21, the
first State normal school for the
white teachers of Arkansas begins
its work. From the outlook, the
attendance will be quite large,
and many appointments have al
ready been made by County Ex
aminers, the law vesting in them
this right.
The school offers to students a
four years’ course of study, under
the following departments: Eng
lish, Mathematics, History, Sci
ence, Drawing, Penmanship, Read
ing and Expression, Vocal Music,
Pedagogy and Agriculture. The
work begins with a careful review
of the Grammar school studies,
C. L. ADArtSON,
Jeweler, Optlcan and Engraver.
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry
Silverware, Etc. Etc.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
TWELVE MONTHS.
REPAIR WORK A SPECIALTY. *
AUGUSTA. ARKANSAS,
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McCrory
Hotel.
FIRSTCLASS ROOMS
And GOOD FARR.
Your Patronage Re
spectfully Solicited.
MRS. JOHN C. VEAZEY, Prop.
and is followed by the regular
course as arranged by the faculty.
Each teacher has made a special
ty of his subject, and the work
done will cover methods of repres
entation as well as study of sub
ject-matter. Arrangements will
be made, as soon as possible, for
a practice school, in which stu
dents will engage in the actual
work of teaching, under competent
supervision. Students will board
in town. The cost of room and
board will range from $12.00 to
$15.00 per month.
The work will be arranged in
three-months’ terms, thus allow
ing students to enter at stated
times in the session ; yet it is ad
vised that all who can, enter on
the opening day. Students will
also be admitted to the work of
any year for which they may be
prepared, credit being given for
work done elsewhere. Persons
who do not expect to become teach
ers will be admitted on payment of
$3.00 per mouth tuition.
Graduates receive a diploma
which is equivalent to a Profess
ional license, good anywhere in
the state for six years, and then
convertable into a State license,
under certain conditions. Besides,
i it will be the aim of the faculty to
aid, as far as possible, all gradu
ates in securing desirable places
where they can pursue their chosen
vocation.
Further information promptly
furnished by
l Yours very truly,
J. J. Doyne,
President.
Little Bock, Ark., 8,20, ’08
JEFF DAVIS IS ON THE
WATER WAOON.
TeLLS Big Crowd At Danville
That He Has Not Touched
Whiskey Since March, And
Never Will Again.
Danville, Aug. 24.—Before a
crowd estimated at 1,000 persons
United States Senator Jeff Davis
today declared that he was on the
“water wagon" and that he never
intended to take another drink of
intoxicating liquors. He prefaced
this statement by the declaration
that he had not touched a drop of
whiskey since March.
His speech was of an unusual
nature, being devoid of his charac
teristic indulgence in personalities.
The cheering was deafening
when a large picture of Bryan was
hung in the rear of the speaker on
the stand in the courthouse.
It being the opening day of
court, a large crowd was in town
and the people packed the court
house to hear Senator Davis’
speech. He paid tribute to Bryan
and the crowd cheered lustily at
the mention of the name.
Davis pledged his support to
Donaghey and said that Democrats
of his kind always supported the
nominee.
A poor man that would vote the
Republican ticket, he said ought to
be bored for the simples. He ad
vised the Farmers’ Union to stay
out of politics.
Fakes’ Chapel Barbecue
The good people of Fakes’ Chap
el gave their annual barbecue last
Saturday. Every thing lit for
satisfying the palate of man was
in abundance and notwithstanding
the shower that came during the
meal hour, everyone had a most
enjoyable time. Fakes’ Chapel
has the best reputation of any
neighborhood in the county for
their hospitality, fine dinners and
good behavior and as long as they
keep up the pace that was visible
last Saturday their reputation will
ever be paramount.
COURT AT COTTON PLANT.
Cotton Plant, Aug. 25. The
convening of Circuit Court at this
place next Monday promises to
see the hotels all crowded to their
capacities, as there are several
murder cases to be called during
the session. The case of Walter
York, who was bound over some
two months ago till this term of
court, will come up, also the fam
ous case of Chas. Meehan for the
killing of W. A. Moore on the 26,
of last February.
SHERIFF KAVANAUGh
GETS STRANOE APPEAL.
Augusta Woman Writes op Her
Troubles To “The High
Sheriff In Care op The Po
liceman.”
Following is an article which ap
peared in today’s Gazette. The
widow lady resides at Augusta and
seems to have not received justice
at the hands of Woodruff County’s
Circuit Court which was in session
last weeK.
His equanimity jarred by a
plaintive appeal from a widow wo
man, who wants grim justice
meted out to a man who has been
killing her hogs, Sheriff C. C.
Kavanaugh is left in a quandary.
If the crime had been committed
in Pulaski county things would be
different. But as the scene is laid
in Augusta, he is totally at sea as
to how to act in the matter, unless
he could be elected to the bench in
that jurisdiction and then go after
the hog killer.
The appeal came by mail. It is
addressed to “The High Sheriff in
care of the Policeman,” Little
Rock. Its contents follow:
“Compliments from Rachel
Moody to the high sheriff in Little
Rock. I have a indictment to put
before you all. I have put it be
fore the Grand Jurews of Augusta
and didn’t get justice and I will
state the case before you all.
came down to my house on the
eighth of this month and shot won
of my hogs, and he came back on
the thirteenth of this month and
shot a nuther won. And as I was
trying to tell him what was best
for him to do, why he hit me with
his gun and broke the gun and
loaded it and drawed it in my face
and told me he would kill me if I
just said a nuther word. And he
daired me to move another step.
Do the law alow any man to come
to a widow house and do anything
like that? And if it do not, why
I want you to do something. I am
looking to hear from you all at
once.”
NEW PENSIONERS.
The number of new pensioners
that will draw pensions from the
state for the first time this year is
nearly 1,000. The majority is
composed of mothers or widows of
soldiers who served in the army or
navy on the side of the Confeder
acy during the Civil war.
The counties receiving the largest
number of allowances are Pulaski,
Sebastian, Union, Washington,
White and Yell. Desha county
foots the list, with only one new
claimant to receive a pension.
Following is a list of the new
pensioners: Woodruff—Mrs. Ma
tilda Nelson, D. W. Holder, J. H.
Pursell.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
Notice is hereby given that un
der and in pursuance of an order
made by the Woodruff Probate
Court at its July term, 1908, I
will, as administrator of the es
tate of C. W. Sturdivant, deceased,
sell, at public auction, at the front
door of the Bank of McCrory, Mc
Crory, Ark., at 2 p. m. on the 10
day of Sept., 1908, the following
real estate belonging to said es
tate : Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, & 6 of Sturdi
vant’s Addition to the town of
McCrory, said land being in the
town of McCrory and in the North
west J of Section Ten 10 Town
ship Seven 7 North, Range Two
2 West; said sale will be made
tjp satisfy the debts owing by said
estate.
Terms of Sale : Each lot will
be offered separately and then all
of said property will be offered in
one lot: the administrator will ac
cept as final the bid which will be
the highest in the aggregate; said
sale will be on a credit of three (3)
months, and notes with approved
personal security will be required
for the purchase money.
Signed
J. H. Beidelman.
Adms. of the estate of C. W.
Sturdivant.
Dated: August, 1, 1908.
H. M. Woods, Atty. for Adms.
NEVER TRY TO GUIDE MAN
Out of the Fullness of Her Experience,
Damsel Gives Wise Ad
vice to Others.
“We were late,” groaned the girl,
who was tired, “because wc went 15
blocks out of our way.”
“Why did you do that?” asked
her brother. “Why didn’t you keep
your eyes open and take the right
car?”
“I did,” said the girl. “I knew
which way to go, but my escort got
confused and I didn’t dare put him
on the right track. If I had he
never would have forgiven me. I
have lost the friendship of three
interesting men by that very evi
dence of strong-mindedness. Experi
ence has taught me that next to be
ing caught in a fib the thing that
most riles a man is to be guided by
a woman. To wander around like a
babe in the woods, to retrace his
steps a dozen times, and finally to
arrive somewhere an hour late are
blunders that he can cover up with
one excuse or another, but for a
woman to take the lead and say,
*We want this ear’ or ‘We must go
this way/ presupposes a stale of
lamentable ignorance on his part
and makes him hate that woman
forevermore.”
A L08T ART FOUND.
A chemical discovery, or rather re
discovery of what was an old Roman
secret known to have been used
about 600 years ago, is a liquid prep
aration to prevent iron rust and wall
dampness. When applied to the bot
tom plates of ships it is said to
prevent oxidation, animal or veget
able marine parasites and growths,
and, besides preserving the life of
the iron plates, will also add to the
speed of liners and warships. When
the inside of a ship is coated over
with this liquid it stops the “weep
ing” of the inner skins of the iron
sides, which, as shippers so well
know, is so often the cause of much
damage to ships’ cargoes.
Freshly plastered rooms when
painted with this stand the test per
fectly.
IN THE OLDEN DAYS.
An old lady in New York, cele
brating the fiftieth anniversary of
her wedding, grew reminiscent. It
was 40 years ago, she said, since she
had l»r first clothes wringer, and
fluting machines came in about the
same time. People then had one
daguerreotype taken and put in a
frame. There were no egg beaters,
no carpet sweepers, no faucets, no
sewing machines, no street cars, elec
tric lights and numerous other
things so common. The kitchen was
full of tinware, and notwithstanding
the fact that water had to be carried,
it must all be kept scoured. But
one good thing of those old days,
“hired girls” were only paid five dol
lars, or at most seven dollars per
month.
GERMAN 18 SARCASTIC.
Dr. Max Moller writes in the Ber
liner Tageblatt: “In America, the
home of the gigantic falsehood, a
great swindle once more triumphs.”
Then he quotes the report of the
death (?) of a woman who “re
mained dead only one hour” and
then came back to life and told what
she had 6een in paradise.
“Possibly,” says Dr. Moller, “the
physician who certified to the death
of this American woman may be able
to place some knight of the pen in
this transitory death condition, and
then a logical, sensible report may
be received in this valo of tears from
the world of the hereafter.”
ACTOR AND DENTIST.
“There is one of the smartest men
I know,” said he as he exchanged
smiles with an artistic man whose
iron-gray hair matched to a nicety
that showed careful selecting the
color of his clothing. He has the
sense to carry on two distinct call
ings, one for the winter, the other
for the summer time. In the win
ter he is an actor, a distinguished
actor, too, he is with Hackett, and
in the summer he goes back to his
old calling of dentistry. He has one
of the finest practices, too, in New
York, but it seems it cannot lure
him from the fascination of the
stage.”
A8 APPLIED TO BOOKS.
“Frost has just had a new boot
published.”
“Is it skyscraper or bungalow7*
“What on earth do you meanf”
“Fifty stories or one 1”
Btan Culture.
The raising of white beans Is a great
Industry In many sections and it is
profitable, because the output is as
much a staple as wheat or corn. Like
these crops it is a food stuff which
has keeping quality.
The bean growing industry has
gravitated to the poorer lands, so that
but little of it is found in the com
belt And yet there are places in the
oorn belt, and many of them, where
beans might be grown to advantage.
Sandy knolls or worn out fields which
will only make twenty bushels of corn
per acre will return a greater cash
product if planted to beans.
Bean culture was once considered
very laborious, but it is not neces
sarily so now. By the use of modem
machinery it is made easy. They may
be planted with a two-horse com plant
er, cultivated with riding plows and
weeders, pulled when ripe, thrashed
and even sorted by machinery.
To make the most of the space the
hills mays be only six Inches apart,
but the rows should be wide enough to
permit horse culture. When planted
In this way and carefully cultivated if
the ground is free from weeds the
crop may be carried through by horse
power. But if the soil is foul one hand
hoeing will be needed. The crop is
loaded from the puller into hay racks,
and hauled to the barn. Spread upon
the bam floor or loft, It will be ready
for thrashing after two weeks of dry
weather. Before marketing sorting is
absolutely necessary.
The old plan was to get the family
together In the evening about the
kitchen table and each by handfuls
picked out the bad specimens. But
the modem bean sorter is a small ma
chine and cheap, which you may take
into any room. The motion Is controll
ed by a treadle and a slowly moving
canvas carrier brings the beans to
your hand as fast as you can look
them over, one spry man doing the
work of five by the old system.
The Cotton Boll Weevil.
Encouraging results are announced
by the Bureau of Entomology from Its
recent careful examination to deter
mine the present status of the boll
weevil. The bureau examined some
40 localities in the states of Texas,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and
Oklahoma, all infected by the cotton
boll weevil. In each locality from
two to five representative fields were
selected, and in each one of these
fields groups of plants were examined.
Estimating the number of plants to
the acre, it was easy then to compute
the number of weevils to the acre.
This plan has been followed for sev
eral years, so that the comparisons
can now be made with conditions ex
isting in previous years. The number
of weevils is shown to be much small
er at this time throughout the infected
area than it was at this time last year,
due primarily to the unfavorable
weather last fall, especially the very
early first killing frost. In Eastern
Texas no weevils were found, whereas
last year there were 226 per acre. In
southern Texas the weevils stand 256
now, as against 308 last year; in west
ern Texas, 11 against 101. In Louis
iana 174 of the insects were found as
against against 485 last lear. In Ok
lahoma no weevils were found. The
figures are for comparison only and
will not, of course, stand for the en
tire season, as the insects may not
have emerged from hibernation in
such numbers as to have been detect
ed.
The Hog That I* Always Staple.
All admire a good-looking hog, and
there is no reason why good looks
should not go with the highest useful
ness, but neither good looks nor fancy
oreeding should stand for a moment
in the way of the hog that combines
vigor of constitution, growthlness, and
reasonably early maturity with a form
pleasing to the eye. When we come
to the final test of beauty, "pretty is
as pretty does.” The prettiest hog,
after all, is the one that is most profit
able; the one that makes the most
and best pounds of gain from a hun
dred pounds of the most inexpensive
dry matter; the one that makes the
largest contribution toward providing
for the family necessities; toward
meeting the interest on the mortgage,
and to paying the mortgage itself; for
the addition to the house, the new
carpet, the piano or organ, the new
dresses for the girls, or their educa
tion at school.
If the breeders of any breed depart
from the practical hog they make a
mistake, for sooner or later the com
mon-sense farmer will demand the
common-sense hog, and will waive any
preference he may have for particu
lar color of hair, curl of tall or droop
of ear. If breeders of any breed de
part from this for any considerable
length of time farmers may say little
about it, but they will buy some other
breed that more nearly meets their
requirements.—(F. D. Coburn.)
There is only one thing that is more
discouraging than every other thing
combined, and that is to have land dur
ing the crop season continue to remain
under water. Land subject to over
flow always has been and always will
be a most trying proposition to han
dle.
Bead congressmen to Washington
who think more of the advancement
of agriculture than of building of war
ships. We want business men at
Washington, and apt nere politicians.
JUDQBS AND CLERKS
Following is a list of the judges
and clerks of the various box?,
for the general election MontW
Vlaf’R r’ J9°t8’ appointed by
Maj. R. B. Keating of this
and E. E. Blackmon and A h’
Hamilton of Augusta, the Board
of County Election Commission
McCrory City: Judges; John
Pire?o’ ? wni^tklT°SOn’ John Spain.
Cleiks: Walter Jimerson, M W
Thompson.
McCrory Country: Judges; B
M. Anderson, Dave Burkett and
Raymond Partee. Clerks: 0. B
Cook and Keith Carson.
DeView: Judges; W. M. Keat
ing, Hid Starks and Frank Whit
more. Clerks: J. T. Angelo and
H. M. Albritton.
Grays: Judges; W. p. Mus
grove, Ila Stewart and J. R. gte_
gall. Cleyks: N. J. Hays and j'
R. Padgit.
Augusta City: Judges; W. A
Campbell, J. W. Yarborough and
Sam Smith. Clerks: George Haral
son and Frank Bronaugh.
Augusta Country: Judges; Sam
Hill, Steve Davis and Marshal Cur
ry. Clerks: George Spradlin and
J. W. Apple.
Cotton Plant City: Judges;
John Meehan, Bob Shelton and
Ike Pruett. Clerks: T. C. Doss
and I. Y. Echols.
Cotton Plant Country: Judges •
Bob Trice, W. S. Crawford and
Tom Henderson. Clerks: J. R.
Boone and Ed Hysmith.
Hunter: Judges; E. E. Quis
enberry, J. R. Baker aud W. Z.
Fincher. Clerks: T. F. Penrose
and G. H. Poston.
Caney: Judges; F.M. Walters,
W. J. Penrose and Tom Johnson.
Clerks: Hugh McConnell and
Leighton Wilson.
Meredith: Judges; J. W.
Pace, W. R. McCtaary and A. G.
Brinneman. Clerks: D. Robin
son and J. T. McCleary.
Barnes: Judges: R. E. Hol
der, Noah Taylor and Willis Mc
Clendon. Clerks; Mat Taylor
and R. A. Jones.
Wiville: Judges; Hugh Walk
er, W. P. Howell and George Ern
pree. Clerks: Tom Tillar and
J. C. Crittenden.
Howell: Judges; T. A. Smith,
Pat Kelly and L. N. Mabrey.
Clerks: Dan Keith and S. C.
Beard.
Tip: Judges; Emmet Smith,
R. C. Cody aud Ben Wise. Clerks:
Marcus James and Ernest Chaney.
Morton: Judges; G. M. Ellis,
S. Matheny and W. A. Peters.
Clerks: A1 Cain and I. B. Mathe
ny
Freeman : Judges; T. L. Pat
ton, O. L. Crawford and Tom
Henderson. Clerks: J. M. Trice
and W. T. Cisco.
Pumpkin Bend: Judges; Will
Ball, J. M. Brooks and John
Wiggins. Clerks: Tom Key
and C. B. Taylor.
Point: Judges: J. D. El
dredge, Sanford Davis and C. G.
Wheeler. Clerks: B. W. Jones
aud Swift Davis.
White River: Judges; Dolph
Crittenden, Thad Griffin and
Wi 1 Gillispie. Clerks: Wade
Garten and Lou Reynolds
Riverside: Judges; R- J
Carter, Boone Jones and Nince
Gunn. Clerks: W. H. Lacy and
H. L. Byrd.
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