THE HOME NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY and woodruff county
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McCRORY, ARKANSAS, MARCH 28, 191S.
NUMBER 36
" 'TTwnS SON TO WED
;?rML WHO BREAKS POWER
elv Dramatic But Human
Scene in “The L.on and
5 The Mouse”
lf you were the richest and
nost powerful man in the
rorid and you had been
'ought to a point ot humilia
w q clever and beautiful
$ whom you had forbidden
he doors of your home and
"ho loved and was loved by
our only son, what would you
lo about it?
What John Burkett Ryder
iid about it provides one of
most tensely dramatic and
ntenselv human scenes in The
ion and the Mouse, which will
‘e seen in the Jewel Theatre
Yiday, April 4.
Confronted in his library by
he girl and his son, as the girl
miling her triumph, starts to
fave the house, the great man
urns in his wrath on the youth
jid says this: “You big fool,
;o after her, If a girl like that
Dved me—
Alice Joyce is bniriey koss
tiore, the girl, in this screen
Caption of the famous stage
uccess of the same name,
written by the late Charles
□ein, and produced under the
lersonal supervision of Albert
3. Smith, president of the
fitagraph and her character
isation is conceded one of her
;reatest screen triumphs. She
days the part of the daughter
f a Federal Judge who issues
n injunction which rouses the
rrath of Ryder, who in re
enge forces him to trial for
npeachment. In his safe the
itters which will establish the
mocence of Rossmore and the
lot centers about Shirley’s
nally successful efforts to get
ito the safe and get hold of
letters.
Howard Carter of Mem
his, was the guest of friends
ere Thursday.
Shirley’s pen proved might
t that Ryder’s millions in
ltle Lion and the Mouse”
screen adaptioin in six reels
hl , He seen at the
ewel Theatre April 4.
Wp McKa, who shot* and
ed Mrs. Joe Cook of near
wn last week, was given a
in the Magistrate’s
aere Thursday and was
<1 dted. The court returned
H'er rf* of Justifiable homi
• It was said that the two
ies had been having trou
r® l0I s?me time and that
oLvl had gone to the
f ml- ^c^a for the purpose
jin , lnf fiim “take some
i fhoaC^' When he refus
hestpr °^ned fire with a win
fher nde hut missed him.
fun anT? McKa got his shot
lot fu ^rom a dose range
he "’°man in the face.
lentuct®#18 Were taken to
ientueky for burial.
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BABY WELFARE WEEK
One of the developments of
the profound and growing in
terest in the welfare of babies
during the past few ears is the
Baby Welfare Week. The pur
pose is two-fold, first to give
to the parents of a community
the opportunity of learning
more facts about the care of
babies, second to make known
to a community the impor
tance of its babies and the
I need of permanen work for
!their welfare. hTese purpos
es are carried out in various
ways, viz., by newspaper and
advertising publicity, by meet
ings and entertainments.
A baby welfare week will
be held in McCrory and sur
rounding community begin
ning April 5, and lasting until
April 12. The form for this
week will be announced later.
There will be no elaborate
programs as this will demand
considerable expense and la
bor. The community is anxi
ous nevertheless to bring the
subject of babies to the atten
tion of the public to an extent
that will bring substantial re
sults.
A SERIOUS ACCIDENT
Thursday afternoon Mrs. S.
E. Holland of this city age 63,
was seriously injured when she
was hit by an automobile driv
ed by Harry Walker, 14 year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. A.
Walker, also of this city.
The lad was turning a cor
ner in a Ford car and said that
he did not see Mrs. Holland
until it was too late, the sun
shining in his eyes.
The car struck her knock
ing her down. She was imme
diately taken to her home and
a physician summoned who
found that she suffered a brok
en arm and rib. She is re
ported as resting very well to
day.
Capt. and Mrs. R. M. Hut
chins of Augusta, were the
guests of friends in this city
the first bf the week. Captain
Hutchinsn was the commander
of the Old Company “A” made
up of Woodruff county boys,
and has just returned from
France.
Spring Cleaning Time Is Here
If a house needs spring
cleaning, how about the human
body after a winter of indoor
life and heavy food? Mrs.
Jennie Miner, R. F. D. 1, Box
58, Davidson, Ind., writes: “I
can truthfully say that Foley
Cathartic Tablets are he best
I ever used. They are so mild
in acion. I felt like I had been
renovated and made over
again.” Don’t suffer from in
digestion, biliousness, bloating,
bad breath, gas or constipa
tion, when relife can be so eas
ily had. Red Cross Drug Co.,
McCrory, Ark. adv.
“LEST WE FORGET”
When your boy was on the
fighting front over there last
fall, or was in one of the train
ing camps over here being
hardened for the most terrible
task that ever confronted man,
when countless mothers with
sad eyes were scanning the
death lists with harts atremble
fearing lest the name of a love
one might be there; when the
fate of the nation and the
world hung in the balance then
the thought uppermost in each
and every mind was the win
ning of the war and the avoid
ance of continued loss of life.
Then during the fall months
of 1918 the purse strings of
America’s citizens were cut
with willing hands. For the
Fourth Liberty Loan — the
Fghting Liberty Loan—the al
most inconceivable sum of six
billions of dollars was asked
by the United States Govern
ment to prosecute the war.
What the answer was is his
tory—glorious history.
It required the most san
guine optimist then to predict
a victory over Germany before
the summer that is now ap
proachmg. Thousands of the
best and bravest young men of
America, the flower of the
country, were daily offering up
and giving their lives for the
weal of humanity. They were
suffering ghastly wounds in
flicted by weapons such as
only the brutality of German’s
most vicious minds could fash
ion ; they were being blinded
and tortured with poisonous
gases that Germany introduc
ed against all ages into mod
ern warfare, and they were ly
ing in the mud of slimy trench
es, deprived of every comfort
with each recurrent day sap
ping their vatility that Ameri
ca might be saved.
Then could anyone in abso
lute authority have promised
a victory before Europe was
locked in winter’s grasp, the
total wealth of this rich land
would unhesitatinngly have
been placed at the nation’s dis
posal, that the lives of count
less thousands of the flower of
American manhood need not
be sacrificed.
Now more money is need
ed to pay the bills—the debt
that was incurred that the life
of your boy and your neigh
bor’s boy might not be offered
up on the sacrificial altar of
war, must be paid. Money is
needed to bring him back to
the land that gave birth to the
stars and stripes. Money is
needed to complete the recon
struction and to “Finish the
Job.”
Some time next month there
will be another campaign and
the Victory Loan will be
floated. It will be the final call
of your government for funds
with which to wipe the slate
clean of debt that makes the
FIRE AT AUGUSTA
Fire starting back of White
River Cafe Wednesday night,
spread to the adjoining build
ings and completely destroyed
the White River Cafe, C. L.
Adamson’s Jewelry store, Den
nis’ pool hall, J. G. Battle tai
lor shop, Dickinson’s grocery
store and a ware house belong
ing to the Augusta Cooperage
Co. Sparks from this blaze
set fire to the roof of Wade
Sales home, two blocks from
the original fire and burned it
to the ground.
Nothing was saved from the
cafe. The show cases and
some of the stock that was in
the front part of the jewelry
store was saved, but the ma
chinery in the rear was des
troyed. The building was
owned by a man in Batesville.
Most of the fixtures of the pool -
room, and barber shop and
some of Dickinson’s grocery
stock were saved. The build
ing was owned by I. J. Stacy.
J. G. Battle saved his press
ing machine and clothing. No
insurance was obtainable on
this property, on account of
the proximity of frame build
ings.
jrari oi tne iurmiure m ivir.
Sale’s residence was saved, but
the fire had gained so much
headway before it was noticed •
that it was impossible to enter
the building.
A steady north wind confin
ed the path of the fire to one
direction, or perhaps there
might have been more serious
results. Sparks and burning
shingles were carried nearly to
New Augusta and several fires
that might have resulted disas
trously were quenched. The
total loss is estimated at
$25,000.
About one fifth of all deaths
occuring each year at all ages
are children under one year.
Most of these diseases are
She had brought the richest
man in the world to his knees
and she loved his son. Did she
get him? See “The Lion and
the Mouse at the Jewel Thea
tre, Friday, April 4.
world a decent place to live in
and that gives to our own land
the recognition of the entire
world as being the dominant
power among nations and the
greatest country and the great
est people that the world has
ever known.
Just how much will be ask
ed just how much interest will
be paid, just what form the
securities offered will take and
just when they will mature
have not been announced.
They are mere details. The
nation’s honor has been pledg
ed and the American people
will redeem it with the Victory
|Liberty Loan.