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THE HOME NEWS
Published every Friday at McCrory, Ark.
WALTER W. RANEY, Ed. and Pub.
Subscription $1.00 per Year ir Advance.
Entered as second-class matter
Aug. 26. 1915, at the post office
at McCrory, Ark., under the act
of March, 3, 1879.
Friday, October 1, 1915
PATTERSON’S WEEKLY LETTER
Jelks, Arkansas,
Sept. 28, 1915.
Editor Home News,
McCrory, Arkansas.
Dear* Sir:—
We investigated the records
in the sheriff’s and treasurer’s
office yesterday and find that the
sheriff paid the district in July
$3 081.88. The state apportion
ment which is now in is $1,718.41.
Interest on depository funds is
$95.00.' To this $4,895.29 will be
added whatever delinquent polls
and penalties yet, to be collected
from the 1914 taxes together
with whatever you collect from
pupils over age and those living
out of the district.
Having spent ten years collect
ing and handling these par
ticular funds I knew7 wrhat I was
talking about and I ,am glad to
educate you along this line as I
knew that it was ignorance of the
facts and not a disposition on your
part to prevaricate.
Again we wish to say that we
Will furnish you thq, list, to
which you keep referring, any
time you call for it.
In regard to the “strangely in
teresting” $4,700.00 spent last
year will say that the records in
the treasurer’s office only show
the amount and to whom paid.
Now the voucher’s for the teach
er’s salaries are understood on
the face of them, however,
the public may not understand it
but E. T. Wherry, Chairman of
the Board, has paid himself off
in various sums about as often,
or more often, than any one of
the teachers. The bills for these
sums are filed in his office or in
the secretary’s office and they or
you should publish them, under
the spirit of the publicity act to
which your paper stands so
strongly pledged. And the di
rectors should read up on the
law as regards hiring relatives, j
buying supplies, etc., or at least
publish the bills that the tax- j
payers may know what E. T.
Wherry, Chairman and Director i
of the McCrory School District
is paying E. T. Wherry, Mer
chant, Banker and Capitalist for i
goods. Yours,
M. H. Patterson.
OUR REPLY
We wish to state that if we
have prevaricated asto the funds
of the district in our replies it is
an error upon the County Treas
urer’s part and not our own for
we quoted his figures exactly
as he gave them to us over the
telephone at the expense of The
Home News. It seems, however
that Mr. Patterson is prevari
cating asto furnishing us the
list of the school children in his
proposed district as he continues
to state that he will furnish us
with the list any time we ask
for it. We wish to again state
and that very emphatically, that
we, as stated in our previous re
plies, asked him to furnish .us a
copy of the same and HE PROM
ISED US WHILE STANDING
IN THE STREET IN FRONT
OF THE FAKES MERCANTILE
COMPANY that he would do so,
but as we have stated before,
FOR SOME REASON HE HAS
failed to give it to us.
He seems to be like the fellow
who owned a note and when it
came due and the possessor ask
ed for his money the fellow did
not come across, but stated that
he had promised to pay, and that
HE WOULD PAY.
We interviewed Mr. Lewis,
secretary of the board, and upon
his STATEMENT there were no
funds received last year from
children over age and residing
outside the McCrory Special
School District. He also stated,
however, that there are 15 pupils
paying tuition at present this |
year which amounts to about
$30.00 per month. This gain in
revenue will almost be offset by
the loss of the $300.00 state aid
received last year which we will
not get this year, and also the
expense of the school has been
increased this year #10.00 per
month in teacher’s salaries.
THE HOME NEWS DOES
STAND STRONGLY PLEDGED
TO THE PUBLICITY ACT which
was passed by the people (not
the legislature) of Arkansas and
we think it ONE OF THE BEST
laws upon our statutes. The
writer was one of the number
who drafted the bill and we
pleaded to have a section'
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added to it providing for the pub
lication of all monies received
and expended by every school
board in the state, showing from
whom received, what for and how
much, also to whom paid, for
what purpose and the amount,
giving the people a published,
detailed and itemized statement
twice a year as to the handling
of the taxpayers’ funds just as
is required for each county and
every incorporated town in the
state, but we failed to get the
desired section included, and so
strong are we for this that we
will publish at any time a com
plete detailed and itemized state
ment of the receipts and expendi
tures of the district for HALF
PRICE.
We are now preparing to leave
the school board’s arguments to
be made by them, since we have
been mistreated at their hands
in more ways than one, notwith
standing the fight we have
made in behalf of the school, and
m order that the president of the
board and his associates vindi
cate themselves as to the charges
made by Mr. Patterson we be
lieve that it would be to their in
terests as well as the school’s to
have a full and complete state
ment made and published at an
carlv date. With this, we now
leave this matter to Mr. Patter
son and the school board, it ap
pearing that his arguments are
being directed strictly at them.
Prof. I. B. Anthony of Enola
closed a successful term of school
at Chapel Grove Friday. An in
teresting program was rendered
Saturday night.
Married: Sunday, Sept. 26,
1915, Grover C. Browning, 23,
and Miss Effie Fowler, 15, at the
home of the bride’s mother rn
Pumpkin Bend, Esq. J. W.
Browning officiating.
PI'BlilSHEH'S STATEMENT,
Following1 is a statement of the own
ership, management, etc., of Tht
Home News, published every Fri
day at McCrory, Ark.:
Editor, managing editor, business
manager, owner and publisher, Walter W. Raney.
Known bondholders, mortgages, or
other security holders,
None.
Walter W. Raney, McCrory,
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 17 day of September, 1915.
G. W. BARBER,
(Seal) Notary Public.
My commission expires December 6,
1917
GENERAL DIRECTORY
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
J. M. Jackson, Helena... .Circuit Judge
J. _N. Rachels, Searcy.
.Prosecuting1 Attorney
E. M. Carl-Lee, Augusta.
.Deputy Prosecuting Attorney
J. T. Angelo, McCrory. .Representative
j Sam Vann, Vanndale.
.State Senator, Seventh District
A, L. Hutchins, Augusta.County Judge
E. D. RobertsOn, Wynne.
i .Chancery Judge
j R- E- L. (Bob) Spradlin, Augusta. . . .
. Sheriff
! L. W. Winfree, Augusta.Circuit Clerk
j Wm. Moorman. Augusta. .County Clerk
| Walter Jimerson, Augusta. . .Treasurer
Edgar Miller, McCrory.Assessor
I Alex Beilis, Augusta.Surveyor
| r. W. Woodbury, McCrory. . .Examiner
: Dr. R. Q. Patterson, Augusta. .Coroner
i Dr. R. N. Smith, Augusta.Health Officer
CITY OFFICIALS
Gr. W. Barber.Mayor
j Walter W. Raney .Recorder
j.J. G. Pulley.Day Marshal
! <>. K. Porter.Night Marshal
j Dr. H. P. Hargis.Health Officer
Aldermen: G. L. Carson, C. Crutzer,
: J. F. Morgan, H. D. Swayze and E. T.
' Wherry.
Council meets first Monday night of
| each month in the Council Chamber in
| the Farmers & Merchants Bank Bldg.
COURTS
Northern District—Circuit Court 3rd Monday in
I February and August.
Chancery Court 1st. Monday in December and
May.
County Court 1st. Monday in January, April,
July and October.
Probate Cqurt 4th. Monday in January, April,
July and October.
SouthernDistrict—Circuit Court 1st. Monday in
March and September.
Chancery Court 2nd. Monday in February and
September.
County Court 2nd. Monday in January, April,
July and October.
| Probate Court first Monday follwing that of the
Northern District.
G. T. Sawyers, the new pro
| prietor of the store at Tip, was
here on business Monday.
Miss Esna Knight left to-day
I for Wynne where she will visit
| relatives and friends for a few
days.
E. W. Chaney returned
Wednesday from Little Rock,
where he attended a meeting of
■ the Cotton Men’s Association,
composed of merchants, farmers
and bankers of the entire United
States.
W. L. Brown of Frankfort,
Ind., was here the first of the
week looking after the Langton
; mill property held by the Far
mers Bank of that city. Mr.
Brown stated that this property
could be bought, rented or leased
at very low and reasonable fig
; ures. Any mill man would do
| well to investigate this propo
: sition.