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Published every Friday at McCrory, Ajk.
WALTER W. RANEY, Ed. and Pub
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ter August 26, 1915, at the post
office at McCrory, Ark., under
the Act of March 3, 1879.
Friday, February 4, 1916.
Political Announcements
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For County Clerk
We are authorized to announce
Walter Jimerson
as a candidate for County Clerk,
subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic primary, 1916.
We are authorized to announce
Will Moorman
as a candidate for County Clerk,
subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic primary, 1916.
For Road Overseer
We are authorized to announce
J. L. Bronte
as a candidate for Road Overseer
of DeView Township, subject to
the action of the Democratic
primary, 1916.
Miss Dora Williams of Mem
phis arrived Wednesday and is
the guest of her mother, Mrs. M.
M. Bufford and family, fora few
days.
Mesdames H. A. Walker and
Lula Shue, and daughter, Mary,
spent a portion of last week in
Hot Springs with Mrs. H. P.
Higgs, Jr., who is there for her
health.
Doctors and the Grippe
The following true preachment,
taken from the Sheridan Head
light, is applicable just at this
time to McCrory, where there
are hundreds of cases of grippe be
ing cared for, which epidemic,
prevalent in most every home,
is taxing the physical and pro
fessional capacity of our
physicians:
“With the grippe raging in
Grant county, just as it is all over
the United States, our demand
for doctors far exceeds the sup
ply. Scarcely a home in Sheri
dan and vicinity has escaped the
ravages of this malady, disease,
affliction, scourge, plague—or
whatever it may be called. Six
hundred and fifty people died in
Philadelphia within three days
from it, and all over the north,
east, south and west it is raging,
and here in Arkansas it is prob
ably in its lightest form—which
is bad enough, goodness knows.
And right here the thought is
suggested that we all ought to
appreciate and honor our phys
icians more—and pay ’em, too,
when we can. Since this epi
demic of grippe started, every
doctor in town-with possibly
one exception—has been down
with the disease it having been
contracted while trying to serve
others, and in an attempt to re
lieve suffering.
“All honor to our doctors.
They lead hard lives, lives that
are devoted to service for their
fellow men, and to relieving suf
fering, the noblest calling in the
world. Imagine how you would
like to roll out of a good, warm bed
at 2 o’clock of the morning, with
the thermometer almost at zero,
when you had slept not more
than three hours for a week,
when every instinct and impulse
was calling^ and urging you to
go back to * bed, then ride ten
miles over bad roads to see and
relieve some person who is ill
and in pain. You wouldn’t do it
twice for all the money in Grant
county, yet such is common ex
perience of every doctor in Sheri
dan, and many times they fail to
collect a bloomin’ penny for their
labor and sacrifice. We all ought
to pay our doctors just as prompt
ly as possible, but we usually put
that off till the very last, and
some of us put it off forever, or j
until judgment day, when every- j
thing; it is supposed, is settled.
We ought to be ashamed of it
too. The ethics of the medical
profession forbid its members to
advertise their profession, far
ther than a small card in the pa
pers, or to put themselves for- j
ward prominently before the
public in any way, and for that
reason few of us realize just
what our physicians mean to us,
until we are despartely sick, and
then we forget all about that as
soon as we get well.
“The average physician is not!
only an angel of mercy, but is in- i
variably a man of the highest
type of honor. Into his keeping:
necessarily must go family and i
individual §ecrets, which would j
ruin half the town, were they [
made public. Yet it is to the
honor of the profession that rare
ly is a confidence abused. A
thousand wild horses can’t make
a doctor tell things that would
injure even his worst enemy,
when these secrets are learned
by reason of his professional
services. His lips are sealed,
and all is well.”
Cashier H. W. Jernigan re
turned Wednesday from Little
Rock where he spent a few days
and consulted a specialist in re-!
gard to the skin disease on his
face and which resembles ery
sipelas.
WARNING ORDER.
Woodruff Chancery Court, Nor
thern District:
Mary Burt, Plaintiff,
vs
John Burt, Defendant.
The above defendant, John
Burt, is hereby warned to appear
in this court within thirty days
and answer the complaint of the
plaintiff, Mary Burt. 1-25 Adv
L. W. Winfree, Clerk.
Hutchins & Hutchins, Attorneys
for Plaintiff. Jan. 8, 1916.
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Crory, Ark.
Big shipment of Peters shoes
just received. Let us fit you
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shoes. F. Lewis. tf Adv
Mrs. Jas. H. Porter and child
ren left Saturday to join her
husband at Helena where they
will reside in the future, and
where Mr. Porter has a position
with a life insurance company.
It was reported here today,
Friday, that the new county
bridge across Noah’s Lake at
Jelks has been washed away by
the present high waters of Cache
River which has broken all
records.
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