E. T. Wherry, Pres. F. Lewis, Vice Pres.
H. W. Jernigan, Cashier.
Bank of McCrory.
McCrory Arkansas.
We solicit your business because we know we can
serve you well and to our mutual advantage.
I By using the checking system, you know where
' your money goes and who gets it; you have a receipt
v for every expenditure.
In addition you have the friendly interest of our
bank and its officers—a bank always accomodates its
CUSTOMERS FIRST.
McCRORY nERCANTILE COHPA- |
NY’S SPRING OPENING
The McCrory Mercantile Com
pany’s millinery department en- •
joyed its tirst aunual spring open
ing Tuesday, aud so did a large
number of fortunate ladies who
took advantage of the occasion to
view the very latest in fashionable
spring headwear. The trout of the
building, where the millinery is
displayed, was thronged all day
long with eager shoppers, aud ex
clamations of approval were almost
universal.
Ttie department is one of the
most pleasant iu the county, any
way. The roomy, well lighted
building aud show-windows
unexceptional opportunity to dis
play this sort of stock, and nothing
which the most modern fixtures
can add to the efiectiveuess of the,
occasion was missed.
The decorations were very simple. |
Elaborate floral trimmings were!
not required. A few large palms j
were ample, the spleudid display |
of hats aud bonnets with their gar- j
nature of feathers aud bright rib-'
bons and artificial flowers giving:
sufficient color and variety to the!
scene and forming one of the most,
attractivejand effective millinery op
enings ever seen in eastern Arkan
sas.
There is evident development in
the styles which are regnant this
season, the teDdancv being toward
larger aud more picturesque shapes 1
than those which appeared earlier, t
The teudaucies in the earliest
spring styles were notiuably toward
Russian turbans and flower pot ef
fects; but the hats received the
last few days indicate unquestion
ably that before the season is
much older the small hats and
toques will yield precedence to the
more elaborate aud striking styles.
One thiug is very striking; fruit
is being used lavishly in ornament
ation. Fruit trimmings aud flow
ers of every kind and description
were everywhere in evidence.
There were notably a great many
old rose and wistaria shades. In
tailored hats, wings and quills
seemed to be the chief trimmings
used.
There were two of the hats shown
Tuesday wnich attracted special
and particularly favorable atten
tion. One of them was a white
model from the Paris show-rooms
of Rosenthal & Sloan, St. Louis, a
creation of lace and meliene, with
drooping brim, large round crown,
with garniture consisting of a large
plume aud agreetes —a marvel of
classic simplicity and beauty
which amply proved the aphorism
that the truly artistic effect is not
to be gained by cluttering a hat
with an infinite variety of even the
richest and best assorted trim
mings.
The other one was a large black
toule model from the Paris place
of Gage Brothers, Chicago, trim
ed with a large bunch of French
tips and bands of satin ribbon.
It is impossible to describe these
hats and bonnets in detail. They
must be seen to be appreciated. Not
only would it be found impossible
to give an adequate conception, in
words, of these chic and unique new
designs, but their very variety is
staggering. There is nevertheless,
a unity of design manifest through
out which promises to make this
season one of unprecedented beauty
in women’s headwear.
Cail on PARKER the
Photographer
Tent west of the Bank
High Grade Work at
Reasonable Prices.
SATISFACTION
GUARANTEED.
E. W. Chauey weut to Little
Rock, Tuesday, returning Wednes
day.
GENERAL DIRECTORY.
Circuit Court. Northern District.—Meet
Third Monday In February anil August. Sou
them District—First Monday in March and
September. H. N. Hutton. Judge; Will
Moorman, Clerk.
Chancery Court. Northern District,—Meets
First Monday in May and December. South
ern District—Second Monday in February and
September. Ed. D. Koberlson. Chancellor:
Will Moorman Clerk.
County Court.—Meets First Monday in Janu
ary April, July and October. J. F. Sommers.
Judge: T. E. Simpson. Clerk.
Probate Court.—Meets Fourth Monday in
January, April July and October. J. F. Som
mers, Judge: T. E. Simpson. Clerk.
Teachers' Public Examinations—Third Thurs
day and Friday in March. June, September
and December.
Court Sessions.
Public Examinations.
Courteous Treatment
New Horses and Riggs.
H. D. 5WAYZEE
THE LIVERYMAN
Commercial Trade Especially Solicited. ’Phone48
FOR AN HOUR’S_
Pleasure
THERE’S NOTHING LIKE
PLAYING POOL
OR BOWLING. SEE US. H. T. MILLER
Farmers Educational
-AND
Co-Operative Union
Of America
The Kicker and the Other Fellow.
Would you rather be a kicker or a
cuT, is the way a sensible man puts
it. The question is worth thinking
about. The kicker is the man who
speaks out in meetings, and does not
hold his tongue when he sees things
going wrong. He calls things by their
right name, a spade, he calls a spade,
a hoe, a hoe. Sometimes his unpol
ished sentences seem harsh, but they
are brought with meaning. The cur
is the other fellow, the fellow who
keeps quiet because he don’t want to
make trouble; who stands route when
wrong Is done because he doesn’t want
to hurt the feelings of the wrong
doers. He don’t kick even when he is
kicked himself. There are no illus
trious personages on the side of the
cur; but a long ilst of famous names
lined up with the kicker.
The first famous kicker I mention
Is that of the prophet Jonah. When
swallowed by the whale I imagine
Jonah set up a terrible kicking. He
kicked the whale's digestive apparatus
out of fix; so that the gastric juice
failed to perform its proper functions.
After three days and three nights ol
awful stomach trouble, the great fish
decided he had made a bad job ol
swallowing such a kicker so he dis
gorged him upon the shore. This fa
mous kicker went immediately to the
city of Ninevah and told those wicked
sinners of their awful doom. John
the Baptist was another famous kick
er, and by his boldness in denouncing
wrong he lost his head. The prophe
Daniel was a kicker in- his day, and
it landed him in the den of lions. Time
would fail us to mention the Hebrew
children, the prophet Nathan, the apos
tle Paul, who -formed the long line
of Bible worthies, that made up the
potential forces in overcoming the
wrong and establishing the right upon
the earth. As we come on down the
corridors of time we hear the voice
of John Hurt, Martin Luther, Me
lanchton and others who kicked
against the tyrannical powers that on
slaved the human mind, and sought
to keep humanity in midnight dark
nesB. We also find some famous kick
ers on this side of the pond. George
Washington was a famous kicker. Pat
rick Henry kicked loud when he said
“give me liberty or give me death.’’
No cur was ever brave enough to say
this. The men who made a teakettle
out of the Atlantic ocean were kickers
of the right stripe. Our revolutionary
fathers kicked against the stupendous
wrongs sought to be perpetrated upon
our country by a tyrannical power.
In consequence of their potential and
mighty efforts the sun of liberty has
kissed our beautiful country. We ar6
designated as “the land of the free
and the home of the brave.” But the
hydra headed monster of tyranny
comes upon us in a different form.
Every year the powerful trusts and
combines are enslaving our people.
The products of our rich soil are
eagerly sought by speculators With
their hoarded millions, wrung from
the sweat and blood of our Southern
farmers, speculators toll not in the
fields, neither do they spin in the fac
tories; yet Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like these men. There
is a field wide open for the kickers.
Many of them are improving the op
portunity. The curs say it is no use
to kick, it will only make matters
worse. Lamb-llke they submit to be
shorne of their wealth. While some
monuments of Iniquity that have been
kicked down by illustrious kickers in
the past, lie in all their putrid ruin,
yet the curs say it is no use to kick.
The Louisiana lottery that once con
trolled Its millions of money, and was
enthroned in the hearts of wicked
gamblers, and walled about by the
laws of a great state, has been kicked
Into smithereens. The whiskey traf
fic that once stood up like an Egyp
tian pyramids in its collosal strength
and greatne&a, is now rapidly being
kicked to atoms by the stern un
flinching heroes of the nineteenth cen
tury, that dare to stand up for the
rights of humanity, while the cowardly
curs tuck their tails and say it can’t
be done. The exchanges that gamble
in farm products and pose as the
great and indispensable business en
terprises of the age are the targets
against which the honest kickers are
to direct their guns. Think of one
man making eight million dollars in
one day. Think of the gamblers and
middlemen making 300 million dollars
and more from each cotton crop. Think
of the New York exchange selling 100
million bales of cotton In one year,
the world’s production is only 18 mil
lion bales. Think of the few men
who don’t plow getting more clear
money from the crop than the man
who puts his sweat and blood into
It. Think of the Southern women
When pigs are kept eight months
when fully as good weight could have
been obtained at six months, the prof
it is anthing but what it should have
been.
Capitalism is getting very restless
under what they call labor aggres
sion. Move up, men, and crowd them;
they will run like cowards.
The tithe has come when brawn and
brains must be recognized. These are
now organized and are able to take
eare of themselves.
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and children that wield the hce and
pick the cotton. Now there are two
million kickers lined up against the^e
wrongs and they are still lining up.
The wheat men are lining up and then
there will come a mighty kick from
the North and West. In five years
more of honest, earnest kicking and
this gigantic evil will be laid out by
the side of the Louisiana lottery and
the whiskey traffic. Then some of the
curs will prick up their smalt ears,
throw their hats into the air and
shout, boys we licked ’em at last. So
you see the kicker is a jjotential force;
the cur is a supine, inert, passive
drag. Now let every farmer ask him
self the nuestion which am I, a kicker
or a cur? If you only knew the
supreme delight there is in kicking
you would join the Union ai once.
Yours for lively kicking.—F. S. Roun
tree
The Farmers’ Union.
When we see a lot of men working
patiently and in a large measure un
selfishly for other men we feel like
taking off our hat to them, and then
when we see a lot of other men, men
almost absolutely ignorant of the
plans, purposes and achievements of
those unselfish toilers for others snarl
ing, snubbing and criticizing them, it
makes us feel like throwing a whole
hod full of brickbats at the snarling
critics. These few observations are
intended to apply to the Farmers’ Un
ion and its ignorant critics.
The men who constitute the Farm
ers’ Union are not all Solomons; thev
are not all successful farmers and
business men; but it can truthfully be
said of them that they are as wise
and as successful as their critics are.
The real purpose of the organization
Is to unite the farmers for their own
protection and advancement in mate
rial, moral and intellectual things.
Can any man oppose them in this most
praiseworthy purpose? Ought any
man oppose them in it? In fact ought
not ail good men unite their efforts
to at least encourage them, and to
discourage their critics?
With more than a passing knowl
edge of the Farmers’ Union, its pur
poses, we do not hesitate to say that
selfishness does not enter into the
organization only as an incident.
But, say the critics of the order, it
made a mistake in fixing the minimum
price of cotton last year at 15 cents
a pound. If they did they only proved
that they are no exception to the gen
eral rule, that the most successfully
laid plans sometimes fail. But we
are not prepared to admit that was a
mistake. Had the banks of the South
come to the assistance of the Farm
ers’ Union with long loans, at reason
able interest, with warehouse cortifi
cates for security, the chances are ten
to a hundred that cotton would have
reached and remained at 15 cents. Al
though the banks did not do this,
and although the cotton crop did not
bring 15 cents, yet we are not pro
pared to admit that anyone lost a dol
lar by the action of the union. By
reason of the action of the union
enough cotton was held off the market
to force the price up for those who
did sell; while those who did not sell
realized as much as they otherwise
would have done had it not been for
the holding agreement of the members
of the union.
Space will not permit us to go into
details, but we can't refrain saying
that the Farmers’ Union has undertak
en a great work for the farmers of
the South. Their work cannot be
fully finished in a day, nor in a year.
It may never be fully finished. Like
the Orange and the Alliance, it may
die or be killed before Us great work
is finished. But were It to die to
morrow, it, like them, has already
done so much for the farmers as to
entitle it to a place in their affections,
and to be classed as one of the great
economic factors of the agricultural
progress of the world.—Tyler Tele
gram.
Whatever minimum price may be
set by the National Farmers1 Union
is of less importance to the organiza
tion and to the world than the deter
mination the members set to stand by
It. By concert of action the farmers
of the South could put cotton up to 15
cents—even higher—in less than six
ty days, but such concert as would be
necessary to accomplish this would
have to be stronger than would be
necessary to secure a lower price.
Hence, If a lower price is set, it will
be easier to obtain. But, whatever
may be the price, let the members
stand together as one man. Don't of
fer cotton for sale at a lower figure,
but drive to the warehouse and store
It.
Judgment has come to earth again.
Labor organizations have taught the
laborers a way to protect themselves
and they are doing it, to the discom
fiture of trust magnates.
Texas produces more honey than
any other state in the Union. Last
year the output was nearly 7,000,000
pounds. California came next, wiili
3,600,000 pounds.
Attend your meetings, brethren,
now ia the most opportune time to
learn what your organization is doing
and how to offset the efforts of the
enemy.
There are 3,000,000 sheep in the
state of California, and up to date
2,500,000 have beeu dipped to prevent
scab disease.
Sidney Kidman, a cattleman of Aua
tralia, owns 49 square miles of land,
, 1000,000 head of cattle and 10,000
horses.
Read the News.
Dou’t fail to attend the play at |
at the school auditorium on the!
night, of March 26.
Tickets for sale at the Fakes Mer- i
cantile Co. Price 25c. Resered
seats 35c.
C. L. ADAHSON,
Jeweler, Optican and Engraver.
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry
Silverware, Etc. Etc.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
TWELVE MONTHS.
REPAIR WORK A SPECIALTY.
AUGUSTA.
ARKANSAS.
W. L. PROFFER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
COTTON PLANT, ARK.
Will prrctlce in nil courts.
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TO THE PUBLIC
I will after February 1’
open a first class genera
blacksmith and woodwork
shop in the old Burkett
building west of Proulx’
restaurant.
I will he prepared to do
your work on short notice.
Resp’t’ly.
l E. SHADLE.
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other fellow advertises is
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gening more business thau
lling to you. Would
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Our stock of SLIDEWELL collars
is complete, all sizes, all the new
shapes. Price 15c, two for 25c.
No need to tear up your tie or swear
at your collar if it’s a SL1DEWELL.
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We also have the prettiest line of
men’s 25c hose ever shown in McCrory.
We’ll take plersure in showing you
through.
A complete line of Men’s and Ladies’
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