THE HOME NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
VOLUME 2.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, JULY, 20, 1917.
NUMBER 52
WOODRUFF COUNTY
IS NO “SLACKER”
The official figures received
from Washington City this morn
,jng, showing the number of men
that will be drawn from the va
rious counties of Arkansas to fill
their respective quotas in the
United States army, give the
number required from this coun
ty at 16, a smaller number than
from any other county. As the
enlistments in all branches of
the service have been deducted
from the total number required,
this means that more men have
volunteered to serve their coun
try, according to population, in
Woodouff county than in any
other county of the State. Had
the drawing been postponed a
few days longer, Woodruff coun
ty would not have been in the
draft at all.
The Cost of Dogs
At this time, when the world
needs food, when women and
children are starving in Europe,
the United States is paying
$875,000,000 per year to feed the
dogs of this country. The small j
sum of ten cents a day will save
a Belgian child from starvation.
Would it not be better to have
fewer dogs and more children in
the world.
The Manufacturer’s Record
has collected statistics on the
dog population of the United
States, and the figures as to
the cost of feeding this dog pop
ulation are the Record’s. * The
Record advocates a dog tax that
would result in the killing of
worthless dogs and result in
much additional revenue for the
country. Not only would the
class of dogs be bettered by the
law, but valuable economic ad
vantages would be gained. Here
in Arkrnsas sheep raising is un
profitable because of the packs
°f vagrant dogs that may reduce
or destroy the sheep raiser’s
profits over night by killing his
sheep and lambs. So it will be
seen that not only do the dogs
cost a stupendous^sum, but they
reduce the food supply by pre
senting the raising of sheep and
goals.
But when we get down to
hard facts we realize that the
legislator who attempts to inter
fere with the free and unlimited
°utput of dogs courts disaster,
an<l disaster is the last thing
that a legislator desires to court.
Arkansas Gazette.
List of Woodruff County
Men Subject to First Draft
Quota Doubled in Order to Offset Those Who
Will Be Exempted and Physically
Disqualified
Herewith is a list of the Woodruff county men who will be
called for examination on the first draft, arranged in the order in
which their numbers were drawn in Washington today and in
which they will be called. This county’s quota is 16 and no doubt
more than the first 32 named below will be called to get our quota
of the first draft. Should enough of those in the first list of 32
names be rejected for physical disabilities and exempted on proper
grounds so that the county’s quota would not be completed others
will be called to make out the quota in the order in which their
numbers were drawn and names appear below.
1 No. 258, Ernest Smith,.Augusta
2 No. 458, John Lightle.Cotton Plant
3 No. 1436, Clarence Collins,.Tupelo
4 No. 854, Eugene Whaley,.Cotton Plant
5 No. 1894, Thomas Martin Chaney,.McCrory
6 No. 1878, William Searn Burrows,.McCrory
7 No. 1095, George Bradford,.Augusta
8 No. 1455, Tom A. Robins,.Bengal
9 No. 783, Emory Ward.McCrory
10 No. 1813, Roy Joseph Rubottom.DeView
11 No. 1858, William Joseph Stephens, . DeView
12 No. 1752, Joseph Kynion,.McClelland
13 No. 1117, Ben Taylor,.Grays
14 No. 1572, Thad Gray Cariker,.McCrory
15 No. 1748, Edward Cunningham.McClelland
16 No. 837, Pete York, ..Cotton Plant
17 No. 337, Mitchell Calicott, .Cotton Plant
18 No. 676, Walter Gardner, ........ Augusta
19 No. 275, Austin Evan,.Cotton Plant
20 No. 509, Frank Angelo, ... Cotton Plant
21 No. 1185, Robert Chunn, . Grays
22 No. 564, Grant Lock,.Cotton Plant
23 No. 945, Clarence R. Smith,.Hunter
24 No. 1613, J. B. Mauldin,.Hillemann
25 No. 596, Abraham Ellis, .Cotton Plant
26 No. 1267, E. E. Walker, .Howell
27 Fo. 536, H. P. Mathis,.Cotton Plant
28 No. 1495, Berden Cunningham, .. McCrory
29 No. 548, Otis Z. McConnell,.Cotton Plant
30 No. 126, Lee Tyner, .Penrose
31 No. 1679, Rufus Franklin Shue, .McCrory
32 No. 1237, Martin Hazelwood,.Howell
33 No. 784, Robert Milton Marsh,. McCrory
34 No. 1732, Albert C. Clark, ..Riverside
35 No. 755, L. Greenlee,.Cotton Plant
36 No. 1546, George Eli Park,.McCrory
37 No. 1563, Willie McKa,.McCrory
38 No. 1360, Ed Westmoreland,.Fitzhugh
39 No. 616, Bonnie Jackson,.Augusta
40 No. 373, Richard Barson,.- .. Cotton Plant
41 No. 1676, William John Pohnka,..McCrory
42 No. 1266, Crawford Ivy, .Howell
43 No. 1891, James Curtis Baswell, . s.McCrory
44 No. 775, James Clark,. McCrory
45 No. 486, Jimmie Langdon, ...Augusta
46 No. 692, F. V. Fowler,.Augusta
47 No. 600, Landon Johnson, .Cotton Plant
48 No. 1986, Walter Andrew Henderson, .McCrory
49 No. 810, Henry Chaimes,.Cotton Plant
50 No. 1539, Floyd Dupree,.McCrory
51 No. 1682, Eunice Macon Callahan, .McCrory
52 No. 507, L. A. Bain,.Hunter
53 No. 399, Casper Duckett,.Cotton Plant
54 No. 437, Loyd Owens,.Augusta
55 No. 1324, Mat Moore,.Fitzhugh
56 No. 604, Curtis Gilcrease,.Augnsta
57 No. 43, James Mills. Gregory
58 No. 1763, John Jones,. McClelland
59 No. 1548, John Wesley Porter,. McCrory
60 No. 1264, George E. Saxon,.Howell
61 No. 1066, Jessie Dunlap,.Augusta
62 No. 924, Lonnie Scott,.Cotton Plant
63 No. 420, Willie Page,.Fitzhugh
64 No. 1024, Eugene Davis,.Augusta
(The number of every man who registered has been drawn
and those whose numbers were drawn first must report first.
Above list of names to be continued next week.)
AGRICULTUAL CLUBS
IN WOODRUFF COUNTY
A few weeks ago The Home
News mentioned the fact that
our farmers in various parts of
Woodruff county were aroused
to the necessity for organization
and co-operation for better cul
tivation of crops, better market
ing facilities and for better home
life.
We are glad now to be able to
say that the sentiment in favor
of organization and co-operation
is spreading and growing with
most gratfiyng results. We learn
from various sources that the
people of many communities are
seriously discussing the question
and taking steps to form perma
nent organization of Agricultu
ral Clubs. The ladies, too, are
not one whit behind the men in
forwarding the movement, which
is perhaps the most encouraging
feature of the whole business.
To illustrate: A farm woman in
a prosperous community, when
asked for her support, replied,
“Of course I will do all I can for
such an organization. If my
neighbors know of better ways
and better things, I shall be glad
to learn. If I learn how to bet
ter conditions, it will give me
pleasure to let my neigbors share
that knowledge. And, more than
all else, I want my children to
learn.
We are also glad to say we have
learned from some of our farmer
friends in the Beard’s Church
neighborhood, where a club was
formed two weeks ago with over
a hundred members, that our
County Demonstration Agents
are attending the meetings and
giving assistance wherever they
can be of service.
The latest practical effort tor
organization of which we have
heard was at Union Church last
Friday night, when twenty far
mers assembled to take definite
action. A resolution to form an
Agricultural Club at Union
Church was unanimously adopt
ed. In order to give all an op
portunity to participate in the
election of officers, it was decided
to meet again next Tuesday night,
when a permanent organization
will be perfected.
Given six to ten of these clubs
throughout the county, with a
central club composed of dele
gates from the local clubs, as we
understand is the intention of
those moving in the matter, and
Woodruff county will forge ahead
along agricultural lines and in
home life betterment at a rate
that will astonish even the foun
ders of the movement.