THE HOME NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
VOLUMN 4
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, AUGUST 2, 1918
NUMBER 2
ALLOTMENTS AND
FAMILY ALLOWANCES
A radical change in the
method of handling allotments
and family allowances, which
will speed up the delivery of
government checks to the de
pendents of soldiers and sail
ors, went into effect on July 1.
Several important amendments
of the War Risk Insurance Act
just approved by the president
make possible the change in
procedure.
After July 1, every enlisted
man in the military or naval
service, regardless of rank or
pay, must make the same com
pulsory allotment to his wife
and children, $15 a month. To
this allotment the government
will add a monthly allowance
ranging from $5 a month for a
motherless child, and $15 for a
wife without children, up to a
maximum of $50. In addition
the enlisted man, if he desires
government allowances for his
dependnt parents, grand par
ents, brothers and sisters, may
make voluntary allotments to
them, fixed by the new amend
ments at $5 a month, where al
lotment is made to a wife and
children, and $15 where no
such allotment is made. Here
tofore allotments were on a
sliding scale and varied ac
cording to the soldier’s pay or
the numbers and personnel of
his family.
The new system, which was
put into effect with the approv
al of the War and Navy Depart
ments, will simplify the admin
istration of allotments and al
lowances both by the bureau
of War Risk Insurance and in
the field. Henceforth the Bu
reau of War Risk Insurance
will handle allotments of only
two amounts, $15 or $20. The
amounts of family allowances
paid by the government to sup
plement these allotments are
not changed by the amended
law.
Bngmnmg with July pay the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
will handle allotments only to
support family allowances and
then only in the amounts re
quired by law to support such
allowances. The excess allot
ments, and allotments to per
sons not entitled to allowances
• will be handled by the War De
partment, Navy Department,
Marine Corps or Coast Guard.
This change in administrative
procedure will considerably in
crease the bureau’s efficiency
in handling its allotment and
allowance problem.
Under the new amendments
a father through adoption and
mother through adoption will
be considered the same as a
natural father and mother and
will have the same rights to al
lotments and allowances. Ap
proximately 3,600,000 checks
have been issued by~the Bureau
of War Risk Insurance. Checks
are being mailed at the rate of
more than 40,000 a day.
Allotments payable by the
Central Disbursing Division,
Office of the Quartermaster
General, formerly payable by
the depot quartermaster, were
completed on July 3. This in
cluded checks to the designat
ed allotees of officers and enlist
ed men, both active and retired
wherever stationed. The
amount paid was approximate
ly $8,000,000, and covered al
lotments made by some 800,
000 allotters. These payments
included checks to the depend
ents of officers whose accounts
had been left in Washington
for settlement, and officers
whose accounts had been left
in Washington for settlement,
and officers on foreign service
who had made allotments to
their families, as well as en
listed/ men. This payment also
included checks for the settle
ment of accounts of enlisted
men in detachments located in
and around Washington whose
rolls had been submitted for
settlement.
LOYD ENGLAND,
The Adjutant General.
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CHAPPELL GROVE NEWS
Miss Mary Bell Crossett was
the guest of friends in DeView
Sunday.
J. R. Chappell, John Smith,
A. S. Thompson were Augusta
I visitors Saturday.
Jess Tripplet of Lee County
; was the guest of relatives and
I friends here Saturday and Sun
I day.
! Misses La Verms Lindsey and
Bessie Melton of DeV&ew were
the guests of Mrs. Ola Elam
Saturday and Sunday.
Dyke and Forrest Reynolds
of Judsonia are visiting their
| brother, Will Reynolds for a
few days.
J. R. Chappell went to Mem
phis on a business trip Thurs
day.
Mrs. Delia Crossett returned
home Monday from a months
visit with her husband, Corp.
Ayane Crossett of Camp Beau
regard, La.
Miss Johnnie Ridgeway of
McCrorv is the guest of rela
tives and friends here this
week.
Geo. E. Wright was in Au
gusta on business Monday.
Miss Willie Spradlin return
ed Monday after several days
visit with relatives and friends
in Augusta.
Mr. J. H. Swanson and fam
ily motored to Cotton Plant
Sunday.
Dee Elam left Thursday for
Memphis to enter Draughons
Business College.
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I have taken up seven head
of hogs at my place about 2
miles south of town, 3 boars
and 4 sows. All black with a
hole in the right ear and crop
or swallow fork in the left. The
j same can be had by applying
to John Williams, DeView
| Ark., and paying for the keep
! ing and for this adv. adv ltp
ORGANIZE GINNERS
ASSOCIATION HERE
On Wednesday morning a
number of the ginners of this
county met in McCrory for the
purpose of organizing a Gin
ners Association for Woodruff
County. The meeting was call
ed on the suggestion of the
government in order that the
officials might deal with an or
ganization in the place of indi
viduals. It is thought that the
local organization will enroll
with the Arkansas Ginners As
sociation in the near future.
At the meeting held here
Wednesday the following of
ficers were elected: R. T. Har
ville of Augusta, president;
Mr. Hill of Cotton Plant, vice
! president; J. H. Crossett of
| McCrory, secretary nd treasur
| er. The following directors
were also elected: J. H. Snapp,
Fitzhugh; W. G. Gray, Grays;
i L. L. Cole, Bullville; J. R. Mee
han, Cotton Plant; and J. H.
' Dale, Augusta.
me meeting was caneu 111
! McCrory, this being the most
| desirable place for a meeting
of this nature and it was stat
ed in the by-laws that all busi
ness meetings would be held
here. The organization will be
a great benefit not only to the
ginners, who will have a uni
form price for the ginning and
also for the payment of seed,
etc., but will be a great bene
fit to the farmers who will deal
! with an organization when
having their cotton ginned.
The organization will also
be a great benefit to the gov
government from the fact that
I the government has taken
the gins under control and it
I can thus deal with the presi
dent or some officer and not
I have to deal with each ginner
! individually.
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J. H. Holland of Lonoke, ar
I rived Thursday to spend a few
! days here the guest of his fam
i ily.
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| Mr. and Mrs. Homer Robin
: son spent several days last
week in Little Rock and Rus
sellville where they were the
guests of relatives and friends,
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Misses Grace Burkette and
Minnie Morris of DeVJew
Harry Musgrove of Grays and
| J. Edward Sullivan of McCrorj
| were visitors in Wynne Sun
day.
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j Mrs. T. T. House and Miss
I Freida Williams have return
’ j ed from Little Rock, when
| they were the guests of rela
tives and friends for a few
; days last week.
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Mrs. Ben Watson returnee
» from Memphis the first of th<
i week where she underwent ai
: operation for appendicitis. W<
, are glad to note that she i:
- reported as getting along nice
CARRAWAY VISITS
WOUNDED ABROAD
The delegation of American
Congressmen spent a busy day
visiting with Major Robert P.
Perkins, American Red Cross
Commissioner, the five Red
Cross Hospitals in Paris and its
vicinity. The members of the
House of Representatives were
particularly interested in the
tent hospitals at the race
course of Auteuli where every
Congressman found wounded
Americans from his own con
stituency.
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NOTICE
On and after August the
| first the rule has been changed
I by the Federal Food Adminis
trator, in regard to sugar sales
! and purchases.
I Sugar can only be sold, to
families, TWO POUNDS PER
! PERSON PER MONTH. Using
I the card system.
There is no change in the sale
of sugar of two pounds each
sale in cities and towns and
five pounds in the country.
Sugar will be given retail
stores first, hotels, restaurants
and public eating places come
next.
Make a special effort to get
your people to save sugar.
• . T. E. BONNER,
Woodruff Co. Food Adm’r.
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DEVIEW NEWS
Stanley Manasco has been
taking lessons in post making
from our experienced timber
specialist, Mr. Ed Cook.
Sam McClusky will spend a
few days with his father, S. M.
McClusky before returning to
San Francisco.
| Our crowd had another fish
I fry Tuesday. Some excite
ment too, when the preacher
got to fishing. He caught
everything but the proverbial
whale that Jonah swallowed.
Tuesday night Hen Tom had
a date with Stanley Manasco,
they motored down to Beard’s
in Hen Tom’s “hay burner.”
Forrest Bullard has the blues
! you know the meeting at “Cat
! Island” has closed and he has
nowhere to go.
I The Ladies Aid met with
Mrs. Farley Wednesday after
■ | noon. So far as we know the
, meeting was a success.
A. S. Thompson has employ
ed the auto expert, Mr. Frank
, Lisinger to do light house keep
’! ing work in the black smith
’ I shop this week.
' The Misses Blanche Lee and
’ ^Winnie Wright honored De
view with their presence there
in, overnoon, Sunday, guests
of the Misses Weld.
I Harry Musgrove Chevrolets
j down to DeView pretty often
1 of late, we can’t blame you,
; Harry, for from the faint haze
3 of the almost forgotten past,
- comes the indistinct reccollec
tion of our own youth.