the home news
Published every Friday at McCrory, Ark.
WALTER W. RANEY, Ed. and Pub.
Subscription $1.00 per Year in Advance.
Phone: 40
Entered as second-class mat
ter August 26, 1915, at the post
>ffice at McCrory, Ark., under
the Act of March 3, 1879.
MARCH 29, 1918
ANNOUNCEMENT COLUMN
Rates—Cash in Advance.
Congressman . $15 00
Prosecuting Attorney 15 00
Circuit Judge . 15 00
Chancery Judge . 15 00
State Senator . 15 00
Sup’t of Schools . 15 00
Representative . 10 00
Sheriff . 10 00
Clerks . 10 00
County Judge . 10 00
Tax Assessor . 10 00
Surveyor . 5 00
J. P. and Constable .... 2 50
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The Home News is authoriz
ed to announce the following
gentlemen as candidates for
the respective offices mention
ed just over their names sub
ject to the action of the Demo
cratic Primary, to be held on
Tuesday, May 28, 1918.
For Congressman—
T. H. CARAWAY
For State Senator—
WALTER W. RANEY
For Prosecuting Attorney—
JOHN E. MILLER
For Chancellor—
E. D. ROBERTSON
A. L. HUTCHINS
For Sheriff—
ALEX McGREGOR
R.E.L.“BOB” SPRADLIN
For Circuit Clerk—
GEORGE HARALSON
For County Judge—
E. M. CARL-LEE
L. W. WINFREE
For Sup’t. of Schools—
W. N. “BILL” WILKES
For Representative—
A. J. PORTER
J. T. ANGELO
E. W. CHANEY
For Assessor—
W. L. BLACKSTONE
For Road Overseer—
(DeView Township)
R. j. McDaniel
E. c. CAUDLE
GRANVILLE WILSON
(Cache Township)
BEN WISE
JELKS JOTTINGS
The Sunday School work is
growing in interest under the
efficient leadership of Mrs.
Patterson.
Rev. H. V. Johnson filled
his regular appointment here
Sunday, preaching two excel
lent sermons for our people.
Prof. Gray, our hustling
young pedagogue, is all smiles
the past few days—over the
thoughts of making an early
visit to Augusta.
The Home News editor was
a cordial visitor in our city one
day last week. He was ac
companied by Messrs. J. H.
Crossett and W. E. Jelks.
Commercial Reeves was in
town a few minutes Monday
and while here found a nice
iltue bundle of daily readeis
for the Commercial Appeal.
FredMullens is the electri
cian about his father’s home,
and now that he has a new
belt, he expects to make plen
ty of electric juice for the
light plant.
Ed Harris was “cutting
teeth” last week—on Irish po
tatoes, Triumphs especially,
and says nothing like plenty of
seed potatoes at this time of
year.
Mayo and Robinson have a
new motor truck and Miss Ora
Lee Hunnicutt, their pretty
office girl, has been making
some special drives with the
new machine. She’s quite an
expert lady chauffeur.
Ed Harris and A. M. Faulk
ner were Memphis visitors
Saturday evening, returning
on the early Sunday morning
train. The former connnue
tng his visit over to Judsonia,
his wife and son accompanying
him over Sunday.
J. W. Mullens, Manager of
the Mullens Grocery Co., and
his estimable wife spent
Thursday afternoon of last
week in the City of Roses, the
former attending to business
and his wife making a shop
ping and pleasure trip.
Our hustling postmaster has
his cabinet located in new
quarters in the new addition
of the store building of the J.
F. Gardner & Co., business
house. It is much more con
veniently arranged to the
benefit of both patron and of
fice department force.
Thursday evening of next
week the ladies of the town
will serve cream at the school
house, the proceeds to go to
the Sunday School. Everybody
is invited—Our McCrory young
folk especially are extended
an invitation to attend and en
joy the festivities of the even
ing.
Prof. Gray is getting some of
his boys ready to enter the
contest that is to be on at New
port a few weeks hence by the
various schools in this part of
the state. Some good sprint
ers are being developed, and
Jelks expects to fetch home
“the bacon” when the races
are over.
•J. D. Phillips is a new man
on the Mullens Grocery Co.,
force, checking in Monday
morning. This live-wire firm
is doing an enormous business
Manager Mullens is the right
man in the right place and he
has the happy faculty of se
lecting his staff of workmen,
and he is an A 1 salesman.
J. S. Benson and his excel
lent wife are now bonifide
residents of our burg, they re
ceiving their household goods
last week. They are domi
ciled in their new home on
Front street.
R. W. Allen and wife, lately
from Memphis, but now en
gaged in the mercantile busi
ness at Morton, were visitors
in our city Tuesday afternoon
coming over in one of Uncle
Henry’s benzine buggies. They
were business and social visit
ors at the Mullens Grocery Co.
emporium.
Quite a nmber of Jelkites
attended the “Womanless’
Wedding at McCrory Tuesday
evening, among the number,
we note J. W. Mullens and
family, Edward Harris, May
nard Prince, Misses May Suns
and Ora Lee Hunnicutt and
Mrs. Johnnie Patterson. They
report a most excellent pro
gram, laughable and very en
tertaining.
The good ladies of the town
gave an oyster supper at the
school building Tuesday even
ing of last week, the gross re
ceipts being above $14.00.
<^uite a number wrere present
to enjoy the festive oyster well
garnished with Lee & Perrin
es’ best and Blue Label catsup.
Grover Gardner had about the
keenest appetite for the sea
fruit, eating a few dozen and
smiling over the feast all day.
Our ladies are to be commend
ed for their zeal and activity
in this endeavor. The pro
ceeds go to liquidate the in
debtedness for the school seats
We trust oyster time comes
again soon—we are hungry
some more, Mrs. Patterson.
The good women of our lit
tle city sallied forth one very
bright day last week on a clear
up campaign and they have
given our “lords of creation”
a most excellent example in
sanitary matters in municipal
affairs. Wonder if there is a
man left in all our town who
could say that the women are
not qualified eminently to vote
on municipal affairs. We tip
our delapidated beavers and
last summer lids to yez, ladies
in honor of your timely les
son, and we are hoping now
that our men will “follow suit”
and wage further efforts along
the way. The main street near
the depot is a shining example
of what our women can do.
Three cheers for our women.
A Potato Story
The little city of Jelks is
noted for its two big whole
sale grocery houses and the
crossing of the railroads which
makes business quite good for
her. All the jitneys come to
Jelks, its a lively town and
full of push, prunes and pota
toes, too, if anybody makes
any inquiries. But we have
one big potato story to relate
to the News readers. Last
summer W. V. Justice propos
ed to J. W. Mulleins that if
he (Mullens) v^ould f”’
the seed potato
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SEMI-WEEKLY GAZETTE,
3-8-10t Little Rock, Ark.
raise a share crop. The pota
toes were planted, and the
season with the proper culture
came on and passed, only a
few little fellows in a hill and
the hills far apart when the
bugs swiveled up the crop,
and there were “no potatoes”
for the harvest. ’Twas for
gotten, of course, till this
spring, after the severe win
ter with the big sleets and
snows had gone away back
and sat down and gentle Miss
Spring shoved the old cold fel
low off her lap and smiled to
us to come out for the spring
gardening. Mr. Justice be
gan plowing in this said last
year’s potato patch and what
do you supose he found, eh?
Well, about three bushels of
the nicest sound potatoes in
the country! Now that is the
reason that the potato market
In Jelks is “glutted” and the
potato customers are full to
overflowing.
Dr. Earle Kittrell, Veteri
narian, of Augusta, will be in
McCrory the last Saturday of
each month. Have him exam
ine your horse. Adv.3-15tf
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