THE HOME NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
VOLUME 3.
CAMP PIKE NOTES
Interesting News Items Con*
cerning Our Soldier Boys
Lately Reported For
The Home News
Camp Pike, Feb. 25, 1918
An interesting feature of
the Red Triangle work in the
camp the past few weeks has
been the campaign for the
Pocket, Testament League.
Over 3,000 of the soldiers have
accepted the little khaki cov
ered testaments and signed
the pledge to read at least a
chapter every day. There are
many earnest Christian men
among the soldiers and they
have rendered the Red Tri
angle workers much aid in
getting the pledges signed.
One knows that spring is
really headed this way when
you can hear the thump of the
base ball into the catcher’s
mitt and the crack of the bat.
Every Y.M.C.A. building on
the ground is furnished with a
number of complete base ball
outfits and between six and sev
en o’clock in the evening the
vacant places and the com
pany streets are filled with
ball players. Others are work
ing on the basket ball court,
some are kicking a football,
some training for the field
meets. You might expect
them to be loafing after a
strenuous day’s work and afew
are, but most want a change
and appear to be getting lots
of fun out of their various
sports.
Perhaps the sweetest gift
that has come to the men at
Camp Pike was the barrel of
sorghum donated through the
Van Buren Red Triangle work
ers by James Little of Harold
ton, Crawford County. A bar
rel of sorghum of fifty gallons
will last quite a while in most
homes, but at Camp Pike it
won’t last longer than the pro
verbial snowball.
It sounds very reasonable
and yet no one had ever before
suggested it that one of the
most aceptable gifts to a sol
dier who is just recovering at
the hospital, too weak and too
indifferent to read and yet well
enough to fret because of the
enforced idleness, is a puzzle.
It does not matter what kind
of a puzzle—key and ring,
wire combinations, pigs-in-the
clover, block or cardboard—
any puzzle that is not too easy
and yet not too complicated;
they will be welcomed in any
quanity at Camp Pike. Per
haps your merchants have
some of them for advertising
purposes. Perhaps you have
some of them hidden away in
a forgotten drawer that you
would like to share with the
boys here. Just mail them to
the Y.M.C.A. Administration
Building, Camp Pike, for Base
Hospital, and hundreds of
weary men will call you bles
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, MARCH 1, 1918
Work on New Brick Buildings
The concrete foundation for
the three modern two-story
brick buildings to be construct
ed by Contractor L. Collamore
of Little Rock for Mr. Fletcher
Lewis and Mr. J. E. Comer is
now completed and workmen
will be busy within the next
few days laying brick for the
walls. When completed, the
new structures will be a great
improvement and a very valu
able asset to our growing little
city.
sed. This suggestion came
from Mr. Stover, our new Red
Triangle man out at the Base
Hospital. The new “Y” build
ing will soon be completed
there and it will aid greatly
in the work among the pa
tients. There were less than
1,400 men there when I asked
last and conditions are speedi
ly improving. The greatest
number there at any one time
was about 2,000.
If the army was in a tented
city instead of one that looks
very much as though it were
a big collection of barns, the
casual visitor would get the im
pression that a big circus had
just reached town. The huge
mountains of baled hay; men
clattering up and down the
streets on artillery and truck
horses; bands and individual
musicians practicing here and
there ; a constant stream of au
tos, motor-cycles, trucks, am
bulances, delivery wagons;
men, with and without their
rifles, stride by in squads, com
panies and regiments. Freight
engines puff noisily up and
down the track that divides
the camp into two equal com
munities. And everywhere
the soldiers. Every barrack
that is under quarrantine has
it’s guards on all sides and ev
ery sunny day the cots and
bedding are out in the com
pany front or back yard to air
until it looks like moving day.
The comedy is furnished by an
auto load of negroes with a
white driver. There is no
slowing down for ruts and
rough spots, and as the ne
groes are thrown high in the
air when they hit a big bump
they yell until they can be
heard for a mile.
Perhaps it may avail some
thing to call attention to the
inadvisability of wives of en
listed men coming to Little
Rock to be near their husbands
unless they have ample means,
and even then it is difficult to
find suitable locations for
them. A large number of these
wives do not have sufficient
funds for they find board
much higher than they antic
ipated and are soon compelled
to ask aid from some of the lo
cal sources. The Y.M.C.A. is
doing splendid work in this
line and their secretaries at
the union station are called
upon daily to aid these wo
men.
BIG CLUB RALLY HELD
IN McCRORY SATURDAY
Members Of The Boys’ And
Girls’ Clubs From All
Parts of The County
In Attendance
The Boys’ and Girls’ Agri
cultural Club Rally, held at
McCrory last Saturday was
well attended both by its mem
bers and parents. A very
nice and patriotic program
was carried out. We were
somewhat surprised at the
large number who comprised
the parade and Mr. Beck tells
us this was not near all of
them either. Owing to the
bad roads the boys and girls
from Gregory could not get
here. The members from
Howell were very much in
evidence, with their well dec
orated cars and many timely
yells. Some 75 boys and
girls were present.
Fifteen pure bred pigs were
distributed to the following
boys and girls: Emiline Os
borne, Clyde Reneau, and
Ruth Johnson of Howell;
Robt. Collier, of Tip; Miss
Willie Spradlin, Fletcher
Lewis, Otis Jernigan, Ruth
Beck, and Harry Walker of
McCrory; Sidney Thompson,
and Ervin Mitchell, of DeView
Lon Morgan and Julius Pad
gett, of Grays, and Alma
Douglas, of Augusta.
McCrory Home Guards
The McCrory Home Guards
will meet Mar. 4, at 2:00 p.
m. in the hall over the McCro
ry Drug Co. if the day is pleas
ant, but if the weather is bad
will meet the next Monday.
Every member is asked to
be present and those who care
to join are cordially invited to
be present. The Advisory
Board will submit the consti
tution and by-laws that will
govern the body.
C. B. COOK, Captain.
Registered Pigs For Sale
Poland China gilts from a
registered sow that cost $100.
the big bone kind, registered,
three months old and in fine
condition. Call or write L. J.
Dilliard, McCrory. Adv3pd
Red Cross Notice
Mrs. W. T. McCain now
has charge of the Red Cross
work at McCrory and anyone
desiring information or thread
for knitting purposes will see
her about same.
Messrs. Holt and Key of
Pumpkin Bend, Lee Collier of
Tip, A. A. Mitchell of DeView,
and Mrs. W. M. Comer of Mc
Crory were visitors to our city
in attendance at the Rally" of
the members of the Boys’ and
Girls’ Agricultural Clubs Sat
urday.
NUMBE 1
Card of Thanks
Words can not express our
sincere thanks and gratitude
to our many friends and ac
quaintances for their many
kindnesses and expressions of
sympathy extended us in our
recent bereavement and sor
row.
• Also for the beautiful flor
al tributes and last but not
least, those who labored untir
ingly to relieve our beloved
father in his last moments.
J. C. McCRORY,
LULA McCRORY,
GROVER McCRORY.
Miss Eflie Jones has just re
turned home from Higginson
where she closed a successful
term of school last Friday.
Mr. W. G. Dilliard went to
Boonville Tuesday and re
trned Thursday, accompanied
by Mrs. Dilliard who has been
at the state sanitarium there
since November.
If the persons who have my
cross cut saw, post hole digger,
two claw hammers and mattoc
will bring them home, they
may in the future, have a clean
conscience. H.B.GRAY.
Adv.lt.pd.
Mr. Luther G. Jones, a valu
able employee of the Missouri
Pacific Ry. Co. in the signal
service department and who is
located at Wynne, spent Sun
day with home folks in Mc
Crory.
Miss Freddie Walker re
turned Wednesday to her
home at Higginson after
spending a few days here the
pleasant guest of Miss Effie
Jones and her cousin, Mrs. W.
H. Jimerson.
Atty. J. T. Thompson, of
Wynne, was a pleasant visit
or in our city Monday. Mr.
Thompson, in former years,
was employed as claim agent
for the Iron Mountain Railway
Company and has several
friends here among our busi
ness people.
Mr. J. R. Miller went to Lit
tle Rock Monday and brought
home his son, Henry, who un
derwent an operation several
days ago at St. Lukes Hospital.
The boy is improving as well
as could be expected, but he
will have to return and have
another operation performed.
A Short But Strong Statement
Women with backache, rheu
matic pains, sore muscles, stiff
joints or other symptoms of
kidney trouble should read this
statement from Mrs.S.C.Small,
Clayton, N.M.: “Foley Kidney
Pills have done me more good
than all other medicines.”They
strengthen weak kidneys and
banish sleep-disturbing blad
der ailments. Red Cross Drug *
Co., McCrory. Adv.