THE HOME NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
VOLUME 3.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1917
NUMBER 4
Your Mayor Wants
Your Co-operation
We, as your mayor, want your
co-operation in cleaning up our
town. Will you give it?
Our progressive council has
given us a law by which we can
force everyone, who has not al
ready done so, to better the san
itary conditions of his premises,
but it is not our desire to impose
any penalty upon anyone and we
are asking you to co-operate by
at once complying with the new
town ordinance No. 42 which was
enacted more than a month ago.
It is the desire of the adminis
tration to maintain the very best
scavenger service at the very
least expense. To do this it is
necessary that your closet be
placed at the most convenient
place on your premises, always
on an alley line if there be one.
Some citizens have their closets
located at the most inconvenient
place possible and we must ask
that this condition be improved
at once.
Just the mere installation of
a sanitary can does not comply
with the ordinance as the law
requires all closets to be located
at the most convenient place for
scavenger work to be done. The
law as regards the location of
closets will have to be complied
with, otherwise the council will
he asked to allow the scavenger
an extra charge for closets clean
ed that are not properly located.
Chief of all we hope to see ac
complished while at the head of
our town is the sanitary condition
improved and we believe that
you will agree with us that same
is being done if you will only vis
it a few of the back alleys
of our town. The old privy or
surface closet has been con
demned by all health boards and
should be annihilated y and it
must be in McCrory.
We do not want to be a leader
but we want to be your partner
m all efforts for improvements
and especially to better the health
conditions here. Some wise man
has said, “A town is like the
sky at night; for a flash of light
ening in one quarter of the
heavens ligh.ts up all the rest, so
disease in the poorest section of
the town reaches out its fingers
and blights the remote home of
the wealthy.”
Progress is written in large
letters across the South * at this
time. Business, education, farm
ing, road-building, all are forg
ing onward. And there is bright
ness in the eyes, a spring to the
step, and gladness in the hearts
of the people. But, look again.
Some eyes are dull and hollowed.
Listen, there are some feet that
drag. Listen once more, and
from behind a closed shutter you
hear the sound of parents - weep
ing. Please God that we may
be forgiven, in that we*have let
that sweet child die of a malady
that could have been prevented?
Yes, Why? Not all the doctors
in America’s richest city can
tear some poor bodies free from
the grip of typhoid fever, but
the humblest little town can
prevent every case of it.”
What were the conditions un
der which we were and are yet
partially living now? If those
conditions remained and our pro
gressive town continued tQ grow,
as it is and will, what would be
your chances and your children’s
chances of living twenty years,
ten years, or five years? It is a
life insurance proposition. So
we make bold to ask you, for
your health’s sake, to look'about
you with seeing eyes.
We again ask for your kind
co-operation in this work and
repeat that it is not our desire to
impose a penalty upon anyone,
I but if it becomes necessary to
| force some to clean-up, then the
! heavy arm of the law will be
used and that very forceably.
Let’s make McCrory clean.
Yours for Health,
Walter W. Raney,
Mayor.
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C. B. Cook, Jr., is now dis
pensing sodas at the Red Cross
fountain.
Born: To Mr. and Mrs. L. L.
Cole of Bullville, Sunday, Aug- j
ust 12, 1917, a boy.
Mr. A. L. Sims of Bald Knob
has been the guest of Mr. W. N.
Dunehew this week.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Arnof' are
j spending a few weeks in St.
| Louis and New York.
Ford cars will save you money
j in the long run. Riggs Brothers,
! McCrory, Ark. Adv.3-30tf
Lost: Crank for Overland car.
: Finder please return to W. E.
i Jelks, McCrory, Ark. It Adv
Messrs V. E. Huff and G. D.
Harris have been received for
the second officers training camp, !
Little Rock. j
Miss Edith Jeffries entertained ■
a number of little people Wednes
day afternoon in honor of her
little friend Miss Edith Albritton
of Memphis.
Messrs J. M. Arnof and W. B.
Huff are home from the officers
training camp, Little Rock, where
they were given commissions as*
second lieutenants.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Simmons
are the proud parents of their
fourteenth child, a boy, which
tipped the scales at 15 pounds
upon his arrival Tuesday, August
14, 1917. The father is 45 and
j the mother 41 years of age.
State Health Officers Meet
The Association of County and
City Health Officers of the State
jff Arkansas will hold their annual
meeting in Little Rock on August
22 and 23.* Among the addresses
to be delivered is one by Dr. D.
C. Absher, who has charge of
the health campaign now being
conducted in Woodruff county.
Every county and city health
officer in the state is expected to
attend and it will probably be
one of the greatest public health
gatherings ever held in the state.
Methodist Church.
We will have our usual services
next Sunday morning and even
ing and we hope to see all our
people out and all our friends too.
F. A. Lark, Pastor.
Wanted: Ash logs, 12 inches
and up, clear, $20. on car. C.
Stilwell, Augusta Ark. Adv 2t
The Bank of McCrory has
moved into the beautiful building
formerly occupied by the Far
mers & Merchants Bank just
north of the Waverly Hotel.
Found: New coat for boy about
14 years old, near McCrory.
Owner may have same by prov
ing ownership and paying for this
advertisement. J. W. Smith.
Elder W. T. Breedlove of Til
lar, Ark., will begin a series of
sermons for the Church of
Christ, Sunday, Aug. 19th, at 11
o’clock. Everybody invited to
attend.
Messrs J. F. Morgan and T. J.
Fakes, and Families, returned
this week from a pleasure trip to
Warsaw and Cole Camp, Mo.
While there Mr. Morgan pur
chased a car load of good Missouri
mules and mares which will ar
rive about Oct. 15.
Mrs. Lula Shue has purchased
the Smoke House confectionery
from Mr. E. C. March and will
move her grocery stock in the
same building to be operated in
conjunction with the fountain.
Mr. F. Lewis has rented the
building to be vacated by Mrs.
Shue and states that he will build
next spring. He will use the
building for a warehouse this fall
and winter and for a place of
business next spring while his
old frame buildings are being
i razed afld the new brick being
built.
Woodruff Men Qualified and Ac
cepted for the National Army
Out of the first 60 men called for examination all reported ex
cept one slacker, Emory Ward, No 783, of McCrory. Thirtyseven
of the 59 claimed exemption and six of the 37 were refused exemp
tions. Thirtyone of the 59 were exempted. Three more than the
county's quota, 20, qualified and were accepted from the 59 who
reported/ The 20 men who will compose Woodruff county’s part
of the National Army are as follows:
2 No. 458, William Moore, colored....Augusta
12 No. 1752, Joseph Kynion, white..McClelland
16 No. 837, Pete York, white.Cotton Plant
17 No. 337, Mitchell Callicott, white.Cotton Plant
22 No. 564, Grant Lock, colored... Cotton Plant
23 No. 945, Clarence R. Smith, white.Hunter
24 No. 1913, J. B. Mauldin, white.Hillemaftn
25 No. 596, Abraham Ellis, colored.Cotton Plant i
26 No. 1267, E. E. Walker, white*. A. Howell
28 No. 1495, Berden Cunningham, colored*.McCrory !
29 No. 548, Otis Z. McConnell, white.Cotton Plant
30 No. 126, Lee Tyner, white.Penrose
32 No. 1237, Martin Hazelwood, colored .Howell
35 No. 755, L. Greenlee, colored.Cotton Plant
36 No. 107, DarrelLBaker Wilson, white.Gregory
39 No. 1369, Ed Westmoreland, colored .Fitzhygh
41 No. 373, Richard Barron, colored.Cotton Plant
48 No. 600, Landon Johnson, white .Cotton Plant
51 No. 1539, Floyd Dupree, colored.McCrory
53 No. 507, L. A. Bain, white.Hunter
THE THREE/ EXTRA RESERVES
55 No. 437, Loyd Owens, colored, .Augusta
57 No. 604, Curtis Gilcrease, white, .Augusta
58 No. 43, James Mills, colored,.Gregory
Woodruff Co. Fair, McCrory, Oct. 24-5-6th