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WOODRUFF CO, .NEWS.
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McCiW:') . ARKANSAS.
G. W. !vRA1£R, Editar.
K::ter*••(! ul vV-2 i*o»L p V.e-.* at McCrory.
ArV-"'asv-'..a;> 'xitlCl;... mail matter.
.SUDS'.vKU’T 9NT KATHj}
,O ie i oar in ad . tn,~e.
t Quite a little improvement has
sheen done on our streets this
A’eek, cutting down the dog fen
'ie3. We learn that the city
{Council is contemplating laying
,;lown new walks over town,
y.ind in the place of having two
planks to constitute the walk,
three planks will be used, they
hieing nailed close together, so
that the fennel can not grow in
oetween them. This will be a
great improvement and the city
dads should be congratulated for
4*his good work. May it continue.
f t is not always necessary to
•visit a town to know whether or
not it is prospering. Get hold
fif the news paper or papers and
you can always tell. If the busi
ness interests of the town are
represented in the newspaper
columns, the story is told. The
rule is one that has never failed.
Business men cannot afford to
.allow a newspaper of their town
jo go out without their adver
tisements in it, if they will take
the proper view of the matter;
for such a paper becomes a poor
representative, In this connec
tion we want to say that the bus
iness men of Salem are seeing to
it that the Banner Nugget is a
jam-up good representative of
our county-seat—and this is as
it should be.—Mammoth Springs
Democrat.
HEARD FROM AGAIN.
pother Cockran Explains the Differ
ence Betwgsu a Turkey Dinner
am! a Barbecue
HE GOES AFTER SUNDAY FEASTS.
He Thinks the Dinner Onjfht to Have Been in
u 5aloon, Whether it was or not, nnd
Thinks it /last Have Seen Disorderly.
Bro. B. L. Cochran us a good
preacher and also a good citizen.
He has an abundance of gab and
an jitter contempt for a certain
glass of people who believe in
having dinner on Sunday as well
as any other day, and who don’t
bother anyone while they dine.
While Bro. Cochran is possessed
of a full appreciation cf the im
portance and dignity of his posi
tion he does not go about the
streets crying out that he is a
preacher. A peculiarity of Bro.
Cochran is a habit of searching
for mean wicked things. This
has made him extremely unpop
ular in certain walks of life.
He is quite a phrenologist and
his heady work has resulted in
the saving of many a Sunday
feastpr (>). He has lately exam
ined his own head and found it
normal in size and well shaped, j
The following friendly rejoinder j
is what some people call argu-:
ment;
REPLY TO BROTHER ICRAMEK.
Mr. Editor: In your reply toj
my criticism on the Big Four
Sunday banquet, you say, the
dinner did not take place in a
saloon, but in a private residence
back of, and apart from the
saloon, in your first write-up;
of the dinner, you say in the
rearof Vaccaro & Wilder’ssaloon
js the scene of this club, and you .
hon’t even mention the fact that
there was another house back of
and apart from the saloon.
Now, is it not a fact that the
house back of the saloon, is a
part of the saloon, it being rent
ed by one of the saloon keepers i
for eating and sleeping purposes?
A real bachelor’s hall.
You also say, it may not be,
and no doubt is not. the best way
of serving the Lord on Sunday, j
by ha vipg a qmot. orderly dinner,
but you car.not see the picture as (
darit as painted by Bro. Cochran.!
Np'v J t uteri' that vonr own!
picture of that dinner is darker
than the one I drew. Here it is
(omiting personalises): “The
roasting was interspersed witih i
addresses, one of which was on
Craps and Crap-shooters, anoth-'
or young1 man spend most of his 1
time looking for a thin glass, etc., j
also the gentleman from Coifk
was greatly abused, beingthrown
around promiscuously, and it
took three porters and the cook
ten minutes to gather together
his scattered remains.. Is that
what >ou call a quiet, orderly
dinner? Again, you refer to the
great barbecue last Sunday at
Fake’s Chapel ns a violation of
the Sabbath day, etc. Now I
want to &av that wo had no bar
becue last Sunday. We had re
ligious services at ten o’clock a.
m., and then dinner on the
ground prepared by the good
ladies the week before, which
consisted in many good things,
one of which was barbecued
meat, and which was not a vio
lation of the 4th commandment,
as you charge.
The Sabbath was set apart by
God to be observed as a day of
worship, in which liis people are
commanded to repair to his
house to worship and adore his
holy name. But since you and
some of your readers cannot see
the difference between the two
dinners, I will try to tell you. At
the dinner iast Sunday the peo
ple of God met at their place of
worship, and spent one hour or
more in singing God’s praise and
other religious services, after
which we gathered around the
food spread out on the ground,
where we offered up thanks to
God, and invoked His blessing
upon the food we ate, after which
we had another religious service,
which closed with the benedic
tion, and the congregation dis
persed. The Sunday dinner
here the week before, consisted
not in songs and prayers, and
religious services, but in ad
dresses on Craps and Crap shoot
ers, hunting thin glass and the
flying of beer bottle corks, all of
which you think was a quiet, or
derly dinner. I may have a
beam in my eye, but for the life
of me, I can’t see, from your re
port of the banquet, how you
could call it a quiet, orderly, and
gentlemanly dinner.
S. L. Cochran.
First asking our readers their
indulgence, we wish to say
a few things in regard to the
Big Four dinner, that has so
greatly irritated the preacher
and the account of which he read
with ‘'bitter regret.” We will
first say, as we said before, we
are not defending Sunday dinners
but there are good, upright, and
pure men who enjoy a dinner on
Sunday as well as any other day.
This is one of their faults, and I
claim that we are all fallible.
Some more so than others. But
whenever and wherever a com
munity is living in peace and con
cord, it is not desirable or politic
to disturb those conditions. We
think you will agree with us on
that proposition. Again; wher
ever a community is torn with
bitter hostility and constant
strife, it is wise in the interest
of peace and good fellowship to
(as far as possible) remove or
amend all irritating causes, and
restore harmony.
Some people imagine it dead
easy to “run” a paper and all
those who so think would run-fit
in the different ways peculiar to
themselves, and as we said be
fore, were we to ask 100 different
people how a paper should be
run we would, no doubt, receive
just so many different ways. We
v/ili therefore run the News just
as G. W. Kramer would run it.
Were we to find objections to
everything everyone does con
trary to religion and the laws of
our land, and mgke personal at
tacks on all who ' make these
mistakes, we would last about as
long in the newspaper business
as a snowball on a red hot stove.
If we were to give our opinion on
the mistakes of any one man in
our town, the mistakes he com
mits daily, our paper would be
full of his mistakes. But then
some people are narrow-guaged,
we thank the Lord there are not
more than there are. We can
truthfully say that the great
majority of our people are broad
gtiaged and law-abiding citizens.
Some may not be as bright as;
others. Some may not know the*
difference between, a barbecue
and a turkey dinner, but so long]
:is wo can receive such a thorough 1
explanation as the article above
contains, we should not feel bad
l for one thank Brother Cochran
for clearing ray mind on this dif
ference.
Wheter or not Brother Cochran
believes incur veracity, we don’t,]
know, neither do we care, but
for his sake we will again say as
we said in our last issue that that
dinner took place in a private
residence separate .and apart from
any saloon and is not lentod for
any saloon purposes, being used
as a residence. If you can’t un
derstand this, come up and we
will take you over and show you
that it is thus.
I have no desire to offend and !
.sincerely hope that none who read !
this are so constituted that they
cannot without feeling offense,
read a frank expression of honest
ly entertained opinion, or a plain
statement of unpleasant truths,
but I d< i believe that a strange con
ceit which makes men willing to
persecute their fellowmen for
honest intellectual differences, is
the offspring of ignorance.
Brother Cochran, you undoubt
edly have ability but the way you
are using or abusing it, you wiil
make one hundred infidels to ev
ery Christian. The manner of go
ing after souls unconverted is, ac
cording to our idea, the wrong
manner. You cannot drive a man
to see as you see. If your ability
as a preacher is not sufficient
to reach the people, you should
go and reason with them privately
and tell them of their faults or
better start a religious paper.
In the place of having a beam
in your eye, we are led to believe
you have two. Our language is
strong, you wouldn’t understand
it if it were not so. We think
what you have said is a religious
error. In expressing these views
I speak only for myself, and in the
exercise of a privilege which I
freely accord to all. Change
your methods and we will help
you or anyone else who is honest
ly endeavoring to elevate humani
ty.
Our advice to you is, when next |
feel an impulse creeping on to in-1
vadethe realm of economics, you ■
should chloroforn it; or hit it
with a club.
WIVES WANTED.
(Apologies to Sam Julies )
I’ve got an order for a thous
and first-class girls, girls who
know how to be real wives and
mothers. If you old women
have any first-class girls here I
can marry them off for you right
now to the best young men in the
world. But I can’t use any ball
room belles,
I used to dance, but I was
drunk when I did it every time.
I never saw an intelligent person
on the ball room floor unless lie
was drunk. I am talking for
our girls. If I could I would
build a mighty wall around them.
But some of you young ladies
like these tough young bucks
who frequent the dance. Get
these bucks and buckesses to
gether and God only knows
what devilish work will be done.
When in Need
of Chill Tonic you will find the
following tonics in my stock:
Winter smith’s, Plantation's,
Grove’s, Wood’s, Bull’s Riche’s,
Snider’s, McGee’s, Blue’s. .
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You can find
a full-line of Patent Medicines
and a nice fresh stock of Pre
scription Drugs.
Your patronage solicited,
A. S. THOMPSON,
DeView, Arkansas.:
Good Lord, deliver me from a
fast girl. I lilce fast horses but
when it comes to a gal, I like a
slow one. A mile a week is fast
enough. We must save our
girls. The boys are lost already, j
If I was engaged to a girl and |
she went to a dance I wouldn’t:
marry her to save her neck. I f !
she breaks the vow she makes to
God when she joins the church,
she might break her vow to me.
A certain Catholic bishop in New
York said that nine-tenths of the
fallen women who confessed to
him attributed their* fall to the
ball-room
That is one reason there are so
many old bachelors today.
It takes nerve for a man to as
sume the support of one of these
sassyty birds. Young men are
not looking for faded, run down
for-get-uxe-not apothecary shops
for wives. They want fresh,
robust, pure-hearted girls who
have not allowed all the nectar to
be sucked from their lips by so
ciety rakes, nor allowed ball
room profligates to squeeze all
the sweetness out of them.
—Kodak,
AI.'OTHiM ONE.
It seems that there are other
citizens in Woodruff county who
believe in Sunday dinners
as well as the Big Four, hast
Sunday quite a crowd gathered
at the home of Bob Smith, down
on Possum Creek and enjoyed I
themselves with a line barbecue i
dinner. Among those to attend
were Dave Burkett, John Burk-j
ett, Henry Harris, Sid Smith, |
Ben Albritton, George Smith, j
John Raymond, W. M„ Mathews,
Jim Smith and Geo. Bobbins.
The gentlemen report a very line
time and all kinds of good eata
bles. There was plenty and to
spare.
It is with m uch fear that we give
space to the publication of this j
news item for fear of another 2 \
column criticism. But we pub-1
lish the news. Much fault was
found with our Big Four write
up and one person thought it]
ought to be written-clown.
We trust that our readers will
read this without having to send
in a two column sermon cn “anti
Sunday dinners.” They are aw
ful, but will happen and we can’t
help it. Sometimes a man kills
another. We tell-of this too.
This is also awful.
Martin Junction
L'y Our Regular Correspondent.
Misses Florence Rosser passed
through our city Wednesday for
her home, accompanied by Mi - s
Bessie Johnson of Augusta.
D. C. York & Co., was on our
streets Wednesday. lie is still
single.
Mrs. W. B. Daugherty and
Miss Nina Riggs were pleasant
callers one day this week.
Look out for the 4th of July.
See the agent fo r cheap rates to
all points.
The agent jnade a business
trip to Riverside last Sunday
afternoon.
Fred Gifford of MeCrory, says
he is going to the hospital soon.
BALL GAMES.
The MeCrory and Wiville se
cond nines crossed bats here
last Saturday, resulting in a
score of 47 to 6 in favor of our
boys. Tuesday they played the
second nine of Augusta, score 5
I Our first nine played two games
with the Augusta first niueTues
day and Wednesday of this week.
Tuesday’s game resulted in a
score of 16 to 5 in favor of Au
gusta, while Wednesday’s game
was captured by our boys, score
12 to 0. The batteries were:
Tuesday, MeCrory, Allinder,Her
man and Austell: Augusta, Marre
and Carroll. Wednesday—Mc
Cror.v, Meehan and Auetell; Au
gusta, Walker, Marre and Car
roll. Oar space does not permit
a more extensive mention of the
games.
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25 Timber-Men,
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An all Summer's Job. Thirty day pay. Good Timber.
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PHYSICIAN AND' SURGEON.
MeCEORY. - - - ARK.
OWw! next door west of K. E. Hamilton's
furniture store. I will be foun t at my office
day or night.
DR. W. T. HcCAIN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
McCRORY. - - - ARK.
Office corner Maine staeet and Edmonds Av
enue Will answer nil calls day and night.
E.C. KRAMER,
AITURNEY-AT-LAV.’.
McCrory Arkansas
Will in notice In al! the courts of the First
' Judicial District. Will write risks in town or
in the country against loss by tire, lightning or
cyclones. 1 represent the best Fire-Insurance
companies in the United States.
WavBRLY I lOTEL.
MRS. L. m’fall, Prop.
McCrory, - Arkansas.
I Centrally located. Convenient to depot.
Porter meets all trains. Your patronage
solicited.
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CONTRACTOR & BUILDER.
Plans and specifications given for all kinds
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such as building houses, mill-righting and
moving houses.
CARL-LEE & SUMMERS
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Augusta . . Arkansas
Will practice ia all courts of the State
W. T. RANEY,
TONSORIAL ARTIST.
Does a general bartering business. All
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particular. Transient custom solicited. Cus
tomary prices. On Edmonds Avenue oppo
site H. Arnof.
MOCSOUV, ... - AKK.ANS.iS,
it will be money to all who need
Tombstones. Marble and Monu
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IRON HOUNTAIN ROUTE TIME TABLE
GOING EAST.
Passsenger No. 160 arrives McCrory, 1:18 a ,.
" No. 164 '• ** 11:10 a. .
GOING WEST.
Passenger No. 153 arrives McCrory, 11:40 a. m
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