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E. M. CARL-LEE.
Judge—
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Sheriff—
W R. CAIN.
Circuit Clerk—
Wm. MOORMAN.
County Clerk—
ED B. CARL-LEE.
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W. B. FAKES.
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McCrory, Ark.
FARnERS’ UNION HOLDS
MEETING IN THIS CITY.
The Woodruff County Union
held an interesting meeting in this
city last Friday. Arrangements
for the accomodation of 58 dele
gates were made by the McCrory
Local Union, but owing to the
small amount of business coming
before the bod}’ the Union finished
its work Friday evening, there
fore the two day’s accommodations
were not needed. About forty
delegates and thirty visitors from
the various local unions over the
county, were present. Following
are the proceedings of the meeting.
MINUTES.
Woodruff County Union No. 46.
Meeting held on 3rd., day of April,
1908, at McCrory, Ark.
With President R. C, Cody in
the chair and Secretary E. W.
Chaney at his desk, the Woodruff
County Union was declared open
for the transaction of any business
that might come before the body.
J. G. Dupree, W. M. Taylor and
L. H. Fowler were appointed as
credential committee. They de
clared the following locals fully
represented, towit:
Cody Union No.664 8 delegates.
Jordan Union No.673 6 dele
gates.
McCrory Union No.2765 5 dele
gates.
Pulltight Union No.2639 7 del
egates.
Whitehall No. 655 1 delegate.
Buffalo Union No. 668 2 dele
gates.
Pumpkin Bend Union No. 945 3
delegates.
Parnell Union No. 655 3 dele
gates.
Mill Union No.2561 4 delegates.
Adjournment for dinner.
Promptly at 1:30 p. m. the house
was called to order pursuant to ad
journment. The chair ordered the
Secretary-Treasurer to pay to R.
G. Cody and R. A, Jones $11.00
each for expenses to Memphis'Con
vention. Motion prevailed to have
the Secretary to write H. Beecher
Lewis the State Lecturer about
some appointments due this coun
ty. Report of Executive Commit
tee on Secretary’s book show them
to be in good condition with $27.
26 to the credit of County Union.
Motion providing that every
local Secretary make a tabulated
report of the estimated number of
bales of cotton to be raised by
their membership, the number
they will be able to hold without
assistance and the number with the
amount of assistance per bale they
will need in order our authorities
may make the necessary prepara
tions for financing the 1908 cotton
crop; send it to the County Secre
tary who will make a revised re
port for the county and send it to
the state president, carried.
RESOLUTION NO. 1.
Providing a prize of $5.00 for
the best pig, and $7.50 for the best
calf raised by any member in the
county, was lost.
RESOLUTION NO. 2.
McCRORY
nERC.
CO.
OUR
GOODS
SATISFY.
To The Honorable R.B. Macon,
Washington, D. C.
Resolved : We, the Woodruff
County Union, branch of the F. E.
& C, U. of Arkansas assembled in
regular session of the County Un
ion, at McCrory, Ark., April, 3rd.
1908, desire to extend to you our
sincere thanks for the noble work
you recently did in behalf of the
farmer by introducing in the lower
body of the National Congress a
bill to prohibit the gambling on
any product of the soil; and be it
further resolved that we ask Sen
ators Jeff Davis and Jas. P. Clarke
and yourself to at all times to sup
port all measures opposing gamb
ling in farm products and to sup
port all measures providing par
cels post, and liberal appropria
tions for drainage of our swamp
lands. Motion to adopt prevailed.
Buffallo Union was chosen as
the next meeting place July, 10th.
and 11th., 1908.
No further business, motion to
adjourn carried.
E. W. Chaney,
County Sec.
Wedding invitations for sale at
the News office
E. L. HAMILTON
5\
FURNITURE AND STOVES.
COMPLETE LINE OF WINDOW SHADES
J
HE BLAMED THE GOVERNMENT.
Unobliging Man 8aw No Reason for
Putting Himself Out,
"Say,’* remarked the post office
clerk who was off duty, aa he watched
a friend affix two stamps to the corner
of an enevelope, “why don’t you put
those stamps on horizontally Instead
of vertically? Don't you know you
would save a lot of work for us
stampers If you put you stamps beside
each other Instead of under each
other? We always have to make two
strokes when canceling vertically
pasted stamps by hand, and they don’t
work well through the stamping ma
chines either.”
“Is that so?” queried his friend, as
he took another envelope and pro
ceeded to affix two stamps to It In a
vertical position. “Then, by the great
horn spoon, why doesn’t the govern
ment sell its stamps In horizontal
lines? Look at these. Here I bought
20 cents’ worth of two-cent stamps
and they come to me In vertical lines.
If I buy five twos I get them attached
one to the bottom of the other. Do
you think I’m going to the trouble of
tearing each stamp off just to please
a government clerk by pasting them
side by side? Ouess again.”
ANCIENT AND MODERN FICTION
Really Little Difference In the Methode
of Writere.
The historian Freeman once said:
“I never let a man die at the end of
a chapter." The modern serial, or con
tinued story, exemplifies a like theory
of pausing at the very brink of on ab
sorbing event. We consider a year
long serial one of considerable length;
yet In France, In 1610, the first two
parts of the Astree, one of the most
celebrated Gallic novels, were pub
lished four or five years before the
third part, and several more In ad
vance of the fourth and fifth parts.
About the same time flourished Mile,
de Soudery, memorable as the author
of the first romance of any note writ
ten by a woman. She composed and
published by installments novels of a
length unknown to the readers of to
day. Every story was originally is
sued In batches of small octavos,
sometimes running to a score or so.
She has been described as “the most
pitiless writer of fiction that the world
has ever known."
The same Seventeenth Century, says
Harper’s Weekly, Illustrates, again,
the willingness of French writers to
abide their time. The poet Malherbe
wished to oonsole a friend on the
death of his wife. By the time the
poem was finished, the gentleman had
been consoled, remarried, and was
himself dead!
Oriental Toy Fish.
William H. Haim bach of Allentown,
Pa., an expert breeder of fancy fishes,
has recently sold a lot of Japanese
fringetails and some Chinese fan tails
for $10 each. Several of the fringe
tails, with bodies less than three
Inohes long, have tails four inches long.
The parent stock was imported from
the orient, but Mr. Heimbach has suc
ceeded in raising about BOO of the fish
In an elaborate hatchery he built ad
joining his home. The fad, in addi
tion to being expensive, requires in
finite patience and care. The fish
must be kept and bred in still water,
which is supplied with oxygen by
manB of odd plants procured chiefly
from China. The breeding of these
top fish, of which single specimens
are worth from $5 to $10, is said to
be the acme of piscatorial culture. A
well stocked five gallon aquarium is
worth about $160.
Thslr Favorite Mottoes.
Many well-known men have favor
ite mottoes whloh they endeavor to
live up to, and, curiously enough,
some of them are particularly applica
ble to their professions. “Speech Is
silvern, silence Is golden,” is the
maxim which Sir George Lewis, the
famous lawyer, always bears In mind.
“Tell the truth and shame the devil” Is
Mr. Labouchere's very appropriate
motto; while Sir John Fisher adopts
the significant words: "The frontiers
of England are the coasts of the
enemy.” John Burns is very fond of
the saying: “The world Is my coun
try and to do good is my religion;"
while the British premier gives the
text of St. Paul as his motto: “All
things are lawful unto me, but all
things are not expedient.”
A True Friend.
A true friend will tell one hia fault*,
la a saying we often hear, but a trua
friend, If he la wise in the knowledge
of human nature, will tell hia virtues.
The fact Is that in this busy world of
ours, with lta keen struggle and sharp
competition, we are pretty apt to be
told our fault* by those who are not
friends, and to be brought face to face
with our mistakes and failures ao often
that we sometimes lose hope and cour
age. Whoever has a word of honest
praise for another should feel that he
holds something which Is that other's
due, and hasten to pay it. The word
of blame may be a goal, but the word
of hearty commendation will be “some
thing to live up to" through many a
trying hour.—The Parish Visitor.
Famous Bsauty a Woodcarvsr.
Lady Colebrooke, famous alike for
her beauty, accomplishments and skill
as a political hostess, possesses a won
derfully oomplete oarpenter and wood
oarvlng 3hop at Abington, Lanarkshire.
Here she has not only turned out
some clever pieces of work but has
also taught some of the village girls
on her husband's estate how to fashion
wood with hammer and chisel. Lady
Cvlstwooks is s Clfrer seulptor, too.
MANY MEN WORK THIS SCHEME.
And Their Guileless Pellsw-Men Mar
vel at Their Knowledge.
We are astonished at the familiarity
of our friends with the different makes
of automobiles. As we walk down the
boulevard he notes each maohlne that
whirls by us and without the slight
est hesitation gives the name of Its
make.
“Here oomes a Steerooar,” he says,
"the neat is a Pothard-Plump, that
one turning the corner Is a Paddal
whack, the one coming now Is a Poker
motive,” and so on. In no single in
stance does he fall to name the ma
ohlne.
While we know him for a man of
keen observation and quickness of
Intellect, we are astonished at his
catholic knowledge of automobiles.
We beg him to tell us how he gained
so much Information.
He demurs for a time, but upon
beoomlng Insistent he laughs at us
and confesses:
“Old man, I don’t know one from
the other. You were so blamed
anxious to know what kind they were
that I just named them offhand for
you as they happened along. And
you would have been just as well sat
isfied, if you hadn’t forced me to give
my scheme away.”—Success Magastas.
FORGOT HER HOUSEHOLD CARES.
Atchison Woman Succumbod to ths
Charms of Romanos.
An Atchison woman had company
coming to dinner, and the house to
clean, so at nine that mornlag she be
gan the cleaning by putting new paper
on the pantry shelves.
When the company came at one
o’clock there was no sign of the host
ess or dinner, so they began to search
the house to find her. At last
their search was rewarded. She was
sitting on a pantry shelf, reading a
continued story In a newspaper, and
when the guests looked offended be
cause of the lack of preparations made
for the meal, she showed them the
following paragraph, which began the
story, and which had tempted her to
drop her work and read more:
‘“O, Frances, Frances!’ Cynthia’s
low rioh voice shook with emotion.
Blrney Gates turned his head In her
direction and met her eyes. Curious
gold-green eyes they were, shadowed
by long, black lashes—langourous and
enticing. For one moment he gazed
as If under a sudden spell. Later the
girl dropped her fan and he stooped
to pick It up for her. As he handed
it book his fingers touched hers and
the contact thrilled him strangely.”
Now do you blame her? Didn’t that
promise to be more Interesting than
wiping off sugar bowls, soup ladles
and porridge potsT—Atchison Globe.
Japanese Woman Philanthropist.
Miss £1 Imura, a young Japanese
woman, has come to this country on
her own Initiative to study methods
for teaching the deaf, the dumb and
the blind. She has been for several
years a teacher In the state school
for the deaf aad dumb In Tokyo. Her
mother was the first Christian la her
dlstrlot and her daughter was brought
up In the same faith.
She states that the deaf and dumb
children In Japan are born chiefly In
the homes of the rloh families, where
oousins intermarry in order to keep
the money in the family. Blind chil
dren, on the other hand, are found
mostly among the very poor. These
defective children are looked upon as
disgracing their families and are as
a rule much neglected In their homes.
Miss Imura’s object Is to start an
Industrial school for the deaf, dumb
and blind In Japan. In the hours not
devoted to visiting the Institutions of
America she Is engaged with an as
sistant In preparing conversation
books in Japanese, Korean, Chinese
and English.
Wanted All the Warts.
“You would be surprised If you
knew how careful outdoor advertisers
are to have their signs Just so,” said
the billboard painter. "They have all
sorts of notions as to Just how they
want their advertisements to look, and
the slightest deviation causes trouble.
Not long ago a gang of us painted a
big billboard In the center of which
was a large pickle. We thought we
had done rather a neat Job of It, but
the firm for whom we did it refused
to approve, saying there were not the
required number of bumps or warts
on the pickle.
“The upshot was that we had to
palat out that pickle and put on a new
one, with the spots for the bumps
marked so there could be no mistake.
I never see a pickle sign now that I do
not want to stop and count the bumps
on It”
The Reason Why.
It to a strange thing that though
the great grandmothers of many of
us smoked, and pipes at that, and
were never ooosidered unwomanly for
doing it, In this day and gener
ation there should be so much com
motion about the woman who smokes
a olgarette. On the other hand, as olvl
llaatlon has advanced and the physical
ills induced by tobacco have been ex
ploited, the attitude of men In the
matter is no doubt that of protec
tion.—Exchange.
This Happened.
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debts?" ^
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I’ve ever had to save up for a rain'
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WOODRUFF COUNTY NEWS
The Junior Music
ians Club.
The Junior Musicians held their
regular meeting on Friday after
noon March, 27th.
A number of visitors were pres
ent, as usual, also the pupils of the
third and fourth grades.
Each pupil contributed one or
more numbers; reflecting much
credit upon themselves. Several
were absent on account of sickness.
We trust that every member can
be present next meeting (May 1st)
as this will be our last assembly
during the school term. But it is
the intention of our Director (Mrs.
Kathryn Faucette Taylor) to con
tinue our club during the vaction.
We are all looking forward to
these meetings with great antici
pation, as she promises us a jolly
good time and an entire change of
programme as a reward for our
faithful and persistant work dur
ing the past eight months.
Miss Ida Tarpley gave an origi
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nal composition on the life of Baoh,
which portrayed very vividly, his
most interesting life. A short
sketch of McDowell was given by
the Director.
Miss Pauline McFall was the
fortunate winner of the reward
card. Those on the special men'
tion list were as follows:
Pauline McFall
Ruth Hailey
Ellen Lewis
Mary Johnson
Dane Angus
Wade Jeffries
Ida Tarpley
Nona Raymond
Maynard Wherry
Mrs. Raney
Mrs. Riggs.
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McCrory, Arkansas.
Wanted!
To buy all kinds of Country Produce
such as Hides, Chickens, Eggs, Butter,
Vegetables, Etc. In fact, anything rais
ed on the farm in the produce line. High
est Market price paid for same.
A. J. PORTER.