You Read the
Other Fellow’s Ad
You are reading this one.
That should convince you
that advertising in these
columns is a profitable
proposition; that it will
bring business to your
store. The fact that the
other fellow advertises is
probably the reason he is
getting more business than
is falling to you. Would
it not be well to give the
other fellow a chance
To Read Your Ad.
In These Columns.
WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED THURSDAY OF BACH WEEK AT
McCKOBY, ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Offlce at McCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class mail.matter.
June 11th, 1902.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
Y#»ar. In
m
SPLENDID OPENING OF
PUBLIC SHOOL
NINE nONTHS TERM BEGAN SEP
TEITBER, 30, WITH BIGGEST
ENROLLMENT IN HISTORY
OF THE SCHOOL.
By J. A. Livingston
The McCrory Public School
opened Monday for a nine months
term, and judging from the enroll
ment on opening day and the in
terest manifested by parents and
others who attended the opening,
it should be by far the best term
in the history of the school. The
enrollment Wednesday afternoon
had reached 130.
Opening exercises were held in
the capacious auditorium on the
second floor. While no elaborate
program had been prepared, the
exercises were most impressive as
well as instructive. Prof. J. B.
Sherrill, of Alabama, was present
and delivered a most interesting
address. Aside from being a lead
ing educator in his earlier days,
Prof. Sherrill is now a literate of
national fame, having written sev
aral commercial publications and
various other literary and histor
ical works. His presence on this
occasion was most appropriate and
bis address was very interesting
to those who heard it.
The exercises were opened with
a song by the pupils, a scripture
reading and .prayer by Rev. J. A.
Patterson.
Only three members of the
school board, namely, C- Hailey,
E. T. Whery and F. Lewis were in
attendance. Everyone was highly
pleased with the opening services
and all predict a great success for
the years school work just begun.
The teachers and their respective
grades ar9 as follows: Miss Ge
neva Townsend, of Mason, Tenn.,
first and second ; Miss Florie Es
kew, of Augusta, third and fourth ;
Mrs. E. L. Hays, fifth and sixth
and Prof. Hays, assisted by the
above teachers has the seventh,
aighth, ninth and tenth grades.
Mrs. H. S. Taylor has charge of
he music department.
W. L. OREER GETS
LIBERTY ON BAIL
Slayer of James Reneau Allow
ed to Give &5,000 Bond,
Quickly Signed—State did
Not Seriously Oppose.
rrom the Arkansas Gazette.—
W. L, Greer, who was charged
iy a coroner’s jury with the un
ustifiable killing of James W. Re
leau, was allowed to give bail yes
erday in the sum of $5,000. Bail
vas granted by Judge Lea yester
day morning after W. F. Tucker
tiad been crossed-examined by the
state. No argument was made by
counsel either for Mr. Greer or for
;he state.
In a heabeas corpus proceeding
die burden of the proof is on the
defendant and, for that reason, af
;er the testimony had been sub
mitted, Judge Lea asked Mr. Rho
:on, who is Mr. Greer’s attorney,
Lf he cared to argue the case. Mr.
Rhoton said he did not unless the
jourt had some doubt as tojthe right
if the defendant to give bail.
“I am clearly of the opinion this
is a bailable case,” said Judge Lea.
rhe state through Roy D. Campbell
prosecuting attorney, declined to
' make any argument.
In fixing the , amount of bail
Mr. Rboton said that he though
a dollar would be sufficient t(
guarantee Mr. Greer’s appearanct
in court when wanted, but suggest
that the bond be fixed in an^
amount not exceeding $5,000. Hi
maintained that his client couk
make a qualified bond for $100,
000J Without objection the bone
was fixed at $5,000,
The bond was signed within t
few minutes after the court an
nounced its decision and Mr. Gree
was not returned to jail.
WANT TO CLEAR
DEAD MAN
Vice Grand Master Dodge Say;
Brotherhood Will Heu
Prosecute Greer.
“The entire Brotherhood o
Railroad Trainmen is goi^g to de
fend the good name of «T. W. Re
neau and do everything in it
power to convict his killer, Greer
I speak for the Grand Lodge.”
“If it is necessary, each of ou:
802 different lodges and every om
our 100,000 members will contri
bute to the fund that we are going
to raise to assist the men who an
n_
| VUVUUVIUp
much-loved man and we know
enough about the incidents leading
up to the killing to believe tha
his death was entirely uncalled for
We would consider that our dutj
was left undone if we failed t<
have his slayer convicted of mur
der. The defense may be certaii
that all the financial support re
quired to bring to justice to ou:
dead brother will be given by us
as a body.”
The Baptist meeting which last
ed two weeks closed last Sunday
Bro. Bain informed us that tin
membership had been doublet
bringing the number up to 48
eleven of which were baptized n
Cache River Sunday evening bt
the above Brother. He left Mon
day for West Point where he goe:
to begin another meeting. Rev
J. B. Alexandria who was hen
assisting Rev. Bain also made hi:
departure Monday for his home ii
Lonoke.
County Judge J. F. Summers, o
! Augusta, was a business visitor ii
| this city, Monday.
C. L. ADAflSON,
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Silverware, Etc. Etc.
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TWELVE MONTHS.
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ARKANSAS,
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tonia, London & Lancashire
Ohio German, of Toledo,
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do insurance that can be
had. Call or write,
G.W. BARBER
J. B. McLemore arrived Satur
■ day from Milan, Tenn., for a visit
; of several weeks to old time
friends and relatives here. Twenty
■ one years have elapsed since Mr.
, McLemore moved from here until
. his return last Saturday.
1 Quite a number of young people
■ spent last Tuesday evening in so
' cial talk and laughter at the hos
> pitable country home of Mr. and
Mrs. H. B. Angus, south of town.
Numerous games and plays were
■ indulged in and a jolly good time
was had by all. At about 10:30
> the guests departed for their
- homes each, assuring the hosts of
, having had a most delightful time.
Kodol is a combination of the
natural digestive juices and it di
gests all classes of food and every
’ kind of food, so you see it will do
the work that the stomach itself
! does. The only difference between
’ it and the stomach is, the stomach
1 can get out of order and Kodol
cannot, but Kodol can put the
: stomach into good order. Buy
i Kodol today. It is guaranteed.
Sold by Howell Drug Co.
The
THING
s
that will interest
most people is a line
of goods that are priced in
reason with others, or
lower, and the qual
ity as good or
better.
We have both of these for
our customers and give them
to you on every sale.
We have added to our Dry
Goods stock this week some
snappy colors in Ginghams
and Percales==Any of them
are pretty enough.
We have added to our
Grocey line.
New Evaporated Fruits, New
Molasses, New Kraut, New
Pig’s Feet, More New Mack
erel, New Cocoanuts, New
Cakes and many others.
We have the goods you want
in either line—We can give
you the best service.
We want to see you in our
store.
WOOD & SON, ficCrory.
Where You Get All Good Things First.
Farmers Educational
—AND—
Co - Operative Union
Of America
From Day to Day.
A solemn proverb haunts my mind,
With meaning deep and vast,
The mill will never grind again
With waters that are past.
Take the lesson to thyself,
Loving hearts are true,
Golden years are passing by,
Life is ebbing, too.
Learn to make the most of life,
Lose no happy day;
Time can never bring thee back,
Chances swept away.
Leave no tender word unsaid.
Love while life shall last,
The mill will never grind again
With waters that are past.
—Exchange.
The College Farm Boy Maker of
New Prosperity.
Throughout the country the benefit
of education at the agricultural col
leges is beginning to assume an im
portance in the eyes of the farming
communities which it never had be
fore.
The boys who come back to the
farm inbued with the idea of scintific
farming are making records for them
selves which causes the old time
farmers, to open their eyes.
x ut; CApermuucu itumcia vtiav
thought they knew aU about corn grow
ing for instance, are finding that these
lads who come back from school with
a scientific knowledge as to the best
methods of preparing the soil, select
ing the seed, and doing other things
of vital Importance, are growing crops
that are record-breakers.
The yield that the average college
boy secures from his experimental
corn field is so great that his corn
is immediately in demand for seed
among the neighbors who see how
much better success he is having than
they have had, and wihle they will
not be able to produce a good a crop
from his seed alone they are begin
ning to follow his methods of cultiva
tion and the result is an increase in
the quality and quantity of the corn
yield.
One farmer’s son in Wisconsin is
said to have cleared $6,000.00 from
his seed corn, this amount being in
excess of his father’s entire income
from the whole farm. Another col
lege farm boy secured $30.00 per
bushel for his seed corn, and so it
goes.
The average American farm boy
is not only a substantial and respon
sible young man. but he is filled with
an ambition to do better things than
have ever been done, in whatever he
undertakes to do; and twenty years
from today, the neighborhoods where
the finest crops are produced and
where the best and most productive
farms are located, will point back to
the time when the boys were first sent
to agricultural colleges as the begin
ning of this new prosperity, which is
dawning upon the farmers of the
country.—Oklahoma Farmer.
Farming No “Snap."
I often see wild yarns telling how
a mechanic with $300 to $400 can
make a good living on a few acres of
land, or a stenographer or school
teacher can earn enough to support a
family with chickens on a town lot.
People who are ignorant of the
farming business are often induced by
meow auiy siui ica tu iuiuw up uitjn
jobs and try it. Any kind of farm
ing is serious business and requires
a lot of technical knowledge, and it
cannot be learned in a day or a year.
If a mechanic is so situated that
he can get a piece of land near his
job on which he can experiment, keep
ing close to the payroll at the factory
meantime, he will be able to tell in
a year or two whether it is a good
thing or not.
Go very slow and when you venture
on farming or chicken raising stick
close to some other kind of a job that
will keep the meal tub supplied till
you are sure that you can succeed.
Then go at it for all you are worth.
Is Not a Minor.
Alfalfa, this comparative new plant
for America, is as old as the hills, to
use a familiar expression. Away back
in the ages, when civilization was
still in embryo, centuries before
Christ, Alfalfa was grown by the
tribes and nomades, who populated
the elevated plains of Central Asia,
where tfce "cradle of humanity" is
supposed to have stood. Later on
we find it mentioned in the day of the
Roman empires, and after crossing
Europe during the middle ages, it was
brought to South America by the
Spaniards, from where it was brought
to California in the 50’s.
Don't Get Excited.
Many newspapers and men are aw
fully afraid the Farmers’ Union is go
ing into politics. Don’t become excit
ed, please, there is no danger as the
Union going into politics; but we are
going to do like all other people. We
are going to make demands of those
that represent us in the halls of legis
lation and if they fail to look to our
Interests as they do other class in
terests we will have something to say
about their going back in office.—T.
ft Taylor, la National Co-operator.
Small Fruits for Fall.
One of the objects sought in lata
years has been the creation of over
bearing varieties of the email fruits
or of those that will bear a second
crop in the fall.
This has never been achieved, al
though claims have been made from
time to time. The tree fruits, such
as the apple and peach, have always
possessed sorts that naturally fruited
in the fall, but the raspberry, black
berry and strawberry and other small
fruits have their one appointed season
for bearing and it is in all cases in
the spring, or at least the fruits
blossom and start into growth at that
time, though some varieties of the
blackberry do not ripen till the sum
mer is more than half gone.
Claims have been made for an ever
bearing raspberry, but it does not
seem to have been a success. It is
however, common in the case of all
these berries for them to bear a kind
of second crop by putting forth fruit
stems now and then after the main
crop is gone.
The strawberry, too, often blooms
in the fall after a long drought, fol
lowed by copious rains.
Recently, however, some varieties
of genuine fall-bearing strawberries
have been introduced, whose claims
seem to be well substantiated. But
here again they are admittedly not
ever-bearing, but bear in the fall only
when their blossoms have been kept
picked off during the spring, other
wise they would bear all their crop
in the spring, just as other kinds.
These fall-bearing strawberries pro
mise to become very valuable and of
great commercial importance in at
least the southern states, where the
fall is warm and frost does not come
till towards Christmas.
This would give them a long sea
son and an opportunity to bear large
crops. But even in the middle and
even Northern states they would be
welcomed if they are able to afford
a supply of the delicious strawberry,
even for a short time.
One of the best known of these
—the Pan-American—was originated
in New York, and annually produces
its growers quite a crop during Sep
tember and up till frost.
They can be made to fruit in Aug
ust if desired by allowing the blos
soms to remain thirty days before.
There seems to be no reasonable
doubt that fall strawberries will soon
be seen in all the markets, and it is
not too much to expect that the same
will eventually be true of the rasp
berry and other small fruits.
Time to Build Warehouses.
This is the time of year to build
warehouses and gins. Get in a po
sition to handle and control your own
cotton. Be able to market intelli
gently. The mills require a year to
manufacture and the world takes a
year in which to consume it. Then
why try to force it all on the market
within one-fourth of this time?—Na
tional Co-operator.
If every cotton farmer understood
trade, manufacturing and market con
ditions as well as he understands
planting, tilling and harvesing, he
would undoubtedly be a great deal
better off. If cotton selling, with or
without the warehouse plan, were
made an all the year round business,
like butter and egg selling, and cotton
buyers were required to work twelve
months to earn their salaries, it would
certainly affect the stability of the
price to the advantage of the pro
ducer. If it were necessary for the
mills to look for stock every month
in the year instead of four or five
months, they might, be better bidders.
—Dallas News.
Kansas Hog Versus the Missouri Hen.
A Kansas paper says that if all the
hogs raised in that state last year
could be rolled into one hog it could
dig the Panama canal in two roots
and a half, and wants to know how
long it would take the Missouri hen
to scratch out the canal. We can t
tell him about that, says the Humans
ville Star, who goes one better and.
continues, “but we do know that the
Missouri hen can pay for the big ditch
in one and a half years.”
Farmers have discovered that the
best types of corn do not contain
fourteen pounds of cob per bushel,
and the grower who has 1000 or
2000 bushels of corn to spare shells
it and keeps the cobs for fuel. He
sells the corn shelled at fifty-six
pounds to the bushel instead of sev
enty on the cob, and finds that he
actually marketed more bushels. This
makes large corn shelters in demand
in every neighborhood.
Be All you Can.
Let us do all the business we can.
If we can’t be a lighthouse, let us be
a candle. Some one has said, I can
be anything more than a farthing rush
light.” Well, if you can’t be more, be
that; that is well enough. Be all you
can. What makes the Dead sea dead.
Because it is all the time receiving
and ndver giving out anything.
Dwight L. Moody.
Until recently, and even now, the
farmer is the least 'understood man
on earth. In the opinion of the mass
es, a farm is a place where potatoes,
corn, hay, grain, cotton and ot e
things are grown, and the farmer, s
ting upon his independent doorstt7’
envies the city man who may °
more money in a year, but who as
smaller balance at the roundup.
Do not feed too much white bread
to young chicks or you will had t
tal to many of th*»