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EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
VOLUMN 4
McCKORY, ARKANSAS,
DECEMBER, 13.
1918
NUMBER 21.
“OO! GRAN’PA, WE FORGOT SOMPIN’!”
Don’t buy your Xmas toys
until you see our line. Jack
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Lost — Cameo Brooch. If
found please return to Miss
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Jhe war is over, buy that
overcoat at 25 per cent reduc
tion. H. Arnof & Sons. adv.
Give-A-Bushel
Sergeant O. L. Short return
home today from Camp
ei^f’ where he has been in
Lne Engineering Corps.
—Give-A-Bushel-■
Dixon.
adv.
Margaret Hargis.
adv.
polls of every kind, toys,
t°r the little ones. See
now on display at our i
Jack
adv.
MEMORIAL FUND
The Home News asks its
many readers to contribute to
its memorial fund which will
be used to erect/an appropri
ate memorial in the town of
McCrory to the memory of the
boys from Woodruff county
who gave their lives in the
great war against autocracy.
We shall publish the list each
week and the following sub
scriptions have been received:
MEMORIAL HONOR ROLL
W. B. Dougherty, .$50.00
Walter W. Raney, . 10.00
Mrs. J. A. Raney, . 5.00
T. E. Dye, . 5.00
Mrs. T. J. Comer, . 1.00
W. H. Stokes,, . 1.00
Total .$72.00
-Give-A-Bushel
Christmas goods at Dixon’s.
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THE HOME NEWS _
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This week only, 25 per cent
reduction on overcoats — H.
Arnof & Sons. adv. It
I
HUTCHINS BUILDING
STEEL BRIDGES
County Judge A. L. Hut
chins of Augusta and First As
sistant Highway Engineer Jno.
P. Harper of Little Rock were
in McCrory today, Friday.
Mr. Harper is Inspecting the
steel bridges which our judge
has built and are now being
constructed for which the
State Highway Department
has appropriated $4,600.00.
Judge Hutchins has built a
steel bridge 120 feet in length
with concrete approaches
across Cache River at Trice’s
Ferry.
Others under construction
are across Cache River at
Jelks, 80 feet in length; a
120 foot bridge at Daggett
and another 34 feet long
across a drainage ditch near
Fitzhugh.
The citzens at Daggett rais
ed $1,500.00 by po- iijar sub
scription to apply on the cost
of their bridge.
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DEVIEW NEWS
ur. ana Mrs. j. w. Morns
made a flying trip to Searcy
Sunday. They flitted back
home Monday.
An awful healthy wagon
load of young folks went down
to the pea hulling Tuesday
night, there were two girls and
four boys.
Irving Ivy, who has been
laid up down at Mrs. Clutts’
sick with a pain, has recover
ed enough to return home
Wednesday. You see what
careful nursing will do.
The Messrs Calahan, Peters
and Edwards blowed in on us
Saturday night. They must
like the country or the boys or
the girls or something for they
came again Sunday.
Our dear friend. Hen Tom
Jackson, has resigned his posi
tion as wood flunky at the gin
Thus far, he has no job, but he
says he will take McAdoo’s
place if he can’t do any better.
Can you beat it? Brother A.
S. Thompson put on his boots,
pulled off his coat, spit in his
hands and grabbed the vacant
end of a crosscut saw Monday
three teams were kept busy
hauling wood.
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CARD OF THANKS
Editor; The Home News,
„ McCrory, Ark.
Through your valuable pa
per I hereby wish to thank the
kind physicians and my many
friends for their great love and
kindness shown during my re
cent bereavement in the death
of my beloved husband, also
for the beautiful floral offer
ings. May God bless each of
you is my earnest prayer,
adv. MRS. G. B. FAKES.