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POBLXSHKD THUH8DAT OF BACH WERE AT
McCROBY. ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Offloe at McCrory
Arkansas, as Seoond-Class mall.matter.
June 11th, 1901.
SUBSCRIPTION KATES.
One Year. In advance. 11.00
DEflOCRATIC TICKET.
COUNTY
Representative—
E. M. CARL-LEE.
Judge—
J. F. SUMMERS.
Sheriff—
W. R. CAIN.
Circuit Clerk—
Wm. MOORMAN.
County Clerk—
ED B. CARL-LEE.
Treasurer—
C. L. JACKSON.
Assessor—
W. B. FAKES.
GUARDSMAN HAVE
FIRST PRACTICE.
Preliminary Shooting at Camp
Pindall Will Be Followed
by Actual Scoring Remain
der of The Week.
The encampment of the Cabot
and McCrory companies of the
Arkansas National Guard was be
gun at Camp Pindall on Fourche
mountain yesterday. The two
companies, numbering each about
45 officers and men, arrived yester
day miming. The Cabot company
w is the first t o arrive and
pitched the tents for both compan
ies. The company from Helena
was to have participated in the en
campment. but for various reasons
satisfactory to Adj. Gen. Paul Lit
tle, was excused from coming.
Additional ammunition and sup
plies were sent to the camp yester
day afternoon.
A preliminary target practice
was held yesterday, but the regu
lar rifle practice, of which the rec
ords will be kept, will begiu today.
The command will break camp
Saturday afternoon and the com
panies will return to their homes
Saturday night.—Gazette Monday.
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REPUBLICANS GET BUSY.
The Woodruff County Repub
lican Convention met at Jelks
last Saturday, Augusta, 15, and
after the transaction of much busi
ness and talks by some of their
leaders, a full county ticket was
named something of which has
not been done before in several
years.
The ticket is as follows :For Rep
resentative, Elmer Briunemau, of
Hunter: Sheriff,Dr.T.B. Bradford,
of Cotton Plant ;County Judge, Lu
ther Mills, of Hunter; Circuit
Clerk, John Diffie, of Hunter;.
County Clerk, H. W. Jernigan, of
McCrory; Treasurer, C. W. De
Land, of Augusta; Assessor, J. F.
Ripley, of Augusta; Coroner, Geo.
Crawford, of Cotton Plant.
Each and every one of the above
men are very prominent and pop
ular citizens and will certainly get
at least the full Republican vote.
We learn that already more
negros than whites have paid poll
taxes and that there is some un
easiness among some of the Dem
ocratic leaders. We are true Dem
ocrats, however, and believe that
the opposing party is wasting its
time in trying to get the offices. It
will at least however make us
Democrats attend to our voting
better than heretofore.
COURT PROCEEDINGS
The August term of the Wood
ruff Circuit Court for the Northern
District conveued at the court,
house in Augusta Monday, Judge
H. N. Hutton presiding.
But little time was consumed in
forming either the grand or petit
juries. Up to and including the
hour of adjournment on Wednes
day afternoon, there was not a siu
gle jury case tried, although the
regular docket had almost been
disposed of aud a number of new
indictments turned in by the grand
jury.
Following are the cases tried,
submitted, uol pressed aud dispos
ed of otherwise:
Crawford, McGregory & Canbv
Co., vs. St. L. I. M. & S. R. R.—
Continued.
M. LaPresto, vs. Rob’t McGill—
None suit at cost of plaintiff.
E. L. Billingslea, vs. American
Type Founders Co.—Dismissed.
S. E. Austin, vs S. S. Grimm.—
Continued.
Ed Vann, vs. St. L. I. M, & S.
R. R.—Continued.
Myrtle Wylie, vs. E. A. Bryan.
—Motion to make complaint more
specific; motion sustained 30 days
given to amend and make answer.
Janie Wylie, vs. E. A. Bryan.—
Same as above.
M. H. Patterson Telephone Co.
vs. Shattuck Commission Co.—
Motion for Nunc pro Tunc order
sustained.
E. L. Cranfill, vs. John and Jen
nie Worthiugton.—Continued.
L. W. Krumm, vs. S. S. Grimm
—Continued by plaintiff.
Van Vleet Mansfield Drug Co.
vs. City Drug Co.—Dismissed at
cost of plaintiff.
Massengale Lumber Co., vs.
American Sawmill Co.—Judge
ment for $2,000.00, attachment
sustained.
State, vs. C.H. Whit.—Nol pros.
State, vs. B. H. Ward.—Con
tinued.
State, vs. Arthur Corley.—Nol
pros.
State, vs. Prank Doualson.—
Murder second degree : 21 years
in the pen.
State, vs. Alex Roddy.—Nol
pros.
State, vs. Sam Hamilton.—Pis
tol ; $50.00.
State, vs. Geo. Plimming.—As
sault and battery; $25.00.
State, vs. Albert and Nathan
Logan.—Continued.
State, vs. Oliver Johnson.—
Grand Larceny; 1 year in pen.
State, vs. Birds Epps,—Assault
with intent to rape ; plea of guilty,
3 years in pen.
The following plead guilty to
gaming and were fined $10 each.
J. H. Swanson, Bird Smith, Ho
mer Sowle, E. W. Chaney, Jim
Gibson, R. S. Smith, Jim Arm
spaw, Walter Kirksey, Ewell
Moore, and Lester Reaves.
Nol. Pros, eutered Homer Sowle
2, Jim Gibson 2.
Robert Garrett, plea of guilty;
fined $10. Suspended upon good
behavior.
TWENTY ONE YEAR TER/T
Neoro Pleads Guilty To At
tempted Assault At 2 A. M.
Session Of Court—W a s
Spirited Away.
Augusta, Ark., Aug. 20.—Hur
ried into Augusta in the dead of
uignt, for fear of mob violence,
Randolph Young, a negro, was
arrauged before a special session
of court at 2 o’clock Thursday
morning, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to twenty-one years in
the penitentiary.
Young is charged with attempt
ing to assault Miss Iva Edwards, a
22-year old white girl, about thirty
days ago. At the time of the
crime a mob attempted to lynch
the prisoner, but Sheriff Cain saved
the negro’s life by hurrying him
from the county. There had been
talk of mobbing Young whenever
he would be placed on trial. Court
was in sesssion at Augusta and
Sheriff Cain arranged for a special
session to try the case. He had
his negro in Augusta, sentenced
and back at the jail at Newport be
fore any of the citizens knew what
had happened.
POLL TAX IS NFCESSARY.
Must Show Receipt To Vote.
Election Commissioncrs Re
quired To Show List.
Attorney General Kirby ren
dered an interesting opinion re
lative to the powers of the county
election commissioners Monday.
He says:
A poll tax Receipt is still a nec
essary qualification of an elector
and the law provides that the poll
tax shall be paid between the first
Monday in January and the Satur
day next preceeding the first Mon
day in July in order to authorize
the holder of the receipt to vote.
And while it is true the election
commissioners are required to be
furnished a list of all persons who
have paid their poll tax within the
time prescribed by law and that
they could know from it whether
the person whose name is certified
as a nominee had paid his poll tax
in time, still it is also true that a
persou who has attained the age of
21 years since the time of assessing
taxes next preceding the election
may vote thereat without the pay
ment of the poll tax and would be
eligible to hold office.
The law does not allow the com
missioners of election to pass up
on the eligibility to hold office of
the candidates whose nominations
are properly and duly certified to
them and they must publish the
nominations and print upon the
ballot the names of all such candi
dates who do not notify them that
they will not accept the nomina
tion.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
Notice is hereby given that un
der and in pursuance of an order
made by the Woodruff Probate
Court at its July term, 1908,- I
will, as administrator of the es
tate of C. W. Sturdivant, deceased,
sell, at public auction, at the front
door of the Bank of McCrory, Mc
Crory, Ark., at 2 p. m. on the 10
day of Sept., 1908, the following
real estate belonging to said es
tate: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, & 6 of Sturdi
vant’s Addition to the town of
McCrory, said land being in the
town of McCrory and in the North
west £ of Section Ten 10 Town
ship Seven 7 North, Range Two
2 West; said sale will be made
to satisfy the debts owing by said
estate.
Terms of Sale: Each lot will
be offered separately and theu all
of said property will be offered in
one lot: the administrator will ac
cept as final the bid which will be
the highest in the aggregate ; said
sale will be on a credit of three (3)
months, and notes with approved
personal security will be required
for the purchase money.
Signed
J. H. Beidelman.
Adms. of the estate of C. W.
Sturdivant.
Dated : August, 1, 1908.
H. M. Woods, Atty. for Adms.
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You will never have a friend if I
von must have one without a fault. !
8TRIKE CLOSES 8ALOON8.
Feature of the National Prohibition
Movement in Finland.
Some Interesting details of the
movement which led to the passing of
the recent national prohibition meas
ure In Finland are furnished in Nor
wegian press oomments on a temper
ance lecture delivered In Christiania
university by Dr. Mattl Hele
nius-Seppala, one of the authors of
the Finland prohibitory law. "The
temperance movement In Finland,"
states the dispatch, “was the one
which reaped the greatest harvest
from the recent general strike in la
bor centers. Prohibition of the sale
of drink during the strike season was
established throughout the length and
breadth of the land. There was a
veritable 'temperance reign’ as a re
sult, and people had the rare and de
lightful experience for the whole time
of not seeing an intoxicated person.
Never had the police stations stood so
empty, and never was there better or
der. Many enthusiastic persons were
so Impressed that they resolved not
to touch drink again and to work for
a drastic prohibitory law. They found
that, however much they had been
accustomed to drink, It was not diffi
cult to abstain when there was noth
ing with which to become intoxl
oatod.”
The prohibition movement In Fin
land Is not entirely recent, but dates
from a considerable time back.
One of the causes of the convoca
tion of the landtag in 1863-1804 was
the desire of Emperor Alexander II.
to put an end to drunkenness in Fin
land. In that session of the landtag,
the peasants gave up their ancient
right to distil! and sell whisky at
their own homes. Once the temper
ance movement had been thoroughly
launched In the country, petitions be
gan to come in to the landtag, as
early as 1866, asking for the prohibi
tion of distilled liquors, except for me
dtcinal. Industrial or scientific pur
poses. Public sentiment has since
been steadily developing against the
sale of drink for beverage purposes,
with the consequent result of the pass
ing of the recent stringent measure.
Contributory causes, and practical
tests of the value of prohibition, such
as are mentioned in the above com
mentary, have been numerous and
have largely advanced the forward
movement for national restriction of
the drink traffic which has long been
taking place within the czar’s Finnish
domains.
DRINK AND EMPLOYMENT.
Um of Intoxicants a Serious Handicap
In Bualneaa Life.
More and more the idea is becoming
effective that the man who drinks can
not be* trusted in a responsible posi
tion. It ia spreading among individual
employers and among firms and cor
porations, and more and more the test
of sobriety, or rather of total absti
nence, is applied.
In the case of workers on steel
structures the test ia sometimes even
more severe, for they are not only for
bidden to use alcoholic drink, but, in
order to keep their nerves steady, are
required to refrain at noontime from
heavy eating. A large coal company
in Pittsburg recently announced that
miners who drink will be discharged,
because disasters in mines have been
caused by carelessness or incom
petence, which In turn has been
caused by drink.
Never, declares the Youth’s Com
panion, was there such a high sense
as to-day of the genera] responsibil
ity of the individual man, and never
such practical, scientific knowledge of
the dependence of trustworthiness on
a sane body and mind. Business,
which is said to be sordid, is becom
ing the chief advocate of temperance.
Many higher things are at Issue in the
liquor problem than day’s wages and
capacity for labor, but the idealist
sees that the strongest argument in a
world of workers is the simple one:
“You cannot afford it.’’
WORKS GOOD TO PEOPLE.
Th# Eoonomte Value of Prohibition In
the South.
A wealthy plantation owner of
Georgia gives the following statement.
In explanation of the reform wave
which has swept over many of the
southern states and shows it to be due
In no small measure to economic
forces tending to show the practical
value of prohibition.
“With us the stoppage of wholesale
drinking was a measure of self-preser
ration. We found that the money of
the negroes working on the plantations
was nearly all going Into the grog
shops. When a laborer had the habit
of spending all hls wages for drink. It
fell upon the planter to furnish money
tor the support of the families. The
planters were losing In prosperity,
while the saloon keepers were getting
rich. If matters had kept on, hundreds
of plantation owners would have faced
bankruptcy. This Is the business side
of It. With prohibition the negroes
are better workers, and their condi
tion Is prosperous. As for the moral
atmosphere, It Is Improved a thousand
fold, and everybody is happy, with the
exception of those who formerly
owned saloons.”
Farmers Educational
—AND—
Co - Operative Union
Of America
K*ep Trying.
If boys should get discouraged
At lessons or at work.
And say, "There's no use trying**
And all the hard tasks shirk,
And keep on shirking, shirking,
Till the boy becomes a man,
I wonder what the world would do
To oarry out its plan?
The coward In the conflict
Gives up at first defeat;
If once repulsed, his courage
Lies Shattered at hie feet.
The brave heart wins a battle
Because through thick and thin
He’ll not give up as conquered—
He fights, and fights to win.
Bo, boys, don’t get disheartened
Because at first you fail;
If you but keep on trying,
At last you will prevail;
Be stubborn against failure,
Try, try and try again;
The boys who keep on trying
Have made the world’s best men.
—Selected.
Stopping Washing on Hilly Land.
Prevention Is better than a cure, but
there may be others, who, like myself,
unknowingly broke the wild sod across
the ravines or natural run-ways and
found out too late that they never
should have been plowed. Sometimes
on hilly land a wash-out may start
on top of a hill where there is no
natural depression but one caused by
a dead furrow. These washes leave
unsightly ditches and often cover
large portions of the best land In the
low places with sand and gravel, mak
ing them unproductive, besides cut
ting the fields into Irregular shapes,
making them hard to work. I have
tried many ways of stopping a wash,
sometimes with success, sometimes
with failure.
If the wash is a small one two or
three feet deep, it can be filled partly
full of brush, then straw on top, then
by plowing, throwing the dirt on the
straw, then sowing rye and June grass
seed, and If the rye gets a good start
before another heavy rain It usually
holds.
If the wash Is a large one and grad
ually breaking oft at the upper end,
It Is harder to handle. We have tried
filling these with brush and straw,
but with little success; they keep
working beck, breaking off as the
water works under the sod.
Now we build a dam with plow and
shovel across the ravine eight or ten
feet above the end of the ditch, leav
ing a space In the middle for a flume
made of lumber so tight that there
will bo no leakage, cementing it at the
end so that no water works its way
outside, and long enough to extend six
or eight feet over the ditch, first set
ting a long post In the ditch for the
end of the flume to rest on, then fill
in with brush for the water to dis
charge upon.
Another way we have tried with sue.
cess is to thrash a straw pile into the
head of the ditch, then make a dam
around the head and down both sides,
seeding with rye and blue grass, In
this way dividing water and carrying
it down on a well sodded run-way,
and by sowing rye and grass seed on
the slope of the ditch it may be held
from getting any worse.
We have tried growing willows on
the bottom and sides of these washes
with but little success.
The farmer with hilly land liable to
wash should plow and cultivate as
little as possible, keeping the land
In hay and permanent pasture, and
keeping more cows and more sheep
will keep the land from washing and
the farmer from bankruptcy.—(W. C.
Bradley before Wisconsin Institute.)
Product of Six Ewes.
Ab Iowa sheep grower says:
“One lamb to the ewe, and that Is
certainly a low estimate, would mean i
•lx lambs at $3 per head, or $18 for j
the lamb crop. One dollar and fifty j
cents per head Is certainly not too
high for an estimate on wool, which ,
would amount to $9 for six ewes. Add
ing this to the $18 for lambs gives a
total of $27, and as proof that I have
given the sheep the worn of the es
timate, I could cite you many flocks
that have given double these returns ;
from a merely market standpoint. I
will venture the statement that not
a flockmaster will agree to contract :
the Income from his flock at these
figures."
Three of as goo'd colts as ! ever laid
eyes on I saw the other day in a neigh- j
boring field, and from dams that had
been worked In the field constantly up
to the time the colts were foaled.
A little planning before building
yards and putting in gates will some
times save miles of travel in doing
chores; in fact, the chores on many ,
farms could be reduced from ten to
fifty per cent by having the buildings
and yards property arranged.
Milk quietly, cleanly, quickly and
thoroughly. Cows do not like unnec
essary noise or delay. Milk at nearly
the same hour each night and morn-*
tag, and milk the cows la the same
order l
MAY BE GOLD ATflAYBERRy.
Discovery op Shining Particles
In Earth Cause Excitement.
Cotton Plant, Aug. 19_,The.
discovery of a quantity of shining
yellow particles in the sands of
Cache rivei at Maberry, a small
village five miles west of this city
leads to the belief on the part of
many that gold exists in the hills
near here in paying quantities and
has resulted in the lands whereon
the discovery was made being
closely guarded. Many of the
particles have been examined un
der microscope and those who have
seen the stuff profess to believe
that it is gold. Some of the ma
terial has been sent away to be as
sayed and the report of the ex
perts is being eagerly awaited.
If the indications of gold prove
to be true, Col. A. F. Maberry,
owner of the land upon which the
supposed gold mine is located, will
soon be a rich man. Col. Maber
ry has refused an offer of $10
000 made by a Hot Springs expert
for 10 acres of ground adjoining
the site upon which gold was first
discovered several days ago.
The golden particles are found
iu the sand of the river and every
train is crowded with sight-seers
from adjoining towns who are
anxious to see with their own eyes
the evidence of the precious metal.
The hotels of the city are crowd
ed and people are sleeping in the
woods and fields adjoining the
property, all anxious to become
miners and wring from the bed of
the stream a fortune.
LATER.
Cottou Plant, Ark., Aug. 20
Dr. J. W. Westmorland, a mining
expert of Hot Springs, spent some
time in the gold fields at Maberry
and returned with what he calls
very fine nuggets. He pronounces
the mines richer than anything
ever found in the Klondike. He
estimates $5,000,000 are in the
mines.
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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
Court Sessions.
Circuit Court. Northern District.—Meet
Third Monday In February and August. Sou
them District—hirst Monday in March and
September. H. N. Hutton, Judge: Will
Moorman, Clerk.
Chancery Court, Northern District,—Meet*
First Monday in May and December. South
ern District—Second Monday in February and
, September. Ed. D. Robertson, Chancellor;
i Will Moorman Clerk.
County Court.—Meets First Monday in Janu
ary. April. July and October. J. F. Sommer*.
Judge: T. E. Simpson. Clerk,
j Probate Court.—Meets Fourth Monday in
1 January, April July and October. J. F. Som
mers. Judge: T. E. Simpson, Clerk.
Public Examination*.
i Teachers' Public Eliminations—Third Thurs
day and Friday in March, June. September
and December.
County Officials.
Senator
Represenative
County aiul Probate Juilce
Circuit Clerk
County Clerk
Sheriff
Treasurer
Coroner
Surveyor
Assessor
Examiner
M. H. Patterson
E. M. Carl-Lee.
J. F. Sommer*.
Will Moorman.
T. E. Simpson.
W. R. Cain
C. B. Mills.
Steve Davis.
E. L. Billengslea.
W. B. Fakes.
A. L. Hutchins.
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Relieves coughs by cleansing
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