Good Things
To Eat
Are to be found at our
store. We are here for bus
iness, and if you will give us
your trade you can live cheap
and well.
Our stock has been enlarg
ed and will be added to as
the demands justify. Good
Goods, Lowest Prices, Prom
pt Service and Courteous
Treatment are all we can
promise. Price our goods
and we will prove all that
we claim.
Raymond ’s
Grocery.
WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
PUBLISHED THURSDAY OF EACH WEEK AT
McCROlIY, ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY. Editor.
Entered at the Post-Office at McCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class mail.matter.
June 11th, 1902.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One Year, in advance.
11.00
DEHOCRAT1C 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.
Assessor—
W. B. FAKES.
OUR NEW SUBSCRIBERS.
Below is a list of those who
paid us iu advance for the News
since our last issue.
B. M. Anderson, R. 2. S. L.
Holt and R. J. McDaniel, Me
Crory, Ark. G. M. Mullins. May
field, Texas.
HOW TO BE MISERABLE.
Sit by a window and look over
the way to your neighbor’s excel
lent mansion, which he has recent
ly built and paid for and fitted
out, and sigh, “O, that I were a
rich man!” Get angry with your
neighbor and think you have not a
friend in the world. Shed a tear
or two, and take a walk in the
cemetery and keep continually
saying to yourself: ‘“When shall
I be buried here?”
Sign a note for a friend and
never forget your kindness, and
every hour in the day whisper to
yourself: ‘‘I wonder if he will
ever pay that note!” I think
every body means to cheat you.
Closely examine every bill you
take, and doubt its being genuine
until you have put your neighbor
to a great deal of trouble. Put
confidence in nobody, and believe
every man you deal with to be a
rogue. Never accommodate if you
can possibly help it. Buy as
cheap as you can and screw dowu
to the lowest cent. Grind the
faces and the hearts of the unfor
tunate. Brood over your misfor
tunes, your lack of talents, and be
lieve that at no distant day you
will come to want. Let the work
house be ever in your mind, with
all the borrows of distress and
poverty.
Follow these recipes strictly and
you will be miserable to your con
teut—if we may so speak—sick at
heart aud id variance with the
world. Nothing will cheer or en
courage you, nothing will throw
a gleam of sunshine or a ray
of warmth into vour heart. You
will be an isolated creature, perfect
picture of woe, discontent aud des
pair.
SO CONSTITUTED.
There are some people so con
stituted that they go straight for
the pleasant things as a bee pitches
for a clover top as soon as he is
out of the hive. They like every
thing. If they go to a concert
they find at least one voice that
suits them, wondering how God
could put so much melody into a
siugle throat. They enjoy the
spring, they love the summer,
they luxurate in autumn, they
praise the winter. They are pleas
ed under any aud all circumstan
ces. They are the people yon
like to have for customers if you
are a merchant, for clients if you
are a lawyer, for patients if you
are a doctor, but you don’t often
get them on the sick list for they
can cure almost any kind of dis
ease, even a “brain storm,” with
a bottle of laughter, “to be shaken
before taken.”
McCRORY
HERO.
CO.
OUR
OOOD5
SATISFY.
The parlor as a parlor will soon
be a relic of the past. The very
name seems to suggest stiffness
and lack of comfort. The new
houses, even the most modest ones,
will have the best room, the one
in which the whole family gathers,
a warm, sunny place, a home room
in its truest sense. The next gen
j eratiou will not waste space on
I parlors. Perhaps a little library,
1 for privacy, will also be indispen
j sable to many. This cherry room
’ of the future will hold the piano,
the general books, the pictures,
work baskets and everything that
serves to make home a haven of
rest for loyal hearts. Speed the
day.
Tell me not in mournful numbers
that the town is full of ^gloom for
the mans a crank that slumbers in
these bustling days of boom.
Life is real, life is earnest, and the
grave is not its goal: every dollar
: that thou turnest help to make the
old town roll. But enjoyments
; and and not sorrow is our destined
end or way ; if you have no money
Borrow—buy a corner lot each day.
Lives of great men all remiud us
we can win immortal fame.
Let us leave the chumps behind us
and we’ll get there just the same.
In this world’s bread battle, in
this world of Bivouac of life, let
us make the dry bones rattle—buy
a corner for your wife let us be
up and doing with a heart for any
; fate; still achieving still pursuring
| booming early, booming late.
(T
E. L. HAMILTON
FURNITURE AND STOVES.
A slandering tongue is to be
dreaded more than the most loath
some reptile that crawls upon the
face of the earth for he will give
warning before he strikes you—
but a slanderer—never. Let a
man or woman start on that down
ward road that leads to ruin and we
are prone to step aside and cry out
“slide on, slide on to destruction,’
instead of stretching out our hand
of brotherly love and staying their
progress, we stand by and let them
slide. He who can stoop down
and lift up his brother from mire
and place him on his feet and whis
per sweet counsel in his ear and
bid him go aud lead a better life,
is truly a benefactor to the race.
An Illinois editor retired from
journalism and his “good by” is
chronicled in the language; The
undersigned retires from the
paper with the conviction that all
is vanity. From the hour the pa
per was started to the present time
he has been solicited to lie on
every given subject, and can’t re
member telling the wholesome
truth without diminishing his sub
scription list or making enemies.
Under these circumstances of trial
and having a thorough contempt
for himself, he retires in order to
recruit his moral constitution.
A perfect town is that in which
you see the farmer patronizing the
home merchants, the laborers
speudiug their money with then
own tradesman, and all animated
by a spirit that will not purchase
articles abroad if the}' can be
bought at home. The spirit of re
ciprocity between man and the me
chanic tradesman and laborer,
farmer and manufacturer, results
every time in making a town
a perfect one to do business in.
“Perfection” should always be de
sired, even where at tainraenet is
barely possible, we presume, but a
perfect town, must be denomin
ated a great rarity until we reach
a more advanced stage toward the
millennium than has ye t been gain
ed.
Make up your mind that what
ever you may have done in the past
you will in the future wear your
clouds ‘‘Inside out and show the
lining.” We all have clouds,
but that is no reason why we sho
uld draw the attention of the world
to them. It is the brave, cheerful
soldiers who inspire the others.
So if you can’t get what you
like determine to like what you
have or at all eveuts to
make the best of it and go on your
way bravely, without complaining.
A community torn by dissensions,
rent assunder by strife and conten
tion—the people always ready to
fly at each others throats on ac
count of rivalry and petty jealous
ness—can never hope to succeed.
The universal brotherhood of man
is constantly deferred and in the
end of time will appear before this
great desideratum can be brought
about, unless man can be brought
to the realization of this, his dom
inant, weakness. Let him inquire i
‘‘Who is my neighbor!”
W ere each nation to divide its
cash among its own people each hu
man in France would have $35 ( or
$10. more than each person in our
country would recieve under simi
lar circumstances. Meanwhile the
divided cash of Great Britan would
give each Britan only $18 ; in Ger
many the cash per captia would
amount to oulv $17 ; Russia $8, aud
and Japan $3, while in Cuba each
person would get a two dolfar bill.
Our school board is to be com
mended for favorably considering
better wages our teachers,
continuous terms of school and bet
ter appliance for school rooms.
In nearly every case they have
manifested a williugness to appro
priate the necessary funds to put
the building and ground in good
order. What is needed most is
some one in every district to lead.
The teacher should not leave it to
the director, nor the director to the
teacher; both, with the assistance
of the patrons and pupils, should
lend a hand.
Assessor’s Notice.
Notice is herby given that I will be at the following named places on the
dates set opposite thereof for the purpose of assessing the per captia, and per
sonal property of Woodruff county for the year 1908 towit.
-■■ ■ ■ ■■ _JUNE=
FITZBUGH.MONDAY...
WHITE CHURCH.TUESDAY.
CAM PBELL&CRITEN DEN’SSTORE.WE DNESDaY.
RIVERSIDE ....THURSDAY.
DEVIEW.FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
PUMPKIN BEND.MONDAY.
MORTON.TUESDAY.
MEREDITH.WEDNESDAY.
.1st.
.2nd,
.3rd.
• .4th.
•5th. & 6th.
.8 th.
.9th.
10th.
HUNTER.THURSDAY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.11th. 12th. 13th
15th.
•16th
18th.
19th & 20th.
TIP..MONDAY
WHITEHALL.TUESDAY.
WIVILLE.THURSDAY.
HOWELL.FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
COTTON, PLANT TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY & SATURDAY.. ,23rd. to 27th
YORKS ,STORE.MONDAY..
MABERRY.TUESDAY..
--^JULY——-— -———
GREGORY.TUESDAY .
REVELL’S STORE.WEDNESDAY.
FAKES CHAPEL.THURSDAY..
GRAYS.SATURDAY.
FAKES STATION.....MONDAY.
McCRORY.THURSDAY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...
AUGUSTA.MONDAY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
AUGUSTA TOWNSHIP....THURSDAY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
.7th.
.8th.
. 9th.
.11th.
.13th!
. 16th. 17th. & 18th.
• ..20th. 21st 22nd.
23rd. 24th. & 25th.
1 will be at my office in the court house in Augusta, Ark., until August, 15,
after which time penalty will be attached.
WALTER B. FAKES, Assesor Woodruff County.
McCrory
Hotel.
F1RSTCLASS ROOMS
And GOOD FARR.
Your Patronage Re°
spectfully Solicited.
MRS. JOHN C. VEAZEY, Prop.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that, as guardian of
Robert Sorrels. I have tiled my Anal settle
ment with my said ward and that I will apply
to the Probate Court at its July term, 1908.
fora discharge from my obligations to my
said ward. Signed: W. E. Jei.ks.
Guardian of Robert Sorrels
WARNINCj order.
In the Woodruff Chancery Court Northern
District. May term 1908. State of Arkan
sas. County of Woodruff.
H. F. Henkel, Plaintiff
VS
Augusta Henkel. Defendant.
The defendant. Augusta Henkel, is hereby
warned to appear in this court within thirty
days hereafter and answer this complaint
of the plaintiff, H. F, Henkel.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Wood
ruff Chancery court on this the 4th., day of
April 1908. Wmilliam Mookman.
Circuit Court Clerk.
E. M. Carl-Lee. Atty. for Plaintiff.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
On Monday night May 11th, at
8 :00 o’clock, a piano and voice re
cital will be given, to which the
public is most cordially invited.
Respectfully,
Mrs. Kathryn F. Taylor.
The good book says, “Give
to every one that asketh thee,”
but this dosen’t mean give a drunk
ard money to buy whiskey with;
it dosen’t mean to give the baby
the hammer and looking glass be
cause it asks for it, aud it doesen’t
mean that we should give to pro
fessional beggars who travel from
town to town. The Bible doesn’t
mean always what it says,
but it. always means what it means.
Every school boy knows that a
kite would not fly unless it had a
string tying it down. It is just so
in life. The man who is tied down
by'ahalf a dozen blooming respou
sibilites and his mother, will make
a higher and strouger fight than
the bachelor, who having nothiug
to keep him steady is always floun
dering in the mud. If you want
to ascend in the world tie yourself
to somebody.
We wonder how many of our
readers have noticed the differanee I
between the man who has beeu
married but a short time, l
and one who has been married sev-!
eral years. You can always tell
a young husband from an old one.
When a man lias been married
a few months, you will
generaly see him working in the
garden or fixing up about the ho
use and while he works he whistles
or sings, or occasionally Iooks up
towards the window to see if any
one is watching him. A year later
he is still working iu the garden
but the smile has been exchanged
for a frown and he occasional}'
looks up towards the house wand
ei ing why iu the thunder breakfast
is not ready. Another year rolls
by and his looks would sour milk,
but he is still at work stopping oc
casionally to kick the dog or throw
a brick at the cat. The next year
we find him sitting on the front
porch, smoking a pipe, while his
wife does the digging in the garden
Now just wateh our young men, as
one by one, they are caught in Cu
pid’s uet and see if this rule does
not work out the problem correctly
Tliis paper is anxious each week
to issue a spicy aud interesting lo
cal page. If each of our suberib
ers would hand us in one news item
I what a news paper we could issue.
; Try it for a few weeks and mark !
I the change.
Each year the poultry business
is becoming more lucrative in the
community. The aid hen is worth
her weight in gold.
MOUNTAIN OR SHORE
There le aiwnys a chance
to enjoy some shooting
TO SHOOT WELL TOO MUST BE EQUIPPED WITH
ft RELIABLE f I REARM: the only kind we hire
been making for upwards of fifty years.
Our Line: F IFLES, PITTOLS, SHOTGUNS,
RIFLE TELESfJOPES, ETC.
Ask your Dealer, and insist on tho
STEVENS* Where not sold by lie
tailert;, we ship diroot, express pre
paid, upon receipt, of Catalog,- price.
J. STEVENS A!:>XS & TOOL CO.
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Chicopee Falls,
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