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\ DON’T STARVE If you are hungry go to Dumas’ Restaurant where you can “ get a square meal at reasonable prices. I am now prepaired to serve the public to the following. FRESH OYSTERS, CELERY, FISH, COFFEE, CHILI, EGOS, HAMBERGER, ETC., ETC. All I ask is a fair trial. Once a customer, always a custo mer. If you don’t want to eat your meals at my place, don’t take your first one with me. All city orders delivered free. M. DUMAS, Prop. WOODRUFF CO. NEWS. PUBLISHED THURSDAY OF BACH WEEK AT McCROKY, ARKANSAS. WALTER W RANEY, Editor. Entered at the Post-Office at McCrory Arkansas, as Second-Class mall.matter. June Uth, 1902. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year. In advance. tl.OC OCR ADVERTISING RATES. Display Adds.Ten Cents Per Inch Single Column. Special price on yearly con tracts. on application. I.ocal Advertisements—Five Cents per Line for first Insertion and Three Cents per line for .each succeeding insertion until copy is chang ed. Cards of thanks. Lodge notices. Church no tices, Obituaries, Resolutions of Respect. Programmes etc. all occupy space and space s a printer’s stock in trade. Therefore above named rates apply. If the editor desires to donate anything at any time to any cause, he must do so out of his own pocket, as he is held responsible for the space. Respectfully. The News. A CARD OF THANKS. Below is a card of thanks written by a convict in the railway cars used as prisions in which the con victs that are working the railroad through here, are kept. In his ar ticle he very plainly shows the goodness and generosity of the people of our town. The statement is the expression of the convicts for the services rendered to them ;Sunday evening at the Methodist church. We know not who the author of the piece may be and take this method in telling them we herein publish same with pleas ure and should you wish to fur ther talk to the people through the press, our columns are free to yon and yours. THE CARD. Were it possible for mere words to express the limits of apprecia tion, then it might be possible foi the good, and generous people of McCrory to fully realize just what their kindness means to us men in bondage. But words arc quite inadequate to express tbe deep and sincere regard they have planted in each convict’s hearl last Sunday, and it’s attendant services marked a new departure in the life aud interests of each man. Where formerly he was skeptical and suspici-ms, there is now practically implanted the con viction that there are people un selfish and generous enough tc take him by the hand and kindlj show him the right way. Many a time calloused heart softened foi the first time in years; the dull apathetic eye brightened as the “parson” told the Story of the Cross. For the time being, we men forgot where and what we were. A vision of mother’s ten der hands were administering tc our wants; we heard again he; soft lullaby, and we were madi better, cleaner men and our con trite hearts went out to the nobli impulse and we thank you witl cheerful and appreciative hearts “A Convict” - - J. M. Cfi Will be pleased to quote y you Samples of the Latest I a chance. My prices are rigl Your CO. “a” ATTENTION. The company will meet at the armory at 1:30 p. m., Tuesday, January, 15, 1907, for drill. A full attendance is requested. The members will bring in any part of old unifoiin not in use. R. B. Keating. Captain. But few of our readers, we im agine, ever give a thought to the value of this paper to the com munity. The home paper has an influence for good that is hard to overestimate. It moulds public opinion: it does well its part in protecting and preserving the gov ernment. It takls the place of a standing army in guarding the liberties of the people ; it teaches your children morality, truth and power: it brings many rich bless ings to the homes it visits with but little financial reward for its labors, and in too many instances not any. The home paper is a mirror iu which those at a distance see us. It is the plain duty of all who are interested iu our town to take personal interest in the town’s paper and assist in every way pos-' sible in making it a true repre sentative of our intelligent and hospitable people as well as our en | terprising and rapidly developing little city. Send the paper to ! your friends, bring us the news and do your duty by your home j paper and it will meet you more than half way. When you help I your home paper you help your town and indirectly help your self, for we are all equally inter ested in our town and community. There is no reasonable excuse for any man to live, in our town if he does’t like it. If you have no word of commendation to say for F 674 I We furnish this Beautiful 20-year gold filled watch with 15 jewel movement $11.50 £ With 17 jewel move % ment $13.75, either | | 12, 16 or 18 size, open * face. For hunting case add $2.00 We do all kinds of repairing | R.C.Hailey&Co. Jonesboro, Arkansas. *5* *5* •$••5* *5* •$**5**2**M#*§* •5**M**5» •5**M**5* iNDLISH - - \PER HANGER^ ou prices on painting or show 'esigns and Styles. Give me it and my work is First class, s To Serve, J. M. CANDLISH. its institutions or people, emigrate. You won’t stop the clock by going away. The church bells will have the same musical ring, the little dogs will play just as well and the pure air, bright sunshine spark ling water will have the same health-giving properties. Speak a good word for your neighbor, if you can ; if you cannot, don’t ever lastingly enlarge on their faults. If you have become thoroughly disgruntled move away ; go some where whei’e things will suit you. At this time of the year people are naturally discussing in their minds the question, where shall we buy our goods? As our ans wer to this important problem we refer them to the advertising col umns in this issue. In our colums will be found proclamations from all the principal business houses flcCRORY flERC CO 8 r/Q It OUR POODS SATISFY. in the town. Never trade with a man who does not advertise, if you want nice, fresh, clean goods at. reasonable prices. Find a man who does not advertise, and you will find a man who is as rusty and oldfashioued as the goods which he is trying to sell. Printers’ ink marks the path to fame and riches. Try it. The advertising merchant is the one who does the business in these days of push and enterprise. There are more newspaper readers today than ever before in the his tory of the world. The news-pa per places your business under the eyes of the buyer. He sees what be wants, and, knowing where to PROFESSIONAL CARDS E. M CARL-LEE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Augusta, Arkar Will practice In all courts of tire State. ANDREWS & WOODS (This Partnership for Civil Business Only.) LAWYERS Augusta Arkansas. find it, looks up the wide-a-wake merchant who asked him to come aud see him. Success in these days of sharp competition calls for eternal vigilance. You can’t keep a hustler down. No one is so independent as the farmer ; he doesn’t have to truckle; if he is insulted he can resent the insult without fear of losing trade, and there is no earthly reason, with the improved farm machin ery he now has in use why he should hot have an eight-hour day aud such leisure for reading and study as would soon make him one of the best informed men in any calling. Why shouldn’t the farmer be all this and more? Sure ly he has the possibilities. nnouncemen t! j We have purchased the L. M. Pettit & Co’s, stock of goods and will in the future keep a COMPLETE And UP-TO DATE Line of Groceries. We respect fully invite you to call and see us. Raymond <& cO. H The other day we were asked if we ever saw a baldheaded woman. We answered, “No,” we never did, nor did we ever see a woman waltzing around town in her shirt sleeves with a cigar in her teeth, and running into every saloon she saw. We have never seen a wo man go fishing with a bottle in her pocket, sit on the damp ground all day and come home druuk at night. Nor have we ever seen a woman yank off her coat and say she could lick any man in town. God bless her, she’s not built that way. ’ ’ Work is a great blessing. You can not see now, but some day you will say that you were fortu nate in your boyhood days be cause you were compelled to work. Because you cannot get power to do things save by doing them. Look over the successful men you know. Get their history. Nearly everyone was compelled to work in boyhood. They toughened their muscles by hard work and sharpened their brains by looking out for themselves. Men have various ways of car rying money. Grocers, butchers and millers carry it in a wad. Bankers in clean bills, laid full length in a pocket-book. Brokers only fold the bill once, doubling the money as it were. The young business man carries it in his vest pocket. Farmers and drovers in their inside pockets, whether it $50 or 15 cents, Printers usually car ry their money in other people’s pockets. Superstition and distrust, with which all societies known as se cret orders were at one time view ed by a large number of people, was, happily long ago dispelled, and today the lodge stands as one of the champions of the home and family. Wherever society has reached a high state of develope ment, secret and fraternal orders have their greatest stronghold. The best way to guard against schemes of grafters and keep up to-date in general is to be a regu lar reader of this paper. It is al ways the one who does not read his home paper who gets caught by the grafters and fakirs. THE ORIGINAL LAXATIVE COUGH SYRUP For all Coughs and assists In expelling Colds from the sys tem by gently moving the bowels. A certain relief for croup and whooping-cough. Nearly all other cough cures are consti patlng, especially those1 containing Opiates* Kennedy's Laxative Honey 4 Tar moves the bowels, contains no Opiates. The Red Clover Blos som and the Honey Bee is on every bottle. KENNEDY'S Sum HONEY^TAR PREPARED AT THE LABORATORY OF E. O. DeWITT & OO.. CHICAGO. U. •. A. Sold at Howell’s Drug Store. Our town lias never enjoyed such a trade as it lias during the past tew weeks, and every day it is increasing. The fact of the matter is our business men have got right down to business and are selling goods cheaper than j they can be bought in any town of I this size in the state, and the peo ple are fast finding it out and are I coming here from adjoining towns to do their heavy trading. The man who went out to milk and sat down on a boulder in the middle of the pasture and waited for the cow to back up, was a brother to the man who kept a store and wouldn’t advertise be cause he reasoned that the pur chasing public would back up to his place of business, when it wanted something. The fellow who stops his paper because he becomes offended at some item that does not suit his fancy, always imagines he is get ting even with the publisher, but he is never missed. This only happens occasionally, for there are only a few people in any com munity who imagine a paper should contain nothing but what they approve "of. Building material is still going up, but in these unparalleled pros perous times the high prices do uot check buildings from going un also. R. L. Johnson, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER = Slate Work a = Specialty. More CLOUHBIA GRAPHOPHONES —Than all others.— — MACHINES FROH $10. TO $100. Columbia Disc Records 60cts Columbia X P Records LET US SEND YOU RECORD LIST Write for Installment terms. Hollenberg Music Co., 322l£2rJ3?a*. Graphophone Department. From the large lumber mjilg come the reports that lumber has not been so scarce an article in years as it is now, and the indi cations are that the demand for all grades of first-class lumber will be stronger during most of the months this year than it has been for a long time. There is in fact an abnormal demand for it. Why is it that a careless seven year old kid can drop a half burn ed match in an alley and burn up all the barns in a block, while an able bodied man has to use up a whole box of matches to get a wood fire started in a heater that has draft enough to draw all the furniture up the stove pipe? We got so many new subscrib ers last week, after ordering our paper, that most of our exchanges had to be slighted. We would say by way of apology that we hope the same thing may happen often. 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