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The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-02-24
Society and Local

Mrs. Laura Hunter, whose feet
froze this winter. has had them
amputated at the Springfield
hospital.
Mrs. Ruth Manuel gave "a can
dy pulling for the benefit of the
Mite Missionary society Tuesday
evening. 1t was a success.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. RUFUS
Jackson, Monday, daughter.
The soda fountain Of J. e.
Thompson is now in operation at
727 e. Washington street, and
will meet the appreciation of the
public.
The Metropolital Club mas
querade bal last Thursday, the
Is, is said to have Is en- quite a
success A large crowd attended
and report spending splendid
time. Next Tuesday the Club
will tender a banquet for the
ladies at their quarters, 1913 5.
4th St.
Mrs. Carrie Lee Hamilton,
M isses Blossom Lee, Retta Davis
and Mamie Hicklin are to be
seen in polite vaudeville at Ma
sonic hall March 81. These
young ladies have excellent abil
tiles as has been demonstrated
on former occasions. That they
will add new laurels to their
achievements is certain.
J. E. Thompson read a
paper before the Culture Club
Sunday from the subject, The
Three VS." which was certainly
novelty.
Mrs. Arminta Davis Ryder,
whose home is in Plttsburg. is
spending month in West Vir-
giuia, enjoying the nutritious
effects of good sweet milk, pure
mountainous air, and in fact, all
that goes towards making up a
delicious southern winter.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-02-24
Sunlight Social Club.

The Ladies Sunlight Circle
met with Mrs Cousins on Wash
ington ST., Wednesday and a
very delightful time was had.
The club made arrangements for
a memorial for the late poet lau-
reate, Paul Laurence Dunbar,
which will be held at the resi-
dence of Miss Retta Davis on a
date which will be determined
later. The Hon. Mr.. Roberts
of Chicago, will be asked to de-
liver the address of the evening.
Mrs. Cousins served delicious
refreshments assisted by Mrs.
Toes. The club will meet with
Mrs. Julia Bolden- Cabbell next
Wednesday.
Miss Sallie Porter is much i'm
proved.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-02-24

Mrs. Clark of N. Cd street, has
moved to Rock Island, where she
will reside in the future.
Misses Nola Hamilton and
Myrtle Glenn were Chicago visi-
tors last Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Venie Smith of S. Pas
field street, was indisposed last
week. She is much better.
The Whittier Circle was enter
tanned last week by the Misses
Smith of S. Pasfeld st.
1.-THE librarian at ON aha, Neb.,
refuses to take the "Clansman"
in the public library of that city.
Mr.. Moore, colored officer of
the law Of Jacksonville, was in
the city Sunday, visiting friends.
Miss Essie J. Gorum departs
today for Atlanta and Blooming
ton, where she will be the guest
of her brothers.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. James
Curtis, Jan. 90, a son.
Mr.. Walter Patterson of jack
sonville, was the guest of Miss
Lizzie Jackson Of N. Sd st.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Lyles and
family of Petersburg, left Tues
day for Muskogee, |. 7.
Mrs. Susie Mitchell of East
Reynolds street, is very i'll.
Mrs. James Gray who has
been in the hospital for the past
week on account of her eyes, is
able to be at her home.
Messrs. e. T. and j. w Gorum
of Bloomington, arrived in the
city last Sunday to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Mamie D. Wright
AttorLay F. L. Barnett of
{ ca was in the city this
Wee.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-02-24

Subject of morning sermon at
Union church at IL a. m. 1.-The
organization and mission of the
church, At 8 p m: obedience
VS.. Inclinatio. Sixteen candi-
dates were baptized Tuesday
evening A large gathering wit
messed the services.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-02-24
I'm Honor Of Mrs. Salisbury.

Misses Matte Cooper and Het-
tye J. Faro gave party Friday
evening, Feb. 9, in honor of Mrs
Frances Salisbury of ST. Paul,
MINI. A most enjoyable time
was had. Elegant refreshments
were served and the guests de-
p rted with praises their hostess
SeS.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
Iodine a Cure for Snake Bite.

For sure cure for snake bite, take
about seven drops of iodine, scarify
and battle the wound also with iodine
This remedy was first used by med
ical officer in British service in In
Ola. 1t has cured both man and 6.
number of animals, it never fails;
it is really wonderful in it's effects.
One instance l will relate. A young
man working for me in the harvest
field was bitten by very large rat
tlesnake on one of his large toes
gave him about seven drops of tincture
Of iodine on little sugar, and to
make doubly sure repeated the dose
an hour later. His foot swelled but
next morning he was all right. | have
had animals whose bodies have swelled
considerably, but all have recovered
from the bite.-Topeka Capital.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
Powerful Writer

ut is strange said a lawyer, that
the late Rufus Shapley. the brilliant
Philadelphia lawyer, did not write d
number of novels. Solid for Null
hooly, Mr.. Shapley's only book, had an
immense success. Encouraged by it.
wonder he did not keep on writing.
Once at dinner l heard an editor
congratulate Mr.. Shapley warmly on
Solid for Mulhooly'. The editor sale
it was powerfully written.
Mr.. ~Shapley in his oddly humorous
way replied:
81 suppose | am powerful writer
The gift still fingers with me, too. The
other day l wrote letter of condo
lence to the widow of an old friend
and l understand that the lady ne
sooner read my letter than, changins
her black gown for pink one, SHE
went to a matinee"
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
FOUR YEARS OF AGONY.
whole Foot Nothing Bit Proud Flesh
Lad to Use Crutc hes-"Cuti-
cura Remedies the Best on
Earth

TN the year 1899 the side of my
right foot was cut off from the little
toe down to the heel, and the physi-
clan who had charge of me was try
ing to sew up the side of my foot, but
with no success At last my whole
foot and way up above my calf was
nothing but proud flesh. l suffered un-
told agonies for~four years, and tried
different physicians and all kinds of
ointments. l could walk only with
crutches. In two weeks afterwards
saw a change in my limb. Then l be-
gan using Cuticura Soap and Oint-
ment often during the day, and kept
it up for seven months, when my
limb was healed up just the same as
if l never had trouble. 1t is eight
months now since l stopped using
.Cuticura Remedies, the best on Gods
earth. l am working at the present
day after five years of suffering The
cost of Cuticura Ointment and Soap
was only Sc, but the doctors bills
were more like $500. John M. Lloyd,
71S S. Arch Ave-, Alliance, Ohio, June
27 1905"
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
BEARS THAT RELISH PORK
Two Old ard Two Young Pig
Stealers Get Fine
Meal

That favorite old tradition of 20
ology that bears won't touch pork.
alive or dead, has been rudely shat
tered by fact once more. Adam Kin
ley, of Cogah house township, is
minus three members of an early lit.
ter of black piggies, the result of a
foraging expedition on the part of four
presumptuous black bears, says the
Philadelphia Record.
Kinley and the hired men helping
him saw two old bears and a couple
of cubs come out of the woods at a
corner of the field scarcely two stones
throws from his house. One of the
old bears grasped two piglets in its
forepaws and Rugged them to death,
while the other big Bruin did likewise
with one pig, and the SOW and six
others of her litter ran squealing
toward their pen. Then the four
bears ambled back into the woods with
their prey.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02

and investigating mind, an earnest
seeker after knowledge, and above
all, possessed of a wonderfully sympa-
thetlc nature.
In 1913 she married Isaac Pinkham,
builder and real estate operator, and
their early married life was marked by
prosperity and happiness. They had
four children, three sons and a
daughter.
In those good old fashioned days it
was common for mothers to make
their own home medicines from roots
and herbs, natures own remedies
calling in physician only in specially
perience many of them gained won
derful knowledge OF the curative prop
critics of the various roots and herbs.
Mrs. Pinkham took great interest
in the study.of roots and herbs, their
characteristics and power over disease.
She maintained that just as nature so
bountifully provides in the harvest
fields and orchards vegetable foods of
all kinds; so, if we but take the pains
to find them, in the roots and herbs
of the field there are remedies ex-
pressly designed to cure the various
it was her pleasure to search these out,
and prepare simple and effective medi-
cines for her own family and friends.
Chief of these was a rare combina-
ton of the choicest medicinal roots
ard herbs found best adapted for the
cure of the ills and weaknesses pecu-
liar to the female sex, and Lydia e. Pink
hams friends and neighbors learned
that her compound relieved and cured
and it became quite popular among
them.
All this SO far was done freely, with
out money and without price, as a
labor of love.
But in 1873 the financial crisis struck
Lynn. It's length and severity were too
much for the large real estate interests
of the Pinkham family, as this class
of business suffered most from
fearful depression, so when the Centen-
NAL year dawned it found their prop
erty swept away. Some other source
of income had to be found.
At this point Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound was made known
to the world.
The three sons and the daughter,
with their mother combined forces to
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
THE CAMERA FIEND.
Man Was Not Satisfied with Ordinary
Amusement Like Taking
Pictures,

A well-known criminal lawyer one
day sauntered into a police court just
as a case was called. 1t appeared that
the defendant had no attorney, Fad
the judge glanced about the room to
see whom he might assign to the case.
"Tll take it, Judge" the late conner
said, wishing to pass away the tire.
by the way, what is the man
charged with?" the attorney presently
asked.
He's a camera fiend of the worst
sort, Mr.. Brown" the judge said
with a slight smile. Il expect to send
him to the workhouse for about three
months"
What" the lawyer shouted, in%ig-
nantly. Your honor must be joking
Send a man to the rock pile for three
months for little harmless amuse-
ment like taking pictures?"
Well. the judge said, mildly, che
don't take pictures much-its the
cameras he takes"
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
Nothing Succeeds Like ''EGG-o-sEE.

Nothing Succeeds Like EGG-O-SEE."
The man who breaches the best SER
mon; the man who tells the funniest
stories; the man who keeps the best
store; or the man who makes the best
goods soon finds that people come to
him. Merit is the best advertisement
in the world. People speak we'll of
things they know are good. They pass
the good word along.
The best breakfast food is EGG-O-
SEE, for it contains all the life-giving
properties of natures best food, which
is wheat
EGG-o-SEE is deeply in debt to the
thousands of wives and mothers who
use it in their homes, for these good
women tell their neighbors about this
great food.
Children and aged persons alike are
friends Of EGG-O-SEE.
Merit and common sense are the
things that advertise EGG-O-SEE
most EGG-O-SEE is cheap. A 10
cent package contains ten liberal
breakfasts. EGG O-SEE is sold every
where. Grocers must keep it if they
want to keep their good customers,
for good customers insist on buying
EGG-O- SEE.
The fact that no preparation, no
cooking is required, makes EGGO-
SEE very popular. Open the package;
put as much as you like in dish;
pour on milk or cream and eat II
is delicious. 1t is wholesome. 1t
makes you strong.
lot of interesting facts about
EGG-O-SEE have seen published in
book form entitled, Back to Nature"
This book also has course of phys
ical culture-fully illustrated. Any
one wishing this book will receive it
free by addressing EGG-O-SEE Com
pany, 10 First ST., Quincy, Ill
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
ABOUT WOMEN.

Freshness is not to be despised In
women, vegetables or flowers.
A woman of gushing proclivities
is apt to consider herself irresistible.
The woman who nags her husband
sdeservedly sits down to lonely meal.
Wise is the woman who does not
expect a mans devotion at election
time.
The woman who constantly quotes
her husband seldom realizes what an
intolerable bore she is to others.
A woman with a musical voice may
babble of coal dust and sauer llraut,
and still compel you to think of lutte
trings.-EXchange
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
LIKE EDGE OF THE WORLD
Unalaska, in the Alaskan Islands, a
Desolate Spot-Where White
Men May Not Land.

Unalaska resembles other northern
stations, having warehouses, docks,
the inevitable Greek church and a
score of wooden cabins Whalers leave
here for the Arctic regions.
Dutch Harbor is a station for our
revenue fleet There is much coming
and going of ships of all nations;
there are quite formidable fleet, and
only two ships out of twelve carry
colors of the same country.
Just before entering the harbor one
notices a detached rock high against
the side of the cliff. 1t bears a strik-
ing resemblance to Russian priest
in full robes. Touched by the sunset
light, he seemed to stand blessing the
harbor. x
Sailing north out into Behring sea-
one looks back at the desolate, silent
treeless islands, which seem to wall
the edge of the world. Hundreds of
miles west they Srun toward Vladi-
vostok.
Two hundred and forty miles north
of Unalaska are the Pribilof islands;
not large, but the greatest seal islands
in the world. There are many fur
seals around the shores of BehrinS
sea and the Aleutian islands, but the
great mass Of them are bred on the
Pribilof group. No white man is per-
mitted to land on these breeding
grounds without a permit, signed by
the secretary of the treasury of the
United States.-Outdoor Life.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
BITS OF INFORMATION.

The Elton College Chronicle expresses
the opinion that lawn tennis is fit for
tame curates" only.
The Welsh national eisteddfod is the
biggest open-air concert in the world.
At least 10000 people attend it every
year.
The greater part of the almost
$4,000, 600 worth of firecrackers annual
ly exported by China comes to New
York. And the United States stands
next to China in the use of them.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
Railway Tariff Sirnplified.
w. M. Christian,
Rutherford, Tenn.

Germany has just revised it's rail-
way tariff, which involves a multi
plication of tickets. 1t is calculated
that a traveller with small family
going from Mulhouse to Bale will find
himself furnished with 60 tickets, in
addition to which are those for bag
gage.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
The Struggle
By CHAS. MICHAEL WILLIAMS
Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)

The sonorous bell of the old clock be
gan to strike the hour of twelve al
night
One!-it rang, solemnly, slowly.
Roger Carton started violently; he
hurriedly raised his head from his arms
and the light revealed his haggard and
passion-distorted face. STEPPED in men
tai misery for hours, he had paid no
heed to the progress of time, but now he
bestirred himself. In half an hour the
train would start, and he was to go on
it, away from that hateful town-for-
ever
Two!-rang the sweet-toned bell.
He was on his feet, swiftly sweeping
the papers from his desk into bag;
still with confused, acutely painful
thoughts racing through his mind faster
than the voice of time as symbolized by
the Ginning clock
Three,-
Could he not stop thinking now? The
train was waiting. There would be no
other for 10 hours, and Is hours more in
this place would be an eternity of suffer-
ing. He must hurry on to New York,
there to begin new life, if new life
were possible to a man who had failed
so miserably in his first trial of exist
ence-
Fouri-
In New York he would be an insignifi-
cant cipher among millions-not, as
here in his birthplace, the derided
young fool of boy as he had over
heard man he respected allude to him.
Placed in charge of his fathers factory
by that honored man, now dead, had he
not neglected his business, failed in his
promises, wounded the hearts of those
who loved him 1.-TWO women, they: his
mother and the girD and all by his
idiotic behavior over a woman who had
finally simply laughed at him? Oh, the
shame Of it--she had laughed at him!
Five.-
Here were her letters, her photo
graph. Slashed across, he threw them
into the fire. The picture fell face up
ward, and from the red glowing Goals
the woman's dark, enigmatical eyes
smiled at him. How she had enslaved
him, the duslly stranger with her I'M
readable eyes, her singular smiles, her
voice Of haunting cadences. And now
she was nothing but a ghost, torturing
his memory and driving him forth from
home and kindred
Six! Seven! Eight-inexorab BILE time
winged on.
He took three more photographs from
the desk-his mother's-he averted his
eyes as he put it in the bag; the girl
her frank, candid eyes sent
q pang of remorse to his soul; and
his fathers, the dead soldiers stead
fast gaze looked searchingly into his
eyes
Ninei Ten,-
Singular, subtle, powerful were the
emotions that vibrated as there surged
throughout his veins the aroused blood
of the man, his father. He had believed
III him; that warrior who had fought
for home and country and never turned
his back on foe OF duty
Eleven!--
The utter shame: real shame, chilled
him to the heart. Il am acting the-the
coward! What, run away?-that would
be worse than anything No, dad-I'u
stay and fight this thing out" He sud
denly touched the portrait with his lips,
and sat down steadily in his chair. He
began to set his papers in order-and-
The sonorous bell of the old clock
struck twelve.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02

This remarkable woman, whose
maiden name was Estes, was born in
Lynn, Mass, February 9th, 1919, COM
ing from a good old Quaker family.
For some years she taught school, and
became known as woman of an alert
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02

Judge Lebbeus R. Wiley, attorney
general of the Philippine islands, has
been appointed to the judgeship of the
United States court III China, which
is to replace in a large measure the
present consular court. Judge Wiley
is from st. Louis.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02

Miss Alice De Rothschild, a sister of
the late Baron Ferdinand De Roths-
child, has collection of Hindoo bulls,
zebras and llamas. She is also inter-
ested in cattle breeding and owns a
large number of exceptionally fine car
rage horses.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02

81 sincerely believe, all things con.
sidered, Hunts Lightning Oil is the
most useful and valuable household
remedy in existence For Cuts, Burns,
Sprains and Insect Bites, it has no
equal, so far as my experience goes"
G. e. Huntington,
Eufaula Ala.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02

The remedy that cured your mother
and your father of chills twenty years
ago is sure good enough to cure you
and your kids at the present time.
Cheathams Chill Tonic did it and will
still do it. It's guaranteed.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
Shell Diem
8 ours

was the verdict of the doc.
tors who were trying to
stop an attack of foodino
from which my wife was
suffering" is an extract
from q letter from Mr.. A
Fail, of Chicora. Miss. His
setter continues: "These
attacks were incident to
Change of Life for 9 years.
Ten doctors failed to re.
lieve her, but a lady friend
told me to get a bottle Of
G,F.P .-s s5as, ,.E...,
I did so. The third dose
relieved her, and the doc.
tors were astonished. So
was I, but the lady who
advised it was not. She
knew her ground. The
medicine has stopped the
flooding and my wife is
doing finely"
This is just one letter. but re have tbou.
sands OF similar ones. showing that G. Ftp
iq a hos la md =
curing Painful Profuse and Delayed Men.
situation. Whites. all Womb. Ovarian and
Nervous Troubles. Don't fail to get a bottl.
at once. 1t is sold under money.baoE
guarantee.
eERsrLE MEDICINE CO., Chattanooga r.uu.
At All Dealers. Ia One Dollar Bottles.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
And Vet

Didn't that patient respond to your
treatment asked the Doctors wife,
Not yet" replied the physician;
'and I've sent him three bills!"-Cas-
cells Journal
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
Never Fails.

There is one remedy, and only one
have ever found, to cure without
fail such troubles in my family as
Eczema, Ringworm, and all others of
an itching character. That remedy
is Hunts Cure. We always use it and
it never fails"
W. NJ Christian,
Rutherford Tenn
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
A HARMLESS Laxative.

ii you must take a laxative, take harm.
less one. Lax-Fos does not grippe, therefore
does not irritate Irritation is what does
the harm. Price so cents.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02

Do what you consider right, what
ever people think of it, despite CEN
sure and praise.-Pythagoras.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
You Don's Eavs to Wait.

Every dose makes you feel better. Lax.
Eos keeps your whole inside right. Not one
grippe in a full bottle. Sold on the money
back plan everywhere. Price so cents.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
They Should.

"My honest conviction, based upon
my own experience and that of my
friends, is that Hunts Cure will cure
a larger per cent. of skin troubles.
especially of an itching variety, than
any other remedy. Certainly those af-
fiicted with any form of itch should
try it,"
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02

Boys will be boys, especially the
gay old ones who have passed 60.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02

Some men are so perfect that it
seems as though their wives ought
to have them stuffed and mounted
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02

To sheer at success is the preroga
tire of failure.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02
Visits European Military Schools.

Col. Charles P. Echols, of West
Point, who has been on the continent
visiting military schools, is now in
England on the same mission.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-02

J. o. Monroe,
Atchison, Kas.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-12
Sold by l.. L. TALlMAN

available for the purpose,
while about $4,000 will be collected
from this years taxes from the levy
in the county Indebtedness fund. The
balance will be paid from the levy
made next year. The settlement is in
accordance with the opinion Of the at
torney general, rendered a few weeks
ago, WIN the question was submitted
to him. At that time Yakima claimed
$33, 900 due her. Auditor Gloyd conced-
ing but $40, 900. Yakima county did
not wish to allow Benton the proper
ton of uncollected taxes due at the
time of the division, Or her share of
the cash in the treasury, both of which
allowances the attorney general said
were just, and Benton county gained
these points.
The settlement with Klickitat county
will be made before the first Of the
year, it being estimated that Benton
will pay about $4,000.