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The Home news., 1916-02-25

work train, causing the ex- pense of one tongue, (Wagon tongue.
 The writer wishes to apologize for her late arrival, it was all caused by the high water.
 Ray Angelo has begun his course in bookkeeping at Draughons' Business College, Little Rock.
 Mesdames Walter Angus of Little Rock, J. E. Lewis and H. P. Riggs, Jr., of McCrory, spent Sunday with MT. and Mrs. w. H. Gray.
 Bill" Anderson of Revels was on his way to our city Tues day when suddenly his horse plunged into a deep hole causing Bill to dismount. The result was not serious as Bill needed a bath.
 Somnambulist.
The Home news., 1916-02-25

Sheriff Spradlin and c. L. Jack son of Augusta were here Satur- day.
 Egbert Dupree, a frst-class typo of Augusta has accepted a position with The Home News.
 Oc Jeffries and wife and Miss Freida Williams visited Jess Daniel and family in Augusta Sunday.
 c. B. Cook, manager of Thomp- son -Hailey Co.,, and wife went to Memphis Sunday, returning Wednesday.
The Home news., 1916-02-25

LOST: Round Gold Pin with word "Corinean" engraved on it. Finder please return to this office and receive reward. If Adv
 Among the candidates who spent last Saturday in McCrory talking to our voters we note: Ross Mathis of Cotton Plant for representative, M. w. Thompson of Augusta for treasurer and Alex McGregor of Cotton Plant for sheriff.
The Home news., 1916-02-25
Card of Thanks

To the many good people of McCrory who were so kind to us in the loss of our dear wife and mother, Sunday, Feb. 20, 1916, we express sincere thanks. Adv
 T. l.. Hall and Children.
The Home news., 1916-02-25
Geays News.

| MISS MdTS TSdI0C DIdy lOCh IO He
 H. G. Crotzer was in Augusta Monday.
 For a photographer, see Mar win West. w. P. Angelo was a Grays visitor Sunday. 1 o. l.. Short priced hogs in 1 Wiville Friday night. J. w. Mullens was on his same old beat Tuesday.
 Fink Hayes and Dane Angus were Fording Sunday. T. c. Angelo was scouting to- wards the north Sunday. Oscar Nilson of spent Tuesday with home folks.
 w. A. Strickland is out of town at the present writing.
 Miss Ila West spent Tuesday night with Miss Vera Wilson.
 Rickety Rackety, Rust! Corn bread crust; MT. Editor put us foist.
 John Hays has returned home from Leslie and is confined to his bed.
 Miss Edna Nelson was the guest of Miss Helen Hays Sun- day night.
 Rev. Carter held services here Sunday night. The attendance was great.
 E. H. Wilson and w. P. Mus grove attended court in Augusta this week.
 Dr. Morris and l.. H. Best of DeView were in our city on busi- ness Monday.
 Walter w. Raney, our news paperman, was in Grays Satur- day and Tuesday.
 Did you ever hear of Automo- bile intoxication. Fords get that way sometimes.
 Messrs. W. H. Gray, N. J. Hayes H. G. Grotzer were Me Crory visitors Saturday.
 V. E. Huff was seen in Me- Crory Sunday. Do you s'pose he will go next Sunday.
 Dewey Hays who is attending the McCrory High School spent Saturday with home folks.
 You may know the style of the season by calling on Cliff Angelo Ior Fink Hayes. They know.
 w. A. Jones was called to Me- Crory Sunday because of the death of his sister, Mrs. T. l.. Hall.
 Mrs. Jim Butler and Miss Rornica Taulnr nf T1noln ano 4LA
The Home news., 1916-02-25
CITY OFFICIALS.

CITY OFFICIALS G. w. Barber. Mayor Walter w. Raney .Recordar J. u. Pulley Day Marshal pr. H. P. Hargis. .. Health Officer
 Aldermen: G. L. Carson, c. Crotzer J. F. Morgan, H. D. Swayze and E. T Wherry.
 Council meets first sMonday night of each month in the Council Chamber in the Farmers & Merchants Bank Bldg.
 TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS.
 AUGUSTA Justices of the Peace: c. l.. Jackson, Augusta, H. l.. Byrd, R. F. D. Mo- 2, Grays. and A H. Hamilton, Augusta; Consta ble: Sam Anderson. Augusta; Road Overseer Ben Simmons, Augusta.
 CANEY TOWNSHIP.-Justice of the Peace: c. J. Harding, Hunter; Con- stable: -; Road Overseer: w. S. Hunt, Hunter.
 tices of the Peace: Rube Dunn and w. D. Overstreet, Fitzhugh Constable: Roy flight, Fitzhugh; Road Overseer: Chas. Peebles, Fitzhugh.
 DeVIEW TOWNsHIP.-Justices of the Peace: L. B. Winfree, McCrory, and A. J. Stapp, R. F. D.. No. 2, Me- Crory; Constable: Neal McCue, Me- Crory; Road Overseer: J. l.. Bronte, R. F. D. No. 2, McCrory.
 COTTON PLANT TOWNSHIP-Jus- tices of the Peace: R. B. Mills and B. A. Trice, Cotton Plant; Constable: Chas. w. Brooks, Cotton Plant; Road Over seer: I. R. Phillips, Cotton Plant
 BARNES TOWNSHIP. = Justice of the Peace: A. B. Ridgeway, McCrory' Constable: -; Road Overseer: T. w. Roberts, McCrory.
 FRANKS TOwNsHIP.-Justices of the Peace: F. H. Cole and D. H. Fow- Ter, Hillemann; Constable: A. L. Doss, Hillemann; Road Overseer: Geo. Smith. Hillemann.
 POINT TOWNSHIP.-Justice of the Peace: Lee Presley and T. B. Stegall (col), Gregory; Constable: Ed Holer, Gregory; Road Overseer: J. D. El- dridge, Gregory.
 DENT TOWNSHIP.-Justice of the Peace: M. A. Sparks, Morton; Consta-- ble: Jack Whittinghall, Penrose; Road Overseer: A. Materna, Morton.
 CACHE TOWNSHIP. - Justices of N. H. Clancy. R. F. D. No. 2, McCrory; Constable: Gid Capshaw, R. F. D. No. 2, McCrory; Road Overseer: Yves Re- neau, Howell.
 FREEMAN TOWNSHIP.-Justice ot the Peace: L. Spears and T. B. Trlce' Cotton Plant; Constable: Jesse Spears, Cotton Plant; Road Overseer: G. N' Cochran, Cotton Plant.
 GARDEN TOWNSHIP.-Justice Of the Peace: D. L. Nelson, McClelland; Constable: H. E. Miller, McClelland; Road Overseer: J. F. Buchanan, Mc- Clelland.
 PUMPKIN BEND TOWNSHIP-Jus us tice of the Peace: John w. Browning, McCrory; Constable: -; Roao Overseer: Ed Gibson, McCrory.
 COURTS. NORTHERN DISTRICT CIRCUIT COURT-Third Monday III February and August. CHANCERY COURT-Second Mon day in January, May and December
 COUNTY COURT-First Monday III January, April, July and October
 PROBATE COURT-Fourth Monday in January, April, July and October l. SOUTHERN DISTRICT CIRCUIT COURT-First Monday III March and September. CHANCERY COURT-Third Monday l in January, May and December. COUNTY COURT-Second Monday III January, April, July and October. TNs
The Home news., 1916-02-25
GENERAL DIRECTORY
COUNTY OFFICIALS,

J. M. Jackson, Helena. Circuit Judga J. N. Rachels. Searcy.
 ..............P Prosecuting Attornev E. M. Carl-Lee, Augusta.
 ...... Deputy Prosecuting Attornav J. T. Angelo, McCrory. .Representativo Sam Vann, Vanndale. ale..
 State Senator, Seventh Distrio+ A. L. Hutchins, Augusta. County Judge D. D. Robertson, Wynne. ~
 ........... Chancery Judpo R. B. l.. (Bob) Spradlin, Augusta.
 '.'..'''.....' .......... Sheriff l.. w. Wnfree, Augusta a........... Circuit CIo., Wm Moorman. Augusta. County Clerl, Walter Jimerson, Augusta. Treasurer Edgar Miller, McCrory. .. Assessor Alex Belhs, Augusta. .Survevor T. w. Woodbury, McCrory. Examiner pr. R. o. Patterson. Augusta. Coroner Dr. R. N. Smith, Augusta Health Officer
Evening star., 1916-01-02
A Daguerreotype
By WILL PAYNE
Illustrations by Robert Amick

for nearly twenty years now with the
same waiter.
When the Sheridan House was opened
with grand banquet and all the best
families duly represented, it was supposed
to be about the last word in hotels. But
that was in 1872, when Tyre itself had
only thirty thousand inhabitants-each
with a proper sense of its honorable i'm
portance-and the automobiles that Gre
ated it's later fortunes were undreamed of.
Now, of course, nobody thought of
going to the little dingy old Sheridan
House-at least, nobody except farmers
and Captain Waite. The gliding on the
dining-room ceiling had long since turned
dismally brassy; the black-walnut chairs
looked antediluvian; Henry, the waiter
at the corner table, had grown almost as
blanched as the Captain himself, and
under the white hair his wrinkled face
looked ebony black. He stood little to
one side, holding the finger-bowl and dim
ner-check, already smiling and fully pre-
pared for the ceremonial bow with which
he placed those objects before the diner.
He had stood so for some minutes, in fact,
and again peered rather anxiously up at
the once gilded clock surrounded by tar
nished cupids.
Certainly the clock said six minutes
Evening star., 1916-01-02

OIHlNG, they would have told
you that evening, had ever hap
pened to the Tyre Beacon, or ever
Il could happen to it. For nearly
fifty years Captain Adoniram Waite had
edited it in the same way-presumably he
would go on editing it the same way for
another fifty years. The man and his
paper seemed to have reached state of
toughness, like so much petrified wood,
that simply turned theedge of Time teeth.
So they would have told you any time
that evening; but by two o'clock in the
morning bitter cold and showing
thing quite momentous had undeniably
happened.
To get the event in proper perspective,
we must go back to seven o'clock in the
evening-almost exactly seven; only a
very few minutes before or a very few
minutes after. For in these last years,
those with whom he had dined and who
had dined with him being dead or inca
pacitated by aged infrmities, it was al
ways just about seven o'clock-never
more than very few minutes before or
after-when Captain Adoniram Waite
stumped into the dining-room of the
Sheridan House, with bundle of news
papers under his arm, for his solitary din
ner-always at the same corner table, and
Evening star., 1916-01-02

after eight, ana Henry
was surprised, for he
couldn't remember that
the Captain had ever be-
fore tarried that long
after eight. Captain
Waite himself was sur
prised, as he looked up
from the outspread page
that had held his atten-
ton. With unwonted
haste he signed the check
and arose-awkwardly,
for his right leg was stiff,
the years-after result of
a wound received at
Gettysburg.
Henry with the usual
deferential hustle put the
cape over the Captains
shoulders "a faded mil
itarish garment such as
nobody else had worn for
ages,-handed him his
stout stick, and gathered
up the newspapers into
a bundle which the Cap
tain tucked under his
left arm.
He had never been
over five feet eight, and
his shoulders stopped
nova meager, hard
fibered, hickory-knot sort
of man, with his stiff right
leg, the stout, crook
handled stick grasped in
his right hand, the bundle
of newspapers under his
left arm, enveloped in the
faded, militarish cloak.
One could not imagine
he had ever been any
thing but homely. His
narrow forehead sloped;
the big, bulbous nose
seemed to belong to
another face. His thick,
snow-white mustache
and imperial were orna-
mental only in that he
Evening star., 1916-01-02

would have been still homelier without
them. His appearance was the subject
of many jokes through the impersonal
medium of rival prints; but it was very
well understood that any one at all who
made it the subject of face-to-face
joke would get the stout stick over his
head with instant promptness.
That was the universal impression
of Captain Adoniram Waite-a man of
still formidable passions, ready to fight
anything or everything at the drop of the
hat. 1t showed in the set of his wrinkled
jaw-almost colorless now, with only
the yellowish tinge of old white paper
and in the gleam of his eyes under
shaggy brows.
So, at eight minutes past eight, he
stumped out of the Sheridan House to
the street, where the tagging was sloppy
with new snow.
1t was just block to the old three
story brick building shabbily
squatting at the rear of the newest sky
scraper-that still housed the Beacon.
He stalked through the dimly lighted
and almost deserted counting-room, and
up narrow and crooked flight of stairs
at the rear to the editorial offices. In
his own corner room, he flung off his hat
and capeand sat down at big black-wal-
nut desk piled high with editorial litter.
IN an older building on that same
spot, under his uncle's editorship, he
was in similar room when news came
that Fort Sumter had been fired upon.
He himself had sat at the desk when
they learned that Lincoln was assassi-
mated. Since that night there had been
perhaps twoscore nights altogether
when, at some time between 8 F.M. and
2 AM, he had not sat at the editor-in-
chiefs desk, directing the paper.
1t seemed almost like an established
order of nature. The sun rose; the sea-
sons changed; old Titherington, in the
den three doors away, edited the weekly
edition; and Captain Adoniram Waite
stumped in about eight. At two in the
morning he stumped out again, through
the empty counting-room to the empty
street, and into cab which drove him to
the modest two-story brick house that had
been his bachelor home for thirty years.
But there was no stumping out this
morning Paige, the managing editor,
pushed open the door Of the corner room
at half past one, and found its occupant
stone dead before the old black-walnut
desk, one bony hand clutching its edge,
his head dropped forward until it almost
rested upon the editorial litter
If it had been Weston or Keith, the
automobile magnates, or Ferraro, who had
just broken the world record by driving
five hundred miles in less than five hun
dred minutes, Tyre would have been con-
siderably excited by this dramatic exit.
But the dramatic exit of one whom it only
vaguely and indifferently apprehended as
a funny old man who owned a dull old
newspaper. left it quite unimpressed. The
new school census, indicating population
of three hundred and fifty thousand was
vastly more exciting.
The Leader and the Sentinel put the
news of Captain Adoniram Waites sud
den demise over on the third page; but
the Leader next day discovered the will
in the possession of Lycurgas Case. and
got a very amusing story out of that. II
Evening star., 1916-01-02

made bequests to a number of distant
relatives and to number of old em-
ployees, and left the residuary estate to
the Shelby School for Young Ladies over
at Markham, Kentucky. As deceased
had been bachelor of notoriously crusty
temper and had never within living men,
ory exhibited any particular interest in
ladies, young or old, that was considered
an amusing eccentricity-which rose to
the height of mild sensation when it was
presently discovered that Captain Adoni-
ram Waite had been a decidedly thrifty
person, and that the residuary estate,
after the Beacon was sold, amounted to
two hundred thousand dollars.
THE Bridges-Teller-T Thatcher combina-
ton bought the paper,-their speciality
being the termination Of moribund jour
nalism,-and Bob Thatcher himself came
on to take charge until the termination
was well under way. Through the count
ing-room, then, up the narrow, crooked
back stairs, and into the corner room of
the editor-in-chief came no more the
blanched and limping figure of Adoniram
Waite but rather burly person Of
eight-and-thirty, with passion for big
checked ulsters and long, low, yellow rae
ing ears; person of no discoverable
reverence, to whom sentiment was a
joke, but of swift, surprising decisions and
ready laughter.
Between tossing the big-checked ul-
ster into chair and lighting pipe, he ex-
pressed his view of the situation to the
new managing editor, whom he had
brought with him, as follows:
"Clean out the junk; pump in the
Evening star., 1916-01-02

! TOTHING, they would have told
n you that evening, had ever hap
\ pened to the Tyre Beacon, or ever
could hannen to it. For nearly
The Washington times., 1916-07-17
The Chaperon-
BY THE CHAPERON.

the girls know nothing about cook
ing or housekeeping. Most Of them
do. but they won't own up to It.. ]
don't know why. unless II is be.
cause men always make fun OF .
girl II she says she can cook or
keep a house clean. One girl know
says that she can't even make cup
OF tea. She needs a good spanking.
and so do all the girls who are 80
ignorant.
No. H. r.. am not an old crab
apple; in fact, / am only eighteen.
considered very pretty mot only by
the men who stand on street cor.
ners). know something about Music
(other than the victrola). come finn
a good family. and this in spite OF
the fact that earn my own living
and walk along F street almost
every day. There are lots and lots
Of girls like me in Washington. only
I guess We don't appeal to you be-
cause we have not got a big bank
account. Just as soon as men in
Washington think Of something else
besides good time, the girls will do
the same. What can't understand
In. why the woman is blamed when
II Is the mans fault.
Now. please. Chaperon. tell me n
am not correct. and also tell the
men of Washington that II is up
to them 10 change the women OF
Washington. They think they are so
perfect-why don't they look at
themselves In the glass once in
awhile and see themselves as the
girls see them? NJ. T.
The Washington times., 1916-07-17

These figures. compared with those
for other diseases. DO not indicate
that there Is justification for panic.
II should be remembered that New
YORK Is a very large place. There Is
Likelihood. looking at the mortality
record. TO lose sight OF this fact. The
deaths from infantile paralysis are
only one to every 1000 OF populat ton.
SHOULD town OF 10000 have only
1--WE deaths II would not deem itself
seriously menaced.
A study of the cases IN another
respect brings reinsurance. But /
per cent OF the cases are OF children
more than fifteen years of age. and
only little more than per cent nre
or babies of less than one year small
babies and well grown children seem
practically immune. Appreciation of
these facts will bring comfort TO
many anxious parents.
There Is reason to think that the
erect OF the preventive measures
being employed and which are daily
becoming better applied will soon be-
gin to show. 1t seems agreed that
the germ Is one Of low vitality and
quickly dies under adverse condi-
lions. Quarantine and cleanliness
speedily stop Its multiplication. A
family that is watchful has little rea-
son to fear for its dear ones.-Eew
York Globe and Commercial Adver-
user.
The Washington times., 1916-07-17
Why You Should Vary
Your Usual Diet With
Fruit During Summer
BY DIR. LEONARD X EENE HIRsHBERc.

a sort of protein poisoning related IN
nature to the breaking OUT caused BY
the aerns Of chickenpox. German
instances. quinine
That is 10 say. this comparatively
rare enect OF fruits partakes OF ths
character OF an "idiosyncrasy"--pe-
euliar constituencies of your tissues to
the protein OF the fruits. Acids have
nothing to de with IT,
ma snSS w,,t and ID, starch , in fruits furnish
them Pc Hs% sT f ss,rcb hs, help
into sugars In ripe fruits There Is little
more thnn i DER cent Of protein In
fresh fruits. while dried fruits may
have little more.
Sugar In Dates and Raisins.
Dates, dried. contain about two
thirds third. , :Isa Il whersa; Isisin. some.
explains why raisins are 40 much in
demand by children and others who
crave sweets: Dried fruits are neces.
:a' not 0s TSsy are u!as
superior to canned fruits.
Canning fruit, whether done com.
mercially as AS mother used to do"
In most advantageous because in this
way some of the finest fruits are 20
be had at all seasons of the year.
individuals differ IN their preference
Sc s sseS 70 dsss 'G anG IL
fruits. Children are at times able to
digest bananas when adults cannot.
Strawberries are often hive producers.
that Is TO say they are poison to some
PERSONS.
while bananas. oranges. berries. and
apricots need little or no mastication,
the teeth should be brought into
play for apples. Iaisins. pears. ana
fruits are cantaloupes, watermelon.
dried citron and dried currants. The
skins and seeds Of most fruits should
be entirely avoided
The Washington times., 1916-07-17

Those whom I dare not kiss-and
those whom dare not STOP kissing.
Those who say 'DON'T'-and those
VINO say Come hither!'
nose who are more insipid than
ihsldious than champagne.
=. THOSE who wear false hair-and
'h .'. who wear short hair.
Those whom / take IN to dinner
and those whom I take out to supper.
Those who try to allure me-and
those who try to reform me.
Those who threaten me with matn
mony-and those who threaten me with
bree CHI of promise suits.
Those who yearn to cure my head
aches-and those who help me to ac-
quire them.
Those who ask WHY dost thou love
me?-and those who ask Why dost
thou longer love meT
Those who insist upon chaperons-
and those who insist uupon tete-a-tetes.
Those who make me happy-.and
those who make me miserable.
And THIS Is my tragedy know
that among them all there dwelleth one.
and that / shall marry; but know not
WHICH one.
Therefore. do tremble nightly.
10. ! am as one that crosseth a
street amid speeding automobiles.
For. behold! while / am lodging one
I shall be run to earth by another.
Yea; verify. verify there Is NO help
Selah.
downright MAJ
The Washington times., 1916-07-17
How Our Cities
Were Named
BY ELEANOR CLAPP.
PHILADELPHIA.

ECAUSE an English king was
% unable to pay his debts famous
happened In this way. Before he came
70 the throne Charles II was in very
hard luck and obliged 20 borrow from
anybody who would lend him money
nsRed him f with oSer 5000 sRa c %Sis fHr
never repaid and in his will the Ad-
miral left the claim to his son. who
greatly to the disapproval of his family
sp Mow Ir'e ,ha h haa become a Quaker.
sect and young Penn himself had
been several times imprisoned and was
expelled from, Oxford University for
He had spent his fortune freely in aid
OF these poor people and longed to
found q colony where they could have
RELIGIOUS freedom. Knowing that 1t
money Ss asked the king to- eo siSe b tine
the debt Charles was delighted to
get out of his difficulties so easily as
he had more land In the new country
than he knew what to do with. so Penn
bacame the proprietor of a large tract
on the nominal condition OF paying two
beaver skins annually to the govern
As this land wac thickly wooded the
great Quaker wanted to call II "Syl-
vania" (svlva being the Latin word for
foresD. but against his wish his own
hNInc was pTellNtu 10 IL ny the King
and the new province was called "Penn-
sylvania." Charles was always very
good-natured II 1t cost him nothing.
In 1iSl Penn sent out a coInpany of
eriiRrants to settle on his lands, and
purchased the grouno for his chief set
tlemeEt from some Swe.cT, who had
bought II from The Indlaa. lie ,nlle !
Il Philadelphia which is n Greek word
that means 'hrOiterly l"vn lie liz
said TO have built In -four square" with
streets at right angles. OF the plan II
the ancient city nf ap''nn. Hu wr ito
that he wished 1t TO be N fairc greene
country towne" and he called the streets
after the trees OF he forest,
At first Philadelphia consisted OF ! ,.t
three or four log houses and some Of
the people lived IN hollow trees but
settlers came rapidly and In thrcn years
II gained more pop illtion than New
York had IN sifty. md suun rccamc The
largest settlement in the colonies. Ihil-
Nielphia took prominent Part In the
Revolution. II was the meeting place of
thu ont!nrntal tongycss. and the iloc
lnIation OF Ind. ,,rCarcc WY signed
here IN Independence Hall In lie The
Cersi'lution OF the United Staics "h-
lr",cd here. ana II was the capitai Of
~. nited States for ten ye'.rs. fror;
i,N to $500.
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