The Mena weekly star., 1896-08-26
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FAnl5 Clarkson has returned to his .ae in Kansas City.
 2a Robertson has returned from 'isi with his parents in St. Louis. I<S Srlx on the new postoffice building 4Dnert street was commenced this '7ning.
 |.K Garfield, of Sloan Springs, is fI.e city with view of purch asing .ffstate.
 ! srkmen started to-day to sink Ii on the Hotel Mena lot for the use 1Ae hotel.
 ' Woodall, of Neodasha, Kas., is Fl Ing a two story business house on nd street.
 44iot in block fifty sold last l5lt for $500, by the Hamilton Real sat Agency.
 ;eorge Craig, general tow sit e .nt, has gone to Kansas City on siness for few days. rbe new freight depot is ready for And goods are being delivered ,.z 1t now instead of from the cars H8ret ofore.
 lEe city park looks nice and attrac, e xith it's new rustic houses. nicely lied walks and Eew fence all Wed in white.
 3:S@ Charles F. Davis closed his con- ctfor his new store building next fM postotfice to-day, and is getting nm Der on the ground. l4orce of thirty-five carpenters are bdsy as busy men can be on the feI Mena to get it ready for occu ,cy q, the earliest day possible. sS< Racket Store. Temporarily To- &din tent on Sherwood avenue,
 Humber on the ground for sub nfIal and commodious building. ht tract of land jlst east of the usite has been surveyed and kted into from one to five acres and YSill be on sale here this week. ne thing needed in Mena is some re residence buildings Too many nle are compelled to live in tents 443se there are no houses for rent. A. Holden, merchant of Eureka HEs, Is in the city and is antiei- m coming to Mena with stock FBons, buggies and agricultural Mnents.
 H place to get pure drugs, patent W nes and all articles usually sold Mlggists is at the Star Pharma Y, M of De Queen street and &kn avenue.
 nnsas City parties have purchased Hhyer & Co. two i've acre tracts Mast of the tawnsite today. ppropose to improve them for Mhce property.
 W foundation of the lake in Jans- Rarll is completed and the mas 6or dam commenced. The best msas rlver and Kaw river sand Ebod cement is being used.
 m Mills and Wadsworth have &h baild;ng just northwest of k4rk for d hospital, but like many Fs have been delayed in their Ely inability to procure material.
 Qneen street has been nicely ca the entire length and men and H are now busy grading Mena I These are the main business anghfares of the city, are eighty Wde and present a fine appcar- Witzell &o Co. propose to go to Elt once and put up another kiln Mk. They have a boiler and en !un the ground and will soon have he machinery necessary to turn Hi elk at a lively rate and good K
 $ rs. Hemstead & Smith are op- Khp neat jewelry establishment M corner of De Queen and Jaus- HTeets. These gentlemen under
 their business and propose Nin d large stock of goods just as
 they can get their building opas Boyd and Thomas Harrard, 8 Des Moines la, started home mprning after purchasing from *0wnsits company two five acre &1 elegantly located just east of nNnsite. Mir Boyd Is an elderly
 enan and is capitalist, and Fnis purchase with a view of nng his family here and making
 Jasper Thompson and C, E. Ntwo yonng farmers from the
 M this city. near Board Camp
 6ce, in NVashita valley, were In
 p-day, and gave the STAR office
 Etnd ordered the STAR sent to
 lddresses. They report this
 livery rich and productive, but
 Unprecedented dronth of this n nhas cut the cotton crop short.
 Ire indebted to Professor Edwin
 fR for most nf the facts contain
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 M Rich mountain which reafs it's ERng head in full view and in q
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