The Mena weekly star., 1897-10-06
FROM STATE EXCHANGES.

Sow barley and rye bountifully, as they help out in support of stock when feed IS scarcest --Locksburc Democrat Municipal ownership of water, gas and electric lighting works is now vital question which is receiving a great deal of attention in all the pro. gressive cities of the country. Little Rock Gazette.
 We still hear of pearls that the oth- CT fellow found, but have seen none. We will give one years subscription to the Courier to any one who will show us a single pearl found in Lon oke county that any good jeweler will give $5 for. England Courier
 Up to the first of September forty. nine cars of apples had been shipped from Rogers. Since the first and up to last night twenty-nine cars of apples were shipped making total of seven ty-eight cars shipped from here so far this fall. -Gravette News.
 And so Mena is getting ready to make fight for the county seat of Polk county. Well, we have had a lit tie experience along that line for the last five years, and our advice to Mena would be, don't be in too great hur- ry to bring on the fight Little River News.
 Squire A. J. Payne brought in some samples of his apple crop this week, including shannon Pippin, Golden Pippin and Ben Davis. They were very fine and were sent to Kansas City for exhibition. This is the kind of advertising that pays -Janssen Jour nal.
 T. T. Youngblood, of Russellvilie, shipped to New ' Yorlz last week about eighteen hundred geese. The price of these fowls have considerably ad- vanced lately, owing to the wheat fail ure in India Mir. Youngbloea got Sa. 10 per dozen for his shipment. - Sloan Springs Republican.
 Arkansas has never had an epidemic and her people will ase every precau- tion to escape one The yellow fever which is scourging our sister states is sad calamity and the only hopeful feature is that it will not be q great while until frost, which will effectual- ly crush it.-Siloam Springs Democrat.
 
 Patronlze your home merchants and home enterprises in preference to those who care not whether you sink or swim. To send dollar from home for something that can be obtained here is great mistake and is only tack driven in your own coffin. Keep every dollar at home possible and eventually it may find it's way back to your pockets --Texarkanian.
 The low price of cotton has prevent ed the arrival of any great degree of prosperity" in thls section of the country. The present low price is uil- founded and cannot last much longer It Is due to the belief among speculat- ors and eastern and European buyers that the crop is larger than reported. But the truth will finally dawn upon i the buyers and then there will be a scramble for cotton. We would there. 1 fore advise the producers of cotton to hold that staple until the full extent of this years crop becomes known and the price advances At all events the price can't be much lower. if any, than at present, while all the indications point to a rise.-Pine Bluff Graphic
 They don't make much fuss about 1t We are speaking of De Wits Little Early Risers, the famous little pills for constipation, biliousness,, and all stomach and liver troubles. They never gripe. PipSin & Hanes.