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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18

A mysterious affair attracted consid-
cradle attention this week. A young
woman, whose identity is for the mo-
ment not disclosed by the police, but
who is a daughter Of wealth, was poi
soned under the following circum-
stances:
Miss x, who was Is years of age, had
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18

In certain parts of Persia the ther-
mometer stays at 100 degrees night and
day for the greater part of the summer,
while so unbearable a temperature as
100 degrees is not unknown in that coun-
try
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18

IT can't see why you object to young
Softly I'm sure he Is constant"
Worse than that. He's perpetual
Truth,
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18

All prices of wall paper greatly reduced
A. A. Eckstrom. 23l South Spring street.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-18

The AS You Like 1t club has adjourn
ed its meetings until fall.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-06-30
It is named Perfect" baking powder and is in truth perfect. Try it.
The Big We'll.

Mir Perry Crossman, of Joplin, Mo. the contractor who drilled the big well near the roundhouse here. came down last week to test the capacity of the well with view of determining whether it should be sunk deeper or not
 The we'll is probably about TOO feet deep and is cased for distance of 32O feet so that all water drawn out must come from below that point. The water stands at forty feet from the surface and Mir. Crossman, with his pumps, drew about 30, GOO gallons an hour but could only lower the water to about seventy five feet Chief En- gineer Gillham was here Saturday and becoming satisfied that the supply of water was sufficient, ordered the drill ing machinery removed and it is now ready to ship to some other point
 The water is exceedingly clear and pure, having slight trace of sulphur in It.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-06-30
MENA'S ANNIVERSARY.
Executive Committee Meets and Out lines a Progam.-A Gala Day
 Is Promised.

The Committee of arrangements met at the office of Dr. Gibbs yesterday and organized by choosing Dr. Gibbs chairman and R. H. James sec retary.
 After due dellberation program for the day was outlined, consisting of music speeches, recitations, parade and fire works. w. A. Disbrow was chosen chief marshal with Chas. Me Gee, Joe Frady and F. c. Savage as as slstants.
 Prizes will be offered for the pretti- est baby in Polk and adjoining coun- ties, for the largest family, and best original poem on Mena
 Various other committees were ap- pointed and arrangements outlined for amusements etc, etc, and the com mlttee adjourned to report at the pub He meeting to be held at the Park Thursday evening next.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-06-30

Mir. and Mrs. J. P. levitt left We'd nesday evening for Ft. Smith. After short stay there they will go to Kan sas City. Mr. levitt says he hopes to return to Mena for the work on the Hot Springs branch.
 J. M r, Phillips and family arrived last week from Linwood, Kan, and have established a home on the lots recently purchased in the St John ad- dition to Mena on West Honert avenue. They will have nice home.
 Isaac Clifford, who has nice fruit farm three miles out of Mena, is sell ing lots of nice apples and blackberies recently in this market. He has some of the cultivated varieties of black berries and those he brings to town are the incest we ever saw, being very 1 large and luscious. The wild berries are nice but not as large as these.
 W. F. and ". l.. Wimberiy. from near Egger post-office, gave the Star call Friday, bringing from Mir. A. A. Eads of Big Fork township some. cot ton bloom, probably the earliest grown in this section of the state. These gentlemen were New Era subscribers and expressed themselves as being much pleased with the change to the Star.
 Jim Breen, of the c. P. Morrison X Co. lumber yard, left last evening fol St Joseph, Mo, hls old home. He will be gone about week, and ex. poets to purchase a complete turning lathe to put in with their blaming mill These gentlemen expect to have theil mill in such condition that no dressed lumber of any description need be shipped to Mena
The Mena weekly star., 1897-06-30
A Sad Case.

Last week man named Puckett with Wife and two children was moving With team from the Indian Territory !" Clark county, Ark, and getting sick 0n the way, he stopped at one of the vacant houses at Bethesda springs, Where he died Saturday morning. The good people in that vicinity did all 'aey could for the family, provided a .omn and buried the remains at the Dallas cemetery.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-06-30
THE TARIFF QUESTION.

United Ses ne all absorbing theme of the congress of the for % me business interests impatienty waitino oa ipr settlement of this question The promised psner as was ee to ne coming yet such overwhelming waves @ o was m freely predicted The republicans claim that i must @ until after the passage pending bill but
 ' U ", VII speedily come after its enactment
 ~ mousse o representatives has passed the bill sometime h anu ne senate IS working on fast possible It has S greatly changed that Its author would probably not
 gze It, ana there are many changes vet to be made re mo in @ can tell with degree of when this M o VII VII nhally become law We predict however about the 18th or 2Oth of the coming month however if as bt m asnngton as it in Mena may hear of its pssage
 earlier The democrats claim that all tariffs are taxes
 ana that no country be made prosperous by more taxation & also clam that the manufacturer protected while the farmer ana aborer receive benefits That this system will
 make ne nch richer and the poor, poorer" Or in other
 [os they clam that the republican prayeris God bless the rich, the poor beg" ~ VI, Who IS right on this great question? Do you know?
 we mus! confess that we do no however have our per- sonar opnons but not paying for this space to lair our opoS put to advertise our business We selling Hard ware llnware, Stoves Queenware Etc. at the old stand Don't forget when you anything in our line and YOU may settle political questions you choose.
 No. 204, Mena St SNEED & JONES'
The Mena weekly star., 1897-06-30
To Play at Texarkana.

The Mena Fans leave Saturday for Texarkana to play series of games with Texarkana boys whom they de- feated here several weeks ago. Our boys have added some new material and believe they are prepared to ad- minister a greater defeat to Texarkana than at the previous game.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-06-30
AN IDEAL PLACE.
pich Mountain as Summer Resort
 Cannot be ExceIIed.


 Last Friday w. T. Furguson, Will. liam and J. A. Buchanan and MT. Ben. ,efel6, all of Texarkana, arrived in Mena on an inspecting tour hoping to find place to send their families for a few months summer outing. Accom-. panied by Geo. NJ. Craig, they went upon Rich Mountain and remained m. til Sunday morning at Mir. Holdar's.
 Upon their return these gentlemen expressed themselves to Star repre-. sentative as being highly pleased, de- claring that it was an ideal place for a summer resort and that hundreds of people from their section would 20 there this season if roadway was made to get up the mountain, and places provided for their board while there.
 The water, atmosphere and scenery are all that could be desired and these gentlemen were enthusiastic in praise of the place They also had much to say in praise of Mena. remarking that the people here, and especially the children, all looked healthy. and ''you people have but little occasion to seek a resort upon the mountains, but if l you were living where the nights were so hot you could not sleep and where the air was full of malaria, you would be wanting to get to some place like Rich Mountain. These gentlemen started home Monday morning and the Buchanan brothers ex- pect to return next Saturday even- ing, accompanied by their wives, to take them on the mountain and re- main over Sunday. If they are pleased they will return home and pre- pare to spend July and August on the mountain, bringing tents to live in.
 If these people decide to locate on Rich Mountain for the summer they will be accompanied by many others from their vicinity.
 lHCot SCDllctncu say budb On DdUuT- | day night they were compelled to have a fire to keep them warm, and that on Sunday morning the thermometer in- dicated 6s degrees.
 Mir. Craig remained with these gen. tlemen on the mountain until Satur- day night when he took the train for Kansas City to recommend that the | railroad company, who owns good lands on the mountain, take action at once to provide an easy access to the top, also some conveniences for people | desiring to go there.
 During otber seasons these people | have been accustomed to taking their | families to Manitau, Colo. and other far away northern points. They real 1 ze that to say nothing about the sav- ing in expenses, the fact that they would be so near home and that the men could come and see their families and spend Sunday with them quite of ten, is great consideration-one that causes them to wish to have resort established on rich Mountain.
The Mena weekly star., 1897-06-30
HIPS HND INSERTS.

1dlk Wltn Wlnn aDOut photos.
 Try Perfect" baking powder. It does such lovely baking.
 Home made bread, cake and pies at t.hhe Port Arthur Eating House & Home Bakery.
 c. H. Eddleman, the sewing machine man, takes advertising space it the Star this week
 Light, healthful and nutritious food guaranteed from any four by using the Perfect" baking powder.
 w. F. Powell, a railroad man, has contracted for the erection of neat cottage in the Eureka addition.
 WANTED. Fifteen teams to haul lumber, at Emmert's mill, five and half miles west of Mena. 43-2t
 q. l.. Harris, postmaster at Ink, was in town Saturday to take his daughter, who had been attending the institute, home.
 Go and see those new "Bos Riley" or "Raised'' photographs at Winn's stu dio. It is the latest thing in photogra- phy. 2t.
 James Breen, of the c. F. Morrison X Co., lumber yard, has purchased a lot in the Vineyard addition and will build upon it soon.
 D. $. Allen. an employee of the railroad, will have carpenters at work in few days on a neat cottage on his lot in the Eureka addition.
 FOR RENT. One good sized room partly furnished: also a small new house, good location in suburbs of Mena Apply at Star office.
 J. B. Graves, of Gam, was caller this week and reports q nice rain in his section Sunday; also that they had excellent prospects for crops.
 Chas. White, who is Tn charge of c. P Morrison X Co.'S blaming mill, has purchased lot in Vineyard addition 
 on which he expects to build soon.
 Ladies, tell the merchants that you don't want any baking powder but the "Perfect" as you prefer quality and health rather than quantity and indi- gestion.
 The new sculpture photography, or ''Bos Riley IS the wonder of the nineteenth century. Get 1t done at Winn's gallery, up stairs over Coles grocery store.
 H. H. Cozart Esq, representing F. F. Stewart ,S Co, of Humboldt, Tenn. 1, was here last week buying hard wood tim Der, cask slaves, etc for his firm for export purposes.
 That squash vine we have been re- porting occasionally IS now 3s feet long and still growing but IS so loaded with big squashes it cannot make as good..' time as formerly.
 Jeff Upshaw has let the contract for a neat cottage to De eIeCIcu op HUI mann street between Jansen and Honert avenues. c. F. Morrison X Co. will furnish the lumber.
 We are requested to announce that there will be a gathering of the people in the vicinity of Dallas on Saturday, July 10, in the morning, to clear up the cemetery at that place.
 D. B. Johnson, whom we mentioned last week as having come here from Iowa. has purchased lots 1 and in the Olmstead addition at the corner of Port Arthur and St John streets, and will erect nice two story, eight room house right away. !
The Mena weekly star., 1897-06-30
No ChiIIs in Polk County.

MT. A. M. Woodall, who came to this eOunty nineteen years ago for his a'aitn, reports that he has raised nine 'nuren here and none of them ever ~h, person have fever and ague from 70 'o oo'n'noh where ne can
The Mena weekly star., 1897-06-30
The Celebration at Jansen.

The Star office turned out ?. 5GO large three color posters announcing the celebration at Janssen on Saturday, July 3. Many attractions are an- nounced and q rousing good time is expected. See ad. m this issue of the Star
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1897-11-27

The number of assessments in any
Jurisdiction working upon the clas-
sifed plan is limited to twelve in
any one year. In case twelve assess
ments are not sufficient to discharge
the liabilities in any Jurisdiction in
any one year, the a. o. U. w. has
the relief law as a current cost re-
serve element, feature not possese-
ed by any other fraternal beneficiary
organization. 1t may not be out OF
place to call attention to the utility
of this feature as reserve element.
No fraternal organization has as yet
accumulated S3,ooo,ooo as reserve,
yet the A. Q. U. w. has collected and
paid out through the relief law in
the last seventeen years over $1,000,
600, and has an assessable reserve
equal to SI,ooo,ooo per annum. This
feature alone demonstrates the firm
strength and perpetuity of the A. o
U. w. system as compared with the
forms of other fraternal beneficial
organizations.-A. o. q. w. But
Lettn
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1897-11-27
Lyon County.
NEWSPAPER Law.

Subscribers lohO do not gtue eIpress notics 10
The contrarV are considered iciShtng TO continue
their subscription.
= II subscribers order the dtsooHtinudnce o. theu
periodicals. the publisher may continue 10 S"o
hem until all arrears are paid
N subscribers neglect or refuse to take he'r pc
riodicals Jroa the office TO ohich they are directed
they are held responsible TIL they haze settaed heV
bill and ord red their paper discontinued
Z II subscribers move TO other places tctthoat
ipyfornibg the publisher, and the paper sent TO e
fOTmer direction, they are held responsible
s The courts have decided that REFUSING 20 tdke
periodicals from the once, or reHoun9 ana eedpny
hem uncalied for is prinsa acie evidence Of tnte'
fi0nai fraud.
8. ANY person tDho receives newspaper ana
makes use Of a. t0hether he has subscribed Jof u OF
not, is held IN lac as a subscriber.
2. The Postmaster Who negtects TO g'De me tegat
notice Of The neglect Of person 70 take rem hc 9
fee the nelospaper addressed TO htm ~ ttGoe 70 s
pubtishsr for the subscription price. tt.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1897-11-27
Aim at Perfection in all Lodge work

We have sometimes seen officers
retire from very responsible posi-
ton with no more knowledge of its
duties and requirements than he had
when he was conducted into it. A
presiding officer. perhaps, has pre-
tendedly filled his chair during six
months term and upon retiring can
not open or close the Lodge, much
less transact it's business unless he
has ritual in his hand. He could
not recite line of any charge in the
work, nor could he instruct at all in
any part of the secret work OF the
Order. sf'sf g fsr @ ~
-. rsFR :. ass - =, e.tls 8
There is no excuse under the sun
for any such negligence. The officer
who does this is totally unfit and
ought never to have filled an office.
A lodge that allows an officer to
drag through his term without ever
giving the important work entrusted
to him any consideration, has to sut-
fer for it, and it deserves it.
If every Lodge will require at the
hands Of its officers thorough prone
iency in the discharge of the duties
assigned to them, they can have it
so, much easier than drag, as it fre-
quently is. And no one will pretend
to say that it is not better to do so.
We insist upon it that an officer
should become a student. He should
know his part of every duty and
never accept any position unless he
intends to know all the position re-
quires him to know.-Eechange.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1897-11-27

The National Fraternal Congress
appointed a committee to prepare un-
form rate tables to be submitted to
the Congress at its meeting next
year. This action is significant. 1t
means that the A. Q. u. w. is not
alone in its efforts to establish a rate
that will insure perpetuity without
excessive cost. 1t means that other
fraternal insurance societies must
meet the problem of how to retain
their membership in the face of in
creasing death losses. 1t means that
men cannot get something for moth
ing and that the individual or asso-
citation which attempts it will sooner
or later learn the inexorable law OF
worth as relative to cost. No person
or number of persons can long main
tain the process Of paying $500 for a
commodity and selling it for SI.oo.
Nor can any society or association
sell life insurance or protection for
SI.oo per Looo that costs SI.4o, and
maintain its integrity.-Michtgdn
Herald. IA N.E.e
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1897-11-27
@MATTERS.&


What right, Says some one" has
a man to take from happy home,
possibly the flower of the family, and
gather around him family, with no
prospects of their support in case of
his death, securing to them no pros
pect but that of poverty and wretch
edness?
Health and wealth are exceedingly
precarious and uncertain. Strong
men of today become weak and sick
ly tomorrow, or are stricken down
in death when apparently in the full
vigor of manhood. Rich men become
involved, stocks and shares fall in
value. a man will insure his prop
erty against possibility q loss by
fire, why should he be less careful Of
loss OF life?
A beneficiary certificate in fra
ternal Order cannot be taken for debt
and in case of death is as sure of be-
ing paid as anything earthly can
well he, It is paid directly to the
party named in the certificate, with
cut any administration or interven-
tion of law and with the least possi-
BILE delay. ...r
If you say you love your family
prove itat once by seeking admission
to this the best of beneficiary socie-
ties, and thereby demonstrate your
love for them and also secure to them
absolute protection, which they may,
possibly, so sadlynced in the future.
Delays are dangerous; do not hest
tate, bat grasp the golden opportu-
nifty ere it shall be too late, thereby
filling your mind and heart with
vain regrets when you remember
what might have been, had you but
done your duty.
Protection to ones family should
come first and accumulations that
depend upon chances second. The
duty of a husband Is to make certain
that should he die during the early
years of his productive or accumula-
tive period, his wife and family
would be provided for.
Are you a member? Have you
made provision for those who are
near and dear to you in case you
should be suddenly taken away
With your death your income ceases
and want and suffering may reach
those you have protected during
your life. Your obligation to them
demands you should make provision
for their comfort at once.
Here what the Rev. I. De Witt
Talmage has TO say as there any
thing so helpless as woman whose
husband has just died, when, with
her children at her back she goes out
tolhght for bread? Shall she become
a menial servant in some one else s
household? No; not the one who has
been lying on your arm all these
years and filing the household with
Joy and light Shall she sew for a
living? God knows they get but six
and eight cents tor making gar
ments. Oh, no! You had better have
your coffin made large enough to
take all with you into the land where
they never freeze or starvc." And
again! "dow a man with no seru-
pies of estate, but still enough money
to pay the premium on a life insur'
ance policy, can refuse to do it and
then look his children in the face and
say his prayers at night on going te
bed, expecting them to be answered
is mystery that | have never beer
able to fathom." Plank aud Plat
foy,,l lHE1r t4tttts
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1897-11-27

EP@ In looking over our Workman
exchanges we find many of them
brim tull OF correspondence from the
different Lodges in the Jurisdictions
they represent. This is sure sign
Of activity, for it shows that the
lodges and the members not only
take an interest in the work, but
that they are willing TO let others
know what they are doing. Nevada
has no official organ, but for the past
three months we have been devoting
weekly as much space as could be
afforded to A. Q. u. w. matte rs,
with,the hope that some enthusiasm
might be created in this Jurisdiction,
A standing invitation has been given
to correspondents, but they seem to
take little interest in letting one
Lodge know what the other Lodge
is doing, or the other Jurisdictions
what Nevada Jurisdiction is accom-
plishing. Reports of Lodge officers
concerning limitations, festivals and
social gatherings make good reading
and create rivalry among the
Lodges, which brings about activity
and determination not TO be behind
in the building up of the Order
Once again we would invite CORE
spondence from the different Lodges
in this Jurisdiction,
H The Jurisdiction that adopts
the new assessment plan with any
kind of an idea that it will "worl
itself" will make a mistake. 1t will
take work to make the Order grow
with any kind of plan.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1897-11-27
INERTIA OF oFFiClALDom.
Reasons for Relieving That Postal
Banks Will BE Established.

The ST. Louis Journal of Agricul
tasre in an editorial suggests that Of
fetal inertia is the explanation of
the failure of Congress to provide
heretofore for postal savings banks
in the United States 1t says:
"The agitation in favor of the es-
tablishment of postal savings banks
in this country is gaining force and
volume daily and will continue to
do so until the national government
recognizes their need and bows to
the public will There is no ques-
tioning the advantages conferred
upon the working classes by savings
banks, but officialdom is always
slow to follow public opinion in mat
ters where changes in governmental
methods are concerned. 1t either
shrinks from the performance of
new duties, shirks the action neces-
sary to the establishment of machin-
cry for new departments, or fears
to antagonize vested interests. That
nothing but good would accrue from
giving the public increased facilities
for investing their savings is shown
by the results in other countries
where the plan has been in force
for some years"
When to the inertia of officialdom
there Is added apathy on the part
OF the people improvement is possi-
BILE One of the strongest reasons
why postal savings banks have not
been established is that the people
have not made their desire for such
system manifest. The greatest
hope for the success of the present
agitation for postal savings banks
lies in the fact that the people are
giving expression to the desire for
such Repositories. Labor osganiza-
tions in great numbers have passed
resolutions asking Congress for pos
tai banks. The Farmers Congress
has taken similar action No other
proposition before the American
people has been so widely and so
favorably commented on within the
last six months by the press of all
parts of the United States, and es-
pecially by what is known as the
country press. Voters by thousands
have signed petitions asking for
postal banks. All this has a mean
ing, and one that cannot fail of be-
ing understood by those in power
at Washington. When the people
make themselves heard in favor of
a proposition as they are doing in
this case official inertia must make
way for official acquiescence with
the popular will. That which the
people want from their representa-
tives they can secure if they will
but make their wishes known. With
continuation of popular express
sion in favor of postal savings
banks the establishment of the sys-
tenn at an early date is certainty.
Chicago Record.