The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-12
TOO ABSURD" AGAIN.

/ $1,000
Eureka Springs, and among other
things, says:
That paper speaks of people from
Eureka Springs having invested money
in Mena, and that is true, A number
of our people have established branch
houses there--Mrs. j. G. Cunningham
| w. j. Lloyd, w. 5. Wadsworth, etc,
for instance--and have sent some of
our good citizens down TO take charge
of them, but the heads Of these enter
prises still reside in Eureka Springs.
Quite true, and these, like many
others who have located in bust
ness and are making their homes
here, all declare that is utterly
impossible to dispose of their
property in Eureka Springs to
enable more of them to come and
make homes here. And again the
Flashlight says:
The city of Eureka Springs employed
Mr.. Il. Ii. james as an advertising
agent 1t is his duty to tell the people
who want to spend the summer or
winter ut an ideal health resort the
difference between this city and such
a place as Mena; to show them by facts
that people not only get well here, but
that in summer this is a cool retreat
with Goodies" of pure, cold water, and
in winter they escape the frigid wealth
err incident to towns not protected by
mountains. More than that, Mr..
James was never a citizen OF Mena.
His family has never left Eureka
Springs, and his name is on the poll
books of Carroll county.
Just so; "his duty to tell the
people the difference between this
city and such a place as Mcna."
and when did such duty become
Mena, a two-year-old
infant, and Eureka Springs full
grown, matured, twenty-year- old
town compelled to hire a travelling
agent at 800 a month ito tell the
people the difference. In anoth-
er place in the same paper the
says:
''R. II. James, our travelling repre-
returned home last Sunday.
He has been working in and around
Kansas City. st. Joseph and neighb or-
ing cities. He saws he expects to see
large number of people from that
country come here next summer, and
few will come this winter. He says it
is hard to convince theuI that this is
winter and summer resort com bined,
and that but few of them know any
l., inn hr,n = y.ln
This is rich report from an
agent getting 800 month.
Few of them know anything
about the place." and that in the
chief towns of a state whose south
ern borders almost touch Eureka
Springs? Mr.. James could not
say this OF Mena and we now see
why Eureka Springs was COM
PEELED to hire him to 90 out and
''tell the people the difference.
1t appears that they would never
have known if be had not gone
out and told them.
The Flashlight speaks of "towns
not protected by mountains,
showing that its editor was never
in Mena, or be would know that
Rich Mountain raises its rock
ribbed sides and timber crested
summit 800 feet high and thirty
miles long east and west, just
north of Mena, and he would also
know that Eureka Springs could
not, like the political orator.
"point with pride" to any such
bulwark Of protection from north
crn billiards.. The Star man has
been in Eureka Springs and cheer
fully admits that down on mud
street" and in the gulches whore
much of the town is built, the
people are protected from the
cold winds of winter as we'll as the
cooling breczes of summer, but
those who are compelled to live
upon the upper edge of their per-
pendicular lots have no such pro-
lection.
Mr.. james, or any other man,
drawing smaller salary could
tell the people the difference"
between a town built upon an
elevated tableland thirteen hun
lred feet above sea level with
range 1900 feet high
and thirty-six miles long just
north, and one built in gulches
hnfMnnn tho hills md on Lots col