The Mena weekly star., 1898-01-05
FROM STATE EXCHANGES.

 The Little Rock Dollar and Labor Record have consolidated and will continue to advocate the cause of populism and labor. - Populist Appeal. Horatio.
 happy New Year to the cotton planters of the South May they re- duce their acreage aud their cup of joy be filled to overfiowing Little Rock Gazette
 Nearly all the farmers in North west ern Arkansas have money in the bank. How about the others who have been spending their time and straining their credit planting cotton?-Little Rock Gazette
 Reduce the cotton acreage and in- crease the yield and much will have been done to solve the question of low cotton, especially if corn, wheat and oats be produced on the land thus saved from cotton, u,-Columbia Banner.
 One of the unsolved problems of the age is how men can live high and fare sumptuously who never earn dollar and who haven't done days work for years Magnolia is blessed with a few of this class. Magnolia Journal.
 
 If the freight division should Le moved from Texarkana in order to equalize the distance and relative amount of work between Shreveport and Mena, Winthrop is as sure for the division as Hanna is for the senate Winthrop Dispatch.
 The indications are that the busy season will open up much earlier than usual. For the past few days many more people have come in than usual at this time of the year. Heretofore the holiday season has always been dnll.-Hot Springs Seminal. It is said that child will never learn to not play in the fire until 1t has burned its fingers. How many farmers had their fingers burned this year with their cotton crop? How many will plant more orchards and less cotton hereafter2 Learn by ex- perience. .-Janssen Journal.
 lion. $. NJ. Taylor, of this city. is receiving numerous and urgent ap- peals from this county and elsewhere to enter the race for congress in this district next year against Congressman Little should Mr. Taylor enter the race he would make a very formida- ole candidate. Pine Bluff Graphic.
 fad Wisdom came near being ser iousIy hurt last week by letting his horse brush him off against tree. He had been taking Christmas" and in going out of town at lively gait the horse failed to make allowance for the wide swath Pad was cutting. Dr. Ca oanniss was summoned and Pad was soon able to go again -Janssen Jour nal
 John F. Williams, ex-sheriff. farmerl ana potato grower, is in the city forl 'ne purpose of homesteading 16o acresl oi land near the city for the next pod tato season. He will plant his fields. at ms homei near Witcherville, but wants to try his luck on 16o acres of. rlVer land. He has on hand 2.5o0 oushels ot potatos and will have 1, 000' bushels for sale. -Ft. Smith Sun. i0 is more than probable that there VIII oe general removal of the great co''on factories of New England to tlie oouth Tn the near future. Their owf,- CTS are beginning to realize that they can not compete successfully with tlle| southern factories. When the starn~. peoe comes, Texas and Arkansas should oe prepared to receive the wanderers "ith open arms. The Courier. Texar~ kama.
 mrs stark, Pleasant Ridge O., sal
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