The Mena star., 1899-07-27
To BE HELD DURING CELEBRA-
 TION AUGUST IS and Io.
List of Special Premiums Offered By the Business Men of Mena for Products of Polk and
 Adjoining Coun-
 ties.

MenS for articles to be exhibited at the Park Fair to be held in connection with the anniversary celebration August IS and 10, 1899.
 K. M. Green, $2.5O cash for best pair Lang Shang chickens.
 corn grown within 50 miles or Mena.
 Davis-Conklin Drug Co.,, g cash for the hest pair of home.spun and home made pants; ordinary size. Davis-Conklin to have Racket Store, $25O cash for the best one- half gallon of native wine; also S250 cash for fine best pound cake, weight 23 10 3 pounds Racket store to keep goods. Also beautiful picture in elegant frame 26x30 inches to the nerso; under l5 years of age who can recite by memory the greatest number of verses of L. w. Welch, harness and saddles, $1 cash for the best two pounds native honey.
 A. R. Lsswell, grocer, 25 cents pound for the best country cured ham.
 E. P. Smith, jeweler, fine silver fruit dish value $10. for the best selection of one half bushel of apples
 A. l.. Abbott, baker $1 cash and six loaves hest cream bread for best pair home knit wool socks.
 W. G. Fry Jewelry Co.,, one extra heavy sterling silver bracelet, value S2.50, for the incest hand embroidered handkerchief
 M D. Winton. general merchandise, $3 hat to the owner of the best mule colt not over six months old.
 j. K Lloyd, hardware, No. cook stove for the best handmade counterpane.
 Mena Street Second Hand Store S2 in mer- chandise for best pumpkin.
 Hickman House, S1.50 cash for best two nutmeg melons. Hickman House to have the melons
 B.H. Christie, grocer. $15O cash for best peck Southern Queen sweeS potatoes.
 Ed Garrett, drayman, $l.50 cash for best gallon plums.
 J. Spencer Kelly, $2.5O cash for best plate white grapes.
 BIena Democrat, one years subscription for best bushel wheat; one years subscription for best bushel oats; one years subscription for best bushel rye one years subscription for best peck buckwheat; one years subscription for largest head cabbage.
 Geo. Dennis, real estate, S2,50 cash for best and tallest stalk field corn.
 Bert Hildebrant, photographer, one dozen cabinet photos, value B, for best plate Con- cord grapes.
 W.P. Saunders Furniture Co, S4 three quarter iron bed with brass tips for the best loaf of home made wheat bread. Saunders to have the premium loaf.
 ". E. Watkins, grocer, $2 cash for the best pound butter.
 W. E. Watkins. grocer, $2 cash for the best three loaves light bread, and g cash for the best bDshel tomatoes also s for best pair of turkeys. Watkins to have the articles men toned.
 Grand Leader dry goods store, 5 silk waist to the lady getting premium on pear pre- serves.
 R. s. Allen, general merchandise, g cash for the largest watermelon.
 J. B. Littlejohn X Co, groceries, S250 cash fo +1raL %,sn nr Trls ttnlro Owner to have chickens.
 ". & Gallentne S2.50 cash for the best trio Brown Leghorn chickens. Galientne to have chickens
 Cox A Smith groceries, loo pounds White Silk fonr for six best ears corn.
 F. C. Savage, $2.50 for best Poland China pig.
 Fred salyers, S2.50 cash for best bred COW. M E. Humphrey. s cash for best mutton sheep and spring lamb.
 J. Fl Davis, Sl cash for best cantelope. Bee Hive Grocery s150 cash for best plate of pears.
 Pat Muraney. s cash for best half bushel potatoes.
 NJ. J. Garrett. sa.5O cash for second best half bushel apples.
 r. NJ. Hopper, S25O cash for best half bushel yellow yam potatoes. Hopper to have potatoes. JP Landen, s25O cash for best plate of tomatoes.
 Mepa News Publishing Co. S1 cash for best mnskmelon.
 C. 4. Smith, 100 pounds best hoar TOT Iour best stalks cotton.
 Bee Hive Grocery Sl5O cash for best plate of peaches.
 Sam Badt, 8 50 cash for the best horse colt under six months old. beet. Cox. The Grocer, s1 cash for largest squash. Sneed SS Jones, hardware, S250 ln mer- chandise for second best water melon. Sseeu .& Jones to have the melon.
 Sawdon & Co. dry goods and millinery, one ladies trimmed hat, value S3, for the pest patch work quilt.
 Jackson Drug Co, s2. 50 in merchandise for best Poland China pig under six months old. Mena Grocery Co., S2 30 i'll merchandise Tor best five pound roll butter. Mena Grocery company to have butter.
 Cole & Gam, $2 cash to the woman not over 50 years of age, born in Polk county, who has the greatest number or hVips children.
 Mena Lumber Co.,, s4 cash for best poem on Arkansas,
 $. P. Folsom, s1 for second best plate to- matoes
 ". R. Blocksom. s pair shors for best SIX quart pan of corn bread; $3 gents nat Tor pest half gallon sorghum moasses; Blocksom to have both bread and molassesi S2oo iaoie oxford ties for best fancy worked stand cover and sl 20 pair ladies kid gloves for second best stand cover ., Robb & Carroll. loo pounds flour for the best peck turnips. -. Ego,f Drug Co. 8 in merchandise Tor pest glass grape jelly
 N. A. Reese. 50 cents for best dozen cucum- bers for pickles. Mena Star, one years subscription Tor pest e field green beans: one years subscription lol