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The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15
Arkansas Aladdin's Lamp.

If there is one man alive today to whom Arkansas should erect a monument it is to Branner, former state geologist, now of the faculty of Leland Stanford University of Pola Alto, Cal.
 MT. Branner, when state geologist, made a thoroughly conscientious sur vey of this state and he made dis coveries and predictions that, if properly published and brought to the attention of the world, or if they had been believed in and accepted as guides by Arkansas people, would long ago have put the state in the front rank of industrial and mineral producing states.
 Branner knew and said there was natural gas in the vicinity a score of years ago result, indifference and neglect until a very few years ago since when, in the last year or two, the field has been thoroughly tested and proved of immense value.
 Branner mapped the coal area of the state a score of years ago result, long years of indifference and spasmodic develop nent, with vast areas still undeveloped
 Branner indicated the probability of diamond discoveries a score of years ago at the exact spot whence come the present surprising and sensational stories of diamond dis coveries and the development of the fact that a geological formation the exact counterpart of that found in South Africa diamond field exists.
 But though Branner did his work conscientiously and well, almost with miraculous insight into the hidden secrets of the soil of Arkan- sas. the state hid it's light under a hushel; his reports were pigeon holed instead of beng published to the world of science. invention and industrial development.
 Branner is being corroborated every day by the discoveries of those who are wise enough to avail them selves of his wonderfully accurate but woefully neglected reports.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15

reached the metropolis said there IS a strong sentiment in the South and middle West for Jesse R. Grant for president, and the legislator and the planter agreed that William J.. Bryan is no longer factor in the situation. !" So far as our informa- tion goes the foregoing is correct save that there is scarcely any senti- ment in the South and middle West for Jesse R. Grant and William J. Bryan is the greatest factor in the situation. Gazette.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15
Lower Fares in Twenty-One States

An analysis of the general results shows that passenger fares were either actually reduced or affected in twenty-one states: Alabama, Ar kansas, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska. North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Virginia, West Vir- ginia, and Wisconsin. Two-cent rates now prevail in Arkansas, Indi- ana, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Wis consin; and in Ohio, since 1906; two-and-one-half-cent rates in Ala bama and North Dakota. North Carolina has established two-and- one-quarter-cent rate; West Vir- ginia, two-cent rate for railroads over fifty miles in length; Iowa, a sliding scale of from two to three cents per mile; Michigan, two, three, and four-cent rate; Kansas, Maryland and Mississippi, two-cent rates for mileage books; the railroad commissions of Georgia and South Dakota have been authorized to establish two-cent and a two-and- one-half-cent rate, respectively; and Oklahoma specifies in it's new con stitution maximum charge of two cents for passenger fare. Virginia's s Corporation Commission has adopted two-cent rate for trunk lines, a three-cent rate for minor roads, and three-and-one-half-cent rate on one or two lines. Kansas may adopt a flat two cent-cent rate on the supposition that what is remunera- tive in Nebraska should prove equal ly remunerative in Kansas Geor- gia's legislature is in session as we go to press. From "The Legisla- lures and the Railroads. by Robert Emmett Ireton, in the American Review of Reviews for August.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15
S0nE EVERY DAY PHILOSOPHY
IAtchIson (,Ione

(Atchlson Globe.l
 It is hard to beat man who smiles while he works.
 The man who says he doesn't want to take your time usually does.
 Your sons probably please you as well as you pleased your father.
 It is nearly always a good ball game when the home team wins.
 The man who whines makes other people look pretty good by compari- son.
 We have noticed that in the coun- try the champion horseshoe pitcher never breaks any records at pitching bundles to a threshing machine.
 A boy has a big undertaking when he attempts to come up to his moth- CTS estimate of him, but the world has great admiration for the young man who tries.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

NNew Nork Press
 When a woman wears blisters it's a sign she is summer girl.
 People live in the suburbs so as to have a good time by visiting town.
 A lunch is collation when a wom- an wants it put in the newspapers.
 What a woman likes about a rail road trip to the next town is she can call it a tour.
 If a girl really respects a man it has something to do with the way his neckties match his complexion.
 A girls idea of marrying a man is that, after the rousseau, he's the most necessary thing to the wedding No matter how late man comes home at night, his wife will believe he was at the office when he explains it to others,
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15
Millions for Arkansas Fruit.s

Millions of dollars will be brought into Arkansas this year by the fruit crops. Because of shortage in the peach supply in other regions the peach crop of this state brought high prices this year. and orchard sts expect apples to bring higher prices than for several years past. Prices are already stiff, and many growers have disposed of their crop.
 Gazette.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15

which is jcopardizing almost every branch of business. Regardless of the question of right or wrong that is involved in the contest between the employing telegraph companies and the strikers, the people should not be made to suffer loss while occupying the position of the inno- cent bystanders.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15
Poverty and Evil.

The man who owns enough of thls goods to keep him from dirt, debt, and hunger, has a thousand of avoiding evil against the one of the man whom the demon of Encouragement drags through depths from which it is almost im- possible to escape without severe demoralization of body, mind and spirit. Success Magazine.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15
rIENA,S ANNUAL FAIR,

!
 This is the Eleventh successive year that Mena has held an annual fair and celebration commemorative of the founding of the city, August l9, 1896.
 The intent of the founders of this annual event was to bring the peo- pie of the community together in friendly rivalry over the products of the farms and orchards, knowing that this rivalry would encourag the best development of the country and thereby rebound to the perma- nent good of the people thereof.
 That was direct benefit an education to the people already here. But there is probably no other thing that has brought so many outside people to Polk county as these annual fairs, in that they have shown to all who have come that the soil and climate of this country combine to make it produc- tive to a far greater extent than those unacquainted with it had sup posed.
 Mena's celebration and fair is unique in that all the expenses and premiums are paid by the free-will offerings of Menas business men. Year by year they have raised from S1 ,000 to $2,000 in cash and pre- miums for the purpose of making the annual event an enjoyable and profitable occasion for all who will come.
 It is true that by this method, there cannot be such large premiums given as at fairs where entry fees are charged exhibitors and where admission is demanded of spectators, but it is a pleasure to record the fact that the people of Polk county have taken patriotic interest in the fair and have always made many exhibits for which there was but small, or even no premiums offered. And the same will be true this year.
 The decision to hold fair this year came late, but the business men of Mena have responded promptly and liberally and quite an intere ting list of premiums has been prepared. The original list was printed in the Weekly Star last week, and the Supplementary and Special List printed in this issue, coming late as it does, will add much interest and doubtless largely in crease the number of exhibitors.
 In addition to the fair Mena un- dertakes to furnish many amusement features free to her guests, and this year will be no exception to the rule,
 There will be many people in Mena this year from other sections of the country who will come here, buy property and make homes if they are pleased with what they see al the fair, and all those who are de. sirous of seeing Polk county grow and prosper should come and assist in making this, Mena's Eleventh An nual Fair and Celebration, a grea1 success.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15

played up in print that hc wouldn't repeat the offense, and would be mighty busy trying to hide his tracks from his associates.
 Besides that, as shown in The Star yesterday, the stories in question, as published in the American, lack the important element of being based on facts and common sense.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15

The two great telegraph compa- nies, the Western Union and Postal. have but recently combined and raised their rates. It now seems there is is another combination that intends to get share of the profits.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15

There is one sort of government regulation of railroads that all this talk may lead to equal rates for cities as well as individuals. Why should one town have an advantage over another that is not allowed to
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15

Branner was a genius and he gave to Arkansas an Aladdin's lamp but Arkansas was not wise enough to rub it and call to it's aid the genil who would have uncovered the riches of Arkansas. Fort Smith Times.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15

Some people are sure to note that there are no strikes in Uncle Sam s postal service and may figure that much trouble would be avoided and a better and cheaper eervice rendered if the telegraph business was also taken from private hands.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15
WANT TO COME TO rlENA FOR
 THE SUMTER.

The weather is warming up again over the South, and heat prostra- tions, etc. are becoming common occurrences in many localities. Here is another letter handed to The Star which but illustrates the need of summer hotel:
 Shreveport, La, July 26, 1907. Mir. J. E. Hines, New Orleans, La.
 Dear Sir:
 want to go to Mena next month and have failed to get board in Mena. l want to know how far from Mena to the hotel on the mountain. A great number from Shreveport have gone to Mena, and quite crowd will go the last of August if they can get accommodations
 We will have about ten in one party that is if we can get board. The people are very much awakened" to the idea of going to Mena for the sum mer, want to go and see if 1t is as cool as they claim it is there. Yours truly. Mrs. C. F. Holbert.
 It cannot be repeated too often that the reason the Kansas City Southern Employees Hospital Asso- citation decided to build it's hospital al NJ ma was because of the desira- ble climate. It is said that 90 per cent of the medicine sent out by the railroad surgeon here goes South, and is to combat the malaria and levers of that section. Those who had the locating of the hospital, to quote the statement of one of them, wanted the hospital in Mena so that the poor fellows who were com pelled to work in the unhealthy low lands could come up to the higher altitude and have a chance to get we'll Y
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15
THE MENA EVENING sTAR

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The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15
Ringing Up Fares.

''The bartender has no interest in your reserve fund. He would rather look you up on his cash register than in Bradstreet's. 70. Henry in the August American Magazine.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15

This is the time of year when the people of the South begin to think about yellow fever. As has before been proven, Mena is wholly undis- turbed by such fears.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15

That fine of $10 assessed against Senator A. T. Gross will hardly en- title him to the sympathy of John D. Rockefeller at this time.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15
MADE HIS HURT.

Old Uncle Hi limps out an says, "This weather may be fine Fer farmers corn, but I'll be derned If it is good fer mine. 2
 Lee Shippey.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15
Who Win Win inc Prizes ?

There will be given $2.50 for the best loaf of bread made of Success Flour on exhibition at the Fair ana 100 pounds of Success" Flour VIII be given for the second best loai' This Flour has no superior On tne market. All who intend to contest for these prizes will please lease their names with us. We are the sole agents for the genuine Success Flour made at Neosho, Mo.
 137 Owl Mena Mercantile Co'
 Newell Thomas, who has oeS" lu the west for the past year. . home ou a visit to his parents Squire Id Mrs. Phones.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15

The Fort Smith News-Record is working hard to promote the Home Patronage Club, the watchword of which is Fort Smith Dollars for Fort Smith" That is a much bet ter way to build up town than to publish groundless sensations at the expense of a neighboring city especially one that is the best custo- mer of the wholesale merchants and factories of the first named.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15
Wrong in Some Points.

According to the New York Times, member of the Louisiana legisla- ture and a big planter who have just
The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-15

The country k receiving an object lesson in the strike of teleGraphelS.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-05
THE MASK OF HEALTH
Few People Are Really as Well as
They Look. Cause and Remedy.

Many people in Americas both men
and women, who believe themselve
to be in perfect health, are often in the
greatest danger.
Indigestion, which is so common a
trouble, is the principal cause of the
greater share of the general poor
health. 1t has misleading SYMPTOMS
that seems to have no reference
to the stomach, such as headache,
sleeplessness, specks before the eyes,
pains in the back and side, etc.
The success of physicians every
where with the prescription that is
now embodied in Mi-o-na stomach tab
let's has made this remedy in the last
few years the acknowledged specific
for the treatment of stomach disease.
The secret of this success lies in the
fact that Mi-o-na is prepared expressly
to strengthen the digestive organs and
its use for few days puts the whole
digestive system in such shape that it
en- care for all of the food that is eaten
without pain or distress.
Simply take Mi-o-na stomach tab
let before each meal and ion retirinpA
and it will so strengthen the stomach
that you can enjoy a healthy meal
without the least fear of distress or
suffering. Dodson Drug Co. give an
absolute unqualified guarantee that
your money will be refunded unless
M1-o-na cures. We take the whole
risk and the remedy will not cost you
a penny unless it cures you.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-05
VICTORY WAS OURS IN
BEST OF THE SEASON
Americas Up Against a
Strong Team
THE SCORE STOOD EIGHT TOSEVEN
Combination of Good Players FAILED
to Defeat the MaStOdOns and
Americas Scored a Signal
Victory.

Americas, as predicted, evened up
the account with Shellman yesterday
when IN the prettiest and best played
game witnessed here this season the
locals beat the visitors by a score of
to 7. 1t was a great game, and hun
dreds enjoyed it.
With the Shellman aggregation came
several crack Eufaulans, but the result
was the same.
| Bynum and Stewart pitched for
Americas alternately, with Kiker I'M
derathe willow, while Arthur pitched
good ball for SheIlman.
| Americas started off badly, the team
getting ratified in the first inning and
allowing the visitors to pile up five
runs. But this ''break" was offset in
the second inning, when Shellman got
ratified and Americas piled up six
runs.
And from that time the game became
really interesting.
In the third inning neither team
scored. Ditto 4th, ditto 9Th, ditto 9th.
1t was then nip and tuck.
In the seventh Shellman scored two
runs and rejoiced accordingly, but
Americas again evened up matters and
little more by scoring two in the
eighth. In the ninth Shellman sawed
out, Americas not playing her last
half of it.
A fine feature of the game was
Wheatley's star act in putting ball
over the fence, making a home run and
bringing in three men on bases. With
al, the game was the best one of the
season, and the large audience enjoyed
it greatly.
Today Americas takes the road, play
ing in Cordele this afternoon and prob
ably at Vienna tomorrow morning.
Friday Richland comes here, and good
ball is expected.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-05
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
infiamed condition of the mucous
lining of the Eustachain Tube. When
this tube is infiamed you have a
rumbling sound of imperfect hearing,
and when it is entirely closed, Deaf
mes is the result, and unless the in
f1ammation can be taken out and
this tube restored to its normal cond1-
ton, hearing will be destroyed for
ever; nine cases out of ten are caused
by Catarrh, which is nothing but an
infamed condition of the mucous
surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
F. j. CHENEY 81 CO., Toledo, @.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-05
Remarkable Rescue

That truth is stranger thansEfction,
has once more been demonstrated in
the little town of Fedora, Tenn, the
residence of c. V. Pepper. He writes;
| was in bed, entirely disabled with
hemorrhages of the lungs and throat,
Doctors failed to help me, and all hope
had fled when 1 began taking DR..
Kings New Discovery. Then instant
relief came. The coughing soon ceased;
the bleeding diminished rapidly, and in
three weeks [ was able to go to work. -
Guaranteed cure for coughs and colds
soc. and Sl.00 at Eldridge Drug Co.
Trial bottle free.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-05
PEOPLE WHO. COME
AND LEAVE TOWN.
THOSE WHO CAME YESTERDAY
And Those Who Went Away---Redd
the List and See if Your Name
or YOur.FriendS is There.

Hammocks, Tennis goods, ba ball
goods and Fishing Tackles, large line
to select from at Holidays Book
Store.
F. e. Ivey of Tampa is in the city,
registered at the Hotel Windsor while
ere.
Wade H. Powell of BlakelY, was a
business visitor in Americas yesterday
morning.
Mrs. NJ. C. Rankin of Atlanta, is in
the city, coming Yesterday for short
stay here.
Mr.. G. w. Ellis was among the
several Maconians coming to Ameri-
Gus yesterday.
Mr.: w. G. Carson was a we'll known
citizen of Columbus in Americas yes
terday morning.
Messrs r. NJ. Stokes and II. 7.
oliver of Buena Vista, were visitors in
the city Yesterday.
C. C. Carter was among others COM
ing from Fitzgerald to Americas yester-
day upon business.
Mess. CIV. NJ Montgomery and Edward
Zimmerman were among others from
Plains here yesterday.
George De Loach was registered
from Macon yesterday among the
guests of the Hotel Windsor.
Mrs. B. F. NJ athews returned yester-
day from visit at the home of her son,
MIR. w. j. Mathews, in Triton.
Mrs. George Turpin, who has been
i'll with fever at the city hospital for
two weeks, was reported yesterday
much improved.
Miss Lucille Chappell was called to
Brentwood yesterday by the death OF
her aunt, the funeral services taking
place in the afternoon.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-05
LIFE TERM FOR JOHN CLAY
Negro Convicted of Murder in Superior Court Here
Yesterday

Life servitude in the State peni-
tertiary is the punishment melted
unto John Clay in superior court yes
terday upon his trial and conviction tor
the murder of another negro, Will
Jenkins, near AmerIcus, some time
since.
Clay's case was the first one entered
upon yesterday morning.
He was ably defended by Messrs.
w. w. Dykes and E. A. Nisbet, who
put forth every effort in behalf of their
client, but the evidence of his guilt
was too fully esta blished.
The case occupied the entire morn
ing session In its trial. The jury
rendered verdict of guilty with a
recommendation to mercy, which had
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-05

Americas is to lose passenger train
Sunday next, fact deplored in adj
men and the general public. After
that date the Central Railway, it was
announced Yesterday, will cut off the
daily passenger train operated be-
tween Americas and Columbus, upon
the plea that business does not war;
rant the continuance of the service
In addition to cutting out the passen-
ger the company will also take off the
accommodation train leaving Ameri
Gus about a. m. for Columbus, and
returning here 7:30 p. m. In place OF
these two trains, which are now opera
ted upon most convenient schedules
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-05

the effect of saving Clay's neck al
though it consigns him to the Georgia
penitentiary for life time.
Solicitors Hooper and Childers made
out strong case against Clay in their
prosecution of the case.
Upon The conclusion of this brief
trial the one other murder case upon
the docket, that OF Arthur Towns for
the killing of Ed Lamar down in the
Fifteenth district, was taken up.
Towns was defended very ably by Mr..
James Taylor, r. e. Lee and Mr. Hollis
Fort.
At late hour the jury in the case
returned verdict of guilty with rec
ommendation to mercy, and the life
sentence was imposed upon Towns.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-05
STORY is TOLD
IN A FEW LINES
THESE LITTLE TALES CUT SHORT
PenCiIed Paragraphs Picked in Re.
PeregrindtiOnS and Boiled
Down To Four Lines.

For quality and right prices see Bell,
he Jew eler.
The society reporters always speak
of bride being sled to the ALTAR, - inst
as though she couldn't find her way
there bEndfold.
The Americas Mastodons will go to
Cordele today, and great things are
expected of them in this twist with the
boys among the pines.
Summer got her hat on straight once
more yesterday. 1t is to be hoped
that the old girl will continue fervid
for the next four months.
Three murder cases, the only ones
on the the superior court docket, have
been cleared in little more than a day.
This is good work indeed.
Americas no longer skates. 1t is a
dead proposition here, as even the lit
tie children haye quit it. And with
$4,000 invested IN Skates, too.
Col. Little Mardre, cashier of the
Bank of Stewart County, was in Amer
icus yesterday, en- route to Macon to
meet with the state bankers.
Mrs. Scrutchens, recently of Albany,
where she conducted a hotel, has, it is
said, LEASED the Allen Hotel and
will run it as boarding house.
Cannot the Board of Trade induce
the Central Railway to continue the
present train service on the Ameri-
cus-Columbus line? Why not try?
Supt. Paschal has not yet arrived to
take charge of Sumter's herd of zebras
but his coming in few days is expec-
ted. And there'u be something doing.