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The Mena weekly star., 1908-10-29
poLK couNrY UNION.

Meets the third Wednesday In January
 April. July and october. William Martin, President and Lecturer, Mountain Fork Ark. ]. c. Terrell, Secretary reasurers Mena, Ark, K. F. D. No. 2 A. Mg Parkers Organizer, Hatfield, Ark.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior, Land Office a
 Camden, Ark, Sept. p, 1908.
K. HOWARD

LEVEL K. HOWARD of Rich Mountain, Ark, who, on Oct 2 1902, made Homestead Entry No. 260l4 Serial No. 0i96), for NWL NN14, Sec. z, SWl4 SWL, Sec t, 1T. 1 s, Range 3l w., and NE4 \ rLs, Sec. l2, T. s., Range 32 w., 9th F. M., has tiled notice cfintenti0n to make final i've year proof to establish claim to the land above described, before County Clerk Of Polk county, at Mena, Ark, on the Sth day of November, l906
 Claimant names as witnesses: Amos Reeder, William l.. Cox, Mike Wilson and Samuel $. Little, all Of Rich Mountain, Ark. Oct.I 1. II. c. Frledheim, Register.
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COUNTY LINE UNION NO. b77. Meets Saturday evening before the lst and 3rd Sundays. D, Morris, president, ". It, Riding, secretary. Hartley F. O.
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OVERTURE UNION NO. 1897 Clarence Waits, president; Albert Ward secretary. Giilham F. O.
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IAg UNION No. 750

]. c. Terrell, president; s. Thacker, seere- tary. Meets 2nd and 4th Saturday at p. ID, Rocky postofiiee.
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BOARD CAMP UNION.
FIDELITY UNION.

Meets list, srd and 5th Wednesday nights. c. II. Miller, president; A. l.. Wear, secretary. Board CampP. O.
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HOLLY SPRINGS UNION NO. 2s4. E. K. Grifth, president; J. c. Yell, secr e- tary. Quito PC.
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HOLLY HILL UNION NO, 2f5l A.. J. Edwards, presiders; j. F. smith, ec- retary. Hartly r. O.
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RANSOM UNION NO. SIT.

F. H. Furr president; ]. M. Borough Secretary. Meets each lst and 3d Saturday at p m. Egger F. o.
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POTTER UNIO.

POTTER UNION. Meets 2d and 4th Friday nights. $. B. Har- 'reson, president; Frank Cole, secretary Mena, Ark, k. r. D. No. l.
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OAK GROVE UNION I. B. Davis, president; T. E. Baker, secre- tary. Granniss
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NorIlr. rVn PuRLIcATIoN.
Department Of the Interior, Land Ofnce at
 Camden, Ark, october l4, 1908. Nnflce Is harehY RINen that

I1InUPU, NT NTkss VCIUUNT IFl IVV5- Notice is hereby given that
 GEORGE w. SPEARS, Of FRger Ark who, on NoveH ber 6, 1901 made Homestead Entry No 2f999, CSera Nc. O6si1, for frl WIZ SWL, Sec. 3l, Twp. S. R. 2S w, E1. SEtt Sec. 36, Twp. S., R. 29 W 5th r. M., has filed notice of intention tt make flnal tiveeyear proof te esta hllsh claim to inc land above descri nd, b. lore ifcuii Clerk of Polk county, at Mena, Ark, on the Tth day Of Decem Der, 1908.
 Claimant names as witnesses: James S Wood, William D. Harper George w. Wood Eugene Harper, all of Egger, Ark. oct, 9 n. c. tfiedhein' heslstef'
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WARNING nRnER.

S. W. Clouse, plaintiff, vs. E D. Clouse, de- fendant in the Polk Chancery Court. The defendant, F. D. Clouse, Is warned 70 appear in this court within thirty days and
 answer the complaint of the piaintifi, S. w.
 Clouge W. l. Green, Clerk
 october 5, 1908
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ROCKY IfNIoN No. lbi.

Meets 1st and 3rd Saturday nights. J. R
 Cham bers, president; Prof. W. k. Shinn, sec retary, Mena, r. Q.
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IInrRTY UNION NO. 2ss.
CHERRY HILL UNION NO POT.

Geo. Wood, president, J. K. Wilcox secre tary; meets 2d and ith Saturdays at 2 p- ua- Egger, F. o.
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HATFIELD UNION NO. 26o. Meets list and 3rd Saturday at ? D. m. A. C Bruce. president; k. H. Stockton. secretary Hatfield F. 0.
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CENTER UNION NO 1901. Lee Evens, president, T. A. Dooley, secre tary.
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OWEN CHAPEL UNION NO. sso.

H. z. Fowler, president; T. D. Reid secre- tary. Meets first and third Fridays of each month at 2 p. m. Mena F.
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A BLAZE 0F GLORY
4 REMARKABLE DEMONSTRATION AT TOKYO IN HONOR OF vls-
 TYING AMERICANS.
THOUSANDS IN \ TORCH LIGHT PARADE

Celebration Surpassed Even That at the Close of Possibilities With Russia Dozens of Bands Played American National Extraordinarily Undemon- strative-Foreigners Impressed.
 Tokyo, Oct. 24.-The capital of
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Meets ist and 3rd Friday nights. Roe shane, president; Nathaniel BIan, secretary Granniss F. 0.
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MOUNTAIN FORK UNION Tom Rogers, president; Willie Beavers, sec
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John l.. Riding, president. J. ". Wilkfns secretary. Nandervoort F. O.
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DALLAS UNION NO. 75O Meets lst and 3rd Saturday at 7:30 D. m. 5. A. Key, president; A. l.. Durham, secretary Mena, F. c.
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ROCK SPRINGS UNION NO. S91. Ed Posey, president; C. L posey, secretary, Quito F. 0. Meets 2nd and 4th Saturdays.
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Every sort of Legal Blank of the "Legal Light" kind for sale at The Star Office.
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OLIVER CHAPEL UNION.

T. c. Hill, president; W. E. Murray, seer tary. Meets each Tuesday night. Mena F.
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FoWLER rNIoN No. I2a4.
oZARK UNION No. bod.

Willis Jones, president, Eugene Abernathy secretary Meets first and third Saturdays Big Fork F. 0.
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30
so CON NSTITUTED.

There are some people so con stituted that they go straight for the pleasant things as bee pitches for a clover top as soon as he is out of the hive. They like every thing. If they go to a concert they find at least one voice that suits them, wondering how God could put so much melody into a single throat. They enjoy the spring, they love the summer, they luxurate in autumn, they praise the winter. They are pleas ed under any and all circumstan- ces. They are the people you like to have for customers if you are a merchant, for clients if you are lawyer, for patients if you are doctor, but you don't often get them on the sick list for they can cure almost any kind of dis ease, even "brain storm," with a bottle of laughter, "to be shaken before taken"
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30

A perfect town is that in which you see the farmer patrorizing the home merchants, the laborers spending their money with their own tradesman, and all animated by a spirit that will not purchase articles abroad if they can be bought at home. The spirit of re- ciprocity between man and the me- chanic tradesman and laborer, farmer and manufacturer, results every time in making a town a perfect one to do business in. "Perfection" should always be de- sired, even where at tainmenet is barely possible, we presume, but perfect town, must be denomin- ated great rarity until we reach a more advanced stage toward the millennium than has yet been gain ed.
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30

A slandering tongue is to be dreaded more than the most 1oath- some reptile that crawls upon the face of the earth for he will give warning before he strikes you but slanderer-never. Let a man or woman start on that down ward road that leads to ruin and we are prone to step aside and cry out "slide on, slide on to destruction,'
 instead of stretching out our hand of brotherly love and staying their progress, we stand by and let them slide. He who can stoop down and lift up his brother from mire and place him on his feet and whis- per sweet counsel in his ear and bid him go and lead a better life, is truly benefactor to the race.
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30
HOW TO BE MISERABLE.

Sit by a window and look over the way to your neighbours excel lent mansion, which he has recent ly built and paid for and fitted out, and sigh, 70, that I were a rich manP' Get angry with your neighbor and think you have not a friend in the world. Shed a tear or two, and take a walk in the cemetery and keep continually saying to yourself: "When shall I be buried here7"
 Sign a note for a friend and never forget your kindness, and every hour in the day whisper to yourself: "I wonder if he will ever pay that note !" I think every body means to cheat you. Closely examine every bill you take, and doubt its being genuine until you have put your neighbor to a great deal of trouble. Put confidence in nobody, and believe every man you deal with to be 8 rogue. Never accommodate if you can possibly help it. Buy as cheap as you can and screw down to the lowest cent. Grind the faces and the hearts of the unfor- tunate. Brood over your misfor- tunes, your lack of talents, and be- lieve that at no distant day you will come to want. Let the work house be ever iii your mind, with
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30

The parlor as a parlor will soon be relic of the past. The very name seems to suggest stiffness and lack of comfort. The new houses, even the most modest ones, will have the best room, the one in which the whole family gathers, a warm, sunny place, a home room in it's truest sense. The next gen. eration will not waste space on parlors. Perhaps little library for privacy, will also be indispen- sable to many. This cherry room of the future will hold the piano, the general books, the pictures, work baskets and everything that serves to make home a haven of rest for loyal hearts. Speed the day.
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30

An Illinois editor retired from journalism and his "good by" is chronicled in the language; The undersigned retires from the paper with the conviction that all is vanity, From the hour the pa per was started to the present time he has been solicited to lie on every given subject, and can't re- member telling the wholesome truth without diminishing his sub scription list or making enemies. Under these circumstances of trial and having a thorough contempt for himself, he retires in order to recruit his moral constitution.
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30

W ere each nation to divide its cash among its own people each hu- man in France would have $35, or $10. more than each person in our country would recieve under simi- lar circumstances. Meanwhile the
 divided cash of Great Britan would give each Britan only SIS; in Ger many the cash per capita would amount to only $l7; Russia $S, and and Japan S3, while in Cuba each person would get a two dollar bill.
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30

The good book says, "Give to every one that asketh thee," but this dosen' t mean give drunk ard money to buy whiskey with :; it dosen't mean to give the baby the hammer and looking glass be- cause it asks for it, and it doesen't mean that we should give to pro- fessional beggars who travel from town to town. The Bible doesn't mean always what it says, but it always means what it means.
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30
We wonder how many of our

We wonder how many of our readers have noticed the differance between the man who has been married but a short time, and one who has been married sev- eral years. You can always tell a young husband from an old one. When man has been married few months, you will generally see him working in the garden or fixing up about the ho- use and while he works he whistles or sings, or occasionally looks up towards the window to see if any one is watching hum. A year later he is still working in the garden but the smile has been exchanged for frown and he occasionally looks up towards the house wand ering why in the thunder breakfast is not ready. Another year rolls by and his looks would sour milk, but bo is still at work stopping oc- casionaIiy to kick the dog or throw brick at the cat. The next year we find him sitting on the front porch, smoking pipe, while his wife does the digging in the garden Now just watch our young men, as one by one, they are caught in Gu
 pid's net and see if this rule does not work out the problem correctly
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30

A community torn by dissensions, rent assunder by strife and conten- tion-the people always ready to fly at each others throats on ac- count of rivalry and petty jealous ness-can never hope to succeed. The universal brotherhood of man is constantly deferred and in the end of time will appear before this great desideratum can be brought about, unless man can be brought to the realization of this, his dom inant, weakness. Let him inquire "Who is my neighbour"
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30

all the horrows of distress and poverty.
 Follow these recipes strictly and you will be miserable to your con- tent-if we may so speak-sick at heart and in variance with the world. Nothing will cheer or en- courage you, nothing will throw a gleam of sunshine or ray of warmth into vOur heart. You will be an isolated creature, perfect picture of woe, discontent and des- pair.
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30

Tell me not in mOurnful numbers that the town is full of gloom for the mans a crank that slumbers Tn these bustling days of boom. Life is real, life is earnest, and the grave is not it's goal: every dollar that thou turnest help to make the old town roll. But enioyments and and not sorrow is our destined end or way if you have no money Borrow-buy a corner lot each day. Lives of great men all remind us we can win immortal fame. Let us leave the chumps behind us and we'll get there just the same. In this worlds bread battle, in thls world of Bivouac of life, let us make the dry bones rattle-buy a corner for your wife let us be up and doing with a heart for any fate; still achieving still pursuring booming early, booming late.
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30

Make up your mind that what
 ever you may have done in the past
 you will in the future wear your clouds s'Inside out and show the lining" We all have clouds, but that is no reason why we sho- uld draw the attention of the world to them. It is the brave, cheerful soldiers who inspire the others. So if you can't get what you like determine to like what you have or at all events to make the best of it and go on your way bravely, without complaining.
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30

Our school board is to be com mended for favorably considering better wages our teachers, continuous terms of school and bet ter appliance for school rooms. In nearly every case they have manifested willingness to appro- priate the necessary funds to put the building and ground in good order. What is needed most is some one in every district to lead. The teacher should not leave it to the director, nor the director to the teacher; both, with the assistance of the patrons and pupils, should lend hand.
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30

Every school boy knows that a kite would not fly unless it had a string tying it down. It is just so in life. The man who is tied down by a half a dozen blooming respon- sibilites and his mother, will make a higher and stronger fight than the bachelor, who having nothing to keep him steady is always floun- dering in the mud. If you want to ascend in the world tie yourself to somebody.
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30

This paper is anxious each week to issue spicy and interesting To- cal page. If each of our subcrib- CTS would hand us in one news item what news paper we could issue. Try it for few weeks and mark the change.
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30
WARNING ORDER.

In the Woodruff Chancery Court Northern District, May term 1908 State of Arkan- sas. County of Woodruff H. F. He nkel, Plaintiff
 VS Augusta Henkel Defendant. The defendant, Augusta Henkel is hereby warned to appear in this court within thirty days hereafter and answer this complaint of the plaintiff, H, E, Henkel. Witness my hand and the seal of the Wood ruff Chancery court on this the 4th., day of April 1908 WMILLIAM MooRMAN.
 Circuit Court Clerk. E. M. CARL-LEE, Atty. for Plaintiff.
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

On Monday night May 11th, at 500 o'clock, piano and voice re- cital will be given, to which the public is most cordially invited.
 Respectfully,
 MRS. KATHRYN F. TAYLOR.
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that as guardian of Robert Sorrels. have filed my final settle ment with my said ward and that will apply to the Probate Court at it's July term, 1908. for discharge from my obligations to my said ward. Signed: w. E. JELKS,
 Guardian of Robert Sorrels
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30
OUR NEW SUBSCRIBERS.

Below is list of those who paid us in advance for the NEWS since our last issue.
 B. M. Anderson, R. 2. s. l.. Holt and R. J. McDaniel, Me Crory, Ark. G. M. Mullins. May field, Texas.
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30

Each year the poultry business is becoming more lucrative in the
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30

in penalty ttache
 WALTER B. County
Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30

herby will following pac opposite thereof for the the property Woodruff county for the year 1908
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

sponsibility. Doubtless we have
scores of them within the party,
but they are evidently not in public
life. We are not q foolish 'admlrer
of Bryan, but believe we know a
diamond of the first water when we
see it. Prejudices cut no figure in
our sizeup. Any fair minded man
that reads the Bryan World Book
will be forced to admit that the
Commoner is indeed character OF
wonderfully developed mind, oil
mature political sagacity, and gi
gantic mould parsonage that has
studied long and searching.y the
great problems of government anC
whose wisdom is ripe and fulsome.
Whether he shall ever set in th'
Nations chief Chair or not, detract
not one whit from his greatness.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13
A FRIENDLY CRITICISM.

Bro. Faulk Of the Greene Coun-
ty Herald gets out a good paper
but the type almost covers it and
every time we see it we are remind
ed of what is said in the 18th
chapter and Goth verse of Isaiah.
Dawn of Light, Walnut Grove
Miss.
Evidently Bro. Ellis did not no.
tice our paragraph some weeks age
explanatory of the shy width paper
being used for the nonce, or he
had grown tired of waiting for
the promised reversion to the old
order. Right gladly do we call
his attention to its readoption
with this issue. AS we took little
shy at him in a friendly sort OF
way, it was perfectly legitimate
for him to point an arrow into
our vulnerable spot. An exchan-
ge of criticism twixt the country
journals can but result in improv
ement for the newspapers practic-
ing the critics art.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13
Good Books Received
SIMPLES FROM THE MASTERS

SIMPLES FROM THE MASTERS
GARDEN. Annie Trumbull Slos-
son. The Sunday-School Times Co..
Philadelphia, Pa, publishers.
Price 81 net. Bound in green cloth
on greyish board. Title lettering
in green with garden scene from
tis-picture. l42 pages; Pine
parchment deckle edge paper with
faint and beautiful marginal Dor
dering in light green on each page.
This volume is indeed a beautiful
one. The above description gives
some idea of the material and art
the publishers have put into it.
The author one of the Trum-
bulls, is of course a member, of
the Sunday School Times, family,
though not constantly active as a
worker on this great periodical.
This is gathering together Of a
number of those characteristics
sketches from her pen, which have
charmed so many lovers Of the reli-
gious folklore tales. The quaint
recital of these, sometimes in even
the dialect of the characters them
selves is captivating protrayal of
what the teachings Of the Lowly
Nazarine has done in the humblest
of earth. The reader is sometimes
laughing and again crying as he
follows the stories. Hardly anyone
can read these simple sketches
as the gifted lady who writes them
chooses to call them without feel
ing bettered thereby. It's a book
that was evidently called, beyond
cavil into life by the Divine, and
will accomplish a mission as it goes
into the homes of the land. Es-
pecially should it appeal to the
young, and more especially to
those whom st. Paul called Babes
in Christ. Mrs. .Slosson easily
won the title of author when she
wrote white Christopher" While
this the second volume product
from her quill is not a continuous
narrative, yet it will be equally as
fascinating to those who are so for
tunate as to essay its reading.
These segments were run in INSTALL
ments late last year in the Sunday
School Times, and so strong was
the pressuare brought to bear on
that journal to put them in book
form, that this volume is sent
forth.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13
Religious and
Reform Notes

The frame OF a piano must stand
from ten to fifteen tons of pressure 10
get the Instrument in tune. Here
is an illustration. Most folks can
not stand the pressure essential for
God to tune them up. Their inside
stays are too weak to hold up against
the outside pressure and they col
lapse in the test that if successfully
endured would have added many GU
bits to their stature They arr
crushed like AN egg shell under q
wagon wheel when God would have
tuned them to heavens key note II
they had only endured the pressure.
Rev. T. II. Nelson in Herald OF
Light indianapolis, Ind. |
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

A program booklet of the Fourth
Annual Assembly Of the Chronicle
Choutanqua Association lies before
us MS we write. The date embraces
two weeks March 81 to April 4, 1908.
The opening day has written down
for it "a star that will draw immensely
from all the region round: that dis
tinguished son of Mississippi, Ex-
Governor Jas. K. Vardoman who is
assigned his we'll beloved subject
The Race Question. Jim Varda-
man has tremendously pleasing
personality, is one of the most pic
turesQIe figures in public life todoy;
his appearance on the rostrun of
this Chautauqua will grace it and be
an eye-opener to many who have
formed wrong conceptions of this
eccentric statesman. Thomas writes
us that Miss Macdonald the Scot
tish Lassie, of Highland Fling pro-
pensities, was slated, but woman
like has since decided to get married
and cancelled her engagement. Good
For the Cha" tauqua goers, the Chau-
tauqua and this gifted singer her
SELF No woman can do a more
sensible thing. The booklet has a
most pleasing array OF talent booked
We look forward with gladness tc
his away out there and refresh oul
intellectual appetites in approved
channels. See display ad telling OIL
Che attractions elsewhere in this
issue. Oh, yes! Before We con
clude; let us say to all, brush up or
Hiawatha! Will need it.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

An Evening at the School Audito-
rum Monday night with the South
ern Comedy Co., travelling three
parsonage troupe was we'll patron
lied. These entertainers were real
ly talented. one making painting
sketches marvelously quick and
beautiful before the audience in a
few minutes, another tearing paper
into beautiful doilies and other
fancy shapes; while the last and
youngest of the company proved a
real gifted comedian in the niger
part. His knack of coaxing laughs
from the audience was easy and
magnetic, but his indulgence in in
decent and irrevent expressions and
poses was entirely unnecessary to
the success of his character delinea-
ton and shockingly too free for
any audience to tolerate. Why
anyone gifted to sway people as
this young fellow was, should adj
dict himself to harmful instead of
elevating uses of his genius, is but
another illustration of the inherent
depravity of Adams fallen race.