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The Mena weekly star., 1909-04-01
TO ENJ0IN NEGRO "ELKs"
hot Springs Lodge, B. P. 0. E.. Is
 Plaintiff in the Case

Hot Springs, March 24.-Au injunction was filed in Chancery Court this afternoon seeking to prohibit negroes from holding meetings or wearing buttons or badges of the Order of Eks.
 Hot Springs Lodge No. 3SO, B. r. o. E is the plaiut fl in the action.
 The suit follows the ares, and conviction of members of the negro Il. B. P. o. E." for wear ing emblems and ie-miug them selves "Eiks, in the City Court, the action being teken under a special state statre covering tho case.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-04-01

becomes contaminated and polluted. A long spell of fev- CT, or other sickness, breeds disease germs in the system; the failure of natures elimi- native members 10 remove the waste and refuse matters of the body, the excessive use of minerals in certain diseases, infected wounds, bites and StingS of insects, etc, all con- taminate the blood with nor bid matter and germs which sooner or later manifest their presence by a sore or ulcer which refuses to heal under the ordinary treatment of To- cal applications.
 External treatment can neV- err cure a chronic sore or ulcer, because it does not reach the blood. The place will remain open as long as it is used as a drainage for the impurity which is in the blood, and in addition to the worry and anxiety caused by an old sore, there is always danger of its becoming cancerous, if cure is not effected. Purify the blood, and nourish the flesh
The Mena weekly star., 1909-04-01
THE CLIO KILLING
Self Defense on Apparently Slight Ground Will Be the Attitude of
 the Defense.

Tlne DUH, M dTCn Zt. w ltnln about 24 hours after the body of D. Henry Duncan, the million aire wee president ard secretary of the Bluff City Lumber Com pany, who was shot and killed by John Day at Clio Monday, is laid to rest in a steel vault in Bell Wood cemetery here, Day will be arraigned before Justice Charles Robeck at Rison on a murder charge.
 The hearing is set for Thurs day morning at 10 o'clock and many interested persons from this city and neighboriug towns will attend. Attorney Alexauder H. Rowell, former representative from this county aud broiher-ln- law of Day, returned Tuesday morning from Rison, where he conferred with Day.
 He dec ares that his brother-in- law will be able to prove a clear case of self-defense, but would give out no statement to the press as coming from Day or himself.
 With Attorneys s. M. Taylor and $. w Jones he is arranging a plan of defeuse tor the defend- ant.
 Attorney T. Havis Nixon, who had been employed as leading counsel for the prosecution, with Attorney Pitt Holms of Risou, also returned to the city Tuesday, Nixon secured affidavits of vdri' ous witne sses, including Miss Berry, Richard Brazell, Df. Thad Hendersoz, the deputy to whom Day surrendered. Their state ments are practically the same as those made immediately after the tragedy Monday.
 It is stated that there IS an- other important eye witness to the killing, whose statement At torney Nixon will not give out at this time.
 Some significance is given the purchase of two railroad tickets by Day on the morning of the tragedy by the states counsel. One of them was to Pine Bluh and return, and the other was to Cabot and return from Clio.
 Mondays tragedy is the one important topic in Pine Bluff. Duncan and Day had no words, as tar as can be learned, aud their relations were a.ways thought to be most pleasant.
 The only cause that led 10 the killing of Duncan is generally hsl;eysd 10 be the resignation of 1 Day as master mechanic for the lumber company, which " a s asked for by President Ruther- ford. Day is said to have felt i'll at Duncan, believing that he was Tesnousible tor bis dismissal.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-04-01
A DANGEROUS ULCER.

I had large sore or ulcer on my face and nothing tried would benefit me. It began With shooting pains and the itching was terrible. At first 1t discharged watery fluid which soon changed to one of thicker composition and the pain became very severe. It was nearly as large as dollar and terribly intafned in all tho surrounding parts. It had been t4ere so long and growing worse all the tirle became very much discoura ged and alarmed. At last began the use of s. s. S. At first the ulcer seemed to get worse, but soon fousd that the poison was being removed from the blood and con- tinued to take S. S. S. It was not long before noted & decided improvement and kept up the use of the medicine until was entirely cured of this cancerous ulcer This has been some time ago and there is no sign of return of the trouble.
 Gary, Fla. MRS. W. A. WRIGHT.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-04-01
IA of Pound a Week

at least, is what a baby ought to gain in weight. Does yoursY Ifnot there's something wrong with it's digestion Give it McGee's Baby Elixir and it will begin gaining at once Cures stomach and bowel troubles, aids digestion, stops fr9tfulness, good for teething babies Price 25c and 50c Sold by Gunnel's $ Drug Co.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-04-01
-. S.S CURES OLD SORES

We show you this short but honest and reasonable talk how and why S. S. S. Old Sores We do not claim that S. S. works wonders do know will and ucers and its record of forty past abundany juhes this confidence
 Any old shows unhealthy and impure condition of the blood diseased condition of the flesh at that particular spot caused and kept named and ted by continual discharge into Of unhealthy from the circulation In various the blood
The Mena weekly star., 1909-04-01
BAD SORE FROM AN OLD WOUND.

Iwant to recommend S. S. S. to any who are in need of blood purifier, and especially as a remedy for sores and obstinate ulcers In 1877 had my leg badly cut on the sharp edge of barrel and having on blue woolen stocking tho place was badly poisoned from the dye. great sore formed and for years no one knows what suffered with the place. tried 1t seemed to me, everything had ever heard of but got relief and thought would have to go through life with an angry, discharglng sore on my leg At last began the use of S. S. S., and it was but short time until saw that the place was improving. I continued it until it re- moved all the poison from my blood and made complete and permanent cure of the sore.
 7So Navy St., Brooklyn, N. Y. JNo. ELLIS.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-04-01

with rch healthy circulation and then the place will heal of its accord.
 S. S. old by removing the causes which produce them goes down the circulation drives out all impurities and posons and by noung the flesh with ric blood causes the place heal naturally and permanently S. does not make sur cure being the greatest of all blood purifiers begins the bottom and by rebuilding broken down tissue and supplying he healing qualities the crcuaon the place to ill in With hrm healthy eS while steadily but surely removes the cause and effects permanent cue The remain when the blood pure, and S. will thoroughly purify the blood Book on Sores and Ulcers and any medical advice free 10 all who write.
 s. s. S. is for sale at all drug stores.
 THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,, ATLANTA. GA
The Butler weekly times., 1909-10-07
THE EAST STANDING STILL?
A Postmaster General Shows How
The West is Gaining.
Kansas City star

Kansas City Star.
How New England practically is
standing still while the great West
and Middle West are making great
strides in development was indicated
by Joseph Stewart, second assistant
postmaster general, at the Hotel
Baltimore, in commenting upon the
volume OF mail matter handled in
various parts of the country. Mr..
Stewart has charge of the transporta-
ton of the mails throughout the
country.
-Four years ago." he said this
morning, 'in the weighing of mails
to fix the compensation of the rail-
roads for the last four years, ii was
found that the territory of which
Kansas City is the gateway had made
an increase Of about 60 per cent over
the weights shown at the preceding
weighing period. The increase which
will be shown here next spring at
the quadriennial weighing period will
not be so great, but it will be sub
stantial one, probably 25 per cent.
'When the mails were weighed in
the South year ago an increase Of
only about IL per cent was shown.
In the New England section we have
just finished weighing the mails, and
the result shows that the weights
have remained practically stationary,
although there may be light net in
crease"
Mr.. Stewart inspected the railroad
postoffice terminal at the Union De-
pot. He said that as soon as the new
station plans had progressed far
enough, a committee from his depart
ment would be sent to Kansas City to
cooperate in seeing to it that an ad-
equate railroad terminal postoffice
was provided for the new station.
Kansas City, he said, was one of the
most important terminal postoffices
in the country, and the department
could be depended on to see that
facilities measuring up to the city's
importance in this particular would
be provided.
The Butler weekly times., 1909-10-07
Revision For the Editors.

Under the Dingley law the rate on
print paper was $6 per ton. A Wash
ington dispatch to the Lincoln Neb.)
Journal says that under the rev law
and as a result of recent treasury
regulations the rate on paper coming
from the province of Ontario will be
S.. rs per ton and on the print paper
from Quebec something more than $6
per ton. In one case the reduction is
merely nominal while in the other an
actual increase has been brought
about. The Journals dispatch adds
that if, as it is likely, the maximum
rate be applied against Ontario the
duty on print paper from that prov
ince would be run up to $3.50,
marked increase over the Dingley
rate. AS a result of these disclosures
republican papers are making vigor-
GUS complaints. Will republicans
never learn that it is not possible for
the consumers to obtain relief at the
hands of a political party that is
financed by the consumers oppres-
sors?-Commoner.
The Butler weekly times., 1909-10-07
Corn and Drought.

The fertilization of corn by the
pollen is, of course, well known to be
absolutely essential to the production
of a corn crop, and it is coming to be
understood that the worst effect of a
drouth upon corn is that if it occurs
at the wrong time-or the right time,
which ever way one looks at 1.-THE
pollen in the tassels on the stalks will
be so dried as to be of no value.
This year there has been a partial de-
strcut!on Of the corn crop over large
areas in Kansas and Oklahoma, and
someone has suggested that this loss
might have been prevented by the
simple device Of skipping every tenth
row at the regular time Of planting,
and planting it two weeks later. In
case the weather turns SO intensely
hot as to destroy the pollen in the
tassels, these later stalks are almost
certain to tassel out and fertilize the
entire field. It appears that this
practice has already been adopted by
q few Kansas farmers with satisfact-
ory results. Manchester Union.
The Butler weekly times., 1909-10-07
HIDDEN DANGERS.
Nature Gives Timely Warnings
That No Butler Citizen Can
Afford to Ignore.

DANGER SIGNAL NO. comes
from the kidney secretions. They
will warn you when the kidneys are
sick. Well kidneys excrete a clear,
amber fluid. Sick kidneys send out
thin, pale and foamy, or a thick,
red, illsmelling urine, full of sedi-
ment and irregular Of passage.
DANGER SIGNAL NO. 2 comes
from the back. Back pains, dull and
heavy, or sharp and acute, tell you Of
sick kidneys and warn you of the ap-
proach of dropsy, diabetes and
Bright's disease. Doan's Kidney Pills
cure sick kidneys and cure them per-
manently. Here's Butler proof:
J. c. Reavis, High ST., Butler, Mo-,
says: can almost constant backache
caused me much misery and my kid.
neys gave me great deal of trouble,
the secretions passing too frequently.
Learning of Doan's Kidney Pill's
procured a supply at Frank Clay's
drug store and | had used them only
short time when l was relieved ;,
On Nov. 80, 1908 Mr.. Reavis con
firmed the above statement and add
ed: 81 have been in excellent health
during the past two years, although
occasionally use a box of Doan's Kid
ney Pills as a tonic. find that thi.
remedy keeps my kidneys in goot
working order"
For sale by all dealers. Price 81
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the Unitet
States.
Remember the name-Doan Sane
take no other.
The Butler weekly times., 1909-10-07
Census Jobs Go Begging.

Washington, Oct.-Unless more
residents from states in the West
make application to the United States
Service Commission for the examina-
ton to be held October % for posi-
tons in the census bureau, those
states probably will fail to receive
their full share Of the appointments,
it was stated at the Civil Service
Commission.
As the Census Act provides for the
distribution Of appointments among
the states and territories in accord
ance with the law Of apportionment
the Civil Service Commission is eager
to have applications from persons in
Western states desiring appointments
in TIE census bureau.
4 y expected that about three
thousand appointments win be made
|from Re examination to BE- held in an
t. stlfes and territosies. These ap-
|polntnel,ts win be Tor terms of six
moulhs'to NO year, and win average
|abodk ~ yedr d Isneth.
The Butler weekly times., 1909-10-07
Notice

Notice is hereby given, that letters Of admin
lstration upoa the estate ef Wilbur Dugan
deceased, have been granted 20 the under
signed, BY the Bates County Probate Court, In
Bates County, Missouri, bearing date the sth
day o. September. l9ae.
All persons having claims against said estate
are required TO exhibit them 70 me for allow
anee, within one year from the date Of said let
tsrs, or they may be preeiaded from any bene-
ht Of such estate; and II said claims be not
exhibited within two years from the date OF the
publication OF this notice. they will Be forever
barred WESLEY DENTON,
-ttlT Administrator.
The Butler weekly times., 1909-10-07
Notice

Eos oe is hereby given, that letters tests-
mentary upon the estate OF Samuel c. Dobbins,
decea. ed, have been granted 10 the under
signed, by the Bates County Probate Court,
in Bates County, Missouri, bearing date the
18Th day OF September. 1899.
All persons hsylng claims against said estate
are required 10 exhibit them 70 me for allow
ance, within one year from the date Of said let
ters, or they may be preeluded from any bene-
az OF such estate; and II said claims be not
exhibited within two years from the date OF
the publicstiln OF this notice, they win be for.
ever barred. Q. W. WOODY,
Ss-4t Executor.
The Butler weekly times., 1909-10-07
Notice Of Final Hettlement.

Notice is hereby eiven 70 ali creditors and
Others intsrss.sd .s Y tie ssssss Of ssrss .
adnlnistrstor pf ssid ssiSts, intend % max;
Dnal ssstlement thereof, at the next term d
the Bats County Probate Court, = Bstss eosn-
=, state Of ni.ealis . = hsl1 . nltler,
hla'oari. On TIE 90 day q AsvsnSsz 2 =
ls.lt Adminlalrahax.
The Butler weekly times., 1909-10-07
Notice

Notice is hereby given that at the annual
meeting Of the stockholders Of the Charlotte
McFadden's Hsil IL inc village OF Virginia,
Charlotte Township, Bates County, Missouri,
q ten O'Clock IN the forenoon on Tuesday, ths
Seventh day Of December, 1909 there will b.
elected three directors Of said Company 70 hold
Company, and there Will also be submitted Il
said etockholoers at said meeting 70 be then
and thers voted upon By them, proposition "a
inoresae the capital stock Of raid Company X
the sum o. -Four Thousand Doliars,
September -, 1909.
W. N. HARDrNGER. President
T. GILBERT. secretary. lD-td
The Butler weekly times., 1909-10-07
A Good Investment.

AhC LOaAoNhAO OO0AASA oOoA AAtAA tNAAo
an interesting story of how good
roads pay the farmers of the South.
In Sullivan county, Tenn, they are
building turnpikes where once they
had common roads. A farm, located
near one of these pixies, sold recently
for $4,000. Before the pike was
builded the most money offered for
the same farm was $1,000 1t would
be interesting to know just how
much the building of that good road
cost the owner of the farm in ques-
ton. If we had this information we
could arrive at a definite understand.
ing as to just what dividend invest
ments in good roads will pay. It is
safe to say, however, that it did NOT
cost one-tenth part of the increased
value of the farm. II would appear
that farmers who read such stories as
the one from Sullivan county, Tenn,
would insist upon making a similar
investment The trouble in this State
seems to be that farmers do not really
understand the true value of good
roads past their farms. That they
are able to build good roads is not
denied. No class of our citizenship
are more prosperous or have more
ready money with which to invest in
the comforts of life. II would seem,
therefore, that all that would be
necessary to interest them in road
building would be to convince them
that such investment pays enormous
dividends. The great trouble with
mud road proposition is that it
shuts the farmer out from the world
for at least four months of the year.
And these four months come at the
very time when the things he has to
sell bring the most money on the
market. There is a short supply of
farm products in the city during these
months, because the roads are so bad
the farmer cannot get to town. If,
therefore, he builds road which will
make it possible for him to deliver
his products whenever he wants to,
the increased price he will receive
for those products will in few years
pay for his road, to say nothing of the
comfort he has enjoyed by reason of
its having been builded. There isn't
any argument against road building
that ought to induce the average
farmer to let conditions remain as
they are to-day.-St. Joseph Gezette.
A Former Editor Has Disap-
peared.
Joplin, Mo-, Oct-The strange dis
appearance of j. |. Harlow, formerly
city editor of the Joplin News-Herald,
and at one time a newspaper reporter
in Kansas City, is creating anxiety
among his friends here. Harlow left
Joplin last Thursday with the ex-
pressed intention of going to Pitts
burg, Kas., on business, and to be
gone only few hours. After wait
ing five days for his return, Mrs.
Harlow went to Pittsburg where she
learned that nothing had been seen of
her husband there. Owing to the
campaign Harlow waged against the
gambling element Of Joplin through
the News-Herald a year ago, he had
many enemies in this city. He had
little money with him when he was
last seen in Joplin,
The Butler weekly times., 1909-10-07
A Serious Quake.

Speaking Of Mondays earthquake,
Newt. Bryson, the ''Filosofer" editor
of the Louisiana Press-Journal, says:
cat the Filosofer's house the quake
shook five hundred dollar marble
statue of Shakespeare off of a three
hundred dollar mahogany mantel in
his room, and it broke to pieces on a
fourhundred dollar velvet carpet.
His bed rocked, too, but there was no
particularly strange sensation about
that, as he is at bedrock all the time
anyhow"
The modesty Of the Louisiana edit
or, we believe. has prevented him
from giving true account of his
losses. 1t is to the credit of the glori-
Gus profession Of journalism that its
members do not indulge in vain
glorious boasting over their possess
slonS, and only when the subject is
thus necessarily interviewer with the
legitimite news of the day, do we
catch glimpse of the treasures that
gleam and CLINT in the seclusion of
the editors home. MIR. Bryson's
mention Of tt the mahogany mantle re-
minds us of one of the fatalities
which occurred in jefferson City on
that fateful and fatal morning at four
o'clock. A gentleman was taking
his "mornin's mornin," when the
quake got in its work, and his hand
shook so that a fine piece of glass fell
from his hand onto the mahogany
and destroyed fifteen cents worth of
the best liquor in Cole county.
All in all, it was a most disastrous
quake, and many a steady nerve was
unstrung at four o'clock in the morn
ing. Cole Co. Democrat.
The Butler weekly times., 1909-10-07
No Effort Made to Catch Hatche,

No Effort Made to Catch Hatcher
So far no effort has been made to
capture Samuel Hatcher, the smooth
individual who secured 5000 by
giving bogus mortgage on the Vail
farm. No warrant has been asked
for and no funds have been raised to
be used in chasing down Hatcher and
bringing him to the bar Of justice. II
begins to look like Hatcher is not 90
ing to be molested while he spends
the s., Nevada Mail.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-25
Suits Against
w abash Road
Holders of Equipment Bonds Issued
in 1871 by Its Predecessor
Want Judgment.

TOLEDO. o., Nov. PA new angle in lit
igation rivaling the case Of Jarndyce
versus Jarndyce was submitted to common
pleas court here today on an application
Of Adelbert College Of Cleveland and num-
erous other claimants for personal judg-
ment against the Wabash railroad and its
predecessor, the Toledo & Wabash railroad.
These claims originally aggregated $780,
900, but now amount to half a dozen times
tina much with interest since 1876, are
based on the same issue of old equipment
bonds as the claim of the estate of James
Compton, upon which the United States cir
cult court of appeals recently gave final
decree for approximately $500, 900. For the
satisfaction of the Compton claim the prop
erty Of the Wabash in Ohio, except the
new Montpelier branch, is to be sold De-
cember %.
The claims today represented were first
sued upon in 1881, and have been twice to
the United States supreme court. They
were barred from participating in the lien
on the property under which the Compton
estate benefits. Answer was made that
these claimants are not entitled to such
judgment against the present Wabash COM
pany, which acquired the property at fore
closure sale, prior to which Compton's
claim had been perfected in the state
courts.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-25
PeaChleSS
Peach Brandy
Olive Oil from Cotton Seed and Maple
Sugar from Cane Juice Found
in California.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. A-Two whole
sale concerns in this city and one in Oak
land, Cal, pleaded guilty today in the
United States district court to violations
Of the pure food law.
The Chevalier company of this city con-
fessed to having shipped eight bottles OF
liquor labelled apricot brandy" to Reno,
New, where an investigation revealed that
no apricots had been used in its manu-
facture. A second count charged the COM
pany with having shipped peachless peach
brandy" to Reno.
The Bertini Leipori company admitted
having sent olive oil to Ration. N. M,
which contained 45 per cent cottonseed oil,
although the label on the same cans de-
clared the contents we're the pure product
from italian groves.
The Gordon Syrup company Of Oakland
was charged with sending several barrels
Of syrup labelled Perfection maple syrup"
to Phoenix. Investigation proved 1t to be
cane juice slightly diluted with the sap
of the maple tree.