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The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1909-11-05
Tug1 BROTHERS IN sURPRIse
JeseeyAs speepeemal ceeensssr Peeled
Gseh oeeor On olrth6sy
Annsvoroosy.

Trenton. N. J.-'My brother 1T for
ny suit and / at for his. and ws were
both surprised when each u - 70
ceived Tor Z birthday present the very
same suit u clothes that Ne sat for.
thinking II was Tor the other fellow"
l That II how Coroner p. v. Bower
described the manner In which 10 and
his twin brother. John r. D. Bower.
celebrated the stxty-third anniversary
Of their birth. John has been cor.
Oner OF Mercer county - frequently
- the law would allow since he came
of voting age. hut just It present the
law having required him 10 lay Oh for
. term. his brother Dan has the Job.
merely fpr the sake Of keeping It In
the family.
Tho Bower twins are 80 diminutive
II stature. 20 sunny Of c~ountenance
and % good natured Of disposition
hat no one would suspect that they
had passed the three score mark. The
birthday surprise was prepared BY
Daniels daughter. who rot her father
to b measured for = stylish suit Of
clothes. which she told him were to be
her Uncle Johns birthday present.
Then she got her Uncle John to b
measured for . suit Of clothes which
she told him were to be her fathers
birthday present As . matter Of fact.
each was measured for his own suit Of
clothes, but that wouldn't have made
my difference. for the Bower brothers
are identical In size a well rs loks.
and either suit would at either man.
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1909-11-05

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The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1909-11-05
CONDUCTOR OVER Is YEARS
Interesting Story of psnnsylvanlan
Whose Only Accident Was When
He Quit.

B~ellefonts, Pa.-Announcement has
besn made b. The Pennsylvania Rail-
ROAD Compa1y that within ! lev
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
MARRIED IN KANSAS CITY.
Miss Rhea Burke Springs Surprise or
 Home Folks.

When Miss Rhea Burke left Mena for Kansas City few weeks ago for the ostensible pur- pose of visiting friends and at- tending the Priests of Pallas fes- tiyities, her parents, Ma1or and Mrs. J. H. Burke of HOO Jansen avenue, little thought that their daughters trip would terminate in wedding before her return. But it did.
 Miss Rhea Burke was married to Robert l.. McGee in Kansas City on Thursday. October 21, and will be at home in Clebourne, Tex, after November 1.
 Miss Burke was we'll and favor ably known in Mena, having for years held position of responsi- bility in the Grand Leader.
 Mir. McGee is conductor and ran out of Mena for several years, but about three years ago went to Clcbourne and now has a run out of that place.
 Major Burke said that there was no reason for his daug being married away from home except that the young folks just wanted to do it that way thought they would surprise the homefolks.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
PAYMENT LONG DELAYED
J. W. Edwards Has Just Received Money Due His Father at Time
 of Discharge 45 Years Ago.

When Captain w. H. Edwards of Company G, l33d Illinois regi- ment, was mustered out ot ser. vice at the close of the civil war, the quartermaster held back from his pay and the pay of all the captains of the regiment SIS It IS related that the quartermaster had lost, by theft or otherwise, a lot of blankets in hls care and took this arbitrary means to se- cure pay for them, despite the fact that the officers had nothing to do with the loss.
 Since that time the unwinding of red tape has gone on and Fri day, as one of six heirs, J. w. Edwards received and cashed a voucher for $l3.30 as his palt.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
PROHIBITION TROUBLES
Federal Court Enjoins Oklahoma Ufti. cers From Interfering With h.
 terstate Shipments.

Guthrie. Ok, October q. : Federal Judge Cotieral this after. noon on petition of St. Louis llquor supply house granted a temporary order restraining s. W. Stone, state dispensary superin- teudent, state enforcement officers and counsel, from seizing or inter fering with interstate shipments of liquor into OkIahoma.
 The case is set for hearing at Guthrie, October 2h. The action taken today is said to be the re- suit of an unusual activity of late on the part of the state enforce msnt officers at Oklahoma City and other places.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
nEwPoRTs ROUND TowER'
One of the Greatest Antiquarian ruz' zles In America Is In Rhode
 Island.

In Toure park at Newport, H. r. 5 stands an aged stone tower " round and is erected on rough p,i lars, capped by arches No one to lnis day knows who built it or when or TOT what purpose.
 Some antiouarians claim 1t was the work of Jeff Erikson, the viking, ana that 1t was built nearly 800 years pe' fore Columbus discovered America, the Philadelphia Record says. Others say it is a Scandinavian temple, erect ed by heather Norsemen, and that " Is the only remaining proof that large Scandinavian settlement flour ished in Rhode Island almost l,Oot years ago.
 Less romantic folks have said the tower was built as a windmill some time in the seventeenth century Not only it's origin but it's nature is mys- tery, and must always remain so. TOT is the round tower the only hint taat America may have been settled by white men long before Columbus was bora. Tn fact, the early story of Amer ica-the mound builders, the Mepi- son pyramids, the traces of Morse civ ilization-is perhaps greatest of all historical mysteries.
 The fact that in 1885 skeleton, to whose bones still clung fragments of what had apparently been Scandina- v:an armor, had been found near Fall River, Mass, combined with the mys- tery of the Newport round tower, to inspire Longfellow's great poem, The Skeleton in Armor," which describes the flight to the American wilderness of viking and a princess daughter and the building of the round tower as their home.
 Whether or not the round tower at Newport really marks the ancient American civilization, the Vinland tales of the Scandinavians were still told in Europe during Columbus time, and did much to swell the rumor that vast continent lay to the westward across the Atlantic ocean. It was such stories as these, as well as the sumor of the buried Atlantis, that fired Columbus imagination and led him at last to discover tor rediscover) America.
 Few authorities nowadays dare ex- press an absolute opinion as to the round towers origin. The Encyclo- pedia Britannica refers to the tower as one of the greatest antiquarian pug zles in the United States
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
pld 1nIs Dog Reason7 '

We brought from Scotland q collie about six months old. says core sponent of the London Spectator He was allowed. to be with us at the breakfast table, but never to be fed in the dinlng-room This rule was strictly enforced by my daughter. was the only member of the family who ever broke over the rule. And often when offered him tempting bone he would glance across the ta. ble, and if he caught the forbiddIne eye he would resist the temptation But one morning she left the table abruptly Rab followed her into the hall and watched her till she had closed the door of her study. Then he scampered back nudged my elbow. as If to say: Now is our time," He seized the bone, and was soon crunch
 Ing 1t with the greatest satisfaction.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
Treatment of Hardwood.

In these days of polished wood stairs and railways it is almost i'm possible, even with frequent polishing, to keep the wood from getting black. This is because the dust and dirt catches in the wax. and fresh rubbing only buries it deeper
 A good scrubbing with soap powder ssssry month will remove the dirt, and 't may be scrubbed just as energet ically as the plainest of kitchen floors Then. when the wax is applied with the aid of the usual heavy polish. the color of the wood will have returned in all the glory of it's first days.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
MYSTERY DEEPENS
coRonER's INQUEST BRINGS OUT NEW FACTS IN KANSAS
 TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
BO1H WOMEN ALIVE AT DUSK
Brother Of Murdered Women Testsfies to Having Seen His Sisters at 5;3o O'clock--Another Brother Tells of Family QuarreIs.

Kansas City, Kan, Oct. 23. Accord ing to the testimony of James Mc- Mahon given at coroner's inquest, his sisters, Rose McMahon and Mrs Margaret Van Royen, were alive at s5 30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon This testimony was startling to the officials of Wyandotte county. who have been Investigating the murder last Tuesday of Alonzo Van Royen, his wife anu sister-in-law, Miss McMahon. near the Reidy road four miles west of Kansas City, Kan. These officials believed that the triple murder was committed about 2: 50 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. This belief was based upon the fact that Van Royen left his home with his team and wagon about 1:S0 o'clock that afternoon to cut wood along q creek across the road. He was seen going across the road into the woods at that hour by Ben Stephens, neigh. Dor. and James McMahon teslifies 4-at he saw him with the team hitched up at that hour.
 It was the intention of Van Royen to go to town that afternoon with the load of wood. Necessarily he would hurry about it.
 When his body was found Wednes. day night near the wagon in the woods there was little pne of wood which It would have taken him about half hour or trihe more 10 cut
 McMahon testified today that he saw his sisters, Margaret van Royen and Rose alive at 5:30 o'clock that night.
 This injects deeper mystery than ever into the case The physical cir. cumstances indicate that Van Royen was murdered not later than o'clock that afternoon. This is ,..e question the officials are asking: what was the murderer doing in the two ana one-half hours between the time he killed Van Royen and the time h. slew Mrs. Van Royen and Miss Me Mahon ?"
 Patrick McMahoD. another brother. testified next that he was school teacher and lawyer. having graduat- ed from the Kansas City School of Law. He is 32 years old The most important information gained from him was that he and his sister Mrs. Van Royen, were not on good terms and that there was enmity between his mother and the Van Royens. He testified that last Tuesday. the day of the murder, he was at home all day hauling fodder.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
PASSENGER TRAIN OFF TRACK
Spreading Rails Came Near Causing Bad
 Wreck to No. 2 Near Hornbeck.

Passenger train No. 2. arrived iu Mena Saturday at l:l5 D. ID just l2 hours late. The delay was caused by an accident that came very near 10 being a bad wreclI. When the train was making curve few miles south of Hornbeck, the rails spread and the tender and all the coaches left the rails aud came near turning over.
 It required eight hours to re- pair the track and get the train Tn condition to run. It was run ming as an extra when it got here.
 No one was injured in the acci- dent excepting an express mes- senger's helper, who jumped off his car and sprained his ankle. A few panes of glass were broken ia the train.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
GO BACK ON THE
 GUARANTY LAW
OkIahoms Bankers Denounce the Sys- tefn aud Demand Statement Re- eardirg Condition of Bank
 That Failed.

Tulsa, Okla, October 2l.- With but one dissenting votce, the membcss of Group Foar of the State Bankers section, repre- seuting sixty banks in the eastern part oi the state denounced the statebanking board for it's meth- ods in dealing with the affairs of the Columbia Bank and Trust Company, of Oklahoma City, at meeting here today.
 They also demanded the state bank examiner issue statement regarding the condition of the bank. The guaranty law was de- clared failure.
 Resolutions were adopted rsc- ommending that the state bank ing board as Il now exists be abol- ished: the guaranty fund be re dei osited with the banks from which it originated aud no inter- est be paid by banks while de- posted with them; the expense of maintaining III the guaranty law be met by the state, and that when a bank liquidates t shall have the right to take over assets the un- used portion of inc guaranty fund contributed by the bank.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
In Sis Riaht Voc atIon.

4 prominent western author has a bright son of 16, who is in bank, and who also writes verse occasionally which he submits to his father for criticism. Not long ago he handed him one which was returned with the remark That is positively bad The boy looked at him questioningly You Will have to change 1t before 1t will ,ass, continued his father. "But I cant change 1t if 1t is bad" said the hoy witb twinkle in his eye: and the father suggested that possibly his son knew more about banking than be did about poetry.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
KNOWS WHEN SINNER REPENrs
Minister at Baptist Church Advances
 Unusual Idea From Pulpit.

Mir. Schofield's theme at the
 First Baptist church Friday evening was out of the beats Il way. He said that Jacobs drea m of the ladder. soul and the spirit of Samuel at Endor and the re- turn of Lazarus were intermatums of the relation that the spiritual world bore to this one. How ever, the text that says that there is ''joy In the presence of the angels" is the most outspoken statement on the subject in all the scriptures. From this pas sage one may learn some of these things. luasmuch as heaven IS not place of flesh and blood 1t must be purely an intellectual life, The source of their i ' must be the result Of knowledge. It for that reason follows that the angels krow what is going on in this life to the inmost secrets of oui hearts. But heaven is one sublime and universal unity. And when one being in Gods great world rejoices. then all who are there share in that joy. 1t follows that God also rejoices, and not only God, but also the sainted dead who have gone on before must, from the nature of tke case, both know and reioice ;n each instance where a slnrcr truly sepents. To what extent our departed friends are aware of what IS going on in this life is not stated, but of a truth this passage teaches that they l.now when : sinner repents; and since that is so, it k highly probable that they know much as to us.
 Another comforting truth to be deduced from this passage is that all heaven. ineluding our loved ones, are iu sympathy with us in all our attempts 10 do good, so far as the7 are aaie to know.
 The speaker cited some reasons why the yepentirg time of sim uer was a seasisn Of rejoicing in the presence of.she angels of God. It was first of siia time of down right honesty. No man ever did anything in which he was more thoroughly honest than be was when he repented, in the true sense of the word. There is mo- thing of which man is cap able of doing that exceeds re- pentance for moral beauty. It is conduct prompted by pure mo- lives, brave as Caesar and eternal in it's effect for the good of the man, of his home. his country and his heaven. Such an act must charm the entire audience of the spiritual witnesses. In the third place, true repentance cannot be reversed. No man really repents backwards. As Paul puts 1t. true repentance s'needeth not to be repented of." When 1t is gem uine, if stands while Gods throne holds out. The best reason is that in repentance man dies to sin, and after that "reckons him. self also dead indeed to sim As the Salvation Army Man put 1t, when dying, referring to his re. pentance, he said. That time it was hard 10 die" In referring to this, his actual death, he said, l"This time 1t is easy to die" ]"
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
A Business Change.

The attention of the public is called to the announcement in the Star of this issue of Stevens & Co.,, successors of Mir. E. F. Ad- klnson, as proprietors of the Cash Store. These gentlemen compos- iug the new firm came here with ample means to conduct the busi. ness along broad lines and give assurance of dealing liberally with their patrons. Read their announcement and then call and get acquainted with them.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
DR. WATKINS FOR POSTMASTER.
Republican Central Committee Held
 Meeting aud Recommended Him.

The Republican Central Committee of Polk county met Saturday at the City Hall in the park for the pur- pose of recommending man for postmaster of Mena, to succeed R. B. Board, whose term expires soon.
 After sometime spent in talking matters over a vote was taken. There were two candidates. l.. M. Wimberly and Dr. P. K. Watkins. In the count of votes Dr. Watkins came out ahead. MT. Wimberly said that he would not contest the matter before the state committee, and Dr. Watkins will doubtless be Mena's next postmaster.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
Served as coffee, the new coffee sub.

Served as coffee, the new coffee sub stitute known to grocers everywhere as Shoop's Health Coffee, will trick even a coffee expert. Not a grain of real coffee in 1t either. Pure health ful toasted grains, malt, nuts. etc, have been so cleverly blended as to give wonderfully satisfying coffee taste and flavor. And it is made in a minute, tool No tedious 20 to 30 minutes boiling. Test 1t and see. Dr. Shoop created Health Coffee that the people might have a genuine coffee substitute, and one that would be thoroughly satisfying in every possi- ble respect. Sold by all grocers.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
NEW RESTAURANT FOR MENA
M. Zakel. Who Conducted Windsor Hotel
 at Bethesda, in Charge.

M. Zakel, who, during the past summer has made the Windsor hotel at Bethesda Springs so pop. uIaf, has opened up a restaurant "a the Hope building on De Queen street. Ia doing so,he. Friday at noon, invited to feast of good things, including turkey and cranberry sauce. dozen of his old patrons and citizens of Mena.
 By his courteous treatment and faculty to tickle the palates of his patrons. Mr. Zakel has made many friends and The Star be- speaks tor him | liberal pat ronage.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
Cold Weather Advice

to all is to beware of coughs and colds on the chest; as neglected they readily lead to pneumonia, consumption or other pulmonary troubles. Just as soon as the cough appears treat il with Ballard's Horehound Syrup the standard cure of America Use as directed perfectly harmless. A cure and preventative for all diseases oi the lungs. Price 25c, 50c and S1.00. Sold by Gunnels Drug Store.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
Trading In Mena Friday.

c. A. Stuart, Kings Spur; Hen " Standrldge. Esger, w T. Rogers, ". H. Taylor, J. w, Brown, w. 0. Taylor, ]. w, Scott. John Goodner, of Oden
 Burley White. Board Camp; Rich. ard hnddleston and wife, Waters and Mrs. Lon Simpson, Umpire
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
Trading in Mera Saturday

W J. Parker, J. s. Webster, NJ. $. Johnsen, G. w. Craig and ". Shirley, Board Camp; ]. T. Lofts, Bigger; D. T. Lawrence, Shady; John Brewer. Granuis; MT. and Mrs. l.. E. Fogel and J. H. FogeI, Howard.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28

Mr. F. c. Fritz. Oneeonta. N writes. . sis little girl was greatly benefited by taking Foley's Or,no Laxative, aud l think il Is the best remedy for constipation and liver trouble. /" Foley's Orino Laxative Is mild, pleasant and effective, and cures habitual constipation. Sold bv Jack son Drug and Furniture Go,
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
Democratic Meeting Postponed.

St. Louis, Oct. 15.-The Democratic state committee decided late Wednes- day afternoon to postpone until Janu ary s, next year, the general confer ence of Democratic leaders in Kan. ses City to formulate the plans for next years campaign.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28

The pleasant purgative effect expe- rienced by all who use Chamberlain's $ Stomach and Liver Tablets. and the healthy condition of the body and mind which they create. makes one feel joyful. Sold by all dealers.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28

To quickly check cold, druggists are Dispensing everywhere. t clever Candy Cold Cure Tablet called Pre- ventirs PPeyenticS are also fine for feVerish children Take preventics at the sneezing stage, to head off all colds. Box of 4s 25c. Davis Drng Co. The Old Reliable.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
It's a Hustler

Hunts Lightning Oil K up and 10. Ing atl the ss:ise- Y cures your uciies. pains. enis. burns and bsuises while you sleep knb little ,ln your fnis. cry and feel It disappear HI
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
Notice to the Public.

We. the citizens aud property holders Of the neie hborhood im- mediately west of Mena, knowing that someone IS spreading fire,
 hereby warn such persons that we are well organized aud propose 10 project ourselves and property. and If caught they will suifer the tall penalty of the law. Wr also warn all hunters to stay away. as we will roi have them ia here al all. We are in too much danger hy the dry condition Of every.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-10-28
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