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The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-24

Drawing and Guessing Contest Fur
nished Much Amusement.

The boarder pupils OF ST. Joseph s
Academy entertained in a most de-
lightful manner Friday evening in hon.
or of the graduating class of 1911.
Music and dancing afforded pleas
ure to all. and the annual dancing
contest caused much amusement and
aroused great curiosity and wonder
ment on the part of the guests.
Miss Lola Thinnes was the most
successful in guessing. naming thir-
teen Of the seventeen forms which
loomed into view on the blackboard
from the pencil of the would-be artists.
For her lively imagination in per-
ceiving any similarity between any of
those chalk incongruities and the real
animal, she was awarded gold
stick pin mounted with pug in
ivory.
After dainty four-course luncheon
music was resumed until $50 when
the guests departed with many kind
expressions to their youthful hostesses
for the pleasures extended to them.
Thoose who enjoyed the evening
were: Very Rev. Dean Gallagher,
Misses Mabel Lee. Gretchen Wertz,
Beulah and Edmonia Petty Irene and
Lola Thinnes, Agnes M. Donohue.
Rosetta Robert, Lillian Dollarhides
Gladys Lichlyter, Evylen Cecil, Esther
Isman, Nellie Summerville, Philip
Connell, Lon and Clarence Wright.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-24
TEXAS ORATOR TRIES AVIATION
No Wonder There Is Trouble Between
Texas and Mexico - Banquet
Cheer Loosens Tonaue-

Baltimore. Nov. 21.---"We can blow
our own horn pretty Justify In Texas
Col Robert e. Cowart of Dallas said
at the Stafford, but | heard young
member OF the legislature In Austin
not long since perpetrate speech at
a banquet which struck me as the
maximum In the line OF grandielo-
quent boasting.
4 can quote you one paragraph:
If all the hogs In Texas were consoli.
dated into one hog that hog could dig
the Panama caL-s in three roots with
out single grunt, II all the steers In,
Texas were consolidated into one
steer that steer could plant his front
feet on the northern confines of Mex.
leo and with his long horns hook the
stars from their orbits. His hind feet
would rest ON the northern confines OF
the Dominion of Canada and with his
tail he could brush the blush from
the aurora borealis.'"
The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-24
TO HAVE LEGAL HELP
GOVERNOR sTu5Bs WANTS AT
ToRNEYs FOR LEGISLATORS
SERVICE FREE.
WOULD HAVE THEM DRAW BILLS
State University Law Teachers to Be
Called on-Railroads Maintain Law
Offices During Legislative Sessions
Service for All Political Parties.

Topeka, Nov. Ex-Governor Stubbs
will ask Chancellor Strong of the state
university to designate two law teach
ers from the university law school to
come to Topeka for the session of the
legislature and act as advisers to the
legislature and to the members OF
both branches. The plans for the free
legal bureau are just being made and
will not be completed until the gov
ernor returns from the Trans -Missis-
sippi Commercial congress at San An
tonic, Tex
Advice to Be Free.
The lawyers are to be the most ex-
perienced men in constitutional law
that the university law school has.
They will be given offices in the state
house, and any member or any com
mittee that wants any advice on any
legal question relating to legislation
can call on the lawyers and get it
free. II any members desire bills
drawn or need advice about bills they
are to introduce that were drawn by
OAhNAS p bh0 Aa0JE WAAA luAIioA tnC
bills or make the needed changes and
corrections to make them legal in
every respect.
The railroads maintain corps OF
lawyers at the legislature throughout
the session. These lawyers get ac-
quainted with the members as fast as
they come in. and are eager to offer to
draft any bills that the members may
desire and frequently furnish stenogra
piers to the members. To counteract
this influence Governor Stubbs intends
to have state lawyers to do this work,
and they will not expect any votes OF
influence in return for the favor.
Available for All Parties.
The state now has a legislative ref.
7rence bureau to furnish information
10 members. It is free to both Demo
Gratis and Republicans, and the serv-
Ices of the two lawyers also will be
available to both parties alike.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-24
BACK IN WASHINGTON
ROOSEVELT WAS GIVEN KINDLY
GREETING HIS OLD
FRIENDS.
HE HAS NO COMMENT TO MAKE
Says "Every Dog Has Hls Day, but
the Nights Belong to the Cats
Speaks Well Of Peary-ToId Stories
of Lion Hunting.

Washington, Nov 21.--All Washing.
ton is wondering what Col. Roosevelt
meant when he said at the National
Press club to 400 newspaper men that
every dog has his day and that the
night l. lor the cats.
The colonel was greeted at the sta
tion by Mrs. Longworth. The colonel
put his arm around the waist of his
daughter and they conversed while
and all the time the colonel said
Fine, fine"
MY Friends, | am very deeply
touched by your kindly way of greet
Ing me and do hope you understand
how genuinely | feel it. 1t is fine
to get back here to see you all--and
| suppose am speaking In reasonable
confidence. It is not that am going
to say anything that should not be
quoted, except that do not want to
make any comments.
No Comments TO Make.
II was thinking of one, however,
that would be sufficiently inclusive
| wish to say that every dog has hia
day but the nights belong to the
cats"
After telling the newspaper men
how happy he was the colonel con
cluded:
Now | am going to have chance
to shake hands with every one who
does not think his character will
thereby be hurt"
Later the colonel lectured before
the National Geographic society.
He told OF the development OF his
plans for the African expedition and
spoke eulogistically OF Secretary Wal
colt, of the Smithsonian institution.
Complimenting his companions on
the hunt he referred to his son. Ker
NIT, praisins his work as the Official
| photographer.
Mover Believed In Or. Cook.
He told of having received from .
runner the news of the discovery OF
the pole by DIR. Cook and said that he
took the same stock in DR.. Cook as
| the National Geographic society but
when he heard that Peary had dis.
covered the pole he knew 1t was all
right, because he said II know
| Peary"
The audience was thrilled by the
coloneps description Of the killing Of
a lion with spears after fight that
lasted ten minutes He also related
many humorous incidents of the hunt
The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-24
TOLsT0Y IS DEAD
THE END CAME TO THE GREAT
WRITER EARLY SUNDAY
MORNING.
SPECIALISTS UNABLE TO HELP HIM
Had Left Civilization for Solitude
Stricken on Train--Journey Too
Much for His Enfeebled Condition
Death from Heart Failure Peaceful

Astapova, Russia, Nov. 22.-Count
Tolstoy died peacefully here after a
hard fight of several days. DR.. Mako
vetsky and the other attending physi.
clans and Countess Tolstoy were at
his side when the end came. 1t was
recognized long before that his case
was hopeless, and at o'clock in the
morning, after the countess had been
summoned and other members of the
family had gathered in an adjoining
room, the physicians issued bulletin,
announcing that the activity of the
heart had almost ceased and that
Tolstoy's condition was extremely
dangerous.
Tolstoy, accompanied only by Dr.
Makovetsky, left his home at Yasnaya
Palians several days ago with the
purpose of ending his days in solitude
to which he more and more inclined
In his latter years. His pilgrimage
led him to the monastery at Shamar
dine in the Province of Kaluga,
where he remained as the guest of his
sister Marie, who is a nun In the
cloister.
Was Seeking Solitude.
Learning that his retreat had been
discovered. he insisted upon proceed
ing on his journey to the Caucasus,
where he hoped to spend his last days
close to the Tolstoian colony on the
shores of the Black sea.
But on the railroad journey he was
overcome with exhaustion and the
cold, and DR.. Makovetsky was com.
PEELED to have him transferred to the
flag station at Astapova, where he
was made as comfortable as possible
in the rude wooden building.
For five days he had lain there suf.
fering first from bronchitis and later
from Inflammation OF the lungs. Spe.
cialists were called from Moscow and
ether places. but, notwithstanding
their utmost efforts, the heart of the
great Russian responded but feebly to
the restoratives and stimulants ad.
ministered
The attacks of heart failure in.
creased alarmingly and many hours
prior to the end the physicians had
given up ali hope Countess Tolstoy
was admitted to the sick room for the
first time, but her husband failed to
recognize her.
No One Excluded.
No one was excluded from the death
chamber OF Count Leo Tolstoy and all
day long steady stream OF peasants
passed through the room where his
body lay some of them stopping to
kneel beside the bier. The silence
was broken at times by the orthodox
chants of the mourners.
The funeral will be held Tuesday
Tolstoy left written wish that he be
buried without pomp under poverty
oak where he played as a child and
where the peasants we're accustomed
TO congregate.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-24
IRWIN BACK TO MEHA
Conferences Returns Popular Pastor for
Another Year to Mena.

The Star Monday morning received
a message from the Rev. M. X. Irwin.
who is attending the M. E. church.
South, conference at Prescott, stating
that he has been returned as pastor
of the church at Mena for the coming
year. The message also states that
the Rev. Thomas Ware will again be
the presiding elder for the Texarkana
district.
The return of Mr.. Irwin will be very
pleasing to the members of the local
church, as well as many other clti-
zens of Mena who have found friend
ship of much value in both kr. and
Mrs. Irwin.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-24
CHANGE AT COMMERCIAL
Man From Texas Purchased Hotel and
Is Here With Family to Take Charge.

]. F. Wafford with Mrs. Wafford
and their five children arrived in Mena
Saturday evening. They are from
Amarillo, Tex, and Mr.. Wafsord has
traded his Texas property to George
Stoddard for the Commercial Hotel
property at the corner of Maple ave-
nue. and Eighth street. Mr.. Wafford
is arranging to take charge ofthe hotel.
Mrs. w. w. Harrison. who has had
the hotel leased, is now at McAlester.
Ok. and her son-in-law, w. H. Hor-
ton, who has been in charge of the
business, is at the hotel sick. He and
Mrs. Horton will remain at the hotel
at least until it is thought safe to move
him, when they will probably move to
private residence to make their
home.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-24

Tenderness or aching in the small
of the back is a serious symptom.
The kidneys are suffering. Take
Prickly Ash Bitters at once. 1t is a
a reliable kidney remedy and system
regulator and will cure the trouble
before it develops its dangerous
stage.
Jackson Drug & Furniture Co..
special agents.
Davis Drag Co. special agent.
w. C. Vandiver special agent.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-24

About twenty members of the Jun
ior class of the Mena High School met
Saturday evening at the home Of Miss
Guthrie on Grandview Heights to bid
farwell to their classmate, Miss Setta
Jones, who left Monday with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Jones,
to make her home in in New Mexico.
They spent the evening playing hearts.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-24

Guard your kidneys; the health of
the body depends on these small but
important organs. They extract
uric acid from the blood which if al
lowed to remain in the system would
cause dropsy and Bright's Disease.
Prickly Ash Bitters is a successful
kidney tonic; it heals and strength
ems the kidneys. regulates the liver,
stimulates the stomach and digestion
and cleanses the bowels. 1t will pre-
vent or cure Bright's Disease.
Jackson Drug & Furniture Co..
special agents.
Davis Drug Co.. specia! agent.
w. G, Vandiyer special agent.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-24

B.P. Rock and Rose Comb R. |. Reds
A few cockerels of each for sale at
Sl.00 to ST. so each
Ss22O-2t. II. z. Fowler.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-24

Wanted-Small tract unimproved
land. close in. Must be cheap. Ad-
dress E. Z. Briggs. Mena, general de-
livery. zz1&4o-it
The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-24
THE DEMONSTRATION WORK
A. E. Ware, Agent. Reports on Re-
suls In Several Trials.

To the Editor of The Star.
If you will give me space in your
paper | will give a few reports on
demonstrative plats in different parts
of the country. have but a few re-
ports in full as yet. as the farmers
have not finished gathering. but these
will serve to give an idea about what
has been accomplished. In a short
time can give results on all the crops
that have been finished under demon
strative methods.
500 Pounds Lint Gotten to Acre.
r. A. Rowe, of Hatfield worked
three acres of cotton on old land that
had been in cultivation go years. He
gathered 1886 pounds per acre. There
we're six rows Of peanuts through this
three acre block which had they been
in cotton would have made 300 pounds
more or 100 pounds more per acre.
which would have brought the yield
up to 800 pounds Of lint cotton per
acre. There was no commercial ferti~
lizer used on this crop. The total
amount of work including preparations,
planting and cultivation was 20 days.
Pretty good money in farming. don t
you Think
The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-24

T. j. Walker of Egeer worked 7
acres and made an average yield of
1850 pounds per acre. D. D. Stock
ton Of Old Cove. made 1900 pounds
per acre. P. D. Mays of Board Camp
worked 10 acres. There was several
grades of land in this crop, but taking
an average of the whole it made 1880
pounds per acre. Some Of this crop
made as much as 1000 pounds per acre.
so Bushels Corn on Upland.
Mr.. Mays also demonstrated that
he can make corn as well as cotton,
getting a yield of SO bushels per acre
on his demonstration plat, which was
piece of ordinary upland. He says
he can make rs bushels per acre on
the same kind of land and proposes to
prove it next year.
| will give you some reports each
week now until we get them all in.
A. E. Wear,
Special agent for Polk County.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-02-02
THE OPINION OF AN EXPERT
! POULTRY BREEDER

Poultry breeders who have gained
reputation for the reliability Of their
stock either for exhibition or for gen
e1ll purposes are the ones whose ex-
ample is we'll worth following. G. A.
Browning Of Apponaug, r. l., is such a
one. and what he says about poultry
food is therefore Of especial interest
and value. He says, in recent letter;
81 have found Pages Perfected Poul-
try Food to be a first-class article.
feed it the year round. Chicks need
1t when they are growing; pullets need
It when they are laying, and later, dur.
Ing the moulting period, it is grea
help"
If you want to know more about this
food and the best ways Of using it
white to G. S. Page, Hyde Park, VT.
for his booklet, profitable Poultry" II
will be sent free, postpaid, to anyone
mentioning this paper.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-02-02
CURE YOUR KIDNEYS.
Do Not Endanger Life When a Barton
Citizen Shows You the Cure.

Why will people continue to suffer
the agonies of kidney complaint
backache, languor, urinary disorders,
lameness, headache, why allow! the ~
when certain cure is offered them?
Doan's Kidney Pills is the remedy
to use. because it gives to the kidneys
he help they need to perform thei r
work.
II you have any, even one, of tn 9
symptoms of kidney disease, cure
yourself now, before diabetes. dropsy
or Bright's disease sets in. Read this
Ba rton testimony: Mrs. P. j. Drew,
High St.Barton, says,"I was greatly an
noyed by lame back and pains in my
kidneys. The attacks were so acute
at times that they could only be de-
scribed as torture and was told that
my trouble arose from disordered kid
| neys. Doan's Kidney Pills which I
procured at Barron's Drug Store,
| helped me Immediately and I con-
tinued using them until my trouble
had disappeared. feel it nv dutv to
make known what Doan's Kidney Pills
have done for me so that other SUI
ferers from kidney complaint may
know how to obtain relief"
For sale by all dealers. Price 81
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no other.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-02-02

grew stronger, and within three months
was perfectly well woman.
Il want this letter made public to
show the benefit women may derive
from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound - Mrs. JOHN G.. MOLDAN,
2115 Second St., North, Minneapolis,
MINI.
Thousands of unsolicited and genu-
inc testimonials like the above prove
the efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, which is made
exclusively from roots and herbs.
Women who suffer from those dis
tressing ills peculiar to their sex should
not lose sight of these facts or doubt
the ability Of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound to restore their
health.
IfyOu want special advice write
to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass.
Shewill treatyOurle
confidential. For 20 years she
has been helping sick women in
this way, free of charge. Don't
hesitate = write at once.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-02-02
Examinations of Teachers.

Public examination of applicants
for teachers certificates will he held
at the village school buildings in
Newport and Irasburg on Feb. 10 and
Il, beginning at O'Clock. Testimo-
malls of moral character and ability
to govern will be required of all ap-
plicants not known to the undersign-
ed.
E. S. WATSON,
Supt. of Schools in Newport Union.
4-5
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-02-02
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS
On the Sunday School Lesson by
Rev. DR.. Linscott fer the In
terrasional Newspaper Eible
Study Club.
Copyright 1909 by Rev. T. S. Linscott. DID,
February, 9Th, 1910.


Copyright. 1910, by Rev. 7. S. Linscott D.Dl
Almsgiving and Prayer. Matt. vi:
LIS.
Golden Text axe heed that We do
not your righteousness before men. to
Oe seen of them. Matt. viii.
Verses 1-4-WLat definition would
you give of a hypocrite?
II man is really trying to be a.
true Christian, but loves to have his
good Works acknowledged by the
church and the world, and takes pains
to have that done, how would yoa
characterize him?
Ii a man gives more to religion and
charity when the fact is published,
than he does when it is not known, in
what class would you place him?
If one gives with the motive of help
ing his fellows, and to glorify God, will
the fact that his beneficence is pub
Ashed displease God? Why?
Verses 5-6-Give reasons for your
opinion as to whether there are those
to-day, who act as If they were re-
ligious, III the matter of going to
church, ETC.. but who are not actually
true to God. ~
How would you describe a man who
foes to church. or prayer meeting,
chiefly to help his business or profes.
sion?
II man prays longer in public than
he does in private, is he necessarily
hypocrite?
Why does Jesus so strongly recon-
mend private prayer, and what are it's
advantages?
Verse What can you say for, or
against, long or short private prayers?
In what class would you put those
private prayers which consist only of
reading, or reciting, set prayers, and
in repeating form of words?
Verse s.--As God certainly knows
what things we have need of before
we ask him, what is the use in pray
ing for them? (This question may have
to be answered in writing by members
of the cIub.)
Verse Did Jesus give the Lord s
Prayer" as form to be used, or as a
model for comprehensiveness and
brevity, or for both, or for some other
reason?
What was the chief thing in the
life and personal testimony Of Jesus.
which also should, and may, be. the
chief thing in the life of every man?
Verse 10-What should we long and
pray for more than for all else?
What would turn earth and its sor-
rows. into Heaven with all it's bless
edness?
Verse 11-Have Christians a right
to expect that God will supply all the
necessaries of life, and does he always
| do so?
Is God under obligation to supply
Us with daily bread?
Verse 12-On what grounds does
God forgive us our sins?
Does Jesus mean here that God will
| forgive us exactly as we forgive
others, or is there difference?
Verse 13-In what way does Goo
| lead us into temptation?
Verses 14-15-If we forgive our fel
lows, Is God under obligation to for
| give us?
Lesson for Sunday, Feb. 18th, 1910
Worldliness and Trust. Matt. vi: 1873
'"That man yonder has shady rec
ord. You can tell as soon as you SCI
him at work that he has something tt
! screen in his life"
What do you think it is he has t.
screenT
Mostly suburban porches. "-Balti
more American
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-02-02
HYDE PARK,
NOTICE

The wn Officers Of the town Of Barton
will meet at the Town Clerks Office in the
village OF Barton, Monday, February 9TH, to
adjust and settle all accounts against said
towp. The Auditors will meet Tuesday, Feb
ruary 9Th, the Civil Board, Wednesday, Feb
ruary 9Th.
Bring in your accounts early so as to
cause no delay.
Q. H. MoSsMAN ! se:ec men
j. q. TURNBULL of
GEO. f. REED Town OF ar.on
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-02-02

caused a weakness
and broken down
condition of the
system. l read so
much fwhatLydia
E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound
had done for other
suffering women I
felt sure it would
help me, andI must
say it did help me
wonderfully. My
mains all left me r
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-02-02
WANTS HER
LETTER
PUBLISHED
For Benefit of Women who
Suffer from Female Ills

Minneapolis, Minn.-"4 was a great
sufferer from female troubles which
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-02-02
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF BARTON.
Continued from last week
CHAPTER XII.
HARDSHIPS

a
down and held the little girl in her lap till morning They had @ d
kept
The first coach into this in 1906 Hon. Daniel Owen and wife
children
than the locomotive of later day.
In spring among sheep
There been three wolves killed in this
bears killed James Mays cofeld and
n - aat T. wss 90 far he couId not o bt tho - dow In
chopg build fire broke his and had
without fire. with only the hide for covering and cold
Greensboro through Glover Barton Salem
Derby The making of the road crude merely being the cutting
Timothy of making
with this Barton Both
schools
three enepsing citizens Darling Whok to teach
children
the where the teacher stopping
the consisted pupils The difficulties which school
held with only family
For number after settlement the town church or
existed but about 1906 Methodist clergymen
In 1907 however in August
The organization formed 1917
Methodist formed 1928 Besides
ed by Methodist 1901 before menioned Methodist church
when this with the others this county suffered greatly by the
mov attack from
line No church edifce built until after the
church organizations
village
township of Barton
formerly
Belle Water Ond and also found Belle Lac and
expansion of
growth nearly equng size the village of Barton referred
prints Barton Mills"
wughb little village five miles the south Of village
jacksonville
This small village located tongue land added
population
village being credited with about 1850 and Orleans
this estimate Of the towns population will known
result of the this spring learned.
|
Charter of this township granted Col Henry
COL Ebenez Smith,
Charles Claphm Richard Sinclair Tyler John Tyler John Tyler
Nathaniel Hezkah
Abe Fellows Andrew Lester Noah Hocomb
Lawrence Rachel Fellows Elisha
Whitney Correl Merrill Samuel Sheldon Calvin Ack
Rude James Jordan Frank Moore Arthur Frink John Wheeler
Riuesd Ebnezer Reed Gabriel butcher
IS F;h T. Isaac Peek John Cation Thomas ssect and E Ia
Granting
five equal shares
in noted
The conditions of this
proprietor plant
cultivate
family settle respective
each respective right or share of land in said township
their representatives regranted to such shall
affixed
of June D. Seventeen Hundred Eghtytwo
O Independence.
By his Excelencys
Thos.
surveyed six subsequent to the
all who did
r. the respective rights.
language of the charter to
cultivate the same The liability
Disputed
The their children
The few inhabitants locale Of the
practicable to have schools at this stage of the towns history
that the centre almost every
e1ceeu