The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-18

OoSh uCpOoitoI dgdlnSt the JOSS of the money he places in bank for safe keeping.
 MT. Pipkin favored in putting Polk county back under the law which made the county assessor and the justices of the peace of each township the board of equalization for that township. He explained how Polk county was taken out from under that law by an error in the last legislature.
 He said he believed the Kansas City Southern should be made to fence it's right of way through the county as a protection to stock owners.
 There was no oratorical closing re- marks to MT. Pipkin's talk and no ap- plause. There was much food for thought in the story told, and the hearers evidently were thinking. Attorney General Hal L. Norwood then was intorduced. MT. Norwood opened his remarks by stating that Hatfield needed better school house. which opinion seemed to meet the ap proval of everyone present. The speaker then stated that Arkansas had $450, ,000, ,000 invested in school houses and spent $3, ,000, 900 year for its public schools, aside from hundreds of thousands for school institutions supported out of the general funds of the state. While he did not believe that Arkansas was so far advanced as 1t should be in schools, he thought it was better off by far than it was given credit for being.
 Mir. Norwood spoke of the present prosperity of the people as indicated by the appearance of his audience, and by the large deposits made in the new bank at Hatfield. which only had been established three months. He said he did not know how it was in Polk county, but had a bank been established in Sevier county twenty years ago there would not have been $500 deposits-that any man having as much as $2 at time would have been called upon to tell where he got it.
 The attorney general then went into some of his work as attorney general. He said that under the Davis-King- Logan antitrust law he had collected $25, 900 in fines from the packing companies for violations, $45, ,000 from the Waters-Pierce Oil Company-in all S70. 900, which had been turned into the school fund of the state. He had also collected Sis, ,000 under the col lateral inheritance tax law since 1901, law that had previously lain dormant because the legislature had provided no funds for it's enforcement.
 MT. Norwood spoke of the immense amount of work in his office. He has, he says, answered 1000 letters since he assumed the duties, all but fifty of which he had handled personally. He said it was his rule. though not his duty under the law, to give legal ad- vice to any resident of the state ask ing it. Besides that the attorney general is the legal advisor of twenty five state boards and a member of several of them.
 Mir. Norwood then said he would talk politics, and he did. He began by affirming that he was a Democrat and explained why by stating that it was the Democratic party that had stood by the South in the dark hour of it's greatest struggle. He then fol- lowed up with the political history of Arkansas in the reconstruction days, and retold the abuses and corruption l it had suffered at the hands of Powell Clayton, the carpet bagger, and black allies. Here he read copiously from a state paper of recent date to show that Powell Clayton and his crowd still were in charge of the Republican party of the state and through their machinations kept for few of their own sort the federal patronage, which to them was of far more moment than any desire for party success in the state.
 At the close of Mir. Norwood's re- marks baskets were opened and the grounds soon were a scene of enjoy ment, when with talk and laughter and good appetites the bountiful sup ply of good things to eat" disappear ed as if by magic.
 The hour set for the baseball game between Wickes and Hatfield teams was 2 O o'clock. The game was begun. but before if got far enough to decide as to the merits of the respective teams the rain came and the crowds | ecattered to shelter. everyone pretty