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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-08-31
@rn Belt Farms
Right at Home. At DRY YEAR Prices.
Read. Tbinb II Over. Buy Before
TIE Other Fellow Gets Them.
They are SNAPS, SNAPS

$780, d miles from good town. mile from school
house fair five house good outbudng splendid
orchard ALI fenced fenced
Owner will back three to four thousand dollars
three to five years.
so miles from good town. all pillow land except
four native and hog PASTURE buildings all fenc
ed hog tight ST. mortgage wants balance of equity
80 at $S co. miles from good house deep
we'll and windmill fair splendid cattle she'd crib
chicken house. good orchard all fenced hog tight
fenced off tight This 1885, mortgage 50 800
at cent at five years, owder wants equity.
20 q miles from town. good house. splendid barn.
crib spring of fenced
orchard and mortgage at 81 cent If
looking for something good close and we'll improved
call in
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-08-31

Insure in the Continental Insur
ance Company. THEo. PATTY, Agt.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-08-31

A we'll known Des Moines woman at
ter suffering miserably for two days
from bowel complaint, was cured by one
dose of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy. For sale by
Winfrey & Chantry.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1911-08-31

DIR. L. J. Oldaker, Dentist. office
the front rooms over the Chris
Jensen Jewelry store. All work In
my line promptly attended to.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12
unwls. RsprisaIs at Hot Springs.

At Hot Springs the city officials
appear determined to make things
strenuous for j. B Wood, the reform
prosecuting attorney. and in retalia-
ton for his order closing Sunday
theaters and gambling houses and
put the lid on everything except the
street cars, even fruit stands being
closed. the sale of newspapers on the
streets stopped, and the drug stores
permitted to sell nothing but pre-
scriptions. Next Sunday the lid will
be extended to livery and street car
service. This may appear the right
thing to those who contend that Hot
Springs can flourish only as wide
open town, but it will eventually re-
coil upon the heads of those who in
stigate it. There is vast difference
between the running of a theater on
Sunday or the operation of gam
bling house at any time, and the sale
of soda water, CONNECTIONS, tobacco
and newspapers. Acknowledged
moral agences invariably lose out
when they come in contact with the
moral sense of the people. Times
Record.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12
To Put It Another Way.

Standpatters have pointed with
exultation to the fact that you may
describe the representative as a pro-
gressive, and by that description fail
to denote whether he is q Democrat
or Republican. The assumption is
that he is neither. and fundamental
ly that assumption is right.
But to put it another way, you
may describe standpatter fully,
and by that description you cannot
tell whether he is a Republican or a
Democrat, and by the same token
you may properly assume that he is
neither.
The important thing is that you
cannot describe either a progressive
or a standpatter without clearly
denoting whether he is progressive
or a standpatter.
And the people caring less and less
whether their servants are of one
party or another, and more and
more whether they are progressive
or observation-disclosures City Star.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12
ARKANSAS IN The LEAD.

The above is the way the Kansas
City Star heads an editorial compli-
menting the stand Of Governor DON
aghey, who asks the power to revoke
the commission Of any sheriff in
whose county a lynching OCCURS at
the hands Of mob.
The editorial follows:
The governor OF Arkansas viii sug-
gest TO the legislature that the govern
or be given the power. to revoke the
commission OF any sheriff In whose
county OCCURS lynching or where
execution OF any kind occurs at the
hands of a mob.
The Arkansas Legislature has resist
ed q somewhat similar law for ten
years. measure recommended by the
bar association OF the state providing
that when prisoner. once in the
hands OF the sheriff, is lynched, that
officer should, ipso facto. lose his office
and that he should be made ineligible
to reelection to the Office of sheriff In
Arkansas.
IL is believed that the present sug-
gestion 10 leave the matter to the dis
erection of the governor may be ac-
cepted as compromise and that the
Legislature may adopt 1t as the first
stringent measure In a campaign to
eliminate mob law.
IL Is matter worth noting all over
this country that Arkansas is going TO
set .he other states an example in the
matter OF abolishing lynchings and
that for ten years IL has been thinking
out practable way of doing It,
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12
ROADNOTTCE.


To the Honorable County Court, Polk Coun-
tv Arkansas.
We. the undersigned citizens of Polk Coun-
ty, Arkans IS, will present petition to tho
county court praying that the following
roads be vacated and abolished:
One road intersecting the Mena and Holly
Springs road near the residence of Charlie
Kirkland, in the SW4 of the SEA OF Section
SO, Township South, Range 20 West, from
said point said road extends iii northerly
dir ection thro ugh said section and the lands
of Charlie hlrkland.
A second road leaving the above described
road about $50 yards northwest of said resi-
dence of Charlie Kirkland and extending in
a northwesternly direction through said lands
of Charlie Kirkland.
A third and fourth road leaving said second
ribed road ON the lands of Charlie Kirk
land and running In a southernly direction
and intersecting the Mena and Holly Springs
road about fifty yards and one hundred and
fifty yards respectively, said third and fourth
roads being about i25 and ID yards in length
respectively.
This petition is intended to cover all tho
public or private roads now on the SWA OF
the SEA and the SEA of the SW "A of Section
36, Township South, and NW14 Of the n Ell
of Section I, Township South, Range 10
West, In Polk County, except the Mena and
Holly Springs road.
Jan IL 30 Charlie Kirkland ct al.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12
Why Not Try Il Oncel

From the New York Tribune.
A man who keeps up the oldfash-
Toned custom of sending New Years
cards to his friends included this
year second card bearing these
lines handsomely printed: Instead
of returning evil with evil, try to
return evil with good: to say moth
ing i'll of men; to act kindly even
with the OK and dog. Live thus one
day, two DAYS or more and compare
the state of your mind with its state
in former days. Make the attempt
and you will see how the dark, evil
moods have passed away and how
the souls happiness has increased.
Make the attempt and you will see
that the gospel of love brings not
merely profitable words, but the
greatest and most desired Of III
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12
ROAD NOTICE.

To the Hon. w. N. Martin, Judge
County Court, Polk County, Ark.
We, the undersigned citizens of Polk
County, Arkansas, Road District IL.
do hereby ask and petition the Honor
able County Court that the said
public road leading west from the
Wickes and Granniss public road at
the tie yard, at or near section line,
between sections 20 and 30, township
south range y vest about one mile
south of Wickes, be changed as fol-
lows: To leave present location at
the northeast corner of the southeast
quarter of section 81, township south
range 80 west, to run south on section
line a distance OF about $50 yards,
more-er less, intersecting road known
as Hunters road, thence west to inter-
sect the New Line Public Road q: {.
point near the northwest corner OF the
southwest quarter of southwest quarter
of section 81, township 5 south range
81 west. w. X. Sanders. ct al.
Dec. 22-4t.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12
G0V. DONAufit Y CONES
BAIk."

About week ago there was Sc
out from Washington a half-colunl
dispatch which had for its purpos,
the oelittlng of Governor Donae h, !!
and Arkansas because, as il alleged
Governor Donaghey would neither
attend the launching of the great
battle ship named for his state nor
allow the expenditure Of money in
following the custom long established
by other states in like circumstances.
Some were inclined to take excep-
tons at the governors alleged atti-
tude. 1t now seems pretty clear
that George Won l.. Meyer. Secre-
tary of the Navy, or some of his
smart alec underlings, were respon-
sible, not only for the article re-
ferred to. but alike responsible
for little less than a wanton insult to
our governor and state.
Perhaps after some of these have
read what Governor Donaghey has
had to say in reply, they will be a
little more careful how they address
the Gov. of Ark" in the future.
A portion of the governors letter is
printed in this issue.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12
Parcel Post Ia Germany.

From the New York Evening Mail.
One thing that adds to the enjoy
ment of the gift season in Germany
| is the certainty that a Christmas
present intrusted there to the par
GELS post for delivery will reach its
intended recipient unchanged and
without delay.
For Germany, recognizing the
great value of the parcels post, has
extended the system to every part of
Of the empire and has raised the
weight limit of packages, that may
be sent by post to 10 pounds.
Special cars are provided on the
railroads for the transportation of
packages. and in the cities automo-
biIes and other up-to-date appliances
are used to make QUICK deliveries
possible.
1t would almost be impossible to
think of a Christmas present that
could not be sent by mail in Germany
provided its weight did not exceed
che 10 pound limit.
Live fish. canary birds. fresh flow
ers. the Christmas goose, toys of all
shapes and kinds and the Christmas
tree itself-all these will go through
the mails there.
In Germany every package placed
in the mails is insured by the gov
eminent, and in case of damage or
even of undue delay the insurance
is promptly paid.
Within the postal territories OF
Germany and Austro- Hungary the
rate is six cents for packages up to
eleven pounds in weight which are
to be carried not more than ten
miles. For greater distances within
the territory the charge is twelve
cents.
Compare this with our postal rate
of sixty-four cents for a 4-pound
package.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12
FOR OPENING A NEW
COUNTY ROAD.

Your undersigned petitioners re-
spectfully ask the Hon. County Court
TO open up and create new road in
Eagle Township, along the line sepa-
rating it and Freedom Township. Polk
county, Arkansas. The location of
said proposed road is,as follows, to-wit:
Commencing at a point On the line
between said Townships known as the
w. M. Williams ford on the Mountain
Fork river, thence in an easterly di-
rection on the line between said Town
ships for distance of one and one
half az miles, to a point on the Rocky
road.
Your petitioners further represent
that the route OF said road has been
cut out and definitely located by the
citizens interested, and that the Gre
alton of said road will prove very ad-
vantageous to the citizens Of that To-
cality as we'll as the general public.
Wherefore we ask the appointment
of viewers and for appropriate orders
In the behalf.
Respectfully submitted,
Jan. 5-4 w. A. Gam, ct al.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12

me to an agent Of a railroad to veri-
fly some statements he had made.
The agent informed me that one
junk dealer out of four doing thriv-
ing business in Jackson had that
morning shipped four carloads Of
empty bottles.
went to the legislature, which
was busy passing the statewide pro-
hibitory law amid cheers by the Pro-
hibitionists. The busiest lobbyists
mot excepting the reformers and
the good women of Jackson.) were
the hired employees of the manu-
facturers Of a popular soft drink.
The vote was for prohibition. Mis-
sissippi was legally dry The
Cause was triumphant and a brave
band of good women wept and sang
hymns, having saved their sons.
That night the lobbyists for the soft
drink concern gave a banquet to
members Of the Legislature. A car
load of wine and intoxicants was
consumed celebrating the victory.
The returns Of express companies
and the figures of brewery agents
at St. Louis indicate that Mi ssissippi
| is consuming more intoxicants dry
than it did wet. The brewery agents
boast of it."
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12
The Square Dealers.

AS govornor-elect of New Jersey
Woodrow Wilson is fighting for ex-
actly the same things that Theodore
Roosevelt contended for as governor
of New York, that R. M. LaFollette
promoted as governor of Wisconsin
that the progressiyes are standing
for in both houses of Congress.
All these men with the common
creed of the square deal belong to
the same party. What difference
does it make to the average Ameri-
can. who is not political officehold-
err, whether they call themselves
Democrats or Republicans Kansas
City Star.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12
Rational Brevities.


The total absence of human error
means victory in every undertaking
Don't condemn neighbor on ac-
count of his outcroping faults. Re.
member we all have them.
No information of value can be
learned and retained without effort
and contraction of thought.
Prcmptness is a real virtue,
whether in payment of debt or the
keeping of an appointment. =
Failure is not crime, but low
ideal, thoughtlessness and lack OF
knowing are very close akin to it.
To worry over past failures or mis-
fortunes is to make doubly sure the
repetition or continuation of the diff.
sicultics ovcr which We complain.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12
Self Enmity.

Most people are their own worst
enemies, says Orison SWEET Marden
in the Success Magazine" We are
all the time "queering" our life
game by our vicious, tearing-down
thoughts and unfortunate moods.
Everything depends upon our cour-
age. our faith in ourselves, in our
holding a hopeful, optimistic out
look; and vet, whenever things go
wrong with us, whenever we have a
discouraging day or an unfortunate
experience, a loss or any misfortune,
we let the tearing-down thought,
doubt, fear, dependency, like bull
in a china shop, tear throught our
mentalities, perhaps breaking up and
destroying the work of years OF
building up, and we have to start all
over again. We work like the frog
in the well; we climb up only to fall
back, and often lose all we gain.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12

The above is portion Of the tex
that was printed under an illustra-
ton in The Montgomery Times show
ing "All That Remains" of Mt. Ida,
that was SO nearly destroyed by fire
Christmas morning.
Editor George Sherman of the
Times was one of the sufferers. His
entire newspaper plant was de-
stroyed. but he Immediately made
arrangements to bring his nanar out
on time the week of the fire, and
this gave his readers their paper and
protected his legal advertisers. The
issue contained the picture referred
to above. and the words quoted,
showing how a live newspaper man,
though almost overwhelmed by per-
sonal loss, arises as by instinct to
boost for his town and community.
Brother Sherman shows a spirit
that is a credit to his profession.
May his tribe increase.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO INTRODUCE
LOCAL AND SPECIAL BILLS IN
I.EGISLATIRE

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
viii introduce appropriate bills at the 1911
regular session of the General Assembly Of
the State OF Arkansas for special and local
legislation upon the following propositions
tO-wit.
To provide for County Depository for all
county funds of Polk County to the bank
paying the highest rate OF interest.
To require the Kansas City Southern Rail-
way to fence its right of way through Polk
County.
To amend the act OF 1909 requiring the Kan
sas City Southern Railway Company to build
bridge or viaduct at Mena so as to change
the location Of said bridge from Seventh
street to Eighth street.
TO provide salaries instead OF fees for the
Sheriff, County Clerk, Circuit Clerk, Treas
urer and Assessor OF Polk County
TO require two justices of tie peace in each
township in Polk County to assist the County
Tax Assessor In their respective townships a
John p. Logan.
Senator 33rd District "a
w. Pipkin.
REPRESENTATIVE Polk County.
December 10, 1910.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12

Logan Waller Page, director OF
the United States Office of public
roads says that this country loses OF
wastes 40 million dollars = year by
poor road building. While Arkan.
sas leads in many good things il
probably also is not far from leading
in the percentage of waste through
working" roads over and over anc
building almost no substantial high
ways. More regretabls still. POLL
county Is no exception.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12

Some Mena people have felt that
they really had seen cold weather.
II the newspaper reports are true it
was IS degrees colder in the north
ern part of Arkansas-just over be-
yond the protecting mountains
than here. And. when it does get
cold here. the sun shines out clear,
and in day or two it is over. We've
got the best all-the-year-round eli
mate in the country
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12

One Of the men who confessed tc
being bribed to vote for Senator
Lorimer:has resigned his seat in the
Legislature of Illinois. 1t is moi
stated IL this step was taken through
shame because Of his guilty act, or
through chagrin to think that he
had not waited for a coat Of white.
wash as was applied to Lori
mer.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12
THOSE VIOLENT TEMPERS.

The following was recently clipped
from the Chaperon Column OF the
Kansas City Star. 1t is so full of good
reasoning and common sense that it
should be read far and wide:
Please tell me how to cure a person
of very quick temper and the habit
OF damaging things when in that
mood? Puzzled.
There is no universal panacea for a
quick temper. A disturber of the
peace is liable to arrest and subject to
penalty. But long suffering families
avoid that extreme measure for their
names sake.
Temper, when it reaches the stage
of demaeine things, is form OF in
sanity-self inflicted, or rather self
permitted--an irresponsible condition
that it's owner could have controlled
at the beginning of the attack.
In grown person it is the visible
outcome of a spoiled. hayward and
willful child. The mother who let's
Johnnie kick the plastering of the
walls in an angry fit and doesn't cor
rect him because he had the Group last
winter, is doing her best to develop
his temper.
And when Mary is given second
piece of rich pie against the Doctors
orders, because she'll cry and get black
in the face with hysteria of she doesn't
get the pie, the child is getting ready
for the yirago act in maturer years.
1t all starts so far back, you see,
that the disc ase becomes part, if not
parcel of the of the grown-up's nerv-
GUS and mental makeup.
There are checks to the display of
temper. One of these is to convince
the exhibitor that you are physically
able to cope with him with little doubt
as to results.
The person with an unbridled temp
er is always a coward. That is why
many a man who has the reputation
of being a good fellow among men
vents his ugly moods on his defense
less family.
He presumes on their inability to
help themselves. and he fuses and
fumes because he is bigger and uelier
in disposition than they.
There are women, too. who keep
their tyrannical and explosive fits of
temper sacred for home consumption
because they know that the victims
of their rage won't tell.
This trouble might be abated if it
could be announced in the personal
column of the newspapers that Mrs.
Blanks last attack of temper left her
| little daughter in very nervous state,
and mr.. Blanks contribution to his
overflow of temper yesterday necessi-
tated the purchase of new set of
dinner dishes.
Publicity, humiliatingas it might be.
to the family at large, would work won
ders as reformatory measure, I'M
/! til this method for preserving domestic
peace is adopted, ways and means for
subjugatine temper must be devised
| to meet individual demand.
A room fitted up with strait jackets
and stocks and. perhaps little family
whipping post, might save the furni-
ture from repeated damages.
Anyway. as destroyer of happi-
ness in the family there is no more
deadly means than temper with its
horrible consequences.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12
An Opportunity.

The best twenty acres in Polk coun-
ty only mile from business center of
Mena. Set TO fine apple trees just
coming in bearing. New well built
three-room cottage. barn, two springs,
fine well, new fence. If you want
a bargain in an ideal fruit farm call
on or address Orchard care of Star
Office. Mena. Ark.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12

Down in Brazil few months ago
there was q mutiny in the navy that
wound up by the government grant
ing amnesty to the mutiners on con-
dition that thev surrender the war
ships. The facetious report now is
sent out that the leader and forty
four companions have very unex-
pectedly died Of sunstroke. 1t was
only fair to suppose that Brazil
would be pretty hot for those fellows
after their escapade.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12
NATURE TELLS YOU
As Many a Memo Reader Knows Too
Well.


When the kidneys are sick,
Nature tells you all about it.
The urine is natures calender.
Infrequent or too frequent &C.
ton;
Any urinary trouble tells of
kidney ills.
Doan s Kidney Pills correct kid
ueJ ills.
People in this vicinity testify to
this.
M. t. West, farmer, five miles
east of Van Buren,, Ark, says;
81 am just as glad TO recommend
Doan's Kidney Pills today as ]
was in 1906. ! had great deal
of trouble from my kidneys for
years and my back was so lame
and sore that l could hardly
stoop. When / did manage TO do,
it was just as difficult for me to
straighten. Another source oil
annoyance was 100 FIRE quent pas
sage of kidney secretions, especi.
ally bother some at night. Being
told to try Doau's Kidney Pills,
did so and have never had cause
to regret that action. was en-
tirely relieved and since then
have always kept supply oil
Doan's Kidney Pills on hand
using them when the occasion
has demanded with good results.
For sale by all dealers. Price
so cents. Foster-Milburn Co.
Buffalo, New York, sole agent
for the United States.
Remember the name-Dcan S.
and take no other.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-01-12

Senator John p. Logan of Grannis
Is now in Little Rock and has Sc
cured fine quarters in the Marion
Hotel. where he is putting up fight
for the presidency of the senate. II
he lands it Polk county will be ION
The map" at the coming session OF
the general assembly. for there's one
thing sure, Mr.. Logan is a booster
for his home county. coming and
roing.