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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-07-06

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City mail carrier, r. L. Boulware, is
taking his vacation.
Fruit Cans, Jar Rings, Sealing Wax
and Parafine at Tener's.
John Gains, Of Norwood, spent Sun
day with relatives here.
Mrs. James f. Doggett is visiting
relatives at indianapolis, Ind.
Table Oil Cloth 15c to 25c per yard
at Tener's.
o. A. Landess and family spent
Sunday with relatives at Danville.
Graniteware Of all kinds and at
lowest prices at Tener's.
Miss Ella Dill has been visiting rela-
tives at Greenfield the past week.
Frank Moore, of Wilmington, was a
business visitor here last Friday.
Miss Austie Patton is i'll with ner-
vous trouble.
r. B. Barrett, of Norwood, was the
guest Of relatives here over Sunday.
Miss Mary Evans went to Mt. Vernon
Monday for visit with Mrs. Foote.
Dishes of all kinds at lowest prices
at Tener's, North High street.
Mrs. j. B. Worley and son, Scott,
are visiting relatives near Waynes.
VILE.
Judge L. NJ. Watts has been con-
fined to his home since last Thursday
with an attack Of tlux.
Table Tumbers, per dozen 24c to
S1.20. Glass Dishes each DC to 35c.
Glass Pitchers l5c to 45c at Tener's.
Walter Curtis, Of Mt. Vernon, visit
ed Miss Mary Evans from Saturday
until Monday.
Jelly Glasses with lids, 20c to 24c
per dozen. Table Tumbers 20c to
S1.50 per dozen at Tener's.
Russell and Richard Circles, OF Gin
cinnati, we're the guests Of Miss Fanny
Myers Sunday.
Miss Anna Hopkins spent Sunday
with Ola Johnson at her country home
west of town.
Miss Marie Dale, of Washington G.
H., is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Richards.
Mr.. and Mrs Homer Dean enter
tanned relatives from Columbus and
Blanchester, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Lucas, OF
Springfield, ILL.,, are the guests OF rel
atives here.
Prof John Hare, Of Georgesville, has
been spending few days with Prof.
Arthur Edgington.
George Kesler and family entertain
ed William Knauer and wife, Of Nor
wood, Tuesday.
B. q. Donohoo and family spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. P. II. Shat
fer, at CLANCY College.
Miss Catherine Mcintyre, Of Cincin-
natl, was the guest of relatives here
Saturday and Sunday.
G. A. Watts, of PEBBLES, was the
guest of his parents, Judge and Mrs.
T. M. Watts, Sunday.
Hon. and Mrs. j. j. Pugsley left
Monday for York Harbor, Me-, where
they willspend the summer.
Charles Haggerty, of Warren county
was the guest of his uncle, j. W.
Haggerty, Saturday and Sunday.
William f. Allen, of New York
city, was guest at the home Of Rev.
George B. Beecher, Sunday and Mon
day.
y
Miss Marie Tolle, who has been
visiting DR.. and Mrs. II. M. Brown,
returned to her home at Buford, Sun
day.
Miss Lulu Wormeldorf, Of Gallipolis,
who has been visiting at the home of
Josiah Stevenson, returned home
Friday.
@. @. Roush and family were the
guests of the formers parents, Mr..
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The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-02
OR. COOK TALKS FOR HIMSELF
Gets His Second Wind and Says His Proofs Are As Good As
 Peary's.

New York, Jan 2s.--After an inter val of silence, pr. Frederick A. Cook took the lecture platform and told the German-American Pioneer club of Harlem that he was more positive than ever that he reached the North Pole. Within his own bosom, he said. there was "the satisfying thump of success, won at great cost; but at the same time. the geographical proof that any one man. himself or Captain Peary. stood at the exact pole, could never be laid before arm chair ge. ographers.'
 He had as good right to claim the pole as Peary. he insisted. For the first time he accused Peary, in com pany with friends, of forcing "by an organized campaign to discredit my achievement Hitherto the doctor had never questioned that Peary reached the pole. Specifically attack. ing the accuracy of Pearys records, be said they were in no better shape than his own.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-02
IN HE INTEREST OF GOOD ROADS
Legislature of Missouri Considering Many Measures-5il for New
 State Reformatory.

Kansas Uty, Jan. 3o.--Walton o Howard county introduced till ts abolish great many useless jobs al road supervisor It provides that eael county shall be divided into districts containing not less than 20 and noi more than 10 miles of road
 The senate committee on iudiciar, reported unanimously Senator Casey'i bill to make invalid all assignments of wages made before the wages art earned.
 Other bills introduced were
 Requiring all railroad companies tt furnish sufficient passenger coaehe 10 meet the requirements of the tray cling public. Requiring railroad com panies to place cuspidors in all pas scnger coaches Requiring railroad passenger and freight conductors t' report accidents to the secretary o the railroad commissioners.
 Requiring railroad companies |, transport the railroad commission and employees of their office free wheI on official business.
 The state reformatory bill advocat d by Governor Haaley was ftroduc d in tho house by Giiiispie of 5t Louis It provides for an appropria ion of sls0,000 to bs used for the pur ,hase of site ard ihe erection o he first building for a rcformatory
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-02
BIG CORN EXPOSITION OPENED
Agricultural Show at Columbus Has Broad Scope and Future Ones
 May Be International Affairs.

Columbus, O., Jan. 30.-An attempt will be made by those interested in the raising of grain in the United States to interest the promoters of the National corn exposition. which opened here today and will ast until February II, in scheme to make the corn expositions of the future inter- national affairs. This project Is cham pioned by some of the foremost grain experts of the country and has gath cred such prestige that 1t seems as sured of favorable hearing.
 The agitation is due to the enorm. ous success met with by annual expo. sitions of this American staple and the ever increasing list of grains and grasses that have come to be exhibit. ed with 1t. When the first show was held in Chicago in 1907, only corn was shown. At the next two annual shows l. was found necessary to enlarge the scope by adding classifications for all grains and grasses. Interest, however, has become so great. because of the CAiCASiOn anu DlOddCAiub Ouls Ludt not alone all the states, but the gov ernment department of agriculture ias become directly interested and benefited.
 The present exposition is the larg- est ever held and includes such inno- vations as lectures and demonstra- tions in domestic science, dairy ex- hibits, government tests to exclude moisture from corn, and many other novel and interesting features.
 Exhibits from B states ill every nook and corner of seven of the larg- est buildings on the Ohio state ex- positions grounds. These exhibits, which are in charge of expert demon strators, deal in practical way with nearly every phase of the science of agriculture.
 The federal department of agricul ture is represented with it's famous exhibit which fills two large furniture cars, and which has just been re. turned from the international exposi- tion at Buenos Ayres.
 Important among the many meet ings. exhibits and other special fea- lures may be mentioned the meetings Of the American Breeders association, the National Rural Life conference, and numerous live stock associations There are special features of vital in terest to the Y. M. c. A, churches, colleges, schools, the farmer and the city man and their families alike. Special entertainment features in clude a two-ring winter circus, band concerts with vocal soloists, and nov ing pictures.
 Tonight the official opening exer- cises will be held, including addresses by Governor Harmon, Mayor Mar. shall of Columbus, President Pritz- man and Secretary Bassell of the Co lumbus chamber Of commerce ard the chief officials of the exposition.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-02
LONE BANDIT FAILED
 TO PULL OFF ROBBERY
After Collecting $ff7 and Bunch si Jewelry from Passengers lie Was Stopped by Bullet
 From Detective.

Pueblo, Col, Jan. 30.--A score of passengers In the Pullman sleeper at tached to the Texas fast mail on the Colorado & Southern railroad were held up and robbed by young man, who. single-handed, compelled them to hold their hands above their heads while he went through the car from end to end and relieved them Of all they had in the way of money and jewelry. His total loot amounted to s1l7 in cash and a quantity of jew elry. After having robbed the car full of passengers he failed to make good his escape and Is now in jail here with a bullet through his right wrist
 The train left Denver bound for Texas points. When 1t stopped al Bessemer, small station few miles from Pueblo a little after o'clock a well dressed young man boarded the coach. Afser the train had started he went through the train toward the rear, passing the conductor on the way. Reaching the Pullman at the tail end of the train he drew a rcvolv- CT and yelled Hands up!" Every person in the sleeper obeyed the com mand The robber then searched each of them, taking everything O. value they possessed. As he completed his work he pulled the bell cord. bring ing the train to stop.
 Just as he jumped from the train William McCafferty, special agent of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad who was in the forward part of tho train and who had started back or hearing the signal to stop the train reached the Pullman and poked his head in the door.
 A yell from the passengers thai they had been robbed brought tho situation home to McCafferty at once The robber had in the meantim, jumped from the car and started tt run. McCafferty drew his gun ant fired at the retreating bandit, wound ing him in the right wrist. After ; short chase he gave himself up ant all the money and jewelry was re turned He was brought to Puebl, and placed in jail. He gave his nam, as Al Buckley, but refused any fur ther information concerning himself
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-02
AMERICANS ARE LITERALLY
 SATURATED WITH OPIUM
Or. Hamilton Says We Are Full of the Drug-Stringent Exclusion Act Not Improving Matters
 More Laws.

Washington, Jan 2S.-"America is literally saturated with opium. This smoking of the drug Is on the in. erease, despite the provisions of the opium exclusion act as it now stands. It is reaching alarming proportions and conditions are such at the pres ent time that it is up to the federal government to enact additional legis- lation that will make its control effec- tive. It is imperative that something be done at an early. date" said pr. Hamilton Wright, chairman of the United States opium commission.
 T have not the data at hand that will give figures of the exact increase in opium smoking in the last decade or in the past several years. but an increase of 360 per cent to an increase of 120 increase in population since 1860 is enough to draw deductions from. There is nothing to be said in palliation of it. Conditions are such that the average layman cannot sus- pect their true character. The United States smoked up last year 450.000 pounds of smoking opium against 16.- rounds in Germany Opium consump- tion in this country is equal to the combined consumption of Italy, Ger many, Austria and Russia.
 Tons of tt are purchased from smugglers at prices ranging from $10t to $l20 a pound, despite the exclusion act. Previous to the passage of the act 1t was sold at from SIP to $l3 q pound. The rise in price has not re duced the quantity of the stuff in the slightest.
 "The increase year after year means out one thing since Chinamen have been barred from the country and that is that its use among Americans Women have become addicted to it as we'll as men. You can find native born opium smokers-dozens of them in practically every large town and city from one end of the country to the other.
 T have prepared four bills that are now In the hands of the ways and means committee of the house that will do much toward remedying condi. tions, in the event they become laws They will prohibit the sale of any kind of opium or habit forming drug except under stringent regulations"
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-02
BLIND MAN CLIMBS STATUE
Goes to Top of Liberty Monument and Is Told Of Sights He
 Cannot See.

Coming over from the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. pas.I senger fell into conversation with a blind man who boasted that he had :limbed to the top of the statue.
 Tt was pretty good pull" he said, but | have done better. Bunker Hill monument tired me a lot more. and more was something of clip; but the slimb that pretty near tuckered me nut was coming down the monument in Washington. Maybe you can't call that climbing, since it was walking down instead of up, but for man who can't see the coming down from these high places is always harder than going up.
 Everybody you meet on top of a tower is mighty good to blind man. They point out the bay on this side. the river up wonder, the islands to the front and the tip end of the city over there. While l was doing Liberty statue a shipload of immigrants passed within hailing distance. couldn't see them. but woman told me all about them. how they were all packed together in the bow of the ship for their first glimpse of the cify and everything. suppose some folks wonder why man without eyes is so anxious to climb 400 or 300 feet to the top of a place that is noted for its view. but the charm is not all lost. and anyhow I've got the satisfaction If saying Tvs been thare.'
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-02
Mrs. V. I. Shi at Rest.

Ila. wife of w. I. Shi died at her home at Mena, Ark. Saturday Dec. 31 1910. The body was laid to rest by kind friends in Odd Fellows Ceme- tery.
 Yes. the Death Angel wrapped his cold arms around the home of W. I. Shi and took his beautiful. sweet wife. The loss of a wife is indeed sore tri- al, but think of what a, bright, pure sweet life she lived. While she was with us and her husband. only few short years. her pure. sweet life was complete. her mission on earth end ed, and the Master beconed her up higher, out of clouds of nieht-into the beautiful paradise of God, where her short earthly life. which was unspotted from the world. will shine with undi- minishedluster throughout all eternity.
 l would say to husband, mother. brothers, sisters and daughter: Cheer up and be brave dear friends. Weep not. for death has long since met de- feat and been hurled from his throne. Ila is now resting sweetly in Heaven and is becoming to husband. mother. daughter. brothers. sisters and friends and loved ones to come up on high. where no tears of sorrow are shed.
 A vacant chair is left in the home of erief-stricken husband. A beau tiful life is hushed in death: but the angel Ila is lowering about the great White Throne and some day will meet husband. mother and loved ones over there.
 Mrs. Fred Brown. San Saba, Tex. Jan. 27. lDii
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-02
An Important Inquiry.

The subscriber is much interested in the matter of economic fertilizers for the crops of cereals. grasses and vegetables grown in Polk county. Much of the soil is poor, since there is dearth of humus. this is especially Sc iii the so-caiied worn out lands. With this fact self-evident he has con sidered and is experimenting with lime for suspected sour soils, some barnyard manures, crop of weeds, a coat of leaves, etc.
 He finds leaf coat, plowed under, an extremely profitable fertilizer. but tine difficulty is in rotting the leaves; if plowed under in the spring they dc not rot well until late fall and hence are not available as plant food until the following spring. They rot readily when used as bedding for stock but the quantity thus used must neces- sarily be limited.
 Will some one who has had experi- ence in the matter of rotting forest leaves in large or small quantities kindly write comprehensive plan for preparing this cheap fertilizer for our soils?
 The chemist promptly decides that the most perfect fertilizer in existence is that of the well routed leaf; the leaf is both stomach and lungs of the plant and contains all the elements neces- sary to the reproduction of our staple crops. Why not use it?
 The subscriber would like to hear from T. P. Fulton upon the topic since he is especially interested in this di- rection.
 A One floss Farmer.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-02
ACORN POSTOFFICE
 ROBBED OF STAMPS

Sometime during Monday night, the postofficc at Acorn, five miles north of Mena. was footed and all the stamps, about $50 worth. taken. In addition some money and goods was taken from the store belonging to the postmaster. George Corley.
 The only possible trace of the rob bers was report from some campers who were located between Acorn and Mena. They stated that about mid night two men afoot, came by and the camp dogs aroused such a row that their owners went out and called them of the stranges.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-02
Moral Training in Public Schools.
Continued rom last week

NDnDhhtu ifOul Ahst Wtch.
 Modern manufacturing methods have strengthened the drift of popula- tion from country to city. No nation ever collapsed while it rested on the shoulders of strong clean rural com nunity. and none ever escaped dis aster when that part of it's population decayed. Our nation moral reserves are in the country: and if. by the kind of training they give, the schools can help to keep the bright. clean boys and girls on the farms. they can do more for the moral future of our coun- try than by giving direct moral lessons, because there the ideal citizen will grow under conditions best adapted to develop confidence in the world, fair play for others and contented spirit A country school cannot give an elab- crate course in agriculture. but it can give the children the germ of desire to master the complicated science of farming. A few agricultural books, from which a pupil can make an oc- casional report on special topics may be the seed of future good to the nation. by making him an ambitious farmer-a combination thinker. worker and business man. While that can be done, the moral tone of the nation will not be affected by inheritance from the second best.
 What has already been said in re- gard to agriculture and domestic science applies with equal force to manual training. It is more valuable as a moral than as an economic dis cipline, because it awakens the ere ative spirit-the mother of hope. All these lines of training bring the feel ings to cluster around things with which it is desirable they should be | occupied.
 The moral feelings take on the color of peoples environments and .oc- equations as surely as desert fauna takes on the desert tints.
 While am beggar will rail and say there is no sin but to be rich: aud, being sick. by virtue then shall be to say there is no voice like beg gary"
 1 Even the great Protestant churches have not escaped this law. Slavery rent asunder the Methodist and Presbyterian churches as it did the nation. European and Japanese feu- dal system developed appropriate moral codes. How could real ben evolence be a virture among the Greeks, when the poor were helpless not merely by stress of circumstances but also by law? Race emotions fiut. ter about the things that seem great to the people and things that are least suspected undermine the people morals more effectively than the voices that are openly recognized. The sup. poredly innocent old Roman games brutalized the people, and in the end destroyed the capacity for reasonable
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-02
MENA'S EMINENT
 SOLDIER IGNORED
The Camp Selected at Little Rock for the National Encampment of the U. (. V. Named for General
 R. C. Shaver.

The beautiful camp grounds selected for the National Encampment of the United Confederate Veterans to be held in Little Rock this Spring has been named in honor of well known Mena citizen, General R. G. Shaver. It will eo down in history as Camp Shaver"
 This information was received in Mena Tuesday through letter from James F. Smith of Little Rock. major general commanding the U. s. V. ol Arkansas.
 In addition General Shaver is re- quested to take charge and conduct the infantry branch of the big parade. He is to be mounted and have two aides.
 When General Shaver was at Little Rock few weeks ago the matter ol naming the camp was discussed. and he urged that it be called Camp Gle burne," in honor of General P. R, Cleburne. General Shaver pointed out that already there were in Arkan- sas two prominent camps named fol him and none for General Cleburne.
 The first Camp Shaver was so nam ed by Lieutenant Colonel Caine at tine beginning of the war. It is near Pc cohontas. The other was given the name by Colonel Deshler and is a, White Sulphur Springs. nine miles from Pine Bluff.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-02
KELLY. GARDNER
Popular Mena Girl Welded at Home of
 Parents Sunday.

A beautiful home wedding occurred on Sunday afternoon at the home of Mir. and Mrs. J. w. Gardner, when the marriage of their daughter. Mill drod. to G. N. Kelly of Shreveport was solemnized in the presence of few relatives and friends. In the parlor where the marriage service was held were dainty bouquets of violets with backgrounds of ferns. The marriage service was read by Rev. M. K. Irwin, Mendelssohn wedding march was played by Miss Ethel Henderson.
 The brides gown of ceremony was an exquisite creation of pale blue mesoaline with pearl trimmings. The bridal bouquet was of white carna- tions and ferns with streamers ol filmy tulle.
 Mir. and Mrs. Kelly left after the ceremony for Shreveport. their future home. For travel the bride wore a becoming suit of gray.
 Mrs. Kelly as Miss Gardner was a girl of charming personality and has been known and loved in Mena since her childhood. She counts her friends and admirers by her acquaintances and will be greatly missed in social circles in the church and in her home.
 Mir. Kelly is from Carthage, Mo. Be fore going to Shreveport few months ago to accept a position as civil en- gineer with the Kansas City Southern he was for a short time a resident O Mena, where he made many friends
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-02
IT'S YOUR KIDNEYS.
Dost Mistake the cause of You
 Troubles.

Many people never suspect their kidneys. If suffering from a lame, weak or aching back they think that it is only a muscular weakness; when urinary trouble sets iu they think it will soon correct itself. And so it is with all the other symptoms of kidney disorders. That IS just where the danger lies. You must cure these troubles or they may lead to diabetes or Bright's disease. The best remedy to use is Doan's Kid ney Pills. It cures all ills which are caused by weak or diseased kidneys. Residents of this vic- inity are constantly testifying to cures.
 H. A. Wollum, Eight St., Van Buren, Ark, says: 'I can re- commend Doan's Kidney Pills, as they are a most effective remedy in cases of kidney treble. I was bothered for some time by an ache across the small of my back, particular severe after I did any hard work. On a friends ad- vice, l procured a box of Doan's Kidney Pills and iu three or four days after commencing their use my trouble dlsappesred. Since then other members of my family have used Doan's Kidney Pills with satisfactory results" s."
 For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,, Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States.
 Remember the name--Doan S. and take no other.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-02
5. C. M. A. NOTICE.

Friday February 3. is the regular meeting of the stockholders of the Shipping, Canning and Manufacturing Association. The meeting will be held at the office of Attorney T. A. Berke- bile over the Farmers & Merchants bank. Aside from the annual election of officers and other regular business the quesetion of the acreage and crops to be planted the coming season will be considered. All members of the association and all who might be in- terested are asked to attend.
 A. L. Durham,
 president.
 R. R. St. John.
 secretary
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-02
( peedy Relief from Kidney
 Trouble

1" had an acute attack of Bright's disease with inflammation of the kidneys and bladder. and dizziness" says Mrs. Cora Thorp, Jackson, Mich. "A bottle of Foley's Kidney Remedy over come the attack reduced the infama- tion, took away the pain and made the bladder action normal. l wish every one could know of this wonderful rem edy.' For sale by all druggists.