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The Mena weekly star., 1912-03-14
LoCHRIDGE DRY GOODS COMPANY

such men their vote. | would to
God some good old farmer had the
courage to come out for governor
We must have a change or we are
gone. ] have looked for the labor
unions TO bring il about and now is
the time and chance to start. | am
20 years old, served through the
Civil war. was in the oath Ar
kansas Portlock regiment. | draw
pension. | need it and deserve it.
| lived at Washington, Arkansas, at
the time of the surrender. had
to register and then my name was
scratched off and | was not allowed
to vote; it aroused the old he buck
democrats so | think it is time we
were aroused again, especially the
laboring men. If was able
would see every laborer in Pike
county for you and such men that
hays the nerve and backbone that
you have.
Yours truly,
Add H. M. Mayhem.
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and corn chops made from number
four or no grade corn, costing Si.75
per hundred pounds,
After cutting oats the land can be
seeded to whippoorwill peas, which
will make a good crop and will ma
ture before frost and can be gath
cred by the hogs at no cost for
gathering, giving two profitable
crops the same year.
Red and Alsike clovers thrive on
land that has not been too much
Impoverished, and this land can be
supplied with the needed nutriment
by growing COW peas so that it will
grow clover successfully. Winter
and turf oats and rape can be sown
in September and will furnish good
winter grazing.
Cane makes a good hay crop or
may be used for summer grazing.
Kaffir corn and milo maize were
grown on the farm in 1909 and did
only fairly we'll.
Gadren Crops and CantaIoupes
All garden crops do well, except
that we have not been able to grow
late Irish potatoes successfully.
Cantaloupes grow fine. Last year
we shipped ten cars from fifty
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Telegraph and Telephone Com
pany's lines. The line extends ~
miles out the Rich Mountain road
and furnishes services to the fol-
lowing people. B. S. Peteflsh, ]. c.
Mackey, Stevens Lumber Company,
w. l.. Lemon, j. II. Welter, Forest
Service and r. Dusenbury. The
subscribers of the line are now in
constant communication with each
other and, through the Southwest
ern exchange, with telephone users
in Mena. Under the plan Of the
Southwestern Company farmers are
enabled TO secure telephone service
at reasonable rate. The line be-
tween Mena and the forest station
has been in operation for several
months, but has just recently been
completed to Rich Mountain.
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financed by Missouri parties, is
under the management of Mr.. l.. C.
Wilson, ex-member of the State
Board of Horticulture of Missouri
and the efficiency of his methods
have become widely recognized
For that reason the publishers of
this paper have urgently requested
Mr.. Wilson to furnish an article on
the farm, and how it is conducted,
its success, ETC., and he kindly
complied, as follows:
4 Discouraging Start.
On January 10, 1909, I landed at
Wickes to take charge of eight
hundred acres, bought the previous
summer, to be developed into a
fruit and hog farm.
The situation at the start looked
discouraging indeed. Land that
had been cleared and cultivated
was in badly exhausted condition
for want of deep blowing and prop
er rotation of crops. Forty acres
Of timber and brush had been cut
down and was yet to be cleared up
and plowed; three miles of hog
tight fence to build, and a great
deal of old rail fence to be rebuilt.
Twelve thousand peach trees and
five hundred thousand strawberry
plants were to be set out, corn and
other crops to be planted.
A big contract, but we succeeded
in getting through.
The first season was very dry and
hurt the berries and farm crops,
but we lost very few of our trees.
They we're June buds, none larger
than lead pencil. Today many of
them are four inches in diameter.
giving promise of full crop of
extra fine Elberta peaches, of
which we expect to market this
year at least forty cars.
Our Strawberries were planted in
the same field as the peach trees,
with the view of paying the ex-
penses of growing the trees, which
they have done.
First Crop Paid for Land and
Preparation.
Not satisfied with stumbling off
timber and brush, having to cut
sprouts three times year for three
or four years, we purchased a
stump puller and pulled the stumps
from forty-three acres of land,
putting it in cultivatable condi-
ton for deep and thorough plow-
ing, which mixed thoroughly the
leaf mold with The soil, thus pre-
venting it from being wasted by
washing, as had been the case by
the old method of scratching the
surface with the tools formerly in
use in this section. While the first
cost, about fifteen dollars per acre,
seems high, we found that the
feeding value of the first crop Of
corn and peas was fully equal TO
this and the price paid for the land.
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acres. Under ordinary conditions
we should have netted at least 500
per acre, or $1,000 for the crop, but
as everyone who grows cantaloupes
and is familiar with the marketing
knows, last year was a very dis
astrous one to the cantaloupe bust
ness. Why? Because the south had
very late spring and eantalonpes
we're Icing planted from tho North
Missouri line to the Gulf of Mexico
az the same time and were ON the
market in the same season, flooding
the market at a very low price, in
many instances having to be
dumped, total loss to everyone
concerned in growing and handling
them. While this was very dis
couraging, these conditions may
not happen again for years.
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ROAD NOTICE

NOIlCE IS hereby given that the
Undersigned petitioners, citizens
and qualified electors of Polk Coun-
~, Arkansas. will present d petit
tlon to the County Court of Polk
County, Arkansas, at the April
term, 1912, thereof, praying that
public road be viewed. laid out
and established over and along the
following route in Cove Township
Road District No. il) in said
County, to-wit:
Beginning at or near the east end
ION DeQueen street in the town of
Hatfield, on the west line of See. "a,
i. 3 s., r. 81 W., and running
thence east between Lots and 6
IN Block 2 OF Whites addition to
the town Of Hatfield, distance of
NV feet 70 the street running north
and south along the east end of said
lots; thence south along said street,
to Old Travelled road at or near the
south line of said See. "a. II. 3 S..
r.. 80 w; thence east along said old
Travelled road as now located TO the
old line road at the residence of j.
II. Morrow, thence on east following
said old Travelled road to or near the
residence of G. Henry pletzkow. a
distance of about three-fourths of
"a mile; thence in a southeasterly
direction following said old trav-
eled settlement road to the resi-
|denee of Mrs. G. NJ Latch, a dis
lance Of about one-half mile:
thence a little east of south along
said old road distance of about
one-half mile TO where The road
crosses Mike Greek near the resi-
denee of j. NJ. Latch, thence in an
easterly direction along said old
road 10 intersection with the public
road known as the Six Mile Creek
public road, at or near the resi-
denee on the f. Miller land,
distance Of about three-f0urths Of a
mile.
Thence in an easterly direction
following the public road a distance
Of about two and One-half miles to
y point on or near the top of the
hill east Of the north prong Of Lit
tie Six Mile creek, in section
twenty-seVen 627) Township three
l3 South, Range thirty-one t3t)
West; thence III a s0uiheasterly di-
reeti0n along the south prong Of
Six Mile Greek and following the
road now used and Travelled, a dis
lance Of about one and 0ne-half
miles. ta where it crosses said
south prong OF Six Mile at foot Of.
hill, where said road now in use
passes out Of section twenty-six
(26) into section thirty-flve 1851.
township three CD south. range
thirty-one 49, west; thence fol-
lowing said Travelled road from
creek at foot of hill last mentioned
in a direction slightly south OF east
TO DR.. II. Doris house, thence
south about two hundred and five
l205) feet. thence east along said
now Travelled road TO the southeast
corner of DR.. II. Doris fence
where now said travelled road inter
sects with the Brushy public road.
J. w. Martin, ef al.
john Kicks.
]. NJ. Latch,
n. C. Dunlap.
@fap Meh ~ 81
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south and getting good prices
there.
Last year our last shipment Of
Aroma berries went TO Port Arthur.
Tex, and sold for 1918 per twenty
four quart crate. While we were
not expecting to make record
growing strawberries under the I'M
favorable condition of some of our
land, and they being grown in the
peach orchard, last year we sold
1900 crates during a season cover
ing six weeks, shipping by express
in small lots, at a net profit of 49,
800.
Our first berries were shipped
from Wickes April 8 last year, and
on April i6, 1910, showing that our
berry crops may begin to move
April 4 to 20.
Varieties grown here are Excel
sior and Aroma. A crop of twelve
acres Of Kondykes grown a few
miles south of Wickes produced
LOO crates, netting the grower 81
900.
Producing TOp-Price Hogs.
In the fall of 1910 we ran eighty
head of mostly late spring pigs
(Duroc Jerseys on peas for three
months, fed them on corn for about
thirty days, shipped them to Kan
sas City February 10, 1911. They
averaged 1871 pounds and sold in the
open market in competition with
10000 others from all parts of the
corn belt, at S7.35 cents per hun
drd which was the top of the mar
ket in Kansas City that day. And
they were the only car of top hogs
there, meaning that no other ear Of
hogs brought the same high price
on that date.
In the fall Of 1914 we had sixty
three head of Durocs, all spring
pigs, except fourteen. These were
run on peas ninety days, finished on
corn in the same manner as the
year before. We bought twenty
five head OF native hogs to make up
the carload, shipped them to Fort
Worth, Tex, sold them on the 18th
of January, 1912. Cutting out the
natives, the Durocs again were the
only tops, at a price of $3.50 per
hundred, averaging 100 pounds
each. The natives brought Sc per
hundred pounds, being around iS
months old, and averaging 1874
lpounds each. This convinced me
that the range hog of this section
will soon be a thing of the past.
These experiences prove conclu-
lsively that the old story that no Ar
kansas hog will fatten until three
years old is an absolute and unde-
niable fake.
Perhaps someone who reads this
article may wish to know the price
of land where these things can be
accomplished, in a region abound
ing in pure, soft water, flowing
from innumerable springs, famed
by gentle mountain breezes, where
there are no mosquitoes or ma
laria, away from the billiards of
the frozen north and the burning
hot winds Of the dry southwest,
among people of hospitality and
good intentions. For their infor-
nation, | advise that land can be
bought here for from five dollars
per acre up, according to location
and improvements.
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Rarqain Sale.

There will be a special sale of
horses, mules, saddles, harness,
wagons, buggies, organ, piano and
other articles at my place on Pick
ering avenue, opposite depot, in
Mena, Saturday, March %, at 1
O'Clock. Bargains will be plentiful.
Come and see.
WI 1920 A. X. .Fretz.
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Tbrer Bears tn
}aolk Countp,ark.
story of How the Wickes Farm and
Orchard Company's Property Was
Developed Under Modern Meth
DDS and Manage ment.

1t has been pretty we'll known
for some time that a really sue
cessful Polk county farm and or
chard venture that is going,
growing success is that of the
Wickes Farm and Orchard Com
pany at Wickes, about twenty-five
miles south of Mena.
This enterprise, promoted and
The Mena weekly star., 1912-03-14
FAv0Rs BISHOP.
Mnrfreeshoro. Feb. .

Murfreesboro, Feb. 25.
Or. A. D. Bishop.
Ashdown, Ark.
Dear Sir;-Your address to hand.
j win say in reply, That I never
heard of you before, but I bid you
eodspeed Your views just suit me,
ana / think every laboring man in
this congressional district should
vote in their own interest, and on
the 9th Of March give you and all
The Mena weekly star., 1912-03-14

A farmers telephone line having
number of subscribers has been
connected with the Southwestern
The Mena weekly star., 1912-03-14
Bio Auction Sale.

Friday, March %, 1 p. M, at A.
w. Bales place on Route No. 2, 2
miles north Of Potter station, az
miles east of Rocky. All horses,
cattle, chickens, furniture, plows,
tools, wagon, fruit, etc. Terms
cash. ii-3l-2
The Mena weekly star., 1912-03-14

Burt Todd is fully prepared to do
the most intricate repair work on
Jewelry, or design and manufacture
anything you want. Phone him.
No. i2f-and he will call-or see
him at 100 Tenth ST. 3ii-eod
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SFFHNHFFTTt@ VUUU tHUHs
Our experience with strawberries
convinces Us that we have a good
location for them, both as to grow
ing and marketing. Located as we
are. midway between Tyler, Tex,
and Van Buren,, Ark, enabling US
to ship to the northern markets
while the prices are good, and
avoiding the rush when northwest
Arkansas and southwest Missouri
get busy by turning our shipments
The Mena weekly star., 1912-03-14

Good young horses and mules for
sale at the Arkansas Barn. Guar
anteed as represented.
30S-6 bwtf Sims & Avants.
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House Dresses

Our display of House and Street Dresses is already
very comprehensive, and embraces every known style
The materials those which have been selected
to lead for this summer There are many different
styles, most of which ow-neck with three-fourth
sleeves; some with Dutch collars other have fancy
collars of pique with embroidery edge Prices range
$3.50, $3.50, $3.50 and SIS
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SPRING ANNOUNCEMENT

DEPARTMENT THROUGHOUT THE STORE ready with
style
ton from the Eastern cente of Fashion Early choosing best while
in to aonyth
desirable an
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Shirt w aists
Neckwear

Neckwear
The newest Of the new dainty new conceits.
just from the fashion centers OF the East
Bought by our representatives in the home
markets, selected for the trade we serve
Every style in high favor, every price within
reach Of practically every purse. We will be
glad to show YOU
THE NEWEST or NECKNEAR
Can always be found at Lochridges.
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New Spring Millinery

New Spring Millinery
We have a new Trimmer in charge of our
Millinery Department this season--Mrs. Cum
ningham, a lady of long experience and pleas
ing disposition, She will be very glad to have
you call and see some Of the new hats she is
bringing out for early Spring wear. We give
you our positive assurance that we will show
the largest and most complete line of New
Millinery ever shown in Mena before Not an
old style or leftover shape in the house. Will
you call and see?
The Mena weekly star., 1912-03-14

Add
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-27
JUDGE FIFE RAPS
STATE OFFICIALS
Governor Brown, Governor
Elect SIaton and Judges Rus
sell and Hill Get RoaStS.

CALHOUN. GA. Aug. Referring
to the nomination of John NJ. Slaton for
governor in his charge to the Gordon
county grand jury. Judge A. w. Fite
declared him to be a nice, clever fell
low but mot fit to he governor be
cause he is president of a locker club
which violates the law He said he be
lieved every officer. if not every mem
Der. of a locker club should be indict-
ed as a blind tiger. Judges r. B. Rus
sell and Ben Hill should not serve on
the court of appeals. he declared, be
cause both are members of locker clubs
The criminal rich and the criminal
poor he said, are endangering the
country. The present depIorable state
Of lawlessness in Georgia is due to the
courts and the chief executive"
Governor Brown, he said, had the
power to close every brewery. near beer
saloon and locker club in the state and
was failing to do his duty because he
considered himself las helpless as a
baby" He scored the governor for We
toing the Tippins bill, and said that he
could see "the Italian hand of the whis-
ky interests" in the governors eXplana-
ton If his veto.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-27
Girls Under Is Young;
Old After That and
Able to Care for Self
Y w. G. A. Asks Women of
Over 25 to Move to Allow
Room For Younger Ones.

CHICAGO, Aug. 27-Girls who are
p years of age are able to take care of
themselves. Under that age they are
still young
That is the ruling of the directors of
the Y. w. G. A., who have aSked u
young women over % years of age to
kindly pack up and leave the home
here. They will admit younger girls
from the country who are coming to
the city and ask for shelter and pro-
lection Of the association
Formerly the directors held that
women of 90 We're young. They have
ALTERED their rule. they explained, be-
cause of the heavy demand on them for
accommodations The demand of young
girls coming to the city can not be dis
regarded
There is nothing for it to do but to
ask the older girls to leave. Unless we
had some age limit rule we would soo;
be running an old ladies home here, "
one Of the directors explained.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-27
STOCKHOLDERS SUED
FOR $145, 100000 TO PAY
DEPOSITORS OF BANK

MACON. GA, Aug. 27.-Suits aggre-
eating $145,OOO have been filed against
1876 stockholders OF the Exchange bank
which failed in 1907 with deficit of a
half-million dollars. The stockholders
are scattered all over Georgia and the
United States Two of the largest stock
owners are Senator A. o. Bacon and
Representative Charles l. Bartlett
The stockholders are sued by the re-
ceivers for $3.50 per share, but are Of
fered a compromise of $40 per share if
paid before October 10. Many have al
ready agreed to avail themselves Of this
privilege,
BY this means every depositor will be
paid his claim in full, with interest. The
deposits alone amounted to more than
$1,2OO,0O0 at the time the bank failed
The depositors have already been paid
80 per cent in dividends.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-27
COURT DOCTORS
FEARFOR KA|SER
Emperor Compelled to Abandon
Plans Physicians Think H.
ness May Grow Worse.

BERLIN, Aug. 27-Fears over the
condition of Emperor William are
growing. and bulletin from the ply
sicians in attendance was anxiously
awaited in all circles today Contin-
ued announcements from the kaiser's
bedside that the indispositon is slight
amounting only to a cold and a touch
of muscular rheumatism, had been re-
ceived with credence by the general
public but were skeptically viewed in
court and diplomatic circles.
This doubt is strengthened today as
the result of an announcement of Count
Gutenberg, chief marshal of the impe-
rial court, that the emperor will have to
abandon all his engagements for this
week and give himself entirely over to
rest
The proposed trip to Switzerland
which was scheduled to start on Sep
TENDER . is now expected to be can
oeled despite the announcement made
- hours ago that the emperor was de-
termined to 60
Neck Stiff Tonsi Swollen.
The first description Of the kaisers
condition was contained in Count Eu-
ienberg's statement The trouble con-
sists of feverishness, chills and swell
ing ana stiffness of muscles on the right
side Of the neck
An examination showed that the right
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-27
CHICAGO CAR STRIKE is
AVERTED; WAGES RAISED

CHICAGO, Aug. 27-With a grant Of
wage increases that finally was ex-
tended to include all employees. danger
of a strike on the surface car lines Of
Chicago has come to an emf Today
the employees and officials of the ele-
waited lines win hold conference.
which, it is thought viii also preclude
the possibility of a strike
The employees of the surface lines
will begin a referendum vote Thursday
on the agreement reached by their
committee and the officers Of the COM
pany.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-27
State Convention in Macon To-
morrow viii See Strenuous
Battle for JudgeShip.
ADOPTION OF PLATFORM
MAY CAUSE HOT DEBATE
Price BIaIoCk Compromise Ex-j
peCted To Be Solution of Soil
Commissioners Fight.

The state Democratic convention wit
assemble in Macon tomorrow morning
at 10 o'clock to declare the results OF
the late state primary and dispose Of
such other business as may come be-
fore II.
This convention will be one Of the
most interesting in the partys history
in Georgia.
1t viii nominate a governor by a
practically unanimous vote. but will
have to hear two warm contests and
adopt platform, over which there may
be some strenuous disputing
The most unique and interesting matt
ter to come up for settlement by the
convention viii be the BroyIes- Pottle
tie for the court of appeals.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-27
Convention Alone
Has Jurisdiction.

Politics. friends will insist that ha
should have the nomination, notwith-
standing the tie in the unit vote. be-
cause Pottle has a majority of the pop
ular vote, Broyles' supporters will not
readily admit the Justice of that claim.
but will insist that the contest be held
within technical limitations. e.. the
county unit vote
The convention alone has jutisdic-
ton over this matter now.
The Brown Price Balock commits
sioner of agriculture race also will be a
hard nut for the convention to crack.
There is talk of both a BlaIock- Price
combine and Il Blalock- Brown combine.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-27
TELLS OF INCIDENTS SHE
SAW IN THE WAR OF 1912

WORCESTER MASS, Aug 27.-Mrs.
Louise Waterman, of this city, has just
celebrated the 10th anniversary OF her
birth. She enlivened the occasion by
relating incidents Of the war CT 1872.
which she herself witnessed.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-27
DAUGHTER CONES
To BURY WILSON
Young Widow of FinanCier
Who Died in Federal Prison
Not Notified.

The body of Christopher Columbus
Wilson, of wireless fame. who died sud
denly Sunday night at the Federal
prison, where he was serving a term,
lis held here pending the arrival of his
daughter, Miss Ola Wilson.
Miss Wilson is a resident of Lancas-
ter, Texas She has wired that she
will arrive in Atlanta tomorrow to,take
charge of the body. SO far the under
takers have not notified Mrs Wilson of
her husbands death
Mrs Wilson lives in the East where
she has been since she gave up her
place as stenographer for the president
of the wireless company to become his
wife This was shortly after the gov
eminent investigation of the company's
affairs was begun. Mir. Wilson and his
first wife, the mother of Miss Ola
Wilson, had just been divorced.
Mr.. Wilson's death came suddenly,
just after he had written a letter to
his daughter He was seated in the
prison library with number of other
men when the attack came on him.
Financial Affairs in TangIe.
NEW YORK Aug. 27.-Colonel
Christopher Columbus Wilson's death
leaves his financial affairs still unset
tied and a tangle of legislation growing
out Of the failure of the United Wire
less Telegraph Company, of which he
was president, to be adjusted
Last May Wilson produced sched-
ule showing how he had spent more
than S1.0OOOOO in four years. He also
testified that although worth half a
million dollars in 1903 his wealth had
shrunk to a gold watch and pair Of
cuff links. Colone, Wilson lived regaIy
before his conviction, but the receivers
search for assets has been almost Il
fruitless task
Was Native of Texas.
GALVESTON, TEXAS. Aug. 81
Colonel c. c. Wilson, whose death oc-
CURED at Atlanta last night, was a ma
tive Of Corsicana, Texas and was well
known over the state
AS president Of the Texas branch Of
the American Wireless Telegraph Com
pany, he built eight wireless stations
in Texas, at Dallas, Austin, San An
tonic, Houston, Beaumont Port Arthur,
Waco and Paris This was prior to his
becoming president of the wireless
company in 1907