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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-07-10
HODGES WILL BE IN
b. p. WAGGENER'S PARADE

Atchison, July 9.-B. P. Waggen-
er has received word that Governor
Hodges and staff have accepted the
invitation to attend his annual pic
mic July IS and ride in the parade.
Four troops of cavalry from Fort
Leavenworth and four companies of
Kansas National Guard will parti-
cipate in the parade.
Another feature of which will be
childrens' flower parade of more
than fifty features.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-07-10
CURRENCY BIN Up Arain.

~, Washington, July democratic
members of the house banking com
mittee have renewed consideration
of the administration currency bill.
The entire committee, including the
Republican and Progressive men,
bers will meet tomorrow. Public
hearings are probable.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-07-10
Army Aviator Killed.

Houston, Tex, July 9.-Lieuten-
ant Loren H. Call of the United
States aviation corps was killed ear
ly yesterday by the collapse and fall
of his biplane north of Texax City.
He had started his flight from the
aviation field in the Second army
division mobilization camp. The
accident occurred several miles from
the troop camp. First information
was that the machine was complete
ly wrecked and that the officer was
dead when found.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-07-10
WILSON FEELS BETTER
LIKES SUMMER HOME

Cornish, N. H., July 9.-President
Wilson has 50 improved in health in
the last three days, and likes his
summer home here 30 we'll, that he
practically decided TO prolong his
visit until Sunday. should affairs
in Washington, however, become
pressing, be will start back imme-
diately. Secretary TumuIty iS keep
ing Mr.. Wilson in touch with things.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-07-10
Bulgarians Successful.

Vienna, July 9.-After repulsing
several small Servian forces, the
Bulgarians succeeded in penetrating
to Vranya, the war commissariat
station of the Servian army, accord
ing to Sofia dispatch. The Bull
garians now are advancing along the
Morava river.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-07-10


W. Wellington was opened, the baud
was on the lawn. q b0untiful lunch
con was served. The long table
was decorated with toy represen'
tatIon of the Golden Belt road with
telephone poles marked and autos
speeding along q sand road, and al
together 1t was pretty effect. The
party contained a half dozen mil.
lionaires but you could not identify
them without expert advice-they
were all good fellows alike regard
less OF their money. The owner of
the indianapolis speedway who has
made fortune out of Prestolite was
about the most modest man In The
crowd. About every town wanted
speeches and when time permitted
impromptu meetings we're held, us
ually on the street. At Russell It
was in the court house to impress
on the county commissioners the Inn
portance Of laying out county roads.
Governor Hodges was always called
on and his good roads talks were ex-
ceptionally effective. He made
straight business talks and urged
building of permanent highways. Ex-
Mayor Bookwalter of indianapolis
was also one of the spell-binders and
Is a clever talker. At Ellis last
night over five thousand persons
gathered in the park to see the
cars, many coming more than twen-
ty miles. Here the largest meet
ing of the trip through the state was
held.
The trip did a lot of good for the
Golden Belt. One of these days
there will be great transcontinen-
tai highway constructed either by
the government or by. individual eff
fort and the Golden Belt as the
shortest route across state will be
selected II the people make It al
good road. The road is marked, 1t |
Is on the map. The next step is to
lard surface every spot that is
sandy, smooth the hills and build
culverts. This has been
lone in some counties and the re-
iult is effective. The most real road
has been done in Ellsworth
where the Harker hills have been
tut through, draws filled and the
Dad made a beautiful boulevard
With picturesque effects everywhere.
The most beautiful views are from
re bluffs along the Kaw east of
Topeka, west of Manhattan and from
he hill east of Abilene. The Wild
st view, and one of agricultural
plendor, is from the hills beyond
lays. Altogether with its many
delightful features the road is worth
7hile.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-07-10

The enthusiasm Of the towns for
the Golden Belt was in evidence.
Twenty Golden Belt garages and
Golden Belt cafes are scattered
through the state. Some Of the lit
tie towns sprinkled the main street
especially for the tourists and hand
ed out cigars and lemonade. Flags
decorated houses and the farther
west the party went the more inter-
esting we're the welcomes-but the
fact that they reached there in the
afternoon, when arrangements could
Is made properly, helped. Ellsworth
vas = real oasis. The home Of E
The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
Who Can Beat This Record?

At the beginning of this year (t9i2), Jack London was 36 years old. In those 36 years he has nan- aged to crowd the experiences of a country lad on a farm, street newsboy, a schoolboy, a member of street gang, boy Socialist orator, a voracious reader of books from the public library, an oyster bed patrol to catch oyster pirates, a longshOreman, salmon fisher, able to sail any kind of a rude vessel on the none too smooth waters of San Francisco bay, a sailor before the mast, a seal hunter in the Behring sea, legitimate mutineer on board the sealing schooner, a member of the Henry Clay debating club, a strenuous advocate of the Socialist Labor party, student in the Oak land high school, freshman in the State University at Berkley, a gold seeker in the Klondike, a driver of wolf dogs over the snows of the frozen north, stricken with scurvy, one of three who embarked in an open boat and rode nineteen hun dred miles in nineteen days down the Yukon to the Behring sea, an orphan compelled to support his widowed mother and a six-year-old nephew, short story writer, war correspondent, a novelist, the owner of magnificent estate of over a
 thousand acres, the builder of the
 Shark" which he navigated
 through the Pacific and the South
 Seas to Australia, and taught him.
 self navigation while in actual
 charge of the Shark" on the high
 seas; the planter of two hundred
 thousand eucalyptus trees on his
 estate; the engineer and constructor
 of miles of horse trails orIbridle-
 paths through the trees,< on the
 hillsides and in the canyons of his
 estate; and now the builder of one
 of the most striking, individualistic.
 comfortable and endurabIe home
 mansions ever erected on the
The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
The Frankinq Abuse.

Uncle Sam maintains the largest printing establishment in the world. By a little Openfaced subterfuge any member of Congress, or any friend, associate or follower of any member, can have anything he pleases printed there free of cost; and any matter so printed will be carried through the mails gratis.
 Does the Lone Elm Bark insin- uate that Congressman Jimsonweed carried that village by promising the postmastership to two persons? Under "leaVe to print" the honor able member enriches the Record with forty-thousand-word rejoin- der, including a genealogy of the JimsOnweed family and the peerless oration on American Destiny he de- livered at Lone Elm, July i, 1896. This precious contribution to his tory is mailed under frank to every registered voter in the congress- mans district.
 This year a thoughtful member put into the Record the entire Democratic campaign book, and some tons of it were hauled free of charge in the mails. Republican members have not been less bash full about dead-heading their own campaign literature.
 SiXty-one million pounds of franked matter, comprising nearly four per cent of the total weight of mail, was carried last year, and no inconsiderable part of it represent ed gross abuse of the Congressional franking privilege. By comparison with previous years the Department estimates that in the pre-conven- ton campaign of last spring four thousand tons of political argu- mentation was carried as first-class mail free of charge under Con- gressional franks; and this abuse turned what would have been a surplus on postal operations into a deficit. Postage at regular rates on this stuff would have brought the Government over two million dol lars. These figures are up to June thirtieth only. In Congress this winter there will be lot of speeches about economy. We are waiting to hear what any of the speakers may have to say concern ing this printing and franking scandal.-Saturday Evening Post.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU.

And a happy situation it is
 It signifies cheerfulness, good will. hopefulness, love for life and humanity.
 The New Year is and should be an epoch in human affairs. Supposed ly everyone looks forward to some period when all sorts of accounts should be balanced and a new start made. At least a time of summing up, a taking stock as it were, of ones condition, together with the bearing of the past and present on the future. With this done there comes the spirit to lay plans for the work before us and to "get off right" on a new start. This in it. self is stimulant, an inspiration.
 Then it's a mighty poor individual who does not, down in his heart, form some new resolutions for the future-promise himself that he will in some way live and do better than in the past. By common con- sent the New Year is the period when these new rules of life go into effect.
 The New Year is a good time, too, to wipe out the old scores, forget the past unpleasant things and, with hearts bent on helping make the world better, go forth and work and strive to that end. If we do it with the right spirit the pay will come to us as we gain headway day by day.
 Now, hailing the New Year 1913, The Star wishes to join it's each and every friend and reader in wishing that all, and our city, county, state and nation may enjoy a Happy and Prosperous New Year!
The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
SOME NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
Resolve:


 That you will keep so busy boost ing that you won't have time to knock
 That you will vote, talk and work for a bigger, better, brighter town,
 That you will help to make this good town so the town can make good.
 That you will increase the value of your property by improving it's appearance.
 That you will say something good about this town every time you write a letter.
 That you will invest your money here where you made it and where you can watch it.
 That you will not point out the towns defects to a stranger or fail to point them out to a neighbor.
 That you will keep your premises picked up and your buildings re- paired as a matter of both pride and profit.
 That you will never buy a thing outside of town until the local mer- chants have been given a chance to sell it to you.
 That you will brag about this town so much that you will have to work for this town in order to keep from being a liar.
 That you will take half a day right now to pick up the odds and ends around the place and turn them into either use, money or ashes.
 That you will contribute as much money as you can afford, and as much enthusiasm as anybody, to any movement to develop the towns resources.
 That you will join the movement to induce the people in this town to do their buying at home, or, if there is no such movement, that you will start one. That you will make friends with the farmers, if town man, or with the town folks if a farmer, and help work together for the good of the community of which this town is the center.
 The best town is the one that is large enough to be convenient but small enough to be neighborly.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
A HAPPY WATCH PARTY.
Fourteen Couple Entertained al
 County Clerk Parker'S Home.

Every fact beamed with happi- ness last night when about fourteen couples gather ed at the home of Mir. and Mrs. w. L. Parker on west Port Arthur to watch the old year out and the New Year in. Games of various kinds were indulged in un- til fl o'clock, when delicious two- course luncheon was served, in which twenty-eight plates were set, after which charming music, both vocal and instrumental, was rem dered by the young people.
 The young men, as the evening advanced, reminded the young la dies of the short length of time left before their opportunity expired and that they should talk rapidly. And when finally the gong sounded announcing the dawn of the New Year groans could be heard from all the girls present. They were revived somewhat when Miss May Parker passed a box of delicious chocolates and divinity. as New Years greeting. Then all departed, declaring that Mir. and Mrs. Par ker's home was the home of good times. XXX.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
TWIN OPERATED ON.
 SISTER FEELS PAIN
Maryland Girl Suffers Same Sensa- tiOns as Brother in Hospital
 60 Miles Away.

Baltimore, Md, Dec. 29.-While Clarence L. Marsh of Frederick, Md, was on the operating table at the Maryland University hospital. his twin sister, Clara, was under going the same sensations of nau- sea and pain in her home at Fred erlck, 60 miles away. The twins are IS years old, and from birth the sensations felt by one invari- ably have been shared by the other. Marsh even has to wipe his own nose when his sister has cold, it lis declared.
 The young man rallied Tuesday and improved, and at the same time his sister felt much better. He still IS in the hospital in a weakened condition, and his sister in Freder- ick is unable to go out of her home, saying she feels better, although weak.
 When the twins were young both suffered an attack of measles, and later of whooping cough, on the same day and al nearly the same hour.
 This fall Clarence went to Hightstown, N. J., to study for the ministry. During the latter part of October he became ill On the same day and at nearly the same hour his sister was so ill in Frederick that a physician was called to at tend her. st
The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
4 RIGHTEOUS VERDICT.

Assuming that the men who have been convicted of aiding and abet- ting in the dynamiting outrages that eliminated in the destruction of twenty-one lives when the building of the Los Angeles Times was destroyed, have had a fair trial there can scarcely be grounds for anything but rejoicing over the verdict.
 When the McNamaras were ar rested it was hard to realize that the charges were true, and hun dreds of thousands of laboring men sincere and honest in their convic- tions, flew to their relief with money to fight the cases. The Me- Namara's confessions of guilt were a blow to these sincere laboring men, even a surprise to a great part of the nation.
 But for this the later develop ments, the arrest of scores of others as participants in the crimes, would have almost created a revolution AS it was, few could realize the depth and breadth of the criminal organization that had spread terror through the land.
 The apprehension and punish ment of men guilty of such crimes is of vital importance to all classes but more particularly to the la boring organizations.
 There positively is no excuse for such crimes in this country.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
PardOns.

Perhaps the pardOning power has been too liberally used by some governors. But consider the crit icism most often made.
 The criticism is that hundreds of criminals are turned loose on so- ciety." The assumption seems to be that if the men were not pardon ed they would never be turned loose.'
 The trouble with our penal sys- tenn IS that the offenders who get back into society by the regular limitation of their sentences or by pardon get back more hardened in crime and more handicapped than they were when they were taken out of civil life.
 Nor is there such certainty in the administration of justice that gov ernors can feel sure the punish ment has fitted the crime or even has fitted the real criminals.
 lndiscretionary pardons are a lame way of curing bad law, bad penalties and bad penal institutions. But they may do-a certain measure of good in themselves, and they may do more good in directing at tentlon to better ways of remedy ing bad laws and penalties and in- stitutions.-Kansas City Star.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
The Corn Growina Boys.

Here are five hundred Missouri farm boys who made two ears of corn grow where one grew before. One. of these boys-t2-year-old Harvey Jordan of Shelby county earned The Weekly Stars prize of S200, for which all these five hun dred boys worked in the corn growing contest.
 In Kansas and Oklahoma the same contests, conducted by The Weekly Star, have been in progress through the summer; and soon the prize to the best grower in each of these states will be decided The awards will be made-as they were made in Missouri-by expert judges not connected with The Star except as they have consented to act in these contests.
 And isn't it the finest kind of con- test you can think of? Every one of the youngsters has profited inn mensely by the pursuit of ways and means to increase the worlds food supply. There is no other profit, oi health or wealth, to equal that.
 Harvey Jordan's ambition is tc graduate in the state agricultural college in Columbia and become a scientific farmer. It is the finest sort of ambition, and it is a safe bet that he will gartify it.
 Back to the soil," is it? We'll boys like these corn-growing young sters are proving that nowhere else is there a greater field for intelli- gent effort, and nowhere else as- sures more fun and health and profit.-Kansas City Star.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
AMERICAN PAINTER DIES.
Robert Lee Macammaron Was Not
 ed for His Portrait Work.

New York, Dec. 3O.-Robert Lee Macammaron, painter, who re- gently returned to the United States after long residence abroad, and who a few months ago was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, died in his apartments here yester- day in his fifth year. Among well known persons whose portraits he painted in recent years are Presi- dent Taft, Mrs. Edward H. Harri- man and Rodin, the French sculp- tor. He also made portraits of President Mckinley and Justices Harlan and Brewer.
 Mr. Macammaron was born in Chicago He became ill week ago last Thursday, the ailment being a disease of the heart. The funeral will be held in Rochester.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
FULL FLOODS LIVE IN WANT
Indian Superintendent Says They
 Know Nothing of Business.


 Washington, Dec. 3e,--Most of the full blood Indians among the five civilized tribes of Oklahoma live in the most primitive condition, poorly clad and still more poorly fed, and it is the exception rather than the rule that their children go to school at all" says Dana H. Kel- sey State superintendent in Okla homa, in an annual report to Sec retary of the Interior Fisher, made public today. He adds that most of them have no knowledge what ever of business transactions" and that they know nothing about their land, except what some person who has secured a lease from them tells them"
 Except that they wear the white mans clothing and live in log or frame houses, instead of tepees, there is little difference, declares MT. Kelsey, between the full bloods of the five tribes and the full bloods of many of the western reserva- tions.
 George Wright, commissioner to the five civilized tribes, reports that more than $30O0,0OO in tribal funds were on depost in banks at the end of this year. There had been allot- ted to enrolled Indian citizens i5,- |800,000 acre of land. The work of allotment started years ago is now virtually completed.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
BANQUET TO HUSBANDS
Annual Social Event of WOman'S Literary Club Was at Home of
 Mr. and Mrs. M. P. 0lney.

The annual banquet given by the ladies of the Woman's Literary Club to their husbands last evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Olney, was in every way up to the established standard of the club, and was another feather in the cap of it's popular president, Mrs. Eu- gene Cox.
 The Christmas decorations were very effective and the three long tables, lighted with many candles and spread to accommodate fifty guests, were indeed works of art.
 The mere names of the ladies in charge of the affair, Mesdames Roach, Shaver, Roy St. John, Loch- ridge, Stratton and Rowton, with the president and hostess, are a sufficient guarantee that the feast itself, served in six courses, was all that an epicure could desire.
 Following the coffee, toasts be- came the order of the evening. Mrs. DeLongy presided as toastmistress with an ease which quickly became
 contagious.
 Judge Shaver was introduced and
 responded to the toast, Rome was
 not built in day." with a series of
 comparisons between the ancient
 city of Seven Hills and our own city,
 which brought the house down.
 MT. Eugene Cox responded to the toast. "The Club Woman with
 some bits of information surprls- ing, thrilling and amusing to a de- gree. Judge Pricketts toast, Angelic l Husbands" disclosed a knowledge 5 of this obscure subject on the part [ of the judge which none would have dreamed of his possessing. It , was rich.
 P Tn behalf of the club ladies Mrs. 5 Pipkin responded to the toast, "The [ Menl God Bless 'em," and took ad- | vantage Ul Jlt OCCdSlOh oo iooo" q them good and sufficiently. lrt
 The toast, "The New Year. was responded to by MT. Olney inlaNery
 appropriate and pleasing way. D Impromptu teasts on variety oi r subjects were then given by a va l riety of "toasters," and unsuspected ], talent was brought to light in va r rious quarters. e Good-byes were said to one an = other and to the old year with n consciousness that the occasion hao = deepened many old and strong tle' t of friendship and served to create n some lasting new ones.
 = Genuine regret was occasioned by n the absence of a few familiar faces e on account of illness, but with Uni! n exception the evening was an all e round success.
 Mir. and Mrs. Lee Olney of thu - University of Arkansas were out d of-town guests. tt
The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
HAVE LEASED DORMITORY.
Dr. and Mrs. w. B. Crawford to Establish Drugless Sanitarium.

Dr. and Mrs. w. B. Crawford, who came to Mena some days ago from Vinita, Ok, have leased the build ing on College hill formerly used as Ia dormitory for the Mena Hendrix Academy.
 They announce that within a few weeks they will place the structure in thorough repair and soon there after will establish what they des- ignate as the Mountain Top Hotel and Drugless Sanitarium.
 This building is a good and roomy structure and will accommodate a considerable number of people very comfortably when properly re- paired. It has been unoccupied for some time.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
PREFER DEATH TO COURT.
Two Business Men Facing HeinOus
 Charges Commit Suicide.

Mystic, Conn, Dec. 29.-The ar rest of several business men in this village on charges involving moral turpitude has aroused the entire community. Two men committed suicide yesterday rather than face court proceedings. Five of the men arrested are more than 60 years of age.
 When the officers went to arrest Herman Halulisch, a storekeeper, he asked permission to feed his horse in the barn. While there he jumped from an upper window and broke his neck.
 Another man, Edward R. Will Hams, aged 78, for whom Prosecutor Hewitt said he had a warrant, was found hanging in his dining room yesterday.
 All the arrested men in court yes terday gave heavy bonds for trial in the Superior court. More arrests are expected both here and in Gro- ton
The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
PLAYS AS CHURCH BURNS.
Oraanis! Sticks to Post While POO
 Children March Out Singing.

Chicago, Dec. 30.-Singing On ward, Christian Soldiers" 200 chil- dren, members of Sunday school class, marched out of their class room here yesterday through smoke from a fire that destroyed the Lori mer Memorial Baptist church. Mrs. Elmer Anderson, organist, and Miss Martha Marquardt, teacher of a primary class, played the music and led the singing until all the chil- dren were safe. By that time the flames were so close to the two women that they were forced to flee, abandoning their coats and furs.