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The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10
J. NJ. COCHRAN DEAD.
Former Polk County Citizen Died iii Iowa From Result of Sun Stroke.

Robert Cochran arrived last Sat urday from Sibley, Iowa, accompa- nying the remains of his father, John NJ. Cochran, who passed away Tuesday. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home in Sibley, and were conducted by the Rev. MT. Travis, of the M k. church and the Rev Mir Williams. of the Baptist church The officers and members of Dallas Lodge No. i28, F. X A. M., vices at the grave in the l. 0. o. F. conducted the Masonic burial ser vices at the grave in the l. o. O. F. cemetery Sunday afternoon.
 The funeral procession started from Patons Undertaking parlor, where the body lay in state, until Sunday afternoon.
 Mr. Cochran will be remembered as former resident of the Acorn community, and he and his family also lived in Mena for a while. His daughter, Miss Gladys. was at one time a teacher in the Mena High school. The family came from Iowa to Polk county and about two years ago returned to their former home
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10
BOARD CAMP TO HAVE VAT.
Citizens Come to Mena for Materials
 for Construction.

The Board Camp community is getting in tune with the movement in the matter of building a dipping vat. At meeting held Saturday afternoon at Board Camp, the mat ter was given definite shape by the formation of the Farmers Dipping Vat Association and the appoint ment of B. Hendricks, Grady En- bry and H. B. Weaver as a com mitte to take charge of the con- struction of the vat.
 Among those interested in the or ganization of the Association are E. c. Embry, and sons, Tom and Grady. B. Hendricks, Andrew Albert and Harrison Baily. Jack Lofts, II. B. Weaver. D. K. Little, Hilton and Lon Sikes.
 Tom Lofts. Neal Douglass, B. Hendricks, Andrew Bailey. H. B. Weaver and Jack Lofts were in Mena Tuesday to get concrete, sand and other material. so that work on the construction Of the vat may be begun at once. It is planned to charge those outside the assocl- ation a nominal fee per head for dipping the cattle, and it is thus hoped to get every stock owner III the community interested.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10

POPULAR COVE WOMAN DEAD.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bettis Passed Away
 at Her Home Near There.

Mrs. Elizabeth Bettis, daughter of Mrs Goldie Hobitzel and niece of Mr. and Mrs. R. Golf, died Tues day evening at her home west of Cove after yan illness of several weeks duration. The funeral serv- ices, conducted by the Rev. T. A. Park of Mena were held Wednesday, afternoon at Cove and interment was in the Witherspoon cemetery.
 Mrs. Bttis was born in Mena and will be best remembered as Miss Elizabeth Hoblitzel She had reached the age of 20 years and was married last December to A. o. Bettis.
 Mrs. R. Golf and children, Misses lone and Virgelia, Helen and Mas ter Norris accompanied Rev Park to Cove Wednesday to attend the funeral services.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10
ONE THOUSAND VICTIMS OF
 HEAT WITHIN FOUR DAYS

Chicago. Aug. Flour days of last weeks extreme heat caused nearly one thousand deaths in Chi cago. John D. Robertson, city health commissioner today told a physi- clans conference on how to save babies from the heat. Robertson's estimate of the Chicago death list was a surprise, as official figures heretofore have not much exceeded three hundred.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10
HEAT AND EPIDEMIC WORSE.
In 24 Hours 53 Deaths and 1S3 New
 Gases of InfantiIe Paralysis.

New York, Aug. 8.-LOincident with the intense heat wave a big increase is reported today in the epidemic of infantile paralysis. During the twenty-four hour period fifty-three deaths and 7S3 new cases are reported in the greater city There were twenty-eight deaths and eighty-nine new cases in Brooklyn, fifteen deaths and fifty four new cases in Manhattan
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10
Italians Make Restrictions.

Rome, Aug. 4.-Ihe ItaIlan gov ernment according to the Messa- zero, is about to publish a decree forbidding all Italians, including those living abroad, from doing business with nations in alliance with enemies of Italy. Agreements made in spite of prohibition. 1t IS stated will be considered void and the makers will be punished.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10
wATERsELONs UNDER BAN.
Gloom Spreads Over Fl Paso Mili-
 tary Camps as Result.

Fl paso, Aug. 5.-Gloom spread over the army camps here tonight with the news that watermeIons have been banned by the authori- ties
 Tte army fly expert is is behind behind the order. which applies to all camps along the border. He has discov- cred that the watermelon rind is the only kind of garbage that can- not be burned or effectively buried. The result is that watermelon peel is the cause of the present fly pest, and flies. says the expert, breed disease.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10
ISLAND CLUSTER
 MAY SOON BE OURS
Instrument for Purchase of Islands of Denmark Is Signed Friday Treaty Will at Once Be FOr-
 warded to Denmark.

Washington. Aug. 4.-Acting Sec retary Polk announced Friday that the treaty by which the United States is to purchase the Danish West Indies from Denmark for s25,000,000 was signed at New York Friday morning by Secretary Lan- sing and Minister Constantin Brun.
 The treaty provides for the transfer to the United States of three islands-St. Thomas. St. John and St. Croix-which have been the subject 0f negotiations between the United States and Denmark for many years.
 It is understood that the adminis- tration will ask for ratification by the senate before the end of the present session and while there may be some objection to the price, no really serious opposition is ex- pected
 Secretary Lansing. who had been spending his vacation at Water town, N Y.. went to New York to meet Minister Brun.
 Signed in Duplicate.
 The treaty was signed in dupli- cate in Mir. Lansing's suite at t0t5 o'clock. Minister Brun came here from his summer home in Bar Har- Dor, Me, arrangements for his meeting with the America secretary having been made several days ago Copies of the treaty were brought here from Washington by l.. H. Woolley. of the state department, who was the only witness to the ceremony, which was conducted without formalities.
 Mir. Brun said he would immedi- ately forward to his government his copy of the treaty for ratiflea- tion by the Danish rigsdag.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10
FREE WILL BAPTIsTs TO MEET.
Rich Mt. Association at Union Grove
 Thursday. August 2i.

The Rich Mountain Association of Free Will Baptists will meet Thursday before the fourth Sunday in August at Union Grove, ten miles east of Mena. The address of welcome will be by the Rev. w. F. Ferguson of Albion, Ok.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10
Pictures You Should Have.

Photos of Polk County Singing Convention, two views -dinner spread and delegates; 5x7. 9 cents each: 8xt0. 50 cents each, mounted Teachers Polk County Institute, 35 cents. Mail orders to Davis Bros. box f72, Mena. Ark (Adv.l dwi
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10
Berlin Admits Reyerses.

Berlin, Aug. 8. via London. strong Russian forces Monday ad positions on the Tlumach-0 -0ttynia line to the south of the Dneister river. ill Galicia, it was announced Tuesday. and the forces of the central powers withdrew to pre- vi0usly prepared positions.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10
CORN CROP CUT IN TWO.
Damage to Kansas 70 to 60 Per Cent
 Missouri Hurt. Too.

Topeka, Aug. 3.--Corn has been damaged 70 to so per cent, accord ing to the weekly Kansas weather report and crop bulletin issued yes terday
 Columbia. Mo, Aug. 3.-"Much corn on the higher lands is past help" says the weekly weather and crop bulletin issued here today "On heavier soils and in the bot toms it is somewhat more promis- ing and heavy general rain will make a fair crop.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10
Liver Trouble.

,nn'o;thered with liver trouble ,aprw rwiye S, 2 year. writes Joe ,s,h, nain,. Webster City, Iowa. Y Ef,,I a,ils m my side and hack and Fd n ns soreness in my stomach. 'tbaurs, ' ~ Chamberlain's tablets and 1f 1efHehl. .ha By the time I had Y used s,s,l sa snem 1 was feeling fine and whsrsssh of pain" Obtainable
 Adv.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10
gress 4 Appropriates Money.

F|iiantIiilston, Aug. 8.-An act ap- hrbIIg hlabtlig SS5,000 for the use of puplle pu R health service in pre- ,e , the spread of diseases and a t TOT additional surgeons was
 pooa eoday hy President Wilson. eHioney sie Will be used in the Es; sn to check the infantiIe
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10
Notice to Socialists.

To Committeemen and Voters of the Socialist Party of Polk Coun- ty:
 There will be q called meeting at the court house August 22 to fill vacancies on our ticket
 R. L, Gore, {Adv.) 32-2 Chairman.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10
TERRIFIC FIRE IS
 HOLDING GERMANS
Efforts to Drive British From EIe- vated Positions Beyond Pozieres Repeatedly Failed-Letters
 and Diaries Tell Story.

London Aug. 9.-The Germans, threatened with a forced retreat from the strongly fortified Leipzig redoubt and the fortified village of Thiepval, are making every effort to dislodge the Australians from Hill i60 standing 30 feet above the Pozieres-ThiepvaI road. A heavy bombardment of this sector fol- lowed the repulse of four German attacks yesterday. The fighting was still going on last night and was believed to be in preparation for another German assault.
 Proof of the devastating effect of the British bombardment that pre- ceded the Australians advance is contained in documents found in captured German positions around Pozieres.
 They seem to know our dugouts better than we do ourselves" one German soldier, commenting on the accuracy of the British artillery, wrote in what may have been his last letter home.
 Smelling has been so violent that they have been unable to bring up food or water" wrote another. "0ur artillery fire is weak compared with the enemies.
 Several other Germans whose diaries or letters were found com plained that fire from the British guns had cut them off from the rest of the world and that they had been unable to obtain food or drink. One officer wrote in his diary that he had sent an appeal for water-that the men were suf- fering more severely from lack of water in the heat than from want of food and the enemy's fire.
 In one Of the counter attacks the Germans came forward holding up their hands. Behind them the British guns had played curtains of shell fire through which it was impossible for them to retreat, while the Australians machine guns and rifles moved them down, making 1t hopeless to continue the charge ] was death whichever way they moved, death if they stood still or lay down in the bull let-swept space. and they surren- dered rather than continue their vain efforts.
 When We go, We go, say the Australians, to whom fell the task of attack We don't try for a nib ble but for big bite of the cher- ry."
 The Germans were surprised. and even the British staff was sorne- what surprised when it was found first reports were correct and they had taken every rod of the front which the Australians had attacked with their swift rush. Some 600 prisoners were started hack, but even after their surrender their lives were not safe. for they had to pass through the erman curtain of shell fire behind the Australians, which had been maintained in in- creased volume all day.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10
Russian Drive Continues.

petrograd, Aug 8. via London South of the Dneister river in the direction of Tyszienca, the Russians have driven the Austro-German forces back along the wiluie tine for a breadth of fifteen miles, 1t was officially announced Tuesday. The announcement adds that the Rus sians have captured the town of Tlumach as we'll as the region to the east of the Dneister and the ridge of heights there.
 Russian cavalry, 1t is stated, is now pursuing the Austro-German southwest of the Kolomea and Stanislau railway in Galicea.
 The total number of prisoners taken by the Russians in the bat ties on the Sereth river August 5 and 6. the official announcement adds, was f66 officers and S,4f5 men The Russians in this region are ad- Vancin0.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10

It wilr take whole regiment-a thousand young people-tO attend the Springfield Business College during the school year to fill all the places the school will be called on to fill. Be a member of that regi- ment. Make a start toward a sue- cessful business career Better double your saIaryvand also do your work easier and more pleasant than what you are doing now. Write for circulars. Address J. A. Taylor, Springfield Business College. Snrjnefleld. Missouri. (Adv.)
The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-10
izaon Keep the Others Away Build
FAIR
 2-BIG DAYS-2
c. W. PETTY BUILDS VAT.

Thursday and Friday, Aug. 10 and Il.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-22
a Cordial
invitation

WYE extend you a hearty IN
w vitation to enjoy the en-
tertainment afforded by stroll
through the miles of aisles
extending In all directions
throughout our acres of inter
esting merchandise. Parhcu-
larry remember that when sight
seeing at The Popular" you
are just as welcome and Just as
free from solicitations to make
purchases as you are In a pub
lie museum. Plan to take plenty
of hme-it requires from two
to three hours to gain even a
general idea of the stocks
shown IN the various sections Of
this largest FL Paso store.
csigu.d, &e@at1&e
EJ.ZS 5:5:z:SS sl:sE
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-22
Best Values in Damask
+ Oumd Anywhere

IT HE following four lines of Table Damasks are posi-
lively the best values to be found anywhere All of
them 10 to Y inches wide and Of pure line-cream white
or pure WHITE III vast assortment Of patterns Don't
fail to see these Table Damasks
20 and y Inch Cream and Pure White Damask 95c
20 and Y Inch Cream and Pure White Da1nask S125
y Inch Extra Heavy Pure White Damask S15O
Y Inch Double Thickness Pure White Damask S1.75
Y Inch Extra Special Value Damask - $500
Remnants of Table Linens and Odd Napkins marked at
prices to hurry them away.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-22

MORE compelling each
4 4 day grow these val
ues IN our Basement
Ready to-Wear Section.
All winter merchandise
must be closed out. If you
haven't been here, come
at once, if you have, you'll
surely come again when
such values as these are
offered:
S It Z MING NEW
BLOUSES. 59c-A new
Z shipment Of wOmen's 1916
Spring and Summer
BlOuses, in eleven new and
distinct models. Made of
b andSOme white and
striped vOiles, lawns and
crepes, prettily embroid-
cred, and trimmed in a
most artistic manner in
dainty laces and embroidenies. All
the new sleeve and collar features.
Wonderful values. at ~
your choice, 02C
ZIBELINE AND MIXTURE COATS
$3.95-We are closing out these
pretty garments that you would
ordinarily expect to pay $40 for. at
the low price 60 OR
of each. 9O0 -
WOMEN'S SKIRTS-Made of all
wool serges. poplins. and fancy
weaves. Fascinating models to
please the most discriminating.
Choose oo E. from m this &3. o.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-22

unsettled conditions of the SIX Market and the short
age of dye stufs we made our purchases months ago.
and the merchandise was secured before the advance
prices now being asked by manufacturers.
1t IS these facts that make it possible for to offer
such remarkable assortment of Spring Merchandise
at these most reasonable prices We urge patrons
to make their selections early this season. as We feel
justified in saving that the fabrics shown offer
better selections than it viii be possible to obtain later
in the Spring.
We deem it pleasure to show beautiful new line
of Silks and Wooden Dress fabrics and extend most
cordial invitation TO patrons to visit this depart
ment.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-22

CHILDRhN'S UNDERMUS LIN IS
Drawers that are tucked. ruffied
hemstitched and lace trimmed also
combination waist and skirt 10
A garment. at AUG
CHILDREN'S UNDERlfUSITN
Tucked and embroidery trimmed
drawers and Misses dravTers
Princess slips and waists.
Choice, garment, at AhG
NOTE; The last two items limited
TO one dozen garments Of a kind 10
each customer. ~
CHILDRENS DRAWERS -r,,-,--s
and ruffled: also knicIarbooI-laA,se1
prettiiy trimmed with lace and en-,
at paul. II I.2c
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-06-15
HUGHES ACCEPTS AND RESIGNS OFFICE

accepted the
Republican for the ana go
court
am sir respectfully CHARLES E HUGHES"
Republican nomination
Warren National Committee
Chairman Delegates: the nomination
recognize that it right summon and
transcendng niexely partisan consideration
and
sec eg an m that IN me the Service Of our Country Threfore
unninchng maintenance all the rights
ctzens land and neither impugn motives nor
at It MSFe TSgfettab1y foreign
suffered intellectually the weak and Facilitating which
interfered seeking
charge he outset the high responsibilities
with foreign nations suhordnated
and we presented the world hum
diplomacy
advanced to have safTnees Of nati0na interests
abroad maintain
insisting seadfasty
of position and manifest ability
ano td for an
complete Whether native
not a tolerate divisions of allegiance
entirely
efficiency
are m e at Pro-
enc
that
this matter Of first national importance 1
efficient nation ready for every emergency
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Not Available This Year.

Rev. w. H. Book, pastor Of the
Tabernacle Christian church of Column
bus, is telling a story told him by a
schoo1teacher in county not far from
Bartholomew. The teacher and the
township trustee were talking over
plans for the annual school commence
ment. The question of a speaker for
commencement arose.
Lets get this here Rip Van Win
kle to make the speech" suggested
the township trustee.
"Who?" asked the surprised
teacher.
why, this here Rip Van Wrinkle"
the trustee replied. 1--WE heard a
good deal about him and / thought
maybe he might make a right smart
speech"
The teacher had to tell the trustee
that Rip was not available for COM
mencement addresses this year.
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TEUTON CASUALTY LISTS
QUOTED I'M STATEMENT

London, June 13.-Germany up to
the end of May had lost 2,924,586 sol
diers, of whom 1884, 12 were killed, &C.
cording to a British official tabulation
of the German casualty lists given
out here. The compilation did not in
clude German losses in naval engage
ments or in the fighting in the Ger
man colonies.
The losses since June / are believed
to have been sufficient to bring the to-
tai casualty list in excess of 100000.
Quotes German Lists.
The British official statement quotes
the German casualty lists for the
month of May as placing the total
German losses in killed, prisoners and
wounded at 102,507. This number, it
is pointed out, brings the German to-
tai losses, exclusive of naval and CO.
lonial casualties to 2,924,586.
The German figures in the May list,
as enumerate in the British account,
are as follows:
Dead, 22,471.
Wounded, 72,075.
Prisoners and missing, 1861.
Total, 102,507.
The German official lists of casual
ties up to the end of May give these
totalsS
Wounded, 1851 ,652.
Prisoners and missing, 338,522.
Total, 2,924,586.
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the same time married Miss Antoi-
nette Carter, daughter of Walter 8.
Carter, senior member of the firm.
First Attracts Attention.
He first attracted newspaper atten-
ton in 1905, when he became counsel
for the Stephens gas Investigating
committee. Mr.. Hughes uncovered
the ramifications of the gas and cleo
trio light monopoly of the metropolis
and later assisted in framing several
legislative bills to bring relief to bad
conditions he had discovered.
In the same year started the IA
nous life insurance investigation.
When asked to take up the work OF
counsel to the investigating commit
tee Mr.. Hughes declined, except on
condition that he be given free rein
and allowed to handle the probe
thoroughly.
The investigation lasted four months
and resulted in a revolution in insur-
ance methods.
In the autumn of 1906 Mr.. Hughes
was elected governor of New York
state by the Republicans. In 1910
President Taft appointed Mr.. Hughes
an associate justice of the Supreme
court, and he took Office on October !
OF that year.
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Fairbanks, Burton, Weeks, Root, Sher
man, La Toilette, Cummins and one or
two others were advertised by noisy
supporters. Roosevelt men-PrOgres-
sfves and progressive Republicans
were at it early and late. They prob
ably made the greatest racket. Mr..
Hughes was unrepresented by merry
makers.
Career of Justice Hughes.
Charles Evans Hughes fame rests
principally on his conduct of the in
surance investigation and his career
as governor of New York state.
An iron will, incorruptible charac-
ter and remarkable reasoning ability
are characteristics commonly attrib-
uted to him.
Mr.. Hughes was born at Glens Falls,
N. Y, April II, 1862, the son Of O
Welshman who had come to this coun-
try in 1855
He graduated from Brown univer-
sity in 1881.
In 1882 he entered Columbia Law
school, New York city. He was grad
uated two years later at the head of
his class and became member Of the
New York bar.
In. 1888 he entered the law firm OF
Carter, Hughes & Cravath, and about
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sufraoists at St. Louis Hopeful.

ST. Louis, June 13.-Hope was high
in suffrage circles that the Democratic
national convention will incorporate
an equal rights plank in its platform.
No official declaration of the con-
vention's intentions was forthcoming,
for until the resolutions committee is
appointed there will be none to speak
authoritatively as to what will be done
with the proposed plank, but suffrage
leaders regard the attitude of many
Democratic leaders toward their cause
as decidedly friendly.
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Hughes from the moment the first
te-Alabama-was called upon. He
was given 949h; Roosevelt, 1917; Du-
Pont, 5; Weeks, 8; Lodge, z, and La
Toilette, 8.
The nomination of Hughes came
after the Republicans had turned
down the proposal Of Col. Theodore
Roosevelt that United States Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge be named as
compromise candidate.
1t preceded by few minutes the
the nomination of Roosevelt by the
Progressive party national convention
in the Auditorium theater.
John M. Parker Of Louisiana was
named by the Progressives as their
candidate for vice president.
BY the time New Jersey was called
on the roll of states, Hughes had
polled a majority Of the votes Of the
convention.
The nomination of the New York
man was the signal for a wild out
burst in the Coliseum-the scene of
manv wild outbursts in the last few
days.
Choice Made Unanimous.
Chairman Harding announced the
nomination of Hughes, and Alex. r
Moore of Pittsburgh and Senator
Lodge, who voted for Theodore ROose-
welt, moved to make it unanimous.
The nomination was made unani-
nous with a roaring chorus Of Ayes
and not a single mo"
Senator Lodge made an eloquent ap-
peal for Hughes in seconding the
motion for unanimity.
New Mexico nominated Fairbanks
for vice president Governor Willis
of Ohio seconded Fairbanks.
Nebraska was the next state to re-
spond and H. HI. Baldridge nominated
former Senator Burkett.
Charles Warren Fairbanks Of Indi-
ana was nominated on the first bal
lot as the vice presidential candidate
of the Republican party.
The fact that Roosevelt had been
nominated by the rival convention, in
no wise dampened the ardor or the
enthusiasm of the Republican dele
gates.
AS soon as the presidential nomina-
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Disappointing.

IT read today" said the young man
beside the girl on the sofa, that the
chance Of two fnger-prints being alike
is not one in 64,O0O,OOO,O0O."
That's awfully disappointing news,
DEAR" replied the sweet young thing;
II thought we had everything in COM
mon"