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The Mena weekly star., 1916-06-08
Fresh German Trnons.

Paris, June 2-The Germans have thrown more than D thousand fresh troops into action at Verdun since week ago today according to re- ports received by the war office. At least five new German divisions have been engaged on both banks of the Mouse.
 Since February one million Ger mans have been in action at Verdun. according Co war office figures. Of this number is it estimated that 30O.- GOO have been killed or put out of action.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-06-08
SHREVEPORT MAYOR DIES.
suecumbed to Indigestion While Ea
 Route to New York

shreveport, June 2.-pr. :. A. Dickson. aged 5i mayor of shreNe- aort died Friday afternoon m sl oiiis while en route with his wife and City Commissioner Leon l. Kahn and Mrs. Kahn, to New TOTE; flo attend the annual convention ol inc American Waterworks Assocla- tion Between i2 and 1 Qclock III fbe afternoon messages rom VT. Kahn to Acting Mayor Robert D. Ward and Morris X Dickson com pany. brought the information that l9 Dr Dickson was in critical condll- tion. due to an attack of acute lndl- cesfion. shortly afterward another telegram announced his death.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-06-08
FRENCH ARE NOW
 HOLDING GERMANS
Forts Douaum0nt and NauX Again Scenes of the Bitterest Fighting for Possession of Nerdun--
 Infantry MaSSed

London. June 2-With all the weight and power of tremendous masses of men and metal, the Ger mans have been delivering last night and today what may prove the de- cisive stroke against the Verdun defenses
 Reports from the front indicate the continuance of the struggle but fail to record the outcome. the inn plication being that the result, so far Is indecisive.
 The crown princes drive is being pressed along a front little more than two miles in width.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-06-08
DIR. TEACHERS Liver and Blood Syrup

has given prompt relief to many thou. sands of men and women who had these symptoms. They took it promptly. They received the help they needed. They were restored to perfect health. Their kidneys were made strong again. The poison passed out of their bodies, as Nature in. tended.
 Do not delay. Give instant attention to any symptoms of kidney disease. Your life may depend on it.
 Your dealer sells 50-cent and $1.00 bot. ties.
 lTHACHER MEDICINE COMPANY,
 Chaffanaooa Tennaseaa
The Mena weekly star., 1916-06-08
t5 LOST LIVES WHEN \ TRAIN
 WENT TH30t GH \ BRIDGE.
Bridae Collapsed as Rock Island Train Was troSSing--Iwo Bodies
 Recol cred and Many Missing.

Packard. Iowa, June 2.- Two wom- en are dead and ten are injured as the result Of the collapse of a bridge over creek near here under a Rock Island passenger train early today
 ln addition Co the two known dead, seven others are missing and are be- heNed to be dead
 X dispatch to a local paper from scene states positively that score of passengers lost their lives when the train plunged through the bridge.
 II is stated that the dead will total at least i5.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-06-08
WILSON TO HEAD PARADE.
President Will Lead Preparedness,
 Demonstration in Capital

Washington. June l-president Wilson will lead Washington's pre- ii. '0'9' 'N'io
 " hen the committee asked him fo review the demonstration. tho presi- dent enthusiastically replied that he march in it. " D'' '0''''' ,h U sa ls expected that members of cipate. par t-
The Mena weekly star., 1916-06-08
BIgiork. Ark.. May D. laI6.
stomach Troubles and Constipation.

T will cheerfully say that Cham beriain's Tablets are the most satis- factery remedy for stomach troubles and constipation that I have sold in thirty-four years drug store serA- ice. write $ H Murphy. druggist, Wellsburg. N '. Obtainable every where. Adv.
The Mena weekly star., 1916-06-08
TRAINING FOR THE
 ROYAL PRIESTHOOD
King Priests, or Prl0Stly Kings,
 Nov Being Prepared
The New Nation Called Out of the World During the Present Age. Nearly Two Thousand Years He- quired For Their Preparation--Abra- hams Royal Seed of Both Jews and Gentiles--All covenanters to Saeri-
 fice-Time For Their Reign at Hand.

New York City, June 4. Pastor Russell spoke at The Temple, W. 63rd St., n ea T Broa d way. His text was, But ye are a chosen gen eration, a Royal Fries thood, an holy nation, a pc culiar people, that ye should s h o W forth the praises of Him who hath
The Mena weekly star., 1916-06-08
Germans Take CaiIIelle Woods.

Berlin June 2-The capture of Caillette Woods on a yerdun front and adjoining trenches is announced by the war office today
The Mena weekly star., 1916-06-08

For Sale,-0n motor buggy and one
 auto. Both in running order. For particulars address Chas. Sanford. Beard Camp, Ark. Adv.-2i 1t
The Mena weekly star., 1916-06-08

Drives Out Malaria. Builds Up System me oid Standard general strengthening tonic. skusE's IAsTELESS ehili TONIC. drives ont haiazta.enrirhes the blood. and builds up the sys. em. 4 trne tonic. rox adultS and rhia,sren src
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21
To travel hopefully is better
thing than to arrive, and the true
success is to labor.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Dilatoriness of Congress

Congress is in any danger of breaking
the speed limit, but general rule there is sus-
eeson of diligence in a presidential year in order
that the members may home to look after
their fences and engage in the cultivation political
grounds. They anxious get away before the
beginning of the presidential campaign. But the
present session exception the rule. 1t is
dilatory than the average.
President Wilson, before going west in January
urged upon the leaders the importance of bringing
about an adjournment before
He also expressed wish be tied down
in Washington during the summer. His pleas did not
meet with much response and he has lately had
other conference with leaders, in which he sug
gested that it would be good policy expedite
legislation. Speaker Clark is reported to have re-
piled that it would be impossible for congress dis
pose the business before it before the first of Sep
TENDER.
The presidents legislative program announced in
his annual message included the preparedness meas
ures neither of which has been adopted by either
house of congress; the shipping BILL which has not
yet been reported in either house; independence
for the Philippines which has been acted only
the senate; and legislation which has not
yet been framed; investigation of the railroad
situation, which has far received attention only in
the The important things congress has
the life of the revise the patent law, agree to
the first urgent deficiency pass joint
mtions
Preparedness, legislation, the shipping bill
and the appropriation bills the important items
and the indications that each of them will be
costly in the consumption of time. The senate has
spent some weeks over the bill for the development of
water power. Senator Tillmans bill for a government
plant for the manufacture of armor plate promises to
be provocative almost much discussion. The
army and navy increases of course, the objects
of chief interest They have already inspired many
bills and provoked much discussion that would be
hazardous predict how long Will take put them
into "a satisfactory shape.
The differences of opinion which have arisen be-
the president and the majority leaders of
gress subjects like foreign relations and the best
ably responsible for the sOwness with which the
law making body is moving. The house in particular,
is practically leaderless Representative Kitchin, the
nominal leader. is opposed to almost every important
and Senator Kern lukewarm about sustaining the
administration important points. The consequence
is that congress is drifting along hafhearedy and
displays only anguid interest in matters that be
Mexican crisis the leaders of the two houses do not
disposed to hasten action on the subject of pre-
paredness.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21

heard much about the censorship in the great war
But. have remarked. censorship is no
hardship it only foolish, while that Of Great Britain
harmful well foolish. The somewhere in
France, the location of engagement left only the
British people in doubt to the exact place where
certain took place. The Germans already knew,
for of them always present. That how
ever, not important matter But when the
censor, in the of the Dardaneles campaign,
forbade the publication of news of disasters known
all the world outside the United Kingdom, he
the courage of the British people he preparing
to keep them filled with anxiety. 1t frequently hap
pened after British reverse in which large numbers
of men killed of it perhaps in eXag
gerated form. filtered London and circulated
but published The only did per-
nit the publication of the facts which the Germans
already knew but sometimes he lied about them when
he must have known, if he had any all, that
the truth must come out it always did Thus the
British public brought into a of
suspense, imagining that the being
cealed from it when nothing really happening.
The only bad thing about censorship is the
Righteousness and infantile childishness of it.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21
ON TRYING TO LEARN FRENCH

| hear of persons picking up a 1anguage-grown
persons, mean-but if there such persons, they
are not of my species. The only of picking up
do is the kind that is done with shovel. |
obliged to eXcavate language-to loosen up its ma
erlals, then hoist them with derrick. My progress
is geological and unhurried. Still, I made progress
of kind, and after putting in five hours day for
period of months began to have of results
began to realize that even in rapid fire CONVEX
sation the sounds were not all exactly alike, while
sentences aimed directly with hard and
painful dstinctness began to mean something.
have acquired with time and heavy effort, a
sort of next-room understanding of that graceful
speech-that is say is about like English spoken
by some one beyond parttions-a fairy thick
by listening closely get the general drift of the
versation-a confusing drift sometimes mis-mean
ings that generally with eavesdropping At times
the partition to be thinner and there
the feeling that If somebody would just come along
and open door between should understand.
1t is truly graceful speech-the French tongue.
Plain, homey things of feso bald and bare and dis
heartening in the Anglo Saxon-are less unlovely in
the French. Indeed, the French word for rags" is
pretty that have conferred chiffon OF
dantest fabrics But in the grace language
lies also its weakness 1t does rise the supreme
utterances. | have been reading the Bible texts
the tombsones in the little cemetery of Chardonne.
'LEternel est mon berger can never rank in lof-
with The Lord is my shepherd" Que votre
trouble point" with Let heart
be troubled"
Any language is hard enough to learn-bristling
with difficulties which needless, offensive
ly silly to the student. We complain of the genders
and silent letters of the French but when ones native
tongue spells cough and calls it "coff.' rough
and calls it ruff" slough" and calls "slue" or
stuff, by choice, and plough and is unable
dictate adequately without signs just how should
pronounced, he is not in position to make nvidous
comparisons | wonder what French student really
thinks of those words He has rules for his own
sound variations and carefully indicates them with
little signs. We have sound signs too but Eng
lish page printed with all the necessary marks Is a
cause for anguish. was given primary reader
printed that way, and sight of it screaming to
my mother So We leave off all signs in English ano
trust in God for results. 1t is hard be American
learning French, but i would rather be that than a
Frenchman learning English.-Albert BgeOw Paine
in Harper's Magazine for March,
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21
COUNTRY CANDIDATE

W. NJ. Painter has announced his
candidacy for the position of trustee
in the rural school district No IS. A.
]. Mullen, Stephen Hughes and Josia h
Williams are the members of the
board there and the term Of Mr.
Williams expires this year. At Ky
rene it is understood that S. s War
ner will run for the vacant position
N the board. Elections in all three
of the rura! districts, Rural. Kyrcne
and Rohrig, will be held on Saturday
Of this week simultaneously with the
local election.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21
Tempe News Notes
MORE COWS SUPPLY
LILY MILK PLANT
Demands for Tempe Pro
duet Means Big Increase
In Dairy Herds

More than a hundred head of thor
Oughbred Holstein stock arrived in
Tempe yesterday morning and before
this week ends another shipment Of
eight ears VIII ne received by the
Pacific Creamery company. The mar
ket for Lily Condensed Milk has for
months been far larger than the out
put the local factory could supply
and the present plan of importing
more dairy stock is but one of many
IDEAS the Pacific Creamery is putting
into effect to increase the dairy herds
in the valley.
Some two months ago the Pacific
Creamery company brought in several
hundred head of dairy stock from the
Imperial valley in California. Since
| the forepart Of this month President
J. B. Cook and c. W. Zimmerman
have been securing central California
| for more stock. with the result that
| 81 thoroughbred mich cows "a bulls
| and the balance thoroughbred heifers
| and young stock arrived Yesterday
morning. almost simultaneously a
| telegram from Mr. Cook brought fur
/ the: information that a second ship
ment of eight carload, all thorough
bred dairy stock, would be dispatched
| from central California on Wednesday
Of this week. p A. Weltv. VINO for
| merry owned the stock at Pasa
| Robes, Cal. accompanied yesterday 5
| shipment and expects to spend the
next few days in the valley looking
| over the dairy interests. AS conse-
| Guence TO TIE Pacific Creamery com
| rary imports this winter. the dairy
herds of the Tempe and Mesa country
, have been increased in number by
more than half thousand.
| Lily condensed milk has attained
| widespread fame over New Mexico
Texas and California and the market
open even now is keeping the manu-
lecturers busy in filling orders.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21
Our Censorship
paredness

The censorship which is being applied the
relating expedition to Mexico will work
hardship the American people who have been read
of the in Europe for nearly years and of
of a kind in Mexico the last four years. until
thoroughly tired of the whole thing Perhaps
they would prefer to wait for regarding
Mexican developments until definite announcement
be made ot the and execution of Villa and
then forget all about We only wish that the
censorship little more comprehensive,
suppress-delete entirely, such rot has been eman-
ating FL Paso and other border points since the
outbreak of the Mexican disturbance We would sug-
gest this not military precauton but
ure of relief to the American people who are COM
PEELED, think they compelled, read
papers.
But young censorship like general manage
ment of military affairs is awkward and laughable
For instance, the dispatches of yesterday sad THE
expedition reached (deleted by the censor, etc)"
There is only person earth who the commander
of the expedition might wish should not know of the
location of the expedition, and that is Villa If there
is person earth who is likely to know of
it's location, if he is care, is
Villa. He would likely find it from the publ
cation Of in American newspapers, but from his
scouts
Probably the American public does not par
ticularly where the expedition is from time to time.
and we are certain that any proud and patriotic
American would forego the satisfaction of his curiosity
regarding that point rather than to deprive the war
correspondents and the of the of the word
delete" without which it appears them
be complete and up date.
The censorship is u.s. it to Great
Britain and going about the application of it
awkwardly British cousins have done In
fact, have probably received from them the sugges
ton for its application 1t probably would not have
occurred all to establish a censorship
garding this little military expedition if had
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21
The kaiser's Speech

The speech cabled this country, said have
been delivered by the kaiser in 1908 council
of high German military and naval functionaries may
be a canard, but if it is it ceverly constructed
A copy of this speech it claimed, was secured by
British spies and filed away in Downing street, and
given the public only recently. The kaiser
represented calling the Almighty witness that he
had always labored preserve peace world
but that Germany surrounded by enemies who
would force her action the defense of
the Fatherland. There nothing in these senti
ments They have often been given utterance by the
kaiser almost word for word since the war started.
What will interest Americans is the claim that he
boosted that there 100000 voters United
States ito do my bidding" and that the German
American National League of the United States con-
trolls the destnies of the vast republic beyond the
seas One would need authentic copy of
the record before accepting without reserve
ment that such a speech actually made At any
rate, it may be stated with entire confidence that the
kaiser supplied with reliable information if
told that 5000 600 voters in this land were pre-
pared to vote according to his direction.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21
Mesa News Notes
LUNCHEON LECTURE
ON TOWN TEAM WORK

Thomas Brooks Fletcher will deliver
a lecture on Town Team Work" at "a
MONDAY luncheon on Monday, March
u. Mr. Fletcher will be in Mesa for
the purpose of delivering his regular
lecture as a member of the Lyceum
Course under the auspices of the Mesa
High School. He wrote recently offer
ing his services free for a lecture on
civic problems and suggested that the
men and women of Mesa who are really
interested in civic growth got together
at the noon hour and he would be glad
to be of assistance in the, offering of
any helpful suggestions.
Mr. Fletcher is an orator and lecturer
of national reputation, and among other
lectures has delivered the four follow
ing in various cities of the Union
The Martyrdom of Fools" THE Mod
ern Judas" Tragedies Of the Unpre-
pared and Community Deadheads.' -
/ While here he will address the high
school and the luncheon gathering as
above without remuneration.
The secretary of the Commercial
club received a letter yesterday from
the Marion, u, chamber or commerce
stating that Mr. Fletcher is a member OF
that association and is very well
equipped to be of great assistance To
communities in the various civic prob
| lens which confront them.
The Mesa Welfare League will serve
| the luncheon and the price per plate
will be 80 cents. The place has not as
vet been decided uDOn Tickets will he
sold prior to the date of the luncheon
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21
MISSIONARY LECTURER

DR.. George ". Hill will speak at
the Baptist church tonight in Tempe
on the subject, Progress Of the Cos
nel in Japan. DR.. Hill is a mission
airy VINO has spent many years Of ac
tive service in the religious work. and
he IS thoroughly acquainted with cir
cumstances as they are to be found in
Japan. The meeting will open AZ
7:45 and Pastor Coxsey invites one
and all to be present.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21

Paris has become a study in gray. 1t is all gray,
harmonious and softly appealing. Not simply in the
architecture and in the outward semblance things
but in the cafes the clubs and houses. Gray the
men who wait upon you with coffee and queurs;
gray and quartet playing cards upon the green CLOTH
gray haired chauffeur returns "Merci" for the
customary pOurbOre. Even the "buralste,' when you
blanched locks.
A world of gray. And in the shadows pass
women yelled, secretve pressing upon mission
of urgency. They, also, gray-perhaps in grief,
the white edginS of the black bespeaking the youth
of the departed-or living in gray world of their
own, the more to serve those who suffer.-Pars Let
ter to the London Times
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21
JOY RIDERS =

The following persons have bought
Fords within the last few days: VIM.
Beach, Chas. Bauer, Harold Dobson
l.. n. Butler, Vance Bros, Fred Phelps
and Jack Allison, all of Mesa, and Gus
johnson of Chandler DR., Light of this
city has selected one of the larger cars
Seven of the Fords have been sold
within the last seven days and the Ford
Motor company is expecting another
carload in within the next few days
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21

passed a resolution whereby the vot-
ing may take place at any one of
the three districts in the union in con-
junction with the voting for the local
trusteeship. Thus it will only be
necessary for the voter to visit the
one polling place and he may cast
his ballot there for both the trustee
for the local school district and for
the high school trustee. Superinten-
dent j. o. Mullen states that all can
didates who expect to be mentioned
on the ballot must have their names
in the office of the local printer not
later than tomorrow evening.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21
DEEP DIGGING FOR SEWER

The digging machine for the sewer
system is at work on the alleys just
south of Main street and running be-
hind the store buildings. The machine
cuts down about seven feet, but as the
necessary depth in order to reach the
Easements of the store buildings is
over ten feet. the further depth is being
reached by hand digging. The con-
tractors expect to be able to complete
the sewers within the time limit
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21
RIFLE CLUB ORDERS GUNS

A rifle club was organized in Mesa
last fell with w. R. Stewart at presi-
cent. Preliminary action was taken
regarding obtaining the necessary rifles
from Washington for practice purposes,
but about that time Mr.. Stewart be-
came i'll and was for some time in
capacitated. Matters languished until
recently, when the president made re-
quest of the Washington authorities
for five rifles and these have been
shipped. The allowance is one rifle for
every five men.
The club is arranging for a practice
shoot within the next few days, as il is
the intention to send five men to the
National Rifle Association meet al
Tucson, April 12-15.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21
MESA PERSONALS

Hi Fuller of Winslow is in the city
on business.
Frank and Walter Randall, cattle
men, are in town from Pine.
J. w. Patterson, postmaster of Pine
is in Mesa receiving medical attention
Walter Hedder has been EMPLOYED il
the clerical department of the A. u b.
grocery.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21
ANNUAL ROLL CALL

The Womans' Benefit association of
the Maccabees will hold the annual
roll call this afternoon at tho regular
meeting. All members have been re-
quested to be present.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21

By reason of a relay station having
been established at FL Paso, Mesa is
in telephone touch with most of the
United States.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21
CONCERNING POLLING PLACES

Contrary to the original plan of re-
qulrine all who vote on a trustee for
the high school board to cast their
ballot at the town polling place il
row appears that the election may be
held in the respective districts The
high school board at a recent meeting
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21

Secretary Redfeld of the department of
merce, announces the discovery of much bone in
Alaska. That's nothing There is lots of it nearer
home in the official family which the secretary
belongs for instance, Josephus is all
neck.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-03-21
FAILED TO REACH MESA

Rev. Clark Of Jerome, who is to hold
the meetings at the Episcopal church.
failed to arrive yesterday, and Dr.
Bloy spoke at the evening hour Mr.
Clark has sent word that he will be
here without fail in time for the service
tonight.