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The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
CHOPPED OFF FINGERS TO
 ESCAPE MILITARY SERVICE.
Claimed MutilatiOn Was Caused by Accidental Discharge of Gun,
 But Evidence Otherwise.

Little Rock, May 2i.--private Will Hams, Company G, of Black Rock, First Regiment A. N G., stationed at Fort Roots, is minus a first and sec ond finger on the left hand, the cause of which is doubtful in the minds of officers. Williams said his fingers were blown or by the acci- dental discharge of his gun, which he was shifting from one position to another while on guard duty.
 When the officers heard the re- port of gun yesterday, they started an investigation. Private Williams was met carrying a bleeding hand, After he had told the officers of the accident, a search of the grounds nearby is said to have disclosed a hatchet smeared with blood, and the two missing fingers near a block of wood.
 Officers from the regiment will be detailed today to sit as a Court of Inquiry, and if it is shown that the private voluntarily cut off his fingers, a new angle in military jurisprudence will be developed. Colonel James said the amputation of fingers from the left hand does not disqualify a man physically for military service.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
CHAUTAUQUA FOR JUNE 20.
Mena Will See Strongest List of At
 fractions Ever Given Here.

Miss Fay Hancock of Kansas City representing the White X Myers Chautauqua System, spent Monday here to assist in planning the ad- vertising campaign for the Mena Chautauqua which will begin on June 20 and will continue for days No meeting of the guarantors was held at this time, for it had been planned that the active campaign would not be begun until June |, and then pushed vigorously until the beginning of the chautauqua. The program for this year is promised to be the strongest that has ever been given in Mena The biggest attrac- ton in the way of lecture will be by Ex-Governor Ali Taylor, and the biggest musical attraction will be the Kilties Band and the Hungarian Orchestra.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
HAIC AND PETAIN
 PUSHING FORWARD
In North of France German Fighting Men Are Forced to Yield Ground Grown Prince Is Foiled-Ber-
 lin Comedies Gains.

Washington. May Generals Haig and petain are again pushing ahead with their offensiyes in northern France, says the Associated Press report. After driving into the Hindenburg line along mile front Sunday morning northwest of Bulle- court, the British resumed their at tack last evening and captured support trench behind the position just taken.
 The firmness of the British hold on this sector is attested by the fail ure of the German reactions. Gen era Haig, bit by bit, is forcing the Germans to give ground.
 Not only did the British prove themselves able to hold their gains from morning against heavy counter attacks, but to resume their offens- i've the same day and push further ahead, maintaining their second ad- vance also against renewed counter attacks Having foiled the crown princes desperate and costly effort to regain control of Chemin des Danes plateau on the Aisne front, General petain turned to the Cham pagne sector and struck northward on the Moronvilliers heights. Sev- eral lines of German trenches were captured in these operations and some 800 prisoners taken. All the important observation posts in this section of the front are now in French hands, facilitating their fur ther advance in the drive calculated to flank the Germans out of the call tent to the northwest projecting to- wards Rheims.
 Berlin's official statement Monday admits that gains were effected by both British and French. The Brit ish aimed at much more than they accomplished, the German war office asserts, having attacked on a front of several miles along which the Germans maintained their positions with the exception that demolished trench was abandoned. The French are conceded footholds on Mont Csrnillet and Mont Keil on the l Champagne front.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
REPLEvIN SUIT FROM POTTER.
Tut Harris Secures Judgment on an
 Account Against ]. II. Self.

X replevin suit was tried Tuesday in the court of Justice of the Peace L. N. Burnett in which J. H, Self was plaintiff and Tut Harris and w. NJ. Chamblin were defendants, all three of the parties being from Potter The action was brought to get possession of a certain mare which was the property of the plaintiff, but which had been seized by the defendant, Tut Harris, on a mortgage. Mir. Chamblin got into the suit by reason of having been the officer who levied on the mare to satisfy the mortgage. In reality the suit involved an accounting be- tween Self and Harris. The plain tiff was represented by Judge J. |. Alley, and W. N. Martin represented the defendants. It developed in the trial of the case that there was not much difference between the men, the plaintiff having rendered $ii75 in settlement of the account, and the defendant, Harris. having demanded the payment of S65.95 as satisfaction of the debt. The court rendered a judgment in favor of the plaintilT for the costs, and then found that S5395 should be paid the defendant in full satisfaction of the account.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
PLAIN QUESTIONS
 TO MENA PEOPLE
Every Mena Reader Will Admit the
 SOundness of the Logic.

Would Mena people recommend Doan's Kidney Pills as they do if the medicine were mot reliable? Would they confirm their statements after years have elapsed if their experiences did not show the reme- dy to be deserving of it? State ments like the following must car " conviction to the mind of every reader:
 s. Badt, merchant, 606 Seventh st., Mena, says: "Doan's Kidney Pills are certainly the best kidney medi- cine l ever used and many people tc whom l have recommended them speak in the highest terms of then curative powers. I suffered from backache for a couple of years and finally used Doan's Kidney Pills They fixed up my kidneys in gooe shape"
 OVER FIVE YEARS LATER MT Badt said: We still use Doan': Kidney Pills occasionally and al- ways with the same good results l am never without this medicine in the house"
 Price 50c at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy-get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same thai MT. Badt has twice publicly recom- mended. Milburn Go, Props. bunalo, N. l. Adv
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
Keenina It Un.
] the Shreveport Journal.

From the Shreveport Journal
 'Iwenty-one members of the crews of two French fishing boats, who took refuge in the rigging after their craft had been attacked by a submarine of Audernie, were shot to the last man. The French Mari time League immediately opened an emergency subscription for the 63 children who were left orphans"
 So reads a recent dispatch from Paris. The same familiar story more noncombatants murdered, more children orphaned. We used 10 diseredit such reports, in the be- lief that even Prussian frightful- ness was incapable of such deliher- ate lawleSsness and cruelty. But after all the proofs we nave been given of similar atrocities, openly admitted by representatives of the German government we usually take them at their face value.
 It's high time we were actually getting into a war for the suppress sion of such an enemy of civiliza- ton.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
EVERY MAN MUST DO HIS PART
Shirker at Home or in the Trench
 May Get Sudden Jolt.

From the Grand Forks tN. D.
 Herald.
 A Grand Forks man was discuss ing the Liberty Loan with an ac- quaintance from another section of the state, a man of considerable means. This man was somewhat chilly on the subject of the war, and said that he did not intend to take any of the bonds.
 We might as we'll chip in what We can" said the Grand Forks man. The government needs the money, and, if 1t comes to a pinch, it may come along and take it anyway.
 "Huhw retorted his acquaintance, I'd like to see any government take any of my property
 Mister Man." said the Grand Forks man, you don't seem to real ize that this Nation is at war, and that the government that is in charge of it's affairs can and will take whatever it needs to carry on it's share of the war It can take your property and mine, and that of every other man. part of it or all of it. It can, and, if necessary. it will, regulate the food we eat and the clothing we wear. And it's au- thority does not stop with property It can take you and me, in our own persons and ship us off to the other side of the world and there set us to digging trenches and stopping bullets. There is no limit to the au- thority of the government in such a case.
 You, and lot of others who seem to look at things in about the same way may as we'll get it out of your heads now as later that this is Ia go-as-you-please war in which every man may take hand or not, just as the notion strikes him. When this Nation is at war you and I are at war, and all the rest of us. And it's up to us 10 buckle down to business just as it is up to the fel- low in the trenches to do the same thing.
 "The man in the trenches who shirks gets what's coming to him, hard and sudden. And those of us who try shirking while we're at home have something coming too, and we are likely to get it.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
MEMORIAL SERVICES SUNDAY.
Rev. W. E. Green to Preach Sermon
 at Christian Church.

Memorial services conducted un- der the auspices of the members of the G. A. R. will be held in the First Christian church next Sunday aft ernoon at 3 o'clock. The memorial sermon will be preached by the Rev. ". B. Green, pastor of the Chris tian church. On Decoration Day, "Wednesday, May 80, all old soldiers, whether they wore the Blue OF the Gray, are asked to meet at the White Oak cemetery at 9 o'clock in the forenoon to decorate the graves of the soldiers who were buried there They will then go to the l. O, 70. F. cemetery where the same cere- mony will be observed. The public is cordially invited to attend the services on Sunday and on Wednes- day.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
TWO-MILE WINTERS.

Miss Verle Vaught, who has been for some time, returned home Fri day.
 \ good rain fell Sunday and Mon day. II was badly needed in this section.
 Miss Grace Beavers of Mena spent last week with her grandparents, Mrs T w. Anderson.
 Mrs. Sid Anderson and daughters, Mamie and Mable, of Heavener, were visiting relatives here last week. Thought for every day in the week: The man with the hoe is rendering his country just as eff fective service as the man with the cannon.
 Joe Nichols and family. and Mack Taylor and Clifford Beavers, attend ed the Decoration at Rocky Sunday Others had contemplated going but were hindered because of the rain.
 Jane
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
CORRESPONDENCE
ACORN.

Archie Barron and sister, Miss Edna, attended the Decoration at Concord Sunday.
 The recent rains were certainly appreciatet., especially by the farm CTS and gardeners.
 Mir. and Mrs. NJ. M Shields of Mena visited with-Mr and Mrs C. R. Hale on Wednesday of last week. Miss Etta Garland of Water Val ley farm was the weekend guest Of Miss Dessie Jones of Crow Peak. Mrs. Thos Heaslett, who had spent some time with her mother, Mrs. B. $. Petefsh, returned to her home at DeQueen on Wednesday of last week.
 Florence and Oracle Anderson of Oak Grove spent the weekend with their uncle, c. E. Anderson and family.
 Mrs. Fisher of Fort Smith, is vis- iting her daughter, Mrs. B. F. Bar ron and family. She will also visit her son, Marion Fisher of Egger.
 School Kid.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
NEW U. s. SHIPS IN IS MONTHS
Three Million Tons Built by Govern
 ment Then, Says GOethals.

Washington, May 2i Within the next eighteen months the United States will have 3 million tons of government built new ships to car ry it's foreign commerce.
 Gen. George w. Goethals, bul6- CT of the Panama Canal, is to build this immense American merchant marine He has so advised Congress and Congress believes he will make good.
 Contracts to start this great ship building scheme will be let this week following the passage by Con- gross Of the law placing at the dis posal of the General and tnc ship ping board 800 million dollars, with an authorization of 250 million more should fl be needed.
 General Goethals has completed his plans for building the ships and has organized his working force for suDerVision.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
OAK GROVE.

Miss Kate Smith, from Smithville, Ok. is visiting homefolks this week, Grandpa and Grandma Brunson of Hatfield, have been visiting their daughter, Mrs. J. A. Smith.
 At the school election Saturday, Allen Hamby and Robert Sartain were elected directors.
 On account of the rain, few went from this place to attend the Decor ation at Rocky Sunday
 George Crawford and sister, Myr- tie, of Mountain Fork, spent Mon day night at the home of their grandmother, Mrs. Crawford
 Mrs. Millie Crawford visited from Saturday until Monday with Walter Crawford and family, and Mrs. Will coxen her sister, at Mountain Fork Last Saturday, while burning brush around close to the house Dirah Shepherds house caught fire and burned down. Most of the con- tents were saved
 Rock.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
LEGAL NOTICES.
Corporation Statement of J. l. Alley. Candidate for Delegate to COnstl- tutional Convention from Polk Couuty

In compliance with the law hereby submit the following state ment of my connection, as attorney or otherwise, with corporations within the year proceeding this to- wit.
 T. NJ. Dover Mercantile Company, special employment; Cox Investmehnss IL Company, special employment; uoh Wholesale Grocery Company, spe- cial employment; Underwood Iype- writer Company. special employ ment; Common School District NJ f2, Polk County, special employ ment: Farmers & Merchants Ballh' Mena, retainer: First National Ballh' Mena, stockholder, director and re tainer: First National Bank of . " aio dron, stockholder; Planters Stasse Bank, Mena, stockholder; First Slate Bank, Lakeview, Texas. stockholuer : Bank of Hatfield, special employ ment, and Bank of Cove, special elii- ployment. .,
 Subscribed and sworn to Del9l0 D.d,1 me. this the 22nd day of May, isl'' (SEAIl Will Alexan11etl.. 1tl. Il,
 County ClerK Adv oi 9f
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
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Polk county can accept that si5,- '037 of Federal aid, and all that 'comes with it, spend it among it's own people, build and have it's high way, or it can go on in the old way, wasting it's money in remodeling mudholes and rock piles, while some other counties receive and spend the money that we should have. It's an easy problem-to have or go with out
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
Will Camp and Fish.

Mir. and Mrs. c. W. Copelin and Mrs. c. E. Webb, the latter of Heavener, went to the Board Camp community Tuesday morning for a camping and fishing trip for the re- mainder of the week. They were taken out by John Payton of the Oak Ridge neighborhood, who had made fine boat for Mrs. Copelin which will be used on the outing They are going to camp near the mouth of Board Camp creek.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24

With the new draft law on one hand and the i5 per cent income tax on the big rich, war will cease to be a rich mans picnic and a poor mans grief Under the new rules the rich mans son will take his place beside the farmers boy in the lighting Tanks, and the Rockfellers, Moreans. farneeies and their class will pay into the war funds accord ing to their wealth. It is square deal and will go far to make wars
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
\ Friend to The Star in New Mexico

To The Mena Star, Mena, Ark. You will find enclosed Si.00 to pay my subscription on the dear old Star another year. I can't afford to miss copy. We had an S-ineh snow here the eth of May, and a good rain the 10th is about all the moist ure we have in the last months, but everything looks good now.
 Yours truly,
 w. A. Wood. Logan. N Mex. May is. 1917.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
SHADY GROVE SHOWERS.

We had good rain in this part of the county Sunday and Monday.
 Roses were in full bloom for the Decoration. but the rain knocked it out.
 The school election Saturday, May l9, resulted in the election of k. Nj. Crawford and the reelection of Y. N Wallin for school directors.
 A telegram received at the home of J. w. Leeper announced the sad news that his wife, Mrs. Martha Leeper died at Little Rock Sunday nlght Besides her husband. she
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
DudIes Lanck Tries Aaain to EnIist

Dudley Lauck left Monday night for Little Rock to make another eff fort to enlist in the officers reserve corps at Fort Logan H. Roots. Word came to Mena Sunday that since some of the applicants were being weeded out there was considerable demand for more men, and it was in response to this call that Dudley concluded to go to Little Rock.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24

Neither letters, postcards nor pub |lications containing liquor advertis- ments may now be mailed into 2i states, of which Arkansas is one. Six other states are expected soon to be in the same class Yes, it's getting mighty dry" and the "drouth" is far from being at an end.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24

towards who talk of killing the men who are doing the duty assigned them, helping our President and our government prepare to meet the nations enemy-to preserve our be- loved country.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24

George w. Anderson of Washing ton declares that unless the rise in food prices is checked quickly, there will be "a social and political upheaval." Good idea, Mr. Ander- son. Just show us where to get a good hold and we'll help you heave.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24

The United States already has a fleet of fighting ships in the hunt for the German U-boats, and Japan has a similar fleet on the way. The sea-rats may soon be seeking their holes with more spirit than they have hunted the unarmed prey.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24

The United States seems to be doing more effective work in pre- pairing to eliminate the submarine than to rid it's people of the skunks who rob the rich and poor thru speculation in foods.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24

Senator William F. Kirby is a true standpatter He held out to the last against the administrations chief national defense measure, and against the undoubted will of 95 per cent of the men who put him in the United States Senates
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
HONDURAS SEWERS DIPLOMAT
 IC RELATIONS WITH GERMANY

Washington, May i8.-According to information received here this afternoon, Honduras has severed di- plomatic relations with Germany.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24

left two daughters, Miss Velma and Mrs. Mildred Wallin.
 Mamma's Pet.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-10-20

ships from service for the remand
or Of the year, in order to have them
in readiness to transport the Argen-
tine harvest in January. These with
drawals. he says. decrease the OBJ
portuniues Of the submarines for
sinkings. This theory contrasts
striklngly with his earlier assertions
that Great Britain's available tonnage
already had become too small of it,
needs.
Sudden changes IN the routes OF
ships, Count Won Reventlsw says, are
making It increasingly difficult for
submarines to locate their prey. He
attributes 70 American authority .
statement that the passage of pas
sehser liners between America and
England now requires twenty-six
days.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-10-20

ed with machinery. The popular
opinion has been that once hit a fair
blow they will sink. The larger and
far more substantial vessels have
been utterly destroyed by single tor
pedo. The report of yesterdays en-
counter proves the promptness and
GOODNESS with which American jack
les must have stood by to close the
watertight bulkheads and protect
the vital engine and boiler rooms.
1t is believed that the engineroom
force in the casualty list must have
been the off-watch, detailed to gun
stations at general quarters.
The attack strengthens rather than
lessons the faith of the navy in the
destroyers as the type OF vessel best
adapted to combat the submarine.
A small vessel, II hit, would have
been blown to pieces, it was pointed
out tonight. while larger one would
have lacked the evident facility Of
the destroyer to maneuver.
Ingram First War Victim
on U. 8. Naval Vessel.
Other men have been killed In ac-
ton with the Germans since the Unit
ed States declared war, but they have
been the members of the armed
guard OF merchantmen struck by
shell fragments or drowned by u
boats. Ingram is the first man
aboard naval vessel to give his life
to an enemy shot since the Spanish
war. The bluejackets who fought
and died at Vera Cruze fought and
died ashore.
The attack on an American de-
stroyer gave fresh impetus to the talk
of Germany's whole submarine pow
er and her ability to extend her OPP
erations.
The general opinion among naval
officers is that the record of Ameri-
can destroyers abroad has demon
strated that Germany has all she can
handle in the European waters, where
she is now operating.
The navy department today re-
ceived with skepticism reports from
London that Germany was about to
declare submarine barred zone Off
the coasts OF the United States, Can
ada and Cuba. The reports were
said to have been sent out by a radio
station and picked up by the British
admiralty wireless.
At the same time officials, from
Secretary Daniels down, admitted
that there was no question Of Ger
many having submarines OF suffici-
emit power to cross the ovsan and
raid chipping ca this aide. BY way
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-10-20

Greedy headed such a one in his day
important il True
1t was said at the navy depart
ment that Germany is carrying on. her
submarine war so far as can be
learned with U-boats displacing be-
tween 400 and 500 tons. The 500
ton submarines are, Of course, the
most effective.
Widely circulated reports that Ger
many Is building REPRESENTATIVES,
as big as 1900 to 1000 tons, have
reached the ears Of the department.
But" said Mr.. Daniels. although
we know that it would be possible to
build submarines Of that tonnage we
don't know that Germany is doing
it. II she is, none has ever been
sighted at sea-"
The question of supply can in
many cases be solved by taking what
is wanted from the cargoes Of VIC
tim merchantmen, II was pointed out.
1t is not expected a German subma-
rine would suffer any great diff
Guilty In making Q quick trip to the
American coast, doing a. much dam
age as she could and then setting out
on her return trip.
The trip would be longer for the
800-ton U-boats than for the 400 or
500-ton boats. Information reach
ing here is to the effect that the
smaller submarines make their way
to the Atlantic through the straits of
Dover, while the SO0-ton ones have
to make the wide detour through the
North sea and around the northern
end Of the British Isles.
The section submarine carries not
to exceed twelve torpedoes, while the
number carried by others is proper
Tomato to their tonnage. or late the
U-boats have been travelling in pairs
and squadrons-this being made nee
essary by the new methods of con-
yoying put into effect by the United
States and the allies.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-10-20
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