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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-05

Automobiles killed fifty persons in
LIST. Louis this year This is what stat
iistics say. But they do n0t tell how
many OF the persons killed neglected
Ito glance over their shoulders before
letepping from the curb.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-05

Howard Saunders has returned to
his home in Fargo after visiting
friends In this city for several days.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-05

Miss Madonna Giles lis spending sew
eraI days IN Park River and Mcyille,,
visiting friends and relatives,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-05
Side
FARMERS URGED
TO SAVE STOCK
AND R0UGHACE
State Committee Of Produc.
ton and Conservation
Appeals.

The State Committee Of Food Pro
duction and Conservation has issued
an appeal throughout the state by
means of the poster method In post
Offices which appeals to the farmers
to save their live stock and forage and
gives them a good lea of informa-
ton on the subject
The poster in the local office rela-
tive to live stock reads: Your country
asks you to keep your live stock.
Don't sell cows or heifers unless abb
solutely necessary. Because: your
country needs them. They will be
worth much more next spring than
they are today. Already Europe is
contracting for American live stock
to be delivered after the war and this
demand will continue. You can keep
your live stock by cutting all hay
possible; by saving RI fodder, clover,
straw. Straw will be valuable as feed
this year, by making use of fall pas
ture, by getting hay and straw from
other parts of the state, by. feeding
with the utmost care to avoid waste,
by feeding o crops this increases
the food value of straw, by borrowing
money If necessary in order to buy
feed.
Railroads have beer asked to give
special rates on forage to dry regions
and Will doubtless comply with the
request. It will pay n it will help
to win the war.
Save Your Straw.
Your country asks you to save the
straw. If you burn straw you burn
food and money. Oats straw is worth
$40 a ton as feed, wheat straw is
thy is selling at about $40 per ton
Other districts want your surplus
straw, Northern Minnesota, North Da.
kota and Montana are already calling
for it. Railroads are expected to give
low freight rates on roughage ship.
ments. e
Save all your straw, don't burn it
Save every ounce of other roughage
hay. corn, clover, etc.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-05

SergeanttM M. ID. Coonaler OF the local
Recruiting office will return this even-
ing from a canyassing trip In the vi
lcinity OF Thief River Falls.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-05

1.-The Canadians are biting into the
line" says a dispatch. And they have
masticated every piece they have bit
ten off, too.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-05

passed by the council and it was
killed. A resolution condemning the
sidewalk along lot "a. block 10 Of
Trails addition on Oak street, was
passed together with the ordering Of
IA cement walk to replace the old
wooden one which has been a menace
to pedestrians for some time.
The president took the, most polite
and courteous way imaginable of tell
ing the pope that peace was impos-
sible with such a set Of unconscious
liars and treaty breakers as the Ger
man government.
Either that, or the first Merganthaler
that got hold Of it suffered.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-05
EAST SIDE BRIEFS

James II. Fiers OF this city has ac-
|cepted the position of superintendent
of the municipal light plant at
Argyle, MINI. 1t is expected that
he will take up his work nsthat city
about the 10th sof this month.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
S75,OOO FROM STATE AND coy
 EMINENT FOR GOOD ROAD
State Highway Commission Sets Aside Special Fund for Van Bur
 en-WinSInm Pike.

Fort Smith. Oct, Having ob- tained state and federal aid 10 the amount of s75,o00 for Che buildine of the highway thru the Ozarks from Van Buren to Fayetteville. Harry k. Albers, president of the Western Arkansas Jefferson High way Association, and Ray Gill. sec retary of the Business Mems club. returned Wednesday morning from Little Rock, where they attended a meeting of the state highway com mission They are highly pleas sd with their success.
 Mir Albers also brought home with him the petitions that have been drawn up by the state high way commissioner for the formation of the Van Buren, Winslow pike road district, and they will be placed in circulation next week. Thirty four thousand five hundred dollars of the state and federal aid secured for the building of the highway thru the mountains will be apportioned to the Van Winsl0w district and the remainder expended on the road between the Crawford county line and Fayetteville. The sum ap- porlioned to the highway between the Arkansas river and Winslow is annpnyip,ataly onn fbipd fba nncf and it is thought with that amount of aid from the state and govern ment there will be no difficulty ex- perienced in the immediate forma- ton of the district as only about S75,000 in bonds will have to be is- sued by the district and the assess ment against the property in the district will be nominal in return for the benefits derived.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
AVIATION CAMP TO BE
 LOCATED AT LONOKE

Little Rock, Oct. 27.-Next to the location of the cantonment in Lit tie Rock, the biggest thing that has come to Arkansas as a result of our entrance into the war is the selec- ton of Lonoke as the site for one of the great aviation camps. Rela- lively, 1t means much more to Lon oke than does the cantonment to Little Rock. It will cost about two million dollars to establish the camp, and there will be stationed in it about 2,000 men in training, none of them receiving less than Si00 q month. The homes of Lonoke, aside from the hotels and rooming houses, are already greatly Overtaxed to take care of the strangers that are coming to town on account of it., allho it has been less than week that Lonoke had been selected. Ar engagements are to be made to run trains between Little Rock and Lon oke to enable the workmen and others who cannot secure accommo- dations there to live in Little Rock. Army officials who visited the site declare that it is one of the most ideal that has been offered anywhere in inc country
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
VISITED OLD TENNESSEE HOME.
Sheriff Finger Found Old Custom of Storing Up Supplies in Full Force.

Sheriff II. W. Finger returned "Wednesday from a visit of two weeks with relatives and friends in his old home in middle Tennessee. He visited at Morrison and Mack menyille, his birthplace being near the former place. It had been 26 years since he left the old home, and this had been his first visit, so it goes without saying that he found many people and things of interest during his stay. He still has two sisters and two brothers living near the old home. There was one thing particularly that Mr. Finger says he found in going from home to home, and that is that the people of mid dle Tennessee have not given up the old-fashioned way of storing enough foodstulf for man and beast to do from one year to the next Everywhere he went, he says, he found cellars, pantries, storeh0uses and barns filled with provisions to last a year.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
WILL EXAMINE ALL PUPILS.
Polk County Medical Association Is
 Co-0perating With Teachers.

The physical examination of the pupils of the Mena schools, which is to be in charge of'the members of the Polk County Medical Associl- tion, was begun last Tuesday in the Central school by Dr. T. NJ. Fletcher, and Dr. w. C. Vandiver is to begin the same work in the Southsidc school
 The plan is to assign about loo pupils to each doctor The examin- ations will be made free of charge and a record will be made of the examination of each pupil so that any defects which may be dis closed will be called to the attention of the parents or teachers. The eff fort then will be to remedy these de- fects so that pupils may be able to do more effective school work. It is expected that members of the as soeiation will take up the work Tn other school districts so that it may eventually be carried on in every school of the county.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
RnlIiH Home Destroyed.

The fire alarm was turned in for the third time Monday, the last time coming from the home of Mrs. Rat liG on Eagle Gap avenue. The house was completely destroyed, but neighbors who were on the ground early succeeded in saving prac- tically all of Mrs. Ratlin's household goods. It seems that the alarm was turned in from this place early in the afternoon when by mistake the Department made the run to the Il. ]. Radcliffe residence on Stilwell Heights. At that time Mrs. Ratlifl and neighbors thought they had eX- tinguished the fire. which had start ed from the flue m the garrett. but evidently there were still some smouldering embers. and about o'clock the fire broke out again, this lime destroying the house.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
On Anlo Trip to New Orleans.

Mr. and Mrs. E. P Mathis, who had been with Polk county relatives for several weeks, having come ov- erland from StigIer, Ok, were in Mena "Wednesday to make prepar- atiOn to start on an overland trip to New Orleans. They plan to start Thursday morning, after spending tonight with Mir. and Mrs. George Waters. They are carrying camp stove, tent, tables, camp stools and other camping equipment to live out-of-doors on the entire trip.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
TRYING OUT LIQUOR LAW.
Two Cases From Carroll County Go
 to Supreme Court.

Little Rock, Oct 25.--Two appeals in liquor cases from the Eastern District of Carroll county were tilsd in the Supreme court yesterday. Charles Larkin was convicted of selling one pint of liquor August 20, 1916. and Mack Enix one pint on August {, 1916, and both sentenced large number of liquor cases dlu to one year in the penitentiary. Both of them gave bond, and have not been taken to the penitentiary. A large number of liquor cases have been appealed to the Supreme court, and practically all the law points affecting the validity of the statute have been passed upon. The law has withstood all attacks made upon if
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
HIGH COSTS HIT RAILWAYS.
Net Incomes for August 8 Million Less Despite Cross Revenue Gain.

Washington, Oct. 23-August rail- way net returns which will be used by the railways to supper their claims for rate increase were less by approximately s million dollars than in August, 1916. This reduc- ton in income was shown in the face of an increase of approximate Iy 38 million dollars in gross reve- nues. The figures cover all roads in the country.
 Eastern roads, the compilation made public today by the Interstate Commerce Commission shows, fell approximately s3,600,0O0 below net income of year ago; Western roads had decrease of aproxnnately s2,- 100000, and Southern roads de- crease of about Si00000.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
TELLS TIRPITZ' VIEWS.
Seizure of Belgium Stepping Stone
 in Extending German Control.

Copenhagen, Oct. 2l-The view of Admiral von Tripitz, former Ger man minister of marine, that the seizure of Belgium was stepping stone in extending control over Hol- land, was proclaimed by Herr Bae- meister, national liberal leader in the reichstag and one of the Pan- German stalwarts, in speech he delivered Sunday at Hamburg.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
GERMANY AsTONIsHED.
Captured Airmen Surprised at Unit
 ed States Troops in France.

Washington, Oct. 25.-The pres pnce of American troops in France caused great asionishment to the crews of the Zeppelins L-49 and L-50, brought down by the French last Saturday while returning from raid on England. They said that none of them knew of it.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
New Crist Mill Coming.

Luke Slangstrom and F.. F. Bar low were in from Shady Wednesday to arrange to purchase a grist mill which they are going to put Tn operation on the SIangstrom farm. They report that there now is no grist mill within a radius of ten miles in their community, so they are anticipating considerable busi- nacs
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
COTTON CROP SHORT i.73I.59s
 BALES, AS SHOWN BY CENSI lS
Reports of Ginners Up to October IS Shows Great Falling or
 in the Crop.

Washington. Oct. 25.-Colton ginned prior to October is, amount ed to 5,57i,62i bales. counting round bales as half bales, the census bu- reau today announced.
 Last year to October IS, ginnings amounted to 1908 lS3 bales includ- ing round bales as half bales.
 Ginnings by the states this year follows:
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
MINERS LEADER QUITS.
John P. White Resigns as Union
 Head t0 Aid Garfield.

Indianapolis. Ind. Oct. 25.-John P. White resigned at noon today as president of the United Mine Work CTS of America. He will be succeed ed as president of the organization by Frank J Hayes, vice president of the union. Mr. White will leave Sunday for Washington to assume his duties as adviser to Dr. H. A. Garfield, national fuel administrat- or
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
PREPARE FOR POSTAL CHANGE.
Order for S6S Million 3-Cent Stamps
 Placed--New Rate November ?.

Washington, Oct. 25.-The Post office Department has placed an ini- tial order with the bureau of en- craving and printing for S68 million 3-cent stamps, in anticipation of the new postal rates, which become ef- fective November 2. Acquisition al- so has been made for 3-cent stamped envelopes and 2-cent postal cards.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
LoChridge Dry Goods Company
 "The People Who Sell They
Growing Vari-Colored Cotton.

Little Rock, Oct. 20 The Com missioner of Agriculture has re- ceived from w. H. Lephiew of Der mott and P. R. Laxenby of Atkins, samples of peculiar variety of cotton that has puzzled everybody about the state house, including the government classer. It is green, yellow and white lint, with green predominating, and has staple of TX inch. Each of the planters writes that he has considerable quantity of the cotton, and as it comes from such widely separated points, it is not a local freak.
 Just how is the politician to solicit the soldier vote and it on the other side? Will he go over there to elec- tioneer? That might be a good so- lution of the candidate question in good many instances
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
Saw poIk County Soldiers.

John Kirsch, who is in the rail- way mail service in Texarkana, spent a few days in Mena this week. He had recently been stationed in Camp Cody, near Deming, N. M, to assist in handling the soldiers mail. Among the Polk county boys whom he found at Camp Cody were Tom Brogan and Glenn Kaylor.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01

Hard-working men and women are as liable to kidney liver and bowel disorders as any others. prickly Ash Bitters is the workers friend because it keeps these or oans in sound. vigorous con litlon. Price st .25 per bottle 6unnels Drug Store and Jackson Drug X Furniture Co, Special Agents Adv
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
MADE OFFER OF PEACE.
Germany Woes Belgium in Effort
 to Separate the Allies.

London, Oct. 29-La Metropole, a Belgian newspaper published here, says German attempt to separate the allies has been defeated by Baron de Broqueville, Belgian min- ister
 The newspaper says Germany re- gently made a peace offer to Bel gum.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01

Stop coughingl you rack the lungs and worry the body. BAL LARD'S HOREHOUND $ Y R U ? checks irritation. heals the lungs and restores comfortable breathing Price 25c. 50c and Sl00 per bottle, Sold by Jackson Drug y Furniture .Co Adv.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
PEACE ID REIGN
 IN COAL FIELDS
1.,,ers Get a Wage Increase and ortract to Be in Force During War. or Not to Exceed
 Two Years.


 xansas City, Oct. 2i-A new wage
 on,racl between the 35,000 coal
 oiners of Arkansas, Oklahoma,
 issouri and Kansas was signed
 ere last night by the three district nresidents of the United Mine Workers of America for the four
 hates involved and a committee re-
 rasening the Southwestern Inter- stale Coal Operators Association. ,Thp penalty clause in the new con- iraet a disagreement over which re- snlfed in a recent strike order was adopted in a form that varies some whaf from that in the Washington agreement.
 The Wage Increase.
 The new wage scale, contingent However. upon the government seraniing the operators an increase in the sale prices of coal recently fixed by Fuel Administrator Gar field. would give the miners an ad- .Nance of i0 cents a ton for thick yein mining, and i62s cents ton for thin work. It also would grant an advance of i5 cents per yard for vardage and dead work and Sti0 a day for labor.
 For Two Years, or the War. 1t is provided that the contract shall be in force during the contin- 'nance of the war or not to exceed two years from next July The .agreement contains a provision for readiustment of wages when peace has been declared.
 New Penalty Clause.
 As adopted the penalty clause which. turnout the conference over the new scale has been the bone of contention and disagreement over which resulted the recent strike call, eliminates the automatic assessment of final features, and provides that either miners or operators shall be penaIized only after committee from the miners and operators or ganizations has adjusted the case, should one arise.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01

When the sleep is disturbed al night by urinary troubles the best thing to do is to take prickly Ash Bitters. It has strengthening in fluence in the kidneys and bladder
 Price Sf.25 ner bottle. Gunnels Drug Store and Jackson Drug X Furniture Go. Special Agents Adv
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01

M0numents-If you wish to mark
 the resting place of your loved one. write or see me. Prices, $7.50 to S2,000 J. H. Naler. Adv. 2i2 26t 42 4t
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01
PERSONAL NOTES

C. V Hamrick left Monday for Ardmore, Ok Co look up location.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01

Mr and Mrs. ]. R. Ogden and lit- tle daughter, Myrl, were in from Rocky "Wednesday.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01

F. M Reeves. after a vacation of about ten dave, is again on duty in the postOilice.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01

Mrs. John Steel went to Hodgcns Monday afternoon to spend a few days with Mir. Steel.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01

Minor pipkin left last Tuesday oH a business trip to Alexandria and other Louisiana points.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01

Frank Chambers from near Wat CTS, was in Mena last Tuesday on his return from Camp Pike, where he had been to visit his brother, George who is a member of the Na- ti0nal Army.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01

Miss Anna Fnbry of Board CamI was here Tusday to take a speeia examination for teachers license She has been employed to teach tho Board Camp school during the win ter term.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01

J NJ. Hensley of Shelvin, Ok. and Ida Clark of Seminole, Ok, were granted a marriage license Monday by the county clerk They were married in the office of the clerk the ceremony being performed by Elder R. r. Mckinley.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01

Mir. and Mrs. Lit Abernathy of Big Fork were here Tuesday to trade and to attend to other matters of business. MT Abernathy reported that he started to town with load of corn, but sold if before reaching here
The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01

Mrs. W. S. Keislar and two chil- dran, who had been in Polk county visiting friends for about threC weeks started Wednesday on tho home trip to Denver They vii make a stop in Kansas City
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1917-02-23
LET'S HAVE A REAL ONE!

The Federal Trade Commission is about to start an investi-
cation Of the rise in food prices. II will ask the President to
approve an appropriation of 100000 for that purpose. Ii pro-
poses 10 cover every side Of the food situation.
Good! Let us hope at last we are going to have a real
investigation. The country has confidence in the Federal Trade
to the fundamentas-and really learn all that can be learned
about the subject.
The problem is legal and economic. The question of wheth-
er there are combinations in restraint of trade must be decided.
That has heretofore attracted the main attention. Now it's time
to go more into the economic part-and 20 into It thoroughly.
Are the people being compelled to pay too much for what they
buy? Nobody can answer that until he can say with reasonable
approximation what IL costs to produce those things.
In some fields the trade commission will find plenty Of data.
The packers. for instance, can tell il exactly what IL costs them
to turn out their products. Government attention has encour-
aged accurate cost accounting in their case. But these fields
are limited. In the biggest fields of all the work will have to be
done from the ground up. There isn't a farmer in Illinois who
knows what II costs him To put his product on the market today.
There isn't one manufacturer in ten who has an accurate idea Of
what il costs him TO run his business.
Let the trade commission start literally from the ground
up Let il start with the farmer and find what production Of
everything. from eggs to wheat and cattle, means in terms of
knows. Then let it follow the product to consumption. Many
people assume high prices don't start until they reach some large
organization. From the economic standpoint they are lust as
liable 10 start at the beginning as anywhere else. Prices cannot
be permanently below the cost of production under any cir
Cumstances.
The country is in a mood for am investigations that will be
and deep and thorough. II is tired Of these continued
nurries about high prices that get nothing except possibly a poll
tician into Congress or some other Job or into the newspapers
tention to only one-half Of the great problem. Let's have an
investigation that viii enable the country TO see il steadily and
see It whole. II would be cheap at 100000 or S4.O00.OO0-
Chicago Herald.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1917-02-23
PASSING OF A GREAT GENERAL

Fighting Freddy Funston Dead'-it does not seem beHev-
abc--one of the vital figures in all the long occupation Of Mexico.
Funston has been in the minds and often IN the hearts of thous-
ands OF people who did not even know him by sight. To him. the
buffer between the administration and the administrators at
Washington's order, all eyes have turned during the weary struggle
in Mexico.
Heavy has been the burden borne by the sturdy shoulders
of the General at San Antonio that he had to bear without com
ment. without any appeal for public understanding, for public
sympathy, is probably the cause of his sudden death.
Had General Funston been at the head of the marching
force in the heat Of battle, pressing against an enemy, his task
would not have been so bitterly hard. but "watchful waiting
when the burden of responsibility Of an hundred and fifty thousand
troops was his, must have been to him a tragic matter.
Never in the history Of the world has there been an army
movement paraleling the occupation of Mexico, for a vast army
had to be fed and equipped all down n long battle front of five
hundred miles, in a country bare of even grass for the mounts,
Under the inspiration of General Funston motor trucks performed
this new and gigantic task. Many able officers aided in carrying
out the orders from Fort sam Houston but Funston was the de
signing spirit in the unexpected and unprecedented Job of feeding
AN expedition and sending medical supplies ad munitions into a
desert land. Few can form any idea of the thought and heart
ache that must have been expended by the dead General on the
punitive expedition this last year.
Death came TO him as it comes most sweetly to a soldier.
swiftly, finding him at his post Of duty. The country has lost a
valuable officer, the soldiers an understanding friend-the list Of
martyrs 10 duty is augmented in the passing Of General Funston.