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The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
AN ABUSE OF TAXPAYERS.
iIany Inmates of Insane Asylum
 should Be Supported by Relatives.

Little Rock. Aug. Members of tho Board of Control have found upon a thorough investigation of the counties, that there are al least i00 of the POGO inmates of the state Hospital for Nervous Diseases who should not be dependent wards of Inc state. In some instances they own estates that are being admins tered by guardians, while the state is paying the expense of their main tenancc. One man worth S20O,0oO has son in the institution, but does not pay one cent toward his support A reasonable charge upon those who are able to pay would amount to something near S5OOOO a year, and would prevent deficits. A report of these conditions will be made to the legislature with a recommendation that charges be made against all whose families or estates are able to pay.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
GET READY.

Now is the time that your hens will moult or shed their feathers. This process is rather slow and Ma ture should be assisted B. A. Thomas Poultry Remedy win help your hens to moult, causing them to shed earlier and be ready to lay when eggs are highest in the winter. If this remedy does not make good, we will. Thacker Gro cery Co, Mena. Adv.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
War Has Made England Prosperous.

Business has been good in England despite the war. E. C. Forbes says in the August American:
 The peopl, as a whole are earn ing more, spending more and saving more than aver before. Wages were never so high nor work SO plentiful. The rich who are not interested in favored manufacturers are suffering thru heavy taxation, but the work ing classes are prospering. The leading department store in London has had record year.
 That is what comes from Eng land.
 Business conditions continue to indicate such industrial and com mercial activity as the country has not hitherto experienced.
 That is the message great Can adian bank sends.
 Is 1t time to get scared to deathq l don't believe so at all. believe firmly that il is going to have an expansive effect on banking credits and bank deposits I know we are going to see a vast industrial ex- pansion. It isn't going to be 100 per cent employment; it's going to be feG per cent employment There will be need not only for every man who worked before; there will be need for all men and women. The worker will step into the lace of tho skilled worker and won- en will be ealled upon to take al greater place in industry IL is going to mean the greatest wage fund that was ever paid out.
 That is the yerdRf of Frank \.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
AFTERTHOUGHTs

An upward tendency is announced m mems clothing. Bahl Who wants to look at a mans leg?
 Carranza, poor devil, is a hack number. Even the joke depart- ments are dropping him.
 A worthy cause has nothing to Tear from it's active foes. If is inc stacker who blocks the wheels of progress.
 once more has Nature asserted her right to repeal her own laws A small boy has just died from eating green apples.
 rms office is in receipt of a long. letter of advice as to economy in household expenditures. Who wants IL! The editor has no use for if.
 Since it happened, East st. Louis olllcials have been claiming that most Of the rioters were from Mis- souri. So are we.
 SIT William Osler, professor of medicine in Oxford University is 6s years old. It would be cruel to caIl attention to the fact that this js the same Dr. Osler who eontended that mans usefulness was ended af 5o ana s that he should then be chloro- Formed. N"io' '
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
House Holds In Measure.

Washington, Aug. 2.-National prohibition by constitutional amend ment was hung up in the House to- day hy the prohibition leaders themselves.
 The resolution to submit the pro- posal to the states. passed yester- day by the Senate, 65 to 20, was put out of the program for the present session and will not come up until the regular session in December
 Plans to reconvene the democrat ic caucus and reverse it's decision to consider only war legislation were abandoned because it was be- lieyed delaying action until the next session will help the prohibi- ton cause.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
KAISERS'S BELL TAKEN.
Relic Cast From Captured French
 Guns of 1870, Into Shells.

Amsterdam. Aug. 2.-According to the Weser Gazette, the Kaiser bell at the Cologne cathedral, weighing 27 tons, has just fallen a victim to the German metal collection.
 The bell was cast from 9 French guns captured in 1870. The Cologne Peoples Gazette says the munich pality of Dothausen has decided 10 to the metal collection it's monument of Kaiser William I.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
Premiums for Grasses

Little Rock, Aug. 3.-State Aeri- cultural Commissioner Page has an nounced an interesting prize offer Tor the girls and boys of the state lie IS anxious to secure samples of all native grasses for exhibit pur- poses, and offers prizes of s5. s250 and Si for the three best collections Each variety should be tied in q separate bundle 2i@ inches in di~ ameter cut close to the ground. and retaining all of the foliage.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
DECREASE IN SHIP LOSSES.
is British Vessels of Over l.600 Tons
 Sunk During Past Week.

London, Aug, ? Some falling on in the loss of British merchantmen by submarines Is noted in the oll- cial summary issued this evening. Eighteen British vessels of more than l,6O0 tons were sunk by sub marines or mines last week. Three vessels under i.600 tons were sunk. while no fishing vessels were lost.
 According to the Admiralty re- port of the previous week the losses were 2i British vesesls of more than i,600 tons each, three of less than i,600 tons and one fishing vessel
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
WHAT CATARRH IS

It has been said that every third person has catarrh in some form.
 Science has shown that nasal catarrh often indicates general weakness of the body; and local treatments in the form of snuffs and vapors do little, fl any good.
 To correct catarrh you should treat its ranse by enriching vou< blood with the oil-food in S<ott's Emulsion which is rsszdisiuai food aud . building -tonic. free
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
Discovering Water.

From The Arkansas Gazette. After visiting the American train ing camp in France, an Associated Press correspondent wrote that Wa ter was abundant, but uncertain as to purity. and that the Altering method adopted by our troops-the 'use of bags suspended from tripods -astonished the local inhabitants almost as much as the Americans "inexplicable thirst for water" which is unknown to wine drinkers, many of whom seldom touch it.
 The native residents also find it difficult to understand why our SOL diers take so many baths, for the men make for the nearest stream and dive in as soon as they are at liberty.
 IL may be that Americans who shall carry the arms of the United States to Europe will teach the people over there that water is a useful article after all. taken inter- nally or externally.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
800, 900 BOYS AND GIRLS iN uOl
 FOOD CONSERVATION "
They Are Now Engaged il D.l and Canning Thousands ol 'v
 Vegetables, Saving "a''

Washington. July S0,-hls"' rs ded thousand boys and sf'' .,e Sam's juvenile army--lla'e V '. the food conservation calhpae N joining forces with the iogu ,aa ing camps which arc to be n'~ ,s.a fall in connection with tne Y" ' fairs and expositions oi '"'
 try. nl
 This army is composeo v sands of boys and giris o's .,aDl il is already at work, it's n.~ ,s' being engaged in the eaIlnl1, x drying of thousands of tons v VI ,,s !, and vegetables which ",a ,rasl probably would be a tosal shsI
 It is to these children 'Ss s government will deleea.e .eanty s p of demonstrating to the tws,Si tasis ! lion persons who are ssl esS attend the food iraInlns otsss practical home methods v ( ing perishahlt goods
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
SENATE ADOPTS
 DRY RESOLUTION
Would submit to the States Ma ti0n- Wide Prohibition Amend- ment-EIousc Holds Up
 Measure.

Washington, Aug. i-A resolution for submission to the states Df a prohibition amendment io ihe Unit ed States constitution was adopted late today by the senete ihc vote was @ to 70, eight more Chat Che ne- cessary iw0~ihirds. iAe resoM0on provides that the siaIes must be asked 10 ratify the amendment within six years. 1hc House now must act on the resolution.
 Senators opposing tho resolution were: Democrats Broussard. Col bertson, Gerry, Hardwick, Hitch cock, Husling, James, Lewis, phelan, P0merene, Reed and Underwood. Total, i2 Republicans Brandegee, Calder, France, Lodge, Penrose, Wawsworth, Warren and Weeks. Total, 8. Total against, 20.
 The proposed onstitutional amendment is the first initiated by Congress since that providing for popular election of United States senators, approved in 1911. It IS tho first time that either branch of Congress has approved a constitu- iional amendment for prohibition, A few years ago similar resolution in the House received majority, but failed of the two-thirds.
 Say House Is Dry.
 Prohibition leaders of the House now claim enough votes to insure submission. When the resolution can be considered in the House is uncertain, but it's friends will seek early discussion.
 The SeRate's action today came after three days debate. All efforts fo amend the resolution failed ex- eept Harding's amendment fixing the six year limit within which lhree-fourlhs of the states must ratify the amendment to make il effective. This was approved by a vote of 56 to 23
 The amendment, which was sub- mitted by Senator Sheppard of Tex as, Democrat, reads as follows:
 "The manufacture, sale or trans portation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof in- to. or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited
 This article shall be imperative unless 1t shall have been ratified as nn amendment Ia thQ constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the constitu- tion, within six years from the date of the submission thereof te the states congress.
 '''Fhe state shall have power te enforce this article by appropriate legislation"
 Altho most of the debate on the resolution had been perfunctory the usual scenes marking the end of warmly contested legislative fights were enacted under i0-minute limit were made to crowded gal- lerics with tho Senate sweltering in one of the hottest of summer days.
 An amendment by Senator Stone, requiring the government to make compensation for losses to liquor manufacturers in carrying the pro- posed article into effect, was de- feated. 30 to B. He insisted the provision would be only fair to the large interests affected, and Senator Williams said contrary action would be robbery
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09

When you yawn a good deal in the daytime, feel dull, aehey and want to stretch frequently, it is an unmistakable symptom of malaria, and unless you do something at once you are booked for a spell of chills
 HERBINE is a chill medicine that will prevent or cure the disease. 1t drives out the impurities on which the malarial germ thrives, strength ems the liver and eleanses the bow els. Price Soc. Sold hy Jackson Drug and Furniture Co. Adv.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
Drives Out Malaria, Builds Up System

Ihe old Standard general Strengthening toni. GROVES TAsrELEss chill TONIC, drives c,. MaiWia,enriehest the blood, and builds m Inc s,,s tenn. A true tonic. For adults and chiisrer so.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
Wnr Win Not ston Fair.

Little Rock. Aug 2--Lee Giles, general manager of the Hampstead County Fair. was in the city yester- day and reported that the war will not prevent the holding of the 22nd annual fair af Hope on October 23-27. The prizes for agricultural products and livestock have been doubled, Sf000 being offered for ex- hibits. Last year the fair had 10000 paid admissions.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
Hot Weather S,u,y

'Sponge--l think that street car has just passed.
 Blotter-How do you know?
 Sponge-G can see it's tracks Chaparal.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
Ginners Have Filed Bonds.

Little Rock, Aug. 2.-The time for the filing of the bond for ginners under the new law expired yester- day. and it is reported that there are very few delinquents. Tags and sample-wrappers will be sent to all ginners in ample time for the sea- sons ginning. It is required by law that the bond be made in bonding company or indemnity company au- thorized to do business in Arkan- sas. A personal bond IS nob ac- ceptabIe.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09

Do you get up at night? sanol is surely the best for all kidney or bladder troubles. Sanol gives ral;ef m si hours from all backacbe am, bladder troubles. Sanol is , o.,os on anteed renedv. ase ana Ss m ha. !
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
RUSSIAN WOMEN RUSHING TO ARMS
Heroic Example of Vera Butchr- mareif's Female Battalion Sets Country Alire and Recruits
 Rush tO Arms.

petrograd Wednesday, Aug. i.- Delayed As the result of the he- roic conduct at the front of Miss Vera Butehrmanen's female battal- ion. the movement for the creation Of great woman's army IS progress sing thruout Rusisa like wildlire.
 Recruits in Many Cities.
 Already Petrograd, Moscow and kiev have formed regular recruit ing bureaus and established bar racks under the ordinary system of army administration, subject under q newly issued order by Minister of War kerensky to the staffs of the local military districts. The gov ernment has issued arms and com plete equipment to the women and has appointed male commander and instructors and is planning a more suitable uniform for the women fighters.
 In Petrograd new battalion is being raised by the chairwoman of the New Womens Military League, a university student, Miss Fromen- ko. The spacious engineers pal ace has been turned into barracks in which 700 girls and women are already in uniform out of the i.200 so far enrolled. For the remaining places in the battalion there are i,500 applicants.
 Women Mean Business. In the entrance hall there was gathered group of recruits whose ordinary features contrasted sharp ly with the cropped heads and mas culine bearing of the girls already in uniform.
 The chief of the battalion, Miss Fromenko, youthful, personally attractive girl, after organizing the battalion, viii herself go to the front.
 The girls are for the most part between IS and 30 years of age. Some of the forces are married women with children and few are Of middle age, however. Among these latter striking figure is Madame Sofls Vansa, widow of a colonel killed in battle, whose two sons have been wounded. Sixty per Ieent of the members are peasant working girls of sturdy physique with hard features and tanned faces who. unlike Miss Butchkareffs fol- lowers, were subjected to severe physical tests before being accepted.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09

The bachelor is the only man ca pablo of telling how to manage a wife. The married man knows 1t can't Do done
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09

Large Trial Bottle of Sanol for 35c. Sanol is Il family remedy. Sanoi is sold on an absolute guarantee. Re- member if it says Sanol It IS all
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
Notice, Parents and Guardial

Is required in Act 29i. Approved March 2l, 1917 AN ACT to Regulate Enforce Attendance the Shool State of Arkansas
 fTIIIS ACT BECOMES EFFECTIVE ON SEPTEMBER l. Isr N APPLIES TO ALL COUNTIES IN THE STATED ' w FIRST Every child between and fifteen years old han elusive attend public )rivae or parocha school % fourhs of the sessions in the district in % child resides.
 SECOND All children enter school not later than tu after the opening of the school term. THIRD The following classes of children between the m and fifteen both inclusive may be excused from ae school for the following reasons. a Children mentally physically ncapacated to perform @ dues b Children who have completed the school of study including seventh grade outlined by the S S intendent of Public Instruction; co Children whose services ' needed to support widowed mother. FOURTH It is the duty the attendance officer to n,sE all of non-aendance and to notify the parents a the children fail to comply with the provisions of this A FIFTH The penalty for non-attendance falls parent o dian--maxmum fine of Si0 and costs for each onense SIXTH It shall be the duty of the Prosecuting Attorney 4 State Of Arkansas their deputies to prosecute all voaos Act in of any other misdemeanor SEVENTH It shall he the duty of grand ures to nyesa school and indictments in % with the evidence and facts.
 EIGHTH It shall be the duty of all school boards proyd of publicity by posting notices by public annn ments as to the date which any shall % such notice must be given at least ten before the beginning the session of school See form of notice beow).
 SPECIAL NOTICE School Special School District Polk County Ara Will begin the 10th day of September, 1917.
 Minor Pipkin, President
 Mark ?. Oney Seersar
 schoOl Board -------~~~,,..~
The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-09
To care a Cold in One nay


r,,s,,, as.s 1T PROMO Quinnc 1t stops tf~ Drussisla aaa .s aeaaaehe and works cH thc Cold.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28
RECONSTRUCTION
 OF vITRIM0NT IS AMERICANS PLAN
Suspicion of Villagers Had To Be Overcome Be-
 fore Work Started

Vitrimont, Near Luneville, France, March 2S.-American sympathy with the civilian sufferers from the war has been given more concrete eXpres- sion in this little village than in any other part of the devastated country immediately behind the French fight ing lines.
 When Mrs. William Crocker, of San Francisco, chose Vitrimont in which to carry out her idea of reconstructing with her own means one of the vil- lages destroyed by the German troops in their first rush into France she met with much doubt and suspicion. The people of Lorraine are practical and hard headed and also object to par take of anything given in the form of charity It was therefore necessary to make the proposition purely busi- ness-like one before laying it before the villagers.
 All the men of fighting age are at the front with their regiments. One of the villagers while in the trenches one day received from his wife a let ter giving details of the plan of recon struction He immediately replied: Don't waste ink on telling me fairy tales. You are ready to swallow any yarn told you Just make up your mind as I have done that we have lost everything and don't dream that good fairies are going to restore all to us.''
 In order to convince this man and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28
LEGISLATORS IN
 FAVOR OF SLASH IN TROLLEY FARE
Committee Hears Several Bills to That End-No- \ Seat No Fare Bill
 Heard.
Especial to The Farmer.)

Hartford, Feb. 2S. - Several pro- posed amendments to the charter rights of theSpublic service corpora tIons of the state, providing for six fares for a quarter, for a no-seat-no- fare regulation, and for fiat three cent fare, heard before the committee | on railroads yesterday, developed nu- merOus stories of the woes of the
 stra hangers, especially in Waterbury. Vice President l.. S. Storrs, represent, ing the Connecticut Co.,, brought an- other tale of woe, but his was of a different nature. He had to do with the financial straits of his company. Senator Neebe of Meriden fathered a bill providing that in event a pas senger had to stand, he should not be obliged to pay more than three cents. Senator Neebe also had before the committee bill calling for a three l cent fare in the morning and evening rush hours. Senator Neebe and Representative 1 Patrick Healey of Waterbury were the chief advocates of reduced fares. MT. Healey decided, after hearing the text 1 of other measures, to withdraw his 1 bill, in favor of the more temperate measures of Senator Neebe, but he earnestly advocated at least the adop- | tion in other cities of the six-fares-for a-quarter system in vogue in Water-
 1 bury.
 1 MT. Storrs opposed the measures,
 declaring that the tendency of the op- erating lines was to increase rather l than reduce the fares. He pointed 1 out that now in Massachusetts his company is seeking an upward revis- ion of rates, and he said he feared the
 same procedure might be necessary in Connecticut.
 1 He declared that the Connecticut ] Co. is not making any money with it's l trolley system, that it can't afford to buy rolling stock, and deplored the
 prospect of. reducing it's revenues by cutting it's rates.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28

many of his village neighbors serving in the same corps that somebody was really taking interest in them and that they would not merely have to be con- tent with the government indemnity of sixty per cent. of their losses, Miss Daisy Polk, also a Californian and now administrator of the plan, gave print ed plans and details of the scheme to the wives left behind. These were forwarded at once to the men at the front, who could be assured only by documentary evidence of this kind of the good fortune to <be conferred on them and their dependents.
 Miss Polk, who since the beginning of the war has been occupied in relief work of various kinds, was chosen by Mrs. Crocker to administer her benev- olent scheme. She decided at once to live among the people so as to be- come better acquainted with them and to learn their. needs. Every house, without exception, had been either shelled or burnt. She, however, was able to find one-roomed cottage which could be repaired and here from her single room Miss Polk di- rects all the work. She interviews there the architect, the builders, the departmental officials and government functionaries, and only recently re- ceived Ambassador William G. Sharp who had come to lay the cornerstone of the first new house.
 Of the seventy houses composing the village thirty-fourI were shelled and the remaining thirty-six burned. The government itself decided to re- pair the bombarded houses, which were not so badly damaged as those which had been set afire. The recon struction of these latter was underta- ken by Mrs. Crocker.
 No attempt was made by the au- thors of the scheme to force Amerl- can ideas down the throats of the con- servative Lorrainers. Very little change had taken place in the village since the fifteenth century and the style of architecture was very uniform usually taking the shape of one or two story cottages with grange-door entrances and attached at the back the granaries and cattlesheds. The only
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28
TEETK|NC BABIES
 ALL SMILES
Mothers Rest and Stop
 Worrying. /

This news may seem too good to be true, but it sure is right.
 Young mothers are getting wise and listening to the tips experienced mothers are handing out.
 Hundreds of mothers right il. your own home town testify since using Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup that teething babies have lost all terrors for them, they know they need not worry after a few doses. As one fond mother expressed "It seems to act like a charm, you could see the little one pick up and improve from the first dose."
 Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup sure is a long looked for blessing for teething kiddies, it takes right hold, and mind you not a grain of dope, the formula right on the bottle, too, so you know just what you are giving. No hit or miss about Mrs. Winslow's Syrup"
 Every mother owes it to the suffer- ing child, to relieve 1t with "Winslow's s Soothing Syrup" It does the trick, you can see the little one brace up with the first dose, where before pain and tears, now smiles and good nature.
 Old folks take children's troubles as a matter of course and think, Well we all wentf through them," sounds O. K. but does not help the kiddies.
 Give the little ones chance, mother, do your part, get a bottle of "Winslow's Soothing Syrup" today.
 Sold and recommended by good druggists everywhere.
 For sale in Bridgeport by Hindle's Sdrug StoreS.-Adv.