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The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
BOARD CAMP.

Born to MT. and Mrs. Berry Mar tin, girl.
 R. D. Miller and family visited at Yocana Sunday.
 Mrs. Alkie Peters of Mena was a Board Camp visitor Sunday.
 Harve Lynn and family visited Big Fork Saturday night and Sunday. Wody Tomlinson left Tuesday for St. Louis, where he will enter the military school. 34
 Mrs. Bulah Talkington from Cal houn came Sunday to visit her moth CT and other relatives.
 The social party given at the home of Rex Watkins Saturday night was very much enjoyed.
 Misses Fannie and Grace Watkins and Vina and Alma Lewis were Board Camp visitors Sunday
 Little Ollie and Virginia Edleman from Heavener, Okla, are visiting their grand mother, Mrs. J. Bunch. Albert Bailey received telegram Saturday that his brother Feaster Bailey, was dead He will be brought back home for burial.
 Rev. Hornsby from Hatfield. will preach at the Baptist church Satur. day night with relatives at Potter Everybody come out and hear a good sermon.
 Uncle Fuller.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17

time. He has had the Flu. but is convalescing at present.
 Several from here attend d church at Rock Island Sunday and Sunday night
 Mrs. Sam Bender of Dallas, Texas, came up to visit Mir. and Mrs. Bender Sunday.
 Mir. and Mrs. D. A. Smith will oc- cupy the house vacated by Mrs. Will Darwin.
 Mrs. Royal Seals from Oil City La, came up Friday to visit with relatives, returning to DeQueen Sun day.
 l. s. Sanford has sold his team of mules also harness and wagon, to the Blair brothers, receiving $325.00 for same.
 Will Lowery has been moving some of his farm implements and other things to the place he bought from I. S. Sanford.
 J. A. Chilean and son, J A. IT,, also Virgil Henry, R. Bunch, autoed in Gillean's car to Mena Tuesday, the latter going to be examined.
 A. c. Daniel and family returned from Hope where they have been vis- iting relatives. Mir. Daniel has had time. He has had the flu" but is well.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
ACORN.

Peter McWilliam is attending to business matters at Slatington.
 Gene Anderson has secured sit nation as night watchman for the Crutchfield Lumber Company at Eagleton.
 G. R. Hale and R. W. Gilstrap at tended to business matters in Mena on Tuesday.
 MT. and Mrs. W. c. Gass and chil- dren Sundayed with MT. and Mrs. NJ. w. Roger and children.
 Mir. Hoyt Jones and sister, Miss Dessie, spent Sunday with Miss Etta Garland on Water Valley farm.
 Mir. Edgar Moves returned last week from Americus, Georgia and other points, where he has been for several weeks.
 The following named Acorn young people spent Sunday afternoon ko- daking along the 0uachita near the Ragland farm: Enos Garland, Lucian Davis, Davis Hinson and Clayton Kincaid The Misses Etta and B. B. Garland, Dessie Jones, Edna Barron, Toka Hale and Hester Hinson.
 School Kid.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
EGGER ECHOES.

E. W Goodwin has bought a new spring wagon.
 Irwin Grover who has been sick for sometime is able to be up again.
 Bro. Kelly delivered an interest ing sermon at this place Sunday morning.
 Next Sunday evening at o'clock is Bro. Kelly's preaching day. Every body come.
 Mir. and Mrs Marion Standridge of Big Fork, spent Saturday night in this vicinity.
 Roy Philpot of this place was called before the local board at Mena for examination.
 Mir. and Mrs. A. Price and children of Midway, spent Sunday at the Levi Wimberly home.
 The singing at the home of Mir. and Mrs. Wilburn Philpot Sunday night was highly enjoyed by all.
 Mrs. Sharp Philpot and two chil- dren of Oklahoma, are visiting her parents Mir. and Mrs W. T. Do- rough.
 Miss Ina Furr of Highland is spending a few days with her cousin, Miss Fannie Thornton of this place.
 Claxton Anderson, William Barton and Mir. and Mrs. Robert Thornton, all of this place attended the party at the Dupree home near Yoeana Sat urday night.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to take this means of expressing our thanks to our many friends and neighbors for their help and assistance, and their many com forting and kind words of sympathy and cheer in the recent illness and death eff. our beloved son and brother, William Daniel, who depart ed this life October 5, in the service of his country.
 We also wish to thank Bro. Horns by for the many comforting words of cheer he spoke to us in the sad dest hour of our bereavement at the burial of our son and brother. We wish also to thank those who gave so many beautiful flowers as a token of the friendship he had.
 Mir. and Mrs. D. As Daniel,
 Mr. and Mrs. J. r,. Daniel.
 Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Daniel,
 Miss Rosa Daniel,
 Mir. and Mrs. E. L. Henson,
 Mir. and Mrs. Robt. Kelly,
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The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
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WOMEN TORTURED!
Suffer Terribly With Corns Because of High Heels, but Why
 Care Now.

Women wear high heels which buckle up their toes and they suffer terribly from these pests, seeking re- lief but they hardly realize the ter rible danger from infection, says Cincinnati authority.
 Corns can easily be lifted out with the fingers if you will get from any drug store a quarter of an ounce ia drug called freezone. This is sufficient to remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one's feet. You simply apply a few drops directly upon the tender, aching corn or callus. The soreness is relieved at once and soon the entire corn or callus, root and all, lifts out without one particle of pain.
 This freezone is sticky substance which dries in a moment. It just shrivels up the corn without iniiaia- ing or even irritating the surround ing tissue or skin. Tell your wife about this. Adj
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
MOUNTAIN FORK.

Jody Fields marketed cotton in Mena Friday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Tom Rogers were Mena visitors Thursday and Fr;oay +. G. Gray was called to Mena Thursday for national army examina- ten.
 Herbert Linam returned home last week srom Sf,rt, Ok, where he has | en employ ] in tne cci,en fields. Mir. and Mrs. Newt Brunson of Laura, Ok, arrived Saturday for a short visit with relatives and friends at this place and Hatfield.
 In spite of the drouth Mrs. W. L. Iram has a garden that is worthy of srtslal mention. At the present time 1t certains plenty of white-headed cabbage, string beans, onions, beets, radishes, lettuce, mustard and tur- nips.
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The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
7-777777-7777777777777777 - vANDERvOoRT.

Mrs A. J. Bailey went to Cove Friady.
 Reverend Knight, of Hatton, was in town Monday.
 Mrs. John Garrett was Mena visi- tor one day last week.
 Dr. F A. Lee made professional trip to Wickes last week.
 Mrs. R. L. Bonner was shopping in Mena one day last week.
 Mir and Mrs. K. H. Skinner mo- tored down from Cove Sunday spend ing the day at the home of Mir. and Mrs. Skinner's parents, Mir. and Mrs. r. Nj. Cecil.
 Mrs. Mary Nation went to Ash down on Monday of last week, in re- sponse to a message stating that her two daughters were sick with the Spanish enfluenza.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
HOLLY HITS.

Lccn Converse is over on Black Fork picking cotton.
 Rev. Nealy Whisenhunt was Sunday visitor at Union Grove.
 Frank Cox and Art Middaugh left on Tuesday morning for work.
 Light frost again on Monday night. but not sufficient to kill vegetation.
 Marvin Ward has been in the hos pital at Camp Pike, disabled by flu"
 Uncle Buddy Crosson expects to to move upon the Muss farm near Ink.
 Rev. Butler of Scott County preached at Holly Springs on Sunday afternoon.
 Nearly all the country as well as the city schools are closed on account of influenza.
 Ben Chilcott, son-in-law of c. A hitter for few days
 Ed Kensworthy, Frank Cox and Art Midaugh left for one of the munition factories in Tennessee last week.
 I. G. Harris has half of his new barn shingled but is unable to get help to shingle the other side.
 Dad" Inbody has about finished his residence. Folks all say it is one of the tastiest little houses in the country.
 Fred Harris and George Bunyard at Camp Beauregard are both quar- antined and unable to go home and see their wives, who are living near them in town.
 G. A. Converse took a load for R. T. Brown over to the latter's new home in Oklahoma. He expresses himself as being we'll pleased with the look of the country.
 Jas. Swiger's family has been dis abled by influenza Mrs. Swi- gers mother, Mrs. Yeargan, who has been quite low, is slowly improving.
 Pedagogue has met an old friend the last few days, Mir. 1. N. Fluenza. It was not at all welcome meeting but Pedagogue was quite overcome by it. He is still overcome. On Monday the funeral of Frank Ward was held at Concord cemetery. A large crowd of sorrowing friends and relatives were present. Through some error at Camp Pike the body was held until Saturday night be- before being shipped to Mena, Revs. Whisenhunt and Whitaker preached words of comfort to the young wife, his parents, brothers and sisters.
 On Sunday, Frank Ward of Holly Springs, received a telegram that Frank, Jr., who was called to the col ors a few weeks ago, was very ill at Camp Pike with pneumonia. They at once prepared to go to his bedside and left on No. 2, Sunday night. On Monday a wire was received notify ing his family that he died at 6 p. m. Sunday. He leaves a wife of a few months, daughter of Rev. Head of Yocana, his parents and several brothers and sisters. He had been discharged from the service on ac-- count of the state of his health and WIS under quarantine fer inf ner7a which later developed into pneumon- ia. The sympathy of the whole coun- tryside goes out to the bereaved wife and family.
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The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17

Everybody busy sowing wheat or getting ready to SOW.
 All the farmers are busy making hay while the sunshines.
 w. E. Jones and family of Potter were visitors in Dallas Valley Sun day.
 Mrs. Eugene Summerville is on the sick list with the dread disease in fluenza.
 J. D. Kaylor is putting a new shingle roof on his House and {. is planning other improvements in the near future.
 If all reports are true our mines around this neighborheed are coming to the front fast. We are glad to see the boom.
 Dal Ellis and family of Atchi- son, Kansas, are here for visit with Mrs. Ellis parents, Mir. and Mrs. j.. A Sunderland. They are looking for location and have shipped their household goods from Kansas ready to start housekeeping as soon as they arrive. They think they will stop in in Mena for a while.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
oUACHITA ITEMS.

Carl Cotton is sick with influenza. Wesley Philpot went to Mena Fri day.
 Mrs. A. L. Price went to Egger Monday.
 Earnest Cagle of Board Camp was here Sunday.
 Tuesday was the last dipping day for this week.
 Dr. Charles Sanford of Board Camp motored thru here Monday.
 Jim Ward and son Floyd of Gerty, Ok, are visiting relatives here
 Mir. and Mrs. Bud Looney visited relatives at Board Camp Saturday. J. B. Wimberly and H. P Lofts, made business trip to Mena Tues day. Misses Alma and Thelma Culpep- per visited with Miss Lillie Cotton of Midway Sunday.
 There was singing at the home of T. J. Walker Sunday night, a large crowd attended.
 The Rev. H. T. Howell received mo- tice Monday that his son Leonard had landed safely overseas.
 An airplane passed over this vicin- ity Sunday evening at o'clock head ed toward Camp Pike.
 Master Dale Wimberly and sister, Miss Clessie visited relatives at Hillard Saturday night and Sunday Mrs. c. H. Campbell returned Fri day from Union Grove where she was called by the illness of her mother, and to attend the funeral of her neph- ew, Private Frank Ward, IT,, from Camp Pike.
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The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17

If your child starts in its sleep, grinds it's teeth while sleeping, picks at the nose, has a bad breath, tickle appetite, pale complexion, and dark rings under the eyes; it has worms; and as long as they remain in the in- testines, that child will be sickly. WHITES CREAM VERMIFUGE clears out the worms, strengthens the stomach and bowels and puts the lit tie one on the road to health and cheerfulness.. Price BOG. Sold by Jackson Drug Company.-Adv.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
ROAD DEMONSTRATION NEXT
 ON STANDING ROCK ROAD
Members of Quorum Court Will Have Opportunity to See Improved Ma
 chinery at Work.

A demonstration of road building thru the use of improved machinery will be had next week for the benefit of members of the quorum court.
 County udge A. E. Wear has asked all justices of the peace in Polk county to attend the demonstration which will be held on the Standing Rock road. The dates selected are October 21 and 22. Arrangements have been made to transport members of the quorum court from Mena to the scene of the demonstration. Ma chinery to be used will consist of a Rumley Oil-Pull tractor and Austin Western road graders. Judge Wear stated that he believed the route se- lected would afford opportunities for testing the machinery similar to what might be expected anywhere else in Polk county.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
POTTER.

Tut Harris and W. D. Allen went to Oklahoma Sunday, on a pleasure trip.
 Mrs. Lee Bates and children went to Hatfield Tuesday for few days visit.
 Mrs. D. T. Rowe of Mena. visited here Thursday and Friday of last week.
 Mrs. T. K. Bates of Hatfield was Sunday visitor at the R. L. Bates home.
 Miss Olive Chamblin of Freedom, spent Saturday night here at her brothers.
 Mir. and Mrs. B. W. Gatlin moved to Mena Friday. They will live at 206 Seventh Street.
 Mir. and Mrs. ". L. Shepherd of Rocky, spent Sunday here with their son, s. 0. Shepherd.
 Herbert Maddox of Jefferson Bar racks, St. Louis, visited his uncle, T.. Nj. Hunsaker, here last week.
 Drew Bailey returned Wednesday from Texarkana, where he has rented farm and he and his family Will live there next year.
 Mr. and Mrs. Herman Stevenson came in Friday from Red Oak. Ok. Mir. Stevenson has not been we'll for some time so came back to Polk County.
 Mrs. Kate Shepherd of Smithville, Okla, and Mrs, Myrtle Gregory of Mountainburg, Ark, arrived Sunday for a visit with s. 0. Shepherd and other relatives.
 Mrs. Felix Harrison died at the home Of her daughter, Mrs. Whit Sargent. Mrs. Drew Bailey, her
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
COTTON PRICE STRONG
Wilson's Caustic Reply to Germany
 Affects Peace Talk.

Cotton prices have ranged unwo,a this week, from cent to q cent .ns a half above that paid the latter ns,t of last week. The top price paid to day was 30.60 cents, the averap. k.
 ing around 30 cents. For ten days or more prices have ranged downward because of favorable weather reports and war news favorable to the end
 ing of the war, but since President Wilson's caustic reply to the pears proposals of Germany, prices have steadied with an upward tendenev
 Up to the middle of the afternoon to
 day Wednesday, the total cotton 10. eeipts are 6S0 bales. Last year at this date the total receipts were s57 bales, and the average price then was 27 cents. The receipts to the same date of 1916 were 2,2S6, and averape price around 16 1-2 cents. It will thus be seen that cotton has steadily risen in price and is now higher than any previous season. The cotton pur. chased and received so far is distrib- uted as follows among Mena's buyers,
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
CENTER POINT cIRcLETs.

Dewey Chamblin is sick with slow fever.
 John Lively and family spent Sun day with relatives near Hatfield.
 Miss Ollie Chamblin spent Satur- day night with relatives at Potter. No public services were held here Sunday on account of the influenza. Miss Gertrude Outright went to Potter Sunday for visit with friends. Christopher and Oliver Earnest have been quite seriously sick with la grippe.
 Will Maddox left last week to seek employment in the oil fields of Oklahoma.
 Orestus Turner and wife visited relatives at Rocky Saturday night and Sunday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Lee Shepherd spent Sunday at the home of Diah Shep- herd at Potter.
 H. J. Morris and family, who have farned one of the Naler farms here Ilse past season expect to leave this
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17

D. W. Hughes is having a new house built.
 C. B. Tyler and family will leave soon for Big Cedar, Okla.
 School did not open here Monday on account of influenza.
 Dr. C. A. Campbell was called to see Earl Pollard Friday. Nearly every one in this neighbor- hoo dis i'll with influenza. Bro. Alley preached at the Primi- tive Baptist church Sunday Rowe and Pollard purchased a saw mill last week and will set it later. Lacy Terrell returned home last week from Oiltown, Ok. He reports influenza worse there than here.
 Sunbeam.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
ARE YOU NERyoos?
Maybe There Is Cause For It That
 You Can Correct.

You Can Correct.
 Many who suffer from backache and weak kidneys are unnaturally .rrl- table, fretful and nervous. Not only does constant backache "get on the nerves" but bad kidneys fail to ,,lim- mate all the uri" acld from the sys- tenn, and uric acid initiates the nerves, keeping one lon edge" and carsing rheumatic, neuralgia pains. When suf- ferlng so try Deans Kidney Pills the medicine so we'll recommended by Mena people. Read this Mena resi- dents statement:
 Mrs. s. A. Cummins, 401 Eleventh St., says: Several years age my kidneys were causing considerable annoyance I had an almost constant pain in the small of my back. I was nervous and worn out and frequently had dizzy spells. Soon after l began taking D6an's Kidney Pills l norice1 change for the better. l got Dams at the Jackson Drug Co.,, and used about three boxes. 1t wasn't long be- fore my back was strong and the oth- CT ailments had left ne"
 Price soc at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy-get Doans Kidney Pills-the same that Mrs. Cummins had. Foster -Milourr Co.,, Mfgrs., Buffalo. N. Y. Adv
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17

daughter, lives here. Internent was in Umphrie's cemetery Tuesday af- ternoon.
 L. A. Peugh returned Tuesday morning from business trip to Ft. Smith. He had purchased an Oak land Six car and inntended bringing 1t through, but on account of roads left it.
 R. A. Rush left Monday for Jeffer- son Barracks, St. Louis, in response to telegram stating that his son, Hoover, was very low with pneumonia following Spanish enfluenza.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
Inspecting Manganese Properties.

Among the arrivals in Mena Thurs day and Friday of strangers interest ed in manganese are the following: E. P. Barton, Oklahoma City. Ralph P. Stanion. Pawnee, Ok. D. c. Henry, Caddo Gap.
 H. NJ. Toll, Oklahoma City
 II. F. Mcdaniel, Gravette.
 II. J. Buell., Webster City, Ia.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
LEAVES IT TO THE KAISER.
U. s. Press Generally Approves the
 Presidents Reply.

Washington, Oct. e.-The opinion of the newspapers of the United States of the reply of President Will son to the German peace proposal generally is one of approval. It an parently is generally conceded that while the tone of the Presidents nj quiry is coneilistory it really puts mn to Germany what amounts to aunco,, ditional surrender" ani makes tLe next move the kaiser's.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17

It is estimated that the European loss in cattle, hogs and sheep amounts to over 10o,0OO.O00 head.
 In view of the great decrease in meat animals in Europe, accompanied by the necessary reduction of breed ing animals in those countries, and the heavy shipments of beef from this country, the opportunities for cattle raising in the United States look very promising. The demand for beef for our army and our Allies far exceeds the supply The demand for meat, and especially beef, will in all prob ability increase as long as the war lasts. Our soldiers and the armies of our Allies must have meat. They are i depending largely on the farmers of this country to supply them with meat as well as other articles of food. It is, therefore, the obligation of every farmer of Arkansas to do his utmost in producing beef
 MiIliens Acres Land Wasted. There are millions of acres of waste land in Arkansas that should be util- ized in grazing live stock. A large per cent of this waste land is better adapted to grazing beef cattle than any other class of live stock. Cattle Bringing Better Prices.
 Cattle of all classes are bringing better prices than was ever known in the history of the country. It seems now, from the best information at hand, that prices are likely to remain | good for some time.
 Every farmer in the state should look towards the increase and i'm provement of his herd. Beef cows should be bred to good registered bulls -Shorthorn, Hereford, or Aberdeen Angus. A few farmers, having only a few cows each, should cooperate in buying a good registered bull of some beef breed. All scrub bulls should be eastrated before they reach six months of age. Grade herds can be rapidly and constantly improved by the use of registered bulls Grade calves, pro duced by mating registered bulls with ordinary native COWS, show many of the characteristics of their sires and make quite satisfactory feeders, many of which are capable of being develop cd into good to choice beef steers. It is probably advisable for the av. craze farmer to grow into the live stock business" rather than to go into it. A good way to begin is for the farmer to buy a registered bull for his own use or comparatively with his neighbors. If this cannot be done, some arrangement should be made for breeding his cows to some registered bull in the community In some cases it woa be advisable to buy a few good native cows. Provision should be made for maintalnin gthe herd iu good condition during the winter.
 The good to choice heifers should be kept for breeding purposes and the inferior heifers and steers sold for beef
 With intelligent care and attention the herd should make consistent i'm. proyement and the farmers who sue ceed in improving their herds to a considerable extent may then hope to succeed in breeding registered beef cattle.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
WICKEs WAVES.

The school closed here last week on account of the "flu.n
 Mrs. ". M. Darwin left this week for her home in Louisiana.
 Col. Jett and family. also c. H. Jett, spent Sunday on the river.
 Lida Cole went to Mena Tuesday to visit her sister. Mrs. Myrtle Cole.
 Mir. and Mrs. Will Hedge visited at the home of l. s. Sanford Sunday.
 Miss Lucy Cole from Crarnis is visiting relatives in Wickes this week.
 r. ? Parson returned home from sss<.ar title Rock where he had been working In the eantonments for some
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-17
Card of Thanks.

I desire to thank my friends and neighbors for the kindness and sym pathy shown me on account of the great loss which came to me in the death of my husband, Private William F. Ward.
 42-1 Mrs. Ellie Ward.