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The Mena weekly star., 1919-02-20
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 C. H. Johnson,
 Owner
LEGAL NOTICES.
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
 NOTICE is hereby given that there has been filed in this court a petition, signed by R. Golf, J. F. Hood, D. M. Watkins, and others, purporting to be a majority in land value, acreage or number of land owners within a pro- posed road district embracing the fol- lowing territory: Sections 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 2s. go, 32, 33, 34, 35, and Sls 17 and IS, and Elh 30 and Eh 31, all in Township 1, South, Range 30, West; Sections 1, 2, 3, 1, 5, 6, ', 8, 9, 10, II, 12, 13, Id, l5, 16, IT, IS, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, go, and 30, all in Township 2. South. Range 30, West; Sections 1, 2, II, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19. 20, 21, 22, 23, a, 25, 26, 27, 2s, 20, 30, 31, S2, 33, s4, and the N1s 35, and the SWA of 35. and the Nh of 36, all in Township 2, South, Range 3t, West; Sections 24, %, 35, 36 all in Township 2, South, Range 32, West; Sections |. 2, 3, 10, II, 12 i 13, 14, Is, 21, 22, 23, a, 25, 26, 27, 2S 2g, 31, 32, B, 34, 35, 36, all in Town. ship 3, South, Range 32, West; Sec. tions 3, 4, 5, 6. T, s, 9, 10, 16. IT, IS 19, 20, 2i, 20, 30, 3i, all in Township 3. South, Range 31, West; Sections 1 l ib, is. IT, is, ls, 20. 2i, 22. aS, a4, 25 26, 27, 2s. 34, 35, 36, ail in Township 4, South, Range g, West; Sections l1s. I9, 20. 21, 2s, go, 30, 3f, 32, 33 all in Township 4, South, Range 31 West; Sections s, b l, 2 2, 3, B. 10, Il, L 12, i, ls !; | 0 IA fQ 20, 21, 22. 27, 2S. go, 30, 31, 32. 33, 34 all in Township 5, South, Range 3l West; Sections 1, 2, Il. 12, 13, Id, 23 24, 25, 26. 27, 34, 35. 36, all in Town ship 6, South, Range 32, West; Sec tions 4, 5, 6, 2. 8, 9. 16, IT, IS, 19, 20 21, 2S, 20, 30, 31, 52, 33, all in Town ship 6, South, Range 31. West. ans praying the improvement of certain public road from west line Sec. l9 Township 1, South, Range 30, West to Sevier county line at Section 31 Township 6, South, Range 31, West and that preliminary survey ans estimate have been made by the Stat, Highway Department. as required b, law, and filed in this court befor said petition was circulated, an, there was also filed with said petition q good bond. conditioned as require, by law.
 NOW, THEREFORE, all persons firms or corporations owning land o other real property in the propose, district are hereby notified to appea before the county court on the 5tl day of March, 1919, at the hour O 10 o'clock q. m., to show cause for o against the establishment of sai road improvement district.
 H. w. FINGER,
 County Judge.
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shipping. while the familiar range oi hills that hid the Yumuri-that valley of delight so closely linked in his thoughts with Rosa yarona-se seemed to smile at him like an old friend. Fol the thousandth time he asked himself if he had come in time to find her, ol if fate's maddening delays had proved his own and the girls undoing.
 OReilly knew that although Matan gas was prison and pesthole. a gir like Rosa would suffer in perils inf nitely worse than Imprisonment or dis ease. It was thought he could moi bear to dwell upon
 Signs of life began to appear now the travellers passed small garder patches and occasional cultivated fields; they encountered loaded carts bound into the city, and once they hie themselves while column of mounted troops went by.
 o'Reilly stopped to pass the time oi day with wrinkled cartman whose dejected oxen were resting.
 "Going into the city, are youT' inc fellow inquired. Starved out, I sun pose. We'll, it's as pleasant to starvt in one place as another"
 Jacket helped himself to a stalk oi cane from the load and began to strlr 1t with his teeth.
 "Will the soldiers allow us to enter?' Johnnie inquired.
 "Of course. Why notf The old mn laughed mirthlessly; then his voic, changed. "Go back" he said, go bacl and die in the fields. Matanzas stin',s of rotting corpses. Go back where tlH air is clean" He swung his long lash over the oxen, they leaned against the load, and the cart creaked dismally on it's way.
 It is never difficult to enter a trap. and Matanzas was precisely that There were soldiers everywhere, but beyond an indifferent challenge at the outer blockhouse, perfunctory ques- ton or two, Narciso and Juan villar experienced no trouble whatever in passing the lines. Discipline, never strict at best, was extremely lax at the brick fortinas along the roads, and. since these two refugees were too poor to warrant search, they were waved onward by the sentries. They obeyed silently; in aimless bewilderment they shufiied along toward the heart of the city. Almost before they realized it they had run the gantlet and had joined that army of misery, fifteen thousand strong. The hand of Spain had closed over them.
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HAD RETURNED 1882 TANKS. Bakers Report Also Shows 1,069,116 Demobilized at Home Camps.

Washington, Feb. 12.--From the signing of the armistice to February 8, 2S7,3o2 American troops in France and Great Britain had embarked for the United States, while up to Febru- ary 67,454 officers and 1,069,116 men had been demobilized in this country Total arrivals of overseas troops up to February were 215,749.
 These figures were made public today by Secretary Baker, together with others relating to the number of sick and wounded now in France and the number returned home. Men ir France being treated for disease or February 1 totaled 62,561, and those suffering from wounds were 24,484 The aggregate of 87,045 was 4,6Ss less than in the preceding week and 1o6,403 less than the number in hos. pitals overseas on November 14.
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JUST DAMN FOOL" TANKS.
Boche Officer Couldn't Understand
 Why They Faced Machine Guns.

From the Saturday Evening Post.
 You Americans are nothing but plain damn foolslv declared a German officer captured in the Argonne. "To go up against machine gun nests like that is madness" And yet it was pre- cisely by that frontal attack, bu damn fool inattention to danger when there was no other way out, that most of those machine gun nests were mopped up.
 Of one private it was related that, unarmed, save for boehe revolver, he took machine gun nest and four teen prisoners. The next day when cleaning his weapon, he discovered, to his horror, that it was not chargedl Captains and colonels walked forth, leading their men with nothing but their swagger sticks in their hands.
 But to me that seems sheer fol- | ly! l objected to the officer who re- lated this.
 Not at all!' be retorted. "Our business was not to shoot, but to lead and encourage our men. One be comes callous to danger. And, any how, fighting isn't what fiction writ CTS play it up to be. It's as prosaic as an old shoe. I've seen men at the zero hour jump off for an attack smoking a cigarette. And they'd call out to comfade as they ran: Well, hello, Bill; heard you'd gone West. How's Sadie and the kids?' It all gets to be part of the days job."- Elizabeth Frazer.
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"To Hell With America. .

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 At the beginning of the inquiry in. to Bolshevism, l. W. w. and other dangerous propaganda in the United States by the Senate's Judiciary Com.
 mittee, Dr. William c. Huntington
 former commercial attache of the American embassy in Petrograd, told some of the experiences he had before
 he was compelled by intolerable con- ditions to leave Russia last fall.
 Dr. Huntington attended the recent meeting in Washington, where speak CTS who were advertised to give "the truth about Russia" made statements that were untruthful He said he did not know whether these speakers were Bolshevik propagandists. He does know, however, that money has been sent to other countries by the Bolshevik forces in Russia for the purpose of spreading the propaganda.
 No doubt there were well-meaning theorists among the original Russian Bolsheviki. But cupidity, revenge and lack of discipline smothered im- mediately any good that might have been in Bolshevism Today Bolshe- vism means chaos.
 Americans have reason to expect that efforts will be made to inocalate a certain class in America with Bol- shevism. But there is reason to be- lieve that Bolshevism will kill itself in this country before it gets q foot hold, for the theories of Bolshevism are so outrageous and detestable as to be grotesque and the men who have attempted to present them in this country have, in the main, been as bad as the theories they uphold
 The United States government has gathered together for deportation an issortmnt of 54 dangerous aliens, which include Bolsheviki, I. W. w, and anarchists. This precious outfit .hanted on it's way to Ellis Island .hese words, "To hell with the United l States"
 What will the young Americans who put down their accustomed life | Q fight for this country say to organ zations that are producing men of ! his sort? A Bolshevik orator might in'sh a speech in foreign quarter of ome of the larger cities of the North IT East, but we ahudder to think of :, what would happen In crude Arkan- as to a speaker who pulled any Ito 'ell with America stuff.
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CHAPTER XVII.
Rosa.

'Tookw Jacket ciutched at O'Reiily and pointed a shaking finger. "More beggarsl Christoi And those little childrenw The boy tried to laugh, but his voice cracked nervously. Are they children. or gourds with legs under themT
 o'Relliy looked. then turned his eyes away. He and Jacket had reached the heart of Matanzas and were facing the public square, the Plaza de Ia Lib ertad it was called. Matanzas ap- peared poor and squalid, depressingly wretched; its streets were foul and the Plaza de la Libertad-grim mock cry of a name-was crowded with throng such as it had never held in O'Reilly's time. throng of people who were, without exception, gaunt, list less. ragged. There was no afternoon parade of ffnery, no laughter, no noise i, the benches were full, but their occu- pants were silent, too sick or too weak to move. Nor were there any romping children. There were, to be sure, vast numbers of understood figures in the square. but one needed to look twice to realize that they were not pygmies or wizened little old eolks. It was not strange that Jacket had compared them to gourds with legs, for all were naked. and most of them had bodies swollen into the likeness of pods or caiabashes. They looked peculiarly grotesque with their spidery legs and thin faces.
 o'Rellly passed 6 damp hand across nis eyes. "Just Heaven !" he breathed. "She-she's one of thesei"
 The reconcentrsdos overran Matsn- gas in an uncleaH swarm: streets and plazas were congested with them, for no attempt was made to confine them to their quarters. Morning brought them streaming down from the sub urban slopes where they lived. evening sent them winding back; their days were spent in an laimIess search for food. They snatched at crumbs and combed the gutters for crusts. How they managed to exist, whence came the food that kept life in their miser- able bodies, was q mystery. even to the citizens of the city; no organized effort had been made to care for them and there was insufficient surplus food for half their number. Yet somehow they lived and fingered on.
 At the time of o'ReIlly's arrival the sAght presented by these innocent vic tfms of war was appalling; it reused in him a dull red rage at the power which had wrought this crime and at the men who permitted 1t to continue. Spain was a Christian nation, he re- fiected; she had set up more crosses than any other. and yet beneath them she had butchered more people than all the nations of the earth combined This mcnstrous, coldly calculating ef- fort to destroy the entire Cuban people seemed to him the bEackest infamy of all. and he wondered if 1t would be al- lowed to succeed.
 Fortunately for the two friends, GeHr ernl Betaneouft's generosity served to relieve them from any immediate dan ger of starvation. After making few purchases and eating with the utmost frugality. they began their search. | Later they stretched themselves out to sleep on the stones beb9atb the portalae | of the railroad station.
 (Continued next week.)
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Warning Order.

No. 676 In the Chancery Court of
 Polk County, Arkansas. Commercial State Bank of Independ-
 ence, Iowa, Plaintiff, vs. G. A. Hor-
 ner and Florence Horner, Defend
 ants.
 The Defendants. c. A. Homer and Florence Horner, are warned to ap- pear in this court within thirty days and answer the complaint of the Plaintiff, The Commercial State Bank of Independence, Iowa.
 Witness my hand and the seal of said court this 1st day of February, 1919. w. l.. PARKER, Clerk Prickett s Pipkin, Attys for Plaintiff Hal l.. Norwood, Atty. for Defendants. Adv---First pub Feb. 6. Last pub. Feb. 27, 1919.
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PREFER WOMEN TO TANKS.
Railroad Board Refuses Jobs Back tC
 Two Who Quit for Army.

Brocton, Mass, Feb. 11.-A strik- ing illustration of Uncle Sam's indif- ference to the welfare of the boys who helped put the kaiser out of busi- ness came to light today in the case of William Smith and Fred Jones of this city. When the call came for men to take up arms they were em- ployed as ticket sellers for the New Haven Railroad. They relinquished their jobs to answer the call and when the railroad administration took over the control of the railroads it put women in their places.
 Now Fred and Bill are back from war, and would like to ge their old jobs back, but Uncle Sam says there is nothing doing, The women contin- ue to hold down the positions at larg. CT salaries than Fred or Bill ever dreamed would be paid for the work The women not only get $25 weel working eight hours day, but alsc get paid for overtime.
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THIS IRISH SOLDIER ADVISES
 GOD TO CHANGE MESSENGERS

A story is going the rounds in army
 rircles here that seems good enough
 to pass along, says the Louisville
 Courier-Journal. There is an Irish
 soldier, so 'tis said, who for a number
 of months had proved his American
 ism by strafing the Huns with hand
 grenade, pistol and rife. He asked for and received a furlough only to find out at the end that he had no money. so he wrote the following letter:
 Dear Lord: I have been here for ten months, fighting in mud up to my neck. The work is somewhat unpleas- ant, but we'll be glad to learn that I've killed sixty-three Germans. Now l m bit tired, but I have me fur tough all right, and all that lack is little money, having spent all mine for prayer books. If ye don't believe me, ask Father Tom McCarty. So. Lord, in the name of all the saints. I ask ye for the small sum of $10O. Sure yell never miss it and if ye send the money, I'll never forget ye in me prayers. JAMES QUIRK.v
 It happened that the censor who got hold of the letter was housed in. Young Mems Christian Association bungalow. He passed the letter around and as James was popular 1t was not long before fund of $50 had been raised. The money was placed in a Y. M. c. A. envelope and sent to the Irisman without comment The next lay the recipient sent the following acknowledgement:
 Dear Lord: I've received your $50 1 IS per application for furlough money | and l thank ye. But l make So bold IS to give ye word of warnin'. Send he next money by the Knights of Co!umbus-ye sent the last by the Young Mems Christian Association, md they nipped half of it."
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cspyrishs. bs Harpx and Brother.
fcontinued from last week.)

OReilly did not allow this we'll meant warning to influence him nor aid he listen to the admonitions of those other Cubans who tried to argue win him out of his purpose, once 1t hecame known. On the contrary, he nroceeded with his preparations and snent that afternoon in satisfying him. self that Rosa had indeed left the Pan do Matanzas before Cobo's raid.
 Among Betancourtss troops was a man who had been living in the hills at the time Asensio and his family had abandoned their struggle for ex. istence, and to him O'Reiily went. This fellow, 1t seemed, had remained with his family in the mountains some time after Asensio's departure. It was from him that O'Reilly heard his first authentic report of the atrocities per netrated by Cobo's volunteers. This man had lost his wife, his little son and all the scanty belongings he pos sessed. With shaking hands up. stretched to heaven, the fellow cursed inc author of his misfortunes.
 q live for one thingw he cried shrilly-~to meet that monster, and te butcher him, as he butchers women and children"
 oReilly purposely left his most un, pleasant task to the last. When his Arrangements had been completed and he had acquainted himself as far as possible with the hazards he was likely No encounter, he teok Jacket aside and broke the news to him that on the fol Rowing morning they must part. Al he had expected, the boy refused te aisten to him. O'Reiliy remained firm and Jacket began to weep copiously He worked himself up to hysterical crescendo which threatened to arouse the entire encampment. But o'Reilly was unmoved-
 Be quiet" he told the boy. q wont let you go with me, and that ends 1t. It'will be hard enough for ons man to slip through; two would b, fure to fail"
 Those Spaniards will skill your r ! Racket walled.
 "So much the more reason for vol to stay here"
 At this the boy uttered a louder try. He stamped his bare feet in { Frenzy Of disappointment. You das sent leave me-you dassenti"
 "Listen, people are starving in Ma ihnzas; they are sick; they are dyinl ln the streets"
 q don't eat much"
 When Johnnie shook his head stub eornly Jacket launched himself into brrent of profanity the violence O: Fhich dried his tears. His vocabu Ary was surprising. He revlied tn. 8paniards, o'Reilly, himself, everyboda znd everything; he ieveied anathemai q that woman who had come between alm and his beloved benefactor. Thu Atter listened good-naturedly. You're tough kid" he laughed hen Jackets first rage haI worn It <rif out. ~T like you, and I'd take vol
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'ouen kidl' He Laughed. s0sia. But ttls isn't an enterprise & pVs' and t won't get you any. so Keep up this racket"
 ne' next tried the power of ar. He attempted to prove that 4 h," hn,a1ar@ous undertaking of this E s n assistance would be inyalu- 2. ne was. so he declared, the enc .II6oa all Cnba in every respect s,. a ,o snare 0'Reiliy's periIs. To osei' o. ne was not afraid of Span. ' anything else, for that mat 3 uishlssed the subject of per
 .urage with a contemptuous
 ,a ~s TOT cunning. sagaeity, pru- ,s.s .s'ource, all-around worth, he 'Avet doubt unequaled in any K. ne was a veritable Spartan, LA V came to hardship--priva-
 suHering were almost to his
 he was dlscreet-dIscretion 2 a,e, a,,ning he had inherited he ZA ZA snr,pp'.o'.mat--dipiomacy n,p.'. being one
 th,s s. unique accomplishments. ho, s 'aik about hunger, O'ReIlly
 concern himself in the least
 nd sple' Tor Jacket was a small
 could grow fat op a diet of
 aVss DseA.aas ~sh rs
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TO ESTABLISH NEW BUREAU.
Proposed Appropriation of S12,5O0
 for Crop Statistics.
special to The stal

special to The Star.
 Little Rock, Feb. 13.-Senator Vanghan's bill creating State Bu- reau of Crop estimates to secure for the farmers of the state the benefits of cooperation with the Federal bu- reau, passed the Senate without op- position yester ay, carrying with it an appropriation of $l2,500 to cover the salaries of the two employees of the proposed bureau, and the incident al office expenses. Under the bill, crop estimates and other valuable agrieul- tural data would be sent to all the farmers of the state, the frauking privilege being granted by the gov ernment. The offices of the proposed tbureau would be in the State Capitol.
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Notice of Petition for New Road.

Notice is hereby given that the un. dcrslgned will. on the 18th day oI February. 1919, present to the County Court of Polk County. Arksnsas their petition to said court for the establishment of a new public road as follows. to-wit:
 Beginning at point on the Eagle ton and Waldron road north of Eagleton where the Blackfork nzipi,- borhood road leaves said Eagieton and Waldron road and running thence with said issifhporhood road ss fhe south g.l5.... llns q seett county.
 R. r Harris, and others. pT'ckeN 2 Pipkm, Attys. Adv.
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srocK EsTRAY oR AIKEN up.

Strayed- -Yearlings; branded TX
 on right side; branded with cross on right side; l branded Bar T on right hip; red, coming 2-year-old heifer, T on right hip. Reward for information. J. R. Turner, R. No. |, Mena.--Adv. 10-1t 3-6t.
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State of Arkansas, County of Polk

State of Arkansas, County of Polk ss.
 l, Will Alexander, County and Pro. bate Clerk in and for the above afore- said county, do hereby certify the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the notice of the road improvement district. of which now appears of record book "G', page 269. Polk County Record.
 Given under my hand and seal this i1th day of February, 1919. fSeaD WILL ALEXANDER,
 County and Probate Clerk. Adv. First pub. Feb. 13. Last pub. Feb. 27, 1919.
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Strayed Cattle

A liberal reward will be paid for information as to the whereabouts of cattle brand ed as follows;
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Notice of Administrators Application
 for Order to Sell Lands.

Notice is hereby given that the un. dersigned, as administrator of ths estate of Thomas J. Haskins. de. ceased, will. on the 18th day of March l9ls, make application to the Probate Court of Polk county, Arkansas, for an order thereof authorizing and di- recting him as such administrator to make sale of the following de- scribed lands, belonging to the es- tate of the said Thomas J. Haskins. deceased, for the purpose of raising funds to pay the debts of the estate:
 Sh NWA Sec. 2; SA NEA Sec. 3, Twp. 4 g., R. 29 West.
 This February II, 1919.
 R. H. Avants, Administrator. Adv. First pub. Feb. B. Last pub. March 6, 1919.
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Strayed Cattle--A liberal reward will
 be paid for information as to the whereabouts of cattle branded as fol lows: IA on either side. Perry Bros, Smithville, Ok.---Adv. 7-St
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Stock Strayedf-Write description,
 and send local to The Star. % a word once; Sc a word twice. Star Ads find them.
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Notice of petltion for Now Road.

Notice of Petition for New Road.
 Notice is hereby given that the un- dcrsigned will, on the 18th day of February. 1919, present to the County Court of Polk County, Arkansas, their petition to said court for the establishment of a new public road ar follows, to-wit.
 Beginning at a point on the Eagle ton and Waldron road where the Chant neighborhood road leaves said Eagleton and Waldron road and run ming thence with said neighborhood road in northeasterly direction to where said road crosses the line be- tween Polk and Scott counties.
 February 4, 1919.
 R. F. Harris, and others. Prickett & Pipkin, Attys. Adv.
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Taken up-0ne red COW; crop off
 right ear. l.. Grise, southeast of Mena, K. F. n. No. 4.--Adv. 7-2t
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Warning Order.

Warning Order. The State of Arkansas, County of Polk--ss. In the Justice Court of c. M Lecke, Rich Mountain Town ship.
 Wyss Lumber & Trading Go, Piaipr tiff, vs. K. w Rowton, Defendant: The Defendant. K. w. Rowton,. is warned to appear in this Court within thirty days, and answer the com plaint of the plaintiff, wyss Lumber and Trading Company.
 February 10, 1919.
 c. M. Lecke. ], r Adv. First pub. Feb. aS Last pub. March c, 1919.