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The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09
Death of Mrs. smedley at Cove

Mrs. Annie Smedley, aged 50 year' II months and 27 days, living in h'. Curtain county, Oklahoma, west Cove, died on Friday at the home 2 her niece, Mrs. James Evans, Cove. The funeral services, cohduesea by the Rev. ]. L. Skerrett of the Fres byterian church, were held on sasal day at l o'clock at the Comnlefen Hotel. Interment was in the Nes' view cemetery. Mrs. Smedley Wss ss < widow, her husband having dlea < years ago. She is survived py z brother and a sister, by her nlss Mrs. James Evans, and two nepasrs Harry and Richard Ward. Ine n% z SITS. Ward were in Mena Frlqsy ,, 7 make funeral arrangements wl.h 9r V. dertaker J. c. Frazier. Mir. rfal,a ns srent C. Cove Saturday morning ". his hearse to take charge o'
 funeral. W s4
The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09

Diamonds. fine furs and few other like necessities continue to climb in price-but it's the climbing of corn meal, bacon and such that hurts. Never mind those ether things. Let those ihut buy 'em pay.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09
Didn't Work That Way.

Robson, dc you know why sos x \ like a donkey 1T the jester qusr<ps z =.
 Hike donkeyfH echoed hos''e' \ opening his eyes wide. T don z ...A.
 Because your better hall 's ''' borness itself" --..ls
 The jest pleased Robson iInmssstr V, A for he at once saw tn opportun'ss. s. " \ a glorious dig at his wife. DO x',r Inn got home he said: "Dear, do yVa s.jt. why I am like a donkey! ns ';<s p ed a moment, expect ng his VI, ,.,i. give it up. But she didn't F; Sns <. ,st ed at him somewhat pityingly ss Y answered: .. vert
 T suppose it's because you born SO"
The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09
FOR THE LOVE OF CHILDREN.


 Polk county is soon to lose two good citizens and their families be- cause, by moving to Oklahoma they are enable to place their sons and daughters in high schools, and with 8 college within easy reach.
 W. H. Cox unloaded his household goods and farm equipment at Cove on December T, 1914, and was told by ind-hearted sympathizers that while it took car to bring his property in, he would be able, in few years, to carry it out on his shoulder. It so chanced that the editor of The Star met Mir, Cox just about then, and got his subscription to The Star.
 Anyhow, Mir. Cox bought farm 41s miles from Cove, and had just s67 left. He is closing out now, because mother wants to give the girls a good education, and wants to have them at home while they are getting it,v and there is but an S-grade school near their home, and they are moving to better schools. Mir. Cox, however, has lots of good things to say for Polk county, among which is the statement that, besides good health and pleasant surroundings, he is at least $4,500 better off than when he came. 8
 So much as an answer to the busy body "sympathizers."
 In Mena with Mir. Cox, and joining him in sale, and planning to move to the same place in Oklahoma, was J. F. Green. Mir. Green says that ten years ago he had just $400. He bought a farm, and while he did not say so, The Star is informed that he can leash out" at this time at be- tween $l7,00O and $20,000. His req son for leaving Polk Is the same as that given by Mir. Cox. except, that his girls are all boys,p but he as serts they are entitled to just as good educational advantages as his neighbor's daughters.
 The Star takes pleasure in one part of this double-deck story the chance it gives to again demonstrate to the world that Polk county is right; that folks who try can make good" here and enjoy life. But there is a sting to the other part--that there arc oth- CT places that give better opportuni- ties for training children, and that because of this. Polk county suffers,
 But the consolation remains thht fl won't be so for long. All Arkansas is awakening to the fact that we'll educated children are an asset far above well-trained horses and mules and well-fattened pigs. And 1t is safe to say that no county in Arkansas is making greater advance in schools than Polk county and this is move ment which, once well under head way, gains momentum at multiply ing rate.
 But we do regret to lose those good
 H4 citizens fathers and mothers, boys and girls. They are the kind that make the world better. The cause however, is before us, and it is up tC us to remove it.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09

Bsert is said to have taken the oath as Imperial president" of Ger many. Is this something like a re- publican emperor?
The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09

Jsst five years ago there were a lot of Americans in Europe most aw- fully anxious to get "back home. !" Right now it is said the tide has turned the other way all of which shows some Americans don't know q good thing when they have it.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09

A leather trade journal declares that @the people simply will not buy cheap shoes" Plain folks don't sim ply because .there ain't any such an- snaI.r
The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09

Is it in order to again agaiii--re- mark that there are no prohteers yet occupying the country's iails?
The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09

A little money is often dangerous thing, yet most of us are ready to take chances.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09

Tuberculosis persons n
 shown the Night and Day Camp the Relief and Prevention of Tube Ke threatened them They Spew away po" medical is preyentable we'll
 living building Dods of time in their lives leading hs disease This organization
 which the funds carry derived
The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09

Auction Saturday, 3 o'clock, oppo- site Lyric Theater--House goods. including complete Kellogg telephone desk set.-Adv. 240-1t 41-1t
The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09

Strayed Milch COW, black Jersey.
 from my place west of Hatfield. Liberal reward Jess Whitfords--Asly
The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09

For Sale Nearly new Springfield
 wagon, and team of mules, and har- ness. See Emmett Rowe, Rocky. Adv. 4l-3t
The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09
IMPORTANT NEWS NOTES.

The railroad brotherhoods' repre- senting more than million men, re- fuse to participate in the industrial conference called by President Wilson because the basis of representation is not changed to suit them.
 Virtual calm prevails at Elaine and Helena, tho sporadic clashes with the negro insurrectos have taken place in recent hours. 4 committee of seven. appointed by Governor Rronsh .- U. vestigating.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09
Groves TasteIees cI1lIl Touls

restores vitality and energy by pssifyins and en richine the blood You can soon feel its Strength enine. lnvisoFstinf Effect Price 6oc.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09

Seven hundred printers in New York have quit work without consent of their union.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09
Will Resume Mining 0pera'''''s,' ,,

i
 W. s. Arlington announesss nss, !s work would begin this Monoe !. developing the mining propeIy' .y'.s'asus Tex-Ar-Mena Mining z pess. " uuss Company. From eight to a,- ss sts will be started to work, and n'si ssjSr 2 will be added, the purposs .',s.t Ihs continue getting out ore tnluv; ~, ;u tr winter and then install mn aasx x s spring. The work is beng '..a mic the Swartout homestead. w
 south of Dallas. :. For Sale or Trade-S Six.rocc|s cs o,1 csI' and five lots, 40 Fourth o''' rlectfit nev 4th and Port Arthur. failig lights. city water and nesss x sait, M z well of good water. Terms .,'s,srIy " ! would consider trade for plDp 1sssss Bs' or near Cram Ark a,s Ado;s a-s! 2I. Grannis, ArkAdy- Sz0''
The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-09
We Want Farms!

IF YOU have a farm well worth the money anywhere south of Mena in Polk @ County, we would like to contract for the sale of the property. There are more real farm buyers visiting us now than at any time during our farm sell ing experience We are spending sev- eral thousands of dollars in advertise ing our Polk County farms and if you deal with our Farm Agency you will get quicker results than with some local agent who spends very little if any cash in securing buyers. We are receiving at the rate of nearly 100 letters day from farmers wanting to deal through our company Our new Farm Catalog will soon be ready to go to press and we want as many farms as possible described in this catalog.
 Write or call at once
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-29
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village TOLD
Briefly for Busy Readers

zMises Mary and Anna Guiltinan of
Schenectady are guests Of Miss Rose
Morrissey.
John Perry who was at his home
here for over Christmas has returned
to Gardner
Special meeting of Mt. Anthony
lodge tomorrow evening. First de-
gree viii be conferred.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Walquest an
nounce the engagement of their daugh-
ter Elsa Victoria to Howard c. Estes
Miss Harriet Burt, who has been the
guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ],
Oliver BUT, has returned to Spring
field.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Gordon of New
York are guests at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Meyer Kohn of School
street
Cole Burt, who was Christmas
guest at the home of his parents, Mr.,
and Mrs. j. Oliver Burt, has returned
to New York.
Miss Mary vanOw and Miss Louise
Warn, who have been spending the
Christmas vacation at their homes
here, returned yesterday to Shorthills
". j., where they are employed
Attention! The II. w. Putnam
Hose Co, No. will hold meeting in
their rooms on River street Thursday
evening, Jan. /, 1920. All members
are earnestly requested to be present
as business of Importance is to be
transacted.
! While coasting on South street Doug
last Stewart ran into the automobile
owned by Mrs E. W. Bradford. The
boys sled struck the rea.' wheel of
the car and the youngster was thrown
into the road with such force that he
was slightly bruised on the head and
body. He was taken at once to the
office OF a physician who found that
his injuries were not at all serious
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-29

alon hpuot live by bread alone. The
.dind came; develop on an exclusively
scientific diet. If We sat Oh our spin
ming globe and studied only the phys
zeal laws that keep 1t going we
should become either lunatics or ma
chines. The lines of beauty in he
form and decoration Of vase, and the
studied harmony Of tones and colors
HAT stir the soul Ms though they were
u uScaI sounds are like To the inscrip-
I'll ms made on his dungeon walls by u
y e prisoner, who, with their aid.
fivcS away madness aud keeps his
nd sweet. "-Ch'cago American.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-29

believe we can count upon the sense
of justice and fairness in the great
mass Of men who must finally decide
We have had many grave questions TO
settle in the past and on the whole
have we not settled them wisely SO
we shall this We will not despair.
In that old story Of the sphinx
which we began, there is another fact
that may prove a parallel One day
man appeared who solved the rid
die. Thebes offered him her throne
if he could answer the question and
he answered it. The sphinx was de-
stroyed and Edipus became King. Let
US hope that our own country may be
the one to find the true solution OF the
riddle and thereby bring safety and
+ eedom to the people OF all lands II
that shall be the fortunate result, the
parallel will be complete, for America
will take her seat upon the throne OF
power, not to rule the other nations
in the ordinary ways Of political con
troll but by the might of truth and the
influence Of her example.
The riddle the old sphinx proposed
was this? What creature IS 1t that
goes on four legs in The morning, ON
two at noon and on three in the even
ing? The answer was, Man In the
morning he creeps, at noon he walks
upright on two strong feet, in the eve
ming he limps along with cane orstaff
Man! Mani" cried Edipus, and the
Sphinx expired SO now the answer
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-29
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

THE Yelled Adventure" with Con
stance Talmadge is story CT romance
and thrills-Library Theatre today
ADV.
Banner and Reformers containing
the the account Of the Bennington
garage fire may be had at The Banner
office.
The girl who learned lesson--see
Constance Talmadge in 1.-THE Yelled
Adventure" Library Theatre today
ADV.
Miss Alice Stone of Park street is
visiting Miss Marion Lynch of Rut.
land. Miss Lynch is former resident
of Bennington.
Coming to Harte Theatre tomorrow
Pauline Frederick in "Thes Peace of
Roaringk River" Pathe News, Rolin
Comedy. Prices 6 and II at all
shows.-Adv.
The Y. M. C. A. will not be open to
the girls and young women of the com
munity this coming Wednesday as the
building will be closed part of the
day on Thursday.
Frank Mulligan of Camp Meade, Md.
is visiting his sister, Mrs. Margaret
Larin OF Park street for over the holi-
days. He has been a member of the
United States regular army for over
thirty years and spent several weeks
here during last summer.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-29
BOOZE SMUGGLERS IN
SHADOW OF 'THE PEN''
United States District Attorney Says
They VIII Be Sent to
Atlanta.

The extraordinary number of cases
Of smuggling intoxicating liquors
across the border, and the many
cases which are coming up for trial
all the time has moved United States
District Attorney V. A. Billiard OF
Burlington to call standing grand
jury to try these cases
Attorney Bullard stated that such
traffic in liquors must cease and the
public must know that prosecutions
and heavy sentences would follow
this violation of law Immediately He
further stated that he would insist
on term in Atlanta for those found
guilty of violating the law.
Despite the fact that a large mum.
Der of extra deputies are ON duty
along the border, and many arrests
are being made, the smuggling con.
tlnues. The immense profit in the
business for those who succeed in
getting their goods across and sold,
is encouraging others to try it.
Eugene Gotta of Swanton truck.
man of that place, who was caught
on the street with % bottles of Sea-
grams whiskey, a favorite brand for
smugglers, was before Commissioner
-. j. Enright recently. BAH was fin.
ally fixed at $500 and furnished The
case will go before the next term of
court.
With the proposed standing grand
/ jury it would be possible to try cases
Immediately and either discharge or
indict them without delay, The jury
would be composed OF men who could
be summoned easily and quickly to
settle cases.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-29

To Heal 4 Cough
Take HAYES HEALING HONEY. So
per bottle.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-29
ANNUAL MEETING

Bennington Battle Monument and His.
toricaI Association.
The annual meeting OF The Ben.
nington Battle Monument and Histor-
ical Association will be held at the
office OF Batchelder G Bates in the
Village Of Bennington on the second
Wednesday in January (the Four.
toenth day. 1920 at ten o'clock in the
forenoon for the election of officers
for the year ensuing and the transac-
ton of any other business proper to
be done when met,
Edward L. Bates,
Recording Secretary.
Bennington, VI,
December z2nd., 1919,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-29
NOTICE
To Whom Il May Concern:

o Whom Il Way CONCERN.
Notice is hereby given that will
pay upon presentation at the Town
Treasurer's Office in the town OF
Searsburg, Vermont, on or before Jan.
uary oath, A. D., 1920; One Overseer
of Poor order No. 8 fer $4,000 and in
terest drawn 10 VIM Paddock Dec
ember 21st. 1915 And that after said
January Gath. A. D.. 1920, said order
will cease TO draw interest.
Dated at Searsburg, Vermont, this
18th day of December A. D., 1919.
GEORGE BRIGGS,
Town Treasurer.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-29
NOTICE.

The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers Of the First National Bank. OF
their banking house on Tuesday. the
sixth day of January, 1920. at ten
o'clock A, NJ. FOR the purpose of elect
ing a Board OF Directors for the ensu-
ing year and for any other proper and
necessary business.
Ralph A. Jones, Cashler.
North Bennington, VT.
Dec. 3rd. 1913
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-29

is still, Man, the dignity, the honesty,
the intelligence Of man. The solution
can only be found in policy that
see al men a brothers, all equally
entitled to the fruits of their labor
and TO the right to raise themselves
as high as possible, each in h own
place, without doing wong to any of
the rest. 1t is the spirit of justice
and fraternity that must be our guide.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-29
QUEEN OF THE FoLLlEs"
Weeks Engagement at Opera House
viii Begin This Evening

THE Queen of the Fol,ies" Will be
the attraction at the Opera House
every evening this week, beginning TO.
night.
The show will earn the reputation
of being full of snap and dash, never
failing to attract attention because Of
It's coed looking girls Its comedians,
good music. catchy whistly songs, an
every other attachment required to
mako it a leader among the best o..
ganIations
The show should not be missed by
those who ENJOY girls, music AMI fun.
They have engaged only girls who
captivate you at the first glance, com
ediaps you can't resist, singers with
voices and songs beyond perfection
There are no old ideas, all new, and
ahead of everything yet thought of by
any other show.
The chorus is composed OF twelve
beautiful girls and is said to be the
best yet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-21
THOM SEES NO ESCAPE
Says Railroads Cannot Be Kept Out
of Politics.

Washington, Jan. 21.-A. P. Thorn,
general counsel for the association of
railway executives continued his argu-
ment before the interstate commerce
committee Monday for a department
of railroad with a cabinet officer at its
head to exercise governmental super
vision when the roads are returned to
privte control. Mr.. Thorn reiterated
his belief that a cabinet officer would
not likely be influenced by politics, but
added:
Il do not think it possible to keep
the railroad administration out of poll
tics. 1t is a question of the type of
politics. we have political govern
ment and if there is going to be gov
ernmental regulation there will be
some politics in the administration"
The witness said congress should en-
act laws to overcome laws in thirty
states which would rather initiate
against the unification plan of the
railways executives. Replying to
Senator Cummins of Iowa, who asked
what would be in the event a state
forbade a road. operating under the
federal incorporation to operate as an
intrastate carrier. Mr.. Thorn said con-
gress had the power to charter a COM
mon carrier and the constitution would
force the state to permit it to operate
within its borders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-21
LESS MEAT HERE.
Production in Kansas Falling
OFF, J. C. MOhler Says.
Forecasts Reduction of % Per
Cent in Spring Pig Crop.

C. Mohler, secretary of the Kan
sas State Board of Agriculture. as
serted today that the meat production
in the state is falling off. Estimates
of correspondents of the board show
that there we're on hand Novembe
with 1,467.082 hogs, March l. This
hundred and thirty-three farmers out
for the 1918 pig crop have. been such
as to decrease pork production.
Asked the question, How will the
number of sows bred for the 1919
spring pig crop compare with the
number of sows bred for the 1918
spring pig crop?" correspondents esti-
mate 10 per cent This means that
the spring crop of next year is likely
to be rs per cent less than the spring
pig crop of 1918. The causes for this
situation are laid chiefly to unfavor-
able market prices and to high prices
of feed, particularly corn
There has been a similar dropping
off in beef cattle. On March l, 1918,
there were on hand in Kansas 2,239,-
III beef cattle, and on November %,
1918, the number had dropped to o.
133,920, a decrease of AT per cent.
The shortage of feeding crops this
year is undoubtedly responsible for
the smaller number of beef cattle in
preparation for market. 1t is but nat
ural that short crops and unfavora BILE
prices should be reflected on Kansas
farms by a smaller number of meat
producing animals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-21
HOME RULE FOR


tContlnued from Page One.)
mittee will be announced in a few
DAYS, following conference of
Hegler and the house speaker
With the appointment today of the
Judiciary Craftsmanship, Speaker
Lambertson named heads of the labor
and printing committees. Uplinger of
Cheyenne, a Democrat, was appointed
as chairman OF the labor committee
Cplinger is one of the veteran mem
bers of the house. His appointment
pushed aside w. NJ. Amos of Shawnee
county, who had been slated as the
probable chairman of the important
committee. Hill of Pottawatomfe
county, was appointed chairman of
the printing committee.
JoIts Salary Resolution.
BY a vote of 81 to 35, the house to-
day defeated a resolution by Finney
OF Sumner to provide for a joint sub
committee to investigate the salary
scale in the state house. A number of
members argued for a committee that
would study the present salary system
and report a committee bill adjusting
the present schedules. But the house
didn't see the matter. They wanted
the matter handled in the regular and
established manner. Some of the pres
ent salary schedules in the state house
have been in effect since the LEVEL
ing administration in 1898, when Kan
cents a bushel looked like mountain
prices for wheat.
After Electric Lines.
Representative Shideler offered two
bills in the house today providing for
new electric line regulations. One bill
provides for platforms of uniform
height fer all electric cars operating
on the same line. This plan. Shideler
believes. would prevent much trouble
from collisions. Another bill would
provide that electric lines using two
or more traiIers should operate under
a. full crew law. Shideler wants mo-
torrnan, conductor and flagman on all
electric trains of three cars.
Make zones Pay Freight"
Chase of Linn, speaker pro tenn in
troduced a bill providing that insur-
ance companies must pay the attorney
fees of plaintiffs in all cases decided
against such companies except where
compromises have been offered in ex-
cess of the amount of judgment. His
bill is along the line of a measure pro-
posed Monday by Representative Gar
vim.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-21
KEEP THE REDS OUT
Supreme War Council Hears From
Former Ambassadors to Russia.

Paris. Jan. 21.-The supreme war
council-the Steering committee" of
the peace congress-again took up the
Russian problem today.
Representatives of the United
States, Great Britain. France, Italy
and Japan resumed their hearings in
the Quai D'Orsay on the subject of
representation and possible recogni-
ton of the various factions now con-
trolling Russia.
H. Scavenius, former Danish am
bassador to Petrograd, one of the last
diplomats to leave Russia, was heard.
His country was one of the last of the
neutrals to break off relations with the
soviet government. ~
1t was believed that under the cir
cumstances. his testimony would
closely parallel that of Joseph Noulens,
the French ambassador TO Russia, who
appeared before the council Monday.
Noulens' statement was not made
public, but shortly after his return
from Archangel he gave out an in
terview in which he declared that any
form of recognition of the Bolsheviki
was impossi BILE.
The date for resumption of the full
peace congress had not been set this
morning, altho it was believed IN some
circles that the council might DISPOSE
Of its business in time to permit a
general session in the afternoon.