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The Mena weekly star., 1919-05-01
EDITORIALS COVE, THE LIVE TOWN.

It is not because the trains pass in
 Cove that so much business is done
 here, but it is the real business that
 is done in Cove. There is more mail thrown off at Cove than at any other station between Mena and DeQueen. There are five towns in Oklahoma that ge ttheir mail thru our postoffice, be- sides five towns in Oklahoma that have their goods shipped to Cove and then hauled out by team from here. Sometimes our little depot is filled ! and piled outside with freight and hardly room to stack it. We think the Kansas City Southern will open up and give orders to enlarge our de- pot so that our popular agent, Mir. Mcintyre, will have room to care for the goods that come to this point. Further, the Cove Lumber Company, the Rebolt Lumber Company, and the Younce Lumber Company do more business here than any three towns in Polk county, and our accommodating rural mail carrier, Hal Grady, goes out on his 25-mile route everyday with his car loaded to the top. Think of this for the town of Cove! The Boosters of Cove are planning to start two more rural routes, twenty to twenty-five miles each that will reach two hundred and fifty to three hun dred families, Mail every day! Just think for moment. Our progressive farmers all over this part of Polk county and each one reading the Cove Star and the Mena Star, and only $1.50 per year. Everybody should take the Mena Star and get the Cove Star free.
 Strangers who are looking for a place to locate, come to Cove. We have good churches, good schools, good water, plenty of wood and the best class of people.
 There are good farmers all around Cove, who are progressive and are planting more crops this year than ever before.
 Land is advancing. Our real estate man, Mir. Baker, tells us he never had so many inquiries for land since he came here. This fall we expect a big boom in land all over Polk county. Come and watch Cove grow.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-05-01
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

Farmers are busy planting cotton.
 Robert Fortner made trip to Mena last week on business.
 Mrs. Thomas H. Chapman is quite sick at present.
 Fred Kelly, our drayman, took in the sights at Mena last week.
 Most all of the people of Cove are attending court at Mena this week.
 The country around Cove was blest with nice rain last Saturday night.
 A. M Parker, the real estate man. was attending court at Mena last week.
 N. I. Simons, northwest of Cove was taken down sick last week, and is very low at present.
 William Baker, one of Uncle Sam's good soldier boys, stationed on the Mexican front for the past year, re- turned home last week.
 Joe Hathaway has added to his fine herd of cattle at fine registered Dur ham male, one year old.
 J. R. Hendricks, mort of Cove, was called home from Louisiana on ac- count of two of his children being sick.
 Mrs. s. E. Bates has been down sick for nearly two weeks, threatened with pneumonia. She is mending slowly.
 Ford Younce will move his sawmill down close to the Elliott farm about the first of May, so as to be close to the big timber.
 Miss Fannie Colley, who has been teaching school in Oklahoma, .came home last week to spend her vacation with her parents.
 Miss Mamie Grady closed her term of school in Oklahoma and returned home to spend her vacation with her people, south of Cove.
 Mir. and Mrs. R. S. Allen of Mena were down to Cove last Sunday to visit J. c. Allen, nephew of Mir. Allen who is quite sick at present.
 o. B. Witherspoon, Fred Gray, Wal ter Mize and Howard J. Elliott and their families went joy-riding to Van- dervoort last Sunday afternoon.
 Remember, Friday, May 9, big box supper at Welcome Home school house, miles west of Cove. Proceeds to go to fencing the school grounds and buying new song books for the Sunday school.
 J. o. Cecil of Vandervoort, presi- dent and general manager of the Van dervoort dipping vat, asks all patrons of this vat to pay 10c per head for two dipings in order to improve the vat
The Mena weekly star., 1919-05-01
HOOVER WARNS THE HUNS
No Food If Disorder Continues,
 His Ultimatum.

Berlin, Tuesday, April 22.-A mes sage to Germany from Herbert Hoover. director general of the inter. Allied relief organization, has beer published in Berlin. In it Mir. Hoover warned against continuation of the strikes and disorders, saying they were endangering continuation oi the food supply.
 "Mr. Hoover says shortly and sharply" the Boersen Zeitung contin. ues, "'America has no desire to re. strict itself in order that it's grair ships be sunk in the Elbe and it's fat hogs may disappear thru the riots oi few thousand Spartacans or that its potatoes shall ruin in warehouses be. cause they cannot be transported
 America has the good will to save all from starvation, provided there is assurance of state of order in Ger, many. Otherwise there will be nc more ships. That is Mir. Hoover's ut imatum, which just now for Germany is of equal importance with the peace conditions of the Entente"
The Mena weekly star., 1919-05-01
HOW TANKS ARE DELoUsED.
Both Men and Clothing Must Go
 Through CO0tie Killing Process

Through COOtie Killing Process
 From the Scientific American.
 Thousands of pedicul vestimenti and more thousands of pedicuh cap- itis, direct from the battlefields and trenches of Europe, are the prospec- tive victime of the new delousing or cootie killing plant established at Camp Devens as part of the sani- tary process plan. As thousands of soldiers will be demobilized during the next few months at Devens, there will be constant daily use for such an outfit. It is one of the most modern of the many inventions evolved by the experts of the United States army and better than the original crude af- fairs that were established in the early stages of the war in France, Germany, Russia and Serbia.
 All returning soldiers from the transports that will dock in Boston will be sent to Camp Devens for de- mobilization after thorough quaran- tine, which includes the delousing process. Every soldier has to dis robe. His clothing and his belong ings are all thrown into his barracks bag. The cooties get it either way, whether they insist on staying with the soldier or with his effects. With the former they will be scalded to death or drowned out, for the soldier has to undergo a hot shower bath with plenty of soap. With the cloth ing they vii be scalded by live steam.
 The clothing and the effects in the barracks bag are thrown into huge cylindrical wire basket. 1t accom- modates seventy bags at time. Once filled the basket is rolled to the death chamber, said chamber being long steel tube connected up with pipe supplying live steam. The basket and it's contents are sealed up inside the tube by huge steel doors and the steam is turned on for 40 minutes. After this the basket is removed for the contents to cool The bags full of clothing and other impedimenta of soldier are delivered to him dry, but still warm-slightly wrinkled and shrunken, perhaps, but clean.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-05-01
VOLUME I, NUMBER T

and pay what they owe. Take due notice.
 j. R. Hendricks, who joins the D Barton farm, has lately added to his stock of fine hogs, fine Poland China registered gilt and fine male costing him nearly $500, and this should be the aim of every farmer in Polk coun. ty, to get start in better class of hogs.
 Homer Phillips, who belonged tc the 10Sth Machine Gun Battalion, ar. rived home from overseas April 16 He was over the top three times, re ceived a slight wound on the neck, anC would not take $10000 for what he saw while in the service, but would not give ten cents to do it again.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-05-01

-are easily made in writing up a store ad. We do not belive in making long list of extravagant promises and statements h week in this space that we could not fulfill. Hence we invite you to our Store with the simple prom ise that if we receive your patron age, we expect you to get satisfac- tory prices, quality-goods and cour- teous treatment in every transac- tion, whether large or small, cash or coupon book--We have only one price and the same kind of service to all.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-05-01

Home-Grown Nancy Hall Potato plants for sale. Good healthy, we'll rooted plants at $250 at Mena, or $2.75 per 1000, at your station. Phone 175. D. J. Sossamon, Mena.--Adv. 17-2t
The Mena weekly star., 1919-05-01

Get your business training at the Mena Commercial School. Excellent courses in Stenography, Bookkeeping and Accounting. Tuition per course, $500 per month.-17-tf
The Mena weekly star., 1919-05-01

Polk county was blest with fine rain on Monday evening. It sure did world of good to the growing crops all over this part of the county.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-05-01

Judge Steel is making an impression upon the minds of some people in Polk county that they must dip their cattle.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-14

The special city meeting held Thursday evening in the town hall voted to continue and complete the improvement ! of West Thames street. and appropi late money not to exceed s7,500 to take care of the improve ment, including the work on the road bed from Shipping street souther1y to the city line and to satisfy claims for damages arising because Of changes of grade or the necessary taking of land in the course of the improvement
 The meeting which had fair sized Attendance was called to order at 8 o'clock by His Honor. Mayor Jeremiah J. Desmond.
 After the clerk had read the warn ing for the meeting Mayor Desmond explained the situation. He said that in June. 1913, when the city in city meeting voted to improve West Thames street an estimate of the ex- perfse was made. As the matter stood at that time tho European war in full swing. Conditions were abnormal It was stated at that time that the state highway department would contribute ! s10.00o towards the improvement. Ev- erything had to yield to the pressure of war needs and even the authorities at Washington ordered curtailment of any Improvements not absolute nec- essary to war needs. The work was | held up until the current year. r On account of the abnormal condi- 1 tions the appropriation made at that | time was not sufficient to cover the l cost of the work The state highway department is still willing to contri- ] bute s10. 900 towards the expense There was a promise of $g.o00 as a ! gift from the Shore Line Electric 1 Railway company through the late | Morton r Plant and the mayor said 1 he believed that this money would 1 have been paid had Mr. Plant lived l The mayor in closing said he stated | these facts in order that the situation would be thoroughly understood ane l so that the meeting would understand why the street department was una
 ole to complete the work and lfeer
 within the appropriation. He said thu j matter was before the meeting for ac' | tion.
 Joseph T. Tanning then introduced
 the following resolution which wa!
 adopted by ballot:
 Resolved, That the Court of Com
 mon Council be, and it is hereby au
 thorized to appropriate such sum o sums of money as may be necessary
 not exceeding s7.500 in the aggregate to continue and complete the improve
 ment of West Thames street. inelud
 ing the work on the roadbed iron
 Shipping street southerly to the cit
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-14
ARE TO SELL ONE OF
 NEW LONDON FERRY5oATS

The New London ferry commission at a special meeting held Wednesday evening, voted to give the state of Maine an option on the purchasef of the ferryboat Nathan Hale at se0,- 900. It is thought that the sale will be consummated. Negotiations have been under way for.-some days past. and recently the state highway commits sioner of Maine came to New London to look at the boat. and he was fla vorably impressed with her in every. way.
 It is understood to be the purpose of operating the ferryboat on the Kennebec river at Augusta. Mayor E. Frank Morgan, chairman ex-officio of the ferry commission announced on Thursday evening that the commits sion had taken the action above noted
 The mayor declared that in his opin- ion it was the wise thing to sell the ferryboat. Ho said that the city isn't going to operate two ferryboats for the mere sport of the thing. If both boats should be kept in operation now that the bridge is open and the winter sea- son approaching he could not see how a deficit could be avoided.
 It was learned that the proposition is to procure a smaller boat of the ordinary passenger type of steamer, and for the purpose of carrying foot passengers only. This smaller boat would make regular trips to and from the Groton Iron Works and the Gov efnor Winthrop which is the other of the New London 'ferryboats would be used on the main line between New London and Groton for vehicular traffic as we'll as foot passengers.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-14
DIED

DIED LOOBY-In Norwich. Nov 17. 1sts. John .Looby, aged 63 years. Funeral from his late home, No. 26 Vine street, at S15 Saturday morn ing. Requiem mass at St. Patrick's church at g o'clock k0sTEH-In Brooklyn, N. Y, Nov, II. 1919. Ada Sherman Roster, formerly of Norwich. aged 4s years. Funeral services ,at Gager's funeral parlors Nc. 70 Franklin street, Fri day afternoon, Nov. 14. at 2.s0 o'clock. Burial in the family plot In Yantic cemetery.
 LINDERS0N-In Providence. Nov, Il. 1919, suddenly. Frank c. IAnderson, formerly of Norwich, aged 33 years Funeral services will be held at the parlers of Henry Allen & Sons Co. Main street Saturday afternoon, Nov, Ia, at , o'clock.
 POLLARD-In TaftviIle. Nov. 1S. 1919. Kate Burgess, wife of William Pol lard, aged 6S years. 10 months. Funeral from her late home. Front street. Taftville. Monday. Nov. 1T. at 2 o'clock. Burial in the family lot in Maplewood cemetery. New Haven. and Providence papers please copy. COTE - In Westerly, R. I. CWhite Rock).. Nov. 10. 1918. Arthur J. Cote, aged 45 years.
 COLE-m Hopkinton, R. l., Nov. II, 1919, Mary F. T. Cole. aged 75 years
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-14
VOTE TO FINISH WEST THAMES ST

line, and to satisfy claims for dam ages arising hecause of changes of. grade or the necessary taking of land in the course of the Improvement of said West Thames street.
 Allyn l.. Brown asked how much Of the $7.500 is to be used to complete the roadway to the city line.
 City Engineer $. B. Palmer said that there is about eco feet of roadway yet to be completed at a cost Of s4,580s The rest of the money Is required for the sidewalks. completion Of wall, the care of claims that have arisen, etc.
 Mr. Brown asked if this was out Of proportion to the cost of the road now cmopleted.
 Mir. Palmer said the cost will be the same per cubic yard as the city has been paying on the road
 Mir Brown asked what the cost of the whole improvement amounts to. Mr. Palmer said the entire cost is about sS00G0.
 What is the distance of the road al ready built, asked Mir. Brown.
 7 About 3,100 feet, answered Mir. Pal mer
 MT. Brown then asked when it is proposed to do the work.
 MT. Palmer said it was not thought advisable to do the concrete work this fall on account of the cold weather. Ht thought it would be better to let it gt until spring.
 The resolution was then passed b, ballot.
 Mr. Tanning then introduced the fol. lowing resolutions iii turn and they were adopted by ballot also: Resolved, That authority is hereby given to transfer to the account 0. | the West Thames street improvement | the .unexpended balance of s1.00o .o such part thereof as may remain ull | expended, from the appropriation heretofore authorized for the improve ment of North Main street. and s1.o00
 Or such part thereof as may refnail | unexpended. but not required fo ] street sprink1ing or oiling, and tn court of common council is hereby au | thorized to appropriate for said Wes {, Thames street improvement the sai' 1 unexpended balances as part of tn
 appropriation of $7.500 authorized b l this meeting.
 1 Resolved, That the borrowing 0 such sum or stIn1s as may be r1eees sary rot exceeding in the asgregat s7.500 is hereby sanctioned, the rnone So borrowed to be used in completin i the improvement of West Thame l sf~7-.s
 As. there was no other business l h.. IS trttd the meeting adjourne lat S.25 o'clock.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-14
MULTIPLE UNIT SHIP IDEA
 CAME FROM NORWICH MAN
ecial to The Bulletin. ]

New York, Nov. 13.-The multiple. unit ship idea. defeated tbe subma- rines; in contradiction to the single unit ship idea, which was being beat en by the submarines.
 Theoretically and mathemat;eally, the multiple unit ship idea attains it's highest perfection in the multiple unit ship; although the multiple unit ship itself Is irnpract;cable. The diamond convoy system which was fully ex- plained in The Bulletin, July 18th 1919, is one of the practical appiica- tions of the multiple unit ship idea.
 The multiple unit ship idea. is an American idea. conceived by James R. TroIand of New York city, who was born in Norwich. This idea applies to vessels intended for distant voyages and for navigation on the ocean. Mir. Troland first sent his multiple unit ship ideas to the United States gov ernment April 22, 1917.
 On April 30th, Admiral Sims re- ceived a message from Admiral Jel- licoe asking him to come to the ad- miralty. It had been decided to send one experimental convoy" from Gib- raltar. The admiralty had not yet de- cided to adopt the convoy system, but there was every intention of giving it fair and thorough trial. On May 20, that first convoy arrived at it's Eng fish destination in perfect condition That convoy was q practical appli- cation of the multiple unit ship idea the same as all Compact Conveys are.
 The multiple unit ship, is a theo- rectical type of ship built of ships The Compact Convoy" is a good ap- plication of the multiple unit Bhir idea, while the "stragglers" represent
 the single ship idea. The single unit ship idea being the idea of sailing ships singIy through the submarine zone.
 MT. Troland received a letter from i Hon. Josephus Daniels secretary of the
 navy, June 20. 1919. and in referring
 1o the Multiple Unit Ship" and the Diamond Convoy System" he stated 1 that "The department can see no ob.
 jection to your publishing the detail. of either idea"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-14
CHRISTMAS SEALS DRIVE TO RAISE S3.ooO HERE

The Norwich committee in charge of the sale of the Christmas seals for the benefit of the anti-tuberculosis cam paign. of which Dr. H. B. Campbell, superintendent of the Norwich sana- torium, is chairman, met Thursday evening at the Wauregan house. nak- ing rlans- for the campaign that is to be ct nducted here.
 The minimum amount to be raised in Norwich is to be $3.00O, which is all to be' sI ent in Norwich. This will be done ih the line of publicity and health nursing, providing for another public heallt nurse, who will devote special attention to the anti tuberculosis o.rk
 The campaign will be an intensive one from Dec. to Dec. 10. with ten teams Gt work and booths in public places and collections at the theatres. The committee consists of Dr. Camp bell J. A. Desmond, Joseph C. Worth a1d Philip Johnson.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-14

medical work. One for an operating room and one with three small beds for sickness. She said 1n this small place, with but a few surgical instru- ments 1000 women patients were cared for and 23 operations were per- formed in one year. It rcjoiced Mrs. Robbins heart that through the iubi- lee fund a Woman'S hospital is to be built at Palmure where 1t is so needed.
 Nothing is done educationally or medically and they are begging for, missionaries. As we give of our store we are following Ctods comma nds. For ds much as ye have given it un- to the least. of these we have given 1t untos Me"
 Miss Bingham who is the state sec retary of Vermont for foreign mis- siUrs, was a member oi the Judson party, who in 1914, visited many of the missionary stations in China and sine gave most interesting word plc- ture of the trip.
 Visits were paid to several of the schools, nakig special mention of the compound work in high school espe- cially the girls school. As reported of India, so Miss Bingham said of China, the great. great need of Wet China is medical aid. The coming year China needs 66 missionaries, to include five doctors, nurses, IS evangeits and 35 teachers. Miss Bingham coneratulated ehe society upon the meeting and said it had >in- splfed hef -42lun 1fcsn courage to go home and with her people enlarge the missionary work.
 The committee appointed on place, reported that the confereRee had been invited to hold it's nex% meeting in May which will be tbe anuaI meeting with the Huntington Street Baptist church, New London.
 r It was an impressive moment when the president, Mrs. Rough, announced that the Eastern Connecticut confer
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-14

A large number attended the enter tainment Wednesday evening at the reiterated church. The entertainer was P. Eugene Sweet of Boston. His programme consisted of singing, both classic and popular songs and dialect sotries in French, Irish. Hebrew and Negro. He gave many dramatic reel tations as they we're seen from stand- ard plays, He also gave a very good imitation of the late Bill Wye and oth- CT popular actors. It was certainly grand success and the audience was well pleased as they showed with much applause and encores were frequent Miss Ella M. Potter of Norwich ac- companied Mir. Sweet in his vocal se- lections, and her playing was treat to the large audience.
 John Buchanan has accepted q posi- tion with a Norwich grocer
 Miss Florence Redfield has returned to her home in Brooklyn, N r. after a short visit with Mrs. o. W. Carpenter of Prospect street. She had just re- turned from France as an entertainer for tho wounded soldiers during the war.
 Mrs. R. N, Smith has returned to her home in Boston after visiting rela- tives on Prospect street.
 John Morrison and Carl Button at tended the dance in Noluntown on Thursday evening.
 Joseph R. Portel&nce left Thursday noon for New Haven to attend the quarterly meeting of the state execu- tive council of the Foresters of Amer ica at the Hotel Garde
 At St. Andrew Episcopal church al the Sunday morning service, Rev. Frederick C. Lauderburn, instructor in tho Berkeley Divinity |, School. will speak upon the National wide Cam; paign. In the evening there will De an informal gathering of the men oi the parish. Henry L. Choate. field sec retary of the Brotherhood of St. An drew, has message to give to tho laymen of the church.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-14
The Porteous & Mitchell Co. E

ence had contributed $S.S73 for the hospital to be built in Palmure. India.
 This amount was secured through special individual gifts.
 After a hymn, prayer and benedic- tio were offere by the Rev. George H. Strouse, pastor of the church. Closing what was pronounced one of the largest and most interesting con ferences held by the society.
 Among those enrolled from out of town were: <t.
 Mrs. J. B. Kent Putnam; Mrs. F. A. Thompson, North Stonington, Mrs. Appleton Main, Preston City: Mrs. Leonard Main, Norths Stoningcon; Mrs. William s. Cone Groton Heights Mrs. Emma C. Tyler, Bozrah; Mrs. Walter Jeffers, Montville; Mrs. Ernest E. Rogers, New London; Miss Eliza beth Gorton, New London; Miss L. Jerome, New London: Mrs. A. N. An derson, Waterford; Mrs. S. Clinton Rogers, Leffingwell Mrs. E. c. Wheeler, Mrs. Phoebe Robinson, Mrs. W. D, Hetheringtor and Mrs. A. D. George H. Prior, Jewett City; Mrs. Gorton Huntington, New London; Mrs. A. V. Morgan. Noanls: Mrs. James o. Lawson, New London; Mrs. William Spicer, Mrs. Ada Fitch. Mrs. N. J. Chesebro. J. L. Chesebro. Mrs. Alice Chester. all of Noanl, Mrs. C.. i E. Ellis, Bozrah; Mrs. W. J. Craig, Danielson; Stella Coen, Montville; Mrs. F. A. Coates. Miss NJ. E. Coates, Mrs. L. P. Allyn, Mrs. C. H. Wolfe and Mrs. r. Batty, all of Mystic; Mrs. Henry Hamilton, Bozrah; Mrs. Oscar Patch and Mrs. H. 0. Ece1eston of l Waterford; Mrs w s. Mitchell. Mont vile Mrs. J. C. Robbins, Newton Center, Mass; Miss A. J. Bingham, Bennington, Vt; Miss Grace Com lstock, Mantle; Mrs. T. M. Brown, Willington; Mrs. Albert r. Bennett. Preston City; Miss Ella Bennett,
 Preston City; Mrs. M. D. Fuller, Mrs