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The Mena weekly star., 1920-09-02
SUFFRAGE NOW
BECOMES FACT
Secretary Colby Issues Proclamation
Giving Vote to Women-Leaders
Had Hoped To Witness Sig
natures.

Washington, Aug. 26.-The pro-
clamation announcing officially that
the suffrage amendment to the con-
stitution had been ratified was signed
today by Secretary Colby of the state
department.
The document was signed at
o'clock this morning at Mr.. Colby's
home when the certificate from
Governor Roberts that the Tennessee
legislature had ratified the amend
ment was received. Secretary Colby
announced his action on his arrival at
his Office later.
The district of Columbia supreme
court late yesterday refused to en-
join the secretary from signing.
The announcement disappointed a
group Of suffrage workers from
headquarters of the national woman's
party who had gathered at the state
department hoping to be present
when Mr. Colby attached his sigma
ture to the proclamation. Miss Alice
Paul, chairman of the party, was
among the number.
1--WE are confident that the sigma
ture of Secretary Colby completes
1he suffrage struggle in this coun-
try she said. Sin spite of every OBJ
stacle that our opponents could put
in our way, women have won the
right to an equal voice in the affairs
of this government Women's party
will not relax its vigilance, however,
until it is satisfied that no further at
tempts will be made to wrest from
the women of the United States po-
iitical equality which they have won. 4
Miss Paul planned today to go to
New York to call meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee of the party at
which the date for the national con-
yention to fix future policy will be de-
cided.
Secretary Colby's statement which
he had prepared, follows in part:
'The certified record of the action
of the legislature Of the state of Ten
nessee on the suffrage amendment
was received by mail this morning.
Immediately on its receipt the record
was brought to my house. | there
upon signed the certificate received
Of the secretary of state this morning
at 8 o'clock, in the presence of Mr.. f.
X. Nelson, the solicitor of the state
department, and Mr.. Charles L. Cook,
Also OF the Sldte uepdit ihcht. HC
seal of the United States is duly af-
fixed to the certificate and suffrage
amendment is now the nineteenth
amendment of the constitution.
ut was decided not to accompany
the simple ministerial action on my
part with any ceremony or setting.
The secondary aspect of the subject
has, regretfully, been the source of
considerable contention as to who
shall participate in it and who shall
not. Inasmuch as ! am not interest
ed in the aftermath of any of the
frictions or collisions which may have
been developed in the ding struggle
for the ratification of the amendment,
| contented myself with the perfor-
nance in the simplest manner of the
duties devolved upon me under the
law.
Congratulates Women.
II congratulate the women Of the
country upon the successful culmina-
tson of their efforts which have been
sustained in he face of many dis
arrangements and which have now
conducted them to the achievement
of that great object"
The Mena weekly star., 1920-09-02

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Be Tei co p 81 for Court House
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s NJ TaSie labor on pn" County Farm 500
DR. DR. r M Maskns s examnaon b Boyes
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Msna Sewer Co. rents for c9q r H Roc sssi
WIN Alexander pine for Court House s.9 90
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Frank Rabb wood S0 FOR s Court House s2.75
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Bemocrat Printns CO. receipt book .......... 1910
Il i, wellaee supplies for County clerk i5 90
Mena star supplies for County superintendent. 100
Ado o esraaes Of Births and
JESSE Of S BRs and and
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Mary Harror for Mothers Pension. ..... 10.
Abby Gardner. for Mothers Pension. 70 90
Martha Fomby for Mothers Pension. ......... 10 90
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Mrs ". z. Beaver, for Mothers Pension 10 90
MRS. Dora B Ma fer for M %oSe
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BERTHE Jacobs. Jury certihcate 30
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Inv W Fizh tnr Jury certificate 20
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Nj Tomlin jury certificate ............... l.5o
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Newt soiman jury certificate ................. $50
J. G Robinson, Jury certificate ............... 150
Mack Hughes jury certificate ............. 1.50
Garnet Cole, jury certificate ............. 1.50
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The Mena weekly star., 1920-09-02

Wichita Falls, Tex. Aug. 2S.-Unit-
ed States District Attorney r. E. Tay-
Tor notified local ice companies that
complaints wsuld be fled in the Fed
erai court unless the retail price of
ice was reduced to 65 cents. At pres
ent ice is being sold from wagons at
Soc per hundred. AS a result the Peo-
pies Ice Company, having practically
all the wagon trade in the city an
nounced that no wagons would be sent
out Monday and sales would be made
only from their plant platforms.
The Mena weekly star., 1920-09-02

All children troubled with Worms have an I'M
healthy color which indicates poor blood, and as
rule. there Is more or less stomach disturbance.
GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC given reenlartY
far two or three weeks will enrich the blood. i'm
prove the digestion. and act as General Strength
ening Tonic TO the whole system. Nature viii then
throw of or dispe the worms and the Child will be
10 perfect health Pleasant 20 take ere ner bottle
The Mena weekly star., 1920-09-02

For Sale--Good Groom house and
bath: pIastered and extra well fin
ished. About II acres land, with
bearing fruit trees Of all kinds. This
Is the best suburban home in Mena
See Kally-Stratton Co, OF inquire Mr.,
and Mrs. 4. J. Gramlev. on Bethesda
Ass.-Atig. 203-3t 36-it
The Mena weekly star., 1920-09-02
This Publication Cost the Taxpayers OF
Polk County the Sum of $4O15

IN THE MATTER OF THE COUNTY WARRANTS
ALLOWED FOR THE QUARTER ENDING JUNE
The Mena weekly star., 1920-09-02
STATE or ARKANSAS

/. WILL ALEXANDER. CONT
and for the County and Stalt ~
tify that the above Is true All
~ Warrants issued In the quartz
Given under my hand and sea
1899 WILL ALExa
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-29


The convention will be San Fran
cisco's most interesting contribution
to history since the earthquake, The
degree of difference is yet to develop.
Springfield Republican.
Possibly the census-takers' ioh
would be simplified if they would frs
tabulate the Presidential possibilities
and then count what few of us re
nlain.-C Chicago Daily News.
Our own idea Of an ideal Presi-
Dental ticket would be Admiral Sims
for President and Josephus Daniels
for Vice President on a platform of
medals for everybody. Grand Rap
ids Press.
In re the high cost of living, our
guess is that the manufacturers will
continue making $50 shoes and SIS
shirts as long as the public viii buy
theIl.-Nashville Southern Lumber
man.
A woman's tears are the greatest
water-power known to man-Atchi-
sen County Mail.
Nowadays a nickel is about as use
full rs glass eye at a keyhole.--New
York American.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-29
HE SAID A MOUTHFUL.

Herbert G. Hoover, former Food
Administrator, in statement made
public recently, urged that under no
circumstances should further loans be
made to any foreign nation out of the
Treasury of the United States, but
that all future commercial relations
between Europe and America be con-
fined to the ordinary business pro-
cesses.
As far as commercial credits are
concerned, Hoover pointed out that
France and England still have or
hand sufficient foreign securities to
cover their needs. while Italy con help
herself by demobilizing her armies
and getting down to peace time
basis.
As for the food situation, Hoover
asserted that Austria alone is facing
critical situation, and that as a
whole mo such situation confronted
US as last year at this time and there
is no ground for hysteria on either
side of the Atlantic" and he added
"that the time is nearing when this
countrw must cease to carry the
economic burden of Europe except
through charity and ordinary business
processes
Hoover certainly said something,
and we heartily say amen! And yet
Lord High-Cocklorum- -Somebody-or-
Other is over here now from England
to borrow the mere trifle of thirty
five billions of dollars from us, "to
keep the world from chaos" he saws.
What he means is that England
wants to get hold of all of our money
if we are suckers enough to let loose
Of it, and as far as this mere worm is
concerned he is one that does not in
tend to buy any more bonds, stamps
OF anything else if the money is to be
sent to foreign countries. There is a
whole nest of niggers in this wood
pile, and it is high time the American
people smoked them out.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-29
TO STAGE SENSATION AT AU-
TOMOBILE SHOW.

a parachute drop from an aero
plane will be one of the things tha
A. j. Nielsen, president aud general
manager of the Nielsen Aero cor
poration and veteran military and
civilian flyer, will contribute to .ho
big auto show to be held here from
February 10 to Ia. Mr.. Nielsen has
all arrangements for the event com.
pleted and had his parachute expert
here yesterday.
The only thing which might halt
the plans already made would be un-
suitable weather. The plane used by
Nielsen in his flying last summer will
be used for the exhibition here and
both the plane and the parachute will
be on exhibition at the auto show in
the auditorium.
Plans are being completed now fo7
the summer and he expects to have
four planes in operation. They viii
probably be Curtiss biplanes some
thing after the tyre used so success
fully by the "flying parson" last
summer. Sales contracts are also be-
ing considered and it is probable tha'
if present plans are carried out ard
if present prospects materialize, the
section of the country covered b.
the local corporation will be plenti-
fully stocked with birdmen. A school
of aeronautics will also be maintain
ed by Nielsen, who was for over q
year instructor in the army, and
pilots viii, be trained Plans for ex-
press line between Council Bluffs
Lincoln, sicuy City, Des Moines AM
Kansas City are also pending Non
pariel.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-29
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SADIE H1.L FOUND NOT 4 MUIR
DI5RDSS.

A.
Logan, la. jar The ;y.zv N
he casl Of state Of j,,tga agailiss .3a-
die Hill of Bfoaale, charged with as
sault to conreit murder. returned a
vaedict late TONIGHT os not gu ,ltv. The
case, which has been On tr.al here
since Wednesday,, was given to the
jury today.
Lawrence Fitzra.r <, The victiu&,
sigb6less as a rcsalt Of .he doeendant !,
.oot;ng him, vas tle ineipal wit
aass fer The state
On the evening Of October 6, 1afA,
l raety CT men la&lsA at the home /
Iames C4rlfo. near .Iodale. Just what
Eair mission was Is no5 known, b,
t was rumcred ct the time tn. t
'iqi.or, either paYtalzen or sought fcr
that fnrrose. was the cause of IL
shooting which followed.
Sadie Hill is the househeeoer, or
v,a.s such, for Carlin. 1t is elaine j
chat T Fitzpatrick and his friends we e
ordered from the place and during ii 2
argument which followed Sadie Hi
appeared outside the house and o.
aned fire on Fitzpatrick and h
crowd. One bullet hit Fitzpatric (
ncar tha left temple and came c, t
naar the bridge Of the nose, tearin ,
out one eve. Another bullet hit hi 4
n the side nassiag entirely throu i
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-29
FOOL FASHICNABLEs AND LICK
SPlTTLE .E0uRN AIlGA1.


Our metropolitan daily papers dc
vote thousands of las,.s . 5a;.r to X.
silly doings and idiotic saying of high
society women, giving minute and
nausiating detail to the fool things
they wear and to the vaporings OF
their empty minds. There can be hu4
one reason fer such absurd toadyings
and that, simmered down, is money
The policies of the large daily news
paper of today is dictated entirely
from the business office, and most of
them would kiss the big toe of any
body that has money.
About the nearest thing to nothing
in this world is the rich society wo-
man who puts in her whole life as {;
silly butterfly and trying to be a big
ger derned fool than her neighbor
rich society woman, and what they
say, do and wear is immeasurably less
important than the pastime of spit
ting up into the air and catching it
when it comes down. They haven't
the brains of a cove oyster in q tin
can, or they wouldn't say the things
they say, do the things they do or
wear the things they wear. With the
whole world full of duties to perform
good things to do, sensible things to
say, proper things to wear, misery to
alleviate, kindness to perform, heln
/ full things to think and glorious am.
i bitions to achieve, these poor degeM,
crate, brainless and utterly silly
! moths spend their time and money
aping cid world royalty and snobo-
cracy, giving monkey dinners, guz-
zling champagne, smoking cigarettes
talking nonsense, wearing whateves
most displays nakedness of both mind
and body, and demonstrating that it
/ is one of the freaks of nature that
evolution can shuttle backward like
crab as we'll as hike forward, sort
of hustle and straightfront combined
And that our great metropolitan
newspapers, whose mission should be
that of education, enlightenment and
the propagation of common sense in
stead of driveling idiocy, should SC
palpably show the laclSy and suber-
want tody to anybody that has, per
haps by questionable means, acculau-
lated few pitible dollars, is a sat
commentary upon cur boasted aa
vanced thought, freedom of speech an(
purity of eXhalted purpose. The so
ciety pages Of the papers, SUNDAY
editions especially, are the most driv-
cling rot imaginable. aI45 po:a% IN
erringly to the conclusion that conl.
mon sense, brains, ability and primo
pie have all been prostituted and bar
tered for money and what money REQ
resents, which isn't very much.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-29
ANNIVERSARY OF THE PONY
EXPRESS
ST. Louis To San Francisco in Eight
Days

st. Louis To San Francisco in Eight
Days
San Francisco, Cal, Jan. 24.-Just
sixty years ago the pony express
which carried letters from st Louis
to San Francisco in eight days was
inaugurated. Today plans are being
made to establish transcontinental
airplaine mail service, and trail-blaz-
ing flights have been made as far
wset as Omaha. 1t was a great
achievement when the pony express
was started to carry the mail to the
young but bustling state of Califor-
MIA in 1860. Its Inauguration was
preceded by publication in St. Louis
paper in March, of that year, of the
following advertisement:
"To San Francisco in eight days.
The first carrier Of the pony express
will leave the Missouri river on Tues
day, April 8, and will run regularly
weekly thereafter, carrying letter
mail only. Telegraph mail eight
days, letter ten days to San Fran
CISCO"
The population of San Francisco
and other California towns eagerly
welcomed this service, bringing them
into touch as it did with the states
from which the gold hunters and
other fortune seekers had migrated.
Ten riders going each way, with
changed horses every twenty-five
miles, brought the pouches of mail
across the thousand mile wilderness.
The pony express with its fast riders
among them Buffalo Bill" Colonel
William F. Cody,) then a young man,
was one of the most romantic fea-
lures Of the great western country.
Many were the adventures these
daring riders had. They averaged
seventy-five miles a day, but often
covered double that distance. "Buf-
falo Bill"once made ride of 1884
miles when the messenger who was
waiting was killed. Often chased by
Indians or "sniped" by out laws, the
pony express riders were exposed to
death at all times, and they braved
rain and snow storms, as part of an
every day duty.
One Of the memorable achieve
ments of the pony express was the
delivery of Lincoln's inaugural ad-
dress in 1861, when all the western
country was waiting for the momen-
tous news from the capital The ad-
dress was hurried to St. Joseph, Mo-,
the taking off place" of the pony ex-
press. Wrapped in oil skin and put
in saddle bags the address was started
on it's way and amid wild cheers.
Fresh horses waited at every ten
miles, and the final ten miles before
reaching San Francisco was made in
thirty-one minutes. The message was
carried by the riders a total Of 1850
miles in 1856 hours, an average of a
little more than ten miles an hour.
That was wonderful in those days.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-29
NoTEN DOING THIS WEEK IN
NEWS LINE.

Some weeks the editorial part of
newspaper is a small job. other times
there is nothing that can be made in
to a story. And yet, the paper must
come cut at the same time every
week, no matter what happens or don't
happen. There are always others
who are expected to furnish part Of
the copy for a paper, and at times all
these sources Of information fail
yet, no matter how much expected
help fails to come the paper must
come out as usual. These things are
the test of the editor, if he can get by
with them and still get out a paper
he manages to satisfy his readers.
1t is strenuous work this copy work
for everybody has his or her prefer
ence for news and has something they
would like to see in print, but of
course, more or less of these people
are necessarily disappointed to some
extent nearly every week. 1t is
slow and painful process this getting
and printing news business-it is only
the pastime of but second to glance
over the printed item. 1t is only that
il is possible to serve numbers quick
ly and easily when once the paper is
on the press that makes the local pa
per possibility.
1t might be good idea when you
get the paper and it fails to have long
and thrilling news stories to look
about you and see if any such stories
have been overlooked by the paper.
If they have, did the editor have an
opportunity to know about them p
Exchange.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-29
TcWNsHlp MEETINGS START
MONDAY, JANUARY 26.
WHEN IS YOURS?
SEE 'TsEE N,iT+s5L Lts9!siEn MEETING
ce,EraeIAyrr y,
s,CENDiIIE

During the two weeks Of '.luary
26th to February 9Th, inclusive, a
meeting will be held in every town
ship in the county The Iowa Farm
Bureau Federation is sending a man
to meet with the Farm Bureau non-
bers of Harrison County during this
series of meetings.
His Job is to explain Just what the
organization is, what your responsi-
bilitias are as a member, and what the
federation plans to do. Also he is
here to answer any questions the
Farm Bureau members may have in
regard to the Farm Bureau and its
work
The State Farm Bureau Federation
is spending money for this sar;es of
meetings IN order that YOU and ev-
cry other member of the 100 Farm
Eureaa9 in Icwa nay have dira:t
voiaa i TIE organization. Note the
fellow;ng items CT which you wi
lave an opportunity for expression at
this meeting.
!st. Get your quast ons answered.
IN regard To this great national farm
organization.
snl H4Ye 4 voice in the manage
mort cf or Iotal state and national
farm bureau.
Sc ress your opinion an
views of what the Farm Burea
should or should not do. Remembcz.
this : your organization.
h. Be prepared to see that a liv.
w.re is your Farm Bureau directc :,
fos 1920 Other township officer
VII be chosen at this meeting.
Il you are unable to attend yov
own township meeting, arrange to al !.
tend one Of the adjoining meeting
This is YOUR opportunity to lear
@hat the organization is doing fc .
you direct from a representative q,
TIE state Federation. Invite any q.
5our neighbors to attend who nligf;
not belong. Yea are urged to b.
present and be on time, as the enclos
ed schedule indicates.
Help make your township meetin I:
the best in the county.
c. w. Hammons, County Agen i.