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Newspaper
Mena Star
Location
Mena, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1899
Page
5
John Pearson bridgeman for the Pittsburg and Gulf Railway had a dream vision of a train and foreman ordering him to jump. He awoke injured on the Clark hotel walk with a broken left shoulder and a bone near the elbow after being found by late guests. He plans hospital treatment in Kansas City.
At Mount Mena Colonel Landes reports Wilhelmina hotel thriving as a popular summer resort. GM Balloon and A. J. Dean run the hotel smoothly for 150 guests Sunday, with visitors from Hamburg, Lyon, Boston, Chicago, Shreveport, Texarkana, Joplin and Fort Smith among others.
Miss Feane Johnson hosted a Monday gathering at her parents home on Nob Hill honoring Miss Minnie Prince of Texarkana. The social list included Judge John S. Kelly and wife Judge Matheny and wife Hon J D Shaver and wife and others. Prizes were awarded for cards and the event featured refreshments music dancing to the Roger de Coverly and a string band on the lawn. The reporter noted elegant attire and praised the beauty of the attendees with Miss Prince and others among the notable guests.
A fragmentary list shows premiums offered by individuals and local groups for the park fair. Names include P M Stuckey for merchandise, M E Pumphrey for best five stalks presuming produce, Dr Oscar F Wilcox of Hatfield offering three prizes for youth work and painting, plus a county contest for novelty events and a baby prize.
An old fiddler contest offers 8 percent prize for first and 3 percent for second best, with at least five entries and free entry. Prizes include cigars for the handsomest and ugliest men in Mena, plus cash awards for best plates of pears and apples and a calf prize from the Mena Ice & Cold Storage Co. contestants vote via the Indies, and certificates are issued to winners.
A traveling correspondent notes prosperity where land is well tilled and corn thrives, contrasts mulberry patches, and highlights a 29 year old apple tree yielding 25 bushels. At Black Springs crops are poor after rain. cotton ginning totals reach 400 bales, with 300 sent to Mena, while trade shows dry goods cheaper in Hot Springs and groceries cheaper in Mena.
W J Boyer and HM Radcliffe driving a mountain tunnel near the smelter struck a promising copper bearing ore at 57 feet. An assay showed copper with a trace of gold, testing 2 and 57 100 percent copper with gold. The tunnel at 68 feet yielded more copper than any county prospect yet assayed. Prof Soest confirmed the ore content and value around ten dollars per ton in copper and up to two dollars in gold per ton. Work will continue, with optimism the deeper the tunnel goes will improve results.
Work continues on the big wells for the water works system. The first well reaches about fifteen feet, the second six feet, both holding water. A boiler and machinery are installed to pump water as digging proceeds. About fifteen men are employed at the wells.
Mrs Elizabeth Baker died yesterday at her Rockey home aged sixty nine. An old Polk county resident for fifty years she leaves three children. Her son Robert lives in Texarkana, another son John and daughter Rebecca stay in Rockey. Funeral services were held at 1 pm today conducted by Rev J W Beds
The Society of Little Morning Glories wore their best evening attire for a pleasing social at Savage Hall on Monday night. The program featured music and recitations, with first class refreshments. Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine is advertised as aiding digestion and removing impurities.
A traveling man from Cove reports that at the Cove tavern landlord Durham shot and killed a young man who had been staying there after a heeded slander dispute involving Durham’s fourteen year old daughter. Durham warned the man to leave within hours or be killed. The sheriff was notified to bring a coroner, but details are scarce.
At the mayor's office meeting the committee of arrangements and allied committees set the August 18 and 19 anniversary and park fair program. The Mena band will be retained and the Rogers band has been secured for musical duties.
At Rest, Mr. George A. Clark, long ill, died at 5:30 AM. Born 1849 in Hamilton Ontario, he married Mary Lockhart in 1880 at Mitchell Dakota. He ran a grocery business in Mitchell, later managed the Clark hotel. A Presbyterian deacon and Mason, burial under lodge auspices. Survived by wife and three daughters. Funeral at residence at 4 PM, interment in White Oak cemetery.
Lieutenant Henry Stroop secured five recruits for the 33d U. S volunteers William M Rhodes James O Neil Jessie Brown ing John A Cox and Chester Kilpatrick left for San Antonio Texas this morning Stroop also sent to Texarkana after the recruiting drive Several examined were not received due to health issues The notice recommends Dr M A Simmons Liver Medicine for headache from stomach trouble
W A Batson reports from Camp Wilder that the Texas and Arkansas mine dynamo lighting up the grounds and mine. He notes the system works well and mentions seeing bricks of copper produced at the site.
An unnamed man from West Jefferson, D. C., after eighteen months with a rectal fistula faced death without a costly operation. He reportedly cured himself using Bucklen's Arnica Salve, advertised as the surest pile cure, paying 25 cents per box at F. C. Savage druggist.
An accident at the Eddle man mill Wednesday damaged the engine when its eccentric blew out. Mr. Eddleman wired Indianapolis for a replacement, delaying operation until the new eccentric is installed. The article also advertises Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine for digestive health.
Miss Nellie Moore visits Bucyrus Kansas and work begins on a Hotel Hickman addition. Dr Lindsay moves office back. Janssen park receives fresh whitewash. Notables from Grannis visit for land claims. Hayworth building rises. Reeves post office joists laid. Pittsburg Gulf yards handle 400 freight cars with twelve engines idling.
August 10 events include the Mena baseball team meeting Hatfield nine at the place during the town barbecue. Visitors W L Cornell of Minneapolis and Dennis O'Brien of Plattsburg are staying, with O'Brien exploring investment and home options.
Little Edna Wilson seven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs J D Wilson died after weeks of illness at seven p m Funeral services were at the M E chapel Rev C De Whitlam officiating and burial in White Oak cemetery Also brief ads for medical cure claims pasture for stock and local notices appear with names and locations in Dallas area few lines indicate small town classifieds
Mining claim blanks available in any quantity from this office. Also advertising Heekin's Cincinnati high grade coffee for sale by J. B. Littlejohn & Co at 127 Idaho? Dew.
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