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Newspaper
Mena Star
Location
Mena, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1898
Page
5
Local notes announce Republican and Populist candidates for Polk County offices including representative sheriff county clerk and assessor. Also a mix of personal updates from J. W. Edwards and J. T. Spring, travel plans, community events, a jail move, and Mrs. Wallace’s health. Notable items include a county celebration, school principal appointment at Princeton, and the Little Queen’s Picture feature from the Netherlands.
North bound train last Saturday evening killed E. B. Archer of Winthrop who fell while boarding the pilot. He had recently come from Michigan to live with his mother. Funeral held at his home with Conductor Humphrey and Pat McCarty transporting remains to Michigan.
The program lists opening music and prayers, a greeting and response, a solo, a talk by Brother Green on the benefit of a mission society to a church and patron attitudes, a sentence prayer, and closing exercises for Sunday evening the 28th.
Arrangements are underway in this city for a trip to Mt Mena on September 4. A round trip fare of 50 cents to Grand Summit station and back is offered, providing a chance to visit the new hotel and the famed summer resort.
Elijah Nichols about 25 from the county’s west part was arrested by Deputy Marshal Emmett last Friday on horse stealing charges. Nichols was transported to Fort Smith on Saturday. He is affiliated with a prominent Poll county family.
The fall term of Polk County Circuit Court begins Monday August 29 at the Mena opera house and is expected to last at least three weeks. Local events include a vocal music performance led by G W Case at the pavilion and several visits by notable residents such as A W St John and Eureka Springs mayor P Y Pickard.
The War Department chief explains the vast task of outfitting 268,500 volunteers and regulars for swift mobilization. He blames some officers for lax sanitary enforcement while praising efforts to supply camps, hospitals, and transport. He details troop numbers, hospital work, rations, and transportation as the war expanded from Florida to Cuba and Manila.
Reports from San Luis say soldiers of the Eighth Illinois battalion stationed there have engaged in rowdyism theft and insult to women. Authorities have imprisoned chief offenders while officials vow to uphold discipline and prevent rioting.
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