Mena Auditorium Company Plans City Theater
The Mena Auditorium Company organized this week with S. L. Lindsay as president and John H. Hamilton as secretary to build an auditorium on Mena Street near the new courthouse. The 0x14 structure will seat 1,000, include a 25 by 30 stage, 40 by 60 dance floor space, and 20 by 8 foot egress openings for fire safety, to be completed by July 1 for Mt. Mena excursions and summer entertainments.
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Mena Auditorium Company
Limited
S. L. Lindsay
John H. Hamilton
B P. Smith
W. J. Preston
F. Canterbury
Kansas City
Mena Street
New Court House
Mt. Mena
P Pular
Canterbury
M. E & T. Trust Company
New Train Service Between Kansas City and Shreveport Ports
Pittsburg and Gulf announces a new Sunday passenger service running two trains each way from Kansas City to Shreveport and Port Arthur with calls at Mena. Northbound No 1 arrives 1:35 am and departs 1:50 am. No 3 arrives 3:10 pm and departs 3:25 pm. Southbound No 2 arrives 2:50 am and departs 3:05 am. No 4 arrives 10:35 am and departs 10:50 am.
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Pittsburg & Gulf
Kansas City
Shreveport
Port Arthur
Mena
Arnica Salve claims cure for skin eruptions
Advertised salve by F. C. Savage offers relief for skin eruptions, old sores, ulcers, boils, felons, corns, warts, cuts, burns, and chapped hands. Priced at 25 cents a box with Cuore guaranteed. Sold by local druggist.
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Bocklen
F. C. Savage
Delightful Evening at Hotel Mena Hosted by Shinns
Mr and Mrs Shinn entertained many friends at Hotel Mena on Thursday evening with dancing and refined music. The large dining room was cleared for a lively reception and refreshments were served in impressive style. Guests praised the pleasant, entertaining affair before weather and other factors kept some away.
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Shinn
Hotel Mena
Fire destroys Fred Ransch home near College Hill
Fire swept the ceiling where a stovepipe passed through, destroying the house of Fred Ransch on Sunday just before eleven. Firefighters and citizens fought the blaze, two neighboring houses were torn down to stop spread, and Ransch saved most belongings by moving them to his old log house nearby.
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Fred Ransch
Mr. Rausch
Rausch
College Hill
One Minute Court Cure Sold To Fight La Grippe
S A Fackler editor of the Micano py Hustler and his family suffered from la grippe. The One Minute Court Cure was the only remedy that helped them and acted quickly. Thousands of others use this remedy as a specific for la grippe and its exhausting after effects Hayes Egolf.
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S. A. Fackler
Hustler
Hayes & Egolf
Gasoline Stove Explosion at Port Arthur Eatery
A gasoline stove exploded in the lunch room of the Port Arthur eating house on Sherwood avenue opposite the depot. Merchants aided by J H Davis with hand grenades and others with water extinguished the blaze. Little damage occurred. Two waiter boys sustained minor facial burns.
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Port Arthur
Sherwood Avenue
J. H. Davis
Alderman John Paul Builds Model Home on Port Arthur Ave
Alderman John Paul contracts a residence for his use, awarded to Mr Latimer and due by April 1. The 16 by 30 structure with a 20 by 24 ell, a 16 by 30 greenhouse, and a 16 by 24 barn will sit west of St John street. He has ordered 6500 dollars worth of plants and shrubs for the grounds.
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John Paul
Latimer
Port Arthur Avenue
St. John Street
Pan
To Build Soon Episcopal Chapel Plan Approved
At a Thursday church meeting the members decided to build a chapel immediately. A lot at the De Queen and Port Arthur avenue corner was secured with $400 cash subscribed. A building committee was appointed, including Mathaney, Pickering, Folsom, Ethrage, and Mrs. Shaver.
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Episcopal Church
de Queen and
Port Arthur Avenue
Mathaney
Pickering, Folsom and Ethrage
Shaver
Dr King’s New Discovery Aids Hannibal Typhoid Case
Nis Life was saved says J E Lilly and Hannibal editors after typhoid progressed to pneumonia. Lungs hardened, weakness landed him near death before Dr King’s New Discovery brought rapid relief. One bottle helped, he became well and strong, praising the medicine as the surest cure for lung troubles. Trial bottles free at F C Savage’s drug store. W D Kimball of Baltimore touring the city seeks brick work. Prickly Ash Bitters advertised by Jackson Drug Co as a tonic and appetite booster.
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F.C. Savage's
Good Farms Cheap No 1 160 Acres Near Rust KOC
160 acre farm near Rust on the KOC lines offers for 600 cash. Fifty acres fenced and cultivated with two cheap houses, fair orchards, living spring. Timber land not cultivated is well timbered with white oak. Also two smaller parcels: No 2 eighty acres in timber for 200 cash. No 3 eighty acres four miles from Mena with cultivation, double log house, well and spring, bearing fruit, 500 cash if sold in 30 days. Seller F M Reeves needs money to complete a business block in Mena.
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Rust
KOC. P & G
Mena
F. M. Reeves
Five and Ten Acre Tracts for Sale in Mena
Powers & Traver advertise a large body of land within the corporate limits of Mena suitable for berries fruits and gardening. Some land is cleared some timbered but all good agricultural land offered at reasonable prices. Call at the office on Mena Street.
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Mena
Mena Street
Powers & Traver
Field and Garden Seeds Car Load Arrives at Roach’s
N M Roach reports new stock including Red Bliss Triumph potatoes and Red Texas seed oats. A full supply of field and garden seeds is available in bulk or package form.
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N. M. Roach
Bishop Brown Returns After Mission Work Here
Bishop Brown of Little Rock, head of the Episcopal church, came home Wednesday after organizing a mission church in the city. He preached three sermons Sunday and one each Monday and Tuesday evenings at the Presbyterian church. The Bishop is described as eloquent and logical in delivery.
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Bishop Brown
Little Rock
Episcopal Church
Cottage for rent rising on Fleming Street opposite Janssen Park
C D Sharp plans another bungalow to shelter one of many families seeking houses to rent. The new cot tage on Fleming Street opposite Janssen Park will be ready in a few weeks.
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C. D. Sharp
Fleming Street
Janssen Park
Smiths Elegant Residence Near Completion
C A Smith is building an elegant residence enclosed and rapidly completed by forceful workmen. The house is designed in the latest style and substantial manner and is poised to be one of the citys best homes upon completion.
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C. A. Smith
Strawberry Growers Organization Forms Shipping Bond
James Hickman of Janssen reported in town Monday that local strawberry growers organized for shipping and marketing, elected their officers and an agent bound to the organization, with each member also bonded to stay by the association through the season.
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James Hickman
Janssen
Star
Strawberry Plants for sale in Rich Mountain Arkansas
500000 Early Michell strawberry plants for sale. Pure stock and good plants. 75 cents per thousand. Call or address C H Glenn, Rich Mountain, Ark. s-4t.
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H. Glenn
Rich Mountain
Ark
Stray horse taken up near Mena offered to owner
An estray horse about ten years old, fifteen hands high with three white feet and branding L P on shoulder and hip, is available to the owner who can claim it at R B Lang’s home three miles south of Mena Arkansas. Also notices offer home grown strawberry and raspberry plants for spring planting, wholesale drug stock increase at Jackson Drug Co, and apple and peach trees for sale with Warren Nurseries stock.
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Mena
R B. Lang
Michell
Cresent
Gandy
Bubach
Chas. Downing
Ark
Ande
W. H. Barragan
Jackson Drug Co
Mena Street
Hall's
J. L. Horner
Huntington Nurseries
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Dr. Simmons
Bankston
THE
Hotel National
Nis
W. D. Kimball
Baltimore, Md
Jackson Drag Co
D. D. Yasser
Janssen Ave
de Queen
New York
Bell. Bradley
Front Street
Wimberly Bros
Mena, Ark
Real Estate Ag’ey
Sherwood S Avenue
Mena College
Joe
P. Landes
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