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Newspaper
Mena Star
Location
Mena, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1898
Page
6
The article notes no radical changes in summer shirts for 1895 while detailing numerous dress variations. It highlights open fronted redingotes and princesse dresses, matching accessories, and fabrics such as foulard and zephyr. Spring hats favor the English walking hat, with French toques for demi-dress wear and wreaths of wallflowers or nasturtiums as garniture, describing style suitability and appeal.
A Cincinnati editorial recounts an amused father who trapped Lew the barber using contact plates under a parlor sofa. When two lovers touched, a circuit rang a bell in the old man’s bedroom, revealing the romance and prompting the couple’s retreat. Lew escaped. the girl faces confinement.
A compact, era tone list of local shops and offerings. Mentions court house square as a valued feature and a $5,000 vote incentive. Goods listed include hats, candies, shoes, croquet sets, baseball gear, tablets and slates, stamps, country produce, white goods, laces, and embroideries at various stores such as Owen’s, Jackson’s Drug Store, Postoffice Book Store, Gallagher’s, and the Arkansaw store.
A cluttered column lists service times for Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, and Christian churches with pastors and meeting details, plus notices from Masons, Knights of Pythias, Woodmen, and other societies. Ads promote hats, hammocks, drugs, and paints, along with a road-change petition and various store offerings.
Five thousand dollars is two dollars a day for each county voter. Vote Yes. The ad urges patent medicine purchase and mentions Jackson's Up-to-date Drug Store stock. It promotes cheap land and a ten acre tract for sale, directs inquiries to Ewin at his De Queen street grocery, and advertises hardware, clothing, and rubber goods suppliers with various names and offers.
On April 5 1898 J H 4 ton J P Landes and others petition the Polk County Court to order an election to move the county seat from Dallas to Block 24 Mena as shown on the townsite plat filed July 13 1896. The petition includes an abstract of title to the land and terms of donation from Arkansas Townsite Company to the county for site location and buildings, detailing contract provisions and donor commitments.
Polk County Arkansas court orders June 25 1898 election to move county seat from Dallas to Block 24 in Mena. Order requires public notice in Mena Star and posting in three township spots thirty days before voting. Contains abstract of title and donation terms, cites petition compliance and historic costs.
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