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Newspaper
Mena Star
Location
Mena, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1898
Page
5
A flurry of activity and travel fills Mena as residents report new cottages under construction on North De Queen Street and Port Arthur Avenue. Joe Landes returns from Kansas City. many others leave for Memphis St Louis and Chicago while Miss Myrtle Whayne visits Bentonville. Roberta Garrett furloughs and W H Cummings shows crystal rocks. Mrs Leidigh plans Kansas City trip as she recovers from illness.
Charles P. Knight and Miss May Jones wed at Bethesda Springs in a carriage ceremony at two o clock on Sunday. Rev J Greene officiated for the M E church south as the couple became husband and wife. They will reside in the Knight building suite. Knight manages Mena Grocery Co and is regarded as a popular young businessman.
Friday night's Hoo Hoo lumbermen's banquet welcomed fifteen initiates with music by the Port Arthur Route band. The ceremony ran from eight until midnight then moved to Hotel Mena for an elegant banquet and continued merriment. Initiates listed include Morris of Thomasville I T Petros Dye of Janssen Ark and others from Arkansas and Indian Territory.
Miss Bertha Holt, recently employed as nurse and companion for Mrs. Leidigh, plans to depart tonight with Mrs. Leidigh for Kansas City. Her gracious manners and proficiency have earned high regard among colleagues who regret her departure.
N M Roach offers a full assortment of field seeds for fall planting at the wholesale flour feed and seed warehouse east of the depot.
A meeting at Janssen park discussed forming a Polk county fair association. A tract near Mena with a half mile track could cost about 2040 dollars to buy build and fence. A twenty member committee was appointed to canvass for stock subscriptions at ten dollars per share with a target of at least 9500 dollars. The effort aims to hold a fair next year and a list of committeemen from various towns was named.
Judge Feazel adjourned the August term after three weeks of work. Proceedings show multiple verdicts and appeals to the supreme court. Notable items include verdicts for plaintiff or defendant in cases involving railroads, cattle, and wage claims, with several appealed to the supreme court. John L. Cramer passed an excellent bar examination in open court. Fresh flea powders at Jackson's.
Eureka Slate Co organized in this city with W L Boyer as president and F M Cockrell as vice president. Capital stock of 10000 fully subscribed. Boyer to manage, three weeks of mining work begun, slate prepared for market. Red slate deposit sixteen miles east of Mena, black slate nearby. railroad expected to connect to Hot Springs, enhancing transport. Slate quality praised, demand deemed unlimited and industry seen as opening soon.
Sherif Joplin and Deputy Sheriff Bud Bickle returned from Little Rock where they deposited Jim Reed and Eck Ware behind bars. Reed was sentenced to one year for stealing a wagon and harness, Ware one year for stealing a saddle.
A July 23 letter from P. Ek. Butler of pack-train No 3, in Santiago de Cuba, extols the corps for delivering ammunition and rations despite severe illness among troops. He credits Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as the indirect savior of the army and warns that without supply wagons the front would fail. The note was sent to Chamberlain Medicine Co. and offers Hall's products for sale by F. C. Savage.
For Sale. A good farm eighty one and a half acres, thirty acres bottom land, forty acres in cultivation, good houses, good water, a good orchard and a race to live. Call on Stucky Brow. Jena, Ark. Sept 5. 1808. 36-46 J. W. Bankston Photo Co, the picture men. Sx¢card this paper. sotf Fly paper at Jackson's Drug Store.
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