Title: Fortnightly
(Commonwealth College)
City: Mena
County: Polk
Beginning Date: 1926
Ending Date: 1938
Comments:
See: Gen. M/F File: Commonwealth College
Title: Commoner (Commonwealth College)
City: Mena
County: Polk
Beginning Date: 1938
Ending Date: 1940
Comments:
See: Gen. M/F File: Commonwealth College Misc.
Title: Eagleton Spoofer
City: Eagleton
County: Polk
Beginning Date:
Oct. 1936
Ending Date:
Jun. 1949
Comments:
See: Gen. M/F File: CCC Roll 2
Notes:
missing issues
Title: Flashes From Shady Gap
City: Mena
County: Polk
Beginning Date:
Dec. 1934
Ending Date:
Jul. 1939
Comments:
See: Gen. M/F File: CCC Roll 2
Notes:
missing issues
Title: Looking Glass
City: Hatfield
County: Polk
Beginning Date:
Apr. 3, 1975
Ending Date:
Jan. 1987
Notes: First issued as a tabloid newspaper, then as a 34 page magazine.
(Note: The Looking Glass was sold, but still published until 2000. We have lots of back issues. See For Sale.)
Title: Mena Daily Star
City: Mena
County: Polk
Beginning Date:
Mar. 4, 1899
Ending Date:
Dec. 30, 1911
Title: Mena Evening Star
City: Mena
County: Polk
Beginning Date:
Nov. 14, 1912
Ending Date:
Jul. 30, 1975
Title: Mena Star
City: Mena
County: Polk
Beginning Date:
Jul. 20, 1978
Ending Date:
Jul. 20, 1995
Comments:
1993- Aug. 1994 missing
Notes:
missing issues
Title: Mena Weekly Star
City: Mena
County: Polk
Beginning Date:
Aug. 26, 1896
Ending Date:
Jul. 13, 1978
Notes:
missing issues
Title: Mountain Signal
City: Mena
County: Polk
Beginning Date:
Jul. 1989
Ending Date:
Jun. 1992
Comments: 32 page magazine.
Ceased Publication
(Note: The Mountain Signal resumed publication from 1999-2001, but has not been microfilmed. You can still purchase these back issues, see For Sale.)
Title: Polk County Democrat
City: Mena
County: Polk
Beginning Date:
Jun. 29, 1911
Ending Date:
Dec. 30, 1915
(I also have one copy of The New Era, September 1897)
(I also have one copy of The Arkansas Mule, Vol. 1, No.1)
Additional Polk Co. Newspapers With NO Copies kown to be remaining.
Title: The Mountain Signal
City: Rich Mountain, then Old Dallas
County: Polk
Beginning Date:
1881
Ending Date:
Unknown
Editors: W.A.J. Beauchamp; T.M. Carder;
Notes:
Title: The Dallas Pioneer
City: Bethesda Springs
County: Polk
Beginning Date:
March 1881
Ending Date:
Editors: W.M. Armour & J.M. Raines
Notes:
Title: The Dallas Courier
City: Old Dallas
County: Polk
Beginning Date:
March 1883
Ending Date:
5/6/1895 Succeded by The Referendum
Editors: W.Minor Pipkin publisher. W.M. Matheny editor
Notes: See Cove Fruit Grower
Title: The Referendum
City: Old Dallas
County: Polk
Beginning Date:
5/6/1895
Ending Date:
1/9/1896 Succeded by The The New Era
Editors: W. Minor Pipkin & J.S. Compere
Notes:
Title: The New Era
City: Mena
County: Polk
Beginning Date:
8/6/1896 (1st paper in Mena, printed on brown wrapping paper)
Ending Date:
Sold to S.L. Lindsay
Editors: W. Minor Pipkin & J.S. Compere
Notes:
Title: The New Era
City: Mena
County: Polk
Beginning Date:
Ending Date:
Sold to The Mena Star
Editors: S.L. Lindsay & sons
Notes:
Title: The Mena Democrat
City: Mena
County: Polk
Beginning Date:
Ending Date:
Editors: Jacques & England, later by England & Shaver, then to D.L. Dahlgren
Notes:
During the years this paper was known as The Mena Democrat, News Democrat, and then sold to the Star, where it was known as the Polk County Democrat, before it was combined with the Star.
Title: The Mena Star, The Mena Daily Star, The Mena Weekly Star
City: Mena
County: Polk
Beginning Date:
8/26/1896
Ending Date:
Still being printed (as a weekly)
Editors: St. Johns; Freeman;
Notes: sold after St. John’s passed away to outsiders, from Oklahoma.
Other papers, with little or now information at this time
The Daily News
Daily Times
The American (started in 1908 by Mack Hall)
The Daily Scorpion ( I have one issue)
The Mena Daily Dispatch
Daily News-Democrat
Daily Gazette
Three papers were published in Mena when the town was born:
The Daily News
The New Era
The Mena Evening Star
Dixie Press-sold to D.L. Dahlgren, and name changed first to Mena Democrat and later to Mena Gazette.
Newspapers outside Mena:
Vandervort Herald
Abt. 1915, Wdward J. Doyle published it at Vandervoort, later moved to Mena and became known as the Dixie Press, then the Mena Gazette.
The Janssen Journal
Est. by M.W. Lindsay in 1898, after about a year he sold it to Charles A. Lindsay, and the paper was discontinued about six months later (around 1900)
The Hatfield Herald, at Hatfield, was started in 1902 by W.E. McKinney, but was taken over later by R.W. Johnson & Sons, and in 1903 the name was changed to Hatfield Courier. It was edited in 1903-04 by Freeman L. Johnson (who later became a Representative in the Legislature from Polk County) Johnson was assisted by George Ryan.
Fruit Grower, about 1908 the old Courier plant was sold to T.P. Fulton, who took it to Cove, and for a time ran a paper called the Fruit Grower, a monthly, but his soon discontinued, and the plant was scattered.