The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-18
Living on the pl.,..

handle country is a ro,,s, 'u r@a
 now. am just in from '''A A
 some som lgoo D, miles over that ta~a 'aa''
 zion. This implies an an,. n, 'aal0a
 the ragged edge of New MAJ tS ne do
 as high up as where Ters. sA',0 eq
 long line upon the coDe. lan
 homa. 'eS Of O
 All those western miles j..
 over with people, scatterin, a'S ''la
 more or less They are . oas z a'scs
 hospitable folk and one csa
 sympathy with them in son sem" oo' J, S
 sore reyerses. Over muo,' lAa plains not drop of rain 7 'aa
 snce the first of last April s' s', a
 ohiy a passing shower Tb.l.a
 rles are as brown aud ban. x % and very little if any green vs,,.' 'aa IS Tn sight We saw many ns sA'' their families moving back finn r'
 Mexico seeking something to h.. "
 They staked their little all on r.
 the far west and all is p,ns 's
 are wiser but poorer people ss .
 People who live in these Oor+' @'
 especially these Mena andpoR ..
 people, are slow to sec how
 good things they have. Tbs e.. '
 many Of them don't know
 thing when they see it. T6si, Y blaming spirit seems inborn sna ,Y
 roVlne' speculative habit seems s,I
 Any man.who leaves Polk eoDr,.
 hunt better picking, has Wheel his head. He is chasins ,bo :, end of a fickle fancy.and is tollo.s.. tue siren Voice of q fitting phaphu There arc hundreds of thousand. sunburnt, hungry, weatlmrbo,,.,
 blizzard blown people in the far N. who would call old Polk a beamv .os and a paradise, if they could d,m down here.
 l stopped with a banker oat she, the cap rock of the plains We taa well for they are white folks. m tomatoes cost 5 cents caclr cucuu. bers the same. We had ice cpes week at 10 cents a pound. The osv fruit was green plums and mu,isw grapes at g cents Il quart md pw Polk county man wouldn't leI ts| pigs eat such The people i've oual tin cans and paper bags Their sod is mesquite roots and COW clips
 That is hard country on ta women on the plains. Eyerbdy| works but father there. He nla| around looking after his cattle, dogs hl eows and bruncos. The waa are at home nursing the babies fghs| the sandstorms and scrapping arosa cooking up the chuck " as they all it. Father us a rule Is q sharp IOoE9,| like the Jew, he is ready with a trads| and quick at a bargain fl oW a'a-l age Polk county man goes out thes' those old boomers would % after iia| like a bull dog after a book agent md Polk county would fare only mlddllnssl If any Polk county citizen thinks thss folks are greenies. well, it's the Psi fellow that has the wheels in hs dreamy head
 There's a great collapse coming a those people on the plains saw no one but what wanted to sell out Oa' ter or trade. Like the old lady Ila wanted to marry, it was "any bodi' anything, Lord The state Of leA1 is to be the richest commonwealth n the Sunny South. She is unloadlng all of her landed stuff. prairie dos' coyotes and sandstorms on the pe' white folks who go west The slas sells all this by the acre. Some ol brings $12 10 SIS an acre The dTa'l ing card is the state sells this stun on 40 yearly payments with } and 3 " cent on the money The poor iell0s' are tied up for forty years, paylns ou' principle and interest and hshu'e sand storms. dry weather, cOyo'S, and prairie dogs. Their only ShOs' " a chance to get out, is to unlodu v some sucker with wheels in ms n'''' If any of our Polk people want 10 " into that sort of a thing, the tlllDs ? waiting for them now out there " trap and the triggers are all se' ''' ing for a Polk county sucker
 Any man who leaves Polk ana p''' '. himself, wife and helpless ehllals" ~ i" that trap, surely has head ''Vuy.,, <, His wife needs husband anu "I 'I children need a guardian ] "Vas, z, not give a forty-aere farm m rO'A 7. (, any GAO I saw out there, TOT ia,"'-' ,,.. or living purposes. The town Oi J. '"s,,. 'is. has it's troubles, but l wouldn ~ m an average home in this town '0' - home 1 saw on the plains .,
 However, like the old woman .ss;, sa, i. ......1 .t c<.,z ifr everybody lV e"~