The Mena weekly star., 1913-07-03
|cSPR|NCS HAS 1 RESORT HOTEL
opening at Summer Health
 \ saturday Night With .o Number of Guests Pres \ Waters Long Famous.

Arkansas has another and summer resort-another
 which the weary and worn seok and, while escaping the ,s and stifling nights Of the bds. may yet enjoy the con- ses of modern life and
 walrrs famous for curat- ..sonerties and rest ln the green trees, famed the
 bv cool and stimulating .s new resort-new in equip is Bog Spring, in the noun f Polk county, five miles
 the line of the Kansas City ,.rn railway and about equal .>a from Hatton and Wickes, stions from which transpor- '''oay be had to the springs, a N auto service being estab- N from the first named. By |.be resort is 2s miles south % Nena. and the run is made N is about two hours between Joints.
 q number of years Bog ! with only the most prlml- Recommendations, has drawn Il number of people who came 'ak inc waters, and then went Ib tell of the wonderful gain &Ith resulting.
 ' months ago Dr. w. L. x of Foreman and Senator A. 1Laney of Ashdown, having 8 the place. became interested, uith Joe Johnson, a widely \ hotel man, also of Ashdown, s company. purchased the * y and made plans for eX- Al improvements. including a 1 hotel. a water system, cleo lling plant. bath houses. etc.. brmal Opening of Hotel.
 work was pushed energeti- hd Saturday, June 2S, was set & formal opening of the new Huie a number o1 invitations pn, out for the occasion. and he hour and day had arrived 4 found that every room had Engaged. with an overflow for H0> and cottages provided x management Three autos #om Nena, one from Gillham, &m DcQuem and one from
 the evening meal had been
 Saturday. the large dane ilion was lighted and an or H from De0ueen supplied
 while scores danced and Us looked on the scene. In 8 to the waltz and tWo-Step < Der modern dances, the visit # udlng a goodly number of I S of the neighborhood, t in the good old-fashioned 4 dances. and the cool breezes ahng made an affair pleasant Buld not have been enjoyed K places in midsummer. dby was spent in strolling he grounds, resting and vis-
 few enjoying the croquet while the autos and hacks V good loads to and from the n present at the opening of ! hotel were:
 AShdoWn: Mr. and Mrs. A. Haney, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. \ Mrs \. S. White. Miss Marie
 W. c. Brandon, c. D. Dritt, z Johnson, Mrs. J. NJ. Johnson. E Johnson, R. R. Bryant. Ed
 Hamilton Orton. Miss Ju- H Hr.on Miss Mary Lee Boar
 Nena: Nr. and Mrs. Edwin
 Dr. F. H. Black and Mrs.
 Mr. and Mrs. R. Gon and
 Mr. and Mrs. V. W. St.
 J. bonohue, Miss Agnes NJ.
 Nr. and Mrs. J. A. Thorn
 children, Miss Parker, R. L.
 b E NcCann, Thomas Pow
 Foreman: Roger Milford.
 'Fay. W. W. Ellis. Judge \.
 se' AeeIy LaGrove.
 DfQucen: Miss Pearl
 Pete Little, Miss Ada Brown.
 Mrs. w. O. Taylor. Frank ohn Luton.
 Helen Steel, Miss Irene Steel.
 qrs Mr. and Mrs. E. B. # IT, Jett Sr, Mir. and Mrs. c.
 Jrg C. J. McJunkin. Wickes:
 E. NcRac, Philip McRae.
 Mss Haidee Caples. Kansas
 < Gardenhire, Fl. Smith:
 NrS. J. T. Caples, Vodenhall = M. Larrick, Ft. Smith.
 sred from Bog Springs: Dr.
 olilreN Mrs. A. NJ. Shirey.
 Shirey Mr. and Mrs. J. NJ.
 Miss Esther Heath, J. NJ.
 fulure of Bog Springs.
 rom the waters. Bog