The Mena weekly star., 1913-11-20
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ACORN NEWS.

The night stiii is peaceful, calm and Soft moonlight falls OCT vale and hill;
 All earth in slumber deep seems
 bound
 When hark! What means that aw-
 full sound?
 Those MeXicans - who know no
 law
 Have they invaded Arkansas With whOop and yell. blood-curdIing All interspersed with bark and
 growl?
 An. no! The hounds, and Joe and p. Have four cOOnS in a hollow tree That stands beside the little branch | Out there on the Sweet AniSe ranch. To capture them they bravely try. Determined that poor Zip must die. p. climbs the tree-ah. hunter bold. | His featS have never half been told. He drives one forth, the dogs kill it; He chOkes the second. bit by bit. Those two are all that Reed can get, But both declare, Well have them
 yet"
 So P. deScends. the tree they fell | The rest l do not need to tell For Sunday dinner Joe and P. Have roast cOOn-fine as can be. Willie King spent Sunday in Ft. | Smith.
 J. F. Averitt and family of Mena were driving on ACOrn's streets last Sunday.
 Dr. Watkins of Mena was at Acorn Saturday on professional business. having been called to attend Miss Lizzie Rainey, who has been quite sick.
 Mrs. Dollie Fleming and little daughter Christine, who were guests of the Hardy Jones family for a week, have returned 10 their home at Cherry Hill.
 Charles Petefsh of Lawrence. Kas., is visiting his cousin. B. s. Petefish, and family Messrs. Pete l fish spent Tuesday in POsey Hollow, guests of Mir. and Mrs. C. Mathis. Miss Gladys Cochran went to HeXarkana last Friday. returning Saturday accompanied by her fath- CT, J. NJ. Cochran. who had been in a hospital there for some time. We are glad to report that MT. Cochran stood the trip well and is in a fair way to regain his health.
 Speaking of big game. had you heard of the quarry taken by P Reed and his hounds a few days previous to the aforesaid coon hunt. and also on the Sweet Anise ranch? A great many valuable chickens had been disappearing, and Mr ArNF f1r f., l.. .4 the culprlt down. This he did. and succeeded in laying low MT. Thomas Bob-Cat, ST, who weighed twenty four pounds and measured fifty eight inches from tip to tip. The remaining members of the Bob-Cat family were chased out of the country-we hope never to return. Long live p. Reed and his hounds!
 Prof. W. T. Adams of Mena. su- perintendent of schools for Polk Little Rock, state superintendent of rural school; spent last Monday in District 30. Coming up on the TraV- school house. where the forenoon was passed visiting with teachers and pupils, inspecting the work and iLphiiiS pNOl bIC ll tilllStS. III illt afternoon the Misses Crowson came down from Rich Mountain and Eagleton, accompanied by their pu- pills. all marching over to the school house. A large number of patrons also came, and we listened to some rousing. stirring, splendid talks by Messrs. Adams and Bond. Tn the past year and half MT. Bond has visited i,500 of the rural schools of Arkansas. whose greatest resources, he declares. are not the world-re- nowned forests, mines, navigable rivers, fruits or agricultural pro ducts. but our girls and boys. Let us, by doing all we can to build up those schools give the rural girls and boys their chance. And then to hear the voices of pupils teach CTS and visitors all uniting in the grand old strains of "Dixie"-well it was heart-thrilling and soul-in-