The Mena weekly star., 1916-12-28
Correspondence
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to some strangers seeking a location last week.
 The damage caused by the storm at the LittIepage mill west of town, has been repaired and the mill IS about ready to resume saving.
 The hunting party mentioned last week. which left with smile on faces, returned Thursday night with the same smie--it was frozen on.
 Ed Myers has been gathering his cattle the past week, saying that while they look fairly good, little feed from now on won't hurt them any
 Stevenson Bros. are preparing to move their mill to new location, having concluded their cut on the Brushy. The new location has not been fully decided upon yet
 Grill Foster from Petersburg, Ind, is visiting E. Holder. Mir. Foster is seeking a place to raise poultry and reports himself highly pleased with our market. Much better than I expected" he said. 4
 Joe Anders and Boyd CoIman killed some fine hogs last week. One of Colman's, while not the largest, was said t0 be the fattest ever killed here. Besides the regular cuts of meat, it produced gallons of lard These gentlemen pen or pasture their hogs Burnett, take notice.
 Complaints are being made by travellers regarding the dark stretch of walk from the depot to the husi- ness center of town. There is no need of this as the town has high priced automatic street lamp in- stalled but for some reason it has not been used for nearly a year. IL is especially needed now, with our trains later.
 w. J. Davis, in improving his farm on the south edge of town, built a nice barn, put 8 chimney in his house with fire place, shingled the roof. It will be remembered Mir. Davis raised the fine crop of corn, mentioned in this column, planting it in new ground among the big sticks. This kind of men not only increase the value of their own land, but their neighbors' land as we'll
 If the present postoillce bill goes through it will increase the postage on second class matter from 100 to over 500 per cent, which means that publishers must pay ic per pound first zone and ic for each additional zone up to 6. With the high price Of print paper, ink, type, metal, etc. this looks like jumping on cripple. iS this the relief for which they asked Congress? IL now looks like asking for bread and receiving 8 stone.
 The saying. Full many a shaft at random sent, finds a mark the arch es !.t meant 6inio to rHind when farmer whose name was men, toned in this column told us Satur- day he received a communication from a party near Havana, Cuba, asking for details about something he was successfully growing, anoth- CT from far Pacific coast state said he. was lead to purchase home here from reading the correspon- dence page of this paper, saying We "had many things here as gift sha. others struggled hard to obtain else- where. and he could read it be- tween the lines of the correspon- dence.
 It was a pretty wedding. the near friends and relatives present, the little altar with candles blazing un- der the arch of Christmas greens the charming young bride. the proud and happy groom in brief describes the wedding of Mr Kim Floyd and Miss Florence Lacey, a popular young couple, too well known to need a description After the usual tin-can seranade. the fol- lowing night, the stalwart groom on opening the door found not the usual collection of small boys. but prominent men and women from town and surrounding country. All were invited in, games and goodies made the evening pass pleasantly and quickly. and needless to say all wished the couple long and happy life
 Owing to misunderstanding very little was accomplished in the way of organizing our farm loan assoeia tien. James A. Slote. who had writ ten to the farm loan board for blank articles Of association. had not as yet received them, but much can be accomplished. In the meantime. a meeting nf the nresneetss;. her rowers can be held. elect board of five or more directors who will hold a meeting and appoint president, vice president and secretary- treasurer, also loan committee of three members, who can begin the work of appraising the lands offered at once and hold in readiness the written reports of each piece. Tho reports of these valuations must be unanimous. Our applications for a loan must not be less than s20Oo0