The Mena weekly star., 1916-11-09
Correspondence
HATFIELD HoTsTupm.

 Kerb Gates is here from smith vile, Ok, buying cattle.
 Remember Terry, the produce man. adv. After fifteen years of faithful service Alb Waugh has quit this sec tion.
 Mrs. Merton Bales and little son Osborn, were passengers to Meua on Monday The election went off quietly and was conducted very satisfactorily to all voters.
 Mrs. Claude Bennett is down from Mena as guest Of her sister, Mrs Ed MershOn.
 Dr. D. W. C0nnnally attended 0s- car Crawford to Texarhana Friday to a hospital for an operation
 |. A. Henderson, Arthur Lewis. Searl Slote, Homer Johnson and MT Murray were passengers to Mena on Saturday.
 John Floyd shipped another home made hay bailer north last week. MT Floyd always gets ready sale TOT these bailers.
 j. II. Mcbride has very precious { piece of ore. which he is carrying around in his pockets, that he got on Boar lusk mountain.
 Mrs Ed Nershon and Miss Johnnie Gipson were passengers to Mena on Sunday, visiting with friends. Mrs Mershon returned Tuesday.
 Pleas Rouse is soon to put m a cleaning and pressing shop in town 1t is a wonder that this opportunity has been overlooked for so long
 The Rev. J T Bowling conducted his regular services at the Baptist church Saturday and Sunday. Coco sized crowds attended each of them Ellsworth Holder marketed a fine load of fall potatoes in town Friday ]. w. Howard was selling home grown tobacco in town Tuesday He salled it Judge Wear tobacco.
 Aggregateiy considered, Ed White I. F. Davis, Bill Dover. A. $. Her. ing, s. k. pottorff and lone Ander: made 400 bushels of potatoes from A )ne and one-half acres of ground. Hotstuph got so hot over politics his week that 1t boiled over, put he fire out and was unable to re- llenish it's loss by the time it's limi or mailing was up at 3 D. m. or Tuesday.
 A big i0-pound boy is Hatfleld'i atest census news. The little fel. ow will make his home for thl present. with MT. and Mrs. Ilenr. Stockton. as they are very fond O f, indeed.
 J. s. Moore returned to AshdowI saturday after spending three week, 'isiting at the home of his daughter drs. Mark Murray of Mountain Fork dr. Moore speaks highly of Poll ountys healthful climate
 Frank Lewis has bought the Jin sasey farm which adioins the on' se recently bought of Sheriff Finger Ar. Lewis will sell his farm on Six. file and make his future home her, n Hattlelda mundane paradise.
 With Ira Keller at the wheel onzo Hall and Uncle Eb Moore wer, shizzed Co Mena and back Friday il ast 5 minutes A Ford did it. II he afternoon Mfr. Hall drove NIT ,urkharts new Ford to Smithyille Stevens X Son have ginned 60 ales of cotton up to date and ye gure on about 50 more. There ha cen close to q thousand bales O ott0n marketed in Hatfield thii ear to her previous 800 to COG luch Of this cotton came iron oints fifty and sixty miles away Ome people need to figure on rais. Ag feed crops fer another year fol { aere is much talk among farmers O ntting large crops of cotton nex gar.
 The Bank of Hatfield was ex. hi ave been tlp-top for the cashier ere haaGlne big rolls O "kal, ed and whistling merry tunes tn, mute Ee departed. These eashierl sN q not klcG at having thrir book. idlted. Tn fact they were glad O
 Now how about having oli, eunty books audited at the expira. on of every term of office. Tn, ople are almost unanimousl, lease do not show this word unan- aously to the Dixie man. in favor the idea.
 The ladies of the Home Mission that they do not want to giv, V more suppers around election ne for they claim that experience shown them that men with { at political view have omniverou. petltes, and the food supply is al- ys a problem They also claim at feeding candidates on nie icken, cake, etc. just previous tC eaking makes them very exactins their ideals of right and wrone q causes them to very easily starr ud singing The Mission took ir put S35 Friday night. but mi YOU DIV how chickens are.
 Rev. J. c, Evans. who recentls N we'd here from Brownwood. Tex. he only made one mistake in ning to Hatfield. namely. the mis- of not coming sooner. The only he had to finding out about the antry was through reading one oi < neighbor's Mena Star. After ilng that Polk county was 4*8 t
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