The Mena weekly star., 1916-05-18
Correspondence
HATFIELD HorsrupH.

Kelsie skinner visited at Hatfield Sunday
 Miss Jetty Henderson is visiting at Smithyille thls week.
 For a good stock pasture see j. E. Williams. J. O. Gates. Adv All farmers have their crops we'll tn hand this ideal weather.
 Mir. and Mrs. Will Hazen returned Monday to their home at Boyington Ok
 Marie Stephenson was in town Mon day to get some supplies for his broth CTS sawmill
 Joe Allen and Tom Dover are spend ing two days this week fishing on Mt. Fork. Look out!
 Lee Hoge. son of Mrs. C. A. Hogc arrived from Minnesota and is contem plating settling here.
 WANTED--Peas. country pork, chick ems, eggs discarded clothing, copper and brass. w M. Lowe. Adv. Mrs. T. NJ, Dover and Mrs. Alec Car per and baby went to Grannis Tues day to visit with Mrs Dr. Hilton.
 Texarkana district conference will begin here June 2e. There are twenty one churches in the conference and a large crowd will be here
 g. P. pottorr. Mr Mcbride and Jake White are making good money ship ping strawberries by express They are 25c higher on the crate this week, The Rev. Mir Arnold, pastor of the M E. church. preached a feeling ser mon Sunday at n a m. on "The Sa- credness of Motherhood. A very large crowd was in attendance,
 Mark Dover. Marion Davis. VIII f4a- zen and Andy Tucker spent Saturday nshinR on Mt. Fork They caught lots of fish. but over n mock arrest Will Hazen lost them all in a four-mile run. Lone Star was played at Gillham with nattering results The play was ufft nn 1aff aersen, Alice Williams Bess stephens ola Littlepage and Myrtle Davis and Messrs. Frank and George Rork, Mark Dover Oliver Gates. Lloyd and K. Q Morrow. Roy Holder. Dan and Allen Dover and Helter Littlepage
 MT and Mrs Q. Gates and family left Monday for their new home at Tuscola, Tex If Mir. Gates health does not improve We may expect to see them back within a year or so. MT Gates Was we'll established in business here and for eight years has been one of cur most busy merchants and progress Sive workers in church. school and town. He leaves behind much property and nice home on DeQueen street
 Bili Richardson marketed a fine lot of peanuts in town Tuesday, He raised l0i bushels last year but has feun l difficulty in setting a market for them At the same time a buyer was In here three weeks ago wanting q car of pea nuts But as the farmers had no ware house to store them in and as it was difficult to find out if he could hll his ear in reasonable time, the oppor- tunity slipped and will continue to do so until farmers get some central place in which to store their surplus crops "Rubies and Romance" captivated Hatfield theatergoerS on the night of May 1s. Eight Meaa High school Jun tors produced the three-act comedy and if possessed some phases of real dra- matic art Miss Ruth Robbins as Ber- nice Halstead starred the part as the romantic adventures and kept things tn turmoil wherever she went But Nith all her seeming ffickleness she re fused to sell herself in marriage for money to Dwight Bradley, a part talk en by Warner sc John The whole plav was good, but it was in scene :. Act !, that acting of special merit took place. This scene represented a board ing house kept by Bub and Hannah. impersonated by Jed Greene and Miss Clyrcne Harrison respectively Dainty Miss Haistead after running away from home to keep from marrying Dwight Bradley came here to board while she was teaching a country school. The episodes that took place at this boarding house with conversa- tions in typical country-like dialect Kept the crowd in hilarious glee. All the parts were played sufficiently we'll ID keep ihe crowd moved ana WANet in successive moments of susrense. an ger and admiration. If such a splendid play had been expected there would have been much larger crowd Come again Your play was anpreciated-
 One of our farmer canners has more than 200 cans of strawberries put up.
 Friday and Saturday were hay days at the Pines Plantation Meadow grass made about 1900 pounds per acre
 Mir. Watterson of New ulm Minn Is bargaining for land northwest of town He expects to return here this fall whether he secures this farm or not
 Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Coleman spent the day Sunday with Mir and Mrs Paul Brown. q brother of Mrs. Coleman and Mrs. Asher. who left Tuesday for Ne Draska. where he goes to finish his trade of electrical wiring.
 Peas and new potatoes. turnips new beets Bermuda onions from seed. nice yellow-leg fry. strawberry short cake with cream and a pitcher of but terniik for dinner Sunday. No not It ss-E-day hotel but just at the home of an everyday Arkansas farmer
 Aroma strawberries are lust begin ming to rtpen nicely. Gandys are sttli later. Both are fine large berries. the Afomas pointed and the Gandys more round The Candy should be planted on heavy sprlngy ground, never on loose, sandy soil They are rather poor piant-malxers. ! W. Howard. road oyerseer was working down a bad hill east of town the latter part of the week. Mir. How ard says that by working the hard ground roads ir wet weather and the low wet roads in dry weather more than twice the amount of work can be accomplished and it makes more per uaanenf road beds
 Hattie
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