The Mena weekly star., 1916-06-08
ACORN
Primrose

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 Mrs Mary Mathis has been guest at the home of her son. Chris Mathis. for the past two weeks
 Miss Stella nCampbell returned to | her home at Potter. on sunday after short visit with friends at Acorn
 The Eagle Gap telephone line IS nearing cOmpletion 2 number of workmen being busy setting the line ready for service.
 Mir. and Mrs. Wm. pettigrew have corn and oats which are very prom ising Their crop is well tended, and in good condition
 i We've received a great deal of ad- vice as to getting rid of the rabbits | in the garden. but find the boy and | the shotgun most effective. Mir. and Mrs Thomas Alstatt, of Okemah. Ok. came in Monday, and are at the homes of their uncles, 1 Henry and George AIstatt. Miss Bessie Sitton came from Hat field. on Thursday of last week. to remain for some time with her i Grandma Evans and uncle. Sam ' Evans.
 ! Isaac Reed. of the Holly Springs neighborhood has one of the incest. anu lt'uilfNi IiOito dl Vuld iltl t- Alio corn is especially nice, and growing very fast.
 I The recent rains have made fish , ing a popular sport, and there are many young nimrods in our locality Some are catching lots of fish. and everyone has a good time.
 Mack Reid brother of T. D. Reid and John Fry. of Muse. Ok, came to Mena, last Thursday. for the trans action of business, and spent Thurs day night at the T. D. Reid home. ] Mir. and Mrs. Dave Larmon. of | Hatfield, are visiting with Mr and Mrs ] B. Larmon. of Mena, and also with Mrs. Mack Reid, of the Owens Chapel community, and other rela- tiyes and friends.
 A wild turkey hen. weighing about i i5 pound was killed by southbound train No. 3 Monday afternoon. just above Acorn. Harry petefish se- cured the prize and. took it to his home in Heavener.
 Lum Lofts, who has spent some time at Acorn. went to Mena, on Tuesday, intending to go to Alder where he lives Mr Lofts will at tend the institute, which convenes Ut Mt. lNd, OH June <.
 Rev. Mr. Kelley was a guest. last Saturday night, of J. A. Class and family at Corinth. He came. with the intention of conducting services at Owens Chapel. on Saturday night and Sunday, but was prevented from doing SD. by the very unfavorable weather
 Mrs Chris Mathis has seventeen 1 thoroughbred little Brown Leghorn chickens. which are beauties Mrs. Mathis does mol keep a very large flock of chickens. but makes them pay. She believes in "a little flock we'll tended"
 Mrs. Harry Anderson, who has a fine garden reports her five hundred frost-proof cabbages. which were heading nicely. as quite badly dam aged by hail. last Saturday. She thinks, however. that they will come out all right,
 Jackson Hogan, who has been en- ployed, for some time, at Port Ar thur. came home. on Wednesday, of last week. Malaria is quite prevail ent in the Southern city, and Jack son came home to recuperate. and also to get away from mosquitoes, which are almost an unknown quan- tity in Polk county.
 i Everyone who has garden. is en- toying it now. Since the rains. the pods are fairly bursting open, on the pea vines. and we've found some where even the peas had broken open. Above the potato hills the earth is fissured-so rapid has been the growth of the potatoes and so great their size. Yes. there's plenty to cook. right now.
 Mrs. T. L. Belt is one of the Acorn women who has a good garden. It is free from weeds and all the plants are sa thrifty and nice. Her tomato plants are the incest we have seen. Many of them bearing fruit of good size Mir Belt is trying Soudan grass this year. and has a small tract, which promises a good crop. They have set out about 5000 sweet pOta- to plants. Mrs Belt is also raising turkeys.
 l Mir. and Mrs. Chris Mathis enter tained at dinner on Thursday, of last week. at their Oak Lawn" home, the following guests: Mrs. i C. F.. KenswOrthy of Union Grove. and Mrs. Mary Mathis. sister and mother of Chris Mathis. and his lbrOther Ed Mathis and Mrs Mathis. and little son, Fred, who arrived last Monday, by auto. from Stigler, Ok, lhaying visited in Fort Smith. on the way down
 On "Wednesday evening" of last week. two men appeared at the T. J. Hogan home who said they had been helping move the Riding slave mill. and asked for supper and lodging for the night. Mrs. Hogan. who is in very poor health went to con- siderable trouble to prepare a good meal for them. which they con- ! sumed with alacrity, after which they disappeared, without so much las . Thank you.' Mr. Hogan says I he is sixty-siX years old. and was lneVer treated so shabbilv in his life. 1 The men were strangers to him Ihey certainly owe Mr and Mrs. ! Hogan an apology and their grati- tude, at least,
 Live Oak.
 We offer this week. the following sketch. material for which has been given us by Miss Stella Terwilleger. one of Polk county's most ambitious and industrious young women. There is nothing boastful about this liust plain facts-no blue sky talk 1 at all Everything can be proven as the Terwilinger family have kept 1 books and can give statistics GOV erlng the five years past
 Mir. Terwilleger has 20 acres of corn some of if knap high and will