The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-17
Correspondence
HATFIELD HOTsTIPH.


 Nile Salmon at ". E. Mershons, foe tAdy
 Ed Mershou made a business trip to Mena Tuesday
 M L Nichols spent sunday with his father at Mountain Fork
 Mrs w. L. Nichols is on visit with relatives at Eufala Ok.
 n rumors are true Hatfield WILL have five nesf autos within the next sixty days
 Bob Johnson reports that Charley Martins WaS in town transactlng b0sinAss Monday
 IntIekBill Harweli Of Ringing. Ok is sibne nt the home of his son, HawsH ard family
 ]. Ls Evenger has contracted his entire Ben Davis apple crop to q firm if Kansas City.
 Mrs. Nie0rge of Vanderyoort has accepted a position with the Wat kins Mercantile and Lumber Com- uanv as clerk
 Misses May Francis and Bessie Roberts of DeQueen are spending the week at the home of Mir. and Mrs W E. Mersh0n.
 Mrs. < Talley and children left Monday for Ringing, Ok, where they will join Mir Tailey. who IS in the mercantile business there.
 Mir and Mrs Webb of Gliihani passed through Saiurdav ia their new auto. 0n their way tO Ida. Ok. where shes will visit relatives q few days
 Saturday the i9th. will be clean up day Vt the Pleasant Hlll eeme- tery Everyb0dy IS invited to come, hrin9 their dinners and a ciean-uD too of some kind.
 ] D Henderson conducted the laymens meeting at the N. k. church Sunday in the absence of Bro. Arnold, who is holding a pro- traeted meeting at Vandervoort.
 The fair was perfect success. Three thousand people were estl- mated present--so many that every stand sold out everything complete ly before the fair was over. Next year the town will furnish barrels Of ice water free,
 The dipping vat. just completed, is very we'll patronized already Al the rate of 300 head of stock are being dipped in it each day. One farmer went so far as to dip his chickens in t, Go find that they were all dead the next morning.
 Just think-n0t a drunk. fight nor arrest during the picnic. A hun- dred cases of drunkenness. a dozen fights and several arrests occurred at each of our pienies not many years back. Thanks to good schools and churches, And now that the twelve-milE tax is coming about We can still improve.
 No matter what be the affair shows. preaching, entertainments ot what not Hatfield always gets . crowd together But the last day the fifth. Of the two days fair ano picnic held last week. was an 0c- casiOn that attracted more peepls together at one time than ever be- fore in the towns history Between two and three thousand people were present, which is unusual for 2 town of HatEeld's size. The exhib- its were good this year, but not as various and numerous as of las year Our best farmers clam thu vas due to the neglect nf osEerlns more second and third prizes-s0ms even going further and assertlnl that we needed higher prizes f0 fnll-hlOOd stock. But no mattel what some may say, Hatfield peopl' are working together and any mis' take they make is due to inexperi. eHue All DuSiHeSS men auu com mittees worked like Troians t make the fair success. And i was. But next year il will be bet ter. beeause the people have fount that these fairs are very valuable in hundred different ways The, bring people closer together tsiai either revivais or 'Possum Clubs.