The Mena weekly star., 1916-05-11


 with alfalfa and has a small tract which Is very promising. Tho orchard grass sown sometime ago looks we'll A good garden and poultry in nice shape help to lessen the high cost or living at this farm. where one motto is Let Arkansas Feed Herself
 Rally Day was great event at Acorn on Sunday last A large congre- gation assembled and both Rev. T. A. Park and Rev. A. J. Gramley were present to take part in the exercises The dinner which was eaten under tho trees. was bountiful and good. The singing speaking and other literary consumed the time. Flowers were plentiful as decorations for the church bat the dearest prettiest and best feaz ture of the whole occaxion weiA all those sweet little chilaren who Hets present, for twas also Chiidrenss Day
 B. S. Petefsh entertained several gentleman friends at dinner at his home last Sunday The worthy Rresi- dent of the 'Possumr club himseIf act ed as chef for this noteworthy affair and hls skill was marvellous. The menu was pronounced most excellent and satisfying by those partaking and was something like this: Roast beef. potatoes boiled a-la- jacket. baked beans. light rolls with real butter, radishes. minee and raisin pie, peaches and plum jelly. We've been unable to than cat-nip tea was used as bev- craze Covers were laid for Messrs. W. A. Ragland. Peter McWilliam. Dr W. N Starbuck. E. r. Twiford and the host. E. s. Petefish.
 We have been gathering informatioc as to the frost-proof cabbages 1t Is certainly very nice and kind in the 1I4fs fsrtt tatArt fsaII al r their gardens, for what Is nicer or a greater help toward good living a garden we'll kept and tended Mrs Henry Alstatt has something over one hundred of these cabbages and reports them as heading up and making good growth. She says her tomato plants are also very nice. Mrs. Alstatt all ways has a splendid garden and tends 1t mostly herself. Mrs. T. D. Reid has had cabbage for table use. Mrs. Jim Hogan and Mrs Sam Whisenhunt say their early cabbage is looking nice. Whenever there is anything especially nice in your garden we want to know it.
 Acorn is a commercial center of some note at present. as load after load of slaves Is coming in from the mill in Posey Hollow for shipment. Up to this writing three carloads have been shipped from here. Two young cap tains of industry connected with this business are Miss Toka Hale and her small brother Hammond. Miss Toka counts the slaves, from eleven to if teen thousand being required to fill a car. She Is quite we'll remunerated for her work and will have nice nest egg in her bank. Hammond. the small brother, Is water carrier for the men who load the slaves into the cars and his hoard of nickels and dimes steadily increases The children are both gaining practical education in ntathemafics and are learning that honest labor is the best educator among the American people and chil- dren can acquire thrifty habits without becoming at all mercenary.
 Bachelor Girl" if you can make good biscuits you can also make good strawberry shortcake. Use two heaping teaspoons of baking powders to Il quart of flour. a pinch of salt. just a little shortening and sweet milk for a soft dough, Sift your flour. baking powders and salt several times. then mix dough and divide into two parts. Roll out one part, place on a buttered tin, brushing the top with butter or other shortening Roll out the other portion, place over the first Bake in a hot oven twelve minutes. Have plenty of berries prepared with sugar and slightly mashed. Serve your short cake in sea of berries and strawberry juice and say "how good" Or, by an other method you can mix up plain cake batter and serve the berries with it. By this rule you use an egg, some sugar and stir up exactly as for cake. Use cream with the berries if you like. but the folks at our house prefer pitcher of strawberry juice, pure and .1. N,. tt.- start strawberry bed. There's noth- ing about the place will give greater returns for time and labor expended Aromas and Klondykes are great va rieties for this country.
 MT. and Mrs. Peter McWilliam. who moved from Slatington to their Gold en Acres farm near Acorn recently have not been idle. In their two-acre orchard they have growing fifteen cherry rees-Montmorency. Dyehouse Wragg (sourl and Bing (sweet) i: twelve pear trees of different varieties q good supply of peaches, including the J. H. Hale peach. Stark Early Eibertas and others, enough to make plenty: sixty apple trees of stan dard varieties and a number of apricot and plum trees. there being two Sat tree fruits, Mir. and Mrs. McWllliam have provided for a supply of small fruits Of red raspberries there are seven hundred Crimson beauties and One hundred and seventy-hve St. Regis In the blackberry patch are the varie- ties Merceerau and Eldorado, fifty of each. Six hundred ever bearing straw berries have been set out, five hundred of them are the Forward" and one hundred Superb" These plants came from Three Rivers, Mich, as did four hundred other straw berry plants, com prising Kellogg's Big Four Collection, including several different kinds. So. as our new neighbors at Golden Acres express 1t we are building for the future and the foundation Is sure " good one. In addition to all this the Golden Acres" people have set out two rows of asparagus roots, each one hundred feet long. a number of rheu- barb roots and also gooseberry bushes They have fine assortment in their orchard.
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