The Mena weekly star., 1917-04-19


 Tuesday.
 Mrs. J. W. Merely was up from Cove to do shopping Monday
 No use in worrying now, the strain is bout over with-polk salad IS up.
 Dr. c. k. Johnson and Frank Lewis made another trip to Mena Tuesday.
 Lonzo Hall drove his ear to De Queen and back Monday in six hours.
 Misses Otus and Imogene Hender- son entered the normal as new pu- pils Monday.
 E. A. Davis substitute for soda is to burn corn cobs and use the ashes to make the bread rise.
 Dr. l.. 0. Dickson, the dentist of Mena, will be at Yandervoort Fri day and Saturday, April 20 and 2i. Adv.15-2t
 Mark and Dug Dover drove to Mena Tuesday in 22 minutes in Marks Chevrolet car in order to be Ion hand iii answer to a grand jury summons.
 x, use trying to keep up with the hineS now, for all news published in thu morning is. old by : o'clock in the evening.
 Frank Lewis and w. J. Davis have been appointed by Judge Wear to sit with the assessor on assessment days in Hatfield.
 Uncle Bill Martin, altho near his eighty-flfth year, was out and in terested in the ''food' meeting held at the Baptist church Sunday.
 w. l.. Nichols was back at his work as clerk for the T. NJ. Dover Mercantile Co. Saturday after a three weeks absence due to severe case of measles in the family,
 Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lowther re- turned to Potter Sunday after spending the week at the home of the Rev. J. B. Williams and Mrs. Williams, parents of Mrs Lowther.
 Dr. c. F. Johnson and Frank Lewis drove to Mena Monday Mir. Lewis assisted Frank Thompson and John Combs while in town to count the votes cast Saturday for constitution al delegates.
 Sheriff and Mrs. Finger autoed down from Mena Sunday and spent the day at the. home of Mr. and Mrs. John Chatham. who live west of town. Mrs. Chatham and Mrs. Fin ger are sisters.
 The Baptist prayer meeting crowd and the Methodist prayer meeting people blended themselves together Tuesday night and united in a meet ing with the farming element with a view to prepare plans for meeting the food shortage situation.
 J. C. HOheimer was up to Mena Monday to attend court as plaintiff in a case against c. w. Pletzkow over misunderstanding Of indebt- edness that came up over goods purchased at the store of the Wat kins Lumber and Mercantile Co.
 C. V. 0'Neil. the ax handle man. returned from the factory at Hope Saturday with the news that if he could get plenty of hickory timber he would continue the manufacture of handles in Hatfield indefinitely. Mr. O'Niel is an expert at working up hickory timber into many useful farm necessities.
 The ladies of the NJ. E. church met at the newly purchased par sonage in the Chesser addition Tues day and canvassed and papered four rooms preparatory to the occupancy by Rev. Bro. w. B. Arnold and fam fly, who expect to move this week. Such mailing and tacking that took place, with an occasional mashed finger tip and the like. you never heard before.
 The measles came in with great buster They were going to kill everybody. the young and the old alike, but il was principally all a scare. Still, they visited nearly every home in the community. and in fact stayed for several weeks at some, but at least made up their mind to depart and are now getting their belongings together and leav- ing for parts unknown just as fast as the breezes come along to takG up thcr baggage. But 10 show hsw some people are. w. l.. Nichols and Rev Bro. Arnold will not even tell those That are leaving goodbye.
 Dr. F. II. Redwine returned from a trip to Big Fork Saturday and is of marking time for a while until he sees more favorable results of the food scarcity. The doctor is an old newspaper man and naturally became very much interested in studying The Mena Star, for which he immediately subscribed on com ing to Hatfield the first of the month. His decision was that it was X No. i paper and very hard to beat. IL is very interesting to know why Dr. Redwine wanted to stop in Hatfield very simple. too. It was because he found the people of Hatfield so friendly and accommodating. He broke his ear near Hatfield while travelling through Polk county and came to town to get repairs. That settled it. In ten days he and his family were oh the way from Ant lers. Ok, to Hatfield to live and make their home