The Mena weekly star., 1917-10-18
AND FAIR 4 l RECORD BREAKER
s,,endance of school Children Was Near One Thousand and Exhibits We're Exceptionally Good
 Scores of Flags.

The Fourth Annual Polk County pallv and Boys and Girls Club Fair, held in Mena Friday was a record
 hooker both in attendance and in Inc character and extent of the ex- bihits The attendance of school children alone was between 900 and
 ooo Indeed there were over 900 nupiIs ill the parade by actual count, and there were a few schools that failed to get here to join the parade, among these being the pupils of Old Cove. who with their teacher, Amos Nusgrave, came i'll 50 strong. The narade was formed on South Mena S street. and the line of march was directly to the courthouse, the pu- nils marching by twos, and making line over five blocks long. There was no music, but this was made up by the songs, cheers, yells and the waving of flags by the lively young Americans The pupils of the Mena schools met in their respective building for the morning roll call, and then came in body to join in the parade.
 Exhibits Were Excellent. The exhibits were easily the best and the most diversified ever ex- hibited here, ranging from the busy work done in the primary grades to fine specimens of domestic art and science by the girls, and the corn, cotton and hogs produced by the boys. To those who have been at tending the rallies heretofore held, if was very noticeable that the schools of Polk county, as indicated by the exhibits, are making splendid progress toward the vocational and practical. This feature was especi- ally strengthened this year by the exhibit made by the canning club girls under the direction of Miss An ma Woods. home demonstration agent. There were twelve of these exhibits. Another practical feature was the exhibit of the boys corn club. In this there were fl entries, made by Enos and Ethan Garland, Harold Redmond, Ebert Sitton, Lu- ther Wilson,. Gregory Affholter, Or ice Stockton, Mitchell Arnold, Hugh Barton, Rudolph Clark and Ausley Mcclure. ln the pig contest there were four entries, made by Freeman Dover, Fletcher Richardson and Marion Evans of Hatfield, and Wes- Do nf ErfF FA4, exhibits were made by Virgil Burke and Dewey Arnold of Ozark and Burtis Philpot of Egger.
 The exhibits of school work prop CT contained every class of work from the simple cutout designs made by the pupils of the primary grades to specimens of compositions, map drawing and other work by those of the upper grades. Then, too, thruout the school exhibits there was fine sprinkling of needle work by the girls and exhibits of manual training work by the boys.
 These Schools Had Exhibits.
 The following schools had eX- hibits:
 Wickes, ]. N. Davis and Miss Ruth Hamby teachers.
 Marble Hill, R. s. Dagenhart, teacher.
 Baker. Miss Winnie Clinton, teach CT.
 Womac Spur, Miss Grace Hamby, teacher.
 Hatton, E. w. Hamby and Miss Georgia Hamby, teachers.
 GPannis, s. s. Lane, Miss Floy Clinton and Miss Katherine Winston, teachers.
 Hatfield Prof. R. B. Dodd, Way man Grain, Miss Ola Littlepage, Pauline Dodd and Miss Ida Beavers, teachers.
 Rocky, Ray and Bert Ogden, teach CTS.
 Cedar, Miss Amy Butler, teacher.
 Old Potter, Roy Holder and Misses Hazel Mckee and Stella Campbell, teachers.
 Egger, J. H. Stephens and Miss Etta Garland, teachers.
 Bunch, Miss Edith Kinney, teach CT.
 Vandervoort, Prof. J. NJ. Tomlin, Miss Otus Henderson and Miss Ruth Wiley, teachers.
 Oliver, Miss Beulah Neal, teacher.
 Shady, Miss Irene Thornton, teacher.
 Cove, Prof. G. NJ. Woods, Mrs. Ola Tunnell and Misses Zula Taylor and Beulah Howerton, teachers.
 Ransom, Miss Julia Harman. teacher.
 Ozark, Tom J. Wilbanks, teacher.
 Dallas, Miss Beulah Hughes and Miss Fila Keys, teachers.
 Oak Ridge, John Harper, teacher.
 Acorn, l. G. Harris, Miss Della