The Mena weekly star., 1917-02-08
Correspondence
HATFIELD HOTsTUPH.

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 TBS. F. Bates was up from Cove making grocery purchases.
 L R. Furnish was down from Mena Tuesday transacting business
 Rev. j. 1a. Brown of Ashdown is conducting a protracted meeting ai the Baptist church this week.
 J. A. Cobb has bought the Ihos Harris farm just east of town and expects to move on if soon and make Ais permanent home.
 W. Slote. and Mrs. Slote and son, $. B., left Tuesday for Omaha, Nebr. They had spent the winter at the home of James A. Slote
 l.. A. Cummings cut and split loo rails in 5 hours Wednesday, But pshaw, that is nothing compared t0 what Luther can do when he gels down to work.
 The Rev. w. B. Arnold, assisted by the M E. Church finance com mittee are making preparations to soon start the erection of nice parsonage for the town of Hatfield.
 Mr. and Mrs. James X. Slote are in receipt of a letter from their son, Bernard, at Heavener, stating that they have a l0-pound baby boy in their home Grand daddy Jim is tickled to death.
 Chas. c. Delaney, farm demonstra- tor for Polk county, made his sec- ond lectufe since coming on the work, at the school house on Fri day night. But the night was cold and only young people attended.
 James A. Slote, on returning from Kearney, Nebr.. Monday was glad to learn that the fire did not de- stroy his home last Sunday, espe- cially some valuable books. Neigh bors turned in and handled things in hook and ladder fashion
 R. K. Williams and family arr rived here Wednesday of last week from Union Town, Mo- and are so well pleased with the Hatfield coun- try that they are looking out a per- manent home location. Mir. Will Hams is an experienced poultry man and sees great things for Polk county.
 Mir. and Mrs. John Lively and baby, Ella Jane, arrived Sunday from Bismarck, Ok, and are visit- ing few days al the home of Mrs. Lively's parents, Mir. and Mrs. T. P. Davis, before going to their farm near Rocky, where they expect to settle down for good, in good old Polk county.
 The Ladies of the Home Mission Society served dinner in the vacated millinery store of Mrs Terry. onl Tuesday, tax-paying day, and took sa S20 for church purposes, The society would have made twice this amount from the dinner, only for 3ffes fart, they were unwilling to take ally trade from the hotels and restaurants.
 Hatfield Farmers Talk Business.
 A large crowd of farmers at tended the Farm Loan Association meeting Saturday afternoon at the old Masonic Hall, and for an hour or SO made things interesting to all farmers who wanted to borrow 6ee government money to make im- provements, etc. The association is setting well organized and are hav- ing difficulty in holding the bound ary to the prescribed territory of 10 miles square. Secretary Treas urer w. F Myres is getting letters from inquirers all over the county wanting i'll on the first application for money, that is now being com pleted to forward to the No. Land Bank in St Louis. Mo.
 Cold Feet
 Joe Lewis will not gel out that Hatfield paper Of his on the 10th of this month as announced in last Weeks $ Star ln lhe first place he has iearned ihat | takes money andI experience o ruR B paper, and hel ilasn's get either After spandine She eitar pari Of 3 si0 William ne fauna tHa would take ahamt| %9slll la Install , daceml newspaper 9iAni ia Hatfield Q hand press at limit not sayinz snythinc of the expenses 0I runnlne enh tiel learned Furthermore that Hatfield people are cheley and will not ac- s'.s 'sif ! tiiiflS N the way 0t newspaper no. moi on your lifell They Want a paper with linotype print and it only takes thousands to buy tho machinery alone for such q paper So after our aspirant Hat zieid newspaper editor learned these facts and many more, too nu- merous to mention, he rapidly came back to earth and is now figuring on raising chickens for a livelihood. In 1aeE he is already at it. The last day ne was at Mena he came home Co find his wife trying to keep II young chicks from freezing tol death and since that time he has neen kept busy. Again, if you ever meet another farmer who wants to edit a newspaper for a town like Hataeld, just keep quiet and call a doctor--he needs attention. So au ~eyoir, Hatfield paper; nit, nixy, nothin' doin' for your Uncle Dudley.
 Beyhood Days Over Again.
 After all, it Is the constant meet ing with little unexpected incidents that yields us our greatest pleas ures. This was fully demonstrated Saturday when the Rev. ]. B. Will Hams aud Henry Miller met for the first time in 36 years, while getting their mail at the postoflice. While eA.oxts fI,a~~ ekfn,4rl .oL1<<1 t.<..4a. <...