The Mena weekly star., 1917-10-25
Correspondence
HATrIE's HATFIELD HoTsTupH

IUt iINt-s scdi-btu SUI Ut EitdS ist- i man of Watson, Ok, died in Hatfield
 Saturday.
 l Dr. II. R. Getz charged a vat on H the Huston Johnson plantation on | Monday.
 H James A. Slote closed a deal Tues day with F. K. Martin for a farm on II Two-Mile creek.
 Mrs. Anna Mlligan, who has been | visiting her cousin, Mrs. James A.
 Slote. returned to her home Tues
 day
 Some complaints are coming in from people with isolated cotton
 fields, saying thieves are picking the
 cotton.
 l A telegram from Carl Henderson
 at Oklahoma City states >he is on
 the road Go Hatfield with a carload
 of mules.
 A. D. Breckenridge from near De-
 tavia, was in Hatfield Tuesday, mak-
 ing arrangements for a public sale
 at his place on November i2
 l.. w. Hall left the first of the
 week for Eureka Springs. making the trip overland in his Ford. He
 expects to be back Thursday of this
 week.
 
 in Hatfield Tuesday. w. l. Green, II {.
 H. Thomas and l.. N Burnett of Mena were the boosters for the Lib
 erty Loan.
 There is a firewood shortage in Hatfield. The attractive price now offered for wood should soon sup ply the demand. Bring in load when you come.
 Henry Hasten purchased the printing outfit left here by Dr. Red wine. Henry, with his keen eye for a bargain. could not resist the low price at which it was offered J. E. Williams has closed a deal thru which he becomes owner of the Keller place just north of town. This is a good creek bottom farm and Mir. Williams will develop it for home. r. F. Martin, one-time booster for Hatfield. now of Ringing Ok, IS shaking hands with former friends. Mir. Martin always had word of encouragement and pleasant smile for all.
 The telephone manager says your phone will give better satisfaction
 lthis dry weather if you will keep the
 ground wei around your ground rods; also keep the vines and tree , branches off the wire. John Griffin who has made 200 gallons of sorghum from different varieties of cane. reports the best to be some from a Japanese seeded variety. The seed was sent him lasi spring by w. A. Ragland to give tryout
 Land buyers returning from the recent Indian land sale in McCur- lain and LeI'lOre counties. say the individual doesn't get 0ok-in at the land. as it is being grabbed ID at unheard-of prices by big speeulat- 0rs and land syndicates. In the September issue the editor of the Fruitman and Gardener tells an interesting experience under the head Nacatii,g iil jitney. but what attracted our attention most was his mention of the Jefferson Highway over which he made the trip from Albert Lea, Minn.. to his home in Iowa Few people realize how rapidly the gaps in this great road are being filled. and it will be but a short time until the United States will have a great highway from Canada to the Gulf. There are others aside from Uncle Sam looking after the welfare of our soldier boys. Besides several Chris tian societies and the Y. NJ c. A., we have the National League for Wom- ems Service 259 Madison avenue. New York. This league invites the boys to spend their leisure time in their reading rooms and gymnasium. They not only urge the boys to write home, bnt they themselves white to the boys relatives This came to our notice thru Mir. PottorfT who received letter from the league saying they had seen his son. Otis and that he was in good health While Mr. Pottorff hears from his son regularly, he took the letter in the spirit in which it was sent. Are the gloom bugs bothering you2 Are you getting cold feet? Whose fault is it? Polk county's or your's2 Read this J. C. Harker landed here in the middle of Feb ruary, 1917, from Indiana, moved to farm. just east of town, that had
 lain idle many years. He hustled around. secured a team. cleared 90
 acres, built 4S0 rods of woven-wire
 fence. raised fine garden, chick
 ems. turkeys, etc, f5 bushels early
 potatoes. over foo bushels fall crop,
 a good corn crop. five bales of cot
 ton lone sold Saturday, netting him
 Si700) In addition to all this. he has living ahead for the coming year Mr. Harker will have between
 Si.000 and Sl l.200 for his summers work, besides improving his place. Arrangements. we learn, are prac- 1 lieally completed for highway from Mena north and rumor says i t will be built thru Potter to the 1 Doaksville road. which will be hard l surfaced from there, and cross the new iron bridge on to the Oklahoma l line, from which point. if present plans carry. Oklahoma will build to l ] Smithville and other points in the state, thus giving Oklahoma her much desired outlet over an all-the- 1
 year-round road to the Kansas City 1 Southern Railway This would cer- tainly put Potter on the map as it is l the logical point of shipment for all 1 that western trade. The new bridge |
 was large factor in determining 1 the route for this road. it is said | While this road is not built as yet. | 1t certainly has possibilities. also | probabilities. as shown by Governor Williams having recently made sev- eral trips over the roads here look 1 ing up the most feasible routes. An | other thought: If this road should | be built Oklahoma might tap some- | where west and join the road now coming toward us from the sOuth |