The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-31
Correspondence 00ll 1 ee!l(e
HATFIELD NEWS NOTES.

Homer Johnson was in from SmithVille Monday.
 Mark Dover made a business trip to Fort Smith Sunday.
 Prof R, B. Dodd spent Monday on an outing in his garden.
 Kim Floyd is trying his hand at goat raising as side line.
 An informal flag raising took place at the school house Friday
 About % storms in one occupied about half the night here Saturday.
 Rev N, Q. Hornsby went to Gill; ham Saturday 10 fill an appointment.
 L. l. Nichols is here fresh from Tusc0la. Tex, and glad to get back. George Anders is absent from the Watkins store this week on account of illness.
 Mrs. A. K. Williams left Thursday, May 3l. for a visit with relatives at oklahoma City
 Mrs. Bob Johnson went to Mena Saturday Co visit with her son, Free man, and family.
 Argus Rowe, who has just finished school at Fort Smith. was down from Rocky Tuesday.
 Lee Tunnell with his hoe and hand blow is gaining the rep of being an expert gardener.
 Mrs R. Gibson is on Il visit at the NarrOws, where her husband con- ducts large cattle ranch What would be the result if al piece of land was sowed three con- secutiye years in cowpeas.
 When Carl Harris came in from the stave mill Monday, he brought seven little wild turkeys.
 Urdia Harris. blind son of Mir. and Mrs. Clint Harris, returned from the blind school at Little Rock on Tuesday.
 Miss Dairyladies. make your but ter perfectly firm and it will stand up in hot weather and be grainy, A. Rulterlover.
 The Methodist revival is in pro- gress. Rev. $. T. Bough of Texar- kama is doing the preaching and the interest is good.
 Dr. C. F. Johnson has the Ford fever bad, and it may take the equivalent of Si00 of his own medi- cine to cure it.
 The news is general that there are plenty of young hogs and calves in evidence in the community-now if We eau only keep them.
 Mir. and Mrs. Pleas Rouse and Mir. and Mrs. John Bilbery of Cove au- toed to Grannis Sunday and attended the Decoration day services.
 MF. and Mrs. V. O'Neil and two children were received into Metho- dist church Sunday on presentation of church papers from Hope.
 Be snre fn write the Horticultural Department for bulletin 5iS. on how to keep sweet potatoes. Several hun hltc ch moi i'm every year.
 Mrs Carrie WhipDle and daughter, Miss Lou, returned from Tulsa, Ok. Monday, where the latter lived, and recently underwent an operation for appendicitis.
 Mir. and Mrs. Bernard Slote and hahv. Jim. and Searl Slote, caaie down from Heavener Friday and are visiting with their parents, Mir. and Mrs. ]. A. Slote.
 Uncle Sam. make those specula- tors and commission men and others stop grafting on the farmers, and we will be more enthusiastic III our patriotism.
 Yell Pool, now living at Pitts burg. came down Saturday to get Eugene, his 4-yer-0ld son, and re- turned the same day to his work as machnist for the K c. $.
 Rev. W. B Arnold in his sermon Sunday, on stewardship" reached the heart and ear of every one pres ent and the congregation was large. His text was found in ist Peter, ath verse. ]. c. Allen, W. F. Watkins, l.. W. Hall and Alec Carper made a busi- ness trip to Smithyille Tuesday with a view to getting the much talked of Hatileld-Smithville road started up.
 J. G. Allen and Miss Juna Hender- son went to Cove Saturday to get Mrs. Maud AIcorn and children who are visiting relatives here and at Cove, before returning to her home at Rogers.
 Heretofore friendship has meant whether two fellows could agree on some plan to rob third one or not. But now we are finding out that when a man robs another he robs himself also.
 According tO a recent article in Farm and Ranch, spring potatoes do not make good seed for fall plant ing. But if they are used. plant the largest ones and get them sprouted AtlDit
 0nie Briee. who accidentally killed himself with shotgun while out hunting Friday, was buried at the Six-Mile cemetery Saturday at ? D. m. The Rev E. Hamiter con- ducted the funeral services.
 J. C. Harker. since coming here from Iowa in January has fenced f60 acres of land, eIearedd0 and has in cultivation about 10 acres. all done with but little help and besidfs he is past 3f and under TO
 Summed up, farmers have their crops clean and the ground<fhordly pulverized Everybody of good cheer. optimistic and js1y and really 1t is hard for us G6Jfield people to gel t into ouEs>heads that war is raging.
 c. W ns5dhouse. after three days, arrixed here Monday from Okmul- gee with a big Jeffrey Quad Autol lumber truck for the Rebolt Lum- Der Company He started back on the evenino train and will bring another one thru as soon as he re-