The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1918-11-07
Correspondence
HATFIELD.

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Dooley Barton Of Cove was seen on
our streets Saturday
d. NJ. Fitz made a business trip to
Smithville. Ok, Tuesday
Presiding Elder j. A. Biegs was in
town q short while Saturday.
Homer Terry has accepted a po-
sition with the Bank Of Cove.
Ed Hutson held the sale Of VIM.
Reid Thursday near NandervOOrt
Mrs. Carrie Whippie attended the
burial Of Ed Mershon at Mena last
week.
Miss Johnnie Gipson Of Guerdon,
was visiting relatives and friends
here Sunday.
ID. r. Myers. Mark Dover. Kim
Floyd and Joe skeen, were Mena Wis
itors Saturday.
Miss Imogene Henderson spent
part Of last week at Texarkana, the
guest Of Miss Hortense King.
Misses Olga Parker and Winnie
Bell came down from Mena and spent
the weekend with Miss Exile ke5ler.
Some forty or fifty people from
here attended the funeral Of Her
bert Woodell at Piney Grove Sunday.
Steven & Terry had ginned ga
bales of cotton up to Monday night
This is the largest gin report in the
county.
The Hatfield Woodmen Of the
World attended the funeral Of Her
bert Woodell at Piney Grove Sunday,
in body.
May Williams returned Thursday
from Potter where she had been
with Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Lowthers
who had the "flu.r
Mrs. Dather Fortner and daughter,
Verne were up from Cove Sunday
the guests Of Mrs FORMERS mother,
Mrs. S. +. Henderson
From a small reading local ad in
these columns, J. A. Slote received
replies and orders from different
states. Moral--It pays to advertise.
Charley Cook returned from Cleve-
land, Ok, Saturday morning, where
he has been working in the oil
fields Mr.. Cook IL an expert driller.
Mrs. Christiana Hoge returned to
Cove on No. Saturday afternoon
where she is nursing Eugene Pool,
who has pneumonia following the
FLU
John Hoheimer, Ed Myers, Lewis
johnson and w. II. Littlepage at
tended the meeting of War Work
Counsel at Mena last Thursday.
Mrs. j. E. Williams received word
last week that her brother, Charley
Bean, had arrived safely overseas.
Mr.. Bean ia Texas registrant.
w. G. Hilburn was here Friday
from Ben Wheeler, Texas looking al :
ter the affairs of Mrs. s. w. Cook,
whose husband died few days ago,
ALI, the young son of Henry Mar
tin and wife. fell from a lumber
stack Sunday and bruised his leg, so
he is confined to his home for a few
days.
Mrs. w. E. Mershon of Spiro, Ok,
Mrs. Lula Haines of Tulsa, Ok, and
Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Allen of Mena,
visited Mrs. Carrie Whipple here
Sunday.
The infant Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ar
thur Romine, died here Saturday
night and was buried Sunday al
Pleasant Hill, pneumonia being the
cause of death
A letter from Arie Nichols at
Camp Travis, Texas, states that
about so per cent of the Polk county
boys are in the hospital but he was
released last Sunday.
Mrs. Matilda Davis returned home
last Thursday after visiting rela-
tives at Fort Smith, Spiro, Page and
Mcna. She attended the funeral of
Ed Mershon while in Mena.
Ed Whipple returned Thursday
from Spiro, Ok, and Mena where he
was at the bedside and burial Of Ed
Mershon. He reports Mrs. Mershoni
who is suffering from Influenza, as
improving
Circuit Clerk, W. L. Parker passed
thru here Saturday, having been to
s'Bear Tush" mountain where he held
the Fred Ries sale, as special COM
missioner. Capt Ed Hutson did the
auctineering
Edgar Modlin and wife arrived
Friday from Pittsburg, Kas. to visit
Mrs. Modlin's parents, Mr.. and MRS.
Ike Henderson. They left Monday
for a visit in Texarkana and st.
Louis. before returning home.
Ezra Beavers made 1874 gallons Of
sorghum from ~ acres of cane, the
proceeds Of which he Is gong to put
into Liberty bonds. Ezra says ne mas
more sweetness than any young
man IN Hatfield girls take notice.
Mrs. FL Nj Palmer, who IS teach
ing in the Gillian school, together
Win fIGf UhuEutNfSs MISSES Atsttsst ttia'
Emma returned to their duties sun
day after about three weeks vacation
on account Of the "flu" closing the
school.
A rumor was current last week
that William Strawn had been killed
in France. Win was in the first
draft and left in September 1917.
having been one of the boys given q
reception here on the eve Of their de-
parttire fer Camp Pike.
Word reached here Tuesday of the
death at Spiro. Ok, of w. i. Mer-
shon. Ed had many friends here
who mourn his demise. He came
mere several years ago as salesman
for the Watkins Lumber & Mercan-
tile Co, later going in business for
himself.
Tom Holland passed thru Saturday
on No. 3 as the military escort Of the
body of Herbert Woodell. to Cove.
Tom is in the u. S. Truck service at
Brooklyn, N. Y. and viii spend a
short furlough with his mother Mrs.
Will Stevenson on Brushy, before re-
turning to his duties with the u, ).
A little urchin hearing a member
of the family read our article about
S babies coming into our county
short time ago, became very much't
interested and placed an order for
baby brother. Just what the results |