The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-12
Correspondence
HArTIEs HoTsTUPH

Lee Gibson spent Sunday with
home folks near Heavener.
Al little son of Mr.. and Mrs. ID.
joplin died Tuesday morning.
Martin Mullins Of the navy spent
few DAYS ia Hatfield the past week.
w. Grain. employed a Bokhoma,
is spending a few days here with his
family.
Rev. Fulton is the newly appointed
minister for the Hatfield Methodist
church.
Thos. Harris of Ida. Ok, was
fransacting business in Hatfield
Tuesday.
The Pines Plantation shipped can
ned peaches and strawberries to
Kansas last week.
One Of the surest signs of cold
winter in this part Of the state IS
small wood piles.
j. B. Williams of the navy is spend
ing his furlough with parents and
friends of Hatfield.
A daughter was born TO Mr.. and
Mrs. Cyril Slote this week, mother
and child doing well.
The infant son of Lawson Tucker
died Sunday and was buried in Lone
Valley cemetery Monday.
j. W. Howard made a shipment to
Omaha, Neh., Monday Of home grown
tobacco blue Pryor Variety
The Pines Plantation has row of
orange trees that made growth of
6 feet or more in height each this
year.
Mr.. Blackwell residing west of
town received word of the death of
his son. who recently went from here
TO Texas.
Mrs Jordan. formerly living east
of Hatfield received word her son
A. B. Jorden was wounded, degree
undetermined.
Miss Ida Beavers who is teaching
near Wister, Ok, returned to Hat
field Sunday, her school closing down
on account Of @flu."
Lieutenant Ray Cobb, is shaking
hands with his friends here. He is
in civil life now, having secured his
honorable discharge.
Butter so. eggs so. hens 16 to Is,
hides wet ~, dry 26, furs, Opossum
up to $500. One coon sold today
fer $500. one skunk for $7.00
Arthur Lewis baled hay for Frank
Rork last week Mr.. Rork is begin
ming TO realize on his investment in
grass seed of year or two ago.
Luther Cummings, while digging
his Porto Rican sweet potatoes, de-
cided to weigh the product of one
hill and found them 10 weigh 20 lbs.
Speaking of big fruit and vegeta-
bles, has any one raised bigger sweet
potatoes than T. P. Davis? Six of
his weighed several pounds more than
bushel.
Hatfield win soon have another
good road to the east, work now being
ssene CT the ridge road to Camp Wild
er. This has been fairly good truck
road in the past, as high as 5000 feet
of lumber at one load being brought
over it. II will soon be better than
ever.
2 cents for radish seed, 3 to a Gus
toner. r. r. Miller got two to grow.
One in pulling, broke at the top of
the ground, the other was dug care
fully, wrapped with tow sack and
with some difficulty, put IN an old
salt barrel to save for seed. It meas
ured thirteen inches through and
eighteen inches long
A month since fighting ceased, the
big dailies printing long casualty
lists, 600 or 1000 perhaps more each
day causing fear and anxiety in many
hearts which is probably more in evil
dence at a postoffice window than
elsewhere. Some scarcely can believe
there is no mail, others resignedly
turn away. Some mail clerks nerves
are in rags and they show it. Others
stand it better and can still give the
patrons an encouraging smile with
negative shake of the head.
is Hatfield shipping point, has
it depot?" writes non resident. 1t
will interest other nonresidents to
know that Hatfield is one of the best