The Mena weekly star., 1918-11-14
Correspondence
HATFIELD.
HATFIELD PLEDGES HER QUOTA
Al Meeting Sunday Night Raised
$159 of the $500 Asked.

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Hatfield, Nov. 1.-THE United
War Work campaign opened here
Sunday with the Rev. w B. Green of
Mena as the speaker. The meeting
was held in the High School audi
forum, d. E. Myers, chairman of the
Community Council Of Defense, pre-
siding. The program opened with
America" with Miss Gussie Nc
Donald of Mena at the piano, assist
ed in the song by the audience and
by Miss Leonora Rector and Messrs.
Raymond Norwood and Edward
Leeper of Mena and Misses Immo-
gene and Jane Henderson of this
city
The Rev. j. B. Williams offered a
touching and fervent invocation.
At the meeting $3.50 was subscrib-
ed, and the entire quota of $500 will
was pledged before Monday.
Miss Rector was here in the inter
est of the boys and girls work in
this campaign, and made an urgent
appeal to our young folks to take an
active part in the drive. Miss Alice
Williams was selected to carry on
the work with the boys and girls.
After the meeting a reception was
held at the Star hotel in honor of the
seventeen boys from this community
who reported Monday for sirvice
Among this number three, Freeman
Dover, Fred Dagenhart and Lon
Dale, volunteered.
One of the interesting features of
the meeting was the display of the
service flag prepared by the Com
munity of Defense and bearing "a
stars as representing the young
manhood from Hatfield called to the
colors. There are two gold stars in
the flag, for Will Strawn, who died
in France, and for Will Daniels, who
died in camp near New Orleans.
There are still or s more names to
be added to the flag, that for the
time being had been overlooked.
War Work meetings We're held
Sunday afternoon at West Valley,
Pleasant Hill, Two-Mile and Old
Cove, at all Of which citizens of this
town took part.
At West Valley the speakers were
ID. e. Myers and w. L. Nichols. and
they were greeted by large and en-
sthusiastic crowd. Music was fur
nished by the West Valley choir. The
Boys and Girls Victory clubs were
organized, and Misses Leila and Exia
Nichols volunteered to carry on this
work, starting out with a subscrip-
ton of $50. From West Valley the
speakers went to Two-Mile, where
they found an interested crowd
awaited them. Here, too, a victory
club was organized and SIS was COL
3ected. Arrangements were also
made for meeting to be held Sat
urday night for the purpose of or
ganizing a Community Council of
Defense.
j. o. Gates and Miss Imogene
Henderson went to Pleasant Hill,
where they found the people wide
awake, and ready to form the local
organization, with the assurance that
they would go over the top at once.
j. C. Hoheimer and Frank Rork
went to Lone Valley for the meeting
at 8 o'clock p. m. They organized
for the drive and secured a subscrip-
zion of sol, with additional pledges.
AS evidence of his interest in the
campaign to keep the boys smiling
0Orbrey Arnold, 8-year-old son of
Rev. w. B. Arnold of Hatfield,
gave thoroughbred Poland China
pig to the fund. The porker was put
up at auction and sold for S46, which
sum added to that secured from 9TH
er sources made Hatfield's total the
first day $4,000