The Mena weekly star., 1918-05-30
POLK SENDS FINE
 BUNCH OF BOYS
Fifty Eight Responded to the Call to COlors and Business Houses Closed to Honor the Embryo Soldiers
 One Unaccounted for.

70 henOr me Embryo Soldiers
 One Unaccounted for.
 By common consent all the business houses were closed Monday afternoon from to 1 o'clock in honor of the Polk county boys who had been called to service and started that afternoon for Camp Pike. There were ffty-eight registrants who responded to the call including two volunteers, Robert E. Row of Page, Ok, and Bert Moore of Pulaski county, Arkansas. Out of the list of sixty that had been called three were transferred to other points. They'were Kirby Smith Pirtle of Jop- lin, Mo, George Washington Holiday to I3abel, Ok, and Daniel Norris to Galveston, Tex. Only two that had been called failed to respond. They were Edwin Wesley Coughran and Fleet Washington Bain.
 The boys entrained on No. and were under the direction of Don D. Clement, John Martin and Edward Reeves as captains. The entire dele gation met at the office of the local { exemption board, and after all pre- , liminaries were arranged they were formed in line of march, and, preceded by Ben c. Eastin as color bearer and G. H. Davis and George Buganne with drums they marched up Mena street, thence on Port Arthur to DeQueen and thence to the depot where special coach was in waiting for them. An enthusiastic and patriotic crowd had gathered at the depot to bid the boys good bye and God speed, and as the train pulled out there was hardly a man, woman or child in the crowd whose heart was not in his throat when he thought what a sacrifice the boys are making for us who remain behind. It had been expected that an officer would be here from Camp Pike to accompany the boys, but he did not arrive, tho the supposition was that he joined them enroute.
 Those who responded to service in this call were:
 Jesse Price Parker, Mena.
 Hayden S. M Rhodes, Vandervoort. Don D. Clement, Mena.
 Isaac Eden Putnam, Board Camp.
 John Wesley Martin, Mena.
 John Brady Young, Drumright, Ok. James Walter Standridge, Opal.
 Andrew Jackson Parsons, Hatfield. Harry Fletcher Rabb, Mena.
 Alven Ebert White, Hatton.
 William Calvin Harrison, Grannis,
 Madison Lindsay, Eagleton.
 Obie Poindexter, Grannis. Lloyd William Shipp, Potter.
 James Oscar Cole, Texarkana, Tex. Howard Sanford, Wickes.
 Beniamin Harrison Southern, Pot ter.
 James Lamar Everett, Hatfield. Marshall Lawson Beauchamp, Mena. William Alvin Arthur, Vandervoort. John William Harper, Mena.
 Bud Ross, Grannis.
 Albert Berger, Mena.
 James I. M. May, Vandervoort.
 Tom Donohue, Heavener, Ok.
 Guy Lee Osborn, Vandervoort.
 Cecil Irwin Harrison, Grannis.
 Ben Onie Franklin Petty, Hoeha- town, Ok.
 Louis John Tomask, Cove.
 Audie Ray Thomas, Vandervoort. Gentry Nesbet, Grannis.
 John Y. Bogle, Mena.
 Abner Forrest Pagan, Mena.
 Marion Artie Littlepage, Hatfield. Floyd Otho May, Potter.
 Howard John Elliott, Cove.
 Lee Piekens, Grannis. John Wilburn Mcdaniel, Cove. Theodore Cureton, Cove.
 James Treiiis Gately, Mena.
 Charles Julius Hiaumet, Wander voort. Beniamin, Arch Garrett, Tulsa, Ok. Charles Alley Daniels, Vandervoort. Anton Kolar, Mena.
 Callis Potter Stakemiller, DeQueen. Claude Mack Brantley. Point Cedar, Ark.
 George Franklin Satterfeld, Hat field.
 Troy Masters, Board Camp.
 Edward Allen Reeves, Mena. Iueian Wiley Williams. Parks, Ark. Gould Tate. Eagleton.
 Isom Jackson Hogan, Mena. Louis John Lebon, Wickes.
 Fred Strickland. Mena.
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