The Mena weekly star., 1918-05-23
COUNTY REDCROSS
 DRIVE ON SUNDAY
Speakers Made Most of the Points According to Schedule and Found a Remarkable Response on the
 Part of the People.

The Reu CrOSS drive TOT the country districts was opened Sunday by the different speakers, as had been ar ranged, and good attendance was given wherever the speakers went, and there is no doubt but that Polk county will more than Ego over the top" in this effort.
 With few substitutions, the speak CTS made the trip as announced. Mark P. 0lney, who was at Big Fork at II a. m., and at Opal at 2:30, found good crowds, and much interest shown in the movement. The Rev W. M. Crowson was at Old Cove, and found a small attendance, owing to the late announcement, but felt sure those present would spread the word to oth- CTS, and that there would be no troub- le in Old Cove coming to the front.
 Judge Wright Prickett, who made the address at Cove, made ar able talk in the work to be done, the need of such work, and, with the help of those on the committee at Cove who attended the meeting held here Satur- day, a good crowd was in attendance and listened attentively to the speak CTS.
 Levi Pigg covered the schedule for for Corinth, and there also being a Decoration service there, he had "a good crowd; in fact, the people of that district subscribed more than three fourths of the minimum quota allotted them at this one meeting, so there IS no doubt of the result.
 Col. Pole McPhetrige, chosen to speak at Holly Springs and Concord, driven out by Olin Wood, arrived on time at the first named point and then found the people of that settlement all preparing to attend the Decoration services at Concord. Joining the crowd Mir. McPhetrige went to Con- cord and found there between TOO and 1000 persons. After the program and when the graves had been decorated, Mir. McPhetrige made an address, m which he called attention to the ap- propriateness of the occasion for cali ing attention to the battlefields, the graves of our loved ones lover there" to the suffering of the wounded and the sick, and how the Red Cross was the one force that looked after the dead. colnforted the dying, and nursed back to health and strength those who couli be saved. He found that al- ready some of the work of soliciting had been done; that Isaac Reed, s- b. Wa lace and others had collected more than SGT in the neighborhood in less than an hour the day before, and left with the assurance that there would he a hearty response from the people of the community. :,
 LeRoy Neal, who went to ozark township, reports that he feels we should take cur hats off to that dis- trict. as it was practically lover She ton" when he left, and expects to double it's quota. Mir. Neal, arriving somewhat late at Ozark school house, found T. J. Wilbanks and Dr. Il. K. Getz already on the ground and sl2o subscribed. Besides Grannis, there arA a rrmte of other live communi-- ties in the township that will be heard from.
 While it was not possible to get an account from each of the speakers w,.. had made the trip, the general feeling is that the entire county is up to the mark for this work, and that there will be no hesitancy in subscrib- ing the amount asked. 1.
 The different churches had the Red Cross in it's various phases for the themes for the Sunday evening hour, some If which are mentioned else where. Tho work will be carried fur ther and tonight the first of women speakers will start the campaign for tl,, week at the Lyric, where Mrs. Ed- w;n R Cox will make the address.