The Mena weekly star., 1919-03-20
THAT REMINDS ME

THAT REMINDS ME
 And the best of all ways
 To lengthen our days
 Is to steal a few hours from the
 night, my dear.
 Tom Moore. Appropos of setting the hands of the clock forward one hour March 31.
 Too bad you didn't hear that "get- together" talk at the courthouse Fri day.
 France has her lilies, Scotland her rose, but Mena will take cantaloupe in her'n.
 Ex-County Judge will plant one acre to cucumbers-going in for the Hong green"
 Of course, the house-fiy is a little scarce at this season, but why not keep him so?
 There's several down town lots that don't seem to be included in the cleanup edict.
 The contract for big storage and curing plant having been let, now watch the 'taters grow.
 Anyway, if we cant build a sani- tarium on Stilwell Heights, it would make an ideal zoo park.
 
 Push along the Good Roads, Mir. Commissioner. The summer tourists will soon be headed this way.
 A concerted action of town and county will make Mena produce shipping point to be reckoned with.
 A Texas correspondent asks if I know of a job paying about $500 per month. Wouldn't tell him if did.
 Warming You'll never buy Mena property for less than now. Better get yours before the wheels go round.p
 The date draweth nigh when Uncle Sam will celebrate his national birth day. Will Mena ignore so important event?
 More than three months yet before July 4th--plenty of time in which to arrange that celebration, provided we go at it NOW.
 April 1 will go down in Mena's 1919 history with different meaning. You can get your mail from the new postoffice then.
 Only few days more and you can buy new stamps from the new post office. In the meantime you may con tinue to use the old ones.
 One for the money, two for the show, three to make ready, and four to go.' Come on, let's pull for Big Fourth of July celebration.
 l can eat one of my own chickens fattened in my own yard with clear CT conscience than if it got it's living from my neighbours garden.
 Mena Silver Cornet Band would sound appropriate providing the proper attention was given the sound. Say, come on; let's get the band
 About $200 have been paid in less than 30 days to nonresident musi- cians. Now if Mena-Say, wasn't that some rain Saturday nightl 
 One acre of Polk county $13 land cleared more than $399 the first year in strawberries, yet that 100-acre strawberry farm died a bornin'.
 It's darned expensive friendship when you are compelled to feed the neighbor's chickens out of your own garden in order to keep his good will
 Speaking of plans for road build ing, the different opinions flooding this office has the famous 57 varieties skinned 20 ways for driving the stake.
 We may never get that Polk coun- ty sanitarium on Stilwell Heights, but the selling of the county farm would be money-saving invest ment."
 Dromio of Ephesus-"We came in- to the world like brother and brother; And now let's go hand in hand, not one before the other Comedy of Errors.
 When some enterprising outsider steps in and establishes prosperous summer resort at Bethesda-but of course you knew all the time it could be done.
 Those 200 farmers who have signed up and received their seed are going to see that Cantaloupe DaJ will be an annual event in this burg of spe- cial occasions.
 Almost forgot to mention the lady orchestra for the White Way open