The Mena weekly star., 1919-07-24
and son spent Saturday and Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Wiley Turner.
Black Eyes.
UNION GROVE UNITS.

A. converse
I Riley Aston has gone 20 Eagleton
to work at the mill.
Mrs. G. H. Wyatt has rallied and is
a little better at the present writing.
Mrs. Elizabeth Townsend of Ink is
very low at this writing. On Mon
! day . message was dispatched for her
son, G. d. Townsend, who is teaching
at Holly Springs
7. Townsend, who is TO teach the
Eureka school in Posey Hollow, was
unable to open school on the 2ist, ow-
ing to the critical illness of his moth
er, who has sustained a serious para
lytic stroke
The big meeting at Union Grove is
I in progress. On Sunday tie Rev
erends w. F. Furgeson of Mountain
Fork, Nj. +. Whitaker Of Owens
/ Chapel, w. J. Dunman of Mena and
James Dollar Of Yocana were the
preachers in charge. A rousng series
Of meetings was held with full houses
and much interest. On Monday night
Bro. Dollar preached and number
asked the prayer Of the church
Squire W. T. Cole called Peda-
gogue's attention to the fact that
several people have failed to register
with him the births in their families.
The penalty for failure to inform Mr..
Cole Of births and deaths is a fine Of
from ten to one hundred dollars on
the head Of the family. He does not
wish TO report any of these people, but
the law must be observed. "A postal
card with the information required
and addressed TO w. T. Cole, Registrar
Of Vital Statistics, Route 3, will do, it
not being necessary to have person
al interview
/ Uncle Frank Ward is very much
pleased with the amount of hay his
red top meadow has yielded this year.
He has practically filed his barn, and
liz the meadow yields another cutting,
which it will do if it rains, he will be
compelled to stack it outside. Uncle
Frank says some of the best grass
Twas nearly waist high. There will be
more land seeded down in Polk county
this fall and next spring than in the
five years preceding. In another year
or Two this county viii be out of the
4 clutches of the prairie hay "octupus''
as it will produce an abundance of hay
for home use and perhaps a little for
export.
The business meeting of the Union
Grove Freewill Baptist Church was
held on Saturday morning Among
other business transacted the follow
ing delegates were elected to go tC
the District Association to be held al
Rocky, Montgomery County, Thursday
before the 3rd Sunday in August
Messrs Joe Boehm, Jim Ford and G
A. Converse. The Rev Mr.. Dollar
was unanimously elected to fill ths
postorate during the ensuing year
, He was also called to fill one Sunda,
! ut Midway church, east of BoarC
, Camp, succeeding the Rev. j. l.. Red
ding. Uncle Frank Ward was sent a.
delegate from the Sunday school.
The Country Gentleman on July /.
had an article on poultry raising il
Arkansas. From the little town O
Rogers, Benton county thirty-si,
carloads of poultry have gone out il
i two months. When the amount O
money paid out for these fowls, be
4 sides the money for eggs sold. is real
lied, one sees that one of the big item
5 Of farms prosperity is comprehend
| ed in the words poultry keeping"
y is not only good to keep poultry, bu
so much better to keep well-bre,
> fowls which will reach good siz
. when ready to market. In this con
neetion word regarding the effort
!. Of Miss Anna c. Wood Home Dem
{, onstrator for Polk County, in tn
Poultry Club work is not amiss. Man,
: parents of Polk county when they SCI
). the fine fowls raised by their children
members of the club, resolve tina
they, too, will in future raise the pure
: bloods as they are so much larger an,
5 sell for so much more money while no
: costing any more to produce Tn
+ work Miss Wood is doing viii not Sc
I the end Of its good when she leave
: Polk county, but is cumulative, goinl
on from year to year, and ending onl.
: when the last trumpet sounds Let
$ raise more chickens, more eggs am
!. better products. Swat the rooster
4 now. Eat him or sell him, His use
| fulness Is over Infertile eggs vii
!. keep longer and win bring NOR
t money when they are candled. Poll
! county can produce as many and a
! fine fowls as Benton county ever dare,
+ do. Let the girls ioin the poultr.
Q club and help to Increase the output o
2 fowls
e Pedagogue.