The Mena weekly star., 1919-03-20
Correspondence
wIcKEs WAVES.

Two much rain is putting farmers behind with all kinds of farm work
 Mir. and Mrs. Hedge came to town Saturdav and stayed over night with Mrs. Linn Compton.
 A singing was enjoyed sunday night at the Baptist church, Come again. you good singers.
 Mir. and Mrs. Luther Darwin of near Hope. have moved out east ot Wickes to make their home.
 Mrs. Jim May has returned home. She has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Mamie Overturf of Cove.
 School is progressing nicely, ana Thursday night a nice program was rendered. Everybody enjoyed them selves
 Bert Higginbottom made visit to Iowa the past week. The weather there, he says, is very mild, ana put little rain the past winter.
 Mabel McJunkin. granddaughter of Col and Mrs. c. H. Jett, came m last week from ArkadelphIa, to pay grandpa and grandma a long vlsit.
 Their will be over two hundred acres of cantaloupes planted here this spring. The cantaloupe association is offered a good price for thelr product cash at the cars.
 Herman Black and wife, May Bell, came in Tuesday morning from Salli- saw, Ok, where he IS employed as operator for the Kansas City South err. They returned home the same night.
 Mir. and Mrs. Brinkle have returned from their Rockport, Tex, winter home to spend the summer here on their Wickes home. Mir. Brlnkle praises Rockport very highly. Says he had all the fish and ducks he could eat.
 Since Col. Jett has gone to keeping house in his new bungalow, and Mrs. Jett at work in her garden, if you could see them, you would think they just got off their honeymoon trip. They are as jolly as two young mar ried folks.
 We Wickes folks are sure fixed for our corn bread for sometime. John Joplin has car of white corn shelled, fine for bread, and if you could see the way he is wearing his hat on the side of his head, you would bet he IS selling corn.
 Jerry Rrinton has returned from Cushman. where he spent about one year in the mercantile business. He assumes the management of the Hunt Bros. Fruit Farm. While here before Jerry got his feet wet in Rolling Fork and that is what brought him back. All of his old friends were glad to see him in Wickes.
 One of Wickes' best institutions is the Bank of Wickes 1t has almost wiped out the credit business with the merchants here. Almost any old Hill Billie now carries his check book to pay as he goes, for he can get all the money he wants if he has the where with to put up for it, and most of them have it.
 Howard Compton, son of Mir. and Mrs. Compton of the Wickes Hotel, is at home on To-day furlough. How ard enlisted in the U. s. Navy for years. His time is about one-half out. He is looking fine. He will have until the night of the 18th to join his ship at New York. Good luck, and we hope to see you come home again soon.
 One word to the Masons of Wickes: They have one of the best lodges in the county and they are doing good business enrolling some of the best young men of this town and vicinity into their order. Most of them meet very regularly and from the noise they make, have good time. What l want to say, boys. if you are hav- inc all your good time to yourselves, what good does it do to outsiders Now, why not have Mason work sometime in May, and good dinner on the side. l am sure all of us old backs will help you out with the grub-pile, and it may be the means of getting more new recruits and more Masons for Wickes. Talk this up and let your dad" know what you say.
 Dad.