The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-07-03
Correspondence
HATFIELD AND COMMUNITY

Local fruit men ordered their cans
Saturday.
J. c. Keith was in town Saturday
with a load of fine spuds.
Frank Beavers, a Hun scrapper, ar
rived home Sunday
Lee Gipson returned Monday from
trip to Scott coutny.
]. s. Finch has sold both. his farms
south Of town to a man from Texas.
Claude Barton and George Sims
were up from Cove traing on Monday
Thru the efforts of G. H. Johnson,
Hatfield will soon have new stock
pens.
v. c. o'Neil left for Texarkana
Sunday to work in an axe handle fac
tory.
T. r. Bates has bought the Andy
Tucker residence near the Methodist
church
]. Webb Hall has purchased the w.
s. Renfro residence in the west end
of town.
If nothing happens z. c. Gaddis win
make 5000 an acre on his cantaloupes
this season.
Bernard Slote, who was burned
severely at Kansas City recently, is
out Of danger.
Evans, the proprietor of the Com
mercial Hotel at Cove, was in town
buying groceries Saturday.
Albert Griffin has quit clerking in
the Dover store to begin school at
Pleasant Hill in few days.
Miss Datha Fortner began Monday
morning the duty as clerk in the store
of the T. M. Dover Mercantile Go.
The Beach Lumber Company has
just received two big 2-ton Federal
trucks to haul lumber from Beach.
Mrs. T. M. Dover and daughter,
Mrs. E. H. Butler, went 70 Mena on
Monday to have dental work done.
That hustler and road booster,
James A. Slote, shipped apples south
Friday and celery north Saturday
Mrs. Noah Hunter and Miss Addie
Hunter went to Mena Monday, Miss
Addie returning Tuesday morning on
No. l.
Our youngster and tie spotter. LEY
Nichols, now with the Kansas City
Southern, has pass over different
roads.
this way surveying a highway route
from Watson by way of the old bridge
on Mountain Fork.
The Hatfield team put one over the
Cove team Saturday in site" game
Of baseball The dose will be repeat
ed at Cove on the Fourth Mena next.
Andy Parsons arrived here hale and
hearty Friday from the war zones of
France, and will resume his position
with the Watkins people as hardware
clerk.
Miss Mary Williams is visiting at
Hermitage, Ark, this week with her
brother. the Rev. Wesley Williams,
who is assistant cashier Of bank at
that place.
Ed Brunnels of Orange, Tex. was
unloading his household goods at
Hatfield Monday and is moving to
the farm he purchased recently from
4 G. Gaddis.
Mel Dale, that hustling salesman,
viii leave Hatfield this week He is
going to Henrietta, Tex, and it will
be NIFTY tuck to see which gets there
first. he or his Mena Star.
The Rev J W. Fulton is holding n
revival meeting at Vandervoort this
week. The Rev Mr. Fulton is an
evangelist Of 20 years experience. and
has nlany recommendation from
some Of the strongest church lead
ers in the South.
A Jefferson Highway running north
and south thru Hatfield and a Will
liams Highway running east and
west. new depot, electric lights, con
crete sidewalks and or 10 new bust
ness houses will make Hatfield quite a
different looking place. They're COM
ing.
Hatfield young people are rejoicing.
There's q moving picture show in
town. a baseball team has been or
gained, and every night or two there
is either singing" at the M. E..
Church or the Baptist Church. Young
people like life and it is up to the
adults to furnish them the right sort.
The Hatfield boys played game of
ball Saturday with Cove. and the