The Mena weekly star., 1919-07-17
UNION GROVE UNITS.


 Garrett Troxsis is hauling lumber from the Kenworthy mill to Acorn.
 And again the Union Grove ball team hung it on the visitors last Sat- urday afternoon.
 School opened at Holly Spri .gs Monday with Professor c. D. Town send at the helm.
 Mrs. Becker Hcgbest of WViiiibburtoTi, v ] Ok, is visiting her father, J. M. Bur- nett, on the Foran Gap road
 Miss Christa York of Mena has i been employed to teach the intermedi- ate department in the Acorn school. i Mrs. George Wyatt is reported low at this writing Her children, liv- ing in Oklahoma, have been notified.
 George and Leon Converse made a trip into Scott county on Saturday, after COW which Mir. Converse had traded for.
 Misses Madge Roop, Bessie Burnett and John and Leland Boehm were club members from Union Grove who attended the big rally on Friday at Mena. They report fine time and are full of enthusiasm over the club work.
 /, On Friday night and Saturday will be held the annual business meeting of the Union Grove Free-Will Baptist church at which time a pastor for the ensuing year will be elected and other business transacted. It is urged that all members be present.
 i Corn is suffering severely and many good farmers predict that a week more of dry weather would practical l, iy ruin many fields. Now is the time we all miss that silo we have planned for so long. Some day all progressive 1 farmers in the county will have them and then drouths like this will lose most of their terrors.
 Father Gallagher and Dr. J. T. Bo- gard were called in haste to the home of w F. Hunt at Union Grove on Tuesday afternoon. Mir Hunt was very low with an attack of heart trou- ble. At abut three o'clock that night the nearest neighbors were called as 1t was thought that he was dying. He pulled thru the attack however, and at this writing is slowly convalescing. The Rev. Alfred Casey preached Sunday at Union Grove church. Owing to the fact that the appointment was not given out, only few people were present and heard the excellent ser q. will call two long and one short ring on Union Grove phone and tell us, the announcements will be made thru the columns of The Star, thus informing all those who care to know.
 Union Grove school has not yet contracted with teacher for the en- suing year. Some of these bright young teachers will have an opportu- s.st stxrf IA 1n1 +.. f Ina. fnl, is to be built after the crops are laid by. Good wages will be paid and the teacher will find that his or her lines have been cast in pleasant places as Union Grove not only has very bright set of children whom it is a pleasure to teach, but it is a pro- gressive and up-to-date community.
 0. L. Henderson, our energetic county agent, has been very success ful in helping the farmers in market ing their hogs and lambs. Thru his help the farmers received 1912 cents for hogs at Mena when the local butchers were paying only 16 cents. This, on a two hundred pound hog means seven dollars difference. Now, that we know we have a good market many will fatten hogs that have never , done so before. Mir. Henderson ex- poets this fall to market number of ! cars of hogs and several of cattle. Talk to your J. F. and let us all see to it that he is kept on the job as county agent for another year. , Some of the progressive farmers of Union Grove neignborhood are using the "Kill-Tree" formula recommend ed by the State University. This con sists of one pound of white arsenic boiled in one gallon of water with two pounds of sal soda. A series of notch es are cut around the tree and small amount of the liquid poured into thes notches. The tree soon dies, sending up no sprouts and the stump and yoots soon decay, thus leaving the , land ready for cultivation. The Rev. !, W. L. Smith and J. G. Jackson have . tried this formula and recommend it , as one which will kill even such trees as elms and gums. G. A. Converse ] has found it very efficacious in killing sprouts coming out of oak stumps, by the use af the poison. The Agri- cultural Department recommends fall ] as being an especially god time to get } rid of trees by the use of this poison.
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