The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-03
Correspondence
nArrIE,s HorsruPH.

T. R. Bates has new adding ma chine ~
 The Methodist parsonage Is rapidly nearing complefion.
 Dr. Johnson reports twin girls at the home Of Mir. and Mrs. Lee Moore. oo Sefaraay W L. Nichols sold 5000 mixed ties to the railroad administra- tion. - . ..,.,,,,aa ln mad sold sfs.o0o worth of feed since January l5. this year, ,..,..
 X truck load and several auto ioadS of Hatfield folks went to the mihsuFi
 The Rev Buck Williams IS eNpeil- menting with new variety CT straw berry Of the everbearing strain
 Barry Williams has the contract 70 painf several business and residence buildings Work will begin at once.
 George Anders was taken sudden " and seriously i1ll one day last week. Al this writing ne is slowly improving.
 J. E williams returned last week from Pine Bluff. where he represented our local lodge at the ". Q. W. conven-
 9ohnnle Modiin terminated a visit with her parents. Mir and Mrs. Ike Henderson and returned Co her home in PittsburR. kas. .., sa acres Of corn already planted on his place. Many others will commence planting this week.
 Wiley Turner has been looking over
 
 with view to buying. road tax oocs not friahted him Q bit
 Mrs. Luther Cummings and sister and Mrs Viola Nichols went to Mena to trade and have dental work done Friday They returned Saturday.
 Mrs. Bernard Slote and son Jamie re- returned to their home. at Heavener Saturday after several weeks visit with MT and Mrs James A. Slote.
 Some careless hunter shot and killed or crippled several fine geese. These geese were not wild. but MT Jones the owner. was when he discovered ms
 Hello. Fly Hello. sI. Why wasn't you out Co fight the good roads the so bad I just couldn't get there. Good bye Fly. Good bye. Sl.
 Frank Rork and Cyril W. Slote just sold several hundred bales of meadow hay They report more money clear and less work per acre than any crop
 Mr. and Mrs E. s. pilcher are en- toying visit from e,lasd their aangntear ,ea ha qI farm and he and wife will return with their daughter to her home to spend the summer.
 as getting again in fairly good con ditiun This will interest some who haven't dared make their usual trips count of the impassable roads; ffiHenry Hasten and II. r. Bingham, who own several hundred acres of land southwest of here. have built road around the mountain and call it the Rainbow TrailH They figure it has added fully q dollar per acre to their land and they are ready to ioin the Jefferson or any other road.
 We win not devote much space to the meeting here Friday night. as it will probably be described fully in some other part of this paper 1t was Pros were SC noisy The Antis were nof permitted to state their arguments Pros. some of whom came long way, really wanted to hear,
 Saturday while awaiting our turn to be served at store We. saw the iner- chant hand man $92 for a bunch Of hides. \ little later he handed a wom.- clerk was kept constantly busy casing up eggs as they came in. The pro- duce business is growing and becom- ing more important here each year
 L. H. Johnson. Ed Myers and Mark Dover returned Friday from Shreve- port and other points. where they had peen n tb an eors 70 tns sesl thre ts abso 1utelv no market Take a hint. Did you ever notice an 8 million bale crop brings about. as much money as an II million bale eropI Our cotton situ-
 w A Harwell of Ringing. Ok. was mixing with former friends of Hatfield this week His son. Smith. recently
  is just recovering from an accident in which truck he was driving was struck by train killing one man and breaking Smiths arm and otherwise tnjuring him. Eight others escaped by jumping.
 Ray Gipson. son of John Gipson Is back from overseas after a year of service with Uncle Sam. Several other boys came In Saturday whose names we did not get, but, boys we are just as glad to see you back as you are to get here Here's howp
 Thru the efforts of our city officials a bill was passed by the recent legis- iature allowing 30 per cent of our road tax to be spent on the streets of the town It ia a serious joke all right to have one bunch fighting our only chance for good road. and then have another bunch din in and take half of the miserable pittance allowed us for our road work That town board is a live bunch ali right With the clean ing up and painting program they are now urging the stray hog nuisance dis posed of and now this 30 per cent ad- ditionai tax to keep the streets in shane shows they are alive to the in xerpsts of their town.
 Will the person who took lantern with patent burner from depot plat form the morning of March 22, please return same to Mrs Nellie Lewis -- Adv 14