The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-01-23
Correspondence
HATFIELD HOTsTUPH.


Mrs. L. w. Averitt is visiting rela-
tives in GAINESVILLE, Tex.
Joe Allen and family, of Cove. were
mingling with friends here Friday.
The Rev. N. o. Hornsby and D. A.
Daniels left Saturday for Wickes.
Mrs. Grace Mershon from Page,
Ok, spent Saturday and Sunday here
with home folks.
Watkins Mercantile Company are
painting and decorating the interior
of their store building.
Everett Roark, a returend soldier,
left Sunday to resume his old job IN
the zinc mines at Pitcher, Ok.
r. II. Stockton, living two miles
south OF Hatfield, and one-half mile
west Of the Liner place, will have a
public sale January %.
Aubrey Giyens left Monday for
Scots Bluff, Nebr., where he goes to
accept an attractive proposition made
him by a former employer.
Pierce Kellar was taken to Texar-
kama last week to undergo a opera
ton for appendicitis. At this writing
he is reported to be recovering nicely.
The merchants are displaying gar
den seeds A few gardens are being
plowed, and onion sets and frost proof
cabbage are being set out. We viii
soon again be our herbiverous selves.
Ira Kellar whose eye was injured
two weeks ago with scalding water
from his auto radiator, reports that
member as about normal again. For
several days it was feared the sight
was injured.
Clifton Crawford and Miss Imogene
Henderson were married in Mena on
Thursday and left for New York Sat-
urday, where they will make their
home Mr. Crawford resumes his po-
sition in a government wireless sta
tion. A host of friends from all over
the county join in wishing this es-
temable young couple many years of
happiness.
The pie supper Friday night net
ted the Methodist church enc hundred
and thirty-five dollars. This enter
tainment was given for the purpose
of raising funds towards the purchase
of an organ. A feature OF the affair
was a cake bringing over sixty dol
lars, being awarded to Miss Bessie
Johnson as the best looking girl pres
ent
The High Brows have decided cat
tie dipping shall begin March 1. This
is right when cattle that have been
roughing it thru the winter are at
their weakest, and great care must
be exercised or there might be con-
siderable loss, but there should be
some provision or exceptions for the
worst cases. Intelligently adminis-
tered, the dipping law is fine thing
for all Cattle buyers say Polk coun-
ty cattle look 25 per cent better right
now on the range than the cattle in
adjoining counties not dipping. We
have our watts built and 1t would be
childish not to comply in every way
to bring this task to speedy finish.
Last year was a bad year. but the
long season we are blessed with and
diversified crops, we lack a whole lot
of being bad off, and many have done
exceptionally we'll. If you doubt it,
read some of the numerous sale bills
posted around, and notice how differ
ent they read from few years ago.
Now at almost any sale nurebred and
registered stock are offered; also note
the hundreds and hundreds of bales of
hay, Red Top, Timothy, Soudan, Mil
lett, Clover, Peanut, etc. One coming
farm sale offers % bales of cotton.
Lint and seed have been bringing
around Two Hundred Dollars bale
This one item alone seems rather
good for bad year-what?
A clerical or typographical error
crept into our last items. which stated
the farmer here had received sixty
five cents per pound for his best tub
washed wool, and the consumer was
paying One Dollar and Sixty per
pound for wool yarn. This part was
wrong. 1t should have read Four
Dollars and Sixty Cents per pound
One Dollar and Fifteen Cents per four
ounce skein, which was what the Red
Cross people here also had to pay,
,even in 20 pound lots One Dollar and
Sixty Cents pound was disastrous
statement. a qrievious error, and we
hasten to apologize to the organized
industry for the unintentional insult.
Hattie