The Mena weekly star., 1919-03-13
GRANNIs GRAINS.


 Van Leas is expected home any day from the army.
 s. L. Sargent has old friends visit ing him from Texas.
 S. C. Burke has quit farming and
 Mir. and Mrs. Wiley Jones have a new baby, born Saturday night. is a travelling man now.
 Mrs. G. M. Lauderdale is recover ing from a serious Illness. W. E Taylor has built a grist mill and may add blacksmith shop.
 Miss Evelena Vernois left a few days ago for a college in Fort Smith.
 J. C. Jones, carrier on Grannis rur- al route, has had an addition built to his house.
 The cantaloupe corporation of Grannis has received seed, and a big crop is expected
 Mrs. Langford and her three girls left Sunday for Texas to visit the formers mother.
 Mir. and Mrs. E. B. Staples are moving to Story, Wyo. They left Monday afternoon.
 Mir Inman of Chicago and his fam fly, stayed at the A. c. Leas home for a few days while here.
 Mrs Dupriez, the leader of the Christian Endeavor, held splendid service Sunday night.
 Prof s. s. Lane and Mrs Lane have a baby girl which has been named Sammie Gladys.
 Lois Sargent is recovering from the serious burn she received sometime ago. She can walk around now.
 Last Sunday afternoon Mir. Walters went back to Louisiana and he says that there is plenty of work there.
 The agricultural club of Grannis is doing some splendid work and ex- poets to take prizes at Mena this fall.
 The Grannis High Schol basket ball team is getting in good trim for matched games with some neighbor- ing teams.
 Dr. F. c. Mullins has settled in Grannis and has q fine practice. His daughter has started to the Grannis school and is in the sixth grade.
 1t is rumored that Grannis is to have a new depot, and more side track, new cotton gin and last, but not least, a new brick school building.
 Several pupils of the Grannis High school are going to the contest at Mena. Among them are Mary Nunes, Gladys Clinton and Robert Leas.
 s. S. Lane is having such good sue cess with his school at Grannis that he has been elected principal of school in Little Rock. and was offered school in Oklahoma.
 The Grannis mattress factory, owned by A. c. Leas and Mrs. Mathis, is doing a fine business. Besides selling to the people of Grannis, they are going to ship to Oklahoma.
 The Grannis Eighth grade pupils are going to have graduating exer- else at the close of school, and have invited State Superintendent J. L.. Bond to deliver the address, and County Superintendent T. J. Will banks also has a place on the pro- gram.
 w E. Hungate has bought an 0everland car thru s. Pigg of Ash down.
 Evelyn Nichols left last Thursday for Fort Smith, intending to take a three-months course in business col lege.
 Alex Coyle sold what is known as the foumans farm one mile east of town to D. Daniel. Mir. Daniel has two carpenters remodeling the house.
 E. B. Staples and family, with a car of household goods, left Grannis Tuesday for Wyoming Mir. Staples came here about a year ago( a sick man, but has thoroly regained his health.
 Walt Inman and family left for Chicago Friday. Mir. Inman. who is in rather poor health, expects to be back in about two weeks, claiming that this is the healthiest country he knows of.
 w E Taylor is a busy man these days. He has just delivered three 40- ton cars of fertilizer for the canta- loupe crop. He also has delivered 400 pounds of cantaloupe seed, and 30 pounds of cucumber seed, represent ing 430 acres to be planted in truck. Mir. Taylor expects $100 per acre net to the grower of the truck crop this year