The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-08-14
Correspondence
HATFIELD HAPPENINGS.

Paul O'Neill has been out Of school
by reason Of a bilious attack.
jackson Hogan, from Acorn. was
one of the soldier boys who came out
for the drill but was disappointed at
not getting to go thru the evolutions.
The annual cemetery cleaning and
decoration at Pleasant Hill will be
held on Friday, August q Every
body is invited to come and bring tools
and dinner. ID. Z. Myers, Committee.
Miss Nadine Campbell and Floyd
Myers returned from Magnolia on
Friday full of enthusiasm for the
club work and bubbling over with in
terest in what they saw and heard at
the agricultural school.
On next Sunday the Rev. Mr.
Wales of Ashdown viii begin revival
meeting at the Baptist church. Every
one is invited to come out and take
part. 1t is to be hoped that much
good viii be accomplished.
Mrs. Moore played the Good Samar-
itan in taking care of Virginia Har-
ris. who was disabled by an attack Of
gastritis on Monday. Prof. and Mrs.
]. G. Harris were both obliged to be
in school. but felt easy at leaving her
in such good hands.
Prof. and Mrs. l. G. Harris enter
tanned the Misses Thelma Swiger of
Union Grove. Nellie White of Acorn,
and Lottie Golden of Owens Chapel,
who visited the big Hatfield fair. They
went home saying il was one Of the
best fairs they ever attended.
The mid-week prayer meeting at
A. .l.s 40 NJ al n,
again last Wednesday night with J.
O. Gates in charge. All members OF
this church are asked to come out and
do their duty. A cordial welcome is
extended to all, whether churchman's
bers or not.
The judges found it hard to decide
between the four splendid maps Of
Polk county drawn by the Misses Ed
ma and Erma Palmer. Milburn Hines
and Paul 0'Neill. Hhe. premium was
finally given to the latter. Miss Ed
ma Palmer took the premium for the
best map of Arkansas.
The visitor who saw forty-pound
watermelons, eighteen foot corn and
other products in proportion at the
Big Fair found it hard TO believe that
Hatfield suffered from a drouth this
summer. The onld thing that has
saved our farmers this year has been
the excellent cultivation.
The business men of Hatfield are
considering the proposition of forming
a Commercial Club for the purpose of
uphuilding Hatfield and vicinity. This
is a splendid thing for the town and
it is to be hoped they will put it thru.
This is as important to the town as
a Farmers Club is to the country peo-
pie and unquestionably both will be
organized in the near future.
The Board Of Education is having
new locks put on the front and back
doors Of the schoolbuilding. They are
determined to break up the practice
some of the rougher element have of
doing their loafing inside the school
building. Anyone found on the
school grounds without good and suf-
ficient reasons will be prosecuted.
Thru an oversight last week no
mention was made of the marriage of
two of our leading young people, Hell
ter Littlepage and Miss Leafy An
derson. With all their other friends
we extend onr heartiest wishes for a
long and happy life. The happy
young couple will, for the present at
least, make their home in Hatfield.
merchants during the Big Fair was
noticed by all the visitors, as the
keys of the town were handed out to
all, but the hospitality of I. X. Bates
in putting seats on his truck and tax.
ing visitors from the depot to the
fair grounds was especially comment
ed on, Such things as this make peo-
pie have the "Come- hack-to- Hatfield"
habit and boost il to their friends as
the livest, friendlest town between
Fort Smith and Texarkana.
The two games of ball between
Mena and Hatfield interested large
and enthusiastic crowd on Friday and
Saturday. The home run Knocked by
Arthur Cobb was what made The
score of 9 to in favor of Hatfield
possible. His enthusiastic friends
presented him with ten dollar silver
offering as a slight token of their es-
TEEN and gratitude. The Saturday
game was much more closely contest
ed, being 8 to in favor Of Hatfield.
Neither age nor sex was bar to ex-
ted roofing in both games by the
atfield fans. Loyalty to home insti-
tutions is a Hatfield trait and it en-
couraged the home team to bring
home the bacon"
The exhibit of fine stock was an
eye-opener TO the man who expected
to see razor backs and scrub cattle.
The big Poland China hogs of Ford
Younce's. the splendid Red-Poll bull
shown by j. S. Cobb and the fno
Black Polled bull exhibited by w. j.
Davis were certainly encouraging 10
the man who wants to see Polk county
come into its own in stock-raising.
The writer recalls the scrubby cat
tie seen by him when he came here
eight years ago, not over two pure
bred bulls in the county and he calls
your attention to old Folks going
sometiveness," now. There are prob
ably thirty-five to forty owned in the
county at present With the elimina-
ton of the tick it is going to pay to
raise cattle here.
Pedagogue
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