The Mena weekly star., 1921-02-03
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Within tie last few wcela a manu- facturing industry has been started in Mena that as yet has attracted iit- tie attention. The article manuI ac- tured is one that no one really wants and yet sooner or later all ol us must have 1t. The industry is for the man. ufacture of easkets. Those behind the movement are J. J. Mershon and lJ. C. Brooks, the former doing the cabinet work and the latter the trim ming. Up to date they have com and those who have inspected the completed articles are sure in every detail of workmanship they are equal, if not superior, to those produced in the best equipt casket factory. The industry has been started in Mir. Mer- shon's carpenter shop on Janssen avenue and Fourth street, but as the business develops the floor space will be increased and lathes and other machinery will be added. so that less work will have to be done by hand. All who know Mir. Mershon will be sure that his workmanship is first class, and his associate is also an ex- pert in his part of the job, having been in the business for about 15 years, and having been employed in large factories at Charlotte, N. C., Atlanta, Ga, Waco, Tex. and in the two factories at Fort Smith. The Fitz Lumber Company is assisting the enterprise by turning out the re- quired patterns of moulding at the Acorn mill
 
 c. W. Broyles, county agent; Mrs. M. Austin, nome demonstration agent Miss Leonora Rector, probation off cer, and the secretary of the Commer- cial Club, cooperating, have before them full program of community work this week, starting with the general rally at the courthouse Tues day afternoon and finishing with the Acorn community club on Saturday night. On Wednesday afternoon the berry growers will meet at the Com mercial Club office to pass on the con- stitution and bylaws for the organi- zation and to complete arrangements | for ordering crates to care for the 1921 crop. Then, too, an effort will l be made to increase the acreage of strawberries, blackberries and other 1 small fruits On Wednesday night. 1 the forces will meet with the Dallas ] community club, where a movement | has already been started to plant !! Irish and sweet potatoes as money | crops. On Friday night the meeting | will be with the Center Point Club, | and then the windup for the week will | come with the meeting at Cove on | Saturday night. The message that is | being brought to all of these meetings I IS to grow foodstuffs and feed and less i cotton. Truck growing, poultry rais- | ing and carrying are among the | things that are suggested in place of i one-erop farming, and with it all goes | the plea that the boys and girls are | after all the most important crop to ! be looked after. |
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 Mrs. M. Austin, home demonstra- ton agent; Miss Leonora Rector. pro- bation officer; the secretary of tbe Commercial Club and J. \. Price. | spent Tuesday night of last week with the members of the Old Potter com munity club, a special meeting hay ing been called for the purpose of get ting acquainted with the county ex- tension forces, and to work out com munity program of farming for the coming season. The next meeting of | the Club will be held on the second in February, when the mat ter of community program of farm ing will be further discust. Prof. A $. Daniels of the Rocky school also attended the meeting last Tuesday. and outlined a plan for the consolida- ton of rural schools Mrs. Tom Hays | and Mrs. E. c. Cramlett, teachers of | the Old Potter school had many of | their pupils in attendance. and to them was brought the message of | boys and girls club work. Commun- ity singing furnished the entertain ment for the meeting.
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 At the suggestion of Mena resi- dent the secretary recently took up with $. M. Gaines, superintendent of railway mail service, the matter of having mail boxes put in place at the depot. Mir Gaines has written that the matter has been submitted to the department, and in the meantime Wingo has written the secretary that he will take up the matter with the department and do i all he can to secure the placing of i these mail boxes.
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 There. are few who have any idea ol the diversity of inquiries that come to this office. They cover every view point of the moral, civic and agricul- tural conditions prevailing in the city ana the community. but no one would [ guess that there are those who wouId | have the office take on the duties of a matrimonial bureau. A recent cor- respondent writing from California after detailing the agricultural con dltlons he is looking for. added:
 Three years ago l lost my wife bv death l would marry respectable widow or old maid with home. am poor but upright. An honorable Christian man. and can give refer ences.p
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