The Mena weekly star., 1921-01-27
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to the cali to raise more food and feed and less cotton during the coming sea- son. A car load of seed oats ordered thru the Farm Bureau and taken out by the farmers this week shows that a good start is going to be made in growing more feed in the territory tributory to Mena. Arrangements are in the making to bring about a decid- ed increase in the Irish potato acre. age, and the same movement is on in reference to increasing the acreage of sweetpotatoes. One farmer from the Rocky community in Mena Tuesday announced that he had in mind put ting out a sufficient acreage of the sweets" to be able to ship at least two car loads. The strawberry grow CTS, who met at the Commercial Club office Wednesday afternoon to complete the order for car load of crates, will also make reports on in- creased acreage of berries this spring. till others, since the meeting held last week, have announced their intention |of joining tle berry growers organiza- tion and starting in this spring with an acre or more each Then, too, in this movement for diversifcation the "helpful hen" is going to be given more cosideration in Polk county than ever before.
 This office has had some cores pondence with the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Potoskey, Mich, in reference to the commission manager form of government adopted by that city over year ago. Speak ing specifically about the organization the secretary writes:
 Our city commissioners--five in number-are elected from each of the four wards and one at large. These five select one of their number as mayor who presides over council meetings, but who does not have veto power The City Manager is the chief executive and is in charge of all departments. Our city manager form of government copies exactly in it's process of operation a successful cor porate industry which elects board of directors from its stockholders, and which board selects the general man ager. Practically the same scope is, and should be given the city manager under the policy established by the commissioners as is given factory general manager by the board of di- rectors. Considerable mystery has been cast about the Commission-M Man ager government by organizations which could vnd personal capital in unraveling the mystery, but as mat ter of fact the procedure is a plain as A. B. C."
 Early last month the secretary ac- cepted the proposition of the National Cash Register Company to have one of it's representatives deliver busi- ness lecture in Mena some time the latter part of this month or early in February. The lecture will be of es- pecial interest to wholesale and retail merchants, salespeople, bankers and business men. It will be Illustrated with about 5000 feet of motion pic- ture films, treating in a most interest ing way of many things never before shown on the screen. c. A. Yunkes, advance representative of the com pany, is now i'll this territory making the preliminary arrangements, and doubtless will be in Mena within the next week. A Mena business man. a member of the Commercial Club, on a recent trip to Fort Smith, met Mir. Yunkes on the train, and learned first hand some of the purposes of the lec- ture. From the outline he received he 1 became so impressed with the value of the lecture, that on his return to the city, he informed the secretary of the Commercial Club that in the event the lecture were given in the day time
 he would close his place of business with the understanding and require ment that every employe attend the ] |. 4o lna rsrsra ! is given at night he will still request that every employe attend.
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 The pupils and teachers of Rocky school, district No. 2, are carrying on
 two activities that speak we'll for the
 progressive spirit of the community.
 One of these is the establishment of a circulating school library under the di- rect management of the pupils of tine
 school from nursery rhymes for the splendid selection of books, covering | the needs of all the grades in the school from the nrsery rhymes for the ] little tots to the classics for those in
 the upper grades. At the community meeting held at the school last week officers were elected for the library as- 1 sociation for the coming year, and ar engagements were made to increase the l library by the addition of Mark Twain's complete works. The other | forward movement is the installation of sanitary drinking fountains, which
 was accomplished by attaching foun- tains to ordinary water coolers. Still another fine thing in this district is the well furnished, two-room building and the large, we'll cared for play ground. It is worth something to have
 the opportunity to attend such 8 school.
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 The general rally to be held in Mena on Tuesday, February 1, under the di- rection of the Agricultural Extension
 forces of the state will be for busi-
 ness men and bankers as we'll as for farmers, the purpose being to bring
 about a spirit that will stabilize the
 productive industry of farming The bankers and the business men will be represented on the program. A re- quest has gone from this office that l Carl Hollis, banker of Warren, Brad ley county, Ark, be sent to Mena as Ithe spokesman for bankers, this re- quest having been prompted by the fact that those who attended the con- ference at Little Rock last week were a unit in saying that MT. Hollis made one of the most practical and effective addresses at the conference. He talked about not what should be done
 but what had been done. in his com