The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1921-01-06
HowARp-RoBINsoN wEppING
Victor Robinson Received a Valuable
Christmas Gift.


Christmas Gift.
Miss Mary B. Howard and Victor
Robinson, son and daughter of two
well-to-do farmers of Two Mile vicin-
ity. were quietly united in marriage
at the home Of the brides parents. Mr..
and Mrs. j. w. Howard. We wish
them success and prosperity, while we
might mention just here that the
young couple will have to confront
many obstacles in life before they ac-
complish the success in the way of f.
nance that their fathers have accom-
plished.
We take the privilege to say that
Mr.. Howard owns considerable pro-
perty in the way of real estate, live
stock, and bank stock in the Bank of
Hatfield, while Mr.. Robinson, too,
owns extensive land and property.
Both these gentleman have accumu-
lated this surplus in Polk county. Ar
kansas. Now we believe that Victor
and Mary will be economizers when
settled in their home for we are taught
to raise our children as we would have
them go and when they are old they
will not depart from it. The young
couple were reared in the Two Mile
vicinity, obtaining their common
school education in the Two Mile
school.
When the war broke out between
Germany and the United States, Vic
tor volunteered his services to help
lick the kaiser, he was accepted as a
heavy artilleryman, while he never
reached France, he stood ever ready.
After the signing of the Armistice
the government offered a schooling
chance to all soldiers who would ac-
cept 1t. Victor grasped this opportun-
ity and is now in a government school
at Stilwell, Ok. Altho now a married
man, he will remain in school and
when thru with what the government
has for him, he will step forth pol
ished man, able to go among his people
and serve them with some useful oc-
cupation. Just here the writer wishes
to illustrate the difference between the
American people and some of the peo-
pie of Egypt years ago, the child must
follow the same occupation of his
father, if that was so in America,
Victor might as well go to the farm,
the following a successful father, it
would be an awful hard time for
young couple to get by at this criti-
cal time without considerable help.
Now without any reflection what
ever on the young people just men
toned, we want to drop word to
other young folks, who have not the
chance that Victor has, but who must
rely upon their own finance to obtain
their education. Let me warn you just
here that marrying without finance
or education nowadays is a dangerous
thing. When we examine newspapers
of our county we find it almost daily
occurance that the courts are grant
ing divorces, what is wrong? ven-
ture to say 80 per cent of them are
uneducated people. Then parents, let
us work together to keep our children
in school until they have at least OBJ
tanned common school educatin, by
that time we have them well on the.
road to success in the way of devel-
oped mind, then instead of so many
divorce cases, we will see good homes
with prosperity on every side of Us,
not only that but we will see happy
fathers and mothers, is that all? No.
We will see better schools, better
school houses, longer terms of school
and better teachers, better churches,
better preachers, better roads, and
better citizenship. Well. to put the
whole thing in a nutshell, isn't better
citizenship what we want +?
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