The Mena weekly star., 1922-02-02
COMMISSIONERS
 FOR METHODIST ASSEMBLY COMING
uIz "A. C. MILLAR, CHAIRMAN, HIS CALLED FOR SESSION IN
 MENA. MARCH 2.
TWENTY-FOUR PASTORS AND IAYMEN EXPECT TO CHOOSE
 LOCATION AT MEETING.
HENA'S GREAT CHANCE
 DOWN BIG VICTORY

O'WlN BlG MClORI Harely Thirty Days to Round Up the 1.end, the Money and the MultipIic-
 i<y of Data That Will Be Needed
 Strong Committees at Work.
 Hena, Polk county and Southwest ArEansas is on the eve of being able 1o land the biggest proposition ma educationally, morally and zuf1itually that could come to any c4I1ssnunity, and that is the location o <he Western Assembly of the M. E. {:<Nrch, South. The time for decisive aStlon on the part of the citizenship of Aena and surrounding community has af<Ived, since Dr. A. e. Millar, chair man of the Commission has made offi- 0i4I call for the meeting of the Com- | lIIzsioners to be held in Mena on
 8<Irsday, March 2, at II o'clock, a. A in the First M E. Church, South.
 4eosho, Mo-, Rogers. Fayetteville, 5iI4am Springs and Mt Magazine are tt11I< other places contendlng with UI&I1a for the location of this project ~ he great Southern Methodist eUI{Kch. Each of these places will o taf fsx1ne ifl Mend, so that the city will not only oe host to the twenty-four pastors and laymen representing the twelve c9{ferences in the states of Missouri, zznsas, Oklahoma, Texas and lana, but will also have as its H1IESts three or more representatives fr6fn each of the other five places.
 tr weeks the Executive Commit teH Df the Commercial Club, together n9h a special assembly committee, Il4< been at work on the details, inc c106ing feasible site, method of |1I6ncing the project and such other n1A1fers as needed to be adjusted, this work eliminating on Monday in the adoption of plan for financing the nx8Iect, a program for the presenta- tion of the special advantages pos sesSkd by Mena and q movement to en{Grtain the Commissioners and re{4esentatives when they come to Afs&A on March 2.
 II'e plan for financing the project h86 been placed in the hands of com n1itfce composed of R. Golf, Eugene Gox and G. w. Petty, with instruc- lions that for the next thirty days ev- CIT citizen interested in the welfare and upbuilding of the city is to be at Eheir command and service. 1t is HkeIy that the committee will call < public meeting at an early date so tfIat all may be better informed as to fhe spirit, purpose and magnitude of he Western Assembly, and what it will mean to Mena to secure the loca- tlon.
 The committee in charge of the nIatter of securing the necessary data uealing with the advantages of Mena, somposed of w. E. Holt, A. Mitchell and W 8. MacLafferty, already has a force of men at work gathering data an fifteen or twenty lines along which exery loyal citizen believes we excel aSnry other community in the Unitel States. In addition, this committee has started J. k. Haley, civil engineer, at work to survey and plat the pro- p0sed assembly ground.
 Dr. H. c. Rushing, D. E. Dodd and A. Stratton are the committee on WHom rests the responsibility of arr FzHging for the entertainment of fafnmissioners and delegates, and the AN53it in which they have started the work will mean that even the repre- sHntatives from the other points will tSepnie boosters for Mena.
 i this connection it is of public in f6xest to give the personnel of the to1nmission, for there are doubtless n5Any Mena folks who will find on the cQmmission personal acquaintances to whom letter or a word of greeting may be sent. The Commissioners sHith their postoffice addresses and conferences represented, are as fol-
 Southwest Missouri Conference ltex. J. B. Swinney, Sedalia, and L. D. lLNrrell. Marshall.
 Missouri Conference--Rev. c. 0.
 4nsford. St. Louis, and Rev. Robt. &cIlvoy, Richmond.
 St. Louis Conference-Rev. R. L. Russell. Nashville, Tenn, and Rev. As \. Smith, Barnes Hospital, St. L14lis.
 Northwest Texas Conferencc-Rev. 4. D. Moore, Memphis, Tex, and Rev. 4. ]. Weeks, Dallas.
 North Texas Conference-Rev. w. f. Whiteside. Commerce, and Rev. W. ] Johnson. Dallas.
 Central Texas Conference-Rev. ". H. Matthew's. Fort Worth. and Rev. H. A. Boaz. President S. Nj. U., Dal-
 Texas Conference-Rev. D. H. 4qtchkiss. Humble, and Rev. ]. E. 10rgan. Texarkana.
 Louisiana Conference-Rev. George & Sexton, president Centenary Col !zIc, Shreveport. and Rev. Briseoe E1<ter. Minden.
 Nest Oklahoma Conference-Rev. $ II. Sims. Tulsa, and Rev. Fornev II<Eehiason. Oklahoma City.
 East Oklahoma Conference Rev. I
 Abernathy. Tulsa. and Rev. I. H. *&5. Ada
 korN Arkansas conference-Rep
 S II. Johnston. Conway. and C. C E<fdin- Fort Smith.
 Little Rock EHnferenaez-Heu. A q
 Iar and C E. Hayes. Little Reck.