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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1931
Page
3
A Blevins League group met at the Methodist church for an April Fool social. Pranks included a chamber of horrors and separate activities. Punch was served as plans were discussed for an oyster supper next month and selling sandwiches peanuts and popcorn at the Fiddlers Contest on April 10.
Connie Mack spoke at Fort Myers about the A's chase for a third consecutive World Series title, noting baseball averages and mental state affect chances. He cited historical near-misses by Cubs and Giants, plus the White Sox rise, with references to Ty Cobb, Mickey Cochrane, and Hughey Jennings in a casual, reminiscent tone.
Farm work dominates, two weeks remain in the school term as teachers plan to reopen. Mrs Stokes travels to Henderson State Teachers College Arkadelphia while Miss Bruce and Mrs Huddleston are noted. Mrs Bert, Mrs Marshall and others visit Hope Prescott and Delight communities as local residents engage in civic and education activities.
In the absence of the pastor H W Timberlake will fill the pulpit at Blevins Methodist church at the usual hour next Sunday April 12. Timberlake has previously filled in and spoken in the district. There will be no evening service but the Epworth League meets at 7 30.
Messrs Daly Hampton and Ezra Moses of McClaskill were visitors in Blevins Friday. Mrs Elmer Brakebill and children of Friendship spent Saturday with her mother Mrs Walter Wardlaw. Mrs W M Hendrix is staying at the Methodist parsonage while Rev and Mrs Whiteside are in Tennessee. Cecil Smith, with family, to Alpine at his wife’s father’s bedside. one child critically ill. Many residents attended the Big Boy show at Frescott Wednesday and Thursday. The church radish crop is being harvested under M C Preyburger. Local butcher shop reopened by Cyrus Honen. County Superintendent E E Austin and Miss Clarissa Mitchell in Blevins Friday. Coker and Lay attended Hope athletic contests Friday afternoon.
In New Haven Connecticut officials seek to reproduce the bright carrot color seen in California. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station has laid out several acres to test whether the hue comes from the seed or sunshine. Experiments will also cover California beets lettuce and tamar.
Blevins has shipped 21 carloads of radishes since the season opened two weeks ago. Quality is reported exceptionally good while market prices have eased. Early radishes are harvested. packing sheds load about two cars daily, with more harvests expected in coming days.
G. Stone a McCaskill merchant sold a coop of broilers to a Shreveport commission house Monday morning. The price on the broilers and small fryers is high, and those with birds are luckier than those who will market later. Stone says several McCaskill area farmers are raising many young chicks this spring.
Radio is coming into general use as an aid to police in many states and cities. The Federal Radio Commission reports that over 80 cities have or are constructing police radio systems operating from headquarters to patrol cars. The system speeds up cooperation between patrols and headquarters and is highly efficient. Eight wave channels are set aside for municipal use with one channel for State police. Michigan and Massachusetts have adopted radiotelephony for state police and Pennsylvania uses radio in code.
Baton Rouge reports LSU students use Shakespearean repertoire to fund education. Fannie Neburs of Baton Rouge and Sam Sherman and Fred Gerdes of New Orleans organized a short show at the request of a women’s club. The performance drew immediate success and evolved into a Little Drury Players troupe.
Residents from every community attended the regular American Legion session in the city Monday night. Major O L Bodenhamer was guest and principal speaker, hosted by Hope post. Ex servicemen and friends from Blevins McCaskill Belton Ozan and Washington were present to hear Arkansas foremost Legionnaire and past national commander.
Rev and Mrs W J Whiteside travel to Nashville Tennessee for a two week visit. He will attend the Rural Pastor's School at Vanderbilt University while she visits friends in and near Nashville. The trip serves as a homecoming since they lived there the past two years.
Glen Eley returned Friday from the Cora Donnell Hospital at Prescott where he underwent an operation for appendicitis about two weeks ago. He had suffered for about three months and his constitution was run down. The operation went well and he is on the road to recovery. He will convalesce at his father’s home in Belton for several days before resuming work.
Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner General W. A. Williams says the dry US regime drives bootleg liquor into wet Canada. He cites home brewed alcohol and cross border runs from Quebec as key enforcement hurdles under the Ontario Liquor Control Act.
Albert Barron of Gardner Massachusetts proudly points to his 1905 model car still in good running order. The one cylinder seven horsepower vehicle uses chain drive with two speeds forward and one reverse. It resembles a horseless carriage and has oil lamps and a canopy top added after purchase. Maximum speed is 25 mph.
In Covington Louisiana URI-Uncle Tam an elderly fisherman exhibits a unusual amphibian held to be a newt proteus hell-ender or wampus. It was caught in Thefmnela and features gills salamander body and an odd head. The creature will be sent to a New Orleans museum.
The passage asks why car accidents occur more frequently than train crashes and mentions an engineer named Erregan with a puzzling tip. It presents a speculative discussion about transportation safety and engineering, using a playful or garbled line as a prompt to consider risk differences between autos and trains.
Elizabeth La A pecan project covering 20000 acres is planned by R Bruce Brough of San Antonio Texas He previously planted 1060 acres here in 1923 and found soil and climate well suited for pecans He expects to develop an orchard of 20000 acres within ten years with San Antonio a major pecan market helping the venture
I M Stephens Sr addressed a Patmos farmers meeting last week. He is a leading authority in truck crops and cantaloupes, with his advice sought across Kansas and Arkansas. Farmers see potential to revive profitable cantaloupe production after years of limited shipments and strong fruit quality. About 75 acres could be planted, with seed shipments already made for multiple loads.
The Techth Annual Fiddler's Contest will be held at the Blevins School building on the night of April 10 next Friday. Many contestants from this section are expected to enter for premium prizes. Hempstead county tax assessor John W Ridgs hill plans to enter with his Watermelon String Band. Originated at Sweet Home near Blevins the contest moved to larger quarters due to crowds. M L Noelon to chair the session.
Kansas City prepares for a difficult summer as city playground instructors plan to offer group mouth organ lessons to all children, aiming to engage youth despite challenges.
Ontario hotel lobby spaces may see changes if legislators pass amendments to the Provincial Hotel Act. The proposal would grant hotels the right to bar unwelcome visitors from lobby areas, affecting sightseers and regular patrons alike.
The north part of Hempstead county showed strong attendance at the opening of the regular term of Hempstead county circuit court. Many arrived as jurors and witnesses, while others visited. The spring term typically draws fewer visitors, but farmers in the northern county areas were busy with corn planting and land preparation for upcoming crops.
H M Stephens notes cantaloupe sowing time in Blevins section of Hempstead County. The north part of the county has long produced leading cantaloupe shipments, known as Preferred Brand, in strong demand across Northern and Eastern markets. Stephens has sold cantaloupes for about ten years, building a large trader network and making Blevins the banner truck-ship point with around 800 carloads shipped in summer 1929.
The Hope Star reports that Alex H. Washburn, editor of the Hope Star, will deliver the commencement address at the Mena High School exercises on Friday May 1 at 8 p m in the auditorium with Rev Arthur Terry delivering the sermon April 26. Washburn, a Missouri journalism graduate and native of Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania, has long served Hempstead county through his Hope Star leadership, praised for fearless editorials and community service. Rev Terry a Arkansas native educated at Henderson Brown College has served Dierks Mona and Graysonia charges and preached the Sunday before commencement.
A car load of turnip and mug greens was loaded Monday at Ark 4. Bert Scott of McCus oversaw the shipment amid elation between Blevins and Prescott. The greens came from shy farmers in the Little Mi river bottom near the loading point. Hamby Rhodes of McCaskill supervised parking and reaching the point, part of a larger wave of produce packed by four longtime local workers along the Pre and Northwestern road. Several cars of greens were expected to depart, carrying radishes as well.
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