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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1931
Page
2
A summarized report shows public schools backing a farm family unity campaign. It notes aart programs including agricultural practices, fertilizer co op purchases, garden campaigns, small farm projects, and raised incomes. The effort aims to improve farm finances and yields across districts.
A Hempstead county town becomes a notable poultry market after M L Nelson started a round year buy of chickens eggs and turkeys. The move shifted traders from barter to cash payments and spurred better breeds and poultry houses. Blevins later shipped Arkansas first carload of broilers worth about 10000 dollars. Nelson also pioneered turkey farming by the acre, expanding poultry interests across the region.
The Blevins firm operates enclosed and open range turkey methods with about 3,000 head marketed last fall and this year. In Thanksgiving and Christmas peaks, orders exceed capacity, including carload shipments from Blevins to New Orleans. Growth hinges on local production, upgraded equipment, and breeder plans for 1932, with T J Stewart serving as poultry buyer and Nelson as community leader on the school board.
State Auditor J Oscar Hume phrey says 1932 poll tax books will use carbon duplicates instead of stubs. The change aims to fix incomplete permanent records and improve tax receipt estimation. Receipts will be numbered serially with county allotments, from 2100 in Stone to 30000 in Pulaski.
Readable portions reveal Cecily and Ary Wans Fenwick nearing hardship with grandparents, a dinner plan, and a household conflict about chores with Ann guiding Mary Frances and Rosalie. Interwoven are conversations with Philip Ecroyd and Mary Frances, hinting at romance and social duties within a layered domestic scene.
Earl Page shares festive greetings and gratitude in a reflective Christmas column. He thanks readers for kindnesses shown over the year, expresses gratitude to Heaven, and muses on holiday symbols and the Light of the World.
Residents contend with washed streets and blocked routes while mail service slows. Local social notices recount visits from Mrs Boule of Louisiana and visits by Britt, Payne, Beavert, Harden, and Williamson families. A Christmas program is planned at Boughton schoolhouse amid ongoing forestry education notes.
McCaskill School will dismiss Wednesday afternoon December 23 for Christmas holidays and reopen January 4. Teachers and pupils plan a Christmas tree and program, with a church program Tuesday evening benefiting the Methodist Orphanage of Little Rock. Honor roll achievers include Grace Wortham, Nittadine Collins, Winnie Reese, Toad Scott, Lola Wortham, Van Hamilton, Wenona Gentry. A Parent Teacher Association was formed recently with officers Mrs. C. A. Hamilton, Mrs. Manning, and Mrs. Clark Warren.
In Fayetteville the black walnut is shown as a growing money crop for the Ozarks. Dr N F Drake retired University of Arkansas geology professor reports increasing kernel content from 14 to 34 percent and developing a thinner nearly smooth shell. He has 30 acres of improved trees on his experimental farm and aims for further improvements. Walnuts now support a cash market across Ozarks towns since a small market began in 1928.
David G. Lor raine a wealthy California and Texas manufacturer and oil machinery inventor was fined $15,000 by Federal Judge Paul J. McCormick on two counts of making false income tax returns. The judge said it is legitimate to include hotel entertainment and promotional items but not expenditures for intoxicating liquor on tax returns.
The Blevins P T A met Thursday night December 10 with reports from committees. The program included What a Real P T A Means Aims and purposes Mrs Herbert Stephens Jr What the P T A Means to a Parent Mrs Carol Brown Vocal Duet Miss Mary Kathryn and Lucille Lee What the P T A Means to a Teacher Miss Millsapps and What the P T A Means to a School Mr Lay.
Alonzo Sanford was a business visitor for 40 Washington Wednesday. Lucian Gell of Ray shopped in Tokio Tuesday. Mrs. Joe Hutson returned home Friday after a stay with her grandson Hannie Brandon in Nashville. Vida Cooley stays with sister in Murfreesboro while Mrs Shaddox visits Nashville. Uncle Sam Huddleston visited in Prescott Sunday. Floyd Whitmorris and parents visit Hobbs in Nashville. M L Stuart, Nashville visitor on Wednesday. H R Holt and daughter Virginia shopped in Nashville Saturday. Paul Halt of Nashville visited Tokio Saturday. Ruth Woods of Tokio and J K McLarty of Nashville wed at Methodist parsonage in Nashville with Rev B F Roebuck officiating. Mr and Mrs Oscar Hatch of Durant Oklahoma visited relatives here last week. L R Hatch and wife went to Durant to visit relatives. A Christmas tree will be at Sweet Home Church Thursday. Dr Rey is right sick at this writing.
Mies Ruh Wood of Tokio and J K McLarty of Nashville tied at the Methodist parsonage in Nashville last Saturday afternoon. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Lewis Wood of Tokio. The groom is a prominent Nashville business man employed in the offices of the Graysstone Nashville and Ashdown Railroad Company.
The Blevins school will close Wednesday afternoon for Christmas holidays. Classes will resume Monday, January 4. Many teachers will depart Wednesday afternoon to start their Christmas vacation at home.
Ozark cedar trees from Springfield Missouri hillsides are turned into wreaths shipped across 15 states. A local seed concern wires fresh cedar branches with a winding machine, producing 1,250,000 wreaths this season for streets and buildings from Pennsylvania to Nevada and the Dakotas.
Gov. Theodore G Bilbo extended clemency to 108 offenders as he released 426 this year, setting a new state record. Full pardons went to 49 now on suspension, 16 from the penitentiary, eight from jails. indefinite suspensions affected 33 from the penitentiary and two from county jails. all will be home by Christmas.
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