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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1931
Page
2
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Mrs Mount Montgomery visited Mrs Sanford Bonds and family Sunday afternoon. Ray Rex McClun of Hope tilled his regular appointment here on the first metty. Mount Montgomery is busted but Joe Britt has returned to work at Louisiana Mo. J Ry Huskey and son Lee traveled midweek to assist those destitute in the area with help from the Red Cross. Miss Marice Huskey has been ill but improving. Mrs Ross Spears returned from an extended east trip where she stayed four months with her husband serving in the navy. Several from around here attended Clyde Brown's musical Friday evening and reported good music and an enjoyable time. Mrs Hix Lee visited home folks this week.
M L Nelson & Company store at Blevins lost about 35 dollars of merchandise including cigars candy shoes shirts and trousers after burglars pried the front door and broke a window to reach the lock. Tom Stewart and Mr Nelson discovered the break Saturday morning. This follows a prior rob by two youths at H M Stephens store about two months earlier with one bound over to grand jury and the other acquitted.
The Council of the Epworth League at Blevins Methodist Church met last Sunday and elected Ione Arrington and Lola Bruce to fill Social Service and Missionary posts. They approved monthly Wednesday meetings and a plan to stage biblical dramas the fourth Sunday each month, starting in February possibly with Queen Esther.
The M. L. Nelson & Company of Blevins enlarged their feed rooms and poultry storage space to meet rising poultry production. A new shed was built last week enabling storage for several hundred birds and easing crowding in the pens.
Butte Montana reports Mamer Air Transport will resume a weekly trip on the Spokane to St Paul northern airway once Miles City hangar is finished. Newton Wakefield, VP, says a tri weekly or daily service will start after the winter season.
Mrs. H M Stephens Jr visited relatives in DeQueen over the weekend. Mrs. Carl Brown has been ill ten days but improving. A H Wade, Roy Bonds, Merion Ward and W J Whiteside toured Hope for Red Cross relief. Imon Bruce, a junior at Henderson State Teachers College, visited home. Rev W J Whiteside, Mgr J H Beauchamp and M C Freyburg attended a district missionary conference at Prescott. Mr and Mrs Glenn Coker visited relatives in Hone over the weekend. Mr and Mrs Earl White and Miss Thelma Cobb of Hope were Blevins visitors Sunday. Mamie Harris of Arkadelphia visited her parents over the weekend. Ben and Jesse Garner near Camden visited their brother. Jim Garner and family near Blevins visited last week.
Tokio report states the Japanese empire exceeds 89 million people in total, with Japan proper at 64,447,724. The 7.9 percent rise since 1925 is noted, including 32,388,369 men, and a population density of 169 per square kilometer.
Over ten days A H Wade processed Red Cross relief forms in Wallaceburg township with fifty to a hundred residents applying for aid. Local committees reviewed each case and more than thirty qualifying applicants received assistance totaling over one hundred dollars.
Leaguers from Gordon Prescott Prescott Circuit Emmet Okolona and Blevins gathered at Henderson Epworth League Union at Midway Friday evening. The stunt night featured acts from Gordon Blevins Midway and Emmet with attendees including Misses Ione Arrington Lola Bruce Kathleen Brown Lareen Hartless P. C. Stephens Jy Chester Stephens and Rev W J Whiteside.
H M Stephens Jr travels to the Fruit and Truck Jobbers Convention in Phoenix Arizona replacing his father who stays in Blevins. The son aims to learn about national truck acreage and market conditions to advise local farmers on planting and timing. Meanwhile H M Stephens Sr remains and will oversee government relief loan distribution in the county.
In a Friday Blevins court doubleheader both Sweet Home and Gurdon played. The second team beat Sweet Home 19 to 1, featuring Monroe Yokum Chester Stephens R B Spears Bryan Honea Marvin Phillips. Gurdon won 32 to 15 by display of teamwork and better shooting. Starting for Gurdon were Red Arnold Harold Huskey Clyde Selph William Stone and Guy Lowe.
In Woodstock Vermont Raymond Houghton drives a wagon with a heifer between the shafts. He spent weeks training the animal for the street performance.
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