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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1931
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR suggests a vote on a loan for child welfare purposes by the State Department. The wording is unclear with garbled phrases but indicates an election or approval matter related to financing child welfare services.
Monday night session of the Hemp Association featured an address by Mrs. Charles Est of Ozan and a talk by a poultry expert from Prescott. Attending were W. H. Tinney, Mrs. C. A Bruce, M. L. Nelson, and friends from Little Rock, Broken Bow, and Defiance. Social refreshment followed business details as members heard updates and chatted with visitors.
The article describes the annual move of professional berry pickers into the Ozark foothills as spring returns. Families travel by horse, car, and foot toward berry patches in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri, hoping for six weeks of work at three cents a quart. The piece notes harsh years, improvised camps, musical camp life, minimal schooling, and the varied survival methods of pickers, with the 1931 crop already arriving.
Washington reports that over 840,000 rural boys and girls joined 4-H clubs to demonstrate improved farming and homemaking methods. Enrollment rose from 822,714 in 1930 as extension workers and volunteers pressed ahead with planned work amid drought and economic pressures.
Mr and Mrs H E B Ball and families from Bingen Texarkana and El Dorado visited friends and relatives Sunday while other locals hosted guests and attended a play at Bingen. Gentry and Brown families are mentioned with travel to Ozark and Nashvile. Illness news notes Eugene Clark improving. Prescott and Nashville visits noted. a Tokio guest M Steuart concludes business call.
Miss Daisy Bonds, daughter of C A S Bonds, returns to Patmos for the summer after a successful year as teacher in the Patmos school where she was reelected for next term. She finished local high school in 2023, studied at State Teachers College Conway for the H A degree, and has taught for three years.
In Superior Wisconsin over the past two years Willard Martinson and Patrick McKnite two Boy Scouts carved fifteen totems in a cellar workshop. The tallest reaches six feet and one pole narrates their troop’s story with animal symbols. The carved poles serve as ash rays standards hat trees and lamps.
North Hempstead county tomato growers report cut worms remain a major problem in their patches. Plants are in high demand across the region as many fields have to be reset due to worm damage. Cool cloudy weather is blamed for the worm surge.
A large crowd attended Sweet Home church three miles east of Blevins for its annual Decoration, Home Coming and Mother's Day services last Sunday. The program was praised as the best yet, with thanks to Mr. T. J. Stewart and associates and to the Sweet Home community for a successful day. Attendees were made to feel at home and many first-time visitors said they would return next year.
A mother hound dog that helped capture a fox and its furrier has begun nursing and raising the fox cubs alongside her own puppies in Hickory Flat Mississippi. The incident highlights a canine bond as the fox litter grows under the care of the devoted mother and her pack.
A long feature recounts Martin swallows returning to a filling station opened in 1929 by M. G. Crane near Owen Arkansas. Martins nested in Gulf pump glass bowls, with two marked birds returning in 1931. E. W. Crane recalls old southern roots and his son's pride in the birds' yearly migration. The piece celebrates boys and men who love birds and the persistence of nature amid workday life.
Miss Edna Nesbit has returned to Blevins after finishing a term of teaching at Strong. She taught at Blevins High School for several years and is fondly remembered by former students. She plans to teach again next year.
Reverend WH Stingley of Washington the Baptist pastor announces a special Old Folks service at the Blevins church on May 24 the fourth Sunday in May. A program planned aims to be interesting and beneficial with extensive singing in the afternoon. Lunch will be served at noon.
Contracts for the Blevins Special School District building program will be awarded in Blevins on May 2. Architect D F Weaver is directing design with bids from across Arkansas and plans include a new high school and remodel at Blevins plus a McCaskill Junior High annex. Work is to start soon with materials to be assembled by June 1 and aim for school opening in September.
Chicago reports 454000 of 600000 school children suffer dental defects with 2,000,000 cavities needing fillings, per former Health Commissioner Arnold H. Kegel and Dr. Benjamin S. Partridge.
In a tense narrative set around Irene, Beryl, and Tommy, a planned elopement with Tommy is sabotaged by Irene’s delay and stubborn pride. Beryl exploits flirtation to win Tommy’s favor while Irene and her mother clash over fame and studio recall. The scene ends with suspense about whether Beryl will hear back from the studio and how their rivalries affect the love triangle.
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