The Mena weekly star., 1916-06-15

the work better ia hand than they usually have thls tune of the year.
 r. k. Bates. the rustling Potter merchant and business man. was with Mena friends Wednesday.
 John Mershon, who had been in Mena since Monday left Tuesday night for his home in Mover, OK. 1 Tut Harris, manager of the Hod- gers brothers store at Potter. was a business visitor to Mena Tuesday.
 Joel Williams, Paul Griffith and Will Dean left this week for Enid. Ok, where they expect to work in the harvest fields.
 1 T. A. Hatfield of the firm of Lind say X Hatfield. spent Sunday with Hatfield friends, returning to Mena Monday morning. 1 The regular quarterly teachers examination will be held in the Central school building on Thursday and Friday of this week. ,3
 Mir. and Mrs. S. I. Wood went to Yocana Wednesday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Will Cotton who was a distant relative of Mr. Wood.
 Frank Bell and sam Plane left Sunday for Oklahoma City from whence they plan to go to the har- vest fields of Oklahoma and Kansas B. H. Barton and T. p. Davis of Hatfield were county seat visitors Monday, the former coming up to attend the sale of lands for deIin- quent taxes.
 Ray w. Worthington. who is now the land examiner of the Oklaho- ma Farm Mortgage Company at Little Rock, spent Sunday with Mena friends
 Mrs. w. w. Chandler. mother of Boyd Laflin, who had spent week at the home of Mir. and Mrs. Laflin. left Saturday afternoon for her home in Shreveport.
 Mrs. John Harrison and children have returned from a visit of six weeks with relatives at Geary, Clin- ton, Sickle and Luckabee, Ok, and points in New Mexico,
 NJ. NJ. Shields and J. H. Allen left for Fort Smith last Monday to begin jury duty in the Federal court, the former as a member of the grand jury and the latter as one of the petit jurors.
 Mrs. $. M. Riding and son Neal, were at Yocana Sunday to spend the day with MT. and Mrs. J. C. Mcclure. parents of Mrs. Riding. Mr. Me Clure is and has been for some time, in feeble health
 Mir. and Mrs 0. N. Allen of Fort Worth. Tex, here visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. s. D, Allen. went to Heavener last Monday for short visit at the home of MT. and Mrs. H. F. Wheeler.
 J. A. Gillian and G. w. Burnham of Wickes spent Monday m Mena on business. They made the trip to the county seat in an automobile driven by B. A. Henry for J. V. Chambers, liveryman.
 Mlto. Js holilSltI 1Qii WllIIt III GI- loam Springs will attend the Fort Smith District Convention of the Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs as delegate from the Woman's s Literary Club of Mena, -e 1T Alex Coyle was up from Grannis Monday to attend the delinquent tax sale. He says he has been informed that the work Of drilling at that place in the oil we'll will be renewed before the week is out. MT. and Mrs. F. c. Maltby left Sunday afternoon for Oklahoma City where MT. Maltby will be as- sociated with his father in running a threshing outfit. Roy Maltby left Saturday afternoon for the same place.
 Mrs. 0. L. Cooper and son, Rupert came Sunday afternoon from Round Top. SeVier county. to spend a week with Mr. Cooper in Mena. They are spending the summer on the farm near Round Top. with MT. Coopers parents.
 Mir. and Mrs. ]. N. Brogan received word Sunday of the death in Oma- Ina of Mr. Brogan's invalid sister, who had recently spent three months at the home of Mr and Mrs. BrOgan and had gone to Omaha about two weeks ago.