The Mena weekly star., 1916-11-09

J. ;. Hlnson returned last Friday from a trip of about two weeks to hls old home in White county. near Beebe. He also spent some time ill Little Rock.
 Mrs. Aga Penninger, who had spent two weeks at the home of Mir. and Mrs. George Tihbs, near Watson. OK, returned to Mena on Saturday to go to her home in the Shady com@ munity.
 Forest Ranger J. NJ. Wait and Mrs. Wait, who have been living on Stil- we'll Heights, moved on Thursday to the Shady Ranger station, where MT. Wait will make headuuarters for his work in this district.
 W. B. Fry and Mrs. Ina Gilmore or Board Camp were in Mena Sat- urday, having come in to meet Mrs. Katherine Noble, mother of Mrs. Fry. who accompanied them to Board Camp for a visit.
 Judge R. NJ. Anderson. who had spent the last several months with relatives in Oakman and Konawa. Ok, arrived in Mena "Wednesday afternoon to spend some time with Polk county relatives and friends.
 Mr and Mrs. A. NJ. Winton and children came in from Muse, Ok. last Saturday to spend Sunday with Mena relatives. MT. Winton re- ports that he and his father are building up fine business at Muse.
 Mr. and Mrs. Hamp Lofts and babies were in from the Egger neighborhood last Thursday. MT. Lofts said g bales of cotton were raised on his farms by share crop CTS, in addition to which he has lots of corn, hay, etc.
 | B. and Bud WhiseEhunt of the Shady community, were among the farmers on the cotton market Fri day Bud was quite extensively in the sorghum business last year. but this year he has paid more atten- tion to general farming.
 MT. and Mrs. J. c. Wood and Misses Myrtle. Bonnie and Hazel. were in from Yocana Thurs day to spend a day with relatives and to do some shopping Mr. Wood re- ports that he has just finished gath ering crops and is now in shape to take things easy for the winter.
 Miss Johnnie Gibson. who has been with Mena friends most of fhis week, returned to Hatfield last Friday. She was accompanied by Miss Johnnie Henderson, who att tended the supper given that night by the ladies of the Methodist church
 MT. and Mrs. s. B. Collins and son returned to Heavener Saturday aft ernoon after having spent day with MT. and Mrs. K. W. Dean, parents of Mrs. Collins. Mir Collins has about fully recovered from the injury he recently sustained while employed in the railroad yards in Heavener.
 Mr. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Plemmons of W0mble moved to Mena last week and are living at 1904 Eleventh street. Mir. plemmons has been in the employ of M. c. Trumbull in the stave business and plans to leave soon for the country near Ida. Ok, where he will be again in Mir. Trum- bulls employ.
 Homer Cole, son of Mir. and Mrs. W. R. Cole. sustained fracture of both bones of his right forearm on Tuesday of last week in a fall from trapeze at Central scool. Dr. c. c. Gunnels reduced the fracture and has the young man resting easily. Just about year ago Homer fell from tree and fractured the same arm.
 Presiding Elder ]. R. Riggs of the NJ. F. church, South, arrived in Mena last Saturday, going from here to Owens Chapel, where quarterly conference of the Cherry Hill cir cult was held Saturday and Satur- day night. Rev. Mr. Riggs was in Mena Sunday to hold meeting with the officers of the local church on Sunday afternoon.
 MT. ana MfS. Nlll SunDlnTHaUl and family have moved from Brok- en Bow. Ok, to Mena, and are now occupying the residence at iil0 Fourth street Mir. Cunningham is a brother of s. NJ. Cunningham. and he came to Mena to take over a part of Sam's business. tho it has not yet been decided whether he will take charge of the blacksmith shop or the wood yard.
 J. w. Bradley returned Sunday from his trip to Oklahoma points and Wellington, Tex having spent most of the time at the latter place where he has had considerable real estate interests, of which he suc- ceeded in disposing of. He reports that times in Western Texas are prosperous even though the crops were not very good. the deficiency in the yield being made up by the good prices. However, he states that as a general thing conditions
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