The Mena weekly star., 1916-08-31

ssls. hF. benn!Egt0n is the owner
 oi the hotel at Wickes. which is nm.
 o1 the best equipped and most nom
 lar in the county. p1
 Mrs. J. A. Johnston and so,
 Claude. returned sunday from Al.
 Dipn. OK. where they had snent . lew days at the home of Mrs. John.
 st.als brother, the Rev. W. E. Jus
 MT and Mrs. V. E. Almerep wht have been living in the Befhesds Springs neighborhood, left MoridaS morning for Manhattan. Kas Mr
 AsnigreIIs former home where theS expect to live. .s
 JsJ J. Mershon has been laid up fol about a week from the effects. ol Dl0od poison infection on his Jeff hand caused from spider bite. Ii has been found necessary to lance the finger twice.
 w B. Cotton. of Opal. returned Sunday from Sallisaw. where he hac spent a week at the home of his brother On the return trip he stopt for a day at poteau, to visit James Huddleston.
 Miss 0tus Henderson was in Mena Saturday to take a special examin- ation for teachers license before Supt. ". Homer Pigg. Miss Tender son IS one of the teachers in the NandeEvoort school.
 
 Mrs. Arthur Bales and three chil- dren, here from Jacksonville, Fla. to visit Polk county relatives. went to Potter Friday afternoon, after having spent several days at the home of Mir. and Mrs. Roy Bales.
 J. R. Lambert of Egger and his nephew, visiting from Heavener were in Mena Saturday. Mir. Lambert says he believes the drouth in his neighborhood has cut the cotton crop half during the past ten days. Mir. and Mrs. Carl Bernhard, who had spent most of the summer at the home of Mrs. Nj. Profit, mother of Mrs. Bernhard, and with other Mena relatives, left Friday after noon for their home in Port Arthur, Tex. 5sD
 Will Mccoy, nephew of Mir. and Mrs. w. J. Lauck. who had spent the summer with relatives in Hora- tio. is in Mena for a visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lauck, before returning to his home in Coffeyville, Kas.
 Willie Little, the eight-year-old daughter of Mir. and Mrs. D. E. Lit tie, died Sunday morning at the family home near Board Camp. The services were held Monday, and burial was in the Board Camp cemetery.
 Mir. and Mrs. R. D. Whitaker and children are here from Fort Worth, Tex visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Whitaker. living on the Middleton farm, northeast of Mena. They came overland in an automobile
 Miss Emma Conant returned last week from Heayener, where she had spent a vacation of a week with Mr. and Mrs. J w. Edwards, and Mir. and Mrs. Merle Edwards, he latter being at Heavener from Port Arthur.
 J. w. Sargent and D. r. Reyes of Board Camp were in Mena Saturday he latter to attend the meeting of h. Il fxr nittee Mr. Sargent says he be- ieves the cotton crop IS cut about half by the drouth.
 Mrs. Robert Lindsay and two sons, ,f Foreman, and Miss Udley Jones 1f DeKalb, arrived in : Mena Wednesday afternoon to join Miss Hester Jones. who is visiting at the rome of Mir. and Mrs. Hardy Jones, lear Owens Chapel.
 Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Jones and amily. of the Owens Chapel neigh Dorhood. Miss Hester Jones. who is 'isiting them and Mrs. c. H. Russell if this city, spent aa outing on Mt. dena last week, returning to Mena afternoon.
 Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gift and wo children, who arrived in Mena sunday from Cooksville, Tenn, and lad spent last week with Mena rel ltives and friends left Friday aft .rnoon for Elk City, Ok, to visit !. l.. Gift and son, Frank.
 Miss Edythe Morton, wilO has the department of the Loch- idge Dry Goods Store, returned to Jena Monday from the Chicago markets with fall and winter millin- ry goods which she is now putting n place in her department.
 D. H. Mansel, living on Rock reek west of Mena, was in Mena saturday to market fine Jonathan lpples. Mir. Mansell says his crop f this variety is better this year han it has been before, tho mueh 'f the fruit is beginning to fall,
 Leroy Chanblih of Liberty. s. E.. md smith Griffin of GreenNille. S Z. cousins of WE. Chanhlip. who rad been visiting at the home of Vr. and Mrs. Chamblin. north of loeky. were in Mena Monday to tart for their respective homes.
 Rev. ] L. Bedding, of Freedom ownship. passed thru Mena on afternoon on the way to Jnion Grove to attend the Baptist association, Louis Nichols of West lalley was also in Mena for a short ime Thursday, while going to iniOn Grove.
 MT. and Mrs. L. E. Foeel of Fogel, lk snanf Wndnasdav in Mana fn