The Mena weekly star., 1916-09-14

--z D. Rzuharts of Opal was in MeAa Thursday ate. get l5agging and tics ill prsparatiQASto stkFting his gin,
 c. J. Smith of.Boafd Camp Was in Mena Monday Co n1ale dinal proof on his homestead entry HeEwas accompanied by Sam Baftemus and Dean Reyes asiwitnesss
 . U. s. Andrews and .dslshtfr, Mrs. Lealyer Andrews and hae lhtle son, came over from Big Cedar Ok, on Tuesday to attend to bAsiuess and shop, returning home today,
 w. H. Wilson and little sson, were in from Ink Wednesday, to market cotton and sell the seed. The price of i5 cents for the Hint and $35 per ton for thegSseed, Mr. Wilson thinks, makes a fine income
 w. B. Gatlin of Parks, Scott coun- ty, recently bought the intefest of Will D. Harper in the O. K. Wagon Yard. and as soon as he gathers his crop he will move to Mena and join his brother-in-law, J. A. McElroy in running the yard.
 Mrs. Walter Major of Seattle, who is visiting her parents, Mir. and Mrs. M. D. Hall of Vandervoort and had spent a short time in Mena as the guest of Miss Emma Mcdonald. re- 1 turned to Vandervoort1Tuesday aft ernoon. s
 MT. and Mrs. R. Barnard and A. ! Barnard, brother of the former, who i had been living in the Ransom neighborhood have moved to Mena, and are living in the residence at 80f Eleventh street, having traded their farm for this city property.
 Mir and Mrs. Levi Wimberly, Mrs John Wimberly, and Mrs,s NJ. M Wimberly, of Egger. were in Mena : Monday. leaving on the afternoon train for Amarillo. Tex, from whence they will go to Moriarity, | N. Mex, where they plan to spend ten days with relatives. t
 Circuit Clerk Freeman l.. John i son was again at his office Wednes- day after being confined to his ' home for ten days on account of | sickness. He was taken sick while { at Nandervoort on September | looking after Chancery matters, and | has since been unable to be at the l office. .s, ~5
 Russell H. Thrailkill, son of Mir. ! and Mrs. R.. L. Thrailkill, came Sun day afternoon from King City, Mo, where he had been at the home of | his maternal grandmother; Mrs. M. for the last year. He will l remain with his parents Hlring the l coming year and attendNhe Mena High school
 Mir and Mrs. J. H. ClaTk and Mrs. | Mary J. Bailey, motherH of Mrs. Clark, arrived last Saturday from Murphy. Ok. to go to the home of i. James House, near Rocky, They had been away from Polk county for | about two years, and they are re- turning to again make their home in Arkansas.
 R. L. Norris came in from Yoeana Monday, accompanied by her son, OiINtA. idN iil- ui r-GAta. iO CA1N LII | Mena to begin buying cotton. 0ii- | to remain with the other members, of the family until they VI m [. move to town next week for thr opening of school
 James Bates and Murphy Gillian of the Waters community were in Mena Thursday to leave for sOuth- Z ern Texas where they expect to get employment at cotton picking. i The dry weather during the last ] two months damaged the crops in ] the Waters country. so the boys are i looking elsewhere for work
 Mir. and Mrs. w B. Morris and two children, of Fort smith, who | had been at the home of Prof. J. D. ' Holman and Mrs. Holman al Oak land farm. returned to tAeir home | last week Mir. Morris, who is a brother of Mrs. Holmaa.-..is em- ployed in the postofiice in Fort . smith and was taking his annual | 
 Mrs. L. E. Fogel and children, and MT. and Mrs. John Allison, par | ents of Mrs. Fogel, arrived in Mena ! Thursday afternoon from F0Scl f Spur, and will become residents of 1 Mena. They will occupy the resi- dence at 601 Tenth street. Mir { Foge arrived in Mena earlier in | the day and looked after moving ! the household goods.
 Mir. and Mrs. A. P Epperson and | Ben Johnson of the Mountain Fork | came to Mena Mon | day evening to spend 3 day to do some trading. Mir. Epperson reports | that the cotton crop on Mountain | Fork was heavily damaged by the 1 dry weather. practically all the top ! crop being ruined Corn however, 1 he says, made a good crop, reaching 1 before the dry weather came.
 J. w. Waves of Stratford, Ok. re- turned home Saturday after looking after business and visiting relatives here for several days. He says crops ill his country are fine, except for the fact that they are late, the first planting being destroyed by hail. Mr. Mayes bought the Nathan Owensby farm of i20 acres. located east of Board Camp. and will in time become a resident of Polk county.
 Mrs. A. D. Gilbert and children, Agnes, Louise and Dewitt IT,, left last Saturday for CartersVille Ga.