The Mena weekly star., 1916-11-02

Mrs. H. W. Finger went to Hat
 neid Monday in response to tht i word that her brothers wife, Mrs
 Chas. Barnes, is seriously ill. ! l. A. Henderson was up from Hat
 field Tuesday to look after matters ot j business. He was accompanied by
 George Edmund of vandervoort. 1 Miss Winnie Little of Old Cove
 was ln Mena today to look up the
 county records in the matter ol
 land she owns in Old Cove. i 0. L. Lawrence of the Waters
 community was in Mena Monday tC get paints, oil and other materials
 to make improvements at his home | Albert Robertson, substitute car !, rler on rural route No. 1, carried ! the mail on the route Monday while
 MT. Beavers was gathering a corn
 crop.
 M. J. Petit of Blackfork. and Dave
 Hill of Beauchamp were in Mena Tuesday to get supplies, the latter !, having also brought cotton Co mar ket.
 H. R. Grove and Frank knowlton from Egger were in Mena Wednes- day to market partnership bale oi
 cotton, which they sold at is cents
 a pound.
 Mrs. Frank Darneal arrived in
 Mena Tuesday afternoon from Stig-
 f1
 her father. G. D. Elder, living on
 Route No. 7.
 Mr. and Mrs. $. I. Wood and family returned Monday from an auto-
 mobile trip to Huddleston where
 they had spent Sunday with rela- tives and friends.
 G. NJ. Fulton of Cove spent a few
 hours i'll Mena Monday looking after business matters, this being only his third trip to Mena since coming to Cove five years ago. Dr. John D. Robbins and Dave Evans came from Oden Monday evening, making the. trip in Mr Robbins automobile, which At brought to Mena for repairs. G. D. Townsend, who had been al work in the w. w. Townsend store during the last several weeks, gave up the work Saturday to get ready to begin a term of school this week
 in the Hickory Grove district.
 Samuel Volkers. living out two
 miles on the right-of-way road sold his 10 acre farm Saturday to q l.. Lochridge The deal was made thru the agency of the Ozark LanC and Investment Company.
 Hoyt Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs Hardy Jones of the Owens Chape neighborhood. left Monday for Fort Worth. Tex. to attend the Brant- : ley-Draughon business college with
 the purpose of studying telegraphy
 Earl Rudy and Whit Christy were in Mena Monday on an auto trlF from Texarkana to Neosho, Mo. Mir Rudy had been in Texarkana with load of stock, and while there traded
 for the automobile with which he was making the home trip. J. K. Garner. who is now liyine near 0den. where he is engaged n the carpentry business. spent Mon- day and Tuesday in Mena with Mrs w. A. Garner and family, helping them 10 move from the Lacey prep erty on Southerland avenue to Maple avenue.
 I. c. Wood of Yocana and ]. s Lawrence of Shady were in Mena or
 Sunday evening to start for For Smith in response tO word that they were wanted for further service a' petit jurors in the federal court which is in adjourned session thi' week.
 T. J. Bates, E. O. Morphew, R. A Putnam, and Josh Abernathy were among the Big Fork people Tn Mens Monday. some of them bringing 1T cotton. others eggs and others tur- nips and sweet potatoes. The inter- esfing point is that each of the mer brought something to sell.
 MT. and Mrs. D. M. prosser ant family. who have lived in Polk coun- ty for the last two years, are mak- ing arrangements to leave some tlm' this week for New Market. Ala. where Mir. Prosser has leased farm
 They have been living on the WhaI place west of Mena.
 w. R. Lackey and son, Bert, Q iOnal. were among the farmers tt market cotton Tuesday Mir. LackeS said if was his luck to strike a de Ielining market, tho he admitted tha' the price of i7.77la cents per p9Hle which he received would have beer considered top price a lew WeeG' ago.
 Miss Emma Mcdonald, who haI heen employed as saleslady in tn'
 Boston Store for over two years
 gave up her work Saturday night and will leave some time thls Weei | 10 spend the winter in Seattle, W sash She went to Vandervoort. sunday tf
 spend a few days with friends pc fore starting on the trip to th'
 northwest.
 John Barrett, living west of Van 1 dervoort. spent Monday m Mena, re turning home Tuesday afternoon
 While in Mena he met Samue | Cooper, the man who was brougn | to Mena Monday by Deputy Sherit IHungate. and recognized him as hay 1 ing seen him in Durango. Mexico some four or five years ago; ] Ih' men recognized each other eyel