The Mena weekly star., 1916-11-02

uduGHtef 0I MT. and Mrs. oscar All
 ford, returned home Wednesda, afternoon.
 | NJ. A. Stratton spent Thursday il the Grannls community looking aft. CT business for the firm of Kelly Stratton Co. He made the trip il hls auto, and was accompanied by Mrs. Stratton.
 Chester Clelland. son Of Mir. ane
 Mrs. k. H. Clelland, who with hi, brother, Charles, is employed in ths button factory at Devall Bluff, ar rived Tn Mena Friday morning tt visit the home folks.
 NJ. Fowler of Tecumseh, Ok, ii in Mena as the guest of his ole friends. Mr. and Mrs. J. w. Bratcher l MT. Fowler and Mir. and Mrs Bratcher were former friends ane neighbors in Waldron.
 Mrs. ]. F.. Cook of Port O'Connor Tex, sister of Mrs. w. T. McMillan ' living west of Mena, has come tC Polk county to make her home. Mrs Cook is now at the home of hel niece, Mrs. A. B. Williams.
 
 J. F. Henson left "Wednesday aft ernoon for visit at Beebe, Ark He accompanied Sheriff Finger on the trip to Little Rock with the county prisoners, though he was not deputized for the purpose.
 Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Leeper came from Dierks Thursday afternoon for a visit at the home of Mir. Leepers aunt, Mrs. J D. iWeddell, living in the Ransom neighborhood. Tey also plan to do some shopping in Mena.
 The men in the local forest ser vice office are expecting the arrival In a few days from Washington. D C., of F. w. Reed, assistant district forester, who will make a thirty day tour in the Arkansas National Forest.
 Captain w. E. Wooten, chief of the land classification work in the Arkansas National Forest, returned Thursday from a five days inspee- tion trip of the work of the mem- bers of his party in the northeastern part of the Forest Reserve.
 Herbert Began, a member of the land classification party of the Ar kansas National Forest who had been at work in the territory about Mena, has been compelled to give up the work temporarily on ac- count of sickness. and he is now in l his home in Prescott.
 Mr. and Mrs. Adam Trisehman and son. Ralph. arrived sfffiiiifssGd!aays ssG!aa y y afternoon from Crossett. Ark, for a visit at the home of Mir. and Mrs G. l.. Lochridge. Mrs. Trischman is sister of Mrs. Lochridge. MT Trischman is engaged in the lum- Der business in Crossett.
 Ralph Turner and mother. Mrs. E Turner. and sister, Miss Annie, left last week for Pittsburg, kas., where Ralph and Cicero are both em- ploved in the Kansas City Southern railway shops. Mrs. Turner has stored her household goods in Mena and expects to return next summer
 Mir. and Mrs. Walter Webb left on Thursday afternoon for Little Rock which will be the headquarters for Mir. Webb in his work as travelling salesman for the Pierce Oil Corpora ton. Mir. Webb came to Mena from Winthrop about year ago to be the local agent of the corporation. and later. he was in the employ of the Watkins Lumber Company as sales man in the commissiary.
 Mir. and Mrs. Bert Smith and M | F. Fisher of the Egger community came to Mena Thursday to market cotton. and to do some trading Messrs. Smith and Fisher live in the dry belt in which very little season. able rain fell this summer and yet they report that their corn yielded | all the way from i5 to 30 bushels per acre and cotton and feed made good in the same proportion.
 w. A. Ragland returned Wednes- day evening from a trip to tht Board Camp country. He brought with him a bunch of fine Japanese persimmons which were grown or | the farm of Sam c. Hall. There were eight of the persimmons in { solid cluster on a twig not over | inches long. and the cluster of frui weighed iA pounds. MT. RaglanC says that the trees on MT. HalF' farm are loaded about in the same proportion as the twig which h. brought in.
 Mr. and Mrs. B Q. Manker re turned to Mena last Thursday after an absence of sixteen months. dur | ing which time they had visited i in Carthage. Me. and in Stark. Par sons, and chanute. Kas. They hat been among relatives and friends all of the time and had good time but both of them are emphatic 1T saving that, thev are delighted t get back to Mena. and be once more permitted to breathe the pure ant refreshing air of the mountains They are equally positive in say.