The Mena weekly star., 1917-01-04
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ACORN.

Muskogee and other Oklahoma points.
 W. C. B. Allen has been in Kansas 1 City and at other northern points for the past week.
 Miss Floy Clinton went to Potter on Sunday afternoon to remain short time with friends.
 Mrs. Chris Mathes spent New Years in Mena, a guest of Dr. P. R. Watkins and Mrs. Watkins.
 Miss Josie Tucker of Mena spent several days last week at Acorn, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Tucker and family
 Mr. Lunn, father of Mrs. M. W. Roger. came up from Lockesburg to spend Christmas with his daughter and family
 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Barron and daughter of Vandervoort, have been visiting with relatives and friends in the neighborhood.
 Mrs. T. J. Hogan, and Mir. and Mrs J. A. Hogan and sops, went to Van deryoort, where they were Christ mas guests of relatives.
 Some of our prominent farmers are circulating a petition favoring the hog law''-and a long list of names is appended thereto.
 Mir and Mrs. Lonnie Evans and children and Sam Evans went to West Valley, near Hatfield, last week, to visit with MT. and Mrs. Sit ton
 Mir. and Mrs. J. D. Tucker and children spent couple of days dur ,, ing the holiday season, with Mr. and Mrs. Will Tucker and other Mena relatives.
 Ole ThOrsen, who had been in South Dakota and other northern states since last August, arrived at Acorn in time to be with his family at Christmas time.
 Roy Frye came up from Grannis l last week and was the guest for a couple of days of Miss Dorothy Clinton, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Anderson.
 Hoyt Jones came in from Fort Worth, Tex, where he has been a student in a business college, and of course, the Jones family of Crow Peak, gave him a royal welcome.
 Mr. and Mrs. Wayne, and Grandma Evans were guests on Tuesday last, of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Reed and fam | ily Mrs. Wayne was Miss Susan Evans, daughter of Grandma Evans
 Harry L. Kinney of Mason City, la, made a journey of two thousand miles just to be with his folks on 1 Christmas day He made the trip | by way of St. Louis, Little Rock and l TeXarkana
 1 Gray Whisenhunt of Lula, Ok, ! spent the holidays with his aunt i Mrs. c. P. Hale, and numerous other 'i relatives and friends. He is a son | of Ed Whisenhunt an old timer here, and is a teacher by profession.
 Mr. and Mrs. John PeytOn are remodeling their residence, making it story and half in height, thus adding upstairs rooms. When com pleted they will have a nice ap- bearing, comfortable and commodi- 0us home.
 Circumstances beyond our con tr0l prevented the usual write-up of Acorn happenings last week, but we believe there are many folks, at home and abroad, to whom these items may be fraught with interest, even if some are belated.
 MT and Mrs. T. T. Heaslett and son, Clarence, of DeQueen, and Mrs. Harry Petefish and son, Glen, of | Heavener, gladdened the home and hearts of Mir. and Mrs. B. S. Pete fish with their presence, at Christ mas time
 Miss Eva Converse, a teacher in the Heavener schools, spent part of the holiday vacation at the home of her parents, MT and Mrs G. A. Con- verse, of the Quito neighborhood. She went to Mena on Sunday after noon for a brief visit, before return 1 ing to her work in Heayener.
 Thru the courtesy of T. P. Full ton-"Fisherman' former pPesi- dent of the Star Correspondence Club, we have received a copy of l biN lCllN lltt 4NtAS dllu NlllllllR ftt- porter, which seems to be a lively newspaper in a lively place. Mr. Fulton has an interesting column of news and nuggets, and seems to be weather editor of the News and Re- porter. Success to him. 1 Grandma Evans and son, Sam. have been entertaining Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Evans, and four chil- | dren, of Texas, and Mir. and Mrs. l Wayne, of New Mexico. Lonnie | Evans and Mrs. Wayne are son and daughter of Grandma Evans. and ! ali old residents are acquainted with them. By the way, a telephone has recently been installed in the l Evans home, and they are now on the Eagle Gap line.
 Miss Etta Garland, who has been teaching school near Grannis had weeks vacation, which she spent with homefolks on the Water Val l ley farm. Another guest at the Gar land home was young MT. Wright, of Oklahoma, whose mother used to be Miss Bonnie Garland, a daugh- ter of Mir. and Mrs. J. D. Garland. | For the entertainment of their guest and friends, the Garlands held a song service on Tuesday night of last week.