The Mena weekly star., 1917-04-05
PERSONAL NOTES

w. H. Littlpage of Hatfield was
 Mena visitor Saturday.
 Blss Sadie Jones went to Cove Fri day afternoon to spend the balanc, of the week with her friend, Mis- Louise Mullins.
 R. L. Norris left Thursday on business trip to Texarkana, Fore. man and Shreveport.
 T. J. Edwards came in from BiI Fork Thursday to get supplies fol the Abernathy X Edwards store. $. R. Watt, who moved from Oder to the Board Camp community thi. spring, was among the farmers il Mena Saturday.
 J. M. Nichols came from Hodgen. Friday to look after business in terests in Mena and to spend a shori time with relatives and friends.
 G. L. Lochridge is now at Noun. tain Valley Sanitarium, which is To- cated i2 miles from Hot Springs. anC IS a quiet restful place nestled il the Ozarks.
 Tandy Hatfield of Heavener passed thru Mena Friday enroute to New Boston, Tex, to be away for a week His friends think that when he re- turns he will have a companion.
 Rev. H. T. Howell and MT. and Mrs J. M. Howell of the Opal commun- ity came to Mena Friday and spen the day following in getting farm and garden seeds and other supplies George F.. Edmonds of Mena anC Miss Flossie E. Manning of Wicke. were married at the parsonage ot the First NJ. E. church on Friday the ceremony being performed by Dr. l.. w. B. Long.
 C. K. Johnson of Heavener spent Friday in Mena. Mir. Johnson is a deputy game warden for the western part of Oklahoma, and in the line of his duty it is necessary for him to occasionally come over into this state.
 J. c. Frazier last week added a huge tarantula to the collection of curios which he has on display in his undertaking establishment. The insect was sent from Vandervoort to Dr. w. c. Vandiver, who turned it over to MT. Frazier.
 Boyd Laflin, who devoted much time this winter and spring to buy ing and shipping hogs, came from Vapdervoort Saturday to spend a few hours in Mena. He returned to Nanderyoort on the local freight to ship carload of hogs to Kansas City that night.
 Mir. and Mrs. G. w. Hewlett and children arrived Friday night from Mills, N. M., to make their home in Polk county, Mir. Hewlett having recently traded for the Hope farm near Big Fork After buying team and other equipment they started for the farm Saturday. Douglass Russell left Saturday night for Rochester, Minn, where he will enter the Mayo Brothers San itarium for treatment. He sustained an injury to his foot several weeks ago in a fall with a ladder while al work as a painter in Oklahoma. He had taken treatment from local phy- sicians, but with little relief.
 R. F. Wear, J. c. Terrell and T. s Proctor, who were appointed as ap- praisers of the lands on which ap- plication had been made for a loan under the provisions of the Federal farm loan proposition, spent most of last week in making a personal inspection of the lands and fixing the appraised values.
 Isaac Saurbaugh and son, and ]. H Maddox of the Freedom community were among the farmers in Mena Friday Tn common with many oth- CT farmers of the county. they are interested in the laws which were passed by the last legislature in re- ference to confning certain classes of livestock, tick eradication anC other things.
 Prof. J. D. Tomlin of Rich Moun- tain spent the weekend vacation in Mena. He reports that the Rich Mountain school will be in session for a month and a half longer, the district having nine months oi school. For the next year. Mir Tom- lin will go to the Vandervoorl school, having. at a recent meeting of the board been selected as prin- cipal.
 M. K. Ratliff, who has been ir charge of the grocery department oi the C. w. Petty store, is taking a layoff of 2 month or more which he will spend with relatives in the Oden and Waters communities. Hf has not fully recovered from the attack of pneumonia which he suf- fered last winter, and he thinks that EVER SALWATED BY