The Mena weekly star., 1917-10-11

John Brumley began work Monday morning in the W. R. Cole store
 Mir. and Mrs. Mat Beard and chiI- dren, who had been visiting with n L. Park and family, left for their nome in Poteau Monday afternoon.
 Mrs. J. L. Holt returned from Fort smith last Friday, where she had
 2een to attend the Rebehah conven- ton
 G. W. Cain returned Tuesday from visit of two weeks with relatives and friends in his old home in Many La.
 Mrs. R. L. Kidd and children of Poteau are spending this week with Mrs. kidd's father, R. L. Park, and family.
 J. N. Roach returned Tuesday aft ernoon from Camp Pike, where he had been employed for the last sev- eral weeks.
 MT. and Mrs. J. D. Imoe. living west of Mena, left Wednesday on trip to Legal, Ok, where MT. imoe hasrented a farm. A son was born Monday to Mr and Mrs, Earl Manley, living at i4i5 Jansen avenue. The young man ' Will be known as James Flovd Man. ley.
 Mrs 0. k. Dougherty and baby re- i turned the first of the week from a visit of six weeks with relatives and friends in Little Rock and Pangburn, Ark.
 Mrs. John Steele returned Friday afternoon from Hodgens and Salli- saw, Ok, where had been visiting relatives and friends for the past week.
 Charles Hudson, who lived in Mena about l2 years ago, and since has been in East Texas, returned Tuesday He plans to settle in Ok lahoma.
 ] M. A. Stratton and s. Higham. the latter here from Madison, Wis. spent Tuesday in Hatfield and vicin- {, lty to look after business for Mir. Higham.
 $. II. McCurley. justice of the peace at Grahnis spent Tuesday in Mena to make his quarterly report and to look after other business with county officials. Crock Warren, accompanied by his brother, c. L. Warren of San An tonic, Tex, came from Hatfield on "Wednesday to visit friends and look after some matters of business. T. A. Allen is erecting a seed house near his gin which will be so ar ranged that the seed as it is bought from the customers may be run di- reetly from the gin into the storage house
 Leslie Moseley returned Tuesday morning from a business trip to Hope. He arranged while away to get into the cotton seed market, so thrt from now on he will be buying seed as well as cotton. J. G. Hampton and Jess Arnold of Shady were among the people in Mena 1uesady to attend Chancery court. They were interested in the suit involving the management of the Shady telephone company.
 MT. and Mrs. E. E. Roberts came lin from Shady Wednesday, having made the trip of 10 miles on foot. This afternoon they went to Gran his, where Mir. Roberts expects to- rent farm for the coming season
 Col. c. NJ. Latimer and w. |. Green conducted a public sale Tuesday for l.. E. Heath on the H F. Gam farm southwest of Potter. They were ae- companied on the trip by H. Bair. Mir. Heath is planning to leave for Oklahoma.
 c. A. Davis of Independence, Mo-, owner of the Tobin building at eos Mena street, spent Tuesday in Mena with his agent, Will s. MacLafferty, looking over the building and mak- ing arrangements to have the same overhauled.
 Mir. and Mrs. Ed Clark and daugh- ter, Miss Pearl, Of Atchison, Kas who had been visiting MT. and Mrs. F. NJ. Kinds at Bethesda Springs for a week, left Tuesday afternoon for a trip to Galveston and other points on the gulf before returning home.
 Dr. c. Cochran returned the lat ter part of last week from Holyoke, Col, where he has real estate in- terests. He had contemplated sell ing his land, but found prices ad- vancing so steadily that he conelud- ed it was good business to keep it.
 Albert Robertson this week trad ed an S0-aere farm located near Potter for the grocery stock of the Pratt Grocery Company. He plans to move the stock into the Hilton building on Pickering avenue. where he is living, but pending the move he has closed the store
 Eugene Abernathy, who had been