The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-17
PERSONAL NOTES


 day at the home of their daugh- ter, Mrs. Victor Roberts.
 James paynter of Rich Mountain spent a few hours here Saturday. coming in on one local freight and gong out on the other.
 NJ. B. Fried and son, of Big Fork. were in Mena "Wednesday to get more farm seeds in order to do their part in raising the feed for Polk county stock
 Grady Forgy left Wednesday night for Little Rock to report for duty at the Citizens Training Camp at Fort Logan H. Roots in the Officers Re- serve Corps.
 w. P. Harman, writing The Star under date of May 8, from Sacra- mento, says that he and Mrs. liar man will start on the home trip within few days.
 Miss Thelma Jones, who had been in Mena during the last school year. making her home with Judge J. I. Alley and Mrs. Alley, left last week for her home in Kenna, N. Nj.
 Walter McGeorge, carrier on TUT al route No. 3, is taking a part of his annual fifteen day vacation this week. Joe Emerson, the substitute carrier, is serving the patrons of the route while Mir. McGeorge is off duty.
 John McKinsey returned Thurs day from Arkandelphia where he had bought two carloads of young cattle to be shipped to the pastures in Oklahoma. The cattle will he shipped by way of Ashdown, over the Frisco railway.
 Miss Leonora Rector and Miss Bessie Board, teachers in the Gen. tral school during the term just ended, and reelected for next year, plan to leave for Conway the first of June to attend the session of the summer term in the State Normal.
 A. B. Palmer, who lives six miles out on the Foran Gap road, was in Mena on business Saturday He had just added to his holdings the G. H. Harroff farm, which he says he will use as hog ranch. Mr. Palmer keeps up with events by reading the Evening Star.
 Prof. T. C. Wiggins went to Gran his on Friday, from whence, aft CT spending a few days, he will go to Fayetteville, where he will spend the summer on the farm. He will return to Mena in time to take up the work of principal of the High School for the coming term.
 Trocia Goddard, in a letter to his sister Miss Eva Goddard, received Saturday, writes of meeting Ewell Moore, who is also stationed at the U. s. Naval Training Camp, located at Great Lakes, H., near Chicago. Trocia has enlisted for four years, and has been assigned to the en- zine department.
 Mrs. R. E. Hilton and daughter, AZzie, and twin sons, Clarence and Clyde, who had spent a week with in the Board Camp com left Saturday night for their home near Asher, Ok. They were accompanied on the home trip by Carol Hilton, who had completed the High school course in Mena,
 Mir. and Mrs. A. l.. Hogan and fam fly, who came from Robeline, La, the first of the week to be here for the summer, moved Friday from the cottage at 400 Tenth street to the A. R. Billingsly cottage on West Port Arthur avenue. They made the change to get a larger home for the accommodation of visitors they are this summer.
 Kilison Amos, aged 2i and Mrs. Artemissa McGee, aged 27, Choctaw Indians of McCurtain county, Ok, were granted a marriage license on Wednesday by County Clerk Will Alexander. They were married inn mediately thereafter in the office of the County Clerk, the ceremony be- ing performed by the Rev J. R. Rushing of the NJ. E. church, South.
 Ode Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. ]. F. Smith of the Nunley neigh borhood, who was here Saturday, reported that his father and mother, both of whom have been critically i'll for the last ten days with an at tack of measles and a subsequent relapse, are much improved, and the chances are they will soon be able to be up unless other complications set in.
 c. A. Proctor and Mayor Ira 0. Smith returned last Saturday from their auto selling trip to points in Southern Arkansas, having been away since Thursday of last week They came from Hot Springs Satur- day and Thursday had driven from Prescott to Hot Springs. Altogether they had travelled about 600 miles. Mir. Proctor drove the Stephens Six and Mr. Smith an Elcar.
 Rev. N. o. White Mrs White, and nephew, Carl White, and Miss Lu-