The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-08
PERSONAL NOTES

! business with county officials.
 W. D. Welch, after spending sun- day in Mena, returned Monday aft ernoon to Kings Spur, where he is in the lumber business.
 II. Mourt0n and C. X. Wilhite of Waters were among the farmers in Mena Tuesday Mr WilhHe having come in to market cotton.
 M. NJ. Shields, Mir. and Mrs. C.. R. Shields and children and Miss Ollie Shields made trip to Oden Sunday to spend the day with friends. J. Standridge came in Monday from Ida, Ok, where he had spent the last three weeks visiting. He went to his home near Egser Tues day
 MT. and Mrs. Henry Deadaman are planning to leave the latter part of this week for Rifle, Col, where they will spend the winter with their daughter.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. H. Edwards came from Big Fork Monday. Mrs. Ed wards will remain in Mena for a few days at the home of her daugh- ter Mrs. R. E. Roberts.
 Richard Hunger plans to leave on Thursday for Witten, S. D.. where he has job on a ranch Mrs. Hun ger will remain in Mena until her husband gets located in the new home.
 Hubert Durham. who recently was discharged from the National Army, has entered the employ of the Wells Fargo Express Company as mes senger helper with a run from Fort Smith to Shreveport.
 D. R. Stewman and sons. H. w. and J R., together with several members of the family of H w., were in Mena on business Monday. ]. R. Left ill the afternoon for visit to a sister at Bismarck, Ok.
 Mrs. Carrie WhippIe came from Hatfield Monday to attend the exer- cises held Tuesday in honor of the boys who left this afternoon for Camp Pike. Her son, Ed Whipple was among those reporting in this quota
 Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Lindsay, who mad spent most of the summer in Mena. but for the last several weeks had been in Dallas, Tex, returned to Mena Monday to prepare to take up their residence on a farm near Hatton.
 ]. R. Neal of Nunley, while in Mena Tuesday to market cotton, ar ranged to take out the Duganne grist mill which he will set up al Nunley for the accommodation or his neighbors in the matter of get ting their grists ground.
 Mr. and Mrs. 0. ]. Smith arrived in Mena Monday from Maud, Ok and are now located at 205 Seventh street. Mr. Smith was formerly a resident of Big Fork, but left several years ago, living for a time in Texas and during the last year ln Okla homa.
 Word reached Mena Monday of the birth of a daughter on Novem- Der ,. to MT and Mrs. Clarence Hol- finger of Russell, Kas. Mrs. Hol- finger will be better remembered as Miss Beulah Wilcox, sister or Mrs. Leslie Wood of Mena and Mrs. Dean Keyes of Board Camp.
 Earl Haines came in from Sapul- pa. Ok, Monday to report for duty Tuesday in the National Army. He had been in the employ of the FITS eo railway as brakeman with head quarters in Sapulpa. He was gwen leave of absence so that when he rompletes his service for Uncle sam he may return to his job With out having lost his seniority.
 Mr. and Mrs. Lit Holiday here from Henrietta, Ok, to spend q week with relatives and friends, went to Eagleton, Monday to vlslt with their daughter, Mrs. Omer Robson. Mr. Holiday started to farm this spring near Weleetka, Oka but gave up in the midst of the sea son to go into the dairy business naar Uenriptfa.
 Dr. ?. R. Watkins was called to Wickes Sunday to attend Lon Thacker, a youth about i6 years oi age who had sustained fracture oi the skull, just above the left tenn ple. by being struck accidentally with a rock thrown by companion The eoneussion was so great, pr Watkins reports, that the young man bled from both his ears
 Russell Thomas from near Wickes was n business visitor in Mena Mon day. Mir. Thomas is one of the sue cessful farmers of the Wickes con- munify. He raised plenty of food and feedstuffs. and in addition us -ualk has a good cotton crop. He had in fourteen acres of cotton on which the returns were from SS5 to 500 per acre.
 w. II. Clawson of the Overland Service Garage and w. 4. Worth
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