The Mena weekly star., 1917-12-20

AlneoJ CaBle and sister, Miss Myrtle, were in from Board Camp Friday to do Christmas shopping.
 J. B. Lilies and NJ. B. Fried were ing from Big Fork Thursday, having made the trip in Mir. Lilies car.
 F. M. Cecil came from Wander voort Wednesday and spent the day on business with county officers and others.
 J. W. and Ona Robson of Ritz. Scott county, were here Friday for supplies.
 Frank Pearson of Grannis. who had been on duty at this term of court as special petit juror, returned home Thursday.
 W. I. Collins, K. F. Messick and Amos McCurley of Grannis were among the witnesses in the Beavers case "Wednesday.
 J. T. Zazenberg of Tryon. Neb.. who had been looking after his property interests near Grannis. spent Friday with friends in Mena.
 A. J. Sweeper, a former resident or Board Camp, came in from Okla homa last week to look after the property interests which he had left behind.
 Frank Strickland was in from Board Camp Thursday with a bale of cotton which he had ginned from the bolls, and which he sold at g cents per pound.
 W. A. Butler and son, Charles. of Potter, were in Mena to market hogs, selling at fl cents per pound. They took back a load of goods for Hodges Brothers of Potter.
 B. A. Turpin and Alex. Mckenzie of Waters were here Thursday on business. MT. Turpin recently sold his farm near Egger and in turn bought place near Waters.
 Mr and Mrs. Oliver Woodell and children came from Cove Thursday to make their home in Nnna. They will live on the J. R. feathers place in South Mena.
 Mir. and Mrs. John Rowton of the Big Fork country were among the folks here Friday, having come in to market the last of their cotton crop and to do trading.
 Mary Frances Olney, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Mark P. Olney sus- tained a fracture of the radius of her right arm one day last week when she fell on the slippery side walk.
 J. M. Workman and U. s. Andrews of Big Cedar, Ok, were on the mar ket last Friday with cotton, both selling to G. w. Petty the former receiving 2713 cents per pound and the latter 2S.
 Mir. and Mrs. w. M. Chamblin of Potter were in Mena Friday to do trading and to spend the day with relatives. MT. Chamblin also brought in the remnant of his cotton to be ginned at the Allen gin.
 G. A. White and son, John, were in from Board Camp Thursday with three bales of cotton, which is the last of their crop of t5 bales. Two of the bales brought in Thursday were ginned from the bolls.
 Louis and Earl Corr came in last Thursday from Pickering, La, to be in Mena for several days on business. The latter just recently came from Michigan where he had been en- pt0yed as bricklayer.
 J. A. Class and son, E. J., were in Friday with few turkeys, which he sold at 20 cents per pound, aver aging $2.50 per bird. Mir. Class says he has sold lots of turkeys at $i each and was glad to get that.
 
 Raymond Donovan, on his return from San Antonio, Tex, where he had made application for enlistment in the aviation corps, stopped in Mena for visit with his grandmoth- CT, before going to his home in Wichita, Kas.
 The Rev. w. NJ. Crowson returned last week from Philadelphia, where he had attended the annual session of the Little Rock Conference of the M. E. church, South. He came home by way of Nashville, to visit his daughter and family
 R. s. Hooper and son, Reuben, of Ladonia, Tex, arrived in Mena last Thursday to prospect for a location ill Polk county. They arranged their affairs so that it will be nec- essary for them to return home if they find a suitable location.
 MT. and Mrs. Ben Goolsby and family moved Wednesday to the F q. Embry home on Reine street which was recently bought by Mir Goolsby. Mir. and Mrs. Embry in turn moved to the w. E. Watkins residence on Port Arthur avenue.
 Mir. and Mrs. H. J. Morris and four children are here from Gumlog, I.-~, .a,,,fx, Apyancac fo r,oE a