The Mena weekly star., 1917-07-26
PERSONAL NOTES

the Mena Cafe, taking the place of Peter Bain.
 Mrs. c. w. Conklin returned last l Thursday from a trip of three weeks to Apache, Fort Sill and other Okla homa points.
 Mrs. C. NJ. Latmer arrived Friday afternoon from Emerson City. la. 10 join Mr. Latimer who had been here for two weeks.
 Dr. w. C. Vandiver reports the birth Friday morning of a daughter to Mr, and Mrs. Steve Ward. living on Eagle Gap avenue.
 Dr. W. C. Vandiver reports the birth of an S-pound daughter to Mir and Mrs. Jude Looney of Board Camp on Thursday morning.
 Mrs. Joseph R. Gill came from Womble last week to join Mir. Gill who IS in the local forest service of ice. They are living on Stillwell Heights.
 
 Peter Bain, who had made appli- cation for enlistment in the Forest Regiment, left Thursday for Texar- kama in response to orders to appear Tor final examination.
 Miss Leila Nichols of West Valley. who had been attending summer school in Mena, left for her home Saturday. She had been al the home of her aunt, Mrs. John Kirsch.
 k. C. Proctor was in Wickes on Wednesday to deliver a Ford tour ing car to J Brinkle Mir. Brinkle came from Wickes Tuesday night. and accompanied Mr. Proctor on the trip.
 J. w. Moseley came in from the farm Friday morning to he on duty in the Moseley X Sons store during the opening days of the Clean Sweep Sale which begins Satur- day and lasts until July 28.
 Dr. J. G. Hilton reports the birth Of daughter to Mr. and Mrs. George
 
 Allen at the home of Mir. and Mrs. Mack Huddleston. parents of Mrs. Allen, living on South Second street. Mr and Mrs. Aliens home is in Page.
 Sam Looney and J. L. Bagwell of Ink were in Mena Thursday to get a supply of confections. soft drinks and other things necessary to run a stand al the picnic which was held Friday at the Woods spring near Ink
 II. A. Barton came from Cove on ! Wednesday to spend a few days at the home of his brother, D. w. Bar ton, living on Southerland avenue. He recently returned to Cove from Ida, Ok, where he had been em- ployed during the past several months.
 Hinton Brown, J. Floyd Bud Nash and Bud Ray, all of Blansett. were in Mena Friday morning on their return from Potter, and each haul ing a load of goods for Jess Brown. who had been running a blacksmith shop in Potter, but was moving back to Blansett.
 Mir. and Mrs. John Mershon and four children who had been in Mena since Monday visiting at the home of Mir. and Mrs. J. J. Mershon, started Friday morning on their return trip to their home in Mover, Ok. They are travelling in an automobile and went south to DeQueen and thence west.
 Ebert Kelley of 0den was in Mena Wednesday to leave for Chillicothe, Mo, where he will enter the Chilli cothe Business college. There are already several young people of the Oden community in Chillicothe, among them being Andrew Baker. { Carl Robbins, Miss Addena Robbins and Mrs. Ebert Kelley.
 H. w. Roberts, manager of the local telephone exchange. who has been an ardent good roads booster, put himself in line Thursday to be- come a legal signer of the petition which provides for a majority of the landowners in the district. He bought a residence lot near the Kretz cottage in north Mena
 Mir. and Mrs. C. C. Roberts and Mir. and Mrs. Lee Lawrence of Shady were in Mena Friday, remaining over Saturday. Both of the young men were in the list of the Polk county registrants. so they were very much interested in the report [ of the draft drawing, reports of which were being received in the Star office.
 A. F. Scott, the driver of the Mena Hot Springs lnterurban passenger truck did not reach Mena Thursday until about noon, being about IF hours behind his schedule, on ac- count of trouble with the ball bear ings on the front wheels. He had to send to Texarkana for repairs, so | he did not start on the return until i2:30 Saturday J. w Cartwright of Van Austin, Tex. who had been visiting at the home of his aunt Mrs. s. D. Russell, near Nunley, left Friday night for his home. He was particularly pleased with the crop conditions in l n1Il- x,,.fk o0r1