The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-17

In Mena on business for short time Monday
 There will be a special communi- cation of Dallas Lodge No i2S, F. X A. Masons, Saturday night, May i9.
 Chris Hoover and J. x. Simpson of the Egger community were in Mena Monday on business with the county officials.
 Mrs. R. k. McCann and little son spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs Peter McWilliam, at Golden Acres farm near Acorn.
 Dr. w. c. Vandiver reports the birth of daughter last Saturday to MT and Mrs. Butler, living in the Holly Springs neighborhood.
 J. N Montgomery went to Hat field Wednesday to accept a po- sition in the store of the Watkins Lumber X Mercantile Company.
 MT. and Mrs. Ellis Goss went to Shady Saturday to spend Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. c. A. Lawrence, parents of Mrs Goss.
 MT. and Mrs. Little Bates and chil- dren and Miss Loda Lively of Stat ington were here Monday to do shopping and to spend the day with friends.
 Miss Maud Reid, daughter of Mir and Mrs. T. D. Reid of the Owens Chapel neighborhood, left Sunday afternoon for a visit with relatives in Big Cedar, Ok.
 H. H. Thomas returned Sunday from Mountain Fork, where he had been at the home of Sam Gray for the last three days. He says he is making a crop on the Gray farm.
 NJ. NJ. Lowthers of Rocky was in Mena last Monday with his "Mobil- cite" being on trip to Cove. Hat field and Vandervoort in the inter- est of the agency of this novel car.
 Mir. and Mrs w. R. Cole and chil- dren spent Monday on a fish ing and outing trip near Board Camp. John Bell was in charge of the store during the absence of Mir Cole.
 w. A. Ragland and Mark p. 0lney left last Monday for JOnesbOro to attend the Forty-ilfth Annual Con- clave of the Grand Commandery Knights Templar, which was in session Tuesday, "Wednesday and Thursday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Gus Gilbert, who had spent two weeks visiting relatives near Hope, returned to Mena Sun day evening. Mir. Gilbert put in Monday getting his garden in shape before again taking up his work in the Arkansas meat market.
 Miss Annie Wood, home demon stration agent, spent Saturday with the canning girls at Acorn. She found that gardens in the Acorn community are looking fsne so the prospects for a good vegetable erol are excellent.
 w. B. Boyes, forest ranger al Eagleton, spent Saturday in Mena with the men in the local forest of- flee and to do some trading. He re- ported the recent loss of valuable Jersey COW which was run into a wire fence by some dogs.
 I. NJ. Davis of the Yerba Buena ranch was in town Monday morn ing to get more seeds and farm sup plies. He is staying close to the job on the farm this summer, this being only about the second time that he has been in town since spring work began.
 Mrs. James H. Embry and baby .rame from Ashdown Saturday even ing to spend day with Mrs. Owens, mother of Mrs. Embry, and other relatives. and to attend the decor ation exercises helG at Owens Chap el Sunday. They returned home on Monday afternoon.
 Mir. and Mrs. G. W. Petty and fam ily, Misses Lulu Embry and Bessie Roach and Ivan Rowe and John Harper were among the Mena peo- ple to attend the decoration exer- cises at Owens Chapel Sunday.
 Edwin Parrish left Saturday for Ava. Ok. where he has employment, pending the outcome of the selective draft bill. He has reached the age of g years, and thinks that he will likely be among those selected in the first draft.
 Reha. the year-old daughter of MT. and Mrs. B. A. Gaddy, fell from a wagon last Saturday evening sustaining a dislocatiOn of her right elbow. and a fracture of the ullnaI of the right arm just below the el- bow. Dr. w. c. Vandiver reduced the fracture.
 Ava l.. Rogers of Havana, arrived in Mena last Saturday for a visit ai the home of his brother, who is in the employ of J. B. Goss. MT Ros- CTS is a member of Company L.. Second Arkansas, and expects soor to be called into service.
 Little Riding, in letter to his parents received last Saturday