The Mena weekly star., 1918-02-07
to him, Judge Wright prickett and H. w. Roberts.

H. w. Roberts.
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 c. B. Lyons last Thursday closed deal for the sale of his residence property on Eagle Gap avenue, the sale being made to D. A. Hatton.
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 Miss Sarah Titus returned Fri day from Little Rock where she had been with relatives since be- fore Christmas.
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 Mrs. sE. w. St. John and son, Dickie, left Wednesday for Shreve- port to join MT. St. John, who is now associated with the Gossett- Haywood Company.
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 Mrs. c. R. Shields, who has been confined to her room for almost three weeks with lagrippe and other complications was reported some what improved Saturday.
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 Mrs. B. A. Duncan was called to Nunley Friday on account of the illness of her grandson, Clifton Hil- ton, who is down with pneumonia, following an attack of measles. Mir. and Mrs. David Brown of 1915 Janssen moved last Wednes- day to the Ira D. Seymour farm, located south of Mena, which was bought last week by Mir. Brown.
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 Fred Duke came in from Camp Pike last night to be with his broth CT, Sidney w. Duke, who is sick with typhoid fever, and who dur ing the last day and night has not been so well.
 Chas. plymale, forest examiner, is here from Hot Springs to join the party of forest service men who are to finish the typographical sur vey of the Arkansas National For est.
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 Walter Nance of the Farmers & Merchants Bank. spent Thursday in Wickes in the interest of the or ganization of the Bank of Wickes, which is to be opened for business as soon as building can be con- structed.
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 J. NJ. Dunfree has been employed as cook to go out with the forest service party which is going to make a typographical survey of the remainder of the Arkansas Ma tional Forest The party of twelve started on the work Friday on Irons Fork and for a month or two the base of supplies will be at Mena.
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 Miss Clara Hairgrove, after spending a week with her mother, Mrs. F. l.. Hairgrove and other members of the family, left Thurs day for pittsburg, Kas., where she is going to complete her training as a professional nurse. Miss Hair grove has been in training in Amar- fila, Tex, from whence she came home on the visit.
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 E. and s. L. Perry, in from Ink Thursday reported they had ginned between fifty and sixty bale of cot ton this season from the bolls, but instead of installing a boiler they used a threshing machine to shred the bolls, which they found did the work equally as well as the boiler attachment that has been installed by some of the ginners.
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 F. D. Mason of Keota. Ok. who had been in Mena for about three weeks, closed a deal Thursday fol the purchase of the George Pike i20-acre farm located in Posey Hol- low Mr. Mason is planning to em- ulate his neighbors. NIT. and Mrs J. C. Hauerwas. in the matter O. devotng his attention to growing foodstufls to be canned for tll, market.
 John Whiteley of Hatton spen Thursday here on business He re- gently returned from visit ot three weeks with relatives in John son county, and is again planning to start out soon to prospect fOl a location having some time agC sold his farm near Hatton to Johr Marlin who came from New Mexi- co. Mr. Marlin is now located or the Whitely farm and has made other purchases so that his hold ings now amount to about 800 acres
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 Mrs. Dwight H. Crawford, better known in Mena as Miss Kathleen Curry, after spending two weeks a: the guest of the Rev. T. A. parl and Mrs. Park and with other Men; friends. left last Wednesday for hel home in Philadelphia, expecting tC make a short stop at Ashdown fol a visit with Mrs. J T. Bowling anC daughter. Mrs. Crawford's hus- band is now at Camp Pike as |; member of the Third Officers Training Camp. and expects in dut time to be fully in the service O Uncle Sam.
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 Son Coming on Furl0ugh.