The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-17

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 Mrs. Amanda Corley of Haskell, Ok, arrived on Monday to be with her sister, Mrs. Sarah Lambert. who is sick.
 H. H. Thomas returned Wednes- day afternoon from a trip to Broken Bow, and Idabel, Ok, on legal bus mess.
 Irwin Strickland, John Erby, Lee Jeffrey and J. C. Ward from near Womble were in Mena on business Thursday.
 Mrs. Roxie Riddle of Durant, Ok. niece of MT. and Mrs. H. T. Potts, ar rived in Mena last week for an ex- tended visit with Mir. and Mrs. Potts.
 Dr. w. c. vandiver reports the birth of an ii-pound daughter to Mir. and Mrs. J. T. Davis on North Mena street, at 3 o'clock Sunday morning.
 Mir. and Mrs. E. E. Roberts braved the indictment weather Thursday and came in from Shady that MT. Rob erts might have his questionnaire filled out.
 J. B. Goss and s. I. Wood of the local Overland agency, drove car to Cove Saturday, selling the same to R. A. Stephens, and making the trip home on the train.
 Lieut.. Grady H. Forgy has been assigned as instructor in the Field Fertilization school at Camp Mac Arthur, Tex. He has also been as- signed as platoon leader.
 Mir. and Mrs. Walter Slay of Thomasville, Ok, were in Mena Sun day to attend the marriage of Ivan Rowe and Miss Bessie Roach. The bride is a sister of Mrs. Slay.
 J. A. Sullivan of Wickes was a business visitor here Thursday. He recently bought more land, and his living east of Mena, and relatives in recorded and have an abstract made.
 MT. and Mrs. R. s. Furnish ar rived Thursday afternoon from La Port, Tex, where they had been since last February. They are again located in their residence on South Second street. ne
 Collector H. W. Finger, notwith- standing the very .djsagreeable weather, started out on train No. ? last Monday to make his first ap- pointment on the tax collecting tour, starting at Rich Mountain. Capt. c. J. Hazlett, who came in from Shady Wednesday and was detained in town Thursday on ac- count of the indictment weather. started on the home trip Friday morning, being taken out by H. H, Randolph.
 Henry Voerster returned Wednes- day from Prescott, Ark, where he had been since Sunday at the homes of E. M. Sharp and c. 4. Smith. He had under consideration going to Prescott to live, but conditions did not suit him.
 Yrs. s. F.. Ducket arrived Thurs day evening from her homa five miles east of Wickes. in response to wer that her mother. Mrs. $. W Childs. was critically i'll at the home of Mr and Mrs. w. B. Thomas on Bethesda avenue.
 H. Fair of lvanhae. Tex.. who re- centlv bought the w. D. Allen plarc near petfer and als1 72 acres from Jesse Meselcv. adjoining the Allen farm. arrived in Mnna Thursday, going out to tho farm Friday His family will arriyr later.
 Mr and Mrs. W. F Stenhens have moved from Opal to the farm known as the Coylc placc. located on prair- ia rPeeS. a mile raS' of Mena. Mir ~al ! ] Lofts. who had lived on inc Coyle place. for the past year, have moved baek to their farm near Egger.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. s. Merritt and son arrived in Mena Thursday night about i0 o'clock, from Millerton, Ok. having made the trip overland in their auto. They will be at tho home of Mir. and Mrs. Oscar Long, living on the Merritt farm neac Bethesda Springs.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. B. Anderson Ter turned Wednesday afternoon from Kansas City. where Mr. Anderson had been under treatment at the Kansas City Southern hospital, Ha 'is steadily improving from the stroke of apoplexyf which he s,f7 fered several weeks ago.
 w. H. Jennings, who returned the first of the, week from Longsiew. Tex. closed a. deal Thursday thru which he exchanged, his .Longview property for the James Calvert res- idence on Hickory avenue. He plans to move into his own home as 5000 as the weather n1oderates., s M
 Mrs. J. P. Payne returned Monday morning from Nashville, Tenn, where she had been at the home of her daughter. Mrs. q. B. Johnson, for the last six weeks. She had in- tended to return last Saturday, but