The Mena weekly star., 1918-04-25


 business triI to waldron.
 Mir. and Mrs. V. Tallon from near Amarillo, Tex, are in Mena prospect ing for location.
 Miss Ozella Goss, sister of Mrs. Oscar Afford, is here from Kansas City to visit relatives.
 Dr. B. E. Dunman of Wickes spent Tuesday in Mena visiting his parents and looking after business. ! Miss Sadie Jones returned to Fort Smith Tuesday afternoon after hav- ing visited homefolks since last Sat urday.
 Mrs. Myrtle Hoffman came in Mon day from Eureka Springs, Ark, to make her home with Mir. and Mrs. w E. Stephens.
 c. A. Moore of Durant, Ok, was in Mena Tuesday to investigate the chances of buying walnut timber for the government.
 Don s. Palmer of Chillicothe, Mo, is here for visit with his brother. A. B. Palmer of Twin Oak farm in the Foran Gap country.
 MT. and Mrs. A. E. Wiley spent Sunday with their daughter, Miss Fern, who is Western Union Tele- graph operator at Page. i c. J. Wilson and Russell Price of Vandervoort, who had been on petit jury duty at this term of court, re- turned home Wednesday afternoon.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. w. Robertson moved Wednesday from Fourth street to the Peters farm on Mountain Fork, which was recently bought by Mir. Robert son.
 Mrs. s. D. Matteson and little daughter, after a visit with relatives at The Oaks and with Mena friends, left Wednesday for their home in Foreman.
 MT. and Mrs. R. D. Green from near Hatfield and MT and Mrs. R. 4. Stephens of Cove were here Wednes- day to do shopping. They made the trip by auto.
 H. Tyson, roadma tel of the Kan sas City Southern railway went to Kansas City Tuesday to take treat ment for an injury which he recently sustained to his right knee cap.
 Mir. and Mrs. T. J. Walker and fam fly, who came in from Opal Monday to attend court, returned home Wedes-- day. They were accompanied on the home trip by J. F. Standridge, who had been on the petit jury. MT and Mrs. Claude Long came | from Heavener Wednesday to spend the remainder of the week with MT. Long's parents. Mir. Long will return to Heavener the first of next week to respond to the call for service in the National Army
 John Payton and three sons of the Oak Ridge neighborhood and D. F. Wilhite of the Dallas valley were in Mena Wednesday to start on a fish ing and camping trip on Mountain Fork, expecting to be out for the re- mainder of the week.
 w. L. Nichols of Hatfield, attending court this week as petit juror, was accompanied by his son, Master K. D., who was very much interested in all phases of court procedure, even going to the jail with the sheriff to see how prisoners are confined.
 Shade Young, one of the Polk coun- ty registrants, stationed at Camp Reauregard, arrived in Mena Wednes- day on 7-day furlough, which he will spend with his parents at Eagleton, going to that point this aft ernoon. He is a member of the sig nal corps of Company c.
 c. N. Cole, who had been employed on the postoffice building as brick layer, left last week for Okmulgee, Ok. Mrs. Cole and the children will remain in Mena, and have moved to 20-acre farm on the ridge north of Polk street, where they are going to help win the war by raising things to eat,
 MT. and Mrs. John Koffel of Ameri- can Falls, Id, who had been in Mena for about ten days, have bought the R. F. Putnam place near the Thacker school house, and will move to the same as soon as they can get pos session. The purchase was made thru the Hamilton real estate agency.
 Mrs. John McKillip and three chil- dren of Flagstaff, Ariz., and Mrs. L. c. Scott and two children of Aida, N. Mex, who had been visiting Mir. and Mrs. H. R. Groves of Yocana, parents of Mesdames McKillip and Scott, came to Mena Wednesday and left for their respective homes Thursday morning.
 Mir. and Mrs. Parker White are here from Port Arthur, Tex, visiting with Mrs. Whites parents, MT. and Mrs. R. L. Barron of Acorn. They will leave soon for a visit with MT. Whites relatives at Dardanelle, after which MT. White expects to enlist in the shipyard service, probably at Mobile, Ala.
 Postmaster R. s. Allen has received