The Mena weekly star., 1918-04-18

had no difficulty with their car in com ing over the mountain.
 o. c. Kirby of Grannis was in Mena to attend Circuit court Tuesday. H. II. Bair left Tuesday for visit and to look after business in the old home in Allerton, Ia.
 W. c. Addison of Chelsea, Ok, is here visiting his father, James Ad- kison and sister, Mrs. T. H. Webber.
 ". II. Gortemiller, with wife, baby and mother. came over from Waters Tuesday and were held in Mena to- day by the high water in the creeks.
 Dr. J. T. Bogard reports the birth of daughter on Tuesday night to Mir. and Mrs. Frank Pyles, living on North DeQueen street.
 Marvin Hilton, who had been em- ployed as porter in the Mena Hotel, left Tuesday for Des Moines, la, where he will take up the work of telegraph helper, with the idea of learning the business.
 J. T. Baker has marketed the first of his strawberry crop, selling at 25 cents per quart. He statesr however, that the heavy rain Tuesday night, together with the hail, did much dam age to his plants, so his crop will be limited.
 Dr. J. G. Dorsey and Mrs. Dorsey arrived Monday from Wichita, Kas., for visit with Mrs. Dorsey's broth CT, A. B. Palmer, and family, at Twin Oak farm in the Foran Gap country. They plan to go from here still furth- CT south.
 Mrs. R. M. Helff returned Tuesday from Oklahoma City where she had spent the last three weeks with her mother who is sick. She was ac- companied on the home trip by her mother, Mrs. M. M Bieble, who will !, spend the summer in Mena The Rev. G. E. Waddle of Little Rock, District Evangelist of the Nag arene church, arrived in Mena Tues day expecting to hold services in the Nazarene church that night, but was prevented from doing so by the rain. i He spoke at Corinth Wednesday night.
 Sheriff H. W. Finger and Mrs. Fin ge~ md Miss Pauline Pryor returned Monday afternoon from Little Rock svhither they had conveyed Mrs. John 1 Cecil to the State Hospital They iNade the trip as quickly as possible that Mir. Finger might be on hand for the Circuit court work.
 1 Sam Lear, who, with his parents was formerly a resident of this city, passed thru Mena Tuesday enroute to Ashdown, taking the opportunity to greet some of his friends who were at the station He is in the army, be- ing stationed at Camp Bowie, Tex. Harold Ravenscraft writes his par ents, Mir. and Mrs. H. D. Ravenscraft, that he had recently successfully passed the mental examination for admittance into the navy electrical school. and that he was now about to reach the goal of his ambition. He is stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
 W. D. Kirkland of Plummerville, Ark, was in Mena Tuesday convass- ing in the interest of the Curtis pub lications Mir Kirkland was former ly rural carrier, giving up the work when he became almost totally blind. When he makes town now he is assisted in getting about by rural car riers or other postal employees. Mrs. Julia Fitzpatrick and Mrs. John Fitzpatrick arrived in Mena on Tuesday from Shreveport, La, where they had been visiting for about a week Mrs. Julia Fitzpatrick is the guest of Major Burke and daughters while in the city, and Mrs. John Fitz- patrick will visit her parents, Mir. and Mrs John Graf, in the Ransom neigh borhood.
 E. A. Lewis, in from Big Fork on Tuesday stated to a representative of The Star that he started to Mena that morning with fifty gallons of sorghum, but that he sold the entire lot at Board Camp. He reported also that from his investigation he is con vinced that the frosts of last week injured and destroyed most of the peaches, plums and grapes in the low land territory of the Big Fork coun- try.
 Harm Cecil, Will Meek and Russell Price, all from the vicinity of Van dervoort and here on jury duty, were mighty uneasy Wednesday morning when they heard of the storm which had passed thru the country near that place, but their anxiety was some what relieved in the afternoon wh MT. Cecil learned from home that none of the members of their families had been injured, nor had their prop erty been damaged except for the blowing down of fences and timber | -o--
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