The Mena weekly star., 1918-11-07


= w. o. Lackey and C. v. MCGEE q
Rocky were in Mena Tuesday witt
: cotton.
J 3. Goss and Ellis Goss will
their families visited their mother a
Big Fork Sunday.
Palmer brothers left Monday TO,
Vandervoort, where they have sever
al contracts for painting.
G. F. Lilies, A. A. Goodman and ]
i I. Deshaze all of Board Camr
brought cotton to Mena Wednesday.
]. c. Bates of Big Fork was il
Mena Tuesday with wheat which h,
had ground at the Mena Flour mill
Harold Revenscraft left Mena We'd
nesday morning to return to his du.
ties in Uncle Sans service at Nor
folk, Va.
c. M. Brown and F. H. Eppersor
made the long trip from Ritz, Scott
county to Mena Tuesday to bring cot
ton to market.
/ Miss Evelyn Shipman of Honey
Grove, Tex, is in Mena to visit her
sister, Mrs. Fred Embry, who has
been seriously i'll.
| Corp. w. H. Campbell is in Mens
to spend five-day furlough with
homefolks, before returning to his
duties at Camp Pike.
! Mark p. 0lney was clerk of the
sale at j. M, Putman's near Rocky
Tuesday and reports that fairly good
prices were obtained.
! j. W. O. Manley of Eagleton and
F. F. Monitor of near Acorn were
among those who sold cotton on
Mena's market Tuesday.
! W. r. Buchanan, E. J. Doremus
and c. B. Leonard, were among those
from Egger vicinity who brought cot
ton to Mena's market Tuesday.
Among the Polk County farmers
who brought cotton to Mena Wednes-
day were H. w. Rowe, J. R. Handy,
]. A. Handy, Florence borough.
! Ike Williams of Nashville, game
warden for the district of which Polk
county is part, is in Mena to visit his
old time friend, Circuit Clerk w. L.
Parker.
Many farmers are buying their w
S. S. at the Mena banks. Cashier
Board of the Planters reports that
this bank has sold about $4,000 in
stamps to date.
! Frank Lewis left Saturday for
Hatton and spent Sunday at Ozark
Heights with Mrs. Lewis, who with
Mrs. M. F. Lewis are guests Of Mrs
A. L. Willoughby.
I Thomas Jackson Of vandervoori
was in kena Wednesday to make fl
nal proof on his homestead. C. r
Osborne and Fl. 0. Woolsy came with
him - Wines
A. j. Rsbkins sans from Potter
Wednesday to call on friends. He
had been laid up Asr three weeks on
account Of q intuay to his thigh, bal
ID again able TO - css.
Mr.. and - B. n. Cunningham
were carlsi BsnAag 30 the bedside n
their daughter, MH. Myrts Whits
living west Of MsHa. Hrs. White ID
said to be seriously i'll.
/ The Southsids garage is now own
ed by Connally 4 Son, C. B. Connally
Of Rocky having purchased the inter
ests of L. j. Tibbs. Robert Connally
will manage the garage.
Olin Wood and Earl Walker on
Wednesday appeared before the coun-
/ ty exemption board and volunteered
for service in the motor transport
corps. 1t is not known when they
viii be called.
F. H. Hilbolt, agent for the X. c.
S. at Gravette, was in Mena Tuesday
looking over the situation with a
view of taking the agency of the rail-
road here, as a successor to the late
Fl. ID. Ravenscraft. Mr.. Hilbolt was
accompanied by his wife.
! l.. J. Tibbs, formerly at the South
side garage, is now engineer of the
Oil-pull tractor being used in road
work. On Tuesday tractor and grad
err almost finished one and one-half
miles of road The machines will be
used near Dallas, the rest of this
week.
| Mrs. J. H. Allen, accompanied by
her granddaughter, little Miss Eunice
Marie Johnson, returned Tuesday
from Little Rock, where they had
been to bid good bye to Holder
Hudgins, who left with his regiment
for a point of embarkation, it is
thought.
/. M. Davis, living on r. F. ID.
near Rocky, is offering through the
Commercial Club, to sell his surplus
Of food products. He has canned to-
matoes, home dried apples and shelled
peanuts listed as his specialties
Mr.. Davis has already quoted prices
to Missouri and Kansas buyers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Donovan of
Wichita, Kas., after brief visit with
Mrs. S. A. Donovan, grandmother Of
the first named, have returned to
| their home, Mr.. Donovan, with his