The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-03

sam F. Pigg, banker at Cove, was Tn Mena Monday and reported that Cove citizens volunteered $4.7O0 in Liberty Bond subscriptions Saturday and Sunday.
 Mrs. Olson, proprietor of the Star Hotel, has purchased thru Hamilton & Horner, the Richards farm of 16O acres west of Mena in the Mountain Fork country.
 I J. E. Echols of Red Oak, Ok, ar rived in Mena Tuesday and will visit with his mother, Mrs. J. R. Grant. He is trying to arrange to move back to Polk county.
 The Proctor Smith Motor Company delivered new Ford truck Monday to Abernathy & Edwards of Big It will be used in hauling goods to and from Mena.
 ] Mir. and Mrs. Jesse Roby of Eagle ton came in Tuesday en route to Egg ger to visit with Mir. and Mrs. Irwin Grove. Mrs. Grove is a daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Roby.
 Dr. L. O. Dickson was taken sud- denly ill Monday night with what was believed to be form of paraly- sis. He was improved Tuesday but unable to be at his office.
 ! Mrs. T. c. Rose left Sunday after noon for Fort Smith to attend to bus mess and to meet her cousin, Miss Willie Jennings of Ozark. She will return home this afternoon. l Mir. and Mrs. L. M. Clement and daughter, Miss Thelma, and Mrs. Mary White, mother of Mrs. Clement. spent Sunday in Mena as the guests of Mir. and Mrs. G. L. Clement. Mrs. c. H. Ponder and two children returned Sunday from Tulsa, Ok, after three-week visit with her brother, J. J. Jennings. They also attended the Confederate reunion.
 W. L. Sellers of Mountain Fork came in Tuesday to bring his mother. Mrs. M. E. Sellers, to Mena, en route to Bengal, Ok, where she will visit with her daughter, Mrs. Essie Jones, for the winter
 H. Litterest, after spending the summer on his farm in the Posey Hollow neighborhood, came in Mon day to go to Texarkana, where he will be employed as merchant tailor dur , ing the winter.
 Mir. and Mrs. w. A. Miller, who have been residents of Mena for sev- eral years, left Tuesday afternoon for Yuma, Ariz., to spend the winter. MT. Miller talks of going into Old Meyico on a business venture. Ellis Goss and family motored out to Big Fork Sunday to visit Mir. and Mrs. c. A. Lawrence, parents of Mrs. Goss. Mir. Goss returned home in the afternoon, while Mrs. Goss and chil- dren remain there for a time.
 Mrs W. o. Breeden of West Jans- sen avenue, left Thursday for De Queen to be at the bedside of her daughter, who is ill Mrs. Breeden recently moved to Mena from De- Queen to Mena to make her home. l s. T. Stout of Kansas City, travel i ing auditor of the Kansas City South ern railway, is in Mena this week checking up the business of the con- pany, preparatory to Roy Miller again taking up the work as local 1 treasurer.
 | H. A. Goodrich, superintendent of construction at the new postoffice building, has been notified he is to be retained in the position by the Amer ican Indemnity Company of Calves ton, Tex, which has taken over the contract of the Richardson Engineer ing and Construction Company of Bainbridge, Ga.
 MT. and Mrs. George Speer of Fort Smith arrived Tuesday and will be guests in the home of Mir. and Mrs Sam Hughes of the Southside for a time. Mrs. Hughes is a daughter of MT. and Mrs. Speer. MT. Speer was reared in Polk county and was a res ident of Old Dallas about forty-five years ago. Mrs. N. F. Leggett, sister of Mrs J. s. Steel of Ashdown was advised Wednesday by Judge Steel that her sister, who had been in sanitarium in Hot Springs for several weeks un- der treatment for acute rheumatism and other complications, had passed the crisis in her critical illness. and was now on the road to recovery.
 Corp. F. F. Brown, son of Mir. and Mrs. J w. Brown of the Southside, is here from Camp Funston, Kas., to spend a furlough of 15 days. Corpor- al Brown has been in the regular ar- my for three years, having enlisted for the Mexican war. He has now been assigned to Camp Funston as instructor in machine gun mechanism and hand grenade throwing, tho he has made application for transfer to