The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-10
PERSONAL NOTES
Dr. A. D. Hilton of Hatfield was a Mena visitor Saturday.

NJ. L. Bell from near Vandervoort. was among the farmers in Mena to- day.
 Ellis Goss of the J. B. Goss store was off duty Saturday on account of sickness.
 A daughter was born "Wednesday night to Mir. and Mrs. Carl Whise- nant
 A. K. Fretz left Friday for Okla home City to look after property in- terests which he recently secured on a trade.
 Sam Richardson from near Potter was among the registrants in Mena Saturday to have his questionnaire filled out
 J. E. Taylor of Eagle township was in Mena Saturday to attend Co matters relating to his office of jus tise of the peace.
 H.~H. Thomas left Friday for Broken Bow, Ok. where he will take dispositions. He will go to Idabel, Ok, before returning home.
 Sergeant Pete A. Bain, who had spent a week or more with Mena relatives and friends, left Friday to again report for duty at Camp Pike.
 The Watkins Hardware company recently shipped in car load of tiling. much of which will be used for drainage on the Watkins broth CTS farm.
 Mrs. Ethel Clark of Alma, Ark, niece of L. NJ. Clark of this city, after spending the holidays with MT. and Mrs. Clark, and with relatives in Cove, left Friday for her home.
 Frank Chambers from near Egger, was on the market last week with i bales of cotton, selling to G. w. Pet ty at 29 cents per pound. The amount paid for the entire lot was $663S6.
 Mir. and Mrs. John Lofts came in from Egger Friday to spend a cou- pie of days with their son. Frank, and family. While in the city MT Lofts did some prospecting for 8 farm near Mena.
 Mir. and Mrs. Frank Sims left Fri day for Texarkana, where they spent day, when Mrs. Sims returned to Mena. while Mr. Sims made trip to Oklahoma to buy horses and mules
 Mrs. I. E. Lindsay and baby left on Thursday to spend the remainder of the week with relatives in Wickes and Vandervoort. They went to Wickes with J. K. Joplin, who hal spent Thursday in Mena with his father.
 Hosea Ross come in from Little Rock on Wednesday to look after the renting of his farm located near Board Camp. Mir. Ross is now in the photo business In Little Rock and reports that he is conducting two galleries.
 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Strickland re- turned Friday from Board Camp, where they had spent the week with Mir. Stricklands relatives. Mir. Strickland resumed his work on Monday as travelling salesman for a tobacco company.
 Dr. c. c. Gunnels was notified on Thursday of his appointment as District Deputy Grand patriach of the Mena district of the Grand En- campment of the I. o. 0. F. The appointment was made by H. j.. Nemnich of lmboden.
 T. A. Allen is beginning to gin the cotton bolls which he had bought during the fall. He recently sold fifty bales of the ginned cotton to c. w. Petty at the rate of 2i cents per pound, and is making the de- livery as the cotton is ginned.
 D. B. Joplin, who during the last four or more years has conducted a retail business on West Janssen ave- nue. has decided to retire from busi- ness on account of i'll health. No disposition has as yet been made of the stock of goods he carried. 
 Arthur Inaham and G. H. Cook were busy the past week painting the ceiling. walls and interior wood- work of the M F. church. South. They did not finish the work last week, but yet all the regular serv- ices were held in the church Sun day.
 R. A. Bailey of vandervoort was visiting Mena friends Saturday. He says there are many newcomers in his vicinity and much land changing hands. He prophecies that good part of the sellers are going to be sorry before they are much older.
 Mrs. E. P. Titus, who. with Mir. Titus and other members of the family, had attended family re- union in Little Rock, during the Christmas holidays returned to Mena Thursday, having come home by way of Heavener, where she at- tended the marriage Of her nephew. Russell Austin.
 Lieut.. E. Boyd Wcleh, after spend