The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-19


Oren Cecil Of vandervoort was in
Mena on business today.
M. l. Kennedy of Big Cedar was
trading with Mena merchants Friday.
Mrs. Pole McPhetrige has returned
from Page where she has been visit
ing.
Mrs. J. F. Averitt, her son Louis
and Miss Rose FUR are i'll at the
Averitt home.
Mrs. Fred Gray of Cove was in
Mena Friday. having dental work
DONE
Lloyd Bell has returned from Mi
ami, where he has been looking after
his mining interests.
w. H. Littlepage and P. F. Rouse
were among the Hatfield people in
Mena Saturday.
A marriage license was issued
| Thursday to H. H. Former, aged 81
and Miss Betty Gentry, aged 20, both
Of Cove.
J. G. Wood of Yocana, one of Polk
county's oldest settlers is visiting in
Mena with the family of his son,
S. l. Wood.
Argus Rowe of Rocky is one of
the S. A. 7. C. lads released from the
service at Fayetteville and who came
to Mena Sunday.
DR.. P. R. Watkins was called to the
home of Charles Phillips on r. f. d.
2 Sunday afternoon, where fine To-
pound boy was born.
Olney Bowen of ALI was in Mena to
meet his daughter and family from
Oklahoma, who will spend Christ
mas with him.
Oscar Close Of Des Moines, Ia, who
is spending the winter in Cove look
ing after his real estate interests,
was Mena visitor Monday.
DR.. w. C. Vandiver, having sold
his drug store, is moving his offices
up stairs into the rooms recently va
Gated by Minor Pipkin.
Cotton sold for 81 to % cents on
the Mena market Saturday. Owing
to the heavy roads only few bales
were brought in for sale.
Thurman Leeper, who has been
in the S. A. t. G. at 0uachita College,
Arkadelphia, has returned home to
Mena, having terminated his service
with Uncle Sam.
| Sanders Standrdge of Opal, who
| has been in service at Camp Pike,
has received his discharge and was
in Mena Thursday enroute to his
home.
Word has been received in Mena
that o. M. Weakley, living near Cove,
who had undergone an operation in
trephining last Sunday, had recover
ed consciousness and was improv-
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. f.. Roach and son.
who have been visiting in Mena with
Ivan Rowe and family, have gone to
Havana, Ark, for short visit be-
fore returning to their home at St.
Joseph, Mo.
Orville Winton, who had been call
ed to Uncle Sans service in the Mo-
tor Transport corps, and who had
been at Tulane university near New
Orleans, has been released from ser
vice and arrived i'm Mena Saturday.
He is the son of M. D. Winton of
Rocky.
John B. Ogden and Peter Ray Og-
den, former Polk county school teach
ers, but now in Uncle Sans service,
paid a short visit to their parents in
the Dallas Valley last week. They
left Thursday for Idabel, having
received their discharge from Uncle
Sans service.
DIR. P. R. Watkins returned Satur-
day morning from Mansfield, where
he and Mrs. Watkins were called on
account of the death of the formers
brother-in-law ]. B. Dixon. Mr..
Dixon, who had died from pneumonia
following an attack of influenza, had
visited in Mena. Mrs. Watkins will
remain several days at Mansfield
James Pegram, who has purchased
The stock of the Vandiver drug store
and moved it to the new location at
TOO Mena street, is busy getting
ready for formal opening next week.
Mr.. Pegram is planning to make the
new drug store a leader in this line
Of trade The Lindsay Jewelry Cont
pany will continue to occupy a part
of the store room.
Fearing that the nigh waters in
streams would impede his trip south
ward, w. NJ Cooper, of Pratt, Kas.,
loaded his Ford onto a X. G. S.
freight car Friday and will finish
his journey to DeRidder, La, by rail.
Mrs. and Mrs. Cooper stopped in
Mena for repairs to their car. They
have land interests at DeRidder and
may spend the winter there.
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