The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-10


 Garrett, Ind, arrived in Mena this morning, and will be guests in the home of Mir, and Mrs. w. P. Mulli- ken.
 Ebert Chapman of Oden, who made prospecting trip thru Okla home, returned Friday afternoon and states that he is better satisfied to continue his residence in Montgomery county.
 Mir. and Mrs. s. L. Brooks, after living at Potter fer about year, have moved back to Mena and are at home on South Second street. W. D. Allen has bought the Brooks proper ty at Potter.
 Frank Ward and Mrs. William Ward of Quito passed thru Mena Monday en route to Little Rock, hav- ing been called there by the serious illness of Private William Ward at Camp Pike.
 Lee Olney of Muskogee, Ok, as- sistant general manager of the Com monwealth Public Service Company, arrived this morning to superintend the installation of some new machin- cry in the Mena plant.
 Mrs. Ivan Rowe, who had been visiting her parents, Mir. and Mrs. J. N. Roach of Stapp, Ok, returned Fri day afternoon. Her mother accom- panied her and will visit with her and with Mena friends for a time. Mrs. W. V. Mitchell left Thursday i for Waldron, Ark, to visit with her mother, Mrs. G. B. Young. She i shipped her household goods to Cleo Springs, Ok, and expects to join her husband there soon, and they will make that place their home. John M. Lacey, who had been em- ployed as carpenter on the govern ment powder plant near Nashville, Tenn, returned to Mena this week and will likely remain at home until called to service, being one of the registrants on September 12.
  M s. Pogue, who came to Mena to look after the interests of the Gar ford truck, was called to his home at Little Rock Wednesday afternoon by news of the illness of his son. Should the young mans condition permit he expects to return to Mena the coming week.
 Miss Anna M. Clinton, for many years stenographer for the Golf Wholesale Grocery Company, and now with the Adams 6 Westlake Company of Chicago, is still inter ested in Polk county, and is going to keep in touch with the manganese and other developments thru the me- dium of The Star.
 Evans F.. Harrell, son of the Rev. F. r. Harrell and Mrs. Harrell, writes from Camp Martin, New Orleans, that the camp is under strict 60-day quarantine in an effort to stamp out the Spanish influenza. Evans is in the. mechanical department of the auto truck service.
 The Rev. Charles Burnett of Board Camp was in Mena today en route to McCurtain, Ok, where he will con duct meeting during the next few weeks. He and his family plan to move to Kinta, Ok, this fall, where Mir. Burnett has rented farm. His Polk county farm has been rented to Tom Suit for a year.
 Miss Mary Driscoll, one of the Mena young ladies enlisted in the Students Nurse Reserve, has been notified to report for duty at St. Jo- seph, Mo, at her earliest convent ence. She will continue in the em- ploy of the Southwestern Bell Tele- phone Company until October 15, and will then take up her new work.
 Miss Eva Goddard returned last week from Weleetka, Ok, where she had been with her sister, Mrs. J. A. Sanders, for several weeks. She was accompanied home by Mrs Sanders and her three children, who will spend a week or ten days in Mena and with old friends in the Owens Chapel neighborhood.
 Claud F. Morgan, one of Uncle Sam's bluejackets who had been spending a months leave of absence ashore, most of the time with rela- tives in Mena, left Wednesday. After a visit with a brother at Heavener he goes to Charleston, s. C., to report for duty on the U. s. s. Pennsylvania. Mir. Morgan is now serving his ninth year in the navy.
 The Rev. A. P. Gallagher of the St. Agnes Catholic church, who had been visiting relatives and old friends at Cleveland, O., Wheeling, W. Va, and Pittsburgh, Pa, returned home Sat urday. He joined his mother, Mrs. Barbara Gallagher, at Wheeling, and