The Mena weekly star., 1919-12-25

kNena visitor Friday.
 Minor Pipkin was in Vandervoort rbursday on legal business.
 W Sturgeon has returned from d visit at Stigler, Ok, with ms son.
 l. N. Whisenhunt started Thursday
 salesman at s. l. Woods store.
 F T silliman and w. T. Green of Hatfeld were Mena visitors Tuesday,
 w E. Watkins and W. l. Green have returned from business trip to Oklahoma.
 W. Long left Monday for Wiekes, sying been summoned as witness * in law suit.
 IT S. Andrews of Big Cedar was among those who brought cotton 70 Mena Tuesday.
 Miss Lula White. living west of Nena has gone to Port Arthur, Tex, for holiday visit.
 ]. M. Woods of Delta county, Tex. is visiting in Mena and looking over lands offered for sale.
 R. Golf left Tuesday afternoon for DeOueen. seeking further information for the Mena-Cherry Farm.
 Ionas Ellison and children were Tn from Board Camp Thursday, dolng their Christmas shopping.
 Fred Philpot came in Wednesday to snend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Philpot-
 I q Fuller of Talihina is in Mena visiting his father, G. A. Fuller, who lives near the Thacker school.
 E. Strahan, who had been in Mena looking after mining interests left Wednesday for his home at Com snerce, Ok.
 F. Hood, as commissioner for the Jefferson Highway, is in Little ROCK on business before the state hlgnway Commission.
 Mrs. w. E. Hungate, her son. Glenn pnnpate. and Mrs. o. H. Noble were 4 among the Grannis residents shopping in Mena Monday.
 Ward Wallin and George Cazce, who live west of Mena, left Monday after noon for Cisco, Tex, where they will De employed in the oil fields.
 MT. and Mrs J. A. Stanley and Miss Maggie Stanley of Opal were Tn Mena last week to visit friends ana do Christmas shopping.
 Frank Marshall and w M. Brown, Living near Old Potter. were in Mena Thursday to get casket for the buri- al of Mrs. M E. Beeman.
 Fred Gray came up from Cove on Wednesday, and drove back the new Overland 4, which he purchased from the Zachary Motor Company.
 County Supt. I. G. Harris conduct ed a teachers examination at the courthouse Thursday afternoon. Eighteen applicant for licenses took the tests.
 John Holcomb of Umpire, Ark, was in Mena Thursday and secured from County Clerk Will Alexander license to wed Miss 0phelia Davis of Baker Springs.
 MT. and Mrs. Joe D. Hawthorn and ehildren. who have been visiting in Mena with J. NJ. Hawthorne. left Sun day for their new home near Ard more, Ok.
 Mrs. J. T. Stockton of Cove has bought the home lately occupied by T. J. Wilbanks on Southerland avenue, and plans to occupy the house about January 1.
 * Duff Hilton has returned from trip to Little Rock. where he went to make arrangements for taking a course of vocational training under government auspices.
 Prosecuting Attorney Duke Fred erick of Stigler, Ok. is in Mena to visit his brother, H. M Frederick, and his mother, Mrs. F. " Frederick, who came to Mena from Horatio Wednes- day afternoon.
 Many Mena friends attended the 2 burial of Miss Arizona Reed. which took place Thursday morning at the ] Family home near Owens Chapel. The < services were conducted by the Rev. w L. Smith of Mena.
 R. I. Anderson, formerly rural car rier on Route 2 has started work as city carrier, taking the route Hugh Gately has been carrying. Dorsey Peoples is the new carrier on Carrier E Anderson's old route.
 A Mena man who became suspicious of a pound of country butter pur- chased, took the trouble of weighing 1t and found that he had actually got ten just 12 ounces. At the price paid this pound" of butter was valued at 80 cents.
 Property owners on the Cherry Hill road are circulating petition asking that highway be built from Mena east thru Ink, Yocana, Egger and to the Montgomery county line The petition will be presented to the spe- cial session of the legislature. The Rev J. B. Dyess of Grand Saline, Tex, returned to his home on Wednesday after spending several days in Mena and vicinity. He liked conditions here so we'll he bought tract of land south of Mena. and plans to move here before the new year comes.