The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24


 Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Roberts were ;n from Opal Friday to get supplies for their store.
 W. c. B. Allen, up from Shrevenort to spend the week at home in Acorn, spent Friday in Mena.
 Congressman Otis Wingo passed thru Mena Friday enroute to Boone vile and to points in the northern part of his district.
 Mrs. Ida B. Miller, mother of Row Miller, here since last August, left Saturday for Kansas City, where she will spend the summer.
 c. H. Jett, Jr., and J. E. Joplin of Wickes and o. B. Witherspoon of Cove, were among those here Mon day to report for jury duty.
 Alton Lacefield, in the employ of the Crutchfeld Lumber Company at Eagleton, was in Mena Sunday to spend the day with homefolks.
 Virgil Henry of Wickes was in Mena Thursday, making the trip in the Ford touring car recently bought of the Proctor Smith agency.
 Dr. L. o. Dickson and Uriel Thack CT came in early on Monday from fishing trip and had a nice string of fish to show for their efforts.
 Mrs. l.. E. Byers returned Saturday from Stamps, Ark, where she had att tended the sessions of the Presbyter- ial of the Ouachita presbytery.
 County Clerk Alexander on Satur day granted marriage license to W. H. Byrd, aged 21, and Miss Bessie Harrison, aged IS, both of Mena.
 Edward LePelly of the Planters State Bank spent Sunday with friends in Texarkana. It gave him the sec ond chance to see the battle tank in action.
 A. A. Zachary was at Wickes Fri day, where he sold and delivered a Model 90, five passenger Overland to J. J. Ross, well known Wickes busi- ness man.
 L. J. Lofts, who will be on the Peter Mildfelt farm west of Mena this summer, has joined the eanta- loupe growers by offering to plant 2 acres to cantaloupes.
 The Rev. D. J. Sossamon returned Friday from Ozark, where he had at tended the sessions of the Fort Smith Presbytery of the Presbyterian churches of the U. s. A.
 Will Anderson arrived Sunday from Nashville, where he had been in the employ of the Southwestern Bell Tel ephone Company on the line from Ashdown to Murfreesboro.
 T. R. Bates and John Oliver, while in Mena Thursday, each bought a touring car from the Proctor-Smith agency, these two making a total of thirteen Fords sold by this firm in the past week.
 N. O. White, teacher in the Crystal Hill school the past term, was in Mena Friday on the way to Belzoni, where he will preach Saturday and Sunday. He has been employed to teach the Nunley school the coming term.
 S. IT McCurley of Grannis was in Mena Friday night to attend the meeting of the executive officers of the Victory Loan campaign in order to get pointers for the drive to be put on in Grannis.
 Section Foreman Pettigrew of Acorn was in Mena on Saturday with his crew, consisting of P. s. Schneider, E. W. Snow, c. c. Combs and John Kimbell, the trip having been made to get their monthly pay checks.
 The Beach Lumber Company at Hatfield has added 2h ton Armled- CT to it's truck fleet. R. E. Valentine, Mena representative for the Armled- CT, also reports the sale of 315 ton truck to c. w. Walden at Womble.
 ]. W. Holt, father of W. E. Holt, after spending a week with Mir. and Mrs. Holt and family, left on Satur day for Texarkana, where he will visit his brother and daughter, be- fore going to his home in Washing ton, Ark
 ". A. Cunningham, living on Route No. 4, is expecting visit this week from his son, Buster, of Golden, Ok. The young man is just recovering from a siege of sickness thru which he decreased in weight from 205 to 115 pounds.
 Mrs. Cecil Barham and baby left Sunday for McAlester, Ok, for visit of three weeks with Mrs. NJ. A. Rich ards and Mrs. Ligon, mother and sis ter of Mrs. Barham. Mir. Barham ac- companied them as far as Howe, re- turning to Mena Monday morning.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. S. Abrams and Mrs. T. c. Dispenett of Tulsa, Ok, passed thru Mena last Saturday enroute to Wickes, where they are going to To- cate on the o. B. Lee farm, which they recently bought. They were making the trip overland in Stude- baker car.