The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-09-11

|. Ross Silvey of Cove was among
the fair visitors Thursday.
Mrs. Elmer Beavers of McCurtair,
Ok, is home for a visit with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Woodrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Mize and chill
dren and Mrs. Fred Gray and chill
dren of Cove were in Mena Friday to
attend the fair.
Walter Hauert came in from Min
eral Saturday with Phil T. Steven
son to spend Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Stevenson and family.
Lloyd and Samuel Fields of Noun
tain Fork were in Mena Wednesday
to attend the fair and get supplies
for their Mountain Fork store.
Mrs. S. A. Leak and grandson, Mas
ter Earl Kelso, are here from De-
Queen for an indefinite visit at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver John
son.
Mr.. and Mrs John Hume of De-
Queen, after visit with relatives in
Mena, left Saturday for Sallisaw,
Ok, where they will visit Mrs. Yes
perman, sister of Mrs. Hume.
Mrs. Lee Campbell and daughter,
Miss Mary, returned to their home at
Foreman Saturday, after an extend
ed visit with DIR. H. G. Rushing and
Mrs. Rushing, and other friends.
DIR. J. W. Stockton was in Mena
for short time Saturday on his re-
turn to Bristow, Ok, from Cove,
where he had been at the bedside of
his mother, Mrs. W. D. Stockton, who
is critically i'll.
Frank Harkey, who had been in the
employ of the M. X. 4 T. railway as
switchman in the Desdemona oil field,
is spending a vacation with homefolks
at Hatton. He was among the fair
visitors Thursday
r. J. Hogan of Cove was in Mena
Monday arranging for his public
sale, which has been postponed un-
til the 18th The first date was Sep
TENDER q, but on account of fair week
a later day was selected.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Greenwood
are spending this week with Mrs.
Greenwood's relatives in Montgomery
county Mr.. Greenwood is taking
his vacation from work with the Wat
l.. L
Mrs. NJ. F. Elwell, mother of Miss
Love Williams, arrived on belated
train No. 4 Thursday night from Dali
las, Tex, to be here with her daugh-
ter They will be at home in one of
the Burke cottages on Jansen avenue.
Mrs. w. P. Ross, who had been
visiting Mr.. and Mrs Albert Ross
and other relatives, left Saturday for
Wickes, where she will visit at the
home of her father, English Baker,
and then return to her home in We
leetka, Ok.
Miss Bessye Roberts and broth
ers, Byron and Wilbur, arrived in
Mena Saturday from Wichita Falls,
Tex, where they had spent the sum-
mer with their sister. They will be
in Mena for a couple of weeks, then
they will go to Fayetteville, where
they will make their home
Ray Messenkamp a bluejaeket,
stationed on the ship Rainbow, ar
rived Saturday from Philadelphia,
expecting to find G. W. Parker, chief
radio operator on the same ship, in
Mena, but learned upon arriving here
that his friend was at Cove with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Parker.
Miss Lille Locke of Eagleton was
in Mena Thursday to make arrange
ments with j. c. Frazier, undertaken,
for the burial of Mrs. Mary Apple of
Eagleton, who. died at $3.50 o'clock
Thursday morning. The funeral serv-
ices, with the Rev R. l.. Remley in
charge. were held Thursday evening
Mr.. and Mrs. James Robbins and
two children, who had been visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Hawthorne, par
ents of Mrs. Robbins, left Friday for
their home at Dierks, Ark, where Mr.
Robbins is in the general mercantile
business. They were taken overland
by Curt Hawthorne in the Hawthorne
auto.
Mrs. A. G. Bare, who had been at
the home Of her father, B. S. Pete
fish, at Acorn, for the last four
months, returned to her home in Kan
sas City, the latter part of last week
She was quite sick during the time
she was at the home of her father.
Mr.. Bare came from Kansas City a
week ago and accompanied her home,
The Office of County Clerk Will
Alexander is still the most popular
place for marriages. John e. Nails,
aged %, and Miss Glenn Cearley, aged
10, both of Pittsburg, Ok, are the
latest couple to choose this place for
their wedding. The ceremony was
performed Friday morning by the
Rev. F. F Harrell of the First M f.
Church, South
p. |. Bittlebrun, who came to Meria