The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-08-07

and Columbus Lilies of Big Fork wer
in Mena Tuesday to get supplies.
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Francis Wheeler, here from Heav
ener to visit Mrs. j. M. French an,
family returned to his home Tuesday
]. N. Montgomery was advised b,
letter on Thursday of the death of hi
nephew, Tom Roberts, at Drumright
Ok.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. Chamblin las
week moved to the cottage at the cor
ner of Mena street and Magnolia ave
nue..
Miss Eva Lena Hill Of Potter begar
work Friday morning as stenographei
for the Duke Magruder Dry Goods
Company.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Copelin and Mr.
and Mrs. Marvin NJ. Shields left OF
Monday to spend two or three week,
at Hot Springs.
I. r. Bates, up from Hatfield Tues
day, reported that everything is il
readiness Tor the Hatfield fair to b,
held August 8 and 9.
Mr.. and Mrs. James White of Oder
were in Mena Monday on their return
from visit to son in Oklahoma
going on home to Oden Tuesday.
Frank and Arthur Lewis and Capt
Ed. Hutson of Hatfield were in Mens
Thursday on business. They remained
over for the Heavener-Mena baseball
game.
H. R. Grove of Egger returned Mon
day from three weeks trip to Ard.
more, Boswell, Albion and Shady
Point, Ok, visiting relatives at each
of these places.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Collins, who
live west of Hatfield, were in Mena or
business Friday. Mr.. Collins reports
abundant rains in his neighborhood
and good crops.
Hal Dean returned Monday from
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. c.
Golf. On the return trip he stopped
ct nequeen to visit the Casehclt fam.
lily.
A. B. Manor of the firm of Parker
& Manor, real estate agents at Cove
was in Mena Friday preparing to have
land lists printed for the firm in order
to keep in step with the real state ac.
tivity in the Cove community.
G. r. Hale and Peter McWilliam OF
the Acorn community were among
those in Mena Friday. They report
that the farmers of their community
will soon be marketing watermelons
in car lots, and another year they will
also be in the cantaloupe game.
Robert, Charles and Clifford CASTOR
of CASTOR, Montgomery county were
in Mena Friday to get repairs for
their threshing machine which they
had ordered last March. They were
guests at the J. A. white home on
Ninth street while in Mena. The men
are cousins of Mrs. White.
Misses Ethel and Mae Goolsby re-
turned Friday morning from Conway
where they had been attending the
summer session of the State Normal
They were accompanied from Fort
Smith by Miss Ova Lloyd of Wickes
who had been attending business col
lege in that city.
w. A. Worthington returned Thurs
day from trip to Little Rock. He
came overland in his car and made
stops in Montgomery county and east
ern Polk to make examinations of
farms on applications for loans. Fri
day afternoon he made a trip to Cove,
Hatfield and Grannis.
Noy Blair, Charles and Frank Rabb
and Burl Lane returned to Mena Fri
day morning from the Kansas har-
vest fields. The two first names had
a 20-day job at Sc per day with a
farmer near Russell, Kas. The last
two had been at work further south
in Kansas, but later joined their
companions at Russell
L. G. Wilson of st. Joseph, Mo-, for
merly in charge of the property of the
The Wickes Farm and Orchard Com
last Friday, reported that just be-
tween trains on his return home from
Wickes, where he had been to look
after the marketing of the peach crop,
The Wickes Farm ond Orchard Com
pany property is that recently sold to
the Gateway Produce Company of
Texarkana.
Mrs. T. c. Rose and daughter, Miss
Sibyl, with Misses George B. Anthony
Daisie Bell and Elsie Payne, the lat
ter here from Center, Tex, as the
guest of Miss Anthony, on their re-
turn the first of last week from a trip
to Little Rock, had an unpleasant ex-
perience with auto trouble After
some tire trouble their car stuck in the
mud near Big Fork, and after being
extricated it was so late that the party
decided to spend the night at Big Fork
and come to Mena the following days.
Two of the ladies slept in the car, and
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