The Mena weekly star., 1919-12-18

temperatures were below freezing, a number offered bales for sale.
 C. V. McNeal of Hope has bought from the Mena Land & Improvement Company the residence property at 2l0 Ninth street
 A new X-ray outfit, an intricate and costly piece of apparatus, has been received by Dr. J. G. Hilton for use in his office.
 Mrs. Frank Facler of Windham, O., sister of Fred Van Wagner, arrived in Mena Sunday to spend the winter with her brother and family.
 s. D. Shrewsbury slipped and fell on an icy sidewalk Saturday, and has since been confined to his bed. Tho bruised in a painful manner, he luck fly escaped breaking any bones. A. L. Houck of Canena, Sonora, Mexico, arrived in Mena Sunday for visit with his parents, MT. and Mrs. G. W. Houck, who lives on Hickory avenue.
 II. Ramage of DeRidder, La., while in Mena Friday closed the deal thru Allen & McMillan. for the purchase of the Shumake farm of 80 acres, east of Mena.
 Emmett Rowe of Rocky, commis- sioner for the Talihina highway, was Mena visitor Friday on business in connection with the new road, and al- so attended the Commercial Club luncheon.
 A Polk county product that gets the attention of epicures at this season is the persimmon. C. H. Webster, who has a tree of extra good fruit, finds a ready market for the product, and on Monday shipped box to Carlsbad, N. Mex.
 Dr. J. G. Hilton and Dr. L. o. Dick son have returned from a hunting trip in the mountains west of Rocky. They had a good outing and brought back their share of game, the prize of which was a big buck deer which Dr. Hilton killed
 J. T. Lyons of Cisco, Tex, while in Mena last week bought thru the Ford Realty Company two small farms west of Mena. The farms he secured are known as the lobe and Pennington places. Mir. Lyons plans to move to Polk county before spring.
 Sheriff J. A. Thornton has been un- able to find any trace of Mack Walker, reported missing from his home at Opal and telephone message from Mrs. Walker Saturday morning stat ed no word had been received from him since his departure the first of the week.
 Presiding Elder J. L. Cannon, while in Mena Sunday organized the off, cial board of stewards at the M k. Church, South, and the officials select ed were as follows: w. F.. Anderson, chairman, H. W. Roberts, treasurer, w. P. Mount, secretary, J. E. Disher- oon, incidental treasurer.
 Mrs. J. A. Cornell is expecting an unusual Christmas present. Her mother in Denver, hearing of a short age of sugar in Mena, wrote and told of package of sweetness she would send. Sugar sells for only 101s cents in Denver. Weather conditions, how | tNSIs dIt ilOl SO pitdSdiJ III t1e ROiD- rado capital, it being reported the temperature was 23 below zero.
 Postmaster K. S. Allen advises Mena folks who want the Christmas parcels they send out delivered on time, to get them in the mail earlier than customary. Tho the trains run as usual on the Kansas City Southern, the service is being greatly reduced on other roads, and there is danger of great congestion of Christmas mail in the terminal points if everybody wait until the last minute to mail their presents.
 While coming to Mena Thursday from his home west of Memo near the state line, Charles Parnell slipped in attempting to board Coe Thompson's wagon, and his left foot was run over The accident happened near Rocky and tho the wagon carried a load of about ton, Mir Parnell luckily es-