The Mena weekly star., 1919-03-06


 C. W. Enabry and son, Arvel 0f Ink, were in Mcna Thursday to mar ket cotton and to get supplies. Mr. and Mrs, J. A. Pitchford of Wlckes came to Meaa last week to do trading. returning home Thursday morning
 D. T. Hawkins of Dallas was among the farmers on the market Thursday with cotton, selling to G. W. Petty at 20 cents a pound.
 Mrs c. B. Hanes and little daueh. ter, here from Okmulgee, Ok. visit ing Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Eddy, parent of Mrs. Hanes, returned home Sun day.
 Fred Norris began Wednesday as carrier of the Egger Star route. taking the place of Ed Harrison, who has bought the Norris farm near Voc ans.
 John Chambers was in from Bigger last week, this having been his first trip to the county seat in about two years, tho he had been well all the time. N
 Mir. and Mrs C. H. Ponder moved Tuesday from 40s Fourth street to the H. H. Randolph residence on Sew enth street, bought last week hy Mr. Ponder.
 Charles Johnson of Heavener passed thru Mena Monday on the way , to Cove to join Mrs. Johnson at the bedside of her father, W. A. Travis. who is critically i'll.
 | Mir. and Mrs. j. N. Gilmore and five children arrived in Mena Sunday from York, Ala. te make their home here. Mir. Gilmore has bought the Hay property near the High school. i The Rev. Mir. Wilburn. in charge of the Nazerene church at Mansfield, ar rived in Mena on Tuesday, expecting to make the return trip in his auto, i which he recently left in Mena. ]. c. Hauerwas, in from the Haul zier farm Monday. was accompanied to town by Miss Maggie Donohue and Mrs. Bettie Crider. who had spent a month with MT. and Mrs. Hauerwas [ Dr. J. I. Philpot and Mrs. Philpet left Thursday for visit with friends in Grannis and at the home of their son, Robert Philpot, at Gillham. Mrs Philpot plans to remain at the home of her son for some time.
 Mrs. Milford J. Fraker, daughter of Mir and Mrs. Alex. Patton is ex- pected to arrive in Mena Thursday from Norfolk, Va, for an extended visit with her parents while her hus- band is on duty in the navy.
 D. II Sorrell, who had been conduct ing a vulcanizing and welding plant in the quarters of the Southside gar age, has moved his equipment to She room of the Zachary Motor Company, where he is now in business E. B. Bates and son, in from Big Fork Thursday, reported that the farmers of that community are get ting lot of farm work done in spite of the unfavorable weather most of them being thru sowing oats.
 Rupert Steel of Lockesburg was here one day last week to make ar engagements to move to Mena. Mir. Steel last year bought the Judge Prickett residence at the corner of Hickory avenue and Eighth street.
 Mrs. H. H. Randolph returned on Wednesday from Texarkana, where she had been to visit Mir. Randolph and to have him sign the papers for the sale of their residence property and the lots where the Randolph wagon yard is located.
 Mir. and Mrs. NJ 1. .Beauchamp, liv- ing in Halls Addition, this week had card from their soldier son, Mar shall Beauchamp, now with the Amer ican Army of Occupation in Germany. This was the first word they had from him since last September.
 Among the out-of- farmers and merchants in Mena Monday and Tuesday were A. P Peugh and w W. Roberts of Big Cedar, B. H. Lee, Tom Barton and Frank Egger of Egger, Winslow and John Egger of Highland and Joe and Ramsey Wilhite of Oden.
 Mir. and Mrs Ernest Voerster and four children left on Thursday for Oklahoma City, where Mir. Voerster will be in the employ of H. w. Card well, with whom he has been for sev- eral years They had been visiting Mena relatives for several weeks. Minor Pipkin went to Heavener Monday afternoon on legal business connected with the federal judgment rendered recently iii the Federal court of the Western District of Ar kansas, against R. P Harris and oth- CTS. He returned Tuesday afternoon.
 Mir. and Mrs. H. H. Copes returned to Mena Thursday from Muskogee, where Mir. Copes was hurt some two weeks ago by being thrown from a freight car while assisting in un- loading lumber. having some ribs fractured and his left shoulder in jured. Mrs Copes had been with him since the accident happened.
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