The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-02


 Mrs. J. H. Skinner of Cove is visit ing her sister, Miss Sallie Dawson, living on Reine street
 Prof. E. w. Hamby, in charge of the Grannis schools, was in Mena on busi- ness Saturday evening.
 B. F. Parker and Harve Riding came Saturday from a fishing trip on the Ouachita, having been out since Friday noon.
 A. B. Higgins and Mrs. s. s. Frachiseur of Grannis were in Mena Tuesday to look after real estate busi- ness with county officials.
 Mir. and Mrs. T. W. Delaney and son came from Rich Mountain Satur- day to spend Sunday with Mir. and Mrs. J. H. Roger, parents of Mrs. Delaney.
 J. L. Nelson of Grandview Heights is among the lay members of the Mena Baptist church who attended the associational meeting held at Board Camp.
 Charles Chambers of Yocana re- turned Tuesday from trip to Padu- cah, Ky, where he visited Charles Lofts and other formerly of Polk county folks.
 Price Parker left last Saturday on a trip to Fort Smith and Poteau. He is getting ready to go into business at Poteau the first of October, and if his goods are arriving he will not return to Mena.
 Mrs R. A. Stevens and three chil- dren from Indianola, Ok, are in Mena for visit of about two weeks with the formers mother, Mrs. R. D. Green, at the Commercial.
 The Rev. N. o. Hornsby and Mrs Hornsby, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wilhite, parents of Mrs. Hornsby, since the close of the Baptist associational meeting at Board Camp last Sunday, left Wednes- day for their home in Hatfield. z J. E. Erwin of Indianapolis, Ok, who while in Mena week ago, bought the L. M. Wimberly property on South Mena street, has written that he is closing his affairs in Indianapolis, and expects to be in Mena soon to take possession of the place
 W. M. Matthews came in from Ash down Saturday morning to be at home over Sunday. Mir Matthews is mak- ing headquarters at Ashdown in his cotton buying operations, covering the territory from Ashdown to Hugo, Ok.
 E. B. Cox, who had been home most of last week, left again on Sunday for the Ranger and Desdamona oil fields, where he has extensive inter ests. He came home for vacation, but was kept busy while here looking after business at this end of the line.
 Miss Eva Hinson, who was employ ed in the W. W. Townsend store this summer while Miss Kitty White was on her vacation, left last week for Alpine, Tex, where she will be at the home of her uncle, W. P. Hinson, while she takes commercial course.
 John Lofts, who not long since sold his property in Mena, has made two prospecting trips to Oklahoma, but each time returned without buying any property, tho he is now shaping up his affairs to leave the first of No vember for Ashland, Ok, near where most of his children live.
 The Rev. w. L. Smith is now bona fide resident of Mena, having closed the deal for the purchase of a resi- dence and two acres of land on Reine street, the property of c. A. Stewart of Kings. MT. and Mrs. Smith will give up their residence in the parson- age of the Baptist church at 1011 Hickory avenue, where they had lived so long. W. A. Warrington came in on Wednesday from Little Rock, where he had been looking after his work as manager of the loan department of the Southern Trust Company, having also made trip to the southern part of the state. He will be in Mena for several days now.
 Mrs. Ella Bezy, daughter of Peter Loesch of Egger, returned to Mena Saturday from Fort Smith, where sine has been under treatment at St. Ed wards Infirmary for the last moneh. She returns home in much better health than she had ever hoped to be. The Rev. James Compere, brother of Mrs. Minor Pipkin, and editor of Baptist Advance at Little Rock, was in Mena for short time Saturday while enroute to Board Camp to at tend the Ouachita Association of Bap- tist churches. He left again Sunday afternoon.
 Mrs. W. s. Mapes, sister of Mrs. K. c. Proctor, who had been here for sev- eral days visiting Mir. and Mrs. Proc tor, left for her home at Goodnight,
 Ok, last Saturday. MT. and Mrs.
 Mapes had both been here in the last
 month, and have decided to locate in