The Mena weekly star., 1919-03-20

Roy was with the army serving in the Philippines.
 K. M. Scott of Cove was in the county seat Thursday on business.
 T. 0. Smith, well known resident of Muse, was in Mena Thursday.
 J. NJ. Hatfield of Shady was in Mena trading Thursday.
 T. H. Hilo of Octavia, was among the Oklahoma farmers trading in Mena Thursday.
 A marriage license was issued Mon- day to F. W. Riley, aged 23, of De- Queen, and Miss Flora Van Horn, aged IT, of Mena.
 Mrs. Jonah Whan and son, Clarence Whan, former residents of Polk coun- ty, are visiting in their old home. They now reside at Palestine, o.
 D. L. Gaston of Gaston, Pink Good ner, Tim Fryar and Henry Fryar of Oden; and J. J Rogers of Chant were among those from distant point who were trading in Mena Thursday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Tom Allen have re- turned from a weeks visit and sight seeing tour, which took them to Shreveport, Dallas and other south ern cities.
 o. L. Henderson, county agent, has received word that buyer will be here soon to look at the Angus herd of W. E. Watkins, with view to pur- chasing registered bull
 J. A. Mackey of Rich Mountain, while in Mena Monday reported Sat urday nights wind as especially strong in his vicinity, but not causing any damage of consequence.
 G. c. Golf, o. B. Witherspoon, W. M. Hansard and Fred Gray composed a party of Cove business men, who were in Mena Tuesday afternoon, making the trip in MT. Goff's car.
 Among the westend farmers who found it too wet to farm Monday, and who came to Mena to trade with local merchants, were E. L. Terrell, I. Saurbaugh, W. s Maddox and Ira B. Jones.
 Word has come to Mena of the ar rival of baby boy at the home of Mr. and Mrs Emmett Harman, at Shreveport. Mrs. Harman is daughter of Mrs. F. E. DeLongy, at "The Oaks"
 s. l. Wood is the first of the South side business men to start painting before the White Way gets to shin ing. He is having the front of his warehouse on Mena street given a coating of battleship gray.
 Mena's mining colony was enlarged Saturday by the return of two men who have been away on business. H. c. Holderman returned from a lengthy i trip which included Kansas City, Omaha and St. Louis, while J. F. Lit tie returned from a journey to Tex arkana and points south.
 B. A. Farmer of Blackfork, Scott county, was in Mena to buy feed. He arranged to ship the feed to Page and then have it hauled home This plan he says saved days trip with team ard wagon. s. E. Wiseman and Will Cglesby, two of Mir. Farmers neigh bors, made the entire trip overland. W. w. Townsend has increased the size of his new suburban home on South Reine street, thru the purchase of four 5-acre tracts adjoining. He gets lots l, 2, and of Braley's Second Addition, lying to the east of his present property, and giving him altogether 40 acres of fine level land The deal was made thru the Kelly Stratton Company.
 Earl K. Martin, who saw six months service overseas, is in Mena visiting his uncle, Ben Goolsby of the Wat kins Hardware Company. The young scldier was with the 33rd Heavy Ar tillery, and returned to the United States on February 16. One of the interesting souvenirs he brought back was a gas mask, which is now on ex- hibition at Badt's confectionery.
 While at Greenville, Tex, visiting friends, Tom Allen of the Mena Flour Mills, found big booster campaign for good roads. Moving pictures were shown to let farmers and others see just what difference there was between a real road and a poor one. The Mena man found that the resi- dents of that section were going to spend yearly an average of 59 cents