The Mena weekly star., 1919-05-01

dla IrWln Grammer, aged l9, both of Bog Springs.
 Mrs. E. H. Copes, Miss Myrtle Copes and Miss Vera Montgomery were at Hatfield last Friday to at- tend the closing exercises of the Hat field schools.
 The Rev. w. B. McMillan was in Mena Monday on his return to his home near Board Camp from Wander voort, where on Sunday he had filled his regular appointment.
 Harry Schell came from Poteau, Ok, Saturday to spend the weekend with his mother, Mrs. M. F. Lutes. Harry is working with his brother in-law, Milton Craig, on farm in the Poteau bottom.
 D. E. Dahlgren Monday unloaded a Moline Universal tractor, for which he has accepted the agency. He is making plans to give a demonstration upon arrival of the factory repre- sentative.
 R. R. York left Saturday for his home in Dennison, Tex, after having spent the week in Mena, visiting rela- tives and attending court. He was one of the parties in a suit which was continued to the next term of court.
 J. T. Baker was on the market last Monday with some fine home grown strawberries, selling at 35 cents per box. He reports that he will not have over half crop on ac- count of the dry weather last summer.
 w French reports that sixteen of the tie inspectors who were in Mena last Saturday to attend the school of instruction, bought Victory Bonds to be placed to the credit of Polk coun- tvs quota.
 L. s. Cutler of Hatfield was in Mena Tuesday to complete arrange ments for the purchase of the A. P Brown farm of 80 acres, lying 8 miles west of Hatfield. The deal was made thru the Kelly -Stratton Company.
 Prosecuting Attorney A D. Dula- ney and Assistant George Steel came in from Ashdown Monday to be ready for the call of the criminal docket in Circuit court Tuesday morning. AL len Watkins, court reporter, came in at the same time.
 Mir. and Mrs. o. L. Lawrence went to Huddleston Monday to attend the funeral of Jeffrey Lawrence, 2-year- old son of Mir. and Mrs. Bunnie Law renee. The funeral took place at 4 o'clock this afternoon, with the Rev J. B. Lilies in charge.
 Ira Eddleman, while attempting to crank his auto Monday in front of Dr. J. c. Hilton's office, cut an ugly wound in the back of his right hand by coming in contact with the license tag It required seven stitches to close the woBnd.
 E. R. Jackson on Monday closed the deal for the purchase of the two-story brick building occupied on the first floor by the Deluxe Cafe. The pur- chase was made thru the A Hen & Me Milan agency from the Cox Invest ment Company.
 R. L. and S. P. Park have returned from a camping and fishing trip which they spent on Mountain Fork. Among their catches they report a catfish weighing 20 pounds and 4 ounces. Of course, they caught some fish that were not so large.
 Mir. and Mrs. w. I. Green and three children left on last Tuesday for Mo- gales, N. Mex. Mir. Green stated to a representative of The Star that he 1 had not yet decided what he will do when he reaches Nogales. except that he will spend some time looking around and recuperating, and then, he said, he might return to Mena.
 J. J. Coker, of the firm of Bennett Coker-Byrne, civil engineers of Po- teau, Ok, is in Mena to watch the proceedings in the contest against the establishment of the improvement dis trict for the construction of the Jeffer- son Highway. The firm has been em- ployed as engineers to be in charge of the work, and Mir. Coker will have personal supervision.
 A. A. Wyatt of Texarkana, visiting his mother near Ink, brought his au- to in Monday for repairs at the Proc tor-Smith shop. He made the trip from Texarkana in his Ford touring car, coming thru without mishap un- til he was within a mile of his moth- CTS home, when he ran into stump and put the machine out of commits sion. The car was brought to Mena by horsepower.
 J. E. Leeper came In from Dallas, Tex, Sunday, leavinf on Monday for DeQueen, where he will meet with the directors of the United Southern Oil and Refining Company, which is the successor of the Leeper Syndi- cate in the oil holdings in Starr and Jim Hogg counties in Texas. Mir. Leeper made an encouraging report of prospects to the Mena parties in- terested in the venture. The company now has 2,200 acres in the heart of a producing field.
 Lightning's Queer Franks.
 That lightning will do many queer