The Mena weekly star., 1919-07-17

Miss Ouida Riding left Tuesday afternoon for Ashdown to spend a fortnight with friends. J. N. Montgomery is assisting at Thackers grocery while the head of the firm is on a fishing trip.
 John Combs and daughter, Miss Myrtle, were in from the Foran Gap country Tuesday to do trading.
 G l. Wilhite of Oden was in Mena Wednesday with new wheat to sell, disposing of his load to the Mena Flour Mill
 N. R. Oneal arrived home Tuesday afternoon from his travels as sales man and will enjoy vacation until the fall trips begin.
 Work has started on the Cherry Hill road, the county's road making machinery beginning at Egger and working toward Mena.
 The first green cowpeas, the basis of succulent vegetable dish much favored by some Mena epicures, have appeared in the local market.
 Emmett Rowe and J. s. Pollard of Rocky were in Mena on business on Wednesday. They are installing new machinery at their gin at Rocky.
 Mrs. s. M. Sevier of Deming, N. M, and family arrived in Mena Tuesday to join MT. Sevier, who recently pur- chased the Kaylor farm in Dallas val ley.
 Latest contributions for the fund for erecting the w. c. T. U. Memorial fountain in Mena are frora Mrs. C. P. Michael and Raymond Michael Each sent $5
 Emil Yahl of Wilhelmina, Mo, is here to get acquainted with Polk county with view to locating. He is visiting at the home of J. D. Molter, near Mena
 Mrs. Dr. Watson and her son, Dr. Fred Watson, of Amity, were in Mena for short stay with Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Hilton, while on their way to Hen ryetta, Ok.
 Mir. and Mrs. c. c. Hounsell, here from Vandervoort visiting at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Clyde Troutt, are expecting to buy home in Mena.
 
 Mir. and Mrs. R. H. Johnson, who had been spending vacation at the home of Capt. w. s. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson, left Tuesday for their home in Mounds, Ok.
 Ed Russell, in from Nunley We'd nesday, said that the last letter from his brother, Joe Russell, who is in the navy, stated that the latter was enroute for Turkey. MT. and Mrs. Luther E. Lewis of Rochester, Minn., arrived in Mena Tuesday for visit with MT. and Mrs. s. I. Wood and family, MT. Lewis be- ing brother-in-law of the Mena man.
 Mrs. R. l.. Reece and nephew of Hockersville, Ok, are in Mena to visit the formers mother, Mrs. V. C.. Parker, who is also grandmother to the visiting lad, son of Price Parker, now with the A. E. F. in France.
 Dean o. Smith, with the U. s. Coast and Geodetic Survey, working from Waco, Tex, has given up the work to enter the employ of Burnett-Coker- Byrne, engineers in charge of the highway construction in Polk county.
 Marion Fisher and the Rev. J. ". Kelly of Yocana, were in Mena Tues day evening and reported that a good rain had fallen in that vicinity. MT. Fisher brought in bale of cotton which was sold to c. W. Petty at 30A cents.
 The recent advance in cotton values has caused renewed activity in the local cotton market. The bonded warehouse now contains only bales. Local buyers estimate there are only 19 bales left unsold in the entire county.
 Bode Garden, living on the Ouachita east of Mena, on Tuesday sold 20 bales of cotton to Matthews & Nor ris, receiving from 221s to 30 cents for the lot. The sale was the largest for the month. Included in the 20 bales were bales Mir. Garden held over from his 1917 crop.
 Miss Golie Pollard, who had been at the Pasteur Institute at Little Rock, arrived in Mena Wednesday morning while enroute to her home at Rocky. Miss Pollard was bitten by eat some weeks ago at her home, but after a course of treatment at the in stitute, was pronounced out of danger from rabies. While in Mena she was the guest of Miss Hortense Latimer.
 Mrs. Hattie Ellison and Ali Ellison, who were members of a party of six