The Mena weekly star., 1919-08-28

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ham.
Grady Hand, supervisor Of tick
made trip to Eagleton
Thursday, returning to Mena Friday
afternoon.
Mrs. j. d. Mickle, mother of Mrs
L. M. Clark, is here from Indianola,
Ok, for AT extended visit at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Clark.
Mrs. Ellis Goss and children spent
last week at Shady visiting at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Lawrence,
parents of Mrs. Goss.
Mrs. James Nations returned to
vandervoort Thursday after several
days spent at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. l. f. Lindsay while having dental
work done.
McPhetrige & Martin are moving
their law Office from rooms over the
Farmers e. Merchants Bank to the
building in the rear of the Hamilton
real estate Office.
Ora Cox, Steve Edwards, Boss Dill
beck, Frank Haas and Mathew Ed
wards composed a delegation of Big
Fork folks held in Mena Friday by
the continuous rain.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. White and Mr..
and Mrs. j. j. Henson went to Wander
WORT Friday afternoon to attend the
Associational meeting of the Primitive
Baptist Church for the remainder of
the week.
John Cotton of Opal returned to
Mena Wednesday from prospecting
trip to Talihina and other Oklahoma
points, but he found nothing that
suited him better than his Polk coun-
ty farm.
Mrs. S. |. Mcmahon and grandson,
Quigley Hancock, arrived last week
from Alton, Kas. They will be at
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Neil Riding
Mrs. Mcmahon is grandmother Of
Mrs. Riding.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Getman and
Of Cushing, Ok, while on an
overland trip to Winthrop to visit
Mr.. and Mrs. S. +. Fite, spent the day
in Mena with Mr.. and Mrs.
b. X. Campbell
J. c. Mckee, writing from Ranger,
Tex, where he has been at work for
several weeks, states that he is work
ing quite steady at twice the wages
paid in Mena, but with expenses more
than twice those in this city.
Mr. and Mrs. Judd Kiser arrived
Friday afternoon from Birmingham,
Ala, for visit at the homes of ID. NJ
and w. f. Watkins. Mr.. Kiser is
brother of Mrs. Amanda Watkins,
mother of the Watkins brothers.
DIR. w. L. Holly, pastor of the First
Mena. They returned to jennings the
La, after spending week at the
Commercial Hotel, left Thursday for
Wickes. where he and his son had
camped two weeks before coming to
Mena. They will return to Jennings
latter part of the week.
C. b. and Jack Connally of Rocky
passed thru Mena Friday on their re-
turn from visit to- DIR. d. w. Con-
nally at Nolia, Ok. They also made
stops at other Oklahoma points, TAX
ing the opportunity 20 view the coun-
try. but they came back better salts
fled than ever with Polk county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will S. MacLafferty
and children returned to Mena Thurs
day from a visit at Minneapolis and
Marshall, Mimi, and other northern
points. Mrs. MacLafferty and the
children had been away since about
the middle of June, and they were
joined ten days ago by Mr.. MacLaf-
ferty.
Chancellor J. d. Shaver and Mrs.
Shaver, who had spent the summer in
Mena, left Friday afternoon for their
home in Texarkana. They had not ex-
pected to leave until the first of next
week. but changed their plans when
they found that their son, ]. ID. Shaw
err, jr., was at their home, having
stopped there instead of coming to
Mena.
The Rev Win Brantley, formerly
pastor of the Mena Nazarene church,
passed thru the city Friday enroute
to Mansfield, making the trip in his
Ford car. He was accompanied by
Mrs. Brantley and by the Rev w. C.
Thornton. They had been holding a
meeting at Blevins, Ark, and were
going to Mansfield for the same pur-
pose.
B. F. Boyd of DeRidder, La, while
in Mena Saturday, rented the ]. j.
Mershon residence at ITO East JAMS
sen, and viii have his family come to
Mena early in September to be here
during the ensuing school year. Mr..
Boyd is in the employ of the Kansas
City Southern railway at DeRidder,
but he hopes some day to be trans
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