The Mena weekly star., 1919-03-27
PERSONAL NOTES

In Mena on business Monday.
 William 1. Murray of Grannis was Tn Mena on business Saturday.
 MT. and Mrs. S. P. Quisenberry of Hatfield were guests at the Antlers Sunday.
 Mrs. Hal Norwood left Saturday for visit at Ashdown with her daughter, Mrs. James R. Wood.
 R. L. Park left Monday for Hora- to where he is experimenting the starting of a strawberry farm.
 Mrs. Maud Kessinger of The Ozark. returned Wednesday afternoon from a business trip to Springfield, Mo.
 Hubert Patton has returned from Little Rock and will leave Friday for Vivian, La, to resume work in the oil fields
 Mrs. F. V. Frederick, mother of AL derman H. M. Frederick, left Thurs day afternoon for DeQueen to visit relatives
 Mrs. Cora Harris of Heavener is sojourning in Mena, believing that her health in Mena, believing that than in Hot Springs.
 Mrs. Chauncey Pyle, who had been in Mena the guest of her brother, Minor Pipkin, left Wednesday for her home in Oklahoma City.
 The Golden Rule farm shipped thir- teen head of purebred 0. l. C.'s on Wednesday. The high-toned pigs went to five different states.
 MT. and Mrs. c. J. Branstetter and two sons spent Sunday in the Owens Chapel neighborhood as the guests of Mir. and Mrs. Jack Owens.
 J. L. Gray of DanviIle, Ark, depu- ty collector of internal revenue, was in Mena Monday after tobacco taxes due from local dealers.
 Mrs. Bud Embry and son, B. O., ir., came down from Heavener Saturday afternoon for visit with Mrs. F. M. Pipkin, sister of Mrs. Embry.
 D. P. Wilhite, now a resident of keota, Ok, but formerly of Mena, is in the city to greet old time friends and attend to business matters. c. J. Colp, after a couple of days in Mena, left last Monday for Fort Smith. He expects to return to Mena the latter part of the week. M. B. Fried of Big Fork was in Mena Monday with hay for sale to local patrons and also to look after real estate business for Oklahoma friends.
 H. B. Lewis of Chicago is spending several days in looking over Mena. He intimates that when he finds the place that suits him he will settle down and make home.
 Dr. A. W. Rice of DeQueen, who once had charge of tick eradication work in Polk county, has been trans ferred to Little River county to take charge of the work in that county. George J. Clark, commercial man ager of the Commonwealth Public Service Company, and E. W. McAles- ter, Ok, were in Mena Monday plan ming for the starting of Mena's White Way.
 J. A. Deason of Vandervoort was in Mena Monday. He is arranging for a public sale Thursday, April 8, at which he will sell his 154-acre farm, considerable livestock and oth- CT property.
 Mena friends of Dr. w. P. Parks, formerly of this city, but now super visor of the government reservation at Hot Springs, have received the good news that he is now believed to be out of danger. Dr. Parks has been seriously i'll the past fortnight.
 Fred Fried, who had been with the quartermaster's department at Camp Beauregard, La, returned to Mena Sunday and is now at the home of his parents, Mir. and Mrs. F. R. Fried. He has been mustered out of service and is ready to return to civilian life once more
 Dean o. Smith, after being home since being discharged from military service at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky, left this afternoon for Waco, Tex, to report for duty in the U. s. Coast and Geodetic Survey, in which he had been employed for two years before enlisting in the army.
 D. F. Capp of Joplin, Mo, has closed the deal for the purchase of the Maxwell property on DeQueen street. He is planning to move the present frame buildings and replace them with brick structure, expect ing to start construction sometime during the summer.
 Forest Ranger s. c. Payne was down from his station at Eagleton Saturday. He has been in this sec- tion but short time, succeeding Ran ger Boyes, and is very much pleased with the climate, the work and the people. He was recently joined by Mrs. Payne and their two children,