The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-08-14

ton gin the coming season.
A nine pound son was born Wednes.
day to Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Davis.
Mrs. F. r. Fried and the younger
children left last Saturday to spend
two months on the ranch near Wilson
Kas..
Mrs. V. A. Roberts and baby left
Wednesday to spend week with Mr.
and Mrs. ]. F. Standridge, parents Of
Mrs. Roberts, at Opal.
County Clerk Will Alexander on Au-
gust 6 granted marriage license tc
Sidney Wisener, aged 81, and Mrs. Eff
fie Pattee, aged 35, both of Mena.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Copelin, Mr.. and
VI. M. Shields and Mrs. c. C. Claxton
sister of Mr. Shields, left Tuesday for
Hot Springs, where they will spend
week or ten days.
]. L. Cherry of Little Rock, assist
ant to Harry F. Kapp, district demon
stration agent, was in Mena Monday
in consultation with County Agents
0. L. Henderson and Miss Anna
Woods.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F Hunt were in
Mena Thursday while on an overland
trip to Cove, where they will spend a
few days with Mr.. and Mrs. E. l.. Hen
son, former neighbors in the Hatton
community.
c. J. Branstetter left last Thursday
for Fort Smith where he will attend
the Observation-Disclosures Deaf-Mute
convention which will be in session
Friday and Saturday. He will return
to Mena Sunday.
A telegram received Thursday
morning by County Treasurer w. P.
Mount; announced the arrival of Nan
Elizabeth Mount at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Mount at Fort Smith on
Wednesday afternoon at o'clock.
George B. Smith has his hat in the
ring as the champion potato raiser Of
Polk county. He reports two hills of
the Irish Cobbler variety that netted
Tx pounds of tubers. Four potatoes
out of the bunch weighed IA pounds.
George Pike of the Watkins Hard
ware Company, was at Hatfield fair.
He added to the interest of the fair
by making an exhibit of harness and
harness goods, the product of the har-
ness department of the Watkins Hard
ware Company.
Two marriage licenses were issued
Saturday by County Clerk Will Alex
ander. One was to j. L. Lackey, aged
90, and Miss Viola Estes, aged Is,
both of Cove, and the other to Alvin
Cartwright, aged SO and Ellen Chism,
aged Is, both of Vandervoort.
Misses Ethel Goolsby, Irma Thack-
er, Edith Wood, Frances Petty and
Sadie Whipple composed a party of
young folks at Hatfield Saturday to
take in the fair. They left on the
morning train and returned on the
0AeNAnVOi
Mrs. J. M. Hawthorne and son. Curt.
and Mrs. James Robbins and two chill
dren, the latter here from Dierks,
went to, Womble Friday to spend the
weekend with relatives. They expect
to return to Mena Monday. Cecil
Grumpy accompanied them on the
trip.
w. A. Ragland, Mrs. E. R. Wilson
and Miss Berta Tillery, the latter here
from Humansville, Mo-, started on a
pleasure trip to Big Fork last Satur-
day. They planned to return in time
to take in the Hatfield fair that after
noon. The trip was made in the J. F.
Dickson car.
Minor Pipkin left Friday for Burk-
burnett, Tex, where he will join j.
w. Bradley in handling townsite
proposition. He went prepared to
rough it if necessary, taking along a
tent and cot and other supplies so that
he would be able to supply his own
shelter and bed.
Lem Wimberly, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Willis Wimberly of Egger, reached
Mena Friday from Camp Pike, where
he was discharged on August 7. Sol
dier Wimberly was member of Com
pany C, 47th Regiment of the 4th Di-
vision. He went overseas on October
A, so did not get into actual fighting,
but says they were continually put
thru strenuous course of drilling.
r. L. Reece, who, with Mrs. Reece
had spent the last three weeks in
Mena at the home of Mrs. v. G. Park
er, mother of Mrs. Reece, left last
week on prospecting trip to Hugo
and Antlers, Ok. Before coming to
Mena he sold his business in Hauck-
ersville, Ok, and he is now looking
for new location. Mrs. Reece will
remain in Mena until he gets located.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Goodale and Mr..
and Mrs. F. C. 'Goodale and baby ar
rived in Mena last week on an over
land trip in a Ford touring car from
Isabel, S. OAK, having been on the
trip ten days and having encountered
all sorts of roads. They expect to To-
cate in the vicinity of Mena to go into
the poultry business, and for the pres
ent they are stopping at 1900 Spring
street.