The Mena weekly star., 1919-02-13

downtown Thursday for the first time since his recent illness. s. J. Ernst and family left Thurs day for Vandervoort for a visit with the Cecil and Bailey families.
 Major J. H. Burke has gone to Temple, Tex, to visit with his daugh- ter.
 Walter Elliott, L. Nj. Clement and daughter, Thelma, were Cove resi- dents who were in Mena Thursday. C. W. Gortemiller of Waters and c. L. Lunsford of Cherry Hill, were east end visitors in Mena Thursday.
 Olin Turner, superintendent of the county farm, was in Mena on business Monday
 Mrs. Levi Pigg left Sunday after noon for Hatfield for visit with rel atives.
 Phil Stevenson spent Sunday with his family in Mena, returning to Mineral on the afternoon train.
 Mrs. E. E. Holt and son, Tom, left Saturday afternoon for Fort Smith, where they will remain for an indefi- nite time.
 Perry Harris of Eagleton, was in Mena Monday and secured supplies for his office of justice of the peace of Rich Mountain. w. R. Cole began the work Monday of moving his stock of merchandise into his new building, recently pur- chased from Gunnels brothers.
 c. w. Wyatt of Ink was among the many farmers who braved the bad roads and came to Mena to trade on Monday.
 Warren Taylor of Smithville, for mer resident of Polk county, was in Mena Thursday looking after business and meeting old time acquaintances.
 Sheriff Thornton returned Wednes- day afternoon from Little Rock, where he had been to attend a court martial at Camp Pike. Sergt Pat Hall, who has been in Uncle Sam's service at Camp Pike, has returned to Mena, having been mustered out.
 Judge J. l. Alley returned Wednes- day from a trip to Henrietta and Muskogee, where he was called on legal business.
 Mrs. Martha Imoe, Mrs. Francis Nix, and daughter, and Mir. and Mrs. J. D. Imoe, all of Old Potter, were in Mena Monday to do trading.
 A carload of beds that G. W. Petty ordered last April, for immediate de- livery, was unloaded Monday, giving an inkling of some conditions that confront the retailer.
 Mrs. James Pegram received the sad news Sunday of the death of her brother -in-law, ]. V. Porter, a prom inent retail dry goods merchant at Roodhouse, III.
 Mrs. H. W. Cardwell who suffered an attack of influenza in Oklahoma City, recuperating in Mena at the home of her parents, Mir. and Mrs. s. D. Shrewsbury.
 Mrs. Geo. L. Rector has returned from Pine Bluff, where she has been for the past two months with her daughter, Mrs. Will Lewis. and son, George Rector, Jr.
 W. R. Standridge, Drew Standridge and Cooper Standridge, three we'll known members of a well known fam fly of the Opal neighborhood, were in Mena on business Thursday.
 s. T. Graham and family, who came here recently from Wichita, Kas., have rented the R. D. Whitaker prop erty on Bethesda Springs road and will make Mena home for a while
 NJ. W. Izard, former Mena resident is now lessee of the Delmar Hotel of 48 rooms at Hot Springs In letter to a Mena friend, MT. Izard stated they had served the first meals at the DeImar February 1.
 J. I. Coffman and family of Texar- kara have decided to take advantage of the many good things Mena has to offer and will be located for the present in the Alix property at ll2S Janssen avenue.
 Miss Bennie Griffin of Little Rock, representative of the adjutant gener- ais office, was in Mena Wednesday and Thursday checking the records at the office of the Polk county exemp- tion board, which she found to be in good shape.
 Mrs. J. C. Musgrove, former res ident of Polk county, but now living at Pickering. La, was in Mena on Thursday looking after property in- terests. Mrs. Musgroye says she likes the fine climate and water of Mena and hopes some day to come back and live here.
 Elan Johnston and wife stopped of in Mena Wednesday while enroute