The Mena weekly star., 1919-05-01


 W. W. Townsend left Sunday on a business trip to Fort Smith. Mir. and Mrs. J. D. Budd and little
 son returned Monday from Hatton. Col. c. H. Jett came from Wickes } Monday afternoon to report at court ,. on the following day as jury commis- l sioner.
 MT. and Mrs. Dennis Townsend and
 son went to Page, Ok, Saturday to
 spend Sunday with Mir. and Mrs. l.. , c. Shannon.
 : NJ. L. Crawford and Bonnie Wear
 of Ink and Ben Bogle of Holly Springs were among the young farmers in Mena Saturday.
 3 Ted McPhetrige left last week for Winona, Ok, where he has accepted 9 job as yardman for a lumber com 9 pany.
 !. Webster Reece, Hailey Kyser and
 o. P Taylor of Braggs, Ok, were in r Mena Saturday to look up timber
 propositions.
 M A. Stratton is again at his desk at the Kelly-Stratton office, after hav- ing been off duty for over week on account of sickness. J. w. Thomas of Fort Worth, Tex, is in Mena to look after his Polk county land interests. He is owner !. of the Scandinavian ranch. Mrs. Bert Todd and daughter, Miss Hattie, are here from Jonesboro, visit ing at the home of Mir. and Mrs. J.
 B. Anderson, parents of Mrs. Todd, 7 Robert Dorrough, recently dis . charged from military service, has enrolled as a student in the Mena : Business College. His home is near : Egger.
 W. P Bell, aged 23, of Eagleton, and :, Miss Ella Marlborough, aged 19, of
 Mena, were granted marriage li- 1 cense Tuesday by Will Alexander, county clerk.
 Mrs. Helen T. Cornelius and baby of Amarillo, Tex, arrived in Mena on : Monday for visit of week with Miss Florence Richards, cousin of
 Mrs. Cornelius.
 J. E. Woodson on Monday bought ' the Red" Cannon home and 15 acres
 of land located northeast of Mena. v The sale was made thru the Allen & ' McMillan agency.
 J. Willis Hopson, president of the , Farmers & Merchants Bank, was again at his desk Monday after hav-
 ing been confined to his home for a
 week with sickness. 2 Miss Mary Mershon, bookkeeper for
 the Louisiana State Life Insurance
 Company at Shreveport, spent Sunday 0 with homefolks and Mena friends, re- n turning to her work on Monday.
 T. A. Allen and little daughter, e Miss lola, went to Fort Smith Mon r day, the father to look after business r and the daughter to visit at the home
 of Mir. and Mrs. Claude Bennett. r Judge James S. Steel spent satur- e day and Sunday with Mir. and Mrs. J. e W. Everett at Nunley, returning to
 Mena for an address at the First M
 E. church, South, Sunday night. e Ali Buerge, now engaged in house e contracting work at Jasper, Mo-, r. writes The Star with a renewal and
 extends greetings to his old friends in
 Polk and Montgomery counties. n Miss Freddie Dunman and Masters e Sidney Graham and Fomby Dickson e returned Saturday from Hatfield
 where they had taken part in the pro-
 gram for the closing exercises of the U schools.
 ], Peter McWilliam of Golden Acres f farm was in Mena Wednesday to as-
 sist Col C. M Latimer in conducting
 a sale of personal property on Pine street. The property belonged to the Thompson estate.
 :, Clyde Whisenant reached Mena on
 Wednesday from Camp Shelby, where
 he was mustered out of service. He had been at Newport News in the medical personnel department and + was in service year and two days. l. Miss Opal Copes came home Sun
 day from Hatfield, where on last Fri q day she had closed her school work l This makes the third year she has : taught in the Hatfield schools, and ? she was reelected for the coming ! year, but preferred not to accept.
 Mrs. K. J. Houston and daughter,
 Miss Almeda, returned to their home : in Joy, Tex, Wednesday, having come to Mena little over week ago on . account of the sickness and subse- quent death of Mrs Charlotte Will e lard, sister of Mrs. Houston. s J. c. Terrell, in from Rocky Tues
 day, reported queer prank of light
 ming at his home Monday night The } lightning struck tree near his barn, i, the current jumping from the tree to the barn, where the seat of buggy t was demolished. No particular dam l age was done to the barn. Lloyd Leeper, son of Mir. and Mrs.