The Mena weekly star., 1919-12-18

weeks ago, Mir. Deel bought the Whit ney farm on the Talihina road.
 J. F. Elmore of Nunley was in aiena on business last Friday
 W. x. Edwards of Big Fork was a business visitor in Mena Friday.
 Mrs. M. w. Roger has returned from a visit with friends at Acorn.
 J. R. Arnold, who is in the stock business at Hatfield, was 8 Mena vis- itor Friday.
 Lige Bates of Waters was Mena visitor Saturday, having brought cot to nto market.
 A. Roth. who owns large cattle ranch west of Gillham, was in Mena Friday on business.
 W. J. Philpot of Bigger was in Mena Friday with three bales of cotton, which were sold to c. w. Petty.
 C. II. Jett, ST., of Wiekes, was in Mena Friday on business connected with the Wickes-Baker Springs high way.
 J. D. Budd was at his mining pros poets near Hatton Friday looking af ter work needed before activities are resumed.
 w. V. Slaughter and J. T. Holiday of Oden were among the Montgomery county farmers who had cotton m the Mena market Saturday.
 Will Chambers and two sons came over from Ida, Ok, and spent Satur- day visiting Mena friends and doing their Christmas shopping
 E. L. Murphy of Newlin, Tex, while in Mena last week, bought thru Allen & McMillan the VanHorn farm of 26 acres, southwest of Mena.
 Miss Katherine Winston, who is teaching at Cove, came up to Mena on Friday to spend the week end with Mir. and Mrs. k. A. Montgomery.
 Alb Barker, who recently moved to Mena from Scott county, has pur- chased from Dr. B. Ii. Hawkins 40- acre farm the physician owned west of the city.
 ]. s. Lawrence and w. B. Lawrence of near Waters were trading in Mena Saturday, having brought cotton to sell despite the bad roads and worse weather.
 W. c. Miller of Gageby, Tex, was in Mena Saturday and plans to visit Dan Allen and other friends near Pot ter while looking for farm home in Polk county.
 E. L. Williams of Oklahoma City arrived in Mena Saturday morning to join Mrs. Williams, who is visiting her friend, Miss Agnes McClelland, at Hotel Mena.
 T. H. Duke, jr., possesses a coir rare in Mena, a Peruvian dollar which came in a shipment of silver re- ceived from Fort Smith at the First National Bank.
 The Ford Real Estate Company has sold the Will Mckinney home or Reine street to J. w. Rogers, who re- gently moved to Mena from Soutf McAlester, Ok.
 The big rush of the ginning seasor being over, the Mena gin will operate only two days a week beginning or December 16 Tuesdays and Fridays will be ginning days. B. F. Jackson, living near Opal, was in Mena Thursday, to get a double disc harrow for use on his farm. Ii is believed that is the only implement of this kind in Polk county.
 E. N. Shutter has opened up a tire hospital in the rear of the Bell build ing on DeQueen street and will make speciality of vulcanizing and repair ing castings and inner tubes.
 Josh Abernathy, accompanied by hi: daughter Ethel, and son, Wilburn came in from Big Fork Thursday tC do Christmas shopping. This was Mir Abernathy's first visit to Mena 1T over three years.
 Roadmaster J. w. Ross of the Kan l sis City Southern, who was hurt neal Acorn some weeks ago, was forced tC quit work again and on Thursday Jeff for the hospital at Kansas City to re ceive treatment.
 The farm of H. K. Crofford, which was to have been sold at auction. has been bought at private sale by J. B Erwin, who recently moved to Mens from Oklahoma. The Ford company | handled the transaction.
 c. E. Wood and family of neal Bigger took advantage of the fine day Thursday to come to Mena and tC their Christmas shopping, but found just the opposite kind of condition; for their return home Friday. J. A. Townsend of Hume, Mo, is 1T Mena and vicinity looking over lanc offered for sale. He plans to go into stockraising here, and accompanied by J. H. Allen, went to Hatfield to look over prospects west of that place Sheriff J. A. Thornton was asked , Friday to locate, if possible, Macl Walker, a resident of Opal, who i'
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