The Mena weekly star., 1920-05-27
PERSONAL NOTES

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 W. S. Capeheart of Vandervoort was in Mena on business Thursday and Friday.
 Lewis H. Johnson and J. E. Will liams came up from Hatfield Friday to look after business in the county seat.
 Mir. and Mrs. R. Dusenbury left on Thursday afternoon for their home at Gillham, following a visit in Mena with F. L. Dusenbury and family.
 W. B. Montgomery left Friday morning for Lewisville, Ark, to visit relatives before ending his vacation and returning to his home at Rochelle, La.
 NJ. Hopkins, a well known travelling man of Texarkana, accompanied his friend, J. E. Joplin to Mena Friday to see if he could find a summer home for his family in the city.
 Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Stocks, MT. and Mrs. D. E. Shermer and D. P. Beau champ were among the Horatio lovers of baseball who came to Mena for the opening game Thursday afternoon.
 Mrs. Irene Burtch of Oklahoma City reached Mena Thursday in re- sponse to a message telling of the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. J. F. Dickson. The patient was slightly improved Friday.
 Word has come from Branch, Ark, 4. F.T. I.x .& the home of his daughter. Mir. Me Intosh is a former Polk county resi- dent, having lived near Potter until about year ago.
 Mena will be represented among the graduates at the University of Arkan- sas this year. Miss Clyrene Harrison, daughter of Mrs. W. W. Harrison of the Antlers, will receive a diploma at the commencement exercises in June.
 Mrs. T. H. Weber and daughter ar rived in Mena Tuesday from Graham, Tex, where the family had been To- cated for the last six months. Mir. Weber and son went to Hot Springs but will later also come to Mena.
 Brooms with twelve-foot handles are an oddity that were seen Tuesday in a Mena hardware store The brooms are used for sweeping ceilings and not for the purpose of giving the possessor an unfair advantage in a domestic scrap, as one wag who saw them on display suggested.
 J. Krause, former Mena resident, father of Mrs. J. Thinnes, surprised Mena relatives by appearing unex- pectedly Thursday morning. Mir. Krause recently underwent an opera tion at Shreveport and this is his first visit to Mena since the ordeal
 Mrs. Frank Bridges, wife of the athletic instructor at the Fort Smith high school, is planning on finding a summer home in Mena and is asking the help of the Commercial club to get suitable place. She hopes to get located before Mir Bridges brings tine Fort Smith team to Mena to play a series of games, starting June 10.
 After trying twice to make a start on business trip to Oklahoma, John Reinart found the third trial was charm. Delayed trains caused post ponement of the trip on two days. Friday afternoon No. was only a few minutes late and Mir. Reinart made the start. He will look after farm interests near Gerry, Okla.
 Mir. and Mrs. W. l.. Abney have re- ceived a message from relatives at Abilene, Tex, that their daughter, Miss Frances, had undergone an oper- ation for appendicitis Friday morning, and had withstood the ordeal in fine shape Miss Abney left Mena only last Saturday and underwent the op- eration sooner than her parents ex- pected.
 T. M. Duncan and J. F. Decker of Hartley were Mena visitors Monday. Mir. Duncan came in to report on the work of repairing the bridge over the Cossatot river, damaged by the recent floods. Four spans of the bridge had to be rebuilt. Mir Duncan stated that old time residents of the valley say the waters were four feet higher than ever before known.
 Dr. c. A. Campbell, who is now farming in the Dallas valley, was in Mena Friday and among other things he hauled back in the Overland was a cream separator Dr. Campbell is one of the men in Polk county that realize the advantage of the dairy COW as a money getter and with some of his neighbors expects to cooperate in the production and shipping of cream.
 Amos Lawrence, son of Mrs John B. Lawrence of Shady, who underwent an operation for appendicitis at Tex arkana. some weeks ago, returned to Mena Monday He was accompanied by his brother, Dan Lawrence, who