The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1920-06-17

Master Walter Wehner, nephew of
Henry Wehner, living west of Mena,
arrived in Mena Sunday from Tulsa,
Okla, to spend the summer vacation
on the farm with his uncle.
w. w. Fincher and r. o. Owen have
arranged to open a real estate office
at Hatfield. They have bought lot
facing the depot and will erect
building and open their Office at once
Miss Mittie Sanders of Los Angeles,
Calf, arrived in Mena Sunday to
spend the summer with Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Copelin. The visitor is a
niece of Mrs. CopeIin.
j. d. Kaylor left Monday afternoon
for Quincy, ILL.,, where he will work in
the interests of the Farmers Oil a
Refinery company. He also expects to
visit Decatur and other Illinois points
before returning.
|. c. Chapman, merchant Of Oden,
and T. F. Halle, forest ranger at the
0den station, were Mena visitors on
Tuesday. They came via truck and
carried back load of goods bought
from local merchants.
Claude Bennett and son, Charles,
are visiting in Mena with Mr. and
Mrs. AMI Winton and Mr.. and Mrs.
t. A. Allen. Mr.. Bennett will return
home Tuesday, but his son will re-
main for a longer visit.
Elijah Russell of Chickasha, Ok,
and Douglass Russell of Shawnee, Ok.
were called home on account Of the
sickness of their brother, Ed, who
lived with his mother on the home
farm in the Dallas valley.
John Martin and Bascom Finger are
busily engaged at present in making
q correct record Of descriptions of
land in the jefferson Highway dis
trict. The record is one demanded by
the buyers of the district bonds.
Mr.. and Mrs. Olin Wood, who left
Tuesday on their honeym Don, will visit
Hot Springs and Little Rock, and will
also go to Conway to spend a few
days with Miss Edythe Wood before
returning to Mena, some time next
week.
Mrs. William S. Clagett of Kansas
City, who came to Mena to look after
! property interests in Montgomery
county near Aft. returned to the city
TUESDAY, and left on No. 4 for Mon
treat, N. c.. where she will spend the
summer
O. E. Dougherty, former Mena man.
who recently moved to Fort Smith.
was visitor in the old home Tuesday
Mr.. Dougherty says that when tn
Jefferson Highway is completed so he
can get in and out with his car. he is
going to move back to Mena
G. w. Craig Of Ripley. Okla. re-
turned home last week after having
closed the deal for the purchase of the
l.. Grice farm in Center township thru
the Allen & Mcmillan agency. Mr.
Craig will return to Polk county next
fall at which time he viii get possess
sion of the farm.
Ed Russell, young farmer living
! near Nunley, was in county court
Monday and after an examination was
| found to be in need of treatment at
the state hospital. He was taken to
the institution by ]. A. Earl. who was
commissioned a special deputy by
| Sheriff Thornton for this purpose.
F. L. Hairgrove, home for a fe-v
days last week on a vacation from his
work in the railway shops at Heaven
err, was called to Parsons, Kas.. last
Saturday by word announcing the
| serious illness of his son. Pete. who
had gone to Kansas to work in the
harvest. He was at the home of his
grandparents when taken sick.
Sidney A. Chappell of Hot Springs
formerly forest ranger stationed in
Mena. later Supervisor of the Arkan-
sas National Forest. was a visitor in
the city Monday and Tuesday He
left Wednesday morning for Wal
dron and viii return to Mena in few
DAYS. Mr.. Chappell is now connected
with the state highway department
and it was on business connected with
the sale of two sections of public
land that he came to Mena.
Mrs. Guy Hawthorne and three chill
dren. with Mena relatives since fall,
left Tuesday morning for FL Paso,
Tex. where they will join Mr.. Haw-
thorne who makes that headquarters
in his work for the Loose Wiles Com
panv. They were accompanied as far
as Texarkana by J. M. Hawthorne,
who will then make prospecting trim
through Texas and Oklahoma, but
the prediction is freely made that he
will find no place that win suit him
better than Mena
| Mr. and Mrs. AUGUST Hoag and five
children. Nick Yahl and Mr.. and Mrs.
George Minten. parents of Mrs. Hoae.
arrived last Saturday from Wilhel-
nina. Mo-. to make their home IN
Mena. For the present thew are 10
Gated in one of the Worthington cot
tages on Seventh street. Messrs. Min
ten and Hoag have for years been in
the general mercantile business in
Wilhelmina. and after getting settled
in Mena they may go into business
here These folks are former neigh
bors and friends Of j. d. Molter and
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