The Mena weekly star., 1920-02-12

home and Mena.
 s. L. Looney of Board Camp spent Thursday among friends.
 M P. Howard of Egger was in Mena with cotton Thursday.
 W. W. Mcbride of Big Cedar brought cotton to the Mena market Thursday.
 Mir. and Mrs. w. N. Hilton of Octa- via were in Mena Thursday to visit dentist and to buy goods for their store.
 s. s. Mallicoat of Vandervoort slipt away from farm duties and came to Mena Thursday to look after business matters.
 Mrs. c. P Dunman returned on Wednesday from Mt. Pleasant, Tex, where she has been visiting her sis ters, Mrs. l.. l.. Carpenter and Mrs. R. K. Hair, for the past three months
 Mir. and Mrs. Jesse Philpot have bought home on DeQueen street and will move there to open up a rooming house on February 20. The Dickson hotel, where they have been for sev- eral years, will be conducted by Mir. and Mrs. Dickson after the goth. ! O. l.. Henderson returned Wednes- day from Galveston, where he went to dispose of A bales of cotton shipt there by farmers living near Board Camp. The cotton was sold at prices ranging from 32h cents to 411s cents.
 F. s. Stanley of Board Camp was a visitor at the Star office Thursday and renewed his subscription for another year. Mir. Stanley has been a reader of The Star for 15 years, but missed last year and resolved never to be that way again.
 Mr and Mrs. w. P. Carpenter, who recently came to Mena from Los An geles, Calf, find this section of the Ozarks so agreeable they have decided to make Mena their home. On Satur- day they purchased thru the Kelly Stratton company the F. R. Fried place on Miller avenue.
 Poteau business interests exprest their appreciation of the opening of the Poteau Wholesale Grocery house, in which R. Golf of Mena is the head, by publishing a page of good will ad- vertising in the Poteau papers. The new business was given the warmest sort of welcome to the city.
 Sheriff J. A. Thornton, as executor of the estate of the late John Lanahan, sold at public auction Saturday after noon at the courthouse, the residence property purchased by Mir. Lanahan shortly before his death. After some lively bidding the property was bought by Mrs. Albert Robertson on a bid of $500.
 Mrs. A. w. Kuester of San Antonio, Tex, and Miss Kuester of Lincoln, Neb., are guests at the Ozark, await ing the arrival of MT. Kuester from San Antonio with a carload of stock and farm equipment. They have bought the Pettitt ranch southeast of Mena and hope to get located there in a short time.
 Mrs. M C. Irion and daughter of Shreveport are guests at The Antlers until they can find some housekeep- ing rooms in Mena. Mrs. Irion comes to Mena hoping the change will bene- fit her health. Her son served in the army with Captain Lige Horner and it was thru these young men she learned of Mena.
 Allen & McMillan closed the week with two sales of Polk county realty on Saturday, making half dozen in all. J. F. Harmon, who recently sold a farm west of Mena, bought thru the firm two tracts of land near Acorn. Mir. Harmon secured ITS acres from County Supt. I. c. Harris, and 160 acres from c. A. Converse.
 James Tweedy, one of the best known young men and one of the pop ular salesmen on the force of the Golf Wholesale Grocey, has received de- served promotion and will henceforth be assistant manager to MT. Golf. His place on the road will be taken by J. R. Bonn of Delight, Ark, an experi- enced traveller. Mir. Bonn has pur- chased property on 14th street for himself and family, and plans to make Mena his home in reality
 w. T. Stuart of Vandervoort was in Mena on February 4, and renewed his allegiance to The Star. Mir. Stuart has been in bad health for some time and states that his daughter, Mrs. Jesse Brooch, and her husband, who have for seven years been at Fordyce, have now returned to Polk county, and will assist him in farming his lands and caring for the home. R. Roberts of Hatton accompanied MT. Stuart to Mena.
 E. O. Crandell is planning to open the Southside Variety store Thursday.