The Mena weekly star., 1920-04-22
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PEKSONAL NOES
 R. E. Roberts and Boss Dillbeck were Big Fork farmers in Mena Thursday.
 Marquis L. Miller was in from Board Camp Saturday for the Dur ham & Little store.
 John D. Baker of DeQueen, secre- tary of the Stuart Land Company, was in Mena on bushes Monday. ! Mrs. Duff Hilton left Friday morn ing for Washington, D. C., to resume her duties as stenographer in the gov ernment service.
 i Mena stockholders in the Patrick Oil & Gas Co.,, have received word their first we'll will be spudded in at Elgin, Ok, Tuesday.
 s. A. Shelton and John Hollands worth, former Polk county residents, now living near Heavener, spent Sat urday in Mena on business. [ M. c. Petefish of Virginia, H., while on his way to Hot Springs, stopt off in Mena for few days visit with his brother, B. S. Petefish, at Acorn. ! H. R. Groves, living near Egger, was in Mena Wednesday on his return trip home from visit with children at Shady Point, Allen and Stuart, Ok
 W. D. Eskew of Philadelphia is visiting old friends and looking after property matters. Mir. Eskew reports Philadelphia as having house shortage as acute as in Mena.
 Mrs. John H. Thackston, after spending five weeks with her parents, Mir. and Mrs F. J. Smith, on Grand view Heights, left Saturday for her home in Washington, D. c.
 Dr. P R. Watkins reports the birth of daughter on Saturday to Mir. and Mrs. Sethel Eckhart, living on North Mena street, and son on Sunday to MT. and Mrs. Thomas l.. Ward of Rich Mountain.
 Bert Hiltebrand was called to Hat field Friday and Sunday to take photos of different parts of the town. The pictures will be used both for and against the towns petition for a new railroad station.
 i Charles Hunter, who has been at Yukon, Ok, where he was employed in the great flour mills, has returned to Mena and this week resumed his old work with the Commonwealth eompany's ice department.
 Mena friends have received word of the birth of a compound son to Mir. and Mrs. John Stewart at Garland, Ark, on April 15. Mrs. Stewart will , be remembered as Miss Kate Baker, and is niece of Mrs. Bert Stuart. l J. D. Molter of the Mountain View Farm, who had been confined to his home for about three weeks by an att !, tack of sciatic rheumatism, was in town Monday and was able to move about with the aid of a pair of crutches.
 Deputy Sheriff B. A. Duncan of Bethesda Springs, busy last week summoning the petiti and grand jur- c-s for the April term of court, will be on duty in Mena this week assist ing Sheriff Thornton in attending on the court.
 Mark P. Olney, D. M. Watkins, D. D. Clement, w. E. Holt, W. A. Rag land, J. D. Autrey, Judge H. w. Fin ger, John Joplin and W. A. Christo- pher were. Mena men who attended the funeral of Col. C. H. Jett at | Wickes Sunday afternoon. l Transfer business has increased to the extent that the Daniels company was forced to add another truck to ac- commodate patrons. The firm secured Ford 1-ton truck for light work, and expects to have it in service just as soon as the body reaches Mena. 1 K. R. Morgan, living a mile east of Mena, is going to be the champion cu- cumber raiser in this section of the country. He reports that he already has in two acres and is going to plant still more. MT. Morgan was in Mena ! Monday to arrange for crates so that he will be ready when the "cukes" are 1 ready for market.
 ! A ten-pound boy that was born to Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hawthorne Thurs day morning is the fourth grandson for ]. M. Hawthorne, at whose home the