The Mena weekly star., 1921-02-24

tfank hOfk, Jr., or haLnelQ was m Mena Friday to look after business matters.
 H, k. Fitz left Monday afternoon on business trip to Kansas City and points north.
 Dr. c. A. Campbell and family have moved to Rocky, where the doctor will resume his practice.
 A portion of the iron awning in front of the Farmers x Merchants bank broke down under its load of snow Monday.
 Rev. W. L. Smith was called to Hat. field Tuesday to officiate at the burial of Grandma" Beavers, an old settler of that communoty.
 Claude Williford left Tuesday morn ing for Hot Springs to join Mrs. Will liford. who is not doing as we'll as expected at the health resort.
 ". k. Taylor of Centerville, Ark. who had been in Grannis to look after business matters, stopped in Mena Tuesday on his return home.
 H. M. Walker, carrier at Potter, came to Mena Tuesday to attend the meeting of rural mail men, but ar rived too late for the session. Mrs. G. l.. Lochridge and daughter, Mrs .E. B. Cox, arrived home Monday afternoon from their sojourn at Hot Springs and other Arkansas points.
 
 John Mcdonald accompanied by his wife and two children and his aged father and mother, left Monday after noon for their new home near Enlow, Tex.
 w. V. Smiley of Little Rock, con- nected with the federal bureau of good roads, was in Mena Thursday to see about work on the Foran Gap road.
 H. L. Looney of Board Camp was in Mena Monday to meet his sister-in- law, Mrs. Eva Bates, who was coming from Oklahoma City for visit with Polk county relatives and friends.
 Mrs. Claude Clark, who had been at Temple, Tex, with her mother, ar- rived home Saturday afternoon, but MT Clark was unable to get to Mena from their home near Ink until Mon day afternoon.
 Charles Harrington, John H. Miller and Michael Pope, three residents of Texarkana, were in Mena Monday to attend the annual stockholders meet ing of the Texarmena mining com pany.
 P. P. Keith of Keithyille, La, was q Mena visitor Thursday. Mir. Keith, who came to Mena to look after lands he owns in this vicinity, is member of the Louisiana legislature, which meets next May. '@o
 Bascom Finger, who is at present visiting his parents in Mena, declares Fridays snowstorm is the first he has seen in over year. The young man has been working at southern points where snow is rarity.
 Mrs. Jessie Hall, who has been as. sisting in the office of Circuit Clerk w. l.. Parker, has taken position as bookkeeper for the commissioners of the Jefferson highway, beginning the new duties Tuesday.
 | Mir. and Mrs. J M. Broyles, parents lof C. w. Broyles, county farm agent have moved from Texai kama to Mena to make their home with their son Until they find a residence they will be quartered at Hotel Mena. Sheriff J. A. Thornton did not make his advertised trip to Nunley Friday l tc write tax receipts. He promptly | decided after watching the first snow fall that he could no more work il the office than in the country.
 Three counties participated in { marriage license issued Monday after. noon by County Clerk w. E. Ander. son John C. Davis of Umpire, How. ard county came to Polk county anC secured official permission to wee Miss Mamie Reed of New Hope, Pike county.
 c. A. White, in from the Ouachits east of Mena on Tuesday, states tha 1 CT March 16 1875, he measured snowfall of 20 inches At his plac, he says the present snow measured r inches, confirming other reports in dicating the fall was greater east O Mena than in the city.
 J. R. Giddens, with his wife an, two daughters, are new residents O Mena and are located on Stilwel Heights. They came from Faulkne, county and Mir. Giddens states as on, of his reasons for leaving that sec tion was the heavy assessments mad against real estate for highwa, building.
 Mrs. F. M. Reeves and son, FranI Reeves, left Sunday afternoon fo :, Homer, La, to be with Mrs. Reeves daughter, Mrs. A. G. Riley. Co Reeves received a message Monda, stating "Olga much better, no caus for worry" Mir. and Mrs. Riley ar former residents of Mena Assistant Postmaster w. w. Me George is wondering about the fat of some extra early strawberries a his suburban home in the west par of the city. Thursday he discovere, there were fair sized berries on tn vines and the big question is nov what effect the snowfall will have ol them
 At the annual stockholders meet ing of the Texarmena mining com pany Monday at the offices on De Queen street, Charles Harrington o Texarkana, W. s. Arlington, F. W RaI1ouf opd R IT Era1ia, of Ma,,,