The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-20

md expression thru the JOiHlhB uA oui voices in thanksgiving for so many blessings and love for one another. It is not Mena meeting, not coun- try meeting. It is Polk county meeting. Come one, come all. Tell your neighbor and bring them. A hearty welcome awaits you.
 Mary B. Wigstrand,
 Corresponding Secretary.
 PERSONAL NOTES
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 A. M. Ferguson of Oden marketed cotton in Mena Saturday.
 J. A, McCauley of Baker Springs was in Mena Monday on business.
 Mir. and Mrs. Henry Woltman of Paxico, Kas., are visiting relatives and friends in Mena and vicinity.
 Judge J. s. Steel came up from Lockesburg Sunday afternoon to get ready for the opening of circuit court.
 Mir. and Mrs. Will Bodine are en- tertaining a new baby daughter at their home on Dallas avenue, their first born.
 Mrs. c. C. Miller and baby, who had been visiting J. M. Looney and family, returned to her home at Heav- ener Saturday.
 E. 0. Morphew of Big Fork is plan ming to move to Mena to live, and brought in his first load of household goods Thursday.
 0. B. Witherspoon of Cove Lumber Company was in Mena Wednesday and drove back ill new touring car which will be used in the company's service.
 Jack Lofts came over from Ash land, Ok, Saturday to spend several days in Mena looking after business matters and visiting old time friends.
 Big Bill' Anderson went to Oden Saturday to pitch game of baseball for the. Cherry Hill nine in contest with the champions of Montgomery county.
 E. NJ. Stewart and R. c. Plunkett, farmers living near Umpire, Howard county, brought cotton to the Mena market Saturday, having travelled farther than any other who had bales on the local market that day. Bud Whisenhunt of Shady, who has been working in the harvest fields of Oklahoma and Kansas the past sum- mer, arrived in Mena Saturday en route to his home. He found work plentiful and wages good.
 John and Nancy Fleming, old time residents of Polk county, who now live at Quinton, Ok, left Saturday morning for their home after spend ing month in Mena and vicinity vis- iting relatives and friends.
 Mena friends will be interested in the news that Rev M. L. Richmond, former pastor of the First NJ. E, church here. has been assigned to the Bloomfield, Neb., charge. A coinci- dence is that this was the birthplace of Mir. Richmond.
 A. K. Fretz left Tuesday morning for Oklahoma points to look after business matters. Mir. Fretz stated had not left Mena for good, but rather to interest others in the possibilities of Polk county, expecting to return with party of investors.
 R. E. Roberts and Will Robinson, two Big Fork stock raisers, who brought a load of fat hogs to the Mena market Tuesday, made the trip at night. They had fine moonlight for driving, and the cool night air helped get the fat porkers to market in good shape.
 Mir. and Mrs. L. c. Balmer of Port Arthur, Tex, who stopped over in | Mena for a visit while en route south | from trip in Minnesota and Iowa, left Thursday for their home. While | in Mena they were guests of Mir. and | Mrs. z. L. Mauzy of Dallas, old time friends and acquaintances.
 w. E. Taylor, former Grannis resi- lent, who is now located at Center sllle. Yell county, and engaged in farming, is back in Polk county to spend week or more looking after business matters. Mir. Taylor reports good crops in his county, cotton aver aglng half a bale to the acre in spite of insect handicaps.
 NJ. |. Bell was in Mena Saturday an route to his home near Cove, to spend Sunday with homefolks. MT. Bell has been in charge of the road crew, working on the northend of the Eagle Gap road, and has done much other good road work in the county. alr Bell arranged for The Star to visit him for another year. Tom Nix returned to Mena Friday. naving decided North Dakota was too eeid Tor him. Tom has been in charge of 3 cook shack for big threshinr oufiit that started in Oklahoma and worked northward into the Dakotas. i1e saw snow two weeks ago and when zee began to form Tom decided the