The Mena weekly star., 1921-12-29

MT. and Mrs. Fred Duke, Mir and Mrs. T. H. Duke and baby and Sidney w. Duke are planning to spend Christmas with MT. and Mrs. T. H. Duke, Sr., at Prescott.
 Mir. and Mrs. M. T. Craig and chil- dren of Poteau are in Mena to spend Christmas with Mir. and Mrs. M. F. Lutes. MT. and Mrs. Craig are both former residents of Mena.
 Rev. J. H. Huston, formerly pas tor of the Nazerene church in Mena, now located at Danville, is holding meetings at Corinth and spent a few hours with Mena friends Friday.
 MT. and Mrs. Ed E. Souels and daughter of Shawnee, Ok, arrived in Mena Friday for a Christmas visit with M. F. Lewis and family, Mir. Souels being brother of Mrs. Lewis.
 MT. and Mrs. c. M. Thomas of Ink were in Mena Friday to attend to business and do Christmas shopping. As they have family of eight little folks this latter task was not small one.
 c. W. Fisher and A. c. Anderson were among the farmers of the Muse community who were in Mena Wednes- day with cotton and who went back home with supplies and Christmas gifts.
 r. J. c. Garland of Acorn was in Mena Friday and left for Stonewall, Ok, to visit daughter over Christmas. He al yAlo fr tC md fCiA brother he has not seen for twenty-five years.
 Miss Pearl Bates, who attends school at Durant, Ok, was in Mena Friday on her way home at Huddle- ston to spend the holiday vacation with her parents, Mir. and Mrs. Joe Bates.
 Cuthbert Owen Parker, Jr., son of Mir and Mrs. Owen Parker, accom- panied his aunt, Miss May Parker, when She left Wednesday for holi- day visit with relatives at Birming- ham, Ala.
 County Clerk W. E. Anderson license Friday morning, the happy couple being Willie M. Smith and Miss Ida Kellar, both of whom live north of Potter.
 B. c. Smith of Egger was in Mena Thursday on his return from Rogers, where he had been to look after an estate. His mother, Mrs. Addie Barr, has come to Polk county to make her home with Mir. Smith.
 Dewey Lingerfelt of Black Springs and Miss Elvira Cox of Slatington who secured a marriage license from County Clerk w. E. Anderson, were married December 21 by the Rev. H. T. Howell of Big Fork.
 Charles H. Davis of Baker Springs was in Mena Thursday and arranged to get Christmas bride. He called at secured license to wed Miss Winifred Plunkett of Baker Springs.
 Mrs. J. T. Hightower of Stapp, Ok, was the guest of Mrs. W. A. Christo- pher Wednesday,, and looking after Christmas shopping. Mrs. Christo- pher also had as guests Miss Margar- ct and Mir. Alex. Chilean, of Wickes.
 Dan Lawrence of Shady, who has been visiting in Fannie county, Tex, for some months, was in Mena Friday enroute to his home He found cot ton in that part of Texas almost total loss because of the boil weevil.
 A number of Mena residents at- tended the Christmas exercises at the Clover Leaf school house Friday night where a community tree bore presents for all An interesting program was given and large crowd was in at- tendance.
 G. R. Ferguson has big hog story that is the record to date.N Mir. Fer guson found the hog too big for the scales and had to cut it to pieces to weigh the porker. The total weight of the pieces, Mir. Ferguson reports, was 435 pounds.
 Willie Parker. who is attending school at Keota, Ok, arrived home on Friday to spend the Christmas holi- days with his parents, Circuit Clerk and Mrs. W. l.. Parker. His sister, Miss Olga Parker. who is teaching at Keota, is expected home Saturday.
 George ". Murphy of Potter was in Mena Saturday and, when renewing his subscription to the Weekly Star for 1922. remarked that this was his 26th annual payment, and he doubted in Polk county who had been a reader of The Star for longer period.
 Mw ard Mrs n n Weefhrnok