The Mena weekly star., 1921-12-08

county Clerk w. E Anderson ls- sued marriage licenses Friday to Rob- ert W. Atwood and Miss Beulah Sal yers, and to Joseph Weber and Mrs. Daisy E. Foulke, all giving their res idences as Mena.
 Dr. E. H. Black has returned from a short sojourn with the party of Mena hunters now camped west of Hatton. Dr. Black brought back evidences of the success of the nimrods in the form of fine ham of venison.
 Miss Ora M. Tucker. teacher, and M. B. Keener, secretary of the school board at Acorn, were in Mena Satur- day selecting articles needed for the domestic science laboratory that will soon be started at the Acorn school
 D. c. Crawford and son of Pied mont, Tex, started from Mena Mon day to motor to their home a distance of about 400 miles. Mir. Crawford had been in Mena to bid goodbye to his brother, A. H. Crawford, who re- gently left for California.
 T. w. Powell, an old time resident of Mena. has returned to the high lands to make his home. MT. Powell, who was formerlydin business here has been living at Texarkana. He returned to Mena this week and has been busy greeting old time friends.
 The Rev. Oscar Woodruff, coming from Orienta, Ok, preached Sunday, morning and evening, at the First Baptist church. It is possible that Mir. Woodruff will preach at the local church for several weeks. He leaves today to look after ministerial work at Lawton, Ok.
 Judge H. W. Finger and Commits sioner I. o. Smith returned Friday morning from their trip to Little Rock, where they attended the month iy meeting of the state highway com mission and succeeded in getting the first payment of federal aid for the Jefferson highway.
 T. A. Allen, owner of the Mena gin, believes the local plant will have about half of the usual turnout of | bales. To date he has ginned a few less than 300 bales and has enough in | prospect to pass the half thousand fig ure. The normal output of the gin he | estimates at 1000 bales.
 William Paynes Aston, Jr.. weight 715 pounds, born November 29, 1921 | at Shreveport, is the announcement received Friday by Mena friends of | Mir. and Mrs. William P. Aston. The mother will be better remembered as Miss Eunice Schoolfield, former teach | CT in the Mena High school.
 Mir. and Mrs. W. W. Westcott of St. Francis, Kas., arrived in Mena Friday for a visit with his parents, MT. and Mrs. F. s. Westcott on Bolton avenue. The visitors have only re- gently been married and will spend part of their honeymoon at MT. Westcctt's former home at Horatio
 Deputy Sheriff Joe Ross of Wickes came to Mena Thursday night with | a stranger known as Smith Ortwick | in custody. The man was placed in the county jail to await an examina- tion as to his sanity Ortwick cre- ated fear at Wickes that he was not properly mentally balanced thru his talks on religious matters.
 Mrs. Addie Jackson, mother of | J. G. Jackson, and Mrs. Nina Stacey. ] a sister of the Mena business man, inNMena Thursday afternoon for an extended visit. The visitors | who live at Auburn, Wash. have l been visiting relatives in Texas and stopped off in Mena while on their | return to their home on the Pacific | coast.
 R. P. Gregg, who has been working in northwest Colorado since last spring, has returned home to Mena to | spend the winter. He has been at Grand Lake, a popular resort not fai from Denver and has been working with his father in building bunga- lows. Before leaving he experienced some near zero weather but there had
 Mir. and Mrs. Curt Shields and two sons, and Miss Willie Mount returned | to Mena Thursday morning and am nouncpd they were back home to stay. | They have been living in Poteau where | Mir. Shields and Miss Mount have been | assisting in getting the Fair Store | properly started in it's new location. | Poteau is a good business town. but to i Mir and Mrs. Shields it isn't near so nice a place to live as Mena.
 Dr. and Mrs. P. R. Watkins spent Sunday at Texarkana with the doc- | tors sister. Mrs. Dunlav. who is A i