The Mena weekly star., 1921-09-15
PERSONAL NOTES

Dr. c. A. Gordon of Potter was in Mena Tuesday looking after business matters.
 Misses Anna and Lena Lawrence of Shady are visiting in Mena with their sister, Mrs. Ellis Goss.
 Mir. and Mrs. B. P. Lichlyter of Vandervoort were in Mena Mednes- day to attend the Thinnes-Fried we'd ding.
 Rev. s. A. Neighbors of Potter was in Mena Monday on his way home Efrom his regular preaching engage ments at Ink.
 Charles Batson of Nashville, former Mena resident, is visiting friends in the city and looking aIter business matters.
 T. L. HolloweI of near Freedom, made business trip to horatio the first of the week. lie expected to be gone several days.
 Mir. and Mrs. Bill Peters are enter taining new baby daughter, who ar rived Tuesday night at their home on Bethesda Springs road
 Misses Thelma and Beulah Wright of Ruston, La, cousins of Mrs. c. k. Montgomery, arrived in Mena Monday for visit with their relative. Mrs. Holder Hudgins and baby, who have been visiting Mena relatives and l friends, left Monday afternoon for their home at Kansas City, Mo.
 Mrs. J. J. Butler and children, who had been visiting her parents, MT. and Mrs. T. R. Bates, left Tuesday after noon for their new home at Cyril, Ok
 Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Fried ar l rived home in Mena Tuesday from Hill City, Kas. Mir. Fried has been l in Kansas several months directing ] farm operations.
 MT. and Mrs. John Fleming, pioneer settlers of Polk county, but who now lives at Quinton, Ok, arrived in Mena Monday for visit among their many relatives and friends.
 County Clerk w. K. Anderson on Wednesday afternoon mailed out the yearly checks to Confederate pension CTS. There were 14S checks sent out and each was for $125.
 c. P. Patterson of Muse, Ok, was in Mena Wednesday after farm sup plies, and reported that cotton in his section was almost ruined by the worms and weevil.
 l Walter Owens of Old Potter was in i Mena Tuesday and left on No. for trip thru Oklahoma, expecting to find if possible some place that was more promising than Polk county.
 Miss Christa York, who is teaching in the public schools at Hatfield, re- turned to Mena Monday, the schools having closed because of the presence of case of diphtheria at Hatfield. Another week end ball game be- tween out-oftown teams will be fought at Menafield between Nunley and Union Grove next Saturday. The game is scheduled to start at o'clock. Mrs. Mary Donohue, accompanied by her brother, T. E. McCarty, of Taylorville, H., and her daughter, Miss Agnes Donohue, left Tuesday af- ternoon for a visit with relatives at Jonesboro.
 Another high mark for cotton val ues was reached in Mena Wednesday, morning when Dennis Townsend paid q cents for 8 bale of new staple. Charles Lloyd of the Dallas valley was the seller.
 Truly E. Williams is taking a short vacation from his duties at Duke-Ma | gruder's. He and Tony Meyer visited in Fort Smith Sunday, but MT. Will l Hams will visit homefolks at Hatfield before returning to work.
 Mrs. k. L. Kicks of Arkansas City, i Ark, mother of Mrs. J. w. Frost, has come to Mena to make her home. On Wednesday she began work at Duke Magruder's, taking the place of Mrs. Elmer Eddy in the dry goods depart ment.
 Mir. and Mrs. F. E.. Martin of Ringing, Ok, arrived in Mena Tues kday, making the trip by motor car. MT. Martin plans to open real es- tate office in the building Un South Mena street he recently bought from T. R. Bates.
 l Mrs. Owen Parker was taken to Fort Smith Tuesday morning for treatment by a specialist for an af- lection of the ear. It is possible that an operation will have to be performs | ed. Mrs. Parker was accompanied by her husband and Mrs. w. l.. Parker. | Dr. l.. A. Thomasson, who has been in Red River county, Tex, since Feb ruary, looking after farming inter- ests, arrived home Monday for short visit. Dr. Thomasson reports that | cotton is the poorest crop there in 1 30 years, it requiring from 10 to 15 acres to make bale in many fields. C. B. Reed of Paris, Ark, has arr ranged thru the Starr Real Estate Agency for the purchase of the Zack 1 Casey farm of so acres, near Acorn. Mir. Reed left Tuesday for Paris to arrange to move his family to Polk county at once. He plans to develop the farm into a combination fruit and dairy producer.
 1 W. c. Rogerson, former Mena busi- ness man, is back in the city after an absence of almost two years. Mr. Rog- l erson has been living in west and south Florida, and while he didn't