The Mena weekly star., 1922-01-19

to have been so unsatisfactory to the court Judge Steel excused the twelve men from further service.
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 Alex Coyle of Grannis was among the few visitors from outside points in Mena Wednesday.
 NOTICEl In order to make room for car flour we have coming, for next few days we will sell good grade flour $3 hundred. Thacker Grocery Go. pl.4
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 Bascom Finger left Wednesday morning for Little Rock, where he will enter the timber service of the Rock Island railroad, position he formerly held. He will not know where he will be located until after he reports for duty.
 Mrs. J. E. Ines, who lives west of Mena, returned Monday afternoon from visit at Kansas City She | brought back with her a baby boy which she and her husband will adopt and keep in place of their own little one who died not long ago.
 MT. and Mrs. Silas Waite and little daughter of Page, Ok, who had been visiting at Womble, were in Mena Tuesday en route to their home. Be- fore returning to Page MT. Waite telephoned and found there was no smallpox cases there as reported. L. s. Tomlinson has decided to join the ranks of home owners in Mena and quit paying rent He has bought a residence property on Garden street, in the west part of Mena and will re- model the house into home of his liking. The property is known as the Hammond place.
 Mrs. W. E. Flick, who has been vis- iting at Woodward, Ok, returned home Wednesday morning, just in time to escape the city's quarantine against the state. To reach Mena and avoid changing cars in Le Fibre county, Mrs. Flick travelled to Kan sas and thence to the home town.
 
 NOTICEl In order to make room for car four we have coming, for next few days we will sell good grade flour $3 hundred. Thacker Grocery Co. pl.4 -Advertisemenl
 John Hungate, who left Tuesday afternoon for a visit at Grannis, and c. E. Mallon, who returned to his home at Wickes, had the distinction of being the only two passengers, who boarded No. 3 at the Mena sta- tion. Which indicates in way what l the quarantine has done to passenger travel on the Kansas City Southern in this section.
 Father Albert Fletcher left Monday afternoon for Little Rock to resume his place as a member of the faculty of Little Rock College. Father Fletcher was en route to his college work after the close of the holiday vacation when he received at Fort Smith the news of the death of his brother, George. He returned home and has been with his parents since.
 MT. and Mrs. D.. Russell, who have been spending the winter in Califor- nia, arrived in Mena Wednesday | morning, coming by way of Dallas, Tex. While in San Francisco they at tended the first trial of Fatty Ar buckle and predict that he will be cleared at the second hearing, now in progress. Mir. and Mrs. Russell will visit relatives in Mena and vicinity. County Clerk W. E. Anderson 1 granted a marriage license Wednes- | day to E. L. Rigsby of Grannis and Miss Little Bell Harris of Gillham. This was the first license issued since the quarantine regulations were put on. The nuptial permit was sent by mail to Rev. N. o. Hornsby at Gran his at the request of T. J. Wilbanks. The groom is 59 years of age while the bride is 22.
 E. K. Torbett of Fort Smith, rep resentative of the internal revenue I department, and known to many Mena citizens for his work in past years in | ,onnection with income tax collections, was one of the visitors denied permis- sion to pass the quarantine Tuesday. Mir. Torbett had been at De Queen on official business and intended to stop 1t Mena, but was not permitted to leave the train.