The Mena weekly star., 1910-11-24
COVE CATCHES.

Felix Lutenbacher has accepted
position in barber shop at Ashdown,
but his family will remain at Cove.
W. II Wilson has purchased w. j.
Hodaway's stock Of groceries and OPEN
ed for business Monday. Mr.. Had
away will open meat market in an
other building
j. M. Fuquay and family of Mt.
Pleasant, Tex, arrived last week with
carload of household goods, farming
implements, etc., with a view of locat-
ing permanently.
w. H. Cisne and family of Xenia, Ill.,,
arrived here last week and are at
home in the property purchased by
Mr.. Cisne last summer. They will re-
main all the winter.
b. j. Spencer has traded his plan
ing mill plant at Vandervoort for SIS
acres of land in Southern Iowa and is
the kind is said to be worth 500 per
acre. Mr.. Spencer has made ten
strike.
Sheriff Thornton h S appointed
Mack Hughes of this town. deputy
sheriff for White township and as Mr.
Hughes has served as a peace officer
in various capacities he will make a
capable and efficient deputy.
Tom Dempsey is making some very
noticeable improvements on the resi-
dence property in the west part Of
town which he purchased recently.
He is having his house remodeled. his
land cleaned up and, in fact. making
a model and modern home out OF
property that was badly dilapidated.
Various conjectures are in the air
regarding the hunting parties that
have landed here lately. and it is now
well established theory among the
goods box whittlers that the hunters
are land grabbers in disguise. and are
laying plans to gobble up the eastern
half Of Oklahoma when the unallotted
Indian lands are put on the market.
AS a matter of fact certain things
point toward some truth in the street
corner gossip.
An unusual accident occurred at the
home of j. T. Dempsey last Sunday
morning and one that came near re-
sulting in serious if not fatal conse-
quences. While Mrs. Dempsey was
getting breakfast the kitchen floor gave
way and dropped about four feet,
tumbling a red hot stove, tables,
dishes. cooking utensils and Mrs.
Dempsey into a promiscuous heap.
Luckily Mr.. Dempsey was in the next
room and rushing to the rescue he got
his wife out Of danger, and yanked'the
stove out before the flames got start
ed. 1t was bad smash-up and a
call for something much worse. The
accident was caused by insufficient
UNDERMINING used by the carpenter
who had been raising and repairing
the house.
The cotton growing industry has re-
ceived quite an impetus in this locah-
ty this fall. and the indications are
that an increased acreage will be plant
ed next year. Among the growers
who have made good on cotton this
year may be mentioned: Robert Rowe,
who picked 8 IL bales from three acres
for which he received $237 "a and kept
the seed out of one bale; Henry Scott,
bales from Z acres; N. 0. Allen,
Is IL bales from 80 acres. Mr.. AL
len perhaps produced the most sur
prising results from tract Of WORKOUT
land that he bought about one year
ago. He paid $l70 for 40 acre tract
adjoining his Buffalo Creek farm, and
this yeai planted IA acres of the land
in cotton. his renter, r. E. Cureton,
cultivated the place. Out Of 10 acres
got 8 bales of cotton and nearly 800
gallons of sorghum syrup. Mr. Aliens
share of the cotton was one-half, which
brought him about $500 or nearly dou-
BILE that he paid for the land.
Fisherman.