The Mena weekly star., 1916-05-11
41&9ss You Watch Cove, You'll Watch Cove Grow ETSs
COVE CATCHES,

W. L. Boyd and wife of Oklahoma City are at home on visit.
 Dan w. Woodell and wife of Call, Tex. are visiting A. NJ. Woodell and family.
 J. w Kessler and family of Cur don, are visiting relatives and 1 friends.
 Roger Lane. who is attending a commercial college at Tulsa, Ok, is spending the week with friends.
 Chas. R. Montgomery, a geologist and mineralogist, was in town last week looking over mineral pros poets.
 The peach crop bids fair to be pretty good after all, some of the trees being nearly as full as last year
 Not a single dog in Cove has been muzzled, tied up, or shot in accord anee with the county health officers orders
 B. H. Hansard and family of Rosenberg, Tex, visited w. NJ. Han sard and family several days last week.
 Guy Phillips, state bank examiner, was in town last week, and as usual found the Bank of Cove in good shape.
 Cove is noted for several things besides a healthy climate, pure water and good people-for instance pretty homes, pretty girls and the prettiest babies in the state.
 Lilly, the eight-year-old daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Mack Hughes had one of her big toes almost severed by dropping an ax on it last week. Dr. Young was called and dressed the injury.
 Not only does nature point the way for what is best for man to cultivate in this country, but it tries it's best to point out the best way to fertilize it. Look at the clover grow wild whenever it gets half a chance.
 Haskell, Young, who has been acting as assistant bookkeeper for the Cove Lumber Company, for some time. has accepted a perman- ent position as salesman in the store department. Haskell is a clean, capable young man and added to his other qualifications, he is a talented artist.
 It is to be hoped that the truant law will be better enforced the next term of school than it was the last. What is the use of having a law without it being enforced? Several boys were seen loafing about the streets of Cove last winter, who never went near the school house, and several started to school, but stopped in a few days.
 Instead of rebuilding the Home Hotel, J. H. Skinner is now planning to build another hotel on the lot where he is digging a we'll This hotel will be modern in every par ticular, and designed especially for the transcient trade. Cove is rapid ly outgrowing it's present hotel fla Ieilities, and Mr. Skinner's improve ment will be timely.
 J. w. Upshaw, who recently moved here from Womble had a thoroughbred Poland China pig shipped through by express, but in some way it was so badly injured in transit that it died last Sunday. It was a beautiful gilt, 8 months, and registered. Mr Upshaw bought the hog of Chas Rowan of Womble, but formerly of Cove.
 Talk about women being gossip CTS. there are some men in this town of Cove who would rather tell black guard story or retail bit of scandal than to eat a square meal. They delight in tearing up regulations as a pup does in ripping up an old shoe and still they man. age to pass as useful citizens. Hell is full of such useful citizens
 The cable ferry that is in course of construction at Smithville, Ok, ] for use at the ford on the Mountain Fork river on the road leading to Cove will prove a great benefit to the citizens of Smithville and the travelling public. as the ferry will take the place of a bridge during high water. It will also be of great service to K. T. Daniels, who carries the daily mail to Smithville, towns. The ferry is being built by funds subscribed by the citizens of Smithville and Cove.
 Owing to the pressing demand for houses, Kelsey Skinner, the well known bookkeeper at the office of the Cove Lumber Company, has de- cided to build another cottage, of the bungalow pattern, on east end of | his half block of ground running east on Depot street from East to Hill street Mir. Skinner already owns two neat residences on his lots and the third one will fill out the ground, making 100 by foo foot lots to each residence. The new house will have four rooms and wide porches and work will begin right away.
 The Sunday school of the church of the Latter Day Saints held a May-day picnic and basket dinner in c. NJ. Fulton's grove last Sunday, which was not only attended by a large number of pupils but by a majority of the congregation of the church. The grove had been nicely seated and the program consisted of devotional exercises, sacred congs