The Mena weekly star., 1919-07-24
NOTES AND PERSONALS. .

NOTES AND PERSONALS. . F. M Floyd. west of Cove. lost a valuable calf last week. Cove will get stock loading sta- ton on the K. C. s. soon. J. P. Shows mother came Friday morning to visit with her son and fam fly.
 w. M. Pride, secretary of the Cove Fruit and Truck Growers Associa- kion, was down to tioratio over Sun day.
 A petition has been started to incor- porste Cove. Get busy. Let's start a city.
 Some farmers have threshed their wheat and oats The turnout is only
 fair.
 Merchants are busy all the time. No !place as good as Cove in which te trade.
 Don't forget to subscribe for the Mena Star and get all the news in Polk
 county.
 Prof C. M. Woods took in the city sof Mena last Saturday, looking after , business. Oscar Silvey played ball with the Mena team last Friday and made a home run.
 | Cove will have a new cotton gin, a
 thew mill and new store soon. Watch iCove growl
 :! There will be a meeting of the Cove ! Truck and Fruit Growers Association
 inext Saturday.
 | Mrs. Upchurch of Dallas, Tex, is wis iting her sister, Mrs. Dr. Gray, and friends in Cove. 7 w. L. Garrett, formerly of Cove. but now at Hatfield. was taking in Cove
 last Wednesday. I Several more farms near Cove have sold the past week. This section of ! the country Is in demand. A car of cantaloupe crates arrived last week and was distributed to the members of the association. W. B. Barton of Fort Smith was at Cove last week looking after the Cove Lumber Companys interests. hon in Red Cross work at Cove put lpf the meeting for two weeks. The few local showers that fell over Polk county Monday and Tuesday made the lucky farmers smile. Two little daughters of Mrs. Bab- cock of Pittsburg, kas., are visiting at the Charley Breeden home southeast of , town.
 Ford Younce expects to build nice home in Cove and move his family to { the same soon. He will make this headquarters. Sam Gentry went to Horatio last week to get work and returned home fhext day. saying 1t was impossible to get board. The cantaloupes are beginning to ripen. Several farmers made local ex- Ipress shipments Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs. Dewey Scott left with her faith CT last week to visit her sister in Wy oming. She will spend month or two . in that country. Mrs. Clara Johnston and her two
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 Mena to visit with the Will Britten fam
 fly over Sunday.
 C. w. Fisher is almost thru painting the Welcome Home school house, and surely he has made wonderful change in the color from black to white. Mrs. Willie Scott and children, south west of Cove, left Thursday for Fl Do rado Springs, Mo, to visit with her mother, who Is very sick at present. J. C. Allen of the Cove bank left Wednesday for Little Rock to appear before the railway commission on July ", asking for stock yards for Cove. o. B. Witherspoon and Tom Demp- sey motored to Womble Saturday to HOOK after business Tor the Oove Lum- |'ber Company. They returned home Sunday. ]. C. Crump. one of Cove's prosper ous farmers, left last week for Wyom- ing. to visit his daughter; also that he might strike cooler atmosphere and enjoy life. Mir. and Mrs. L. E. Parker of Hous- ton. Tex, are here visiting with Mir. Parker's parents, Mir. and Mrs. A. M. Parker. Mir Parker is atraveling aud