The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1920-07-22
Correspondence
COVE CATCHES.


Miss Gladys Peacock left last week
for Hot Springs to visit her father.
The Masonic order is having big
revival and many are taking the de-
grees.
w. E. Hungate of Grannis, candi-
date for sheriff, was in Cove last Sat-
uriay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Dunningan made
an automobile trip to Smithville last
Sunday.
Fifty crates of cucumbers are going
out of Cove every other day to the
market. !.
Miss Chloe Matteson Of Bog Spring
was looking after business in Cove
last Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. P. Lichlyter of
Vandervoort were visiting friends in
Cove last week.
Tom Dempsey, who has been down
with fever, is improving and will soon
be at work again.
Grady Hand, Polk county cattle
dipping supervisor, was in Cove last
Monday on business.
Allen Morris has bought the Win
.chell meat market and will open up
fine meat market soon.
w. s MacLafferty of Mena, the
popular insurance man, was in Cove
last Saturday on business.
Mr.. Dickerson of Broken Bow, Ok,
visited his brother. H. Dickerson, and
Shelby Teeters last week.
o. o. Benson, the Cove Lumber
Company's foreman, will move his
family from Caddo Gap soon.
A bouncing baby boy has arrived
at the home of ]. d. Hadaway. DR..
L. P. Young was in attendance.
Dug Walker bought fine Ford
car in Vandervoort last week and
broke the speed limit on his way
home.
o. E. Skinner is giving his new
house fresh coat of apint and adding
several new improvements to his
home.
The o. B. Witherspoon family have
been having some sickness among the
children, but at present are able to
be out.
Miss Pearl Woodell, who has been
sick for some time, is now getting
along nicely and will be able to be
out soon.
J. A. Walker win leave Thursday
for Howard county to bring home
a few fine Jersey mich cows for his
own use.
A fine baby girl has arrived at the
Frank Norton home. DR.. f. P. Young
was in attendance. Mother and baby
doing fine.
j. c. Allen of the Bank of Cove
and several others will go to Howard
county next Thursday to buy Jersey
mich cows.
Mrs. Ollie Keith, sister of Mrs.
VIII Hogue, after visiting here a
month, returned to her home in Ari-
IONA last week.
A. c. Gum of Brown county, Tex,
who has been visiting his brother-in-
law. Mr.. Finley, left last week to
visit relatives in Fort Smith.
Assessor Hughes of Mena and Mr..
jackson of Howard county, candidate
for prosecuting attorney, and several
other candidates were in Cove last
Saturday
Mrs Baz Barton, who has been sick
for some time, was considerably
worse last week and DR.. Watkins Of
Mena was called. She is now getting
along nicely.
James Cecil of Valiant, Ok. who
has been visiting his brother at Dem
yer, Colo, stopped off at Cove and
visited X. H. Skinner and family for
a few days.
Miss Mildred McGown, w. M. Han
sard's popular lady clerk, who has
been spending her two weeks vaca-
ton at Foreman and Board Camp,
returned home Sunday.
Sunday school at Welcome Home
next Sunday at 3 o'clock Everybody
come. Rev. Nixon of the Presbyterian
church at Cove will preach Sunday.
August l, at $3.50 p. m.
b. Ii. Barton, Jr., is now busy
building heavy wire fence around
100 acres of the Cove Lumber Com
pany's cut-over timber land for a
pasture for their idle mules.
MISS Freddie Moss. who was sick
80 long with the fever, returned to
her place at the Cove Lumber Com
pany store after spending a month
with homefolks at Holdenville, Ok.
The Christian Endeayorers of the
Presbyterian church held a splendid
social at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. G. Allen last Friday night. Ice
cream and cake was served and all
had good time
Mrs. Mcdaniel is making improve
lnents on her property. She is build
ing barn, screening the porches of
her house, painting and remodeling
generally. Oliver Woodell is doing
the earDenter gariks
Frank Turner, George Sawyer, Mrs.
r. E. Quinn, Lee Turner, Dooley Bar
ton, Prof. G. M. Woods, E. G. Little
and VIII Wilson have the finest acre.
age Of strawberries in Polk county.
See what these people will make next
year.
Rev. H. f. Nixon, pastor of the
Presbyterian church, who is holding
a big revival at GAINESVILLE, Tex, re-
ports fine meetings and will be home
for Sunday, August /. Everybody
come out and hear him sing ans
preach. Sunday school at 10 a. m
every Sunday.
Mrs. Robert Green. formerly Of tn,
Commercial hotel of Cove. but late
proprietor of the Commercial hote
at Mena, has sold out and expects Il
rest a while and visit some of he
people. She spent few days in Gov
last week calling on some of her oil
friends and returned home Saturda,
evening.
w. Nj. Pride has two acres of tn
finest cantaloupes in Polk county, al
so two acres of strawberries that wi
be worth $4,000 to him next veal
And he has five acres of fine corr
Some of the corn is now Ia feet higl
with one. two and three shoots IN