The Mena weekly star., 1920-04-29
WALTER ELLIOTT. Editor

dress the meeting. Everybody come. C. L.. Tankersley the foreman of the Cove Lumber company planer was purchased a new Chevrolet and it is a dandy. He expects to travel with such speed now that when he strikes mudhole, he will be able to knock 1t dry. High water and bad roads will not keep him home any more.
 The singing evangelist and preacher
 Rev, Nixon who has been holding meetings at the Presbyterian church !, part of last week was enjoyed by ali who heard him and on account of bad rainy weather all the people did not get to hear him and he thinks that he will come back soon and give us a week of meetings and he would be glad to have all the people of Cove and country to come out and attend these meetings. He is a singer and a preach CT and 1t will do you good to hear him.
 In order that the price of sugar may be reduced why not urge our congress- man to have Congress to put bounty on manufactured sugar in the United States of two or three cents a pound as it was some ten years ago. when sugar sold for $4 per hundred. This bounty was to encourage the sugar factories in the western states where sugar beets are profitable to raise The sugar refineries never let up till they got Congress to cut the bounty off of sugar and sugar has been soaring up in price every since. Only few refin. cries in the United States today and are controlled by the biggest monopoly In the world. Talk to your congress- man about this.
 Notice the developments in oil and gas in Arkansas during the last month At Eldrado struck oil at 2300 it. and ! twenty miles below, Stephen, Ark, brought in gas well at 22O0 it., esti- mated 100000 GU. ft. per day. This is not far from Cove, look at your map. At Philadelphia and Hope they expect to drill for oil and gas. Texarkana is contracting for test well and it will not be long until old Polk county will be full of oil and gas wells. There are now two companies leasing in Polk county and New York company Is leasing for mineral, which will be a valuable product when developed
 At the District court in Mena last week Judge Steel on the(bench dealing out justice to the people of Polk coun ty He don't hesitate to state a point of law where it is likely to take time and money for jury to handle a case and when he calls case he is free to say that if the attorneys are not ready that the court cannot and will not wait. But in businesslike man. ner calls the next case. One day last week in three separate cases theAjudge stated that the evidence was of such that he made the decision. and dis charged the jury each time. That is the kind of a iudge that suits the tax payers of Polk county When you do business for the public use economy. Too much time and money is spent in our county and state courts today. Too many long drawn, out law suits, too Aa+ANiAt Jul bAAdAb LAohfo ldA DdXti6 u1S- satisfied. What do we elect judges for ? , Are they not to run our courts and decide our cases for us? Then do away with the jury. Especially the Grand Jury, let the farmers and the mer- chants stay at home and work and save this enormous court expense. This will suit most of the tax payers of Polk county. Watch Judge Steel run the court
 big hail storm with a heavy rain fell last Sunday April 25 about two o'clock This storm lasted nearly one hour and the hall was almost as large as hen eggs. There has not been such storm for thirty years in this vicin- ity. The wind was high and the hail fell thick and fast. Old shingled roofs were all cut to pieces, most all com position roofs was punctured full of holes. Houses leaked that never leaked before and foliage on the trees with all kinds of garden stuff was nearly all cut to pieces and the ravines and little creeks looked like rivers after the storm. This storm was about five miles wide and ten miles long starting at the west on the Oklahoma line and running south easterly course and the farm land just freshly worked in planting and in places the top was all washed away. Vandervoort suffered more than other points in the course of the storm. The window glass was badly broken in farm houses, school houses and churches. The twelve acres of radishes that were ready to ship are fnow almost a total loss and the ten acres of strawberries almost ready for the market were damaged more than 50 per cent. The damage to this sec ton of the county can hardly be esti- mated.
 Strayed--Brow mare, left eye out; small scar on left hip. Tad saddle Il TT