The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-11
THURSDAY, MARCH II, 1920

called to Duskin.s Okla, last Sunday on account of Mrs. Hegwoods sister being quite sick and not expected to live
 The Ladies Aid of the Presbyterian church will give on next Friday night spelling school exercise called last day of school Everybody come and have good time
 Col Jett of Wickes and Tom Ander son of Hatfield were in Cove Monday to meet the men who were not satis- fled with the assessment of their land along the public highway.
 B. w Teeters is clearing off his '5-acre tract of land west of Cove and will plant one acre of strawberries . this spring. Mr Teeters knows how to i make money in Arkansas
 Dr. c. E. Hayes of Hot Springs, Ark synodical missionary of the Presby- terian church will preach in the Pres byterian on Thursday night, March lS l Everybody come out and hear the Dr
 The way to make money fast. s. E. Bates while in western, Okla, this win ter, he and wife and seven children picking cotton made $2S5.00 in nine days. Maybe he will have to pay in come tax
 w. I. Bryant, B. Sims, A Musgraves, Judson McDaniels, P. NJ. Floyd, Mack Hughes and Lester Sims, all were at Mena last Monday to look after the assessment of taxes for the Jefferson Highway.
 Don't forget the county primaries convention that will be called soon to nominate good men to fill county and state offices. Look out for the best to fill the place. Be ready when the time comes.
 . Mrs. Nora Thompson, sister of Mrs ID. F. Dudley, who lives at Kings Spur and who has been at the Hospital at Little Rock for treatment for some time, stopped off with her sister for a few days.
 < The Cove Truck & Fruit Growers Association have shipped one car of fertilizer and another will follow soon also are shipping car of corn and oats from Texas and are expecting car of seed potatos soon
 Notice the improvements that are going on in and round Cove See the strangers who are locating close to Cove. Oil leasing and mineral develop 1 ing and truck growing all indicate prosperity for Polk county and Cove.
 F. c. Goodale has decided to leave for California on Wednesday of this week where he can get $9O0 per day for carpenter work and will sell a lot of his goods at the F. Younce sale March IS. See his ad in the Star and read his sale bills.
 Joe Hathaway, President of the Cove Fruit and Truck Association has re- quested Secretary Elliott to announce a special call meeting of all the mem bers next Saturday afternoon at D. m. at the town hall Business of inn portance Try and be there.
 Mir. and Mrs. Goodwin of Ft. Smith were in Cove last Friday and took din- lner with MT. and Mrs. T A. Woodell MT Goodwin is salesman for the Echells Wholesale Dry Goods Co. and MT. Moodell replenished his big stock with some of the latest spring style. Our road overseer, R. C. Smith is doing some fine work on our coum- ty roads here lately That is what this country needs is better roads. Mir Smith is surely doing his part and if you need some extra work done on your road tell him about it. Miss Nola Winchell. Miss Callie Hampton. Miss Fay Barton. Robert I Woods, Ballard Stanford Ted Wood ell. Tommie Young. Ira Allen, Henry Wilkins, Doyal Hunter and Prof Woods were all in attendance at Mena at the school contest. Robert Woods and Tommie Young were contestants i from Cove.
 There will be a Basket and Box Sup per on next Saturday night March 1S. at the St. Clair school house Dis No IS, close to John Keeton's The pro- ceeds of this supper will go to buying Inew seats for the school. ]. w. Carter and John Keeton will be there, also the whole county from far and near Next Saturday night.
 S. E. Bates and family, who left here with two teams last fall for the cot ton fields of Texas and Oklahoma. met with bad roads and fearful weather most all the time. Last week he sent his wife and children home on the train and he will drive through with his team.
 Most everybody is leasing their land for oil and gas east, west and south of