The Mena weekly star., 1920-07-15
Correspondence


WEN
w M. Hansard took in the city OF
Mena last Tuesday on business.
Mrs. n. l. Finily left last week to
take treatment at the Texarkana hos
pital.
Sam Nation. bookkeeper at State
bank in Valiant was In Cove last
week
J. r. Blake, Watson's popular mer.
cant was in Cove last Monday on
business.
Mr. Massey sold the e. NJ. Blair farm
last week to G. w. Ongoalt OF Gyp-
sum, Kans.
A big match game of base ball next
Saturday at Cove between Cove and
Vandervoort.
Miss Virginia Baily of vandervoort
visited at the home of o. Il. Skinner
over Sunday.
Don't forget the Sunday school out
at Welcome Home next Sunday at
2:30 o'clock.
Joe Hadaway tells us that he has
the best lot of Poland China pigs In
Polk county.
Theodore Curtain east of Cove left
Monday evening to visit his folks at
Mulrow, Okla.
II. o. Wooley and son of Wander
WORT were in Cove last week looking
after business.
Mrs. Kessler and children returned
to Decatur. Ala, last week after a Wis
ii with relatives.
Henry Chapman who was hurt in an
accident at Beaumont, Texas, is get
ting along nicely
Tom Dempsey who has been sick
with the fever for the last three weeks
Is now improving.
Mrs. Luther Allen and children of
Broken Bow, Okla. visited relatives
at Cove last week.
Mrs. Fl NJ. Cecil of Vandervoort Wis
tied with her daughter, Mrs. X. H.
Skinner over Sunday.
Mrs. Thomas Belcher of Talico, Tex
as Is here visiting her brother, Claud
Tully, for few days.
DR.. Nelson Just returned LIST Satur-
day from a mineral trip through Okla
homa and New Mexico.
Charley Affholter and family OF
Vandervoort spent Sunday at the
home of W. NJ Hansard.
Major Joe Cecil of u. S. A. at Jack
son Mississippi, is here visiting his
cousin Mrs, X. H. Skinner.
Mrs. S. Z. Bates and children left
Sunday evening for Horatio where
they win pick cantaloupes.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIII Dorsey Of Nash
vile, Ark. are visiting at the home OF
J. II. Skinner for fe days.
w o. West has added another chair
10 his shop, with John Kelly as the
new barber Cove will grow.
The Stuart Land Co. thru their
agent, Mr.. Massey, at Cove, has sold
seven farms in Polk county lately.
Mrs. Sally Dorsey of Mena after
visiting with her sister, Mrs. j. H.
Skinner few days returned home
last Sunday.
A singing school started last week
at New Bethel, close to Will Meek's
and Mr.. Hoover of Mena is the sing
ing master.
Mr.. McNikelson of New York who
has been looking after the lssmber in
terest here for few days returned
home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. NJ. E. Owen and chill
dren started for Sulphur Springs last
week. Mr.. Owen expects to harvest
some IN western Oklahoma
W b. Barton of Ft. Smith was here
last week and with his brother, z. Fl.
Barton, made flying trip to Womble
and Caddo Gap on business.
NO preaching at the Presbyterian
church for the next two Sundays. But
Sunday school every Sunday morning
at 10 o'clock. Everybody come.
Mrs. John Coplan met with rather
an accident last Saturday While
splitting kindiing with the ak it CLAN
ced and cut an artery in her arm.
Mr.. Sawyer and Lloyd Hansard who
have been home on IS day furlough
from the navy training station at the
Great Lakes returned last Wednesday
Rev. II. f. Nixon, pastor of the
Presbyterian church of Cove left last
Friday for Clarksyille. Texas to help
conduct three weeks revival meet
ing
G. G. Goff's mother and his sister
Mrs. Turner of TT Worth, Texas ar
rived last Saturday and will visit with
Mr. Gofs and family for two or three
weeks
j. C. Allen, ]. A. Walker and others
are going to Howard county Thursday
July 29th TO buy Jersey cows Any one
who wants good Jersey cows should
see Mr.. Allen.
Cove is going to have the biggest
barbecue that Polk county ever had in
thirty years. On July 2Sth. See the
bills and read the program in next
weeks Mena STAR
Robert Fortner, one of Polk coun-
tvs progressive farmers. left last Fri
day 10 visit at Winthrop, Ark, with
his brother. He expects to spend a
good part of his time catching catfish.
Another big 100acre Polk county
farm sold last Saturday. Manor &
Parker sold the w. H. Baker farm to
nj. r. Crawford of Mansfield, La. Mr.
Baker gives possession in two weeks.
Mrs. Smith of Gillian is visiting
her father and mother. Mr.. and Mrs
J. II. Coffy OF Mena this week and will
stop Off at Cove on her return home
to visit few days with her brother,
J. A Coffy.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gray motored 10
Winthrop, Ark last Saturday and Wis
tied with his brother, Guy and family
over Sunday. Guy Gray and wife came
home with them Monday and will
spend few days visiting relatives.
The Merchants Bank of Wander
WORT under the management of J. C.
Allen Of Cove has done fine business
during last year and they are now
making a change in the looks Of the
bank by painting all the woodwork
and papering the walls, putting in new
windows and doors. Watch Wander
WORT grow when she strikes oil
Old Time Camp Meeting
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