The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-18
WALTER ELLIOTT, Editor

of men. This looks like business for our town and county. We have the mineral and the oil and all we want is the money and men to push the de- velopment. Cove will be a bright spot on the map soon.
 The Ladies Aid of the Presbyterian church gave>a social last Friday even ing, called Last Day of School" The old and young school girls sure did re- present the last day of school of 40i years ago A. M Woodell was the teacher and he failed to keep these old school girls quiet. They would eat lunch in school, throw paper wads, pass notes and talk out loud
 After the exercises the old school girls served a tin bucket lunch which all 1 enjoyed. Some of the costumes of the old school girls were quite attract i've. Everybody had good time.
 James Wilson has just finished planting an acre of strawberries that | his farm worth $l 900 more. Another man who has just ordered 1000 straw i berry plants knows what his land is
 good for. Others are planting out more berries. That is what is going to make our county valuable. By the end of the season we will have over 100 acres of strawberries close to Cove, and next year Cove will be a .great shipping point No better place in Polk County to start berry farm than right close to Cove.
 Most of our merchants are active and progressive. They are the men who make Cove. They advertise, they bring the best trade to Cove. They have the goods and the prices. They buy the farmers produce and give good goods in exchange. They , are active in securing good roads for Cove. They advertise in the Cove Star and tell the good people what they have to sell. And with our far mers' organizations we will have a good market for all truck this year So come to Cove. buy home, live and , enjoy life, and read the Mena Star.
 At the meeting of the Cove Fruit and Truck Growers Association last Saturday afternoon the seed potato problem was discussed freely. The car ordered for March 1st has failed to arrive. You will notice in the pa per that the shippers cant secure cars to ship seed potatoes. One town in Minnesota has 1000 car loads of seed potatoes sold and are unable to get cars to ship their orders. On ac- count of the car trouble it will cut down our acreage to almost nothing, or if we do get our car of seed pota- toes soon it will be too late to get our potatoes on an early market. Because nf a cn of rad dfch m f. ed we will not order car load of bas- kets, but will be able to get all the baskets We want this year from w. M. Pride. At this meeting the bonded ware house was discussed freely. Some men were on the floor eleven times to be heard on this question. 1 Mir. Kapp, our state and government man who represents Arkansas on this line of work, spoke here in Cove last week to a small audience on the sub ject of bonded ware houses, also sweet potato dry house. He recommended | the bonded ware house very strongly and gave his reasons. He tells us that the cotton ordinarily makes twenty changes from the farmer to the nanu- facturer and by putting it thru the bonded ware house cuts out all middle mems profits: that when the bonded . ware house handles this commodity (cotton) this vast profit or expense is saved and goes down into the far mers pockets. He told us of many things that would help the farmer by i building bonded ware house, and sweet potato dry house. The ware house can be built for $2, 800 to $3,000 and the sweet potato dry house will cost $2,000 in all not over $5,000. The stock can be sold at $500. Every far
 mer and all who have interests in far ming can buy this stock at $500 per share At this time there was a motion made to proceed to select a ! board of directors, nominations
 were thick and fast ]. H. Scott, J. A. Walker, N. w. Elliott, Dooley Bar i ton and Dan Harrah were elected by i acclimation separately. After this the
 meeting adjourned to meet again next
 Saturday. The Board of directors gave notice that they would meet Mon
 day night to make arrangements to complete the organizations of the J stock company. Every farmer should be ready when the solicitor comes around to raise the stock to take from
 one to twenty shares. This is one of l the best moves that Cove ever made
 and it won't be long till Cove will hae ware house and sweet potato ] dry house ready for business.
 
 i Keep the bowels active and the di-
 pestion good if you would enjoy