The Mena weekly star., 1920-04-01
NOTES AND PERSONALS
c. W. Phillips is up again.

Early gardens are looking fine.
 The farmer was never buster than now.
 The roads that lead to Cove are fine now.
 The early oats look fine since the rain.
 Farmers are very busy planting corn.
 Monday, March 29-summer time in Cove.
 Hogs are as scarce as hens teeth in Polk county.
 A number of cases of flu in and around Cove.
 w. M. Pride will have early radishes to ship April 5.
 Mir. and Mrs. Kelsey Skinner have a very sick baby.
 c. c. Barker left for Oil City, La, Monday evening.
 Get your bushel baskets at w. NJ. Pride's this week.
 Now is the time to go fishing. The catfish bite good.
 Mrs. J. c. Allen was shopping in Mena last Monday.
 N. O. Allen left Monday afternoon ! for Mena on business. The pastures are beginning to look green and nice again.
 Sam Green and his new sawmill are making the sawdust fly. | J. M. Carter was doing business in Hatfield first of the week.
 Joe Haday and family are recuper- ating slowly from the flu.
 Dooley Barton sold his big herd of Red Pole cattle fast week.
 Henry Ladd of SmithvilIe, was in Cove on business last week. With favorable weather the peach crop will be good this year. Kelsey McCauly of Octavia was in Cove on business last week. R. N. Winchell visited with his mother at Hatton last Sunday.
 A great deal of damage was done by the washing rain last week.
 A splendid prospect for a good crop of strawberries for Polk county.
 Arkansas eggs tip the top mark in New York for nice large fresh eggs.
 Over 100 acres of strawberries are being planted close to Cove this year.
 Dr. Barton, who makes his home at Villas Wrights, is mending slowly.
 J. A. and Arthur McCune left for Beach, Okla, to make that their home. J. c. Allen, cashier of the Cove Bank, returned from Fort Smith Mon day.
 Whit Robb, formerly of the Cove Lumber Co.,, left for Texas last Mon day.
 Two more years dipping once a month would almost eradicate the pesky ticks. Joe Miller and family were visiting relatives and friends at Beach, Okla, last Sunday. Henry Stockton and family, who were all down with the flu, are able to be out again.
 Walter Mize and family motored to Mena last Sunday and returned home in the evening. Mrs. John Coplan left last Tuesday for Waldron, Ark, to visit her moth CT, who is sick. Ted Woodell returned home from Womble after spending few days visiting his folks.
 Wm. Mckinney of Smithville passed through Cove on his way to Idabei, Okla, last week. Some farmers are almost shedding tears for not having orders to dip their cattle this year. Bedford Snelgrove of Cass county, Texas, is visiting his niece, Mrs. w. s. Dennis, for few days.
 Ira Allen and MT. Miller left Tues day for the oil fields fTexas to strike good job for the summer. The little rivulets and creeks were higher Wednesday morning than they have been for thirty years.
 Dr. Kidnor of Wickes was in Cove last Monday giving tratment to one of Mir. Younce's fine horses.
 Mrs Goldie Hoblitzel of Tulsa, Ok, sister of G. c. Golf, was visiting the home of her brother last week.
 John Black, who was here on ac- count of sickness, returned home to Oil City, La, on last Monday evening.
 Katy Stockton arrived home Monday from Huntington, Ark, after visiting with her grandmother for some time,
 Mrs. Forehand of the New Bethel neighborhood, mother of Mrs. w. H Wilson, is visiting at the Wilson home this week.
 R. E. Wilson of the New Bethel neighborhood was in Cove Tuesday morning on his way to Mena to look after business. :, ]. c. Elliott, father of Walter Eli. ott. returned home to Knoxville, Iowa last Monday, after spending two months in Cove.
 Sister Fakes of Vandervoort preach. ed to a crowded house at Welcome Home last Sunday, returning homo Monday evening. ,i Listenl At Piney schoolhouse East