The Mena weekly star., 1921-02-03
Correspondence
COVE CATCHES.

Pete Nanwey of Texas IS VisltlnE his parents this week.
 K. c. Smith went to Texarkana Monday on business.
 ID. CopIan and wife visited rela- tives at Potter the first of the week.
 Walter Hays and mother are visit tng friends in Cove this week.
 ;. J. Henson and MT, Head of Mena, attended the singing at Hat 6eId.
 Towery and Scott have ginned to date GOO bales of cotton and expect to gin about SO more.
 J. W. Fortner, having been out of the market for short time, is now back ip business.
 Holm Csump, who used to live in this community, came down from Mena Friday on business.
 c. s. Draper has rented his farm and is moving to Atlanta, Tex.
 ". H. Dixon went to Mena on busi- ness Tuesday.
 Mrs. Monty Jackson is teaching four monthg term of school at Alder
 Rov. Henson left on Nd. 3 Friday to attend the Fifth Sunday meeting to be held at Vandervoort.
 c. Q Baker of the Stuart Land Company was in Cove on business aturday.
 ness Tuesday
 3. r. E. Griffin has moved into his new house, erected on his 80 acres just north Of Cove.
 Miss Dcsla Mcdaniel of Smith vile. arrived on No. Sunday from Idabcl where she had been to take the teachers examination.
 Mack Hughes has been i'll with pneumonia for about a month, but he iS able to take charge of his trade As barber again.
 ". T Leslie of Ashdown, repre- xenting Matthews & Co.,, is in Cove this week buying cotton. prices rang ing from z to l41s cents per pound
 Mr. and Mrs, Luther Jackson. who have been residing here for the past three years, have moved 10 Marble Falls, Tex.
 ". H. Cook has sold his fifteen acre farm south of town to Fritz LangfeIdt of Lockney. Tex Mir Langfeldt is an experinced poultry man and is intending to engage in the poultry business here. Mir. Cook is moving to Cove
 Mir and Mrs T. Price of Grimes. Ok, who have been visiting their brothers, Russell and Phillip. left for their home Sunday. They expressed themselves as delighted with the country and think they will come back and buy a home.
 The "old timep singing at the Pres byterian church was well attended. The classes from Gospel Chapel, Piney, West View, as we'll as the home class did some excellent sing ing. A class of the older folks sang from The Christian Harmony, led by D. A. Daniels There will be another singing at Cove the next fifth Sunday. and everyone that has Christion Harmony Is requested to bring the same. All singing classes in the county are invited to come.
 The Truck and Fruit Growers and the Berry Associations met together Saturday with view of consolidate ing. After much speech making the following committee was appointed. John Crane, Claud Barton, Clip Little. George Sawyer and Dan Harrah to confer with the members of both as- soclations and make q report as to whether they would consolidate or both dissolve and organize anew. All members of both associations are re- Quested to be. present next Saturday at 2 o'clock.
 A petition to the state corporation commission was being circulated in Cove and vicinity Saturday request ing them to have the Kansas City Southern railroad to build a new depot or enlarge the old one, a cot ton platform and loading shed from which to load cantaloupes, berries. Fruits and truck of various kinds. The farmers around Cove gre planning to raise quite lot of truck for ship mcnt. There is as much railroad busi- ness If not more done here as at any other station between Heavener and DeQueen, outside of Mena. so why discriminate between Cove and the ether stations that have these neces- sites.