The Mena weekly star., 1921-09-01

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 Mr and Mrs. James Cecil were visit ing Kelsey Skinner and family last week.
 Clifton Hogue of Tulsa, Ok, is vis- ting his uncle and aunt, MT. and Mrs' c. c. Golf.
 Dr. MohIon of Buffalo, N. r., is vis- ting Dr. Nelson, and will probably locate here.
 Mrs. Harrel and Mrs. Roy Kelley returned Wednesday from an extended visit in Oklahoma.
 Miss Winnie Bell of Mena visited at the home of W. M. Hansard, re- turning home Tuesday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Tom Scanlon of Speery, Ok, after spending few days with relatives, returned home Sunday
 Mrs. McElwee and children of Hugo, Ok. returned home Sunday after spending a few days with Mrs. N. w. Elliott.
 Mrs. G. c. Golf has just returned from a visit toRalph Golf and family at Richmond; also visited D. c. Golf at De Queen.
 Mrs. A. M. Parker, who has been visiting her daughter at Huntington and friends at Fort Smith, returned home Monday.
 Little Miss Flora Barton went to Fort Smith Friday to visit relatives, Blake Barton and family and MT. Engle and family.
 Mrs. Clifton Cranford of Panama, l c. Z.. and Miss Otus Henderson of | Vandervoort spent the week end with Mir. and Mrs. Douglas Dover. 1 Mr. and Mrs Haskell Young .of 1 San Marcos, Tex, are an a months visit to their parents, Dr. and Mrs. ! Young and Mir. and Mrs. Silvey.
 Misses Opal and Leonora Babcock and their brother, Owen, of Pittsburg, Kas., are visiting Charley Breeden's family and other relatives this week.
 MT. and Mrs. Tally Woodell re- turned Thursday from St. Louis and ! St. Joseph, Mo, where MT. Woodell, who is store manager of the Cove Lumber Co.,, purchased the fall stock of goods.
 The Truck and Fruit Growers As sociation met Saturday. The commit tee reported $75.00, making total of $3l5.00 on the sweet potato dryhouse. There will be a meeting next Satur- day, September 3. All farmers are invited to attend.
 l Rev. Dr. Lewis of Indiana, the great evangelist, and H. E. Nixon, the l singer, who has been with Dr. Lewis for some time, will begin an evangeli- cal meeting in Cove at the Presbyter- ian church, on Wednesday, September IA Let the town people and farmers come out and hear Dr. Lewis preach and Mir. Nixon sing. Everybody come. Owen Babcoek and Ollie Scott, while taking a walk down the railroad track Sunday, discovered a broken rail one- fourth mile north of Barren creek No. was almost due, and the boys waited to flag the train. Their action probably prevented wreck and called forth the thanks of the conductor and crew. When the tram reacted Cove the section men were called out to re- place the broken rail
 Curley Smith and A. Mccoy, having several aliases, were captured in Cove by Deputies Dempsey and Walker They were riding stolen horses from Atoka, Ok. There is a reward of $10C from the state and $75 from the own. CT of the horses upon their conviction E. H. Harrison, sheriff of Atoka Go. arrived Saturday and identified the horses, brides and saddles, and re. turned with the property Sunday.
 The school directors of Cove spent little money on the high school build. ing. They have had the building cleaned and renovated from top te bottom, papered the walls with a nice light-tinted paper and the ceiling and all woodwork painted a beautiful straw color. It is now one of the eleanest and prettiest places in Cove and every child of school age wants to remember on next Monday, Septem- Der D, school commences with the best corps of teachers in Polk county, and you all want to be there at 9 o'clock sharp.
 Tom Dempsey, general manager of the Cove Lumber Go. plant at Cove sold last Monday the half block known as the old mule barn, north of the Skinner hotel, to J. w. Skinner. who intends to build two nice modern bun. galows to rent. MT. Dempsey tells us that the Cove Lumber Co. has se. cured from MT. Parker small tract of land west of the Golf residence. and VIII erect a modern barn and a nice home for the man who looks after the mules and rolling stock. This deal Will benefit Cove by removing a busi- ness that was not pleasant to have in the center of town. Watch Cove grow