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VOLUME I, NUMBER 20.THURSDAY. AUGUST 14, 1919.WALTER ELLIOTT, Editor. I
NOTES AND PERSONALS.
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The country needs rain badly.
Corn topping is the order of the day.
Watch the new ads in the Cove
Star.
I R. C. Smith has commenced to work
the road.
All roads leading into Cove need
lots of work.
A. M. Woodcll took in the Hatfield
fair last Saturday.
Subscribe for the Mena Star and
get the Cove Star free.
Sunday school every Sunday at 3
p. m. at Welcome Home.
The merchants tell us that trade is
getting better every day.
Read the prices that the merchants
are making on goods today.
The peach and cantaloupe season is
now about over for this year.
It won’t be long till this whole
county will be trading in Cove.
Most everybody in Cove went to the
Hatfield fair Friday and Saturday.
Sunday school and church every
Sunday at the Presbyterian church.
J. A. Coffey is working in the Cove
Lumber Company store for a week or
two.
Henry Chapman has his new house
about completed and will move in
soon.
Mrs. B. W. Teeters left last Friday
for DeQueen to visit a month with
her son.
Charley Hiaumet, east of Vander
voort, was in Cove last Saturday do
ing business.
Lewis Johnston and family of the
Hatfield bank spent Sunday at home
of J. C. Allen.
Trade with the merchants who
spend their money to advertise Cove
and Polk county.
H. C. Floyd, southwest of town, left
last Thursday to visit his son at Mena
for a day or two.
Claud Bryant will organize a sing
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Iiiijl, otuuui at tt cuumc iiuim. otnw*
house next. Sunday.
Miss Ella Felters and brother of
Wickes are visiting at the H. F. Dick
erson home, south of Cove.
Mrs. J. A Coffey and children went
to Mena last week to visit with Mr.
Coffey’s father and mother.
We are having the hottest weather
of the season. The thermometer
stood one or two days at 103.
Most all the farmers in this part of
Polk county took in the fair at Hat
field last Friday and Saturday.
Reese Eudaly is building a new
three-room house on his father’?
farm and will move in next week.
John Harkey and wife and his twr
daughters of Hatton visited with W
M. Hansard and family over Sunday
IB. W. Teeters left Tuesday morning
for DeQueen to visit with his son anc
jattend to some business while there
| Frank Topelay and family of Cerro
gordo, are visiting with the Ha
Grady family and I.ouis Debelle fam
ily.
Mrs. Jim Barrett and children o1
King are visiting at the home of J. A
Coffey. Mrs. King is Mrs. Coffey’i
sister.
I Manor & Parker tell us that thej
[sold two farms Tuesday. Talk abou
Polk county land, they all want Poll
county farms.
Fred Dickerson returned home fron
the commercial school at Fort Smitl
last Friday. He will rest a while be
fore going to work.
Dooley Barton is telling his friend;
that it is a bouncing girl baby. Mothe;
and baby getting along nicely. Dr
> Mullins in attendance.
Miss Myrtle Daniels of Mena hai
accepted the summer term of school a;
Westview and will commence schoo
next Monday, August 11.
J. W. Wilson & Co. moved their new
sawmill over in Oklahoma and arc
now doing a big business in sawing uj
the pine timber in Oklahoma.
On last Saturday the Cove Mil
Company ground three turns of new
corn meal. How is that for new corr
on the 9th of August in Polk county.
Miss Mathis of the Goff-Gamblc
Company store, and Miss Callic
Compton of Cove, visited with friend!
at Grannis Saturday night and Sun
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noon.
Waymon W. Crain, who was just re
cently discharged from the U. S,
army, whose home is in Hatfield has
accepted a position in the bank ol
Cove.
The Cove Lumber Company planet
was closed down most of last week or
account of remodeling and adding a
new moulding machine to their bis
plant.
Walter Luttrell, the assistant agent
at the Kansas City Southern depot
who has been sick for the last ter
days, is now able to be back to work
again.
W. O. West, our new barber, takes
over the E. L. Goens barbershop Tues
day morning. We trust Mr. West wil
like his new home and prosper in his
business.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Elliott ami
baby are spending their vacation al
Womble, visiting Levi Witherspoor
and family, and will return home nexl
Saturday.
E. L. Goens will leave Tuesdaj
morning for Smithville to take chargt
of the shop he has lately purchased
Everybody read Mr. Goen’s ad in thi
Cove Star this week.
A big revival meeting was been go
ing on at Gospel Chapel for nearb
two weeks, conducted by the Rev. Mr
McKinley. There is great interes
among the people. There were 1!
converts baptized last week and th<
meeting closed on last Thursda;
night.
J. C. Goodman, our retired mer
chant, who has been up in the north
ern part of the state on his big farm
looking after the big hay crop, jarm
. home Saturday to spend Sunday witl
i his family. He has baled 3,000 balei
of hay and will have perhaps 3,001
, bales more.
P. Younce bought last week fron
B. B. Tisher a nice home with 13 acre
of ground in East Cove, and wil
move in next week. Mr. Younce’
| business has grown beyond his ex
pectation and he must live in th
hustling town of Cove in order to kee
in touch with his sawmill business.
Cove is growing. Every day mor
people are moving in and more home
are being built. There is a reason fo
this. This is a splendid place to live
1 a productive country and a health
country. So move to Cove and dria
her spring water and eat her produc
tion of the farm and you will b
happy.
Fred W. Gray, who has one of th
nicest modern homes on Cove avenut
has lately put in a new acetylene ga
plant, a 50-light machine, lightin
his home from cellar to garret. Thi
makes one of the prettiest lights i
use today, and much less expensiv
than electricity. Fred always get
the best.
A new meat market for Cove. Jus
what Cove wants. Isaac Fuqua fror
i
Ballard county, Kentucky, has decid
ed to put a nice meat market rignt
awav. He will keep mutton, fresh
beef and fresh pork, smoked bacon
and lard. Everybody patronize this
shop. See his ad next week. Cove is
bound to grow.
W. M. Pride, secretary of the Cove
Truck and Fruit Growers’ Association,
tells us that he has sold about 1000
crates of cantaloupes by express and
6 carloads of peaches and 7 carloads
of cantaloupes from Cove this sea
son, and realized a good fair price for
the farmers. This is what makes
! Cove grow—lots of business.
Attention Farmers: Now is the
1 time to gather your seed corn for
■ next year. Go out into the corn field
' and pick the best ears, the best de
I veloped and the nearest pure, and
; hang them up in the barn to dry, and
next spring you will have the best
seed corn that money will buy. and
will always have a good stand ot
corn. Do it now.
P. W. Taylor of Vandervoort is do
ing a land office business in shipping
fruit and produce and turning it into
cash for the farmer. He has shipped
15 cars of peaches and over 1000 bush
1 els of apples, besides tomatoes, beans,
! cabbage, onions, eggs, butter and
j chickens and hides. He runs a gro
cery and feed store. This is the kind
: of men that make a town.
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Cove’s New Gin.
I Henry Scott and J. C. Towery are
building one of the most up-to-date
^ gins in Cove that there is in Polk
j county. The new Munger system,
with all the latest improvements, hy
draulic pressure on the bales of cotton |
so that the farmer’s wagon will holdj
three bales of cotton instead of two.
These gentlemen have spent almost I
$10,000 on this plant and are prepared |
to do the business for 10 miles each
way from Cove. The capacity of this
•gin is a bale of cotton every 20 min
utes, or'3 bales an hour. These gen
tlemen are full of business and will
have this large plant all ready to run
in three weeks more, and when in town
step in and see the plant. Cove ex
pects to have two or three good cot
ton buyers here during the season.
Bring your cotton to Cove.
New Safe for Bank of Cove.
1 The Bank of Cove placed in their
bank last week one of the finest, up-to
date, burglar and fireproof safes, with
three time locks. Opens and shuts
with a screw and fits so tight that it
' is impossible for a burglar to blow it.
It weighs 7,100 pounds, and cost
$1,180. This is one of the best safes
in Polk county. J. C. Allen, cashier of
the bank, has recently added to the
bank’s equipment, all the latest ma
' chines and devices, so as to be able to
handle the growing business in the
' most convenient manner. If you are
' not a customer of the bank just call
\ and let Mr. Allen or any of his assist
ants show you thru. It has a line of
fixtures that you don’t often find in a
country bank. Patronize the Cove
Bank and watch it grow.
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Stuart Land Company Very Busy.
! The Stuart Land Company is hav
, ing more land buyers than ten men
I can show. Every day their car is
loaded with prospective land buyers
and they are selling from one to three
1 farms in Polk county every day. Mr.
! Baker and Mr. Abercrombie are good
judges of Polk county land and they
5 have the ability of getting the buyer
’ and the seller together. The seller is
satisfied because he gets his money
’ and the buyer is satisfied gecause he
gets a good farm in Polk county be
3 fore the land gets too high. Notice
3 next week in the Cove Star the num
r ber of farms the Stuart Land Com
> pany has sold during the last week.
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1 Stock Show at Cove for September.
, Do the farmers want to exhibit
what Polk county can raise in the line
of fine cows and calves, fine horses
and colts, mules, fine sheep and fine
’ hogs, fine chickens and turkeys?
* Have it on Saturday. Say have a sale
^ on that day. Offer a good premium
* for the first and second grade. Talk
J this up and see what Cove can do.
3 The Quinine That 0ms Net Aftect The HeMI
Becar.sc of its tonic and laxative r ffm I ay a.
t ®E BROMO QUININE ClKtoS) uki
!7.?n,il?nCjW i nervousness or ringing
1 j in the head. E.W. GROVE S signature on box/30c.
GOFF BROTHERS &
GAMBLE CO.
SPECIALS
IN
FEED AND FLOUR
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We have just received a car of feed and
will give our customers the benefit of some
special prices. An inquiry as to prevailing
prices will be enough to cause you to come
j 100 lbs Pure Corn Chops . $4.25
I 4-bu. sack Oats 4.00
100 lbs H. & M. Feed, 40%
grain .... 3.00
100 lbs Pure Shorts 3.25
50 lbs Wichita Best Flour 3.25
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Scores of other good things at bottom
prices can be found at the “Big Rock Store. ”
Goff Bros & Gamble Co.
Cove, Arkansas
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Big Bone
Poland Chinas
FOR SALE.
19 head Registered Big i
Bone Poland China Pigs. 7
head 8 weeks old and 12
head 4 weeks old. Both
males and gilts.
Call and see me. One mile
south of Old Cove.
G. W. SAWYER.
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Commercial
Hotel
Mrs. Jas. Evans, Prop.
Clean, Comfortable Rooms
and Wholesome Meals
Service Car Always Ready to
Take You Anywhere
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K. S. SKINNER
Notary Public
OFFICE AT
COVE LUMBER COMPANY
Core, - - - Arkansas
Manor & Parker
are old Real Estate men. They
kuow all the land in Polk.
County and are posted as to
what Polk County can raise. We
have lots of land listed both
small farms and large ones and
listing more every day. We sell
on Commission basis. We run
a auction in front of our office
every third Saturday i n the
month.
Call and See Us
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Manor & Parker
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CASH FOR
PRODUCE
I am located at COPLAN
& SON S Store and will pay
the Highest Cash Price for
Eggs. Butter and Hides.
Don’t forget to call and see
me when in Cove.
J. W. FORTNER.
Attention!
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED a large shipment of Dry
Goods, and even though the market is steadily advancing we
are selling them for less money than it would take to re
place them. We also carry a nice line of
LADIES’ READY-TO-WEAR WAISTS AND SKIRTS
to which we invite your attention, and, while here don’t
fail to see our stock of WARNER’S famous “Rust-Proof’
CORSETS, which we have recently added to our stock.
We also carry at all times a nice stock of GROCERIES
and FEED, and offer the foUowing for this week:
Kansas Expansion Flour, 48-lb sack-$3-25
Wheat Shorts, 100-lb sack- 3.25
Morris Purity Lard, 8-lb pail-2.65
Mason Fruit Jars, halves- 1.25
Mason Fruit Jars, quarts--1.00
Where you will eventually trade, and where quality
counts, we win.
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Cove Lumber Company
BIG CASH STORE
“ Where Quality Counts We Win”
COVE, ARKANSAS
Attention Farm Owners
—
i If you have a real bargain in a farm,
large or small, let us know about it. We
have the buyers and your farm may be
the very one that we need to exactly
j suit a prospect.
i STUART LAND CUMPANY
j COVE, ARKANSAS |
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When you think of getting a
smooth shave or good hair cut
to make you Shine on Sunday.
—TRY US—
WE LEAD THEM ALL.
THE CITY BARBER SHOP
Edward L. Goens, Prop.
Children’3 Haircutting
A Specialty.
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