The Green Forest tribune., 1900-07-26


 J.F. Walker is having his dwelling dressed up in new coat of paint.
 It is too late to insure after you have sustained loss by fire. See Russell Bros. Jess Wilson and family, late of Flu reka Springs, occupy Blasingame's new cottage. There will be fish fry and picnic on Osage near Clearwater school house next Saturday.
 A bridge across Yocum creek at the mill is indispensable. It should be put in before winter by all means. Mack Qualls is making all necessary arrangements to open a meat market in Green Forest by the first of August.
 Frank Mckee of Oxford, Miss, broth CT of Mrs. H. P. Burney, arrived here last Saturday and will visit for a month. The potato crop this year is. the best for years and the acreage the largest. The local market quotes them at 80 cents. Miss Mamie Puckett of Green Forest has again been elected a member of the faculty of the Eureka Springs public school.
 1 Farmers are wearing broad smiles on their faces since the recent rains have put all crops even beyond the possibility of a shortage.
 B. B. Eslinger has purchased an ele- gant residence site in the Phillips &e Russell addition and will soon begin the erection of home.
 THE TRIBUNE agency can furnish you abstracts on short notice and at the same rates they can be procured from any abstractor in the county.
 Fire insurance is a necessity. Grow ing towns are always the subjects of more or less loss from fires. Insure and take no risks. Talk with Russell Bros.
 Nothing speaks so well for town as well improved streets. There is lots of room for improvement in this line about Green Forest. We hope to see much more effective work before the fall rains set in.
 w. W. Woods of Springfield, Mo-, was in Green Forest Saturday figuring on going into the banking business here. He met good encouragement. While here Mir. Woods bought couple of lots in Blasingame's addition.
 The Band Boys scored their usual h- nancial success at their ice cream supper Saturday night. Most people of Green Forest are proud of the band and try to lend it encouragement. The boys owe quite bit on their new uniforms yet.
 c. B. Grim has let the contract to Holloway Bros. for the building of 8 3G-foot extension on the rear end of his store room. The brick and other mate rial is now on the ground and the con- tractors propose to make short work Of the job. The new room will be occupied by the post office.
 B. R. McNei1, a former Green Forest boy, but now a prosperous farmer of Cassville, Mo, accompanied by his fam- fly, was visiting relatives in this vicinity last week. While here he called on THE TRIBUNE and placed a dollar to his credit for years subscription. He can't afford to do without the news from his old home.
 Whitaker Bros. are now numbered among the merchants of Green Forest, having established themselves in the gro cery business at the Galloway old stand The business of the firm will De conduct- ed by Dee Whitaker, young man of enterprise and good business training The new firm will doubtless command a liberal share of the grocery trade.
 The new stone block on the east side, comprising the store rooms of McGruder & Hoag and Dr. HaTbert, is now almost complete. For durability and workman ship, these two buildings will compare favorably with any buildings in the county. They are simply nice enough for anybody. The tar and gravel roof ing is quite the best job of the kind that has ever been turned off in the town.
 THE TRIBUNE is under obligations to Mrs. c. s. Sllinkle for the privilege of reviewing 6 copy of the second number of the ''Arkansas Tomahawk'' publish ed in Green Forest, Sept. i2, 1888, when