The Green Forest tribune., 1902-07-19

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 Ramsey, c. B. Grim and J. B. Reeves I w. R. Sneed and wife returned
 Wednesday from short visit to the home of Mrs. Sneed's brother, John McCracken, down in the edge of Mis- souri.
 1 Gen. Jno. B. Gordon, the noted ex- confederate, will lecture at Eurek a Springs on July 27. The round trip on special train from Green Forest will be 60 cents. Old soldiers of both sides will be admitted to the lecture at half price.
 J. M. Paxton of the Egypt country told THE TRIBUNE Tuesday that he has a 14-acre field of corn that he believes will produce hundred bushels to the acre. There is as many as eight ears to | the stalk in some instances.
 Harry N. Horner of Enid, Okla., was Green Forest visitor Monday. MT. Horner is a partner in the Hunter Realty Go. of that city in which J. E. McCarty, a brother-in-law of E. s. Foreman, is interested. While here MT. Horner was guest of the Fore l mans.
 A gentleman who has had to do with the Russian thistle in Nebraska declares that the nasty weed that has engaged the attention of our city council is not the genuine Russian article by along shot, and thinks that the proceedings against the local pest should be drawn up in some other name.
 Work had to be suspended Wednes- day on Maj. Drought's mining shaft on account of the strong flow of water. A pump to be propelled by gasoline en- zine has been ordered for several days. It will be installed as soon as received and work will again be resumed. The shaft is now down to a depth of 24 feet.
 Eld. w. R. Miller was Green Forest visitor Tuesday, shaking hands with his numerous friends. He says crop pros- poets in his locality are the best he ever saw. He thinks he will be able to have plenty of corn bread during the coming year, owing to the fact that he has hundred acres of fine corn grow ing.
 A party composed of Prof. Cooper Ed Pucke tt, Misses Hattie Phillips, Se- dalia Poynor and Mrs. T. L. Hummer went to Berryville Tuesday night to be introduced into theRebeckahs,. .so.thatIan organization of this order may be es- tablished in Green Forest, whica we un- derstand will be done in the immediate future.
 Eld. M. M. Butler of the United Bap- tist church performed a Baptismal cere- mony at Braswell Spring Sunday, the subject being Ed Hammer, who weighs about 250 pounds, and who is also per- fectly helpless. Hammer was carried into the water in his chair, and by the assistance of two other members of the congregation, he was successfully inn mersed by turning his chair over and raising it back.
 The town council has a task on it's hands if it succeeds in exterminating the Russian thistle from the streets. It is impossible to kill it out unless the last vestige of root is destroyed. This thistle was a great bug g-a-boo all over the country, but it does not threaten to be the evil weed that was once thought. Instead of being great menace to hay crops in Nebraska it has been discover en to be palatable feed for cattle in the winter.
 At the republican county convention at Berryville Saturday three nomina- tiops were made. Oscar Grim was again nominated for sheriff; w. J. Meador was selected as the party's can 1 didate for county clerk and James Rhodes was nominated for tax collector. There being no available material for other offices the nominations were left open for future consideration, but it is probable that this is the extent of the nominations that will be made by the republicans for the coming county cam paign.
 Mai. Drought, upon whose judgment the prospecting work was begun here which has led to the sinking of mining shaft, is now spending his spare time in making careful geological survey of