The Green Forest tribune., 1903-01-17
PREPARATION BEING MADE
local Horticu1turists Getting q Ready for State Meeting.


 the membership out at the meet ing of the Green Forest Horticul- Mural Association last Saturday Afternoon than has been present sst any meeting of the organiza- Ttion for several months past. S8 The entertainment of the State Horticultural Society was the Thief matter of business consider ed. The vacancy on the com 'HfE tee on arrangements caused by the removal from the country Joy G. R. Blasingame was filled zby the selection of J. H. Puckett, making the personal of that com
 mittee now as follows: E. s. Foreman, J.B. Reeves, A. J. Cox,
 J. A. Standlee and J. H. Puckett.
 Among the several duties to be
 performed by this committee is the making of a house to house
 canvass of the town to ascertain
 how many people can be cared
 for in each home, rates, etc. ~ The reception committee, com-
 posed of l.. s. Shibley, Irwin
 Whitaker, c. E. Foreman, c. C..
 Haflick and A. J. Russell, will
 assign the visitors to their several
 boarding places. To facilitate sthis matter they will probably sfwork the incoming trains the first sday of the meeting.
 H esIhe association will undertake ~. gather an exhibit of apples and .grain for display at this meeting. 1While, of course, it will be inn Apossible to find an exhibit that 9would be a representative one of 8what can be produced in this sec- Stion, yet it is desirable that as good a one as possible be had. %The fact that we have no cold storage from which to take ap- ples can be taken into account and when all the disadvantages under which we have to labor are taken in consideration it may be possible to leave quite good inn pression upon our visitors as to
 what can be produced here. It
 is urged by the association that
 all who may be able to assist in making this collection report at the meeting of the association on Saturday afternoon, Feb. ', which is three days before the commencement of the state meet, ing.
 At the meeting Saturday after
 noon, the association was honor ed by the presence of Capt. T. F. Hawley of Eureka Springs, whose enthusiasm on the subject of fruit raising never subsidies. He is particularly interested in Green f 4 .S people doing the handsome s n9H. Ag during the meeting of the ses te society. He was one of the spirits in having the smeeting brought here and he Naturally feels some personal re- sponsibility in having the visitors well taken care of. He wants them to go away feeling that this is great fruit growing section and that Green Forest is a live, enterprising town. The Captain thinks it would be but little less than calamity should a side- walk not be completed to the de- pot before the date of this meet ing and as manifestation of his feelings in the matter he proposes \ to make donation of five dollars to the fund if the job is complet- ed before that time.
 < Capt. Hawley said he had just received a letter from Prof. Err Snest Walker secretary of the state Ssociety, which stated prospects xfor large attendance is flatter- 2ing and the Captain thinks that 250 or 3O0is not an extravagant estimate of the size of the crowd of people brought to our town on account of this meeting.
 4 As chairman of the committee on arrangements, E. $. Foreman has called a mass meeting of the v