The Green Forest tribune., 1904-03-05
THE TRIBUNE 15 YEARS OLD
Some "Reminiscences of COndi- @ tions Here March 5, 1889.

5 tions Here March 5, 1889.
 THE TRIBUNE is just fifteen years old with the date of this paper, the publication having is- sued it's first number on March 5, 1889.
 As a business of the town THE TRIBUNE can now claim priority Mover nearly everything else. When it's "frail bark was launch ed on the tempestous sea of journalism' there were but few Of the present coterie of business men. As we remember it now, the mercantile interests were then represented by the general stores of l.. E. Harbert, G. Camp, William Ward, R. Cuthbertson, J. M. Bailey and J. H. Ramsey. Oliver & Buell. carried stock of < hardware and Ray 6 Harbert line of drugs. There were some two or three shops, and grist mill saowned by J. A. Mahan. There were then two hotels, the Pleasant Srun by A. A. Pickens and the s#Red Ere nt on the south side of the square run by H. M. Harbert. sEFDr. J. P. Fondren together with May and Harbert constituted the local corps ofphysicians. These were about the sum and total of the businesses carried on here 6at that time.
 There was no church house and you might say no school house i'll the town. There was a frail old boxed structure near the site of the present school house, that was used for every- thing that came along, and which was almost as far behind the needs of the town then as the present one is now.
 The population of the town was then not in excess of 100. There was only one street and that was the Harrison and Eureka < Springs public road. The Springfield road was most too far removed from the group of M business houses to be thought of as street.
 THE TRIBUNE was started up as the property of a stock company @ which purchased the plant of the defunct Arkansas Tomahawk, which paper was made to hum for 8 few months during the year be- fore, in the memorable county < seat fight. H. s. Holden was the first editor. He came from Michigan and it didn't take him but few months to decide that it was a good business to turn loose, and no formal good-byes were in- du.ged in the day he took the overland route for his former home.
 G. Camp was then induced to shove his classic pen for the pu blication, which he did in con- nection with his store, the mechanical work being done by B. B. Eslinger, who had learned something of the business under Holden. At the end of two years of the uncertain venture WI. c. Russell took charge of the Business, acquiring all the stock in the company, which he was able to secure at considerably less than par. After putting up a house for an office and giving the matter attention for eight or ten months, he made sort of a family affair of it, and the writer was in- stalled as editor-in chief and general manager of the business in October, 1891, with but little to recommend or encourage him, but a disposition to stay with it.
 Later tho other member of the present fitn joined in the busi- ness and it is not putting it whit too strong to say that we have Absolutely grown rich-in ex- perience-and both have succeed ed in accommodating satisfactorily large families.
 Taking it, all in all, THE TRIB- UNE has been quite a success. Few papers in all the country x have hean held tOUathap lndar