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The Green Forest tribune., 1906-12-15
A HAPPY THOUGHT
A Christmas Present That Prov
 ed to be of Great Value.

| Last year, loving mother said to her husband. "what shall we give our boy for Xmas?" The father, after careful delib- eration replied, "Something that will be of benefit to him through : out life, no difference what occu- patton he may choose to follow. "a scholarship for course of Bookkeeping, Business Training and Shorthand in the Tyler Com mercial College of Tyler, Texas , The mother replied, "That is a happy thought; we will do it.'' They did, and today that boy draws three times the salary he was receiving then and is in line of rapid promotion with bright prospects ahead.
 Young man, young woman, if father and mother will not give you scholarship in this famous institution, which is placing its graduates in the very best cleri- cal, stenographic, and tele- graphic positions to be found, get it yourself; it will De the bestin- vestment of your life. Many young person who borrowed the money a year ago in order to take course with us, has paid off his debt, has an excellent position with bright prospects for future success. Decide today that your Xmas present shall be g scholarship in the Tyler Commercial College of Tyler, Texas, and that it shall be for a combined course of Bookkeeping, Shorthandand Telegraphy if you can't get the courses, take one, although two are much better; it gives you greater opportunity for advancement.
 If you are not familiar with the practical courses given by this institution and their ability to place their graduates at good salaries, write, asking for any
 information you like, also a copy of their large illustrated catalog, which will be sent free.
The Green Forest tribune., 1906-12-15

in a land where people have equal opportunities, that one person has the same chance to become president of these United States that another has. We'll, maby so; but we would like to exchange our chance to become president for any cid thing that we can cash at the bank. If any of you want trade, address me at Green Forest, describing the article for exchange.
The Green Forest tribune., 1906-12-15
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
BY J. w. FAIRCHILO

We all remember the old ques tion which we discussed when we were schoolboys: ''Do oppor'- tunities make the man, or does the man make his opportunities?' It is not our purpose to discuss this question, but as the oppor- tunity has presented itself, we desire to offer a few thoughts, and ask few questions, for the consideration of the readers of THE TRIBUNE. We would like to talk with them regarding their prospects for success in life; whether they are engaged in a lucrative business-one that am- ply supplies them with. the ne- cessities of opportunities for en. gazing in such a business. What openings are standing ready for you to enter!
 We have been looking over the situation, and noting the oppor- tunities for industrious men to enter paying business, and our observation is that they are nar- rowing down. year by year. Some trades that furnished sem- ployment for one or more persons in every community, have been completely knocked out by the invention of labor saving ma chinery, and it's use in large fac- tories. For instance, we once had shoemaker with his little kit of tools, making shoes for the people of this community; but he is gone. You have an oppor- tunity to put up a shoe shop to- day, but you could not earn enough money making shoes to buy whiskey for temperance lecturer. Ot her occupations, that are now extinct could be- named.
 But when we turn to the active occupations, we find all of them virtually overdone. Every cross roads has it's store, and every town is so crowded with them, handling their various kinds of wares, till it takes hus ting to
The Green Forest tribune., 1906-12-15
Only one Bid on Court House

Only one Bid on Court House
 Commissioner Nick Kizer, special court house commissioner for the western district of Car roll county, informs us that there was only one bid made for the construction of the new court house in this city, that of Con- troctor w. O. Perkins, and this was a conditional bid. MT. Kizer informs us that this will be open Monday in Berryville by the county judge. It is understood that none of the other contractors of the city would attempt the structure at the price specified MT. Perkins drew the plans and specifications for the building. and from what we can learn vii probably secure the contract Times Echo.
The Green Forest tribune., 1906-12-15

make living at the mercantile
 business. Yes, and there art
 the mail order houses, whose cat.
 alogues are in nearly every
 home, and who are so monop. olizing trade that our local mer. chants arc having nightmares ir the daytime. Other occupations and professions are likewise fill ed. If you enter them, you must make your opportunities, for it is seldom one stands open. Com- petetion is so strong in all ave- nues of business, that the only way to climb up the ladder is by pulling some one else down. As a rule, your success means an- others failure. A man can only become ri;h at the expense of others.
 But it is a noticeable fact that there is one business carried on in our country, in which we find no competition. That is the postal system. You will find towns with two dozen stores and only one postoffice. Did you ever think about it? Now if a. town can support so many stores,. why can it not support several postoffices? Are you looking for an opportunity to. enter some business where competition is.not strong. Why not put in another postoffice at Green Forest? We have been thinking of applying for a position as a travelling man to sell postage stamps.
 You say we are off our base, and are wondering if we are not crazy? We'll, is there not as much sense in having half a dozen postoffices in Green Forest, as there is in having half a dozen stores? If not,please tell me why not. And are not drummers to sell stamps and postal cards as necessary as drummers to sell dry goods and groceries? If not, why not?
 We have been told that we live
The Green Forest tribune., 1906-12-15
Settle up Notice.

All persons who have open ac- counts with us are expected to call and make satisfactory settle- ment at once. Our fall bills are due and must be met and for that reason we must ask all who owe us to come in and make settle- 'ment,
 NUNNALLY 6 Co.
The Green Forest tribune., 1906-12-15
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
Program for December Meeting

Persuant to the action of the Teachers Association of the East ern District of Carroll Go. at it's last meeting, June, 1906, notice is hereby given that the next semi -anual meeting will be held at Green Forest, December 28 and 20, 1906. The following program has been arranged.
 FRIDAY
 Invocation-Rev. s. P. Caress.
 Song by Choir.
 Opening Address W. D. Crawford.
 Response w. M. Smith.
 Review of Educational Im- provement in the state and county during the last two years -J. c. Bunch.
 The teaching of domestic science and agriculture in the public schools. 1 1:-M. L. Mccall R. E. McCloud.
 U. s. History and Civics, 40 Will Elam, B. Smith Reading, 2:30. Grace Kirk patrick, Rena Wright.
 Spelling 800 W. c. Page.
 SATURDAY
 Opening exercise, 500.
 Kindergarten Work 9:30-l Ruth McQuown. Grammar, lO:1O Mrs. G. E. Tabor, E. A. Seals.
 Arithmetic, 10:50 E SC h a Thompson. The parties to a good school 11:20, W. M. Smith.
 Surroundings and Environments of the school :45-Myrtle Bunch Necessary school Legislation, 1 :00-W. D. Crawford.
 Music as part of the School course 1 :30-Oliver Potter. Ever cit Faulkner, Dock Douglas.
 The Litreary Society-G. s. Lewis.
 The Association will commence at 10 o'clock Friday and will be held in the Chapel of public school building.
 Every teacher of the county is earnestly requested to be present. If the teacher attends the h. tlstutes because it is compulsory he should attend the ssocation that he may demonstrate his loy- atty to the profession and his real meaning in the work.
 By their fruits ye shall know them.''
 A special invitation is extend- ed to the teachers. of the Western district of the county and to members of the county school boards to attend.
 w. H. INGERsoLL, Pres. :.
 MYRTLE BUNCH. Sec.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-12-26

shortcomings let me remind him that
those facts have been gathered, weigh
ed, and verified, time and again, at
4 cost of nearly twenty years of labor,
considerable money and unremitting
written up, explained and defended in
hundreds of articles in journals all
over the country, for which l neither
asked nor received one cent OF pay.
Let him further remember that hay
ing made a competence by the prac-
tice of it's principles there was no
need for me to say one word in their
defence, the sole inducement being
the good of others and the spread Of
truths so vitality important to sue
"essful fruit growing.
The following are the extracts to
which Mr.. Stringfellow referred in his
letter:
Fruit Growing 100 Years Ago-Ex-
tracts from the Rural Encyclopaedia,
published in Philadelphia, 1900:
Part of roduction-''This work
upon husbandry now ushered before
the American public is the production
Of an English gentleman of great in
telligence, assisted by some Of the best
authorities upon rural affairs in this
country. 1t has been charged upon
agriculturists that improvements in
husbandry encounter very great op-
position and generally work their way
with exceeding slowness, whereas all
improvements made in manufacturing
and mechanics are seized upon and
put to profit almost as quickly as
promulgated. The justly celebrated
Mr.. Coke, Of Holkam, England, sue
ceeded by the adoption of an enlight-
ened course of tillage, in converting a
sandy, sterile district into one of
great productiveness; but though the
results were so very. striking to all be-
holders, such was the apathy and
prejudice prevailing among his neigh
bors that his improved processes
spread very slowly
The Apple-''The seeds should be
>own in autumn and the plants thin
ned to two inches when we'll grown.
At one or two years of age they should
be taken up, their tap roots shortened
!" hat they may throw out lateral ones,
md set in nursery rows about four
Get asunder. In the summer follow
ng they are to be inoculated or bud
Fled, which, if not done, they must be
engrafted ti1e5year after APP
sple trees win also flourish ON sandy
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-12-26

to be knocked off in cultivating. If
there happens to be only two limbs,
cut off one close to the trunk of the
tree and cut the other off at the height
you want the tree headed. This will
prevent the formation of fork that
would later prove rulnous.
The second year is the most impor-
tant year in pruning the peach tree
During this year the tree must have
enough interior wood removed to give
it a cast shape. And the ends Of the
limbs should be cut back as evenly as
possible, but always above bud that
will force the new growth outward-not
inward toward the axis Of growth.
If the ends of the smaller limbs are
severed as much as the main limbs, it
leaves a snag, or, as it is more COM
monty. known among primers, a hat
rack" These snags will not heal over
until the tree grows around their base,
and while this is taking place the snag
is decaying, and this often produces a
defect in the limb which causes it to
break when subsequently loaded with
fruit or sleet. So reason and observa-
ton both demonstrate that all branches
should be severed close to the limbs
or the trunks of the tree
The same system is kept up during
the third and fourth years, only gaug-
ing the number of fruit buds that should
be left in order to get the proper
amount Of fruit.
Of course, the dead or injured limbs
should be taken out at any time or at
any age Of the tree.
A peach tree becomes "grown'' after
certain time, depending on condition
of soil, cultivation, etc, and since the
fruit buds form on wood developed the
previous year, we have to adopt some
plan to force new wood, in order to
secure fruit buds; and since our trees
are grown" it is out Of the question
to resort for this purpose to cultiva
ton or fertilizing any more So we are
compelled to adopt the plan suggested
and cut back the top The roots are
worked to their full capacity to support
the top, and so, when we take away
a part of the top, they have sufficient
strength to force fruting wood again,
and if the. pruning is kept up, there is
no reason why we should not maintain
a growing tree as long as we succeed
in controlling infectious diseases
If the fruit tree is pruned as pre-.
viously suggested, it will have a ten
dency to keep down brown rot by ex-
posing the fruit to the SUN, which will
tend to reduce the development Of the
rot Spores 1t will also thin the fruit
SO that one peach will not come in
contact with another.
A second reason for pruning in such
manner as to expose the fruit to the
SUN is that thereby the fruit becomes
more brilliantly colored and is far
more handsome than fruit grown in
the shade
Prof L. c. Corbett, of the United
States Department of Agriculture,
gives the following reasons for prun-
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-12-26

Of course, necessitates further ex
penditure to thin the fruit, to say
nothing Of the danger Of losing the
crop, or a large part of it, from pre-
mature blooming, due to destruction
of the trees natural equilibrium be
tween the tops and the roots
I will say that the old sod peact
trees illustrated in the New Horti
culture, especially those fortified as
described, now have two to -four
crates to the tree and would have
had several times as much but fol
the curculio and plum gouger AnG
yet the tempera ture here was 20 de
grees Fahrenheit, when trees were
blooming. I can safely say that those
Elberta and a few sod trees in Lam
pasas have the only fruit in all Wes
Texas.
In the matter of pear blight, we
stand just where the pear grower
did a hundred years ago as far as
science can prescribe a remedy, for il
agrees entirely with our author, the
only remedy is to saw off the limb
Indeed, with the exception of spray
ing, which we borrowed from the
French, our orthodox American hor
ticulture now stands practically where
it did hundred years ago. While il
is fact that our latter day scientists
have demonstrated the truth Of the
wise mans remark, that 'of making
books there is no end," there is no
a single important process or horti
cultural idea in any Of them that has
not been borrowed from Thomas OF
Chas. Downing, who died over Sc
years ago. Of course, a vast amount
Of money is invested in those books
which are on the road to the paper
mill Or the dump if the New Horti
culture is true.
Of all men the nurseryman is most
interested in seeing the New Hort
culture cover the whole country. II
is a self-evident proposition that the
cheaper he can grow, replant and dig
bis trees, the more money saved:
the amount, for instance, in hand
ling the pecan, being the difference
between the cost of a plowed furroN
and three or four-inch root-p1une(
tree as shown in in the New Horticult
ure, and a 30-inch hole and tree will
tap root that long. The same ratio
exists in transplanting all other fruit
and shade trees in nursery rows
But on the other hand, the nursery
man is equally interested in seeing
the fruit grower also adopt the New
horticulture methods for it is self
evident that the more cheaply he car
plant and grow and manage his or
chard, the healthier and more produc
tive his trees, the finer looking, eating
and shipping his fruit, the more mon
ey he will make, even at a low price
Consequently, that grower will be in
duced to enlarge his orchard or others
seeing his success, be induced to plan
new ones.
In view of these facts does it MOI
behoove every nurseryman to Ia!
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-12-26
Orthodox Fruit Culture Expensive.

Of the New Horticulture, has written
an article, for Farm and Ranch, which
we think worthy of careful study
Do not: allow an unreasonable and un-
reasoning prejudice to prevent your
testing this new and undoubtedly
valuable method of tree culture.
Not long ago I came across the old
book, the backs gone and leaves
torn, from which were taken the ex-
tracts that appear elsewhere in this
issue of Farm and Ranch. While the
author entertains ideas as to the func.
tons of the sap not in accordance
with ours, every reader of the quaint
epitome of horticultural science nearly
hundred years ago must have been
struck with surprise at the marked
similarity between many of their meth
DDS and the orthodox practices of
today. With the exception of June
buds, peach trees were propagated
orchard ground prepared, the trees
planted and cultivated just as now
while the deadly effect of sod on the
peach could not have been emphasized
more strongly, even by the Texas
Horticultural Experiment Station
And evidently they grew good peaches
in those days, just as our cultivatin
friends do now when it doesn't frost
too late or rain too much, and prices
then must make the Texas peach
growers mouth water.
Their propagation of the apple
seems to have been done entirely BY
budding and grating the young trees
in the ground, as I find no mention
anywhere of the common "piece root
method so general now. AS to size
Of trees for orchard planting a recent
canvas of Northern nurserymen by the
Rural New Yorker showed a prefer.
ence among most of them and Their
customers for large trees, but in the
size of hole for receiving the tree in
orchard, it seems that the orthodox
apple grower of today is content with
one only two feet square and deep as
generally recommended by the au-
thorities, though the pecan scientists
insist on 80 inches every way as direct
ed last fall by an eminent Georgia
orchardist at the pecan growers meet.
ing in Dallas.
Just why the modern fruit grower
has been so illogical as to contract
the hole from eight feet wide and
four feet deep, does not appear. fn,
plainly if as the books all teach, the
more roots tree has when trans
planted the better, and a soft pulver.
led bed is really necessary: for it
to re-establish itself, logically the big
ger the hole, the better for the tree.
AS to pruning, especially the peach
The fruit growers Of 1909 seem actu-
ally to have been far in advance of
their orthodox brethren of today, for
he book has very little to say on the
subject beyond shortening in strong
shoots and keeping the trees in sym
netrical shape, their idea evidently
being that nature knew what she was
lbout when she made the beautiful,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-04-19
FROM ROWERA.

StAAbotOA0cu1t "a VIZ A~okct
RowENA, April H.-Rev. Brewer
filed his regular appointment at Map
lie Grove Sunday morning and evening.
He delivered a very interesting SER
mon on the resurrection.
Mrs. @. @. Burkeye entertained her
mother and sister a few days the past
week.
The ladies In this vicinity are busy
cleaning house and making gardens.
Some OF the farmers are through
sowing oats.
]. H. Neil delivered hogs to R @.
Peck Thursday.
Fred Smith, OF Monroe county, is the
guest Of Mrs. Ward.
Il. ]. Walker and family, were the
guests OF his brother, ]. J. Walker.
]. II. Neil is having a new porch
erected In front Of his residence.
Perry Reed and family, Of Tulip,
were visitors here Sunday.
Farmers are discouraged with the
late season.
RowENA, April l2-Several OF our
people had the pleasure Of hearing DR.
Long preach at Bethlehem church
Sunday morning and evening.
Born TO Ralph Brown and wife
Mardh 3lst a fine boy baby.
Prof. Fuller family Of near Holi day
are the guests Of relatives here.
Rev Brewer is the recent guest Of
his parents In Galloway county.
The annual school meeting was held
April 3 IN Goodwater district q seven
month school was voted. G f Sans
berry was reelected trustee. II ]
Picket was elected road overseer.
Mn @ c Burkeye was the guest OF
her sister MIST German, Of Ceatralia
the past week.
Jim McKonnihay's sale was well at
attend stock sold well.
Fred Vance, Of C~entralla, was the
Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-04-19

Mr.. William e. Thomas, OF Fergu'
son. and Miss May Blattner, Of this
city, will be united in marriage al
the home Of the bride-to-be on East
Promenade street, at 2 o'clock next
Thursday afternoon.
The wedding win be a quiet home
affair with only the relatives and i'm.
mediate friends as witnesses and the
ceremony will be performed by Rev.
A. w. K~okendoffer, Immediately az
ter which Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas will
leave for their future home in st,
Louis, where they will be at home to
their friends after May first.
The brlde-elect is a daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. J. 4. Blattner, Of this city,
and is a young woman II pleasing per-
sonality and many accomplishments;
she possesses a host Of acquaintance
in this and nearby towns and is one
OF the most popular young women In
Mexico.
Mr.. Thomas, the prospective groom,
is with the Campbell Glass and Paint
house, OF st. Louis, as book-keeper,
and q young man of exemplary habits
and sterling worth.
The LEDGER extends s~ongratula-
tions and best wishes In advance.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-04-19

guest Of home folks a few days the past
week.
Bill Hersch bad the misfortune to
loose a mare one night last week.
Miss Matte Gowen was the guest OF
her mother a few days.
Dr. Cassidy, Of Tulip, was called
here recently to extract some teeth for
Mrs. Angel,
Mrs Jim Lewis and children were
the guests Of her parents near Tulip
from Saturday until Sunday.
The post Office inspector was In u
village Saturday.
Kirkland Rowe who has been attend
Ing school in Fayetts came home Sat
urday.
Rev. Kuren filled his regular ap-
polntment at Antioch Sunday morn
ing aud night.
j. j. Walker purchased an extra
fine span OF mules from Lee Green for
s425.
Miss Mamie Neil was the charming
guest OF her sister Mrs. MalIery the
past week.
The remains Of W.Hess was brought
from Kansas City and laid to rest in
Antioch cemetery Sunday by the side
OF his wife. Mr.. Hesse vas a member
OF the church and a good man, was
once a citizen of Audrain county.
The bereayed ones have the SYM
Of the community.