The Green Forest tribune., 1907-11-15
PRINT SHOP BURNS
The Office of "Footprints" Destroyed by Fire Taseday
"OlD BAPTIST" PUBLICATION
The Misfortune Leaves Editor
 EairChild in a Bad Way

The printing office of Eld. J. w. Fairchild, publisher of "Foot- prints of the the Flock,' an ex- ponent of the doctrine of branch of the Predestinarian or Prima- tive Baptist denomination, six miles northeast of Green Forest on Rural Route No. 1, was burn- ed on last Tuesday afternoon, the fire originating from the stove pipe, which passed out through the roof of the building.
 A good porti on of the printing material of the office was saved, including the type and the job press. The paper press, a Wash- ington hand machine, and some other valuable material were lost.
 The loss will fall heavily upon Elder Fairchild as he was strug- gling hard under adverse circum- stances, he being absent from his office at the time of the fire on account of the illness of a child not expected to live.
 The following editorials appear in his November issue which show that he was lilly prepared for the loss:
 "We had hoped to get out of debt this fall; but have had so much sickness we have barely made expenses. Still we believe we might make it yet by Jan. 1st, if all who are interested in the Footprints will go right to work for it.
 ''We have been suffering from a severe attack of rheumatism in our right arm. It is some better, but we are not able to use our arm to amount to anything yet. We have had to write left handed for the past two weeks D
 ''Our little boy that had the Typhoid fever is still very low. Can't stand alone yet. Yet the hand of the Lord is heaily upon Us, but we know it lighter than We deserve and we try to be re- conciled."
 eff the Footprints should be a little late next month, don't get impatient. ,
 Footprints of the Flock, while published in remote rural dis trict, is distinctiveiy a cosmolpoi- itan publication, the paper being circulated in almost every state in the Union. and in several foreign countries. The doctrine which it advocates finds but few adherants, comparatively speak ing, and this paper constitutes a forum through which the advo- cates of it's tenents converse from all parts of the country. In the November number We note letters from correspondents dated at the following places: Edith, Tex; Brock, Ky; Williamson, N. G.; Thornton, Tex; Hiram, Ark; Bentonville, Ark; Pales- tine, Tex; Dorchester, Va., Okemah, l. T.; St. Joe, Ark. {; Welty, 1. T. Reference is made editorally to an exchange of courtesy with the editor from a writer whose residence is Lon- don, Eng. Often it covers a wider range than this.
 The publication is a neatly printed 5-colum folio, all reading matter, it's columns being held too sacred for the insertion of advertisements. Hence, the only income is from subscriptions, which is not enough at all times to keep the wolf from the door of the publisher, were he disposed to depend upon that for a living
 It is to be hoped that the breth- ren of the denomination in whose interests the paper has been pulp lished will come to the relief of Eld. Fairchild, and that he may yet. be able to place the publica- ton securely upon it's feet. The publication of Footprints has been i'll progress here for about three years. The paper however, Is iH it's 10th year, Eld. Faircbild having published it previous to his removel here, at Lone Moun- tain, Tenn.
 The adversities of Eld. Fair. child to calls forcibly to mind one of the doctrines that is attributed to the denomin ation he repre-