The Green Forest tribune., 1910-04-22

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 E. A. Rich has the contract to make new addition to the residence of Houston Orrell.
 The baby daughter of Mrs. Bruce Phillips has been seriously ill of meas les, but is now improving
 Misses Thenie and Artie Collier were up from Carrollton Wednesday and made arrangements for the latter to enter school.
 A substantial iron fence will sooner or later have to be built around the town park if this beauty-spot is preserv- ed. Let us hope we may have it sooner
 The frost that came along Tuesday night caused some guessing as to the result. No damage is apparent yet ex- cept to gardens. Old timers say that frost on the light of the moon is not calculated to do much hurt.
 Green Forest can boast of some of the champion marble players of the
 
 good to them to see bunch of marble players in action, when circumstances force them to come to town during this busy season.
 Revival services are in progress at the M. E. Church South under the direction of Rev. John Womack, pastor of the Harrison M. E. Church South Rev. Womack is an able preacher and his sermons are well received. You are cordially invited to attend. Dr. Alvin Butt, who is in Little Rock completing his course in medicine, is now in a hospital in the capital city, having undergone an operation for appendicitis and hernia. He was doing quite well the last report. Dr. Butt is a member of the class that is scheduled to graduate the 29th inst. Finis Howard, who moved to Wash ington state some two years ago, has bought the Wash Benton place (the east part of the Harrison Orrell home stead) from J. F. Wilson, with the in- tention of returning to Arkansas by and by to stay with us. The parties to the deal both now reside in Washing ton.
 Floyd Jenkins sends us post card greeting from Omaha, Neb., to tell us that he would have liked for his visit to have extended to his old home. He says his brother Clay and family reach ed their Wyoming home March 10. He says that Wyoming had 12-inch snow the 16th inst. Floyd was in Omaha to market stock.
 c. D. Shaffer and wife arrived here Sunday from Oklahoma City and are guests of MT. Shaffer's parents, MT. and Mrs. J. J. Shaffer. The son visited his parents here in the winter and was SO impressed with the country that he has returned this time with a view of investing. He is just such a character of man as the community needs and it is to be hoped that he will "tie up" here.
 John R. Spark Great Circus will ex- hibit at Harrison the 28 and Berryville the 29. This is truly circus and will furnish our people the only opportunity of the season to see real show. An excursion rate of 75 cents is offered to Harrison and return. The train runs so you have good time to see the show, take in the town and return home in time for supper. Better make your arrangement to go down.
 Linen & Cox have traded their milling business, building and Floyd Linch's residence to Len white for the latter's 2S0-acre farm out southeast of town. MT. White will take complete charge of the mill business and Floyd Linen will move to the White farm, he hay ing acquired title to same in the deal. MT. White is man of some knowledge of the workings of machinery and gentleman calculated to conduct the mill business upon the high standard established by Linen & Cox.
 w. L. Sneed is telling fish tale that sounds perfectly reasonable, as he claims to have had nothing to do with the incident but the eating. The stock holders of the Bank of Newton County met at Jasper last Saturday night and the first item on the program was a supper at which a 25-pound "cat, " fresh from the Buffalo, was served, to the extreme delight of dozen of the hungriest men who ever put their feet unQ6r the CdDle. Dill Was so eIlCIluSl- astic over the event that he had little recollection of what took place at the bank meeting, further than he knew that the present very efficient cashier s. L. Nance was reelected and that T. H. Villines was also again chosen assistant cashier. Bill says these boys are all right, but he simply cannot get over that fish. He says for you to ask either Mike Coxsey, Will Jenkins or Mack Cecil about it. It was simply a "whopper. :"
 J. B. Reeves has put in complete water works plant at his residence. By system of air pressure the water is forced from his well to all parts of his residence and to his barn, furnishing an abundant supply for everything needed, including his lawn and garden. The pressure is strong enough to make respectable showing in fighting fire. In order to have everything in harmony MT. Reeves has put cement floors in his barn and chicken houses where he can turn the hose and clean everything to a queens taste in less than jiffy. The plant does not represent great expenditure of money and the idea has been suggested to us that it is an ad-