The Green Forest tribune., 1911-04-14
LEAVES FROM OAK GROVE.

to Willie.
 While Isaac Bailey was helping on his brother Franks house last week he had the misfortune to fall and iniure himself quite painfully.
 Charley Hale, son of Jim Hale, is at home for visit He has been attend ing medical college at Little Rock He will go to Chicago in about two months to continue his study.
 Mrs. Grant Goodwin, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Reynolds is here visiting. She is a very congenia lady and we wish her pleasant stay while in our midst. Her home is in Colorado.
 Evalyne and Alta Plumlee were on the streets of Oak Grove Saturday. Here are two girls, lady like in every particular and girls of whom parents can be justly proud. They are striving for an education and will get it. Bedford Newton, Tom Newman and Oscar Garner are putting in one-half mile of fine fence. It will be partner ship fence. Jim Humbard has also bought a quantity of wire and he will soon be among the late improvers. ''See Ter boomp'
 Every day the R. E. Porter. gets let ters of inquiry in regard to the country, price of land, crops, opportunity, etc. These letters come from Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota and Missouri and shows from which way the tide of inn migration is coming.
 Now people around Oak Grove, hand The Tribune dollar and get the paper with your home news in it. We are going to try and keep up column of Oak Grove news and if you want to boost our country, get the paper that talks for the country.
 Uncle Mart Hale says he contem- plates buying lot at Oak Grove and building thereon. We hope Uncle Mart will do so, because his presence always has cheering influence on us. Come, Uncle Mart, and we will sure try and make life enjoyable for you
 Capt. L. D. Lincoln has the improv- ment fever and is re-arranging his pal ing fence, making it anew in front of his residence and re-fencing his garden. He says he is going to try growing soy beans in his orchard this season. Joshua McElmurray will plant ten acres of the beans for him on the shares.
 Another charivari crowd Friday night and this time the victim was Andy Duncan, Jr. As usual the ''town musi- clans" were present with shot guns, COW horns and COW bells, and proceed ed to make noise till Andy, more asleep than awake, came forth and by the use of some candy induced the crowd to go away and let him sleep.
 The reporter is in receipt of letter from Northwest Missouri, which reads as follows: We like Missouri fine with the exception of her soil. Here it is clay with hardpan underneath and the moisture cannot penetrate the soil. We are going to come down there in July with view of locating. What is the price of land?" This is only one of many letters which we have received. So you see, eyes are on us. Let's be up and doing.
 Well, readers, we have had so much rain that it is useless to mention it. But we cannot refrain from taking note of the mud that is produced there by in the street of our thriving village Now, the reporter has been faithful in uplifting so you must allow him the privilege of criticising where necessary. We are in need of sidewalks in our city very badly. When it rains it is impos- sibe for lady to pass from one store to another on account of mud. Now the people in the suburbs are doing things, so let the business men of Oak Grove give us some walks. Improve the town for thereby you increase the number of visitors and this means much to merchant, miller and mechanic as well as more news for ye scribe.
 We do not write this news to be boastful in any way but when improve ments are being made everywhere about us we do not think it proper to suppress it. Sunday of last week we were out gathering leaves and when we came upon the residence of our neighbor, Bedford Newton, it had changed so in appearance that it was hardly recognizable. Bedford is rustler and always leaves a farm in better shape than he found it. He has fenced his lawn with fine, fancy-sawed paling and his yard would do credit to any city. He will also commence building an addition on his house soon. His farm is one of the best and is one of those which will bring land up to the sixty dollar mark Improvements? 1 should say so. New houses and new fences are all you can hear talked about at Oak Grove.
 Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, also the re- porter and wife visited at the home of our distinguished citizen J. E. Reynolds Sunday. MT. and Mrs. R. know just how to make one feel at home. A look at the Reynolds farm will show one what improved methods can do when applied to this soil. When he purchas- ed this farm several years ago it was one of the worst run down farms found anywhere. By the use of fertilizer and the proper rotation of crops he has built the land up till at the present time it grows wheat, that would put the pride of Kansas in the background and clover that yields bountiful crops of hay besides pasturing some fine sheep and cattle. In addition to this Mir. Reynolds is quite a horticulturist. He served as manager of the fruit ex- hibit from Colorado at the worlds fair at Chicago, and at the present time takes great interest in his fine orchard on his farm here. He is now spraying his trees, using his gasoline engine to operate the sprayer, which he devised himself. It is worth one's time to visit this farm. And, by the way, Mrs. Reynolds IS not far behind with her fine Buff Orpington chickens.
 A quiet wedding took place at the home of MT. and Mrs. James Humbard on Sunday, April 2, the occasion being the marriage of their daughter Ethel to Andy Duncan, Jr. MT. Duncan has until recently resided at Yocum but now occupies his fine farm near Oak Grove, which he purchased last winter. He is also one of Carroll county's most progressive teachers, having been en- gagged in the work for several years past. As man he is said to be worthy