The Green Forest tribune., 1911-01-27
BOOM THE CANNERY
ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCK HOLDERS HELD AND OPEL
 GERS ELECTED.
Managers Report Shows Good nings---Enterprise is Great
 Benefit to Community.

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 The annual meeting of the stock holders of The Green Forest Canning Co.,, was held on last Saturday night and officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows:
 Ben Harbert President,
 T. s. Philf Vice President,
 J. B. Res Secretary,
 M. s. G, :, Treasurer.
 The past seasons business was re- viewed. MT. Reeves statement as Manager showed that when all the seasons products have been mark the company would under ordinary cir cumstances be able to declare a good dividend.
 The big dividend though that of general profit to the community on ac- count of the enterprise-stands out in bold relief. Every business man in the | town and every citizen of the commun- ity, for that matter, have been benefit ed on account of the vast sum of money disbursed for products and labor.
 The company wants contracts for three hundred acres this year and is anxious to make the contracts as early as possible. Secretary Reeves or some one in his place can be found in his office in the Reeves building by anyone wishing to sign up. Contracts can also be secured by calling on Ben Harbert, at his store
 On account of the enormous amount of capital required during the operating season and the more or less hazard that attends great enterprise of this character, the maintenance of the busi- ness is continuous problem that can only be solved by confidence and capi- tai.
 It takes men of both nerve and en- terprise to hold the thing together and for that reason it's maintenance some times becomes problematical.
 While we see no particular occasion for alarm concerning the future of the canning business here, yet boosting and cooperation are always in order Should any obstacle arise that would stop this great enterprise, calamity would be- fall the community, the weigh of which would prove nothing less than a disaster.
 The suggestion was made at the last meeting that the manager should be placed upon salary and required to give all his time the year around to the business. Such would certainly be a forward step. There is labor enough to work strong man to his capacity every day in the year The growers should be visited and every assistance extended that will help in securing the best possible results. Many inexper- fenced growers are handicapped and sometimes lose out for want of proper education along the line of cultivation
 It is to be hoped that the company will see proper to take this step The manager could earn his salary twice over in the good results he could ac- complish while not engaged in active operation of the factory. Serious loss es have been occasioned by the factory not being in readiness when the can ming season is opened Preparations should be begun weeks in advance.
 Green Forest people have all to gain and nothing to lose by boosting our big cannery, which is one of the greatest, if indeed not the greatest of the kind in the southwest. We know of noth- ing in the state that equals it.
 Green Forest High Grade" pro- ducts are now well and favorably known throughout many states. Recently a party wrote us that they had found them on sale in Seattle, Wash, which is getting long way from home indeed Much favorable advertising is gained in this way and the idea is suggested that further and grea ter good might be accomplished by slipping into the labels something of an advertising nature
 Let us all work for a greater and more profitable season for the Green Forest Cannery in 1911 than ever before.
 Arkansas.
 Arkansas needs not so much an in- troduction as an explanation. You who have eaten of her big red apples and luscious strawberries, you who have drunk from her pure mountain springs and enjoyed her scenery, you who have looked upon her fields of grain and cotton, and marveled at the wealth of her mines and forests-you know of the existence of Arkansas, but you do not understand what those mean to the million and half of peo- pie, who possess these resources and what it will mean to the thousands of others with whom the state is willing to share it's good things.
 One state and another is known for it's chief product, Virginia for its tobacco, Kentucky for its bluegrass and Kansas for it's wheat. And so Arkansas is known, by some for its | fruits, for 1t has the greatest aDple