The Green Forest tribune., 1912-05-03


 at home there after this week.
 Call on w. A. Walker for all kinds of dray work. Phone 96.
 w. c. Harris and wife have been here from Wellington, Kan, during the past week visiting at the home of Mrs. Harris parents Mir. and Mrs. Frank Walker, out near Parker. Mr.. Harris IS fireman on the Santa Fe.
 After May 1 the Ladies Home Journal will advance from $1.50 to $2.00. Mrs. L. H. Smith will receive orders from now until then for S1. 50. Also takes orders for Saturday Even ing Post, Country Gentleman and Modern Priscilla.
 Tommie and Ed Edwards, who were called here from Ada, Okla., on ac- count of the sickness of their mother, will leave Saturday night for their home, feeling that their help is no longer needed and that their mothers condition is somewhat improved.
 See that nice line of candies at Wells & Cox.
 A. DeBarr and wife will go to Eu- reka Springs this week if MT. De- barr,s condition should remain i'm proved sufficiently to make the trip. They will probably spend the summer there if MT. DeBarr's health seems to be benefited by the change.
 It is feared that the heavy rains of the past week have injured the other crop. J. B. Reeves, who keens in close touch with fruit conditions, how ever, thinks that the process of fruit ing was pretty well completed during the few good days last week.
 Pure white Sulphur spring water used at Meek s fountain.
 John DeBarr left Sunday for his home in Illinois, feeling that this fathers condition is such that his help IS not needed here. MT. DeBarr says Illinois farmers are very much in the same fix as those in Arkansas. A late. packard spring has followed an un- usually long and hard winter.
 One of the most inviting places to be found in town during the coming sum mer will be that Ladies Apartment at Meek's Ice Cream Parlor. MT. Meek has left nothing undone to make his place an inviting one in appearance and the quality of cream and drinks that he serves will undoubtedly do the rest.
 Panama and ladies straw hats cleaned and made new at Puckett's barber shop,
 lnitiatory steps were taken Tuesday night to organize ball team for Green Forest. Further steps are to taken tonight CThursday) when report from a committee as to grounds, etc. will be heard and permanent organiza- tion effected. The enthusiasts are hoping that Green Forest will win fame on the diamond this season.
 Water bottles have become so much in evidence about Green Forest lately that one might imagine himself in Flu reka Springs. Dunn's White Sulphur spring bids fair to bring the town in to distinction as resort. A bottle of White Sulphur" has been on tap at The Tribune office this week and we pronounce it fine article.
 A. D. Basore, who spent last week here investigating the wheat acreage and the inducements here generally for the establishment of roller mill, has returned to Kingston, feeling that the is yery good, though he would not make definite decision as to whether or not the enterprise will be launched. We feel that the chances are good that the mill is assured.
 Best coffee in city, at Meek's. If not good costs you nothing.
 Miss Phone Crockett has placed an order for the erection of a handsome monument at the grave of her late sister Maggie ("Bob'O Crockett which will be placed in position by Decoration day. It will be remembered Miss Bob" was inferred at Carrollton. It is certainly beftting thing that suitable grave stone should be placed at the last resting place of this good 
 Delegations to both the Democratic and the Republican state conventions will leave for Little Rock Sunday. It is expected that the Reps will have warm time, as the spirits of the Roose- velters have been bouyed up to extreme activity by the recently developed strength of their idol. It is intimated that they will send full delegation to Chicago independent of the state organization.
 J. B. Reeves has received a car of fertilizer prepared expressly for to- matoes and other truck growing. This brand has been adopted and is being used by all the leading canning fac tories of Indiana, Missouri and Arkan- sas. See J. B, He will explain fully why we should use fertilizer properly balanced for such crops. He will also sell you fertilizer for corn and oats of the very best quality.
 Capt" John Smith, the noted one armed painter, has landed again in Green Forest for the one hundredth time in the past 50 years. John halls this time from Southern Texas where he de- clares it takes two bull frogs to live one season, where mosquitoes smoke cigars and the thermometer boils over. John says he has came back to stay. he has but one arm he en- joys rep. as a painter unequaled by any three-armed man in America.
 Several Republican political eggs in the county have begun to '.pip" and it is thought by the adjourned county convention date, July ', pretty respectable hatch will be taken out