The Green Forest tribune., 1914-10-16
Half Day in AIpena,

The lTlDuDe oQlCOr IndQe On0 Ol III ever-so-often visits to Alpena last Fri day afternoon. finding the usual cordi ality and amount of business among the people there.
 We find that things have changed around somewhat since last we ob served them in our neighbor burg.
 Our friend and old-time standby Bill Jenkins has gone with his family to the state of Washington and the change is looked upon as possibly fol "good," though we hardly think SO owing to we'll established precedents in such cases.
 John Paul has very much the ap pearence of veteran in the banking business. His administration of the affairs as cashier of the Bank of Alpens seems to be giving general satisfaction and the prosperity of the institution is evidenced by the fact that arrang ments are being perfected for raising the capital stock from $6OOO to $125O( paid up. The present officers of the bank besides Mir. Paul are James Center, president, and w. H. Kirk patrick, vice president.
 E. G. Whitaker, the pioneer mer. chant, is again back in business with a full general stock, which keeps him busy what time he is not occupied in drawing papers as Notary Public, closing up deals for John Jones, the real estate man, and other property transfers.
 Uncle Billy Kirk is still on the job dealing out hardware and manufacture ing whittlings. He looks several years younger since his son Roy and wife have presented him with another grand son.
 The Estes and Whitaker telephone exchanges have been consolidated and the central offices for both are now combined in the rear of the post office. Frank U. Lane, the station agent at Alpena, recently became the owner of the Whitaker exchange and Estes and Lane are the proprietors of the consolida ted business.
 | We are pleased to announce that arrangements have again been made for regular weekly budget of Alpena new Since Alpena has no paper, The Tribune is it's best medium for publicity, as we not only have good list there but Route carries many papers nearer that place than any other trading point.
 It was our special pleasure to visit Hillside Farm for supper and we certainly enjoyed this visit in the home of our hospitable friend Jim Ward. Jim is one Arkansas Hillbilly," who has accumulated handsome fortune by attending to. his business. He is an extensive dealer in stock and other things in which thrifty fellow can often find profit, but the products of Hillside are very valuable adjuncts. He has some 400 acres in cul tivation out there and while the place is true to it's name, being one continuation of hillsides, the crops he grows are pro- life enought to put some river bottom farmers to shame. Positively we gathered an armful of monster ears of corn from stalks grown on hillside where flint rocks lay so thick that you could not kick up one particle of soil Jim now has thousand bushels of this fine corn in the field and hundred bushels of last years corn in the crib. He sowed his corn to peas the last blowing and now has several hundred head of sheep in the fields fattening on these peas. We were surprised to note that the corn was being damaged only slightly by this use. On another part of his place MT. Ward has about a hundred head of goats, which he is using to clean out the shrubs and other foul growth, preparing the land fol seeding and still another part of the farm is being used as a pasture fol hogs and cattle.
 We talk about needing new blood in this country and we debut when il comes to handling rough lands and making something out of what mos people think is nothing in the way O. farm lands, you should take cue iron native who does things like Jin Ward.