The Brinkley argus., 1915-08-20
AuTo|NG THRo' THE GREEN
Argus Auto Takes a 60 Mile Jaunt Thro' the
 Brinkley Rice Belt

idoC iiiOoy thC IANNOO AhOSOA car pointed north driving into Hunter at 9:15 a. m.
 Everybody was busy there Cashier Stacey of the Bank of Hunter was planning to get away on vacation trip to Virginia and was restless for fear President Oris Penrose wasn't going to get back in time to let him off.
 Postmaster J. R. High had mark eted his irish potato crop and was pleased with a 150 per acre yield.
 Our clever friend. Manager Mushrush, of the big Lumber Co.,. was busy getting out a new line which he has added to his mill hickory stock. Dr. U. s. Monroe, who by the way has one of the prettiest and most modern homes n Hunter. was getting up a big tank to furnish water supply for his private water works. The doctor, besides being a busy man healing the sick. is also a farmer. He has a pretty 80 acre bottom farm which some of his friends say has corn on it that will make 60 to 80 bushels of corn to the acre. The samples we saw of his Reads Yellow Dent corn is about the finest we have seen. Dr. Monroe has in 4 acres of peanuts, 6 acres of Kaffir corn, peas, sorghum, etc, and is in reality diversifying.
 Hunter Hotel-The Travellers -is now conducted by MT. E. E. Quisenberry and his estimable wife and they are always clever, kind and hospitable to strangers, even if they simply drive up between meals for a drink of water.
 Leaving Hunter and starting east thro' the rice belt. the auto meets Jas. Engle, the Monroe political-rice planter, hoofing it to Hunter to get a repair for his pumping machinery. Jim says he has a perfect crop.
 The Prairie View Rice & Land Co.,, ? 1-2 miles east of Hunter, with w. P. Dawson manager have in 200 acres of extra fine rice ~and MT. Dawson has 100 acres of his own.
 The first stop of the auto was at Henry Schaefers on the Forth Bros. Ranch. At the Shaefer place there was an air of pro- gressiveness. A mammoth barn. a pretty home, a complete ranch shop with tools for everything and several bright faced boys all busy and a cherry faced housewife in the person of Mrs. Shaefer with everything as clean and as neat as pin, were some of the signs of prosperity and sunshine at the Schaefer Farm. This, by the way, is the farm where 26 newspapers and period icals are subscribed for and of the number friend Schaefer says the ARGUS is about the most in- teresting to them. He says too that they all read and heed the advertisements in the publica- tions. Those Brinkley merchants who don't send their business messages into such homes as the Schaefer's hav'nt much idea of progressive business, but here 1 am getting off on advertising when it is those pretty green rice fields Pm writing of. Schaefer has in about 200 acres and then we head for the Pen- rose ranch. Here they have in about 800 acres of rice. A man. moth business project with a number of buildings which would make you think you were ap- preaching a young city. If Brinkley lumber dealers didn't furnish that building material then why?
 Here at the ranch headquart- CTS under big Oak trees we spread dinner, after which we hie away south to the big Burns rice plantation where it looks like another young town. Dr. Burns has as his plantation