The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-12

ties or oats, i've OI Wnedt, Oue Ol Cl HIT son clover, one of rye, and one of barley are being cultivated in the la boratory and all stages of growth and production are studied by the pupils who are given credit by the school for the work in the laboratory. AS soon as the fall grain IS harvested other crops will be planted Fertilizer is used on alternate rows.
 Miss Bettie Burleson, IS, was mur- dered and her head severed from the body in cotton field at Walnut Ridge. Her stepfather, Will Dobbs, 25, who was with her at the time, is held by the sheriff iii some secret place pending the outcome of the cor oner's inquest. Feeling runs high and threats of lynching are freely heard on the streets.
 County Judge Light of Greene coun- ty told the Quorum Court that the prescott ting attorney of Greene coun- ty was receiving approximately $12,- 900 year in fees, which is four times as much pay as the presiding judge receives and three times as much pay as the governor of the state re- ceived.
 The fur hunting season in the sec tion of the OZarks has opened and the country boy and his hound are filling the side of dads barn with pos sum and coon hides. Quotations com, ing from St. Louis for buyers are higher than they have been for years, and the demand is stronger.
 Lintless cotton is being grown near Forrest City, but not purposely, al though the price of seed is very high. The cotton is on display at the office of the Planters Bank and Trust Com pany. The bolls are crowded with seeds and there is scarcely trace of lint on any one of them.
 Mrs. Mary Breckenridge Thompson Of Eureka Springs offers reward of S15, to anyone who will give her infor- nation leading to the conviction of the person responsible for poisoning her childs dog. The dog was playing within few feet of the baby when it picked up the poison.
 While drilling well near Goshen, Washington county, on the Everett Smith farm, flow of salt water was found and under this a small flow of natural gas. The drill was moved a another we'll was started. More gas was found in the second well.
 The Eureka Springs Times-Echo tells of Eureka Springs husband who gave away his two-month- baby. His wife's screams and applications brought the neighbors, and the neigh bors brought the police, who gave the baby to the mother and gave calling down to the father
 "The first county in America wants the first citizen of the republic and the first lady of the land to become land owners of it's soil,' and for that reason Crittenden county is intense ly interested in the wedding date of President Woodrow Wilson to Mrs. Norman Galt.
 Leases covering large tracts in Pike county, between this city and the asphalt mines near Stanley, were passed by the Ozan Lumber Company to Oklahoma oil interests, who pro- pose to sink three test wells for oil and gas immediately
 There were 1O,1o2 bales of cotton gfnned in Ashley county this year prior to October IS, as agalnst 6,499 ginned last year prior to the same date.
 At the meeting of the Pine Bluff City Council a resolution was adopt ed under which all city employees will be paid in cash instead of in scrip.
 A plate said to be 366 years old was exhibited at Batesville last week by J. w. Parse, whose great-great-grand- mother brought it from Holland.
 Alfalfa on the farm owned by the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company near Blytheville produced s86 pel acre this year.
 Dr. c. s. Mccain, a brother of Mrs w. w. Nelson, whose husband, the Rev. w. w. Nelson, was formerly pastor of Hawley Memorial Methodis Church at Pine Bluff, was killed by Mexican bandits near Brownsville Tex, recently.