The Green Forest tribune., 1916-01-21

THE GREEN FO
 With but one option remaining to be secured and a promise to sell the property involved at the price named by the assessing committee the pre- liminary steps toward securing for Hot Springs the S12,000,0 900 sanitarium eastern capitalists contemplate build ing, seem to have been completed
 So far as could be learned the only option the committee has not yet se cured is that on property at Central and Prospect avenues, which is own ed by Mrs. J. H. Mclaughlin, one of the large property owners of the city. Mrs. Mclaughlin said that it is inn possible for her to give the option be- cause a previous option on the prop erty is held in the East, and until that option expires she is powerless to act.
 "I have always said I was in favor of the sanitarium, and if my property
 
 it at the price the assessing commit tee has named" she said AS one option on the property has already been given I cannot, at this time, give another but l will not stand in the way of this project for Hot Springs, she said.
 The other obstacle was overcome when George Antonio, of the firm Of Footio & Antonio, after a special com mittee appointed of Antonio and the assesesing committee had passed on the property, signed an option that was satisfactory to the committee.
 That the moonshine conspiracy which was discovered at Fort Smith last summer may be investigated again appeared probable when Judge Frank A. Youmans charged the Grand Jury for the January term of court for the Fort Smith Division of the Western District of Arkansas. Judge Youmans' charge required about an hour, but it was rather elaborate on the duties of revenue officials and this subject led many to believe that an other investigation is contemplated. Such an investigation has long been rumored
 Driving to Ink to be married, A. V. Pirtle of Mena and Mrs. Alma ONeal of Oden were left in the middle of a swollen stream when the horses at tached to their buggy baked. Pirtle jumped from the buggy to an over hanging tree. The tree, which had been undermined by the water, fell in to the creek and near the buggy Mrs. ONeal was able to climb over the tree and reach land without getting her feet wet. The team was later en- tIced from the stream and the mar riage took place on time. The $15,000 damage suit of William Morgan against the Arkansas Central Railway went to trial in the Circuit Court at Paris Morgan is a deaf mute and is suing for injuries sus- | tained when he was struck by a train near Paris last fa11. Tne a1Ii0a 7l claimed is the largest sum asked in e; personal damage suit in the history of the county.
 During the last fiscal year 21,946,- 900 board feet of timber, valued at 70,208.06, were sold on the Ozark and A,,lyo ;, Arlra sas, according to annual report oi Chief Forester Harry s. Graves. Dur. ing the year 11,6S2,00O board feet of timber was cut, valued at $37,6S322.
 Clarence Hopkins, formerly editor, owner and publisher of the Cotter Courier, has sold the paper to J. S. Goodman, formerly of Rector, Ark MT. Goodman is both an editor and Methodist preacher. He has three ap- pointments in this section
 R. D. Osborne of Mena, who has been successful in the growing of pap- rika, has been requested by the Blu reau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, to send some sample pods and to explain hls process of drying them.
 Twins, girl and boy, were born recently to MT. and Mrs. Little De Friese of Moorfield. The birthdays of the twins fall on different days, as one was born shortly before 12 o'clock at night and the other shortly after F o'clock.
 Walter c. Fouser, 16 years of age, was killed near Monticello when a log on which he was sitting fell from a wagon, carrying him with it to the ground. His neck was broken
 T. E. Hickman, postmaster at Pleas ant Plains, has in the postoftice a cred, itable exhibit of the agricultural prod ucts of the Pleasant Hill neighbor- hood.
 On a farm near Mountain Home