The Green Forest tribune., 1916-07-14

IOI D6 lIIIldlSd "It is an offense punishable by fine ' and imprisonment to obtain fraudulent !, signatures to an initiative petition which is filed and it is unlawful for any person not qualified voter to sign the petition,' MT. Griffin said. Naturally, those who obtained sigma lures were careful and no one signed who was ineligible"
 The league, Mir Griffin said, will in, augurate vigorous campaign on pe- half of the bill It has opened head quarters in the Gleason hotel.
 Ivan Emery of Montgomery county, who is now soldier serving under the British flag in France, has writ ten to the Montgomery County Dem ocrat telling of conditions on the western front. He says the fighting is almost continuous He is a machine gunner in a brigade machine gun gun company.
 Mrs Otto Spradling of Purdy. Madi- ! son county, was bitten by copper head snake recently. She suffered in tense pain, but has recovered. Al though the copperhead, the rattler and some other Southern and Western snakes are reported to be deadly not once in hundred timesfis the bite of one of these reptiles sRtal.
 - has D. The most stupen--i ter. Mage and ASvee wo.k, II n so sou. came in SNaS3sas' SNe3sas ,; 7feneP ea Pegafdf 'tc' sFSe fssS s%Sy / / Kemp Mann, south of tow int 1 ing of the raHp,rs cypress oreeh sats .15s' after years of struggle and even blood she'd has begun in Desha county and | full settlement of all the troubles l made.
 Headed by Mrs T. M. Davis and Mrs. F. NJ. Seward, both of whom own autos, a dozen women, armed with shovels, hoes and rakes. repaired half a dozen bad places in the road west of Mountain Home.
 Marshall has contributed $4550 and Leslie contributed $69.5O to survey route for road from Marshall to the Van Buren county line by way of Les. lie An improvement district will be created.
 A carload of 30 head of thor. oughbred cattle from northern Missou. ,-i at tn distributed among the farmers of this ! community and Sulphur and Siloam Springs.
 The 13-year-old son of Alfred Row. land, farmer residing near Hope, | was instantly killed. MT. Rowland was injured and one of his mules was killed by a bolt of lightning.
 Stanley Crandall, who has been the editor and publisher of the Harrison Republican, has sold the paper to J. L. Russell, who was formerly editor of the Green Forest Tribune. MT. Russell will edit and publish the pa per
 Plans have been approved for an S1,S00 annex to the Presbyterian Church at Monticello, which will be used for the primary department oi the Sunday school.
 Members of the Episcopal Church h. Russellville have awarded @ con. tract for the erection of church on McDavid street. This denomination has no church in RusseIlville.
 Unless residents of Van Buren con tribute the necessary amount for the maintenance of the Fire Department, ! the department will be abolished and the apparatus sold.
 Guy B. Tucker of the Highway Com, mission has accepted an invitation to deliver an address on Good Roads, at Viola, Fulton county.
 The first shelter to be built in the state of Arkansas is now in operation at Van Buren.
 Preparations to overhaul the Wilmot Cotton Oil Mill are being made.
 The Baptist church which was re gently completed at Pearson, eight | miles southwest of Heber Springs, was dedicated by the Rev J. S. Rogers of Little Rock.
 At the conclusion of the services conducted by the Rev Burke Culpep per at Van Buren more than 50 were converted.
 Oil prQspectors have been at Ozark for seve fal days and it is said will Sc cure humber of leases.