The Green Forest tribune., 1918-03-01
Alpena

Harrison Tuesday for a few days visit with her sis ter, Mrs. John 6oren, north of town.
 Miss Ethel Roberts, one of our most l)vable girls, left Tuesday for Fayette- vile where she has employment.
 J. Lloyd Shouse was up from liar rison last week on professional busi- ness.
 Son No. made his arrival at the home of MT. and Mrs. Tony Widener, | Thursday 21
 Rev. Sherman will begin series of meetings here next Sunday night. Everybody get ready to go to church.
 MT. and Mrs. Ira Gurley left last week for their home in Green Forest after very successful term of school here of which Mir. Gurley was princi- pal.
 Lee and Willie Mooneyham were here from Oklahoma last week visit ing their parents. Lee was making his final visit before entering the ser- vice of the U. s.
 John Steppe and family left here last week for cotton season on a farm near Tahlequah. Okla. Our Druggist, Chas. Watkins, moved into the Steppe property.
 One of our prosperous farmers, J. L. Ward, just has bodies of money-or it seems that way to us. He bought and shipped carload of hogs last week. However he didn't get all of them, for there is still good supply on the streets and in yards when the gate is not locked.
 We are very sorry that the women in and around Alpena have been so badly misinformed as to deem it unnecessary to register during this registration period. We don't think it is because they are disloyal or even unwilling to do thelr part but because they belevsd all the false rumors set af1oat by the uniformed.
 At Bear Creek Springs, miles east of Alpena. Lee Hays shot Jim Robin son four times with an automat- ic, killing him instantly. We do not know the particulars but the trouble came up over stalk pasture. 
 Who would say hogs are not money when Fred Imman brought one to town last week which netted him more than S77.00 and Ace Thomson sold runt for sixty some odd dollars?
 Bryan Paul came in Tuesday on short lay-off from his duties as bank cashier at Commerce, Okla, for a visit with homefolks.
 Geo. Dykes and Virgil Bellamy, two of our boys, failed to pass the physical examination last week for army ser vice. They go tomorrow for final examinations.
 Will Thompson says he was born 1 uildCL oLdI. lIdoG Wcch He carried his head in sling because he happened to be standing under limb when it fell from the tree and today he came to town to consult the doc tor, carrying his face in sling, all because he and his little brother had indulged in an old fashionedicob fight ol WEI tbo struck in the eye with cob. giving him very painful if not serious wound.
 Otis Ward is feeding bunch of car penters now while they are rushing work on the new house on his farm 8 miles north of here.
 Milo Smith of Leslie has bought the Tom McCracken farm. and he and his father-in-law, Dan Campbell, are ship ping their belongings here to make it their home. Mir McCracken has moved on Joe Browns farm for a short stay before leaving with his family for Washington state.
 C. S. Kirkpatrick, eldest son of our hardware merchant, ". H. Kirkpat- rick, was here last week for a couple of days visiting his parents and saying "howdy" to his many friends. Carlos is one of the home boys who has made good in the Southland. He is now chief engineer on the Gulf Coast Lines between Brownsville and Houston, Tex.