The Green Forest tribune., 1918-03-08
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 business trip west.
 Judge ". A. Butt has been appoint ed chairman of the Federal Food Ad- ministration of Hickory township. A full committee will be reported later.
 Judge Greer and Garden Specialist Knox were here Wednesday in the in- terest of club organization for the coming year. A from m-district- -to-dis- trict canvass of the county will be commenced Monday.
 Those who failed to hear what Judge Greer and Mir. Knox had to say in their address at the M E. Church s. Wednesday night missed treat.
 Void of being cranky this week Rev. Sherman has been unable to drive his new car. He has been a victim of the vaccine point.
 Mrs. Allen Walker died at her home ia Green Forest Monday morning and her remains were laid to rest in Glen ''OSN SSACNCly HlOIudY al The Walkers moved here from Berry. vile few months ago. She leaves a husband and several small children.
 Chas. Harbert and Atty. Ira M Gurley will office together now, hay. ing rented the formerly Dr. Poynol office over the post office.
 John Hamel was down from Car thage, Mo-, last of week on bushes. and to visit his parents, MT. and Mrs Bob Hamel, east of town John has live( at Carthage the past twelve years ant holds position with the electric ligh people. He will hereafter keep UT with the doings around his old home by reading The Tribune.
 Roy Sisco and wife left Monday for Raten, N. Mex, where they will re- side for awhile.
 Adrain Firestone successfully passed the examination at Berryville last Friday and with his mother will leave curing the latter part of this week fo, Camp Beauregard for a visit with his brother, Tim. While there Adrain ex. poets to enlist for service in the same company with his brother.
 Mrs. Laban Alfred of Rule was here Tuesday. She was accompanied over by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Andrew Cox, who had been visiting relatives on Osage.
 Johnny Merriot was up from Denver Tuesday. He says Denver farmers are ahead of us several odd, already being about thru their sowing oats and grass seed.
 Grover Coxsey, a sergeant in the Signal corps at Camp Pike, visited re. latives @ here first of the week. He IS son of Pat Coxsey at Carrollton.
 See Joe Reeves for wall paper. adv
 The Cecillian Glee Club of Eureka Springs gave an Allies Patriotic con cert at the Majestic theater Friday night to splendid audience. Ten o1 the allied countries were represented py so many young ladies who were well received. The Club went iron here to Harrison.
 A message Was received here Thurs. day announcing the arrival of fine hfNu ,t hn # n French, N. Mex.
 The sudden jerk in the weather Wednesday cooled off things consider. ably.
 James Baughman was here from Blue Eye Tuesday. He reports the wheat crop in that section fine.
 Rev. w. II. Neal was here from Fayetteville last of the week seeing after his farm interest. He reports his family well.
 Vagrancy is in ill favor in Arkansas. The State Council of Defense is back ing up Gov. Brough in his campaign to see that every able-bodied man in the state does his part in this day of national crisis. The Governor has called upon all the peace officers of the state to report all cases of vagrancy, and see that idlers, loafers, and non- producers are given productive en- ployment. There is a class of people who cannot be classified as tramps, but who live.in idleneSs most of their time. who work but little and are generally known in the community as consumers and not as producers. ''This is the class of people," said Frank Pace, in a report on the subject to the Stat4 Council, "that should be compelled to go to work, go to war or go to jail '' MT. Pace calls attention to a small town in Oklahoma where meetings are held, and this class of slackers pointed out by name in the audience, and where the force of public sentiment is so strong that they cannot long remain in this undesirable class.
 At each cantonment in the United States a school has been established where every officer and man receives instruction in gas defense. The Ameri- can gas mask, similar to the British, is as mechanically perfect as the best experts have been able to produce. The face piece, with glass or celluloid eyepieces, is connected by a flexible tube with canister carried in knap- l Sack Tho innnrn,ir1r Lnon 4l