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TABOR FOREMAN & EARBERT Desiic to s<i> to the people in and around Green Forest that they now have a complete line of M GENERAL MERCHANDISE X % ! Having added a large, new invoice to the splendid stock of bargains of what remains of the Hurd iV Stapleton purchase. They purpose hold the precedent they have set on low prices,and when you need any thing in Dry Goods, 1 urnishings, Shoes or anything' found in a general stock, you will be served with the best goods and lowest prices. We will buy everything you have that we can market. Pay our store a visit. BROADWAY. NE AR DEPOT. (TWVWVV ***• W WVH Local Mention. 4 4 Trade at the Green Forest Mercantile Co’s. For new and up-to-date goods go to the Emporium Racket. Better see the Carroll Co. Abstract Co. about your land title. Roller Mill Co. pays $1.50 per cord for wood, mill stuff or cash. Just received a full line of spectacles at Green Forest Drug Co’s. Sterling McNiel is at home again after several months spent in Indiana. There is no iet up in low prices and good groceries at Tabor, Foreman & Harbert’s. The Bank of Green Forest will loan money on good security or buy well secured notes. Miss Ruth Grim visited Berryville relatives Saturday, returning home Sunday morning. If you owe us please call and settle at once. We must collect.—Green Forest Saddlery Co. Have you seen them? Those 124 page, 9x12 tablets, only 5 cents, at the Emporium Racket. A. J. Russell has heen an attendant this week at Harrison’s first term of United States court. George Stroud and family are res idents of the community again after a year’s trial of Texas. Lest you forget, we say it yet, that Fanning & Birkes’ is the place to buy | staple and fancy groceries. Large box stove and drum, suitable for a school house, for sale very cheap. Apply at The Tribune office. Bob McBride i3 putting up a large j kiln of brick, which will be used mainly in the new block on Main street. C. R. Smith has moved his family from his mountain farm back to town . and occupies the Callen property. T. L. Plummer is building a barn on the rear end of his lot upon which the telephone exchange is located. D. H. Burnett is ready to serve you anything in the line of fine photograph work. See his samples and get prices, j H. M. Poster has recently purchased a small tract of land off the Pickens’ place, adjoining his residence property. A lovely boquet of pansies and caro nations adorns our desk since Tuesday, the compliments of Mrs. Irvin Whit taker. The Green Forest Horticultural As sociation is called to meet at Irvin Whittaker’s office, 2 o’clock, Saturday afternoon. The center of attraction in Green Forest now days are those bargains in shoes at Tabor, Foreman & Harbert’s, near depot. With each purchase of a 5ct. tablet, pencil or slate, school children can get a chew of gum or thimble free at the Emporium Racket. It will pay you to walk ten miles to take the advantages of some of the bargains now going at Tabor, Foreman & Harbert’s, near depot. Lee Smith arrived home Saturday; from a month’s vacation, visiting his parents and other relatives at Living- j ston, Mont. He reports a splendid trip j and goes back to his water service job on the railroad much recuperated. Gold or Silver. If you owe me you must eome in and : settle up. It is you and it must be paid. 1 J. H. Ramsey. Take your produce to the Green Forest Mercantile Go’s, and get the top. Miss Belle Willis of Eureka Springs was a guest of her friend Miss Ruth Grim first of the week. Mrs. I. A. Jones places The Tribune force under special obligations for a basket of fine pears, presented last Sat urday. We have had 15 years’ experience in fitting-eye glasses. Come in and let us fit you up a pair. Green Forest Drug Co. You all have heard of the coming of the Baboo, but have you stopped to think how cheap you can buy your groceries of Fanning & Birkes. Dr. Burton George of Berryville was in Green Forest visiting Sunday. Somehow the doctor finds it convenient to come to Green Forest quite often. Wanted:—Salesman to look after our interests in Carroll and adjacent counties. Salary or commission. Ad dress. Victor Oil Co., Cleveland, Ohio. Word was received Wednesday of the death of the three-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Whittaker, which occured at their home at Eufaula, I. T., on Monday of this week. Wanted:—Eggs in exchange tor Mil linery, Stationary, Notions, and every thing wanted in our line. The Em porium Racket store. Mesdames C. C. O’Neal and H. M. Foster. A new case of six-point type to take the place of the old now in use and several other things needed to bring our office up-to-date was purchased while in St. Louis last week. A- good display of apples at the state horticultural society meeting is of the greatest -importance. Let’s not be sat isfied with laurels already won, but push on to higher and better things. Those big bargains in shoes, every day clothing and dozens of other j necessaries of life are still going on at Tabor, Foreman & Harbert’s, near j the depot. Undoubtedly those are the : cheapest good goods ever sold in Green Forest. Mrs. C. C. O’Neal has sold a half interest in her millinery and racket: stock to Mrs. H. M. Foster, the two now j being partners in both building and; stock. The style under which the j new firm will do business is the “Em porium Racket.” Coxsey Bros, desire to say to the public that they have bought much heavier than usual this fall expecting good collections and now they must have a settlement with all who owe them. They have waited long and patiently for the crops to be j gathered and now they have a right to expect prompt settlement and must have it. An official of the St. Louis Fair association who took quite a bit of interest in the Green Forest fruit ex hibit read over a copy of The Tribune and inquired of the editor about the town, its population, amount of business, etc., and when informed that we had six or seven hundred population and quite a number of merchants, he was surprised. He said, “Why don’t those merchants advertise? I see but very few repre sented in your paper. You must have advertising merchants if you ever ex pect to build up your town,” i ( 4 ELECTRIC LIGHTED TRAINS Are operated by the Between TEXAS And the North and Cast Between BIRMINGHAM, MEMPHIS, And the North and West Between OKLAHOMA And the North and East Observation cafe cars, under the management of Fred Harvey. Equip ment of the latest and best design. Old maids like it and all families use it—Our Pride package rice at Fanning & Birkes’. About the busiest places in town are the two establishments of Tabor, Fore man & Herbert. Good sewing machine to trade for 15 inch heater wood. A bargain. Apply to G. S. Firestone. In gathering apples save a dozen or more of the finest of each variety for an exhibit at the state horticultural society meeting here in January. Pick them carefully leaving the sterns in the apples. Eld Sam Eaton, late pastor of the Baptist church at Green Forest, has ac cepted the position as associate editor of the Baptist Advance, a weekly denom inational paper published at Little Rock. As Eld. Eaton is a newspaper man of experience he will doubtless fill the po sition ably. Tim Herron, former conductor on the St. L. &N. A. railroad, died at his home in Eureka Springs last Monday. Herron was very popular with the traveling public during his connection with this road and many people will feel a personal loss in his death. Interment was made at Monett, Mo., Tuesday afternoon. The contest for the office of sheriff between Oscar Grim and Tom Morris came to a close in the county court on Tuesday, after a two-days’ trial. The court found the count to be correct as shown by the returns of the election judges and the report of the commission ers and that Mr. Morris had been regu larly elected to the office. Charles Lee Requa, president of the Arkansas Angora Stock Co., requests The Tribune to announce that he has made arrangements with the Frisco system for a half rate to Kansas City on Oct. 20 on account of the National An gora Goat Breeders’ meeting and show to be held Oct. 21 to 23, tickets good for 10 days. Several stockmen in Northern Arkansas will go with Mr. Requa, leav ing Eureka Springs on the 20ih. Fur ther information may be obtained by 1 addressing Mr. Requa at Eureka Springs, t^O' n/%&r */(pr*/'iP't^l^ *^r «-^F ^'^P' fc^r t W. R. SNEED, President. J. E. FRANKLIN, Vice President. J. A. BUELL, Cashier. DIRECTORS: W. R. SNEED. J. E. FRANKLIN. J.O. MICHELL. F. O. RUTT. A. J. RUSSELL. T. S. PHILLIPS. C. B. GRIM. M. S. COXSF.Y. BANK : OF: GREEN : FOREST. Capital $20,000.00. Receives money for safe-keeping without charge. Loans money, buys notes and does a general banking bus iness. Your patronage is cordially solicited. GREEN FOREST, - - - ARKANSAS. Take Notice. When you are in need of anything in the line o! Millinery, Dress Goods, Ladies Fittings, or Trimmings of any kind, you cannot do better than to call on us at New York Store. _ zm _ ^ _ None finer, none cheapen than those capes and jackets at the Green Forest Mercantile Co’s. Mrs. L. E. Harbert is at home again after a visit with the family of her son in-law, Dave Watson, who resides near St. Louis. Mayor O’Neal’s connection with the county board of election commissioners necessitated his presence at county court Monday and Tuesday. Full lines of clothing, shoes and hats, all high grade and the best values that can be offered for the money, at the Green Forest Mercantile Co’s. Senator F. O. Butt and wife and Judge W. A. Butt departed Wednesday evening for a short visit to relatives and old-time friends of the Butt family at ! Bethany, 111. There is a 25 per cent advance on wall paper but we are selling our present stock at the old price. You will have to hurry if you get any of it. Green Forest Drug Co. The Drought mining shaft is still slowly but surely being pushed down ward, the depth now being about 115 feet. There is no new developments to be reported this week. The elocutionary entertainment by Mrs. Willie Vrndeventer Crockett at the M. E. Church Wednesday night delighted everyone pretsent. It was only a fair financial success. Prof. E. C. Cooper of Green Forest public school has been appointed by Judge Pittman county examiner for the Eastern district to succeed Senator F. O. Btitt. Prof. Cooper is a worthy and competent young man and we heartily congratulate Judge Pittman for the apt selection he has made. Mr. Butt has made a most excellent official in the capacity of examiner and we have no doubt but that Prof. Cooper will keep the office upon the high plain in which he recieves it. We are well pleased to record the fact that J. E. Weatherly, who has had charge of the Green Forest station for several weeks past, has been assinged to this place permanently. During his connection with the railroad office here l Mr. Weatherly has proven himself to | be not only a man capable of preforming his duties as agent, but a courteous, obliging gentleman as well—just the I sort of a fellow Green Forest people i want—and the anouncement that I Manager West has decided to keep him i here will be received with general satisfaction by our people 4 Are you in Search of Health ? Do you want to go where people are cured V THEN GO TO ' EUREKA SPRINGS, ARK. The waters, pure air and high altitude' have no equal anywhere in the cure of Brtght’s Disease, paralysis, febrile diseas es and stomach troubles,as thousands of persons can attest who have been cured! here. >. A handsome new pamphlet, guide to tu reka Springs, the great Health Hesort, has been issued with new and beautiful illustra tions, A copg sent free to enyiaddrees. Tlie trade mark of the old Knreka Springe. Railway company has been adopted by the new company, the St. l.ouis & North Arkansas Railroad. 1 n addi lion to the tact that onre ie the “ Road to Health,” It can also be truth fully stated that the new line which is now be ing extended from Kureka Springs will be the * ‘ Road to Wealth,” because it will penetrate the richest mineral country in the wnrld. Come to Kureka Springs and get Health: go to the Mineral Fields and get Wealth. GEO. WEST, Mgr. St. Louis & North Ark. R. R. Eureka Springs, Ark Arrangements are being perfected as; rapidly as possible for the moving out of the Tabor & Foreman store and Judge Butt’s establisment so work can be com menced on the new brick block. The Green Forest Roller Mill Co. will furnish unprinted sacks free to those who wish to exchange wheat for flour at custom rates. Flour guaranteed to* keep as long as sacks are kept in dry. Mrs. Betsy Nunnally, mother of Col. Len Nunnally of Green Forest, died at the home of her son-in-law, James Kirkham, at Berryville, on Thursday of ! last week, her death being due to a fall j about two months ago in which her hip was broken. She would have been seventy-six years? old the day she was buried. Interment was made in Carroll ton cemetry on Friday afternoon. Mrs Nunnally was the widow Benjamin F. Nunnally, who*" became a resident of this county in 1868, and who died more than twenty years ago. Election Proclamation. Notice is hereby given that an election will be held at the voting precincts in each township and ward in Carroll county, Ark., on Tuesday,*.November fourth, 1902,. for the [Purpose of electing the following officers, to wit: One Congressman from the* third congressional district of Arkansas. O. C. Grim, Sheriff of Carroll Go. Dated Oct. 4,19Q&.