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HR VOLUME II. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1908 NUMBER 259
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PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AW
OCULIST.
»♦¥»!» BAILEY BROS'. DRY GOODS STORE
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JACK JONES,
The Crack Barber, keeps a neat
and busy little shop. Upper end
of Front street. Expert tonso
rialists. Easy shaves and the best
haircuts. Our work pleases.
“Come on, ye stubby beards.”
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JACK HERRON.
Back again in Newport and
Prepared to do all kinds ol
Brick Work.
Repair Work Promptly
Attended To.
WILL VISIT CONVICT FARM.
Senate Adopts Cook Resolution—Jim
Crow Bill Applying To Street
Cars In Cities.
Little Rock, Feb. 18.—A visit to the
state convict farm by the special joint
committee of the senate and house has
been authorized, the senate yesterday
adopting the concurrent resolution by
Mr. Cook of Chicot, to that effect.
The resolution authorizes the commit
tee to employ a clerk. The Senate
amended it so as to provide that the
clerk shall be an expert stenographer
and be employed for twenty-five days.
The house concurred in the senate
amendments.
The house committee on cities and
towns reported favorably on Mr.
Gantt’s bill requiring separate accom
modations for white and colored
passengers on street cars in cities of
the first class.
Enrollment of the Daniel medical
bill was completed and the measure
delivered to the governor by Chair
man Rodman of the house committee
on enrolled bills.
, The senate put in a busy day, pass
inrr n numhoT* hmiQP Killa
In the house a concurrent resolu
tion by Mr. Norfleet, authorizing the
joint committee on penitentiary to
thoroughly investigate the affairs of
of the penitentiary, was adopted.
The senate subsequently adopted the
same resolution.
Mr. Whitthorne introduced a bill to
repeal the Wilson anti-gambling act
of 1901 and re-enact the old gaming
laws.
Judge Merriman introduced a bill
providing for a state normal school at
Little Rock, provided said city shall
donate forty acres of land and pro
vide the sum of $100,000 for the con
struction of the proper buildings.
Mr. Du Laney introduced a bill to
authorize the penitentiary board to
sell the Cummins plantation to James
Gould of Pine Bluff at a profit of $50,
000 to the state.
Senator Price’s world’s fair appro
priation bill was read the second time
and referred to the special world’s
fair committee.
By a vote of 27 ayes to 55 noes the
house refused to indefinitely postpone
the Pinnix bill creating the office of
county school superindent.
Senator Rison’s bill allowing con
stables the same fees summoning wit
nesses as sheriffs receive passed the
hnnsfi.
The house passed Senator Killough’s
bill extending for ten years the period
of exemption from taxation of donat
ed state lands belonging to the St.
Francis levee board.
Senator Mardis called up house bill
No. 271 (Keel), changing the time for
holding court in the Third judicial cir
cuit. The bill was ordered back to its
second reading and referred to the
committee on circuit and inferior
courts.
HOUSE CONCURS IN
SENATE AMENDMENTS.
Little Rock, Feb. 17.—House bill
No. 96 (Myers), for the protection of
mussels during the spawning season,
was taken up for action on senate
amendments.
Mr. Matheny moved that the house
do not concur in the amendment.
Mr. Myers opposed the motion. He
said there was nothing unfair in the
bill. He said protection to the mus
sels was necessary and unless given
the button factories would have to
close. The Business Men’s League of
Newport has spoken for the bill. The
poor man could use tongs and forks
for getting out the mussels. Dr.
Myers strongly opposed the use of
the instrument called the “crowfoot.”
Mr. Bell supported Mr. Matheny’s
motion and declared the bill would
prohibit the poor man from engaging
in the shell business. Responsibility
for draining the rivers of shells lies
with the wealthy parties using
dredges. He argued that it would be
ruinous to the poor people of his sec
tion to pass the bill. In his town,
Bradford, the shell business amounted
to 835,000 in a year. This bill, he
said, would destroy the industry.
Mr. Keel, who said he lived in the
heart of the pearling region, hoped
the house would concur in the senate
amendments. He argued in favor of
the measure and said it would protect
the mussels against exhaustion at the
hands of Northern button factories.
Mr. Matheny in speaking|for his mo
tion and against the bill and amend
ments, said the class of people who
engage in pearl hunting in Arkansas
were those individuals whose whole
kit of tools, individually, did not cost
over $12. He would never agree to
prohibiting the use of those common
utensils employed by the poor people
generally in pearling. They were not
able to buy costly instruments for
pearling.
On a viva voce vote the senate
amendments were concurred in.
At 4:10 p. m. the house adjourned
to 9 a. m. Wednesday.
MRS. EMILY RUSSEL.
At the hour of 1:30 Wednesday
morning, when the family were gath
ered about the bedside, sympathizing
with the mother and wife in pain,
tearful in the realization that the end
was near at hand yet hopeful unto the
last, the spirit of Mrs. Emily Jane
Russell took its flight.
Though for the past year, the de
ceased had been an invalid, confined
to her bed a larger portion of the
time, through the pall of death which
seemed to hover over, was the star of
hope. But in this parting of those we
love, there is never complete resigna
tion with those left in grief and to
them in this sad hour is extended
sympathy most sincere. The hus
band and two children, Mrs. J. C.
Herron and Otto Russell live to feel
the vacancy that has been created in
t.ViAir hnmfi
The deceased’s maiden name was
Emily Jane Phillips, her birth place
Louisville Kentucky, September 2,
1862, making her age at death 60
years, 6 months and 16 days.
She was married at an early age, in
Indianapolis, to Zane Quincy Russell,
and with him came to Arkansas in
1886, first locating at Malvern and
only eight years ago becoming resi
dents of Newport.
The funeral services were held at
the home at three o’clock Wednesday
afternoon, conducted by Rev. G. B.
Norton, the burial following at Wal
nut Grove Cemetery.
At a tender age the deceased had
become a member of the Presbyterian
church and her life reflected with
credit the faith she had professed.
Many are the tributes that are paid
to her sweet character by those who
knew her unselfishness, who remem
ber the pleasure that washers through
acts of kindness, the zeal and earnest
ness with which she fulfilled her duty
in the relations of mother and wife.
Heaven is richer in the souls of such
Christians and the world better through
the never dying influence of their
liV98.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the Arm
of Stewart Bros., doing business un
der the name and style of The New
port Builders Supply and Hardware
Company in the City of Newport,
Ark., has been disolved, and all of
their stock and goodwill has been sold
to The Newport Builders Supply and
Hardware Company, a corporation,
and Thos. B. Stewart assumes the
payment of all indebtedness due by
said Arm and all of the accounts and
notes due said Arm have been sold to
him. All parties, who are indebted
to us, will confer a favor by calling
at once and settling.
Thos. B. Stewart,
259—b6t Wm. R. Stewart.
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