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| SEPARATE APARTMENTS
TO BE REQUIRED.
“Jim Crow” Street Car Measure
Passed By Senate—Prohis Defeat |
Norwood License Measure—
To Publish Delinquent Tax
Lists.
By a vote of 26 to 4 the senate yes
terday passed Representative Gantt’s
“Jim Crow” street car bill, and the
; measure now goes to the governor.
I It requires street car companies in
cities of the first class to operate sep
! arate cars or to separate white and
colored passengers in cars dperated
! for both.
The senate passed the bill of Hon.
Roy D. Campbell, appropriating 86,
000 to assist in erecting a Confederate
monument at Little Rock.
The senate passed Representative
; Fuller’s joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the constitution au
! thorizing cities of the first and second
| class to issue bonds, subject to ratifi
cation at the polls.
The conferees on extension of the
general assembly’s session were un
able to agree. By a vote of 17 ayes to
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the Pindall concurrent resolution so
as to provide for adjournment May 9
in lieu of May 11, as provided in the
resolution. It will require a two
thirds vote to adopt the amended
resolution.
The house defeated, 21 to 62, the
Norwood bill permitting the granting
of liquor licenses in wards and cities
of the first and second class where
the majority voted for license, inde
pendent of the county vote.
The house passed the Huddleston
bill providing for publication of de
linquent personal tax lists.
LADIES AID SOCIETY.
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Methodist church met with Mrs.
Elizabeth Watson Friday afternoon
with thirteen members present, to
whom refreshments were served after
an entertaining missionary program.
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: Mrs. S. W. Tag
gart, president; Mrs. A. H. McDon
ald, vice-president; Mrs. J. W. Wal
lace, treasurer; Mrs. R. W. Bandy,
corresponding secretary; Mrs. T. E.
Kelly, secretary.
Daily Independent 10 cents a week
INJUNCTION SOUGHT
FROM CIRCUIT COURT.
Hearing Set For Tuesday, March
Seventeenth By Judge Fulkerson
At Batesvilie Saturday
Morning.
Special to Independent.
Batesvilie, Mar. 7.-By agreement
of the attorneys upon either side in
the Jackson county circuit court in
vacation at Batesvilie, Judge F. D.
Fulkerson on Saturday morning post
poned consideration of the petition of
the prohis, asking that the parties to
whom license has been granted by the
county court, be enjoined from the
further sale of Liquor and set the
hearing of the case for Tuesday,
March 17 th.
The attorneys for the saloon men
asked its postponement, that they
might prepare to resist the petition
for an injunction, which is asked upon
the ground of the illegality of fthe pe
titions for license and by reason of
the failure to vote upon the issue
under the prescribed regulations for
cities of the first and second class.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT
FOR CITY BOND ISSUE.
Constitutional Ameudmert Will Be
Submitted To Vote Of People Al
lowing Cities of First And Second
Class To Issue Bonds Under
Certain Restrictions.
The senate has passed Representa
tive Fuller’s joint resolution propos
ng the submission of an amendment
to the constitution authorizing cities
cf the first and second class to issue
xmds. The proposed amendment is
is follows:
That section 1, article 16, of the con
ititution of the state of Arkansas be
imended so as to read as follows:
Article 16, seotion 1, finance and
taxation.—Neither the state, nor any
city, county, town or other municipa
lity in this state shall ever loan its
credit for any purpose whatever; nor
3hall any county, City, town or rauni
cipalty ever issue any interest-bear
ing evidences of indebtedness except
such bonds as may be authorized by
law fo provide for and secure the
payment of the present existing in
debtedness, and the state shall never
Issue any interest-bearing treasury
warrants or scrip. Provided, that
cities of the first and second class may
issue interest-bearing evidence of in
debtedness. Provided, however, that
before this law shall be effective, the
city council of such city or town, shall
pass an ordinance specifying for what
purpose and for what amount they
desire to issue interest-bearing evi
dences of indebtedness and the rate
of interest to be paid on the same.
Said ordinance shall be published for
thirty days in a daily paper, published
in such cities or towns, but if there be
no daily papers, then the same shall be
published in a weekly paper of general
circulation in the county in which the
city or town is situated. Said ordi
nance shall then be submitted to the
inhabitants at the nexl regular or
special city election, for ratification or
rejection; and if a majority of all the
electors voting on such questions are
found to be in favor of the ratification
then said ordinance shall be in full
force and effect, otherwise the same
shall be null and vcid.
MORNING iTAR MEETING.
President C. H. Jackson of the
Morning Star Railroad, arrived in
Newport Friday noon from New York,
having arranged to meet here, Mr. E.
D. Ghadick, the chief promoter of the
road.
A meeting of the directors of the
road and of its sister incorporation the
Newport Bridge, Belt and Terminal
Company, was held at the office of
8tayton& Stay ton Saturday aftern on,
but nothing for publication could be
learned of the proceedings at press
hour. It will no poubt be announced
however that prospects are very
bright for the construction of the
Morning Star.
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Pt'jjuiC SCuOOjj report.
Honor Roll And Average Class Grades
As Submitted By Superintendent
Woods For Month Ending
February 27.
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HONOR BOLL.
First Grade—Gertrude Sharp, Clara
White, Robyn Gunter, Willie Clare
Harris.
Second Grade—Linville Brown, De
Grove Simpson.
Third Grade- Roy Umsted, Ralph
Hirsch, Boyce Drummond, Luther
White, Wesley Bengel, Linus Schlitt,
Tom Barker, Preston Finley, Mary
Hobday, Mildred Minor, Eva Stewart,
Maggie Baker, Corrinne Mosby
Fourth Grade—Hattie West, Gracie
Mayhan, Maud Drummond, Neta
Woodel, Janie Pettet, Edith Wharton,
Duke Kelly, Ben Phillips, Joe Baker,
Charles Bandy, Glen Maynard, Charles
Hite, Claud Bullard, Willie Huffman,
Johnio Sconyer, Junio Hubert, Sidney
Kaufman, Ellen Jones, Ruth Egan,
Esther Meyers, Etbel Johnson, Lizzie
Glavin, Geneva Glavin, Nora Bandy,
Bessie Newton, Mary Kelly, Pauline
Davis, Katchie Dean, Eva Harland,
Daisy Bayles, Heard Gwyn, Teddie
Sowell, Dottis Joyce, Samuel Taggart,
Mell Brooks. Wiilie Camohel! Lucv
Bailey.
Fifth Grade— Laura Patterson, Lutie
Mae Stephens, Madie Stephene, Harry
Davis, Willie McNair.
Sixth Grade- Leelon Stewart, Ben
nie Brascb, Philip Lockard, Irma
Wolf, Leah Jones, John Warner, Leo
Volkmer, Lilian Stallings, Clara
Brooks, Hortense Ilite, Ethel Dean,
Arkie Dean, Fred Bowie.
Seventh Grade- Laura Mosby, Mol
lie Hightower, Mary Younger, Eiva
McLain, Oarl Hawk, Elwood Neal.
Ninth Grade—Cora West, Blanche
Stallings, Hattie Kimberlin, Imogene
Bandy, Jesse McDonald, James Black
wood, Tommie Thornton.
Tenth Grade— Garland Hurt, Tillie
Sprigg, Martha Bowles, Hugh Parish.
AVERAGE CLASS GRADES.
Tenth Grade -Eifie McCollum 98.3,
Garland Hurt 98, Hugh Parish 97.7,
Jamie Irby 97.6, Martha Bowles 94.6,
Tillie Sprigg 92.1.
Ninth Grade—James Blackwood
98.2, Lizzie Irby 97.9, Lawrence Bailey
97.7, Jesse McDonald 97.6, Blanche
Stallings 97.4, Hattie Kimberlin 97,
Lyle Croft 96.8, Cora West 96.3, Tom
mie Thornton 96, Lura Hawk 94.9,
Imogene Bandy 93.8, Rina Price 93,
Willie Wallace 92.7, Della Bernstein
92.3, Grace Ross 90.2, Lillie Bandy 90.
Eighth Grade —In the spelling con
test between the boys and girls of the
eighth grade, the boys missed 116
words, the girls 37.
Seventh Grade—In the history con
test between the boys and girls of the
oAtronflt creurlu Ilia iiurLaot crouriaa
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are: Carl Hawk 100, Walton Brooks
100, Clara Meyer 98, Mary Younger
96, Walter Bowles 96, Laura Mosby 90.
Fifth Grade Hershel McCauley and
Bertha H rsch lead their classes.
Fourth Grade, Class A—Willie Huff
man 98.6, Charles Hite 96.5, Johnie
Sconyer 93.2, Charles Bandy 92.5, Joe
Baker 91.4, Glen Maynard 90.5.
Class B—Ruth Egan 95 9 Katchie
Dear, 95, Pauline Davis 93.7, Esther'
Meyor 93 6, Lucy Bailey 92.7, Teddie
Sowell 92.4, Mell Brooks 91.6, Bessie
Newton 91.5, Nora Bandy 91.2.
REMARKS.
Enrollment 282. All grades below
90 are omitted in this report. 100 is
the maximum. A. Woods,
Principal.
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