VOLUME II. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1903 NUMBER 282
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MANY MEASURES ENACTED.
Several Bills Affecting Railroads Pass
ed By House And Senate—Myers
Revised Mussel Bill Passes
House—Debate Upon
That Issue.
Little Rock, March 17.—A good
sized batch of bills was disposed of in
both branches of the general assembly
yesterday. Among the measures
passed by the senate were:
Senator Caldwell’s bill limiting hours
of railway train crews to 16 per day.
Senator Caldwell’s game bill.
Senator Killgore’s bill requiring non
residents to pay a license of $100 to
hunt in Arkansas.
Senator Cotton’s bill regulating the
handling of dynamite.
Senator Simpson’s bill to prevent
discrimination in the price of coal oil
and dressed beef.
Among the bills passed by the house
were:
By Mr. Kerwin- Requiring railroads
to pay employes on the 20th of each
month.
By Mr. De Rossitt— Requiring long
distance telephone companies to make
connection with local exchanges.
By Mr. McGuigan—Limiting hours
of labor of railway train crews to 16
per day and electric motormen to 10
per day.
By Dr. Myers—Amending act ap
proved March 9, 1903, for protection
of mussel beds.
By Mr. Campbell of Randolph—
Making June 11, birthday of A. H.
Garland, a public holiday.
A subcommittee representing the
historical committee, Arkansas divis
ion, United Confederate Veterans, ap
peared before the house and present
ed a memorial in favor of an appro
priation to secure and preserve the
muster rolls of Arkansas troops in the
Confederate army. The subcommit
tee consisted of Major 8. H. Nowlin
Gen. B. W. Green, Col. John G
Fletcher, Gen. T J. Churchill, Gen. V
Y. Cook, Col. J. W. Colquitt and Capt
A. J. Snodgrass.
The senate adopted the house con
current resolution by Mr. Campbell o
Randolph providing for a joint com'
mittee to prepare a general road law
DEBATE UPON MU8SEL BILL.
House bill No. 439 (Dr. Meyers), (
bill to regulate the mussel tishing of
the state, was read the third time.
The bill makes the closed season from
January t to March 80.
Dr. Myers said that the former act,
as amended in the senate, was too
drastic and, in view of conditions im
posed by high water, it was impera
tive that it be modified. The first act
was too stringent for the working
class.
Mr. Keel was inclined to want the
bill laid over until its provisions could
be scrutinized carefully and the peo
ple concerned heard from.
Mr. Eldridge opposed the bill on ac
count of the change it makes in the
closed season. He argued that the
bill would afford no protection to res
idents, but would be in the interest of
floaters.
Mr. Campbell of Randolph opposed
the bill because he did not believe it
is what is wanted in the pearl region.
He argued that the closed season
should be as fixed in the first act, in
April, May and June.
Mr. Keel said the bill, as he under
stood it, seeks to do the very opposite
of what the former act aimed at. He
hoped the house would vote down the
bill.
Mr. Matheny said he opposed the
former bill because it was too drastic.
The poor classes discovered the pearl
industry and it belongs to them. Not
five Der cent of the mussel diggers in
his county are non-resideuts. When
asked if this bill seeks to repeal the
former act, Mr. Matheny replied, “I
hope so.” He favored the passage of
the bill.
Mr. York said he had talked to
many in Jackson county and he found
the consensus of opinion to be that
the drastic act first passed would
drive many people out of Arkansas,
He argued in favor of the pending bill
in the interest of the common people.
(Mr. Campbell of Pulaski in the
chair.)
Dr. Myers said his object in intro
ducing the first bill was to protect the
source of supply of one of the great
est industries that has sprung up in
the South. As amended, the bill, he
concluded, was too drastic. He did
not seek to hurt the farmers. He
sought to protect an industry. Dr.
Myers said it was of vital importance
to the people that the former act, as
amended should be modified. The
people adversely affected by his bill
would be those farmers, very few in
number, who wished to employ the
closed season on other work. He
could not frame a bill to protect all
mussels, as some of them spawned
every month in the year, but the most
famous of them spawned during the
closed season as his bill made it.
The bill passed—ayes 32, noes 27.
Mr. Eldridge gave notice of a mo
tion to reconsider the vote by which
the bill passed.
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NOTICE OF MEETINGS.
The greatest work that has ever
been performed is now being done
here at the A. M. E. church colored.
Crutches are being removed from
people that have been walking on
them for years. We have a large at
tendance day and night. Meeting
conducted by Rev. Loveless. Hours
of meeting: 10:30 a. m.,2:30 p. m. and
7:30 p.m. All are invited to attend.
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THORNBURG-GREEN.
Quiet But Pretty Home Wedding Of
Mr. George Thornburg And Mrs.
Lucy B. Green At Home Of
Bride Tuesday Morning.
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On Tuesday morning at 10:30 o’clock
in the presence of a limited number
of friends of the contracting parties,
at the home of the bride on Elm
Street, was celebrated the marriage
of Mr. George Thornburg of Little
Rock to Mrs. Lucy B. Green of this
city. While simplicity rather than
elaborateness characterized the dec
orations and execution of the rite,
the service was both affecting and
pretty.
The color scheme of the decorations
was appropriate in the green of Ire
land's patron Saint Patrick and had
with taste and dainty effect been ar
ranged by Mesdames L. J. Lucas, P.
i V. Ferguson and R. W. Bandy.
The officiating ministers, Rev. J. M.
Workbam of Benton and Rev. W. P.
Gibson of this city stood in the bay
window of the front parlor and be
hind tnem the members of the bride’s
Sunday school class, Misses Maude
Richardson, Lula Wolf, Tommie
Thornton and Lillie Bandy. The bride
entered upon the arm of the groom
from the rear parlor to the strains of
Mendlessohn’s wedding maoch, rend
ered by Mrs. W. A. O’Neal upon the
piano accompanied by her sister, Miss
Gene Bandy upon the violin.
After the service, congratulations
were fairly heaped upon the happy
wedded pair, who were made to bear
the severest tests of good nature in
many practical jokes, while waiting
for the train at the Iron Mountain de
pot, and their final departure was
made amid showers of rice, express
ive of the good will and best wishes
of a hoBt of Newport friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Thornburg will go to
housekeeping at once at the home of
the groom, 1624 Spring Street, Little
Rock.
The bride was charming in a blue
etamine over blue taffeta, trimmed
with applique and wore a hat to match.
The groom and officiating minister
wore the conventional black.
The groom is a gentlemam in the
fullest sense of the word and very
highly thought of over the state as
well as in his home city. In the news
paper line, he is editor of the Masonic
Trowel and manager of the Arkansas
Methodist, having at one time been
honored with the presidency of the
Arkansas Press Association. In ma
sonic circles too, he has been a leader,
being a past grand master. He now
has the distinction of being the super
intendent of the largest Sunday school
in Arkansas.
The bride too has taken an active
interest in church work, having been
for several yearB district secretary of
the foreign missionary society and a
Sunday school teacher and organist
in the Methodist church of this city.
Her graces of character and dispo
sition are too many for enumeration
and the Independent congratulates
the groom upon the helpmeet he has
chosen, hoping that their future may
be richly blessed in a happiness that
shall fall to their lot through useful
lives.
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