The Green Forest tribune., 1895-12-19
CLUB PROCEEDINGS.
DOiNGS OF THE GREAT AND ONLY MATRi-
MoNlAL ORGANIZATION.
Account of the Deliberations Saturday Night;
Also of the Session Lass Night

i The Matrimonial Club met on Satur
i day evening at the usual hour Presi-
i dent Foreman was in the chair and
4 presided in his usual dignity and vigor.
! The following committee was ap-
poin ted by the chai,: On membership,
i Bryant Coxsey, Will Orrell and B. B,
4 Eslinger
i The committee at once repaired to
! the ante room to consider the petitions
Of A. J. Tabor, Robt. Blasingame, Jas.
Shibley, Adds Owens and DR.. r. P.
Moore. After some deliberaton they
reported favorable, recommending the
election of each, when they had pro-
/ duced the necessary papers, or other
| evidence, showing they were engaged,
Messrs. Shibley and Moore readily met
the requirement, and afterwards were
| elected.
Mr.. Eslinger desired to submit
minority report recommending the elec-
ton of all the candidates, without the
engagement requirement.. Mr.. e. said
that such rule would disfranchise a
number of the charter members, him.
self for one. He added that he
thought it would be well to divide the
club into three degrees, love courtship
and marriage and let the candidates
take them as they became prepared.
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the effect that all members who We're
. yoked before Jan. I, 1896, be presented
with a set of surgical instruments at
, the expense of the Club. Ben Norris
has lily arose to amend the motion by
; striking out the words surgical instu-
, nentso and substituting the word
/ Fharnesso instead. This evidently
/, did not meet DR.. Ramsey's approval
and while be and Mr. Norris We're
wrangling to discover word on which
they could agee, Charlie Harbert rose
to a point of information and desired
) 10 know if the motion was meant tc
| include Ben Collier, too. The question
: was referred to F. @. Butt, who said
, of course not, as the club was prohibit
ed from passing expost facto rules.
} Messrs. Norris and Ramsey having
} agreed upon the insertion of "silver
knives and forks" the motion was
again offered and instantly seconded by
an unknown voice from a dark corner,
which from the tone was suspected to
be that Of J. L. Russell AS the motion
was about to be put, F. O. Butt with
his usual fondness for objecting, adj
dressed the chair, and in very few
pointed words demonstrated that as he
and Il. C, Lanter were the only ones
who had as yet paid any dues (ard that
by sweeping the hall apd making 1ires)
it was to be feared that the inaugera-
ton of such plan would seriously
embarrass the Club and perhaps in
volve in difficulties which it could
not surmount, and he for one would
object to and resist such plan as long
as efectual resistance was possible,
unless the time was extended one year.
Further remarks were put to an end
I by tie chairman putting the Ques
tion, which carried by an over
whelmng majority. Dr.. r. IN partie-
ular was highly elated, aud ma&no-
miouslY set up some eix-for-a-niek
cigars to the crowd.
J. l. Russell then arose and said
that at the request Of Chairman Fore
man, he desired to ask that the ques-
ton be not considered as definitely
settled until next week; that Mr..
Foreman had failed to hear from
Eureka Springs in regard to some stock
Investments he had over there etc.
etc, was not quite certain vet whether
he wanted the motion to prevail OF not
but at first view rather opposed it,
DR.. Ramsey here insisted that he
thought the chair rather a crank, any,
way,
The Chair: "Were you abiding to
me. sir?"
The Doctor: & recon yoh re about
The only chair here just now -"
Mr.. HaEhury rose to point OF order
and asked the chair to put stop to
the dispute.
The chair said he felt sure that Dr..
Ramsey would withdraw his remarks.
Dr.. Ramsey said with all due re-