The Mena weekly star., 1908-04-23
STOCK LAW NOW
 COVERS ALL MENA
The City Council Passes Necessary Ordinance by Unanimous Vote Meeting Night Changed
 New Quarters.

The new city council met Monday night with all members present, as were also Mayor Davis, City Clerk Embry and City Attorney Lundy.
 The first business taken up was an amendment offered by Alderman Parks to make the stock law apply to the whole city instead of but the Second and Third wards. MT. Parks spoke of the complaints that had been made by residents of the First ward at having that part of the city made COW pasture for the whole city, and of the confusion and trouble of undertaking to enforce a law in one part of the city that was not in effect in the other. MT. Parks also referred to the fact that the city had by large majority voted for a stock law and urged the enforcement of the will of the majority.
 Alderman Vandiver spoke of the fact that the people of his ward voted against the restraining of stock and that this was responsible for his stand against the general en- forcement of the law, but conceded that he believed under the circum- stances it was best to either remove all restrictions in the city or make the law general. The other alder men all expressed themselves as favoring the application of the law to the whole city and on a vote an amendment to Ordinance 206, which prohibited cows running at large in the Second and Third wards only, was adopted by the full vote of the council.
 The matter of blockading the side walks by displays of goods as signs and by the unloading of merchan- disc on the walks was discussed at length, and it is not improbable but at later meeting all merchants will be compelled to keep the walks in front of their stores free from all obstruction
 w. L. Long was before the coun- cil with a petition demanding that Third street from Pickering avenue to Martin avenue be opened, claim ing that the present condition was a menace to health and an injury to property. At present this part of Third street is occupied by slate sheds, cotton platform and switch track. The matter was referred to the new board of affairs for iEvesti- gation.
 The question of securing new quarters for the use of the council, police court and for the fire depart ment was taken up and on motion Mayor Davis appointed Parks, Van- diver and Richards as a committee to select and secure a suitable place for the purposes mentioned. It is expected to hold the next meeting in the quarters secured.
 The election by the council of a board of public affairs was next taken up. Judge Wright Prickett was unanimously elected for the two-year term. For the short term Dr. F. A. Lee and Dan Watkins were placed in nomination and the vote was a tie, Vandiver, Hagan and Richards voting for Watkins, and Daniels, Cunningham and Parks SUD- porting Lee. There being no likeli- hood of electing either of these candidates, T. J. Clayton was sug- gested and on vote was unanimously elected.
 On motion of Alderman Richards the regular meeting nights of the council were changed from the first Monday of each month to the first Tuesday. The bonds of Mayor Davis, Chief of Police Bickle, City Clerk Embry and City Attorney Lundy were approved and adjournment was taken to the next regular meet ing night. Tuesday. May 5, the place to be announced later.