The Harrison times., 1915-04-10
AT THE STATE CAPITOL
New Game Law Developing. Money Be-
ing Raised for Exp IsitiOD. Big
Music Festival

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their applications for license, When
the commission reaches the stage
when it will be necessary to incur
an expense Gov 6. W. Hayes will
issue a proclamation declaring the
expenses to be a necessity, under the
acts of 1913, and lcgalize them, At
present all correspondence in ~ton-
nection with the office is being by
Lee Miles, of Little Rock, a member
who is acting as secretary, but as
most oft concerns the issuance OF
license, he allows that to be done
through the State Treasury depart
mcnt, which must acknowledge the
receipt Of the remittance,
For the assistance of those in
terested in the new game law, Secre.
tary Miles has prepared the following
synopsis Of the bill,
81 license for artificial bait for
fishing. Season, the entire year,
No license required for fisherman
with hook and bait,
$25 license required for market
fisherman. Closed season on use of
nets from March | to June Is.
Lawful mesh, 3 inch square,
81 license for deer hunting, Open
season from Nov. 10 to Jan, 10,
81 license required for dogs to be
used in hunting quails. Open season
Dec, and Jan Bag limit 10 quail
and 25 duck per day,
$40 license Tor trappers using more
than ten traps
Simplicity will this year mark the
entertainment to be extended to the
delegates of the Arkansas Fedora
ton of Woman's Clubs, which will
meet next month in Fayetteville,
Ths entertainment will be none
the less lavish on the part of
Fayetteville's citizens, than it has
been at former state conventions OF
this nature, but an effort is 10 he
made to make allowances for condi-
tions in Arkansas today One of the
most notable of these is the request
that the visiting delegates appear at
the reception on the opening after.
noon ia dresses of cotton weave,
There is patriotism rs well as
economy in this 1t is probable
that this scheme will be carried out
in all the receptions and other enter
tainments which are offered by the
hospitabl" people Of the Athens Of
Arkansas,
People in Arkansas, unless they
are musicaly inclined, do not appre.
ciate the great good fortune Of the
Little Rock Festival Chorus in sccur,
ing Walter Damrosch and his New
York Symphony orchestra as the
chief attraction for the fourth an
nual musical festival, will be held in
Little Rock April 26, - and 2S,
This orchestra vas founded in New
York in 1873, by DR. Leopold Dam
rosch, father Of the present CON
ductor, In 1898 Walter Damrosch
succeed his father who died in that
year In l0li Harry Hardness
Flaglcr endowed the orchestra with
100000 per onnum, intpring it
the leading musicians of the world
as its members Walter Damrosch
was born in Prussia in 1862 and
came to America in 1871, and
became Il conductor of orchestra at
the age of 10 years,
With $4,000 pledged by the lum'
bermen Of Arkansas, about $4,000
subscribed by corporations of the
state, plans are now being made to
conduct whirlwind campaign
through the state 60 raise the
balance of the 100000 necessary 60
maintain the Arkansas building
during the Panama'Paeihe eSposi'
tion, and a considerable portion OF
this must be raised through the sale
of souvenir buttons at 81 each,
Failure on the part OF the recent
legislature to make m nppropria'
ton to provide for n board Ia
take the necessary steps g. hold On
exposition in Arkansas IN 1919,
eommemoruting the centenary oI
the admission Of Arkansas as a
territory will not necessarily cause
the project to be abandoned, It was
the plan Of those suggesting the
celebration, that this commission he
appointed with a small approplia.
ton which would permit Il TO pro-
eeed with the pfeiminafies until the
next session of the legislature, whtn
It would be known the amount nee
essary to complete the PROJECT,
It is argued that the Confederate
reunion did more 60 advertise Ark
ansas than anything else, but those
who came Ia Little Rock AT thAi