Donor pan Bellsfouts, Pa., October 3, 1913, Remarkable Changes Resulting From Improved Roads Improvement of the highways in al most every locality where it has been | accomplished, has resulted in a most | remarkable change in the traffic they | carry. Over unimproved roads the travel is generally limited to small loads drawn by horses, in addition to | buggies and other light vehicles. Oc- casionally an automobile is seen, but not often. Loads drawn by horses over unim- proved roads are limited to what the | horses can haul over the worse places and up the steepest grades. While | three or four tons are not exceptional | loads for two horses on hard surfaced | roads of easy grade, one-third or one- quarter that weight is a big load over | almost any earth road, and considera. ble less than a single ton must be | counted a load where there are heavy hills, or where mud holes abound. Time is also a factor, as the team will go steadily forward with the heavy load on the good road, while the struggles, and breathing spells necessary when an unimproved road is being negotiated cause delays and general loss of time and temper. When a highway is improved by grading, draining and surfacing with hard material, so that it becomes in every respect a good road, a large amount of local travel which has pre viously gone by other routes is divert. | ed to it. A person living five miles from an improved road, desiring to ' reach a point twenty miles away, also five miles from the improved road, will almost invariably drive the five miles to the good road, then the twen- ty miles over it, then the five miles over the unimproved road, making a total drive of thirty miles, twenty of which is over the improved road, rath. | er than to drive the twenty miles be- tween his starting point and his destl- nation over unimproved roads. It is on this basis that it is determined that more than 85 per cent of all travel goes some part of its course over the main roads, especially if they be im- proved in the modern acceptance of the term. The improvement of a road probably doubles the local loaded trav- el over it; the added travel being that which would go over other roads were all unimproved. The good road easily doubles the distance that a horse or team and bug- by can travel in a day. This fact brings into existence a larger amount of this class of travel, estimated at fifty per cent more, and by reason of the greater distance which may be covered, and the overlapping travel from other localities, this class of traffic may easily be multiplied by three, as the result of building a good road. The development of the automobile is estimated to make the radius of a day’s travel, for business or pleasure, ten times as great as with a horse or team. With an automobile a business or professional man from a central point can visit practically every part of his county ,and be home by night- fall. A farmer with an automobile may make a necessary trip to town before breakfast, or before the dew is off, and not interfere with his day's work. He may also, with a motor truck, take two or three loads of pro- duce to market in the same time that a team would require to haul one. Local merchants. with automobile delivery wagons, where good roads prevail, deliver goods promptly throughout a large section of country. With horses they rarely made deliver- fes outside borough or city iimits. Automobile trucks establish freight lines to boroughs and smaller points which were previously unprovided for. Very recently motor omnibus or stage lines have made their appearance in various parts of this state, carrying passengers at low rates and increasing the commercial and social activity of the community. With all these facili ties it is estimated that motor car travel over a road is multiplied by ten when the road is improved. Doubling the heavy traffic, trebling the light horse traffic, and mutiplying the motor traffic by ten, places fifteen vehicles on the good road where there was but one before the road was im- proved. This is an underestimate rather than otherwise. A close study of the travel over thousands of miles of im- proved roads demonstrates that the travel 1s from twenty to thirty times as great as it was before the good roads were constructed. Figures tak- en in several different states confirm this statement. This enormous increase in travel is one of the wonders of the age. It is difficult of comprehension by those who have not had an opportunity of watching its development. And it is this very fact, in the State of Penn- sylvania, that makes necessary the presentation of these figures; so that all the people may understand the im- ce of the wonderful change in traffic within the past few years; and that they may also understand that this same ratio of increase is likely to continue for at least a decade to come. This traffic develops the resources of a State, and it must be provided for. The prejudice which formerly existed against automobiles and automobilists in the minds of some residents of ru- ral districts, has practically passed out of existence, and during the past year farmers have purchased proba- bly more than half the entire number of automobiles sold. ——Subsecribe for the WATCHMAN OF COURSE. Agent—I have here a small device | that will enable you to save at least | two-thirds of your coal bills. Mr. Cutting—What is it, a bill file? Quite So. “Killing Time" Is hard to dn; Sooner or later, Time kills you. Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Scrofula following testimonial clearly shows Lhd 4 Eg Hood's Sarsa- parilla : PAT Vhen my daughter, now up, hree months old Get it Lg uid form or in the tablets called Hy 58.39. N SUBM E (1h FOR TH RT A NE iy THE MO HER or a jr OF AR MONWEAL oT Has A JOINT RESOLUTION P*Shhe ION SUBMIT TE TO THE CON- Proposing an amendment to nine, section four of the the Constitution of the “the Commonwealth bes f Pennsylvania, authorizing the State to issue bonds 10 the amount of fifty millions of Gollars for the improvement of highways of the Common Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate House of Representatives of the Cmmonwoni of Pennsylvania in General Assembl: hat the following amendment to the Constitut the < thereby: pro of Pennsylvania be, hi ¥ same is hereby. with the ah arcle oat secon four of article nine, which reads as 4. No debt shall be created by oron PL the State, exept io supply casual defi- of revenue, fepel in , suppress in- surrection, defend the ate War, or to pay ex- isting debt; and the debt created to sdopl defi: ciency in revenue shall never exceed, a any one time, one million ” "dollars. amended so as to read as follows: baa 00 do 56 debt shall | be created by hy! on the State, except to supply casual defi- a of revenue, | invasion, suppress in- surrection, defend the State in war, or to pay ex- isting debt; and the debt created to suppl i ciencies in revenue shall never regate at any one time, one million “of dolla irrespective of any debt, may a authorize the Stat to issue bonds to the amount of fifty re pi thei dollars for the purpose of improving and ing the highways of the Commonweal true copy of Joint Resolution No. 1. ROBERT MCAFEE, Sean of the Commonwealth. Number Two. A JOINT RESOLUTION g an t to seven, arti cle three of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, so as to permit regulating labor Section 1. Be it ved by the Senate and House of Rep of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General bly met, That the fol! is as an amendment tothe Constitution of of va wealth with the provisions nia, in accordance eighteenth article thereof. i Atsendment to Avice 1 Three, 3 Section Seven. Section 2 , article three ot the Constitution of BRCLIoN Joven: which reads | 3. Section 7. The General Assembly shall not | the Jaw authorizing the crea: , and any local or tion, extension, oe § ihe she ofcounies, tie cities, town: | i Constitutional Amendm nts | Secretary of _of the Commonwealth. —— Constitutional Amendments i Shupiest: | educa of elections, | the place of voting: rectin Be i od | township lines. Borough limits or school dis: | the fd | affices. or prescribing powers | Change townships, election or school districts: 1 - EE judgments. or Drescribing i “Regulating the fees o yp SKiguding the agitate or constables: + | the building or il. ih | the of money for such purposes: Fixing rate of interest, of minors o under dissbilt, exceps afer due notice to } puitiss 1 Intefest, 15 be recited By the emitting fines, penalties and forf | efunding Moneys tae masters in i Erna powers | of the peace, | persons | all! 1 orteitures, or legally paid into the treasury: bat the LE trade, aan: nanufactur: ! rg re may e and fix the Toa | EE ov, Torres. | or any coun » { school village, or og to division of | the State or by an any Sontracter gv sub-contractor * performing work, labor or service forthe State, | for sc school district, YT borough, ow ai dvinon | | } Ey , nen to any Srp: ion, association or | vidual any special or exclusive privilege or | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION. Proposing an amendment to Section thi f article eight of the Constitution of Pennsyl h powers leges shall have been Yided for by general Hh he Sons | have ju ion to grant the same or give the | relief asked for. | I A true Dy of Joint Resolution No. 2. | | ROBERT MCAFEE, 1 Secretary of the Commonwealth. | Number Three. | i | f Pennsyl- vania. | Section 1. Be it resolved i Representatives of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania (if Senate concur), fol lowing is as an amendment to the Con- stitution of t! monwealth of Ivania, in accordance with p! eigh- teenth ariice thereof: — Section Amend section three of article eight, BOR ith as fo elected bY the glectora cf the State at large ay either a Jeera o or munici as circumstances may require. a Shoe Son. Mor. judges of the courts for the several udicial istics, and for county, city, ward, and township officers, for | lar of service, shall be held on election day: namely, t ‘Tuesday nen Tove: ing the first Monda in each odd. may r, but the General Assembly by a a diferent day, two-thirds of all the members each House Sonsehiing thierets: That elections shall always held in an odd-numbered vear " soasto read: Section 3. All judges elected the electors of the State at large may be a either a general or municipal election, fo oro may require. elections for judges of the courts for the several judicial districts, and for | d county, city, ward, and township of. | 3, for regular terms of service, shall be held | ching hess plowing she “hot Mom onday of in each Odé-numbered year, but the a diff Et oY me all the me i llows: “All judges "gE rrent Resolution No. 3. ROBERT MCA¥EE, Number ber Four. A JOINT RESOLUTION. vania to taxi i it resolved by the Senate aM Er I Ame, Tat i ER amo ion OF Ch TIE oF Permith : th Je De of ox ' nine of the Constitution of ia, which ——— ~ Coal a and Wood. Pharmacy. Vee Attorneys-at-Law. by "= |S fone a A. G. MORRIS, JR. MURRAY'S Re OUI Shipp and C sa Merchant, and Dealer in THE MARVELOUS CURE FOR ANTHRACITE axp BITUMINOUS RHEUMATISM, (COALS) $5.00 the bottle at your drug- gists, or sent Parcels post on re- ceipt of price. Money refunded if it fails to cure YOU. CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS and other grains, ‘Rheumatic Remedy IN = i SPANGLER.-Attornev-at-Law. in all the Courts. Consultation in or German. Office in Crider's Exchange. N* the courts. TENE Ame Lo WM. H. FIELDING, 1 HE and German. Office south of Ra house. ——) BALED HAY AND STRAW fon She. Adon " ‘i Sues ai tare So fo Te 4 panama FEDERAL STOCK FOOD. 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BELLEFONTE, PA. MILL AT ROOPBSURG. 47-19 SECHLER & COMPANY. New Mackerel First Catch of the Season. 10 pound pails, 20 fish, at - - $1.40 10 pound pails, 16 fish, at - - - 10 pound pails, 12 fish, at - - - $L75 These goods are open for your inspection. — Come and see them. SECHLER & COMPANY, BL sp hn under- LIME AND LIMESTONE. esses LIME. LIME. Lime and Limestone for all purposes. H-O Lime put up in 201b. paper bags for use with drills or spreader, is the econom- jcal form most careful farmers are using. High Calcium Central Pennsylvania Lime AMERICAN LIME & STONE COMPANY. 58-28-6m General Office: TYRONE, PA. Operations at Bellefonte, Tyrone, Union Furnace, Frankstown and Spring Meadows, Pa. EARLE C. TUTEN (Successor to D. W. Woodring.) Fire, Life and Automobile Insurance None but Reliable Companies Represented. Surety Bonds of All Descriptions. Both Telephones 56-27.y BELLEFONTE, PA JOHN F. 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