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MONWEALTH
PRC
GENCRAL ASSEMBLY OF
co
MMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL-
THE CITIZENS OF THE COM- shall never exceed in the aggregate
FOR THEIR AP-
VAL OR REJECTION, BY THE lars
THE follows:
at any one time,
be amended
one million dol
S0 as to read as
Section 4. No debt shall be crea-
VANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY OR- ied by or on behalf of the State, ex-
DER OF WHE SECRETARY OF cept to supply casual deficiencies of
THE COMMONWEALTH,
cUANCE OF ARTICLE XVill
tHE CONSTITUTION.
+ Number One.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an
IX of the Constitution ef
Pennsylvania. -
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representa-
tives in General Assembly met, That
the following amendment to the
Constitution of Pennsylvania, be, and
the same is hereby, proposed, in ac-
cordance with the XVIII article
thereof: —
Section 16.
nicipality thereof, acquiring or appro-
priating property or rights over or in
property for public use; may, in fur-
therance of its plans for the acaui-
sition and public use of such proper-
ty or rights, and subject to such re-
strictions as the Legislature may from
time to time impose, appropriate an
excess of property over that actual-
1y tc be occupied or used for public
use, and may thereafter sell or: lease
such excess, anfl impose on the prop-
erty so sold or leased any restrictions
appropriate to. preserve or énh
the benefit to the public of .the Drop-
erty actually oceupied or used.-
A true copy of Joint Retolution
No. 1.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendmefit to the €on-
stitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania so as to consolidate
the courts of common pleas of Phil
adelphia county.
Section 1. Be it resolved Ws the
enate and House of
ives of the Commonwealth of Penn-
“Asylvania in General Assembly met.
“That the following amendment fo the
Constitution of Pennsylvania be, and.
the same is hereby, proposed, in ‘ac-
cordance with the eighteenth article
thereof:- :
« ¥hat section six of article five be
amended so as te read as follows:
Section 6. In the county of Phila-
delphia all the jurisdiction and
powers now vested in the several
numbered courts of common pleas of
"hat county, shall be vested in one
| Jourt of common pleas composed of
all the judges in, commission in said
‘courts, Such furisdiction and powers
IN PUR- revenue, repel invasion, suppress
OF |surrection,
amendment to Article
The State, or any mu-
‘ Representa-
in-
defend the State in war,
or to pay existing debt; and the debt
created to supply deficiencies in rev-
enue shall never exceed in the aggre-
gate, at any one time, one million dol-
lars:. Provided, however That the
General Assembly, irrespective of
any debt, may authorize the State te
issue bonds to the amount of fifty
t millions of dollars for the purpose of
improving and rebuilding the highways
of the Commonwealth.
Section 2. Said proposed amend-
ment shall be submitted to the qual-
ified electors of the State, at the gen-
eral election to be held on the Tues-
day next following the first Monday of
November in the year nineteeen hun-
dred and eighteen, for the purpose of
deciding upon the approval and ratfi-
fication or the rejection of said
amendment, Said election shall he
opened, held, and clesed upon said
election day, at the places andiwithin
the hours at and within which said
election is directed to. be open-
ed, held and closed, and in accord
ance -with. the provisions of the laws
of Pennsylvania governing electioas,
and. amendments thereto. Such a-
mendment sliall be printed upon the
ballots .in. the form. and manner pre-
scribed by the election laws of Penn-
|'sylvania, and shall in all respecls
conform to the requirement of such
laws.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 3.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Four.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
eight, article nine of the Consti-
tution of Pennsylvania.
Section 1, : Be it enacted by the
Sonate and House of Representa-
tives of the Commonwealitnh of Penn-
sylvania in. General Assembhy met,
and is hereby enacted hy the author-
tion of the Commonwealth of: Penn-
sylvania, in accordance with the pro-
visions of the eighteenth article
thereof: —-
Amendment to Article Nine, Section
Eight.
That section eight of article nine
of the Constitution be amended by
striking out the said section and’in-
serting in place thereof the follow-
ing: —
+
gy of ‘the same, That #e Constitu- | -
Where Motorists Lodge
The favorite route for motorists is the !
Great National Highway, formerly
known as the National Pike.
from the east through Cumberland and
down into Pittsburgh by way of |
Brownsville, entering the main part of
the city right at the
Monongahela
House
PITTSBURGH
where cool, airy rooms with open
river view afford the most comfortable
summer quarters,
European Plan
Single Room, without bath, $1.00 2nd $1.5)
per day. Single ‘oom with bath $2.00, $2.50
and $3.00 per day. Each additional person
$1. 0 per day in any room, with or without
bat
Complete Cafe Service from 25c Club
Breakfast to the most x
J. B. Kelley, Manager
Smithfield St., Water St. and First Ave.
Pittsburgh
Waverly — the best
petroleum products \§
made—all made from ¥
high grade Pennsylvania -
Crude Oil.
Gasolines, illuminating oils,
lubricating oils and paraffine
wax. © For all purposes.
329 Page Booklet Free—
tells all about oil
Waverly Oil Works Co.
Independent Refiners !
PITTSBURGH, PA.
| twenty-six-acre,
| Eleventh ward,
It winds [sion of Ralph Beatty,
that | . proper Jed :
oe
Y An appeal has beer
The United States Steel corporation
is giving eighty. frame houses to em-
ployees of the Seamless Tube works,
McKeesport. The houses are being
razed. They are awarded by the lot
system to employees who desire to
build. homes. The houses are on a
mill . site in the
purchased several
months ago by the company for
$238,000.
Postofice robberies which puzzled
federal authorities have been solved
through the arrest and.
aged sixteen,
son of Albert ‘Beatty of Leechburg
| Personal mail, money orders, checks
and packages containing valuables
have been stolen frcm boxes for some
time and the loot is said to have
amounted to several thousand dollars.
Amer Mowrey, twenty-two, lost his |
life trying to save another employ-
ee of the Carnegie Steel company at
Farrell. An Austrian workman went
into one of the benzol plants to open
a water gate and was overcome by
fumes. Mowrey went to his assist-
ance and was carrying him out when
‘he also was overcome and fell, break-
is his neck and dying instantly.
" '|*~ Charging false arrest and imprison.
ment, Melvin Pfeil, formerly of Wil
kinsburg, now of Aron, O., has filed
| action in the United” States district
| esurt in Pittsburgh asking for $36,000
from Samue] C: Jamison, coroner eof
Allegheny gounty, yy reason of the
injury ‘and suffering induced by his
commitment to Jail and and arrest.
, Armed guards have “have béen thrown
around the residence of Alfred M. Ful-
ler, millionaire of Perryopolis,
because Mr, Fuller, recently fpeceived
letters demanding meney. One dummy
package placed in ‘& hollow tsee, as
designated by the writer of the let-
ters, disappeared without the guards
seeing the person “wlio took it.
, Policeman - Wiliam &. Pottmyee of
Pittsburgh . was” justified in shooting
ida Starr, aged “fofty. -eight, when she
resisted arrest’ “Aug. 7, a _coromner’s
jury decided. 1 was testified the wo-
man’ had attempted: To. "shoot ' several.
persons and when Officer Pottmyer at-
tempted to arrest. her: -gshe: threatened
to kill him. Ml i
‘Gustave - Guitafson. of Homestead
lost the end of the index finger on
hig right hand Sher it was bitten off
by a turtle. Gustafson had purchased
an eight- poundex, and was taking it
home in the street car when he met
a friend, who asked to see it. As
: Sugtreon reached -to the floor the
turtle snapped oft | his finger.
"The ‘ten-cent lent tare, initiated by
the Hittsburgh Railways company last
; is declared illegal by the pub-
SL rico ‘commission, it being held
credse from fiv
‘been filed in a
confes- |
a roe
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CASTORIA -
For Infants and Children.
| Mothers Know That
“Genuine Castoria
Always
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ht Vegetable le Pre
similating the food:
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‘TESS and Rest Contains pelfier
| Opium, Morphine nor Mineral
Jl; Nor NARCOTIC.
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Every Farmer with ftwu Or more cows
needs a
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THE BEST SEPARATOR MADE,
J. T. YODER,
223 bLivergoud Si,
JOCHN>TOW x,
| ROBERT CRON E|
KNOWS HOW TO MAKE A
NEw AGAIN.
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HIS CHAI GE!
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5 EANS ANDF
CLOTHES. SAND REPAIRS
ROBT. CRO: VE, Tie Tailor
A lighted cigar in the trousers pock-
et of Ralph Flora of Pittsburgh ignit-
ed his clothing and causea members
of his family to turn in an alarm of
fire. Firemen extinguished the smol-
dering clothing. The damage report.
ed by the police was the loss of
q ings a la } 4 vols :
hall extend to all proceedings at law |i 8 fon 8. The ache of ans counts
d in equity ‘which ‘shall have been | .. 3 AE
¢itv, borough, township, school dis-
tuted in the’ several numbered |. * sah Badia > bid Bittner
trict or other municipality or incorpo-| 1 =
«8 and shall be subject to such 8D
ny : ated distriet, except as provided here .
nge as may bie ‘made by law and
Sact 16 clin of verte as provi in, and in" section fifteen of this artis
Jee change © cle shall never exceed seven (7) per
: Waverly a by
Machine Works,
. Weisel, P. J.
Cover & Son.
Meyersdale, Pa.
A by law. The president judge oi
oT
PMehrovided by law. The number
several numbered
t of common pleas,
e ‘number of judges
e to time.
succeeding its adoption.
‘CYRUS E. WOODS.
: btary
: Number Three.
a "JOINT RESOLUTION
an
= an amendment to article
'ement of the highways
ommonwealth.
of
House Representa-
reof:—
hat section four
ich reads as follows:
koction 4. No debt shall be
1e said court shall be selected as
of
Tin thé county of Allegheny all the
: wisdiction and powers now vested
; ‘courts of
com-
all the judges in commission
gourts. Such jurisdietion and
shall extend to all procee i-
at law and in equity which shall
‘change as may be made
1 subject to change of venue
Med by law. The presi-
: of ithe said court
selected as provided by
in
may be by law increased
7 This amendment
xe effect on the first day of
e copy of Joint Resolution
yf the Commonwealth,
Be it resolved by the | delphi a may Issue its oblig
es of the Commonwealth of Penn- j from the
vania in General Assembly met, |for a sinking-fund sufficient to
at the following amendment to the said obligations at matu
hstitution of Pennsylvania be, and | {ment to such sinking-fund
L game is hereby, proposed, in sac-
dance With the eighteenth article lodical instalments. Where any
by or on behalf of the State, ex
Bi to supply casual deficiencies of |
epesddas ‘WuoIEBA¥] del ‘enusdes
centum upon the assessed value of the
taxable property therein. but the
be increased in such amount that tte
total city debt of said city shall not
exceed ten per centum- (18) upon the
assessed value of the taxable prop-
erty therein, nor shall any such mu-
nicipality or district incur any new
debt, or increase its indebtedness to
an amount “exceeding two. (2) per
centum upon such assessed valuation
of property, without the consent or
the electors thereof at a public elec-
tion in such manner as shall be pro-
vided Dy law. In ascertaining the
borrowing capacity of the said city
of Rhiladelphia, at any time, there
shall he excluded from the calcula-
tion and deducted from such debt
so much of the debt of said city as
shall have been incurred, and the
proceeds thereof invested, in any
public improvements of any character
which shall be yielding te the sald
city an annual current net revenue.
The amount of such deduction shall
he dscertained by capitalizing the an-
nual net revenue from such improve-
ment during the year immediately
preceding the time of such ascertain-
ments; and such capitalization shall
be estimated by ascertaining the
principal amount which would yield
debt of the city of Philadelphia mav |
THE MODERN
NEED
is a remedy for the evil effects of quick
eating, over-eating and strenuous liv-
ing. The medicine that meets this
need —that tones the stomach, stimu-
lates the liver, regulates the bowels—is
SEEEES
Largest Sale of Any Medicine
Hell avorymitr. io pore, Oe Ayer.
used in the construction of wharves or
docks owned or to be owned by said
city, such obligations may be in an
amount sufficient to provide for, and
may inciude the amount of, the in-
terest and sinking-fund charges as
cruing and which may accrue there-
on throughout the period of construct-
ion, “and until the expiration of one
year after the completion of the work
for which said indebtedness shail
have been incurred; and said city
such annval! eurrent net revenue, at
the average rate of interest, and sink- |
ing-fund charges payable upon the
" ise .ion four of the Consti-|indebtedness incurred by said ci tty |
of the Commonwealth of | for such purposes, up to the time of a
. Nin, authorizing the ;such ascertainment. The method of |
} issue bonds to the. amount | determining such amount, so to be de
© millions of dollars for the!ducted, may be prescribed by the Gen-
of eral Assembly. In incurring indebted-
Phila-
{ness for any purpose the city of
tions ma- |
ft uring not later than fifty (50) years
date thereof, with provision
retire
ty, the pay-
to be
equal or graded annual or other per- |
in- |
| debtedness shall be or shall have
of article nine, {been incurred by said city of Philadel- |
phia for the purpose of the construct- |
crea- | ion or improvement of publ
Cc WOl ks of
ch ir
any character from which Ince or
[revenue is to be derived by satd city,
in | -
i shall not be required to levy a tax to
{ pay said interest and sinking-fund
charges as required by section
article
ten.
of
Pennsylvania, until the expiration of
nine of the Constitution
7 aid period of one year after the com-
| pletion of said work.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No 4.
CYRUS BE. WOODS.
ed by a great actress, Anita Stewar?
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{ Anita Stewart is one of the very
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| at the Bijou, Friday, Sept. 28...
Children fev
FOR FLETCHER'S
ASTORIA
| Qhildren Ory
| FOR FLETCHER'S
or for the reclamation of andtobe CC AS TO RIA
Flora’s trousers.
William Cook, aged forty-one, of
| Sharon, was probably fatally injured
‘when his automobile was struck by a,
fast Erie freight train near Sharon.
The shattered auto with Cook in it
was carried for nearly half a mile be-
fore the engineer became aware of
the accident.
James Brown Taylor, aged twenty-
four, formerly of Sharon, has been
fatally wounded in the battle of the
‘Somme, according to a cablegram re-
ceived by his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Taylor of Farrell. Taylor was fight
ing in the British army.
A. V. Rogers, a Capitol park police
man, ig in the Harrisburg jail on a
charge of trying to influence witnesses
in the case against B. R. Gougler,
charged with enticing from home
Josephine Rogers, aged fourteen.
Miss Mabel Orr, aged thirty, was
killed and her six-year-old niece had
& narrow escape when a buggy in
which they were riding was struck by
a Pennsylvania railroad train near the
West Apollo station.
A Pennsylvania. train. struck an
sutomobile driven by Charles Zolen
of Driftwood, at Cameron. Zolen, aged
twenty-one, and Charles Callahan,
twenty-two, also of Driftwood, were
killed instantly.
Holding the breath while crying
caused the death of Faith, four-month.
old child of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Ying-
lin of Lilly, near Johnstown.
the
who
supnly
Mill
Pitt
with 1
prices for th e¢ product.
PARIS BORR ROWS 5 MONEY
Loan of $50,000,000 Arranged Through
New York Syndicate.
Paris is borrowing money for the
first time outside of France. A $50,
000,000 loan has been arranged for the
city in New York through Kuhn, Loeb
& Co.
The loan will take the form of five
year 6 per cent bonds, which will be
offered the public by the banking firm
next week. The city of Paris will usa
the funds provided by the bond issue
to increase hospital facilities, build
erphan asylums, care for widows of
soldiers and to maintain the wnem-
the
ployed.
r¢ negotiating:
alers for higher:
THE FILM DEBUT OF E. H. SOTHERN.
For the, first time in his career, Intense interest has been display-
H. Sothern, dictingutatied exponent | ed<by Mr. Sothern in his whole film
of romantic and Shakesperean drama | experience, from the moment he con.
on the legitimate stage, has been pre- | sented to pose until he finished the
sented to the public motion pic- | final scenes of hig third productiony
as a
ture star. to be released a day later.
Ee aero eres i cam Tne i ————
EVANGELISTIC PREAMING OF THE RING.
Tr First Pui How'd yer git de
Beginning on Monday [ black eye, Bill?
tober 9, Evangelist L.. O. Hubbard, of Second Pugilist—Dat’s de resuit of
1 | Sluggsley’s absent-mindedness.
First Pugilist (groggy) — ILiOoW ~=
ig | How’s dat?
Second Pugilist—Yer see, me an’
him wuz standin’ on de curb de odder
To day when a passin’ motor-man rings
Children Cry his gong, an’ wot does Sluggsley do
FOR FLETCHER’ S | but land on me t'ree times belors he
CASTO JE is mistake
Conemaugh, will conduct sor
evening for a period of tvo seks in
the Brethren Church.
cordially invited to be present.
The public
2 Se: IIS mistake.