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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-06
pRoPosHp AMENDMENTS TO THE

pROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE
CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMON
WEALTH FOR THEIR APPROVAL OR
REJECTION, BY THE GENERAL AS
SEMBLY OF THE COMMONW EALTH
OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND PUBLISH
ED BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY
OF THE COMMONWEALTH. IN PUR-
SUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
Number One.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section twen-
ty-six of article five of the Constitution
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Resolved Qf the Senate concur), That
the following amendment to section twen-
ty-six of article five of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania be, and the same is here
by, proposed, In accordance with the
eighteenth article thereof
That section &c of Article ", which
reads as follows: "Section 26. All laws re-
iating to courts shall be general and OF
uniform operation, and the organization,
jurisdiction, and powers of all courts of
the same class or grade, so far as regu-
lated by law, and the force and effect OF
the process and judgments of such courts.
shall be uniform and the General Assem-
bly, is hereby prohibited from creating
other courts to exercise the powers vested
by this Constitution in the judges of the
Courts" be amended so that the same
shall read as follows:-
Section 26. All laws relating to courts
shall be general and of uniform opera
ton, and the organization jurisdiction,
and powers of all courts of the same class
Of grade, so far as regulated by law, and
the force and effect of the process and
Judgments of such courts, shall be uni
form; but, Notwithstanding any provi-
sions of this Constitution, the General
Assembly shall have fun power to estab-
lish new courts from time to time, the
same may be needed in any city or coun-
ty and to prescribe the powers and ju-
Sisdiction thereof. and to increase the
number of judges in any courts now ex-
lsting or hereafter created, or to reorgan-
lie the same, or to vest in other courts
the jurisdiction heretofore exercised by
courts not of record and to abolish tho
same wherever it may be deemed neces-
sary for the orderly and efficient adminis-
.ration of Justice.
true copy of Resolution No. l.
ROBERT McAFEE.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-06
Remarkable Performance by
Pullet,

A pullet in the employ of Jack
Petrey of Weston, is the principal
actor in a remarkable poultry
performance. This pullet came in
to this world of strife on April %,
1911; on the 23rd. of August she
found her nest with nine eggs, and
after 27 eggs had been layed, the
the pullet was set and on Oct. /,
at the age of five months and three
days she had hatched her first
brood of chicks.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-06
Indemnity for Lost Registered
Parcels.

Under the provisions of the Act
of Congress approved March A.,
1911, indemnity will bepaid for th'
value of domestic third and fourth
class registered matter mailed on
and after July l, 1911 lost while
in the custody of the postal service,
up to the limit of $25 in any one
case.
The entire indemnity feature
(foreign and domestic)of the
Registry Service is briefly stated
as follows:
Indemnity will be paid on ac-
count of the loss of registered
mail in the postal service:
l. For the value of domestic
registered mail of the first class
(sealed) up to $50.
2. For the value of domestic
registered mail of the third and
fourth classes (unsealed)n )np to $25.
). In any amount claimed,
within the limit of so francs Zap
proximately $9.65), on account of
the loss of any article Of whatever
class, regardless of it's value, in
the international mails exchanged
between the United States and
any country embraced within the
Universal Postal Union, except
for the loss of "Parcel POST
registered mail, and losses arising
under circumstance beyond con-
troll force majenre').
Special attention is directed to
this subject printed in articles to
+, page 95 and 90 of the July 1911
Postal Guide.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-06
MUNCY VALLEY.
Son Paul of Mr.. aud Mrs. p. M.
Taylor is improving.

SOn Iaul OF MI. auu MIS-. l.. M .
Taylor is improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bredvenner and
son Harry of Shickshinny visited
at Ellery Phillips last week.
Hiram Deitrick, wife and grand
daughter Anna Russell of Shick-
Skinny were guest of Ellery Phil
lips few days last week.
Ernest Palmatier has returned
to York State after spending a
couple weeks with his parents here.
Brady Hodge of Sonestown called
on friends here Sunday.
Brady Crawford and wife and
Mr.. Farman and wife of Picture
Rocks called at Ellery Phillips a
week ago Sunday.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-06
DR.. Miles
Nerve and Liver Pills

are different from others. Many
kinds of liver pills are impossible"
after one trial on account of their
harshness. DR.. Miles Nerve and
Liver Pills do not act by sheer force
but in an easy, natural way, with
out gripping or undue irritation.
They are not habit forming.
II the first bottle falls to benefit, your
druggist will return the price. Ask him.
MILEs MEDICAL CO., EIkhart, Ind.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-06
~ 90 --'- - = - -
TRADE DOLLARS.
Authorized In 1873 and Dsmonetized
by the Act Of 1887.


A trade dollar is slightly larger
than standard dollar, but it is not
current coin, and its metal value is
only about 40 cents, though coin
collectors will pay 80 cents for it.
So many of these mongrel dollars
were in circulation generation ago
that most persons were watchful to
avoid getting one, but in recent
years they have been so rare that
many people never have seen one.
Trade dollars were authorized by
congress in 1878 for thespurpose of
stimulating commerce with the orr
ent. For many years the Mexican
silver dollar had been highly val
ued coin in nearly all far eastern
countries. Hundreds of millions of
them were shipped to China, Japan,
the Philippines and other countries
in that part of the world to pay for
the products exported from them to
Europe and the United States.
American lawmakers thought
that coin of practically the same
weight and size as the Mexican dol
lar bearing the imprint of the Unit
ed States could be used advanta-
geouslv as a substitute for the Mexi-
can dollar.
In the five years beginning with
1878 the United States mint pro-
duced nearly 36,000,000 of these
dollars Most of them were export
ed, but enough of them remained
in this country to be embarrassing
because of their similarity to the
standard silver dollar, and in 1887
congress provided that for six
months thereafter all trade dollars
presented to the treasury should be
exchanged for standard silver dol
lars, and after that time the trade
dollars were left to shift for them
selves, being worth only their metal
value plus whatever premium coin
collectors might be willing to pay
for them. Nearly 100000 of
them were redeemed, and when the
period for redemption ended only
2S4,5S7 of them remained in this
country, less than per cent of the
number that had been coined.
The trade dollars have on one
side sitting figure of the Goddess
of Liberty and on the other an
eagle of a different design from that
on the standard dollar. The inscrip-
ton is 'FUnited States of America,
Trade Dollar, 420 grains, 900 fine"
The standard silver dollar weighs
412.5 grains. The weight of the
Mexican dollar is 417.79 grains, but
9727 per cent of it is pure silver,
so that though it weighs less its
metal value is about Z per cent
more than that of the old trade dol
lar. Probably this is the reason
that the trade dollar never made
hit with the people of the far east.
There is ground for suspicion that
the originators of the trade dollar
thought the orientals might be
duped into taking it in preference
to the Mexican dollar because of its
slightly greater weight, notwith-
standing the fact that its silver val
ue was about 7 per cent less. But
the oriental money changers quick
ly learned this difference in value,
and the deception wouldn't work.
The trade dollar was authorized
by the coinage act which became
famous under the designation of
"the crime of 'T3" in the free silver
agitation which began few years
later and continued for more than
twenty years.-Kans!1 - City Star.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-06
Number Four.
A JOINT RESOLUTION

JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing amendment to section eight.
article nine of the Constitution of Penn
sylvania.
Section 1. Be 1t resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General
Assembly met, That the following is pro-
posed as an amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the Commonwealth of Pennsylya-
MIA, in accordance with the provisions Of
the eighteenth article thereof
Amendment to Article Nine, Section
Eight.
Section 2. Amend section eight, article
nine, of the Constitution of Pennsylyania.
which reads as follows:-
Section 8. The debt Of any county.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-06
"TheL Liver Pills act
So Naturally and
Easily"

Such statement, coming from
the cashier of a bank, shows what
confidence responsible people have
in these pills. Mr.. A. l.. Wilson
after trying them wrote:
81 have used DR.. Miles Nerve
and Liver Pills and also your
Anti-Pain Pills, on myself, with
good results. The Liver Pills
act so naturally and so easily
that I scarcely know that I
have taken a pill. Frequently
being troubled with headache I
take an Anti-Pain Pill and get
immediate relief in every case"
A. L. Wilson, Sparta, ILL.,
Mr.. Wilson was for a number
of years cashier of the First
National Bank Of Sparta.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-06

~
In Re Estate of ,--,
w. j. Mccartney W. 20 III
Bankrupt. banKr"ftcy'
BY virtue of an order made by
|J hn w. Codding, Esq, Referee
in Bankruptcy, on September is,
1911, the undersigned Trustee of
w. j. Mccartney of Soncstown,
Illiyan County, Pennsylvania,
Bankrupt, will expose to sale at
public venduc or outcry at the
Court House in the Borough of
Ilporte, Sullivan County, Penn
'ylvania, ON Tuesday, October II,
1911 at one o'clock p. NJ, the fol-
loving described real estate OF
said bankrupt, free and divested
from all liens against same, viz:
Lot No. |. Ten acres of land
situated in Forks Township, Sui
van County, Pennsylvania, being
part of the John Musser warrant,
upon which is erected large
steam sawmill with machinery and
fixtures complete. Also all the
nemlock and hardwood timber and
,ark standing and being upon the
ohm Musser warrant in Forks
Township, Sullivan County, Penn
| sylvania aforesaid, containing one
hundred and forty six acres of
| land be the same more or less,
| with the right to remove same at
| my time within ten years from the
late of purchase. Said property
being purchased by the said w. J.
Mccartney from Lee r. Gavitt
| and others by deed dated February
1907, which deed is still I'M
recorded. The coal, oil and other
minerals under and upon said ten
acres of land being reserved by the
grantors in said deed.
Lot No. .. All the hemlock
| md hardwood timber and bark
standing, growing and being upon
| | tract OF land situated in Forks
Township, Sullivan County, Penn
| ylVania, known as the Richard
Peters warrant, containing one
| hundred and twelve acres of lanG
be the same more or less, which
imber and bark were purchased
ON E. M. Durham OF Sayre, Pa.
Who was at that time the owner oI
he Richard Peters warrant afore
said, by contract in writing dat
ed May 1906.
The two aforesaid lots of lane
adjoining each other and constitute
| tiS oIi' pioptltN' h' uiiliDci up
IN said tracts amounting to about
900, 600 feet of lumber. Some is
located along the public road lead.
ing from Laporte to Forksville
| md about four miles from the Rail.
road and being very desirable
numbering proposition. The tim.
Der upon said tracts being chiefly
hardwood, consisting OF beach.
birch maple and other hardwoods
With "a sprinkling of hemlock and
being of good quality.
| Terms of sale. Fifty per cent
Of the purchase price on the strik-
ing down of the property and the
balance on final confirmation by
the United States District Court
for the Middle District of Penn
sylvania. Security to be given by
he purchaser to comply with the
terms of sale.
A. III. Buschhausen, Trustee.
Laporte, Pa, October =, 1911.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-06

w. A. M. Grier, the venerable
gentleman who nominated Gar
field for President at Chicago
forty years ago, who has been
spending the summer at Laporte
left Monday for Danville, Pa.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-06

Mr.. and Mrs. f. M. Crossley
are attending the Bloomsbury Fair
and will also visit relatives in Ber-
wick, Kingston and Wilkes Barre
before returning home.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-06

Rev. f. A. Helm and family
who have been visiting Mrs. J. l..
Smyth, returned to their home in
New Milford Wednesday.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-06

Miss Hazel little, who has been
spending the Summer in Laporte
returned to her home near Nord-
mont Wednesday.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-06

f.. j. Mullen attended court in
Philadelghia the fore part of the
week.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-06
Notice.

The cider press at Sonestown will
open Thursday, Sept. 7, 1911, and
run Thursday and Friday of each
week until Nov. 4, 1911, closing at
noon on that day. John NJ. Converse
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-07-15
THE REPORTER
Tries to Call Down World Editor on
Farce and Graft in Police
Court and Gives Some Elaborate
Definitions Which are About as
Clear as Mud.

We again reiterate our statement
of last week regarding some of the
ridiculous proceedings of our police
court in this city. We will not at
tempt a Dryden definition but Web
ster says a farce is ridiculous or
empty show, a mockery; an accumu-
lation of absurdities, and that seems
a mighty fitting description of things
to US. If the arrest of the editor of
the World for letting piece of paper
get away, and the arrest of a number
of town boys who were having a
little harmless Fourth of July fun,
the arrest of Mr.. Murray for making
a very casual remark in a spirit of
fun does not come under the head of
farce then we certainly think Mr..
Webster is considerably off his base.
The Reporters inference is that
the World is upholding law breakers
and does not stand for the ''good and
righteous things of our CITY," We
have always stood for law and order
and decency in this community and
any other in which we have lived,
and it don't take any Sunday school
teacher editor or smart aleck assist
ant to tell US our duty along these
lines for our dealings with the Il am
more holy than thou fraternity has
put US next to good many things in
our experience in life and the World
has ever stood and will continue to
stand for that which is right and de-
cent, but when justice is so distorted
that every minor OffenSe is taken up
and the actual things of Importance
are passed by we believe it's time to
express an opinion which we intend
doing whenever we choose.
The Reporter seems very dense on
the word graft and if much troubled
over it, and Dryden isn't satisfactory,
Webster gives a pretty clear defini-
tion. However, we will say this
much-that when fellow gets hard
up for dollar he can run around
and make listening committee out
of himself and inform on a party,
and with or without evidence repeat
some outlandish thing he heard a
man say and presto-he gets the dol
well we guess so-even if on a small
scale
What we ask for is some good COM
mon sense and less of the school boy
business in the municipal affairs of
Wax eeney.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-07-15
SAND TOO HOT FOR GRASS
Bermuda Grass is More Hardy Than
Blue Grass.

How is your lawn? Is it thin2 If
so, there must be a reason. If you
live in western Kansas it probably is
due to the sand getting so hot as to
kill the grass roots, A sandy soil is
one of the most difficult ones ON
which to grow blue grass. 1t is best
prepared for growing blue grasses by
heavy coating of manure, we'll
rotted, and plowed in deeply. Lime
should then be applied at the rate of
one ton to the acre. If, after this
treatment, your blue grass doesn't
grow, try Bermuda grass. This is
the advise of Albert Dickens, of the
horticulture department. of the Kan
sas State Agricultural College. This
grass will not make so beautiful a
lawn, but where the blue grass can
not be grown it can be used as sub
stitute. The main drawback is that
Bermuda grass spreads very rapidly
and is likely to encroach upon flower
beds and gardens, where it is used on
small lawn. 1t also is very hard to
eradicate InduStrialist.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-07-15
Killed by Train

The 15-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
III. B. Gardner who live miles south
of Grainfield, met with a painful ac-
cident last Monday which resulted in
his death At Grainfield the boy
met a young fellow who was tramp
ing his way and told the Gardner boy
that further west work was more
plentiful and wages better, so they
set out together.
They boarded a freight at Grain
field and got as far as McAllister
when young Gardner in some manner
fell from the train and both feet
were cut off above the ankles. The
train crew did not at once discover
him, but as soon as they did he was
taken to Sharon Springs where the
limbs we're dressed.
His father took him on passenger
No. ITO in hopes of getting him to
the hospital at Ellsworth where he
could have expert attention but the
boy died by the time the train reach
ed Voda. The body was taken off
here and embalmed and Tuesday
evening was sent back to Grainfield
for burial.
This is very sad case and doubly
so for the reason that the mother is
at the hospital where another son is
in critical condition following an
operation and had to be notified of
the death of the boy here. The
hearts of the people go out to the
grief stricken family in this time of
sorrow and trouble
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-07-15
Hurrah for Kansas

Kansas was born in a hot wind
Her motto is ITO the Star Through
Difficulties" She thrives on trouble
and grows strong on hard labor. Her
natural born children of the plains,
like the buffalo, the coyote and the
prairie chicken, are wild in manner,
difficult to manage and hard to tame.
Her pioneers were of a venturesome
and courageous nature, who invaded
a new and strange land alone to carve
out fortune amid desert-and
they were auStere, stubborn, and not
easily discouraged. The state has
never lost it's individuality or it's
manner, and its motto has never
changed. Its sons and daughters are
of the same blood and spirit as their
ancestors. They inherited the skill
and perseverance to overcome and
grow strong in the face of difficulties,
and to laugh at danger or threatened
destruction. The barefooted boy that
followed the sod plow across the
virgin prairies fifty years ago; who
heard the rattle of snakes in the
grass, and the bowling of wolves on
the hill; who breathed the hot winds
of the southwest and saw the cyclone
as it dipped down from above, and
went sailing along toward the north
east with its tail twisting over the
ground, that boy was not easily
frightened; he was not easily excited
he rather liked them. That same
wild disposition, with its persevering,
head-strong, yet happy-go-lucky,
don't give a damitive nature, still
lives in the Kansas boy today. If
you would destroy him, feed him on
plenty, put him under the electric
sfan-and keep him on ice you rnirhts
as well halter the buffalo, pen up the
coyote and tame the cyclone; he
wasn't made to live that way. Feed
him on excitement, set him out in
the sunshine and turn on the hot
air draft; freeze him in the winter
and burn him in summer, keep him
on the anxious seat, and he thriveS.
He is used to the hot winds and dis
couragementS, and when fortune does
smile on him he enjoys it better than
anyone. 1t will take more than the
present drouth, the furnace heat,
and the discouraged outlook to get
his goat. He'll come in this fall with
his corn crop just the same, and he'll
make money at the market price.
''Stand Up For Kansas. Frank
Hartman in his Frankfort Index.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-07-15
Joy Ride Ends in Explosion

DR.. E. M. Beckley, the well known
veterinary of Tweed, had nice REQ
automobile last week, but now it
isn't so nice. The Doctor left the
machine standing near the city of
Tweed while he was away attending
to business. A pair of 1T-year-old
boys, sons of George Harrington and
Bill Wright, siezed the machine for
joy ride and something happened
Neither one of the boys knew
blessed thing about an automobile,
but they finally got it started on the
low speed. They took a couple of
smaller boys in the car with them
and proceeded to burn up the prairie
to the full extent permitted by low
speed. The engine got hot, but the
boys didn't know it and so didn't
stop. The engine got so hot that it
simply blew up, tearing the cylinders
and crank case into old junk, and
then they stopped. The boys got off
without a scratch, so far as their
hides count, but the machine is now
being repaired at Scott City at their
expenSe.-Grinnell Record
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-07-15

A young man by the name of
Sheard whose home is at Grinnell,
Cove county, went in swimming
Wednesday forenoon in hole on the
north side of the river north of
Bogue and from some unknown cause
sank and drowned. 1t seems that he
and three other men came up to find
harvest work. We did not learn all
the particulars of his drowning and
final recovery. A telegram was sent
to his family and they were expected
last night. 1t is reported that the
hole was quite deep and the water
cold. Likely cramps seized him and
his friends were unable to get him
out of the deep water.-Hill City Re-
publican.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-07-15
Marsters-Fulton

Word was received from d. B. Full
ton of Reedley, California, that he
has again taken unto himself a wife.
On the 18th of June at 7:30 o'clock
at the residence of DR.. G. L. Mars
ter'S, 1882 West 35th place, Mrs. Iona
Marsters was united in marriage to
d. B. Fulton. Just the intimate
friends of the bride we're present.
Rev. Mcknight pastor of the Mag
nolia Ave. Christian Church officiat-
ed and the ring service was used.
Beautiful flowers and many orange
blossoms were used in the decoration
of the rooms. The bride was attired
in a beautiful French gown of silk
which cost three hundred and
twenty-five dollars. The groom wore
the usual black prince albert. The
Los Angeles brass band furnished
music for the occasion. Many costly
and beautiful gifts were received
Mrs. Fulton is a Christian Science
practitioner with offices in Los An
geles. The many friends of Mr. Full
ton extend hearty congratulations to
himself and bride