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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-30
TWENTY YEARS AGO
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ~~--~~->-~-------~----
Looking Backward In Society
Columns of The State Journal

June 80, 1901.
A very pleasant picnic party spent Fri
day evening at the Reform school. The
party was composed OF MI; and Ms: Fred
Mr.. and Mrs. A. X. Lingafelt, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Cole, Mrs. and Mrs. Ben Akers,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Crane, Mrs. Lingafelt
of Davenport, La, Miss Kate Gunther, Miss
Mabel Quigley, Mrs. Crist and Mr.. ]. E.
Weaver
Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Meade have issued in
vitations for lawn picnic, July 4, at their
Clay street. Mr.. I. +. Doran will deliver
a Fourth of July address, Rev. J. B. Nc
Afee will speak on early "reminiscences of
Kansas and Miss Sarah NJ. Stickney is to
give two Rotations.
Mrs. George Port Ashton's charming lit
tie home on Topeka avenue was the scene
of very pleasant reception Friday morn
ing and afternoon. Receiving with Mrs.
Ashton was her guest, Mrs. Wilmer. She
is charming young woman and wore a
| gown of turquoise blue mousseline with a
| black point lace bolero. Mrs, Ashton's
costume was of filmy batiste trimmed with
ruffles and tucks and Irish point lace. The
! rooms were all prettily decorated. In the
parlor were bowls and vases of nastur-
| tiums, while quantities of pansies were
used in the library. The dining room,
which is one of the prettiest rooms in the
| house, was in carnation and old-fashioned
pinks. The polished table had dainty
squares of Battenburg and in the center
was high cut glass vase of carnations.
| At one side was a punch bowl. presided
| over by Miss Ethel Morton and Miss Mabel
| Cavert. The bowl was arranged in an I'M
usually artistic manner it contained fruit
punch and in the center was a big block
pretty little blossoms was placed in each
glass.
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personal comments of the society edi-
tor on the smart set, history, gossip,
and bits of juicy news, all run to-
gether.
If out here we ran column of this
sort, instead of stating that Mrs. Will
liam De Goof Brown had gone to
Lake View to open up her summer
home, we would start right at the be-
ginning of the thing and work up to
the item
For instance, we might begin and
delve into the Whereabouts of all of
Mrs Browns sisters, one of whom
probably would be down at Bean lake
and another at Camp Daylesfcrd. dis
cuss them, whether they had had
their eyebrows pulled or not, where
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-30
BY FRANCES JONES

lawn party will be given this eve
ming at the home of Miss Carmie
Wolfe, 1860 Garfield avenue. The yard
will be attractively lighted with Jap
anese lanterns and electric lights.
The guests of honor of the evening
will be a number of new members of
the Sisterhood, including: Mrs, Evan
Davis, Mrs. w. L. Higgins, Mrs. l..
W. French, Mrs. E. ]. Kulp. Mrs. A.
L. Rodgers. The husbands of the
members will also share in the honors.
Judge w. L. Higgins, DR.. E. J..
Kulp, Mr.. Evan Davis and Mr.. L. W.
French will be the victims in a mock
initiation.
A number of young girls who will
assist in the serving include: Miss
Mary Higgins. Miss Louise Smith,
Miss Sallie Slaughter. Miss Alice
Hoyes, Miss Ruth Tandy and Miss
Florence Garland.
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Judge and Mrs Hugh Fisher and
the teachers of the junior department
of the First Methodist Sunday school
gave a picnic Wednesday afternoon
and evening at Gage park for the
children in that department.
The teachers present included: Mrs.
Charles Joslin, Mrs. A. R. Mulholland,
Mrs. ]. w. Currie, Miss Elisabeth Ed
son, Mrs. G. N. Mills. Miss Dollie
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and will recommend it to all women.
You may publish this letter if you think
It will help others. Mrs. FLOYD IRE
LAND, r. R. 1, Warsaw, Missouri.
Nervous women are both ailing and
wretched, and with a nervous break
down all Joy goes out of a woman's life.
II is said that the ills peculiar to women
act on the nerves like firebrand.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound is so successful in overcoming
such conditions, a large number of
American women who were once great
sufferers from nerve troubles owe their
present health and comfort to Lydia E.
Rirzham's Vegetable Compound.
Write Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.,
Lynn, Mass, about your health.
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Continued on Page Ten,
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their husbands were while they were
away summering, and what sort of
capers they were up to while their
wives were away. All this would lead
up to a paragraph or two about the
cretonne hangings at the summer
home, then we would tell in detail
where Mrs. William De Goof Brown
had spent her summers for the past
twenty-five years. (The one year she
hadn't gone to Lake View was be-
cause of a scandal.) Right then
would come in al pertinent paragraph
or two giving the high lights and the
fine points of scandal, and any stray
bits of information which might
have been overlooked at the time con-
corning Mrs. Brown before she had
separated herself from her maiden
name Then would come the grand
finale, the finishing touch to a piece
of art, we would state Gust as tho
the reading public hadn't known it
for a half a column anyway, that
Mrs William De Goof Brown had
gone down to Lake View to open up
her summer home.
Altogether. perhaps, it's a lucky
thing that we, out here, don't run
this sort of society column.
y = =
Notes and Personal Mention.
! Mrs. De Witt C. Nellis will leave
Friday for Seattle, Wash, to spend
F., the summer with her daughter, Mrs.
| Charles A. Phillips. and family. She
will also visit her daughter, Mrs. Har-
mon Ryus, in Los Angeles, Calf.
Mr.. Bennett Bubb will leave this
/ week to spend the remainder of the
summer in Providence, R. I.
| Fallen arches, flat foot. restored by
the Post system for feet. Gabriel. Foy
G. Gabriel. Chiropractors. 71S Kansas
| ADV.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Gray left Wed
| neSday for California, where they will
spend a vacation.
| Miss Juliet Hughes and Miss Jose
phine Johnston are spending several
days at Lake View.
Mr.. E. D. McKeever and daughter
Miss Florence McKeever. will leave
| soon to spend a vacation in the north
Mr.. McKeever will accompany his
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daughter to girls camp at Ahiti
Mimi, and will return after several
weeks. leaving her there for the sum-
ber
Prof. and Mrs. w. H. Greider left
Wednesday for months visit in Los
Angeles, Cal.
Sussex Milk-fed frys for the Fourth.
Up to u lbs. Phone 591S-J.-Adv.
/. Miss Nellie Wetherholt and niece,
Miss Sidney Gardiner, returned We'd
nesday evening from a month spent
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This WOMAN WAS SICK
SAYS 40 CURED HER

Mrs. Gostine Rainey. 227o Jeffer-
over three years with chronic rheu-
matism. catarrh, constipation, stom-
ach trouble, had blood, nervous spells,
aching limbs, so I could not sleep.
Saw an ad for 'MendenhalFs Number
40 For the Blood, thought I would try
it though ] was discouraged as I had
tried numerous medicines without re-
ceiving any benefit. Have taken two
bottles of 40, can eat anything I want
without fear and am not nearly so
nervous and am feeling fine. I am
now starting on my third bottle"
Sold by Tully-McFarland Drug Co.,
2 stores. 9th and Kansas Ave, and 1923
Kansas Ave.-Adv. - e.4s
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in California. where they were guests
OF Miss Wetherholt's brother, Mr..
William B. Wetherholt, and Mrs
Wetherholt in MERGED. Calf. They
also visited other points of interest in
the state.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank P. MacLennan,
Miss Mary Mac Lehman and Miss
Caroline Deming left today for their
summer home on Les Cheneaux Is
lands.
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COllulJlO1ls 1uCn i
had a nervous break
down and doctors
said 1 would never be
well again. After I
took seven bottles of
Lydia E. Pinkham's
v ege liable Com
pound l was health
Ter, stronger, and felt
better than / ever did
in my life before. l
can't prais e the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-30
had NERVOUS
/ BREAKDOWN
Mrs. Ireland Permits US to Publish
this Letter for the Benefit Of Others
z Who Are in Her Condition

Warsaw, Missouri. -" For five years
was weakly, nervous and in rundown
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-03
BONDS STOLEN IN BROOKLYN
BOUGHT BY CHICAGO FIRM
Brokers Trying to Find Customers
to Whom They Sold Securities

Chicago, Feb. 3.-(By A. P.)-Ef-
forts are being made today to locate in
Chicago the holders of Liberty bonds
valued at $235. 900 declared by federal
authorities to be part of $4G6, 900 worth
of bonds stolen from two bank messen-
gers in Brooklyn, N. Y, last Novem-
Der. The bonds are in innocent hands,
they said.
New York police traced $235 900
worth of the bonds Of Chicago brokers,
when the firm sent $4,000 worth to
their New York Office. The bonds we're
presented 10 the Federal Reserve Bank
there, to be exchanged for smaller de-
nominations and clerks Immediately
identified them as part of the loot OBJ
tanned in the Brooklyn robbery.
Ii. j. Friss, secretary at the broker
age company Offices here, said the firm
had distributed in Chicago the remain
ing $l31 900 worth of bonds. He said
the company bought the original $3.50, =
600 worth Of bonds, from the Union
and Planters Bank and Trust Co., OF
Memphis, Tenn, which institution has
informed him, he added, that they OBJ
tanned them from Memphis brokerage
firm.
MIR. Friss said he was checking up to
find out who received the bonds dis
tributed by his firm. They will be re-
called, he said, and returned to the
Memphis bank.
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Reception Cor New Pastor

The Rev. DR.. Francis Morton Fox
will be introduced to the congregation
OF the SUMMIT PRESBYTERIAN Church
Westview avenue and Green street, Ger
mantown, at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening
at a reception to be given in his honor
isters will make addresses. and there
will be music and refreshments. For
the last year the Summit Church has
been without regular pastor and the
congregation is looking forward TO Dr.
Fox taking up his work there.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-03
CHILE ACCLAIMS U. S. FLEET
Enlisted Men and officers Enter
taIned In VALPARAISO and Santiago

Valparaiso, Feb. Shy a. P.)-.
President Alessandri, Of Chile, visited
Admiral Rodman, commander of the
United States Pacific heet, on board the
flagship New Mexico today. Later the
president and the ministers of war and
marine reviewed a parade of 1000 sail
ors from the feet.
Valparaiso was crowded yesterday
with officers, marines and sailors from
the fleet, and the North American and
Chilean committees carried out a pro-
gram of dances, excursions to points
Of interest and rifle shooting contests.
During the day 600 enlisted men went
to Santiago, where they were given a
luncheon by the Chilean committee, and
went sight seeing about the capital.
Twenty five Chilean professors went on
board various ships of the feet during
the day to lecture on Chile, while mem
bers of the Valparaiso Medical Society
heard an address on naval sanitation on
board the hospital ship Mercy.
Admiral Rodman and his staff went
to Santiago last evening TO attend a
reception given by the diplomatic corps.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-03
SPEEDY HEARING IS ASKED
IN GRIFFITH SANITY CASE
Niece Requests Court to Give Quick
Trial Of Pending Case

A request to continue the invest;ga-
tion into the mental competency OF
Joseph Griffith, an aged and wealthy
recluse of Wayne, has been made TO
Judge McCullen in Common Pleas
Court No. by former Judge james
Gay Gordon and John r. X. Scott.
The petitioning attorneys represent
Mrs. J. n. Kurtz, Of Elkins Park, who
desires a guardian appointed for the
estate of Griffith, her uncle. The move
was opposed by Owen ]. Roberts, coun-
sci for L. Irving Reichner, who had
been intrusted with the management
OF the aged mans estate.
Mr.. Reichner, through his counsel,
questioned Judge McCullen's jurisdic-
ton, contending that Mr.. Griffith had
moved from Germantown to Wayne and
therefore was within the jurisdiction Of
the Delaware county courts.
When Judge MCCullep ruled that nc
would continue hearing testimony rel
ative to the aged mans mental Condi
tion, before passing on the issue OF
jurisdiction which was raised. counse
for Reichuer appealed to the State Su'
prpmp Court.
This appeal has been uuashed by tn,
SUPP eme Court. No date has been Sc
for the continued hearing.
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No. 0. She'll be Haydn (iiding)
the Handel in there. Miss Rebecca
u. Hastings. 637 Hector street, Con-
shohocken, Pa.
No. 10. She kneads dough now for
rolls-no loaf there. Albert II. Fasick,
Meredith avenue, Rosemont, Pa.
Now We'll show you just how many
votes were cast by the banuueters for
each line. Miss Weisman's line was
an easy winner, having received 23C
votes, or 132 more than her nearest
competitor, which was the line written
by Miss Brigham, which received nine
ty eight votes.
The line obtaining 40 votes, the third
highest number, was written by Mr..
Fasick. The other lines were In the
following order: Fourth, written by
Mr.. Denny, 80 votes; fifth. by Mr..
Dunn, 80 votes; sixth; by Mr., Burk-
hart, "a votes; seventh, by Miss Nc
Mullen, 81 votes; eighth. by Mr.. John
son, 20 votes; ninth, by Miss Hastings
IA votes, and tenth, by Mr.. Green, IL
votes.
The members Of the association, who
acted as the committee In charge of the
voting and who also counted the votes
to decide today's winner, were:
James r. Curran, 1900 Church street,
Fmnkford. chairman.
August Kurz, 2621 Germantown ave-
nue..
T. J. Downes, 296S North Fourth
| street.
A. w. MacElroy, 1896 Tackawanna
street. Frankford
Oliver Stout. 1901 Griscom street.
A.. klopproth. 5525 North Fifth
street.
G. F. Reichert, 2641 Pratt street,
Bridesburg.
William Radcliffe, Jr., 1901 Kinscy
street, Frankford.
Denis DarrefT, 4520 Frankford ave-
nue.. FrankfOrd
Walter Daniels, 2649 Jasper street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-03
CLUBWOMEN ACTIVITIES
SCHEDULED FOR TODAY
Daughters Of 1872 Chapter and
Other ORGANIZATIONS Meet

The Stephen Decatur Chapter of the
Daughters Of 1912 met at the Plastic
Clubhouse, 247 South Camac street.
this afternoon. The historian, Mrs.
Edwin Mofrctt, read paper on Benja'
min Franklin Mrs. Horace Hall, Mrs.
Ellwood Davis and Mrs. Edwin Moffett
were the hostesses. Tho regent of the
chapter, Mrs. Albert Fritz, presided.
The Civic Clubs League OF Good
Government. of which Mrs. Thomas
Scattergood is chairman, met this morn
ing at the Civic Club, 1900 Spruce
street.
The Ceramic League will hold 1t:
monthly business meeting this after
noon from 4 to 6 at - South Sixteenth
street. Dinner will follow and an eve.
ming meeting of the sketch class ant
talk on design by Miss Isabel Lor'
andi.
The Sherwood Century Club me
this afternoon at $3.50 Thomas avenue
Mrs. ]. J. Dull, the president, pre-
sided. The business session was fol
lowed by talk on current events b!
Mrs. w. Engle. Mrs. ]. Haye sle'
the community singing.
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MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME
German Boy, Here for Visit, Going
Strong on American Food

Out Norristown way there is a young
German boy having the time of his life !;
he is fairly gorging himself with good
American food and doing his best to for
get the black bread and weak soups he
has had since 1914.
lido Bohn is the twelve year -old son
Of Colonel Helmuth Bohn, who fought
with the German army on every front
on which the central empire faced the
rest of the world.
Udo was brought for q visit to this
country from his home in Grunewald,
fashionable suburb of Berlin, by Miss
Emma Williams, Of 1101 De Kalb
street, Norristown, who was a member
of the American Friends service COM
mittee distributing food to German chill
dren.
AS soon as Miss Williams and lido
boarded the steamship Aquitauia n few
weeks ago. lido commenced Furnishing
real food, and he hasn't ceased yet.
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II he would only announce the winner
Pop said that the collecting of the
ballots and supervising the count had
been such a whale of a job that he
didn't feel like dancing. anyhow.
President Gallen told us that he was
glad that the EVENING PUBLIC
LEDGER had given the banQueters an
opportunity to pick lin rick winner
because everybody showed real pleasure
in the job and the balloting had added
considerably to the gaycty Of the eve
ming.
The lim'rick as completed by Miss
Weisman is:
Limerick No. 80
Miss Nancy O'Clancy O'Hare
Hos bought q pidno-a player:
And hear from the nciohbor
Who lives merit her in Tabor
She's upright, she's grand and she's
square.
Miss Weisman's line was No. 8 on
the ballot. The other lines were:
No. I. She plays with her toes like
bear. Joseph G. Burkhart, 517
North Ninth street.
No. 2. It's "raw'--neitIer "well
done" nor "rare." Edward s.. Dunn
Al East Chestnut avenue, Chestnut
Hill, Pa.
No. 3. She's bankrupt; her rolls In
the player. Miss Jessie Brigham, 2020
Trenton avenue, Hartman, Pa.
No. 4. The key bored them all to de
spair. Theodore j. Green, Delanco
n. J.
No. 5. It's infer no sleep, they de.
clare. J. Frederick V. Johnson, 34a
Clinton street, Camden, n. ].
No. 9. Much din. but no dinner OH,
there. Miss Emily McMullen, 313 Lin
coin avenue, Collingsdale, Pa.
No. 7. She now puts on "airs" they
cant bear. c. X. Denney, 1851 ltea
Estate Trust Building, Philadelphia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-03
LILLIAN LORRAINE HURT
Actress May Never Be Able to Re.
turn to STAGE

Aetress way NEVER BE Rple 10 re
turn to Stage
New York, Feb. 3.-Lillian Lorraine,
the vaudeville and moving picture star,
was seriously injured in au accident
Sunday night, it was learned yesterday.
She is now in sanitarium.
At the sanitarium il was said her
condition was SO serious there was
doubt that she would ever be able to re-
turn to the stage.
Friends of Miss Lorraine In the the
atrical world said they understood she
had suffered fracture Of the spine in
two places, and had lost the use of both
arms. 1t was said she was in plaster
cast and would probably have to remain
in this condition twelve weeks.
Miss Lorraine, who had not appeared
"a the stage in several months, was to
have opened next Monday in vaude-
vile sketch based on the 'swing" act
she gave at the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic
a year ago.
According to the best information,
she went to a party last Sunday night
and was on her way home when she
dropped in at another party and
slipped on the ice in alighting from
an automobile.
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Sprains Finger in Fall
From Skyscraper Roof

New York, Feb. 3.--(By A. ~
Nathan Cohen, structural iron
worker, who plunged from the top
Of q new sixteen story building on
Broadway yesterday, reported for
work this morning.
His fall through space was broken
by a heavy canvas debris receptacle
stretched from the fifth tier. His
little finger was sprained.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-03
"JOHN DOE" MURDER VICTIM
Slain Man Unidentified, but Wan
derer Must Face Trial

Chicago, Feb. 3.-(By A. PD-The
controversy over the identity of the
ragged stranger, for whose death Carl
Wanderer, who is now serving prison
term for the Staying Of his wife, will
be tried soon, is immaterial to the
states case, officials said today.
After relatives and friends had
identified the body as that of Earl
Keesee, of Danvile, H., reports were
received from Rockford. ILL.,, that an
Earl Keesee living there had pro.
take.
At Wanderers trial for killing his
wife it was alleged that he had en-
ployed the stranger to stage fake
hold-up to cover up the crime. The
indictment names John Doe" as the
victim, and, according TO the state
attorneys Office, the mans true name
can be substituted if his identity il
definitely established
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-03
Murder Suspect Released

Harold ones, twenty years old, a
Negro, of Jessup street near Girard
avenue, was discharged by Magistrate
Price today, after having been arrested
as a suspect in the murder of Patrol
man William Davis week ago by one
of two Negroes he was searching for
concealed weapons. Two other suspects,
whose names have not been diyulged,
were taken into custody yesterday. Pa
trolmen Frederick and Gormerly, who
were present at the time of the murder,
have positively identified them as the
men wanted, 1t is reported.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-03
MAYOR MAY BEAT !
UNEMPLOYED BILL
| Moore Doubts AdvisabiIity O,
Appropriating $4,000 to
Care for JobIess
MIGHT INVITE L0AFERS

Mayor Moore Is expected to send 10
City Council today his recommendation
on the ordinance appropriatiug $40. 600
for the Department Of Public Welfare
for relief Of the unemployed. Although
saying he felt the unemployment sIt.
uation was much exaggerated, it was
said he may yet approve the bill.
1t has been said the Mayor was loatb
TO give his approval to the ordinance.
ployment, fearing that such measure
might create. the impression that this
city was an "easy place. for loafers
and hoboes.
The Mayor deserted City Hall for
about three hours yesterday. He took
with him all his directors and CITY
Solicitor Smyth. and conducted what
City Hall calls "cabinet" meeting
aboard the city ice boat, John Weaver.
during a trip that included an inspec.
tion of the river front.
Several subjects affecting tire munic.
ipality were discussed In the ice boat
conference. They included the un.
employment situation the all absorbing
question of the widespread movement
among city placeholders for salary in.
to be built between Market and Cherry
streets, and the possibility Of inducing
the government to extend its line OF
Government owned self propelling
barges to Philadelphia.
The demands for salary increases have
reached such proportions that the
Mayor yesterday announced that he had
appointed Frank II. Caven, director Of
public works; George It. Sproule, d..
rector OF wharves. docks and ferries,
and David j. Smyth, city solicitor, q
committee to take up the whole ques-
tion of municipal salary increases.
The Mayor made 1t clear that be Is
opposed to mass Of promiscuous and
haphazard petitions from, employees
being forwarded to Council.
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READING IS AMBITIOUS
1000 Citizens lndorse Plea for Rank
az Second Glass cItv

iteadlng, Pa, Feb. 3.-At II meeting
Of the Chamber Of Commerce last eve
nlng more than 1000 men heartily in
dorSed acton OF the board of directors
"ia,nhg upon Governor Sproul to de
Reading entered the 100, 900 class wbon
the recent United States census "roa woe
taken. ''s was
The new classification would me,r
the terms Of Readings councilmen, a
majority OF whom are Republicans
would be ended this yoar, and an eioc.
non OF second class counciImnnic
oody would have to be held. second .
class c.ty government would also give
more power TO the mayor, who is a Rc .
puoiiCan, put more or less at odds with