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Indiana Progress

Location

Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Apr 14, 1915

Page

5

News of County Towns and Local Notices

County towns report visits and moves, illnesses, marriages, and school activities. Notable items include Daniel Stiles family visiting Reynoldsville, Mrs Julia Nelson calling on friends, and hanging health concerns among Bergquist and Hale families. Local shifts include Clyde movements to Jacksonville and church society plans, with school term endings, road work, and a cherry tree cleanup drive highlighted.

Daniel Stiles Hua LaMonte Reynoldaville Gus Anderson Clymer Julia Nelson Boyd Kerr Hillsdale Victor Bergquist Conemaugh Bergquist Hale Joseph Hale Margaret Anderson Howard Ida Bergquist Vance Helman Dora Hibbard Luther Helman Catherine Rising Edward Shank Vandergrift Mra Shan Clyde H. W. Logan Jacksonville Young People’s Society Bethel U. P Ralph McLaughlin Shelocta Irene J. Luther J. Merle Mack Chilcote New Flovence Mrs. Mack Bertha Mack Clark Mack Seward Hiva Walback Robert Wagner J. W. Wagner Imogene Clark Paul Cornelius Wagner Hester Duncan Pittsburg L. L. Wagner Richard and Phillip Indiana Harbor Ind A. P. Clark New Florence J.S. Wagner David Cunningham Heshbon Mary Neely P. L. Rehn Merle Doyle Luther M. A. Wagner Samuel McAdams Jno. B. Worrell W. T. Mahaffey J. R. Brilhart Rev. Baumgardner Harriaburg Worrall Presbyterian Church Finsthwait Wilkinsburg L. R. Mahaffey Men’s League of the Evangeliical Church Cherry Tree E. P. Irwin Cherry Tree Ironworks Bellefonte Clair Russell Hawes Brothers Ford R. L. Houck Portage Arthur Brilhart Canada

Legislature on its final lap ahead of big bills

Harrisburg April 18 The final phase of the 1915 Legislature hinges on progress of major measures such as workmen’s compensation and child labor rules. Local option faces delays yet will be advanced from committee next week with a special order to ensure notice. Governor Brumbaugh remains hopeful but party lines harden against local option as the house weighs far-reaching bills and adjournment timing.

Harrisburg House Senate Brumbaugh Williams Oppion

Senator Catlin Pushes Pennsylvania Harness and Running Races Bill

Senator Catlin of Luzerne backs a bill creating a five member state racing commission to regulate running and harness racing and betting on parimutuel machines. The act excludes fairs and allocates five percent of pools to hospitals and five percent to county road improvements, with projected $500,000 revenue for hospitals and roads and potential benefits to horse breeding.

Senator Catlin Pennsylvania Harrisburg Senator Catln Luzerne Wilkes-Barre Catlin

Game Code Through Senate Prohibiting Sale of Rabbits Killed In State

Harrisburg April 13 The senate approved the house game code bill by a near unanimous vote. The measure makes changes in present hunting laws and targets the sale of rabbits killed within the state.

Harrisburg Senate

Statewide wildlife bill limits game kills and sales

The bill passed the Senate and moves to the House in concurrence. It prohibits selling rabbits killed in state and limits the number of ring necked pheasants that may be killed. The measure also tightens sensing provisions and related restrictions.

Senate House

Will Prevent Fusion Bills Pass Senate With Votes

Harrisburg April 13. Republican bills aimed at curbing fusion by smaller parties moved through the senate with wide margins. Measures would bar resignations after nomination, require new parties to form before primaries, grant the Republicans the first ballot spot, and remove presidential preference indicators from ballots while narrowing access to nomination papers.

Senate Harrisburg Lheite Publican Party

Income tax plan would cap Pennsylvanian earnings

Harrisburg April 13 A proposed bill by Maurer of Berks would tax incomes on a graduated scale from 1 percent at 2000 to 50 percent at 20000. Those earning over 20000 would pay all income above 10000 to the state. Proceeds fund the unemployed, with penalties for misreturns. The bill assigns administration to the department of labor and industry and the auditor general to levy the tax.

Maurer Berks Harrisburg Department of Labor and Industry Auditor General

Pennsylvania Lawside Highlights From Harrisburg Session

Harrisburg notes show mothers pension bills sparing alien mothers while many lawmakers oppose discrimination. Taft to address the legislature. anthracite operators and miners reach a compromise bringing miners under workers compensation. Lawmakers discuss repealing the 1913 coal storage law and raising auto registration to fund highways. Debate over coal revenue shares, judiciary timing reforms, and publishers' debt claims surfaces as Pennsylvania lawmakers push for prompt payments.

Pennsylvania Harrisburg Taft Chicago New York New Jersey Delaware Lipschutz Philadelphia House Dauphin Court Brumbaugh Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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