Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 1, Number 29, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 24 June 1938 — Page 1

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REDEDICITIDN CHURCH SERVICE LIST SUNDAY TWO FORMER PASTORS OF CHURCH PARTICIPATE IN DAY’S PROGRAM The Grace Lutheran church held a rededication service last Sunday. The church had been newly decorated with the money left in the M. P. Altland will. This dedication was made in honor of Mr. Altland. Rev. J. Weiskotten of Chicago, who was pastor of this church when it was built in 1904, presided at the dedication service Sunday morning. Following this service a dinner was served in the church basement for nearly 100 people. At 3:30 o’clock, Reverend E. T tor of this church delivered a mesValbracht of Chicago, a former passage closing the day’s services. An altar covering and choir curtain were presented as a gift from Mrs. Zella Leacock. Special music was furnished by the church choir. tßev. Harvey Currens is pastor of the church at the present time. Martinsburg Mr. and Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Wilkerson were in Webster Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Raison of Goshen, spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. Baker. John Evans who has been In a critical condition remains about the same. I ' Alta Tom called Monday on Estelle Swartz. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wogoman and s daughter Mary Ann, Mr. and Mrs. Pipp, Mrs. Betes and son Billy, all of Chicago, Mary Cable and Estelle Swartz were at the Betes’ cottage from Thursday. fr John Smith of Goshen was at the home of his uncle. Merrel Daughlin, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Dempsey entertained Mr. Dempsey’s brother and wife of Goshen, also Mrs. Dempsey’s neice and nephew. Mr. and Mrs. Stiphie of Bremen, Mr. and Mrs. Alen Seifert and Mr. and Mrs. Claud Siefert of Mishawaka, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Miller and son, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Gustafson, Mr. and Mrs. Blessing of Elkhart and Charles Mikel of So. Bend, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C. Miller. Mrs. Laurence Held was not so well and has now developed milk leg. Estelle Swartz spent Sunday evening with Ida Guy. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Buster and sons Junior and Billey, daughter Virginia Lee, of Attica, Ind., are spending the week with Mrs. Busier’s grandmother Mary Cable. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dempsey, Jr., of Goshen, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Tom Dempsey. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Laughlin and family of Ann Arbor, Mich, visited his uncle Merril Laughlin. MRS. WILLIAM BUSHONG . Mrs. Prue Bushong, 56, wife of Town Marshal William Bushong, and a Milford resident for 20 years, died at her home in the northeast part of town at 4 p. m., Sunday. She had been in poor health for a number of years. Mrs. Bushong was one of three children of L«wis and Margaret Buttz of near Syracuse. On July 8, 1898, she was married to William Bushong. Besides the husband, other surviving relatives are three sons, Kenneth, of Leesburg; Joe and Robert Bukhong of Milford; three daughters Mrs. John (Mabel) Clause and Miss Mary Ann Bushong of Milford; and Mrs. Glen (Edith) Stookey. ot Valparaiso; tour granddaughters, a brother, Fred Buttz of Elkhart; a sister Mrs. James Whitehead of Goshen; and two half-brothers Sylvester Johnson of Elkhart and Charles Johnson ot Goshen. Funeral services were held at the Bushong home at 2:30 p. m.» Tuesday afternoon. The Rev. W. I. Daker of Goshen officiating. Burial was made in the Syracuse cemetery.

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RE-ENACT HISTORIC TREK TO NORTHWEST Celebration a Symbol of 13 States “Grown Up.” Washington.—A band of bearded “pioneers” in buckskin suits and coonskin caps recently traveled the long, long trail a-winding back into America’s past. It retraced the trek of 48 venturesome New Englanders who set out from Massachusetts, in 1787, to “go west” for new worlds to conquer. Goal of the modern pilgrims was Marietta, Ohio, and that particular yesterday in American history when the Northwest territory got its start. This re-enactment of a historic migration is part of a widespread celebration of the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the Northwest territory, the more than a quartermillion square miles of wilderness between the Great Lakes, the Mississippi on the west, and the Ohio river on the south. v “As this area was gradually digested by the young United States,” says the National Geographic society, “it proved that the new nation had not bitten off more of the continent than it could chew. It became a symbol of national growth, a sign that the original Thirteen States could get over their ‘unlucky’ number and expand without losing unity. When Did It Start? “Did the fateful progress start when a busy and harassed congress, convening in New York, passed an ordinance on July 13, 1787, for governing the ‘Territory Northwest of the Ohio?’ The ordinance guaranteed religious freedom, right of trial by jury, public schools, and freedom from slavery even before a convention, meeting quietly in Philadelphia, wrote some of those principles into a document adopted in September of the same year as the Constitution of the United States. Or was the foundation for success laid when General Rufus Putnam organized pioneer parties leaving Massachusetts for Ohio in December, 1787, and January, 1788? Or was the real birthday of Northwestern triumph on February 1, 1788, when Arthur St. Clair took over the territory as its first governor? To be certain of celebrating the right anniversary, the commemoration is continuing for months, extending even into the summer of 1938 to recall that Marietta set up Ohio’s first permanent local government on July 15, 1788. “The fate of the Northwest territory decided that the map of the United States look more like a checkerboard than like a rainbow. Originally the area was claimed by four states. Their surrender of territory to congress for subdivision into new states changed geography as well as history. “Thomas Jefferson suggested carving the new country into ten states, to be served up under such foreign sounding names as Sylvania, Metropotamia, Assenissippia, and Cherronesus. Actually there emerged from the Old Northwest five full-grown states: Ohio first, then Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and finally Wisconsin in 1848. Pennsylvania built up her northwest corner from the historic territory’s open spaces, and the eastern two-thirds of Minnesota was picked up from the Northwest’s boundaries after Wisconsin had been sliced off. Now Look ai It. “Today the area is the home of more than twenty-five million people in the five full states formed from it—about one-fifth of the population of the whole United States. “Long before the settlers dared to build more windows in their houses than the family could man against Indian attack, other immigrants began to converge from the whole eastern seaboard upon the Northwest territory. In the year after the ordinance of 1787, twenty thousand came. Like General Putnam’s band from Massachusetts, they traveled afoot and in oxcarts to the nearest trail which could conduct them through the massiye Alleghenies. “Thy westward exit from Pennsylvania, was most easily made *by "water; in the first year of the Northwest rush, more than 900 boats set out down the Ohio from Pittsburgh and contributed their timber to CJCrieral Putnam’s pioneers, for instance, traveled the town of Wesy Newton, where they built flatbpats and sailed down the Youghiogheny river into the Monongahela, which flows into the Ohio at Pittsburgh. The Ohio brought thenKto Fort Harmon, frontier outpost within whose protection they established the / town named for Marie Anto ; - SICK LIST Mrs. Jesse Ruby suffered a heart attack Sunday and is confined to her bed. Mrs. Emma Sloan is dangerously ill at her home on Race street. 4 Mrs. Frank Malloy, who has been bedfast for the past three weeks, is slowly improving.

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Yo Ho, m’ lads, the wind blows free—and it will be a fine season for sailing. Have you ever sailed? If so, you don’t need to be told about the thrills of “making your own way with wind and water." The sport of sailing in samll boats has grown trefendously in recent years. There are over 160 lakes within a radius of fifty or sixty miles of Wawasee where sailing and other boating is practicable. In increasing numbers, these lakes are attracting amateur sailors young and old, girls as well as boys. There are a bewildering number of small sailboats in America. Depending on the design of the boat and the arrangement of sails and rigging, sailboats come under six common types: schooner, ketch, yawl, cat, cutter, and sloop. Schooners and ketches are usually large boats at least 30 feet from stem to stern. The majority of small sailboats are of the sloop type. A sloop has

Syracuse High School Band Invited To Take Part State Fair Musical Activities ■BBBWSHIjOt ■ilHi

Special to The Syracuse Journal. Syracuse high school band and orchestra members have been invited to play at the Hoosier Music Festival to be conducted Sept. 3-9 at the Indiana State Fair. The (musicians will appear daily on the Indiana University stage program, at the Grand Circuit races, and at the evening Horse show. Frederick E. Green, director of the Indiana University band and ot the Hoosier Music Festival, has written Willard Gustafson asking him to select a number of his leading musicians for the Hoosier Music Festival group. A band and a full symphony orchestra will be assembled

two sails, a mainsail and a jib Another common type of small boat is the catboat. A popular and a very fast sailboat is the scow. It is a shallow-bottorqed boat with a flat stem and stern. Choice of a boat depends upon the body of water on which it is to be used and upon the type or class of boats already prevalent upon this lake. Many novices make the mistake of buying a boat entirely unlike any other upon the lake of his choice. He is then confronted with the problem of finding any competition in sailing as different types of boats can’t compete without a handicap. Mos of the boats used for racing come under one of three general classes: (1) one-design class, (2) restricted class, and (3) open handicap class. The most popular boats are in the one-design class. Os these the Snipe (15 ft. 6 in. by 5 ft.) and the Star 22 feet in length are most popular. The Snipe class is the largest in existance with the Star class running a close second. There

Irom the ranks or leading high school players throughout the state. Indiana band will provide a number of first-chair players. Opportunity to participate under conductors who have made notable records in band and orchestra work will be given the high school mu.sicians. Robert J. White, conductor of the “In-and-About Chicago” Music Festival, and conductor of the Chicago public schols, will be in charge of the orchestra. Mr. 'Green and a guest conductor will conduct the band programs. Three scholarships to the Indiana University school of music will be awarded on a basis of proficiency shown during the program in Indianapolis. While at the fair, members of the

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are approximately three thousand registered boats in the former class and twenty-five hundred in the latter. The new National one-design is gaining rapidly. This is a seventeen foot boat and is exceptionally fast. It has. latest developmen in the rigging and wilt be thoroughly before the present season is pMh Other one-design ( are lakes, Din'gWtW Wee Scots, and Comets. In building a boat in the one-de-sign class, the designer must conform accurately to a certain set of plans and specifications. One-de-sign boats are of the same length, beam, thickness of planking, sail shape and area, etc. The idea behind this class is to make racing supremacy entirely dependent on skill in handling the boat. No one has the advantage of a better-de-signed boat. If you are interested .in reading more about sailboats and how to sail them, a number of books are available in the public library.

band and orchestra will be housed in a camp located in the former National Guard barracks north of the race track. The camp will be operated in a manner similar to that of the 4-H club camps, with meals and lodging furnished. Famous Foot Ball Coach Visits With Syracuse Friends Milan Creighton, famous coach of the Chicago Cardinal professional foot ball team, accompanied by Mrs. Creighton and little daughter, Joan, were guests of Syracuse friends last week-end. Coach Creighton was very enthusiastic in his praise of the beauty of Syracuse, its lake and surrounding country and anticipates a summer home here in the near future.

MOST MODERN AIR FORCE AIM OF U. S. Army and Navy to Have 4,000 Planes by 1940. Washington, D. C. — The most modern air force in the world by 1940 is the goal set by the army and navy, with both branches of the national defense speeding construction programs as rapidly as possible. Officially, the United States is not attempting to keep pace with the building projects being pushed forward by European powers, but it is an “open secret” that continuance of the present policy through 1940 will give the United States what some experts have described as the ’‘speediest and most modern and efficient air army in existence.” The army contemplates having 2,320 first-line fighting planes by June 30, 1940. The number sought by the navy is somewhat smaller, but the combined strength of the two forces should total approximately 4,000 planes—all of which are expected to be the equal if not the superior of any foreign ships. Foreign Strength Summarized. The present estimated air strength of the major foreign powers is summarized as follows: 1. Russia has about 3,000 planes organized in squadrons and ready to take off immediately if war were declared, in addition to approximately 1,500 other planes. 2. Italy has an estimated 2,250 first-line military planes and perhaps 1,500 other ships, including training types and reserves, for a total strength of around 3,750 planes. 3. Germany, whose air strength is one of the most guarded military secrets of Europe, is believed to have approximately 2,300 modern ships and perhaps 1,400 other planes that could be rushed into military service almost overnight, bringing its full powder to about 3,700. 4. France is estimated to have 2,100 first-line planes and 1,000 training planes or reserves, for a total strength of 3,100. 5. Great Britain is reported to have 2,000 modern ships and unknown number of reserves, which has been variously placed as high as 3,000. Stresses Time Factor. Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring recently said that “it should be borne in mind that modern aircraft cannot be quickly improvised. The construction of planes necessarily takes considerable time. Hence our peacetime strength should approximate rather closely our requirements in war. Furthermore, in a major war our air arm would probably be engaged almost immediately on the opening of hostilities. Therefore it is desirable that it be practically on a war footing in time of peace.” He pointed out that foreign countries are making heavy increases on their air arms and asserted that most of the first-class powers have many more airplanes on hand or under construction than this country. “However,” he added, “in quality our new planes are at least the equal and probably the superior, type for type, of any military airplanes in the world. “Our program of airplanes procurement does not contemplate attaining the number possessed by other countries. With our favorable geographical position and our determination to use our military strength only for defensive purposes, we believe that 2,320 military airplanes will be sufficient for our needs.” Income From Vegetables Rises to Billion a Year Washington.—Vegetable growing has become a billion-dollar-a-year industry, Department of Agriculture records show. Gross income from vegetables during the last five years has averaged about 22 per cent of income from all crops, and more than 10 per cent of total farm income from all sources, department economists said. Average annual income from vegetables exceeded that from cotton by $50,000,000; grains by $lO,000,000; fruits and nuts by $250,000,000 and tobacco by $600,000,000, the department reported. Farmers who plant about 1,500,000 acres—3 per cent of all crop lands—in vegetables receive an average income of approximately SIOO an acre, compared with an average of sls an acre for all crop lands. The American diet is made up of an increasing proportion of vegetables, according to department experts. The use of fresh vegetables has virtually doubled since 1920, due to improved methods of shipping which make year-around marketing practical. The canning industry virtually has doubled in the last twenty years and now supplies a market for crops from about 2,000,0p0 acres. NOTICE George Butt terminated his connection with the Branstrom Ice Cream Store June 17th, and will devote full time to his law practice and insurance agency.

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CRUEL PIT FIRE' CAUSES BIG LOSS MONDAY A. M. STRVM-DELARD GRAVEL I‘LAM IS PARTIALLY DESTROYED BY THE FLAMES Fire of unknown origin, but supposedly due to a defective electric wire, destroyed the entire upper section of the gravel plant, Tuesday forenoon. Shortly before 9 a. ni. two employees of the company discovered a blaae burning through the top of the building near an electric switch box. They immediately called the Syracuse and Milford fire departments who hastily answered the call and succeeded in extinguishing the flames, but not until the upper section was totally destroyed. The plant is located ou the Syra-cuse-Milford road, midway between the two towns and managed by Charles Purdum, who with his family reside at the pit. It is estimated that damages to building and machinery will run up in he thousands of dollars. The plant is one of the largest in the middle-west and besides the actual damage to the plant a temporary shutdown ot some four or five weeks will be necessary while repairs are being made. , FOURTH UNION VESPER SERVICE . TO BE HEIiD NEXT SUNDAY EVENING Marimba Music to lie Feature of Program ‘ - ■ ■.. . -o. Eugene Teeter, a master on the marimba, of Manchester college will be the feature on the program at the coming Sunday vesper service held on the United Brethren church lawn. The services begin at 5:00 p. m. and last until 6:00 p. m. DST. The speaker for this week’s service will be Rev. Russell E. Vance of Logansport. The Rev. Clayton Wilson brought § the message last Sunday on the theme “The Keys of the Kingdom.” His message was well received. He was formerly a missionary to Japan and is now serving as pastor trf the Christian church in LaPorte. Oboe music was played by a son of Rev. Wilson. The entire Wilson family was present, having participated in the Christian church camp held at Oakwood last week. The weather has been, ideal for these outdoor services the past three Sundays. In the event of rain, the service will be held, but within the United Brethren church. W. A. C. BENEFIT The Wednesday Afternoon Club of Syracuse sponsored a Benefit program at the Methodist cnurch last Friday evening, the proceeds of which went to the Ida Knorr Memorial Student Loan Fund of any Indiana college. Such money is loaned to’ worthy students, preferable juniors and seniors, at 3 per cent interest. The program was given by Alice Prow Clark, soprano. Lulu Seider, accompanist, and Esther Stoeltlng, reader. The evening entertainment opened with an organ prelude by Margaret Miles followed by three songs, “Gossiping," “Thrush in the Moonlight,” and “The Caterpillar,” sung by Mrs. Clark. Mrs. Steelting then read the first part of the play “You Can’t Take It With You” by Hart aud Kaufmann, Mrs. Clark then sanu “T h, re e For Jack,” “Shortnin’ Bread,” and “The Green Eyed Dragon.” Mrs. Stoelting then finished the reading of “You Can’t Take It ■With You.” In conclusion Mrs. Clark sang “Spring,” “Carmena” and “To You.” The program was greatly appreciated by all who attended. It is to be hopecj that the Wednesday Afternoon Club will furnish another such program in the near future. t ( ‘