Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 1, Number 38, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 26 August 1938 — Page 7

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Wawasee Club Meets At Oowa Neat Nearly two hundred members of the Wawasee club met at the Crows Nest new Barn during the past week to enjoy an evening of dancing and •other entertainment. Jimmy Din’whitty and his orchestra furnished music for the evening’s dancing program. Refreshments were served to the guests as a climax to the evening’s fun and frolic. Mr. Keith Fisher was in charge of the arrangements for the party. Governors Get Bibles Springfield, Mo.—A women’s church club here has sent Bibles to governors of the forty-eight states and asked that they be read daily in the state penitentiaries. Sisters Construct Their Own Residence Chariton, lowa.—The Myers sisters, Grace, forty, and Rosa, thirty-seven, needed a hnuse to live in. So they bought a house that had been wrecked by a tornado, and a nearby plot of land, and set to work. At a cost of less than SSOO they have built with their own hands a handsome four-room dwelling. “Carpentering is no harder than housework, once a woman gets into it,” Grace says.

Entertains Guests Mrs. Wertheimer of Ligonier, entertained eighteen guests at a dinner party given at the Sargent hotel, Tuesday evening. A delicious meal was served after which the group enjoyed entertainment planned by their hostess. YELLOWSTONE PARK PREY OF VANDALS Tourists Still Persist in Leaving Their Marks. Yellowstone Park, Mont. — The “fool’s faces” were gone long ago, but their names still adorn public places here, along with penciled poetry, tax tokens and marks of vandalism. Visitors annually enter the park, try to get their names in as many different places as possible, throw logs in the geysers to see them blow up,, and take pieces of rare formations for the mantlepicces back home. Names with the date 1880 still may be seen beneath the thin crusts of geyserite nature uses to hide her shame, many of them in the most beautiful formations of the valley. In some cases, entire geyser cones have disappeared, blown out by a load of rock or logs tossed in to amuse the tourist who demands action, or taken home in small chunks to prove to the neighbors that “we really were there," Vandalism is nothing new. As early as 1873, one year after appointment of N. P. Langford as first park superintendent, it had become objectionable. “The parapets of sinter of the ‘Bee Hive,’ ” he wrote to the then secretary of the interior, “have been much defaced by visitors to the park.” A description typical of today’s vandals was written by Capt. William Ludlow of the United States army engineers more than 50 years ago. “The only blemishes on this artistic handiwork,” he wrote, “have been occasioned by the rude hand of man. The ornamental work about the crater and pools of Faithful had been broken and defaced in the most prominent places by vi. ' ’•s and pebbles were inscribed in pencil with the names of the most undistinguished persons. Such practices should be stopped at once.” That was more than a half century ago, and the practices haven’t been stopped yet. Chessmen of 4,000 B. Q Are Uncovered in Irak Philadelphia. — A collection of 6,000-year-old chessmen has been uncovered in northern Irak by a joint expedition of the University of Pennsylvania museum and' the American School of Oriental Research in Bagdad. A report from the archeologists said small terracotta gaming pieces, shaped like human figures and resembling closely some of those used in various stages of the development of chess, were found in the ancient city of Tepe Gawra, scene of extensive excavations since its discovery in 1927. The .chessmen <were uncovered on a level of the city which was built in the cl-Oheid period, dating from the time of southern Mesopotamia’s earliest settlements, archeologists reported. Dr. E. A. Speiser, director of the Bagdad School and professor of Semitics at the university here, who i discovered the site of the ancient city, said the Tepe Gawra gaming pieces were the first indication that chess, or its prototype, provided diversion for the prehistoric Mesopotamians of about 4,000 B. C. JOURNAL WANT ADS PAY

Masons Meet At Wawasee One hundred members of the Goshen Masonic lodge met at the South Shore golf club and South Shore Inn last Wednesday to enjoy a day’s outing. During the afternoon the gentlemen held a golf tournament followed in the evening by a delicious dinner served at the South Shore Inn. Wally Mehl won the golf tournament with a score of 63.

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Entertain At South Shore Inn Six of the local Syracuse ladies entertained about forty of their friends at a bridge luncheon held at the South Shore Inn last Tuesday afternoon. After a delightful luncheon the guests played contract on the hotel porch. Hostesses for the party were: Blanch Thornburg, Grace Klink, Nina King, Elsa Grieger, Ruth Xanders and Earol Sears.