Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 1, Number 42, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 23 September 1938 — Page 1

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WILT COMPANY TO BUILD PLANT & TWO-STORY 40\70 TILE STRUCTURE TO RE ADDED TO FACEORY Within the next week the W. M. Wilt Industries will begin the construction of another substantial addition to their factory building. Plans and specifications for the new building are completed and the work of construction will begin as soon as the metal building which now occupies a portion of the ground site of the proposed new building, can be moved to the. west of the main factory building. Manager Joel Wilt advises the Journal the new building will be a two-story fireproof tile structure 40 ft.x7o ft. and when finished the first floor will house a newly Tunished office and glue room while the second floor will be used as an assembling and finishing depaftment. When completed the new structure with its new equipment will cost the Wilt company SIO,OOO. Mr. Wilt advises the Journal that the improvement was necessitated through new business that had been taken on the last two years, which has so congested the present manufacturing space as to greatly slow down production and delivery of their finished product. PLAN TO HEAR WARSAW RANK CASE IN ST. JOSEPH COUNTY A change of venue from the Kosciusko Circuit court to St. Joseph county Superior court, one has been taken by Orville O. Carpenter, speial receiver for the collection of stock solders’ liability judgments obtained by the Indiana State Bank and Trust company of Warsaw. The defendants aft William M. Bennett and Grant Croy and others. A judgment of $5,138.58 was obtained in the Bennett in which the receiver now seeks to have set aside a deed in the transfer of a parcel of property valued at $4,000 by foreclosure. In the Croy case, the receiver seeks to recover $6,250 and have cancelled an allegedly fraudulent mortgage transfer of property in Warsaw. FIRE AT KALE ISLAND Fire at the James Searfoss cottage on Kale Island at about 8:00 o’clock Monday evening did about s2oCrdamage to the building. A Ft. Wayne party has the cottage rented for the fall months ana his son and some friends were there Monday and it is thought they had allowed live coals from the fire place to come in contact with the wood floor as a part of it and the fire place were destroyed and the furniture greatly damaged by smoke and water. The Syracuse fire department answered the call and soon extinguished the blaze. New Roof For Factory Building j H. W. and Ernest Buchholz are having a new roof put on the old cedar chest factory building. This building is in a very good state of preservation and should be in use by some manufacturing concern. WARSAW — Leonard P. Van Vorst, Warsaw, arrested by State police August 2 on a charge of driving his automobile while intoxicated was fined $lO by Justice Calvin Ketrow here on his plea of guilty. His driving license was suspended for six months. SILVER LAKE—Wm. Wedrick’s yearling bull, kSilver Lake, was judged the best yearling Herford bull in the entire 45tate of Indiana at the State Faff. Wedrick is the first Kosciusko county cattle-man ever to win a first aHle award at the State Fair.

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Tri-County Paragraphs Elkhart - Kosciusko - Noble WARSAW—Edith LaMyra Outcelt, of Warsaw vs. Henry J. Outcelt, for divorce. PIERCETON —Levi Rager has a night-blooming cactus, 9 years old that is now showing its beautiful blooms. Sunday night one flower blossomed out, followed on Monday evening by five more. Many people have called at the Rager home, southeast of Pierceton, to see this rare plant. ALBION — Mrs. Rob McNagny, wife of the circuit court judge at Albion and Columbia City, was painfully injured when the car her husband was driving figured in an accident in Michigan. The couple were on their way to attend a wedding. Mrs. McNagny suffered several fractured ribs and an injured shoulder, it is reported. WARSAW —“Smilin’ Ed” McConnell of Cincinnati, populaf radio entertainer, thwarted an attempt to loot several cars Tuesday night in front of the Hays hotel at Warsaw. Mr. and Mrs. McConnell registered at the hotel, and later in the evening Mr. McConnell heard the crash of glass. He rushed down to the street, and frightened the men away. GOSHEN —DeWayne D. Culp, Ot rural route 4, Goshen, filed suit for divorce from Martha I. Culp, charging cruelty and abandonment. The complaint show's they were married March 7 1916 and separated No. vember 8, 1934. There are seven children,- two of whom are of age. The five others, ranging in age from 9 to 18 years. WARSAW — The Knight Drug company of which Herbert knight of Kendallville is the head has purchased the Leiter Drug store at Warsaw and assumed operation with Mr. Knight in charge. The drug store is one of Warsaw’s oldest business establishments and is widely known throughout the Warsaw community. KIMMELL—A car driven by Henry G. Favinger, 50, of near Kimmell, was upset on State Road No. 33 last week when he lost control of the vehicle as he attempted to pass a car ahead of him which had slowed up. To avoid hitting the car, Favinger made a sharp turn to the left, and the vehicle upset on the sofe shoulders of the berm. No on© was Injured. JOURNAL WANT ADS PAY

AIRVIEW OF NEW YORK FAIR AS IT IS TODAY

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A New York World’s Fair 1939 flying cameraman took this aerial photograph of the Perisphere and Try lon at the Theme Center of the Fair just as the final rivet was being driven in the 200-foot sphere. In the foreground is the New York City Building, now serving as the Summer City

STATE TAX BOARD TO REV IEW KOSCIUSKO COUNTY TAXES Tax rates in five Kosciusko county townships and four towns are above the legal limit and will have to be reviewed by the Indiana Tax board, it was announced at the office of County Auditor Jesse Bruner. Townships and the amount levied in excess of the $1.25 limit are: Washington, 40; Monroe, seven; Plain, 15; Lake, four and Franklin, eight. Towns and the amount of rate levied in excess of the legal $2 limit are: Pierceton, 45; Winona Lake, 16; Warsaw, 42 and Leesburg, 37. Officers announced that the poor relief levy is the one particular item which has raised the tax rate above the legal limit. lire Department Extinguishes Small Roof Fire Monday The fire department was called to the Charles Doll property, corner of Main and Boston street, Monday morning to extinguish a roof fire. The property is occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Charles McClintic. ALIi FUNDS TO WARSAW By action of the county council this week, Silver Lake’s fair, along with Mentone, was cut off from county tax funds for next year. Mentone this year shared in the county fair appropriation, the first year any fair outside of Warsaw has had county funds. Silver Lake's fair officers this fall had asked county funds for next year. While the two towns were not allowed fair funds, Warsaw was given $1,200 for next year again. The county council stipulated in its appropriation that the funds were to go entirely to Warsaw. According to a state statue, all public money appropriated for agricultural shows is to be divided among agricultural shows in the county which can qualify. GOSHEN—Mr. and Mrs. Russell Schnell,' returned missionaries from Africa who have spent the past 16 months with Mrs. Schnell’s parents in Goshen, left Friday for the Belgian Congo to serve another fiveyear term as missionaries. Milton Wysong, of Syracuse, made a nice catch of large bluegills at Lake Wawasee last Friday. He produced proof of his catch at the home of his brother, Vern Wysong, Sam Patch, the Jumper In October, 1829, Sam Patch jumped twice from the tep of a ladder 97 feet high into the eddy below Niagara Falls. The ladder was erected directly below the Biddle Staircase. He afterward lost his life by jumping from the falls of Genesee river at Rochester.

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Hall, while behind the Perisphere may be seen Constitution Mallei tending to the Lagoon of Nations and the Federal group of buildings on the far side of the grounds.

i FR *y > w - BRAUN J © iQJieSafety Parking at an angle to the curb has caused many difficulties from an accident prevention standpoint. Whenever you park a car at an angle, be sure you park so that the cars on either side of you can get in and out of the parking location. Whenever you back out, be sure you drive slowly. I have seen automobile drivers come out of an angle parking position next to the cufb as though they were answering a fire call. No warning is received by the automobi^driver who is traveling on the street, although he may be using every precaution. The usual results of careless backing out of the angle parking lot are minor collisions, but serious accidents have resulted. FAIR GUIDE When you visit the New York World’s Fail 1939 you will find fair Fair girl guides in natty costumes ready to furnish information or even escort you around. The fair Fair guide above is a fair sample of the service the Fair will give Fair visitors. JOURNAL WANT ADS PAY

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GET FUNDS FOR KOSCIUSKO COUNTY ELECTRIC LINES Approval of loan contract by REA Administrator John Carmody to cover an allotment of $367,000, made to the Kosciusko County Rural Electric Membership Corporation July.7, was announced in Washington by the REA. The Kosciusko County Co-op. has already signed the loan contract, obligating itself to go ahead witn the construction of the 367 miles of line which the loan will finance. The government’s signature given by Carmody similarly obligates it to advance ! money as required to meet construction costs, up to the limit of the allotment. With the funds, 367 miles of wiring will be strung in Kosciusko and Wabash counties, bringing power to 264 farms now without electricty. This will bring the total number of farms served by the Kosciusko Cooperative to 1,264. County Board of Education Holds Meeting At Syracuse Because of the cool weather Sunday, the county board of education picnic to have been held at Ideal Beach, Lake Wawasee, was held at the Syracuse school building- All but three of the township trustees were present. Special Train Brings Students Twelve coaches were used by the Big Four railroad Friday in bringing the entire student body and faculty of Manchester college to Camp Mack where a one day outing was enjoyed. The special train stppped at the crossing at the Dwight Doty corner, to accomodate the passengers. Out of the 675 students it was learned that this was the first rain ride for approximately 100 of the group. The day was spent in student contests, boating and othfer camp activities.—Milford Mail. B R I S T O L—The Washington Township Farm Bureau elected the following officers for the new year: President, Bernard Myers; vice president, Byron Cbristophel; Henry Detwiler, secretary; Daniel Pressler, treasurer; Mrs. Guy Pickrell, reelected social-education director and Mrs. Bernard Myers, publicity. WARSAW—Three runaway boys from Chicago were taken into custoday here by Police Officer J. H. Pittenger while they were en route to Pennsylvania. They will be held pending the arrival of their parents or officers from Chicago. Those picked up are: Eddie Knapik, Joseph Museia and Joseph Dareso, all about 17 years of age.

Washington Snapshots by JAMES PRESTON Politics and Hitler command the headlines. Purge has become a familiar word both here and in Europe. At first glance it would appear that nothing else is going on. But the real news of the day is not on the front pages. You must leaf through to the financial section. Here, not in big black type, but in small items is the important story. It is this: Business Is Getting Better. This means more than anything ,else to America. It means that Americans who want to work may be getting jobs before long- It means that the small town merchant will shortly be selling more good 3. It means that people will have more money to buy what the farmer has to sell. And why is business getting better? There are dozens of answers offered to the question. But the best answer is that nobody knows. The richest nation in the world, populated by the most industrious people in world, | s getting back to normalcy of its own accord. Even government economists admit that, except for its psychological effect, the pump-priming billions have had nothing to do with business recovery. Six to eight months from now r when the pump-priming billions do get in circulation, economists worry over their effect on a recovering patient. Thus, it is not a case of planned recovery. Ail the control laws ana all the regulatory laws failed to prevent the business skid in 1937. And they are not responsible for the up-trend now. America is just coming back regardles. More will be heard of the Dies Committee investigating un-Ameri-can groups. The best proof that the committee annoyed some of the ISM sympathizers was the way they sought to ridicule testimony presented. No witness before the committee in any way implied that little Shirley Temple was a communist or even a sympathizer. She was mentioned as one of many good American citizens whose spokesmen inadvertently had permitted use of her name by a foreign paper or communistic faith. But hardly had this story appeared in print before some of the ISMITES twisted the testimony. They tried to/put the committee in a ridiculous /igh by saying it had called the litJtle actress a Red. Much discussion has developed recently over molding the Nicaraguan Canal to supplement the Pan(Continued on Page 2)

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CONVENTION AT SPINK-VUAWASEE THIS WEEK-END GREAT LAKES REGIONAL SALES t CONVENTION NOW IN PROGRESS The Great Lakes Regional Sales convention, a division of the United Securities Companies, is being held at the Spnk-Waw r asee from today (Friday) through Sunday. Delegates to the convention arrivtd today but no meeting was held the day being given over to out-door sports and recreation. On Saturday a short meeting will be held at 9:30 a. m. at which announcement of the activities of the convention will be given. This meeting will be followed by two separate meetings at 1:00 o’clock, the Collateral Trust meeting and the United Trust meeting. Another general meeting will be held from 1:30 to 4:30. Dinner will be served at 6:00 p. m., which will be followed by dancing. On a Sunday the entire day will be given to outdoor sports and recreation. The convention will come to a close at 5:00 o’clock Sunday evening. Another large group from Chicago, Illinois, will hold a meeting at the Spink-Wawasee hotel over the week-end. No business meetings, purely a recreational vacation. These two conventions will formally close the Spink-Wawasee Hotel for the 1938 season. WARSAW YOUTH ADMITS THEFT OF MONEY ORDERS Theft of at the American Express company offices at Warsaw in August ana the S6B burglary of the l>ari-Bar in Garrett in June, were solved by the arrest in that city of Raymond Parker, 21, of Warsaw and Robert Hile 20, formerly of Warsaw. Officials said the youths confessed both thefts. The two were arrested early Sunday by Police Chief Oscar F. Fitcn and Night Officer Grover Sapp in Garrett, at the suggestion of H. C. Eldridge of Chicago, special agent for the express company. After several hours of grilling Parker confessed the Warsaw robbery. Hile at first denied any part in the affair but a search of his room revealed 12 of the SSO money orders still unused. The officers said Parker admitted cashing eight of the certificates. The questioning also brought out the fact that Parker had forced his way into the Dari-Bar, at Garrett, and escaped with S6B to Hile's waiting automobile. Hile has been employed as an attendant at the Indiana Service corporation sub-station one mile south of Garrett. The youths were taken to the DeKalb county jail at Auburn. Eldridge will prefer charges. SILVER LAKE—A young Kentucky mother with an infant son was left stranded in Silver Lake, and later was taken to Plainwell, Michigan, from where she was to be taken to meet her husband. According to police reports the young woman was brought from Kentucky to South Whitley by a former resident of this locality and left at South Whitley. He explained he would soon return for her. He them came to Silver Lake and went oh his way to Michigan without returning to South Whitley. The woman, who was to meet her husband in Michigan, where he was working, caught a ride to Silver Lake Tuesday night, and asked for the police officers. She was kept here overnight, and taken to Plainwell, Michigan next day, where the man was found, who had promised to take her and the child to her husband. JOURNAL WANT ADS PAY