Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 1, Number 45, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 14 October 1938 — Page 1

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DRUM CORPS TAKES 2ND PRIZE Al AUBURN FAIR SEVEN MUSICAL ORGANIZATION IN COMPETITION FOR HONORS Last Thursday evening our locr. drum corps of the American Leg.on Wawasee Post No. 223, journeyed to'the Auburn fair to enter into ;■ drum co srpcontest. The boys did their “stuff” and walked off with second place in h field of sevn o: the major' cbrps Below we a congratulatory letter member of the Bendix drum corps of South Bend. South Bend, Indiana, Oct. 10, 1938 Editor Syracuse Journal: Just a few lines to let you know that I was over to Auburn, Ind. Thursday night with our Drum Corps known as the Bendix Aviation Drum and Bugle Corps, and saw your Drum Corps in action for the first time. You have the snappiest outfit I 'have ever seen for its size, marching was perfect, distance apart was perfect and Wawasee Post has a drum and bugle corps to be proud of and I understand Wawasee Drum and Bugle Corps walked off with 2nd prize. They sure earned it with their perfect music and marching led by the sweetest little drum major I have ever seen. "The member of your drum corps that plays the bell chimes lyra, sure knows how to make music on it. I heard those bells for two blocks above your drums and bugles and will say the playing was wonderful and no drum corps should be without one of these t instruments. It puts the finishing touch on any organization of that kind. I cannot say too much for your local drum and bugle corps and I believe your little town of Syracuse is proud of them. Lots of compliments were heard on the “Brass hats from Syracuse.” I cannot give you my correct name because I am a member of Bendix Aviation Drum and Bugle Corps and I might be criticized for praising another organization other than my but I just thought you should know how other people like your organization knwn as the Wawasee Post No. 223, but spoken of at Auburn as the “Brass u s from Syracuse.” A very good friend and booster of > all American Legion Drum Corps S. E. H., So. Bend. Ann versary and Farewell Dinner .. > I On Wednesday evening Mr. and j Mrs. Ira T. Howard and daughie . Mrs. Isabell Robinson, entertaii.e' at dinner ten guests in honor of the 37th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Howard, also as a ■ well dinner for Mr. and Mrs. W. N Teideman, who are moving fro:.'. Goshen to Minneapolis, Minn, ’a the near future. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. John K. Howard and. son and daughter, John Jr., and Cordelia, of Nappanee, Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Yoder, Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Teideman, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Cummins, of Goshen, > LOCAL LINES ! Wren Clark spent Sunday with his mother Mrs. Betty Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Young visited relatives and friends last Sunday in Coldwater, Michigan. Mr. an<F Mrs. Sheldon H Harkless were the guests of Mrs. Charley Switzer in Cromwell last Sunday. > Miss Ida Deardorff of Chicago, Illinois, spent last week-end” with her mother Mrs. Lydia Deardorff. Mr. and Mrs. Dial Rogers and Beverly Klink of South Bend, were the guests of Mrs. Isabell Greiger. Jack Ford, who is attending Indiana University, visited with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ford, over the week-end.

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Tri-County Paragraphs ELK I! ART-KOSCIUSKO-NOBLE GOSHEN —A check for $40,775.21, Elkhart county's share of tltjp state gasoline t-ax distribution, was received Monday from the auditor of state by County Auditor Francis Mishler. LIGONIER — Included among WPA grants was one of $6,750 to Ligonier, for waterworks improvement and extensions, including acquisition of land and rights of way. The estimated cost of . the Ligonier project is $15,000. 4 SILVER LAKE —One horse of a team of Harry Kline's died Sunday night resulting from a narrow es cape from drowning for both horses of the team when they became mired in the north edge of Silver lake. The other horse seems to be recovering from the experience. WARSAW —In circuit court Monday morning Lila Rose, Warsaw, rural route No. 5, was granted a divorce from James Frederick Ross, charge cruelty. They were married January 26, 1.937, and separated April 30, 1937. The mother was given custody of a minor child and $2.50 a week support money. WARSAW —Charles Lender, 16, Bourbon was on Monday given a suspended sentence of one to five years at the state reformatory on his plea of guilty to a charge of stealing $8.85 from J. S. Holloway, a fair concession man, on October 1. His fine of $1 was remitted. Robert Brault, 16, Warsaw, companion of Lender, was given a suspended sentence of 60 days and his fine of $1 also wjts remitted. GOSHEN—The county council on Oct. 14th., will consider additional appropriations, totaling $7,800 and the transfer of $5,000 from the road bond fund to the highway operating expense fund. Os the $7,800, the sum of $2,000 is sought for repairs of truck and highway department machinery; $1,500 for gasoline, and $1,500 for tires, chains etc.; $2,500 for deficit in school funds; $250 for returning fugitives to the superior court, and SSO for county nurse expenses. GOSHEN—This year’s enrollment attacts to Goshen College 110 from Indiana, thirty-eight from Illinois, forty-eight from Ohio, thirty-one from Pennsylvania, ten from lowa, one from Oregon, seven from Kansas, five from Colorado, one front Alabama, three from Ontario, one from India, one from Tennessee, one Dora Louisiana, two from New York, two from Idaho, one from Maryland three frm Michigan, two from Texas, one from North Dakota, ;’ir e from Missouri and one from Virginia. SILVER LAKE —Silver Lake contained seventeen thousand more blue gills on Wednesday evening than it previously had. They were not yet ready for the frying pan, however, as they were baby blue gills, averaging about 1 1-2 inches in length. The Silver Lake Sportsmen’s Club Wednesday drained the pond they had leased at the Father Shull fish ponds, and that many minnows were taken from the pond and put in the lake. The pond that the club has operated at the lake ■or several years, remains yet to be drained, and that will be done on October 19. The state conservation department pays the club $5 per thousand for blue gills. Ladies Hohl Interesting Meeting The ladies of the Round Table i et Monday evening, October 10, at the home of Mrs. Carrie Rapp. After the business meeting two new members were taken’ into the club, Mrs. Olive Bushong and Mrs. Byers. Mrs. Edna Hess reviewed the book “Black Forest” by Meade Minnigerode which was enjoyed by all who were present. HOOKED A BEAUTY Speaking of Isaac Waltons you should have seen the beauty of a 4-pound bass our old employer O. M. Kinnison, of the News-Democrat, hooked out at Lake Wawasee last Sunday morning. )

SYRACUSE, INDIANA

Kitson’s Super Service Stition, Corner Huntington And Carroll Streets

- j „ A .•* niWgiwßMigCa 1 kjwi a jMMlWwjl Above is pictured the Sinclair building, the nev,’ oil station at tin orner of Huntington and Carroll streets, occupied by the Kitson Super Service. The building is a fireproof structure of brick and tile of a very attractive design. Broad concrete approaches and driveway with its setting of brightly coloied gasoline pumps make this station most imposing to the eye. Kitson’s Super Service besides handling all the Sinclair’ products, handle a full line of Goodrich tires and tubes, does car greasing and oiling and tire repairing. In the insert is Manager Haskel Kitson and Barney Insley, his assistant who are always ready with Kitson’s Super Service. f _________

| Library Notes j by Alice Mann Hire | New Books Rebecca, by Daphne der Maurier. In this novel you will come to know Maxim de Winter, aristocratic owner of the great house of Manderley., You will wonder what in his part gives him that haunted expression. Was it the unexpected death of his beautiful wife, Rebecca, that he could not forget? Or was it something more? —something buried deep in the wails of Manderley, concealed in the heavy scent of the azalea bushes, in the blood-red color of the rhododendrons surrounding the lawns —why did he suddenly marry again? Strange? perhaps —for the second Mrs. De Winter was an awkward girl. How could he expect her to replace the glamour of Rebecca, a departed glamour which clung to Manderley as if Rebecca had never died at all, as if she s*ill lived on io plague the young bride with the memory of her beauty. Gaunt Mrs. Danver’s, housekeeper at Manderley, and who worshipped Rebecca, dressed in deep black, whose prominent cheek bones and great hollow eyes gave her a skull's face, parchment-white set in a skeleton’s frame. Was it only her love for Rebecca that made her terraying to the youtfe bride? possibly—■ and then the superb mo. meat of melodrama, when the young wife wears Rebecca's dress to the ba ll —Rebecca is a book club choice on both sides of the Atlantic: in England, the August selection of the English Book Society and here, The Literary Guild’s choice for October. And Tells of Time, by Laura Krey. The story of Calvin and his wife Lucina is a tale of romance and achievement, of happiness gained only after the long uphill fight of a conquered people for their o.wn salvation. Like the water of the Brazos, now swift and turbulent, now deep and quiet, the current of the story flows, full of thrilling and memorable scenes ot carpet-baggers and the Ku Klux Klan, of bewildered negroes, of broad fields yielding to the plow, of children growing to manhood beneath the Texas sun. It remains ax bottom a realistic picture of family life through the generations, rich in substance and detail. Laura Krey belongs to a family prominent in Texas history. She was born in the Brazos valley, where her family still owns a plantation; she was educated and lived for many years in Virginia. BIRTHS AT THE FAIR New York —More than a dozen babies will be born at the New York World’s Fair 1939, it is expected by the Fair’s Department of Medicine and Public Health. The Department will be all prepared to deal with these emergencies. Six such babies were born during the Century of Progress at Chicago.

Boy Scout Annual Council Meeting At Goshen November 1 Tuesday, November 1, has been nounced as the date of the annual meeting of the Pioneer Trails Council, Boy Scouts of America. At a recent meeting of the execu tive board, Goshen was chosen as the location of this year’s meeting. A committee of Goshen scouters is making local arrangements. Around 250 scout workers will gather from all parts of Elkhart, Kosciusko, and LaGrange counties. In addition to the speaker, events of the meeting will include election of council officers, silver beaver and veteran scout awards, adoption of new constitution and by-laws, and presentation of the year's program. President Jay Wallick, of Elkhart announces that an effort is being made to obtain a speaker who is qualified to talk on the practical application of the bby scout program in the troop. PICKWICK BOWLING LEAGUE SCORE Following are the results of the local Bowling League furnished to the Journal by Manager O. K. Bennett: Won Lost Oct. 3—Electric Co 1 2 Standard Oil . .. 2 1 Oct 4—Teachers 3 0 American Legion. . 0 3 Oct. s—Pickwick5 —Pickwick 2 1 Jones Dairy 1 2 Oct. 6—Lumber Co 3 0 Osborn Hardware. 0 3 r j by I FREO W. BRAUN Ifc-'' 1 What is the “Right-of-way?” Who has the “Right-of-way?” 1 will not attempt to answer these questions because conditions and circumstances are involved that make one answer inappliable to all cases. However, the safest bet ana the wisest course is to give the other fellow the right-of-way rather than argue or have an accident. What does a delay of a few minutes mean compared to a safe journey? Why gamble on the possibility of a serious accident just for the satisfaction of having the right-of-way? If you arrive at an intersection ar about the same time another motorist does and he signifies his intention of crossing, let him, even though you know you have the right-of-way. It is much better to follow the safe course and it leaves you in a better frame of mind. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Reichard, of Kendallville; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Quinlan and son Johnnie of Auburn and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Reichard of Michigan City, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Kemp, last Sunday. •

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, I®BB

MARTINSBURG By ESTELLA SWARTZ Larry Davis, who has been in the hospital in Indianapolis, is reported to be about the same. Mrs. Whistler is spending a few days with Estelle Swartz. Mrs. Charles TOm returned Tuesday to her home in Chicago. Mr. Tom remained to assist his mother in getting her property repaired. Mr. Evans condition remains the same. Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Oormican, of South Bend, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Cormican, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Fleiscnaur and son Ernest of Milford, were Sunday dinner guests of their grandparents Mr. and Mrs. John Evans. Afternoon callers were Mt. and Mrs. Floyd Mick, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mick of Hicksville, Mr. ana Mrs. Wm. Ralston and Mrs. Richards of Goshen. Mr. Evans is a little better at this writing. Mrs. J. D. Mick and daughter Mabie and son Ralph visited Tuesday in Huntington with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mick. They went to South Bend Wednesday to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs. Marion Rapp. Mabie Mick is returning to Washington, D. C. Thursday to resume work at the telephone company there. Mrs. Edna Felts and son Dan ana Velma Kehr called Wednesday afternoon at the Ray Evans home north of Milford. A birthday dinner was celebrated Sunday at the home of Mrs. Ada Zeltinger of Goshen at her cottage on Lake Wawasee. Seven ladies had birthdays all in October. There were twenty-one present and a wonderful dinner was served. Those having birthdays were: Mrs. H. L. Bird, Mrs. Irvin Bailey of Jackson, Mich., Mrs. William Pipp of Chicago, Mrs. S. F. Betes, of Chicago, Mrs. EJd Robison, Mrs. Estelle Swartz and Mrs. Ada Zeltinger, of Goshen. This is an annual affair and will meet next year with Mrs. Edd Robison. JAMES BURSON James Burson was born in Grant county Indiana, June 16, 1871 and died Oct. 5, 1938, aged 67 years, 3 months and 23 days. He was left an orphan at one year of age. In 1898 he was married to Mary Garrison and seven children, four of whom are living, blest this union. For several years he and his wife resided in Michigan and from there moved to the vicinity of Syracuse, where he has lived ever since. He leaves to mourn his departure, his wife, three daughters, Mrs. Lester Sawyer, Mrs. Mabie Ringler and Opal Pepper, all of Syracuse, one son Elmo near home and several grandchildren and many friends. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Unrue and Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Unrue and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Long attended a birthday dinner on Sunday at Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harlan in Milford, in honor of Mr. Isaac Unrue.

Washington Snapshots By J AMES PRESTON There was a quickening of pulser In the Department of Agriculture the other day when press wires brought news to Washington tha. Farmer Otto Gray, of Stillwater. Oklahoma, had developed a breec of midget cows. Here at last it seemed to som AAA planners, was an answer to al. their prayers. If Farmer Gray could breed bovines one-half the size o normal Jerseys, surely the idea could be extended to other farm products, th.y joyfully reasoned ‘Why not midget cotton plants to eliminate the annoying surplus o; cotton; half-sized hogs, ears of corn, potatoes and grains of wheat?’ they asked themselves. Here, Indeed, seemed the answer to the ever normal granary problem without the red tape of referendums, marketing quotas, export subsidies and farm regimentation. But lo! The cloud with the silver lining suddenly drenched their hopes with rain. Farmer Gray’s midget cow only eats half as much hay and actually produces more milk than her full-sized competitors. So now it sems that B Farmer Gray is to be accused of nothing short of treason against the AAA, for just when the government's agriculture experts were wrestling with the problem of making two-thirds of a crop grow where a full crop had grown before, this incorrigible noncooperator points the way to still greater production with less effort. Tsk, tsk, Farmer Gray, we are told by the theorists that Utopia is not in that direction!

HERE AND THERE. . . Without a smile, the War Department has lifted its ban against love birds on army transport ships. The ban was placed to stop the spread of parrot fever. . . . The WPA seems to be running out of public buildings nnd highways and bridges to build. It has set reliefs to counting salmon climbing ladders on the Bonneville dam. . . . Press Club definition of the European “peace” treaty: “You take a ‘piece’ and I’ll take a ‘piece.’ ” If there is any burning of the midnight oil around CIO headquarters and the National Labor Relations Board in coming weeks, chances are those within will be brushing up on popular proverbs. To wit: “Experience is the best teacher” and “mighty oaks from little acorns grow.” The cause of the whole thing is an election just held among waiters and other employees of the National Press Club on the question of whether the CIO should represent them as sole bargaining agent. It was a routine Labor Board election, with about 50 employees involved, but it has planted an acorn from which a mighty legislative oak may grow. The Press Club is an organization exclusively for newspapers and selected associate members. The associate membership includes a large percentage of Congressmen, and although the Congressmen passed the National Labor Relations Act and the newspapers write almost daily stories about it, the recent election was their first personal experience with the law and its operations. And that experience proved a bitter teacher. Briefly the experience revealed that although CIO organizers were permitted to electioneer on the sidelines, and even coerce the wives of employees, members of the Club (the employers) were forbidden by the labor act and the Labor Board to even answer questions about the election when asked by the confused workers. That would have been “coercion”! So the newspapermen in Washington, to whom the Labor Board looks for help in forming public opinion in support of the Board, have a new and intimate insight into the problem that has beset employers for more than three years. The Capital’s “liberals” are beginning to think that it was an ill-ad-vised election, which incidentally, resulted In a rejection of the CIO in favor of Individual bargaining.

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JESSE E. SHOCK, 82, KILLS SELF TUESDAY EVENING DESPONDENT OVER FINANCIAL AFFAIRS TAKES OWN LIFE Jesse E. Shock aged 62, committed suicide Tuesday afternoon at about 4:00 o’clock, by shooting the top of his head off with a shot gun. The tragedy occurred in the back lot at his home in the Gibson cottage at Kale Island. Shock it appears, had been more or less despondent for the past seveaalr weeks owing to having no work and having some financial difficulties. These conditions probably worked on his mind until in shear desperation he committed the rash act. A near-by neighbor in relating what he saw of the tragedy said: “He (Shock) came qut of the house backway and walking a short distance toward the back of the lot, either leaned over or knelt in such a position as to place the gun against his forehead and discharge it. I thought he was hunting fish worms until I heard the shot and see him laying dead on the ground.” Dr. Clark, who was hurriedly summoned, accompanied by Max Gomoll and Roy Evenoff, hurried to the scene of the tragedy but found that death had been instant, the load from the gun having entered the head above the nose and tore the upper half of the head off. County Coroner Laird of North Webster, was called and a post mortum held. Jesse E. Shock, was born November 4, 1876, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Shock. Surviving are his step-mother, Mrs. Alice Shock; two sons, Glenn, 4 of Elkhart and Marvin of Syracuse, two brothers, Eli and Ezra, of Syracuse; and two sisters, Mrs. Anna Mock, of Cromwell and Mrs. Zorah Gipe of Columbia City. Private funeral services were hela Thursday at the O. G. Carr funeral home, Rev. Rarick officiating. Burial was made in the Union cemetery.

Boy Scout Finance Round-Up Preparations are being made for the annual Boy Scout finance roundup. It will be conducted in communities of Elkhart, Kosciusko, and LaGrange counties that are not affiliated with community chests. Recent meetings of district executive committees named Fred Priser of Goshen, A. I. Nelson of Warsaw and Mentone, and Roy Jones of Elkhart as chairmen in their respective districts. These district chairmen are now in the process of nominating roundup chairmen for the various communities. Court Slabaugh of Syracuse and W. A. Shoemaker of Wakarusa are the first community chairmen to be appointed. Efforts will be made to supplement the funds now made available by the community chests of Elkhart, Goshen, and Warsaw. In recent years the wide spread of the scout movement into smaller communities has necessitated J an increase of employed leadership, traveling, leadership training, and supervision. The roundups are an effort to share the expense on a per capita basis by all communities. The local roundup chairman is Court Slabaugh. At a conference following the annual supper meeting of Troop 28 on Monday night, they announced their intention to start to work on Monday, October 17. They have completed their preliminary work and are waiting for the “starting gun.” Charles Kroh is the roundup secretary and Rev. J. S. Pritchard is scoutmaster. Rev. Travis Purdy, Vernon Beckman, Paul E. Cook, O. G. Carr, Eugene Fidler, N. G. Skidgel, and F. W. Greene are members of the combined committee of cubs and scouts. Miss Dorothy Irwin left Saturday for Indianapolis where she will be the guest of Mrs. Zaring for tae rest of the winter.