Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 1, Number 46, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 21 October 1938 — Page 1

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TAKES PDISDN IN ATTEMPT TD KILL SELF MRS. CLARA JARRETT SWALLOWSCAPSULES CONTAINING POISON POTION Mrs. Clara Jarrett, 64 years of age, attempted to suicide last Friday at the noon hpur, when she took a quantity of bed-bug poison. She had prepared the poison in 2-grain capsules and took two of them. Mrs. Herbert Shull, a neighbor woman living across the street, called at the Jarrett home and found the woman in an unconscious condition. Medical aid was summoned and the cause of her condition was found to be self-administered poison. Quickly her stomach was pumped and the poison removed. At last reports she was recovering from the ill-effects of the poison. Her daughter, Mrs. Bertha Trowbridge who resides with her was away at the time the mother took the poison, but was summoned to her bedside. She and Mrs. Shull are caring for her. JACOB HAMMON Jacob Hammon 82 years of age, died Saturday morning at the home of Mrs. Claire Smith, at Cromwell, of a heart attack. The deceased was born in Turkey Creek township southeast of Syracuse, where he spent practically all his life. He was a member of the Indian Village Brethren church. . Surviving are one son, George Hammon, of Plymouth; two brothers, Jerry, of Syracuse; and Midge Hammon, of Wisconsin, seven grand and seven great-grand children. Fuiieiai sei vices were held Monday at 2:30 p. m. in Webster, the Rev Emerald Jones, officiating. The body was laid to rest in the McClintic cemetery. MAKES HOOKED RUG 12x14 WEIGHING 250 POUNDS FROM OLD CLOTHING A gorgeous, multi-colored, inch thick, 12 by 14 hand-hooked rug. which contains the woolen material of everying from felt off the top of a billiard table to army breeches, is the newest creation of Mrs. Clarence Brubaker of 323 North Third street; Goshen. A few years ago she made an Bxll hooked rug for which she was offered S3OO by a local furniture store but it can’t compare with the rug she recently completed. “I wouldn’t sell it at any price,” Mrs. Brubaker declared. It took Mrs. Brugaker 14 and one-half months to complete her task during which time she wore out one of the hand-made hooks she used. The hook was fashioned from a 10-penny spike. The rug weighs approximately 250 pounds, contains 672 six-inch squares each of which is outlined in blue’ 3,968 separate pieces, which are also edged in blue, and consists of 28 rows of 24 of the six-inch blocks. Mrs.’ IJrubaker stated that it took £er about two hours tq hook each of the 672 blocky or 173 working days qf eight hoqrs, no| to mention thg additional time it took her to yip up all the materials used, wash them, and then cut the doth in strips ready for the hook. Articles of clothing and other materials used in the making of the rug Include 30 pairs of men’s trousers, eight women’s winter and Spring- coats, eight full blankets, tout men's overcodts, six women’s heavy wbojen dresses, a sweater, a * pape, 12 men’s suit coats, a woman’s suit, a bath robe, two pairs pf army breeches* and many pounds pf scraps of miscellaneous goods. AU the rug cost Mrs, Brubaker in dollars and cents was $6.50 for the purchase of dye and the burlap which serves as a base for the carpet. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Seiders are driving a new 1939 Plymouth.

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ELKHART —The American Coating Mills at Elkhart will build an addition to office quarters, costing $20,000. ELKHART—Mrs. Nellie F. Smith of Elkhart, Ind., will serve on the mission board executive committee of the Evangelical church. She was elected at the thirty-seond quadrennial convention held at Johnstow’n, Pa., last week. GOSHEN—Payment of a 4 per cent dividend to depositors of the State Bank of Goshen will be made by Receivei Oswald P. Martin, beginning on ‘Thursday, Oct. 20. Judge Aldo J. Simpson has approved a petition filed by Receiver Martin, asking for authority to pay the seventh dividend which amounts to approximately $20,000. BRISTOL- —Arrested for passing a Washington township school bus, which had stopped to let off children a mile west of Bristol on the Elkhart-Bristol pavement, Sam Dauson, 32, of Detroit a colored chauffeur last Thursday afternoon, entered plea of guilty to charges of passing a school bus and reckless driving and was assessed sll on each charge. NAPPANEE —The body of Chas. Skirvin, 61, a transient who oft visited Nappanee was found dead at an early hour in the storage room back of Nappanee town hall by Guy Hall, night engineer of the utilities company. The coroner was called, who pronounced deaths due to cerebral hemorrhage. Through papers on the man’s person a sister was loated in Detroit who gave orders that the body be sent to and buried in Oak Lawn cemetery, at Sturgis. Syracuse Wontan Is Jailed For Drunkedness Sunday Morning Helen Hannon, 25, driving a botrowed car, was arrested early Sunday morning by state police, after she had run into a parked cai- on South Huntington street. She was taken to Warsaw where charges of drunkenness and driving a car while intoxicated, were filed and the woman placed in the county jail. Bonds for her release were fixed at $250. WARM WEATHER SLOWS HOOSIER DUCK HUNTERS Warm weather prevailing in Canada has delayed the southward mi. gration of ducks and other migratory waterfowl with the result that hunters out for the opening of the duck season last Saturday enjoyed little success. While a number of ducks, geese and other waterfowl of the, migratory species were found on Indiana lakes and streams by opening day hunters, a majority of these birds were native, offspring of ducks and geese which spent the winter here instead of returning north into Canada. Experienced hunters are watching the weather reports in Canada, hoping that the temperatures will drop and result in the ducks and geese starting their flights. As long as the present weather conditions prevail in the Canadian nesting grounds they claim, fpw of the birds will leave that area. D. A. Forrest Confined tn Home With Affliction of Eye D. A. Forrest is confined to his home on South Lake street with an affliction of the left eye. At the present time the eye is much improved and it is hoped that his sight will soon be completely recovered. 1 ' l e NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS Monday, Noy. 7, 1938, is the last date of paying the fajl installment of taxes. Taxes may be paid at the State Bank of Syracuse or treasurer’s office at Warsaw. It is suggested the people paying taxes do it early as the last day rush causes many inconveniences to both payer and the paying office.

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ORVILL H. SAGE BUYS OHIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPER The Journal has received a copy of The News, a weekly published at Clarksville, Ohio, recently purchased by O. H. Sage, formerly of this city. The paper is neat looking and well gotten up as tp its newsmatter and advertising. The people of Clarksville are fortunate in having a man like Mr. Sage at the head of its newspaper, as he is a thorough printer, understands the mechanical end from “a to issard” and is also a competent newspaper man, amply able to give to that thriving little city a live, up-to-the-minute newsy newspaper. Mr. Sage has the best wishes of the Journal for his new venture. CONSERVATION CLUBS PLANT 16,000 QUAIL Conservation clubs cooperating with the Division of Fish and Game in Its game bird propagation program, have reared in club brooders and liberated 16,456 quail this year. The cooperating clubs were furnished day-old quail chicks by the Division of Fish and Game as a part of experiments' conducted this year in the ability of the clubs to operate brooders and release a larger number of birds when furnished chicks instead of eggs. Clubs jvhich received pheasant chicks reared anc liberated more than ten thousand of these popular game birds. The 16,456 quail liberated by the clubs which operated brooders, will furnish additional field sport for Hoosier hunters during the birdhunting season -which bpgins qn Nov. 10. These quai| are ip addition tq the thousands propagated at the state game farms and the other housands liberated by clubs which received eggs for hatching from the Division of Fish and Game. Installs New Typesetting Machine Charles R. Lamoree, publisher of the Silver Lake Record, has installed a Linograph type-setting machine and from nqw dtf |he "neivs matter’ of hjs progressive weekly will be machine spt type, W® are particularly glad Charley has improved his plant by this addition as he and Mrs. Lamoree have worked hard to give tp Silver lake a r®ftl newspaper and the new machine will make their work much less ardous and greatly improve the paper’s already fine appearance. Miss Phyllis Mock and Miss Marie Howard of Elkhart, attended the Rodeo on Wednesday in Chicago, Illinois. . - -

[SWW Why is it so difficult that the driver, the very person who should be reached first and in whom an appeal for safe driving should find a ready ear, is the hardest person to reach? Why is it that everybody believes in safety and everybody is for it. but everyone feels that the program is for the other fellow? We all feel that we are perfect drivers. We can always find fault with the other person. It is easy for us to detect the awful mistakes that some other people make in driving. The next time we feel that way, let’s stop and think and take inventory of our own driving. Safety is everybody’s business. RICHARD DIX DRAWS POWER. FUL ROLE IN “SKY GIANT’’ Noted for his powerful dramatic portrayals, Richard Dix has one of the most gripping roles of his career in “Sky Giant,” his new vehicle for RKO Radio. As a transport pilot assigned to manage a big aviation school, and later to command mapping a flight across the Arctic wastes on a projected air route to Europe, Dix has unusual opportunities for a memorable characterization. Chester Morris and Joan Fontaine are co starred with ‘ Harry Carey and Paul Guiloylp iq the principal supporting roles ; Lew Landers directed thp production by Robert Sisk, At the Jefferson theatre, Goshen, Wednesday and Thursday, October 25-26. RECOVERING FROM PLURAL PNEUMONIA Mrs. Cleo Mench who has been in a precarious condition with plural pneumonia in the home of Mr. am: Mrs. doun Mench, is much improved. Hqr Mrs. Dean Golden, a trained nurse from Cleveland, Ohio, is taking eare of her, THERE MUST BK A DEADLINE It Is necessary that the Journal have a deadline for all copy. All advertising and legals must be in not later than Tuesday of each week. News items must be in by not later than Thursday by 10:30. AU items of advertising, legals and news coming in after said time will be held over for the following week.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1986

INDIANA CORN CROP SET AT 163,904,060 BUSHELS Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 21.—Indiana is expected to produce 163,904.000 bushels of corn for the 193 S crop or an average of 40.5 bushels per acre, M. M. Justin, Purdue University statistician in cooperation with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. announced in reporting Hoosier crop conditions as of Oct. 1. The 1938 Hoosier corn production is only 77 per cent of last year's crop, but is 114 per cent of the average for 1927-36. Justin stated the yield is 10 per cent lower than last year. Old corn on Indiana farms was estimated at 25,834,000 bushels or nearly three times the usual amount for Oct. 1. The 1938 oats crop amounted to 36,634,000 bushels, 28,208,000 bushels of which vrere still on Indiana farms on Oct. 1, and the average yield was 26 bushels per acre, about a bushel lower than the 10 year average, Potatoes, with a production of 4,845,000 bushels which is 90 per cent of last year were reported less promising than last month at 95 bushels per acre, which is five bushels lower. Soybeans were expected to produce 6,462,000 bushels of beans, 180,000 bushels more than indicated last month. Although pasture condition dropped during September because of aging grass and drier weather, it was still 14 points above average. The bay. c.r.up regche'd maturity with yields markedly above average, according to Justin. The alfalfa yield was placed at 1.85 tons per aere. while all tame hay was computed at 1.41 tons per acre, which is higher than last month. Production of hay at 3,098,000 tons is 50 per cent above the ten year average. > Egg production was considered seasonably high and milk production reflected good pasture condition. The hired labor supply was larger than last year, while the demand was less, RAY M. TERRY Ray M. Terry, 66 years of age, died at his home three miles south of Orland, last Thursday. The deceased had been in ill health for the past year. Surviving >re the widow; one son, Ralph Hv•ng at home; one daughter, Mrs. Edward Partridge, of Akron, O.« one brother, Fred, of Nevada Mills and one sister Mrs. Perry Sprague, of this city. ' Funeral services were held at the home Saturday forenoon at IQ:Oft o’clock. The body was laid to rest in the Jamestown cemetery.

Washington Snapshots By JAMES PRESTON The government, being in tne printing and publishing business, too, has just surveyed its bookshelf to determine its “best seller.” What the count revealed brought expressions of surprise to the faces of some government "brain busters.” Instead of finding that the reading public is clamoring for a new education from theorist authors on planned economy and such, they found a simply written little book about American industries leading the field. The expressions of pained surprise were caused by the fact that the book praises rather than condemns the American business man. We quote one paragraph from the book: “Alexander the Great, so it has been recorded, wept when he found there were no more worlds to conquer. But modern man knows no such limitations. The attitude today is that there is no limit to the worlds which remain to be conquered. So, a salute to our men of science, to our inventors, and to our for, Under their lea - ership the dreams of today will continue lo become the realities of tomorrow." Entitled “Stories of American Industries,” the 10-cent book is selling at the rate of 1,000 copies a day at the Government Printing Office in Washington. That is a best seller in the eyes of any publisher or author. The war scare is over, so the several thousiind Americans abroad don’t have to rush home. But here are some interesting figures: In August, 1914, the government loaned boat fare to 13,597 Americans who couldn't afford escape transportation. To date, 6,006 of them haven’t paid Uncle Sam back and he is out $296,837. Streamlining in agriculture can have some very different meanings, it seems. For instance, when the farmer is to be “streamlined” the process is one of reducing his output by plowing under every other row or killing off some of the porkers. When it is the Department of AgricultuxT itself that is to be "streamlined,” the process is one of expansion .by adding more bureaus and divisions- —-their output, in turn, to be more directions to the farmer. That was the case in Washington when it was decided to try something else in the search for a made-to-order granary. Thus, two announcements went out from Washington almiost simultaneously. One affected the farmer. The other affected the Department of Agriculture. The farmer was informed that 50 government experts had gathered tn Washington to draft additional crop control measures. This time, it was announced, they are going to do something to cut down commercial vegetable production. As for streamlining th§ Department of Agriculture, any ideas for plowing under every other expert were forgotten, and instead the announcement said more vrould be added; new agencies created apd more plans planned. New taxes will have to be levied, probably, to pay for'it all. Outside of Washington little attention apparently was given ta the announcement that 81,00 ft more names have been added <0 the permanent payroll of the Federal Government, In less time than it takes to tell if, that many persons on temporary payrolls (WPA, PWA. National Emergency Council, etC-L were “blanketed” into the dpi Service fold last week by executive order. , Among veteran government workers who obtained their positions through competitive examtoation. the whole business is a bitter pill. They are irritated because these 81,000 have become permanent fixtures through no more qualification than political influence. They are madder, though, over the fact that the pay for these 81,00 ft political appointees is generally higher than the civil service pay. Last year, the Administration chose one of the nation’s leading (Continued on Page 2)

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SANTO DOMINGO MERCHANT PAYS IISiIHEBE EXPORT MERCHANT GUEST OF MR. AND MRS. E. BUSHONG OVER WEEK END V, Mr. Andres Lajam finds himself a guest in this city the guest of his friends, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bushong. Mr. Lajam lives across the street from Mr. Carlos Weyer, father of Mrs, Bushong and has known her family since she was a young child in Sarto Domingo. Mr. Lajam is an important exporter from San Francisco de Macoris Santo Domingo. He has been in the exporting business since 1908, exporting cocoa bean, coffee, hides and beeswax. He also conducts a branch of the Royal Bank of Canada. A man of great prominence to his country he has held very important positions with the governing of his native city such as Mayor and Provincial Governor. He has traveled all over Europe and exports to many European countries. Mr. Lajam thinks the United States is the greatest country in the world and alhough he has visited It several times, this is his first visit to this section of the country. Besides visiting Mrs. Bushong, his greatest desire was to see Chicago and Mrs. Bushong accompanied him to that city, where they made a thorough sight-seeing trip, and Mrs. Bushong explained and translated everything into Spanish. Among the many interesting places visited in Chicago was tbe Field Museum. Although he has visited many museums in Europe, he says the Field Museum is the greatest. Mr. Lajam expressed his desire to return to this section of the country next year. He leaves soon for his native island, wishing our country continued progress and prosperity. HAROLD SWENSON, LOIS K. * JOHNSON MARRIED AT IXDIANAPOIJS A pretty fall wedding took place at 2:30 o’clock Saturday in Indianapolis in the Centenary Christian church when Miss Lois Kathern Johnson of Cleveland, 0., became the bride of Harold O. Swenson ot Syracuse. The bride is the daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Howard R. Johnson ot Cleveland. The bridegroom is the> son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Swenson of Syracuse. The ceremony was. read by thft Rev. Harry T. Bridewell, pastor ot the church, assisted by Rev. J. W. Gibson of the North Webster M. E. church.. Ferns and white and rust chrysanthemums and white tapers formed the decorations for the church. Miss Pauline Tobin, organist, played and Miss Rita Johnson, cousin ot the bride, sang “Because” aad “Av Dawning.” Miss Roberta Johnson of Cleveland, was the maid of honor. She wore a Mediterranean blue taffeta dress made with puff sleeves and a toas, s ktrt - she wore bow ot matched velvet ribbon in her hairShe carried a shower of chrysanthemums in the fall shade. The bride entered with her fatherand wore a dress of ivory bridal satin fashioned QU princess lines* the skirt falling into a short trainShe wore a tong veil caught at the 'fieaci 'wtth orange blossoms. Her flowers were Joanna Hill roses ana lillles of the valley. Maurice Kohr, Syracuse, was best man and the ushers %ere Dwight Swenson of Syracuse, cousin of the bridegroom and Emil SteinA recep’tion was held in the church following the ceremony, After a wedding trip east the happy couple will be at home in Syracuse. RARE BIRDS New York —An extensive aviary enclosing a great variety of tropical birds, vivid of plumage and many of them rare to northern eyes* is to be a distinctive feature of the Brazilian exhibit at the New York. World’s Fair 1939.