Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 44, Number 18, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 18 February 1949 — Page 1

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VOLUME 44

Red Cross Drive Next On Program Chester Jontx, of Etna Green, chairman of the planning committee for the annual county Red Cross drive, announced Thursday that the Hat of Red Cross workers In the various districts In the county is now complete. M. F. Jones has been named to head the drive in Turkey Creek township. Ira Nine will have charge of Tippecanoe township. and John Augsberger will head the Vanßuren township . drive. On the morning of pFebj. 28. the national Red Cross fund campaign will be launched with a talk by Gen. Dwight Eisenhower from the Medina Temple In Chicago. Miss Helen Hayes, stage star, and a east of supporting actors will be featured tn a specially written tone poem and - James Stewart, movie star, will' nerve as master of ceremonies ! Wayne King’s orchestra will < play. In Washington; Basil O’Connor. president of the American | Red Cross, will introduce Presl-I i dent Truman for his annual cam- ; 1 paign “kick-off" message. Both | 1 programs will be aired. i 1 _ I 1 BOY BCM><TS HOI D - < s RALLY AT SEMINARY i About 25 Boy Scouts from Elk- < hart. Pierceton and Syracuse! « were guests at Our Ijtdy of the 1 Lake Seminary, on Sunday after-j I noon. F»b 13. Two of their number. George Kieffer and William J Beater, both of the Senior Scouts. I Post 50 of Elkhartt received; badges in recognition of their] « newly acquired rank of Explorer i Woodsman 1 Before the presentation, the t guests together with their hosts. $ Troop 47 and Sea Ship 57. of the a Seminary, nearly a hundred ini t all. heard a short e/hortation by » the Area Chaplain. Father Con-1 tant. who is also curate at St ■ ’ Vincent's Parish. Elkhart. Father <! Smerke. Master of the Seminary ( Scouts then gave Benediction of 1 the Biassed Sacrament. 1 Ceremonies over, the- seminar- 1 inns presented an hour’s pro- « gram. The Barbershop Octet con- c slating of J. Mattingly. J. Mur- < ray. P. Rampe. R. CHemacher. D. t Vernon. D. Isenbarger. C. Ben- ! nett, and J. Clauss sang “Kentucky Babe" and “Dem Bones." ■ The senior class presented a ra- i dlo skit, an episode from the I “Lite of Riley." L Heeg imper- i sonated Riley: J Schuitx took 1 the leading lady’s role; while H. i Britton acted the incorrigible Junior’s part: R. Jaeger filled la 1 as Gillis, while A. Schmitt pre- 1 tended to be Mrs Jessup. The ’ other filled out as announcers. 1 commercial pluggenu racket ma- < kern. etc. i After a short tour of the sem- < I nary. all joined in the buffet lunch prepared for all the scouts I , and officials. Among the Scout executives were Mr. and Mrs. Geiger. Mr. i ECkols and Mr. Huth, all of Elk-| < hart. i i • I 4 PYTHIAN SISTERS MEET ' Loyal Temple of the Pythian ' Sisters met Wednesday even- ] ing. Feb 11. Temple was opened by Mrs Ella Unrue. M.E.C. The| presentation was made by Manager Agnes Causer, the honored: guests were G. C. Alma Myers' and D.D.G.C. Iva Carpenter, of] Warsaw. Each guest received a lovely corsage, also Ella Unrue. j Mrs Causer then sang a lovely Irish song. “Galway Bay" accompanied by Ruth LeCount on the piano. Inspection followed with Initiation. Congratulations to the ofttaon and the degree staff and its captains for work well done. Delirious refreshments were served In keeping with Uncoin’s birthday. Six guests were present from Warsaw. A grand time was had by all. DEATH OF C. B. STI VER . C._ B. Stiver. TT. well-known Goshen business man for nearly half g century, died at a.m. Saturday at his home la Goshen, where he suffered a heart attack five weeks ago. He was a summer resident at Whwasee Lake. Mrs. D E- Littler and son. John, were called to Amboy. Ind.. Saturday by the serious illness of her father. Andrew Shroek. who la now a patient in an Indiana poll, hospital. Rev. Mr. Littler weal to Amboy Monday morning. Sandra and AJmasue Littler are ataying wtth Mr. and Mrs. W. 1. Geiger. Era Flossie Penney, of Wakanua, Is a gweet jrf Mra Estelle Swarts.

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ANNUAL DRIVE FOR BOY SCOUT FUNDS STARTED At the Monday night meeting of the Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary Club, the annual drive for funds for the Boy Scouts was started. The Rotary club is sponsor for the Scouts in Syracuse. Letters are being mailed to hundreds df local residents and members of Rotary will also call upon manylocal people. The money from this drive goee to help support the Boy Scout camp at Indian Village and other Scout area activities. The Pioneer Trails Council of the Boy Scouts of America announces with grateful thanks the contributions received thus far in their drive for funds. The council is the administrative service organisation to supervise and promote scouting for Elkhart. Lagrange and Kosciusko counties. Besides using the funds for necessary scout administrative needs, it is also used for field work, sueh as maintaining and improving the fine scout camp at Indian Village. A list of donors to date follows: Milo Geyer. Robert Laird. W. C. Gants. Ralph Knisley. Lillian Hamman. Syracuse Overhead Door Co.. Lewis Immei. Nita Kline. C. J. Kline. A. H. Blanchard. Lee Poyser. Emory Kindig. Fred Searfoss. Dr. K. W. Stoelttng. Harold Bassett. Jack Stoeltirig. Vernop Newcomer. Syracuse Electric Co.. Stucky Furniture Co.. Syracuse Hardware. Mel Smith. Fred Armbruster. Pell Clayton. C. C. Mulholland. Ever- 1 et Miner. James Wilson. May 1 Kindig. Court Slabaugh. Thorn- ’ burg Drug Co.. F. Slusser. MRS. FRANK HENWOOD DIES solTlf <>F TOWN ] A heart attack caused the unexpected death of Mrs. Frank Henwood, aged 79. of near North Webster, which occurred at 9 p. ' m. Saturday at her farm home. 1 She had sufefred from a heart ailment but was apparently bet- ' ter and on Friday evening had 1 visited away from home. > * Before her marriage. Mrs. Hen- 1 wood was Miss Emma Rosbrugh. ' daughter of Benaiah and Susan ' (Kimes) Rosbrugh. She was born tn Plain township. March 13. 4 1849. She was married March’ t 13, 1907. to Mr. Hen wood, who 1 died In 1945. She was a member of the North Webater Methodist church and was affiliated with the Pythian Sisters’ lodge at ' North Webstar, Surviving relatives include one 1 son. Harvey, with whom she resided: a daughter. Mrs. Lucille 1 Hay wort ip of Phoenix. Aris., for- ' meriy a teacher in the North 1 Webster and Syracuse schools; 1 and four grandchiidea. ' Funeral services were held at ’ 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Paul M Bilby funeral home, with Rev. J. 1 W Rhine, pastor of the North Webster Methodist church, officiating. Burial was at Leesburg, where a graveride service was Conducted by the Pythian Sisters. SY RACUSK. INKF’EATS " CROMWELL. TO TO 43 ' Some kind of a high school record was probably set last Friday night as 37 personal fouls were called against the Cromwell eagers tn their 70 to 43 loss to the Syracuse Yellowjackets Syracuse was charged with 22 fouls, making a total of 59 in the game. The Yellow jackets made 24 free throw*. Charles Dietrick. Lowell Barnhart and Gareth Meek all scored well for the Yellowjackets. Dietrick collected 21 points, while Barnhart had 19 and Meek 14. Lawson tallied 13 points for Cromwell. Five Cromwell players left the game with five personal fouls. In an overtime game. Cromwell’s second team defeated the Syracuse reserves, 38 to 34. Officials were LeMaster and Hein, both of Fort Wayne Syracuse will play Ligonier here Friday night in the last game of the season. Mr. and Mrs. Truman Ball, of Elkhart, spent Sunday wtth Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Snyder. Mra Lucile Weaver was a caller at the home of. Christ Darr. Saturday evening. Miss Donna Durr, a student at the Memorial hospital at South Bend, spent from Friday evening until Saturday evening with her parents. Mr. and Mra Earl IMrr. A son. Phillip Lee. was born to Mr. and Mra Eli Fry. ®f route 1. Thursday morning at the Goshen hospital. j— Mr. and McClintic • and family. in Mil- ■ ford, guests of Mr. And Mra Glen ‘ Pinkerton. k Mr. and Mira Leo Charters and ! family, spent Sunday in Gary . with Mra Charter’s brother and anat. - Fred Hoopingarner spent Mon- » day and Tuesday In Detroit. Mich.

ON WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY By COLLIER - I JOHN Q. TAXPAYER.—It waa George Washington who said Chat one method of preserving the public cremt is “to See it as sparingly «a.

Wednesday Afternoon Club Eighteen members of the Wednesday Afternoon Club were entertained in the home of Mrs. Olin Lougheed. Feb. 16th. Mrs. E. L. Fosbrink conducted a short business sest lon, during which contributions were made to the Heart Fund, the Pioneer Trails. Boy Scout Unit and the Musical Pennies. "Home on the Range” was the theme of the program, ably presented by Mra Dorothy Harris, with the audience seated in Mrs. Lougheed’s attractive modern kitchen. Mrs. Harris demonstrated the art of serving attractive and tasty souffle and rolls, and compared the right and wrong methods of vegetable cookery. The guests then enjoyed the products during a social hour. The next meeting will be at the home of Mr*. James Stucky. Stanley Reed. U.S. Navy, stationed at San Diego. Calif., who was called here two weeks ago by the death of his mother. Mrs. Earl Baker, left here last Friday for Chanute Field. Rantoul. 111., intending to fly to California. However because of weather conditions he was not able to leave Chunute Field and was given a ten-days extension of his leave. He returned to Syracuse Tuesday to spend a few more days.

' Syracuse School News

Who’s Who There seems to be one senior -boy who can't get along with his drum, for he has been playing it for six years. This boy is none other than Raymond Gene Kitson. 1 will give some further information about this senior. He was born in Syracuse. Feb. 18. 1981. His favorite sport is track of which he has participated in 4 r-years. Gene also has been a member of the softball team. 3 years, basketball 4 years and chorus 4 years. - In case anyone is interested he prefers mashed potatoes, sauerkraut and weiners as his favorite foods. His favorite subjects are typing and el vics, and blue as his color. Fbr his top tune he prefers ••Embraceable You.** Gene’s pet peeve is lipstick on drinking fountains. His weakness is mystery radio programs. He is editor-in-chief of the school news and literary editor for the year book. His plans after graduation are indefinite. Good luck. Gene. Sesdor News anyone found out why Mr. Longenbaugh changed so many seats in Civic class’ Perhaps it vu because the boys couldn t keep their hands to themselves. The movie “Instruments of the Orchestra” featuring the London i Symphony Orchestra was shown ; last Thursday. It showed the va- ' rious instruments and how they contributed to the music of the ► orchestra as a whole. Chapel services were held Frii day afternoon with Rev. C. M. Fawns delivering the address. : Three seniors. Connie Wein- - gart. Brent Bushong and Charles i| Dietrick took the state scholarship examinations last Tuesday. i Six seniors wiU be playing F their last basketball game on the 1 Syracuse floor Friday night. They are Brent Bushong. Charles Die- - trick. Gerald Bitner. Gene Kitt. son. Roger Fry and Robert Hoover.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1949

BIRTHDAY

ROUND TABLE CLUB The Ladies of the Round Ta- ( ble met Monday evening at the , home of Mrs. Ruth Meredith for , a Valentine party. ( The usual contribution was , made to the penny music fund. A clever jig-saw heart contest , was enjoyed, fololwed by several ] games of “hearts.” High scorers receiving prises were Mrs. Sue j Self. Mrs. Prim Dunn and Mra , Sarah Rex. ( A lovely luncheon was served , at the five tables by the commit- . tee. Mra Olive Miller. Mra Mar- , guerite Elkins. Mrs. Katherine Myers, and the hostess. < A most enjoyable evening was . reported by the twenty-one members present. 4 STUDENT (NH XSEIAIR AT I.U. , Bloomington. Ind., — Mildred ] Bushong, of Syracuse was among j j assisted the Junior Division in the orientation of new enrollees at Indiana University for the second semester. Miss Bushong, a freshman, served as a group leader during ’ orientation week and assisted in explaining the University’s his-' 1 tory, campus traditions, and rules * aH»d regulations to the new en-i 1 rollees. The student counselors] 1 were selected on the basis of 1 their work in the leadership 4 training programs of the Y.M.C. 1 A. and Y.W.C.A. at Indiana. <

The first team, Mr. Sink. Mr. ’ Barnhart. Mr. StabaUgh. and .Mr. 1 Jones attended the annual bas- ■ ket-ball fish fry at the Burket ' high school Monday. All sixteen teams that* will compete in the > sectional at Warsaw were pres- i ent. Some of the boys had more 1 than a second, helping to those i delicious fish put out by the Akron Jonah club. Sale of Sectional Basketball Tickets Syracuse will receive only about 140 tickets for the Sectional Tourney at next week. The price will be >2.40 for a season ticket and 60c for single sessions At most of the sessions very few season tickets will be sold, as It is expected that the house will be sold out with season tickets. Pupils and teachers with season tickets may buy Tourney tickets Friday. Feb. 18. Tickets will be on sale in the front corridor Friday night before the basketball game. Adults will show their season ticket to buy a Tourney Ticket. After Friday night, any Syracuse fan can buy a Tourney ticket if any are left, and as long as they last. No season tickets will be sold at Syracuse after noon. Wednesday, as all tickets not sold at that time must be returned to Warsaw. The Tourney this year will revert back to the single one-site tourney. There will be seven seesimas. Wednesday night; Thursday night; Friday forenoon, afternoon and evening; Saturday afternoon and evening. It will not be wise to bet much : on this tourney, as any one of i eight different teams has a good r chance to win. There will be no school in Kos- - ciusko county on Friday, all - schools are dismissing for the Tourney.

WEDDINGS CRIPE—TREADW AY _ The Syracuse Methodist church was the scene of a pretty wedding Saturday afternoon, when Miss Patricia Joan Treadway, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Treadway, and Clifford Dale Cripe, son of Mr. and Mra Bert Cripe, all of Syracuse and vicinity. were united in marriage. White flowers were arranged with the bank of palms at the altar, lighted with burning tapers install candelabra, as the double ring marriage service was read by the pastor. Rev. Claude Fawns Mrs. John Bryan, of Ligonier, vocalist. and Mrs. Hilary Bachman. Syracuse, organist, presented a half-hour musicale preceding the ceremony. Robert Whiteman, .of South Bend: Russell Bertram. Jr., of Cromwell; and Gareth Meek, of Syracuse, seated the guests. A classically styled white satin gown, fashioned with net yoke, full length sleeves and long train, was worn by the bride, escorted down the carpeted aisle by her father. Her finger tip veil, of lace, was caught to a tiara of seed pearls. She carried a bridal bouquet of white carnations. Miss Dorothy Causer, maid of honor, was attired in yellow taffeta. She carried maroon carnations. Miss Nancy Treadway, sis- 4 ter of the bride carried yellow carnations with her blue’taffeta ( gown. Sharon Treadway small sister of the bride, the flower j girl, in pink taffeta, carried a colonial bouquet of red and white t snapdragons. Robert Treadway, brother of , the Mr. Cripe as t best man. » Mrs. Treadway, mother of the bride, was wearing a tan dress a with white accessories and Mrs. Cripe, mother of the bridegroom, wore yellow accessories with her aqua dress. White carnations « were used in their corsages. Following the ceremony a reception for 150 guests wasT held at the Hex Grange hall. j Mr. and Mrs. Cripe are at home on the Eyer farm, east of Syracuse. The latter a graduate of the Syracuse high school, and the ’ Business college, at South Bend, has been employed in the offices of the Bendix corporation there. STEPHENSON—MARCH ( The marriage of Sally Ann March, daughter of Mr. Albert Thomas March and the late { Mrs. March, of Western Springs. 1 111., to Edward Edgerley Steph- ( enson. Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Stephenson, of Syracuse. { was solemnised Saturday evening t Feb. 12. in All Saints Episcopal church. Western Springs, with , Father C. El Bigler officiating. , Mrs. Donald P. Fondriat. Jr. ( of Savannah. Ga.. sister of the ( bride was matron of honor and ( Robert H. Stephenson, of Attica, uncle of the bridegroom was best . man. The Misses Kay and Jane j Stephenson, sisters of the grooffi, were bridemaids, and James Custer. of West Lafayette. Ind., and , Edwin Fondriat. of LaGrange 111.. ( ushered. < The bride’s gown of ivory sat- ( in was fashioned with long sleeves, a yoke of illusion net. , embroidered with seed pearls and | a sweeping train. Her finger-tip] veil of illusion net fell from a tiara of seed pearls. She carried] , a shower bouquet of white roses: and stephanotis. and an heirloom; handkerchief of Honiton laee] which originally was carried by the groom’s grandmother, Mrs., V. w. Kirkpatrick, and has been; carried by three generations of brides of Mra Stephenson’s family. The matron of honor and; bridesmaids wore identical gowns] of peacock blue taffeta and car-, cied shower bouquets of pink] camellias. Mrs. Stephenson wore a po*-' der blue dinner gown with a shoulder corsage of diminutive, garnet roses, and Mra Herman! March, of Madison. Wise., aunt of the bride, wore a powder blue] lace dress with a corsage of gar-] dentas. After the wedding, a reception j was held at the bride’s home. The former Miss March was; graduated from Lyons Township; high school and attended Brenanj college. Gainsville. Ga.’ Mr. Stephenson was a graduate! of Shortridge high school of Ib-i dianapnM* and received his de-| gree in Chemical Engineering I from Purdue University on Feb.] 4th. He served io the army for three and one-half years. He has accepted a position with the Sorg Paper Co.. Middletown. 0., ) where after a wedding trip in the ■ South the young couple will I make their home. Mr. and Mra E. E. Stephenson - and daughters. Jane and Kay, l and Mr. and Mra J. H. MeCrea. » of Syracuse, attended the wedding ceremony.

LOCMNEWS Tuesday evening over WLS, the “Gay Nineties Revue” here was given a boost. The radio station has a half-hour program of news taken from weekly papers over this section and frequently uses items from the Syracuse Journal. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Novatnyi of Bensenville. 111., announce the birth of a son, Jeffery Lynn, born Feb. 13. The infant weighed 7 pounds and two ounces. Mrs. Novatny was the former Lois Dillen. of Syracuse. A card received from Guy Hayes, Citra, Fla., says the fishing there has been very good. Harry Culler and Guy caught eight nice bass one day; Nina and Herb King caught three bass weighing eight pounds each and one 10-ib. bass. Mr. and Mrs. Merrit Lung are there near them this week. Guy says the weather there is ideal—very warm. WAWA-KEECH NOTES Kale Island—C. H. King recently telephoned home from St. Petersburg. Fla., where he and Mrs. King are vacationing. They found that their grandson was recovered from his illness. Dick King and Harold Nicolai were in Elkhart Tuesday on business. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Evans, of Osceola, were recent guests of her sister. Mis. John Kunfeld. Kale Island Apts. The Frederick Barnes’ spent the week-end at their cottage. Rainey's Court — William Wolfe moved his family to Ligonier. where they have bought a home. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Gaspolin and baby have moved from Cedar Point into the Wolfe home. Mrs. Sam Houser. Mrs. Roy Wilkinson, and Mary and Catherine Beck attended the funeral of Sara Houser. Monday at Millersburg. ' Johnson's Bay—Leon M eNutt recently had an opening of an upholstery shop in his home. The Eugene Pike’s visited in ’South Bend, Sunday at the home of their son. Leonard and family. Donald Smith, of Fort Wayne, recently visited his father. Forest Smith. Forest Rosenogle has sold his cottage to the Slatterbacks of LiCedar Point—George Coy and family are moving from Doc Doswell’s farm to another home between Brimfield and Rome City. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Leonard, of Fort Wayne, visited their cottage over the week-end. John Van Aman and. wife Rita, had as week-end guests. Rita’s mother, Mrs. Norma Feather, of Cleveland. 0., also her sister and family. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Craig, of Canton. Ohio. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ell Fry. Wednesday morning. Galloway’s Point — Mrs. Al Burson, garden leader of WawaKeechie Home Ec. Club and several members will attend a garden meeting at Warsaw Thursday. Mrs. Al Burson was a guest of her mother. Ida Gawthrop in North Webster, recently. The Al Burson’s had guests from Fort Wayne Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bucher. Doris Green is recovering from her recent illess. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Cooper, South Shore. Lake Wawasee visited Friday in tke Al Burson home. 1 The Forest Galloways are home from a 3-week. 4400 mile trip through Mississippi and Florida. with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Stroh. They have a beautiful tan and a wealth of interesting mem-| ories. They went sight-seeing in a glass-bottomed boat at Silver! Springs, visited the Walter Rollerts and ,Vernon "Bushy”, at Miami. They went to the Tampa Fair on Gasparilla Day and witnessed a 4-hour parade and a reenactment of the day long ago when Jo»e Gasparilla landed his his Pirate ship with lots of pirates and gun-shooting; at Tampa and received the keys to the city from the Mayor, and many other I side trips. Mr. and Mra H. A. Burson re- ! cently enjoyed their 44th wedI ding anniversary. It was eelebratjed in conjunction with Ralph ] Burson’s third anniversary and Edward Burson’s 41st birthday, j Mr. and Mra Roy Burson and the . Sherman Bursons, all of Chicago. I were also present to assist in the ] celebration. Jimmy Graf missed several days of school on acocunt of illI ness. The Bill Hares had as guests, i Sunday, his sister. Mra A. L. , Haney and family, of Nappanee. Virginia Borneman and Flor ■ enee Glass, are adding a gift shot to Virginia’s Beauty Shop.

CHURCH NEWS CONCORD E.U.R. CHURCH • P. A. Hubartt. Waterloo, Ind., - Pastor. ? Sunday School at 9:30. Mrs. > Ralph Hudson, Supt. Preaching at 10:30. Subject ■ “The Personality of the Holy > Spirit.” If you are not attending > \church elsewhere why not start i in at Concord next Sunday morn- '• ing and attend regularly. You -• will help us and we will try to . j help yofi. THE METHODIST CHURCH * Claude M. Fawns. Minister. Worship at 10:00 a.m. Theme: t “Christian Salesmanship” Music l by the choir. s Junior church Youth Fellow1 ship and church school at 11 a.m. Junior choir and Fellowship at i 5:00 p.m. Senior choir will practice each Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Feb. 27. annual Layman’s Day will be observed. TRINITY E.U.R. CHURCH Robert L. COx. Pastor. Sunday School —9:45. Lewis S. Immei. Gen. Supt. Morning service 10:45 o’clock. Y'outh Fellowship and Junior League—6:3o. Evangelistic service 7:30 p.m. SYRACUSE CHIKCH OF GOD Joseph J. Koble. Pastor. Lewis Firestone. Supt. Church School—10:00 a.m. Morning worship—ll:oo a.m. Sermon: “What Love Does.” Ebening Service: Youth Fellowship—6:3o. Song and praise—7:30. Evangelistic message. Cottage prayer meeting Thurs- ’ day at 7:30 p.m. at the home of ’ Mr. and Mrs. Loren Eyer. Every- , one welcome. ' CHIRCH OF THE BRETHREN 1 Clayton Mock. Pastor. t Lavon Symensma. S. S. Supt. Alta Darr. Elementary Supt. Morning Service: Sunday School —9:30 a m. , Preaching hour —10:30 a.m. Basket dinner in basement. [ Evening Service: ( 8.Y.P.D.—7:00 p.m. Song service atrd prayer group —T:9O p-m. Sermonett!e—7:3o p.m. You are welcome” to our services. Rev. Otto Laursen, former pastor of the Syracuse Church of the Brethren, will be a visiting , guest on Sunday. Feb. 20. t HVANGEIJSTIC SERVICES { AT SYRACUSE CHURCH t Evangelistic , services are now ( in progress at the Trinity E.U.B. \ church in Syracuse. Assisting in these services are Rev. and Mrs. { Ha ry Richer, of Peru, who come ( to Syracuse from a rich background of evangelistic work f down through the years. Rev. , Richer is a member of the St. ] Joseph Conference (UB). , You are invited to attend these , meetings, bring your friends, and j enjoy the blessings of Christian ( fellowship. There will be special music each evening by members < of the church or by Rev. and ( Mrs. Richer. Rev. Richer will preach on the following themes. Thursday evening—Y’outh Nite Sermon. “Adventures in Friendship.” Friday evening—-Sermon. “The ( Fellowship of Reconciliation.” , This service will start at 7:15 , and not at the usual 7:30 hour. We wish to cooperate with the high school program. The service will be out by 8:30 so that you I may attend the game. Sunday morning — Sermon. "The Threshold of a New Day.” Sunday evening—Sermon “God Challenge to Service.” Monday evening — Sunday I School Night—Sermon, “Who is a Christian?"' Tuesday evening—‘Youth night Sermon. “The Quest of Youth.” Wednesday evening — Women and Girls night—Sermon, “Life’s Most Sobering Thought.” This is a persopal invitation to you to attend these meetings, to hear the gospel through saered music and through the sermon. AT TRLNITY E. U. B. CHURCH ' j ' Wl • „ ?' S i ! |M|| a I Rev. and Mra Harry Richer

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Home Talent Show Hen March 3-4 Rehearsals are being held nightly this week and next by the members of the cast of the “Gay Nineties Revue”, to be presented at the Syracuse high school gym two nights. March 3rd and 4th. The hour show is sponsored by the Syracuse Business A professional Women’s club, and all proceeds will go toward the fund ' to install flood lights on the athletic field here. More than sixty members are in the cast, it pjobably the largest number ever to take part in a home-talent play here. Old-time square dancing, a barber shop quartet, real “drama”. a Floradora sextet number, a black-face minstrel act. etc., will make up the show. Tickets are now on sale. MRS. SARAH E. HOWSER DIES AT MILLERSBURC Mrs. Sarah E. Howser. 88. a resident of Millersburg for 35 years, died at 6:00 p.m. Friday, at the home of a son and daugh-ter-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. George Howser. in Millersburg. Mrs. Howser had been bedfast for the « past two weeks. Born Oct. 23. 1860, three miles east of Syracuse. Mrs. Howser was a daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Snavely. Her husband. David Howser, died last May. 24. Surviving are two sons, Harry, of Provo, Utah, and George, at whose home she died; seven , grandchildren: five great-grand-children. and a sister. Mrs. Angelina Edmonds, of Syracuse. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon in St. Peter’s Lutheran church. MillersburgThe Rev. A. H. Miller officiated and burial was in Brown cemetery. Mrs. Howser had spent much of her time the last few years here in the home of her sister, Mrs. Edmonds. RETURNS INDIANA AFTER 40 YEARS ABROAD Raised as a boy in Syracuse. Indiana, and after touring nearly the entire world as a trick unicyclist. Amos Audrey Snyder, arrived in Goshen a few days ago after living in England since 1905. Snyder, 68. returned to the United States on several entertainment tours since his initial departure from the United States, but had made England his home until January' 8. when he' left for America. “I learned the cycling net as a boy”. Snyder said, “and I traveled the entire United States Canada, and Mexico before I left for England 44 years ago.”, After arriving in England, he toured Denmark, Germany. Belgium, France. Italy. Ireland, Scotland. Wales and presented his act before many of the royal families of England. During the first World War. Snyder did charity w#>rk in many of the European countries. In the late 1920’5, he met his wife, Quetta Papucct. English ballet performer. Mrs. Snyder was also a great Etaglish star, having played at the Empire theater in London for seven and one-half years. Her stage career started when she was 12 years of age. She is now known as Ketta Snyder, having changed her name after retiring from the .stage many years ago. During World War 11, Mr. Snyder resided' in London and volunteered his services in the ambulance corps there during the “blitx.” He was presented a special medal of honor and ribbon by the British government for his active service from 1939 c until 1945. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder said that several times during the “blitx” their home was shattered badly by bombs. During this time. Snyder presented his trick cycling act to hundreds of children’s tea parties there.’ He retired from the entertainment world about three years ago. Mr. Snyder, who remembered having presented his cycling act to a large Syracuse crowd in the early 1930’5, said that he and his wife plan to remain in Goshen and Mr. Snyder would like to open a toy factory there. At present, they are staying at the homj of Mrs. C. L. Snyder. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Hibschman entertained the Wln-A-Couple class of the Church of God in their home Wednesday evening. After a lengthy business xteeting. refreshments of home made ice eream and cookies were served. About twenty attended* Mrs. Hattie Davis is ill la her home.