Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 25, Number 5, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 September 1961 — Page 6

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ANCIENT MOLAR—While plowing on his Hendricks County farm south of Stilesville last fall Larry Allure turned up what appeared to be an enormous tooth. He tossed it aside in/a fence row. Later he told neighbors of the find and ex pressed the belief it was the toot! of some prehistoric animal. Neigh bors were skeptical so Alkire went back, found the object and brought

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• it to Coatesville for display. It was 1 finally taken to DePauw Univers- ' ity where a geology professor I identified it as the tooth of a > mastodon, an animal that roamed these parts thousands of years ago. The Coatesville Herald described the tooth as weighing 3% pounds and measuring about four inches across the grinding surface.

"YEARS AGO"

50 YEARS AGO Sept. 7, 1911 The County Auditor filed a statement with the Town Board, showing the net valuation of town property $691,600 and 220 polls for taxation in 1911, to be collected in 1912. •• ' » Mr. Thompson, the balloonist, who is with the Todd Merry-Go-Round Company, made his second ascension here Saturday evening. The Churubusco Truth says the men who do a lot more harm than good should be classed as follows: first, those who oppose improvement; second, those who run down the town to strangers: third, those who never advertise their business. The last is the worst of the bunch. •• • • Bert Whitehead’s horses got out of the pasture Sunday night and a fine young horse got into a barbed wire that was around Anderson Strieby’s yard, near the White home, and was badly cut around one front foot. • • • Marion Bushong brought a bunch of very beautiful lilacs to our office Tuesday. Mrs. Bushong read somewhere that by taking all the leaves off the lilac bushes on Aug. 1 they would bloom again the same season. She tried the experiment and to her surprise and delight the bushes brought forth another bountiful harvest of lilacs. ■• • • 10 acres near Vawter Park, Vz mile front beautiful Wawa see Lake. Will make fine truck and fruit farm, has a fine building spot. $650. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 5, 1941 The Country’ Playhouse and its members finished their first season here at Lake Wawasee Monday night. They played to a few over 3.060 paid admissions during the season. • * * Dale Sprague, associated with his father, P. R. Sprague, in the Syracuse Lumber & Coal Co. here, was married to Faye Litsey of Evansville, Ind. Aug. 23» 1941. at Morganfield. Ky. * ♦ ♦ Monarch Coffee - 27c*lb. Pork Chops -29 c lb. Cube Steak -32 c lb. Butter -37 c lb.

If you don’t strike oil in five ‘minutes talk, you should stop boring. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 7, 1951 Weatherhead Co. building is going up rapidly. The big plant is expected to employ nearly 500 people in 1952. ♦ ♦ « Pfc. Clem Lisor. Jr,, returned Sunday to Westover, Mass., where he is stationed with the UJS. Air Force, after a six-days leave with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Clem Lisor at Kale Island. .• « » Enrollment in the elementary grades shows an increase of 34 pupils, and an increase of 6 in high school. Ted Auer, the long-ball hitter from Syracuse, won the Maxwelton Club championship by defeating Jim McGrann of Nappanee. 4 and 3, ift the final round. In the Labor Day Tournament. Ted Auer again won top honors with a low gross of 75REFLECTED GLORY—A young Hoosier, David Schoeff, wrote to his mother in Lawrenceburg in advance of the space flight of Capt. Virgil I. Grissom suggesting that if she watched the television broadcast of the event she look particularly al the deck of the U. S. S. Randolph, the aircraft carrier which was to pick up Capt. Grissom. Schoeff explained that he probably wouldn’t be on deck but that as a member of the crew he had helped paint it.

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Changes In State Govt Organization and reorganization of several administrative departments highlight 1961 changes in Indiana state government, according to the new edition of “Here is Your Indiana Government” just published by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. The revised edition of the manual on Indiana state and local government is the tenth in a series inaugrated in 1944 by the State Chamber. Among the more than 600 additions and changes in the book made necessary by 1961 legislative action are included the following: A new Indiana Port Commission with authority to plan, promote and operate a public port on the Indiana shoreline of Lake Michigan. A new Department of Administration in which are consolidated important business functions of state government in the fields of personnel, purchasing, public works and Supply, property management and data processing. Revision in administrative structure of public health and mental health activities, including the establishment of a separate Department of Mental Health to supervise state mental hospitals- and with divisions specializing on alcoholism. child mental health and mental retardation. Reorganization and streamlining of the State Highway Department. Reorganization of the State Department of Correction with special divisions devoted to parole matters. probation, and prison industries and farms. The 140-page book is used widely by Indiana schools, government

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stoOy groups and goYermncot officials. Added to the supplementary section in the new book, it was pointed out by Jack E. Reich, chamber executive vice president, is a new feature on “Origins of the Counties,” describing how counties have been formed, the date each Indiana county was organized, and the origins of the county names. ODD MlXUP—Readers of The Richmond Palladium-Item smiled recently when they noticed that the box head “PARTIES” usuallyplaced over social events had been misplaced over the list of births at Reid Memorial Hospital. Then those who turned the page found on the reverse side an editorial entitled “Regrets Anyone?”

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TOOT TOOT—Boocien attendiag fain and other public celebrations in southern Indiana recently have been treated to the music of an old circus steam calliope. A Daviess County man, C. J. Stotts, of

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Odon, resumeted the odd wtul instrument and after some 300 hours of* spare time labor and with the assistance of a number of local craftsmen put it in playing shape. Dan Doolin of Odon handles the keyboard.