Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 25, Number 8, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 September 1961 — Page 1

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* Dribs.... k And Dobs Any more beautiful weather coming up? . . are you ready? . , . Know what selma said? . . . "I’m a very rare creature. Though I may not look it — I was given advice, . . . And, what’s more, I took it!” . . . stopped in to see rosie baumgartner to buy a gift, * got started talking about dogs, and forgot what i went for! . . . the "boss” of the place looked so sassy and sweet, i picked him up, j. and he promptly licked my chin "did you know that Libra people are well-balanced, handsome, graceful, tasteful, gifted, and peace lovers’ . . . they are supposed to dislike hard work and are carer less with money, . . . ron de mao, pro at South Shore, spent several days cooking spaghetti sauce for the shindig last Sunday, and everyone had a marvelous time . . . I mary van dyke, at the dime store, is even helpful with people who ■re only loafing. . . . izzy Stanley got quite a "charge" when she touched her water tap. . .. the Blightning had knocked out her water heater. . . . shirley talmadge was her usual ebullient self last thursday. ... as was mary popenk loose and her gang. . . . did you * know; that a pat on the back, although but a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants—is miles ahead in results? . . . ' Gamble's store made me Christ-mas-conscious. ... Why are we so afraid to become involved in human affairs: Time and again I have been astonished lat rediscovering how great are the rewards of human involvement — when you take the trouble to help a stranger to protest against an injustice, to assume a civic res tsp ons i b 1111 yor to enter on the rare and wonderful risks of a new friendship. You are rarely snubbed when you reach out in sincerity; people are waiting for } you. No one can deny that it's taking a chance. Yet in avoiding hurts and disappointments, we become cold, inhuman. We pity the re- » cluse who himself in a house full of junk; yet we fail to notice that we ourselves often do the same thing in a lesser de- ) grce. Every citizen who dislikes the way things are being run but does nothing about it is doing the seme thing. Involvement, quite mliterally, is life itself. Non involve „ rnent is a limbo, a vacum „ Why hurry past people in trouble; why sidestep painful or deeply felt topics of conversation? Do how others feel Don’t think of reasons to justify keeping your distance from neighbors, business acquaintances or distant relative.'-; wDO CARE about your home, your 'town, your nation enough to improve them Responsibilities are not just dead weight, but the most precious freight we can carry — cargo that makes our journey trough time a valuable expedition. and not just an idle passage toward death. Who was it that ■aid, "No man is an island, entire e>f itself. ”? D. O. ■Lecture-Music Series At »Goshen College Season tickets for Goshen College’s 1961-62 Lecture-Music Scries on sale Wednesday in Go shen and Elkhart. The series will feature three lectures (two illustrated), an orches ■ tea. a folk singer, two choral " groups (including the Robert Shaw chorale), a woodwind quintet and ■ violinist. A lecture. “The Ganges, Pulsebeat of India” by Helen and Schrieder will be the first of the programs. They will show a film and lecture on their recent exploration in India. / Regular season tickets will be 1 sold starting this week at the Gos pel Book Store and Tilley Electric Co. in Goshen, and Templin s Music Store in Elkhart. Syr. Classroom Teachers Meet The first meeting of the Syra cusc Classroom Teachers Associa tion met in the school cafeteria Monday night. Mrs. Richard Dit mer. president of the local association, presided. Reports of the various committees were heard and the minutes ©f the last meeting were read. ’ Mrs. Ruth Rapp, a retired mem Ver of the Association, was presented with a certificate of honor ary membership in the local association. The main event of the meeting was an explanation of the Indiana State Teachers’ Retirement Fund by Alvin Elbrecht. He is a staff member of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association. Refrechment* wm «rred.

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Enchanted Hills Subdivision Approved

Approval was given here Tuesday night for 440 lots of the Enchanted Hills sub-division on Lake Wawasee by the Syracuse Plan Commission. With final approval of the plat and restrictions, this brings to w a close a nine-months study by the Plan Commission of this multi million dollar development. The Columbia Realty Coro.. Paul Hathaway, president and Phil Oppenheim, treasurer, is the subdivider. This comnany has another 70 acres which they plan to' subdivide into some 300 lots in the near future. The tracts are on the east side Os Lake Wawasee. With the final approval, the Columbia Realty Corp, presented plans for the completion of the sub-division and also contracts with the Ferris Excavating Corp., of Pleasant Lake. Ind. for completion of the project by June 10. 1962. This includes all water channels and roads. A completion bond was also furnished to guarantee the completion of the project. Also approved by the Syracuse Plan Commission was a request by the Columbia Realty Corp that a three-corner tract in-their devel opment. now classified as residential. be changed to roadside busi ness use. This trad lies just south of the Guide Restaurant, on the west side of road, 660 feet along state road 13-A. and is comprised of 2.7 acres. It was reported that a super gasoline station was to be built there. The Enchanted Hills sub-division has been under study by the members of the Syracuse Plan Commission. and since it comprised water channels, streets, roads, drainage, sewerage problems, and all other problems of a city, a great deal of time has been spent on it. No other sub-division in the State has the same problems encountered here: Advice has been secured from the Kosciusko Co. Health Dept, and the State Health Dept., from the State Highway Dept., from the State Attorney General s Office, and from private engineer*. The project is larger than the town of Syracuse in area

ROTARY The meeting Monday evening at Howard’s was well attended but not quite as well as the previous turn-out President Harry Van Meter gave

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a final reminder of the district at Winona Lake this Thurs | day and in ad dition to the officers, urged any and all oth-

er Rotarians who could, to attend as all are most cordially invited. Program chairman of the evening, Tom Socks, made arrangements for the showing of Chevrolet’s film on the 1962 preview of highlights in the world of sports and amusement, as well as the new models. Ray Edwards of New Castle was the only visiting Rotarian. Syracuse H.S. Still Rolling The Syracuse High School baseball team picked up two more wins by blasting Beaver Dam 18 0 and nipping North Webster 8-7. Dennis Buhrt hurled Syracuse past the Beavers striking out ten m five innings. He was relieved by Jerry Thornburg. 1 Jack Zimmerman had two home runs and Arden Druckamiller had one. Francis Denton and Mick Jones each had three hits. Pat Money picked up his fourth win in four starts in leading the Jackets past North Webster. He 0 pitched the first four innings, striking out eight and allowing two hits. He was relieved by Buhrt and Thornburg. Money was called on the seventh inning to stop a Trojan rally. Denton had three singles and Money a double and a single to lead the hitting attack. Bill Weaver was the losing pitcher. RHE Beaver Dam 000 0000 0 3 3 Syracuse 305 163 x 18 16 6 Syracuse 500 0300 8 11 1 No. Webster 000 0304 7 5 0 The Jackets will play their final regular game at Pierceton Thursday. The Jackets and Cubs both own a 7-0 record and the winner of this game will play in tlje championship game. Sen Hartke pointed out that Indiana schools also will receive their proportionate share of foods bought especially for the lunch programs as well as the foods acquired by the Federal government under price suport and surplus removal programs.

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and may grow much larger in the future. Several million dollars in taxable wealth may be added to the township’s valuation by *his development in the next few years. The Enchanted Hills sub-divi-sion streets are all named after legendary or <? } ry tale stories. There is “Tiny Tim Lane," “Goldilocks Lane,” “Fascination Way,” "Snow White Lane," plus several others. An 80-ft. channel leads from Wawasee under State Road 13-A into the development. Several 50-ft. channels lead off this central channel. The problem of sewerage control and just what, the building of channels might do to Lake Wawasee was of prime importance. Representatives of the State Board of Health and the County Board of Health stated that the sewerage problem could be solved by use of septic tanks. Assurance from other state authorities and the fact that the Indiana Dept of Conservation gave permission for the construction of the water ways also was of concern. It is apparent that the Wawasee Lake area is going to grow, for two other sub-divisions are now on file with the Plan Commission and others, are in the "talking stage." The vote on both the above projects was eight for, and one against, with one abstaining. The meeting was conducted by Paul Levernier, president. Other members present were Elmer Stucky, Harold Gray, John Augsburger, Secretary J. B Cox. R. C. Howard, Max Carlson. K. K. McGarvey, E. T. Anderson and Harry Nicolai. Reserve Units Alerted Headquarters VI U. S. Army Corps announced that ten additional Reserve Units from VI ArmyCorps are being alerted for call to active duty on Oct. 15. Units alerted from Indiana are: the 327th Data Processing Unit, commanded by First Lt. Jack H. Ebbeler: and the 435th Finance Disbursing Section, commanded by Major Richard R. Juett, both from Fort Benjamin Harrison. Also alerted from Indiana are the 446th Medical Detachment from Gary, commanded by Captain William V. Japes, and the 16th Quartermaster Platoon (Petroleum Depot) from Washington, commanded by 2nd Lt. John J. Victor. The , six additional units from Michigan are: the 863 d Ordnance Company (General Support) from Traverse City; the 392 d Chemical Company (Combat Support) from Adrian; and the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 333 d Engineer Group (Construction) from Ann Arbor, commanded by Col. Rudolph Cernick. Also from Michigan are: the 602 d Military Police Guard Company; and the 603 d Military Police Guard Company, both from Dearborn, and the 605th Medical Detachment (Surgical) from Detroit. These 10 VI Corps units in addition to the seven previously alerted in September, are part of the build-up of the Army which has been under way the past few months. Recruiting for these units is temporarily suspended as of this date. Those reservists already assigned to the units and awaiting six months active duty will accompany units to their respective mobilization stations. Mobilization stations for the alerted Indiana units are: the 327th Data Processing Unit, Fort Jay, N. Y.; the 435th Finance Disbursing Section, Fort Dix. N. J.; the 446th Medical Detachment, Fort Campbell, Ky., and the 16th Quartermaster Platoon, Fort L«e, Va. birth announcement Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Clashman of Anderson. Indiana announce the birth of a daughter. Nancy Joanne. Wednesday. September 20, 1961. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Kroh are the maternal grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. “Tim” Darr and daughter, Diane, Mrs. Susan Coy and daughters. Amy and Sally, spent Saturday evening with the Roy Sarjent’s at their home on Harwood Lake, Michigan. The occasion was Mrs. Sarjent’s birthday. The computer is a young man’s device. Seventy per cent of electronic computer programmers and analysts are under 37 'years old, and 40% are under 32. Some 1.200 companies, government agencies, and the armed forces bad installed about 1,700 computers four years ago. Today the number of computers has doubled. About half are used for scientific work — the others for business.

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Monday This year’s United Fund solicitation fund drive begins next Monday in Kosciusko Chanty and Turkey Creek Township, with the Industrial and Retail Divisions scheduled to start their campaigns at that time: Ralph Thornburg, who serves as chairman of the local drive again this year, said today that most of the industrial plants in this area will have their own in-plant solicitations, but volunteers in the Retail Division are trying a new plan this year. Mr. Thornburg is getting together from 25 to 30 women, who will make a concentrated drive next Wednesday in an attempt to canvas all the retail stores and firms. The women will meet for coffee at the Wawasee Restaurant at 8:45 A.M. Wednesday, go out in pairs to canvas the area, and report back at the restaurant at 1 P.M. for a luncheon, winding up the entire drive in one day. He said Noble Blocker will audit all the reports again this year as he has done in the past. Thornburg urged that all owners and proprietors of the firms contacted by the volunteers cooperate with them, and also allow them to contact and solicit their employees at the same time. He pointed out that Turkey Creek Township is the only township in Kosciusko County that has continually surpassed the amount raised the year before, and says, "we are striving to maintain that record this year.” A partial list of volunteers who will work on the drive next Wednesday includes: Mrs. Max Carlson, Mrs. Clifton Kinder, Mrs. Hubert Anglemeyer. Mrs. Paul Lantz. Mrs. Walter Hagerdon. Mrs Harry Alfrey. Mrs. Paul H. Moore. Mrs. Harold Alalia han. Mrs. Dee Stiver, Mrs. Lewis Immel. Mrs. R. W. Thornburg and Mrs. J. W. Shew mon. Mrs. James Stucky. The United Fund drive in Kosciusko County benefits 13 agencies. They are, the Kosciusko County chapter of the American Red Cross; Pioneer Trails Council. Boy Scouts of America; Indiana Lakeland Girl Scout Council: Lakeland Humane Association; Salvation Army; Speech and Hearing Clinic; National Travelers. Aid Society; United Service Organization. (USO); Syracuse Camp Fire Girls Assn., Inc.; Senior Citizens of Kosciusko County; and the Kosciusko County Mental Health Association, Muscular Dystrophy Chapter, and Retarded Children’s Association. GLEN STOUDER ASSIGNED TO Sth ARMY HEADQUARTERS Army Specialist Five, Glenwood D. Stouder, whose wife Phyllis lives at 356 Adams St., Gary, was assigned to Headquarters, Fifth U. S. Army, Chicago, on Sept. 18th Specialist Stouder entered the Army in 1954. and was last stationed in Germany. The 25 year old soldier, son of Paul A. Stouder. Goshen, is a 1954 graduate of Indiana Soldiers & Sailors Childrens Home High School in Knightstown. His mother, Mrs. Gladys Gonderman, lives on Route 3, Syracuse.

A discussion of traffic problems was held at a meeting the third Wednesday in September of the Men’s Division of the local Civil Defense Unit. The unit is purchasing 12 pieces of new equipment /or their traf--1 sic workers, at schools, county tournaments, etc., consisting of hat i covers and gloves. i A speaker from the unit. Floyd Schlotterback was named to go to ; the Svracuse school to give a talk , on fallout in rural areas. Pamphlets and fallout shelter plans compiled by Civil Defense are available to the public at the fire station. The unit is engaged in a fundraising drive by selling “foot-scra-pers.” on sale at the fire station or from any’ Civil Defense member, ?t 51.50 each. This is the only means the unit has to raise funds to support the ambulance and other equipment. Ralph Knisley was appointed as new assistant director to serve in the capacity of Gale Benner, director of Turkey Creek Township Civil Defense, since Mr. Benner is employed out of town. Other officers are Tom Gilbert, chairman, and Jack Scott, secretary. . The group ended the meeting on a discussion of citizen’s band radios. which would rn~ake the unit more closely in communication with the county organizations. New Record Set By Don Byrd Don Byrd. Wawasee Golf club pro set a new course record Sunday by firing a 10-under par 62. Byrd had previously held the course record jointly with Noel Epperson of Indianapolis. Both had fired 63's, Byrd twice. Byrd’s accompanying players Sunday were John Fryberger and Gene Miller of Goshen. His round included one bogey, a four on the No. 9, a par three home. He went out in 32 ahd came home in 30 for his 62. Byrd had an eagle three on No, 3, a 465yard hole and birdied 9 holes enroute to the course record. Par Out 4 3 5 4 4 4 4 5 3 36 Byrd Out 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 32 Par tn 45 4 34 3 44 5 36 Byrd In 343 343 33 4_30 FIRE DEPARTMENT HORSE SHOW Richard Morgan of Fort Wayne, nationally known horse show announcer. will be at the microphone Sunday, Oct. 1, at 1 P.M., for the opening of the first annual Union Township Volunteer Fire Department Horse Show’ being held at the Campbell Ranch, Coesse. Ind. Horse Show classes will include events for English and Western horses as well as ponies and chil- . dren’s classes. The feature attrac- . tion of the show will be presented by the famous Mizpah Shrine Mounted Patrol drill team consist- , ing of 38 beautiful Palomino Horses and their riders. Purdue University horticulturists recommend picking pumpkin and squash with their stems intact to prevent injury and early spoilage. They should be picked before frost and stored in a moderately warm, dry plaee where air circulates. J.

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Latest in the signs of progress in the mushrooming Syracuse-Wa-wasee area is a new acre channel subdivision now beginning construction near Wawasee Village. Digging began last week by the Beer & Slabaugh Construction Co. of Nappanee for Merrill’s Addition to Wawasee Lake, which will feature 18 residential lots, each of them bordering a channel. Merrill Norris, owner of Merrill’s Marina at Wawasee Lake for the last five years, says his project has been approved by the State Conservation Department and the Kosciusko County Commissioners for a bridge to be built across the Oakwood Road spanning the new channel. Work has been started on the channel at Merrill’s slip and will continue on west to within about 140 feet of old Rd. 13, incorporating a boat harbor near the slip, another harbor for a park, and a third for residential lots. Five of the channel lots will border old Rd. 13, reaching back about 140 feet to the water, and 13 lots are planned to border the Kale Island Road, Mr. Norris said. The large Kale Island lots will be about 70 x 180’, he said. Width of the channels will be from 90 to 100’. Norris, who has lived in the Wawasee Lake area since 1954, bases his plans for the channel project on a firm-belief in the future of the community. "This is an ideal spot for growth," he says. He visualizes the eventual location of new industry here, because, he says, the area has so much to offer workers in industry. Norris says he hopes to have all the digging done and ready for the bridge by Christmas. He is making plans to build up the lots so the ground will be high, and landscape them, and says they will be settled and ready for building by next fall. . t. . PUBLIC SCHOOL MENU WEEK — OCT. 2—6 Monday, Oct. 2 Sloppy Joes, Buttered Potatoes, Fruit. Cookies, Milk. Tuesday, Oct. 3 Beans and Ham, Asparagus, Fruit Salad, Corn Bread, Butter and Jelly. Milk. Wednesday, Oct. 4 Meat Loaf, Mashed Potatoes. Gravy. Cardinal Salad, Fruit, Bread and Butter, Milk. Thursday, Oct. 5 Italian Chicken, Green Beans, Coleslaw, Pudding, Peanut Biutter Sandwich, Milk. Friday, Oct. 6 Salmon Loaf. Creamed Peas, Fruit Salad, Biscuits. Butter and Jelly, Milk. New Chief At Great Lakes

Rear Adm. Ira H. Nunn, a Navy Cross winner, lawyer and veteran of 41 years of naval service, has ‘'assumed command of the 9th Naval District with headquarters at Great Lakes. The new commandant of all Navy and Marine Corps forces in the 13-state Midwest area, the nation’s largest naval district, succeeded Rear Adm. John M. Higgins, 62, of Madison, Wise., who retired. Admiral Nunn, 60, of Camden, Ark., is a 1924 Naval Academy Graduate who began his sea career as an ensign aboard the old battleship Texas. Since then he has logged over 20 years at sea while serving in more than half as many ships. Assigned to destroyers during World War n, he fought in nearly every campaign from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa. He won the Navy Cross, the highest honor in the Navy, for heroism in directing his destroyer force inrepeated successful attacks in the Battle of Leyte Gulf while under heavy attack by Japanese suicide planes.

Season tickets for Goshen College’s 1961-62 Lecture-Music series went on sale Wednesday in Goshen and Elkharti The series will feature three (two illustrated), an orchestra, a folk singer, two choral groups (including the Robert Shaw chorale), a woodwind quintet and a violinist. A lecture “The Ganged, Pulsebeat of India" by Helen and Frank Schreider will be the first of the programs. They will show a film and lecture on their recent exploration in India. Regular season tickets will be sold starting Wednesday at the Gospel Book Store, and Tilley Electric in Goshen and Templin’s Music Store in Elkhart. Prices range from $7.50 for section A general to $5 for section B and $4 for section C (bleachers). Single admission tickets will be available in the Union lobby. The business office reports that a few section A reserve tickets are still available. They may be purchased directly from the business office at the College for $lO. Starting time for the series numbers has .been set at 8 p.m. by this year’s L-M committee. In previous seasons, programs started at 8:15 p.m. PTA Meeting Well Attended The first Parent-Teacher Association meeting of the 1961-62 school year was called to order by Mrs. Eugene Hall, president, last week in the school cafeteria, with about 125 people in attendance. Rev. Ross Richey of the Methodist Church gave the Invocation, with a community sing led by Mrs. Richard Ditmer, elementary vocal instructor, following. Dates for the Halloween activities were announced as follows: Halloween Festival — Oct. 21, and Halloween Parade. Oct. 31. Both events are to be held, in the old gym. A clarification of a recent news release was made concerning the P. T. A. dues, ip that they would be 50c per per&n. or SI per pair of parents. Lewis Immel, Superintendent of Schools, introduced the teaching staff and listed th<» initial enrollment for the school year: Kindergarten, 93; 1-6. 519; 7-8, 155; 9-12. 237. The largest senior class to date is enrolled this year with 60 members. Mrs. William Hess, vice president, introduced Mrs. Russell Hoffman. District Director of Area 4-A, the guest speaker of the evening. Some of the following ideas were givven by Mrs. Hoffman: The PTA is considered to be in the "Society of the Successful” and it is a place for all people in the community to help with the school. It will succeed only with the combined effort of the parents and the teachers. The organization gives the parents a chance to visit the school and its various activities. Teachers contribute to the stability, of the organization and draw attention to the projects of the children. She further stated there were three kinds of bad parents. 1. Those who come to school only in a crisis. 2. Those who come to school not at all. 3. Those who come to school too often. Mrs. Helen Knapp’s first grade won the attendance banner and ' $2 prize for the first PTA meeting with 16 parents attending from that room. Riley Hospital Chapters Honored Howard F. Gustafson, executive director, Community Service Council of Metropolitan Indianapolis, Inc., will speak on “Volunteers — What are They Worth?” at the Chapter Day luncheon of the Riley Hospital Cheer Guild at 11 a.m. Thurs., Oct 12. Sponsors and chapters in the local area include: "Her Beautiful Hands," Syracuse, Mrs. Edna Thomas, Sponsor; “My Philosofy,” Syracuse, Mrs. Ruth Meredith, Sponsor. Representatives from 554 chapters throughout Indiana have been invited to the annual event at the Union Building, Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis. Years of wear on metal pipe have been compressed into minutes by a new research technique called “resonance bending.” Researchers at Tube Turns set lengths of pipe to vibrating several thousand times a minute to simulate stresses in years of service. The pipes shake themselves until they crack from fatigue.

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EARLY WAWASEE DAYS Chapter 6 Sixth in a series of folk tales and traditions of Wawasee Lake and Syracuse, as told by Eli Lilly in his book “Early Wawasee Days.” EARLY KALE ISLAND CHRONICLES The present appearance of the comfortable' and picturesque summer colony now' know as Kale Island would not lead one to susoect that the region had a checkered early history. From the building of the dam at Syracuse until sometime in the 1870’s, the Island was surrounded by water, a boat being required to get to it in most seasons. There were squatters there two or three years before the Civil War —two brothers, Thomas and Kale Oram. Thomas was tall and athletic, with a face scarred by smallpox, whereas £ale was of medium height ants” more blocky in build. It is said that Kale could render Scottish ballads very effectively in a bathroom baritone when mellowed by just the right amount of his favorite beverage. The brothers made their livelihood by fishing (more correctly, netting), selling most of their catch in Goshen. Their cabin was headquarters for those interested in fishing and was noted for fishy fumes, tansy bitters, and acer tain concoction made of raw alcohol and lake water flavored and sweetened by a secret formula. Although the reputation of their establishment was not too good, the brothers were industrious and managed to clear twenty acres of their land. Much of the poplar lumber used in the old houses of Syracuse came from Kale Island. Oak trees Were made into barrel staves, and the trimmings were taken “by sea” to Syracuse for firewood. In those days, to. timber was cut from around Turkey Lake and floated on rafts through the channel and to the sawmill on Turkey Creek, or to the one just south of Vawter Park. The Orams planted most of their clearing in Concord, Deleware, and other succulent varieties of grapes. It is said that k pack of at least fifteen dogs with colorful names, whose ancestors could not be traced even after a light snow, enjoyed the Island as a home. Late in the Civil War. Thomas enlisted in the Union Army 1 and afterward went to live in Kansas. At about this time, it seems that Kale gradually lost his family name and became know’n simply as “Old Kale.” He mis se d his brother’s cooking, fell first into melancholy and then in love with a tall, lean woman with feet as large as a family Bible. A widow called “Mam," she lived with her son, Bill, in a slovenly kept cabin on the shores of Syracuse Lake. After their marriage, Kale and Mam. with Bill, proceeded to live on Kale Island until the ground w'as bought in 1874 by Mart Hillabold at the time the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was built. They then moved into Mam’s Syracuse Lake cabin, where they lived out their lives. The pair lie in unmarked graves on the hill in the Syracuse cemetery. John Wysong and March McCory built on Kale Island in 1873 or 1874 the Lake’s first summer hotel, k,nown as the Island House. It was a rather sketchy affair, sided with rough, green, vertical boards, which soon- dried and warped, leaving easy access to the guest for myriads of droning mosquitoes; and when the wind blew, the windows rattled like a hotel omnibus. After a few years, its respectability apd reputation declined from bad -to and the hotel became a poker joint and boozing ken visited only by a disreputable element. It was finally burned to the ground,' irate neighbors being strongly suspected of its destruction. The Island was finally acquired by George W. Miles, a respected citizen of Syracuse, who saw that it was developed into the present high-grade community. For these facts we are indebted to articles written by Mr. Miles years ago for the Syracuse Register. — Eli Lilly (more next week) J P COURT Carol Jean Armold, age 20, of Nappanee, Ind. and John Carroll Hostetler, U. S. N., age 19, also of Nappanee were married Saturday, Sept. 23, 1961 by Justice of the Peace Robert S. McCullough in Syracuse. After a honeymoon they will live in Norfolk, Virginia. TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS Howard H. Smith, RFD 2, Syracuse was arrested by State Police John Funk and fined SI.OO and Costs, totaling $18.75 for driving with an expired drivers license. Robert S. McCullough Justice of the Peace