The Mail-Journal, Volume 13, Number 19, Milford, Kosciusko County, 2 June 1976 — Page 9

2d of a series — Residents of Syracuse, Neb., are proud of their community

(EDITOR S NOTE; We are grateful to Margaret Masters of Syracuse. Neb., for not only furnishing us with the following facts and figures but also for furnishing us with the information for our article on Syracuse. Neb.) Syracuse. Ind. — 37 miles southeast of South Bend. Home of Lake Wawasee. Population: 2.500. Syracuse. Kan. — 45 miles west of Garlen City. Shipping point for farm produce. Population: 2.075 Syracuse. Mo. — 19 miles south of Sedalia. Population: 221 Syracuse. Neb. — between Nebraska City and Omaha. Serves a farm community. Population: 1.800 Syracuse. N. Y. — Urge city with many interests. Population: 220,058 Syracuse. Ohio — Three miles south of Pomeroy on the Ohio River. Population: 700 Syracuse. Utah — southwest of Ogden. Population: 837

Platt f — —1 —4 | I I I : N • - I 4 .u The residents of Syracuse, Neb . are proud of their home community because in a time many small towns are losing ground and becoming only ‘‘wide places in the road” Syracuse has continued a steady growth In its 100 year history, even when the county and state lost population, it has continued to grow. I In the beginning it was on thei wagon train route west as wagon masters discovered the Platte River cut of Omaha makes a northern curve and so made days; of unnecessary travel The intent ate through Nebraska today, in general, follows the Platte river aid again many travelers and trackers are finding it a savingin time to follow highway 2 Others, to avoid the Omaha traffic go south on highway 50 Syracuse stands at junction of these two highways When the inter-state is completed between Kansas City and Omaha on the

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lowa side, residents are sure travel on these highways will become much greater Farm Community Syracuse serves a prosperous farm community. It has long been known for its implement dealers — John Deere. Case. International. Massey-Harris, Allis-Chalmers and New Holland — which serve a very wide area It has a full service bank, automobile dealers who successfully compete with Lincoln and Omaha, contractors who build farm buildings, business buildings and homes. It boasts of a mens shop, shoe shop and women s ready to wear. It has two fabric shops In fact, it is a very busy trading center Its newspaper serves a four-county area In 1972 a survey was made It showed 131 businesses which generated approximately 800 jobs There have been several new businesses since that time. There are also people who commute to Lincoln and Omaha. It has two lawyers, two dentists, five doctors and a 22-bed hospital Its school district has 60 teachers and administrators and extends in an irregular shape. 22 miles long and 19 miles wide. Although it is not the county seat because of its central position in the county it has the

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federal office serving Otoe county It has a low cost housing unit for the elderly and a Good Samaritan home administered by' the Lutheran Society which has 109 elderly w ho can no longer care for themselves People in town take an active interest in this home and because it is so well run it has a waiting list of 60. The present population of the town is about 1.800. Established In 1856 The Oto and Pawnee Indians controlled the land where Syracuse was founded. Their relationship with the settlers was good The area was opened for settlement with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854. The first Syracuse was established in 1856. It was a paper town with salt springs and the people of the town hoped to rival Syracuse, N. Y. The post office was established in 1857. Later the post office

name was changed to NurseryHill to promote a nursery It was the first days stop out of Nebraska City for the Overland stage and the freighters of whom the most famous was the firm of Russell, Majors and Waddell. From 1857 to the time of the completion of the Union Pacific Railroad, most of the freight to Colorado and California passed through Nursery Hill. This route served the California gold rush and the Mormon war. It saw a steady stream of travelers and settlers. Midland Pacific Railway from Nebraska City to Lincoln was located two miles from Nursery Hill,, so the town was moved in 1871 and was again called Syracuse The land was taken by 1870. The settlers came from New York. Ohio, Pennsylvania. Wisconsin and many were Civil

Syracuse, Ohio, is small town on the Ohio River

Syracuse, Ohio, dates back to George Washington It was purchased by early settlers and laid off in subdivisions — The Buffington, Carleton. Crooks, Bridgeman. Quillen and Bannger It is just about mid-way between Pittsburgh, Pa., and Cincinnati. Ohio and in the shortest bend of the Ohio River. New Haven. W Va., lays just across the river as does Hartford. W Va The town is in Meigs county. Sutton township Pomeroy is the county seat. Salt Important Capitalist from Syracuse, N Y.» bought the land in the Baringer sub-division, drilled five salt wells and erected a salt plant with the “capacity of 300 barrels of salt per day After salt was made there a by-product, bromine, was made and calcium chloride, all with steam power. The barrels tore made at the plant At the dock which was on the Ohio River, boats and barges were built and used to transport the products to the south New Haven and Hartford also had salt works and additional plants were located down the river Each of the salt plants had a coal mine in connection which furnished the energy for the

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W'ar veterans. An early German settlement to the north (Lutheran) and to the south (Evangelical) makes this a very German community today. The largest church is the Lutheran which has 800 members. In the 1870’s their was great suffering because of the grasshoppers. The 1880‘s were prosperous years. The 1890’s brought drought and panic. From 1900 until World War I the town enjoyed steady growth and prosperity. The history from World War I to date follows that of most small towns in mid-USA. Alexander— Page Hartley Burr Alexander and John C. Page both came from Syracuse. Neb. Alexander was a professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska. He was a poet and anthropologist. He lectured at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the

operation of the plant. In all. 22 salt plants and coal mines were found in the area. They have all folded up. the last one a year ago because of the smoke from the furnace stack, a victim of the ecology program. The old Syracuse Coal and Salt Company went under back in the early 1900’s, however, in a few years, a new plant was erected on the ssime sight It was called the Brocalsa Chemical Co. This company had some 14.000 acres of land leased for oil and gas. A well was drilled which brought in three million cubic feet of gas plus oil. This yielded up a four-square mile area of oil and gas wells in and around the town. Syracuse was not incorporated until the 1920'5. When the salt plants and mines were running. 1,500 people lived in the village. Most worked at the mines and salt plants. When the salt plants and mines closed, the population dropped. Today the town has around 1.200 persons living there with no plants or mines With the consolidation, three large high schools have been built in the county and the town lost its high school Today only the first six grades are located in Syracuse The name of Syracuse was named after the town of Syracuse. N Y.. with New Haven and Hartford being named after those eastern towns also Each was named after the home of the early capitalists who arrived there.

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close of World War I raised $70,000 in the United States for French war orphans. He received the Legion of honor from the French government. His lasting monument is the Nebraska State capital for which be selected the inscriptions and planned the symbolism. Page was an office engineer during the construction of Boulder dam. He served as the United States commissioner of reclamation during the construction of Imperial and Parker dams on the Colorado River, the Barlett dam in Arizona, the Alamogardo and Caballo dams in New Mexico and the Grand Coulee dam on the Columbia River. The town of Page, Ariz., where the Glen Canyon dam was built, was named for him. Country Club Town It has been called the “CountryClub Town” because of its golf course, swimming pool, bowling alley. Legion club which serves fine meals and its park which winds through the newresidential area. Syracuse is the “good life” and according to a recent survey 95 per cent of the residents of the area believe this. Location Syracuse Neb., is located 500 miles from Chicago, 600 miles from Dallas. 510 miles from Denver. 1,630 miles from Las Angeles, 1,350 miles from NewYork and 175 miles from Kansas City. Its elevation is 1,045 feet. South Webster was platted in 1853 by Bennett The town of South Webster, Ohio, was platted on February 8, 1853 by John Bennett. It was incorporated on December 9, 1887. The town was formerly named Webster, however, since there was another Webster in Ohio it was called South Webster at the request of the post office department. But confusion still existed and the other Webster's name was changed to Branford. The population of the town is around 900. The town has its own water works and an excellent volunteer fire department plus hard surfaced streets and sidewalks. The city hall was built in the 1930’s when Jennings B. Cole was mayor: The sidewalks were also paved with WPA labor at that fame. 1 The town is located in the Bloom local school district which includes Vernon township along with Bloom township and South Webster. Clark Conley 111 in "Solid Shield" Navy machinist's mate third class Clark C. Conley 111, 20, son of Mrs. Edith M. Evans of 113 S. Lake St., Syracuse, has participated in operation “Solid Shield ’76” aboard the frigate USS Joseph Hewes. homeported at Charleston, S.C. The two-week joint exercise off the North Carolina and Georgia coasts involved 36 ships and more than 50.000 men and women from all branches of the armed forces. The exercise included all, surface and submarine operations and an amphibious assault. It was designed to test command and control plans and to provide training in the procedures for emergency evacuation of noncombatants from a simulated battle zone. A 1974 graduate of Wawasee high school, he joined the navy in September 1974.

Wed., June 2,1976 — THE MAIL-JOURNAL

Steiger's screen 'presence' cinched W. C. Fields for him

Why a star whose face is familiar to moviegoers throughout the world in the title role of Universal's “W. C. Fields and Me?” Director Arthur Hiller admits that he once considered casting an unknown as the razortongued, irreverent comedian — “1 didn’t want an audience to look for a recognizable face beneath the characterization — but found himself irresistably drawn to Rod Steiger to star in "W. C. Fields and Me,” opening Friday at the Lake Theatre in Warsaw. “I knew Steiger was a Fields buff and that he had done an arresting take-off of him in ‘No Way to Treat a Lady' some years ago,” explains Hiller, who helmed such films as “Love Story,” “Hospital,” and “The Man in the Glass Booth,” among others. “I also knew he was an expert actor who had a chameleon quality that enabled him to become almost any character in his movies —a dictator, a conqueror, a Southern small town policeman, an effeminate hairdresser, a cowboy and a killer. “But most important, I wanted a presence. I wanted an actor who could walk on the screen and take charge, so to speak. Steiger’s built-in magnetism is phenomenal. No matter what is going on up there on the screen, the audience looks at him to know what the film is all about.” Once he had signed the Academy Award winner, Hiller decided to kick over all typecasting patterns in choosing an actress to star opposite Steiger as Carlotta Monti. Fields' secret mistress for many years. He says that although the part

Enchanted Hills Playhouse to open for summer season

Season tickets for the 1976 summer season at the Enchanted Hills Playhouse, located on the northeast side of Lake Wawasee. are now available by mail at P.O. box 41, Syracuse. The 1976 season ticket has five coupons which may be redeemed for any of the five shows included in the line-up of shows for the summer. The 1976 season includes the Rodger’s and Hammerstein great “Oklahoma” which opens

Bicentennial plans are announced

Plans for the Nappanee Bicentennial celebration has been announced by the Nappanee Independence Day committee. Stauffer and Derksen parks will be the sites of most of the scheduled events A rocking chair contest will begin the festivities on July 1 starting at 1 p.m. At 1 p.m., July 3 a Bike Rodeo will be held. The Jaycees are sponsoring a junior Olympics at 2 p.m. At 5 p.m., the youth of the

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ffFffMl...• I I OPENS FRIDAY — W. C. Fields. (Rod Steiger), deeply human in private life, falls into his onstage character of the comic who deflates pomposity and sham in Universal’s “W. C. Fields and Me,” starring Rod Steiger and Valerie Perrine. called for an innocent, naive Catholic young woman with movie ambitions, he bypassed female stars generally cast as nice girls in favor of Academy Award nominee Valerie Perrine.” who has a beautiful, poignant and innocent quality in spite of the fact that her movie roles have all been on the sexy side. She is totally believable as Carlotta and moviegoers will feel great empathy for her.” “W. C. Fields and Me,” a Jay Weston Production of an Arthur Hiller Film, also stars John Marley and Jack Cassidy, and costars Dana Elcar, Paul Stewart, Billy Barty, Allan Arbus, Milt Kamen, Lois Zorich Andrew Parks and Bernadette Peters.

for eight performances on June 16. Others listed are George Gershwin’s "Os Thee I Sing”, Neil Simon’s hit “The Odd Couple”, Lauren Bacall’s triumph of “Applause”, and the closing show, an all-time longest Broadway run musical “Hello Dolly.” Two children’s shows, “Aesops Falables” and “The Wizard of Oz” have also been scheduled.

First Brethren church will have an ice cream social. McCormick Place will be the site of a dance from 9 p.m. to 1 a m. On July 4th the historical room at the public library will be open from 1 to 4 p.m. A double-header softball game is scheduled for 1 p.m. The lineup for the parade starts at 5 p.m. July 4th. Starting time far the parade is 6 p.m. A model airplane show is scheduled for 7-30 p.m.

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