The Mail-Journal, Volume 19, Number 43, Milford, Kosciusko County, 10 November 1982 — Page 11

It happened ... in Syracuse

16 YEARS AGO. NOV. 8.1873 County and local officers investigated an attempted breakin, after midnight last night, at the Kale Island Beacon restaurant near Syracuse. Door glass in a back entry was broken and the lock turned to gain entry, however, the attempted burglars were frightened off by a burglar alarm and nothing was reported as disturbed inside. Syracuse volunteer firemen responded to a call at 5:40 pm. Thursday, when a pan of grease on the stove at the Tom Robinson home, 300 North Harrison, burst into flames. In attempting to douse the fire curtains became enflamed, however, the fire was out before firemen arrived Fredrick J. Laskowski, a 22year old former South Bend man. has been named director of the Lakeland Youth Center, located in Wawasee Village, south of Syracuse. Mrs. Betty Dust and daughter

Refund checks returned to Uncle Sam, undeliverable

According to Paul D. Williams, IRS Indianapolis district director, 775 refund checks worth $324,191.90 were returned by the postal service as undeliverable in this area. The Internal Revenue Service is trying to locate these residents Williams said the taxpayers may have moved or changed their last names during the year and failed to notify the IRS. or the handwriting may simply be illegible When a refund is returned by

• JIVING***? „ _ . 11/®I 1 /® 2 D I£\UARTERS Community! Q 1 decor naturally .. . with wicker & rattan It's A Lot ■ I J Your Exclusive Area Dealer For ... ' • Vogue Rattan • Ficks Reed Mm*O • Brown Jordan • Typhoon Wicker HlUrv > ! Hisgff .<1 JU ‘ ,A !W ; i £■’s H Bedroom! I JHK\ ® -niidfc* -4 ' Among the things that make our town such a fas- £ m cinating place to live with its many advantages are (1) M J a fine mixture of wonderful people, and (X) the wide M variety of good businesses. Linda Phillabaum. owner of the Living Quarters, is pictured with the Our local stores and service firms go to great lengths new .. and expense to serve you and serve you well. „ vogue rattan Dll U B \ they pay stay at home to help YOU and your family. 0 A Their goal is to keep our town a wonderful place /° nSer tant f live... and a great olace to do business. M • \ And, they can use your help. It Pays to Trade !■> t ■■ !■■ . three fags drive-in U In Syracuse w«hm«wm. 457-m» ««,.»s,s,<««• U hasagonoi utve J Illi Furniture, Appliances & Carpet gllddiUhlHf t 4 11 Uptown Village — Fi»h Hatchery I • ■ ’ SvrSCUSe B PO Box 127 — 457-3165—Member FDIC I J - I J • .r. K> »*» eWO n - j&v ~o • -dth- X . HEYDE % w jOc • G Service Center & fafl**7, rrßO „ I Convenience Store I£\UARTERS Thun Till Noon) Cwty-Ow ’ 1 300 S. HUNTINGTON I I / ‘ STRAWS* ' MT »»3s Syracuse A 45?-29« D* PONANDERSON TUI usnc basket |1 wB iraO SERVICE CENTER • llyajglg! "tft The TttfMt fear C*f Barbara scantun 'XJ|Sgfc' •.»-*->«-«, “ «7 ST? M§jpr 71J R. I*. 457-5741 Sf«~ „, ACU «

Robin, of Syracuse, returned Sunday from a three-day trip to Minnesota, where they visited the former’s aunt, Edna Grenacher, and cousin Mary, and Dr. Robert Meller and family, all near Minneapolis. Mrs. Ted Rogers, r 1, Syracuse (Lake Wawasee) is expected home today (Wednesday) from San Francisco, where she has been staying briefly £wi th her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Anton (Tony) Johnson. 20 YEARS AGO. NOV. 8,1962 Mrs. Dean Grady, of Syracuse, was guest of honor at a surprise birthday dinner Tuesday evening given by members of her Tuesday night bowling team and their sponsor. Sponsored by Foo & Faye’s Restaurant, the dinner and birthday cake, decorated in bowling fashion was enjoyed at the restaurant by the following: Mrs. Grady. Mrs. Foo Wong.

the postal service, the IRS attempts to find the taxpayer and deliver the checks, but there are always some who cannot be found If you flunk you may be due aTefund and have moved or changed your name during the year, contact the IRS at (800) 3829740. Taxpayers listed below should call the IRS to receive their refund: Kathy S Lambert. Leesburg; and John F. and Sharon L. Lutz, Syracuse

Mrs. George Thornburg, Mrs. Eugene Henning, Mrs. Charles Searfoss and Mrs. Dean Ryan. Mrs. Charles Frushour, of Syracuse, is the proud winner of two new 1963 Mercury automobiles in a contest held by the Mercury agencies of America. A two-page telegram from Detroit informed Mrs. Frushour of this fact Tuesday morning. She will receive a new Mercury Monterey custom, 4door sedan, and a Mercury Comet custom convertible. Bobbing for apples was the highlight of a Halloween party held by Carl, 9; and Cheryl, 7; children of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hadley, of rural Syracuse, for several of their friends. To all but one, this was their first apple bobbing attempt. Mr. and Mrs. He-man Huey, of Syracuse, left Wednesday for their winter home in Golfport. Miss. A new 20 by 20 foot concrete block addition is being added to the Nicolai Machine Shop in Syracuse to accommodate increased business in the small tractor and lawnmowe end of the business, according to Harry Nicolai, owner. Since becoming the area agent for the famous Wheelhorse tractor, the firm has enjoyed a splendid increase in business. Walter Gilbert is plant superintendent and Herman Brokers is a new man in the service department. 30 YEARS AGO. NOV. 7,1952 A large barge, 75 feet long, used years ago in transporting marl on Lake Wawasee, was raised last week from the lake bottom in the channel near

Macy’s Slip, by John Sudlow and his crew of men from the Pier Slop. The barge had been in the lake for 26 years, and boats going in and out of the channel had, for all those years, been swinging out around the sunken craft. Keith Cripe, proprietor of the Wawasee Manufacturing plant, has purchased the concrete block building owned by Tom Christman and Mrs. Nie Vought, and will move his plant machinery there within a few weeks. The building is located west of the Wawasee Locker plant, and contains 7,000 square feet of floor space, with four lots. Mr. Cripe will use his present building, on Boston Street for storage space. Mrs. M. Louise Connolly will go to Chicago Sunday to attend the spring fashion shows. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Darr. Jessee Darr, and Mrs. Ray Darr, left Thursday to spend ten days with Pvt. Ray Darr, stationed at Camp Gradon, Ga. They also expect to visit points of interest in Florida. Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Yoder and children left Wednesday for Jeffersonville. Ind., for the week end with Mrs. Yoder’s mother, Mrs Mamie Wessner. 56 YEARS AGO. NOV. 10.1932 Mrs. Robert Deutsch and her sons. Bruce and Jean, had a narrow escape from asphyxiation at their home on Kale Island last Friday morning. Work on cutting back the hill at the intersection of roads 13 and 6 was started Monday afternoon by the Moerling Construction Co. of Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Long

planned to close their home on Kale Island, after election and move back to Chicago for the winter. Mrs. Long is accompanied by her mother aad sister, who spent the summer with her. Mr. Long will return to Chicago later, as he went east on business Tuesday afternoon. Last Thursday, on her way to pay taxes, Mrs. A. E. Coy stopped in the office here to show us an unusual $5 bill, which they had received in payment for poultry which they had sold. It was of the series of 1875, dated, Elkhart National Bank, Feb. 15, 1881. It was a national bank note, larger in size than present day notes and had different engraved matter on it, but it was legal tender. Car/deer mishap L. A. Showalter, 28,14182 CR 52 Syracuse, was involved in a car deer accident on Wednesday, Nov. 3, at 4:30 p.m. The accident occurred on CR 29 near CR 146 in Elkhart County. Showalter was driving southeast on CR 29 when his 1976 Datsun B-210 struck a deer which ran onto the roadway. Elkhart County Sheriff’s Cpl. Tom Snider estimated damage at more than S2OO. Syracuse men booked for DWI Kosciusko County Police booked two Syracuse residents on charges of driving while intoxicated recently. Booked were Gary William Meier, 25. r 3 Syracuse, and Bobby Lee Burchett, 25. 430 East Boston St., Syracuse. Both were released on their own recognizance.

'Trail of Truth'

(SEVENTH IN A SERIES) By DALE W. PARKER In “American Literature and Christian Doctrine.” professor Randall Stewart states, “the Bible has been the greatest single influence on our literature ...” James Fenimore Cooper, our first novelist of any real stature despite his shortcomings, not only helped to found the American Bible Society, but also made a habit of reading 100 verses of the Bible with his wife every morning before breakfast. The unconscious or subliminal effect of Biblical poetry and prose has been even more extensive. Hawthorne, for example, speaks with a nostalgia of “the old wooden meeting house in Salem, Mass., which used, on wintry sabbaths, to be the frozen purgatory of my Childhood.” The narrator in Mrs. Stowe s “Oldtown Folks” recalls a local Connecticut tradition that communion was once "administered under a temperature which actually froze the sacred elements while they were being distributed.” She continues to speak of “winter sessions in that old “meeting-house during which I sat with my poor dangling feet perfectly numb and paralyzed with cold.” One time associate justice of the Superme Court. Joseph Story, who was deeply influential in the development of the American legal tradition, interpreted the religion clauses of the Bill of Rights in just such terms:

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“The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion ... One Almighty God , the responsibility to him for all of our actions .... a future state of rewards and punishments; the cultivation of all the personal, social and benevolent virtues; — these never can be a matter of indifference in any well-ordered community. It is indeed difficult to conceive how any civilized society can well exist without them.” The influence and significance of Christianity as a cultural reality in the new nation was obvious to visitors who commented upon it. Francis Grund who immigrated to the United States from Austria after viewing American life said, “The religious habits of the Americans form not only the basis of their private and public morals but have become so thoroughly interwoven with their whole course of legislation that it would be impossible to change them without affecting the very essence of their government. ” Through wars, depression, national emergencies, it has been the Bible and its truth that has taught solid moral sacrifice, righteousness and humility. Veterans by the thousands have sacrificed their lives in great and heroic causes to further the liberty and freedom of our future generations. Let us always thank God forour American veterans. Revivalism spread throughout early America under the preaching of Edwards, Whitefield, Wesley and Finney. For many thousands of black slaves, the word of God was their message of hope. We can visualize a very cultural, everyday conversation such as: “I got borned on the Bayou Teche, dost to Opelousas. That in Saint Mary’s Parish, in Louisiana, and I belonged to Tolas Parsons, what had ’bout five hundred slaves, counting the big ones and the little ones, and he had God know what else. When my eyes just barely fresh open, Marse Tolas die and will the whole lot of us to he brother, Tolas Parsons. And I tells you that Marse William am the greatest man what ever walk this earth. That’s the truth. I can’t lie on him when the poor man’s in he grave. “When us niggers go down the road, folks say. Them's Parsons’ niggers. Don’t hit one them niggers for God’s sake, or Parsons sure eat your jacket up.’ “Aunt Rachel what cook in the big house for Miss Cornelia had four younguns and them children fat and slick as I ever seen. All the niggers have to stoop to Aunt Rachel just like they curtsy to Missy. I mind the time her husband. Uncle Jim, git mad and hit her over the head with the poker. A big knot raise up on Aunt Rachel’s head, and when Marse quire ’bout it, she say she done bump the head. She dasn’t tell on Uncle Jim or Marse sure beat him. “Miss Sidney was Marse’s first wife, and he had six boys by her. Then he marry the widow Cornelia, and she give him four boys. With ten children springing up quick like that and all the colored children coming long fast as pig

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litters, I don’t do nothing all my days, but nurse, nurse, nurse. I nurse so many children it done went and stunted my growth. “When late of night come, iffen them babies wake up and bawl, I set up a screech and outscreech them till they shut their mouth. The louder they bawl, the louder I bawl. Late o’ night wit da pains in my back, I just read a book, the good book. Some day, some day, the head massa gonna come who knew the whip, who knew the scorn, who understands all. He's gonna give me a house n some white clothes n a body that ain’t hurt’n none. “Uh huh, boy he sure did fool them soldiers when he walked out o’ dat cemetery. When they looked around he was gone, gone, gone. Uh huh, Iwould sure like to seen dem facesßallaloo! Rook of ages! Cleft for me! He done died for a poor of worthless black like me.” Truth kindled in the fires of the Reformation continued to spread by faithful missionaries and distributors of holy scriptures. Many outreached hands received the gospel because unselfish people cared for their eternal destiny. Translators with God’s empowerment copied the Scriptures in languages throughout the world The Scriptures show us what we are. not what we think we are. The natural heart of man shrinks from looking into it, yet to see oneself as revealed in the mirror of scripture is the first step to the true way to God. Since the fall of man, man’s mind has been and is under the power of darkness. He cannot see because the darkness has blinded his eyes. God has graciously provided an unfailing light and that light is His word Man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from God The word of God shatters to pieces all selfish pride and lovingly and tenderly rebuilds a life in a manner that pleases God. No injuries at 6 and 15 accident No injuries were reported in a two-vehicle accident at US 6 and SR 15 at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5. Involved were Leilani J. Nemeth. 39, 701 Medusa St.. Syracuse and Kenneth Rhoda, 68. 68196 Walnut St., New Parig. According to Elkhart County Sheriff’s Sgt. Lamar Haney. Rhoda was southbound on SR 15 when he apparently disregarded a red traffic signal. His auto entered the intersection striking the Nemeth auto which was eastbound on US 6. Sgt. Haney reported both drivers claimed to have a green light. However, witnesses reported the light was red for north-south traffic qt the time of the mishap. Damage was estimated at over S2OO to both Rhoda's 1975 Datsun and to Mrs. Nemeth’s 1976 Oldsmobile. Booked on warrant George Richard Casto. 38, r 1 Milford, was booked at the Kosciusko County Jail on a county court bench warrant. He was released on his own recognizance. \ . j.

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