The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 13, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 23 July 1908 — Page 1

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VOL. I

NEWS FROM ALL myoom Items of Interest and Importance from All . our Neighbors. CULLINGS‘FROM EXCHANGES Warsaw is- out off from the outside world because the Western Union Telegraph company found it necessary to cut down expenses. The office is run in the daytime only. Gertrude Wilkinson has entered suit for $5,G00 against Paul Byrer, charging him with pulling her from a chair and causing her to fall in such a manner as to permanently injure her spine. The parties are Leesburg residents. The Kosciusko County Bank of Warsaw, recently closed, will pay depositors 25 per cent, about August 15. The bank will probably pay in full. A new bridge is being placed over, the sink hole between Milford and Milford Junction. I Motor cycles are used by three of the rural mail carriers of Warsaw. \ Mr. 11. L. Qldfather, manager of Silver Lakis telephone exchange bas\ an auto-buggy with which he performed a stunt that the Record of /that place jsays would make the “lc»op the look like thirty ce/nts. In trying to turn around in fclie road the machine went over a fifteen-foot embankment sideways, upset, rolled down the bank and landed right side up at the bottom, without stopping the engine, Or much discomfiting Mr. Oldfather, Who found himself right side up grasping the steering wheel. The schools of the county will be opened September 14. On account of the wide publication of the fao; that the county would probably bo fifty teachers Short, Supt, Sarberhai received many applications and there is no doubt that he will bs able to find good teachers for ail the schools. It costone young lady four cents postage to mail her application accompanied with recommendations and her photograph.

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A socialist from Marion, who was addressing a crowd on the street ii Silver Lake was rotten egged last week. A local citizen woo occupied the Stage with the speaker received most of the contribution, (rood citizens of the town deprecate the occurrence and claim that the eggs were thrown by disreputable fellows who have no standing in the community. A Very Old Newspaper. It is reported from China that the oldest newspaper in the world, the Pekin Gazette, is about to suspend publication. The first number appeared in A. D. 911 and since 1351, more than a century before the dis-, oovery of America, it has appeared regularly. The Pekin Gazette has published a daily budget.of the imperial court news and has been a repository of edicts from the throne, memorials from provincial governors and reports from Chinese officials. The Chinese Government will now supplant the publication by the establishment the Government Gazette, which will be much larger and conducted along more modern lines. It will be the official government organ. The disappearance of the Pekin Gazette is one of the signs of times illustrating the mighty changes that are coming to pass in China. The Gazette boasts a" circulation of 100,000. It has ten publishers m Canton, each of whom employs ten distributors, so that there are 100 distributors in the city and suburbs alone. It is printed from movable types and each publisher takes a certain number of copies. It is delivered every two days to subscribers, who are of two classes. The first retain the pamphlet and pay about 20 cents a month; the second pay about hal£ that sum and return the Gazette to the distributor the next time he comes around. Together with it is delivered the local “official sheet,” the matter pf which is collected from the yamens daily. This is printed from wax: blocks, which are then remelted and are available for another day’s issue. Something New. The Ideal Laundry Tablet for washing clothes.—Brady’s News Stand.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 2

A PLEA FOR A PARK ON THE LAKE Oft Grove at End of Lake Should be Bought by The Town. ANDDEOICATED TO POSIERIH After mature consideration of the matter The Journal desires to and does hereby most earnestly appeal to the Board of Trustees of the Town of Syracuse, to the Syracuse .Improvement Association, and to all the public spirited citizens of the town, collectively and individually that, before it is too late and the lands hereinafter mentioned shall have been divided up into divers possessions, a sufficient portion of the beautiful grove across the end of the lake from the foot of Main Street, with enough of the cleared land adjoining to make a ball park and a broad highway leading to it all, be purchased from the Geo. W. Ott estate and deeded to the people of the town and their posterity for all time as a public park. And then let there be money enough provided, as soon as possible, to erect in it a large building for a playroom and a shelter from rain, wherein may be held public meetings and musical concerts, and other Chatauquan entertainments, for the people of the community and their summer visitors. Now, don’t hastily decide that the accomplishment of this Would be beyond the means of the tow,n. It would: not. True, the lake front has already grown to be quite valuable, and we would have to pay a good price for it. But we have nearly two ihodsand people and a dollar from .each of them would make a good: start toward creating the necoessairy for its purchase, and who wouldn't give adollarfor each member of h s family for the accomplishment of such a purpose? And certainly we have many well-to-do personal who would gladly give much more. And the town could be taxe|i for it. Whether we can issue bonds or not, the deferred payments for the land could be spread, over a loeg term of years, and a small annual tax would meet them—a tax that; would hardly be, felt. Njo attempt will be made here to enumerate all the manifold uses to whi<bh such a park could be put, but it should be free for all kinds of picchurch conferences and meetings, etc., etc., and should be under the control of the town authorities — probably of a special board appointed or elected to have charge of it. And the town Board of Trustees that shall have the courage to establish' such a park, even though it meet present opposition on account of Ithe expense of it, will insure itself a fame that will be enduring. Our town sits on the banks of the moist beautiful of all the beautiful lakes in Indiana; the best gem upon the; bosom of the state; the most beautiful of all the splendid lakes in the! great lake region of the northwest. Nature made it one, but the B. & O. tai'road, with its low bridge across “The Channel” cut it in twain. That bridge must be raised, And by the raising of |t, thanks to our modern launches, that sit low in the wa, ter, it will be one again, as the Creator intended it should ever be. This magnificent gift, that has always lain at our feet,.jge have never properly appreciated, and the lands abutting it have gone into private hands until, except at the few streets that, luckily, run down to it in the town, we are unable to get to it without being trespassers,*and often very unwelcome ones. Nearly all the lake frontage has already been pl it ted into narrow lots, many of «Inch have private cottages on them ; and when the vacant ones shall all have been thus “improved” it is

doubtful i; the trespassing will be allowed at all. Anticipating which we should now set apart a generous strip of the best and most convenient of this frontage for the free use of those who shall come after us, forever. The tract suggested herein has many advantages. lt > is near the town, and by a slight, extension of the limits could be brought within it. Its bathing btaoh is perfect. A beautiful driveway could be made to it around the end of the lake. We ehall have more to say about this. And our columns are open and free to all to discuss the matter, and we urge that everybody feel himself free to use them. Have you any objection to offer, write it out anti we will willingly publish it. Do" you faVor it, then favor us by letting us have your arguments for publication. The Labor Problem. An exchange has the following to say of the labor situation in this country at the present time: “What’s the matter with applying a little old-fashioned common senoe to the problem of the unemployed? Instead of splitting hairs in arguments and fine-spun theories and discussions, why not take the two millions of children out of the mills, mines, factories, sweat shops and other employments of like nature where they ate working and starving out their poor little lives and put them m schools, where they belong? This would make room for the employment of half the number of adults. A million persons in demand for vacant places would offer a happy solution to the labor problem of today and make this a stronger and better nation to meet the problems of the future.” Model Insane Asylum. The model insane asylum is located in Green county, Wisconsin. The “poor farm” is operated by inmates of the insane asylum of the county. There are no “strait jackets” and a “maniac” is unknown. They are taken there as “maniacs” but never remain such, Tlpere are no dungeons or cells, but there is a feeling of calm and peace in| the atmosphere that has done more for distracted people than straitj jackets and their advocates ever thought of. The maniac, speedily becomes the patient and is taught to take an active part in the duties of the place. It is generally usefulness that awakens the forgotten Sense of dignity and makes men and women once more out of incurables. x A Rapid Increase. Few people realize with Iwhat rapidity the population of this country is We started the present century with 80,143,276 inhabitants. At the beginning of the last century there was 5,308,483 people; in 1810 there were 7,239,881; 1820, we had 9,633,822; in 1840 there were j 17,069,453; in 1860 it was 31,443321; 1880 it was 50,154,783. At the present rate of increate before many years we will pass Russia in number of inhabitants. We will also lead in number of English speaking people, as the English language is spreading twice as rapidly as any other langauge. Best line of postcards and town and lake souvenirs at the News Stand. Keep Weeds Down, Property owners should remember that the. month of August is perhaps the worst of all the months for malaria and other fever diseases. The high grasses and decaying roots, pools of stagnated water, filthly closets, etc., are all agents soliciting for Death. The town should see that alleys are kept clean and. in a sanitary condition.

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SIX LIVES LOST IN COLLISION ——r — : ' a Family of Charles Sherman King Guest and Driver Killed by I Train. MANY FiNDSHIftWASEE L Saturday afternoon the startling news ran over tLe wires that Sherman King, hi« wife, daughters Josephine and Ca ihenue, a friend Fay ma Bradshaw, ajnd the chaffeur Carl Timmts, a’Lof Fort Wayne, were instantly killed in a collision with the fast Pennsylvania train a half mile west of Columbia City. The party was enroute to Lake Wawasee to fepend Sunday with Mr. King's brother, Harry, of Wabash, who has a cottage there. They came to the crossing just sis a freight train was passing Westward. The car was stopped close to the track until the caboose was barely past them, then started to erdss the track. Probably from the noise of the machine and the freight, the party could nct|>ear the fast tra'n pounding from the west on the other side of the freight. The oar got full on the main track and the train struck it squarely in the middle c n the right side, hurling the six occupants into eternity and demolishing the machine. The body of Josephine King was carried on the pilot for a hundred yards or more before the train was stopped. The engineer, while, aware that be had struck the auto, did not know to what extent until he picked the girl from the pilot. He said she was breathing slightly, but by the time he had laid her down no breath was left. The town operator, Frank Aker, saw the collision from the tower, several railroad men near the tower, a woman at a farm house, and four people coming oil the road in a farm wagon. Aker immediately phoned for Dr. Lirivill and the ambulances from Columbia City, the coroner at Churubusco and other assistance. The mangled bodies were placed in the ambulances and takes to the morgues. The bedie® were too badly mangled to be recognized except by intimate acquaintances. Many friends came down on the next train at 4:48 from Fort Wayne. Mr. Kirg and family were well acquainted with many of our people here afad the news cast gloom in many hom es in Syracuse and at Wawasee. Mr. King and family were widely known and very popular over this end of the state especially, lie had been for the Prudential Life Insurance company for the past six years, and was held in the highest esteem of his associates in the company, The bodies were taken to Wabash where t iey were interred in the family cemetery. This fs.tal accident will probably be the me ans of getting a tunnel road u:der the track at the crossing, which will avoid any possibility of other such horrors. The railroad of ficials at one time recently tried to get the county to bear half the expense of the improvement, but they refused ,o do so, Democratic Township Convention. The democratic township convention was held in the K. P. Opera house last Saturday afternoon. At 2:30 p. m. Charles Bachman called the meeting to order, and G. W. Miles was chosen chairman and G. O. Smith secretary. After a short talk on the principles advocated by the party and the pride its members oould feel in belonging to it this year the chairman invited remarks from those present, in response to which Mr. J. P. Dolan spoke of the efficient work that had been done in the interests of the tax payers of the »

county officers, and proposed that a committee he appointed to draft resolutions commending them for the snme. The proposal being favorably received Mr. Dolan, B. F. Hcopingarner and Isaac Grady were appointed as such committee and reported the following, which was unanimously adopted. y Whereas, the people of KosciuslAo county in 1906 threw off the yoke of political bondage by electing all the Democratic candidates to fill the county offices, in the hope that reforms would be instituted, economy practiced, and plain, simple honesty-observed by said men chosen as the servants of the people, and Whereas, after a two years observance of the practices of these officers we find that they have fearlessly and honestly worked to redeem the pledges macle before election, and that they have succeeded in making great savings for the people,and iu securing the return of much money unlawfully taken from the county treasury, and have otherwise earned the approbation and continued suppo t of the people, therefore, be it ; Resolved that we, the Democrats and Other citizens in convention assembled this 18th day of July, 190 S, do hereby [voice our approval, and promise our hearty support, of said county officers and their assistants for their efficient and .splendid services as such officers—1st —By large savings in the administration of the offices. ' 2nd—By strictly obeying the laws in the matter of distributing the public 'moneys. 3rd— By publicity and square dealir g in making contracts for supplies, public ditches,..bridges and culverts. 4th—By an honest observance of the laws respecting fees and salaries. And to this end we earnestly invite all our people of every political propensity to unite with us in continuing these men in office so as to complete and perpetuate the good work so favorably begun. Committee— ISAAC GRADY. B. F. HOOPINGARNER. J. P. DOE AN. • J. M. Treesb placed in nomination Alexander Lutz, and Isaac Grady announced the name of Henry W. Shook as candidates for the nomination for township trustee. Thos. E. Snavely and Chas. Crow were appointed tellers to colleof the vote, whioh was: for Mr. Shook 43 and for Mr. Lutz 18 Mr. Shook was declared nominated. For assessor the names of Solomon Lung and John L. Norris were placed before the convention, the former by Dr. L. W, Ford and the latter by B. F. Hoop-( ingarner. Mr. Lung received 18 votes and Mr. Norris 40. Mr. Norris was thereupon declared to be nominated. A collection was taken up and $9.30 was donated to pay for the use of the opera bouse, and tor other necessary expenses. G. O. Smith, Seo’y. Try ZA-MIA the new pile cure; immediate relief. Money refunded if not satisfied. Price 50 cents at | our office or either drug store !

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NO. 13

SPEEDING OF ■ AUTOMOBILISTS ■ Careless Ones Are Racing L. On Main Thorough/ fare Here. ACCIDENTS SURE TO OCCUR There ares many, we may say the majority, of autcists who visit Syracuse and Wawasee who are considerate of the rights of the public, but there are a few who utterly ignore the fact that they are within the limits of the town, while riding through the business portion. » The corner of Main and Huntington streets is made extremely dangerous or an d pedestrians by some 0 these speed fiends, as a view of the icterseoting street is entirely shut off by solid business blocks on all corners, and it is impossible to see the approaching machines until almost in the publia square. Some of these times some child or Mme person driving on the street will get .n the path of one of these machines add a serious accident will result. Why not put a stop to the nuisance before an accident occurs? A fine of a few dollars after a serious acci dent will not mend broken bones nor restore a life. * Trustee’s Funds. County Treasurer Irvine has received from the state $16,820, and is ready to pay trustees the amounts due them. All business following the last semi-annual settlement bad been completed and the Treasurer was on y wailing for the state to make iti appointment. Injured on Excursion Train. The rear coach of an excursion train collided with a grain chute which extended from Knisey Bros, elevator at Silver Lake, .Friday. The train was being run from Marion and other southern towns. Two persons were injured. The Oldest Apple Tree Known. The oldest ap.ple tree in these United States is said to be on the (•Id fetar dish place, Weatherfield, Mass., and was planted in I63B4making it .279 years old. Brady has The Journal and other good rending on sale at the News Stand. '