The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 15, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 6 August 1908 — Page 1

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NEWS OF KOSCIUSKO & ■ COUNTIES Items of General Interest Con - corning Our Near Neighbors CULLED FROM OUR EXCHANGES In the matter of the Lesh Mfg. Co,, special judge McNagny, after commending Mr. John N. Runyan for bis conduct of the company's business affairs, held that he should return to it $1,738.93 of moneys misappropriated, and that, a receiver should be appointed. According to the Warsaw Times some bass were actually caught last week in Winona lake! Mr. W. N. Graves, an ex-soldier and an old and respected citizen of Pierceton, died last week. The Pierceton Record has a correspondent who sends it the news gossip from the “Streets of Paradise,” located in the garden of Eden, to-wit:—Kosciusko County, Indiana. Mr. H. S. Kaufman, late of the schools of Covington, Ind., has been made superintendent of the schools of Warsaw. Goshen hid two attempted suicides last week, one of which was . successful. Riley Brown, visiting with his stepfather, David Brown, near the soap factory, swallowed morphine, but two doctors were* summoned and pumped it out of him, Jesse Method, aged 36, son of John J, Method, of Millersburg, and a brother of Rollo Method, of Milford. dp»wned himsell in tlie hydraulic canal. lie was employed as a finisher in the Hawks furniture factory. While living in Milford a year ago, his wife secured a divorce from him, with possession of their three children. She now lives in Leesburg.* Francis Neff, of tie Neff Brothers, „Milford, has invented and had paten Veda folding farm gate that is said to be quite novel and useful. life Milford Mail gives publicity to an insidious report, intended to do him great harm in his candidacy, that Ed. Higbee eats more at a church festival dinner than he does at home! J

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Tho property of Kosciusko County, exclusive of the railroadsand telephone and express companies, is assessed at more than $18,000,000. The Kosciusko County council has appropriated SI,OOO for repairs on the court house. The Mail says there is a demand for more business rooms in Milford and urges people with money to invest to construct them. Jas. E. Watson, Republican odminee for governor, will speak in Nappanee sometime in September. The annual reunion of the 74th regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry will be held at Goshen Sept. 24. Syracuse has several residents who were tnembers.of this regiment. The democrats of Elkhart County will hold their county convention at Goshen on Saturday, August 15. Hon. C. G. Conn will oome back from his California trip, with the champion fish story. At the Santa, 1 Catalina islands near Los Angeles (Loce Ang-el-ess — pronounce it right, please) be is said to have captured five sea bass that weighed 80S pounds; the smallest of which weighed U 8 pounds and the largest 206. Dr. Eisenbeiss, of Elkhart,‘One off the oldest residents of the county, who was years ago acoociated with Drs. Latta and Jackson, of Goshen, died last week, aged 75 years. I Speaking of the excellent wheat market at Nappanee the News, of that place, says of this year’s crop: “The wheat crop in the marketing distance of Nappanee is unusual. The 35,000 bushels taken in at the local flouring mill 35 bushels to the acre, and the Average weight was 63 pounds to the bushel. Nothing has never beaten this. Some of the wheat of course runs as high as 43 bushels to the acre, and the weight as high as 65 pounds. What would you think of that?” A seven pound daughter was last week born to the wife of Robert C. Smith, ex-undertaker, of Warsaw, who is 80 years old. The mother is 30. A team hitched to the delivery wagon of M. Shookman & Son ran away in Goshen, last week, collided with a telephone pole, and were so badly injured that it was necessary to kill both of them.

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THE AVERAGE SPAN J OF LIFE IN INDIANA Record Kept by Dr. Hurty, Secretary, State Board of * Health. BEST RECORD IN NORTH PART T:: b- ■ Dr. J, N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, for the past two years has kept a record of the average age at which people die in Indiana, and has just completed the compilation of his figures for 1907, After these records shall have been kept for ten years or more it will be possible to tell at what rate the average life is lengthening. The average age at which death came in Indiana in 1907 was 42.83 years. The average age in 1906 was 39.1 years. “Comparison of these figures would seem to indi cate,” said Dr. Hurty, “that life is getting longer in Indiana. This may be true, but I believe that no definite conclusions can be based on figures for only two years.” It is interesting to note that in 1907 fifteen persons died in Indiana at ages ranging from ninety-eight to 113 years. These persons, with their ages and places of residence, were as follows: Martha Stafford Thurman, 105 years four months twenty-five days; Pickards, Ind., Clinton county. Miles Carrigan, 101 years nine months twenty-seven days; Lebanon, Ind., Boone county. Hugh Wiatt, 109 years two months two days; Thornton, Ind., Boone county. George S. Homme), 108 years one month twenty-one days, Brownstown, Ind., JaCskson county. Jack Hill (colored), slave, 105 years; Madison, Ind., J efterson tyAmerica Welsh (female, black), 103 years; Center township, Jennings county. Anna Mary Wampler; ninetyeight years one month eight days; Knox, county. Tina Minisko, 113 years; county asylum, Laporte county. Edmond Franklin (colored), 107 years; 709 W. Eleventh st., Indianapolis, Marion county, Dinah Tibbles (colored), 105 years eleven months nine days; Tell City; Perry county. Melvina Bell Bradley (colored), 106 years; Ayershire, Ind., Pike county, 3 Alexander Miller, ninety-eight years ten months thirteen days; Pike county. Wesley Borders, ninety-nine years four months twelve days; Pulaski county. Hannah W. Hendrick, ninetyeight years six months eleven days; Putnam county. Adrian George Dirks, 100 years two months twenty-three days; Rip ley county. Excepting Ohio county, wherein the average was 51.47 years, the highest average ages of those who died in 1907 occurred iu the northern counties of the state, as follows: DeKalb, 51.02; Fulton, 51.09; Noble 51.01; Lagrange, 50 98; Whitley, 50.58. Union county, also, shows aa average of 50.6 'The average life in Kosciusko county was 46.73 yea r s. Iu Vermillion county it was 29.03 and in Lake 28.19, these records being the lowest in the state. Greene comes next with an average of 32.01 and after it Lawrence with 33.02. Sullivap, 33.26 and Porter with 33.78. Elkhart shows an average of 46.3, Steuben 48.43. So, taking the six northeastern counties of the slate: Steuben, Dekalb, Lagrange,,Noble, Elkhart and Kosciusko, the average age at death in 1907 was 49.08 years. The Journal doubts whether

any other section of equal extent in the United States can make so got d a showing. Lady’s Purse Stolen. On the street in New Paris one day last week two young fellows grabbed the purse of Mrs. Michael Copenhaver, who resides near this place, and ran away with it. The fellows were later apprehended in Goshen, but Mrs. Copenhaver refused to follow and prosecute them and they were reluctantly released by the officers. There was but little money in the purse. Messena Released. Miss Hanet D. Frazer signed the S2OOO bond for Roy Massena last week and he was released from jail. He will be given an opportunity to go over the treasurer’s books and explain, if possible, his connection with the county shortage. It is thought that some of Mr. Massena’s personal friends agreed to indemnify Miss Frazer against loss in case he fail to show up at the September term of court. ‘ County Teachers’ Institute. The Kosciusko county teachers’ institute will be held in the high school budding at Warsaw August 24 to 28, and inasmuch as the new law provides that all teachers who attend shall have 2 per cent, added to their general average grade, which will add from five to seven cents a day to the wages of each of them, there will probably be a large attendance. Supt. Sarber says that be is promised excellent help, and be expects the institute to be a most profitable one. Hope For Lamphere. Chemists of the Rush Medical college, Chicago, report that they found arsenic and strychnine, in fatal quantities, in the stomachs of Mrs. punness and her children, sent to That institution for analysis, on the strength of which report attorneys for Lamphere are asking that he be released on babaes corpus, their theory being that the death of the Gunness family was not due to fire, but that the mother, after feeding the children poisoned c-acdy she had purchased the day before, took poison herself, and, before expiring, Set fire to the house with her own hands. Syracuse Water Power Co. Meeting The annual meeting of the Syracuse Water Power Company was held on the porch of Mr. Jos. K. Lilly’s ..cottage at WaWasee on Thursday of last week. The report of. Mr. Jos P. Dolan, secretary and treasurer, showed funds on hand sufficient for a dividend of about five per cent, on the stock of the company, but inasmuch as it is. desired that there be constructed at the dam here new controlling works, so that the water levels of the lake can be better regulated, and as representatives of the Wawasee Protective Association present gave assurance that that association was willing to pay a portion of the cost of such improvement, no dividend was declared. Mr. T. J. Frazier, president of the Water Power Company will return on Saturday next and be present at the meeting of the Protective Association when the matter will be further considered. And, by the way, it should be remembered that the Protective Association extends an invitatoin to all who ara interested in the affairs of the lake to attend and take part in its meeting to be held at The Inn at 2 o’clock next Saturday afternoon. Brady bae just received 1000 copies of McKinley 10csheet music.

THE AGITATION rOR BETTERJUGHWAYS People of This and Marshall County becoming Inters ested. THE PETmONJF MhTdANNER The Journal is impelled to go snooks with its neighbor, the (Pierceton Keoord, which indorsed what we had to say sometime ago regarding the improvement of our roads. At any rate, we heartily give our indorsement to the following which appeared iu that esteemed journal last week:“Marshall, the Democratic county which adjoins Kosciusko, to the west, is much interested in the good road movement, which is spreading like wild fire, according to the Bourbon News Mirror. In Kosciusko there is a petition now before the county commissioners for an improved road paved with stone, gravel or other road paving material, signed by Alvin Danner et al, which will come before the county commissioners on Aug. 4th, and the petition will undoubtedly be granted. This road will be an object lesson and its improvement in a substantial and durable manner, making it a suitable highway at all times and seasons of the year for ordinary travel and for the regular trips of the United States rural mail carriers is certain to pave the way for the improvement of other roads in the county until Kosciusko will take rank with her sister coubtiek to the south in the matter of highways. The good road question is catching—just like measl’es. “The Plymouth Democrat.has the following to sav about improving highways under the new law: “We are pleased to note the general interest that is being taken in the efforts to start a movement for good roads. Marshal county has poorer roads than any Other county 'in Northern Indiana and the vicinity of Plymouth seems to be the wbrst in the country.”—[Beg pardon, but the Democrat editor would know more if he’d make a trip to Lake Wawasee.] A “Farmers find that they can haul twice as much grain at a load on good roads and where they have been built the farm values have increased from $lO to S2O per acre. Farmers, though they did not want to be taxed for road improvement, before the improvements were made, have changed their opinions and would not have the splendid stone roads removed for three times their cost. The cost of road improvement is now taxed against all property of a township and the expense does riot fall heavily upon anyone. By all means let’s push the good road agitation. Let some public spirited farmer draw up a petition or have one drawfi up in compl ance with the statute and circulate it. It requires but fifty names to get a road under the three mile law, “In our effort to bring the attention of our farmers to the importance of having good roads, and our consequent promulgation of the great good they will do, we do not lose sight of the fact that we are not the only ones to have a say. Those who are opposed to our methed of making the roads better perhaps have a method of doing it and accomplishing almost as much good as by our way. Such as believe this certainly have the privilege of using cur columns to express their views. Because we are heartily in favor of the method advocated by us and many we have interviewed, is no reason why others should not be allowed to have tbeir say. To this end we cordially invite all to contribute their views, j “In discussing the matter from all

points we should, jpeak freely but carefully and when the affair is settied one way or the other all should be satisfied. I’here is no special hurry in so large an undertaking so let us investigate every phase of rt and intelligently arrive at a conclusion.” Railroad Bridge Bathing Nuisance. —3 • The town authorities have ordered, and hereby give notice that nude bathing at the railroad bridge must be stopped at once and anyone caught violating this order will be arrested and fined for indecency There are now three public launches that run regularly between the lakes carrying passengers, besides the large ufimUerl of private ones that must pass under this.bridge on account of which the bathing nuisance there can no longer be tolerated. W e hope that, everybody interested Will take due notice of this order, so that it will not be necessary for some unfortunate one to pay a fine, as it surely will be if the order be not obeyed. 1 ■ > Near Beer Prohibited. In answer to a. letter addressed to him by Mr, J, B. Watson, a Warsaw druggist, Mr. James Bingham, attorney general of Indiana, writes as follows: “My Dear Mr. Watson: — “The acts of 1907 (Acts 1907, p.. 28 and p. 689) do not authorize druggists to sell any kind of liquors, either on prescription or upon application. It is only “vinous and spirituous” liquors that such druggists may legally sell. “If Malt Marrow,” “Pabst’s Best Tonic,” “Wyeth's Malt,” “Hoff's Malt,” “Winona,” “Near Beer,” dr any other preparations are, in fact malt liquors, you can not legally sell them. Whether a given product is malt liquor or intoxicating liquor, is a question of fact and not of law, and hence I would not assume to express my opinion concerning it. — “I think malt liquors intended to be used as a beverage can only be sold by I holders of retail liquor licenses, and the question of whether such liquors are intoxicating is immaterial. “Not being authorized by law to give you an official opinion, the above is my private opinion only. I suggest that ■ you should consult your local attorney. “Yours very truly, JAMES BINGHAM, Attorney Genera'.” For sale—Oo easy payments one cushion tire single buggy. 8. L, Ketring.

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DOH'T APPROVE IDE FIIESLNT FISH LAWS “Anti/Fish and Game Legion** to be Organized in Marshall Co. LAWS ENFORCED VINDICTIVELY #— — — People over around Pierceton and in Marshall county are clamoring for repeal of out present fish lava. ■ A Bourbbn correspondent says an organ'zation is to be perfected to be called the “Anti Fish and Game Legion,’ to repeal the fish and game laws and restore the people to their natural rights to fish. He adds that the Association will insist on a law to prohibit the indiscriminate killing and waste of fish and that the law be enforced to the letter. Just what all this means is, as Lord Dundreary would say, “One of those things no fellow can - find out. ’ If the farmers and othersdiying about the smaller lakes in this section of the state honestly desire that the game fishes have protection, but believe the present laws could be made more equitable or better in any way, and they will formulate their ideas into some sqrt of reasonable prepesitten they may be assured of respectful consideration, - and they need not organize under any such unfortunate name as “Anti Fish and Game Legion.” If their desire is that the present laws be repealed and everybody be permitted ’ to fish as he please, as that name would seem to indicate, why, that 18 another matter. •On the othir hand, there is much reason for criticism ot the present fish and game commission for the coarse, brutal, and oftentimes vin* diotive manner m which the laws are being enforced. The personnel of the force of deputies employed is not creditable, tiome of them, too, receive no regular salaries, but are given a fixed price for each conviction they secure, and not being gentlemen of a high order of moral ethics, it is not likely that they have in view so much the protection of the fish as the securing of their fees. It is possible to enforce the fish I laws in such manner as to popularize I them, and this has been done, to a I great extent, around Lake Wawasee I where the enforoedient of them has I been largely under the direction of I the Wawasee Protective Association, J which has tried to see that they were I not enforced in auy vindictive man- I ner. But the deputies ought to be I of a higher order of honor and intel- I ligence than those heretofore em- I ployed, even though the necessity I of paying larger salaries to secure I such men should render it necessary I to employ fewer of them. And the I vicious plan of making, a deputyl salary dependant on tne number of I convictions he secures should be I abandoned. I