The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 43, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 February 1909 — Page 1

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COBffilAL CLUB' HDLDSA MEETING Raising* of. B. & O. Railroad Bridge Under Discussion. The Syracuse Commercial Chib met in special session Thursday evening, 19, in the office of A. L, Cornelius. The object of the meeting was to take steps of a definiten.'tn' to have the B. <fc O. bridge raised about two feet so that launch , i uio be made, to pass under trona Wawasee Lake to Syracuse •Lake. A comimunioation from Mr. Fiazier to J.P. Dolan was read, in which he stated that the matter did not come under his jurisdiction, and refetr.- ! the matter to Mr. Duer, sin) -r; • •rclcut of the Chicago division. A motion was put and carried d i |comii|ittee be appointed by fth • < hair to confer with Mr. Duer, p i Ch|s A. Sudlow,. of Indianapolis, Daniel Zook, l of ,Nappaneep G . W. Miles, of the Wawasee I’r ‘active Association; and A. L. L'ornehbs, J. U. Wingard, H. J, Hi y anjd J. W. Messimore for the ' Commercial Association. Messrs, Laton, Durand and Clark, of Chicago, wlere named as an 'aux-, illiary .committee to the above comnfitte-’, with A. L. Cornelius ks chairman. . Chas ; A. Sudlow was made a memlWof the Commeroial A'ssdeiatmn. -l , The time for the committee to go to Chicago and. confer with the B. A U. offi . iaD was .left to the discretion of she chairman, and he will notify the committee when to gb. The int r-s-t taken by the Commercial Club, and those who make Lake tfrieir summer home, to get tnelbridge raised is commend able, and if siicbessful in accomplishing their desire, will be of much value to our j.own, and also to the cottagers at the lake. ' "Every citizen should attend the meetings of the Commercial Club, join it, and assist them in building up our rapid growing city.

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On January 28, 1909, the Com nieroial Association adopted a resolution declaring that the citizens of Syracuse, generally, were under obligations to Anthony Deahl, o Goshen; J. K. Lilly, of Indianapolis; Daniel Zook, of Nappanee; C. A. Sudlow, of Indianapolis; and the I cottagers’ committee, for the broad and liberal spirit manifested by them in the negotiations which resulted in the settlement between the property owners and the ;Sandusky-Port-land Cement Co., iind instructions to the secretary, Roy Riddle, to transmit to each of them a dopy of it, which was done, and the secretary is in receipt of the following letter which explains itself. “Some time ago.l received from you a copy of the resolution passed by your association, and I desire to extend to you and the association an”.l all who had any ’hand or connection with this resolution, my sincere thanks and high appreciation for the kindly words and the action taken. 1 have felt that this entire matter ought never to get into the courts, and that it ought to be adjusted along the line that we have finally agreed upon, and it is my sincere hope .that the contract will'ba carried out to the letter. 1 have felt that the dredging of the lake will in some manner be detrimental; but this we Should all forego, as on the other hand there will be benefits deriv d by persons who will receive employment, and that in the end no one will suffer any substantial injury. J “Again thanking you, I beg to remain, Yours truly, ' Anthony Deahl.” New Millinery The Misses Lou land Blanche Haney have purchased the millinery stock of Mrs. Lon Hire and will open a new millinery store in the near future hi the Hotel Holton. Miss Blanche left for Chicago Saturday .vhere she will remain for some time as an employee of one of the largest wholesale concerns in the city. Announcement Os their opening will be given upon her return home.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY MORNING,'FEB. 25, 1909.

THE PISSING OF MISSJIMY ABER Died at Wolf Lake Friday—Burial at Syracuse Sunday. “Immortal! I feel it, and know it; Who doubts it of such as she!’’ Miss Amy S. Aber died of apoplexy at the home of her niece, Mrs. John Younoe, at Wolf Lake, last Friday, Feb. 19, ar.d was buried in Syracuse cemetery on Sunday afternoon from the Church of God, where she bad been a faithful member for nearly half a century, and where the venerable Rev. Joseph Bumpus, who had known her most of that time, delivered a touching funeral oration. Miss Aber was born at Orleans, in Yates county, New York, July 14, 1836. When an infant her parents moved to Middlebury, in Elkhart county, from whence, after the death of her father there in 1860, she removed to Syracuse, and took up her abode with her sister, who had been married to Mr. W. A. Mann, of this place. Here her life was spent; and a life of exceeding great usefulness it was. She was a most beloved teacher in the school of the village for many years—from her arrival here until somewhere in the ’7o’s—and many are the men and women now of middle age whose eyes will moisten as they learn of her death, and their memories carry them back Ho their youth time and to her as she was then—vivacious, hopeful, kindly, lofty of sentiment and always and altogether unselfish, pure of mind and heart—and they realize what an influence for good her teachings and her precepts have been to them. Her instincts were those of a busiuesSjWoman, and her ventures were fairly suocesssul; but the profits of them always went for charity, and for the good of those she loved, and, though her tastes were simple and her life unostentatious, her unselfishness kept her poor. At the close of her career as a teacher was appointed to the postoffice, and this she kept, ih connection with a little store, wh'cb, now enlarged, is the Fair Emporium of M. C. Truesdell, until the change of administration on the election of Cleveland in ”1884,-when, to the shame of ’ the small party politics that had regard not for sentiment nor honor, the office was taken from her. She continued to conduct her store for some years thereafter, and then sold it and retired. She afterward made her home with and was lovingly and carefully cared for as she deserved, by her nephejvs, Harry, Clarence and Frank Mann, and her niece, Mrs Mabel Younoe, for the bringing up of whom she had given the b st of her life. Death of Peter A. Young. Mishawaka and South Bend are mourning the untimely death of Mr. Peter A. Young, which occurred at Washington on Monday of last waek. For sixteen years Mr. Y’oung had conducted the Mishawaka department of the South Bend Times until Congressman Barnhart took to Washington at the opening of congress as his private secretary. Soon after his arrival in Washington he contracted a severe cold that hung to him until pneumonia developed from it. Mr. Young was born in Mishawaka thirty-six years ago last May, and leaves a wife and three children. i R thenberger handles the National Casket Co’s Caskets. See their ad In the Marob|number of Munsey’s Everybody’s, Review of Reviews and many other popular magazines.

Sleet Storm of 1882-’B3. The big sleet of last Sunday and Sunday night would have been a replica of the one of 1882, had there been more snow and a little more rain. The winter of 1882- 83 will be recalled by many of us older inhabitants. A deep snow had fallen and drifted badly, especially around the stake and rider fences, Often hiding them from view. On this snow’ fell the rain, which froze as rapidly as it fell, forming a crust so thick that a team of horses could draw a heavy load over it. “Us boys and girls” went skating and wandered all over the country round about, gliding thro’ fields, over the high fences, across streams, nothing impeding our progress. Great sport, that! The crust lasted a week or more.—Millersburg Grit. ROAD VIEWERS REPORT WILL_BE FAVORABLE. Returned Mondatj and Surveyed and Permanently Located Pickwick and Wawasee Road. The viewers for the proposed new road around the north side of the lake, through Pickwick Park and past the Inn, having since theix first trip over the route, decided to report that the road would be of public utility, came with the surveyor ty Monday and staked°it out*. Frank Stouder was over from Ft. Wayne, and John Egbert and Elmer Newell from Goshen, to assist them. The new road, from the farm residence of Wm, Moore to where it intersects the road to Oakwood Park, is a little more than three and one-half miles in length. When this road is ordered opened, and while the Commeroial Association is.in the business, it should direct its energies to the improvement of the road on the south side of the lake, past Lake View hotel to Vawter Park. Carnation Day. The people of this country d| a gracious thing tn observing Carnation Day in memory of the dearly beloved McKinley. The martyr president was fond of flowers, the red carnation, in particular, and he was seldom seen without one pinned on his coat lapel. So partial was he to this flower that the red carnation came to be known as the “McKinley flower.” It is the most natural thing in the world that the birthday of this noted American, January 29th, should come to be honored throughout the land he loved an.d served so well, but it is more fitting still that the day should be termed “Carnation Day” and given proper observance. The world has not yet takeg tho full measure of William McKinley. Our sorrow is still too great to divest our minds of the fateful tragedy that laid him low and drape I the sable garb of mourning upon every home. William McKinley reached a high place and he did it without trampling others down. His goodness of heart and bis bounding sympathy made him profoundly respectful of the rights of the most humble, and it cannot be said of him that he trampled down a single person in his efforts to gain high station.—Knox Republican. Fob Sale. Duplex Phonhgrapb, best machine made. double horn silk finished, retails at $45. One record case value $5.00. and 90 records in good order which cost when new $60.00. This outfit could not be duplitated new for lees than sllO. Price all told $35. $lO. oa.h, balance $5.00 per month. See. A. L. Cornelius Have you seen those fine Go Carts at Beckman’s Store

INDIANA M BUILOING JNDEIEB IDS. Director of Public Roads Says System is Obsolete. Mr. Logan Waller Page, director of public roads of the United States department of agriculture, condemns the Indiana system of road building, and says the work is in the hands of persons who know no more about road building than they do about astronomy. Mr. Page, in criticising the statute which permits farmers to work out their road taxes, says that it is a re'ic of antiquity that dates lack to Henry VIII. of England, and never has worked well anywhere. ® Nearly all the states having tried it and found it to he a dismal failure, have repealed it, but in Indiana it continues in its most pernicious form-. Mr. Page says that it'is true that Indiana has 20,000 miles Os gravel toads, which gives it a high rank “on paper” as a state of improved roadways, hut that the rank which it nominally holds is not reserved. “The roads,” said he, “are not improved in the same thorough manner as the roads of other states which do not have as great a mileage as Indiana. Under- the system which enables taxes to he worked out, gravel is hauled on the highways and. dumped in the easiest manner, without any regard whatever sos tljmlprinciples of scientifi road buildidg £ lam flterally within the facts when I say that the annual, waste in Indiana roadmaking amounts to millions of dollars.” Mr. Page advises that the present legislation create a road commission of three members, who are to be engineers from three of our principal colleges and are to work without pay, and who will appoint an engineer on salary, the object being to keep the whole thing out of politics, and that the state pay onethird of the cost of all roads built by the counties on plans adopted by this commission. Mr. Page thinks that Indiana might adopt with great profit the plan in vogue, in Illinois whereby long-time convicts in the state penitentiaries are required to crush stone to makematerial for the surfacing of macadam roads. There are two of these great stone-crash-ing work-houses in Illinois—one at Joliet and the other at Chester. Stockades are built and the prisoners are put at work under guard. The result is that an immense quantity of the best read-budding material in the world is manufactured and furnished free to the various counties, with the condition that the counties shall pay the freight. In some instances the railroads transport the crushed stone without charge in exchange for ballast. In northern Indiana, however, and especially that portion of it around Syracus?, there is gravel that makes' just as good roads as crushed stone, that can be had for less than the freight on the stone would be, which makes it so easy to construct good roads that it is much to our discredit that we do not have them. A little intelligence regarding drainage and the present sum spent on our highways according to an intelligent system would shortly give us good permanent roads, the building of which would not add to the public burdens. We. money enough to make good roads, bat cur system is all wrong,•Select your Rugs' and Carpets at Beckman’s Furniture Store as tie assortment ccmpanes with anv l.irger city.

The Hanging of McDougall. Ihe Ligonier Banner recalls the fact that McDougall was hanged by regulators near Diamond Lake, east of Ligonier and north of Kimmell, fifty-one years ago. OJ.J man Hartzell, who a little hill farm on the north ba«k of that lake near where the hanging occurred, and who adjusted the noose around McDougall’s neck, it is said, died only two years ago. The blacklegs in that early day bad a chain across Indiana by whieh stolen horses could be run out of the country, and all kinds of crimes, up to murder, were charged to. them. In some counties the county officers were in league with them, and it was'difficult to bring them to justice; The legislature passed a law authorizing.the people to form organizations and take the law into their own hands. These organizations, by dealing out summary justice under the jurisdiction of Judge Lynch, were finally .able to rid the country of the criminals. Grandpa Starr. . Thomas A. Starr received a message from Toledo this afternoon announcing t'>e birth of a nine pound daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Briggs. Mrs. Briggs was formerly Miss Mary Starr. Grandpa Stan is very much, elated over the arrival Mrs. Starr has in Toledo foi some weeks.—Gi shen Democrat. J3ld timers will remember Mr Starr as the foreman in the Syracuse Enterprise office under Mr. J P Prickett in 1875. Second Hand Store. VVe have started a second-han store in the room next door to Sealfess Bros, and have on band a goo line of second-hand goods, all i the best of conditions, Big bargain Grisamer & Bott. i

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IRGANIZATION OF . FHJRAL CARRIERS Formed at Warsaw Saturday, Feb. 20. —Officers Elected. Kosciusko Branch No. 58 of tba b ura! Carriers of Indiana was organized at Warsaw, Saturday, Feb. 20. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Bert Cook, Warsaw, president; 1' red Self, secretary- and treasurer. Robert W Nelson, the genial War- • saw postmaster, was made an honorary member. - . Organizer Robbins, of Rochester, I ad charge of the meeting, at which there were present fourteen members, thirteen of whom became ter members, including the five oar. j. tiers of Syracuse, . , ''' The objects of the organization, are to bring the carriers together lor mutual benefit, and, by exchanging ideas and experiences, to improve tTie. rural service. The Popular Boy. What makes a boy popular? Manliness. The boy who respects I his mother has leadership in him. The boy who is careful of his! sister is a knight. The boy who will not violate his word, who will pledge honor to his own heart, and ohantje not, will have the confidence of ‘ bis fellows; The boy who defends the . weak will one day become a beta among the strong. A boy who will not hurt she feelings of any one will one day find himself in the atmosphere of universal sympathy. Shall we tel! you how to become a popular boy? We will. Be too unselfish to seek the popular; be the soul of honor; and love others better than yourself, and people will give you their hearts.