The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 52, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 April 1909 — Page 1

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SYRACUSE PUPILS ARE AM THE HORS Win in Second Spelling Match' With Milford. Sometime ago Mr. Postma of Mil- , ford suggested to us the idea of a spelling coiitest between the seventh I and eighth grades of th? tvVo schools i to. improve the general spelling. Accordingly teams of ten pupils | each, were chosen and the first eon-! , test, .held at Milford, was a victory to Syracuse. The second and last. contest was held here in the as-1 s&nbly room about two o’clock, last Friday afternoon. Some of the parents and others were present. A short musical program was given by the Syracuse pupils,' fol- • lowed by a recitation, “Charlie and I,” by Bernice Shannon. The spellers then took their places, spelling for a quarter of an hour. For the first few rounds, the spellers were defiant, but soon both sides began thinning down until one , Milford speller, Miss Fay Teeple, and three. Syracuse spellers, John Snobarger, Floy Kinch, and Forest Bowld remained Miss Teeple held her ground bravely, but at last she too went down. Those spelling from Milford are Gordon Hammond; Russel Ogden, Helene Lentz, Mary Lentz, Beatrice Cotrel. Neva Betz, Ida Fields, Helen Martin, Ethel Neff, and Fay Teeple. The Syracuse spellers are Donovan Strock, Lonnie Searfoss, Hallie Holloway, Helen Hendrickson, Olga Beckman, 1 Clee Younce, Jakie Kern, JohnSnoV barger, Floy Kifich, and Forest. Bowld. the contest closed, by a few compliments and a recess, during which time the pupils of both schools lost no time in getting acquainted. “America” was sung by all. and the Milford scholars then started for home. The Milford pupils are to be especially complimented on the manner in which they bore their de-

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; feat and recognized us as spellers worthy of their steel, .Much benei til has been received by these contests. and the best of feeling exists i between both schools. Return to Indiana. George Lamb, who might easily have been located in Syracuse nine | years ago, but who was not given proper encouragement here and went i io Nappanpe, where he has built up j a good bn guess and employs forty i<> forty-five men, has been joined ! by his brother, David, formerly of 1 this place •and lately of Los Angeles, California, and Harry B. Green, Mr, I Geo. Lamb's sori,-in-law, and the three under the firm name of Lamb Bros. & Green, will engage in the manufacture of art glass shades and other novelties in art glass at Nappanee. David Lamb will be remembered as the organizer of the Syracuse Manufacturing C6mp an y, whose business was moved from here to North Manchester.. He has many friends in Syracuse be glad to know that he is back in good old Indiana. . Misdirected Mail. Mail addressed to a box number on a rural route cannot by a recent riding, that is seemingly known to . few, be delivered and is sent to the dead letter office directly fro ft v the place it is received. The large mail order houses sought to have all the boxes on the rural routes numbered so that names would not be necessary in sending out circulars and other advertisng matter. The scheme was successful until the govern* meat became aware of the use that was being made of the numbering system and an order was issued to postmasters instructing that no mail be delivered unless bearing jhe name of the patron. Because so newipeople know this rule and use the box number in giving their address, considerable mail is sent to the dead letter office. .‘ / New' line of new white shirt waists at Hmderer's.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, Al'RU| 29, 1909.

OPTION ELECTION BEINb HELD TODAY Results of All Elections in the State up to Date When this day shall have closed fifty counties in the state of Indiana will have voted on the question of whether they will have saloons. Besides Kosciusko, an election is today being held in Starke county. tomorrow elections will be held in Martin, Jefferson, Tippecanoe and Washington, counties, Jasper county wjll vote on Saturday, Clay, Spencer, Pulaski, on Tuesday and Fulton on Wednesday; so that, before the next issue of the Journal rhe total number of counties in thestate that will have voted wilf be fifcy-nine. Elections in Jackson county, of which Seymour is the county 'seat, and in White county, the county seat of which is Monticello were held on Monday. The city of Seymour carried the township in which it is situated for the “wets” by a majority of 303, and Washington township also went “wet" by 105 but the rural districts overcame these and the county went “dry” by a Majority of 370. The election will close twenty-five saloons, twenty-four of which are in the city of Seymour. In White county the .sentiment proved to be somewhat different. Only one township in the county and only one precinct in this township, was carried by the “wets,” in which precinct the “wet” majority was nine, and in which township the “wtet” majority was two. The entire county gave a “dry” majority of 1,439- Only two saloons are affected in this county, both of which will go out of business within ninety days, having been licensed since the "passage of the county local option law. Probably the hardest fight yet had in any county in the state was that of Delaware county, of which the city of Muncie is the county seat, on Tuesday of this week. Both sides were thoroughly organized and a strenuous canvass of the whole county was made. Each side seemed confident of success, while' outside people awaited 5 the outcome with much doubt. The result was a surprise, and will give much encouragement to the-anti saloon workers all over the state. The “dry” majority was 2,952. Even the city of Muncie gave a “dry” majority of 209. The residence precincts in tlie city all went dry” and the precinct including the business part of the-city and most of the saloons gave a “wet” majority of only 43 votes. This is the largest majority and the most significant “dry” victory yet made in the state. In this county, within the last few days, some efforts have been made to arouse interest in the election, but (hey have been rather unsuccessful. For some reason unknown to us the “ wets’’ have lately been claiming that they v. ould cany Harrison and Turkey Creek townships and probably Washington, including Pierceton. Whether there is any good basis for these claims we shall shortly know. The cigar makers of Warsaw have lately been working with considerable zeal for the “wets.” They say that if Kosciusko county goes “dry” the cigarmakers will have to move away and find other places to work. Their theory is that the saloons are the best distributors of the union made cigars. One Os these is “Shorty” Brant, who is a. prohibitionist in principle and a member of the Odd Fellows lodge. He expresses the views of the cigarmakers generally when he says:. , «“It is a case of work with me. If I can’t help to make a market here fur the cigars I make I’ll have |

' to go somewhere else and get work. If I could see only a moral issue in the saloon I would wipe them all ’ out, but I can’t see that. It means ' more than that to me.” Brant owns a nice piece of property in Warsaw, valued at about SIBOO and it is understood this property is all that has kept him in Warsaw. He and other men of his trade have been out of work a great deal of the time since the saloons closed. Below we give a summary of the results of all the elections held in the state up to date, with the “wet” and ‘‘dry’" majorities given as follows: DRY COUNTIES. Maj. Wabash. -889 Lawrencel,sos Pike----884 Hamilton-2,461 Putman : ..1,552 Decatur..l.7oß Tipton 1,581 Noble._-692 Randolph . -- -euTL 2,470 Parke 2,069 Huntington2l,66o Clinton. 2,084 Daviessl•—l,3s7 Grant: -2,183 Howardl,443 Newton 1 432 Adams 1,044 Morganl,oss Hendricks _ _ __ - _ _E'_ _. _ 777 F ountain, — 2 L_.2,005 Fayetteßsl Carroll__-1,942 Gibson-..-— 1,074 Rush --2,016 Sullivan-—l,Bll Jay 2,099 Marshalll,l64 Whitleyl,lso Hancock.—-.--1,302 Shelby74s Miami_L 1,066 Benton... 882 Montgomery. 2,803 Greene- 2,647 J Ohio— 33 | Elkhart 879 Orange2.74s Bartholomew -783 Jennings. .— 2 - -552 Vermillion _■— — - 285 | Henry i. __...2,588 ■ J ackson . 370 Whitel,439 Delaware- — 2,952 “wet” counties: Wayne. - __7sl Cass 108 Blackford 134 This shows a total of “dry” majorities of 60,169 arid of “wet” majorities of 993, or a net “dry” majority of 59,176 in the little more than half of the state that has voted; which would seem to indicate that the voters of Indiana, by a majority of 100,000, favor the , abolition of saloons. Besides the counties above named that have voted “dry,” Boone, ferown. , Clay, Crawford, DeKalb, Fulfon, Jasper, Johnson, Lagrange, Monroe, Owen, Pulaski, Scott, Steuben, Union, Warren, Washington and Wells , counties, which have not voted, and our own county, which is voting today. are “dry” by remonstrance. , High School Alumni. The High School Alumni meeting was held last Tuesday night and i was well attended. Arrangements i were completed for entertaining (he class of 1909 with a banquet, which i will be held Saturday night following the Commencement exercises. The ' organization was but recently peifected. and thS enthusiasm mani- ' fested by the members promises to keep the Alumni permanently organized. The banquets of the Alumni will be annual; and this, the initial one, will set a fine precedent in elaborateness. The committees which were appointed for the different phases of the banquet are working assiduously. If you see it in the Journal, its so.

STfIANGE PROCEDURE : IN FISH CASES Hcqv They Enforce the Laws j in Fort Wayne Tltree of the five men charged' wit| illegal seining on Black lake I on evening of April 16 pleaded guilty to the charges against them yes|?sday before Justice Caleb Amferson, of Troy township, and were fined the aggregate sums of S9B, inclpding costs. The fines were $5 Qapli, the balance of the total being the| costs incurred. Those who plpaded guilty did so under the naifes of John Doe, Richard Roe and! Richard Roe, and twelve men constituting the law violating party ■ rirehaid to have paid the fines and costp pro rata. five men against whom affidavits were filed by Deputy Fish CoqimissieneKVanderford were Dr. J. B. Brenneman, Henry E. Romey,! John F. Shinneman, Fred Johnson.! Affidavits wore dismissed upon the 1 offd- of the three other members'of theiparty to plead guilty. The unique features of these proseciitlons were that Justice AndersiLilpenitiUedmreriTvith whom he . was personally acquainted and whise names he well knew to plead unJer the Doe and Roe fictitious cognomens; that the warrants were seryed upon the defendants by telephone and that their arraignments t and pleas of guilty were made by telephone; that the attorney for the alleged law violators was the law partner of the deputy prosecuting attorney prosecuting the cases against them, and that at one time a proposition was made to the prosecutor to dismiss all the cases ag|iast the five men charged by affidavits and to have a farmer bof plead guilty in their stead; finally I two were mysteriously elimiim|ted from prosecution and all other investigations'of April 16 alleging many violations, summarily emted. These special features are I nefv in the jurisprudence of this stqte, but can hardly become precedents to govern the conduct of other cofirts. —Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette. I jThe Home Merchant. •jin an editoral on “Why it Pays to Buy Goods at Home,” the Liberal j (Haii.) Independent hag this deserv- 1 edlappreciation of the home merchant: ‘ f Without any thought of sentiment or suggestion that we owe allegiance to anyone, the cold, hard try th is that the retail merchant of oi|- home town are the best business frwmds we have. The retail merchant conducts a school of commerce for our education —and the tuition is free. Every mim, woman, and child gets the behifit of seeing in the home town about anything that is of real importance. He protects us against frjiud and decei.. He stands for a sd.iare deal. .■ ■ Tu>e me/cliam and then ' fild your .note for a thousand dollars in the bank next day as a ■ suit. You net er paid him s<4 5 r a range that warped out of shape in • sii months—without your ‘-iie gel tiiigthe money back. He nevei cnarged you $75 fur a '• Ti ' . b|gg> that you found out aftci v> a ; - cJuld be bought anywhere for sGii iNo, the home merchant is just life you. He lives where he does business and his success depends on njaking a friend of you and your neighbor. Like you, he has to “make gtod.” I ! The retail merchant is now the otfie great factor in our commercial system and this is true solely because he renders us better service ttyan we can get elsewhere, Take

j him away and’ our home town is i gone; take our home town away and 1 we deprive our children of the retail store, which is the greatest single educational factor in modern life. No it cannot be. The retail mer chant will continue to abide in ovr affections as long as we value our homes, because the average citizen jis proud of his town (he always I tells how close his farm is to it) and he secretly despises the method of peddlers—and the peddler system i? now known to be the legitimate father of the whole catalogue house business. Always Turn To The Right, The recent legislature ratified some old and passed new laws concerning the conduct of automobiles I on the public highway. I The automobile is always entitled to half the right of way but it is unlawful for the driver of a machine to pass any rig at a greater speed than six miles per hour. Upon a signal given by the driver of a/iorse ,i or horses, the driver of a machine I must immediately stop and lend assistance if requested. The phase ,of the law that is entirely new is concerning the passing of an automobile when it approaches a rig frotn the rear. The law requires that the driver of a horse or horses when notified by signal from the driver of a machine, must promptly give half the road by turning to the right, thus allowing the machine to i pass ahead. This part of the law I will be information to many but the law is a just one. It is also unlawful for any one to drive a machine while under the influence of intoxicants and the violator of such law is subject to a fine of SIOO. It .would be'well for all to become acquainted with these laws and guide themselves accordingly for ignorance and prejudice in such matters might prove expensive. Remember! always turn to the * Good Hotel for Sale. I wish to sell my hotel building located opposite B. & O. railroad in Syracuse, near Cement factory and Radiator works. House has 20 rooms, good condition, 100 feet frontage on Huntington street 150 feet deep, Also barn 12 xB, cellar, fruit trees, blackberries, gooseberries. Also 3 lots extending to lake with plenty of fruit—Will sell 1 cheap if taken at once. The hotel is full of boarders all the time. Write to David Jones, Syracuse, Indiana. Ladies’ calling cards at thia office..

biii MniHiniiii 1 f—n | Right Wall Paper ] I at Right Prices. I bi I • • 9 J NEW SPRING STYLES. | YOU OUGHT TO SEE THEM | ■ Tho papers this year are a j Our 1909 stock is so far stiH|sg little more delicate in tints. !| perior to anything ever before S, 7 '9^oha:. ; : ; -. • '’ph .ica.eimx.ou-.that H f ; ■ ■ ~ j , II ..von shoukV.seO it. Even tho fiS® ■ ■ ../■it be called strong .thev K . • , c ' S ,&S ■ ‘ yotlnUve no thought of pajrerX lackdhe intensity of last year's hig cv. n for the. present this Ife patterns. We are showing the magnificent showing will inter ■gg ; most exclusive designs in; this est yop. We want you to know m 3 I£• year’s hanging. They' are all llow bemitiftil .• y<rti can make . 1 Sgts ■ ■ ' , your room at little cost. You >w? •K-.i works of art, as we selected ...... -1 . ~, » | -are cordially invited, to come. E ’ them early we had the cream . , have to come ■ . of the market and many of our often.to see all the different patse^ect -*°ns wiil not be seen elsc> terns which range in price from ge| yl ' where in this locality. " r 6 te,lU a bolt to 4s c a ? olt > ' I F. L. HOCH, J | Syracuse, Indiana. 1 i . , •••■ • •

•ft BUNCH fIF ROSES FROM MILFORD An Entertainment Everybody Should Patronize. Tlte Seventh and Eieghth grades of the Syracuse schools will give an entertainment at the Opera House, bn Friday evening, April 30, when the Milford High School will entertain our people with a dramati: and musical drama entitled “A Bunch of Roses” and “The New System.” Our citizens should turn out and assist the school in this meritorious play. Below we print a clipping from the Milford Mail.— “The school entertainment given at the opera house Saturday evening was more than advertised on the bills, which is very unusual for in a majority of cases the best part is on paper. Were we to personalize we could give none credit above another for all played their parts extremely well. “The Bunch of Roses” and “The New System” were well thought out by the compiler of the play and equally as well executed. The music was also captivating and those who topk part -in this part of the program gave conclusive evidence they had been under fine training. To make it complete threads of comedy were necessary and this was supplied by those who seem to have a special calling in that direction. Professor Shepard was doubtless relieve 1 when the last part was played for responsibilities of this character i j a strain upon the nervous system. The gross proceeds Were between forty and fifty dollars arid will go into the school library fund.” / It Pays io Advertise, John Silber. Newkirk, Okla., was sent to jail, charged with tampering with a switch. While there he read in a newspaper of an offer of $3 for the most original want' ad, Silber inserted the following: Wanted—Young man in jail wants out; suggestions solicited that may result in his immediate release; wants address of poet who wrote: “Stone not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.” Address John L. Silber, Kay county jail. He got the $3, a lot, of sympathy, candy, flowers and pie, and so much attention in his case that it resulted in an investigation -that proved his innocence, and he was released from jail. Moral—Advertise, and do not wait until you’re in jail to do it, either.—Exchange.

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