The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 35, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 December 1910 — Page 1

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INDIANA GOOD , ROADSJSSOGIATIOIII At a meeting of the Indiana Good Roads Association’s legislative committee, Dec. 16th, Addison C. Harris of Indianapolis, was elected chairman and a sub-committee composed of Wm. F. Elliott, Indianapolis, L. Ert Slack of Franklin, W. L. Slinkard of Bloomfield, C. A. Kenyon of Indianapolis, and Wm. Fortune of Indianapolis wos appointed to draft a bill for the betterment of Indiana roads to be presented to the general assembly in January. This sub-committee reported to the general committee December 27 and an effort will be made to complete the bill so that printed copies may be placed on the desks of the legislators at their first session. The Indiana Good Roads Association has been formed into a permanent organization by the election of the following officers: President, Clarence A. Kenyon of Indianapolis; vice president, Carl G. Fisher of Indianapolis; John E. Lamb of Terre Haute; Stephen Stratton, Richmond; R. Ert Slack, Franklin; M. R. Sulzer, Madison, and A. M. Beardsley, Elkhart; secretarytreasurer, W. J. Dobyns, Indianapolis. Legislative committee, Addison C. Harris, Henry W. Klaussman, B. J. T. Jeup, Chas. Brossman, C. C. Brown, W. H. Dye, J. W. Noel, Will P. Blair, Fred I. Willis, Clarence A. Kenyon, David Wallace, J. C. CraJ bill, Wm. F. Elliott, Harry B. Smith, Bernard Corbly, Chas. A. Carlisle, Wm. Fortune and Carl G. Fisher of Indianapolis; E. Ert Slack, Franklin; W. D. Bradt, W. L. Slinkard, Bloomfield; J. 0. PotterJ Muncie; i Morton H. Downey, Anderson; W. K. Hatt, Lafayette; Horace Stillwell, Anderson, and C. E. Pittinger, ijMuncie. In the Committee’s general discussion it was generally conceded that a law should be passed creating a State Highway Commission and extending state aid in the construction and maintenance of high- „ .ways. It was also agreed that the present plan of working out the

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taxes should be eliminated. In its deliberations the sub-committee will take into consideration these fivd points: 1. State Highway Commission and Its Powers. 2. State Aid in the Construction and Maintenance of Highways. 3. Taxing of Vehicles. 4. Use of Convict Labor. 5. Amendments to Present Statutes. . The highways laws in a number . of states are in the hands of the sub-committee and it is the expec- . tation that the very best of these will be utilized though it is recognized that local conditions in Indiana that must be met, will be the , dominant influence in the final selection of the provisions of the Indiana law. Explains Seeming Paradox, the South Bend Times in an editorial explains the seeming paradox that more liquor is being consumed in this country in spite of the temperance legislation, the attitude of corporations, both industrial and transportation, in refusing to employ drinking men, and other • warfare waged on drink. Three explanations are given by the Tinies as follows: First —Home-brewed beer t currant, elderberry and grape wines and “cider apples” have almost entirely disappeared. Second — The consumption of liquor by society women is far greater than ever before arid in this manner a great deal of wine, mixed drinks, etc., go to waste at fashionable balls and after theatrical > performances. Third—The revenue service is so perfect that moonshine whiskey is almost unheard of and even “temperance drinks” have to pay reve- ' nue according to the alcohol con-tained-in them. Statistics on the consumption of liquor are taken from the revenue reports. k i NOTICE lam now operating tlreßrower Saw Mill and will do custom sawing. Parties wishing to buy building material or lumber please write or telephone me at Milford. N. P. Wright.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1910.

HIE VERY BOY I’M LOOKING FOR “There is a boy in the electrical shops that.l want to recommend to your attention,” said the superintendent of the Eureka Manufacturing Company, as he and the president came down the steps of the office at the noon hour. “What about him?" said the shrewd old gentleman. “He has an inventive turn of mind, and has already made several suggestions that have saved us a lot of money.” “How old is he?” “Fifteen.” “Fifteen? He is a mere child!” “But he has a man’s head on his shoulders. There he is now—the little fellow that just threw that hand-spring. He’s the queerest possible combination of childhood and manhood that I ever saw. What in the world is he up to?” As the superintendent passed, a fair-headed, slightly-built lad disentangled himself from a crowd of fifty or sixty workmen who were hurrying into the street, and hid behind the corner of the building, peering keenly toward a figure coming slowly down the road. The object of his attention, a man of almost gigantic mold, was dressed in his working clothes, having evidently just come out of the rolling mill, where he had, no doubt, been puddling iron. In spite of his dirtstained garments, he presented not only an imposing, but an attractive appearance. His great head was finely poised upon his broad shoulders. His features were strong, his blue eyes keen, and his heavy shock of hair so fiery red that his shopmates called him the “Volcano.” The boy permitted him to pass the corner, and then with an agile spring bounded onto his huge back and flung his arms around his neck. “You little imp!” the two observers heard the giant exclaim, and they saw him hoist his evidently not unwelcome burden across his shoulders and start down the street on a run, the boy’s musical laugh ringing out, and the crowd cheering. “That’s his crony—Mike McGinnis,” said the superintendent. “Queerly mated pair,” the president replied. “Perhaps you never heard how they became friends?” “No.” “Well, this little shaver’s name is Alfred Atherton. He lived in a little town up in the state somewhere; and when his parents died, a couple of years ago, he struck-out for himself, and came down to Cincinatti. For a few weeks he sold .papers, then got into the messenger service, and finally landed here. He was good-natured and clever, making many friends, but exciting some hostility by his indomitable teetotalism. When he was not aggressive about his temperance ideas, it became perfectly evident that he disapproved of his shopmates’ habits of ‘rushing the growler.’ They resented this, of course, ridiculing, abusing and tempting him cruelly. Nothing could move him, however, and they resorted to the scurviest trick you ever heard about. “Eight or ten of the biggest and roughest boys in the shop devised a scheme to inveigle him into one of the saloons, and either to persuade or force him to drink a glass of rural Somehow or other they got him inside the door, and, failing to make him obey voluntarily, began to threaten. ‘We’ll pour it down your throat,’ they said. ‘You will?’ he cried with flashing eyes. ‘We’ll see! My father fills a drunkard’s grave, and I promised my mother on her ’ dying bed that I’d never drink a

drop! Now make me break that promise if you can? With these words still on his lips the little shaver flung off his coat and set his back against the wall. “In a jiffy the crowd was on him, and he went down, but fighting like a wildcat! Several of them held his mouth open, and one was just going to pour the whiskey into it, when this big Irishman sprang from his chair and, seizing them one after another, flung them across the room as if they had been five-pound bags of salt. WhSn he came to little Atherton at the bottom of the pile, he picked him up, set him on the bar, slapped him on the back, and said to him, ‘You little spalpeen, you make me want to sign the pledge.’ “ ‘Then do it,’ said Atherton. “ ‘But I can’t keep it.’ “ ‘Yes you can, with the help of God,’ the boy said. “There was something about the honest look in the boy’s eyes and’ the clear ring in his voice that made the giant tremble. He had been a terrible man, you understand, having taken to drink on account of the death of a little child. He was the best puddler in the city, earning good wages; but spending them all in weekly drunks, and going home to abuse the sweetest and most patient little woman in the world. “For a moment McGinnis looked him blankly in the face, while the crowd picked themselves up and stood watching from a distance. “My Dennis would have been just about your size,’ said the halfdrunken puddler and'burst into tears. “ ‘Don’t cry! Don’t cry! exclaimed little Atherton, putting both hands on his shoulders in an agony of sympathy, for it hurt him to see the giant weening. “ hJme with trie lad,’ the Irishman replied, and, lifting him down from the bar, led him out of doors. No one knows just what happened; but it looks as if the McGinnises had adopted the boy, for he stayed in the house, and the ‘Volcano’ has never drunk another drop.” “Send that boy to me at 7:30 tomorrow morning. I’ve been looking for him for twenty years,” said the president, when the superintendent had finished his story.— Epworth Herald. At the home of William Moats and wife, northeast of town, a Merry Christmas dinner was participated in Sunday by a joyful crowd of relatives. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Richardson of Columbia Citv, and Mrs. Alfred Petot of Cleveland, Ohio, (the two latter being sisters of Mrs. Moats), and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Moats and child-1 ren of New Paris, Mr. and Mrs. Orlie Brown, and Ivan Moats, wife and children.

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’'^•♦Z**Z lM Z >4 Z M Z**Z**Z' M < l ♦X^l* < Z*%**Z^^*Z* < Z**Z*****Z**Z**Z' M Z w *' M ’*' | I Local and Personal | Richard Guy transacted business in Warsaw Saturday. M. C. Hockensmith and Melvin Niles left Tuesday for Florida. Mrs. Amy Ott of Elkhart, visited with friends here over Sunday. Roy Brown and wife of So. Bend, spent Christmas with Wm. Masters and wife. Grover Hammon went to South Bend Saturday to spend Sunday with a friend. Douglas Lund and daughter Vera, spent Sunday with M. Lung’s son Don, at Goshen. The M. E. church and parsonage have been wired and are now lighted by electricity. Miss Edna Hines of Albion, is spending the week with her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cory. Rev. M. W. Johnson, pastor of the Church of God, commenced a revival meeting Monday evening at Mt. Tabor. Henry and Lase Sloan and John Dillon arrived Saturday from Florida, where they had been on a prospecting trip. Roy Riddle was at home over Sunday from Indianapolis, where he is working in a wholesale dry goods house. Chas. R i'mith of South Bend, is spending the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Smith, south of town. Mrs. Dave Waldo, wife of the proprietor of the Lake View Hotel, is in a hospital at Chicago in a very serious condition. Rev. A. L. wife and daughter Mart’Jf are spendih£~“&part or this wees with a brother of Mr. Weaver’s at fA villa. Mrs. Gregg and children came Saturday to spend the holidays with Mrs. Gregg’s father, W. F. Smith, living south of town. Mary Cory, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Cory, went to Warsaw Saturday to spend the school vacation with Miss May Marvel. Rudolph Kocher and wife of LaGrange, came Saturday to spend the holidays with their daughter Mrs. James Druckamiller and family. Edith Smith, daughter of W. F. Smith, who has been at Elkhart assisting Rev. Claypool in a revival meeting for several- weeks, returned home Saturday. The Goshen visitors from here last Thursday were Mr. and Mrs. L. THeerman, William Stetler and sons | Knox and Joe, C. M. Gordy, Ed Barringer and Miss Ida Deardorff. What do you think of the energy and ambition of two able-bodied men who sat at Milford Jc. from 7 a. m. until 3 p. m. waiting for No. 16 when the tie route is only five miles. Mrs. Garfield Walker and daughter Margaret, came Friday to spend two or three weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Kitson and other relatives. Mr. Walker joined them on Sunday and returned to Indianapolis Tuesday; A number of relatives and friends gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McClintic Sunday to enjoy the merry Christmas time and a most bountiful Christmas dinner. The following persons were entertained: Samuel Rasoi, wife and daughter Lila, and Alma Pitman of South Bend; Jess Shook, wife and son Glen, and daughter Alma, Wm. Mellen and wife, Allen Ruple and wife of Vawter Park; Ed McClintic and family of Stringtown; Miss Bertha and Mr. Jap McClintic of Chicago.

Wood-Lutes. Saturday evening at the home of' the bride, took place the wedding of Mr. Robert Wood and Miss Grace Lutes, both of Nappanee. The ceremony was performed by Rev. M. W. Johnson, pastor of the Church of God, Syracuse. Relatives and friends were guests at the wedding, and a sumptuous supper followed the ceremony. Mr. Wood is a prosperous farmer. They will make their future home on a farm south of Nappanee. & — .... — - — The annual Christmas reunion of the Darr family was held at the home of Ad Darr Sunday. Those present were George Colwell and wife, Mrs. John Darr, George Darr and family, Ed Darr and family, Albert Darr, and family, Charles Darr and, family and Omar Darr and family. The Misses Fay and Freda Croth-. ers, of near Ligonier, were the guests of Ruth and Claudia Snyder Saturday and Sunday.

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Click-Crow, The wedding of MiSs Jeanette Crow of Cromwell and Mr. Edward Click of Wolf Lake, took place at the home of the bride’s parents, Orange street, Cromwell; on Sunday, December 25th, at high noon, Rev. M. W. Johnson, pastor of the Church z of God of Syracuse, performing the cerempny. Relatives and friends were guests at the pretty Christmas wedding, and two of the bride’s cousins were chosen to attend the bride and groom. A sumpaous wedding dinner followed th£ ceremony. The rooms were beautifully decorated with holly and gay red bells. On Monday the couple started on a southern trip; stopping at Chattanooga. Tenn., Mammoth Cave, Ky?, Jacksonville, Fla., and other places of interest. On their return they wilLmake their home at Cromwell. Miss Crow is very highly esteemed by all who know her. and Mr. Click is also held in high regard. We bespeak for them a happy life.

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