The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 40, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 2 February 1911 — Page 1

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IMPROVEMENTS ON B. &_O. RAILROAD Os the improvements to be made on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad during the present year, looking to expeditious operation of trains, an important tiem in the budget of such is the installation of 74 miles . of automatic block signals and 15 new interlocking plants on the main lines of the system. The automatic signals will be three-position upper quadrant, and of the most improved type, electrically operated, replacing manual signals. The signal installation will be done on the Connellsville and Pittsburg Divisions, doubletracking sections of the road, and most of the interlocking machines will be totalled on the Cumberland Division, in West Virginia, in connection with the third the Baltimore and Ohio is building across the Allegheny Moun-

H Stack of Groceries . is required to meet the de- / I : mands of a rapidly growing ' > \, 1 I business. Do you for one ; f ’'f!s minute believe that our 1 / trade would continue to inI crease if our groceries were ’ vWSSWWkf i not : OF standard ; QUALITY? ; Os course you don’t. So why not try the grocery ! store that suits so many other people? You certainly ! want good groceries as welt as they. Our prices enable ! you to get them. ; SIEDER & BURGENER. j Syracuse, Indiana " ■ ■ ■— I 'J I—l FORD AUTOMOBLLEi Two, Three, Four ami Five Passenger Models see » ford, ano consider Ist, Light Weight. 121)0 pounds. Less than any other Five-passenger car made. 2nd LOW PriGO. Several hundred dollars less than any other car nearly as good. 3rd, Low Operating Cost. 25 to 28 miles P er g allon of gasoline. 4th, No Experiment. M* ore M . odel “ T ” Fords in use now than any other model on earth. stll, ROPUtatiOn. Ford owners are a B satisfied. Ask them. 6th, Special Concessions allowed on all sales before February 15th. Prices have been , reduced for the winter and will be raised March first. 7th, Demonstration Free. Ask foHt if you are interested. Bth, Bug a Ford— Because it is a better car—Not because it is Cheaper. L. M. NEHER Licensed County Agent MILFORD, IND.

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tains. On the Pittsburg Division automatic signals will be installed from Connellsville to Bessemer, 46.8 miles from McKeesport to Laughlin Junction, 11.9 miles, and from New Castle Junction to Goehring 15.3 miles. A re-arrangement of the interlocking plants at Layton, Reduction. Vista, Ellrod and New Castle Junction, Pa., will be necessitated in connection with the new signals. Os the 15 interlocking plants, all are to go in as a part of the thrid track work in West Virginia. These interlockers are to be of the latest design, a number of them having 48 levers. At Sleey Greet, Sir John Run, Hancock, Great Cacapon Orleans Road, Hardman and West End, W. Va., electro-mechanical machines will be installed. An electo-mechanical machine will be installed at Chicago Junction, Ohio, having 48 levers. The work of installing the automatic signals and interlocking plants will be done by the railroad company’s forces, under the direct supervision of Mr. F. P. Patenall, Signal Engineer. :

SYRACUSE, INDIANA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 2, 1911

THE BRMERYJF A WOMAN One night last week while at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. John Pence of hear Benton, Mrs. Omar Darr of this place proved the extent of her bravery also of her physical strenght. She was at her parent’s home helping to care for her mother who has been sick for some time. After the occupants of the house had retired for the night and were serenely sleeping, Mrs. Darr was awakened by the nurse declaring (in no modest tone of voice) that there were burglars to the house. Mrs. Darr going into an adjoining room came face to face with the culprit, a man whom she proceeded to take by the coat collar and toss him bodily out of the house on his head and then locked the door. As soon as the fellow could pull himself together sufficiently to navigate, he came back to the door and tried once more to get in. By this time Mr. Pence had come down from up stairs and when they talked of using the gun the fellow jame to himself and called to them not to shoot that it was Jim Brown of Benton and that he wanted in. After they had let the man in they discovered that he was intoxicated and only after reminding him of having a gun to the house could he be persuaded to leave. OBITUARIES. / , James McConnell, was bom in Armagh County, Ireland, March 17, 1726. He was married to Miss Letitia Ann Donaldson in 1854, 57 years ago, by Rev. West of the same county parish. To this union there were bora eightc Children: Joseph and William residing , (to Lowell, Ind., James of Philadelphia, John, now deceased for more than 15 years, Anna (now Mrs. Samuel Porter,) Thomas now residing in Scotland, Alexander, in England and Nevin in Philadelphia. The deceased came to Chicago in 1891 from Glasgow, Scotland, thence to Lowell, Ind., in 1897 and about eight years later to the home of, his daughter, Mrs. Porter, just south of Syracuse. Here he resided with his wife until death, January 29, 1911. He died at the ripe old age of 84 years, 10 months and 12 days. He became a member of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland at an early pge and retained the same membership during his residence in Scotland. After coming to Syracuse he united with Grace Lutheran Church, under the Pastorate of the Rev. Thompson. He was still a member of this church at the time of his death. Besides his sorrowing wife and children, he leaves his grandchildren, and a host of relatives and friends to lament his departure. The funeral services were held at the Grace Lutheran Church of Syracuse, Tuesday, January 31, 1911, the Rev. Ira R. Ladd, officiting. Interment took place at the Syracuse Cemetery. Howard W. Bentz was born in Mooreland, Wayne Ce., Ohio, Oct. 2oth> 1858, and departed this life after a lingering illness, January 26 1911, aged 52 years, 3 months, and 6 days. His parents moved from Ohio to Kosciusko Co., Ind., in the year 1863, where he lived continuously until the time of his decease. Some twenty years ago he was converted [to God in meetings held to the Byers church, and united with the Evangelical. Association. For several years past he has been unwell, and was bedfast for more than three weeks, suffering greatly most of the time. He leaves a wife and two children. father, one sister, a brother, and many other relatives.

1 Local and Personal | Mrs. Marion Bushong was at Elkhart Saturday. Miss Marian Cook spent Sunday to South Bend. Mr. Wm. Bowles spent last week with an aunt in Goshen. Miss Helen Hendrickson of Elkhart spent Sunday here. Miss Nagle accompanied Miss Young to Warsaw Saturday. Mrs. John Neff visited with her mother at Milford Jet. over Sunday. Mrs. Guy Ettline of Elkhart visited relatives and friends here last week. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Snyder were at Elkhart and Bristol on business Saturday. Mr. Dolan has twelve good lots for sale for truck farming. Terms easy, price low. Elmer. Strieby, was in Chicago, several days this week attending the automobile show. Dave Clayton, Albert Hibner and J. C.,Grady made a business trip to Wabash Saturday. Roy Riddle came home from Indianapolis Saturday to visit with his family until Tuesday. J. D. McNutt and wife visited Mrs. McNutt’s parents near Ligonier, Saturday and Sunday. Frank Green was at Columbia City and Goshen Saturday and returned here to spend Sunday. Otto Grisamer and wife and Miss Dovie Grisamer of Goshen, visited with Cullen Grisamer and family over Sunday. The Goshen visitors Saturday were, Mrs. Vem Bushong and son Ernest, Frances Miller, Artie Geyer, Mrs. John Neff and Dan Wolf. Mrs. Dr. Stauffer of Indianapolis, was the guest of Dr. Hoy and family from Friday until Monday, when she left for Nappenee to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Howard, of North Liberty Ind., came last Thursday to attend the Masonic banpuet Friday evening and visit relatives a few days. Do you want to own a good productive lot for raising your own potatoes and other vegetables? Call on Mr. Dolan who will sell you one on easy terms. After this issue all church and lodge announcements will be printed free gladly as here to fore but advertising for any money making purpose as bazaars, markets ect, will be charged the regular advertising rates. Com. No. 3. of the Pythian Sisters will entertain at the K. of P. Hall Friday evening Feb. 10. A special invitation is extended to all the Ladies of the order and there husbands oome prepared to have a good social time Committe. The Misses Violette and Vera O’dell, Georgia Strock, Margaret Beck and Blanche Strieby and Glen Gordy went to Warsaw Saturday to take the teacher’s examtoetion. Several of them decided before the day was over that they did not want to take the examination anyway until later so they did not hand to their papers. Mrs. Alonzo Hire left here Monday afternoon for their home near Hinsdale, Montana, after spending several weeks with relatives and friends around here and Churubusco. Mr. Hire left Churubusco Tuesday with a car loaded with stock and farm implements, which he bought here for their claim in Montana. Mrs. Hire says they like the west very much and that their son Rqy’s health is much improved.

REFORESTING JN INDIANA An expert in the work of reforesting has just prepared copy for the Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C., and the department has issued it to bulletin form for free distribution. It is chiefly intended as educational in reforesting, and designed for use in public school. It is most admirably adapted to school work, as it takes up the matter in a very plain and yet complete way, to impress the importance of tree growing on the young and plastic mind, and to give all a real taste for this work. The title of the bulletin is “Forest Nurseries for Schools,” and while epecially adapted to this educational work, is most important to all classes having a desire to know how to grow trees. An abstract of the bulletin is given, as follows: It is to begin in the autumn by breaking, preparing and fertilizing the ground to be ready for planting. Storing the seeds with mature in the autumn to be kept properly until spring. Then one or more trees to be planted by each pupil who will care for them in growth. Only seeds of trees that are suitable to climate. 2. The seed of trees to be selected to be desirable for timber, fuel, shade, fruit and ornamentation, such as maple, ashs, elms, oaks, basswood, walnut, hickory, yellow pine, etc., adapted to location. As most tree seeds mature to the fall, they should be gathered when they ripen. As some maples and elm ripen late in the spring, they should be collected then and planted at once, as they soon lose their vitality if not planted at maturity. They must be collected by hand picking, except such as Walnuts, hickory-nuts and acorns, which fall after early frosts, and may be gathered from the ground. Methods of testing their germinating power is also given in the bulletin. This brief abstract of the bulletin will indicate the care with which instructions are given throughout in growing forest trees, and is further summarized as follows: 1. Storing the seeds to winter for spring planting. 2. Testing before planting. 3. Preparing the seed beds for nursery planting. 4. Kind of soil and fertilization. 5. Size of the seed beds in the nursery and distance apart in planting. 6. Time for planting in fall for certain kinds arid spring for others. 7. Cultivating between the rows and weeding. 8. Water them when there is not water enough, as to some seasons and how to water. 9. Protection in winter seasons. 10. Transplanting the seedling trees and time lor this work. 11. How to transplant to be sure of their living afterwards. 12. Pruning the roots and tops to transplanting. These any many other important items of information are given to the bulletins add it is well illustrated, giving object lessons in the work of growing forest trees, including the item of growing certain trees from cuttings instead of seed. The bulletin closes with a tabular statement giving species of trees to plant, months for collecting and storing seeds, percent that usu ally germinates, when to plant each spe ties, depth to plant each kind, spacing to rows, and the usual height of one year old trees from seeds. This bulletin, if carefully studied will do more to help reforest Indiana than any help yet published, if it is brought to the attention of the school pupils in a systematic way, for young people, as a rule, take de-

light in this work, and in nature studies. There is much reason why the home as well as schools, should take up this delightful study and work of growing trees. A small plat in the garden will afford ample room for it, and those who go at it at once will find sale for their young trees, for reforesting Indiana will rapidly increase for the next decade or two. It is in the public thought because it has become necessary in our public economy. UNCOLN CORY GETS PRIZES 1 ■ .? Judging from the following it would seem that Lincoln Cory, our popular farmer and auctioneer, has gotten the poultry business down to a science as well. Mr. Cbry had 39 birds on exhibition at Goshen last week and received 37 prizes. Lincoln Cory’s winings at the big poultry show at Goshen last week, in compition with 900 birds is as follows: On Embden Geese—lst cock, Ist hen, Ist cockerel, 1 pullet, 2nd cock. Indian Runner Ducks—lst hen,

IS EATING A HABIT? Surely not with the children. They get real enjoyment out of it. If you fail to share their good appetite it is because you have not made the acquaintance of many of our table delicacies that whet the jaded palate. TRY SOME OF THESE » Worcester Sauce—on your Meats Currant Jelly—with Roast Lamb Green Apples for Apple Sauce—with Roast Pork—per Peck Cape Cod Cranberries—with Chicken or Turkey—per quart Brick, Cream or Limburger Cheese Canned Fruits of every kind Ice Cream Powder to make your Ice Cream with Fresh Eggs to make your Cake with Our May-Day Coffee for after Dinner ' IK After Dinner Miqts For any of these good things, call Phone No. 15 ♦ or come yourself to • THE MODELGROCERY Kindig & Company < i i I i 11 1 1 I VALENTINES ’ ' '' ' 11 " " '* ' " ' ' ' *"' ~ • «•- 1 • ) <» < > < > j A very nice line of Valentines : can be found at the popular : DRUG STORE of F. L HOCH. : Hart shaped cards, assorted lace ■; valentines, booklets assorted, 4 » ; • drops with ribbons, mounts with <; easel, scenic pulling cards, cut <: out shaped novelties assorted, :: tissue novelties, celluloid and <» j • fancy boxed novelties, post cards :: and comics. «> ■ < » ———— — I—MM ———.mm, F. L. HOCH

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Ist and 2nd pullet, 3rd cock. Black Orpingtons— 3rd, 4th and sth cockerels; Igt, 2nd and 3rd cocks; Ist 2nd, 3rd, 4th and sth hens; Ist, and 2nd pens. White Orpingtons—lst cock, Ist cockerel, Ist hen. Buffs Orpingtons—-Ist, 2nd and 3rd hens; 3rd cock’ 4th and sth cockerels; Ist pen. Silver cup for best display in the English class. Silver cup for best display in Orpington Class. 100 bars of Fairy Soap for whitest bird in show. $9 root and vegetable cutter for 2nd largest display. Miss Joy Cory, age 4 years, won the $lO pair of white fan tail pigeons for youngest exibitor. News Stand Changes Hands. A deal was closed Saturday between John Rentfrow and Win? Hollenbaugh in which the former become owner of the news stand. Mr. Hollenbaugh gets a property owned by Rentfrow at Kimmell and some town lots here in exchange. For Exchange—A good 17-foot gasolineriaunch, for horse and buggy. E. C. Rosson Phqne 561. .