The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 43, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 23 February 1911 — Page 1

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KOSCIUSKO COUNTY (J. C. Breckenridge, Preisdent Winona Coliege of Agriculture) But four counties in Indiana have more a6res than Kosciusko. Few are better located geographically, lying as it does well up on the water shed where one drop of water starts from the Mississippi and ics close neighbor for the St. Lawrence. Its opportunity for drainage is perfect and no county can boast of a better or a greater variety of soils, and probably no county in the United States has within its borders a half a hundred such beautiful fresh water lakes, making Kosciusko one of the best watered counties with scarcely a foor of land net capable of being drained and tilled and made to produce large and valuable harvests, which can be quickly marketed over the 75 miles of railroad that crosses and recrosses her territory. Now notice this fact that with our splendid location on the mao, our thousands of beautiful and fertile farms, with every kind of rich and productive soil, adapted to the -growth of bountiful crops of grains and grasses of every variety, suited also to the production of apples, peaches, plums, pears cherries and berries of the choicest varieties and the best quality, with our never failing water supply adapting our county to stock raising and dairying; with our scores of lakes abounding in fish; with the world’s best markets at our very door and the best shipping facilities at our command; with all these material advantages, added our splendid type of intelligent citizenship, our many excellent homes and schools and churches and fraternal organizations, our many beautiful towns, our ideally situated and splendid county seats with county buildings and improvements far above the average, with the second greatest Chautauqua on the western hemisphere and the greatest Bible Conference in the world; with all these splendid possessions and constant and abiding sources of wealth and comfort and pleasure our county has been unable to satisfy and to hold her people and more people in the past decade by more that 1,300 have turned their back on Kosciusko county than have come to abide within her borders. And now every citizen, every school, every church, and every business enterprise and certainly every land and property owner in country and town is asking “Watchman, what of the night!” Is it possible for this state of affairs to continue to exist and the effects of it not to begin to be seriously felt by every property owner, business en-

H Stack of Orocertes is required to meet the de--0~ az=33 -jl ma!K j s 0 f a ra pj(}iy growing \•» i business. Dp you for one / j ■ \ minute believe that our f trade would continue to in- | - crease if our groceries'were 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 well as they. O U * prices enable you to get them. SIEDER & BURGENER. Syracuse, Indiana

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terprise and organization iii the county? Such a result cannot be produced without a cause. Every wide awake citizen is doing some sober thinfaing. Men in county and town are assuming the roll of investigators and are going after the problem. Some hard facts are easily obtained. We find that every acre of Kosciusko county land has a higher valuation than in 1900. Labor is higher, cost of living is higher, taxes higher. The productivity of the soil increases no ino r e and the population of our county less. While such facts are not calamitous, nevertheless they are disturbing. Since land values have risen in ten years from 30 to 60 per cent, and the producing power of the soil scarcely holding its own, with the cost of labor 25 to 50 per cent. : higher, the cost of living higher, i neither the farmer, the merchant or banker can feel exactly right tb see a continued exodus of good people leaving our fine county year after year with none coming to take their places. The most discouraging feature is that these people have gone from the farms of our county, the towns having held their own. If our Kosciusko county farms are wanted by fewer people from year to year as the past ten years show, and with the price of land at a high mark and the cost of labor and living taxes increasing, it is not surprising that sensible people over the county ate saying something must be done to stop this loss of people, for loss of population means lowering eventually of values. But bemoaning onr loss will never better our business. What can we do and when shall we begin? This suggests itseif. Every Kosciuskoan knows we have 0 a superior county and a splendid place to live. But somehow many of us forget to mention the fact. Too often the “booster” of' another state has our attention and we are listening to the marvelous stories of the wonderful lands of Montana or Washington or Texas or Florida or Michigan, and ere we are aware this and agent charmer with pictures and stories has us believing that our dear old Kosciusko beautiful for situation, rich Kosciuska is not worthy of mention compared with what he has to sell. With minds disturbed, dissatisfaction results and a decreased interest taken by such a farmer in his business and a less attention given to the study and application of science to his ? farming. The next thing you hear the sons of our best homes have left to find fortunes elsewhere and the father has about made up his mind to rent and move to town or to sell out and go north, west or south and get a farm on which he can make more

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money. Where is the mistake? Is this not iK Our conclusions are wrong. Is it true that we can i take more money and live happier tiier places than we can in our goo old Kosciusko? Science applied to general f ruling, vegetable farming, fruit f; rating, dairy farming or poultry farming proves as profitable as anywhere else, everything taken into consideration. What is there then for us to <!o to have people remain in Kosci isko county and to catch the attei don of the homeseeker of other cou hies and states but to learn well ’ 'hat our county possesses and to get busy publishing the good wor l to all the world and soon we will ave the pleasure of seeing people < oming our way in ever increasing r umbers. Instead of our farms gro /ing larger and old homesteads 1 sing abandoned, big farms will 1* divided and sub-divided, new ht mrs established and improvements begun in every community. But some one says this m ans Kosciusko county must advertise | and is he not right? Is this no the modern method? But how advertise a county? Advertising costs money and where is the mone / to come from, and what would b< the plan of procedure? This is the point we are coming to. It is ip to the citizens of a county to do heir best to hold their own and tt expand. Is it possible to do this < u.hout some organizarion through which to work? The first call sto satisfy our restless farmers anc the hundreds of discontented y* ung men of the farms. The second, to attract strar gers to come to us. It is a well ki own fact that to make the farm and the orchard and the dairy profitable and the work thereof pleasureable, science must be applied. The 4 methods have proven a failure, and we wake up to find our soil fer' ility depleted and the price incre; sed. But whenever applied, science has overcome the difficulties am as much or more money can be rtade than ever on the farm. This in :ans that we must educate if we ar >. to hold our young men for the fc rms of Kosciusko county. It mean: further that we must demonstrate the great possibilities of our Kosci isko county lands to produce weall h if we are to attract strangers tr buy and abide with us. Free Government Seeds, This office is in receipt of a <; entity of government garden seev s to be given out free to those who ’ant them and who have not air ady received a package from Cong essman Barnhart through the rail. Many city congressmen have it tie or no demand for their quot t of garden seeds, and Mr. Barnhar has been given several allotment of them and takes pleasure in sei ling them to people who will use t' em. If not already supplied, come tt this offiee and get a package, but tone will be given to children u: Jess they have a written order from heir parents. Creatore’s Band Disbandei Creatore’s band, which appe Ted at Winona several years ago an 1 at tracted large crowds, has disba ded at Waukegan, because it is ;aid, that thirty or forty musicans f iled to receive several weeks’ back pay. Creatore onnounced that he v >uld reorganize in Chicago and get i id of seven or eight insistent tre ible makers before biginning an engagement at Milwaukee. Homer MaKane, whose filter lives north of town returned last week from serving a four year erm in the U. S. Navy. He was sta ioned on the Colorado and at one t t ie was out of sight of land se\ oral i months. .

FROM OUR FRIENDS J MONTANA (Continued from Last Week) Since I left Indiana I have learned many things about farming, crops and tools, and 1 find the subject very fascinating. Now I know the difference between a binder and a hay rack, a pipe die and a trisquare; can tell you how much grain to sow to the acre, or the good points of a cow or horse, but am as innocent as a new born babe concerning the fashions and what’s IU I cease to know whether sky-bluu pink or tobacco brown is the color to wear or you’re a back number; if the coats are long or short, or the hats broad or narrow. From which it will be seen that society and entertaining is not a very vital question with us. When it comes to hospitality this country stands on a par with “(He Virginny,” and. having less to offer, the spirit is more to be commended. Enter a shack, perhaps a sod one and only one room at that, and you’re given a hearty welcome and no apologies are even thought of for the lack of curtains, carpets, furnishings or even chairs. It is the universal custom to use the back door for entrance, which developed from the fact that front doors are never opened in winter and you can note the wisdom of tbis when the climate is said to show nine months winter and three months late in the fall. We do get Heinze’s 47 varieties for sure and some times all in a week, it seems. We might say the winds, like the poor, are always with us. Sometimes it blows and sometimes it btows harder, and is perhaps the cause of more stoppage of outdoor work than any other element. Snow came in November and the ground has been white ever since. There are drifts around the buildings five feet deep, although on the level it’s just nice sledding. I stood on a bank some ten feet deep the day we struck North Dakota. I am told by older inhabitants that I’ve never seen a blizzard, but I know I’ve viewed some very close kin to one. Last winter was an exceptionally fine one. There was comparatively little bad weather and I walked to school every day, although on several occasions had only two pupils. Xmas week was 40 below and we reached that mark about the same time this year. With the exception of two weeks of extremely cold weather and an occasional rough day, the winter has been fairly well behaved. To balance all unpleasantnesses, there are bright sunshiny days, brilliant sunsets, northern lights and sun dogs, pure air and pervading all a feeling of peace, quiet and freedom, which is in itself an inspiration. We are both well contented, though sometimes homesick. There are, I think, some eight houses within a radius of three miles, although but two oCthem are occupied this winter. On a hill south is a sheep corrall and the babas feeding have the appearance of a small army. Since I came here in June, have talked with but two women some five minutes each, have entered no woman’s house or none mine. Have been in town but twice, neither time trading, and have left the place but few times besides. Call that social dissipation if you will, but it’s self-imposed and not much hardship either. Mrs. J. J. Ross. 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. X2-4W

j! Local and Personal | Dr. Rohrig was at Warsaw Sun* day. Miss Celia Smith was in town over Sunday. James Brady came home from Elkhart Saturday. Ed Green of Leesburg was in town on business Monday. A Brother of T. H. Clemens from Ohio is visiting here. Arnold Beckman was at Kimmell Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Eugine Albright was at Chicago the first of the week. Tom Coy and wife visited Bert Niles and family Sunday. Elmer Strieby and W. F. Kindig were at Warsaw Thursday. Jake McNutt and wife expect to move into the Mrs. Lutes property soon. Mrs Snobarger and two children Orville and Louise, were sick last week. E. M. Fisher and wife moved into one of the Chas. Rentfrow properties last week. J. U. Wingard went to Bryan, 0., Monday on account of the illness of his mother. Roy and John Shroufe of Wilmot came Monday to visit their aunt* Mrs. C. I. Bender. Mrs Wm. Bare returned Friday from a several month’s visit with relatives in Ohio. Mrs. Eldridge of Coldwater, Mich, is the guest of her son R. K. Eldridge and family. Miss Jessie Gordy was the guest of Hattie Wilkinson at Elkhart Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs. Geo. Bailey, Mrs Jesse Rex, Mrs. Weber and Mrs. Josephine Wood were at Warsaw Monday. Mrs. Dessie Scott and two children of Garrett, visited her parents, L A. Neff and wife over Sunday. Harrison Traster and family and Carl Larson and family were the guests of J. W. Deardorff and family Sunday. I| seems to us that George Jones is rather an old man to be taking baths in the lake at this season of the year. R. K. Eldridge, the chemist, was at Chicago several days last week attending a chemist’s meeting and the cement show. Frank Green was here Sunday. The first of the week he made some near by towns in order to get back for the banquet last night. The liquor traffic is a cancer in society, eating out the vitals and threatening destruction, and all attempts to regulate it will not only prove abortive, but aggravate the evil. There must be no more attempts to regulate the cancer. It must be eradicated; not a root must be left behind; for until this is done all classes must continue in danger of becoming victims of strong drink. —Abraham Lincoln. Early Closing of Saloons. The legislature of South Dakota has passed the daylight saloon Mil and it becomes operative at oned. Under it saloons can be open only during daylight hours. In Nebraska they have an early closing hour, the same being 8 o’clock, the opening hour is fixed at 7a. m. Texas has also passed a law calling for the closing of saloons at 7 o’clock in the evening. Illinois is talking county local option, and it looks as j though Georgia was going to sub-; stitute county local option for state wide prohibition. Everywhere it seems, people are trying to find the elution to this treat question.

OBITUARY. John Schuckers was bom in Schuylkill Co., Pennsylvania, Jan. 24,1839, and departed this life Feb 16, 1911, aged 72 years, 22 days. September 15,1861, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Wolf, and in the year 1868, on the first day of January, Mr. and Mrs. Schuckers came to Elkhart Co., near Wakarusa, where they lived continuously, almost in the same neighborhood, for more than forty years, until the death of Mrs. Schuckers, in October, 1908, since which event his health had been gradually failing. For the last few months he had made his home with his foster daughter, Mrs. C. A. Wright, in Syracuse. He was catechised and confirmed in the Lutheran church. He leaves four sisters and one brother, all residing in Pennsylvania; one nephew residing near Wakarusa; the foster daughter above mentioned; besides other relatives residing in the east Father, mother, and three sisters preceded him in death. Interment Saturday, February 18, at Olive cemetery, north of Wakarusa.

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Operated a ‘‘Blind Tiger.” You will observe from the following that dry territory is not the only place where blind tigers exist The fact of the matter is, that they are about as numerous where they have saloons as where they have none. If you see an intoxicated person in wet trritory you think of course that he got it at the saloon but Be may have gotten it at a blind tiger. A saloon is a good thing for them to hide behind. An exchange says at Hartford City, Mrs. Alex Cortright was arraigned before the mayor charged with selling liquor to minors. She pleaded guilty and was Fined $15.10 and given forty days in jail. The jail sentence was suspended, and she arranged to pay her fine. It is alleged that last Sunday Mrs. Co irtright sold two half pint bottles of whiskey to Clarance Blake, a thirteen-year-old boy, and that he and three other boys, Jules Lambiotte, Zeke Tarr and Jules Dewey, became badly intoxicated. Mrs Cortright has told where she bought the liquor Sunday, and charges for selling on f-unday soon will placed against the proprietor of that saloon.