The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 13, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 27 July 1911 — Page 1

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STOCK JUDGING CONTESTS POPIIUm I ■■ —• That the fair associations of the state of Indiana realize the importance of maintaining their fair upon an educational basis is borne out by the fact that over fifty per cent, of the fairs to which an opportunity to install at their own expense a two day course in live stock judging, concluding the second day with a contest for boys between the ages of 15 and 20 years, accepted the offer. Premiums amounting to as high as S4O are offered in some of these contests, in many cases the first premium being a free trip to the state fair at Indianapolis, or a trip to the short course for farmers

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at the Purdue School of Agriculture at Lafayette, Ind. , A Purdue man will attend each fair for two days. The first day ; and a half will.be devoted to giving 1 instruction in live stock judging: : the second day will conclude with the judging contest, in which contestants will be required to judge, place, and write reasons for placing I a class each of horses, beef cattle, ' lard hogs, and mutton sheep or dairy cattle. The classes of in- ' struction are open to every one in , attendance at the fair, and the conI test to any boy of proper age who has never been regularly enrolled as a student in any agricultural school or college. The following thirteen progresshe fairs, in addition to the state fair stock and grain judging 'contest, which will be held at the Coliseum,

Hosiery Men’s fancy Hosiery, new line, 15c; 2 pairs for 25c. Men’s Silk Lisle Hose, in all colors, 25c. Ladies’ rib top hose, extra value, 10c a pair. Plain and garter top at 15c a pair. Our 25c hose are the best you. can buy. We have five different weights. We can please you, Ladies’ silk lisle hose, with linen foot, at 50c. Ladies’ silk hose at 69c pr. Pitches/ Water for 15c each. K Large glass pitcheMßff J® and 35c. New line of cream pitchers at 10c and 15c. Milk pitchers, good size and handsome decorations, 29c.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA. THURSDAY. JULY 27, 1911

state fair grounds, Indianapolis, at 8 a. m. Tuesday, September sth, have given the contest a prominent place in their program this fall: Marion, July 26-27; Fairmount, August 9-10; Warren, August 17-18; Lafayette, August 23-24; Crown Point, August 23-24; Rushville, August 23-24; New Harmony, August 29-30; Boonville, Aug. 31-Sept. 1; Huntington, Sept. 7-8; Goshen, Sept. 13-14; North Manchester, Sept. 27-28; Bremen, Sept. 27-28: Angola, Oct. 11-12. Information regarding any of these contests may be had by writing the secretary of the respective fairs, or by addressing D. O. Thompson, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. Keep the Flies Away. With the hot weather more than one Kansan is trying out the recently advanced theories of Dr. S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the state board of health, who declares he has learned of two methods by which the common housefly can be kept away from kitchens and barns. One is to paint the kitchen and barn blue, almost any old shade, and the other is to grow hops around the doors. The blue paint idea came from France, where two scientists, Marre and Fe, found that cow stables which were painted blue inside were avoided by flies. It was also observed that kitchens and dining rooms which were papered in blue or painted blue also seemed to keep the flies away. A missionary from India told Dr. Crumbine that hops were used by the natives of India in the place of screens. The hop vines were allowed to grow all over the little huts, and the people were never bothered with flies. Dr. Crumbine and several of his assistants have set out hop vines around the back doors. The vines are growing all over the buildings, and Dr. Crumbine is watching the vines this summer to note whether or not the hops are really effective against the flies.—Ex. Fourth Class Postmaster Examination SATURDAY, AUG. 12, 1911. The U. S. Civil Service Commission announces that on the above named date an examination will be held at North Webster, Ind., as a result of which it is expected to make certification to fill a contemplated vacancy in the position of fourth class postmaster of class B at Vawter Park, Indiana, and other vacancies as they may occur at that office, unless it shall be decided in the interests of the service to fill the vacancy by reinstatement. The compensation of the postmaster at this office was S2BO for the last fiscal year. Age limit, 21 years and over on the date of the examination, with the exception that in a state where woihen are declared by statute to be of full age for all purposes at 18 years, women 18 years of age on date of the examination will be admitted. Applicants must reside within the territory supplied by the postoffice for which the examination is announced. The examinatian is open to all citizens of the U. S. who can comply with the requirements. Application forms and full information concerning the requirements of the examination can be secured from the postmaster at Vawter Park, or from the U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. Applications should be properly executed and filed with the Commission at Washington within seven days before the date of the examination, otherwise it may be impracticable to examine the applicants. U. S. Civil Service Commission. The Journal—only SI.OO a year.

INTERESTING LEDER FROM OUR RODS ABROAD We were very glad to receive a letter from a former correspondent, Mrs. Mattie Crow Fick, which we are sure will prove interesting to our readers, as it has to us. On board the R. M. S. “Caronia;’’ one night’s run from Queenstown, Ireland, July 6,1911. Dear Syracuse Journal: We left Ligonier on the Lake Shore Limited, the evening of our wedding day, June 28, arriving in New York City the evening of the following day, and spent the time from then until 10 a. m., Saturday, July 1, in visiting numerous points of interest, Coney Island, Brooklyn Navy Yards, took a short jaunt across into New Jersey, then went aboard the Caronia bound for Europe. This is our sixth day out. Tomorrow noon we are due in Queenstown, Ireland, our first stop. The Caronia goes on to Fishguard and Liverpool, but we expect to take a trip from Queenstown to Cork and the Lakes of Killarney, then across the channel to Fishguard, through Wales to London. From there our route isn’t entirely planned, but it will include a trip on the Rhine and to Hanover, Germany, where we will visit Mr. Fick’s aunt, the wife of a Hanover jeweler. The Caronia is a 2,oo(kton passenger boat of the Cunard line, carries a crew of 378, and can carry 3,704 passengers, but on this trip has but 1,703 passengers, all told—first, second and third, or steerage. She is 676 feet long, 72%. feet broad and is scheduled to make 19% knots an hour, or 450 miles a day. Every convenience and even luxuries supplied'ay the best hotels on shore, are ours on the Caronia. We were fortunate in securing a most desirable location on the right side of the boat and midway, where there is very little motion. It is hard to fully comprehend, while in the luxurious staterooms and walking over velvet carpets inside, that outside there is nothing to see in any direction but water and sky. But on the awful immensity of it fairly thrills us. In our week’s experience we have met some very interesting people. At our table is an American Jew with his Japanese wife —certainly one of the most beautiful, charming and intelligent ladies it has ever been my good fortune to meet. She tells us her father was Holland’s minister to China when she was a child. She speaks five languages — German, Chinese, Japanese, French, and excellent^ English. They have three such fretty and intelligent children, of whom we have grown very fond. Another fellow passenger whom we were delighted to meet is our U. S. Embassador to Russia, Hon. Curtis Guild, of Boston. This afternoon he honored us with an informal call and we spent a delightful time in pleasant conversation. He gave us many valuable suggestions in planning our tour through most interesting parts of Europe, and among them suggested we secure a passport from the U. S. Consul in Hanover, and look him (Guild) up in St. Petersburg, an invitation we are hoping at this time to accept. Fourth of July in mid-ocean, on board the Caronia, was a gala day. The principal feature was a grand parade at 10 a. m., when we, about 250 strong, marched from one end of the boat to the other, up and down, singing songs to the accompaniment of one cornet and a toy tin whistle, the latter being all the way from Wawasee, Ind., one of our good-luck wedding gifts, and upon this occasion very much in evidence. I forgot to mention that there is an orchestra of three pieces that plays during meals, etc., and among the

passengers we have an excellent pianist, and xnlin and cornet players, also several fine singers. We crossed the banks of Newfoundland that day and whether it was our songs that attracted, I do not know, but three whales, one an immense one, came spouting in clear view near the boat. One seemed to pass directly under the front end of the boat. We also saw a school of jumping fish, which came right toward the boat, evidently looking for a breakfast of garbage, which the waiters toss through the port hole. We are greatly surprised at not having experienced a single pang of sea sickness. It has been an unusually calm and delightful voyage, so only a very few have been sick. We haven’t failed to eat three meals a day and sleep, oh, how we sleep! The soft, soothing motion is exquisite when the grand old ocean takes us, her tired children, and gently “bye-os” us to sleep. Our sleep is so profound that even the fog horn, which blew all night on our fifth night out, (all other days being clear and bright) failed to disturb our slumbers. Mattie Crow Fick. Young People’s Alliance Meeting. The Evangelical Young People’s Alliance held a business and social meeting at the home of Mrs. Elmer Ott Monday evening. After the business meeting, a program consisting of music, contests and recitations was rendered. Refreshments were served at a late hour and all present report a very pleasant time. Those present were: Mrs. Tillman Hire, Mrs. AndrewEdmonds, Harry Eagles and family, Mrs. Sarah Ott, Miss Susan Fischer, Wilma Ott, Eithel Rasor, Hattie Sellars, Mrs. Eston Clayton and son, Irma Slauter, Nellie Mann, Mrs. Beuheit, Mrs. Leonard Rex, Edna Pearson, Pearl Kitson, Mrs. LaDene Jensen, Herbert Wright, George Slauter and Rev. C. A. Wright. Date Set for Jubilee Day. August 31 was the date decided upon at a meeting held in the office of W. T. Colwell on Monday evening, for our annual Jubilee and Home-Coming day. Every effort will be made to make the day a profitable one and if possible outshine all previous celebrations. Sam Akers was selected as general manager and chose J. D. McNutt and Emory Strieby to assist. The committees will be appointed at an early date and will be published in the next issue of the Journal. There will be another meeting at Mr. Colwell’s office tomorrow (Friday) evening, and everybody is urged to attend. Ghoked to Death On Collar Button Shortly after being put to bed Sunday night by his mother, Gerald, the 3-year-old son of Lewerlie Roberts of Fort Wayne, choked on a collar button and died before medical assistance could be secured. The child took the button from a stand after his mother had placed it there and told him not to touch it. Mr. and Mrs. Silas Ketring were at Indianapolis Sunday' the guests of Mr. apd Mrs. Bowen. While there word was recieved of the death of Mr. Ketring’s brother; John, at Chesterton. DR. COX’S Barbed Wire LINIMENT GUARANTEED to heal without leaving a blemish, or MONEY REFUNDED. 50c and SI.OO sizes for fresh wounds, old sores, sore backs and shoulders,burns and bruises. 25c size for Family Use. DR. COX’S PAINLESS BUSTER is painless and guaranteed to cure Spavin, Ringbone, Curb, Sweeny, Splint, Puffs, or any enlargement of bone or muscle, or money refunded. Price 50c. FOR SALS »V ALL BRUOOISTS

Attractions At Winona. One of the greatest days of this year's program at Winona Lake will be August 1, the day William Jennings Bryan speaks at Winona. Mr. Bryan will give one of his new lectures, but the subjest is not yet announced. The hour for his address is 2:45 o’clock in the afternoon at the auditorium. The whole day’s program was planned to please the farmers especially. Mr. Bryan is a favorite with them, even if they do not agree with his political views, and as a lecturer he is recognized as the best on the platform. The farmers have beeixtoo busy with their work to give much attention t<X the program at Winona and on August 1 they will get an abundance and a variety. At 6 o’clock in the morning Col. I. W. Brown will give his lecture on “Birds.” At 10 o’clock Dr. F. N. Palmer will give his lecture tor Bible students. At 11 o’clock the Roscoe band will give a concert. At 2 p. m. the Lotus Glee Club will give a concert, the band of musicmakers giving practically the prelude to the Bryan lecture. At 2:45 Mr. Bryan will speak As soon as Mr. Bryan has finished his address the Roscoe band will give another concert. At 7:30 o’clock the Roscoe orchestra will give a concert and at 8 o’clock Frank R. Roberson, the great traveler, will give his lecture on “Roundabout Paris,” one of the best travel lectures of the season. Sewer Assessments. The Benton street sewer assessment roll is on file with the town treasurer. Property owners will call and pay their assessments. Otis C. Butt, Clerk. For Sale Cheap. Steel kitchen range, hard coal burner, gasoline range and refrigerator. See J. W. Rothenberger. B. F. Kitson arrived home Sunday night fiom Chalmers, where he had been for over a week assisting Geo. S. Myers through oats harvest. He says Mr. Myers had a good hay and oats crop and has promise of a splendid corn crop. He is delayed in threshing on account as a scarcity of machines. Mr. and Mrs. Beech who moved here from Buffalo went to housekeeping in the Knorr property on Lake street Saturday. Mr. Beech is the new. blacksmith on the hill.

Kodaks I have put in a line of Eastman Kodaks ranging in price from $2.00 up to sl2. Algo a line of Supplies to go with the above kodaks. I have’also put in a fine line of IBox Ganbies f. L. Hoch, the Druoflist Phone 18

ANOTHER ACCIDENT fl KINyAPER Nill Caught between two rollers at the King paper mill, Kalamazoo, Mich., where Fay Cresskr had his left arm caught in some machinery Thuisday of last week, and torn from the socket, dying from his injuries al Borgess hospital Friday night, 19-year-old John Deßoer was drawn through the rollers and instantly killed Monday morning. The body of the unfortunate young man yas flattened out like**a pancake and crushed to a pulp, while three fellow workmen witnessed the horrible sight, powerless io aid their companion. Deßoer and three workmen w. re in charge of the dryers at the time of the accident. While past ing through the immense rollers, a line of paper broke, and Deßoer started to take the fragments from the machinery. In doing so, he reached down with his right hand. Some of the other workmen cautioned him against getting too near the rollers, but he Either paid no heed, or it was too late. The next moment his fingers were caught and the body of the victim was dragged between the huge revolving cylinders. Deßoer gave one blood-curd-ling scream as the powerful machinery got his head in its grasp, but before any of his fellow employes could jump to the lever which controlled the dryer, the form of the unfortunate youth was carried through. Just as the jnachinery was stopped the lifeless body of the victim dropped to the floor on the other side of the rollers. His head was flattened out, his chest was crushed I in, and the lower limbs reduced to a pulp. When picked up, the body was as limp as a piece of cloth, and every large bone was undoubtedly broken to atoms. The accident occurred about 6:30 [' o’clock, just after Deßoer had start’l ed to work for the day. So over- ' i come were his fellow workers by [the horrible sight, that they ad collapsed, and one of them was so • prostrated that it became necessary ! to send him to his home in a cai- [ riage. j Mrs. C. D. Smith returned Thursday from Garrett, where she had been a few days with her parents. Her little niece accompanied her home.

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