The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 20, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 14 September 1911 — Page 5

M. E. Church. A. L. Weaver, Pastor Sunday school 10:00 a. m. Preaching 11:00 a. m. Epworth League Thursday, 7:30 p. m Grace Lutheran Church. Ira R. Ladd, Pastor. Sunday School 9:30 a. m Chief Service 10:45 a. m Church of God. Rev. A. O. Musgrave, Pastor. Sunday School ,10:00 a. m Preaching Service 11:00 a. m Y. p. S. C. E. 6:30 p. m Preaching Service 7:30 p. m Mid-Week Prayermeeting Thursday evening at 7:30. George Slaughter and family who recently moved west from our town, have located at Los Angeles, California. Mr. Slaughter was assistant superintendent at the cement plant here for several years.

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Raymond S. Greene, . Raymond S. Greene, of whose illness mention was made in the Journal a few weeks ago, succumbed to the disease and died Thursday of last week at his home on Lincoln i avenue, Goshen. Ray was reared in Syracuse, having come here from New York with his father when he was a lad of tender years. Here he grew to manhood and left only after his father had retired from business and began working as bookkeeper for Minnich & Co., hardware dealers at Goshen. He proved himself most competent and soon changed for work carrying larger responsibility and greater opportunity. His business ventures were fortunate and he left no small competence for his family; a wife, three sons and one daughter. Some days before his demise he expressed the desire to be taken into the Catholic church, of which his wife and children were devout members, and Rev. Gustave Hottenroth, pastor of St. John’s, waited on him to this end. The funeral was held Saturday, and a large concourse of friends and former business associates followed the remains to their last resting place. Raymond is remembered kindly by all his former friends and associates at Syracuse. Samuel Kehr, several years ago a resident of Syracuse, now living at Milford, was arrested and commited to the county jail at Warsaw, last week, on a charge of deserting his wife and children. Kehr was arrested on an affidavit filed by his wife who claims that he left her and their five children, all under 14 years of age, on August 19, and that he failed to provide for them since that time.

Home News Notes. Don’t forget that it pays to advertise. Theplambers are fitting up a bath room for Tillman Hire this week. Quite a number from here attended the Fair Tuesday and Wednesday at Goshen. Ernest Cory was home from Elkhart over Sunday to visit his mother, Mrs. Dan Deeter. Mrs. Dan Wogoman spent Friday and Saturday with her daughter, Mrs. Jess Darr and family. You are invited to come in and see our new arrivals in Linoleums. Lepper & Cole. J. W. Balyeat & Son of Goshen Ind., have some desirable Michigan land to sell or exchange? a3l-3w Dick Brunjes and lady friend of Chicago, are spemding a few days at Brunjes Park with the former’s parents. Logan Juday, of Elkhart, was in town Wednesday on business and visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Juday. Mrs. Tillman Hire, Mrs. Henry Tully, Mrs. Alec Hickman of Wilmot and Miss Lida Davis were at South Bend Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brown and baby of South Bend, and Lemuel Masters and family of New Paris, were the guests of Mart Long and wife Monday. Mrs. Harry Leaqock and daughter Helen, who have been visiting here for several months, expect to leave here for their home at Allentown, Penn, this evening. Mrs. William Strieby will accomany them. Chas. Nicolai and Elmer Ott are well yleased with the patronage they are having at their new cider mill, 214 miles northeast of town. Messrs. Nicolai & Ott have a mill that will turn out 90 barrels a day, and no one need wait long for their cider. Howard E. Watkins and Miss Cecil Mullen, oldest daughter of John Mullen living south of town, were united in marriage at Warsaw Saturday, September 9th, at the U. B. parsonage, Rev. B. F. Thomas, pastor of the U. B. church at Warsaw, officiating. Jacob Whitehead, Mrs. Frank Miles, of Chicago, Fred Self and Mr. and ,Mrs. Marion Self attended the funeral of a relative, Miss Bertha Hattel, at Goshen Thursday afternoon. The young lady had taught school for some time in Goshen and the school closed that afternoon that the the teachers might attend the funeral. L. A. Davis returned to Chicago Friday, where he entered the Bush Temple of Music for a 40 weeks’ term. He will take lessons on the violin and piano and also vocal music. Mr. Davis is a natural born musician, being able to play, several instruments quite successfully without ever having taken a lesson. He is a brother of Miss Lida Davis, the telephone operator. The will of the late Jonathan Hoover, of southwest of town, has been filed for probate in the Kosciusko circuit court. The instrument provides for a tombstone and for the payment of all debts. Isaac and Rebecca Hoover, son and daughter, who lived with him. to have the use of the farm for two years, after which the property will be divided between six children. The will was made October 26, 1905. Card of Thanks. I wish to thank the kind neighbors and friends for the beautiful flowers and lending a helping hand during the 'sickness and death of my husband. May God bless you all, is my prayer. Mrs. John Medlem. Card of Thanks, I desire to thank my friends and neighbors for their kindness and sympathy on the death of my mother. Mrs. B. F. Vorhees.

NO CAUSE FOR GREAT ALARM Large Number of Defective School Children an Old Phenomenon, Now More Evident. The enormous number of defective school children should not alarm us too greatly. Bad as it all is, there is plenty of evidence that it is an old, old phenomenon—as old indeed as man himself—but now more evident -because there are more people. It is less in rural districts, though still present, and as the population is now largely urban, it is quite natural that the proportion of defectives should increase, though as a master of fact there is no evidence that it has. Big cities are modern affairs and that is why their phenomena are being dis covered, but the accounts of London some centuries ago showed a deplorable number of defectives, probably far greater in proportion than in New York now. Though it is appalling that there should be wearly a quarter million diseased school children, yet the defects are of minor things, while formerly thdy were severe. The seat of most of the trouble is said to be malnutrition, but it is not nearly so bad as in European cities of the last century. That is, the new facts must not cause undue pessimism, but rather the reverse, for they show that though there Is an Immense preventive work ahead of us, the progress made in a century or even a half cen tury has been enormous. Optimism is in place, even if we are sure that perfection is unattainable. Moreover, our preventive work is rapidly becoming more and more efficient now that we are learning the exact conditions and their causes.—American. Medicine. Not His Habit. One of the host things W. S. Gilbert said was about Rut. .nd Barrington, whose portly, unctuous humor was such an inimitable addition to the old D’Oyly Carte company. During the premiere of a new opera Gilbert was in a box with a party of friends, one of whom turned to him excitedly and said: “C)h, Mr. Gilbert, Rutland Barrington is singing in tune.” “Oh, don’t worry about that,” said Gilbert “it’s only first-night nervousness —he’ll get over it.” A Warning Heeded. \ “I once heard your wife recite 'Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight,’” said the reminiscent friend. “Yes,” responded Mr. Meekton, with a smile of confident approval. “And I take notice that the curfew has gone out of business.”

LIGHTHOUSE HAS NO KEEPER Volcano on San Salvador Whose Flashes of Light Come Regularly Every Seven Minutes. “What do you think or a perpetual lighthouse, needing no keeper, and yet as regular in its flashes of light as one ‘maintained by the government?” asked Albert D. Van Wyck, a globe trotter, at the Raleigh. - “This natural light never fails, and that means much for navigation. It is a volcano on the island of San Salvador. This volcanic lighthouse is about eight miles inland from the port of Acajutla. It is a veritable pillar of cloud by day, and th' ’’ash of its light by night has been v able to mariners for years. It can be seen far out at sea, and a burst of flame has gone upward every seven minutes, without the variation of a second, for many years. “The few -visitors who stop at San Salvador amuse themselves the first few days by holding their watches and timing the outburst of flame. “A lighthouse fee is collected of all vessels that put in at the harbor nearest the volcano, and no skipper objects. He knows that the volcano Is more reliable than the lighthouses kept by human beings on other coasts, and the novelty of the light is worth the price charged by the government. There is the usual detonation caused by the eruption every seven minutes, and the ground is shaken, but, after a short sojourn on the island you fail to notice it, and would be the more shocked if it did not occur.” —Washington Post. CHRISTMAS DAY OF “DEVIL” Printer’s Lad, Waiting for Copy From Masson, Spent Holiday in the Author’s House. It happened that sad Christmas tide of 1863, when Thackeray lay dead and all the London papers were busy with his name, my father received a hurried little note from Ed ward Levy—after Levy Lawson, the present Lord Burnham—asking him to write the article for the Daily Telegraph on Thackeray’s death. I found the note not long ago among some papers. It was dated “December 25, 1863,” and asked my father to “do for us today a leader on the present condition of English literature .apropos of the. death of Thackeray.” And there was a postscript: “The bearer will walk about the country till you tell him to return for copy.” The story of that little printer’s devil and how he spent his Christmas day in our house in Finchley road has been handed down in the family annals. He. may, in obedience to his employer, have taken a little walk about the wintry Hampstead or Kilburn fields, but he most certainly and sensibly came back to eat his Christmas dinner; I believe he was with us all day. It must have been quite late at night when the parlor maid, so the story foes, looked into the study with a rather scared face and whispered to my mother: “Please, ma’am, the devil has been sitting by the kitchen fire the whole evening and cook says hadn’t she better give him a hot supper now?” —Miss Flora Masson in Cornhill Magazine. Where Courting Is Dangerous. Four young men have been shot at Vex (Valais) by an irate father to whose daughter they had come to pay court, says the London Express. They were refused admission to the house, and when they tries to force their way in the father took down his gun and fired. Two of them were slightly wounded and the other two seriously. The father was arrested. The encounter and its almost tragic ending were due to ancient custom which prevails in the villages of tije canton of Valais and in the Alpine hamlets of the German cantons. After a girl has reached the age of eighteen her parents are not surprised to receive the visit'of several young men after the day’s work to ask to see their daughter and pass a pleasant evening in the family circle. The visit is looked on as a compliment, and as the young men bring with them wines and food they are generally welcomed by the parents. The custom, which is known as Veillee, results in introductions and often in marriages. A Limited Edition. Privately printed books constitute a very interesting bypath of literature. One produced by the Prince Consort Is a subject of Inquiry In the current Notes and Queries. The Court Journal of September 23, 1865, mentions that the Prince Consort made a special study of Balmoral. By his directions and largely with his assistance a book on the Balmoral country, topographical, botanical, geological, descriptive and reminiscent, was compiled. It was beautifully printed by an eminent London firm, but by the Prince's strict orders only six copies were struck off. Is there a single copy now In existence? The British Museum, the Windsor Library and the Balmoral Library have, been searched in vain.—London Chronicle. Fickle Popularity. “You started wit- the full confidence of Jour constituents and low you are criticised on every hand.” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum, “my experience has been very much like that of a man who good-natured-ly consents to umpire a ball gain*,” -

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Ladies’ Aid Lecture Course. The M. E. Ladies’ Aid have closed a contract with the Century Lyceum Bureau of Chicago, for a series of lectures and entertainments to be given during the coming fall and winter. The course will consist of three entertainments and two lectures, the first number to be given October 7, by the Cincinnati Entertainers, and will be an evening of music and story that will be of rare pleasure and of real inspiration to every listener. Their songs, with banjo and guitar accompaniment, and Miss Cooper’s whistling solos, with piano accompaniment, are charming features of the program; while Miss Grimm’s readings are of the kind that are not only enjoyed but remembered, both on account of the art with which they are given and the real worth of every selection. The second number, a lecture by Charles Howard Plattenburg, will be given Nov. 30. Mr. Plattenburg is a lecturer of the first rank. He is highly educated, is a student and philosopher and has traveled extensively, fully appreciates the sublime and humerous and paints it in beautiful and eloquent language, alike, the serious and frivilous things of life. He is always high minded, instructive, entertaining and well worth the time of all who appreciate a really good lecture. A home talent, entertainment will be given during the week of the holidays. Syracuse has some splendid talent for entertaining, as has previously been exemplified, and we are sure this number will be interesting, helpful and instructive. The fourth number of the course wHI be filled January 15, 1912, by the Manda Stevens Concert Co., consisting of a violinist, pianist and

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whistler, and an impersonator—Misses Kimball, Chamberlin and Stevens. Miss Kimball is a violinist of rare ability. Her fine selections, coupled with her modest appearance, is .very pleasing. Miss Chamberlin has remarkable natural gift s as a whistler and warbler and has developed them in an astonishii; ‘ way. Miss Stevens is an impersonator pf interest. Her work is perfectly natural and true to life. The closing number will be a lecture of unusual interest by Wirt Lawther, on Feb. 8. Mr. Lawther lectured here two years ago, and everybody was charmed with his work. He has a splendid voice and forceful delivery. His lectures pos . sess fine literary quality and are spiced with just enough humor to please and win attention. Mrs. Jacob Altland. Mrs. Jacob Altland, died at her home five miles southwest of here last Thursday afternoon of apoplexy, aged 54 years. Mrs. Altland had been very poor ly for since last winter, but the day she died was feeling btter than usual anU had eaten hartily at dinner time. The funeral took place at the Zion church Saturday forenoon at 10 o’clock, conducted by Rev. Weimer of North Webster. Interment was made in the Union cemetery. The deceased is survived by husband, one son, Wm. Starner living south of town, and one daughter. Mrs. Kolberg, of this place, four brothers and two sisters. The Uplift "Is she a help to her mother?” asked one woman. “Yes, Indeed," replied the other. “She has taught her to say ‘culinary art' instead of ‘cooking.’ ”