The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 43, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 22 February 1912 — Page 1

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BRAINARD’S Deoartm’t Store <►* - * < I > < II _ ’ Saturday, February 24 ' ' 1 ;; Is going to be ; NOTION DAY , « I ■ ! To get the public more familiar with the extensive ; ;; line of notions we carry we are going to make ; < • Special Prices for This Day • « ——~ ;; Buttons— Ocean Pearl, all sizes, 4c a dozen. Pearl Buttons ; ;; in all colors, very best pearl, 8c dozen. ; < ■ Finishing Braid— loc grade for 8c; 5c grade , for 4c. All • ;; colors and all new goods. • » ; ' Embroidery— Embroidered edges in all colors, 6 yard pieces ! 12c a piece. Swiss embroidered edging, 6 yards for 17c. ’ J Tape Measures, 5 feet long, 3c each. ~ • • Hooks and Eyes, all sizes in black- and white, 3c a card. « I ■ fr • > > Shears 15c and 25c. • < > « II Stationery— 3 packages of envelopes for 10c, all sizes. J ;; Tablets— One lot of Tablets, regular price sc. at 3c each. • ;; One lot of 10c Tablets, very beet, for 7c each. ; • > Ladies’ Handkerchiefs— Here is a bargain, 6 for 25c. . . <i■ « • < I Arm Bands, heavy silk, 6c. Missis’ wool golf gloves, all J i» colors, 25c grade, we have too many, 19c pair. Barrettes—One ! i I lot of 25c Barrettes at 19c. Collar Buttons, 1 doz on card, 4c. I Thimbles— Best German silver, all sizes, 4c each. Best Pins, J > ! paper 4c. Vasaline per bottle 4c. Colgate’s Shaving Soap, ’ • > 4c. Tooth Brushes 5 and 10c. Alarm Clocks, SI.OO and , > $1.25 grades, at 79c. 10 Quart Tin Pails, 6 doz. at 10c each. I • Heavy 10 Quart Tin Pails, 25c grade for 1 9c. - . I There’s quite a saving on little things. Buy your wants in ; I this line now and note the saving. ; THESE PRICES FOR SATURDAY, FEB. 24. ; * I f j New Shirt Waists New Curtain Goods ; New Embroideries New Hosiery ; i T. A. BRAINARD <£ CO. i Tll6 B6SI f>rlG6S *.a Jr The Newest Designs, the a-& most Courteous Service, | 4’ with a stock to select from | that is not surpassed in ! Northern Indiana. sSUyO McDougall | & HOLTZINGER PHONE.I37 GOSHEN, INDIANA Special Cash Sale For Saturday, February 24 25c box National Oats - -16 c Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, package - 8c 1 pound A. &H. brand Soda for- 6c 8 cakes Swift’s Pride Soap - -25 c 2 cans Peas for-- r -15 c 10c can Van Camp’s Pumpkin - 5c A good 35c Broom for- -29 c A good 40c Broom for- -33 c This space will have Bargains each week. WATCH FOR THEM! Searfoss Brothers PHONE 8

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LEPPER’S HARDWARE STORE ROBBED THURSDAY NIGHT Robbers Secured Money and Stock to Large Amount. Suspects Arrested. Syracuse was startled on Friday morning when the news spread that the hardware store of Solomon C.' Lepper had been entered some time during the night by thieves and considerable loot had been carried away, consisting of about $l3O in money, several hundred dollars in notes, silverware, rasors, a shot gun and other goods, the merchandise amounting to about $l5O. The thief or thieves gained entrance to the store through a basement window at the front of the building and then run the elevator into the basement and then rode to the main floor, where they made the raid unmolested. The safe, which contained the money and notes, was opened by working the combination, and the methods pursued by the thieves at once aroused Mr. Lepper’s suspicions as to who might be the guilty parties. Mr. Lepper was the first to discover the theft when he went to his store at 6:30 in the morriing, and at once started following possible clues and getting into communication with adjoining towns. His suspicions fell upon Merrit Cole, a former partner, and Miss Adah Rentfrow, an accomplice, and early in the forenoon evidence was gathered which confirmed Mr. Lepper’s suspicions. \ ' A The evening before a man and woman answering the description of the suspects, had, secured a rig at one of the livery barns in Goshen, and it is thought that Miss Rentfrow, who had gone to Goshen from Syracuse that evening, met Cole there and they got the rig and drove to Syracuse and after doing the job started to drive back to Goshen and when way there their horse fell from fatigue and they abandoned it and tried at three different farm houses before they were successful ip persuading some one to drive them to Goshen. Ray Wortinger was finally prevailed upon to drive them to Goshen, where they took the five o’clock train west on the Lake Shore for Chicago. Mr. Lepper and Sheriff Leader of Elkhart county, went to Chicago Friday evening and a search was started there for the suspects. They returned Saturday evening with no clue to their whereabouts. On Sunday afternoon Miss Rentfrow returned to Syracuse on No. 8 at about one o’clock and was at once taken into custody by Sheriff Leader, who happened to arrive in town from Goshen at the same time. After a short talk with Miss Rentfrow’ the sheriff secured the address of Mr. Cole from her and he and Mr. Lepper hastened to the depot to catch No. 7, which was running late, for Chicago. * Constable Wesley Hire and A. L. Miller took Miss Rentfrow to Goshen in an automobile, where she was placed in the county jail to await further developments. In Chicago the sheriff and Lepper secured the services of three detectives and went to the address given them and at 1 o’clock Monday morning they arrested Cole and brought him to Goshen, where he was also placed in jail. It is reported that Cole and Miss Rentfrow were living in Chicago together under the assumed name of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Shultz. The gun, some of the razors, silverware and other articles were found in the room they occupied. ‘ The prisoners were transferred to the Kosciusko county jail Tuesday afternoon, one on the 4:30 car and the other at 5:30. Before leav-

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ing Goshen they \ ore identified by two liverymen as being the parties who secured the rig bn Thursday evening and was not returned by them. Cole, immediately upon his aßival at Warsaw, asked fora lawyw, the request was granted and Jonn Widaman was retained. Rentfrow brought with her from Chicago Sunday a trunk which was held, and on Tuesday evening a search warrant was secured and the trunk searched. 1 A part of the silverware which was taken from the Lepper store on' Friday morning was found in the trunk. Interurban Railways. The periodical buzz of Interurban Railways has again hit Syracuse and vicinity and it seems f there is more prospect of a line being put through Syracuse in the immediate future than has been since the days of the old Huntington and Goshen route. Two seperate parties have been in Syracuse in the past week looking over proposed routes. One party of gentlemen had in view the location of an interurban from Fort, Wayne to South Bend byway of Syracuse and Nappanee, the other proposed to revive the Huntington, Columbia-City and North-Western Route with a line also from Columbia to Ft. Wayne. The outcome of these visits remain to be seen, but we hope that there will be something to them for Syracuse could very well use an interurban whether to Goshen or to Milford Junction, but until something more defenite rounds into shape we must not allow our hopes to soar into high places, we may be disappointed. u— — ■ One Half Price For Ladies Misses and Childrens Coats. I will sell any ladies, misses or childs coats in my store at half price. I have a line of up to date,’ high grade coats in black and fancy woolens which have been so popular this season. Never before have such coats been offered so cheap in in the middle of the season. They never will be cheaper. Terms cash. A. W. Striebv. Box Supper At M. W. Hall. A box supper will be given at M. W. A. hall on Saturday evening, February 24. All neighbors and their wives, and those who have no wives bring your sweethearts, or friends, with well filled boxes, and enjoy a sociable evening with us. By order of commitee. Lake View Post No. 246 G. A. R. are requested to meet with well filled baskets at the Post hall on Saturday, March 9, 1912. All soldiers and their widows are requested to be there. John Willard, C, M. Every housewife of experience in this vicinity knows that GERBELLE FLOUR is always reliable, always uniform and always reasonable in price, and that she can get better results on baking day than from any other brand. Ask your grocer for GERBELLE and if he does not have it, send his name to THE GOSHEN MILLING CO. Goshen, Ind

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THE LIBRARY MEETING LAST THURSDAY EVENING Was Well Attended. Interesting Talks By Carl H. Milam, Mr. Dolan and Prof. Bachman The meeting in the interest of the public library last Thursday evening was quite well attended. Thef attendance was not as great as it would have been perhaps, if our people had known of the nature of the meeting. Some good was done, and some seed Sown that may bear fruit in the future. The music was furnished by Misses Olga Beckman, Cora Crow and Ruth Bittman, and consisted of piano and vocal selections. Prof. Bachman spoke briefly regarding the purpose of the meeting. He emphasized the value of the library to the school, and the community, and said that he placed the library second to no institution in this community in its power to to higher moral and intellectual levels. He spoke of the small beginning, the few books of the library three years ago, the growth during these Three years, and the present/usefulness of the library. Mr. Dolan spoke briefly regarding the value of books. He read from his favorite author, Arthur Christopher Benson, an extract regarding the purposes and value of reading. The thought was beautiful, and eloquently expressed. Mr. Carl H. Milam, secretary of the State Library Commission, then spoke on the subject, “The Library as a Community Center.” Extracts from his address follow: “I am an outsider, and I do not know all I should like to know about local conditions. What I shall have to say will be along the line of future possibilities. I shall offer no criticism—only commendations for what you have done, and suggestions about what you may do. I shall speak especially of the uses to which the library may be put by the people of this community. “In the first place, the Syracuse public library ought not in my opinion, to be a town library. It ought to be free for reference, reading and circulation to all the citizens of Turkey Creek township, and alf these people ought to aid in its support. The little city of Syracuse is not an independent corporation, •actually, even though it is, to a certain extent, legally. It is rather an outgrowth of the country. If it were not for the country—that is the farmers —the town could not exist, and, if the town were to go out of business, the farms would rapidly decrease in value and the farmers would move out of the township. The town is invaluable to the country, but is, in turn, almost wholly dependent on it for its existence. The children come here to high school, and many of you come here to church, a great many come for social affairs, and, more important than all, you all come here, probably, to transact your business. “If these things are true, then Syracuse is the logical center of this community, and, if Syracuse is the center of the community so far as business, social, educational and religious life is concerned, it is the logical place for the location of a township library. “There are in this township 2,398 people; 1,379 live inside the city limits; 1,019 live outside the city limits. Now, I have no reason to believe that those of you who live outside the corporation are any less intelligent, or any less interested in educational affairs than the people who are residents of Syracuse. You have good schools in the country, you subscribe for good magazines,

you take the daily papers. Therefore, I feel certain that practically all of you would be interested in having access to a well organized public library that would furnish you with the reading matter that you need and want. “The first question that comes up when this proposition is being considered, is: What legal and financial arrangement can be made between township and town that will make possible a co-operative institution of this sort. Fortunately the state lawmakers have seen the importance of such co - operative agreements and have provided for these things in the state law. “If the Syracuse public library board is willing to throw the library open to all the citizens of the township on condition that the township contribute to the support of the library, then the township advisory board must levy a tax for said library, when petitioned to do so by fifty freeholders. “The levy from a half mill tax in Turkey Creek township would yield $530.00 a year. “Under the law the library be open and free to all the citizens of the township. Every man, woman and child will have a right to go to the library to study or read, and to borrow books for home is the fundamental and all importX ant thing. In all the more progress(Cofecluded on Page Eight)

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Mrs. Ira Sensibaugh_ Mrs. Ira Sensibaugh was born in Esfeex county, Canada, July 31st, 1839, and died in Syracuse, Indiana, February 15th, 1912, aged 72 years, 6 months and 14 days. At the age of 16 years she united with the Wesleyan church in Canada, and was always in touch with the church and its work until stricken with disease.She was married to Ira Sensibaugh on April 3, 1863,|and came to Indiana the following year. .Six children were born td this union; four sons and two daughters, one of the sons died in infancy. She came to Syracuse in the fall of 1898 and united with the M E. church, in which she was an active worker until the 13th day of the following August, when she was stricken with palsy. Since Aprilwif 1908 she has been confined to her bed. She is survived by her husband, three sons and two daughters, two sisters and one brother, who lives in Canada, and other relatives and friends. With truth it can be said of her: With patience she run the race set before her, looking unto Jesus, the author and protector of her faith; strengthened by the joy set before her she endured the cross. Every package of Fleck’s Stock x and Poultry Powders guaranteed—at The Quality Drug Store.

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