The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 38, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 16 January 1913 — Page 1

VOL V. ' / . Weather of the Past 23 Years ► We Lave taken the following record of the weather from the diary of Abraham Neff, who has kept track of the vagaries of weather for 32 year The small letter “a” means above zero and the letter “b” means below. The capitals “S” and “R” mean snow and rain respectively. By referring to this table it will be seen that at this time last winter the temperature Was much lower. Year, Jan. 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 1890 28 a S 20 a 30 a 16 a 24 a 25 a 25 a 1894 40 aR2O a 15 a 34 a R 9a S 4 a 15 a 1892 17 a S 13 a S 13 a S 10 b 8 a 20 a 14 a S 1893 6aSl6bS BbSl7b 4b 17 b 10 a 1894 15 a 42 a 38 a 40 a 29 a 48 a 34 a 1895 14 b S 10 a S 5b S 27 a S 8a \ 6 a 32 a R 1896 28 a 16 a 20 a 14 a 8 a 28 a 36 a R 1897 23 a S 22 aS26 a 25 a 32 a 32 a R ’ 1898 50 aR33 a 30 a 31 aS24 a 14 a 12 a\ 1899 24 a- 20 a / 1900 30 a 30 a S 34 aS33 a 32 a 30 a 37 a J 1901 24 aS2O a 34 a 28 a 32 a 20 a 10 a 1902 13 aS2O a S 14 a 28 a 27 a 15 a 34 a 1903 22 a 22 a 6 a 4 a 28 a 14 a 2 a 1904 3 b 5 b 15 a 27 a 21 a 25 a' 10 a 1905 29 a 24 a 5 a 2 a 10 a 12 a 34 a 1906 27 a 24 a 30 aR4OaR 20 a S 12 a 30 a 1907 31 a 30 a 38 a 23 aS2I a S 28 a R 31 a 1908 31 a S 23 a 12 a 23 aS2O a S 14 a 16 a 1909 laS 4a 22a 23 a 13 aS 16 a 9a 1910 27 a S 26 a S 19 a S 15 a 22 a . 27 a 18 a S 1911 21 a 24 a 21 a 14 a 12 a 10 a 4 a 1912 5b 7b 9aSsa S 3 a S 22 aS 37 a R ' > ■" -

DECLARE OPPERATIONS LARGELL UNNECESSARY 0 M Prominent Doctor Asserts that Cutting Os Tonsils Is Overdone. By the courtesy of Dr. J. H. Bowser we produce extracts from an article appearing in the Therapeutic Gazette, a medical journal. The article inquestion was written by Dr. John N. Mackenzie, a noted professor in the John Hopkins hospital He utters a’formal protest against the indiscriminate and wholesale destruction and removal of the tonsils, which he asserts is the chief and most glaring abuse in laryngology of the day. He states that a distinguished general surgeon informed him that of all surgical insanities within his recollections, this onslaught on the tonsils is the worst,

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not excepting the operation on the appendix. It is because Dr. Mackenzie believes that never in the history of medicine has the lust for opperation on the tonsils been as passionate as it is at the present time that he raises the warning hand. Mere enlargement of the tonsils or adenoids is not a cause for their removal, since nearly everyone before their twentieth year has enlargement of these organs. Occassionally these barriers become disceased in the battles with invading organisms and need treatment, but often their enlargement is due to the battle and tends to give the tonsils the victory. Ice Cutting Resumed. Stetler & Burlingame and the Bowser Ice Co. have resumed cutting ice after a delay of several days occassioned by the warmer weather. The ice is between nine and ten inches thick and is of good quality. The Bowser Co. is filling an order for 700 tons for the Nappanee Ice Co.

SYRACI FORMER RESIDENT WRITES S. L. KETRING Mr. And Mrs. H. R. Deßra Are Successfull In Tl/eir College Work. S. L. Ketring has received a letter from Mrs. H. R. Deßra of Cameron, Mo., which we believe will prove interesting to Journal readers. Dear Friends: I have been intending to wrtie you ever since the new year to tell you that we were able to complete our two hundred thousand dollar campaign for the college. I knew you would take great pleasure in knowing that one more college was safe for Methodism. There has been a doubt ever since we came to the College as to whether we would ever be able to raise this amount of money and save the college which has really been mortgaged for all it is worth, and so we feel that we have a double victory in that we are going to be able to clear all indebtedness entirely, and have one hundred fifty thousand dollars for endowment. This will all be invested at six per cent, and with the Conference twenty-five cents per member and tuitions, will leave but little to be raised for running expenses each year. "Y ou may know how glad and happy we are to know that the school is on a safe basis for the first time in its existence. Mrs. Dolan sends me a weekly pa per from Syracuse and every week I have the great treat of reading it over. You cannot imagine how those items entitled “thirty-seven years ago” attract my attention. There isn’t a name in the column that I do not know as well as my own name. It almost seems like a voice from the dead to hear such names as Martin Hillabold, Evan Milles, Preston Miles, MiltPhoebis and Adam Ketring. While I was only a little girl then, yet the very names have recalled to me incidents of my childhood life. One place it told of the building of the new schoolhouse by Joseph Kindig. I am going to try to come home next summer and make a good visit and if take long walks over the old tramping grounds and enjoy myself. I have thought so many times that I should like to build a little neat kind of home up there on the hill and just have a good time with the dear folks that 1 have held close to my heart all these years, that I have been a wanderer. I remember that when I was a child I wanted to see what was beyond the horizon and wondered what the world was beyond it. ( certainly have had an oppotunity of finding out for I have come in contact with all classes of people. I find my heart, however, returning to dear Syracuse and the dear old friends. When you see “my folks” tell them I send lots of loye to them as well as to you whom I call friends. P. S. Walter and his wife appreciate the beautiful wedding gifts more than I can tell vou. The wedding was not a large one, only the immediate relatives and young friends, of the bride were invited. They are located in Plattsburg ! where Walter has an office in the ' courthouse. You perhaps knew ■ that he is County Superintendent of > Clinton County. It is a great joy to have Blanche with us and teaching • in our college. Mrs. Deßra. Will Go To Panama ; S. L Ketring is making arrange- ; ments to see the Panama Canal be- ; fore the water is turned into it. He ; found it impossible to secure pas- “ sage on the steamers running from I New Orleans, a condition accounted I for by the large number of people who 1 are going there this winter, during I the month of January, and he is I now planning to go by the way of I Key West, .although the latter is I more expensive. > The Church of God Missionary • Society will meet Friday afternoon > with Mrs. Vem Bushong.

JSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JAN. THE LOCAL MARKETS. Wheat.. 1--- 1.00 Oats — -30 Corn -42 Hogs... —-X- 7c Calves 9c Cattle— 3@3|c Sheep - 3 54 @ 4c Lambs 7c Beef Hides 10c Tallow — ■-— Sc Chickens, livej?- 9c Young chickens 9c Lard He Butter 25c Eggs T 20c Across Elkhart Rivet. The contract for the construction of the large double span bridge over the Elkhart river at Ligonier was let to Cary & Knouff of Logansport by the board of county commissioners, of Noble county at Albion. The firm’s bid was $13,915. William Knox was given the contract to construct the floor, his bid being $295. Heavy plank will be used. The bridge will be ninety-two feet long and forty feet wife and will be constructed of concrete. Work on the structure , will ~ begin May 1. The structure will be one of the finest in the county when completed. Sulser Divorce Case. Gertrude A. Sulser of Elkhart by her attorney, P. L Turfier, has filed suit in the Elkhart circuit court for divorce from Delbert ? Sulser. and asks to be permitted to resume her maiden name of Gertrude A Jones. They were married in 1899 and separated in 1912, She charges that he neglected her, falsely accused her and was guilty of adultery with women to her unknown. Purchases Residence. Dick Unrue has bought of E. W Hire, the property on Lake street now occupied by the latter. Possession is to be given April Ist. DEATHS ODCWK Ostweek Mortuary Record And Funeral Announcements Os Grim Reaper’s Victims. Dorotha C. daughter of John and Catherine Baird, was born in Springfield, Ohio, Sept. 12, 1830. At the age of seven years, she with her parents came to Indiana and settled on the old Baird homestead. In 1857, she was married to Jos. L. Hendrickson. They lived in Syracuse for a number of years and later moved to the farm where her last days were spent. Mrs. Hendrickson’s parents were members of the Presbyterian church and brought up their children according ttrthe great traditions of that church. When the Methodist Episcopal church was built in Syracuse, she with her husband united with "it and honored- it by their lives. The deceased was well grounded in the Christian faith and enjoyed the peace and hope of everlasting life. Two daughters, Mrs. Redding of Syracuse, Mrs. Dangler of Goshen; two sons, John of Elkhart, and Will of Mineral Park; seven grand children, one brother of Larrington, Mo., with many relatives and friends are comforted by the thought She hath entered into rest. Funeral services were conducted at the M. E. Church, Monday at 1:00 oolock by Rev. Weaver. Burial in the Syracuse Cemetery. Mrs. Henry E. Reber, wife of one of Warsaw’s prominent real estate dealers, passed away at her home there Sunday afternoon. She had been in ill health for some months. The husband and two sons survive. Thom. M. Reed, cashier pf the Farmer’s State Bank at Albion, died last Friday evening, aged 54 years, 5 manths and 8 days. Wm. A. McGary, aged 78 years died at his home in Clinton township, Elkhsrt county, Sunday.

16, 1913. THE OLD SOLDIERS HAVE INSTALLATION Lots Os Good Things To Eat And A Nice Program Carried Out. The local post of of the G. A. R. following their yearly custom, had a banquet Saturday noon and followed it by the installation of the new officials for the coming year, and a program of music and recitation. Nearly one hundred and twentyfive people had their appetites appeased, after sitting down to the long tables filled with the choice things brought by the devotees and friends of the Lake View Post. The number was somewhat less than on proceeding occasions, due no doubt, to the bad condition of the roads. Still the room was comfortably filled. J. P. Dolan delivered an excellent address and the recitations of Mrs. Brower deserves special mention. This lady and her recitations are great favorites and always enjoyable. The following officers were started on their duties tp the Post: H. Pence. Commanded johuWillard, Senior Vice; C. V. Smith, Treasurer; Wm. Colwell, Chaplin; H. W. Chse, Adjutant; Allen Ruple, Officer of the guard; Benj Cable, Sergeant: Jacob" Rentfrow, Officer of the Day. A Fine Farm For Sale. —A fine 126 acre farm onehalf mile south of New Paris on the main traveled road between Warsaw and Goshen, less than 40 rods to Interurban station. Buildings consists of fine big house and barn also grainery and corn crib. This is one of best located farms in northern Indiana, and will be sold at a bargain. W. G. Connollv, Syracuse, Indiana. Meeting of Library Board. -At a special meeting of the Syracuse Library board held Monday evening Jan. 13,1913. at the Library Room, the board, by unanimous vote, directed the following Resolutions to be entered on the Secretary’s record:Whereas Mr. Silas L. Ketring, our townsman, has donated and paid over to the Syracuse Public Library the sum of Two Hundred Dollars for the purchase of substantial and useful books, and Whereas such generous, voluntary giving- to our home institutions for the betterment of our youth is so seldom exemplified, this Board deems the donor’s act worthy of more than passing notice, therefore it is Resolved that we hereby express in as open a manner as possible, our cordial appreciation of Mr. Ketring’s gift and that we assume the responsibility of disbursing the fund in the broad spirit of- the giver. Resolved that a special compartment be prepared for the reception of the books purchased with this fund to be known as the “Ketring donation to the library.” It is further Resolved that a spitable copy of these presented to Mr. Ketring duly signed by all the officers of the library. Dated at Syracuse, Ind., Monday January 13, 1913. Syracuse Public Library C. C. Bachman, President. J. P. Dolan, Secretary. Mrs. Ida Knorr, Librarian. Andrew Edmoiids. Miss Irene Spragues Mrs. Fannie Hoy. Fewer Mortages Recorded. The annual report of County Recorder Reno Hamlin shows a decrease in the number of mortgages filed in 1912. The number filed last year was 837 and in 1911, the number was 1,045. In 1910 the number ’of mortgages filed was 1,079. The total amount of the mortgages during 1912 was $889,331. and in 1911 the total amount was $1,917968. l This includes a $1,000,000 mortgage - filed by the Sandusky Portland Cement company of Syracuse.

Syracuse Defeated. The local high school basket-ball team were defeated by the score of 23 to 17 in their first game of the season played at Cromwell Friday night. The Syracuse five had some difficulty in finding the baskets and were handicapped by a lack of actual playing practice, while the Cromwell aggregation have played a number of games. The boys are confident of their ability to win in the return game to be played here in about two weeks. This confidence is strengthened by their defeat of the neighboring city several times last season. The local lineup was as follows: Strieby. R. F., H. Bowser, L F., P. Bowser, C., Jacob Kerns, R. G., W. Howard, R. G. Guy Jarrett refereed the game. Mrs. Wm. Darr was at Warsaw, Friday and Saturday.

Cloaks | Price] I will sell any Cloth Coat in stock at one-half the former price. This includes Ladies’, Misses’ \L and Children’s, in plain and fancy mixtures, black Kerseys and Broadcloths for ladies. An opI portunity to buy a good coat at half price when you need the garment. There are still some coats \\ . on the $2.00 rack and-to get one of those coats is most like finding it. -- - UNDERWEAR - - -1Very special- Boy’s heavy fleeced shirt and drawers, good 50c value for 25c a suit. All broken lines and odd lots will be closed out at • 1 ? very low price. Black Petticoats, 1.25 up to 1.75 values go at 75c while they — Best Calico 5c per yard, Saturday Only. I ■i ■■ 1 " T • 1 fl; W. StrlfiDU. I IIIIIIIIHIHHHHIIIIHHHIIIIIHHIIIIWIIHH i mi mi 11 Rexall Cough and Cold Preparations :: The Rexall line includes many reliable 3 remedies for that disagreeable cough and :: cold; that tickling sensation in the throat; ♦ ’ <! and that stuffy ache in the head. > :: <* i > <i■ ■ ■ 1 Try our Baby Cough Syrup i ;; . for the little ones. ;: . Syrup of White Pine and Tar • • :: will help the elderly. :: 11 IN : We have an excellent line of Cough and Cold ! I < • Tablets, Brochnical Lozengers, Lagrippe Pills—- • in fact the Rexall line has any number of pre- ! I < ■ ventives and remedies for the ailments peculiar ]; to the time of year. > ;■ - - Everyone is Guaranteed - - <> < > F. L. HOCH Phone 18 mtHtui'MiiimmmiiiiiiniiiMumHiiiiiH+t

NO. 38. y Signs Os Spring. The residents of the southeastern part of our town have discovered unmistakable signs of Spring; in other words they have observed the presence of a red bird and a blue bird. Now if any one person had brought a tale like that to our office we would have quickly dug up a blank pledge for them sign. As it. i is, the one who first discovered these unusual appearances quickly secured corroborating witnesses probably forseeing this unheleif. We have no solution to offer of the early appearance of these welli known harbingers of Spring but if . the prophesy implied is true we » might as well start to paint the boat r and ressurect the fishing tackle. Wood For Sale. , —Fine or chunk. $1.75 and $2.00 per cord. Phone 293. 2tpd