The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 39, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 23 January 1913 — Page 1

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Weather of the Past 23 Years We have 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. 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 1890 33 a R 20 a S 8 a 0a 17 a 6a 32 a 1891 28 a 32 a 35 a S 26 a S 28 a 24 a 18 a 1892 12 b 10 b 6 a 25 a 25 a 25 a 25 a 1893 0 5 a 13 a 23 a 25 a S 32 a 25 a 1894 20 a 40 a 33 a 26 a 22 a S 5 b 17 b 1895 28 a 23 a 25 a R 15 aSIO a 4 a 10 a 1896 30 a 27 a 23 a 25 a 33 a R 35 qr 33aR 1897 15 a S 3U a S 30 a 34 aSB a S 13 b 21 b 1898 22 a 40 a R 32 a 32 aS2B a S 14 a 30 a & . 1899 15 a 26 a S 32 a 24 a 34 a 20 a 1900 42 a 37 a 23 a 27 a 36 a 29 a 15 a 1901 2 a 30 a 46 a 30 a 36 a 20 a 23 a 1902 15 a 16 a 26 a 27 a 25 a 25 a 24 a 1903 10 a 14 a . 26 a 12 a 13 a 8 b 2 b 1904 9 a 42 a 33 a 33 a 11 a 18 a 18 a 1905 31 a 26 a 26 a 21 a 19 a 18 a 10 a 1906 24 a 48 a 53 a 36 a 20 a 15 a 14 a 1907 49 a 10 a 4 a 10a 7a 1 14 a 8 a 1908 20 a 31a 38 a 28 a 14 a la 19 a 1909 24 a 24 a 37 a 44 a 48 a 44 a 28 a 1910 7 a 30 a 20 a 15 a 20 a 21a 11 a S 1911 14 a 22 a 13 a 4 a 9 a It a 26 a 1912 5a 8a 4a 23 a 29 a 16 a 13 a R

A CHANGE IN A LOGALM NAME Emory Strieby Is Taken Into Partnership With A. W. Strieby. • I One of our local firms will do business under a new name after the present week, when A. W. Strieby will take his son, Emory, into the firm that will hereafter be known as A. W. Strieby & Son. The senior member of this firm has been in the dry goods and gen* eral business in Syracuse for the past 30 years. About 20 years ago he assumed a partnership with Chas. Miller and four or five years ago took entire charge. A. W. Strieby is known as a square dealing and honest merchant to his numerous friends and patrons and the town has known him as one-

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always ready to aid in a benefiicial project. Emory Strieby is a widely known popular young business man and has been employed by his father all of his working life. The new firm can not help but enjoy the formers prosperity and the Journal hopes to see it do an ever increasing business. Notice Os Dissolution, Notice is hereby given that the partnership of Burlingame and Stetler heretofore existing, in operating the Syracuse Ice Company, was by mutual agreement dissolved on January 1, 1913, AH accounts due said partnership or that may hereafter become due are and will be due and payable to W. W. Stetler, and the said W. W. Stetler will continue said business and will hereafter have the full management and control of the business, affairs of said company. t 2 W. W. Stetler Robert Burlingame.

LOCAL OPTION 10 BE FOUGHT AGAIN ■ i " l A Petition Is Now Being ! Circulated For An Election. . A petition that will probably • have nearly its full quota of signers : are this paper reaches you is being circulated by the adherents to the “wet” cause. Twenty percent of the total vote is needed on this paper before an election can be called, i There are 626 registered voters in Turkey Creek township and 20 per cent would be approximately 126 signers that are necessary and which < undoubtedly will be secured. It is a hard matter to gauge the reshlt of the election but it is generaly conceded that the chances are that Syracuse will remain as it is. The “drys” apparently have the advantage, because even should the election have a wet termination, they still have the remonstrance to fall back upon. This latter was successfully used at Milford to oust the saloons after the town had voted wet.. The law says that a license may be granted for every 500 inhabittants or the proportion may be increased to 1,000 at the option of the Commissioners. The basis to work upon may be found by multiplying the number of votes cast at the last election by five, yvhich makes a total .of over 3,000. This would allow six saloons for this township, and taking into consideration Syracuse’s population of 1379 would allow the granting of two licensees inside the coporate limits and three outside. Died In Kansas. Word was recieved by Monroe Beck of Milford that Mrs. Isaac McCloud, of lola, Kan., had died Jan. 3rd. Mrs. McCloud was 77 years of age and formerly lived with her husband at Milford Junction owning the land on which the village now stands and on which there are three railroad crossings. Honored At South Bend. Bishop John Hazen White was highly praised for his services as a bishop at a banquet given him in South Bend last Thursday night. As a substaniial token of affection, W. B. Conkey, of Hammond/ toastmaster, presented Bishop White on behalf of the men of the diocese with a bag of gold containing S3OO ' A Regretable Omission. Through the hurry and bustle of work last week we omitted mentioning the address of Rev. Mygrant to the old soldiers in the writeup of the installation of officers. The talk Mr. Mygrant made to the G. A. R. men was well worthy of a pretentous notice and we regret exceedtinglythat the omission occurred. Falls In The Lake. Paul, the young son of Marion Bushong, took an icy plunge into the waters of Syracuse Lake Sunday afternoon obout four o’clock. He and some companions were skating when he accidentally skated over the edge of a hole where the ice had been cut. Passersby hurried to his assistance but he succeeded in climbing out before they reached him. • Receive New Fords. Twelve 1913 model Fords, part of a consignment of 25, have been received by Miller & Lepper. They are certainly beauties and worth $625 of any man’s money. They are finished in’ black enamel, have fore doors, and are generally up -todate throughout. / Officers Elected Directors and officers, for the en- ; suing year were elected by the New ; Paris Telephone Co<, last Saturday. ; Directors, James Peters, Chas. ; Swartz, Abe Morhouse, Thom. Mish- ; ler, D. H. Fisher, J. W. Rowabaugh ‘ and Wm. Cart.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JAN. 23, 1913.

THE LOCAL MARKETS. 1 Wheat 1.05 ' Oats -30 Corn .42 Hogs 7c Calves 9c Cattle 3|@4c ] Sheep 4@sc Lambs 6|c Beef Hides 10c Tallow 5c Chickens, live. n 9c Young chickens 9c Eard.„_ He I Butter 25c Eggs 20c j r-"--..- -'g!’-”-.'. • - . Auburn Plant Did Well. Superintendent Davenport of the 1 electric light and water plant at ’ Auburn makes a report for the past 1 year that is certainly a big boost for 1 municipal ownership. He shows a 1 collection of $17,620 22 for electric | 1 light current; $5,775.42 for water rentals, and enough more from other 1 sources to bring the total receipts up to $25,302.04. The total disburse- ! ments are given at $12,672.34. 1 There were emended for extensions and betterment of the plant the sum of $4,377334, and there is an item of $929.64 for motors and supplies, so that the plant returned a net profit above all improvements and all expenses of $7,337.22 and to that sum should be added the municipal expenditures for street lights amounting to $708.75. The superintendent says the day current there has been profitable and that the net receipts last year exceeded those for the proceeding year by more than S2OOO. Auburn is to be congratulated upon the showing made and other small cities might learn something to their advantage by looking into the manner in which the Auburn plant is managed. As a result of the showing the rates for electric current have been re duced. DEATHS OCCURRING - Mortuary Record And Funeral Announcements Os Grim Reaper’s Victims. SARGENT—SamueI Patterson Sargent, a well know Goshen man died last week at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Wogoman of pneumonia, after an illness of 10 days. Deceased was 64 years old. He is survivied by his wife, Evelyn Sargent, three daughters, Mrs. Ira Long, Mrs. Ed Westfall and Mrs. Wogoman, and one son. Shurl, all of Goshen, together with two brothers, George of Syracuse, Perry of Marion and one sister, Mrs. Sheldon Harkless of Syracuse. Mrs. Fred Young died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. R. Elliott at Wakarusa. Miss Sadie Hoadley died Monday at her home in Atwood as the result of a fall down cellar last Friday. I School motes | By Lillie Deardorff Clarence Ruffner, Forest and Delbert Callender and Eva Schick withdrew from school this week. They are going with their parents to Garret. Wayne Hoelcher entered Miss McClary’s room Monday. Helen Soltau is absent from school on account of sickness. Miss Ethel Cobb visited High School, Wednesday. The following Juniors aiyl friends were entertained by Miss Wilma Kitson at her home on Main street, Tuesday evening: Hattie Routson, Marie Strieby, Mary Sarjent, Eva Pearson, Catherine Ethel Cobb, Francis Miller, Mildred Edgell, Vida Dewart, Clara Brickel, Velma' Shock, Emma Rentfrow, Ruth Bittman, Mildred Woods, Gladys Kinsey, Miss Haven, Miss Branham, Hallie Holloway, Lonnie Searfoss, Virgil Mock, Scott Hire, Joe Rapp, John Snobarger, Phillip Bowser, Orlon Stiffler, Guy Bushong. Hugh Warstler, Ray Ott, Forest Bowld, Aldean Strieby and Eugene Hoopingarner.

WRITES ANOTHER EUROPEAN LETTER Interesting Tale Os ’travels Os The Ficks In Switzerland Montraux Switzerland, Aug 1911. Dear old Montraux, I wonder if in all Europe, there could be found a more ideal place in which to spend a honeymoon. We have backtracked here from St. Bernard, and are lingering a few extra days, waiting for more favorable reports from the awful cholera epidemic over in Italy. Have such a charming room at a small and very quiet hotel. A wide French window opens from our room onto a tiny flower covered balcony, which we look at either side, up and down the narrow winding street, or strait out against the side of the mountain which towers high above us. Through the day the view from this balcony is brilliantly gorgeous. Then all the little hamlets nnd mountain resorts which hang perilously on the side of this monstrous hill are lighted. There electric lights twinkling like so many stars, and the rack and pinion railway run its brilliantly lighted cars up, up, up, until to us they looked like meteors flashing back and forth in a starry sky. A roaring little mountain stream comes tumbling over rocks down the side of the mountian, passes throygh the center of town forty feet from our window then looses its self at Lac Lemon, two blocks farther down the street. Through the days a buzzing little plaining mill about two blocks up stream from us drowns the murmer of the water but at night when all is still this little mountain turrent makes its self distinctly audible. At first it rather disturbed our slumbers, but now we’ve grown ac customed to and rather like its ceaseless lulaby. Yesterday we did some shopping and among other things invested in a Swiss alarm clock, the alarm being-two tunes one of them the Merry Widow waltz. We asked the man to pack it for its long journey across seas which he did, and incidently without our knowledgd, also wound the alarm to its fullest extent. At two o’clock this morning I was wakened by music, at soft and low then growing louder and stronger. Finding that the sound was inside the hotel instead of on the street, and also suddenly struck by the famili arity of the tunes, I shook my husband and said in a stage whisper: “Albert listen, some pne in this hotel has an alarm clock just like ours and isn’t it just horrid that they are letting it run and arouse every one in the hotel at this unearthly hour.” Then to my horror we discovered that the noise was issueing from our Swiss clock nailed securely in a box and standing just inide our door. We hastily grabbed it, box and all; thrust it into bed, and smothered it with pillows. Then tired and sleepy-eyed we sat on either side of the provoking thing, making repeated efforts to uncover it and each time rewarded by a jolly little tingle of “Hear the cello soft and mellow Breathe its tune” or, “Ichlach einst mohl auf latten Bie wasser und bie brod” for what may have been something less than one half hour, but seeming like five, it finally exhausted itsself and permitted our return to peaceful slumber. Just north of the pier at Montraux, stands the ancient old Castle of Chilion, made famous by Byron’s poem “The Prisoner of Chilion” and where can vet be seen the poets autograph traced by his own hand on one of the musty old prison wallas All over Europe we see pictures of this historic and picturesque old Castle with its pretty reflection in the placid lake, but it will give you a kind of sudden drop from the sublime to the rediculous when I also say that the bath houses are built within the shadow of its walls and tis there my aquatic husband goes daily for his icy plunge in Lac Leman. Just south of Montraux, connected by trolley, yet, within easy walking distance, is Ter-a-tat. A number of wealthy Chicago peo-

ple have a sort of colony of winter houses there, where they go in winterfor skating coasting etc; as if one could not get enough of that kind of sport nearer Chicago, thought we. There is’nt much to the business portion of Ter-a-tat, but restaurants, souvenier and post-card shops. A little cemetery, not any larger than Lake Bethel cemetery, our little family burying ground at home, nestles right by the side of the trolley line on their one thoroughfare, its few graves seemingly crowded in the 50 foot level space of ground between the steep ascent of mountain and the shim‘mering sands of Lemen. In the center of this “Gods Acre” and surrounded by little old and ancient slabs marking the graves of its companions stands the large and beautiful monument of Empress Elizabeth, desceased wife of Em-

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Iperor Franz Joseph, the present ruler of Austria. The monument is a statue of Empress, sitting in h?r queenly robes of state on a throne like chair, her cloak thrown back from her shoulders and falling in graceful folds’ behind her, and her sweet sad face looking off across the lake toward Geneva, the scene of the assassination. (To be continued) Note: We take pleasure in printing another European letter by Mrs. Mattie Crow-Fick. Some time has elapsed since the last one but we are sure our readers will welcome another installment. Editor. , Mrs. Dan Myers fell on the icj£ walks one evening last week and broke the small bone in her ankle. Wood For Sale. 1 —Fine or chunk. $1.75 and S2OO per cord. Phone 293. 2tpd

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