The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 42, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 13 February 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 traek of the vagaries of weather for 32 year The small letter “a” means above zeroand the letter b ’ means below. Year, Feb. 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 1890 8 a 15 a 15 a 42 a 42 a 25 a 1891 36 a 20 a 21 a 30 a 38 a 20 a 33 a 1892 20 a 22 a 15 a 14 a 13 a 24 a 10 a 1893 24 a 28 a 16 a 6 a 15 a 36 a 30 a 1894 18 a 27 a 24 a 16 a la 0 10 a 1895 -2 a 0 13 a 8b 10 a 20 a 2 b 1896 30 a 26 a 22 a 18 a 20 a 20 a 27 a 1897 27 a 26 a 27 a 23 a 26 a 26 a 30 a 1898 40 a 44 a 37 a 32 a 31a 26 a 20 a 1899 28 b 23 b 8 b 22 b 14 b 3 a 17 a 1900 6 a 20 a 30 a 34 a 15 a 10 a 10 a 1901 18 a 7 a 3 a 16 a 10 a 5 a 10 b 1902 4a 14 a 4a 5 a 0 12 b 5b 1903 20 a 25 a 32 a 32 a 28 a 20 a . 22 a 1904 10 a 2 a .2 a 0 15 a 16 a 0 1905 28 a 4b 6b 12 a 4b 9b 14 b 1906 12 a 6a 2a 28 a 32a 10 a 8b 1907 20 a 27 a 9 a 12 a 22 a 20 a 15 a 1908 5 a 14 a 31 a 38 a 38 a 31 a 24 a 1909 32 a 6 a 7 a 22 a 16 a 21 a 13 a 1910 18 a 6 a 13 a Ila la 20 a 30 a 1911 12 a 3 a Ila 26 a 26 a 33 a 26 a 1912 9 b 10 b 10 a 7 a 10 b 18 a 27 a

Breaking Record. The Garrett Clipper of last week tells of theenormous business handled by the B. & 0. recently. The chief cause of the heavy traffic is the shipment of export grain. It is said on good authority that this road will handle 5,500 cars in February, and during March 7,000 cars of grain all from the southeast and intended for export from eastern seaports. 24 conductors and 24 engineers have been promoted from the ranks of brakemen and firemen and 15 engineers have been secured from the Wheeling Division to help out. • Public Sale. The undersigned will sell at public sale on the David Smith farm, five miles southwest of Syracuse, on Wednesday, February 19, 9 head of horses, 5 head cattle, 1 Poland China sow, due to pig March 19, Hay, fodder, corn, oats. Rye, and farm implements of many kinds and a heating stove and other articles, N ear the Frog Pond School. Wm. F. Coy. Public Sale. The undersigned will sell at the C. D. Thompson farm just south of Syracuse, on Tuesday, February the folloing: 4 head of horses, 6 milch cows, all fresh by May 20th, Scorning yearling’s and 4 coming two year-olds, 44 good ewes. 4 brood sows due to pig April Ist, 1 thoroughbred O. L C: male hog 1| years old, 32 shoats, hay, corn in crib, and a large number of firstclass farming impliments. C. D. Thompson Edward Unrue.

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Filling Roads And Streets. When graveling streets, if the out sides are filled first and the stones raked towards the center and covi ered, it will leave the surface in nice condition. When the center is ! filled first it is imposible to cover the stones with the thin covering at ! the outside of the fill. I noticed a village street that was being raised i 10 inches with coarse gravel. The . center was filled first and the coarse stones raked to the outsides. It ret quired twjce the time to do the grading as if the outsides had been i filled first and the coarse stones raked toward the deepest part of the fill in the center, writes an expert in Farm and Home. Moreover the street is sprinkled with stones that could not be covered, which will make extra expense to haul away, and it will be a rough road for years to come. A deep fill shuld always be made from the ends and then the 1 dirt will settle evenly. If part of the fill is made through the center, 1 and then the dirt dumped off on one 1 or both sides, it will take several years for it to finish the settling, which will go on unevenly. At least so says a very successful contractor who has had much experience with this work. _ _________________ iJ, J Attention G. A. R. , A meeting to transact important i business will be held one week from , next Saturday, February 22, and all members of Lake View Post, No. I 241, are urgently requested to be present. W. H. Pence, Com. —Watch Davis Graff’s ad for prices ' on hides, tallow, and furs. —Wide Ribbons in all colors at 10 cents a yard. A. W. Strieby and Son.

A GOOD GRANGE FORPROSPERIIY. The Foundry Can Be Started If We All Help To Boost. A goodly portion of our citizens have known for some time that something has been in the air regarding the operation of what was formerly the Advance Radiator Foundry. Negotiations have so far chrystalized that it will be possible for definite information to be given out now as to the conferences and plans connected with this important subject. G. W. Gilderman, of La Porte, who on behalf of several associates, has been here three times to confer with owners of the foundry, is foundry manager of the Rumely Traction Machinery Co., and has been connected with them for the past ten years. He personally planned and equipped the new million-dollar foundry for the above mentioned firm, and is a man of unquestionable ability in foundry work. Associated with him are two machinists who are prominently connected in the machine shops of the Rumely people at La Porte. All these men have furnished referen - ces that commend them highly to our people and it can be safely assumed that their intentions are of the best. In his talk with a few of the business men Tuesday, Mr. Gilderman outlined a proposition that will bear the closest scrutiny. The men he represents have $10,000.00 in cash with which they will buy that amount of common stock. About half of this money will then be used to purchase the foundry building, make needed repairs, and buy what additional equipment is necessary, ( the remainder to be placed in the ( Syracuse Bank as working capital. In return they ask that Syracuse men take $5,000.00 preferred stock, ( this preferred stock to be a first ( lien on the property in case a mortgage is placed. The money derived , from the sale of preferred stock ’ will also be placed in the bank for working capital. The object of having so large a working capital ! is to discount bills promptly and pay cash, thereby saving a consid- ( erable amount in the course of a ( year. The total incorporation will be for $15,000.00. This is a far better opportunity ‘ for our town than any yet submitted and apparently has behind it men . of ability and hustle. It is a known fact that Mr. Gilderman is leaving I a salary of $4500.00 per year and will receive here only $1500.00. His confidence in the project can be readily seen when the difference in the amounts are noticed. They propose to manufacture the same style of boilers that were formerly made here, along with an improved steam heater they have in mind. In addition they will do a general foundry business, and have enough of this class of work promised now. to keep a good-sized force of men busy. The citizens who were in conference with Mr. Gilderman, revived the subscription list that was handled for Mr. Donahoe, when that gentleman was here last June. If they can induce the men who subscribed to the fund to buy the foundry at this time, to double their subscription, the deal will be as good as closed. The former would have been a donation, pure and simple; the latter is a guaranteed investment, paying 7 per cent interest, and will be redeemed in five years with a premium of $5 00 on the share. There is ample funds in our city to take care of this proposition and a little study will surely show the huge benefits to be gained from a concern of this kind. Every citizen should do his share towards boosting this enterprise. It means the addition of from 20 to 50 families to Syracuse and any business man ; can figure what this means. ; —1 lb. mixed choclates Saturday ’ for 29c. at the Quality Drug Store

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, FEB. 13, 1918

THE LOCAL MARKETS. Wheat 1.05 Oats 30 Com - — - 42@44c Hogs 7%c Calves 9< Cattle 4|(«6c Sheep 6|c Lambs 61c Beef Hides 10c Tallow 5c Chickens, live 10c Young chickens 10c Lard 10c Butter 25c Eggs 22c Motor Boat Census Taken. Returns from a scensus recently taken by motor boat interests are said to show there are more than 400,000 motor craft of all sorts and sizes in use for work and play in the waters of the United States and Canada. The count is said to be the first thorough one since the motor boat came into general use with the perfection of marine engines ten years ago. Spread the manure over the fields while it is fresh and rich in humus. All the available fertilizing elements thus will be absorbed by the soil, instead of leaching away in lot, pen or stall.—Farm and Home. 50TH ANNIVERSARY OHHE BATTLE All Soldiers who Participated Are Requested To Send Names. The following communication has been received by the officers of the local G. A. R. Post. If there is any soldier in this community who participated in the Battle of Gettysburg, it would be well for him to communicate with some officer of the Syracuse Post. Commander Haity Dear Comrade: This commission desires to call the attention of the veterans of the Cival War, Federal and Confederate, who are now residents of the State of Indiana to the importance of sending their names, company, regiment and post office address to Adjutant General George W. McCoy, Indianapolis, Ind., not later than Fubruary 15,1913. who were present and engaged in the Battle of Gettysburg. It is very important that the commission shall be informed not later than the above date so that an appropriation can be asked of theLegislaure now in session for a sufficient amount to transport all veterans in that battle from Indianapolis to Gettysburg and return free. It is expected that all veterans shall pay for all meals going and returning. Ample arrangements are made at Gettysburg for tents, cots and subsistence and hospital care free while there for all old soldiers who attend. The commission hopes to arrange with railroads for reduced rates so that all who desire to attend may do so. Failure to respond to this request at once will prevent arrangements being perfected to entertain the veteran and should he at a later date desire to attend he will have only himself to blame for his disappointment in not being enrolled among the comrades who will be present at the celebration. Prefer Name Signed. We reprint two items below which we received in the mail this week. Please, sign your name hereafter. We will not use the name in the paper if requested not to. Joe Hammond conducts what would be known as an old fashioned chicken farm without any of the modern improvements. At present he has about 60 hens hatched in 1912, and is getting from 24 to 30 eggs every day and has been all winter. This is no fish story. Will Rapp and a party of fishermen, rare pleasure wishing; resolved to try Webster Lake fishing. We have no doubt but what they will fully demonstrate that its best to wear the nightcap in the stomach.

WRITES AMER EUROPEAN LETTER ! Interesting Tale Os Travels Os The Ficks In Switzerland. Interlacken, Switzerland. Aug. We have said “aurevoir” to Montreaux and are diming again higher and farther into the heart of the Alps. From Montraux to Interlacken is certainly a grand and picturesque journey. Up, up appalling mountain sides then a sudden dip down into some pretty little valley town, some times we made a complete circuit of the town, high enough up the surronding hills to be able to look down on the tall steeples and tiled roofs. We passed through several high up mountain resorts, large modern hotels, so high in the clouds that even on that hot August day we turned up our coat collars, stamped our feet and saidT'Bur-r-r” at the cold. The distance to Interlacken is not great if we could go straight across but by the time we wind up and down around through the mountain it takes from 10 a. m. until 4p.m. to make the trip. But if it took a much longer time the journey would not grow monotonous there are so many things of interest all along the way. Interlacken is the most central point, and without a doubt, the prettiest and most charming of Alpine towns lying as it does between two famous lakes which rival one another in respect to beauty. It is estimated that from ninety to one hundred thousand people come here every year to render homage to Interlackens, peerless soverign, the lovely Jungfrau, queen of Alpine heights, and we elbowed our way through the crowded depot we were moved to believe that at least 75 out of the 100 thousand of this year of 1911 had arrived the same time we did. By being able to speak German, the predominant language of Interlacken, we were so fortunate as to secure lodging at a private Swiss home, a lovely place where we had a large elegantly furnished room, with more French windows opening onto a balcony and the grandest view of the Jungfrau, looking off to the eastward, her collosial form, mantled with snow and ice fills the entire space'bet ween encircling peaks forming a dazzling cloud nearly fourteen thousand feet in height. And it was here we saw and admired in all its splendor the wonderful Alpine glow, just before sunrise and just after sunset nature throws her colored lights, every shade and color of the rainbow, from deepest reds and blues to softestshades of pink and lavender in a brilliant burst of splendor over all these bare and sunny peaks. These colored tableaus rarely contain more than a half hour at a time, and so to see them at their best, before sunrise, we are up and out on our little balcony early in the morning. As we sit there drinking in great draughts of the fresh pure mountain air, and enjoying the shifting kaleidoscopic scenery, our pleasant little Swiss hostess taps on our door and announces breakfast. She draws up a little table from the end of the balcony, covers it with a snowy lunch cloth, places upon it one regulation breakfast of buttered rolls soft boiled eggs and steaming coffee, murmers a few little pleasantries in German and slips softly oat again, They can picture to me Heaven, with its walls of Jasper and streets of gold, but if I’m ever so fortunate as to get there and am assigned a corner some-where with such a , magnificent view from either side, ! such air and light and splendor, ! and with it a balcony shaded at one I side by the top of a tall peach tree, ! its branches filled with 1 uscious fruit. ! as was this dear little nook in In- ' terlacken, I shall be contented. M. C. F. ~ : —G. E. Miller, the new photographer ! will be here Friday. Let him take I your picture, either on a post card ; or cabinet.

Got ’Em Mixed. An editor of a country weekly was recently making up a page of his paper when he pied a wedding notice and the notice of a public sale. He gathered up the pied type and placed it in the form without taking a proof and this is the way it read : “William Smith, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Smith and Miss Lucy Anderson were disposed of at auction at my farm, one mile east in the presence of 70 guests, including two mules and 12 head of cattle. “Rev. Jones tied the nuptial knot, for the parties, averaging 1,250 lbs. on hoof. The beautiful home of the bride was decorated with one sulky rake, one feed grinder and sets of work harness nearly new and j ust before the ceremony was performed Mendelson’s wedding march was rendered by one milch cow, five

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years old, one Jersey cow and one sheep, who, carrying a bunch of bride’s roses in her hand was very beautiful. She wore a light spring wagon, two crates of apples, three crates of potatoes, three racks of hay and a grind stone, trimmed with about 100 bushels of spuds. The bridle couple left yesterday for «n extended trip. Terms cash.” Big Ice Harvest. The B. & O. is having its annual ice harvest off of Syracuse Lake. They have boarded up a runway from the lake up through the race and by means of a traction engine and an endless chain skid it up into the cars. They propose to get about 400 cars if the weather favors them, about half that much being i loaded now. They average about 35 cars a day.

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