The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 43, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 20 February 1913 — Page 1

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WRITES MOTHER EUROPEAN LETTER Interesting Tale Os Travels c Os The Ficks In Switzerland. Interlacken, Switzerland. Having just finished telling you what a little heaven on earth our Swiss home here is, prepare yourselves for another drop from the sublime to the rediculous when we tell you the name of the street. It is “Bittermagengasse” which interpeted into pure and unadulterated English, is nothing more or less than Sour-Stomach.” Avenue. Surely the party who had no more sense of the fitness of thing than to give a pretty street such a hideous name provided himself worthy of incarcera • tion in a lunatic asylum the remainder of his life. There is a large open square near the center of town from which you can see mountains in all diretions, the one of special interest of course, being the snow covered Jungfrau. Along the west side of this is a beautiful park like street, fountians, band stands and beauti - ful flowers, and facing this street are the luxurious, Victoria and Jungfrau hotels, with their magnificent lawns filled with the most gorgeous display of flowering shrubs and tropical looking plants, positively the grandest we have eve r seen. At night when the bands play every one is out and elbowing their way up and down this crowded thoroughfare, every nationality on edrth it seems jostling along in the crowd. Germans, Swiss, French, Russians, Turks, and everybody having a good time. Not the kind of wine drinking crowds, of Brussells and Paris, to flir t and show their fine clothes, but just a healthy, happy and dare I say it, respectable crowd, bubbling over with gladness just at being alive. I have told you before that mountaining dosen’t appeal to me. Going up and down these mountains gives me a dizziness in my head; and a sick * ening pang in, my stomach more like seasickness than any thing, I experienced white crossing the broad Atlantic., They tell me it is the high altitude, but since my harrowing experience at St. Bernard, I wonder sometimes if it isn’t partly sheer cowardice, as well. And so, when my enthusiastic husband announced his determination to climb the Jungfrau, it took only a small headache and a very little persuasion to induce me to remain in Interlacken. I kept a stiff upper lip, though, went with him to the depot, and with laughing admonitions of “keerful Si” saw him start on what to him was the trip of his life, then went blindly back to my little heaven on Sour-Stomach Ave., sh ut myself up in our room

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and wept a real weep. For some how with your “best and onliest” friend running the risk of being unceremoniously swallowed up alive, for the time being, made father, home and other friends seem most awfully far away, K * But its fortunate to posess a very bright and buoyant nature. Weighty or imaginary griefs drag me to the depths, but its only an incredibly short time until, cork like, I bob gaily to the surface. When a column of smoke began to pour up over the adjoining roofs, I put on my bonnet, joined the excited crowd on the street, and marched merrily away to the fire. I’ve seen the work of fire departments in numerous cities, including those of New York, London and Paris, but don’t know that any of them interested me much more than did this funny little company at Interlacken. Their hose cart was a small two wheeled affair drawn by hand. This they trundled along the street like a child’s express wagon, and then worked leisurely almost two out a fire which any of the aboVe mentioned departments ■ would have extinguished in ten minutes. After fire I wandered around to Hotel Kraux and had luncheon. In the absence of my husband with his easy and fluent German, I selected Hotel Kraux because we had already discovered a waiter there who was able to understand my German, which I talk principally with my hands and feet with a mixture of foreign words, French, Spanish and Turkish, and plenty of “Hoosier” thrown in for-good measure. The remainder of the afternoon I spent exploring nook and comer of the old town. On Jungfrau St. posted conspicuously a large frame on the street corner was a lengthy document written in German. Ft some how had a familiar look and after spending sometime in deciphering it I decided it was a Swiss “ban box” novelty which you will remember we first discovered in Germany, publishing the bans or rather announcing the engagement of every couple betrothed in the town. The Alpine climbers returned at 9 p. m. looking well the part, tired, cold and hungry with Alpenstocks, knapsacks &c and last, but not least important of all, equiped with hew heavy wool socks which they had been compelled to purchase at Eismeer, the last railway station up the pass, to keep their feet from freezing. They visited the mountain town Lanterbrumer Wengen, Scheidegg, and also Grindelwall where so many fatalities have occured, Grindelwald has been said to be the ministers hoodo. So many ministers having lost their lives. Many thrilling stories are told of these accidents, one of them if I mistake not, Stoddard relates in one of his Lectures. Eismeer, the last railway station up the Jungfrau, in English means “ice-sea” and that, Mr. Fick tells me (To be continued)

FOUNDRY IS PMCTIM ASSURED. Enough Stock Is Subscribed To Clinch The Deal. While the contracts have not been sighned for the final closing of the deal, the foundry is practically an assured fact. Approximately $3500.00 worth of stock has been disposed of and it is confidently ex pected that the remainder will be forthcoming in a few days. G. W. Gilderman will probably be here today, (Thursday) to conclude final negotiations and according to his statements at the time of his other visit, the foundry will open for business on March'2, Not many men will be taken on at this time, if any, as the management desire to perfect their working organization with a small force adding men every week as room is made for them. In some manner a story has gained circulation to the effect that the six men now owning the property are making about SI,OOO, on the deal. This is absolutely foundationless. The repairs, expenses interest and taxes will easily reach this amount and perhaps more. There is thanks due the publicspirited men who have given their time to securing this enterprise for Syracuse. What it means to our city can hardly be estimated. For Sale. “Dooley” seed potatoes. Fine and good keeping. Also the finest Early Sugar seed corn. W. F. Smith, phone 304. Horse For Sale. t V —Black general purpose mare, 4 years old. Weight 1330. Broke single or double. A. Seehawer, 1 mile south of Syracuse. 2tpd. Attention G. A. R. A meeting to transact important business will be held one week from next Saturday, February 22, and all members of Lake View Post, No. 241, are urgently requested to be present. W. H. Pence, Com. ! Announcement. I wish to say to the public that I and Mr. Klingerman have dissolved partnership in the auctioneership in the auction work, and parties desiring my services as an auctineer can call me at North Webster. Telephone No. 16. C. H. Marks. Valuable Logs. Some valuable logs are being hauled tct the B. O. for shipment to the Goshen Veneer Co. They were taken from the farms of Richard Guv and Squire Mock. The logs are while oak and are about as near perfect as is possible to find. We are informed that they are worth $65 per thousand feet and some of ; the logs will contain close to that ; number of feet. Public Sale. ; The undersigned will sell at the ; C. D. Thompson farm just south of ; Syracuse, on Tuesday, February 25. ! the folloing: 4 head of horses, 6 I milch cows, all fresh by May 20th, I Scorning yearling’s and 4 coming I two year-olds, 44 good ewes, 4 I brood sows due to pig April Ist, 1 1 thoroughbred O. I. C. male hog 1| 1 years old, 32 shoats, hay, corn in I crib, and a large number of firstI class farming impliments. C. D. Thompson ; Edward Unrue. ! —Mr. Krimmel the piano tuner, of > Ft. Wayne, is here for a few days. ! Parties wishing piano tuned can > leave orders at the Grand Hotel, at I their earliest convenience, phone 84. ; Mrs. Jane Farnum of Los An- ; geles, a sister of E. C. Rossen, died ; at her home there last week of per- ; nicious anemia. She has visitec > here several times.

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THE LOCAL MARKETS. Wheat 105 Oats -30 Corn 43c Hogs 8c Calves 9< Cattle— 4|@6c Sheep 6|c Lambs 6jc Beef Hides 10c Tallow 5c Chickens, live 10c Young chickens - , 10c Lard —lO c Butter 25c Eggs 20c Up To Parents, Not Children. If parents’ ambition is to wrest enough money from the farm to enable them to “move to town and live in comfort,” how can they expect the boy or girl to like farming? Make farm living conditions, social life and educational advantages better than in towns—this can be done—then the tide of population will flow back to the land and stay there.—Farm and Home. POTATO CLDBInD A SEWING CLUB To Be Organized In The Public Schools By Porf. Bachman. We are organizing in the school a Potato Club, and a Sewing Club. Membership in the Potato Club is limited to boys between the ages of ten and eighteen years of age, and in the Sewing Club, girls, between ten and eighteen inclusive. The purpose of these clubs is to advance these lines of work, and to provide for the boys and girls profitable, and pleasant employment for part time during the summer vacation. No small Return from this employment will be tfie growth, and strengthening of character that will follow the successful completion of apiece of work. It is common observation that boys and girls on the farms surpass those reared in town and city, notwithstanding the apparent advantage the town and city offer. This is due, we think, to the fact that most young people on the farm have work to do, while the average town boy spends a large part of his time in idleness. The chores of the home on a town lot can be done in fifteen minutes. There is no wood to split or saw, no horse, cow nor chickens to care for, no hoeing in the gar den,'nor pulling’of weeds. Not one of the many other tasks that most boys in the country do day after day during the long summer, and all the year through. Work, work suited to’ the age of the boy or girl is a great saving force. The boy who learns to stay at the task of picking potato bugs when the sun is hot. real hot is laying a foundation that’.will gain him resistance, when the labors of after life come that are not quite all “roses.” Parents are urged to encourage their children to join these clubs, and to help plan the enterprise, (The children must do the work.) There will be an exhibit next fall of the product of the labors of the 1 summer. There will be many prizes ’ given. The conditions in detail will . be given each member so that each ’ may know precisely what the con- > ditions are on which he enters the i contest. These clubs will affiliate I with the Extensive Department of • Purdue University. We want them ! to be permanent organizations, i Later other lines may taken up; ■ such as, corn raising, canning of vegetables, etc. Mrs. C. C. Bachman will direct the work in sewing. The classes will meet from tinqp to time during the summer. I will meet e with the Potato Club. C. C. Bachman, i. ; 1 Mr. and Mrs. John N. Juday and 1 granddaughter, Eva May, took din- '• ner with Geo. M. Judavs’ Wednesday. 1 Arthur Reasoner of Edgerton, 0., •- spent from Saturday until Tuesday I in Syracuse, the guest of Miss Blanche Horner.

«GRAVEL . M SIG PIT Demands B. <&. O. Ry. Make Connection with Syracuse & Milford Line. County Attorney Anthony Deahl for the commissioners of Elkhart county has filed petition with the state railway com mission at Indianapolis demanding that theß. & O. company make physical connection with the Syracuse & Milford line, in order that the county may secure gravel from the big gravel pit located near the Syracuse & Milford line, where there is a deposit of the finest grade in the country and sufficient in quality ur improve and maintain every road in Elkhart county and for ether counties besides. The state railway commission will of course serve notice on the two railway companies and a time will be fixed by the railway commission for hearing the matter. The lines of the companies lie within a few rods of each other at Syracuse. Some time ago a government expert, made an inspection of the gravel pit and reported the gravel high class. The county commissioners asked the B. & O. to give transportation service, and the B. & 0. came back with an offer to sell a pit of inferior gravel owned by that road.—Goshen News Times. A Valentine. Mr. and Mrs. James Peters of New Paris are the parents of a son born on St. Valentine’s day. MARTIN—Mrs. Emma Martin, aged 68 years, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. G. I Williams of Cleveland township. Her death was the result of a long illness caused by a complication of diseases. Two sons and three daughters survive. j, Groceryrnan Retires. John Riblet, pioneer Middlebury groceryman, he s retired from the field there, Frank Griner taking the store. Mr. Riblet had been in the business at Middlebury for 30 years. He is 82 years of age, Mrs. Frazer Dead. Mrs. H. C. Frazer of Warsaw died at her home ithere. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon. She was prominent in church and social circles in the county and was a former president of the Indiana Women’s Relief Corp. Cancer was the cause of her death. Don’t Miss The Quartette. The Amphion Quartette' will be here next Wednesday evening to appear as the last number of the Lecture Course. These vocalists have been spoken of highly wherever they have appeared and music lovers should make an extra effort to hear this number. Albion Wins. - Albion won a prettily played game of basket-ball at the old school house, Saturday afternoon. The train bearing the visiting team and their adherents was late and the game did not commence until about 5:30. The local aggregation were unlucky in the matter of throwing field baskets and their team worked a little behind that of Albion. The final score was 17 to 27. War Os 39-42. Two foriegners, nameless but who bear for time-keeping convenience at the cement works, the numbers 39 and 42 engaged in a battle at the plant Sunday night. To be exact. 39 had an over-abund-ance of whiskey, a knife, and an unwholly lust to use the latter, all of which 42 endeavored to conquer. 42 eventually won the day and is still on duty, while 39 was requested to take himself and knife from the premises.

White Coal For Cheap Energy. Falling water turning wheels direct connected to generators creates electricity. This “juice” is conveyed everywhere by wires, and is available for light, power and heat. It makes no smoke or dust, hence is called white coal. The rivers flow on forever. At each successive fall the water is used over again. Reservoirs may store the floods in the upper reaches, prevent overflows below, afford surplus water for navigation, power irrigation during dry times, says the editor of Farm and Home. Electricity will pump water onto parched fields at night when the power is., not in use otherwise, or will extract nitrogen from the air for fertilizer (cyanamid). Cheap power, heat and light will transform agriculture and every other industry.

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The white coal supply should be owned and controlled, developed and operated by each state for all the people. Don’t let the hydroelectric trust monopolize white coal. The trusts have monopolized black coal until its price is well nigh prohibitive. Let state and nation convert flowing water into white coal that shall pay all costs of river improvements, and power developments, make the public independent of the black coal trust, supply navigation and insure wealth and health to all the people. Ask your legislature to act in this behalf. A. Ott of Bloomington, Wisconsin, has ordered the Journal sent to him for one year. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Juday spent Saturday and Sunday, with Win. Long and family north of Benton.

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