The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 51, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 17 April 1913 — Page 1

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BROOKVILLE SENDS THANKS FOR MONEY The Donation From The Syracuse Citizens Was Very Acceptable. The following lettter was recieved by the Flood Relief Committee of Syracuse and is in answer to the last of the fund disbursed to the flood sufferers: Brookville, Ind., April 10,1913. F. L. Hoch, A. W. Strieby, W. M. Self, Committee, Syracuse Ind., Gentlemen: —On behalf of the Brookville Commercial Club having the relief work in charge in this city and of the citizens in general, flood sufferers in particular, we beg to acknowledge receipt of your lette of the 7th enclosing check for $110.50 for the benefit of the people in distress in this town. We beg to assure that this money is deeply appreciated as our citizens affected by the flood are sorely in need and hereby extend our heartfelt thanks to you and accept it in the same spirit in which it was given. The reports you 4iave read of our city have not been exaggerated in the least for the reason that more than one person out of three of our population were driven from their homes and the actual damage to property both real and personal, our railroad, our factories, our farms along the river, upon an estimate based by very conservative men places the loss in this county and town at more than one dollar out of every nine of the total assessed valuation of the county. We certainly appreciate what the neighboring towns in our locality are doing in our behalf. Sincerely yours, M. P. Hubbard. President Brookville Commercial Club having relief work in charge. Takes New Position. We have received a letter from Mrs. Frank Spurr informing us that they no longer live at Kankakee. 111. Mr. Spurr has accepted a position as General Supt. of the lead and zinc mines near Galena and they now live at the latter place. Occupies Lutheran Pulpit. Rev. Getter of the May wood Seminary occupied the pulpit at the Grace Lutheran church, Sunday morning. He is a young man of ability as a speaker and he is also an accomplished vocalist.

BRAINARD’S Our store is filled with good, clean merchandise for spring—New laces, ribbons, waists, fancy buttons, dimities, curtain goods, dress goods and trimmings Large percale and gingham aprons, the best values we ever offered at 50c and Child’s “Slip-ons” in light and dark colors, 25c Boys’ shirts and waists, nice line, O Men’s shirts, new line this week, CAr* at’sl.oo and OvrV ALUMINUM WARE SATURDAY, APRIL 19 To make room for our increasing stock of dry goods, we are going to close out our stock of aluminum ware. They will be placed on sale Saturday, April 19th at greatly reduced prices. If you are going to buy any aluminum ware this spring, now will be your best chance 8 bars of Lenox Soap—next Saturday only— • 27c BRAINARD’S

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“Letter From B. F. Kitson. The following are some extracts from a letter of Mr. B. F. Kitson’s to his home people. There was a slight frost here Sunday night and we expect to begin sewing oats to-morrow or Tuesday. There is no water here and has been none except rainfall, as we are about 8 miles west from the Tippecanoe river and about 40 miles south of the Kankakee. The latter river is on the rampage at San Pierre, we crossed the Kankakee where it is aboyt 4 miles wide, when ordinarily it is about the size of the Elkhart. Tha hamlet of Wilders, is entirely submerged by about two feet of water and Riverside which is built on piles and which ordinarily stands about 7 or 8 feet above water now has water reaching above the first floor. As most of the houses are only one story affairs I do not see how the people can live in them. I suppose they are all vacated at present. The train crawled slowly across the main river while one of the men went ahead to see if all was right. The river was a solid rushing stream about 4 miles wide and as far as the eye could carry east and west the farm buildings were sitting in several feet of water. It will be a long time before people can return to live in them and to work again. I thought I had seen water at Syracuse but this is a revelation. Just imagine Wawasee lake rushing four miles wide and from two to ten feet deep through the country and you can have a faint idea of how it looks. The top of the fence posts and corn stalks can be seen and occasionally some posts of a field, but I often think of our old saying, “water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink." It is filled with impurities and debris of every kind, dead animals, chickens etc. All the way south from Alida to Reynolds, about sixty miles, is a vast leval plain which is now a sea of mud with the Kankakee pouring down through the middle. It is a nice country in dry times but for a place to live I prefer “Little old Syracuse.” Two Alarms Os Fire. Two alarms of fire disturbed the serenity of last Sabbath. The first was at the postoffice about eleven o’clock in the morning. A coal had dropped out of the furnace and ignited a rag. No damage was done and the fire would have probably gone out of its own volition. The second alarm was turned in about two o’clock in the afternoon from the F. M. Ott home. The chimney burned out and a spark lit on the roof setting a shingle on fire. This was extinguished however before any damage was done.

Our Bank Wants Your Business Its excellent conditipn warrants youi confidence—Read this statement BANK STATEMENT Number 305 S. L. KETRING, Pres. J. P. DOLAN, Vice Pres. W. M. SELF, Cashier. SOL SILLER, Ass’t Cash. Report of the condition of the State Bank of Syracuse, a state bank at Syracuse, in the State of Indiana, at the close of its business on April 4, 1913: RESOURCES Loans and Discounts.. $141,230.31 Other Bonds and Securities. 6,000.00 Furniture and fixtures 1,000.00 Due from Banks & Trust Cos.. 45>43 1 -55 " Cash on hand 8,178.51 Cash Items 11,727.82 Current Expenses 1,435-46 Interest Paid 1,055.79 Total Resources-$216,059.44 liabilities Capital Stock —paid in $ 25,000.00 • Surplus 4,500.00 ’ Exchange, Discounts & lut. . 4,742.61 Demand Deposits. -$70,597.76 Demand Certificates 111,219.07 181,816.83 Total Liabilities.s2l6,os9.44 State of Indiana, County of Kosciusko, ss: I, W. M. Self, Cashier of the State Bank of Syracuse, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. W. M. Self, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this iith day of April, 1913. Geo. L. Xanders, [seal] Notary Public. My commission expires March u, 1915.

RAILWAY COMMISSION WITHOUT AUTHORITY Cannot Compel The B. & O. To Make Physical Connection With S. & M. Attorney Deahl received notice from the state railway commission that it is powerless to compel the B. & 0 railroad and the Syracuse & Milford road to make physical connection. for the reason that they do not cross. If either road met the other and petitioned for connection, the commission would have power to act. The Syracuse & Milford promises to run a spur to the Big Four at Milford and to ask for a connection. The company has unloaded ties at the west terminus and appearances tend to demonstrate that the company officials mean to keep their word. When the spur is run to the Big Four right of way, the company can petition the state commission for physical connection and the commission would have power to order it. The officials of the S. & M. expect to have the road ready to carry passengers early this summer. It is highly probable that the Big Four will run excursions from Indianapolis to Wawasee this season. - Fined For Drunkenness. Two Nappanee young men were hailed before the court of Justice Kitson last Thursday morning and were find $13.75 and $11.75 repectively. on a charge of drunkenness. They gave ficticious names in court. We are told that they came into Syracuse Wednesday evening about six o’clock in a box car and while at the edge of town one of them fell out. The other one promptly jumped out to assist his companion who had fallen into a mud-hole at the bottom of the embankment. After wallowing around in the stickey clay for some time, a nearby resident helped them out and over to his home. The marshal was then called and the pair were taken to the corrugated closet in the second story of the power house. On the way one of them broke loose and after wading through the four feet of water in the mill race succeeded in changing clothes at the house of a relative on Boston street, before being recaptured. In court next morning one stood trial and the other plead guilty. Relatives at Nappanee were appealed to and the one succeeded in paying his fine while the less fortunate one was taken to Warsaw Friday to repent at his leisure. Painter and Paper Hanger. —Wm. Sheffield solicits your paper hanging and painting. Work and prices right.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL 17,1913

38 YEARS AGO. • • < --Si ■ • Taken From The Files Os The Syracuse Enterprise Os 38 Years Ago. Garden making is now the order of the day. The roads br£e been dry and dusty during the past week. Mr. Henry Cook is yet engaged in laying off additions to Syracuse. Mr. Eph. Landis and Fred Kaufman started on Monday last for the pineries of Minnesota. The firm of Bowld & Jenning, on Tuesday last killed a beef that weighed when dressed 700 pounds. S. L. Ketring started out a peddling wagon, on Monday morning. Johnny Ketring has charge of it. It is a veritable “cheap John” affair rig. We are informed that the Kern brothers living here, have recently disposed of 80 acres of land in this township to Martin Kohr for the sum of $3,000. Mrs. Fredrick Butt has gone to Illinois to be treated for cancer. She was accompanied by her brother, Mr. John Bushong. In a few days viewers will examine the proposed route of a highway opening up Huntington street to the depot, thence west to the Huntington road, and report upon its public utility. The viewers we are told are all citizens of the town of Milford. New Paris seems fated to destruction by fire. Within the last few years more than half the business portion of the town has been destroyed, and the citizens were hoping that they had seen the worst. But on Sunday last another fire broke out in the drug store of Frank Simmers, and the building was destroyed. The building was occupied as a drug store and post office. We believe the contents were saved. Mr' Milton Woods, we are told, has purchased the Lake House property in this place and will take possession the first of May. This town is sadly in need of a more commodious hotel to accommodate the increasing demand made upon it and we trust that Mr. Woods will consult his own interest and the wants of the travling public’s, and erect a first-class hotel building on the ground now occupied by the Lake House. There’s money in it Putting Up Signs. Geo. W. Miles, who came to Syracuse last Thursday, left Monday for Angola. He was joined there by Capt. Fleming of Ft. Wayne, who will assist Mr. Miles in setting aside breeding beds in accordance with the recently passed law. 10,000 tin signs were ordered and these will be used to mark off the selected grounds.

LOSES LIFE WHILE WKM FORGE Blacksmith Employe Is Accidentally Wounded. HEAD IS’ NEARLY SEVERED Charles Nave Is Shot and Instantly Killed in Shop Near Huntignington, When Two Men Are Lcuffiing. Huntington.—Charles Nave, age forty, employed as a blacksmith at the plant of the Ohio & Western Lime company, just east of Huntington, was instantly killed by the discharge of a shotgun in the hands of Harmon Fulton. Nave was busy at his forge, when Fulton and Hemer Baumgartner entered t.he shop and began scuffling. Fulten still retained hold of the gun. and in a mixup the unguarded trigger was snapped and. the full load of shot struck Nave in the neck. His head was nearly severed. Body cf One Student Found. Warsaw. —Instead of the elaborate commencement program that was planned, the faculty and students of Winona college will join in memorial exercises for Fritz Dittman of Chicago and J. M. Johnson of Buffalo, N. Y., the two members of the senior class drowned in Winona lake by the capsizing of a canoe in a storm. The body of Dittman was found in twenty feet cf water near the point where the overturned canoe was found. His father was present and has taken the body to Chicago, where the mother is prostrated with grief The body of Johnson is still in the lake, but many willing hands are aid lug in the search. The Winona schools have been dismissed and all the students are aiding. Arrest Students for Riots. Valparaiso.—Eight students of Valparaiso university were arrested as the result cf an attempt to gain free entrance into a local theaer and a later attack upon the city jail. The rioting followed the class rush, when six hundred students, after parading the streets, tried to force their way into the Memorial opera house, refusing to pay for admission. Five leaders were arrested then and three more were taken into custody and bonds in each casp were fixed at S7OO. The attack on the jail followed the arrest of the first five, when an effort was made to free them. Five persons were injured in the fight that followed. “Movie” Man Is Acquitted. Richmond. — The jury in the case of Omer G. Murray, charged with violation of the law prohibiting the operation of plays of amusement on Sunday, returner’ a verdict of “not guilty” after being out a little more than an hour. Murray operated a moving picture theater on Sunday, turning over the proceeds to the committee on relief for Dayton flood sufferers. The theater was raided twice. Prosecutor Reller alleges that Murray was not actuated by charitable impulses, but was paving the way for a general opening of moving picture houses on Sundays. Charges Illegal Arrest. Brownstown. — A suit has been venued here from Scott county, in which George W. Searvers of Jen nings county sues Robert Wooley, a justice of the peace in Scott county, and George W. Walker, deputy marshal of Scottsburg, for SI,OOO damage. In his complaint the plaintiff says Walker, representing himself as a constable, served a, warrant on him and took him before Justice Wooley, who fined him $25 and costs on a charge of assault and battery. He says he has since learned that Walker was not a regular constable and had not been appointed special constable by Wooley. Bluffton Roctor Honored. Fort -Wayne.—Dr. J. W. McKinney of Bluffton was re-elected president of the Twelfth Councillor District Medical society, at its session in this city. Other officers are: First vice-president, Dr. T. J. Creel, Angola; second vice-president, Dr. W. E. Smith of Decatur; secretary, Dr. L. T. Rawles, Fort Wayne. The annual gathering included a clinic and a literary program. Dr. , Alexander Craig, Chicago, secretary of the American Medical association; Dr. A. S. Kimberlin of Indianapolis and others spoke. Another Smallpox Case in Jail. Evansville. — Another case of smallpox developed in the county jail, making the eighth case there. The jail is under quarantine, and all new prisoners are being kept in the city lock-up. Winona Lake Dragged. Warsaw. — The bodies of Fritz Dittman of Chicago and J. M. Johnson of Buffalo, the two Winona college boys drowned in' Winona lake, have not yet been recovered. Twentyfive boats were on the lake and the bottom was dragged. The fact that the drowning was not witnessed and the place of the accident is unknown makes the search doubly hard, and there is little hope of recovering the bodies before they come to the but-, face

Marriage License Issued. Marriage licenses were issued Saturday by County Clerk Longenecker to the following: Tony H. Weade, of Noth Webster, and Marie A. Thomas, of Pierceton; Joseph H. Latta, of South Bend, and Zella E. Dorsey, of Oswego; Rex Howard, of Toledo, Ohio, and Grace E. Ruth, of Claypool. To Our Customers. —Owing to the flood condition in Ohio, the shipment of casserole sets ordered by us for premiums has been unavoidably detained. Those holding coupons enough for a set will be supplied at the earliest possible date. The Goshen Milling Co. Will Remain Here. —C. E. Brady will remain in Syracuse this Summer. His ability as a painter and paper-hanger is wellknown and he solicits your work.

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The Fascination Os Mushrooms. Os all the uncertain crops, this probably stands at the head. While they will sometimes grow of their own accord, apparently as easy as weeds, they often refuse to grow under the best conditions. This is why they usually sell at a price that seems high; if they could be grown as cheaply as potatoes” they would not sell for any more. While mushrooms are not particular where they grow, when you consider that they need a temperature of between 50 and 60 degrees, a moist air where the ventilation is good and where there are no draft, and \hat the l e should be water under or dripping on the beds, and that there must be no rats in the sheds or cellars, you can get some idea that it is necessary to have a place where you cannot only heat and keep the cold out ia winter, but also keep the heat out in spring and summer. Miss Olga Beckman was the guest of friends at Nappanee, Sunday.

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