The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 28, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 30 November 1913 — Page 1

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' TILLS US ABOUT ARIZONA FARMINb C. V. Smith Writes Another Interesting Letter To Journal Editor The Journal Dear Sir:—l will tell you something about how they bring the desert 'land under cultivation. There are men who make it a business to prepare the land for the crops. First they dig out the mesquite and grass wood brush; scrape the knolls into the low places; and then plow the ground, afterwards dragging it with a long piece of timber until level as a floor. They build an earthen wall about one foot high, about every 20 or 30 feet, and irrigate the enclosed platts one at a time by connecting on to the main ditch and allowing the water to flood it. Hip boots are necessary and the work is very hard for the inexperienced man. Four or five days later after flooding the ground they sow the grain, sometimes harrowing it first. It costs from $lO to $lB to get the land ready to irrigate. What I have written is from personal observation as my son had ten acres leveled when I was here two years ago. I do not believe half of what these Arizonians tell me. The water costs sl.lO for two feet for each acre. That is the minimum price. Most of them use all the two feet of water and some more. They can have water every eight or nine days. They are notified several days before the water is turned into the ditches and the farmers in turn notify the manager whether they want it or not. There are times when they are making hay that they do. not want water. That is the nice thing about this! country; one man can have rain}

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I while his neighbor across the fence is making hay. They let their hav lay on the ground a week after it is I cut before taking it in. They are now making the fifth crop. Yours truly, C. V. Smith. Co-operative Meat Circle Some years ago we started here a co opeative meat or butchering asso ciation among our farmers whereby we all get fresh meat at cost. As soon as frosts and cool weather comes this association begins operations. Each of the eight farmers in the circle contribute a fatted beef. When the first beef is butchered it is cut up into eight pieces as evenly divided as possible and each man takes a piece home. A bookkeeper is appointed and a memorandum is made of each piece. At the next round of killing each man gets a different cut. When the season is over, which lasts two to three months or until pork killing time approaches, each family has consumed a beef and has had a different portion each time and fresh beef at a nominal cost. The circle was formed mutually and each man aims to be present and aid in the killing, help weigh up and settle. Last year the price paid for differences in weight of pieces was 8 cents per pound. Each owner of the animal butchered keeps the hide, tallow and offal.—G. W. Brown, Hancock Co., 0. Denies Slanderous Stories Mrs. Jessie Harry Huges, formerly Madge Sloan, has requested the Journal to make an announcement that she hopes will quiet a malicious story that has been going the rounds to the effect that she was not married during her recent absence. She was wedded to Jessie Harry Huges of Nappanee, at Mishawaka, the 21st of October and has a marriage certifipate to prove it. She threatens' to prosecute the gossips who have been instrumental [ in giving this rumor credence.

38 YEARS AGO. z 3 ’ 3 Taken From the Files of The I Syracuse Enterprise of 38 Years Ago. j But one death in Syracuse this season. Gerber & Banta expect to move their stock of goods into their new . room in Guy’s building in about . three weeks. i Another Whitehead. On Nov. 2d, . 1875, a 5H pound daughter to the I wife of Adam Whitehead. May it live to be a “baldhead.” i Quite a number of persons of this vicinity attended the dedication of > the Masonic hall at Milford on Wednesday evening of last week. 1 Hugh Callander has been making 1 some improvements in his dwelling 1 on South Huntington street. He is putting a cellar under a portion of it, and is re-siding and otherwise improving it. Since the business of our place has so rapidly increased as it has of late, it became indispensably necessary that a telegraph office should be established here. Last week the instruments were put in position and the connecting wires put up, and everything is now working like a charm. The frame of the business house in Hillabold’s addition to Syracuse, situated on South Huntington street, of which we made mention last week, is up, and no doubt it will be rapidly pushed forward to completion. It is the property of Elias Rapp, and will be used as a restaurant, we believe.. Mrs. Elizabeth Hardesty, the popular milliner of Syracuse, has just returned from the city with a complete stock of millinery goods, and she asks the people of Syracuse to give her a call when in need of anything in that line. Look out for her new advertisement next week. We neglected to notice last ’week the manner in which Wm. Bowld, one of our citizens, was robbed of about $2lO at Garrett a short time since. He is the owner of a meat market in that place, and on payday collected the above sum from his customers, and when night came on, not considering it safe to keep such a sum of money about his person, deposited it with the clerk of the hotel at which he was stopping, for safe keeping. During the night the clerk decamped, taking the money with him. Reader —Miss Elizabeth Cushman Haven, who is to appear in “The Dawn of A Tomorrow's’ at the M. E. church, Monday evening, November 10th, for the benefit of the Epworth League, is a graduate of Cummock School of Oratory, Northwestern University, and is a reader of the first rank, having elocutionary powers of the highest order and a most pleasing personality. Several musical selections by home talent will vary the programme. Admission 25c. President Inaugurated On Friday evening, November 7th t John Ellsworth Hartzler, the newly elected president of Goshen College i Goshen, Ind., will be formally inaugurated with appropriate ceremonies. Representatives from other institutions including College and University presidents will be present to extend their greetings to the new executive. Might Have Been Serious A party of Hallowe’en merry- • makers went to the B. & O. and ! swung the watering pipe out across the track. It was discovered just • before a fast passenger train rushed • throught the town. Had the trian ! struck this, serious injury might > have been done In the main, how- ; ever. Hollow’en passed without any ■ serious pranks by the celebrators. • Hallowe’en Supper > The Hallowe’en supper given by ! the ladies of the U. B. church was » well attended and much enjoyed.

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—~ ~ " ' Jack, the Tourist, says: Dera few voters knowed NS3I which was the Citizens and /lujk which’ was People's *ny kid cud tell yuh which was wet and which was dry. — The Harrassed Teacher There Is nothing that speaks better for a child than to hear him speak in praise of his teacher. Little differences will always arise among the school children, which when left for them to settle usually I are soon forgotten but when carried beyond that andiparents attempt to interfere, the trouble becomes magnified and often very unpleasant for’ teacher and afl . concerned. Old ■ heads should M school children s differences alone,because no two ever quarreled wthout both being in fault to some degree. The teacher’s work is tedidus at best, although it can be made much lighter by the pupils uniting with the teacher and each other—in fact a unit. What a pleasant sight to see a band of merry, happy, well-behaved school children! Such are a teacher’s pride. Notice to Farmers Will the fanners of this vicinity who are interested in forming an organization for the purpose of holding a yearly agricultural meeting, or institute, meet at the school house on Saturday evening, Nbv. 8, at 7:30 o’clock? Let every farmer take this as a personal invitation to attend. A yearly meeting will be profitable in the exchange of ideas, and a time of enjoyment in the renewal of old acquaintances and the making of new ones. C. C. Bachman. * Stagette Party The Pythian Sisters gave a Stagette party on Hallowe’en that was enjoyed by members. A fancy costume cake walk was one of the features of the evening that must have been a success if the costumes were all as fantastic as a portion of one that we viewed |School 'Kotes | By Iva Deardorff The pupils entering school this week are Ruth and Ralph Mullen and Gertrude and Ina Bushong. With one exception the attendance of all rooms is fine. The attendance of Miss Lutz’s room has been increased to 61. Miss Potts reports that she is keeping a hospital, her most serious case being Emory Cable, with a broken arm. Kenneth Walters of Bremen, visited High School Friday. The pupils of Mrs. Shannon’s and Miss Lutz’s rooms, one hundred in number, celebrated Hallowe’en Friday afternoon by serenading the other grade room. The grade rooms and the High School are preparing Thanksgiving programs, with the purpose of inviting the parents. What we need is a long steady pull that w'll place Syracuse High School at the top in basket ball? The members of the first section of the sewing club are planning to finish their pieces of work by November 10. The prizes will be awarded soon after. The teachers of our school have been granted a day on which to observe the work in another school. They are planning for a visit at Gary. Pupils need not worry about the date. It will be announced in due time. The Better-Half program was a success (?). Several Rolls of Honor were distributed among the pupils Tuesday. The Hallowe’en party was well attended and thoroughly enjoyed. The first part of the entertainment was filled with contests and the latter part with fortune telling. The Seniors can well be complimented for their good refreshments, all of which were sold except a few pies, which were auctioneered off by Orton Stiffer.

GILOERMAN AND GORYWERE TIED Former Withdraws. Office Goes To Present Incumbrent When the ballots were counted in Tuesdays election, it was found that Geo. W. Gildermay and 0. L. Cory had each received 161 votes. The law provides that in case of a tie the inspector shall determine by , lot who shall be declared elected. Inspector J. Mock called Mr. Gilderman by phone, acquainting him with the situation and requested that he come down town and be present while the decision was being made, but Mr. Gilderman declined and informed the inspector that he would withdraw and as a consequence Mr. Cory was declared as duly elected councilman of the third ward to succeed himself. The following table will show the result in detail: Councilman O. L. Cory 161 Geo. W. Gilderman ‘ 161 Majority Clerk Otis Butt 163 Sol Miller 141 Majority 22 Treasurer J. U. Wingard 187 Geo. L. Xanders 119 Majority 68 Marshall E. W. Hire 166 Omar Darr 14~ Majority 24 Miss Susanna Utt Dead Miss Susanne Ott, aged 84 years, died at 2 o’clock Friday morning at the home of her niece, Mrs. William Ott, near Solomon’s Creek, Benton township. The deceased was unmarried and for 50 years had made her home in the neighborhood where she expired from general failure of the system. For a long time she lived with her sister, Mrs. Abraham Hapner of Solomon’s Creek, who is deceased. Since 1899 Miss Ott had resided in the Wilson Ott family. She was born in Preble county, 0., March 8, 1829, and was the daughter of Michael and Catherine Ott. Since she was 18 years of age she had been an invalid. Surviving is oue brother, David Ott, of Solomon’s Creek. Funeral services were held Sunday morning, leaving the Ott house at 10 o’clock and at the U. B. church, at Solomon’s Creek, at 11 o’clock. Burial in Solomon’s Creek cemetery. National Prayer Day The National day of prayer observed by the Women’s Christian Temperance union throughout the United States was changed from January 1 to January 15 at the national convention of the union in session at Asbury Park, N. J. Named Administrator Jacob W. Ott has been named administrator of the Susan Ott estate and filed $1,500 bond, signed by Daniel Ott, Abraham Hire. Tillman Hire and Ira A. Hoshaw. North Webster Nuptials A marriage license has been issued by County Clerk Conrad Longenecker to Fred Fidler and Hattie Crouch, both of North Webster. Jury Cost $308.20 The total cost of the jury for the September term of the Kosciusko circuit court was $308.20. The term has ended and the jury has been discharged. Public Sale ' At the residence of the undersigned, 3 ■ miles southwest of Milford and 2 miles east of Hasting, et 10 a. m. sharp, on Thursday, November 20, 1913: 10 head horses, consisting of black team, chunks, and driving horses, ages from 3 to 9 years ; and weigh from 1250 to 1600 pounds. 40 head of cattle: 20 cows and heifers, 5 calves, 15 steers. 30 head of hogs: 20 feeders, 10 brood sows. 10 good ewe ’ lambs. 24 chickens. Farm implements and household goods, new Cyclone ditch- ' ing machine, corn in crib, 30 tons hay. ] JOHN ». DAVlftON*

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