The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 36, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 1 January 1914 — Page 5

| Local anfl Psrsonal l Only 358 days until Christmas. —A nice line of pianos at Rothenbergers. w The little son of Esna Hapner has been quite ill. I —Delicious pies always on sale at Kate’s Restaurant. Mrs. P. E. Snyder is visiting relatives in Avilla. —Fresh’Fish at Kindigs, every Friday. Mrs. Ben Ott was at South Bend, Christmas. —A nice line of pianos at Rothenbergers. The Journal is giving envelopes and noteheads away. Vivian Widner of Chicago, is visiting Mr. end Mrs. S. H. Widner. —We sell and guarantee Ajax tires. “5,000 Miles. ’ Lepper Garage. Mr. and Mrs. Hariy O’Brien, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Ott. Mrs. Bert Niles and son, Victor, spent Christmas with friends at Kimmell. James Bolger and Mast er P. J. Bolger attended services at St. John church at Goshen, Christmas. Mrs. A. W. Bunger and Mildred Ohaver are the guests of L. H. Lehman and family of Goshen. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Guy of Leesburg, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wash. Jones over Christmas. Emeral Jones and family and Mrand, Mrs. Wm. M. Jones enjoyed Christmas diimei at the home of Wash. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Gilderman and children, spent Chrismas week with his sister, Mrs. E. T. Mendell, at Indianapolis. Mrs. Iva Gerard and daughter Lois, of England; N. D.. came last week for- a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Butt. Mrs. Maria Mathis, and son, Otto, of Tampico, 111., returned home, Monday, after a visit with her sister, Mrs. Wm. Beckman. • Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Vantine and son, Paul, of Elkhart, returned home Tuesday after a week’s visit with Carl Ohaver and family. Wm. Baird and Mrs. Wm. Fackler and children visited relatives and friends north of Garrett from Wednesday until Monday. Mrs T. H. Nellesen and sister, Miss Cecelia Ott, went to Ft. Wayne. Wednesday, to spend New Year’s with Mr. and Mrs. John Ott. Mrs. Lex Mullenhour and little daughter, of Wakarusa, spent the latter part of last week with her mother. Mrs. Joe Smellzer. Miss Rosina Stocker of Garrett, who visited at the Wm. Beckman .home several days last week, went to Tampico, 111.. Monday, for a visit. —Just installed a new oxygen decarbonizer. Will take the carbon from your cylinders while you wait and we guarantee work. Lepper Garage. Mrs. Hanna Smeltzer of Wakarusa, Mrs. Geo. Ross, of Montana, Mrs. Harry Richards and Miss Georgia Strock, took supper Friday with Mrs. Jos. Smeltzer. Mr. Farmer: Have the name of your farm appear on your envelopes and .paper. We’print them for you free of charge if you will subscribe or renew your subscription to the Journal; Ford Dewart, student of the Art Institute at Chicago, visited Mrs. Sophia Rookstool over Sunday. His grandmother wonders if she is the only attraction that Eord finds in Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. Milt Treesh of Bourbon. came last Saturday for several day’s visit with Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wolf. Milt, by reason of his size, felt that he could safely disregard Dan’s notice to holiday visitors. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Miles and son. Mellville, of Hammond, spent last Thursday, at the Ed Miles home. E. W. Miles has a good position with the Indiaua Harbor Belt Line, a part of the New York Central System, and is slated for promotion to the head of his department, with an accompanying increase of salary.

—Hot soup at Kate’s Restaurant Mrs. Sarah Sloan is in Syracuse this week. —A shipment of Go-carts have | arrived at Beckmans. Jacob Kilgore of Ligdnier, was here last Friday. —Dinning room furniture of fumed oak on display at Beckmans. Miss Natalie Kilgore of Ligonier, visited friends here for several days. Miss Ruth Knoblock of South Bend, is visiting Mrs. Geo. 0. Snyder. Mrs. Moses of Garrett, is visit ing her son, George, during the holidays. Vera and Velva Darr are spending the week with Mrs. J. H. Hartman near Goshen. Dan Neff attended the funeral of his uncle, Isaac B. Neff, at Earlham, lowa, last week. Mrs. Lulu Harris and children of Elkhart, spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Watts. • Chas Switzer and family of Kimmell. spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Butt. W. H. Bare has been unable to work for several days, owing to some nervous trouble. Mrs L. A. Neff spent Thursday and Friday o| last week, with her daughter, Mrs. G. C. Scott, at Garrett. Mrs. Vern Grissamer of Mishawaka, is spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Jones. The Missionary Society of the Church of God will meet at the home of Mrs. Lizzie Akers, Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Merriman and son, Donald, of Goshen, spent Christmas with her sister, Mrs. John Elliot. Omer Darr, George Colwell, and Jim Searfoss spent Monday and Tuesday at Elkhart, hunting with Charles Darr. John Neff and wife returned from Toledo, Saturday. John reports the new grandson, Neff Ball, as perfectly satisfactory. Mabie. Raymond, and William McKinley of Garrett are visiting their aunts, Mrs. B. H. Traster and Mrs. Wm. Ray. Miss Emma Streiby was at Goshen the latter part of the week, with her sister, Mrs. M J. Harkless, who has been quite ill. Guy Ettline and family of Elkhart, have been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ettline, of west of town. Misses Ruth. Claudia, and Reba Snyder of Goshen, spent Sunday with Mrs. Rosa Juday' and other friends. Next Wednesday the W. C. T. U. will meet at the home of Rev. Eshelman. A good attendance is desired. Arnold and Olga Beckman, who are students at the Bush Temple of Music, of Chicago, are home for a vacation visit with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Smith are the parents of a 7J4 - pound boy, born Sunday. The event took place at the home of Mrs. Smith’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jackson. Rome Willard of & R. 1 is the latest addition to the ever-growing Journal family. Mr. Willard is supervisor of his district and is a substantial and progressive farmer. Little Charles Moses went to Chicago Junction, Thursday, to meet his aunt, Mrs. Grace Stone, with whom he will go on to Kaiser. West Virginia, to spend 1 several weeks. —J. W. Rothenberger has just received the full line of McKinley 10 cent sheet music. Complete line carried in stock; also pianos; so you may try the music before buying. Catalogs free for the asking. It Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gants returned to Muncie, Saturday, after a two week’s vacation spent with Mr. and Mrs. Milton Woods. Mr. Gants is a principal in one of the Muncie schools and is rapidly gaining prominence as an educator in that town. Messrs, and Mesdames M. G. Mygrant, of South Bend, Ed Oberlin of Auburn, Fred Trunck and M. C. Johnson, of Toledo, and Victor Mygrant of West Unity,’ and Ora Mygrant of Edmondtown. Alberta spent last week with Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Mygrant.

B. B. Morgan returned to Chester-i ton, Friday. Mrs. Jennie Young of x Goshen. | spent Mondny at the S. L. Ketnng home. Con Quackenbush spent Xmas with his family at the home of August Carlson. Mrs. Warren Ruple, Catherine Kindig and Mrs. E. E. Holloway and son, Burdette, were Milford visitors Monday. We are informed that the four month old child of Mr and Mrs. Fred Sloan who was taken to a Goshen hospital has improved. Monday evening when she returned to her grandmothers home where she is visiting, Mrs. Dave Blue was surprised to find about thirty of her friends gathered ready to have an old fashioned taffy pulling. 0. W. Roberts went to Chicago, Monday; Mrs. Roberts joined him Wednesday, at which place they will visit a short time. Mrs. Roberts will return to Syracuse for a, short visit before returning to her home in California. • A Surprise Party A surprise party was given in honor of Miss Vada I. Unrue, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Unrue, Saturday night, it being her birthday. All departed at a late hour reporting a good time. , DISCONTINUES DAIRY FARM WALKER WHITE WILL SELL OFF JERSEY CATTLE Walker White, of the dairy farm bearing his name, will hold a sate on January 14. and will discontinue the thoroughbred cattle business. The chief difficulty was the impossibility of securing additional land, and the inaccessibility of shipping points was another factor that contributes to Mr. White’s abandonment of a business that proved growing and succesful. His plans for the future have not yet been made public, but it is his intention to remain at his lake home for the present at least. ABOUT HOMES. The effort that is made in small towns and to some extent in strictly rural communities to provide for young people social enjoyment is much needed and has much to commend it when not carried to the extreme which leads them to think that there is good reason for being away from home several nights in the week and which causes them to think that some other place than home is the proper as well as best center of social enjoyment. When this extreme view is favored by a community it is a pitiful admission that the homes are not fulfilling their true mission. The idea needs emphasizing more than it is now being emphasized by all friends of young people, including their parents, their teachers and others who have their true welfare at heart, that the home is the natural gathering place for young people and that all that can possibly be done should be done to make each home an interesting, attractive and comfortable center, which will attract the boys and girls to it rather than drive them away from it. To this end something is needed far more - than furnishings, and that is a home atmosphere which is the result of the kindly and sympathetic as well as wide awake interest which the older people in a home take toward the younger people and the things in which they are much concerned. -The present day is in dire need of a deeper and more intelligent interest in the home, for out of it, as was said of the heart, “are the issues of life.” Neither the school, the church nor the ballot box can make good the loss sustained in a disordered and unattractive home, which fails of the splendid mission which was intended for it. Tuesday, Oct. 2S, was apple day, and, according to produce papers, it had a decidedly stimulating effect upon apple prices at that time. In many large cities posters were displayed calling attention to the day, some of them concluding with the sentiment “Healths best way—eat apples every day.” FATTENING CHICKENS. A good deal more might be realized by farmers who have considerable numbers of chickens to market in the fall if they would catch them ten days or two weeks before the day of marketing and confine them in fattening coops. Inexpensive coops or crates may be made about 4 by 8 feet and high enough so the chickens can stand up. A V shaped trough'should be fixed just outside the coop from which the chickens may eat by putting their heads between the slats. A standard fattening ration is made by mixing ground corn with sour milk or buttermilk. The mixture should be wet, but not sloppy. Fresh water should be given daily in quart cans placed burn enough so that the chickens will ddc get their feet in*them* “ * . ~

Farm anS ■ Garden L_ - ' , ' l| PLANNING THE FARMSTEAD. Suggestions That Will Save Time and Money For the Farmer. There is perhaps no place and probably no line of work that is more loosely or poorly planned than some of the farmsteads of this country, says H. E. Colby in the Dairy Fanner. When you realize that the farm is a manufrfcturiug plant, when 'one takes into consideration that here the raw materials—the soil, the seeds, the crops, the animals—all are products that are to be used either as a means of manufacturing the highest class quality of human food or as food itself, then one will realize the importance of so arranging the farmstead that the work can be carried on most conveniently and economically. Frequently there are natural conditions that must be taken into e iisid oration in laying out a place of this kind, but with the present day methods of building and equipping it is possible to overcome almost anything of this kind without serious inconvenience and when once it is arranged remember it must stand for years. It is a mistake to try to economize time that will mean a few dollars or a little work that will occupy a day or two when building is in process and then spend ten or fifteen minutes every day for the next twenty years, simply because this saving was made in the first place. It is important that the products of the farm should be handled in such a •i j; ■* ■ lasi&i: - '- l ‘” W Photograph by Long Island agricultural experiment station. caAteloupes growing on pokch. way that they will begin at one end of the plant and come out a' finished article at the other end. For example: The dairy barn will be in one place, the milk house where the cream is to be handled and the milk is to be separated may be a considerable distance from that, and the calf and hog barns, where the skimmilk is to be fed, will be in another direction. There is no reason why the farm should not be planned in such away that the milk can be taken directly from the barn to the milk house, and from there to the hog house and calf barn and henhouse without duplicating the path back to the stable or without running back and forth. Do not think that the Dairy Farmer advocates the close proximity of the milk house to either the cow stable or the hog house if the very best of precautions are not used to prevent contaminating the milk and cream with odors common to these buildings. But if proper measures are taken the buildings may be conveniently arranged. This is done in very many of the best farm plants, but it is not to be recommended indiscriminately, for too often the help becomes careless of those little precautions that prevent contamination of the product from outside sources. But if the milk house is properlj- arranged, so the milk can be taken from the cow barn and the skimmilk delivered directly to the other barns and the cream put away carefully where it will be free from any odors or influences that would cause It to deteriorate, there can be a great economy of work about the barns. Frequently one finds the farmer in feeding his cattle carrying the feed back and forth over the same path when the feed rooms could be so arranged that one process would answer the purpose better. Just bear a of these things in mind when you are' rearranging your farm. When you are getting the stables and the feed room ready to handle the herd during the winter just see if there Isn’t some little simple way in which you can change things so as to economize on Ihe work that will be done during the winter. Remember that one or two minutes saved each day amounts to eonsidetable during the year, not only In time, but in labor and effort. It is these little conveniences, these little attentions to detail, that make farm work easier and relieve it of the drudgery end that put it on a plane above the manual labor to which so many are prone to relegate it. Just rememtor a few of these hints and adapt them to your needs. It Is not the Intel il.»a to make any hard.and fast rules, because every farmstead has its own problems of management to meet. •m 3 il.ev e:m be met only by the men whc. on the ground and who know just w’«::r these conditions are. Judicious buying defeats the high cost of living. Avoid ordering the fancy articles with artificial prices, and order only well-known standard goods that are guaranteed by reliable manufacturers like, for example, Gerbelle Flour. —A nice line of pianos at Rot£eiibergers * ,

t WINTER POULTRY NOTES. J, y House all the fowls at once, y T Many colds will result from ex- X y posure at this season. * yl X Working in a clean, dry litter X y now will,hasten the laying.of T X your early pullets. . J. I y Don’t forget that you must X clean house if you are to have X ■ T success with the hens this win- j ! X ter. A j T The best time to resand floors T X is August or September,- but it is X X not too late now if you can ob- Xi •j. tain dry sand. X X Much benefit is likely to result J i without any possible harm if the X . X hens are compelled to work in T ' X clean litter for their grain at all X X seasons. T X Fresh sand or gravel is abso-’ X X lately necessary to the comfort T y of the hens this winter. Cover X wooden or cement floors at least Y y three inches deep and earth -|- X floors from six to twelve inches. T y Collect a barrel or two of fine X X road dust. A bushel of this in a T X large bo's or frame in a sunny y X location in the henhouse will be X X greatly enjoyed by the fowls y X and will help keep down the X y number of body lice. y A GOOD WORD FOR THE CROW. This Abused Bird Has Some Good Qualities to Offset Its Bad Traits. The case of the crow, condemned a decade or more ago as a destructive bird in agricultural fields, has been reopened by the department of agriculture and a more favorable verdict reached. The investigation made by experts of the biological survey of the department shows the crow to be of great value to farmers. After a careful study of the habits and the examination of a large num' ber of stomachs the department experts have reached the conclusion that the crow consumes enough grasshoppers. cutworms, white grubs and other injurious insects to make him highly valuable to farmers. There is, however, one bad habit which the crow has. and that is the destruction of young birds and birds’ eggs, but this trait is outweighed by the good the bird is doing for the farmer in the destruction of worms and insects. The one danger from the crow, according to department experts, lies in large numbers. If the number ean be kept down so that its normal food is sufficient there is every reason why farmers should encourage the bird to remain about their farms. Not long ago an agent of the department was watching a crow feeding in a corn field. It seemed that the bird was pulling up young corn and carrying it to a nearby nest to feed its young. After the crow had left the nest the agent climbed the tree and secured the young birds. An examination showed that instead of young corn or the kernel of the corn the older bird had been feeding the young ones with cutworms gathered from around the corn plants. A HANDY DINNER WAGON. The Vehicle Is Easily Made and Saves Considerable Trouble. The Utah Agricultural college experiment station has issued a useful circular on “Labor Saving Devices For the Farm Home.” Among the suggestions offered is the use of the handy “dinner wagon,” figured, in the accompanying illustration. The circular says: “In homes where It is necessary to have a separate kitchen and dining room it should be considered necessary \ $ —n THE DINNER WAGON. to have a so called ‘dinner wagon,’ an illustration of which is given. This dinner wagon caii be made by any one who knows how to handle tools at all and, as you see, is in reality a two or three story table on wheels. This should stand near the kitchen stove, and on it should be placed everything required for the meal. It can be wheeled into the dining room or to the table and then set aside until required to move everything from the dining table back to the kitchen. Think of the countless steps saved by the use of such a simple little appliance as ’this.” Give and Take. He who takes from the land and doesn’t give to the land deals dishonestly with it. He cheats the land and tt will repay him.—Farm and Ranch. GARDEN GLEANINGS. Harvest the turnips. Turnips keep best in a dry outdoor lit. Cover spinach with a light litter or mulch of straw, heavy enough to retain the snow and prevent freezing. Store pumpkins and squashes in a room where the temperature never falls below 50 degrees. The storing place must be dry. As soon as the ground freezes mulch the strawberries thoroughly with some light material, such as straw, hay. strawy manure, etc.—Rural Farmer. —We sell and guarantee Ajax tires. “s’ooo Miles.” Lepper Garage. —See that the name “Jenkins” is on the buckwheat, or'biscuit flour that you buy. It ’.s the best. If your grocer does not handle Jt we will deliver direct froih the riliU. Syracuse Flour MHlr

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