The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 37, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 January 1914 — Page 5

I Local and Personal | Mrs. Merrit Lung was at Milford last week. David Young was at Goshen, Saturday. —A shipment of Go-carts have arrived at Beckmans. —A nice line of pianos at Roth- , enbergers. E. H. Horner was at Warsaw, Monday afternoon. —Warenlock Hair Tonic at the Quality Drug Store. The Journal is giving envelopes and noteheads away. Mrs. Elmer Miles of Goshen, is spending the week in Syracuse. —We sell and guarantee Ajax tires. “5,000 Miles." Lepper Garage. Be sure to attend the remnant sale at A. W. Strieby & Son’s “store Saturday. Miss Eva Mae Juday Went to Elkhart, Saturday, to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Logan Juday. —Over twelve hundred copies of sheet music carried in stock at Rothenberger’s. • Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Mulhall went to Detroit last Friday, where they visited for several days. Maxwell Snavely returned to his home in Elkhart Monday, after a two weeks’ visit at the Catherine Kindig home. ’Norman Brady, of Waukeegon, Mich., a former resident of Syracuse is here visiting relatives and calling on old friends. Vera and William McCloughan returned home, Saturday, after spending their vacation with J. J. Leedy and family near Pierceton.

Rev. A. A. Cloud, pastor of the Concord U. B. church, and wife visited with their cousin, Rev. Chas. A. Cloud and family. Miss Cecil Warstler returned home January 3, after accompanying her sister, Mrs. John Ball, to Elkhart, December 26. • —Vinol Tonic reconstructor containing the medicinal extractions of Cod Liver Oil with Peptonate of Iron — Quality Drug Store. Mrs. Mil ton Brown, of south of Syracuse, who has been suffering from cancer, is showing a little improvement. Miss. Laura Cuffel of Warsaw, re turned to her home, Monday, after several days’ visit with Mrs. Sarah Ott. —Just installed a new oxygen decarbonizer. Will take the carbon from your cylinders while you wait and we guarantee work. Lepper Garage. T. A. Brainard and Harry Young t went to Adrian, Mich., Sunday, where the latter was operated upon and the adenoids removed. They returned Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. F. Odell and daughters, Vera and Violet, returned to Elkhart, Monday, for the winter after spending the holiday vacation at their home. Emory Strieby went to Ft. Wayne Sunday morning, where he joined his wife and Miss Violet, who had been visiting there since Wednesday. 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. Miss Estella Middaugh of Milford, has accepted a position as compositor in The Journal office and began her duties Tuesday. Miss Middaugh with her parents, formerly Fved in Syracuse. Wesley Wehrly of Bloomingdale, Mich., came last Friday and visited at the Wm. Kindig home. On Monday he and Mrs. Margaret Wehrly went to West Manchester, Ohio, for several weeks’ visit with relatives. A. W. Strieby spent the latter part of last week and the fore part of this week at Nappanee where he assisted in the inventory of the Rickert stock of dry goods which has been recently sold. Mrs. Rosa Kirkendall of Marmouth, N. D., and Mrs. Iva Gerard and daughter, Lois, of England, N D., who have been the guestsol Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Butt, returned tc their homes, Friday.

Clark Druckamiller visited his son Clarence, at Chicago. —Dinning room furniture of fumed oak on display at Beckmans. —We sell and guarantee Ajax tires. < “s’ooo Miles.” Lepper Garage. Miss Lillian Hammond returned to Winona Monday, where she is attending school. —Wonderful bargains in remnants at A. W. Strieby & Son’s, Saturday. Miss Mabie Young, of Rochester, came Monday for a visit with her sister, Mrs. T. A. Brainard. Harry J. Leacock was operated upon at his home in Allentown, Pa., week before last for appendicitis, and he is recovering rapidly. Mrs. Marion Bushong and son, Chas., went to Elkhart, Monday, called there by the serious illness of Mrs. Bushong’s sister. M. J. Harkless of Goshen spent last Thursday evening and Friday in Syracuse. Mrs. Harkless, who has been ill for several weeks, is convalescing rapidly. v 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. Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing —Ladies, Gentleman, and Childrens clothes called for and delivered. Phone 905. Boston St Mrs. Henry Snobarger Mrs. Nora Kitson Appointed Health Commissioner Dr. C. W. Burkett has been appointed health officer of Kosciusko county to succeed W. L. Hines. INFANTILE PARALYSIS FATAL SIX YEAR OLD SON OF VIRGIL FREEST DIES

The six year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Preest, who live near Cromwell, died at the home of its grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Bailey, Tuesday ’morning at three o’clock, of infantile paralysis. The boy first showed symptoms of illness on Christmas day and the doctors who were first called did not seem to be able to properly diagnose the 4 case. On New Year’s •day the parents brought the child to the Bailey home aud a Syracuse physician was called, who pronounced the disease infantile paralysis, but the case was so advanced that little hope was held for its recovery. Louis would have been six years of age on the 10th of March and his death is especially sad. An elder brother and a younger sister survive. The nature of the disease compelled a private burial at Syracuse cemetery Wednesday morning at 7:00 a. m. It is the intention of the parents to hold a funeral service later. Mr. and Mrs. Preest extend their heartfelt thanks to those who so willingly assisted during the illness and death of their son. I To Move To Ft. Wayne George R. Ogden of Milford, will move to Fort Wayne, where he is . manager of the Elgy-Doan elevator I interests. i . ___ —:—.. Sold Elkhart Prairie Farm Christian P. Yoder for 43 years ’ owner of a farm of 120 acres on i Elkhart prairie, has sold the land i to Joseph Krast of El Paso, Tex, for > $17,000. Garrett Shops Closed The entire shops of the B. & O at Garrett are closed and the company t announces that while present busij ness is so poor they look for better j things with the advent of the year. Two thousand men laid off by the American Tin Plate company sever- • al weeks ago have been put back to ’ work and the Rumely Company of Laporte have again started their ' plant. While business and manur facturing throughout the country '* was bad towards the last of 1913, r prominent manufacturers have ext pressed the opinion that they will e be able to gradually resume normal e working conditions with the advent 1 of 1914. i J. W. ROTHENBERGER : Undertaker : f 0 SYRACUSE, : : IND.

CONING BACK WEEK Dr. George Writes That He Will Return Soon. Letters received from Dr. Samuel F. George state that he expects to return to Syracuse within the next few days, and actively resume the work of organizing of the proposed interurban line. Both Goshen and Syracuse business men have written to firms given as reference by Dr. George and the replies have been satisfactory without exception. As one man expresses it, it is useless to attempt to secure additional manufacturing enterprises for Syracuse until we get better shipping facilities, and this proposed railroad is oui only hope. As is usual with any public enterprise, a number of people are talking against it. But that is to be expected. We advise everyone to investigate the proposition thoroughly and give the men who are sacrificing their time, a fair chance to explain the plans. |Scbool IRotes I By Iva Deardorff All the teachers and all but a few of the pupils resumed their school work, although it is doubtful whether or not, with pleasure. Helen Soltau, Oran Klink and Dwight Ketring entered High School Monday. The new pupils in the grades are Roy Klink and George McVicker. Chairs have been placed in the library, fitting it up as a recitation room for the pupils of Miss Lutz’s room.

Morris Winsor withdrew from school. p Lillie Deardorff , has begun her work of assisting Miss Lutz in the teaching of over sixty pupils. Mr. Bachman has forbidden the girls’ basket ball team to play in public. Report of attendance and punctuality for the fourth month, ending Dec. 19, 1913: Belonging Tardiness Attendance Miss McClary 50 10 95.5 Miss Lutz 60 4 95.0 Mrs. Shannon 45 2 96.0 Miss Sprague 34 o 97-5 Miss Callander 28 2 92 8 Miss Potts 32 1 97.4 High School 92 4 95.8 341 23 95.6 WM. DRUCKAMILLER ARRESTED CHARGED WITH HOUSEBREAKING; RELEASED ON BOND As cn outgrowth of the slugging match casually mentioned in last week’s paper, Wm. Druckamiller has been arrested upon complaint of Clyde Sensibaugh, who charges him with housebreaking and assault. The trouble occured in the McClintic house on North Huntington street, occupied by Edith Druckamiller since her separation from her husband. It is charged that Wm. Druckamiller forcibly entered the kitchen where he proceeded to lick the inmates. The trouble has been of long standing and the majority of the citizens seem to think that Wm. Druckamiller had just provocation. Druckamiller was taken to Warsaw but was released on SSOO bail furnished by Tilman Hire. The trial has not yet been set. Bachman Family Quarantined The Prof. C. C. Bachman home in the northern part of Syracuse is quarantined. Virginia, the oldest daughter, has the scarlet fever, Hilary, the son, has the mumps and Mary Jean, the baby, has an infection in one of her ears. It is not a serious case of scarlet fever altho ugh the child’s temperature has been high at times. Mr. and Mrs Bachman believe that the first two diseases were contracted while they were visiting at Lorain, Ohio. Prof. Bachman is staying at the home ol Milton Weaver while the quarantine obtains and Miss Virginia Hillabold is staying with Mrs. Bachman. M. E. Church Revival meetings began at the M. E. church Sunday with a large [attendance and splendid interest. Meetings every evening at 7:30.

the perfume. That you hare once lived in my , heart To remember forever I’m doomed. The vase which that perfume has held Remains always perfumed! —From the Spanish. Farm arid Garden HOW TO BUILD HOTBEDS. The Sunken Type Best For Raising Early Plants From Seed. Os the several types of hotbeds in general use the sunken or pit type is, all things considered, the best for the raising of early plants from seed. This style of lied is constructed by excavating a pit six feet wide and two and one-half feet deep and as long as necessary to accommodate the number of 3 by 6.f00t sasn it is desired to use. The sides of the pit are boarded up with rough lumber nailed to posts which may be placed three feet or more apart. If some degree of permanency is desired good material will need to be used. Chestnut lumber is very serviceable and reasonably cheap; spruce comes next in point of durability and cheapness. The sides of the pit should be raised above the surface of the ground twenty inches at the back and twelve inches in front. This will provide ample pitch to the sash for shedding rain and also be of sufficient angle for good construction of the sun’s rays and heat. Good sash should be used. The location of the hotbed should be chosen where the natural drainage is good and, if possible, where there is a good windbreak at the north side. If a suitable sheltered spot is not available then a tight board fence six feet high and extending several feet beyond feach end of the hotbed should be HOTBEDS Di CONSTRUCTION. erected to break off the cold north winds. Without such a windbreak it will be almost impossible to raise early plants successfully in the hotbed. The windbreak should be about five feet away from the north side of the frame. The heating material for the hotbed should be horse manure fresh from the stable, to which should be added, when accessible, one-half its bulk of forest leaves. If these are not available straw or hay may be Used. The manure and added material is to be thoroughly mixed and formed into a conical heap to undergo fermentation. In the formation of this heap it should be trodden down in successive layers of a foot in depth until the heap is four feet or more in height. The base of the heap should be of sufficient diameter to insure good fermentation in the severest winter weather. All the material used for heating should be well dampened before putting it in the pile or the fermentation will not be evenly distributed. Care must be taken that no frozen material is put in the heap or fermentation will be slow and may greatly interfere with the operator’s plans of an early sowing of seed.—Rural New Yorker. Celery Storage. Hotbeds and cold frames are quite satisfactory for storing celery. They may either be dug out deeper or have another set of boards on top to give the required height The plants are set in the frame close together and then covered with boards lapped to shed rain. In very cold localities such frames are covered with sash, over which are mats covered with boards. Ventilation must be given on warm days by blocking up the sash. Celery is also stored satisfactorily in trenches, with the boards used in blanching nailed in V shape and placed over the top. If warm weather follows the troughs are blocked up to admit air. When frost comes a light furrow is thrown up along the boards and later manure is thrown over them, but this trench plan is usually adopted when the crop is to be sold early in the winter. Tops of celery should always be dry when it is stored, and some soil is lifted with the plants., It must be stored before hard freezing. “GOING TO LAW.” When a written contract is made, do not allow the other party to carry it away. Have it made in duplicate, so that each party may keep a copy. A rural carrier is required to travel his route in its entirety each day on which service is to be performed unless it is absolutely impossible for him to do so because of extraordinary weather or road conditions. Complaints of Irregularities in the rural mall service when submitted to the postoffice bureau with all the facts in ths case will receive careful consideration.

A MUCH NEEDED REFORM. Although stock shipments have been increasing in volume steadily during the past sixty years and have reached huge proportions within the past fifteen years, only recently has a move been made which has in view prevention of the recurring weekly congestion of stock shipments at large markets. Taking Chicago as an example, this congestion of traffic has usually occurred on Mondays and Wednesdays. The result of this system, which there is good reason to believe big packing interests have encouraged In the past, raisers and shippers of live stock have sustained immense losses through having to sell on a glutted market. Besides this, railroads and their employees have been swamped with traffic and have also suffered loss through , congestion and delays. With a view to giving the new’ plan publicity, circulars have been prepared and distributed in which shippers are encouraged to distribute their stock shipments over five days In the week instead of concentrating them on two days. Shippers of live stock, who without question have been the chief losers as a result of the system which has prevailed, should .welcome the new order, which should mean better service and more even prices. WINDMILLS AS ELECTRIC GENERATORS. Those in any way interested in the use of wind power as a means of generating electrical power will be interested in bulletin No. 105. lately published by the North Dakota experiment station. The bulletin is a reprint of a thesis prepared by one of the graduates of the agricultural college and is entitled “Windmill Electric Lighting and Power.” The writer takes up in detail and quite technically the devel-i opment of his own windmill electric plant. He seems to have worked out the problem of regulating and controlling the speed of his windmill. Another difficulty, that of preventing the loss of electricity through leakage from his storage batteries, he has overcome by the use of a check valve and switchboard. The electricity generated by this plant is used for lighting house and barn; also to run all kinds of farm machinery requiring a turning wheel. It also heats electric stoves and flatirons and operates the washing machine. sewing machine and vacuum cleaner. Fyom figures presented the cost of furnishing electricity by this windmill plant Is shown to be about one-third that where gasoline or steam is used as a source of power. IMMENSE SUPPLIES OF POTASH. A party of scientists in the service of the United States department of agriculture spent the past summer along the Alaskan coast Investigating the possibilities of using the giant kelp or seaweed as a source of potash for use as a fertilizer. Many beds were found that contained large quantities of the kelp. The size of some of these seaweeds may be gathered from a statement by Professor Griggs of the Ohio State university, who said on his return that he saw single leaves of these weeds that were eight feet wide and up to seventy-five feet long. Samples of the weeds were taken in different places, and these are now being tested by the government. These kelp groves have the power of extracting large quantities of potash from the sea water, and the process of converting the kelp into fertilizer is comparatively simple. It is hoped that this new dustry may be developed to the point where it will give relief to American farmers and gardeners from the exactions of the German potash monopoly. Journal Want Ads. give results.

Below is printed a letter received by the Editor, which will undoubtedly prove of great interest to readers of this paper. Goshen, Ind., Jan. 3, 1914. Editor Snyder, Syracuse, Indiana. Dear Sir: We are at this time making extensive preparations for our great TWICE-YEARLY K CLEARANCE SALE, which is due to arrive the latter part of the month. Please reserve for our use during this sale inches of space. Our first announcement will probably appear in your paper Thursday, January As the many readers of your valued paper will be interested in knowing when this, OUR GREATEST SALE, is to start, we would appreciate the favor if you would, through the columns of your paper, announce that NEWELL’S GREATEST , TWICE YEARLY CLEARANCE SALE IS COMING’ SOON. Wishing yourself and our many friends and patrons in your community a Happy and Prosperous New Year, we remain, • Yours truly, < THE NEWELL BROS. CO., "The Store On The Square.”

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Rumors Unconfirmed Much speculation as to whether the cement works would close down this winter has been indulged in, but you may set anything you hear as purely guesswork. The local management have had no notice from headquarters that a closing down is even eminent, and with the exception of several men who were laid off or discharged Saturday, the factory is running its usual force. —Hot soup at Kate's Restaurant

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Do the Business Last week Wm. Beckman advertised his property, located in the northern part of Syracuse, for rent, and within 48 hours he secured an occupant for the house. The wantad cost him 20 cents and he probably rented the house a month sooner by its aid. If you have anything to sell, exchange, rent, or if you want to buy something, let our want column help you; one cent per word.