The Syracuse Journal, Volume 7, Number 15, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 6 August 1914 — Page 6

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* H ARTESIAN WELL FOB SCHOOL School Board Wants Drinking Water At The Public School The school board is agitating the matter of an artesian well for city use instead of the lake water now offered consumers. The school house is piped for drinking fountains but the present water furnished by the city comes through unfiltered and is absolutely unfit for consumption in its raw state. A member of the school board in conversation with the Journal editor stated that with over four hundred children consuming water at the school house it was considerable of a job furnishing it with the pump in the basement. An artesian well which furnish pure water in the city lines would be not only an accomodation to the schools but to the general public as well. A higher rate could easily be collected by the town authorities if the water furnished was ready to drink. A well known business man told us, Monday, that he is considering the building of a well at his residence but that if the town board would agree to have a well drilled he would donate them the $75.00 it would cost to construct his private well. This matter will bear discussion and on the face of it, the notion of going to the faucet and getting a drink of pure water looks enticing. Four Corners Geo. Darr and family spent a few days with Crist Darr and family. Tom and Lee Helpler and families and Clint Callender and family spent Sunday at the home of James Callender. Maurice Rasor and family of near Arnold station called at the home of Wm. Baird Sunday afternoon. Orland and Chester Stiffler spent Sunday at the home of their sister Mrs. Iman Rookstool. Gerald Groves spent over Sunday with Frank Meloy and family. Mrs. James Callender and daughter spent a few days with relatives near Gravelton. Miss Blanche Bowser spent Sunday night with her brother Chas. Picnic At Infirmary The 6th annual picnic will be held at the county infirmary on August 13th.

Tamarack Mr. Groves of Milford was in this locality Wednesday on ditch business. Eldon Bartholomew spent last week with a cousin Ed Schlecht. Mrs. Martin of Milford Alta and Lee Dye of Leesburg called on Mrs. Snodgrass Wednesday evening. Mullen's and Watkin’s had for their Sunday guests Rev. Cloud and wife, Will Smith, Allen Field and wife and Ed Coy and wife. A sister of Oliver Snavely from Chicago visited them last week. Dave Stiffler and family spent Sunday with their children. Vern Smith was in Goshen Saturday. Howard Watkin and Huldah Mullen went to North Webster Saturday afternoon. Ed Coy went to Goshen Saturday and there met a cousin and on Sunday an auto party made a trip to Michigan. Henry Miller was in this vicinity last week. Mrs. John Rentfrow assisted Mrs. Frank Wogoman cooking for threshers Monday. Henry Snobarger and family spent Sunday evening at Ed Coy’s. M. H. Feaster’s and C. H. Rookstool’s spent Sunday with G. W. Jones and family. FORMER RESIDENT DIES MRS. MARY STONER DEAD AT WARSAW Mrs. Mary Stoner died at her home in Warsaw early Monday morning of leakage of the heart. She is the widow of Henry M. Stoner who was elected sheriff while living in Syracuse 20 years ago. Mrs. Stoner was a sister of the late C. W. Knorr. She leaves three' daughters, Lucile, who lived at home, and Mrs. Revra Depey and Mrs. Daisy Nye of Warsaw. The funeral was held at Warsaw, Wednesday and a number from here attended. Will Send Notices Statements of subscription accounts are bsing prepared at this office and will be sent out to delinquent subscribers in a few days. This sending out of statements is a , matter of business and not an attempt to insult our patrons as some think. If you receive a notice of subscription due it is because we want to straighten out our books and not because we think you are > going to beat us out of it. i Take the Journal.

SUNOAISCHOOL. Lesson Vl.—Third Quarter, For Aug. 9, 1914. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of the Lesson, Mark xi, 12*26. ■ Memory Verses, 22, 23—Golden Text, . Matt, vii, 20—Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M. Stearns. Having spent the night at Bethany, they returned on the morrow to Jeru- : salem. Probably they returned early ‘ in the morning, and He at least seems I to have had no morning meal, for He j was hungry. See His real humanity in that He hungered, thirsted, was weary, wept (John iv, 6,7; xi, 35). See His humility in that He consented to be thus dependent upon others on this earth, which He Himself had made Though He was rich, for our sakes He became poor that we through His poverty might be forever rich (John i, 10, 11; II Cor. vili, 9). He was no doubt literally hungry, but as there was meat of which His disciples knew not <Johu iv, 32), so there were a hunger and thirst of which they knew not. He hungered for fruit from Israel, who proved to be an empty vine, bringing forth fruit unto himself; a bad vine, bearing only wild grapes (Hos. x). This lesson is recorded in Matthew and Luke, as well as in Mark, or at least part of it. Matthew says that He saw a fig tree in the way, and Mark says that He saw it afar off. Both phrases are suggestive of the facts that, while Israel professed to be in the way, she was really afar off. Having leaves was a profession of fruit bearing; His finding nothing but leaves was disappointing barrenness. The parable of the fig tree in Luke xiii, 6-9. shows His patience with His fig tree. His saying in Matt, vii, 16. teaches that it requires a real fig tree to bear figs. The! first reference to fig leaves in the Bible shows man’s vain effort to substitute something instead of the beautiful garments of light which he had lost (Gen. iii, 7), while the reference in Hab. iii, 17. 18. shows that, though all that is of nature should fail, yet we may find real cause of rejoicing in the Lord Himself, Young translates “forever” (verse 14) to “the age.” and we know that, while Israel as a nation has borne no fruit since she rejected Christ, the time is coining when “Israel shall blossom and bud and fill the face of the world with fruit" (Isa. xxvii, 6). He came to Jerusalem and went into the temple and began to cleanse it, as He had done at the beginning of His ministry (John ii, 13-17). Jerusalem was the national center, and the temple was the spiritual center, as the heart is the vital center of our being, and true cleansing must be from the center outward. Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. He says: “I, the Lord, search the heart. I try the reins even to give every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings” (I Sam. xvl, 7; Jer. xvii, 10). See a beautiful and appropriate prayer in Ps. cxxxix, 23, 24. In the cleansing in II John He accused them of making His Father’s house a house of merchandise, while here He says that instead of its being a house of prayer they had made it a den of thieves (verse 17). The reference is to Isa. Ivi, 7, “Mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people,” and to Jer. vii, 11, “Is this house which is called by my name become a den of robbers in your eyes?" The question is asked in Mai. iii, 8, “Will a man rob God?” And it is also answered. Instead of recognizing all things as given us by God to hold for Him and use as His stewards many are more apt to say;, “Our lips (and all things) are our own. Who is lord over us?” (Ps. xii. 4.) The only right attitude is that of David when he said, “All things come of Thee, and of Thine own have we given Thee” (I Chron. xxix, 14). The temple was originally built for the Lord that He might dwell there in the midst of His people Israel and that all people of the earth might know Him and fear and serve Him (I Kings vili, 43-60), but now that the Lord had come to His own temple He was crowded out by business and self seeking. It is even so still in the churches, which are supposed to be for His worship, but from which He is excluded by many things and by worldly ways and in which there is often no room for Him. He is often, as in Rev. iii, 20, inquiring if any person will open his heart’s door to Him, hardly expecting that a church will welcome Him. The chief priests and scribes were increasingly determined to destroy Him because His teaching was so opposed to theirs. He taught daily in the temple anti at night went out to the Mount of Olives, for there seemed to be no more of a home welcome for Him anywhere than there was in the temple (Luke xxi, 37; John vii, 53; viii. 1). It was and still is the same old story, “No room for Him” (Luke ii, 7). His thoughts and ways are so far above ours that in our low and unworthy way of looking at things we cannot seem to welcome Him as we should. In the morning as they returned to the city the disciples marveled to see the fig tree withered away. Then came His great word about a mountain being removed if we only had faith (verse 23; Matt, xxi, 21). . Compare Matt, xvii, 20. Notice His “Have faith in God” and the “Have faith and doubt not” of Matthew and His “Whatsoever he saith” and “What things soever ye desire” of lesson verses 23, 24. Twisted. A foreigner meeting an American friend said to him, “How are you?’’ The latter replied, “Out of sight!” The man considered this very clever and decided to use the expression on the next occasion. Shortly after he was met by a friend who asked, “How are you?” With visible pride he answered, *You don’t see me.” — Chicago Hews.

.1 V k. I w bF "SB' RMRraW fcai OTBSiaitW OBOWN PBINCB ALEXANDER, ACTING BBGENT OF SEKVIA. Baffling Old Age. We have it on excellent authority that in a hundred years’ time people will only suffer from old ar 1 just as we do now from bronchii, or tonsilitis or some other preventable disease. “1 haven’t seen you lately,” our grandsons will be saying to a man at the Twenty-first Century club, to which he will make reply: “Been seedy. Had a nasty attack of old age and have just come back from a little aeroplane trip to shake it off.”—London World. Well, They Were the Chickens'. Marian was allowed to gather the i eggs, and there were so many that she dropped one or two, with the usual result. She hurried to the house and asked her mother confidentially: “Mother, I broke two eggs. Do you suppose that the chickens wdl be mad ?”—lndianapolis News. Too Fat For That. Bacon—You say you and your wife are both taking a treatment to reduce your flesh ? Egbert—We certainly are. “But neither of you needs to be |ny slimmer.” “Go away! You've never seen >ur flat!”—Yonkers Statesman. —Let Richhart do your pressing and cleaning. Work and prices are right. Over Kltnk’s meat market —Room for furniture storage at Beckmans.

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