The Syracuse Journal, Volume 7, Number 16, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 20 August 1914 — Page 5

| Local and Personal f Alex McCain and Edgar Rippey were in Fort Wayne Sunday. Miss Baum of lowa, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Baum, this week. Mr. and Mrs. John R ; '-hards visited in Bremen over Sum! iy. Mr. E. A. Jenkins was in »_lkhart over Sunday. Mr. Fred Steele, of LaPuri;’, L.d., spent last week with his daughter, Mrs. R. J. Drew. Mr. Frank Landis, of I.la ion, Ind., is visiting his mother, Grandma Landis, and friends. Chas. Berry is enjoying a 15-day vacation from his duties at the depot. Ellvyn Sylvester has purchased a piano of Win. Beckman. —Underwear for every mernbei of the family. A. W. Strieby Sc Son. Raymouc »ai Burton Howe and wives spent Vib ;;day and Wednesday at Nut;.* Manchester. Mrs. J. F. Warner and Lena M. Cable ami daughter, Pauline, of Elkhart, are the quests of Mrs W. Cable. If present plans are carried out Cromwell will have a big home coming day, October 2nd. Dean Aster, Mrs. Horner’s Nephew, of Eden, Ohio, is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Horner. —GERBLELE and NEVER FAIL Flour are the best at any price. To pay more is extravagant, to pay less is not true economy. Mrs. L. T. Heerman honored her two nieces from South Bend, Miss Pauline and Genevieve Treesh, by giving a lawn party Tuesday afternoon. Every Body Is Going to Goshen’s Great Fair—September First, Second, Third and Fourth. There’s so mething doing every minute. Walter Connolly and wife, of Montpelier, Ohio, come Saturday to visit with his brother, Wm. G. Connolly, and family. A Reason Why You Should Attend the Goshen Fair, September First, Second, Third and Fourth. ’’lts the Premium Fair of the Year, its Going to be Good.” Gee! I’m Glad. Fair Time will soon be Here and You Bet I’m Goin’ Too. Miss Jessie Gordy is spelling this week in Rochester, Ind. On returning she expects to go to Chicago immediately and then to her work in Michigan. Men —Women and Children. We want at The Goshen Fair September First, Second, Third and Fourth. Every day chuck full of Sights worth Seeing. You are specially urged to attend the meeting Friday evening of this week at the Library room. Do not forget. It means much to everyone living in Syracuse. The Misses Julia Mitchel and Wilma Kitson went to Indianapolis Sunday to visit with Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Walker and family of that place. Oliver Cromwell, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Pollard, came from Garrett Tuesday morning to visit with friends during the day. Mr. Cromwell’s health has greatly improved. The Good Time is Coming—Keep the date in mind—Goshen Fair— Always the Best—September First, Second, Third and Fourth. It will be great. Are you coming. I have a few house hold articles to sell. Call at my home on Lake Street in the Mrs. Tripp property. Call Thursday and Friday of this week. Mrs. John H. Steele. Mr. Fred Lauteu of Highland Park, Michigan, who was formerly employed as Electrician at the Cement Works, has purchased two lots in Dolan’s addition at Kale Island. --Syracuse is now supporting a home talent base ball team but why not go one farther and encourage a home band. This town has plenty of talent and instruments but lacks encouragement from the citizens. Are we going to let Ligonier entertain our surrounding community, and then ‘‘of course” enjoy their patronage?—Citizen.

—The Weyenberg Work Shoe f men is sold by A. W. Strieby & SoMrs. James Wogoraan is slov 1 recovering from her sickness. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wisenbaugi., of Garrett, were visitors at the Fre Butt home Sunday. R. McFarren purchased a piar of Wm. Beckman. Ervin Best, wife-and two child en, of Nappanee spent last wee.l with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Butt. Mr. Harvey Medlam and Mis> Hattie Tom excursioned to Bentoi Harbor and St Joe Sunday. August Carlson has purchased a piano of Wm. Beckman. David Graff and family motorei to Elkhart, Sunday. Mrs. Edward Brown, of Chicago, is visiting Grandma Hire, of this place. The Strieby family reunion will be held at the Floyd Strieby hon e Sunday August 27th. Mrs. Leo John, who has bees vislting with her lather for the pasweek returned to Elkhart Tuesday. —ls you want a shoe that wears, buy a Weyenberg Work Shoe. A. W. Strieby &. Son. Mr. Tom Willard, of Elkhart, came Tuesday evening to visit relatives and friends a few days. Mrs. Edgar Rippey and Mrs. Lawrence Juday were in Peru from Saturday until Monday. Mrs. Ervin Rasor of Indiana Harbor, came Sunday to visit witl relatives and friends several days. Mr. and Mrs. Emaunel Click and son, Merl, spent Sunday at the Jesse Jarrett home. Harry Phleger and wife, and Elmer Neice, of Ft. Wayne, spem Sunday at Jesse Jarrett’s. Dr. A. A. Norris, wife and son, of Elkhart, are visiting friends in Syracuse this week. William McClain, of Eberdeen, North Dakota, is spending his vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter McClain. Mrs. Margret Clayton, of Garrett, has bought lot No. 3 in Dolan’s addition. She will erect a fine cottage there next season. Harvey Brady and Frank Younce left last Thursday for Dakota to remain during the harvesting season. Raymond Howe and wife of Cgynet, Ohio, motored here last Friday and are spending a few days with his brother Burton and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Martin, of Milford, spent Sunday with the latters parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Searfoss. Miss Myrtle and Mable Carter and Miss Ethel Doud, of Ft. Wayne, will visit with Mr. and Mrs. S. N. ‘Widner the last of this week. Miss Blanche Haney went to Ft. Wayne to-day where she will visit the Ft. Wayne Millinery House to with Fall Styles. —Try the Goshen Self-Rising Flour EXPANSION. You will surely like it. Your grocer can supply it. Church of God Sunday school at 10 a. m preaching at 11 a. m., Christian endeavor 6:30 p. m.. preaching 7:30 p. m. Text-Prov. 23; 31, 32.—Temperance. Everybody is invited to attend these services. Rev. LeCount Pleases Auditors The sermon delivered Sunday Evening at the M. E. Church by Rev. Miram Lecount gave great pleasure and comfort to the many who heard it. Among the auditors were several of the clergymans boyhood friends and schoolmates who were deeplymoved as well as edified at the manifest zeal and piety of their one time chum. As a minister of the Christian church he surely is a successful upbuilder, being full of zeal and initiative, which he is too an exemplar of the broad aud attractive principles of the church. While men of Mr. Lccount’s stamp are found entering the ministry, there is no need to fear any ecline of the church. WANTED-Reliable party to represent and take orders for Greenings BIG Nurseries. Position good till spring. See Geo. H. Hoelcher.

CROWD AT OAKWOOD PARK Services are being attended BY MANY The new tabernacle at Oak wood Park lias been accomodating good crowds since the opening of the c imp-meeting season. The new building has a larger seating capaci y and is much better arranged inan the old one. The Oak wood Park Hotel, under the management of P. W. Soltau, is popular and is housing many guests from distant states. Birthday Party A birthday party was given in honor of little Evelyne Gordy at the home of C. M. Gordy. The girls seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves and Evelyne was greatfil for a number of presents. For Sale —Thirty-acre farm near Lake Wawasee. Good buildings. Five acres one mile from town on public highway. Will seil at a bargain on easy payments. S. L. Ketring Lott! A good time by not going to the Goshen Fair this year— You’ll Find It There September First, Second, Third aud Fourth. You’ll Get The Reward! GATH WROTE UP THE RACE. He Didn’t See the Contest, Yet Gave It a Two Page Story. In the old days when the Har-vard-Yale varsity races were rowed on Saratoga lake I reported them. On one occasion rough water on the lake necessitated repeated postponements, first from Thursday to Friday, and then to Saturday, when Harvard outrowed Yale. After watching this contest from a special launch I returned to my hotel at Saratoga to make my report. While 1 was thus engaged George Alfred Townsend came to me saying that he had at that moment received a dispatch from the. New York Herald asking him for a full report of the race. The famous Harvard oarsman; William Blaikie, had been engaged to do this work for the Herald. He was a very conscientious Christian, and he belatedly notified the Herald that he could not report the race for the Sunday edition. The Herald, thus suddenly left in the lurch, sought Townsend’s services. He accepted the commission, but, owing to the lateness of the notification, he was embarrassed by the fact that he hadn’t seen the race at all. It was in this plight that he came to me asking for some of the salient features of the event. I gave them to him in a very few words, telling him of the relative positions of the rival boats at different points of the course, the varying strokes and how they finally crossed the line. Diek Dana and Boh Cook were the respective stroke oars. That was all the information Townsend wanted. He then sat down and wrote Ms dispatch. When I bought the Sunday New York Herald next morning I found a two page double leaded story of the race signed by Gath. Using the meager details I had given him he had managed to make a remarkably graphic report of the contest. It was as picturesque -as it was graphic, and it was widely commented on as a wonderful piece of reporting. It is no reflection on this famous journalist, whose pen name was Gath, to say that this Saratoga achievement was a fair sample of his work and of his methods. He wielded a remarkably facile pen. For his facts he relied chiefly on his vivid and unbridled imagination.— George F. Babbitt in Boston Herald. They Were Good— Once. She was angry, and her face revealed the fact. “What is the matter, dear?” said her , husband as he entered the kitchen. “Yon see that?” she replied vehemently, as she raised a mixing bowl in which she had just broken an egg. “That is the second bad egg I have found today. I believe that horrid grocer keeps all the bad ones he gets in his store for me J” “Well, you shouldn’t -get angry about it,” said her husband soberly. “You ought to have more sympathy.” “Sympathy!” she echoed. “What do you mean? Sympathy for the grocer ?” “No; for the eggs,” he replied. Think how long they must have been trying to be good.”—New York World. Stop Thief The second issue in this week

LAKE WAWASEE CLAIMS TWO tyiss Janette Brakenridge An a Miss Esther Ford Are The Victims While bathing midway between the Stouder home and Sagent’s hoiel about four o’clock Tuesday evening, Miss Jeanette Brakenridge, aged twelve years, and Miss Esther Ford, waded into a deep Channel in Wawasee Lake about one hundred feet from shore and drowned. Miss Marie Hanke, of Fort Wavne, narrowly escaped the same fate. Miss Brakenridge, who was employed by Mr. and Mrs. Frauk E. Stouder, of Fort Wayne, and the Misses Ford and Hanke had come to the lake only yesterday and arranged a bathing party. They being unacquainted with the Lake, chose the spot midway between Siouder’s and Sargent’s At that place a*dredge had been operated by private parties several years ago and consequently a deep channel had been dug. The three entered the water and waded towards the Channel, and unconsciously entered the deep water and imniiately were in over their heads. Miss Hanke, who had some knowledge of swirning, managed to paddle to shallow water and seream for help. Help came, but the bodies had made their last descent. Grappling hooks, which are always kept at the Lake were gotten and the body of Miss Breckenridge bad been recovered in less than twenty minutes. In the mean time Mr. J. W. Rgtheub’erger was summoned. It was fortunate that his ear was sitting near; Dr. Ford was called and they ran to Harkless’ and obtained the pulmotor. In less than ten minutes the two assisted by Mrs. Derby and Mrs. Sargent were working with the body of Miss Breckenridge. Directly the body of Miss Ford was recovered and work began on it. The Coroner of Kosciusko County was notified and urged to biiug a pulmotor with him. tie soon arrived. Miss Ford show--id no signs ofirecovery. For a ume it was thought life could be restored to Miss Brackenridge but ut;7:3o o’clock last night they gave up hope. The bodies w ere taken to Fort Wayne to-day, where they will be buried. MEETING OF; THE CITIZENS TO BE HELD IN PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIDAY AT 7:30 P. M. The Gilderman Foundry Co. is now at work perfecting the drawings, patterns and forms for the boilers which the Holland Co. attempted to produce, and which Holland placed on the market before they were properly manufatured. It is found that the works of this perfecting the machinery for assembling, boring etc. is costing more than anticipated, and to meet this emergency and to avoid delays in the manufacture, there will be a meeting of the citizens interested iu promoting the town’s welfare Friday evening at 7:30 at the Library room in the i public school building. Every interested citizen is hereby invited. New Bank For Syracuse Mr. M. S. Domer who is connected with the 0. Gandy & Co., bankers of Churubusco, Indiana, is in our vicinity doing the necessarv work to complete a new organization to be known as the Farmers’ Merchants Trust Company. Mr. Domer who has been in this locality for about three weeks calling on farmers and Merchants reports much progress and feels that the new bank will be organized within a few weeks. Automobiles Numerous Sunday at 3:30 P. M. there were 154 automobiles on the grounds at Oak Wood Park. 68 of these were Ford machines and the balance 86 were of various makes. Counting SBOO as ah average, which is very conservatives mount, would make the value of machines at the Park at one time $123,200.

FIRST ENGLISH NEWSPAPER. It Was Only Allowed to Print Nows From Foreign Countries. The first newspaper printed in the English language, with its old English type and its quaint aocount of events in foreign countries, was a pamphlet issued in 1631. Its title, “Corrant, or Nevves From Italie, Gerxnanie, France and Other Places,” is as curious as its contents. For many years it had been supposed that no copy of the Corrant was in existence, but recently a copy of this interesting document, wMch was the first step toward the modern newspaper, was discovered. At the time the Corrant was published freedom of the press was a thing that did not exist. The publication of domestic news in England was forbidden by royal decree at that time and until 1641, and this accounts for the fact that all the news in the Corrant is from foreign countries. Even the privilege of printing foreign news was taken away by star chamber edict in 1632. But in 1641 the restrictions against both domestic and foreign news were removed. Crude as the Corrant may seem, it was the outgrowth of a long period of “journalistic” progress. Early in the sixteenth century news letters, each intended originally to keep some nobleman or member of the royal family informed, but later supplied to small lists of subscribers, came into vogue. Tlfese were written by hand. Then came the printed news book, issued at irregular intervals in a numbered series having a common title. The next step was the Corrant, which was followed by other pamphlets of the same class. This copy of the Corrant is owned by a New York collector, who discovered it in a volume of miscellaneous pamphlets which he had bought at an auction of old books without suspecting its value.—-Pop-ular Mechanics. No Such Name. Paul Armstrong tells of a friend of his, an exceedingly deaf man, who was being introduced to a young woman. The young woman was pretty, but she had a strange name. Her name was Dinglefugle. “Mr. Smith,” said the mutual ac quaintance, “this is Miss Dinglefugle.” The deaf man cupped his hand behind his ear. “Please pardon me,” he said, <f but I’m hard of hearing. What did you say the lady’s name was ?” “Miss Dinglefugle.” “I’m awfully sorry,” murmured the afflicted one with a strißned and puzzled look in his eye, “but I haven’t caught it yet.” The other man raised his vodee to a shout. “Miss Dinglefugle!” he blared, 1 Resignedly, hopelessly, the deal man shook his head. “It’s no use,” he said—“sounds like Dinglefugle to me.” —Saturday Evening Post. No Old Maids. “We’d have no old maids if we took a lesson from the ancient Babylonians,” a spinster said. “In Babylon unmarried women were graded by the state according to their looks. For a beautiful young wife the state demanded a large number of gold pieces, a less desirable wife cost a smaller number of gold pieces, and this money was all paid out again as rewards to those who married elderly, unattractive girls. Thus it cost a fortune to marry beauty, but if you married ugliness a fortune came to you; hence all was happiness in Babylon, and old maids were unknown.” Australian Birds. Some Australian birds lay their eggs in black sand, as if aware of its superior power of absorbing heat. Others select the neighborhood of hot volcanic springs, whose warmth plays an important part in the hatching. The mound builders collect heaps of earth and leaves as much as eighteen feet high and thirty feet in diameter, and in this hotbed their eggs are hatched. An Irishman In India. “India,*’ said an Irishman welcoming a Welshman to Calcutta, “is just the finest climate under the sun, but a lot of fellows come out here, and they drink and they eat, and they drink and they die, and then they write home to their friends a pack of lies and say it’s the climate as has killed them!”— Cardiff Western Mail. Marble Statues. To clean marble statues nothing is better than a paste made of Spanish whiting and a teaspoon ful of j washing soda dissolved in water. ■ Rub the marble well with this, u»- j ing a flannel cloth, and after allow- ! ing it to stand an hour wash it off with warm water, dry well and polish. j i S. T. Betes has purchased a piano of Wm. Beckman.

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A NEARLY PERFECT CLOCK. The Wonderful Timepiece In UmU Bsm’» Naval Obsarvatory. Although there is no perfect dock, the one that nearest approaches perfection in this country, the standard clock of the United States, is kept in a glass case in a dark underground vault in the Nava! observatory in Washington. It is so placed that no changes in temperature may affect it, and it is wound half hourly by means of electricity. Scientific officers of the government, regularly detailed for the duty, watch over it day and night, constantlv correcting it by observations made from the sun and stars. Thus the clock, though of itself it does not keep time with the sun and stars and the earth, is made so accurate that even the scientists, who say that there is no clock in the world that is perfect, call its time “correct.” Strictly speaking, we are assured, the only thing that does keep perfect time is the earth, changelessly rotating through space. But mathematicians and astronomers concede that the time of the big clock inside the glass case comes “near enough.” That means within some thousandths of a second. It is this almost perfect clock that sets the standard of this country. The inclosure in which it stands in the observatory at Washington is surrounded by three walls with spaces between. It rests on massive stone pillars that reach far into the earth. The temperature is so maintained that, should a human being step into the room, the increase in temperature occasioned by this instrument would be registered on a thermostat of almost incredible delicacy. The corrections continually be-, in" made in this clock’s time by reason of the astronomical observations are seldom more than ten onehundredths of a second. They are frequently less than five one-hun-dredths. From the “almost perfect” clock, which is in duplicate, wires pass to two time sending clocks in another room of the observatory. It is through these that time passes out to the country.—New York Time®.

Healthy Pills. One day a Lancashire physician on his visiting day called at the house of a certain patient and, after seeing the man, said that he would send him a box of pills. When the physician returned to his surgery he called for his assistant and told him to take the box of pills to his patient and a hamper containing six young hens to a friend % his. Unluckily the messenger bungled over his errand and took the hamper containing the hens to the patient the pills to the physician’s fliend. Imagine the consternation f of the patient on receiving along with the fowls the following instructions : ‘Two of these to be swallowed every half hour.”—Spare Moments. A Little Case of Telepathy. “There is nothing strange to me in the operation of one mind upon another,” the telepathic woman said. “Once when my sister I am very fond of wa3 operated on I went with her and sat in the anteroom a long way off from the operating room—that is, I walked up ano down there, worried to death nearly about her, when all at once I threw myself into a big armchaii and went sound asleep. They had iust given her the ether then, so her mind was at rest and rested mine. I slept until she came out from under the influence.” —Exchange. Birth Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Richhart Wednesday morning, an 8-pound boy.

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WELCOME THE LJAFER. Native South African Hospitality That la Often Abused In South Africa, amo ig the natives, there is a custom which lias never been mentioned b} any traveler in his tales. In the Transkei, Basutoland and Bechuana and, nearly every fair sized will rge has a field set apart for strangers. In a village whore the king resides usually his chief wife is told off to oultivate this field and to store away all the product in the V.ppor part of her hut, and if in an f adjacent village some chief woman k saddled with the work. No man of the tribe is permitted to touch any food thus stored. The king’s wife, or whoever cultivates the land, takes he.‘ share of the product and makes aer living out of it, but all over -.nd above the amount actually consi med nntst be set aside and preserved. She may not trade with any >ther wife of the king. » This field is known as the “stranger’s field.” Whenever f stranger comes to the village he ms ces known his wants to the king, md he is immediately relieved. Th i best hut in the village is set apar for him, he eats the food of the stranger’s field, and the wife of the king prepares the food for him with bdr own hand. He remains s- week, or a month, or any reasona >le length of time, and his departui i is never hastened. Sometimes he days long enough to become a mem >er of the tribe. An amusing feature oi this custom is the fact that indi; ent members of the tribe oecasioi ally leave their village and go to other villages and become strange s, so that very often when a fan liar face has been missed from a c rtain village and any one asks whe: e So-and-so wbnt, or what beeam of him, the inquirer has been g avely informed that So-and-so vas poor and became a stranger. 6ome lazy men go round from villi ;e to village, and when they retui i to their original kraal they spin the yarn that they have been wfirk ng in the mines! Then again out can run across So-and-so in . d stant village living on the f of the land as a stranger and bung reated to royal hospitality. There are no beggars m Africa. When a man becomes to * poor .to get along comfortably h< makes a circuit of the adjacent \ a stranger.—Pearson’s W ekly. Back Numbers. “William,” said Mrs. Yi n Gelder to the man of all work, “I want you to clean out that la *e closet in the hall just outside t e parlttri Burn all the old netvspap rs, waste paper and any other rui bish you may find there.” After a short time she met William in the hall carrying -i: his arms a huge pile of sheet h dsic, the property of her oldest dis ightor. “What are you going t do with Mabel's music ?” she askec “Why, burn it, sure, as you told me to. It was in the ck set there with the other rubbish.” “But I didn’t Inean ti e music. Put it back at once.” x Noting his mistress’ di pleasure, William inquired in surpi se: “Why, hasn’t she playec it all 7* The Term “Gringo.’ Etymologists are not satisfied that the first two words < : “Green Grow the Rashes, O,” the ong that the American soldiers san in Mexico in 1846, are the orig i of the term “gringo” as a cont mptuous synonym for an America i. They point to a Spanish diet: mary of 1838, in which “gringo” is set down as meaning “something u: intelligible,” and to one of 1787, v hich says that'the word was used i t Malaga to indicate foreigners w’ io spoke Spanish poorly.—Youth’s Companion. '

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