The Syracuse Journal, Volume 7, Number 49, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 April 1915 — Page 2

The Syracuse Journal INDEPENDENT. GEO. O. SNYDER, Editor and Publisher lowest circulation in Kosciusko County out •ide of Warsaw. * b5M rer le4 Entered as second-class matter May 4, 1908, at the post office at Syracuse, Indiana, under the Act of Congress oj March 3, i%79Published Every Thursday at Syracuse Indiana. 11.50 Per Year. Phones— Office 4—House 117 — J 1 net advertising RATES display matter nn. Week 15c per inch Two Weeks to 1 Month . per inch One Month or more - Electrotypes- ivc per inv The above rates are for continuous | InSion, rin of paper; specified positions at one week rate. I » " ■ • reading matter 5c per line (average 6 words, to line); elassified “Wants” 1c per word; Cards of Thanks 50c; Resolutions SI.OO. NOTE. —These rates are net and allow •f no discounts. 'v 7 . COPY FOR ADVERTISEMENTS An extra charge of 5c per inch and up will be charged for an overabundance of copy or intricate composition. \ * death notices. Obituary notices run other than as news will be charged for at the rate ot onecent per word. When the death occurs just prior to publication and it is Impossible to print the obituary with the death notice, its insertion may be had the following week without charge, in all other cases the above rate applies. Obituary poetry, 10c per hne. Card of Thanks, 50c. The Chuck Hole Club Out in the west they have formed a new kind of club. They call it ‘ ‘ The Chuck Hole Club. ’ ’ There are no dues, no officers and only one by-law. The by-law provides that each person must fill at least one chuck hole a week in the streets throughout the town. You would be surprised at the improved highways that obtain where these clubs are in existence. Before a dub is organized very long it becomes a matter of some difficulty to find a chuck hole and it is something to brag about when you do find one and fill it up. Let us .have a chuck hole club in Syracuse. A Good Plan The R. F. D. News in its latest issue states .with some conviction that it is only a matter of a short time before the present rural free delivery system is abolished. It is Dot thought that the contract system will be used for cutting down the cost of delivery of rural mail; but the number of rural free carriers will be cut ni-half and pay increased for the half retained to SI,BOQ a year. This method would reduce the cost over the country one-fourth. Two Babies Die The two-month old baby of Mrs. Jesse Hughes of Nappanee, died at the home of Sydney Sloan, Monday morning, where it and its mother had been visiting. The remains were taken to Nappanee for burial. The cause of death was bronchial pneumonia. The month-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Miller died at their home near Syracuse, Monday, of pneumonia. Burial was made in Goshen. * Sells Farm Mr. and Mrs. John W. Kitson have purchased the Ben Stillwell farm. Mr. Stillwell took in part payment, the Kitson property in the north end of town and will make Syracuse his home in the future. New Fountain Installed The new soda fountain at the Rex all store was installed Tuesday and is certainly a handsome one- .. .... ....

MOTH INDUSTRY IT TOLEDO, OHIO Willys-Overland Company Is Second. Largest Manufactures Os Automobiles •—The present volume and prosthe wonder of the entire business perity of the motor car business is world. Reports from The WihysOverland Company, manufacturers of the Overland car show one previous high mark after another successively surpassed. Although February was the biggest month ever experienced by The Willys-Overland Comapny, up to that time the volume of bus'; ness at the big Toledo factory from the first to the 25th of March exceeded that oT the entire* month o' February. & Between March Ist and March 25th more shipments were made than during the entire previous month and the number of orders received for cars exceeded those of February by more than 1300. During this time orders for Overland cars were received at the rate of 2500 per week. The total number was exactly double that recered during the same period of March, 1914. In spite of the fact that more cars are being shipped daily from the Overland factory than ever before, orders have been showing a steady gain on shipments. In aq effort to make the supply meet the demand the Overland plant is working at full capacity, employing 8,600 men and keeping many of the departments on a continuous twenty-four schedule. On Monday, March 22nd, the first day following seven weeks each of which was successively the largest in the history of the Overland Company, 330 cars were shipped. The company first passd the 300 a-day mark just five we?ks before. In connection with this tremendous amount of business, figures furnished by.the Overland Traffic Department for March are most interesting. From March Ist to March 25th during this time there were twenty-three working days the report shows that a total of 2,476 railroad cars, incoming and outgoing, were handled at th? plant. This is an average of 112 ears per day, or one loaded car handled every five minutes and twenty seconds' of a ten-hour day. Os this number, 714 cars were inbound, bringing in raw material of a wide variety, and parts from affiliated Overland plants in other cities There were 1762 outbound cars carrying finished Overland cars for » very part of the civilized world. Each car has a capacity of at least three automobiles and some are loaded with as many as six Railroad statistcians do declare that a live, progressive American city of 15,000 to 20,000 would use about 20 carloads of freight per day. Twenty-two work days would bring the total for the whole city to 440 cars. The freight arriving at the Overland factory in the same length of time shows a total greater by more than 61 per cent. The combined incoming and outgoing freight ears would make up a train about twenty-three miles long. This would be a capacity load of fifty-five of the largest engines now in use. The platform space require! t< handle this, amount of freight is much larger than that of some of the biggest freight depots in the country. Within the Overland factory enclosure three-quarters of a mile of dockage is in constant use during the entire work day. Loads carried by the cars arriving at the Overland factory consist of coal, fuel oil, cylinder oil, gasoline, sand, fire brick, lumber machinery, hair, wheels, springs magnetos, paint, tires, leather, steels and other metals and numerous other materials necessary for building of thousands of complete automobiles each month. When it is considered that these materials never come in less than carload lots and sometimes, as in the case of steel, in shipments that require an entire train, the Overland business takes on proportions | that furnish a direct refutation to ' the declarations of those who main

tain that business conditions in this country are not of the best. Passes 84th Birthday Mr. and Mrs. Mart Landis and son, Clyde, of Chicago, came last week to visit his mother, Mrs. Catharifie Landis, and other relatives and old friends. Grandma Landis, as she is familiarly known in Syracuse, passed her 84th birthday on Wednesday, April 7th, and is still heartier than many women 20 years her junior. Purchase More Pulmotors Three additional pulmotoHrs have been purchased by the board of county commissioners and it is expected that the machines will be placed at Milford, North Webster, and Warsaw. The county already owns two pulmotors and Warsaw one. This makes a total of six for Kosciusko county and every effort will be made to reduce the toll of deaths by drowning. The machines are of service also in electric shocks, suffocation and asphyxation. Attend Warsaw Services Frank Green and Peter Krefting were at Warsaw Sunday, attending the special services of the Knight Templars held at the United Brethren church. A fine banquet was served later in the day Mr. Krefting informs us that the Commandery will come to Syracuse on May 16th. the first Sunday after Pentecost, and special services will be held here. After the services at the church, a banquet will be tendered the visitors at one of the lake hotels. Details will be published later. NEW COURT BUSY Justice McKlane Has Several Cases For Trial Peter McKlane, new justice of the peace in Syracuse, is being kept busy. Three cases have been filed this week. G. Ross Rodibaugh has sworn out a warrant for Louis Brasch of Elkhart, charging him with leaving a board bill of s3l unpaid when e left. A writ of ejectment was secured against Scott Sharp by the heirs of Ellen Searfoss claiming that he had not paid rent for five months for the property he occupies “across the tracks.” S. L. Ketring, Tuesday was granted judgment against Clara E. Gray on a note.

Want Ads FOR SALE—6 year-old Gelding, wt. 1600 lbs. I. G. Rookstool 49 t2 - BOAT FOR SALE—Good flat bottom boat, three horse gray engine. Been used one season. For information call Timothy Hoover, near Brunjes Park, Phone 581. o LAMPS|FOR SALE—An assortment of Lamps that have been replaced by electric fixtures, for sale cheap at Brunjes Hotel. 48t3 SHADE TREES—AII sizes of Maple trees, trimmed and in good healthy condition; most any size you want to set out. Mrs. Elias Grav, phone 162, Syracuse, R, R. 2. o — FOR SALE—New eight barrel steel stock tank. Frank Bushong. FOR SALE—Day old chix, Barred Plymouth and Buffs Rocks. Will hatch your own eggs. Telephone or write Mrs. H. J. Burlingame. 49* 1 FOR SALE—Five passenger, two cylinder, Auburn Automobile. Good running condition. 'Will sell cheap. W. G. Connolly. EGGS FOR SALE—White Wyandotte eggs, pure bred for hatching, 50c for 15 eggs. M. Morris, R. R. 2, Syracuse Phone No. 7422 Cromwell exchange. 49t 3 P<lLOST —Bunch of keys between Syracuse and Goshen. Finder please return to this office. FOR SALE —Two motor cycles. Harley Davidson, fully equipped; Yale, both in good running condition. W. W. Cripe 49tf FOR SALE—Sx7 camera with extra fine lens. For sale st a bargain. WANTED—Cleaning, Pressing, and repair work. Mrs. Henry Snobarger, Phone 905.

J. W. ROTHENBERGER Undertaker : SYRACUSE. t 1 IND. I .1 I

INTERURBAN AGAIN < UNDER DISCUSSION | Traveling Man Profeases To | Know of Capital That Is Available A traveling man here last week remarked on the apparent advant -, ages for an interurban project; through Syracuse. He was told of, several efforts made to put through an electric line and the attending failures. He professed to know of a lady j capitalist who had already financ-J ed two railways and was looking for more locations. He took the names of several people who hail hitherto interesed themselves in an electric line and promised to bring the matter before the lady he had mentioned. We sincerely hope that some good may come of it. We need an interurban line and need it badly and some day we hope to see it materialize. Fixes Speed Control A representative of the White Automobile company’s Chicago office, was in Syracuse, Monday, putting a speed control on the new Standard Oil Company’s truck. The device is fastened to the carbuerator and automatically shuts off the gasoline when the truck exceeds fifteen miles an hour. If “Bill” Watts wants to do any fast driving he will have to use his own auto \ Seeking New Trial A rumor is current in Syracuse that Edward Unrue, who was recently assessed $50.00 in the Elkhart county court for alleged slander, in saying that Mrs. Josephine Woods was guilty of selling beer when she and her husband conducted a hotel on Lake Wawa--1 see* will ask for a new trial. It is said that several additional witnesses have been found for the defense. Still in Effect Notwithstanding the decision by the United States disfrhq court, rendered at Topeka, Kas;, Maneb 20th, in which the migratory bird law was held unconstitutional, that measure is’ still in full effect generally throughout the country. The decision affects only the particular district in which it was rendered. EARLY POTATOES May Not Be Profitable Crop This Season Truck growers who annually plant a considerable acreage of potatoes are warned that there was. on January 1, 1915, a very much larger supply of northbrn-grown potatoes in the hands of growers and dealers than was the case on January 1, 1914. Experience has demonstrated that a large holdover crop of northern-grown potatoes which is in good condition and selling at a reasonable price when the early truck-crop potatoes reach the markets means low prices—sometimes so low that the shipment of suph crops nets a loss to the grower. Under such condi tions a small acreage means smaller loss than a large acreage. With 43,000,000 liiore bushels of potatoes in sight January 1, 1915 than were available at the same time last year and with a 1915 price of 43.2 cents as compared with 66.2 cents a year ago, a price which under the then existing conditions did not improve before the truck crop began to move, there is little hope that the conditions will be better this year. The price now is just about 33 per cent less than it was a year ago. The distribution of the crop is much better than last season; so there is little likelihood that the price of holdi over stock will reach last year’s mark even by the end of the storage period. Charles, the two year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Eston McClintic, is ill with pneumonia.

Sick headache, biliousness, piles and bad breath are usually caused by inactive bowels. Get a box of Rexall, Orderlies. They act gently and effectively. Sold only by us at 10 cents. F. L. HoOh.

MIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUMaSfiKQSSBBIIMMMMB I You Haven't Seen All g If you haven’t been a visitor in our store in the last few JJ j days you haven’t seen all our new spring joods. For the past | I six weeks we have been receiving new things in hats, shoes, ■ M shirts, etc., nearly every day aijd unless you Fave called i | here often you can’t realize how our stock has increased j ■ and improved. S ’ ■ g We Must Reduce It i And just because we have bought so heavily we must sell | J| faster. To do this we mean to give you an opportunity of buy- J| [ ing first-class goods at medium prices, we have priced ali our J| I men’s spring wearables at just a small margin over the cost I I and we believe you will be overlooking a golden opportunity | if you don’t examine our stock and our prices before going § j elsewhere. You may be from Missouri, but—g We’ll Show You ' g 5 ===== I Star Clothing Store i

FIND EMBRYO-, GALL THE CORONER Frank Traster Finds Body of of Infant In Creek Saturday When Frank Traster went to the Creek on the north side of west Main street, Saturday evening, to get a pail of water, he saw the body of an infant laying in the water. He notified the marshal! and they finally found the body which had drifted several miles down the creek/ It was taken to Rothenberger’s \undertaking parlors and the coroner notified. Coroner Kelly, after being here the greater part of the day could learn nothing that would indicate anything criminal. The embryo was between the two and three month stage. The matter was much ado about nothing as it might have been and probably was the result of an unavoidable accident. A Fine Lumber Yard We made an inspecton of the new lumber yard, last week. M e were surprised at the immense stock carried and at the facilities for getting out builder’s supplies. It is an institution that Syracuse can be proud of. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. O. Snyder and Phyllis, spent Easter at Avilla where they attended a birthday surprise party on his grandparents. Mrs. Phillip E. Snyder of Fostoia, Ohio, was present and will come to Syracuse later in the week for a short visit. Peculiar Winter We were told by a man 75 years old that last winter was the most peculiai 1 that he remembered. He claims that there was less high winds last winter than in any like season of which he could remember. Plowing Progressing Plowing is progressing fast this spring. The ground is in fine shape and many farmers have their oats planted. A good rain would prove beneficial to the wheat. . Card of Thanks Mr. and Mrs. Milo Kitson wish to thank the friends for their kindness during their recent bereavement and for the beautiful floral offerings which were sent. Change Time The rural mail carriers will now leave at 10:45 instead of 8:00.

FARE $322 fcDAILY BETWEEN CLEVELAND & > BUFFALO The Great Ship ‘‘SEEANDBEE’ 7 * The larpeat and most costly steamer on any inland water of the world. Sleeping aecommoda- r. R tions for 1500 passengers. “CITY OF ERIE” 3 Magnificent Steamers “CITY OF BUFFALO” M \ BETWEEN _ K C CLEVELAND—DaiIy, May Ist to Dec. Ist—EUFrALO £ W Leave Cleveland - - S.'OTP. M. Leave Buffalo - HbS lib Arrive Buffalo • • -6:39A.M. Arrive Cleveland • - 6:eOA. M. Q Connections at Buffalo for Niagara Canadian J IS ets readinfc between Cleveland and Buffalo are good for transporiation on our steamers. As* your ticket agent for tickets via C. & B. L:no. Beautifully colored sectional puzzleehart, showing both exterior and interior of The Great |K Ship “SEEANDPEE” sent on receipt of five cents to cover postage and mailing. Also ask for our 2t-page pictorial and descriptive booklet free. Ks M THE CLEVELAND & BUFFALO TRANSIT CO., Cleveland, Ohio K + i ■ J- —_ _

Returns From Hospital Mrs. Janies Dewart. returned from Wesley hospital, Saturday She is feeling well with the exception of being very weak. She appreciated the kind letters ami cards sent by her friends and wishes to thank each one. Post Card Shower A post-card shower was given Join 11. Juday on last Wednesday, his 75th brthday. He received 88 cardfe and wishes to thank his many friends and comrades for the renu nibranees. Appendicitis Operation Miss Julia Bishop was operated upon for appendicitis, Saturday morning at a Chicago hospital She stood the ordeal well and is improving rapidly. Spring is Here Officially, spring arrived several weeks ago. In reality it commenced Monday. Beware of that tired feeling; it nearly always proves fatal —to work. Election Dates Set Elkhart will vote on the wet and dry question on Monday, April 26th, and Goshen will vote one week later, on Monday, May' 3rd. Paints Front S. L. Ketring, owner of tho business rooms occupied by the Qual ity Drug store and the N. P. Hoffman Jewelry' store, had the fronts repainted last week. Old Warsaw Resident Harry Oram, an old Warsaw resident is dead. He was proprietor of the Oram Wagon Works. Alfalfa Seed —Alfalfa seed, Rape seed and Blatchford’s Calf feed for sale by J. U. Wingard. W. G. Connolly transacted business at Chicago, Thursday.

Lease Expires The lease on the Winsor Restaurant held this winter by A. D. Fosj ter expired April Ist, and Mrs. Winsor again took charge last Friday. Mr. Foster will soon have his pop cork and peanut wagon on the street. Will Store Dredge ; E. C. Rossen was at Albion, Monday, on business pertaining to the dredging contract recently completed in that county. The dredge will be dismantled &nd stored in Syracuse until further use is found for it. 1 Operation at Goshen. Hugh Kitson and Otis Isenbarger were at Goshen, Sunday, visit- J ing the former’s.mother, Mrs. Levi Kitson, who is in the hospital there. A minor operation was performed upon Mrs. Kitson, Tuesday. Married at Elkhart jMiss Ada Rentfrow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Rentfrow, of south of Syracuse, was wedded to Peter Zellinger of Elkhart, several weeks ago. Mr. and Mrs. Zellinger Easter here with her parents. New Dlivery Truck Kindig & Co., recently purchased a new Ford truck from'which the touring body has been taken and an up-to-date delivery wagon body has been built on The new truck will be ready fpr use in a short time. Pythian Sisters to Nappanee About thirty meinbers of the local lodge of Pythian Sisters went to Nappanee, Tuesday afternoon v, here they initiated a class of candidates for the Nappanee lodge. E. V. Improvements We are told that the Evangelical church yard has been improved with new hitch posts.