The Syracuse Journal, Volume 16, Number 2, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 10 May 1923 — Page 1

VOMME XVI.

SYRACUSE HIGH ■. SCHOOL NOTES Items M Interest Concerning Our High School Written for the Syracuse Journal. • Jt — ■ ■ Eighth* Grade Picnic Last Thursday evening after school the eighth grade, chaperoned by Miss Hamman and Miss Evans went picnicking at Indian Hill. A fire was soon built and all were merry roasting wieners and toasting marshmallows. After the lunch the evening was I spent playing out-of-door games. At eight o'clock the young people started for home —tired but happy. Visitor Mrs. Harding, a representative from Oxford College, visited the school Monday and talked to the Senior girls about work in this school. Mrs. Harding explained to the girls the advantages of the school and gave them an interesting description of life at . Oxford College, generally. Movies "Cinderella and the Glass SliTpper” attracted most of the pupils to the Oakland Theatre Tuesday at 2:30. A five reel picture was shown here and an admission of five cents was charged to defray the expenses of the same. As the bright Spring days make movies impossibe in the Assembly we appreciate Mr. Polen’s kindness in permitting the use of his building. Invitation Mr. and Mrs. Bachman have extended an invitation, to 'the members of the graduating class and faculty to spend Friday evening at their home. So the end of the week has an evening of fun and pleasure in store for all. Music Memory Contest Four new numbers added to our list Tuesday morning make in all a total of 42 pieces from the operas and great composers studied this year. These numbers included: 1. Selections from Carmen Prelude/ "Toreador Song” and "Habanera.” 2. Two selections from Pagliacci. 3. "Spring Flowers" from Samon and Delilah. A review of ten selections will be given Wednesday morhing and score kept. Our number of perfect papers has been increasing and with continued review it is hoped all may learn to recognize most of these classical compositions.

Early Dismissal In lieu of the fact that these beautiful days (Tuesday excepted) have a certain lure for all of us our regular time for dismissal has been made 3:15 instead of 4:00 p. m. All may have the opportunity to enjoy nature and “find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones and good in everything." o HISTORY OF A WATCH Jno. Snavely, a retired farmer residing in Syracuse, brought an . Elgin hunting case gold watch to D. E, Overman, the watch repairer, the other day. to have same cleaned and repaired. The watch is 70 years old and was a present from Mrs. Snavely, when the couple were married 70 years ago, the Journal was informed. During this period the watch kept excellent time, had never been repaired or cleaned, ' or in other words didn’t cost him a cent for 70 years. Mr. Snavely also has two pieces of his wedding suit, which costs him SIOO. We claim-this is some record! - *— FROM CANADA Haselridge, Man., April 29. Editor Journal. Dear sir:— Please find enclosed express order for another year's subscription to the Journal. We cannot do without the home paper. The snow is all gone and we had some high water for a few days. Weather is fine now; will be seeding in another week. Yours Truly. Warren Ruple.

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MOTHER’S DAY By resolution of Congress and by order of President Harding Mother's Day will be observed by all the people of the nation on Sunday, May 13, at the National Capital and on all public buildings and in all foreign possessions, the flag of the republic will be displayed. It has also been decided that the wearing of any kind of flower in the buttonhole or on the breast will signify the intention and express the desire. But if “the best mother" be alive add to her happiness by writing a letter. It is indeed fitting that one day in every year should be set apart in which the whole people can pay to the mothers of our country the tribute of their love. Hurried, worried, careless or harrassed as the best or’ the worst of us may be, it will be well for all to spare, once a year, the thoughts of one Sunday to the best mother who ever lived. The poet spoke truly when he said:

The greatest battle that ever was fought— „ Shall 1 tell you where and when. On the map of the world you will And It not; It was fought by the mothers of men. The dear old flag has been unfurled many a time above the brave armies of America, but never have its sacred folds floated above a braver army than that of the heroic mothers of America. Another poet beautifully describes the feeling of all of us when he said: “The world nt times hak beat me back tn the battles 1 have fought; Not always hast the god Success touched tasks in which I wrought. Full oft has fortune dealt a blow instead of bent to bless Ar»<i heartache followed close upon the heels of happine->. And often when a solemn woe of grief my heart intoned. And often when my spirit writhed and all my nature groaned. There stole refrain that softened pain, not phrased by mortal tongue. But born of memories, old and sweet —the songs ray mother sung When she took me In her arms and gently' stroked my hair. And bare me with her down to sleep in that old bye-bye chair.” Enshrined in our hearts and chiseled with indelible trace in our memories is the image of the one who gave us birth, nurtured us in infancy, shared our joys and troubles in youth, and smilingly sent us forth a mother’s kiss and a whispered prayer to meet the fate of the unknown future. It was the truest and manliest of poets who said: If I were hanged on the highest hill. Mother o’mlne. O mother o’mine. I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o'rajne. O mother o’mine. If I were drowned In the deepest sea, Mother o’mlne. O mother o’mlne. 1 know whose tears would come down to me. Mother o’mlne. O mother o’mlne. If I were cursed of body and s<>ul. Mother t/mlne. O mother o'mine. I know whose prayers would make me whole. Mother o’mine. O mother o’mlne; All honor to the mothers of America. No thought could be more beautiful than that which prompts every man, woman and child to pay such a tribute to those dear ones to whom we owe so much. Mother’s Day will be observed in all the churches in Syracuse on Sunday, May 13. ’ -O MAY SALE A. W. Strieby, one of our progressive merchants, has arranged for a big May Sale beginning May 12 and ending May 19. This sale of seasonable merchandise furnishes an opportunity to buy seasonable and quality merchandise at worth while saving. Read the ad on another page of this paper.

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GRADUATING EXERCISES The graduating exercises of the Syracuse high school were held in the Methodist church on Friday evening. May 4. The program for the occasion wqs one of interest to all. Rev. Alfred F. Hughes, president of Evansville college, brought a stirring message on the subject of “Being Neighbors.” Among the many equally as good thoughts on the subject, this one of being neighbors with those about us, trying to create and cultivate a disposition of friendless, he said, was the only way to rid ourselves of strife and ill feeling. Here the speaker applied his subject ta the countries of the world, and said if all nations would try to live with the neighborly idea, it would put an end to all wars. Sack’s orchestra of Ligonier furnished the music of the evening, which, in the estimation cf all. was most delightful. Sack’s orchestra is well and favorably known in Syracuse and to sav the least, those who 'heard their selections on Friday night, had a big treat. The graduating class was seated in a semi-circle on the rostrum, which was beautifully decorated with ferns, flowers and trailing vines. Miss Leotta Packer, principal of the high school, presented the diplomas to eadh one of the class, with remarks of admonition and encouragement, impressing upon the young people the necessity of each one going on into higher schools of learning. The church was crowded to its capacity with relatives and; friends of the class., / Z X samtaky water analysis James Searfoss, tpwn clerk, has received the following report from the State Board of Health, Division*of Chemistry, regarding the chemical anaysis of the i water from well No. 1, 114 feet dpep>4j riven: Indianapolis, Ind., X April 19, 1923. Turbjdity, 0. Color,XHXk Odor. 0. J Sediment, 0. Nitrite Nitrogen, .010. Nitrate Nitrogen, 0.000. Chlorine in Chlorides, 4.5. Alkalinity: — Methyl Orange, 138.0. Iron, 0.0. Bacillus Colon, absent. The analysis of well No. 1 is very satisfactory. We are sending a container with four bottles. We would like to have samples from each of the three wells and one tap sample. Yours truly, L. A. Geupel, Director, Water & Sewage Dept. o COMMERCIAL CLUB DINNER In connection with the noon luncheon the next meeting of the Commercial Club will be held at the Grand Hotel, Tuesday, May 15. Reports of officers will be received and new officers elected for the ensuing year. All members are urged to attend. - BAKE SALE The Senior Ladies’ Aid Society of the Evangelical church will hold a bake sale Saturday, May 12. in 9trieby’s seed room. Sale will begin at ten o’clock. 2-lt ...I ' ' o~ W. C. T. U. The W. C.’T. U. met at the home of Mrs. Frank Klink on Tuesday afternoon.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1923.

AS SEEN ON LIFE’S HIGHWAY (By Mrs. Amanda L. Xanders) VI. Harrisburg, Pa. —The Capitol is a perfectly magnificent and imposing building of granite stone, patterned somewhat after the National Capitol at Washington, D. C. It is most expensively furnished. The lighting system with, its immense lanterns of glass and bronze and wrought iron always recall to me the grandeur of bygone days in Egypt —perhaps the much talked of King Tuts time. I have seen in Chicago, when we were residents of Michigan City, some very spectacular plays with scenes, supposed to represent the past glories of Egypt. The Capitol, built in cheap times. costs 14 million dollars, bdlfoF that amount was proved/ to be graft, and seven men were sentenced to the penitentiary. Not one of them ever got behind prison walls. Just what technicality of law or politics kept them out, I am not able to say, but. this I do know that four or five of them, never lived to enjoy their ill gotten gain, because within a few njonths they were called before the highest bar. the Supreme tribunal of the Universe. It never did pay and never will pay to break one of God’s commandments.

At the foot of Capitol Hill is located the New Penn-Harris Hotel, the location is ideal. The Hotel is “up to the minute,' expensive in every detail. As I arrived in the city after ten p. fn. I took a taxi to. this Hotel, only to find it completely sold out—however, they kindly offered to secure me a room at The Bolton House, it is located on the square—that is something peculiar to Pennsylvania, nearly every village, town and city has a circle or square—and tho this Hotel years ago saw its best days —a night’s lodging is the same as at the Penn-Harris. Not since before the war, have I stopped over*a>t Harrisburg, so I did not know that at the other end of the same block from the Penn-Harris is the large sevenstory, beautiful new Y. W. C. A. Hotel. Had I known it, there would have been no need to call on the Auditor General of PennSsylvania. Speaking of Y. W. C. A.’s the one I like best is located in Lancaster, Pa. I had their best room with private bath for $1.25 a day, other rooms are SI.OO. I stopped there several nights on each of my five trips there this winter, on research w’ork. Chester was the first county in the state, Lancaster the second, having been erected in 1729 and all the early deeds are full of family history.

Thursday evening directly after the Court House closed its doors at 5 p. m. (Harrisburg is the Capitol of the state and also the county seat of Dauphin Co.), I inquired of the traffic officer, if a sight seeing bus ran along the river, where the wealthy people live. No, he said, but there is a street car which will take you quite near —the one with a large letter A on the front. ’ There, madame, is your car, the third one back. I just Sa aged to get across to it in ie. It gives you a ride thru center of the city, then north, miles out almost to the open country. The two principal residence streets are Riverside on a bluff above the Susquehanna River .which is a mile wide here, and the next street the one the car line is on. One really has a very fine view as all the houses stand alone.

When you get way out, there ' are only two or three large beautiful homes to’ the block, and now and then one stands alone in the center. Beautiful shrubberry dots the lawns that are all so carefully kept, and the hedges ; neatly clipped. I never tire of seeing large • beautiful homes—built in solidl blocks of stone as on Fifth Ave. and Riverside Drive, N. Y., or surrounded by lawns, and trees and flowers; but I have never had any desire to manage one. I much prefer being a guest. One, if not the loveliest place that I have been a guest, was on Daytona Beach, Florida. My hostess was an extremely brilliant woman mentally as well as socially, and tho it was difficult at times to understand her advanced thought, I may as well be frank and say, some of it did go over my head, yet once when we were on safe ground I actually had the temerity to contradict her and strange as it may seem, it won for me the most cordial invitation to be her guest, not only for dinner that Sunday evening but for one day, with the promise to supply my every need. She drove her own car and came to the large hotel on the beach to meet me. I had never met her before, our meeting at that time was ararnged by a mutual friend. She is a fine looking w’oman with snow white hair and a rather young face; she wore black and white and looked like a fashion plate. drove some distance from the hotel along a beautiful paved road way —with orange and grape | fruit orchards on either side, with an occasional glimpse into a veritable fairyland. At last she turned to the right driving between acres of t trees loaded with oranges and grape fruit until we came in sight of her large beautiful winter home, a most charming place with its wide and long stretch of lawn and tropical trees and flowers, that reached to the river’s edge, the river that separates Daytona from Daytona Beach. A long and rather wide pier extended away out into the river and ended in a lovely airy summer house with comfortable chairs and where'you can _see for miles up and down the river, exactly like the one owned by the Moana Hotel on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu. How I revelled in all that luxury it seemed as tho nothing was left to be desired, in the home; or the beauty of the scene, besides I was perfectly free to do as I pleased all of the next morning That evening she drove me in to Daytona. I often think of those lines of Thomas Moor, in Lalla Rooyh where he says: Take all the pleasures, Os all the spheres And multiply each Thru endless years, One moment of Heaven, Is worth them all. —o *— NOTICE O. E. S. All members are urged to be present Monday evening, May 14. Ligonier Chapter will be our guests and do the initiatory work. ROUND TABLE CLUB The Round Table Club will meet this evening (Thursday) at the home of Mrs. Robert Pletcher. L o — BOUGHT OVERLAND SEDAN Vem LeCount of -Milford has bought an Overland sedan of the Syracuse Auto Sales.

TURKEY CREEK TOWNSHIP FARM BUREAU MEETING There will be a meeting of the farm bureau in the Public Library on next Monday, May f l 4, at between 7:30 and 8:00 o’clock. This is the first meeting since • the re-organization of the farm {bureau, and under the direction of the new officers who are going to try* and build the strongest township organization in the county with the help and backing of the farmers. All farmers are urged to attend andxhear J. W. Keefer, who is one of leading farm bureau men of the\ county. Mr. Keefer has done a lot to make the farm bureau what it is in the county. Be sure to be on hand and hear Mr. Keefer’s talk on “What the farmers can do to make their farm bureau a success." This will be a good time to join and throw your support to the new officers and help make your farm bureau the big one of the county.

W EDDING A N NIVERSA RIES A very pleasant evening was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Klink Tuesday evening by Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Beckman, Dan Klink and son Orval, and Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Buettner. The affair was in the nature of a small celebration for the wedding anniversaries of and Mrs. Klink and Mr. - and Mrs. Beckman, whose marriages took place on th'e same day of the month, May 7. A sumptuous dinner was enjoyed at 7 o’clock and the balance of the evening was speht socially. It was the twenty-fifth anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Klink and the thirty-third anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Beckman. Mr. and Mrs. Buettner’s anniversary, which also comes in May, were invited guests. o WINTER FOR ONE DAY When our populace awakened from their peaceful slumbers Wednesday morning they were surprised to find the ground covered with a thick mantle of snow and the temperature hovering around 32 degrees. Neither fruit nor farm crops were seriously injured in this section of the- state in the opinion of the authorities at the agricultural extension station at Purdue university.

MEMORIAL DAY Memorial Day program this year will be of unusual interest, the Ligionnaires having the matter in hand and are desirous of making May 30 the red letter dav in Syracuse. Major Fletcher K Marsh, who has recently been chosen to the staff of the Commander in chief of the Grand Army will preside and read the G. A. R. ritual for the first time at a Syracuse celebration. . . o- — PASSED EXAMINATION Arthur Morris and Harold 80-, beck passed the county examination held in April, which will admit them as pupils of the Syracuse high school. The young men were pupils of Miss Eloise Holloway, at the Moore school the past year. ——o BOUGHT STUDEBAKER Ernest Buchholz purchased a Special Six Studebaker of Floyd Hedges, the local dealer.

SOME THINGS TO TRINH ABOUT Review of Things by the Editor As He Sees Them onthe Surface. . r —- Big business has developed to a wonderful degree. It is necessary for our future development and expansion. But there is one nauseating fly in the commercial pudding. Big business is making too many multi-millionaires and billionaires through excess profits. Those excess profits are filched from the pockets of our millions of consumers. The government should get a reasonable limit to the wealth of an individual, and when that wealth exceeds the limit the surplus should be diverted into the federal treasury. Limitation does not mean bolshevistic or communistic confiscation. It is common sense applied for our mutual salvation. It may even prevent this country becoming Russianized in the near future. Some day, if you live long enough, you may see the editor of this paper ascend straight up in the air for a hundred feet or so, sail through space until he is directly over your front yard, and then gently descend onto your doorstep for a friendly chat. That is what they are working at now r , and they are beginning to see light ahead. The airship is a wonderful invention, but it is only a means to an end. It is like the first rung to a ladder—there are many others to mount before we can hope to reach the top. But we’ll get there! It will not be long before we will be scrapping our present supply of airships and investing in helicopters.

Married today—tired of each other tomorrow — divorced the next day—and looking for another! We haven’t quite reached that stage in this country, but we. are hopping right along. In some courts it is about as easy to get a divorce as it is to buy a license to wed. The principal difference is in the cost. The rising generation just growing to maturity is being brought up'to look upon divorce as a matter of fact—as a natural means of settling family differences. With divorce rampant today and running amuck tomorrow, how long will it be before the person will have nothing to do? If,you know of a choice piece of scandal that would set things spinning, don’t tell it. Pushing it along would be hard on the ears. Besides, retailing scandal doesn’t do anybody any good, and it does do a lot of harm. Too many innocent people have to suffer for the acts of a few. Then again, if you sire not climbing up toward the perfection mark you can never tell when your own lid will be blown off. A still tongue may not always make a wise head, but it will keep a fellow out of many a nasty mess. Cheer up! You are good for many things in this world, no matter what you may think of your limitations. It isn’t the world that is holding you back, if you are being hel3 back. It is yourself—and no one else. There is no lack of opportunities. They are waiting for men and women of will power and determination to grasp them. But they won’t into your lap. o ; MOORE SCHOOL CLOSED The Moore school was closed for the school year on Friday, but not without ceremonies. The pupils planned a surprise for their teacher, Miss Eloise Holloway, by having a big pot luck dinner at the school house at noon.

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