The Syracuse Journal, Volume 16, Number 4, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 24 May 1923 — Page 1

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SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Item* of Interest Concerning •Our High School Written for the Syracuse Journal. This week brings us >0 the close of another school year and to the realization that though vacation time has long been anticipated it is with a certain reluctance that we sever the associations of the year. As we take stock of the year’s achievements we see where many efforts could have been made greater, many mistakes avoided—but "to err is hurrtan” and it seems the Divine plan that it is only through the realization of our weaknesses that we learn to love one another. Many pleasant activities of the year have brought us a little nearer to the hornet of our pupils and the cultivation of this closer co-operation can do much towards the progress of ’ both school and community. i We have appreciated greatly,] the interest shown in the school, many courtesies extended to the teachers and your hearty cooperation in all of our activities and we take this opportunity in our closing notes- to thank you, one and all? A Trip to Melodyland The musical entertainment by the grade children was the closing event of our school term and a goodly number of patrons were entertained by the children. Richard Miller as page announced the different events and proved to us all that a crowd does in no manner interfere with his memory. His part was most credit- • ably performed Evelyn Gordy and Maxine Jenkins as Scotch lassies received great applause as did the wandering minstrels of Ireland. Margaret Wolf and Mary Druckamiller portrayed the Dutch girls and wore the native costume, while Anna Priest, Helen Leacock, Marget Schick, Leila Connolly, Florence Levinson and Georgia Druckamiller were most attractive in gypsy attire. The Algerian mothers sang a sweet hillabye. Ralph Leacock and James Connolly as natives of Borneo played their part well—not waiting the formality of the page’s introduction. A grand finale was the •hips return to the United States and ended with the singing of our national song, "The Star Spangled Banner." This entertainment w’as supervised by Mrs. Cress and showed much careful planning and directing. Attendance Record The following pupils were neither absent nor tardy during the year: Merritt Bushong, Monroe Kehr, Ruth Blanchard, Phyllis Mick, Phyllis Miller, Virginia Bachman, Treva Ritter, Ruth Mullen. Merritt Bushong has a fine record having completed his entire school course so far with neither an absent or tardy mark recorded against him. Lose Two Boys We are sorry to lose two of our high school boys through removal to other towns: Emerson Smith and Donald Long but hope they will continue the success they have had thus far in their new homes. o — FINGERS INJURE*!) Roscoe Rex, living north of town, had the misfortun/ to gat his fingers ’in a machine in a factory in Goshen, where he was working, last week, and) is now spending his vacation here with his parents and nursing his sore hand. One finger was quite badly injured. — —-o — PURCHASED PROPERTY A transaction was completed on Friday, May 18, whereby Chas. Bowersox became owner of the residence on Front street, in the southeast part of town, which was formerly owned by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hire. - o Grandpa Jones, while dining out. Spilled something on his vest. He worried till Blue Devil came, And “took it off his chest” 4-1

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TO OBSERVE MEMORIAL DAY IN SYRACUSE Arrangements nave been perfected for the fitting observance of Memorial Day in Syracuse, which' are in charge of joint committees of the G. A. R., citizens’ committee and the American Legion. Exercises will b. held on the vacant lot adjacent the school house. In case of bad weather the exercises will be held in the Methodist church. Folk>wing is the program: “America" Audience Invocation. .Rev. F. H. Cremean Chorus Community Choir Reading of G. A. R. Ritual Major Marsh Chorus Community Choir Address.... Rep. Frank Graham Solo and Chorus.... .Com. Choir 30 seconds silent prayer. Song—" Battle Hymn of Republic Audience Benediction. ALUMNI BANQUET The Alumni of the Syracuse High School held their fifteenth annual reception for the graduating class at Rapp's hall Saturday evening. A program of music, * songs and contests was followed by refreshments and the roll call. Christine Rapp welcomed the graduating class into the association and Opal Geyer responded. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Bachman lead the grand march. Music was furnished for the dancing by a North Manchester orchestra. This reception was pronounced one of the nws't successful ever held by the association. The members who attended were: Hattie Edgell Bowersox, 1895; Lillian Hamman, 'O9; Helen Anderson. '2O; Chas. Bushong, Elkhart, 'l6; Cleo Phebus. ’22; Neva Meek, '2l; Joy Deardorff, Chicago,.’22; Hallie Holloway, T 4: Clarence Grimes. *2l; Myrtle Bushong Rothenberger, 1892; Katharine Rothenberger, 15; Violet Strieby Sheets, 18; Nellie Man, ’2l; Charles W. Howard. Richmond, Ind., ’l6; Walter Lackey, Mentone, Ind., T 6; Ethel Bowser T 6; Elizabeth Bushong, ’2l; Christine Rapp, ’2O; Millard Hire, T7; Fred Couts, ’2l; Eloise Mabie, ’22; Helen Bowld, ’ls; Laveta Warstler, Goshen, ’22; Louise Self Kelly, ’2O; Alice Lung, Delavan, Wis., ’2l; Ernest Bushong, ’22; Georgia Ketring Miller, ’(X); Ruth Bittman Xanders. 'l3; Preston Miles, '08; Celia Smith Kuhn, Elkhart, TO; Ida Kitson Jensen. ’O9; Knox Stetler, T 6; Evelyn Hire Stetler. T 9; Elvah Pearson. Mishawaka, ’ls; Bernard Skedgel. ’2l; Burdette Holloway, Mentone, 16; Arthur Evans, Kimmell. ’22; Chancy Hibner. '2O; Ray Meek, South Bend, ’22; Phil Hedges. '2l; Vida Dewart. Mishawaka, T 5; Vera McCloughan, Indianapolis, ’2l. The graduating class, teachers and guests numbered nearly a hundred in all. ■ — o — WEAR A POPPY On Decoration Day all the stores of Syracuse will have poppies on sale at 10c each. The public is asked to buy freely, as the proceeds will be used to defray expenses in connection with the Memorial Day exercises. O MARKET The Woman’s Missionary Society of the Church of God will hold a market at Hedges Battery Station on Saturday, May 26. —o A woman can’t make a monkey of every man she meets; sometimes she’s too late.

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| AS SEEN ON LIFE'S HIGHWAY (By Mrs. Amanda L. Xanders) VII. York, Pa. —In the square the Y. M. C. A. people had erected an immense white clock, s.v.. ned off with numbers, and one large hand, to indicate oregress made during the day of the campaign which lasted just one week. Think of it! Just on? week to raise by popular subscription $525,000. Os this xmount $25,000 is to liquidat the debt on the Y. W. C. A. building. On the second day c' the drive, a tremenduous sensation was created by the closin'/ of the doors, of the city bank by State Bank Examiner, Mr. Ferguson. The directors were t hold their usual meeting that morning. Can you imagine the shock of surprise, when they arrived on the scene and found the bank closed anti read the notice posted on the door. Not one of them hut thought their bank as secure as the rock of Gibralter. Why only in January they had ordered an increase in the amount cf dividends, so sure, were they that all was well, and even now. from behind the bars of the county jail, the cashier has stated, that he could have covered his tracks, if the bank examiner had come to him instead of going directly to the bookkeeper and sealing the books when the bank was ready to close the Friday before. Never in the history of Pennsylvania has a State Bank failed for an amount anything nearly so large as this one. The only one in the state that failed for a similar amount was a National Bank of Pittsburg. The defaulting cashier and his assistant got away with over one million dollars. The cashiers thefts date back twenty-five years, his assistant six years. I reckon before they get through there will be enough bills against them, to keep them in prison the rest of their lives..and then some. So many people are involved that it was feared it would materially affect the drive. On the morning of the last day the committee were just §IB,OOO short of their goal. You can realize what a last desperate effort was mnde when I tell you they went $60,000 over the ton. The announcement was made amidst the wildest rejoicing of all these who have been intensely interested in the drive. At one point on my trip down the Cumberland Valley last winter. the conductor as usual assisted me to alight. When he handed my handbag, I thanked him. Imagine it! Think of it! He raised his official cap in acknowledgment. I am .quite sure if it had happened on top of the North Pole, I would have rolled off, from sheer surprise, and "all the king’s horses and all the king’s men could not have lifted me up again.” In years gone by other conductors may have been equally polite. To-day. this one stands in a class by himself. At the Eastern district meeting of the Woman’s Clubs held in Bethlehem, during my visit to Allentown—we were invited to motor over, and also to be guests of one of the ladies at the banquet given that evening in the large new Hotel Bethlehem. It is six miles between the two cities, yet you never could gues? where they merge, you must be told. We arrived in time for the afternoon session. I was surprised to learn that one hundred women spent the winter in

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Harrisburg, looking after needed legislature. One woman asked the support of the Eastern district for a bill pending, or about to be presented to the present legislature of this state, calling for the appointment of a committee on salary. I suppose, to see that directors of state institutions de their duty. She spoke intimately of cruelties practised in at least one orphan asylum of the state. By the applause I knew’ she had carried her audignee with her. The next speaker was a very pleasing wontan to look at—dressed in the height of fashiorshe tripped lightly to the front of the platform and began by telling how very shocked she was to learn of the cruelties practised on children of nine years, was the only age mention ed; she acknowledged she was one of the directors of that same institution and never knew r word about it until the lady, wh< preceded her. told her on the train after leaving Harrisburg for Bethlehem. There she was spending the winter in Harrisburg, pulling political wires, to the neglect of her specific duty. Later when asked how I liked her, I said quite franlyly, you could hardly expect me to fall all over any one who acknowledges criminal negligence. Why appoint a committee to look after such directors, why not discharge them, and save the state the shame of it and at the same time a lot of money. Then are people, W’ho will do their duty, no matter to what field of labor they are called and will not need committees ad infinitum, to see they do,«do their duty. I did not find anyone who had thought of that until I mentioned it. The banquet that evening at 6:30 proved to be a very delightful affair —the eats were of the best, and the speeches were full of anecdote and wit. My friends kept asking me if there was any one from York. I was obliged to give the same answer after every survey oFthe dining room. It came to introducing the last speaker, Mrs. John Hamme, past president of the Woman’s Club of York and vice-president of the State Federation of Clubs. The reason she had escaped my notice, was because of a large pillar between us. • After the banquet was over I made my way td the speaker’s table and congratulated her on her speech; she was so delighted to see me, and to know’ some one was there from her own native town. I asked her to meet our party, which she was glad to do. Before leaving she gave me a very special invitation to attend the Central district meeting in session today at Mechanicsburg, on the Cumberland Valley railroad. — . VIII. It took just about three weeks to completely clothe Old Mother earth in Spring. The transformation scene has been going on under our very eyes, and is now complete. Somehow she seems fresher and brighter and gayer than ever, with buds and blossoms and leaves on every tree; flowers white and pink and purple and red and yellow brightening her robe of green. I cannot remember ever before seeing such a wonderful display of dogwood blooming in this county, though I do recall a similar scene 3 years ago at Valley Forge, when I was a guest of friends at Spring City. We motored over to the Valley to attend my first meeting as a member of the Huguenot Society of Pennsylvania; it was also my first

visit to Valley Forge and at a time of year, when nature could not be surpassed for loveliness. One can hardly realize the hardships our Revolutionary ancestors endured there, especially when the whole valley and surrounding hills, for miles and miles is a riot of pink and white dogwood blooming. As you motor out from Y’ork towards the mountains every tree seems a dogwood tree; the scene really beggars description; a fairer scene is hard to find; as nature is most lavish here. Perhaps my enjoyment of this dear’s Springtime, is enhanced by the fact, that I missed it entirely in California last year. My first trip to that state, included the months of August and September, 1902, and the whole state looked prettier then, than I have seen it since, though I was told, that was not the time to see it at its best—the winter is the time. So in 1916 I spent November and December there, and though everything seemed O. K. to me, only it was pretty cold. I was again assured that was not the time to see,the state at its best; come in the Spring, in March is the time, so I spent March of 1922 in Los Angeles and the whole state from San Francisco to down and all around Los Angeles was a desolate waste, not one tree or flower in bloohi and I took all the sightseeing trips over again and for miles around; besides it rained most of the time and was still raining. I was told, the middle of May. and how much longer I do not know. Everybody was obliged to wear winter overcoats and wraps, because during the month there were three heavy snowstorms. When I left the state the last day of March over the Sante Fe the mountains were covered from top to bottom with snow. Let me assure you I am not holding the people responsible for the weather, but I am holding it against them for advertising California as the sun-. Shinerstate and then handing out rain. California optimism, believe me, has gone stark, raving mad. After having been a shut-in for several days fighting a cold, I was delighted to receive an invitation from my sister, Mrs. Robert L. Motter, to motor with her and a few of her friends to Lancaster. Lancaster is just twenty-eight miles from York — on the way you pass through the following towns: Stonybrook, Hellam, Wrightsville a larger town than Syracuse, then you cross the Railroad Bridge over the Susquehanna River, a mile and a quarter wide, to Columbia, a large city—on through Mountville to Lancaster. For years Lancaster County has been known as “The Garden Spot” of America, with York County a close second. Soils play an important, part in contributing to this distinction. The farmers, mostly Dunkards, Tunkers and Mennonites. are a thrifty, hardworking, progressive, painstaking people, who have done so much to make Lancaster county the greatest of all agricultural gold mines. One if not the greatest sources of her wealth is her tobacco fields. Here too is the scene of the once I popular storjfc "Tillie, the Men- ; nonite Maid,” also the beautiful large home of the Hamilton Watch Co. A little beyond and right off one of the principal residential streets we stopped at the B. F. Barr & Cb.’s green, houses and nursery, covering eight acres. The flowers and shrubbery inside and out of

those fifteen green houses were infinite in variety, so arranged that there is no clash of color, roses, carnations, snapdragons, lillieg, geraniums, scarlet, white and pink, the largest bloom and finest display I ever saw. There are four experienced salesmen to cater to your wants, and they certainly understand their business, as florists, landscape architects, and nursery men. While the order was being filled we drove down town, and had as guests of my sister, a Susquehanna River shad-roe dinner at the Colonial. It’s worth the price of a trip east, to be able to eat Susquehanna shad. They are by far superior to any other shad, but man's greed for gain is gradually cutting down the supply. It was on this trip, when my sister and self were alone, that I had planned to celebrate my birthday, May 12. by giving a dinner and card party the evening of that day at The Country Club. My guests numbered thirty-six. The out of town guests were from Philadelphia,. Allentown, Baltimore. Glen Rock and The Green Spring Valley. By Wednesday night my one eye was closed, infection the doctoi said, and remained that way until Friday morning; the heroic treatment reduced the swelling to almost normal until Saturday evening, and I was so pleased tc be able to attend my own party. The fable decorations were pink roses; the table extended the length of the private dining room with a wing at each end. The dinner was served in five courses: while the last course was being served, I was talking to the Rev. Atkins, when I heard several questions, whose birthday. The waiter placed the cake with its eight lighted candles,, right in front of me; it was a complete surprise and in its wake followed such a strange feeling of utter helplessness tc grasp the situation, I looked at my sister, the guilty one, she said blow them all out at once—everybody ’was talking and ex tending congratulations and jus> as’ I had accomplished that feat another waiter was placing ar immense tray in front of me piled high with packages. From th< other end of the table Elsie Laucks said for. your new cottage on Lake Wawasee. The opening of all those packages and th< contents, created no end o merriment. By the time the last package was opened, wc were all convinced, Sadie and Elsie had made a raid on a ter and twenty-five cent store. ‘ , o A NARROW ESCAPE Roy Beck, age 77, of Elkhart, who has a cottage on Kale Island, became lost last Friday evening. Seeing a light at nine o’clock in the Wawasee Slip Service Station he rowed his boat towards there and tied it to an old scow. Having no idea where he was he wandered around on the south side of the slip. Not being able to see he mistook one of the concrete buttments for a sea wall and started walking towards the light. At that minute Wendell Macy turned out the lights and started to lock the doors. He heard a cry for help and ran around the slip to where the cries came from. Luckily he had an electric lantern in his hand by means of which he located the man’s hat floating on top of the water. Mr. Beck was unable to swim and with help of Alldean Strieby he was pulled out of the water and taken home. Subscribe for the Journal.

SOME THINGS TO THINKABOUT Review of Things by the Editor As He Sees The.ni on the Surface. We have seen men spend dollars for personal pleasures and slip a dime in the collection box at church. It probably does not occur to them that the dime they give is for the service of God, and that if it were not for the tolerance of the same God there would be no expensive pleasures for them to enjoy. We have seen people sit still while opportunity walked all around them, waiting vainly to be grasped. Possibly they expected opportunity to take them gently by the hand and lead them gently up to the trough of plenty. But opportunity didn’t. We have seen frisky motorists go tearing along the highways and laugh sardonically when some pedestrian had to jump to keep from being crushed under the wheels. If the tables could be reversed, and the motorist were required to make a lightning jump to save his own hide, he might do a little cussing himself. And, too, he might realize what an unmitigated nuisance he is to the public, and how lo.w he stands in the esfittaation of law abiding motorists and the public at large. Perhaps—if he has any brains. We have seen beautiful women walk along while men stared intently at them —even to the point of rudeness. This is not a fault peculiar to the men of the community, as our men measure up to the standard of mankind in genera). It is simply a recognition of the beauty of womanhood, but a recognition so forcible in its naure as to be often misunderstood md to cause embarrassment and resentment. We have seen people stand up md deliberately boast to the mint of prevarication, and expect others to take them at face value. They probably did not realize hat those who outwardly accept’d them at face value were secretly reading the heart that wags the tongue. We have seen many things, in many places, and at many times, that would make many people smile —or squirm—if they were reduced to cold and unfeeling type. * o ENTERTAINED AT DINNER Mrs. Joan Holloway entertained at dinner Sunday her children and grandchildren, and a few friends. The children brought well-filled baskets and’spent the day with her. They wei*e: Mr. and Mrs. R W. Hire and sons of Elkhart, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Holloway of South Bend, Mr. and Mrs. Knox Stetler of northeast of town, and Mr. and Mrs. Leßoy Riddle and children of this city. Her son, Either Holloway of South Bend, and his two sons of Lansing, Mich., left Tuesday in their car for Center, Arkansas. Mrs. Joan Holloway has not been enjoying the best of health this winter. o SMALL BLAZE The Syracuse fire department was called out to the lake Tuesday about noon, where the J. D. Dalton cottage on the south shore, about 4 miles of Syracuse, had caught fire, presumely from a brisk fire in the grate. The blaze was put out by a bucket brigade and a small hole burned in the roof. o MOVED The State Bank of Syracuse moved yesterday (Wednesday) n its own building, and is open For business. i o New gifts at “The sign of the Kettle.” Don’t fail to see them..

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