The Syracuse Journal, Volume 16, Number 22, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 27 September 1923 — Page 1

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WAHBLIHGS FROM LAKE WAWASEE Weekly Review of Happening' Around Lake Wawasee Briefly Told (By Mrs. Amanda L. Xanders) Short Personal Paragraphs Mrs. Barley closed her) cottage Monday and returned to her home in Marion. Bishop and Mrs. J. H. White, entertained five gentlemen from South Bend at dinner Sunday evening. Mesdames Remy, Dalton and Barley spent several days last week in Fort Wayne as guests of Mrs. Norton and Mrs. Griffin. Monday was such an ideal day that we were sure it was the be ginning of Indian summer, o? was the wish father to the thought. Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs Matt C. Abts and Mrs. Xanderr -were. with others, guests at r six o’clock dinner, given by Mr. and Mrs. Todd Wilden of Goshen Wednesday evening Mr. and Mrs. Frank Remy entertained at a small dinner party in honor of Mrs. J. H. White's sister, Mrs Swift of Detroit. After spending the month of September at their summer home on the South Shore, the Dalton family closed their cottage Tuesday and returned to their honu at Warsaw. Miss Irene F. Laucks, who has been the guest of her sister Mrs Xanders, left Saturday for r weeks visit with relatives in Gos hen. I efore she returns to he» heme in the east. Last week Miss Clanry closed her summer home on the Soutl Shore, known as the Appersor Cott aw and returned to her home in Chicago. Miss Clancy is rov in a Chicago Hosnital preparing to undergo a serious operation Let us all hope the operation wil’ prove successful and that Mir* Ciancy returns to the lake nex' season in excellent health. Dr. ahd Mrs. Oren Oncal cloned their cottage on the South Shor the first of the week and return ed to their home in Chicago. Dr and Mrs. Oneal have made reser vations with the Cook Co., for their Mediterranean Cruise, ths* leaves New York in Januarv. Here’s hoping their every wis’ of a delightful and profitable tour, may be fully realized. Mr. and Mrs. William Griffen spent the week end at their cottage on the South Shore. During last week the neighbors noticed several electric lights turned on in their house and notified petrol officer Mabie and the family at Fort Wayne. There seams to be no question about the house having been entered, but nothing apparently was disturbed. Sunday morning, when the fog that lay so heavy over sea and land, lifted, the lake was; dotted with more fishing craft • than at any one time during the past season. With what success those followers of Isaac Walton met. it is impossible for me to sav. Saturday night lights glimmered all around the lake, telling of the return of many owners, to their cottages for the week end. By Sundav night the lights had nearlv all disappeared and the North Shore was darklv outlined nearly its entire length, in the moonlight. O " PETIT JURY CALLED

Judge L. W. Royse in Koscius-J ko circuit court, has issued a trial call for jury cases during Octo-, her and the petit jury has been! ordered to report on Monday,’ October 1. The members of the jury are as follows: Bert Reese. Seward township. Lyman Vance. Clay township. James Oranx,-Warsaw. R. V. Brady. Wayne township. Ed Kessler. Franklin township. Hollis W. Green. Turkey Creek township. H. L. Thomas. Etna Green. Frank Hahn. Scott township. W. E. Beam. Warsaw. Ralph Groves. Jefferson township. \ , Samuel Byrer. Plain township. O. A. Hope, Monroe township. o FINGER CUT OFF Frank Klink had the misfortune to injure the third finger of his left hand Saturday morm inp. He was grinding meat and came too close with his finder to the knife of the grinder with the result that the first joint was cut off. '

The Syracuse Journal Syracuse’s Slogan* “A Welcoming Town WitK a Beckoning Lake.**

INDIANA STATE ROADS ARE NOT SPEEDWAYS The following verses in an Indiana newspaper ably expresses several excellent reasons why traffic on public highways should drive sensibly. Here lies the remains of Percival Sapp, He drove his car with a girl in his lap. Lies slumbering here, one William Bake, He heard the bell but had no brake. Beneath t.iis stone lies William Raines, r ee on the hill, he had no chains, '[ere lies the body of William Jay, He died niiintaining his right of way. John Smith lies here without his shoes, He drove his car while filled with booze. Hc-e’s Mary Jane- but not alive, She made her Ford do thirtyfive. Indiana state roads are constructed and maintained to expedite overland travel twelve! nonths in t’e year but their smoothness of surface does not iceessarily mean they should be converted into soeedways de•pite the invitation thev pre--ent, declares John D. Williams, lirector of the state highway -mission. “The thought of speed does lot enter into consideration with *he highway commission what- -• ever when it takes over a secHon of highway and converts it nto a model road for freight and noQ«»nger movement.” says Mr. Williams. “The problem that we >re solving is to nut at the disposal of the public, roads that will meet traffic demands each month of the year. Indiana state roads will go in‘n the winter in excellent conlition to withstand t s e rigors of thaws and freezes, highway oficials say. During the summer md fall m w ny of the secondary | o*ds were “regraveledlLAnd “reitoned.” Traffic in few months caused then! to .bind Sard and firm. Drainage has been in important item in maintenwe work also, and experience has shown that non-rigid tvpe -nads properly and ouickly Irained better withstand the «nvere traffic demand of the times. AUTOMOBILE DEMOLISHED I Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kehr and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Kehr, of Gos,eo, narrowly escaped death about 11 o’clock Sunday forenoon, when the automobile in which they were riding collided with a! B. & 0. engine at tne Milford j Junction crossing. The automobile was badly demolished and Tunuel Kehr was considerably! bruised but not seriously injured.’ Hie other members of the party .‘scaped unhurt. The automobile attempted to toss the railroad from the north, having approached on the road > -unning paralel with the railroad (from the east. An engine and coal tender was traveling west on the railroad and the members of the auto party claim they did j not see or hear the engine until thev turned to cross the track 1 i and it was too late to stop. The j outo crashed into the side of the •lengine and the car was turned J completely around, stopping with the front headed towards the west. The front of the machine ’ i was badly battered and later in the day the engine was removed. 0 M. E. MINISTERS MEET

Rev. W. W. Martin, of Fort Wayne. Rev. F. A. Hall, of Logansport, Rev. Pinkham, of Peru, Rev. Benjamin Kendall, of Winchester, Rev. Freeland, of Wabash, Rev. J. C. White, of Fort Wayne, and Rev. Thornburg, of Elkhart, held a meeting at Warsaw last week for the purpose to mnke plans for the building of a tabernacle and cottages at Webster Lake for the Epworth League organizations of the district, who hold a convention each year. ' •'What did you get for your potato crop?" "A pain in the back" 5 «•»

HORSE NEARLY DROWNED Last Friday afternoon Mrs. • Fred Drew, living on the Thonrp- » son farm south of Syracuse, phon- ’ ed L. D. Jensen that the mare used by B. F. Kitson to haul the mail from the postoffice to the depot, had fallen into the lake and was about to drown. Mr. Jensen immediately secured Nathan Insley and a force of men and by the use of block and tackle removed the mare from her perilous position. The mare bein'? blind had wandered into the marshy land bordering the channel and had ma red down in nlwmt four feet of muck and w’ter and was almost exhausted when found. Mr. Jensen blanketed the animal warmly and left 1 t »n Mrs. Drew’s care until /Mr. Kitson returned from Goshen where he attended the funeral of ~is r»’ece. Mrs. Jacob T.ehn’an. Onts’de of almost comnletn ex''•rstion the m ire sustained little ■’’mage ev<-«nt a sprained front knee. Mr. K’tson is snendin<r the halwnce of his va<'TTn robbing arnica and explaining the accident. » , n_ OBITUARY Mrs. Eva Kitson Lehman, 49, wife of Jacob Lehman, died Wednesday, September 19, at one o’clock in the afternoon, at her home in Goshen, following a two weeks’ illness of complications. She had been an invalid for the past nine years. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion I Kitson, of Milford, where she was born, and had been a resident of Goshen for the past 20 years, going there from a farm, near Middlebury. Besides her husband and parents, she is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Beulah Todd Hartzog and Miss Marie Lehman, both of Goshen; three grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Bert McCloughen of Milford. Funeral services were held at the family home on Friday, September 21, Rev. George W. Rench of South Bend officiating. Burial in Violet cemetery, Goshen. o — o AUTO RACE AT tiOSHEN The first 100-mile automobile race ever staged in this section is scheduled for the Goshen fair grounds next Sunday afternoon, Septearber 30. when 20 of the j foremost speed demons of the I mid-west will appear under the auspices of the South Bend Rac- . ing Association, promoters of similar events at Springbrook ; Park. Including among those to ; appear at Goshen next Sunday ’ w ill be Ralph Ormsby, Clay, Van Buren, Dailey, Clancy, Ross, j Smith and Betz. The trials will start at one o’clock. The Goshen j track is it excellent condition and it is expected some records I will be smashed. a 0 IN MEMORIAE ■ln loving memory of our dear husband and father, Abraham Hire, who passed away one year ago today, September 26, . 1923. _ , We had a great treasure once He was our joy and pride, We loved hiip, oh, perhaps too well. For soon he slept and died. ■ All in dark within our dwelling, ‘ Lonely are our hearts today. For the one we loved so dearly, J Has forever passed away, i j Mrs. Abe Hire and family.

o QUEEN OF YORK STILL LEADS The Syracuse cow Queen of ' York, owned by Walker White, who is on test, still leads all Guernsey cattle in the state as shown by the Purdue list published last week. She is now in her sixth month and produced last month 1,459 pounds of milk and 63 pounds of fat. • o BOY SCOUTS A number of business men and several ministers met at the school building last Monday for the purpose of appointing a troop committee. Dr. C. R. Hoy was named chairman of this committee. Application for a charter to organize a Boy Scout troop will be made soon. jy— —-o —. DIVORCE CASE VENUED The judge of the Kosciusko circuit court has ruled in favor of the motion asking for a change of venue in the divorce case of Violet Lung, of near Syracuse, against Harry Lung. The case will be tried in the Wabash circuit court. Mrs. Lung asked for alimony in the sum of $5,000.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1923.

SfflOSE HIGH SCHOOL NOTES J ~ » ————— 5 Items of Interest Concerning Our High School Written for The Syracuse Journal. i 1 t Linden Eiler is a new pupil in • Miss Rapp s room. ( The Seniors are interested at . present in purchasing class pins ! and rings. | Agnes Solomon withdrew from | school Friday. She will enter the high school at Sylvania, Ohio. The Matchett children entered Syracuse schools last week They formerly attended school at Mis- ■ hawaka. A number of the Freshmen ind their friends were entertained Friday evening at the home if Alma Couts. ClAßsroean Activities Under the direction of Miss Hayward the beginning Art class will take up enamel work. The advanced class after finishing their flow’er baskets will begin china painting. Miss Stover reports the work f her Heme Economics classes es follows: 7th and Bth grade (iris, making aprons; Junior girls, studying salads; Freshman and Jophomore girls, working on canning and beverages. These classes ire planning to serve a breakfast soon. The boys in the Freshman Manual Training class have finished their first work in mechanical drawing and are working in the shop. The orchestra will practice Thursday evening at 7:30. The new playground has been 'ompleted and is enjoved by the ’ower grades during their recess neriods, while the classes have been nlayin? vollev ball. The Freshman English class is studving Silas Marner: Senior, English, Tale of Two Cities. But after all is said and done, ♦be greatest “indoor sport” the ’•'est week has been <that of “hanging the program. Music Memory Contest The Music Memory Contest will be conducted again this year. Work of this kind has been very successfully carried on during ♦he last two years. Many of the students became very proficient in identifying the musical selections and all received training in music appreciation. This year it ; s honed that Syracuse High School can crier i in the district congests. The State Department of Education ’• ’s i -ued a bulletin giving the list of selections to be studied “nd rules for conducting contests. The list is comnosed of forty selections. Students are trained to recognize the selection on hearing it. to name the composer, and to give his nationality. (’hajM l ! Exercises Chapel was conducted Wednesday morning by the Rev. Mr. McMichael. As a Scripture lesson | he read a portion of the Old Test ament Narrative concerning Ruth. He then gave a very interesting talk in which he brought out the answers to the ’ questions. What is the Bible? Where do we get it. What do we do with it? He showed charts giving portions of the Bible in ♦he original Greek and Hebrew.

These he read. The schedule for chapel exer- < rises during the first semester is as follows: October 3—Rev. Dauner. October 10 —Rev. Eiler. October 17—Rev. Dustin. October 24—Rev. Cremean. October 31—Rev. McMichael. November 7—Rev. Dauner. November 14—Rev. Eiler. November 21 —Rev. Dustin. November 28 —Rev. Cremean. December s—Rev. McMichael. December 12—Rev. Dauner. December 19—Rev. Eiler. —o MEN WANTED An ad on page 8 of this issue is headed with the above words. The men are wanted by the Dalton foundries at Warsaw and offer best pay in the county to men who want to learn the moulders' trade. <—o WHO DOES Watch, clock, jewelry and phonograph repairing in Syracuse? Why H. L. Drew, of course. Genuine material used ami all work guaranteed. A step down to lower prices. Basement of the Grand Hotel. 22-lt

ESCAPE SERIOUS INJURY White enroute home Monday 1 evening about 7:30 o’clock from; I the Frank Juday home, Mrs. Mil-i lard LeCount and children. Char-; les, age 6 years, and Mae, age 15 , | months, were bumped in the front wheel of the buggy by a new Ford touring car, the driver of same failing to give any road at ail. He never left the track which is only wide enough for one vehicle to travel. The accident occurred just a short distance north of Rawleigh Neff’s house. The west side of the road is very sidling here and Mrs. Lecount .got out of the road as far as she could without danger of upsetting, she thinking the driver of the auto would give a little of the road, but failed to do so, the snrpact throwing the buggy about a rod from the road into a field, hurling the occupants to the ground, which resulted in a smashed buggy, Mrs. LeCount an injured back and Charles a bruised and scratched face. The baby was very lucky as she hasn’t even a scratch. The driver of the Ford did not stop long enough to see if anyone was injured or killed, but instead he hastened down the road. Mrs. LeCount, hovrever, was thoughtful enough to remember the license number. People driving machines should remember that horses and buggies have as much right to the road as the auto. o—• POTATO DAY Fields of potatoes that will yield more than 400 bushels per icre e will greet the folks that attend the big Northern Indiana Potato Day to be held at the W. I W. Stauffer farm in southwestern ; Kosciusko county on Thursday, i September 27. The fact of the high yields was established by County Agent Parker, who to- 1 ’■ether with County Agent Lun- : lin of Fulton county and F. C. i Gaylord of the Horticulture De- 1 ■aartznent at Purdue, made a care- < ful estimate of the yields by dig- ’ ring and weighing the potatoes from different places in the 1 fields. The Stauffer farm has a field each of Early Ohios, Irish ! Cobblers and Rural New Yorkers, i Q LECTURE COURSE r With pleasure we can announce 1 to our readers that we will again 1 have a lecture course this winter, 1 Vause Polen, manager of the Oakland Theatre, has made arrange-' ments with the Interstate Ly- 5 eeum Bureau for five numbers to I be given throughout the season. 1 Following is a list of attractions: I Nov. 2—Fknily J. Waterman. '* Dec.Tl —DeWillo Concert Co. Jan. 28 —Granville Jones. March 8-Colonial Marimba- 1 phone Quartet. ’ April 16—Cleaver Opera Sing- I ers. The price of season tickets is I $2 for adults and $1 for children. They are on sale now at the Oak- I land Theatre. i ■ O — • ■ 1 ■ = < LUTHER LEAGUE ’ | ' I About forty members of the ; Luther League of St. John’s , Lutheran Church of Nappanee were entertained Tuesday evening at the Lutheran parsonage’ here. The devotional part of the meeting was in charge of Claud Laser. The topic was “Gems from the Books we read.” After the devotional and business session the host and hostess entertained the guests with a number of contests. Mrs. McMichael served dainty refreshments at the close of the evening.

o OPENING OF NEW ROOM W. G. Connolly, proprietor of the Royal Store, announces to the public in a circular letter that he will formally open his new room on Saturday, September 29. For this opening he has collected a wonderful line of women.s. misses’ and children’s coats and hats, wool and silk dresses. He will also have on sale in the basement an assortment of enamel and aluminum ware. KOSCIUSKO COUNTYFAIR The annual Kosciusko county fair onened at Warsaw Tuesday avenin* and will continue throughout the week, ending on Saturday night. Indications are that th«s year’s fair will be one of the biggest and best ever held. —__o NOTICE OF CAUCUS There will be a citizens caucus at the* Library basement on Friday evening. September 28. at ! 7:30, to nominate a town ticket. • By order of Citizens Committee.

I MORE MONEY FOR INDIANA FARMERS I Indiana farmer; will have a i larger income this year than in 11922 because corn, recognize-1 as toe principal crop of the state, commands a- higher price than it did a year ago. a comparison of market quotations show, and the prospects are that the new crop on the market at 10 to 15 cents a bushel more than last season, those interested in the marketing of Indiana crops assert. The fact that the Indiana farmer’s pocketbook will have more in it, desmte wheat selling for less than last year, is indicat'd further by the latest report of George C. Bryant, Indiana crop statistic-vi for the United State Department cf Agncultur''. Tne official forecast for iugust of the Indiana corn crop is 192,712,000 bushels, and the higher pn*e this year means a intal increased income of $17,000.0'10 to S2s,oo<'J (io for the farmers on this bas:s. The wheat crop, or. the basis c.i prevailing fann prices tins year, will bring about $4,000,000 less t han last year, a loss that is only a fraction < f the increase the farmers receive from corn, it has been figured. Wheat provides about ten per cent of the Indiana farmer's total income, although it is one cf the five principal farm crops in the state. Corn, as a general proposition, provides three times ■ s much money for the farmer as does wheat, and the rest of hi? income is derived principally from oats, hay, rye, livestock and poultry. The farm price for corn now is 81 cents a bushel, as compared /with 56 cents a year ago, but com now- on the farm is of last year’s crop. The forecast now is that the new crop will open at 65 to 70 cents, increasing as the supply is diminished by consumption. Corn prices now are better than since the war, and also better than during the prewar years. In the war years 1917, 1918 and 1919, the price, however, exceeded $1 a bushel In 1920, the new cron price was 59 cents on the farni, 37 cents in 1921, and 56 cents in 1922. Ii 1912, the price was -12 cents; ir 1913, 60 cents; in 1914, 51 cents The forecast now shows that this year’s price is better than in what is generally regarded as nofmal years. Indiana farmers also will realize a big income from oats this vear, the crop being almos* twice as large as last year, the reports show. The forecast for this year is a yield of 54,975,000 bushels in Indiana, as compared with 28,770,000 bushels last year. The present price on the farm for oats is 42 cents, as compared with 40 cents last year, and with the forecast that tihis year’s new crop will start moving at 35 or 36 cents. Hay is selling for a better price on many farms today than it did a year ago by sixty cents on the ton, it is reported, the rye prices are substantially the same. Prices of other farm products compare favorably with a year .ago, with the net result that Indiana farmers will have a greater income this year due tc the better corn prices, if the figures are borne out. “MIRACLE MAN” RETURNS Pestered as he says, by doc tors who have tried to drive him out of several cities for his "cures” Harry Mays, the “miracle man” of New Carlisle, Indiana, again has located in Hammond. He was driven out of Chicago at one time by £he Illinois state medical Authorities. He boasts a letter asking him to come back to the "suffering people of Hammond.’’ FINED EACH ' William Summe. Vanburen Kissinger and Ira Kissinger were brought before Justice Cain in Warsaw late Saturday night for possession of fish nets. Each party paid a fine and costs amounting to $18.50. They were arrested by Emanuel Click. * Lady Bug: “Now, Mister Kissing Bug, you must remember the ears of corn; also, potatoes have eyes” i. n« uu

SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT Review of Things by the Editor As He, Sees The,m on the Surface, Now and then we hear an auto owner complaining that the residents of our rural sections wont answer a civil question asked by a motorist. And if they do not, the motorists have no one to blame but thqmselves, says an exchange. The fanner must get his sleep between 10 p. m. and 4 a. in., and it doesn’t sweeten his disposition any to have some autoist coming along at midnight, turning a spotlight into his window, waking him to inquire road directions — and then leaving without thanking him. Many of them have loaned log chains or tools to ipotorists in distress—only to have to go down the road afterward and carry the said log chain or tools back to the barn. More than one of them has consented to let tourists camp in a wood on their farms only to find out afterward that trees in which hey took much pride had either been hacked badly w-ith a campng axe or cut down entirely. The trouble is too many motorsts who are law abiding citizens >t, home forget their manners nd their politeness when they ret out on the road and are not 'onsiderate of the other fellow’s rights or property, If they occasionally strike a farmer who appears to be "cantankerous,” -nd they care to ask him point’riank what made him that way ‘he chances are they will find ‘hat at some time, or rimes, the farmer has been gross’v imposed upon. It might be a -ood idea for motorists to remember that the golden rule works ust as well in the rural districts, ’s it does anywhere else on earth. While perambulating through .he town one day last week the iditor observed everywhere fall isters of many colors and perect blossoms. We deem the aser the best fall flower which •eautifies any plot of ground. Ather flowers were also in eviience. These citizens are to be omtmended for beautifying their >remises with flowers. Recently we read in an exhange that a woman had a uni■ue plan for raising asters this ear, planting them between tihe ows cf onions in her onion patch fter the onions had reached some ize. Both the onions and the ’sters flourished, the onions takng none of the beauty from the sters and the flowers taking lone of the odor from the onions. Nature is surely wonderful! It s related that a gardener in Columbia City planted tomatoes n his garden on the w’est side of he lot and potatoes on the east ide, and the bumble bees caried he pollen from the tomato blos<oms to the potato blossamp and ie is now picking tomatoes from he potato vines and also potatoes rom the ground. You can graft • half dozen varieties <?f an apple ree and every graft will produce ts individual kind of apples, Irawing their substance from the lame roots and trunk. , Your well-earned savings are vorth keeping and guarding ’gainst bad investment. Beware the rapid-fire stock salesman, “nd his easy and oily promise of making you rich quick. Don’t out your savings into any stock or loan proposition without having it investigated. If you are ’sked to buy stock in a propos’tion you know nothing about, we suggest that you turn the name of the company and salesman over to your banker, and he will look into it for you. Investigate, before you sign for an investment. There are still a few good fanuHes in and about Syracuse that do not take the Journal. True we have increased our circulation over 100 in the last year, but there is room for more. If i non-subscriber should read this. Ut is an invitation to subscribe. Do it now. We can report to the populace within 1,000 miles or more ♦hat a new pvmn at the public drinking fountain has been installed and that there is now a constant flow of water. FOR SALE —Apples, $1 bushel. Stephen Freeman, Phone 596. 22-3 t

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