The Syracuse Journal, Volume 16, Number 24, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 11 October 1923 — Page 1

VOLUME XVI.

WARMGS Fffl LAKE WAWASEE Weekly Review of Happenings Around Lake Wawasee Briefly Told (By Mi’s. Amanda L. Xanders) Kale Island There is no settlement on Lake Wawaseg, that shows more rapid improvement than Kale Island. Only a few years ago, lots sold for such a low price, they were really almost given away. Today these same lots are sold for thousands of dollars, and improvements and building is the order of the day and of this beautiful fall weather. Ruben Shively of Goshen has just had tne foundation laid foi a bungalow. C. B. Stever. a furniture dealei and undertaker of Goshen has the foundation laid for a semibungalow, and expects to begin building this week. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Lease of Goshen, closed their cottage this week. Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Lentz of Milford are still returning t< their cottage for week ends. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Shoots of Goshen closed their cottage thi: week. When the grocery store close: its doors for the lake season, cot takers who do not own autos an compelled to return to thei' winter homes. Pickwick Park The only private residential park on the lake is still beauti ful in its georgeous robe of vivid coloring, Only a few cottagers remain to enjoy this most delightful season of the year. Th* CQttage owners club gathered am employed a man to keep thc park in as nearly perfect condi tion as possible. . It is the smallest of all th* summer colonies and because o 4 its beautiful and pretention 1 homes, it is called millionair row. 'Fhe lights that twinkle alonp its shore every’ Saturday night tell plainly of the return of own ers for the weqk end. The South Shore Mr. and Mrs. Frank Remy motored to Fort Wayne last week am ’ were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Nor ton. The Conrad s closed their cot tage the first of the week and re turned to their home at Kokomc before going to- Miami, Florida for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. John Boyts have returned to the lake and are in their apartment at the South Shore Inn. The friends of Miss Clancy will be glad to know that she is now out of danger and on a fair road to better health than she has enjoyed for some time past. Mrs. Theodore Frazier of War saw and her guest, Mrs. Hazel Haynes, of Indianapolis, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Remy for a few days this week It was a great treat to visit the apple orchard of Mr. Johr Rentfrow. who lives on the South side of the lake. AM the. trees are loaded with the finest kind of apples, including Grimes Gold en, Jonathans and Tulpehocken and other favorite varieties. Bridge Partv Monday afternoon Mrs. Xand ers and Mrs. Abts motored t< Kendallville and were the guesti of Mrs. Boyer at a bridge party During the afternoon bridge wat plaved at three tables. Lovelj and useful prizes were given th< three out-of-town guests, includ ing Mrs. I. Laucks Xanders -o Baltimore, Md. A very elaborati course supper was served. Picnic Supper Last Saturday evening Mr. am Mrs. Justic Zimmers entertains at their cottage near the Inr about twenty ladies and gentle men fregm Warsaw and Mr. an Mrs. Remv of the lake, at a picni supner. The entire party had a! tended the Warsaw-Goshen fool ball game that afternoon at Go; hen. The evening was spent plaj ing the popular Chinese game. Celebration at South Bead The centennial celebration i South Bend last week, drew pe pie from far and near. A grei many people from this count motored there. Each day had i1 special program. Saturday wi the day we were there and th

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the celebration was practically I over, the city was crowded. The decorations were elaborate and seemed to extend for miles. Red and white pennants were strung t hack and forth across the street, t Every lamp post was draped t ! with red and white material and i : above it were three or four large J rod feathers like plumes. The t effect of all those bright plumes s •onping every lamp post on each: I tide of the street and stretching •'way eff as far as the eve could 'oa, was alone wdrth the trip 11 ■ there. The Strrs and Stripes floatedji : p rorr all the Public buildings, H * and business houses were fully U ; lororated with the red; the-1 white; the blue. During the late afternoon < ’ here was a Hungarian parade, 1 I advertising the special attraction • f the week at the Blackstone. < •RM BUREAU MEMBER- i SHIP DRIVE BEGINS SOON , L Mondav and Tuesday, October! ( ’ '2 and 23. have been selected as L he dates for a big membership ' ’rive by the Kosciusko county [1 ranch of the American Larm. ] bureau and on th'se dates com-1 1 nittees. which soon will bei . lamed in each as the seventeen <. ownships as the county will p strike out with a view of carry- ; ng out the aim’ of the officers' , nd members of the Farm Bu- ( eau to sec every farmer in the., ntire county and solicit his < rsmbership. The Kosciusko County Farmj bureau has shown rapid pro-j ress since its inception, partied larly in the last twelvemonths, 1 Ut it is now the aim of the of-? , \-ers of the organization to en- i ist every farmer in the entire p , oimty. The expense is infantis-; \nl compared with the benefits ‘ lerived. The American Farm Bu-ti eau has accomplished much for i he farmer in the last few years nd has a greatly enlarged pro’“’TtfSKfor the future. Campaigns for members are to J e conducted in al'l of the 92 p i ounties of Indiana. In most -of . e counties, however, the drive vill be for one day onlv. Kos-? . iusko county, however, is larger han manv of the other counties < nd for this reason it was deem- ? •d best to devote two days to the ’rive here. There is every reason to be-! ’eve that before the close of the; resent month the vast majority! • <f the 200.000 farmers of Indina will be enrolled in the mem-' -ership of the Farm Bureau. The Kosciuske county drive ’lanager is Charles Saidla, Tur- , ey Creek township. With C. F. L *at terson. one of the best known lirt farmers in the entire state. e Saidla is now engaged in the n work of lining up the commit-i u h ees in the various townships for the final drive for members on || October 22 and 23. v — 0 ’ a FOUND GUILTY Harry Lung, well <. around Lake Wawasee, was tried >} 'ast week in the Kosciusko cire -uit court on a charge of taking k Ish from Lake Wawasee with a t . aet, and found guilty by the’ t jury, who assessed a punishment! n >f $lO fine and 30 days imprisonh ment. .« Mrs. Violet Lung, wife of the' d defendant, was also in court and: |- appeared as a witness against ■s her husband. When Mrs. Lung had finished her testimony she was taken into custody by Noble county offi’ials on an affidavit filed against o her in that county charging violas tion of the liquor law’s. Mr. and Mrs. Lung have been is irt court frequently during recent y veers and an action for divorce. ’ e brought by Mrs. Lung, is now ]. pending in Kosciusko county circuit court. . —o —— GOLDEN WEDDING On Tuesday, October 9th, Mr. id and Mrs. C. W. Johnson celebrated ed their Golden Wedding Annivern, sary very quietly at their home e- on South Huntington street Mr. id and Mrs. Johnson are among the ic old respected residents of Syrait- qtee, having spent all of theif it- married life *in their present >s- home. Mr. Johnson was 76 years y- old on September 2 and Mrs. Johnson was 71 on October 1. A daughter. Mrs. Emory Kindig. and her husband celebrated at their twentieth wedding annnero- sary on the same day. at o ty At the Oakland Theatre Gets tober 15 and 16, pictures <*f the as Japanese Earthquake will v be ho show*.

Syracuse’s Slogan: “A Welcoming Town WitK a Beckoning Lake.”

rev. r. n. McMichael TO BE ORDAINED Rev. R. N. McMichael, the pas-, tor of Grace Lutheran church of this place, will be ordained into the misistry of the United Lutheran Church in America by the Synod of Ohio during its convention next week. The ordination : service will be held in’Trinity Lutheran church at Canton, Ohio, Thursday evening, October 18. Rev. and Mrs. McMichael will ■ leave for Ohio Sunday. Mrs. McMichael will visit with relatives 1 at her home in Bucyrus, while ' Rev. McMichael will go direct to Canton for the synodical examination cn Monday. An unusual feature of the or- i dination service is that the nine voUng m?n to be ordained by the Synod of Ohio next week are all college and emjnary classmates. ”.nd aro all veterans of the World War. This last fact probably has no parallel in any other rel’gious denomination. In their seminary days they beewno known over the rountrv as the “Fightino' Nine.” The nine young m rt n wil] gather] from four states, Ohio, Indiana. Illinois and lowa for the ordinrv -n service. Mr. McMichael has been acting pastor of the Nappanee-5 Syracuse-Cromwell Lutheran Par-’ ish since June. He will be formally installed pastor of the parish on Sunday, October 21, with service in Grace Lutheran church at Syracuse. NEAR EAST RELIEF NEWS Indiana corn grits in which hundreds of farmers of the state have an interest, are helping solve the labor problem of Armenia. Hoosier farmers in 1922 donated 100,000 bushels of corn for shipment to Bible land* for hungry children. Last spring i several more thousand bushels were contributed. According to overseas informa tion to‘lndiana Near East Relief headquarters, 250,000 pounds of corn gritij from this country have just been\ appropriated to repaii damages atxErivan, Armenia, resulting from Turkish invasion. Thousands of refugees are being employed* in repairing drainage systems and railways to remove stagnant water. In 1922 Elkhart county gave the largest corn donations. This year Montgomery county led i with approximately 3,000 bushels. Dr. John B. Evans, of Cort ' land, N. Y.. is.district commander iof Near East Relief in the Erivan district. oAUTO ACCIDENT When Mrs. Joe Smeltzer and her son, Norman Mollenhour, of .Elkhart, were going from Elkhart to Bourbon on Friday morning. they met with a bad automobile accident. They were traveling at a.good rate of speed. | in a Ford coupe, and just before--1 they reached Bourbon they rar. [ into seme sand, and the car was pitched into the ditch and turned over. Mrs. Smeltzer, was thrown through the windshield and received a broken rib and f number of bad cuts. She was taken to the home of her son Ed in Bourbon, where she was goi ing to spend the day, and medi- | cal aid summoned. She is stiH • there, no/ being able to be removed w her home in Elkhart, as yet. Mr. Mollenhour also received some bruises and scratches, but he was not seriously hurt. o_ LADIES ENTERTAINED the Dorcas Society of the Cromwell Lutheran church was entertained Wednesday afternoon by Mrs, McMichael at the Lutheran parsonage. Considerable business concerning the society’s annual fall festival at Cromwell was discussed. After the business session a numfcer of clever , contests were enjoyed. A basket . dinner of large proportions was • served at five o’clock. The Cron> > well ladies came over on the noon . train, and returned on the evej ning "shake.” There were about - ♦wenty-five in the party. Mrs. • Samvel Porter and Mrs. William t Kindig. vice-president, and secres tarv of the local Lutheran Ladies . Aid, were guests of the afternoon. BIRTHS 1 . Born on Sunday, October 7, to Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Hollett, a daughter, third child, only daugh- . ter. ? o ? The Journal 52 times a year for $2,

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1923.

SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL NOTES • > S 1 Itojns of Interest Concerning Our High School Written for The Syracuse Journal. — i a Thursday morning of last w-eek Ruth Blanchard of the Junior class furnished the opening exer- t cise by giving a program of piano c selections. All the numbers of which she played very skillfully , from mempry. 0 Sole Mio, a folk j r song from thfe Italian, Schumans' Traumerei, arid Lange’s Serenade, M Underneath My Loved One’s ’ Window’ were the pieces played. s The first selection named is the fourth number on our Music ' Memory list. „ ’■ The birthday of our Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley was 1 Sunday October 7. To honor his memory the following program j was given in the assembly room: Monday morning: y : Life of RileyrOral Rodebaugh. t Reading from Riley, Miss Bow- r ser. ■ r Interesting Incidents About 11 Riley, Alice Mann. ucurge Ade on Riley, Olean Snepp. t Song—Just Be Glad, Thelma ( Eiler. selection —His Pa's Romance s jy Riley, Lijis Butt. The Juniors have ordered their - class "jewelry.” They are evi- t aently trying to keep up with c che Seniors this year in every- , .hing but capturing diplomas. | Arthur Morris has re-entered , school after an absence of several , days. i Hazel Sargent has withdrawn ] ’rom school. She will spend the | vinter in Terre Haute where she ■ vill attend high school. < Plans are being made for put- j ing on a moving picture pro- < jrann in the school. A committee | •omposed of the officers of the j I ■li.gh school classes and seventh < •nd eighth grades will meet with , ; he teachers early next w’eek to ( consider this hx- ter. School will be closed Fridav of I this Week to give the teactiers he opportunity of attending the ( •forth Central Indiana Teachers’ Xssociation which will be held at iouth Bend, October 12 and 13. The high school met Tuesday ( norning in the capacity of an ’.thletic association. Mr. Slaiaugh spoke on the outlook for a i ’romising year in athletics in S. I. S. and on the importance of i he school giving the team their upport and co-operation at all irones. They then proceeded to ‘lect a yell leader. After consid- ( 'rable balloting George Butt was hosen to act as yell leader for k he ensuing year. Friday morked the close of our Irst month of school. The record. »f attendance and tardiness for he month is as follows: Per cent of Cases of attendance, tardiness Miss Graves 99 plus 2 Miss Rapp 98 10 Miss Bushong 98 plus 0 Miss Bowser 97 plus 5 Miss Hayward 95.9 0 Miss Stover 93.5 0 Mr. Gants 98.6 0 High School 96.9 15 The Freshman girls served a breakfast Wednesday. This camdetes their work on breakfast lishes. Miss Hamman was the ruest of honor. Elizabeth McClintic acted as hostess, Miss Stover as critic, Cecelia Moran and Kathryn Richhart as waitresses. Elise Garriott, Alma Couts, Grace , Johnson, and Blanche Mellinger i prepared the food. Purple astors ! and marigolds were used as a center piece to carry out the col- , or scheme of orange and purple. ; This color scheme was also folI lowed in the menu. Oranges. . muffins and eggs furnished the . principal color, orange, while a t nurple touch was added by the 5 use of grape jelly. Chapel Exercise 1 The Rev. Mr. Eiler of the ’ United Brethren church conductt ed the devotional exercise Wed- • nesdav morning. He gave an in--1 teresting talk on “Factors that ” enter into Modem Civilization" 3 drawing a parallel between mod- • em civilization and a lake into which flow the tributaries that add to civilization. The four great tributaries mentioned by 5 Rev. Eiler were the Greek, who a collected and passed on the Arts, ’ Sciences, philosophy and literature: the Rcmnn who gave government, jurisprudence and the ■ institution of marriage; the German whose contribution was the

FOUND LETTER WRITTEN BY CIVIL WAR VETERAN A few weeks ago one of the workman found a letter in the sxalled "duster” at the cement plant, written by a soldier in the civil war. The letter was signed W. F- Laughlin and written to his father, presumely to John Laughlin who at one time worked in the cement plant and who died about 12 years ago. In all probability the father carried the letter in his coat or trouser pocket and lost it at the cement plant Relatives of the soldier are perhaps living in this vicinity. The writing and paper of the letter is well preserved, therefore still readable. One page was slightly soiled and partly torn. For the benefit of our readers we glean a few excerpts from the letter, which reads as follows: Camp Wood, Mumfordsville, Ky., December 18, 1861 Dear Father: With pleasure I write you again. Although we are still in Camp Wood, we have marched 8 miles from where I wrote to Emma and that was Camp Wood, too. It was called so in honor of Brigadier General Wood. This one is called Camp Wood from the fact that it is situated on the faim of Gen. Wood’s father. Well, father, I can now tell you sooiething about war. The long expected fight came off yesterda' nt this place (Mumfordsville) situated on Green river in Har county, Ky. After a march of S miles you may know how wb al’ felt, hut when we arrived at ou’ place of destination and before we had our tents pitched, when we heard the sound of the ‘lons? ioTl” calling us to attention. Ou: long march and tired limbs were all forgotten — nothing was thought of but rebels. It was rot over two minutes from the time the call was made till our brigade was all in ranks, .ready to be led on to the aid of others whe we could hear keeping up a continued fire which told us the direction of the enemy. We were then marched down to the river bank, a distance 6f about half a mile, but upon our arrival wc could see nothing of the rebels. ‘But along the woods in the distance we saw a few but they soon disappeared. So we din not get a shot at the rascals. Our troops took the field by the loss of 11 killed and 19 wounded. The rebel’s loss is not known but there were 78 found dead on the field. Our loss would ‘have been very small had our troops not been led. into an ambush of about 15,000. The only officers we lost were two lieutenants and one captain. They all belonged to the 32nd Reg., Ind. Vol. Their company was surrounded by a company of cavalry and the rebel captain asked them to surrender. They told him if he could take them they were willing to be taken, but they would fight for their lives. Accordinglv the rebels charged on them killing all the commissioned officers and a good many privates. One of the lieutenants had seven bullets in his breast. The rebels were not able to arrest any of them, but lost nearly all their men in the attempt. Well. I believe that is all the particulars of the past fight but I think I will be able to give you the history of another battle before long. We are now within nine miles of Gen. Buckner’s headnuarters and within one mile of his pickets. So you see we are coming pretty near together. Our Gen. Wood 2ays his men mu-t b? in Bowling Green before-Christmas, and he said he will not ask a man to go where he would not go. Well, father. I believe I have given you all the news this time, so I .must close, hoping you will answer soon. Give mv respects to all the folks at Milford, and tell them we are all well and anxious to fight again soon and I think we will not have long to wait. Your son, W. E. Laughlin. o—- ■ SOLD SOFT DRINK PARLOR Henry Leavering sold his ?oft * drink establishment after own- ] ing it for two days, to Lawrence Juday and Chas. Drudge. The new proprietors took charge ’ Wednesday. • equality of womanhood and trial Iby jury; and the Jew who made the greatest contribution of all namely, religion and the Bible.

FOUND GUILTY OF ASSAULT A“ND BATTERY I William Drukamiller was on trial before a jury in the Kosciusko circuit court Friday on a charge of assault and battery with intent to murder. The affidavit was filed by B. O. Mabie. It was alleged in the affidavit, to which Mr. Drukamiller pleaded not guilty, that Drukamiller ”ssaulted Mr. Mabie on the streets of Syracuse on August 2. 1923, without cause. B. O. Mabie was the first wit ness for the state. He testified that cn the forenoon of August 2, 1923, he started for the business section of Syracuse," from ’'is home one block north and one >lock west of the public square He said he carried an oil can ir his hand. As he was approachng the “square” he said, he sav Mr. Drukamiller cross the main' street from the bank corner am come toward him on Huntington ;treet. He says he passed Druka miller without speaking and tha' 'ust after thev had passed ead 't’her Drukamiller called him ile na’np and struck him a vici ms blow on the left*side of the head. Mr. Mabie told the iury hf was knocked down and that hi; head struck a brick building < he fell. He said he was render?? temporarily unconscious and vhen he came to, Drukajnille vas on his back pounding hir bout the head. He said he raip d up and succeeded in shaking 'is assailant from his back and hen struck him. with the oil car vhich he had picked up in hi est hand, at the same time tel 1 ng him to "cut it out.” Mr. Mabie told the jury that a; Mr. Drukamiller approached him :e carried his coat on his righ\rm and that he threw the coa to the ground just before h< .truck the first blow. Mr. Mabii ulmitted that he and Drukamil ler were not good friends, II said he was sure Drukamiller ha< some weapon in his hand, be cause he did not think Mr. Dru kamiller could have struck hin h^rd’enough with his fist t< knock him down and also be •ause he could not have rmd< such a big wound with his fist. After the fight,'Mr.-Mabie tes tified, he went to his home am started to Warsaw in his auto mobile. He became so ill that h< was forced to stop at Leesbun o receive medical attention. H said the Warsaw doctor who at ‘ended him, kept him in t v ' ( home of his father. Dr. W. A Mabie, from Thursday until th< I following Tuesday. Mr. Mabie described his wound . to the jury and a bloody shir and a number of bloody handker . chiefs and clothes, which wen used on the day of the assaul 4 I were introduced as evidence an<’ given to # the jury for inspection. ' Physicians who attended Mr ’ Mabie also testified regarding the ! nature of the wounds. r Mr. Drukamiller testified that » he struem Mr. Mabie in selfde r sense after Mr. Mabie had seize* . him by the shirt collar. He tok i the jury that he was afraid oi Mr. Mabie and believed he car- . ried a gun. He said after h< 5 knocked Mr. Mabie down he saw his hand move towards his hil ’ pocket as if to draw a gun ant • that he jumped on Mr. Mabie t< defend himself. Mr. Mabie deni > ed that he carried a gun or tha 4 t he made any movement as if t* ! draw a weapon. Many witnesses from Syracuse, most of them friends and neigh 5 bors of the two men, were pre--5 sent and testified on both sides The witnesses were not allowed r in the court-room to hear rthe 4 testimony but were kept separat--1 ed. After hearing the evidence J the jury retired to consider their verdict, and after deliberating for half an hour, returned a verdiet about 6 o’clock Friday evej ning, finding the defendant guib g ty and assessed a fine of SSO j which with the costs will tota’ j about SIOO. and a sentence of §0 j davs in jail. Prosecutor Rockhill was assist- ° ed by Walter Brubaker and Jude? F. E. Bowser while Attorney Alhn S. Widaman defended Mr. Druckamiller. BROUGHT US GRAPES Wm. Jones, our school janitor. l " brought a grape vine to the e Journal office Tuesday which e measured about six feet in e length. We counted the bunches and stonped at 41. The grapes = are of the Delaware (small) varij ety. Thanks, Mr. Jones, for your e thoughtfulness. L — —o I Advertise in the JoumaL

SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT Review of Things by the Editor As He Sees Them on the Surface. In town boosting cheerfulness md cordiality have an important part. Too often people permit ousiness cares and worries to eause them to forget the stranger within the gates and the friend who passes by. Many a .nan has gained a reputation for ‘Touchiness who merely has not bought to be cordial. A smile .■arries one much farther than a frown. The visitor in a city is favorably impressed if the people le sees on the streets are cheerful and smiling. He at once jains the impression that it roust be a good town which has i cheerful people. The visitor naturally thinks hat a city which offers welcome n so conspicuous away means it. If the people he meets smile and are cheerful he at once realizes :hat they are a people worth while and he town one worth ooking over; The cordial greetng with an accoimpanying smile >f welcome, helps more than any:hink else to give people a good mpression of a place. The smile .ttracts and the. frown repels. Jrouchiness gains nothing for a lerson. Most people would preer even the "Cheerful Idiot” to he "Chronic Grouch.” No town can .grow as it should inless its people work together n its upbuilding. The history of •very city that has rapid and mbstantial growth will show L hat united and enthusiastic vork of its people had the great'st part in making it grow. In ‘owns where a few men boost 'nd work the town’s upbuilding 'nd many are indifferent to do lothing, the work of city buildng is exceedingly difficult and results slow in coming. If 'll boost and help to build up he town it is an easy matter to make the town push forward. The beauty of Syracuse and its •.urroundings is one of its most aluable assets, and every effort hould be made to take advantge of the gifts which nature has >estowed here lavishly. Driving into,the dazzling lights >f an oncoming car is dangerous business —dangerous alike to the lazzler and the dazzled. And it ; s so unnecessary. To dim the ’ights of a car is so simple, and ?asy a task, that it seems that ‘he danger involved by not dong so yrould compel the inotor’st approaching another car at night to take this simple precaution against the possibility of ac'ident to his own car as well as ‘he cars of others. It should not take a law to bring about the dimjming of headlights. Common decency demands that a motorist practice this simple rule of night driving etiquette, for it is etiquette, and good manners are iust as essential on the road as in the ballroom. Use a little business judgment. You can buy a fair to middling Plymouth Rock hen for a dollar. If the critter lays two dozen eggs in a year’s time she has earned 100 per cent on the investment, less a trifle for upkeep? If she is really a good hen she will do a lot better than two dozen, but that is beside the question. Now, if one hen earns one dollar in one year (first class in arithmetic, stand up) one hundred thousand hens will earn $100,(XX) in one year. Why people will invest in oil stock when . this perfectly good investment i lies open is beyond us. I The Journal may be homely and old-fashioned, but we try to . get something in it each week . that will help somebody. Lotta . folks around here like to read it and they are telling other folks so. We have a suggestion tn the railroad men, which is that they , change the narne of that part at ’ the front of an engine commonly i called “cow catcher” to a more i appropriate name, the "Auto s Catcher.” 5 Every man is honest when it r pays him to be so. Now, let. me think. Did I pay my subscription?

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