The Syracuse Journal, Volume 16, Number 28, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 November 1923 — Page 1

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MOISE ffIGH” SCHOOL BOTES Items of Interest Concerning Our High School Written for The Syracuse Journal. The following high school students have been neither absent nor tardy during the first quarter of the year: Seniors—2s per cent of the class; Lois Butt, Paul LeCount and Earl Stiffler. Juniors— 63 per cent of the class; Wauneta Beery, Ruth Blanchard, Monroe-Kehr, Phyllis Mick, Hazel Miller, Ruth Mullen, Mabele Phebus, Janice Rapp, Elizabeth Rosson and Meredith Tom. Sophomores—s 2 per cent of the class; Frederick Beery, George Butt, Leon Connolly, Margaret Freeman, Christine Garriott, Wayne Hoelcher, Phyllis Miller, Treva Ritter, Louise Snobarger, Charles Stiffler, Mary Wilkinson and Miriam Wilt. Freshmen —42 per cent of the class; Harold Bobeck, Robert Brown, Marion Bushong, Wilbur Davault, Elsie Fackler, Harold Geiger, Harold Juday, Ray Kehr, Elizabeth McClintic and Kathryn Richhart. Mr. Gants states that the eighth grade has had no case of tardiness this year-Good record! Miss Graves spent the weekend at her home in Marion, Indiana. One of her pupils, Ralph Thornburg, accompanied her and visited with relatives at that place. Miss Keys also visited at her home in Lincoln, Illinois. Christine Garriott. Mabie Miller and Helen Leacock, members of the Syracuse school orchestra went to Milford Saturday afternoon to assist the Milford orchestra in playing for the School and Community fair. The high ' school and seventh and eighth grades enjoyed very much the chapel exercise which were conducted Wednesday morning by the Rev. Mr. Dauner of the Evangelical church. After speaking briefly about conditions in Japan he showed how the influence of our associates plays a great part in our lives, and then proceeded to prove that Christ was one of the most influential personalities the world has ever known. Following is the record of attendance for the second month of school: Per Cases .cent of of Number atten- tardiRoom enrolled dance ness Miss Graves .... 38 98 3 Miss Rapp ..... 32 97 1 Miss Bushong ... 31 98 0 Miss Bowser ... 43 95 5 Miss Hayward .. 25 94.9 3 Miss Stover .... 18 99 0 Mr. Gants 22 97.7 — 0 High School .... 75 97.2 16 Two new pieces were added this week to the music memory list. Midsummer lights Dream Overture and Rondo Capriccioso. both by' Mendelssohn. Mr. Madison MacPherson who will succeed Mr. Jones as janitor has been spending some time this week at the school building in learning the work. ‘ Wednesday noon the Freshman Home Economics Class, under the supervision of Miss Stover, served a luncheon as a completion of their work in luncheon dishes. Mr. Gants was the chosen guest of honor. Cecilia Moran acted as hostess. The menu was chosen from several submitted by the class and was excellent as you may judge: Cream of Tomato Soup, Saratoga Wafers, Salmon Salad, Baking Powder Biscuit, Jelly, Tea, Fruit Salad and cake. Mr, Gants said he enjoyed the luncheon very much, and we believe he did if the rapidly disanpearing food was a verification of his words. HAVVAIiTn ENTERTAINERS -The management of the Oakland Theatre has secured for Frir day and Saturday, November 9 and 10. the Hawaiian Entertainers. a group of five people—consisting of three men and two ladies—who will entertain with oth’J specialties. They will give a oicirt* A good oictore both

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RED CROSS DRIVE if Aaron Rasor of Warsaw, county 1 f chairman of the Red Cross, was | j in this city on Tuesday consult- ; ing the local committee and making preparations for the annual _ Red Cross drive sometime this month, the date of which will be announced later. Everybody will be solicited in this annual drive and it is hoped : many will take a sustaining mem- ' bership, as all but 50 cents of I; the money will remain in the ‘ treasury of the local chapter. What the Red Cross is doing: ' School Nursing—which consists ' J of physical examination of school / children; weighing, measuring of 'j children; visiting the children’s , parents to secure their co-opera-tion in remedying defects; se- ’ curing correction of physical de’ifects through private physicians, ; clinics or hospital care; investir gating sanitary conditions; giving boys and girls a knowledge of the ’ laws of health and teaching them ; good hygiene habits through J health talks and crusades, tooth , I brush drills and class room inspection; of protecting the well ’ from the sick and preventing the spread of contagious diseases; of , sn pervising under-nourished J school children and advising their /[parents on diet and care. Glasses, prescriptions, dental work are provided for children [ whose parents cannot pay for them. The Rod Cross puts at the dis- • posal of the community trained service, which saves lives, presents disease, gives expert advise, allays suffering, conserves childlife and offers an agency to ex-service men through which j without expense, they may obtain any rights to which they are entitled through their service to J their country. Our nurse is trained and on? .! rolled in the National Red Cross ,i Nursing Service. • o ATHLETICS [ Friday night added another dei feat to the Syracuse ouintet, /this one at the hinds of Clay- > I nook Oi r team did much better i than before and were in fine . form. The first half started weV - hut Syracuse was hnable to h.t . the basket. Svraciise called time , nut twice in the first half, but . Claypool led by the score of 5 to J 12.- The second half started with J a rush and everybody played his t best. Syracuse beat the last j | half, 8 to 9. but were unable to [•! overcome the lead of the first half, the final score being 14 to J 20 in favor of Claypool. J Connolly of Syracuse and Neff ’of Claypool each made half of ; their team’s points. Hoelcher nlayed a fine game, but was una- . ble to hit the short ones. Master j was a little slow, but made two j fine short shots. Bachman and [ Darr put up the best of defense. ) The defeat was due to the superb >lnlaying of Neff, the all-county /star for center, and the inability jj of our boys to hit the short ones );and free throws. j 1 Go to Claypool Friday night | and w'atch our boys perform on f i a “foreign" floor. J Reported by C. D. 0 SURPRISE PARTY J r A complete surprise was car- ? ried out on Mr. and Mrs. Ed. r Miles on Tuesday night, when a number of friends and relatives i gathered at their home during r their absence. When Mrs. Miles , returned home from Milford -about six o’clock with Mr. and i Mrs. Warren Colwell and walked i into her home, to her great surt prise, there sat a whole room full s of visitors. They told her the i surprise was for both Mr. Miles I and herself, and before long they - collected themselves and began - to join in the social commingling -of the evening. The “Do As You 1 Please Club,” of which Mrs. Miles was a member at one time. » was the instigator of the sur- - prise, and they came with well - filled baskets and served a bountj iful luncheon later in the evening. Those present were, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Colwell. Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Miles and children, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Hark- - less, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Hoopingarner. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Wid9 ner. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Miles, - Miss Donna Miles, Nelson Miles, - Mr. and Mrs. Sam Searfoss, Mrs; D Hanora Miles. Mrs. J. H. Bowser a and Mrs. Elizabeth Walerius. r or FURS WANTED—I will pay a the highest cash prices for all f kinds of furs. Victor Brumbaugh, a Gravelton. Indiana. Telephone No. L 113, Nappanee. 28-6tpd / k"/

Syracuse’s Slogan: “A Welcoming town With a Beckoning Lake.”

I WAWASEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION VERY ACTIVE f\ s The Wawasee Protective Association of Lake Wawasee, India--Ina, has recently enlarged its 1 i membership to include nearly all S;Gf the property owners on this 1 lake. The Association includes some of the most prominent peo- !! pie of Indiana and is very active fin all matters pertaining to the . : protection of its members, f' The Association employs poJlicemen who patrol the lake during the entire year and this has . been found to be quite effective ‘.in the matter of protecting pro?i perty owners against thieves and pother undesirables. In fact dur,l ing the past year there has been practically no cottages broken j into. j The Waw’asee Protective Association also assumes active inter- ’ est in such things as stocking the ’ lake with fish, enforcement of ; the fish and game laws, co-opern , ing, with the Indiana State Board t of Sanitation in matters pertaint ing to sanitary’ conditions around the lake, maintaining the water f level, etc. » A substantial reward is offered • by the Association for informa- | tion leading to the arrest and • conviction of trespassers, or anyone breaking into cottages. [ The membership has been i formed into zones and each zone is represented through its members on the board of directors. . This has been found to be a very I effective organization in that . each locality is managed as a . separate unit and co-ordinated with the official management in , a simple and most efficient mani ner. FRACTURED HIP Mrs. John Dillon met with a serious accident-, on the street ’ Wednesday ei/enibg of last week. She came up town to enjoy a few I hours of the Hallowe’en evening. She was’ masked, and while walking along the sidewalk by the side of the Jet White Groceteria, two young men drove up in a car ’ and get out right near her. Mrs. Dillon was going along acting like an old crippled lady, when i she heard the men say . something about “making her ' walk like an old woman right," i and one of them pushed the other one against her, causing her ’ to fall to the sidewalk, which rei suited in a fracture of her right ’ hip. She was taken to the hospitt al in Goshen the next morning. ’ where her relatives say she is ’ getting along as well as can be • expected, for one of her age. The • number of the car in which the r men were driving was obtained and it will only be a question of time until the owners will be caught and dealt with accordingly. , . M ■ Warrants were issued on Monday for the arrest of Dan Lari- ‘ mer and Russell McKibben ' charging them with assault and , battery. PLEASANTVVRPSSE Members of Grace Lutheran 1 j church choir filled their baskets with good things to eat and withI out announcing their coming, walked into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Porter on Tuesday night and told Mrs. John Porter ‘ they had come to surprise her, • and were going to spend the eve--1 ning with her, before her de--3 parture to Chicago. Mrs. Porter r was surely surprised, but before s long she was busy making her 1 guests fell at home. Reverend 1 R. N. McMichael, the pastor 1 of the church, and his wife, were ‘ eruests, and were the leaders in the social entertainment of the s evening. Mr. and Mrs. J. Porter 5 have rented their farm north of f this city and have gone to Chicar 1 go to live. Mrs. Porter left on f Wednesday to join her husband, 1 who has a position in that city, • and who has a home there await- • ing his wife's arrival. — o 1 CHRISTMAS GREETING CARD* " The Journal has an elegant • sample line of Christmas Greet- • inj? Cards suitable for any busi- • ness. Let us have your order ‘ early. i- ■ n 1- NEW MANAGER AUTO SALES k s, Fred Hoopingamer, who has been in charge of the A. & P. r store in Goshen, is now the manager of the Syracuse Auto Sales. v Perhaps you would enjoy il fresh doughnuts for breakfast. t. Then drop in The Kettle on your e way home unless it is before 6:45 L a. m. 28-lt. I

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1923. *

FROM FLORIDA ! Below we publish an interest- - 'ing letter from L. A. Neff, in - which he gives a clear deserips tion of his automobile trip to I Florida, where he, his wife and s sen are spending the winter: 5 Dear Friends and Neighbors in the Old Home Town: ' Myself and party left Syra- ; cuse on October 15. 1923, for Clearwater, Florida. On the way we first came to Warsaw, then to ‘ Silver Lake. South of Silver Lake ’ we came to the end of the road; here the road turns to the right, j going to Rome to Peru, to Ko- _ komo, to Indianapolis, or to the ’ left to North Manchester, to Wabash, to Noblesville then to Indianapolis. We took the left hand road and hit the hills and lakes trail. If you have not traveled over this trail you have ' missed some very beautiful rural scenes, such as neat bungalows, nestled among the trees, and 1 some very beautiful drives ’ ‘.hrough a very fertile or rich ‘ country. We next came to Falls Creek Park, just outside the city limits of Indianapolis. Here we I went into camp the first night ■ out, The parkkeeper hit us for 1 one dollar.. The next morning we • broke camp at 6:30 and entered the city, driving up Massachui setts Avenue, near the monus nent, then we hit the Dixie • highway, south through Frank- ■ bn. This is the county seat of ' Johnson county, and is said to be - s famous corn growing Section, i We then drove to Columbus, the I county seat of Bartholomew i ?ounty, made famous for its ■ large mahogany furniture factory and the beautiful sunken -ardens on the Irwin estate, which are open to visitors. We next hit Seymore, noted for the 1 Bliss Milling Co., and a beautiful ' -eventeen acre park; we then ireve forty miles and came to Sellersburg. Its main factory is ' cepient plant, about the size of the former Syracuse plant. We ! then came to New Albany. Here ; we paid thirtv cents to cross the Ohio river into Louisville, Ken- ; tneky. We „ drevg ugh the rity and came to tne’ Shively 1 *amp ground, and in the grove 'ere we went to camn the see- ' ind night out. We drove one hundred and thirtv-seven mites Wav and one hundred and Biirty-five yesterday. Broke camp at Shevely camp it 6:15, drove along beside the [Ohio river for a u'hile, then w'e ; mossed Salt river and came to West Point, then through Camp Knox and on to Elizabethtown. Hardin county seat. Abraham i Lincoln was born fourteen miles • f rom this place, and here we made a detour of forty miles and ?sme to Munfordville. Here we oaid fifty cents to cross Green river, and it sure has the right ’ name. Its waters are as green as ( Paris Green could make it. Here ! is where Mr. Mcoughlan had his first fight in 1862, which was published in the Journal some weeks ago. We drove one hundred and thirty-five miles today i md went into camp in Bowling ; Green. It rained this afternoon. . ind in the night. Broke camp on October 18, at 7:00 a. m., and I drove one hundred and twelve r miles todav. We next drove to • Franklin. Kentucky, county seat if Simpson county. This is a ’ noted tobacco section, where . about eight counties raise the - choice dark tobacco. Carloads are . shipped from this country. From -ihere we drove thirty miles into | Springfield, Tennessee, which has -a population of 5.000, and Robin- » son county seat. It is the largest i dark leaf tobacco market and the . only section in the world grow- - ing a particular high-tgrade black [■ tobacco, exported to Europe for . cigar wranpers. It is said somei thing in the soil makes this fine tobacco possible, and frequently growers get S6OO per acre for their cron. It was said to the writer .that there was more wealth in this city than any city l in the south. We drove through several t small towns and came to Nash- . ville, capital city of Tennessee. . a noted educational center, with ? the Vanderbilt University, Nashville University, Fisk University and Ward Bellmont school » for girls. It is abp the largest school in the south for colbred i neople. In the bettie of Nashville on • December 15, 1864, General Hood • with his confederate armv of 40.000 men. was defeated by r General Thomas We drove one - hundred and twelve miles t A day r and went to camp near Mur- > frecsboro. ; ; L. A. NEFF.

ARE PROTESTING TO J DRAIN TIPPECANOE LAKE i INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Nov. 5, - —Charging that dredging the a Tippecanoe river in northern 1 Indiana will result in an extraoagant and wasteful out lay of j a huge sum of money to be raised from farmers in the vicinity, many of whom would be damagr ed rather than benefited, and { that such an enterprise will de--3 stroy a great natural playground, s lower the water and in many . cases drain lakes of the region to the wholesale destruction of ’ wild life, the Knox Chamber of 3 Commerce has unanimously ' adopted a resolution condemining ? it, word has just reached Richt ard Lieber, director of the state I conservation department. The resolution was offered by state ’ Senator Claude S. Steele. 1 Simultaneously comes word' that the hearing has been reset ‘ j for January 5, before ' Special; s Judge Adam Wise in the Mar-j j shall County Circuit court at; s Plymouth, owing to the illness of, r an attorney for the petitioners. I j The state conservation com-; t mission which is assisting numr erous property owners in pro- » testing the project, says the 1 drainage proposal known as the . Matchett Dredge Ditch, if per-> - mitted, will practically ruin for j more than twenty miles one of - the most picturesque streams in f Indiana. ? The Matchett petition pro- * poses, Mr. Lieber says, to straighJ ten and shorten the Tippecanoe ’ river over a distance of 22 miles J of a winding, serpentine course, - reducing it to 11 miles. Work i would start in Kosciusko county, » pass through Marshall and con- ' elude in Fulton county. ' According to the petitioners, ‘ originally 40 in number but many 1 having withdrawn their names, ’ the watershed area is 250,000 ’ acres. The area assessed for ■ benefits and damages is 250.000 acres; estimated benefits $527,- - 621.82; estimated cost, $351,747.- * 88: damages to property owners ‘ $5,200. There will be reclaimed. is said, about 1,000 acres,’, and r the maximum assessment per acre to dredge this course will ; be $26.10. , Protestants and the state dei nartment claim that little of the ’ 1.000 acres alleged possible of reciamation will have permanent * agricultural value, owing to the ooor quality of the soil. They al- ? <?n change that vastly more peo- ’ nle will be damaged than will ‘ nrofit, and that this money to ’ carry through the project must ! b P paid by farmers who are un--5 able to assume this additional i burden: that every dollar gained ‘ will in the end cost farmers as- ' sessed manv times this amount. 1 Mr. Lieber says the engineer- ’ ing division cf his department 5 has just completed a survey of ? the region, and evidence as re--5 gards benefits and damages will ’ be submitted at the hearing in 5 January. , - , ~o PUBLIC MEETING p ’ There will be a public meeting ! of the women of the Ku Klux J Klan at Rann’s hall on Thursday, November 15. A national sneaker ’ will address the people. Every--1 body welcome. The price of ad- * mission for the men is to bring ' one lady. — o— MASQUERADE PARTY ’ The Pythian Sisters held a masquerade party at their hall ’ on Friday night. Almost every ; member masked and from the ' reports they had a most splendid , time and lots of fun. At the . close of the evening lunch was served. O ? W. C. T. U. F ■ On Wednesday, November 14, s Hie W. C. T. U. will meet at the ' home of Mrs. Floyd Hedges. r There will be a full report given at this meeting of the state conl vention, held in Frankfort re- ■ cently. . —-o ‘ SOLD NEWSPAPER Preston H. Miles, who has been I tbe publisher of the Imlav City 1 (Michigan) Times, has sold that paper and returned this week with his family to Syracuse. i We welcome you back again. 1 Pret. f • O r CARD OF THANKS > ■_ -- r I wish to thank the Ladies ~ Aid of the U. B. church for the gift of $5. ’ Mrs. June Hire.

j ‘1“ .MEN’S “FIGHT FEST” BLOOMINGTON, IND., Nov. 5. I —Syracuse is the home of one Indiana university “1“ man, Dr. Clifford R. Hoy, covers for 250 of whom will be laid next Friday evening at the University Club, Chicago, pn the occasion of the famous “I” men’s “fight fest” the night before the ChicagoIndiana football game. Hoosiers living in Chicago will join with the Indiana university “I” men from all over the Middle West in celebrating tbe I. U. athletic event which is held an-n-allv under the auspices of the "I” Men’s Association on the night, preceding the state university's biggest western conference football game. Last year the event was held a+ Indianapolis in connection with the Indiana-Min-|nesota game. Mayor Dever, of Chicago, will [be a guest of honor while other ,’celebrities in attendance will include Wilbur Nesbit, president Jes the Indiana Society of Chica-t j go; Commander Jonas Ingram, of • the Great Lakes Naval Training • Station, brother of Coach "Navy I Bill” Ingram, of I. U.; Roy Keehn, one of Chicago’s leading attorneys; Dick Miller, the “silver toned orator” of Indianapolis; Willis M. Coval, president of the “I” Men’s Association, Indianapolis. The banquet is open to all men students, alumni, former students, and friends of Indiana university. Cream and Crimson warriors at the Chicago event will sound their old battle cries, sing Indiana songs, figth over contests ot bygone days on gridiron, diamond and track, and renew college friendships. o HELD STREET MEETING The Salvation Army Revival Party held a street meeting here Tuesday morning. They are all good singers and musicians. Adjutant D. Thomas is the leader and does the evangelistic preaching. They are open to accept engagements for tenday revival campaigns from any protestant church in, Indiana and Michigan. Churches desiring their services may write to Major R. Stretton, Salvation Army Head quarters. Grand Rapids, Michigan. BASKET BALL A basketball game between the Wakarusa Independents and the Syracuse Citv Team has been scheduled for Friday, November 9, at the high school gymnasium The Syracuse tearh has been completely re-organized and is unde l the same management of the old 1920 team which won every game played. “Beany’’ Howard will be at center and the rest of the team picked from the following Klink, Byland, F. Couts, W Cents, Disher, Ballou and Hire. o FIRST NUMBER GOOD ** - Emily Waterman, reader ant entertainer, gave the first num ber of the Lyceum Course at the Oakland Theatre last Friday eve ning. Much of her program was screamingly funny, and her humorous and comedy dialect numbers kept a good-sized audience in a gale of laughter. The next number will be the DeWillo Concert Company or Tuesday, December 11. o RABBIT SUPPER On Thursday night the Knights | of Pythias lodge had a rabbit bake at their hall. Forty-three rabbits were prepared and baked by Emory Strieby. About fifty K. of P’s. did ample justice to the meal. Harry Clemins was the “boss” of the cooking. —o — ; SERVED SUPPER The ladies of the Lutheran church served a chicken supper in the basement of the church on Friday night. There was such an extraordinarily large crowd that everything was eaten slick and clean A ■. •. ’ o r TO GIVE SACRED CONCERTS The choir of Grace Lutheran church is planning to give a series of sacred concerts during the coming winter. The first will be given Sunday evening, November 25. You never get the full meaning of efficiency until you observe a small boy placing himself around ice cream cones.

iSOME THINGS TO Tllffl ABOUT I J J Review of Things by the Editor As He Sees Them on the Surface. I If ever there was a time in the ; history of business when people, who have a little money to in- • vest, should refuse to listen to > the siren song of a very large i number of agents scouring the • country to sell stocks and securi- ■ ties of one kind and another it ! is right now. 1 Millions of hard earned dollars i have been pored into these rat (holes simply because the agents [have held out inducements in | the way of interest above that (which home institutions can pay. Buying foreign and unknown 01 ; investments always puts us in mind of a man who patronizes the -Sears and Roebucks of the country. These same orit of town purchasers when hard times come ilong and they need credit, must then apply to the home-town merchant, whom they have ignored, for help. Just so with a good many investors who buy stocks they know nothing of and when loss comes as it is doing with alarming frequency these days, then they* must sneak around to the home banker for greatly “needed help. The home banker, who is honest and conservative and whom vou have known all your life, will not advise you to go on Wall street neither will he try to steal your money; but he can and will tell you of good bonds to buy snd good investment to make. He knows because he is in the money business. When you want a horse shod you do not take him ho a plumber, you take him to a blarksmit'h shop because the man there is in the business. And its the same way with money; „ . go to some man who knows, in whem you have confidence and in . all mpney transactions he ought to be your banker. Are you one of the fellow’s that’s hitched on behind, bumping along at the end of the other fellow’s rope and taking his dust? About one-half of the business nen are, and if you are one of ’em switch on the think current a montent and answer these questions: ’ Are you satisfied and content? How long do you propose to continue the game? Are you glue 4 there? « If you are a business man, and there’s about twenty-five of them in Syracuse, are your profits equivalent to a decent salary? Yes? No? You pay rent, light, heat and taxes, hire a clerk or two, hustle for money to pay bills, lay awake nights worrying, look wise and predict disaster for the other fellow who is kicking up the dust. Are you a trailer or are you a trolley? Too often do we neglect to rive proper credit and commendation to the faithful ministers if our community. We seem to • hink they are receiving their reward, and many times de we allow them to go through life with very few words of praise ind appreciation for the splendid work they are doing. The i preaching from the pulpit is not , *he only work ths preachers are I doing. They go about their pastoral work in a quiet manner visiting the sick, burying the dead and speaking words of encouragement and consolation to the broken-hearted. They lend aid to the “down and outs” who have escaped the attention of the laity. They are human just like anyone else. Give them a word of appreciation and see what effect it will have on them. Anyone who observes the splendid co-operation and unselfishness of our preachers cannot fail to have a higher regard and appreciation for them. To keep the neighbors from worrying, it has been suggested by one of our local motorists that the words “Paid for” be painted on the spare tires of all motor cars not mortgaged. o GOOD ROADS ESSENTIAL Indiana has the natural attractions to draw visitors from all parts of the country, but unless we have good roads a large share of them will never see £he state, • and its scenery.

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