The Syracuse Journal, Volume 16, Number 36, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 3 January 1924 — Page 1

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SYRACUSE HIGH : semi notes Items of Interest (’oneerning Oar High School Writtea for The Syracuse Joaraal. « Work was resumed. Monday morning following the I Christmas vacation. The first three days of this week were used in review in preparation for the semester exams which are scheduled for Thursday and Friday of this week. We have been pleased to welcome as visitors this week a number of t>.e Alumni who are spending their vacation in Syracuse. Pau! Riddle, Robert Riddle, Merritt Bushong, Eloise Mabie. Laveta Warstler, Emma Rapp, . Emory Druekamiller, Robert Beardsley and Mary Alice Kitson visited various classes in the high school A six, reel spectacular film >f historic and dramatic interest has been scheduled for the last’ week in January. This film, \ which was produced in Italy at great expense is far moro im- * pressive and interesting than the book on which the film story is based. The picture will be shown to students in the afternqon free pf charge and in the evening a public exhibit will be given at which time a small admission charge will be made to help defray the cost of the , film.* More definite announcement as to date of exhibit will be made later. . fc — q MBH TWO: WIN TWO Syracuse High School basketball team has broken even on the last four yames played, winning from Beaver Dam ana Cromwell, but losing to Milford and the Class of 1923. Following is the summary of scores: Syracuse Ist,team, 34: Beaver Dam 8. Syracuse 2nd team. 17; Beaver Dam 8. 7 Syracuse 20; Milford 22. Syracuse Ist team. 21; Cromwell 7. Syracuse 2nd team, 7; CrcmV.vl! 11. S\ rt*< use 7, Clav of 1923 24 Syracuse first and second teams play at Millersbury Friday night where it is hoped we can add another victory. ■» » I O ' , INCREASE POULTRY PROFITS Prof. A. & Phillips. Head of the Poultry Department of Purdue University will discuss the value of. buttermilk and skim milk in raising chicks, in feeding laying hens and in fattening chickens in connection with the Farmers’ Short Course program at Purdue Thursday mornng, January 17 at 8:30 o’clock. Results show that these milk products are essential in the economical raising fattening of chickens and the production of eggs. Prof. Phillips will give special attention to the methods of feeding buttermilk and skim milk in order to increase poultry profits. attending the Short Course who hear this talk will receive suggestions for improved methods of feeding their flocks. - COLD WEATHER • January and the new year certainly came in like a lion. Monday evening snow began to fall and the weather man s prediction of a blizzard and considerable dropping of the temperature became true. Tuesday morning street level thermometers registered from 5 to 8 —— o- ..... A A number of school fnendsl gathered at the home of Miss out ahead of time, but the SUU, 801 BAS FALL

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LAKE WAWASEE ROAD TO BE SURVEYED Many Syracuse and Lake Wawasee residents appeared before ■the board of commissioners of Kosciusko coupty Thursday of last week to urge that body to establish the proposed Warren road. The proposed road. 40 feet wide, paved 16 feet wide with concrete, three miles long, on the banks of Wawasee lake, from Pickwick Park, along the lake shore to Vawter Park, will connect the Hills to Lakes road with the Lincoln highway into Sy;ficuse. Wawwe cottage owners have waived damage claims for use of land on the rea/ of their cottages for the proposed road and desire that curbing be placed for the pavement along the winding highway. The board of commissioners declared the road of public utility and ordered Surveyor S. S. Boggs to make a survey and report February 5. M. Honeywell, Wabash’; A. Hibschkind. Wabash; Sol Miller, Roy Brown, J. W. Kreig. Isaac Mellinger and Walker White of Syracuse, addressed the board urging the construction of the road. Scott township residents had recently objected to the Turkey Creek township improvement under the county unit road law. No objectors; appeared. THE little brown hen We’ve noticed within the past few years a growing inclination on the part cf residents of Syracuse and the surrounding territory to raise poultry, and the reason for it is not hard to ex plain. Figures made public at the last meetng of the National P.uiiry Association at Chicago show that the egg industry alone in this nation contributed more than a million dollars to the national wealth last year. Products n of poultry and eggs has, taken as a whole, come to be s great business, because there is money in it. No longer does the little brown hen roost on the end of a limb back of the wood-bed. * Tod iv she has 8 clean room, with plenty of water and feed, and she no longei has to depend on the garbage from* the kitchen. Her owner knows she pays for her keep many times over during her lifetime and that, when old age creeps on and she is no longer a producer, she is skill worth something on the dining table. Don’t be afraid of getting too many chickens around here, for chickens and prosperity have grown side-partners. VAILING lSt CORULBL’TED Our mailing list bs£ been corrected up to date and many subscribers have advanced their subscriptions to 1924. However, some have not. This is not as it should be. We would ask every subscriber to look at the label .on his paper, and if irt arrears, we will appreciate your check, money order or a personal call at the office. Unless remittance is received from those in arrears statements will be sent this month. Now is the time to start the new year right with your home town newspaper, and thus live happily thereThe ladies of the Bridge Club entertained their husbands at a six o’clock dinner at the Sign of the Kettle on New Years eve. After these festivities the JI- > < ? V ,*• —inr I and the New Year in. - ■ I , • -o———— fu, u u vnpi» t eirßsii'vm! WMSZAviAb v«t> » wavn - ' .. .. mnnfklv tarfiwMßt nww»tJ I ing ano iw n«. a, ur caw * ' i * . T.nn.nr « on ruesaay, January o, I .... J . , . , W. c. t. u. meeting I o'clock. I - /. .. 0 I BOY | a BURIAL . 4 . 7

Syracuse’s Slogan: “A Welcoming Town With a Beckoning Lake/*

AUTO TAX LAW HELD INWNSTITITIONAL South Bend, Ind., Dee. 29.— The motor vehicle license law passed by the Indiana legislature in 1922 increasing the cost of automobile licenses from 56 to 200 per cent on varic es classes of cars was held itutional today by Judge Lenn J. Oare, of the St. Joseph superior court. Judge Oare made his decision in overruling a demurrer by the state, to the suit filed by South Bepd Motor Bus company attacking the law. In hisJ opinion. Judge Oare held that the legislature’s action in combining a bill providing for the transfer of inheritance taxes from the state highway fund to the general fund with another bill fixing the increased automobile license fees violated a section of the constitution which provides that each “act of the assembly shjjill embrace only one subject. Reviewing the action of the on the two bills. Judge Oare declared that their combination into one measure in the closing hours of the ses> sion was clearly a violation of the constitutional safeguard against “log rolling legislation.’’ The South Bend Motor Bus company attacked the law through a suit for a mandate to compel Secretary of State Ed Jackson Rofctta B. Nye, his deputy here, to issue license plates for automobile tnfeks under the old rate. The state filed a demurrer and this was overruled by Judge Oare in his I action today. The Supreme court will be! asked to take action on Judge Oare’s* ruling. — 0 INCOME TAX RETURNS Assured by the Bureau bf Internal Revenue of prompt service in furnishing the necessary forms, taxpayers need experience no delay in the filing of their income tax returns for the rear 1923. The filing period is from January 1, to March 15, 1924. The work of mailing forms to the addressee given on last year’s returns will start in January. To avcid duplicMion and confusion it is requested that taxpayers refrain from requesting forms if a return was filed for she year 1922. Farm 1040-A, reretofore used for filing returns* of individual net income of $5,000 or lgss, from whatever source derived, has been revised and simplified in the interests of the largest elasts of taxpayers, salaried persons and wage earners. The new form will be used for reporting net income for the year 1923 of $5,000 and less derived chiefly from salaries and w’ages. Reducing to a minimum the problem of correctly making out an income tax return. Form 1040-A consists of a single sheet in which space is provided for. answers to only three questions in relation to income; salaries, wages, commissions, etc.; interest on bank deposits, notes, mortgages, and corporation bonds, and “other income," On the reverse side are instructions. Formerly- Form 1040-A has consisted of six pages, the- questions pertaining not only to salaries and wages, but to income from business, professions, sales of rea 1 estate, and other sources. It is estimated that for the year 1923" more than 4,000.000 persons. or 70 per cent of those who annually are required to file income tax returns, will use the new form. Persons, any part of whose income for the yew 1923 was derived from business or profession, farming, sale of property or rents, regardless of the amount, will be required to use the larger form. 1040. The use of Form 1040 will be required, al|so, in cares where the net in- !' l. al r 'l. **** * I 'JPorm 1.0*40 !;» 'Ar kMWI ■■ . **■

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1924.

. FROM FLORIDA ■«' ■ Rome, Georgia Rome is located in the nortl western corner of Georgia sur “rounded by the Cherokee moun tains, is situated at the junctior of two streams, the Etcwah anc Oostanaula rivers, which forms the Coosa river that flows in s southwestward direction. • It was on a bright, beautiful Sunday morning, late in October, when the fbost was on the pumpkin and the com was in i the shock, we went rambling south down Broad fftreet which is about one mile long and one hundred and thirty-two feet wide. First we came to Dr. Battey’s Monument, erected by the medical profession of Georgia for his work in the civil war. About half way down and in the middle of Broad street and Second avenue about twenty feet high stands the monument of General Forest prerented to Rome by the United Daughters iof the Confederacy. Forest ws made famous by the capture of General Streights force' of 1466 men, Sunday, May 3, 1863, with 410 men near Rome, Georgia. From here ’we crossed the Stcwa street bridge and came to Myrtle Hill cemetery at the foot of the bridged and in South Rome at the junction of Etowah and Oostanaula rivers on a knoll c-ne hundred feet or more above the»rivers. It is one of the most beautiful natural locations in the United States. The cemetery has seven terraces; they are laid out first twenty stair-steps, then a terrace dug for a street and two burial lots wide, then twenty mere stairsteps and so on until we reach the topmost peak of Myrtle Hill cemetery. Locking to the west we see the Marble Monument to the heroes of the confederacy. On a large pedestal stands a confederate soldier at parade rest, facing the ujest. Inscriptions say they have crossed the river and sleep be neath a thousand battle fields. Attest hospitala bear witness from here. We walked east about half way down and we. came to the burial lot cf- Samuel E. Axson. Ellen Lois Axson (Mrs, Woodrow Wilson) was the schoolmate and friend of many Romans. She Ijved in Rome for nearly twenty years. On Thursday, August 6, 1914, she breathed her last at the White House in Washington, IX C. She was buried Wednesday, August 12, beside her parental Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Axson, in Myrtle Hill cemetery, Rome. Her grave is marked by a marble slab 6 feet high, three feet wide and six inches thick. On the slab is chiseled, “Sacred to the memorv of Ellen Lois Axson' born May 15. 1860, at Savannah, Georgia. She died August 6, 1914.” “A traveler between life and death, the reason firm, the temperate will, endurance, foresight, strength and skill. A perfect woman nobly planned to warn, to comfort and command, and yet a spirit still and bright, with something of angelic light.” t South of the Axson lot. about five hundred feet, is the part of Myrtle Hill cemetery reserved for the deceased of the civil war. There are 377 graves. This number includes 81 Confederate unknown and two unknown of the federal army. The boys in gray died at or near Rome. The dead sdldiers sleep with their heads toward the Coosey valley and their feet pointing northeast toward Rome. The grave of each soldier is marked with a marble slab about twenty inches high. L. A. NEFF. HAS OFFK E IN SYRACUSE The White Radio Sales Co.. Walker White. manager, has opened an office in the Lambs building on the comer of Harris and Church streets. Mr. White is using the advertising columns of the Jearaal to expand Ms business and is meeting with success. Others can —o—i TRESPASSER FINED

• I. P. S. EMPLOYEES GET INSURANCE POLICIES • The* Interstate Public Service • Company played Santa Claus to • eight hundred and fifty-four i regular employees by presentl ing each with a renewal of the > life insurance policy that was ’ given last year. One hundred and seventy-eight men and women received more insurance this year than last as a reward 1 for continuos service. The size of the policy depended upon the length of time that the employee served the Company without interruption. The distribution of the insurance was made according to the following schedule. S6OO to those who have been with the Company more than one year, but less than two. S7OO to those who have been with the Company more than two years, but less than three. SBOO to those who have been with the Company more than three years, but less than four. S9OO to those who have been with the Company more than four years, but less than five. SIOOO to those who have been with the Company more than five years.

Last May, the employees had the privilege of Subscribing to additional insurance in an amount equal to that given by the Company. This additional insurance was available at the annual rate of sl2 00 per thousand regardless of the age of the employee. The premium could be paid annually or monthly as the employee desired. §390,700 in additional insurance was thus added to the $693,700 that was originally given by the Company making a total of $1,192,400 in insurance outstanding in the names of the Company’s employees. The distribution of this Yuletide gift is in keeping with the policy of the Company in adding to the joy of employees at this time of year. o FIRE AT TIPPECANOE 4 Fire believed to have been caused by defective wiring, destroyed two summer cottagcx at Tippecanoe Lake about 5 cfeiock Monday afternoon. C. W. Bell and Carl T. Elkins, owrers of the cottages, who reside at Indianapolis, estimate the loss at between SB,OOO and sl6 JOO, it is said. The loss is covered by insurance. The two cottages were erected last summer and were located at Government Point. were both fine summer homes. The cottage of F. Jones, which is located just one door east of the Bell property, also was bad-’ hr damaged by fire, caused by flying sparks. The fire started in the Bell cottage and soon communicated to the Elkins cottage. The cottage of R. H. Jones, of Rushville, is next to the Bell cottage and the intense heat blistered the paint and broke the windows in this building. Mr. Bell, with a Mr. Rohrer, recently purchased the Stony Ridge Hotel at Cripplegate Heights, Lake Tippecanoe. A short circuit on the North Webster electric light line is believed to have occurred about 4:30 o’clock Monday afternoon. Lights suddenly became very bright on this circuit and it was evident that something unusual had occurred. o -— JOINT INSTALLATION The Modern Woodmen and the Women’s Benefit Association of Syracuse will hold a joint installation of officers on Friday vevening, January 18, to which the public is cordially invited. —o ; STORK SPECIALS A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wolf at Niles, Mich., on Saturday, December 29. A son was bom on Monday. December 31, to Mr. and Mrs. UniK.m Minor winiam sxiiier. (J Wo A. CLUB The Wednesday Afternoon Chib was entertained on Wednesday afternoon at the home of B*- * » Hoy« OAKLAND YHEATBE SOLD Vause Polen has sold the OakletL of Auburn Mr. Gillett ~ ...

WHERE INDIANA’S i WATERS FLOW Rain falling in '•"tain parts > of Indirna is so divided that a portion of it flows into the Atlantic ocean byway of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence river, and a portion enters the Mississippi river and flows* into the Gulf of Mexico. Either course covers a distance oi more than 1,000 miles, but water draining to the north has a much slower route for its progress through the lakes is retarded because of the slight descent. According to the Handbook of Indiana Geology, a pubheation of the division of geology of the state conservation department, about 89.5% of the state drains to the Mississippi river, and 10.5% to the St. Lawrence river. The entire area of the state including that portion of Lake ! Michigan which lies within, is 36,550 square miles, of which 32,692 square miles drains into 1 the southern route, and 3,858 ' square miles drains into the ’ northern, foute. i ‘ [1 The divide in Indiana may be 1 considered a continental divide, 1 as the waters discharged from

I each side go into remote water > bodies. The highest point in i this divide is in Randolph co., • where the elevation is 1285 ! feet above sea level. This point » is called a hyprographic center. • The , lowest point in the state s s at the mouth of the Wabash I river, where the elevation is 5 313 feet above sea level. > The great divide of Indiana ; enters the state from Ohio be- ; tween the Wabash and St. Mar?-’* rivers some 25 miles south i Fort Wayne, and bears - approximately north passing just west of Fort J® and around the ■ headquarters of ■ eastern Noble westward to jfl westerly sout west of South Bend aptf crosses the Indianai line to the northwest -of South Bend. It immediately ; re-enteis Indiana and passes -ruthwest and west parallel tc I Lake, Michigan and on the average some 10 miles distant from the lake. This divide is nowhere high and is not sharp ly defined.; In places it is sp indefinite that the water near it at times goes either way, as in the bld glacial wtyter t near Fort 5 Wayne Bend- - . During the 1913 flood, water i from the St. Marys’ river passed over the broad, flat divide im- ’ mediately west of Fort Wayne in a stream several feet deep and nearly one-half pile wide : Under natural conditions extrrl ordinary high waters of the St.* ■ Joseph marsh divide in the vicinity of South Bend. o — NEW STATE HATCHERY A hatchery building to cost approximately $14,000 has been constructed by the fish and game division of the state conservation department, for erec tion at the new hatchery at Av- ; oca, Lawrence county. It will . be of brick construction 45x30 feet. Later a dwelling will built. The*eleven fish ponds : are nearly completed, but due to the large amount of work necessary in the establishment of a hatchery, it is not likely this hatchery will be in operation before 1925. It is the first hatchery in southern Indiana and the young fish from this place will be planted in streams in that portion of the state. L O - B.OAD TO BE PAVED Construction of a hard surface road from Fort Wayne to Valparaiso over the Yellowstone trail is definitely included in the 1924 program of the state , highway commission, according to information given by commission engineer to S. S. Boggs, Kosciusko county engineer, who visited the commission headquarters at Indianapolis. Engineer Boggs was furnished with detailed maps showing the exact route .of the state* road through Kosciusko county. o VISITED BRISTOL LODGE The officers and a few members of the Eastern Star lodge who went to Bristol last Thursday evening, report a successful trip over and back and a ’ POTI •? ''-s S f '4? .

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SOME THINGS TO THM ABOUT Review of Things by the Editor As He Secs Them on the Surface* t The Solicitor General of the United States has called renewed attention to the fact that in this country every year sharpers fleece unwary investors out of at least one billion dollars! Illegitimate advertising is responsible for a large proportion of the annual loss by the fraudulent sale of securities and alleged “investments,” * Wthout advertising the victim would be too hard to find, and the pickings of the sharper Would be correspondingly less. A little reflection would show people that if the earning power of the investment were what it is Represented to be the protnotot would be foolish *to sell at all, since he could make more money by keeping it. One thousand of the largest

legitimate advertisers of the t country could put fraudulent advertising off the map in a year. Befojfc buying fake security offering to pay big consxm an investment • ) — The word “comruO come /into It an inne*J® mav We ’hid hold to ■fe common purpose time country town ■Rjct ordinarily do that. It F?as not as a rule a community. Wrery man went about his own btoliness. It did not occur to **h4m to pool their interests, join forces, and get things done. So they just drifted along, and made little progress. A country town begins to go ahead on the date that it wakes up fronu being such a towmand becomgi a communitoe—- / There"are dozens upon dozens of toed happenings which would nuTe good itemg if handed in. Ft Ms quite impossible for us to xnow everything that is going on hereabouts and we will deem it a special favor from our readers if they inform us. We need your Co-operation in making the fount*! one of the best country weeklies. Will you help? thanks. Vause Polen tells about a little' lad—he won’t tell his name —who announced that he wanted his hair cut “just like papa’s, with a little hole on top.” (By applying the Bushong hair restorer in time this little “hole” might have been prevented. — Ed.) The family -was eating dinner. All at- once the telephone bell rang and the mother exclaimed, ”0, thunder.” / “No, mamma,’’ said the six-year-old daughter, “it was the telephone.* There never was-An age in the history of the world when it was so true as it is now that “Knowledge is Power.” And Knowledge is open to everyone. Its gates are unlocked, its door ia unlatched. A minister has asked his chdreh to reduce his salary. Before getting excited over this it would be well to find whether the reverend gentleman wasn’t peaking in irony. — Sf An Illinois woman complains that her husband left her because her mother-in-law gave him a Ford car. Couldn’t she buy the feller back with a Willys-Knight? To Old Wds, Spinsters (and those likely to be): This is Leap Year. But look before ydu leap, unless you are not particular. A woman has a legitimate aUp could she Sendee holes? ia*w'**w ***** The killjoy kills himself quicker than arfybody else. , Write it IM4.