The Syracuse Journal, Volume 16, Number 46, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 13 March 1924 — Page 1

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SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Items of Interest Concerning Our High School Written for The Syracuse Journal. Two members of the . Sophomore Class furnished music for opening exercises last week. Frederick Beery played the followihg piano selections Thursday morning: Prelude in C minor— C .opin; In Old Vienna—Godowsky; Forest Nymph* Orem; and Second Mazurka —Godard. Friday morning Louise Snobarger giave the following program: Thoughts at Sunset — Huerter; Butterfly—Grieg; Prelude in C Sharp Minor—Rachmaninoff; and Be rceuse—Renard. Chapel was conducted Wednesday morning by the Rev. Mr. Dauner of the Evangelical Church. After reading portions from the New Testament to illustrate his subject, he spoke to , the students on another of the J outstanding characteristics of Christ—that of loyalty. Rev. Dauner showed in an interesting way that "civilization is largely the expression of loyalties" tracing it from the barbarian who is loyal to himself alone to the highest type of Christian loyalty,. A fair-sized crowd came out last Friday nigty. to see the class tournament which resulted in victory for the Sophomore (Mass. This class will be given a large felt banner in the school colors, gold and blue. The scores of the different games are as follows: Sophomores 22. Freshmen 10; Seniors 11, Juniors 2; Teachers 15, High School Girls 10; Sophomores 17, Seniors Mr. Slabaugh is coaching a class of boys in corn judging. From this class a team of three will be selected to represent our school at the County Corn Judgin'? Contest. ’ —-—o’ —•——- “STUDY HOUR* SERVICES Much interest is being shown in the "Study Hout" services being held at the Ldtheran church each Tuesday evening. The attendance has been large, and a keen interest has been manifested in the pastor's lectures, and in the questions and discussions which have followed the lecture each evening. . . Some of the subjects which have been discussed in three meetings are "The Bible," "God and His Work,” The Commandments." The subject last Tuesday evening was "Christ and His Work." The subject next Tuesday evening will be "The .Holy Spirit." In these "Study Hours” Rev. Mr. McMichael is bringing to the people of his church, and of the cojnmunity, an interesting, intelligent and uplifting discussion of the great principles of Christianity. At the conclusion of each lecture Rev. McMichael turns the meeting into a forum where anyone may ask questions or offer discussion on the subject of the evening. • o—« COMMUNITY BUILDING ' Syracuse isbadly in need of a community building. The absence of one has been keenly felt for a number of years. The Syracuse Commercial Club has started the ball ’arolling and has appointed a committee to devise ways and means and offer suggestions by which a community building might be built. At a meeting of the committee last week a plan was suggested to form a stock company and sell shares to the amount of SIO,OOO. With this amount a building could be erected suitable for all needs. The above plan seems to be the best as it is not thought feasible to erect such a building at this time at the expense of the taxpayers. If enough shares can be sold to finance the project a site will be selected and the building started this summer. —— o WEDDING BELLS Miss Beatrice Bertram and Frank Elliott were united in marriage on Saturday, March 1, at Centerville. Mkhipm. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Bertram, Sr., of this city. The groom is a resident of

REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION MAY 31.22 Clyde A. Walb, Republican I state chairman, has sent cut the announcement for the Republican state convention to be held at Tomlinscn Hall, Indianapolis, May 21 and 22. Each congressional district will be entitled to two delegates and two alternates to the Republican national convention to be held at Cleveland, June 10. There will be four delegates and four alternates at large. There will be 1,350 delegates in the ,state convention Mr. Waib’s formal call follows: "In compliance with the provisions of the Indiana primary election law, and pursuant to the rules of the Republican party in Indiana, adopted by the Republican State Central Committee, and pursuant to resolution of ■aid committee, the Republicans cf Indiana and all who desire to affiliate with them, are called to meet in delegate convention in Tomlinson rlall in the city of Indianapolis. on Wednesday and Thursday, May 21 and 22, 1924. for the purpose of adopting a i party platform, selecting delegates and alternate delegates to : die Republican National Convention to be held in the city of Cleveland. Ohio, on June 10, 1924, presidential contingent presidential electors, and for nominating a candidate for governor, if such nomination is not iade known in the state-wide primary on May 6, 1924, and for nominating the following state officers: Lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state, attorney general, reporter of the supreme court, superintendent of public instruction, one judge of the supreme court for the first district, one judge for the supreme court for the fourth district, one judge of the appellate court for the first district and one judge of the appellate court for the second district. o— — WE GET THE ROAD The Kosciu:d<o County council, at a special session held last Friday at Warsaw, votedte declare the Warner and Turner countyunit roads to he public utilities. Although giving approval to the construction of the two pro-county-unit roads, the coi nc’l voted to put o f for one year the construction of the Warner road. This is the road which extends around the south and west sides of Lake Wawasee. As ’he result of this action it is expected that all steps in connection with the Warner road will be dropped at the pre i?nt time. The Turner rdld joins the Ang lin road on the south and passes the "Devil’s Backbone" and on to icin with the cement road at Palestine. It completes the link between Warsaw and Mentone o LEG FRACTURED Andrew Gallagher had the misfortune to fall last Thursday breaking his left leg just below the hip joint. Mr. Gallagher was alone at the time, but he had been at work in the kitchen doing some fixing on the windows, when he became dizzy and fell. The tools he had been working with were there and it was evident he fell off of something. He was taken to the hospital in Elkart on Friday, where he is do ing as> well as can be‘ expected. He is eighty-eight years of age. o ST. PATRICK’S PARTY Mr. and Mrs. John Brunjes entertained the members and guests of the young married folks class of the Lutheran Sunday School at their home last Monday evening at a St. Patrick’s party. Green, shamrocks, "blarney." and many other characteristics of the Emerald Isle were much in evidence during the, evening’s entertainment. There were about twenty-five who enjoyed this pleasant affair. o • ► LYCEUM COURSE The third number of the lyceum course was given at the Oakland Theatre on Saturday night. Hie Colonial Marimbaphone Quartet was greeted by a large audience, and they presented a program full of life and pleasing from beginning to end. - —■ —-O- — '■ - 11 ■ ■ SUPPER WELL ATTENDED The supper given by the Ladies Aid Society of the Lutheran t last Friday evening was well atling made quite a neat profit ■

SUPPORT YOUR HOME PAPER Why should you subscribe for he Iccal paper and mail copies to friends? The answer is easy and some of the reasons are as follows. It keeps those friends in touch with the doings of the town and makes them acouaint- . d with the changes. If they contemplate a new location in the future your paner may be ’he means of bringing them here. If they do, then they have kept informed on matters that will make it easier for them to fit in and feel at home in their new home. It advertises the town. It saves you writing so manv letters and your friends are glad to get the news. There is always mor? in the paper thin you could possibly write in a letter. The t >•»” that hfls ro paper is outclassed. » If you do not wpport and boost to help make the horn? paner good it may pass out of existence some day and that will show that the town is dead or dying fast. Most of the big city papers are subsidized by big moneyed interests and show their prejudices that way and try to put their stuff over on the public. This is especially true at election time. You can depend on your local paper to print the news and the truth because it is not subsidiz-l od. Some day, if it ever comes! to a show-down the local papers! will be the bulwark of defense; for true democracy and the liberty of American institutions, i So boost your home paper.| Subscribe yourself and send it to! your friends. If you are in bus-; iness, advertise, make the publisher glad and increase your business. In business there are only two good excuses for not,buying of vour neighbor, nr better say, at home. These are that they .have not get and will not get the goods you want, or that the price is unreasonable. You certainly do not get your living out of Chicago, New York or the Hoboken Mail Order Company, therefore •nend your income at home where you earn it. This argu•nenfr in support of the home merchant is also true for the home paper. You may offer the excuse that vou now get more papers than you can possibly read. If that is true then I say that your home raper is the solution, of the problem. Because by reading jit you ret the local news that is of interest to you, then you get a summary of the week’s important outside news and all of the general world news thst is worth reading, without high color and falsehood. So with the local pa’»er you are able to keep abreast of the news of the times. So the home paper can save your reading time by sorting out the good, worth'whife news from the worthless news and deliver to vou the wheat without the ctyiff. If you take only one paper, it should be the home paper. If vou take two or more, the first you should pay for is the.home naper. Remember it takes your ‘subscription money and advertising to support the paper so that it may give you real service. If the local paper is not as good as vou think it should be, thifik it over and see if it is not partly vour fault? For the measure yc-u mete it will be returned again to you. Try it out If you come to the mirror with a smile it wilf return a smile again to you. What is worth the most and •nsts the least? Just a pleasant smile. What comes next in value ? The local paper. WILLIAM GRAY LOEHR Attorney. (Editor’s note.-—The above article was qent to us by W. G. Loehr, a Warsaw attorney, with the privilege to it in part or in its entirety. We are glad that someone outside of our profession has come to our rescue and taken up our cause, hence we publish it in unabbreviated form.) t> — GRANTED A DIVORCE Ruth A. Pollick of . was granted a divorce from Clarence C. Pollick by Judge L W. [ Royse Friday. The complainant , charged cruel treatment and/failure to support. X 0 j__ There is a very reason i whv Easter is the season in i‘which you desire to send greet- : ings of cheer. I If you have been looking about - and are still in doubt just drop t in the Kettle and see what we have here. 46-lt

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1924.

I GAYE PIE SOCIAL The members of the Pythian > Sisters lodge gave a pie social on ' Friday night in the Pythian hall ; to which all the Knights had t been invited. In addition to this the ladies gave a play, entitled "The Car- ■ pet Rag Bee.” The stylish lady i from New York, who went to j church and had accidentally put i her hat on backwards, all but ■ caused a furor among her country sisters, when they decided i she was a leader of fashion, straightway put their hats on backwards and wore them to a church meeting. One of the sisters who stiff clung to her sunbonnet. asked in the presence of the New York lady, why they were wearing their hats backwards, and said she knew the -hats well enough, and that they were on backwards, because the hats were all the way from two to seven years old. Here is where the beans were spilled, snd the New York lady feeling so embarrassed, attempted to leave the room. Her aunt, upon seeing the situation, decided to explain to her guests that her niece had made a mistake in hurrying to get ready for church and had accidentally put her hat on backwards, and that was the reason why she was trying to leave the room. “Susan Gibbs” got up and told the ladies what I she thought of the situation and | they all' decided to put their hats | on the right way and wear them ■ home. Each lady present brought a pie. 1116 pie and donor were ; given the same number and dur<mg the evening a sheet was ( stretched in a doorway, behind which each lady stood and her shadow was auctioned off by W. T. Colwell. The gentlemen, who were seated in a dark room, bought the shadows. After all had been sold, the gentlemen, who had also been numbered] went and got the pie and the lady that bore the same number, and they ate the pie together. There was a splendid attendance, considering the bad weather, and a very pleasant social evening was spent. Almost sl4 was realized ftom selling the pies, which will go into the lodge exchequer. o TOWNSHIP TAXES is the tax rate for Turkey Creek Township for 1923 and 1924. 1923 Township $ .03 Tuition 25 Special School 16 Road 17 Poor 03 Library .03 Improved Road ; 14 State and County 47 Total $l2B 1924 Township $ .03 Tuition 23 Special School 16 Road ... .16 Poor .00 Library * 02 Improved road 60 State and County 52 Total $1.72 Thus it will be seen that for 1924 we have a 7c Tower rate for the first six funds, which are for township affairs, and a 51c higher rate for the last two funds, making an increase of 44c on SIOO valuation. o t —— AMONG THE SICK Miss Wilcox of Elkhart is caring for Mrs. Frank Bushong, whose condition is slightly improved. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Vern Brown, who has been suffering with pneumonia, isa im- . proving. Contractor E. E. McClintic who is confined to his home With toxi ic poisoning and neuritis is slowi ly improving. ! Charles F. McClintic just re- ‘ turned from Mayo Brothers hos- - pital where he underwent an op- , eration for the removal of ton- - sils and other minor ailments. Little June Foster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Foster of South Bend, is confined to her home with scarlet fever. However, die is getting along fine. . Mrs. A. W. Strieby was taken suddenly ill Monday night, but t at this writing is some better. o BIBTHS i A daughter was born on Sati urday, March 8. to Mr. and Mrs. - John Gordy. Betty Jane has been chosen as the name. t A son was bom to Mr. and Mrs. ? Shar P on March t the name of Newell LaMarr. ■V-.. ' • .SK. K

LUTHERAN RALLY A large number of Lutheran people from Syracuse and vicinity are planning to attend a Lutheran rally to be held in the First Lutheran Church at Goshen Thursday evening, March 20, under the auspices of the Lutheran Laymen Movement of America The Lutheran Laymen Movement is an organization of prominent and successful Lutheran business and professional men from all parts of the country who are fostering a more active interest in the affairs of the church on the part of its laymen. At the present time it is conducting a series of stewardship institutes the territory of the Michigan Synod, to which Grace church of Syracuse belongs. The program planned for at Goshen will include an extensive moving picture exhibit of the activity of the Lutheran church in its various mission fields, both in thin country, and in many foreign lands. It will also show the Lutheran church at work in its colleges and universities, and in its caring for its orphans, aged and infirm. There will also be a couple of short addresses by prominent Lutheran laymen at the meeting in Goshen. Lutherans from Millersburg, Middlebury, Cromwell, Nappanee and Syracuse, and many other points will gather for the meeting in Goshen on the 20th. o METHODISTS TO MEET Ttye Northern Indiana Methodist Epigcopal conference will meetMlrom April 1 to 7 in the $250,000 First M. E. church at Marion. One of the features will be the noon tide services in charge of the conference. In addition to the regular program the Laymen's Association will meet on Thursday. The lay day election to name delegates to the general conference will be held Friday afternoon and the boy’s conference wilt be held Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. o TAKE NOTICE Recently-we received a letter tigned “S. D. M. M. L.” with the request to print a notice enclosed. We have no particular objection to print the notice, but in order to go safe we must know the name of the author or sender, not for publication, but as a matter of guarantee and good faith. This applies to paid notices also. If the sender will call at the office and explain we will print the notice. W. G T. U. Tuesday afternoon the W. C. T. U. met. at the home of Mrs. J. P. Dolan with a good attendance. Rev. Kahl Dustin gave a fine talk on the status at present and urged that we read more than the head lines we now see in the papers, for manv of them are misleading. The local institute will be held nt the Grace Lutheran church, afternoon and evening, Friday, Mar :h 21, 1924. o NEW’ SUPERINTENDENT F. E. Noble, of Chicago, is the new superintendent at the cedar chest factory. He succeeds P. E. Bertram, who has gone to North Manchester to be superintendent of the branch factory in that city. Mr. and Mrs. Bertram will, however, continue to reside in Syracuse. Mr. Noble entered upon his new duties here on Monday morning. SEEKS B&ELEOnON G Leroy Leonard, of Silver Lake, is a candidate for State Senator on the Republican ticket. Mr. Leonard has served in this capacity for one term and believes his experience during that time qualifies him for another term. Therefore he asks the support of the Republican voters at the May primary. W. A. CLUB The Wednesday Afternoon Club was pleasantly entertained by Mrs. Sol Miller on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Taylor, of Warsaw, county chairman of Federated Clubs, was a guest at the meeting. o NEW MANAGER A. & P. STORE Herbert Launer went to Elkhart on Monday where he has accepted a position as manager of an Atlantic & Pacific grocery o—, i Don’t forget your mortgage exemption. ButU Xante*. 4Mt

BASKETBALL FOUL THROYV TOURNAMENT Bloomington, Ind., M.t h 10. — Syracuse high school lum been invited’to enter its basketball team in the stat* basketball foul throw tournament now being conducted for the first time in Indiana by the athletic department of Indiana university. The object of the contest is to determine the best individual and team foul throwers in the state and to improve Indiana basiketball from the standpoint of foul shooting. Fifty trials will be given each competitor and the player and team scoring the most goals will be acclaimed the individual and team champions of * the state. The trials will be held on local basketball courts and certified reports of the results will be made to the university by the basketball coach and school principal in each case. The contest will close on March 26 and winners will be announced as soon tabulations can be made. Official basketball rules will govern the contest. Scares of anplications have been received for record blanks and the contest is attracting wide interest among the high school basketball fraternity. Both boys and girls will- be eligible to the competition and medals will be awarded to individual chamoicns and to the team of ten men having the highest average. The foul throw contest was prompted, says Athletic Director Zora G. Clevenger, of Indiana university, on account of the poor showing made during the past year in foul goal shooting under the new rules. The player fouled has had to do the foul throwing this year whereas in the past some one member of the team drilled especially in the art of throwing fouls has scored heavily by the foul route. In both college and high school basketball this year foul goal throwing has been noticeably weak. In the case of the Indiana university basketball team, failure to count on fouls in the early part of the season was fatal. Indiana lost thre«! games by one point margins, largely due to poor feu! shots, and these three * poifits have meant the difference between a place at the top in the Big Ten for Indiana and its present position well down in the first division. , Lo DEATH OF EDMUND M. DARR Edmund M. Darr died at his home, 2| miles north of Syracuse at 2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon, March 6, following an illne’e of heart disease. Surviving the deceased, who was a well known farmer, are his wife, two sons, Dala Darr of South Bend, and Lester Darr, residing at home; two daughters, Mrs. Harry Coy, of Syracuse, and Mrs. Chester Firestone, of near Millersburg; his aged mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Darr, of Syracuse; five grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. George Colwell, of Syracuse; five brothers, Albert, Adam, and George Darr of Syracuse, Charles Darr of Chicago, and Omer Darr of near Benton. Funeral services were held at the Solomon Creek church at 10:45 Sunday morning, Rev. Saylor, the pastor, officiating. Interment in Syracuse Cemetery. o INTERIOR IMPROVEMENT R. E. Thornburg is making some improvements in the interior of hit drug store. The changing of th? location of the soda fountain from the front of the store to the center of the room will furnish both the customers and the clerks more room and will prove more adequate for the summer business. SAINT PATRICK’S SUPPER The ladies of the M. E. Church Meili serve supper at the church basement on Monday evening, March 17, from 5:30 to 8 at 35c per plate. MENU Chicken Pie Mashed Potatoes Gravy Pickles Jelly Perfection Salad Bread Butter Pie 46-ltpd Coffee o COOLIDGES MANAGER Aaron A. Rasor, of Warsaw, has been appointed Kosciusko County manager of the campaign to obtain the republican nomination for President Coolidge, Ewing Emipon, Indiana manager, has announced. —' —_-M>— ' CLASS PLAY The Seniors will present their class play. “Fifty-Fifty,” at the Oakland Theatre, Thursday and Friday evenings March 13 and 14

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SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT Review of Things by the Editor As He Sees Them on the Surface, Nothing will come to you. You have to go and get it all. The man whoi waits for something to turn up isi worse off than he who tries and is turned down. There isn’t standing room for anyone in the world. You have got to keep moving to get anywhere, to even stay where you are. T. e fellow we point to and call a ’ucky dog has proven to be a terrier, and at the rat hole all the time. Luck isn’t against yon. You are against luck, if you fail to get started and keep going without stopping. The seat nf yotif carcasj? isn’t meant to sit on but only as a connecting link between your mind, heart and stomach and your legs and feet. If you can’t see away to make good it is because you haven’t (nade the way. Opportunity isn’t to be met. Yon have to catch un with it. It is ahead of you, and by catching up with it you will be .ahead of where yoti are Nothing will bring there except you. The only thing in the world for you is yourself, that is in you. and what you get out of yourself. You’re your own opportunity. The Journal of the American Medical Association claims that there are more germs in a teaof ordinary milk than nn a dollar bill. This fact need net influence the average individual’s respect for milk nor subi:H»te the dollar it. One nf these davs some one will tell u*i that all health producing fr.*:ds are germs. Tao Think Abuot .. atitW tino One Syracuse girl who wears I ng, fleppy skirts instead of short ones, and is beginning to kt her hair grow out, has it aIT doped out. “If you do housework at eight or mebbe ten per,” she remarked, "it’s domestic serv ee. And if you do it for no’hsng it’si matrimony." Saw a young married couple in Beckman’s the other day buying furniture, and she kept calling him “!>mb.” When he came out he said to her in an aggrieved way: "Darling, I wish you would riot call me ‘lamb’ in public; ’it makes me feel so sheepish. — / There are two kinds of amateur weather prophets in the v.-.rld—those who predict cold winters and those who predict warm winters. Both occasionally guess right. • Judging from the present weather the eroundheg is ja false rrophet.. Those who have beHeved in him now pronounce him a fake. One of the fellows from here whn has worked in several places at South Bend says he wishes somebody would invent a fireless boss. Who can remember the good old days when every man, woman and boy in Syracuse knew how to hitch up a horse ? Bov-proof circus tents are the Infest invention «f the showman. H’s getting so that the modern kid hasn’t a chance. A man is but a worm of the dust—he comes along, wiggles a while and finally some chicken gets him. A newspaper sometimes makes enemies, not by what it says about people, but by what it doesn’t say. Just because a man has an Adam’s anple it does not necessarily imnly he is enjoying the fruits of life. Tt is said the sale of Bushong Hair Restorer in declining. So is the number of bald heads. Nn. the man who leads, a "double” life does not do two men’s work. Yom can’t make a good iob painting the town red with water colors. Some girls are like brown sn-but-unrefined, says “Bones.” Monaay is ratncK & Day. . . . , .* •