The Syracuse Journal, Volume 17, Number 31, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 27 November 1924 — Page 1

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SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Items of Interest Concerning Oar High School Writtea for The Syracuse Journal. y This community is planning to send ten high school boys to the Older Boys Conference at Peru. The conference will be held on November 28, 29, and 30. The „ purpose of this annual gathering of older boys is to lead High School and other older boys to think through life’s problems and discover a Christian attitude for all the young man’s relation* ships—Home. Church. School and Community. The following boys will go: Leon Connolly, Marion Bushong. George Butt, Freder- . ick Beery, Charles Bachmap, Jr., Orvolle Auer. Earl Auer, Paul Lantis, Wayne Hoelcher and Charles Wilcox. X The Senior Class enjoyed a chicken dinner at the home of ' Ruth Blanehard Monday night. ' Miss Hamman, Earl Auer and Paul Lantis were also invited. Every one reported having had a very good time. The three volley ball games played this week: Nov. 20. Indians 19—Cubs 21; 1 Nov. 21, Bear Cats 21—Tigers 19; Nov. 24, Giants 21—Moons 18. (J School will be closed from Wednesday evening, Nov. 26, un- J til Monday morning, Dec. 1, for the Thanksgiving vacation. s , Pupils who were tardy this 1 week were Earl Auer on Novem- 1 ber 19 and Hazelie Miller on No- I vember 20. I WILL BE HONOR GUEST Mrs. W. A. Reichert, of Elk- ’ hart president of the Michigan ' Synod Woman’s Missionary socie- ’ ty of the Lutheran church, will ] be the honor guest and special speaker at the December meet- 1 ing of the Lutheran Woman’s 1 Missionary Society next Wednes- ’ day night. Mrs. William Kindig * will be hostess to the local soci- , ety for this meeting. Mrs. Reich- ' ert has been prominent in mis- 1 sionary circles for many years. ; She attended the national Luth- ’ eran Woman’s Missionary con- 1 vention which was held at Salsbury, N. C., in October. She ' will give an account of this con- 1 vention here Wednesday evening. DEATH OF MRS. I. WILLARD Mrs. Isabell Willard passed . away at the home of her son, • Chas. Willard, in South Bend, on Thursday, Nov. 20, at the age of ‘ 88 years. The funeral was held ' on Sunday, Nov. 23, at the Breth- j ren church in Syracuse, Rev. Geyer, of near Milford Junction, officiating. Interment was made ( in Syracuse cemetery. The de- ( ceased leaves four daughters. , Mrs. Albert Hines, Oswego; Mrs. ‘ John Elite. Mrs. Willard Clark, and Mrs. John Coon, North Webster. Also three sons, Rome Wil- J lard, living west of Syracuse; Chas. Willard, South Bend, and , William Willard, Bourbon. o SENT LARGE LEMONS ( Jl 1 11 r 5 J. W. Krieg, who is at Pharr, , Texas, for the winter, sent two ; mammoth lemons which he picked from trees growing in his town. They were at the State Bank of Syracuse on exhibition for the public on Saturday and elicited much interest as well as many bright sayings from the jokesmiths who assemble on Sat- ~ urday nights. - NEW PARIS SALE There will be sold at New Paris Sale, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 1934. two good Holstein cows, registered, fresh, with calves at side, both T. B. tested. Sire of calves by a 331 lb. sire and dam A. R. O. by King of the Pontiac. 31-1 o- ■ INITIATE TWO CANDIDATES . fl? The Eastern Star Chapter met on Monday evening and initiated two new members into the order. They were Mrs. Paul Bertram. Jr M and Mrs. Russell Bertram. o - COMMERCIAL CLUB MEETS The noonday luncheon and the regular monthly meeting of the Commercial Chib will be held at The Sign of the Kettle on Tuesday, December 2. ■

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YOUNG FOREST GROWTH DESTROYED BY FIRE With the burning over of thousands of acres of land in Floyd, Harrison. Brown and Bartholomew counties before rains and heroic work of fire fighters prevented further spread, flames destroyed many thousands of dollars worth of young forest growth that it will take years to reproduce, state conservation officials estimate. Practically all young reproduction was wiped out oyer large areas, thereby postponing for many years the maturing of a timber crop so badly needed on our Indiana hills, declared Richard Lieber, conservation director for this state. According to Charles C. Deam. state forester, wanton neglect was responsible for these forest fires. Local residents turn out ?>nd fight fires only when their homes are threatened, in many cases they backfired only to keep the flames from their buildings, and allowed the red demon to travel on to a neighbor’s holdings. ! Conservation officials are endeavoring to create sentiment toward perfecting local organisations to to fight forest fires when they are small and to prevent a general spread, because the experience of a few weeks ago shows that at best local people only make half-heart-bd defense to keep flames away from their orchards, buildings, hay and straw stacks and. not to protect young;; forest growth. ’Those hill§ never will grow anv timber and we may just as well let the fire burn what already is there."- is a common statement to be heard among the hill people of Indiana. On the other hand the conservation x de- , partment knows nature in- ] tenddd those very hills for a ‘ heavy forest production, they j once contained the greatest hard- j woods in the world and pure ne- , gleet caused them to be denuded now since former valuable crop , was logged. The reason some of j these hills now do not j ber is because fires burn over ( them year after year, destroying ( the young growth and the leaf mulch, and injuring the larger j trees. If a reasonable amount of care ( is taken.these Indiana hills can 1 be depended upon to supply a ( considerable per cent of our 1 needed timber, but the first step in such a progfam is elimination yt fire. Nature will do the rest, 8 particularly if guided by sound ‘ forest management, Deam says. f OBTAINED STOCK FISH More than 14,000 stock fish • have been obtained by the con- | servation department by drain- 1 ing a private pond on the place ’ of William A. Guthrie at Dupont, j Many of the fish were released in public waters and a Urge num- . ber will be used for propagation 1 purposes at the state hatcheries. 1 Mr. Guthrie is chairman of the conservation commission. He sug- j gested that his pond be drained 1 and the fish removed and given 1 to the public. The pond had ' been stocked at various times 1 and was known to literally teem ‘ with aquatic life. Thirty-five large mouth bass weighing from one to four 5 pounds were sent to the new hat- ‘ chery at Avoca in Lawrence ! county to be a used as breeders, ‘ while 7,000 blue gills ranging from four to seven inches, and 3,500 crappie the same sixe. were 1 released in Big Sandcreek in Jes- ’ ferson county. Aquatic life some ’ weeks ago was greatly damaged ! in this stream by pollution. In Jennings county the department released 2,500 bluegills. 1,000 crappie. 200 catfish. 150 bass, all ranging from 2 to 8 inches long, taken fnbm the Guthrie pond. In all fish were removed and replanted, /■"- - o/BIRTHDAY PARTY Mr. and Mrs. Chas Bowersax entertained about forty friends at tmeir home on Sunday. The occasion was a surprise party given in honor of L. E. Sehlotterback, whose birthday anniversary fell on that day. ■ o— — PYTHIAN SLS'TERS INITIATE The Pythian Sisters' met on Friday night and initiated Mrs. Joe Wilt into the order. Refreshments were served and a pleasant evening was spent. o ’ Oakland Theatre Sate rd ay Nov. 29. mnsteal comedy and vaedertlle and a feature eictam A b«r double show. Kiddies Me, Adntte 25e. 31-pd

Syracuse’s Slogans “A Welcoming Town With a Beckoning Cake.’*

Thanksgiving 1924 The whole world is beginning to emetge from the smoke and wreckage of the Great War, a more hopeful spirit is pervading all nations, the world if growing better with signs of health and peace and prosperity, and these are grounds for thanksgiving on the part of all peoples. This general outlook upon the world is one cause why we should join in thanksgiving to the God of nations, that in his goodness is leading the great human family to become increasingly conscious of its common life and needs and is rolling it through the shadow of the globe into a better day. The year has been one of unmeasured prosperity and goodness. The harvests have reaped boundless fields of golden grain and our barns are full. Employment has been general and business has run at full tide. Peace has prevailed throughout all our borders,’and no pestilence or great • calamity has befallen us. It is of these material conditions and goods that we first think in connection with this day as it was originally observed with these things in view. But there are deeper grounds for thanksgiving in the social and moral and spiritual life of our people. It need not be said that there are wide shadows of evil and some very black spots in our national life, but these are mostly such as are common to men. Really, America is sound to the core on the essentials of integrity and truth in our civil and moral life. There is no cleaner spot or more decent people on earth, and this is something to be thankful for, however much we have of Which to be ashamed.

THE WAYSIDE CHATTER Editor Journal:— When we last you we were in Fayetteville, Tennessee. Breaking camp for Huntsville. Ala., we soon crossed the state line. Here we came into the famous Tennessee valley. The valley at this point is very wide; at other points along the stream the valley gets very narrow. Huntsville is located ten miles north of the river in the heart of a very fertile country. It is the center of trade of a great Stock raising section and said to be the greatest cotton spinning center of the south. Here, too, is one of the largest nurseries of the world. Not many miles north of here is the Alabama Agricultural 1 and Mechanical College for Negroes. From here we drove ten miles south and came to the Tennessee river. Here is a country ferry and the river is about threefourths of a mile wide. We got a fine picture of the river at this point. Here is also a large island in the river and we drive along beside it for a long ways and then we come to the Guntersville ferry, where, we cross the river into the city. As we drive up the valley we imagine we see the boys in blue marching up this valley. Henry Tully once said to the writer, some time in 1863 the boys in gray put mines in the river and the union supply boats could not come up the river with rations and Sherman's anny lived ofi unhulled rice for nine days. Henry said he got tired of this kind of eats, so one day he shouldered his musket, walked over the hill from camp and beside the road in the brush was a bunch of shoats. He pulled a >ead on one and down it fell. Now this was against the army rules and Henry would probably get in the guard house if some one reported, but by the time the smoke cleared away he heard the i report of another musket. Hen-1 ry looked up and it was his captain. who said to Henry. “You dress my pig and get it into camp after dark.’’ Henry also said, one day they were in camp along beside the old Tennessee river. A ridge or hill about eight feet high was between them and the boys in gray. The boys in blue would get a feuce rail, tie a hat on the end, then hold it up. In a very short time the hat would be riddled with bullets by the boys in gray. Henry also said, the boys in gray, while in camp would slip through the picket lines and beg tobacco and whiskey- from the boys in blue, although it was strictly forbidden by the officers higher up and many a soldier was put in the guard house for this The writer well rqpembers, when a boy, of listening to Jacob Rentfrow, father of John and Milton Rentfrow. of one of his foraging trips. One day he got some distance from camp and went down a lane from the road to a Confederate farm house.

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Hero was a bunch of fat pigs. He foraged one, dressed it, put it on his saddle, looked down the road, and saw the boys in gray mounted. So they had a race, but Jacob reached the end of the lane first, with the bullets flying around him. Jacob and the hog got into the union lines safely. L. A. NEFF O— - TO OUR DELINQUENTS I This week we again have sent out notices to delinquent subscribers to pay their arrearages. The label on the paper shows when the subscription expired. When you find yotrrsdlf in arrears, please call and settle or remit by mail. Like all other business places, we need the money to carry on our business and to meet our obligations. Please look at the label and if in arrears send in your subscription at once. If possible, every subscriber should pay in advance, thus saving us the time and expense of sending out notices. We hope this appeal is not in vain and that we will be favored with a shower of dollars that are due us, for which we thank you in advance. , Q PUBLIC SALE * Commencing at 10 o’clock cm Thursday, Dec. 4, W. H. Mabie will sell on what is known as the Howard Strieby farm, 2| miles south of Syracuse, 6 miles north of North Webster, and i mile north of Guy school house, horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, hay, and farming implements. o i MISCELLANEOUS SHOWER ——— z The * neighborhood of Boston and South Main streets gave a miscellaneous shower on Saturday evening for Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mick of Goshen. It was held at the home of Mrs. Mick’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest .Richhart. — oINSTALL GRAND CHAPLAIN Rev..and Mrs. W. L Eiler and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Colwell were in Indianapolis last week Thursday. The Grand Lodge 'of the I. O. 0. F. was in session at which time Mr. Eiler was installed as Grand Chaplain. . Q—SYRACUSE WINS AGAIN Claypool first and second ' teams played Syracuse first and ’ second teams last Friday at the ‘ local gym. Syracuse won both . games. The score was 7 to 38 ‘ and 13 to 38. ; .u o—- ( ANNUAL BAZAAR The ladies Os the Methodist church will hold their annual bazaar and bake sale on Thursday j and Friday, Dee. 4 and 5, in I Howard’s plumbing shop. 31-1 » « My Treetmests 1 are painless. Patients really enl joy them. Dr. Warner, 214 So. . Sth, Goshen. 31-1

LADIES OF THE ROUND TABLE ENTERTAIN On Thursday evening, November 20, The Ladies of the Round Table club held their annual Thanksgiving Tea and guest night meeting at The Sign of the Mrs. Leacock was the hostess, and she proved to be equal to the occasion. The tea room was prettily decorated in colors and shades suggestive oi the Thanksgiving season and the tables were most artistically arranged for the elaborate course chicken dinner, which was served at seven o’clock. Following the meal, and while still seated at the tables, the program outlined in the club book was given. The roll call was answered by each member giving a personal reason for thankfulness, and many good thoughts Were expressed, and this was followed by a Thanksgiving story read by Miss Neva Meek. The article written bv Mrs. R. N. McMichael on National Thankfulness met with applause by those who listened, the article showing that much time and thought had been spent in its preparation. The subject of State Thankfulness Was ably handled by Miss Blanche Sprague who gave orally her part on the program. Mrs. Ross Osborn read her written article on the subject of Local Thankfulness, which covered a wide field of thought. The program concluded, the members went to the picture show, where they spent another hour seeing a good picture, with John Bowers as the star. — TOM VS. REDMON In the abatement suit of Maud Tom against William C. Redmon, the plaintiff won the first clash in the Kosciusko circuit court when the court sustained the motion to strike out the plea in abatement. Attorneys for the defense contended that the action should have been filed in the Miami circuit court instead of Kosciusko, Peru being the home of the defendant were entered in the local court ■ on behalf of the defendant and the trial will be there. i The case is one growing out of ! a controversy oyer the water level at Dewart lake. Mr. Redmon, who owns ground around the lake has established a summer resort there, raised the level of 1 the lake by building a dam. The 1 plaintiff alleges damages to land as the result of the raising of i the lake level. I —o . CHRISTM AS BAZAAR The Ladies Aid of the U. B. ehurch will hold their Christmas ; Bazaar on Wednesday, Dee. 3, . and Saturday! Dec. 6, at the r plumbing shop. 31-11 i o L ' , FURS WANTED I will pay the highest cash - prices for all kinds of furs. VTc- . tor Brumbaugh, Gravelton. TeleL phone, Nappanee Lll3. 29-10 p.

NON-RESIDENTS MUST HAVE PROPER UCENSES Indianapolis. Ind., Nov. 22. — Following the arrest and conviction of nine out-state persons for hunting quail in Indiana on resident licenses, George N. Mannfeld. chief of the firii and game division of the stat£ conservation departmnet. today instructed his warden force to be particularly alert to see that nonresident hunters out the proper license. A non-resident hunting license in Indiana costs $15.50 and a resident license only sl. Conservation officials say that the abundance of quail in this state is attracting many residents of neighboring states to cross the line, take out a resident license at only $1 and proceed to enjoy the sport. Reports to Mannfeld’s office show that a number of nojvresi-1 dents took out resident licenses in Dearborn and Floyd counties after making the statement that i they were residents. Nine non-; resident hunters were appre- j hended and each paid fines and; costs amounting to $38.50, The minimum fine in such cases isi $25 and the maximum, SIOO, to' which may be added imprisonment in the county jail for not less than 30 days and not more than 60 days. Instructions have been issued to wardens that possession of a resident license by a non-resident who has no non-resident license, counts the same as if no license had been purchased, for it is illegal for a non-resident to use a resident license. Only the fact that strict ward- j n n service has brought about i abundance of quail in this state, i seems to be the reason that out-! state hunters look t> the Indiana fields for their shooting. Mann-j feld says, for at this time quaij> shooting is legal in Kentucky un-. til January 1. and in Illinois until December 10. STATE UNIVERSITY NOTES • Bloomington, Ind., Nov. 22.— Dr. Charles P. Emerson, dean of the school of medecine of Indiana university, has been elected president of the national sommittee for mental Dr. Emerson succeeds Dr. William H. Welch, dean of the school ofhygiene of John Hopkins univer--sity, Baltimore. Md. The hoard of trustees of Indiana university has upheld the faculty in their decree that automobiles must go at the university unless good and sufficient I reasons can be offered to justify ; students in keeping them. Reu- ’ 'stration of all campus autos is ’ now in progress and most of; them are expected to be sent rattling home when the student affairs committee meets to consider the results of the registration. Sam Ruman. of Gary’, sonho more halfback on the Indiana universitv football team, played the quick and courageous hero act off the gridiron recently when he stripped off his coat and smothered flames which were abouj to prove fatal to Mrs. Mary' W. Brown, manager of the Blue Bird Beauty Shop at Bloomington. Ruman and Npil Spurgeon, of Kokomo, heard Mrs. Brown’s frantic cries when her clothing caught fire, and their quick action probably saved her life. o J. M. SUHAFFER Chiropractor will be at the Amanda Darr residence. comer Harrison and Henry streets, Tuesday and Fridav of each week. Hours 2to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m. 31-ts o Public lands disposed of by the Government reached a total, at the end of the last fiscal year of I, acres, or more than 60 per cent of the entire land surface of -the United States, exclusive of Alaska and other territorial possessions. The remaining unappropriated and unreserved public lands amount to 186,604,733 acres. 0 BOY! ■ TURKEY an" everything! All yon ean eat. SI.OO SI.OO Grand Hotel Restaurant

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT s Review of Things hy the Editor A$ He Sees Them on the Surface. j AFa I Impre .Jon j There seems- to be a ’belief iamong some peop’e .hat an editor’s business is spyin-r a ’ m : thO {citizens of his community, or (searching for happenings he knows will embarrass someone' when they appear in print. And yet the majority of ne pie -know jthat nothing could be farther from the truth. s There are times when an editor has to print things fiat he i deeply resrrets. Yet he could not [be true to his readers if he took I their money in payment for a i newspaper— and then suppressed I the news. He is very often forced to publish that which he I would very much like to keep lout. Bnt he knows frnt if he 'esn’t conduct his ”■ . aher as i all others are conducted he’ll be lout of business soon and someone will come along to f i.e the.bread and meat out of his mouth by running a newspaper like the public is willing to pay for. We wish it we ’ srible for -us to make eVeryone understand that we would rather mint a whole column of som’ thing nice about a man than to have to print two lines that would cause him or his relatives and friends pain. We are always banpier when we have ow readers smiling than we could pe<sibly be when they frown* We will go out of our wa.v and lie a little if necessary to say something nice someone, regardless l of whom it may be. and we’ll never feet cur conscience pricking us. But it always huits us to have to print the truth when the truth makes someone else feel badly. So remember that, if you are ‘ passed among those Few who think that an editor’s heart is so calloused that he doesn’t care what he prints. * , S«»me. Of Rroblhition In spite of a’l obstacles and '"»ndicaps the sored, economic - and industrial reforms accomplished under four years of prohibition, are so numen us that it is difficult to catalogue them in one article. But here are a few outstanding and verified facts:' - There are no longer 177,790 open, legalized sal 1 »atfc rate has fallen amarirozly. the dej crease being equivalent to saving 873.000 lives; the federal census shows a almost 6 per cent in our criminal population; «t least seven million motor cars have been bought with money that formerly went to the saloon, and Roger Babson is authority for the statement’ that this accounts for much of our prosperity; savings deposits increased last year a billion dollars: insurance’ holdings gained eleven billions; the growth of Labor banks is due to prohibition; homes for alcoholics have decreased from 238 tn IkS; the per capita wealth has increased from $968 to $2,918. and labor unions air now going on rec ord to the effect that the Eighteenth Am- ■ endment is the greatest blessing they ever receivedThe new fad of cross word puzzles has made a lot of people dig up the old dibtionary, wipe opF the dust and thumb xhore leaves thari they have done in a score of years. Now if some one will work out some combinations so we will have to dig up the Bible, we will agree that here is a benefit to the country. The cross word is a great vocabulary builder as well as the mbstTsensible indoor game we know of. Why not equip the locomotives with life nets instead of cowcatchers? This might prevent fewer loss of lives at grade crossings. A movie £tar says in an interview motion picture actors should not marry. At least they might try' doing it less frequently. It’s hard to tell what scares a fat man worse—to tell him he has to die or that he has to diet. If you want something for nothing you can geuerellv get it, but it's hardly ever worth it. After a man has made a host of friends he gets elected to an office and then loses them.

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