The Syracuse Journal, Volume 17, Number 36, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 1 January 1925 — Page 1

VOLUME XVII.

THE MILFORD BANK CASE Milford Attorney Appointed Receiver to Wind Up Affairs of Farmers State Bank Donald Vanderveer, ‘Milford attorney, .Monday was appointed by Judge L. W. Royse in Kosciusko circuit court, as permanent receiver for the defunct Farmers State Bank at Milford. -He will succeed T. J. Nye, of Warsaw, former Kosciusko county auditor, who was named porary receiver by Judge Royse several weeks ago. Mr. Nye has been in charge of the bank since the bank examiners left and he will now turn matters over to Mr. Vanderveer. Attorney' Lloyd Burris, of Goshen, appeared before Judge Royse on behalf of the stockholders of the defunct bank. He presented a petition signed by 175 persons holding claims against the bank. Included in this list were all of.the stock-, holders of the bank and an over-. whelming majority of the creditors, he said. The list represented $200,000 of the $250,000 claims against the mstitutiqn he declared. The petition requested Judge Royse to name Mr. Vanderveer as permanent receiver. Judge Royse, in appointing Mr. VanderveeKas receiver, said he did so reluctantly because he felt that some person outside the community could better afford to shoulder the responsibility of settling up the tangled financial matters. The receiver’s work he pointed out, will be far from pleasant and many incidents will come which are bound to create hard feelings. He urged that the people of Milford lay aside their emotions and work with the receiver in getting a speedy settlement of the bank’s affairs. He instructed the new receiver to report to the court as soon as he had collected in SIO,OOO or $15,000 so that the first distributions may be made. If sufficient memberships in the Tippecanoe Country Club can be sold to pay the moneydue James Shepard it is probable that the bank will be able to pay in full, it is stated. • ... - GBITUARY OF C. KOLBERG Charles Kolberg, residing about half mile east of Syracuse, departed this life December 15. 1924. at the age of 73 years and 21 days. Decedent was born in Stolp, Germany, November 24, 1851. He was married to Miss Hulda ‘ Poppenfoose April 24, 1875. To them were given four children, two of whom (Hattie and Lewis) having preceded their father to the great beyond. Rinard Kolberg of Syracuse and Mrs. Alta Tom of Chicago remain to mourn their sad loss. Mr. Kolberg and wife with their first bom son came to America June 1, 1880. and settled in Kosciusko County, Ind., and here continued to make their home ever since with the exception of a few years* spent in Wisconsin. . - • Mr. Kolberg was a member of the Christian Church known as the Mock church and for many years was a faithful attendant until they moved from the neighborhood. Since then he has attended the church at Indian Village where for many years he taught a. Sunday School class, some years past he has been afflicted, but was a patient sufferer and seemed ready and willing to go and be at rest, Besides hia children he leaves his wife, one brother, Henry • Kolberg and one half brother, Albert Hibner. There are also . four living grandchildren. Beedes these there are distant relatives and a host of friends. . Burial was in North Webster cemetery. Card Os Thanks We take this way in extending our thanks to relatives and friends who so kindly assisted in our sad bereavement—the death of our father and husband, also for the floral offering. Mrs. Hulda Kolberg and Children. SETS COLORBPEBKANENTLY To set the color in any cotton material, add a handful of salt and two tablespoons of turpentine to three quarters of a pail of hot goods in and allow to-repin until water is cold. This dhouid set the colors permanently so that neither sun nor washinfWll fade them aft-

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CHRISTMAS PARTY AT THE CROW’S NEST. A very Merry Christmas party j j was one which met at Crow's; I Nest, Lake Wawasee, on Christmas Day in response to an invitation from their aunt, Mrs. Martha Crow-Fick to the following nieces and nephews: Mr. and Mrs. Thenes Doll and sons Elvin and Hejrman, of Wawasee; Byron Doll and family of Syracuse;: Mrs. Violet Doll, Mr. and Mrs. I Arthur J. Gibbons, their daughter Jean and son Jim. all of Indianapolis; Mrs. Rae Knox and sons, Russell and Frank. A very elaborate Christmas dinner of roast goose with all ’’the fixins” was one of the features of the day, and a gaily, decorated Christmas tree i< r the children and radio entertainment in the evening enlivened the older guests. The same guests, her two sisters’ children, and grandchildren were with Mrs. Fick on Christmas Day two years ago, and it was a source of great satisfaction to her that neither sickness nor death had prevßated the little circle from meeting again In jolly reunion this year. Much of the childhood of Theries and Byron Doll, Mrs. Lou Gibbons, Mrs. Violet Doll and Mrs. Rae Knox was spent with their aunt at Crow’s Nest and they, with their families are always accorded a warm and homey reception at the old Nest. o / BASKETBALL NEWS Milford won two games from Syracuse at Milford on Friday night, the games being witnessed by an unusually large crowd. In the first .game the score was 30 to 15. The second teams of the two towns, was unusually interesting and very fast and the final score was Milford 19, Syracuse 17. It was' the first defeat for the second team of Syracuse. Milford’s first team has won every game played. 'Friday, January 2. Etna Green first and second teams will play Syracuse first and second teams at the local gym. ■ Etna Green has a good team this year, led by Vawter. the star center of the county, who measures six feet five inches. These two games- should dfaw a crowded house. First game called at 7:30. Clingerman will be the referee. UNION REVIVAL Union revival meetings, continuing for three weeks, will be held in the Evangelical, Methodist and the United Brethren churches in Syracuse, beginning next Sunday at the Evangelical church. The second week the meetings, will be held in the Methodist and the last week in the U. B. church. The services will begin at 7:30, except Sundays, when they will begin at 7:00. No services on Saturdays. Evangelist Ross McDonald will render special music and also direct the choir. Everybody welcome. BIG BUSINESS — 3 The Christmas mail that arrived and was sent out by the Syracuse postoffice has eclisped all previous years in volume of business. Monday befijre Christmas the stamp sales broke all previous records in the history of the postoffice and was nearly double than the year before. The rural mail carriers also reported that the number of packages handled were more than any other year, MASONS ELECT OFFICERS Syracuse Lodge No. 454, F. & A. M. at its regular meeting Friday evening elected the following officers: W. M—W. T. Colwell S. W.—Sam Searfoss. J. W.—-E. L. Striebv. Treasurer—-James Searfoss. Secretary— Hallie Holloway. Trustee—Roscoe Howard. The above officers will be installed at the regular meeting January 9. o REFUSE TO PAY PHONE BILL I ■ The public service commission at Indianapolis last week received complaint from subscribers of the Harlan Telephone company alleging refusal to pay their telephone bills until the i service is improved » O ■ TO AID CHURCH Methodists at Nappanee hive subscribed S2OO to aid the M. E. ; church at Milford, following the i loss sustained by the failure o - the Fanners State bank at Milford.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1925.

HALF OF INDIANA’S TAX DOLLAR FOR SCHOOLS i Almost fifty cents of the average 1923 farm tax dollar in Indiana was levied for school purposes. according to a statement by the Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation. Os this dollar 475 cents went to the support of education, 27.8 cents for .the construction and maintenance of highways, while the remaining j 24.6 cents was divided between the general costs of government, benevolent institutions and miscellaneous expenditures, the statement continues. Other interesting facts concerning taxation in this state were also unearthed by the Foundation, which based its statement on a review of selected farmers by the government. A study of 109 Indiana rented farms covering the years 1919 to 1923 showed an average advance in taxes from 90 cents per acre 1919 to $1.60 in 1922. There was a slight decline in 1923 to $1.41 per acre. On account of the lower rentals in the latter years, however, a very much greater percentage in increase in taxes is shown w+ien figured on the basis of net rent for the two periods. The percentage of net rent paid out in taxes on these Indiana farms rose from 12.4 per cent in 1919 to 39.6 in 1923. According to the government investigation only 16.9 per cent of the rural taxes paid in Indiana during 1923 went to the support of the state government. The rent was levied and spent 10ca11y—45.4 per cent by the townships and 37.7 per cent by the counties. Few farmers paid any Federal income tax that year, so this item is ignored in the calculation. Broaching the facts for the country, the statement calls attention to the fact that taxes on the average' farm last year amounted to approximately 17.6 per cent of the net farm returns. Nearly seven per cent of the gross value of. all farm products went to pay farm taxes in 1923 as compared with only 4.9 per cent in 1913. o HAD NARROW ESCAPE One day last week our friend Warren Ruple decided to go hunting on the James Juday farm. It is generally conceded the hunter goes after game, but it seems in this ease the game went after the hunter, for a buck-sheep took notice of Mr. Hunter and at once made a beeline for him. Now, Warren is not so easily scared, but he thought it best in this case to run and finally found safety on top of an old buggy. Elmer Long happened along, drove Mr. Buck away and helped Mr. Ruple on terra firms again, otherwise he might have been there yet., ■■ ; — o — ' ' NEW FISH HATCHERY O. D. Lucas of Orland is preparing to lay out what will be one of largest fish hatcheries in the state near Angola where a million large and small mouth bass will be hatched yearly for use in Hoosier lakes and streams. The state conservation department and the Lake James Cottagers association will co-ope-rate in the movement o —*- IT ENDS IN TALK Every two years just before the state legislature convenes there is talk of shortening the session from its constitutional limit of sixty-one days to thirtyfive or forty days but it is never done. Members find their vacation and horseplay none too long with sixty-one days at $6 per day and mileage. Shortening of the session always ends in talk. REV? DUSTIN MARRIED A marriage license was granted to Rev. S. Kahl Dustin_jmd Miss Viola Rason at Columbia City on Wednesday, December 24. Rev. Dustin is well known in this city, having been paster last year of the Church of God. o . SMALLPOX AT WARSAW Warsaw is threatened with an . epidemic of smallpox. Several . cases have been reported and are under quarantine. The board t of health may issue an order that everybody, especially school children, must be vaccinated. WARSAW GAS PLANT SOLD ■Hie Warsaw Gas Plant, together with the iras companies at ty con*roncu oyx iw

j Compliments of the Season i The New Year places within our hands a book with 365 clean j white pages. What will we write thereon? The book is Ours to make or to mar. Will we write words and deeds of wisdom, or will we write such words and deeds of folly that the angels will mercifully blot them out with their tears. What will we do with the year 1925? Is your ship anchored, swifiging lazily with the tide? Are you drifting with the tide? Or have you weighed anchor, set sail and are you at the helm, steering your ship toward a goal? God has given you your talents, yoflr abilities, to help yourself and your fellow man. And some day you will be called upon to render back to him who gave those talents with usury. Do not waste your energies, but devote your God-given powers to being good, doing good and making the world better for having lived in it. Moment by moment, day, by day we build, and when we stand on the threshold of a new year we always pause and look back to see what kind of structure we builded with the days, what wb wrote in the volume of life. Notwithstanding the storms and viscisitudes, enmities and prejudices that inevitably gather about either a vigorous, ambitious, agressive individual or newspaper, the Syracuse Journal enters this new year with nothing but red blood in its veins, bowing the knee to no individual and wearing the yoke of no party faction, with a following, patronage and power in this community that we hope to increase through worthy effort. With these reasons/for rejoicing ye extend best wishes for * A Hapoy New Year to You.” May this day mark the beginning of a new era of health and prosperity and' happiness, and the experience of a fading past inspire to renewed energy and effort and success. May destiny smile upon you and shape anticipation into realization of your fondest hopes. So, courage dear friends! and the compliments of the season. Q FOB NEW YEARS GREETING It is not the work we intend to do Nor the work we have just begun. That put us right on the Ledger’s sheet It is the work we have really done. Our credit is built on the things we do Our debts on things we shirk. The man who totals the biggest plus Is the man who completes his work. Good intentions don’t do the trick It i» ea§y enough to plan, To wish, is the piay of an office boy To do is the job of a man. (Unknown). O NOW INMATE OF INFIRMARY _______ * Mrs. Minnie Yates, aged 50 years, an invalid, is the first victim of the Milford bank failure to feel the desperate weight of misfortune which overtook that community recently. She had all her money deposited in the bank, and now that it is lost, and with no means of support, she has been taken to the Kosciusko county infirmaryo • TV IT I 1?IY VTK -* > 1 llfiiia Tv laAjM w lljfliJLr The will of the late Henry A. Snider was probated in the circuit court at Goshen. He leaves his wife, Christiana, 35 acres of land; a son, William, 40 acres; another son, Frank Judson Snider, 40 acres, all in Benton township. The sum of S3OOO is given to Monroe Ott as trustee for a third son, Samuel Snider of Ligonier. _o READING UP THE WOOD Every person who buys a 24page newspaper for two cents cut out of the forests of the United States or Canada a block of wood two inches high, three ; inches wide and four inches long, i With the help of a paper mill a > pie of the day’s news.

CONSERVATION AND PROMOTION OF WILD LIFE l i At a recent meeting of the American Protective Association, in New York City, which national organization acts as a clearing house for the conservation and promotion of wild life, George N. Man nfeld, superintendent of fisheries and game of this state told the convention that Indiana has decidedly more wild life though population has increased and there is less cover for wild things than in 1918, prior to organization of t.h«* state conservation department. , ' TKe Indiana situation is due, Mannfeld said, to strict law enforcement by au eincient warden service, plus an ever increasing interest among the people through educational stories in the state press, and the fact that 172 protective fish and game clubs, organized by the conservation department are carrying the campaign to kill , wild life judiciously, to the individual by personal contact. Mannfeld said that in 1918 his division’s receipts .amounted to $89,000. For the fiscal year closing September 30, receipts were $190,000. This division receives no legislation appropriation and is self supporting, deriving its revenue from the sale of hunting and fishing licenses, the majority of which sell for $1 each. During the past year, according to this conservation official, the division constructed a $60,000 fish hatchery in southern Indiana, which makes five now operated at which millions of baby game fish are annually raised and used for stocking public waters. The division from its funds also purchased 8,000 acres ol cut over land in Brown county where it will further wild game and bird propagation and assist in reforestation. ’ • To prove that more game exists in Indiana taL'«y under conditions brought about -by the conservation department than half a decade ago, and in the face of advancing civilization, that great destroyer of wild life, Mannfeld told of a census last March which showed 2503 coveys of quail on 148,000 acres in 48 of 92 counties of this state. The average was a covey to each 57 acres. Only 13 owners report wKoHjtfii l their lands. ' ■ *> ■ ” Mannfeld says while there is at abundance of wild game, sportsmen frequently are distressed where to hunt because so many farms are posted. If the division’s receipts are allowed to be spent as now, ib will be possible, he declared, to carry out the Pennsylvania idea of establishing public shooting grounds. o COMMUNITY TREE The center of attraction Wednesday evening was the Community Christmas Tree which has recently been planted in the school house lawn. Although the thermometer registered around zero it did not prevent the kiddies and some of the grown-ups to be there and enjoy the occasion. At 7:30 the program was opened by the children by the singing of Christmas carols, after which Santa Claus appeared on the school house steps and distributed several hundred packages of candy. The Wednesday Afternoon Club is the donor of the tree and also sponsored the affair, which, we trust, will be continued every year. o,.— HORSEMEN MEET AT PURDUE Announcement is made by Prof. R. B. Cooley, SecretaryTreasurer of the Indiana Draft 1 Horse Breeders’ Association, that the annual meeting of the association will be held at Purdue University during Agricultural Conference week,. January 12-16, The horsemen's special program is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, January 14 and 15 and it offers one of the best educational opportunities ever arranged for them. <>: ORANGES FROM FLORIDA The Journal editor is iq receipt of a box of Oranges from his brother, who has ah orange grove near Wauchula, Florida. Thanks, brother, thanks, for your thoughtfulness. x u o * J. M. SCHAFFER Chiropractor will be at the Amanda Darr residence, corner Harrison and Henry streets,. Tuesday and Friday ■ of each week. Hours 2to 5 and > 7 to 9 p. m. 31-ts O s Subscribe for the Journal.

HUNTING SEASON" ALMOST CLOSED Indianapolis. Ind., Dec. 30. —. : State conservation officials point-! ed out today that while December 20 marked the close of the lawful hunting season on all kinds of wild game other than rabbits and waterfowl, the season for taking fur bearing animals continues to and including February 10. Rabbits may be lawfullly killed until January 10. but the closed season on wild ducks and geese starts January 1. • According to George N. Mann-1 feld, fish and game division su-i nerintendent, the law permits killing 15 wild'ducks and eight wild geese a day during the open season. There is no bag limit on rabbits. In a report filed with the commission, Mannfeld shows that 318 pelts of fur bearing animals were confiscated by wardens this fall. These hides were taken during the closed season. The pelts include 228 muskrat. forty-six opossum, thirty skunk, eight raccoon, four fox and two mink. The mink hides are the most valuable, fox next in value, and then in order, raccoon, skunk, opossum and muskrat. The pelts taken this year are not in prime condition and therefore will not yield any big return. The conservation department has and will continue to make a hard fight against taking fur bearers during the fall months nrior to opening of the season for such, and before the advent of cold weather, Mannfeld explained. Killed before nature has caused their pelts to grow thick and the hair set firm as protection against the severe winter weather, the pelts are practically valueless in the markets, whereas if these same animals were taken legally, they could not have been-killed before that period of winter when the pelts would have been prime condition. It is such wastes as this that the department is striving to overcome both by law enforcement and matter of education. z o WELTON MANOR L. B. Boyd of Stxuth Bend this week closed a deal whereby he 'became owner of the 80 acre farm owned bv M. H. McPherson, and also the 110 acre farm nwned by Jim Juday, both residents of this city. The farms ioin each other on the north sh&re of Syracuse Lake. The new plot of ground is in the section known by the na.me of Maxwelton Manor, which is the name chosen by the real estate men who are interested in this tract of land. The McPherson farm was the late John A, Ott farm and was inherited by his daughter, Mrs. M. H. McPherson. Both farms sold for $20,000 apiece. Mr. Boyd is selling the land in lots, all of which have a fine shore line on Syracuse Lake. Several lots have already been sold and a garage has been built on one of the lots, and the owners will prepare to build summer homes on them in the near future. o TEACHERS BETTER PAID The average salary of the teachers in township schools of Indiana have doubled during the past ten years according to statistics compiled by the state department of public .instruction The salaries of the teachers of town and city schools of the state have also been raised but not to the extent of the township instructors. The average salary for township elementary teachers in 1914 was $414.83 and that of the hivh school teacher was $670.86. In 1924 the medium salary of the elementary instructor was $871.71 and that of the high school teacher, $1,292.41. The increase in the elementary salary average is 110.13 per cent and in the average high school teacher’s salary 91.15 per cent. —o BIRTHS A son was born on Wednesday, December 17, to Mr. and Mrs. : Chester Prough at the home of ’ her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Sloan. Phillip Eugene was the name chosen for the newccwner. Mrs. Prough before her marriage was Miss Ruth Sloan of this city. . COMMERCIAL CLUB MEET r The next meeting of the Syra- [ cuse Commercial Club and noonr day luncheon will be held at the (Sign of tiie Kettle Tuesday, January &

THINGS TO f THINK ABOUT Review of Things by the Editor ( 'Ole Sees Them on 'X Surface. In the Good Olfl Days. How would you like to do l without our electric lights or (telephone? The recent sleet storm should form a good basis of comparison between present day methods and those of net so many, years ago. If we once got water works installed we would miss it just as much, and wouldn’t do without it for twice what it cost us. Right now some of us think we are getting along fairly well on what we have, with a wood driven well about every half a square, from which the whole neighborhood carries its watei for drinking and cooking purposes, and a cistern (most of them too dirty to use) on almost every lot, where we can get all the rain water we need for household use if we will break the ice and fish around long enough to either draw it or get the old pump to working. But how much nicer it would be to have an infinite supply right “ in .your kitchen where all you have to do was to turn a faucet. About as big a contrast as the light and telephone proposition, isn’t it? The Paper As A Salesman “Don’t sit behind the steering wheel waiting for business to turn Up,” says the Griffin (Ga.) News. “Crank up. Get in the game. Use the columns of your i' local newspaper as an additional ; salesman and turn that stock before it gets rusty.” ; i 1 MAN—Something that can see a pretty girl three blocks away while driving a motor car in a crowded city street, but will fail to notice, in the wide, open coun-try-side, the approach of a locomotive the size of a school-house and accompanied by a block of forty-two box cars. WANTED—By the Christian Church, a Revival that will shake the kingdom of satan to its foundation and bring down anew upon men the baptism of the Holy Spirit. (Communicated). Boys are said to inherit their __ mothers’ eyes and their fathers’ foreheads, but not so many of them are wearing their fathers' cast off britches as formerly. The wealth of this country is figured at $300,000,000,000 and it would be just like some senator to demand a recount. The bad thing about so many laws enacted to make the world better is that they succeed only in making it bitter. Why should men kick about having their backs to the wall? Most of us have holes in our trousers anyway. You may be willing to “let well enough alone,” but well enough isn’t always willing to. let you alone. > — _ The Journal wishes all its readers and all the people now on earth a happy and prosperous New Year. A good law is any law that restricto the other fellow, and a bad law is any law that restricts ourselves. We read the other day where a man wrote an article on fresh milk and the editor condensed it. A wife may be called the better half because she usually gets the best of the other half. Too many men give more attention to the hands of the clock than to their own. Airplanes are going so high and fast now it takes two men . to see one. f i You cannot enjoy the full coms fort of life and loaf at the same . time. »'■ 11 ; Many a misguided young , fellow becomes after marriage a Mrs.nguided man. An optimist is a man who ex- . pects to find a clean pair of socks » without holes. ’ Write it 1925.

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