The Syracuse Journal, Volume 17, Number 37, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 January 1925 — Page 1

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SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Items of I ate rest Concerning Our High School Written for The Syracuse Journal. The following students have been neither tardy nor absent during the first four months: SENIORS—I 3% of the class. Ruth Blanchard and Phyllis Mick. JUNIORS—33% of the class. Christine Garriott, Wayne / Hoelcher, Ruby Mellinger. Louise Snobarger and Phyllis Miller. Y SOPHOMORES—3S% of class. Harold Bobeck. Rebecta Flemming. Ray Kehr, Elizabeth McClintic, Blanche Mellinger. Willeadean Robison, Dale Shock and Eva Yoder. FRESHMEN—S 4% of the class Frederick Clayton. Eria Flem- . ming, Henry Godshalk. Ray God- . shalk, Emora Kettring. Prentice Kindig. Arnold Klingaman, Lucille Lantis, Ruby Lewallen, Ray ( McClintic, Junior Miller, Evelyn Mock, Claire Pfingst. Zel m a Strickman and Leila Connolly. EIGHTH GRADE—29% class. Phyllis Druckamiller, Mary Geiger, Velma Shock, Eugene Snavely, .Mae Swank and Pauline Wogoman. The semester honor roll—those receiving ho grades below "B:“ SENIORS—33 1-3% of class. Ruth Blanchard. Thelma Eiler. Gerald Geiger, Ralph Godshalk and Elizabeth Rodspn. Os these Ruth Blanchard has received no grades below “A." JUNIORS—46 2-3% of class.’ Virginia Bachman, Leon Connolly, Margaret Freeman, Harry Grieger, Paul Lantis, Phyllis Miller and Louise Snobarger. SuiHOMORES—43 11-23%, Harold Bobeck, Everette Crow, Rebecca Flemming, Gerald Henwood. Elizabeth McClintic, Blanche Mellinger. Cecilia Moran Willeadean Robinson, Dale Sho.-k and Eva Yoder. (Elizabeth McClintic received no grades below “A.” FRESHMEN —2B 4-7% of class. Thelma Geyer, Henry Godshalk. Maxine Jenkins, Prentice Kindig. Lucille Lantis. Helen Leacock, Phyllis Morrison and Natheta Sloan. ETGHTH CRADE—4 16-21%. Mary Geiger. Margaret Smith, who attended I school during the first semester . has spent a few days visiting the I High School this week. She is leaving Sunday for New York ! from where she will sail for < Brazil. We all wish her a pleas- I ant voyage but she is not 1 staying with use The Freshmen Home Econom- i ics Class served a chicken dinner 1 Wednesday noon to the winning i team of the Volley Ball tournament. When is the losing team i going to roll the peanuts? Mr. McDonald, the singer for ! the Evangelical meetings visited I the High School Wednesday morning. He told the story of i Jonah and the whale, and sang a 1 song about it. i The Seniors held a class meet- < ing one morning this week and i decided on a play which they in- i tend to give as soon as possible. Miss Hamman has been asked to I coach the m. The schedule ba® been completely changed for the second term work. Classes in Commercial Law and Solid Geometry have been organized. Tuesday evening as 4:30 a moving picture of one reel, “King Basket Ball.” was shown in the assembly for any of those who cared io stay it. Miss Julian, the Art and Music teacher, returned Tuesday. She had been sick at her Indianapolis home. ’ The report cards for the first semester were given to the pupils on Friday. The school sold 3355 Christmas Mate this year. * o ,—-—- • BASKETBALL NOTES The thus far undefeated Mili ford team met defeat at the hands of the Warsaw Tigers last SXjgSSIThe Syracuse basketball team •*•»*-**' iiisywMU v* * I ■ ; : ■ 7

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SYRACUSE HIGH TAKES TWO FROM ETNA GREEN Syracuse High School's first and second teams were returned winners over Etna Green’s first and second teams Friday eve- ' ning at the local gymnasium, in two kinds of basketballing. The first team won by the score of 27 to 19, while the second team romped to an 18 to 1 win. The last game was a thriller ail the way, and kept the spectators on their toes throughout. The two teams seemed evenly matched. Syracuse having a very slight edge in experience. The local quintet had their troubles getting open for shots, due to the good guarding of Vawter and Stackhouse, and were a little off in their passing, but, even at that, there were times during the game in which they exhibited some remarkable accuracy in passing. As a rule roughness was indulged in by both teams to an excess, but a great deal of same appeared to be caused from the evenly match of the opponents. The whole Syracuse team , played a wonderful game, and to . pick one luminary would be a task of eternal duration. However, Connolly and Auer did some smart goal tossing, while Snavely gave as good an exhibition of guarding as the writer ever witnessed. Vawter at guard and Casner at forward showed their wares above other members of their team. The first half ended with Syracuse holding the lion’s part of a 16 to 7 score, while the final whistle found Syracuse out in fyont by 27 to 19. The lineup and scoring: SYRACUSE (FIRST) Pos. Player Pts. R. F. Hoelcher 4 L. F. Connolly 10 C. Auer 12 R. G. Snavely R. G. Ralph Godshalk 1 L. G. Shock k Total 27 ETNA GREEN (FIRST) Pos. Player Pts. R.F. White 1 L. F. Casner 4 L. F. Wright _ 2 C. Hatfield 1 R. G. Vawter 11 L. G. Stackhouse Total 19 Score: Syracuse 27* Etna Green 19 Summary: Syracuse, Field Goals: Hoelcher 1. Connolly 4, Auer 6: Foul Goals: Hoelcher 2, Connolly 2, Ralph Godshalk 1. Etna Green, Field Goals: Casner 2, Vawter 4, Wright 1; Foul Goals*. White 1, Vawter 3, Hatfield 1. Substitutions: Syracuse: Ralph Godshalk for Snavely. Etna Green: Wright for-Casner, Meridith for Stackhouse, Casner for Wright, Stackhouse for White, Wright for Hatfield. Referee: Clingerman. In the first game the Syracuse second team gave Etna Green’s second team a few 'lessons in basketball, in a very listless affair, which at times served to bore the spectators. The first half ended with Syracuse ahead by 7 to 1, which lead was' maintained throughout. Ketring was |he outstanding star of this tilt, with H. Godshalk and Ralph Godshalk playing stellar basketball. For Etna Green Pittman, the smallest player on the team, gave the best account of his presence. The game ended with Syracuse holding the long end of an 13 to 1 score. The lineup and scoring: SYRACUSE (SECOND) Pos. Player - Pts. RF. E. Crow 1 R. F. Ketring 7 L. F. H. Godshalk 6 C. Ralph Godshalk 4 R.G. Ray Godshalk L.G. M. Kehr Total 18 ETNA GREEN (SECOND) Pos. Player Pts. R.F. A. Snider L.F. G. Pittman C. M. Sportseller 1 R. G, Stackhouse L. G. G. Sparrow * Total 1 Score: Syracuse 18 Etna Green 1 Summary: Syracuse. Field GoakK Ketring 3, H. Godshalk 2, Ralph Godshalk 1; Foul Goals: Ketring 1, Crow 1, H. Godshalk 2. Ralph Godshalk 2. Etna Green, Foul Goals: Sponseller 1. Substitutions: Syracuse: Ketring for Crow, Crow for Ray Godshalk. Etna Green: Yazel for l&nder. Snider for Sponseller. > Sponseller for Sparrow. Referee: Clingerman. . .x .. ...» JS /...X. ....... .

Syracuse’s Slogans “A Welcoming Town WitH a Beckoning LaKe!.”

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1925.

LETTER FROM MISSISSIPPI Editor Journal: — Thinking you might like to hear from some Hoosiers who are in the South, have prepared a letter for publication if you have room in your paper, if not the waste paper basket will held it. On December 2nd. Mrs. J. H. Miller (my daughter) and-my-self boarded the train at North Manchester for Biloxi, Miss., to spend the winter. We arrived in Louisville, Ky.. we remained over night, leaving ■ there the next day for Nashville, Tenn. Here we spent a day and two nights. This is a city of 140.000 inhabitants, situated on the Cumberland River and is noted principally for the great number of Colleges within its limits. Most of them have been endowed with large funds from philanthropic northern men, namelv, Vanderbilt and Peabody. The U. S. Government recognizes. as colleges, only three institutions for the higher education of the negro. Two of them. Fisk University and Meharry Medical Callege are located in Nashville. The Fisk Jubilee singers have sung in every capital and at every court in Europe and records made by them are played on ft very phonograph in the United States. Nashville has 231 churches and 22 parks and playgrounds, containing 468 acres. Centennial { Park here, has the only replica nf the Parthenon in the world. The Vanderbilt Stadium, which is just finished seats 22,000 people and is the largest athletic field in the South. Nashville has 4 Carnegie Libraries, besides the State, Vanderbilt and Peabody libraries. There are 360 miles of streets but oh! so narrow’. One need not worry about being run over with autos, which is quite a satisfaction, for if you can take long enough steps, you can cross before an auto, overtakes you. There are 18 wholesale groceries. 6 wholesale shoe houses, a cement plant with daily output of 2000 barrels, a $4,000,000 plant for the manufacture of silk fibre, besides many other commercial institutions. Nashville is served by four with 44 passenger and 68 freignt trains coming in each day. The Cumberland River is navigable for 210 miles down and 352 miles up the river prac- , tically 10 months each year. Nashville’s bank clearings for 9 months of 1923 amounted to $982,564,467. The Hermitage, the home of Andrew Jackson, is located near Nashville and is one of the showgrounds of America. Three presidents of the United States, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson have lived in Nashville. Jackson and Polk are buried there. The battle of Nashville, one of the major engagements of the , Civil War, Was fought partially within the city limits on December 15 and 16,1864. Wm. Driver, a New England sea captain, who named the American flag “Old Glory” is buried in x the old city cemetery. Our beloved BiUy Sunday of Winona, is holding a tabernacle meeting in Nashville and while we didn’t go to hear him, we read with much pleasure his sermon on Solomon and his splendor. Our next stop was at Montgomery. the capital of Alabama. Here we visited the State House and "The White House of the South.” This is a colonial type of house kept open to the public by the Daughters of the Confederacy. It contains many of Jeff Davis' personal belongings, among them a chair, sent him by his friendk of the South while h£ was in prison for 2 years awaiting trial. His bedroom was furnished as when he used it. with a high spool bed. antique dresser or high boy, colonial chairs, etc. In here were his house-slippers, beside a chair; dressing gown of persian silk and leather hat box in which he carried his silk hat when traveling, and many other articles. The grand old dame in charge, was very anxious to tell us all she knew about Davis. In the front porch or gallery (as it is called down here) is a star marking the spot where he stood when taking the oath of office. This is pointed out to visitors with much pride by the citizens for he was the first and only President of the Confederate States. Montgomery is a typical Southern city of about 60,000 population and does not show many signs of enterprise or

THE WAYSIDE CHATTER Editor Journal:— October S>th found us on the way motoring southeast through Georgia. We have passed Cartersville on the sxie Highway and off to the Southeast we see a dark storm cloud coming toward us. But we drive on and on, and as we come nearer and nearer we discover the storm cloud to be the Kennesaw Mountain. The Dixie Highway passes by the foot Os this mountain. It tis now noon time. We stopped I beside the its foot for 'lunch, for it is noon time. Very soon after lunch we took cur camera and started up the foot of the mountain side. We did not go far up until Yye changed our mind, retraced our Steps and secured two fine pictures of the mountain. On this mountain on June 27. 1864, was fought the battle of Kennesaw Mountain. The Confederates under General Joseph E. Johnson withheld several attempts of the Federal General William T. Sherman, to dislodge them from the summit of the mountain. The mountain which is on the Dixie High wav two miles from Marietta will be made into a permanent memorial commemorating the famous battle fought here. A toll road is now being built, and leads to the summit. It is thought thousands of people will visit this historic site, annually. It is said this battle line on top of the mountain is now intact. The gun pits, breast works and battle lines will be preserved. Also will be built a Confederate museum on the gumnut of the mountain. It is also said Kennesaw Mountain is nineteen hundred feet high and over twenty thousand automobile tourists pass it each We leave Kennesaw Mountain behind us and come to the little city of Marietta, two miles away, just outside the city limits. To the east we come to the Marietta National Cemetery. Here lie buried over ten thousand soldiers who fought and died on the Kennesaw Mountain battle field. Indiana 'has a great many sons who lie here. Among them we notice the familiar names of T. M. O’Dei, D. 1W. King. OurJtime and we did not get A see near over the cemetery. *we carried our camera and secund two pictures of nooks itfSthe cemetery. The writer had a long cluit with a son of the owner of tne land at the time this battle was fought. L. A. NEFF o CLEARANCE SALE W. G. Connolly’s clearance sale is drawing many buyers to the Royal Store. Several extra clerks are employed to accommodate customers. Every article in the store is sold at a reduced price. Special reduction is .made on shoes as Mr. Connolly wishes to discontinue this line. Monday afternoon a large crowd gathered to take advantage oi the 5c a bag sale. The Bags went like hot cakes, in fact there were more buyers than bags. The sale will continue all next week. WEDDING ANNIVERSARY « .i - Mr. and F. M. Corn of Nappanee celebrated their sixtyfourth wedding anniversary on New Year’s Day. Mr. Corn is ninety-three years old and Mrs. Corn is eighty-seven. This venerable old couple are enjoying good health and are keeping house, with the assistance of a housekeeper.. They have many friends who are mighty pleased to know they spent their anniversary visiting with their children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. MEKfING OF W. M.& The Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church vyis entertained at the home of Mra J. P. Dolan on Monday afternoon. There was a good ati tendance, y Mrs. Margaret Strieby fell on her porch on Wednesday of last week and brokeher arm just below the shoulder and also her cdter bone. Mrs. Strieby is an aged lady and lives alone. —u. : —= S. L KiffitUNG.

COUNTY UNIT SCHOOLS The announcement that the e county unit bill for the control i of rural schools will be pushed •- when the legislature meets y brings into contrast the forces b that saver this measure and k. thos’e who oppose it. 1 In the supporting group arc 1! the state superintendent of pubi lie instruction, the state board -of education, the Indiana State s Teachers' Association, members t of the faculties of Indiana coll leges and universities, some parr ent-teacher associations throughout Indiana, and educational exc perts who have conducted ex- > perimental surveys in different » counties. s Opp<jsing it are numerous r township trustees, backed by - their state organization; school patrons who are not satisfied as . to what the law would accomf plish, and those who feel* that - the bill would place 1 too much i power in the county superin- . tendent or some similar official. I The argument made by county s unit advocates that the rural ; schools would get better educai tional facilities, would accom- > plish more and raise their stand- • I ards materially as a smaller outI lay of money than is now passii ble under the township system of maintenance. » These claims are denied by those opposing the plan, along with their opposition to what is termed one-man power. o s TO EXHIBIT CEDAR CHESTS The Wawasee Cedar Chest Co. last week sent a carload of Cedar Chests —67 of them—to Chicago, where they are to be exhibited at the Furniture show which opened Monday of this week. The chests are of the latest pattern and designsi Gum wood lined with cedar, walnut lined with cedar, part blue lines, par£ gold lines, which is a new thinF this season. Chas. F. Fitzsimons, the salesman of the company, is in charge of the exhibit. John H. Brunjes, office clerk and secretary of the company, accompanied the shipment and assisted Mr. Fitisimons in arranging the exhibit. The Wawasee Cedar Chest Co. was organized last summer and stockholders are mostly comtWreoHif' Sifice the beginningzthe Company hUs met with wonderful success and often it was Necessary for the men to work overtime to keep up with the ofders. Thfe officers of the company .will attend the exhibition at Chicago, which will continue for a month. * o THE MILFORD BANK CASE The total shortage, including notes and personal defalcations of James T. Shepard and the deficit in accounts of the Farmers’ State Bank at Milford, will approximate $230,000, according to a report filed by Temporary Receiver Tom J. Nye. Warsaw, with Judge L. W. Royse of the Kosciusko Circuit Court Monday. The account shortage is SII,OOO. Bonds missing and securities of individuals placed at the bank for safe keeping and put up by Shepard for collateral reach a total of $49,752. According to Nye, Shepard before his arrest and following the closing of the bank, admitted to several persons in Milford that there were a number of papers he had forged and which at that time were in Fort Wayne. — o— - LEGISLATI RE TO CONVENE ' Senator Leroy Leonard, who represents Kosciusko and Wfrbash Counties, and Representative Forrest Knepper, representing Kosciusko County, departed Tuesday for Indianapolis to attend conferences preliminary to the opening of the Indiana General Assemnly on Thursday, January 8. o BOWERSOX-HAYS , Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bowersox have received an announcement of the marriage of their son, George Bowersox and Miss Rheta Hays. The ceremony was performed in Los Angeles, CaSff., at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Robert Hays, on Tuesday, December 30. 0 MARRIED * , Leroy Wogoman and Miss Helen Gertrude Mellinger were married Tuesday evening at the home of his mother, Mrs. Clara i aktuiz. r loyu pab -vr of the Church of God, performed » Syr-use.

INDIANA SWEET CORN PACK SHOWS BIG DROI I The sweet com pack of Indi l !»na for 1924 is 400.000 cases ur i der that of last year. The tots > pack this year is 846.000 case [ as compared to 1.208,000 case the year before, while the 192! pack was somewhat more thai 600.000 cases: The sweet corn pack in thi state finds its counterpart in th< national pack for the year. Tota production in 1924 was ove twelve million cases a? com pa rec with the fourteen million case; of the year before. This year’: production, however, is ab?ut i million cases above the pack o 1922. The violent fluctuatior from year to year has been char acteristic of the com industry sc that the 15,000.000 case; whieh were produced in 192( dropped the very next year t< scarcely half that figure. Al though» 14 million cases wen produced as far bads as 1911 two years later found that pro duction cut into two. with th* result that steady prices would be impossible but for com mor practice of carrying heavy stocks over from one season to the next. The fluctuation in productior is not only shown in the country as a whole but individual states fluctuate sharply in opposite dilections the same year, the figures compiled by the Foundation show. Ohio canned only about half as much corn, this year ai liist, while Maine increased her output about one-third. Maine, New York and Minnesota were the only states to show material increase this year, lowa, Illinois and Maryland dropping off 20 to 25 percent each while still dividing honors fairly evenly for heading place. CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Trinity Lutheran Church of South Bend is this week celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of its founding with an elaborate program of services. I’he speakers at the special services during the week have been Dr. Wm, Eckert of Chicago, Rev. C. A. Dehnig of Warren. Pa., Rev. R. D. Wheadon of Constantine, Mich., and Mayor E. F. Seel>ert of South Bend. Rev. A. H. Keck 'has been pastor of the church for the past seventeen years during which time the church has shown remarkable progress and expansion, and the rtew church building was built. A number of local Lutherans expected to attend some of the anniversary services. A NNIVERSARY CELEBRATION ’ On Sunday afternoon, January 18, at 2:30 o’clock, the temperance people will ‘ celebrate the fifth anniversary of National Prohibition. The program will be prepared by the members of the W. C. T. U. There will be no January meeting this month on account of the revival meeting now in progress in the city. The next regular meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 10. REVIVALMEETINGS The revival meetings have been drawing large audiences at the Evangelical church this week. Preaching by Rev. Dauner, Cremean and Eiler. Ross McDonald is the singer and also director of the choir. Next week the meetings will be held in the Methodist church. OFFICEIK ELECTED Syracuse Lodge No. 799, I. 0. (X F., it its last meeting elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Noble Grand —S. L. Bell. Vice Grand—Cressel Kitson. Secretary—Chas. Crow. Treasurer—Miller Weaver W. M. SOCIETY MEETS The Woman’s Missionary Society of the Lutheran Church met Tuesday evening with Mrs. Wm. Beckmann as hostess. A ‘ Missionary Mail Bag” was the topic studied with Miss Katherine Richart as the leader. Q DELIVERED SERMON Rev. R. N. McMichael deliv»sred the sermon on “The Universal Church,” at the union orayer service in Nappanee Tuesday evening. All Nappanee churches are uniting in the week of special prayer services. — o O.RB, The Eastern Star Chapter will meet on Monday night, January 12.

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT 1 f s s Review of Things by the Editor < As He Sees Them on the Surface. s a 1 The Kindly Woman r If only a woman could '“ ba 1 made to believe that one of the s surest passports to success is s kindness, she Tfrould find her Gway through life smoothing out i astonishingly. It always pays, 1 and it always is a passnort that - lies right in her own hand and . may be had with a wee bit of 5 trouble, an infinitesemal amount >of repression. It will do so > much for a woman, get her so - many favors and make her path--way so much easier and more • pleasant that from a very sel- • fish viewpoint, if no other, a wo- - man would do well to adopt a ‘ platform of 1 There are gracious women who f count their friends by the score. ‘ friends won by the power of kindness. There are cross grained creatures who bewail their friendless condition when all the ' time the trouble is of their own making. Most of us know saleswomen who apt towaAl customers in such an overbearing and insolent manner that the exasperated purchaser shakes the dust of the establishment off her shoes and never returns. On the other hand there are saleswomen who hold their customers year after year through quiet courtesy and endeavor to please. The proprietors know these saleswomen, and other proprietors come to know of them—therefore there is always a place ahd always a little better salary offered. Fashionable women should not be expected to be any more*kindly than their humbler sisters, but all women ought to be exnected to be kind, just to make life worth living and to oil the wheels of things. It will make things so much more pleasant, and will bring friends and all that makes life worth living. Unkindness is always repelling, and there never yet was anybody who was won by an ugly demeanor, nor a snippy manner, nor a grouch that never wore off. Ycu have tergive sbme men credit for bringing home the bacon. If yon didn’t give them credit, they couldn’t get the bacon to bring home. The guy at the next desk savs he knows a guy who is so tight he put a nickel in a Salvation Army pot and asked for four cents in change. Modern inventions make it hard for criminals A burglar, on a dark night, can’t tell whether he’s opening the safe or tuning in the radio set. The Ford has been reduced in price again. Why didn't they let the price stay where it was and put another spririg in the back seat? . , We don’t see why they speak of standing engagements when you don’t have to stand anything until after you are married. Magnus Johnson evidently lacks the staying qualities that have kept Hiram and Walter in the big leagues. Hambone says have success, if you have to have opportunity by the tail in one hand and a stick in the other. Heck Says, “I ain’t feeling sorry for myself, but it’s right hard at times to have a truck chassis and a sport model mind.” There are over one million insects in tW British museum. It is said few former doughboys visit the place. “Let your conscience be your guide.” It’s easy to organize a searching party for the fellow who is lost. When the husband |rets the last word* now, it makes her happy. She needs it to complete the puzzle. . If this blizzard had struck the country oh Nov. 4, we could have kept cool with anybody. A New Year’s resolutionmake the best of things as they

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