The Syracuse Journal, Volume 17, Number 40, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 January 1925 — Page 1

VOLUME XVII.

WIFE SLAIN , BY HUSBAND Scene of-the Troeiedy in Front of the W’areaw PeHtoflee Sunday Afternoon Charles Slater of Milford, former insurance and restaurant 9 man of Warsaw, shot and killed his wife and then turned the gun ot| himself, both dying instantly, in front of the Warsaw postoffice Sunday afternoon. Slater is believed to have become angered because his wife filed a suit for divorce in the Kosciusko circuit.court recently. The double shooting took place on the sidewalk in front of the postoffice. Slater is said to have fired at close range at his wife, the bullet taking effect in the breast near the heart. After she fell, witnesses said. Slater calmly walked to her and . fired another bullet into her body. He then deliberately held the 32-call her revolver to his' temple and pulled the trigger. He fell alongside his wife’s body. The shooting took place at 3:30 o’clock, approximately five minutes after Mrs. Slater arrived in Warsaw from Milford, where she has been operating A grocery store since she filed diyorce proceedings three weeks (ago. An adopted daughter, Ebadna. age 17, survives. She is a student at the Milford Junior High school and has been living with her parents. The Slaters were married on July 4, 1907. Although Mr. and Mrs. Slater separated about 18 months ago. they came to Milford last June and engaged in the grocery business. Two weeks ago Mr. Slater left their home in Milford and had net been back since. The grocery store was sold by Mrs. Slater on Saturday, last week. Slater, before entering the insurance business, operated a downtown restaurant in Warsaw. Both had lived there rrnny yearand Mrs. Slater's aged mother, Mrs. Margaret Hoppus, is said to be seriously ill. Relatives said Mrs. Slater came to Warsaw Sunday afternoon to visit her mother. intending to return to Mil- ' ford the next morning. Slater, it was recalled, was temporarily insane for a period of seevral months three years ago, following the sentencing of an adopted daughter, then 15 years old, to the state girls’ nehool at Claremcnt for incorrigibility. The Slaters had no children of their own. Mrs. Slater was a cousin of Mrs Leon Rosezeile, residing in Syracuse. Funeral services of Mrs. Slater were held at the M. EL Church in Warsaw Wednesday afternoon. Interment at the Mt. Pleasant cemetery. w Privae funeral services for Chas. Slater were Held Wednesday morning at the Dukes’ Funeral home. Interment at the Oakwood cemetery. KOSCIUSKO CIRCUIT COURT The Kosciusko Circuit Court was adjourned last Saturday until Monday, February 2, when the February term will open. The following jurors were drawn for the February term: •Grand Jury D. E. Maxwell, Warsaw. Lawrence H. Losure, Wayne Tp. . . Jacob McCarter, Washington Tp. Willard Hatfield. Clay Tp. ■. = Sherman Coy, Turkey Creek TPJames Sutherlin, Washington I*. Petit J ury Charles Kurtz, Van Buren Tp. Frank Gebert, Washington Tp. Irvin S. Parker. Seward. Tp. George Myers, Harrison Tp. William Stackhouse, Scott Tp. Frank Dredge, Lake Tp. Walter Fisher, Jackson Tp Orrin Treesch, Wayne Tp. Owen Stackhouse, Scott Tp. s Clarence Leininger. Franklin Curtis Lenwell, Washington Tp. Mat Rittenhouse, Warsaw. - — o Mftßf O WSjfNM’ I Weills* •iw mu rmiMun.i-wmr ♦ urday morning to all who looked

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INDIANA IS AT THE BOTTOM One of the matters cf greatest i imp rtance to come before every I session of the Indiana legislature j and of paramount interest to ev- ! erybcdy who is interested in education, is the appropriation bill for the institutions of higher learning in the state. A little comparis n is interesting. While our own Indiana universities are awaiting legislative action on financial provision for the coming two yeare and hoping that the appropriations will approach somewhere ne a r the amounts needed and which they have made in theis estimates as moderate as seems possible if the institutions are to flourish, along comes Ohio State University with a demand upon its own state legislature that would take away the breath of Indiana lawmakers. The Ohio university has submitted a tentative budget/of $16,000,000 for the next two years. It wants about half of this as a building fund and the other half for -personal service, maintenance of the plant, equipment and additional land. Ohio claims now to have reached the rank of fourth among state universities so far as attendance is concerned, its registration for the current school year having reached 10,473, to be exact. Trustees expect a rapid increase in the number of students and, want to be ready for them. Ohio is a rich'state and larger than Indiana, arid perhaps $16,000,000 will seem to the legislature and the public only a reaachinble outlay for the higher educational purposes for the next two years. Doubtless the appropriation, if made, will be used to the advantage and great credit of the state, possibly to the extent of adding another president of the United States to its list of six, not counting our own Benjamin Harrison, who was born and educated in Ohio,

The total registration cf Indiana’s two state universities aporoaches 8000. and both institutions are growing, but together they are asking less than half of the sum called for by the Ohio educators. It seems, in comparison. as if these calculations were carefully made and by no means extravagant. Dr. Wm. Lowe Bryan, presi*dent of Indiana University, is 'Uthority for the statement that Indiana is far behind other states in her generosity to the state institutions. Says President Bryan: "Where does Indiana stand? Indiana stands at the bottom of the great northwestern state?Michigan, lowa. Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana—in the provision made for its universities. Indiana at the bottom: “I. In the total amount spent for its universities. “2. In the amount spent for its universities in proportion to the appraised valuation of the state. “3. In the average cost per student. “4. In the provision for buildings. equipment and library. "5. In the average salaries paid professors. "6. In the proportion of total taxes paid to thje amount spent for higher education." 0 THE WARNER ROAD CASE The injunction suit brought by J. W.*Krieg. to stop the building of the Warner road, which extends around the south and east sides of Lake Wawasee was dismissed Monday in circuit court by the plaintiff’s attorneys. Mr. Krieg who owns a .resort at Lake Wawasee objected to the building of the yo&d along the route described by the county engineer on the theory that it damaged his property. Judge Royse was about to render judgment in favor of the commissumers, contending that Mr. Krieg brought the action too anon. ’ The dismissal of the suit leaves the matter open as before and what the final outcome Will be nobody can tell- Eventually, we believe, when al! objections have been removed, the road will but it seems not in fIBOrXDHIMi DAY ' - Next Monday, February 2, o?tkat day emerges from his winter quarters, and If he -sees his shadlow. he immediately goes to bed [again, which means six more ! weeks of winter. If. however, he •does not see his shadow, he re main-? in the open, which means

COUNTY BASKETBALL TOURNEY AT MILFORD

The stage is all set for the : county basketball ” tournament < which will be held at the Mil1 ford gymnasium on Friday and Saturday, January 30 and 31. Pickets for the tournament are $1.50, session tickets 50e. Following is the schedule: Friday Afternoon 2:00 P. M. —North Webster vs. Pierceton. 3:00 P. M.—Milford vs<. Leesburg. ' . 4:00 P. M.—Etna Green vs. Syracuse. Friday Evening 7:00 P. M.—Burket vs. Gaypool. 8:00 P. M.—Mentone vs. Beaver Dam. Saturday Morning 8:00 A. M. —Silver Lake vs. Atwood. 9:00 A. M.—Sidney vs. Winner 2 P. M. Friday. 10:00 A. M — Winner 3 P. M. Friday vs. Winner 4:00 P. M. Friday. 11:00 A. M.—Winner 7 P. M. Friday vs. Winner 8 P. M. Friday. Saturday Afternoon (Semifinals) 2:00 P. M.—Winner 8 A. M. Saturday vs. Winner 9 A. M. Saturday. 3:00 P. M.—Winner 10 A- M. Saturday va Winner 11 A. M. Saturday. Saturday Night (Finals) 8:00 P. M,-Winner 2 P. M. Saturday vs. Winner 3 P. M. Saturday.. Will Smith and Harry Coolman have been chosen as referees. o THE GASOLINE TAX

The first eighteen months of the Indiana gasoline tax produced a total revenue of $7,478,125.93, it was revealed in India-, napolis by Charles Benjamin, gasoline tax clerk in the office of the auditor of state. The tax of two cents a gallon on gasoline sdd in November, the tax on which was paid in December, totaled $428,788.75/ as compared with $384,392,59 in November of 192:V a gain of $44,396.16 This indicates that approximately 214,394 gallons of gasoline were sold in Indiana in November, 1924, as compared with 192,196 gallons in November. 1923. The total receipts from the tax in 1924, paid on gasoline sold from December 1, 1923, to December 1, 1924 were $3,925,371.82. Arid still an effort ia being made before the present legislature to add two more cents tax on each gallon of gasoline used in state. It’s, hard to give up a good thing or even let it alone. PURCHASED REAL ESTATE Ellsworth Davis has purchased the Anderson Strieby farm near this city and will take Dossession about the first of March. In the consideration Mr. Strieby took over the Davis residence on South Huntington street. Mr. and Mrs. Will Gants have purchased the Tillman Hire residence onJEast Main street. They expect to move into their new wme as soon as the new residence which Mr. and Mrs Hire are building, ic completed and ready for occupancy. o OLDEST TREE IN STATE The largest tree in Indiana and probably the oldest living thing in the state is the burr oak tree on Berkey farm, four and a half miles southwest of Warsaw. Many people from all parts of the state come every year to see the “big tree" as it is known in Kosciusko county. • This tree measures thirty-one feet in circumference, is approximately ten feet in diameter and was a big tree when the early settlers arrived nearly one hundred yeare ago. DIED OF SCARLET FEVER June Burson, the four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Burson passed away cn Sunday morning, January 25, of scarlet lever. Burial was mad£ on Monday afternoon at two o'clock at the Union cemetery. This was the second visit of the Grim Reaper at the Burson home and claimed one of the children/Last week Ethel, the twelve year old daughter having succumbed to the same disease. There are two I members of the family, a boy fourteen and < girl nine, still very seriously ill with the same ? terrible disease but hones are jentertainea now oy p ysuians j of ‘ | The silent paXwr usualh has the last word.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1925. <

THE WAYSIDE CHATTER

| Editor Journal:— On our way to the Southland I we drove three different routes j through the states of Indiana, I Tennessee and Georgia. Very soon after we cross Eagle Mountain in Southern Tennessee we come into the Sequatchie valley, a long narrow range of mountains cn the west and Waldron’s Ridge on the range of Raocoon i Mountains on the east, nowhere exceeding five miles in width. In places it is very narrow and we pass many mountain peaks on either side. In daces the Dixie Highway has been chiseled cut of solid granite stone. We pass many substantial looking cottages and 'houses. We are told by toe natives many of them are built of red Cedar more than one hundred years ago. As we drive along thia valley we meet and talk with many of the natives. We ask them a number of questions. We wonder how they live as they have no gardens or truck land. They tell us they work in the mines. Under those mountain ridges and peaks are assembled all the elements of prosperity, iron ore, coal, lime stone, granite, cement and sand Fhey are here in great quantities. They tell us this valley is more than one hundred milesi long and’ the mountain ranges on either side hold their own in height all the way. We drive in this valley forty miles then we cross the river twenty miles west of Chattancxjga and at once begin the climb over Waldron Ridge and Raccoon Mountain. In driving the distance of one half mile we are in three states. It took five and one half gallons of gas in tank to cross Hooker Hill. We camped one night two years ago in this valley near the town of Jasper. A native»said to the writer when fjherman’s army came -down this valley in 1864 they would find men who were in sympathy with, the Southern cause they’would force them to take the oath of allegiance and promiso not to do or say anything against the army in blue under the penalty of being shot, if caught .So one day they caught a young man was on his way to the Southern army with papers giving the plans of the officers of toe Northern He had taken the oath of allegiance. They said to him you know you broke your oath. He said, yes I broke my oath and desnrve to and am ready to die. He was court martialled and sentenced to be shot. The captain selected twelve soldiers and he was taken to the timber and bound to a tree. Twelve guns were leveled on him. The captain said to him. have you anything to say. Yes, I broke my oath and deserve to and am ready to die, but don’t waste your ammunition on me. With his hand he made a cross over his heart. Shoot me there. The captain said to the twelve soldiers, don’t shoot, lower your guns. untie this msn and. let him go. We don’t want to kilPa fool. L. A. NEFF , y ai~.,. O ..... ■ KOSCIUSKO COUNTY ROADS Kosciusko county has 200 miles of roads in the county highway system at the present time, according to data compiled by Stanley S. Boggs, former county surveyor. This includes 47.935 miles of concrete, 148.289 miles of gravel, .53 miles of brick and 3.446 miles of macadam. Wayne township leads in the mileage of county roads with a total of 20.091 miles. In this township there are 13.754 miles of gravel and 6.337 miles of concrete. Prairie township is second in total mileage with 17.99, all gravel. Washington township is in last place with 2.512 miles of concrete and 4.190 miles of gravel. Turkey Creek township has 8.435 miles of cement and 7.929 miles of gravel roads. FORD SEDAN STOLEN Jesse Shock had* his car, a twodoor, 1924 model. Ford Sedan, stolen at Goshen last Thursday night from its parking place between the hours of 7 and 9:30 o’clock, while Mr. Shock was at-* tending the Lyon revival meeting. No trace of the car has been the theft. - . • A.L. ’ll “ I

MANY IZAAK WALTON BILLS INTRODUCED

TLa Indiana Izaak Walton , League has introduced sixteen conservation measures in the state legislature, many of wnich it is.said have the support of , the state legislators. One Izaak Walton bill, the one authorizing the purchase of land along the Tipnecanoe river in Kosciusko, Marshall and Fulton counties and its conversion into a state park, was introduced (n the lower. house by Forrest Knepper of Warsaw. The bills favored by Waltonians are as follows: « ; Providing for a fifth member of Jfae state conservation commission, to be named bj the Izaak Walton League of Indiana. Requiring aliens to procure a special license to fish and hunt in Indiana. Making a public offense of fisuing from a moving power boat. Fixing a penalty of thirty days, to-six months jail sentence for violation of seining laws. Decreasing the number of quail in one day’s catch from fifteen to ten. ' Establishing a closed season for certain kinds of fish. (Emergency clause). Limiting the length of certain kinds of fish to be caught. Providing protection for certain migratory and non-migra-tory birds in Indiana. (Emergency clause). z Fixing a closed season and limiting the day’s catch for black, gray and fox squirrels. Fixing a bounty of 1 dbnt on red squirrels. Providing for the licensing of mussel hunters. Providing for prevention of stream pollution byway of injunction. ’ . Limiting one day’s catch of bluegills, sunfish or crappies, combined, to twenty-five; large and small mouthed black bass to six, and providing for prevention of puljutiuii of streams which would be injurious to fish. o— FARMER’S AVERAGE INCOME The average Kosciusko County farmers? income in 1924 was SISOO, according to the Blue Valley Creamery Institute. This estimate, based on the most accurate available data, cavers the yield, acreage and animal production on farms in this section of Indiana. This is the best indication yet that the state’s agriculture is again headed toward prosperity, says the institute. 1919, one qf the tyro peak years in the purchasing power of the American farmer, witnessed an average income of $1834 per farm in the state. The average income per Indiana farm for the past season’s production will run up to approximately $1450. An outstanding fact brought out in the studies of last year’s farm records is the steady rise in the per acre value of the leading U. S. crops. The value per acre for the country as a whole in 1921 was only $14.45. This jumped to $21.52 in 1923, and in 1924 it amounted to pratically $24.00 per -acre. Improved farming methods advocated by the state college of agriculture was a big factor in making this gain and in the more efficient production per cow, sow and hen‘animal unit lies further increases in the net profits of Indiana farms, concludes the Institute. i o DEATH OF GEO. W. PEARCE George W. Pearce, 53, died in the Goshen hospital on Saturday night. January 24, a few hours after he was taken there, following cerebral hemorrhage. He was stricken while in his millinery store in Goshen. Thirty years ago Mr. Pearce was a widely known baseball player. Surviving are one daughter and his mother. The deceased is well known in Syracuse, having at one time lived here with his mother.. o— TREASURERS REPORT ■ ■ — Elsewhere in this issue will be found the financial statement of Sol Miller, treasurer of the town of Syracuse. The report is an itemized statement of all moneys received and expended during the calendar y «r. 1924. ■ ... . 'o I bers of~the Svraeus!*

! “STRINGING” THE PUBLIC >; i The antipathy cf our lexicoi graphers to slang words and i phrases has prevented official “ recognition of the verb- “sitring” i as a synonym for “deceive,” but that in nowise lessens the force of the word when applied to the s acts of those who prey upon the U credulity of the public. i 'Hie shepherd boy in the ani cient fable who. thought it great ''Asport to deceive the nearby Workmen bv crying “Wolf!” was fringing them. He played his little joke very successfully on two occasions, but the third at-; tempt brought disaster to his j flock. In some respects modern Americans are much wiser than the ancients; in other particulars thev are not so wise. For illustration, consider the ‘to-called “Asiatic Peril.” It. has l>een bobbing up at intervals for the last quarter of a century. ISverv time an international wsue is raised in wh’ch American a.nd Jananese policies are involved our friends on the Pacific coast and a handful of public men In other sections of the country sound the alarm. T s ere have been a half dozen imaginary wars between the United States and Japan during the last 25 years, and yet the diplomatic relations of the two countries '’ave not been severed, nor has any blood been shed. It didn’t'take the public loner to learn that the “yellow peril” was being used for the purpose of “stringing" them. Now they go their way unperturbed and pay little • attention to it. The people are wiser in this respect than they were years ago and turn a deaf ear to these alarmists. On the other hand, there are tiwsusands who stand in line to be fleeced when the fake stock salesman or promoter starts out on a “stringing” It isn’t difficult for a fraud to pcse as a wizard 6f finance and collect the thard-earned dollars of men and women who would know better. One after another of these impostors has be*>n ex posed hisr trickery published to the world, and yet others 9<wne along and repeat. A statement recently issued by federal authorities says that unsuspecting investors residing in a number of states have been swindled out of between $15,000,000 and $30,000,000 durinv the last four years by fake oil companies operating in one state alone. In many cases, we are informed, the investments represent the life savings of aired men and women and day laborers, although leading financiers throughout the country are also numbered among the victims. It seems, therefore, that those who are 1 given to “stringing” the public fail in the attempt to frighten, but are very successful when they make their appeal to the avarice in men. Often • fish yrill ''ignore one kind of bait darkled before him. but will become _ entangled on the barb if another variety is used.' No one expects a fish to profit by the experiences of its kind, but it does seem that intelligent man would. And yet many of those who ( will laugh at the “wolf’ cry will 1 , be deceived by the faker whose ’ proposition alone is enough to j brand him as a fraud. “Stringing” the public a , great American game. DISBARRED FOR GAMBLING By a decision pf the board cf control of the Indiana High School Athletic Association at Indianapolis, Leland Osborn, of Loesburg, was disbarred as an official in the I. H. S. A. A., due to alleged gambling on a gam? between Sidney and Leesburg, at Sidney, on December 5, 1924. o . • CLOTHES CAUGHT FIRE Mrs. Harry Cline of Millersburg was saved from being fatally burned Tuesday when her clothes caught fire from an airtight heater in her home. Her cries attracted several neighbors who wrapped her in rugs and extinguished the blaze. She was painfully burned. I .BANK BY MAIL Elsewhere in this issue you will find a “Bank By Mail" ad. something entirely new for the diana S The Mier will procure a

-THINGS TO THINK ABOUT it Review of Things by the Editor As He Sees Them on the Surface, Do You Remember 1895—When eggs were three dozen for 25 cents; butter 10 i cents a pound; milk was 5 cents [ a quart. Butchers gave away I liver, and treated the kids with bologna; the hired girl received $2 a week and did the washing. Women did not. powder and paint (in public), smoke, vote, play poker, or shake the shimmie. Men wore boots, chewed tobacco, spit on the sidewalk, and cussed. Beer was 5 cents and the lunch was> free. Laborers worked ten hours a day and never went on a strike. No tips were given to waiters, and the hat check grafter was unknown. A * kerosene hanging lamp and a steroseope in the parlor were luxuries, and Unguertine was an infant. No one was ever operated on for appendicitis or bought glands. Microbes were unheard of. Folks lived to a good old age and every year walked miles to wish their friends a Happy New Year. Toil ay! 1925—Everybody rides in automobiles, or flies; play golf; shcoto craps; plays the piano with their feet; goes to the movies nightly; smokes cigarettes; drinks Rukus Juice, and blames the H. C. of L. on their neighbors; never go to bed the same day they get up, and think they are having ah— of a time. These are the days of suffragetting, profiteering, rent hog?, > excess taxes and prohibition. But it’s a pretty- good old world after all, and we thank you for our share of the good of 1924. At the close of 1925 we hope you will have missed all the bad, and had some of the good. " A Definite Life Work Thousands of lives have been saved from ruin by a definite work in life; others have been wrecked for want of it. Boys and girls should choose for themselves a life work they r wall enjoy. Nothing will prepare them better for the coming years than a good wisely chosen work, whether for wages or for the love of doing it. They should be proud of the gifts which enable them to win their own way when their es- , forts have straightened themselves- to any task they may undertake. Their time is not wasted. There is something with which to fill up the spare hours of a person who has an aim in life. “Our time,” said Sir Walter Scott, “is like our money. When we change a dollar’ our dimes escape, as a thing of small account; when we break a day by idleness in the morning, the rest of the hours lose tneir importance in our eyes.” Idle hours are temptations, but idle years are worse. The real wages of good work are not made at a mint. A New York man who had not cleaned up his desk for years started in to clean up the other day, and buried deep in the rubbish he found Bethlehem steel stock worth $16,000 that he bought years ago and forgot he owned. We cleaned up our dtsk the other day, and found two duns and a cigar stub that we had forgotten about. S “ A girl can’t be too sure tW«e/ when a man comes to talk to her father about her hand that it is to be in marriage. It may be the manicurist. A court in Les, Angeles awarded a chorus girl SSOOO for a broken <heart. We wonder what she would have .gotten if she had broken her leg. We don’t see no use of a college educashun, when ‘bout half ther time ther bank bandit beats tiier cashier ter the money. America’s great national problem, next to finding a good fivecent cigar, is where to find parking space. > A man’s heart may be in the right place but that doesn’t help if his head is a wooden block. L Some people seem to think they own the earth, but at last they get only six feet of it.

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