The Syracuse Journal, Volume 18, Number 8, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 June 1925 — Page 1

The Syracuse Journal

VOLUME XVIII.

PIPE ORGAN DEDICATED Rev. F. H. Cremean, Former Pastor of M. E. Church. Delivered Dedication Sermon The Mary Elizabeth Ketring memorial organ was dedicated with appropriate and solemn ceremonies at the Methodist Episcopal church last Sunday afternoon at The organ was a gift of S. L. Ketring in memory of his deceased wife, who departed this life July 27, 1917. Invitations had been sent out bv the immediate family to friends to attend the service, but the community also was invited, and a large crowd responded. The church was evenly filled with its members and a number of other residents of the community, who gathered to hear the program that was given on the newly installed pipe organ. A more perfect day for such an occasion never dawned. The dedication sermon was delivered by Rev. F. H. Cremean of Bourbon, the former pastor, who, in his usual pleasing manner presented the organ to the church and said he hoped this year would be the greatest year for the church and the pastor. Rev. Royer, had ever* experienced. The church was modestly decorated in white lilies and pink roses, and i with the organ of beautiful mahogany. there was a metropolitan atmosphere prevailing in the church. One of the interesting features of the pro- ° gram was the rendition of a number of selections on the pipe organ by a granddaughter of the late Mrs. Ketring. Mrs. Frances Miller Ort. of Churubusco. Mrs. Leia Harkless rendered two beautiful vocal solos. • The following program was rendered: Prelude in G Loud M-.C. Ort Scripture Reading- Psalm CXL Rev. Royer Dedication Prayer Rev. Cremean Crossing the Bar Barnby Mrs. Harkless Dedication Sermon Rev. Cremean How Lovely Are Thy DwellingsLiddle Mrs. Harkless a. Andantino Mozart b. The Cadinette Shepherd , Song ... j• lores c. To a Wild Rose ... MacDowell Mrs. Ort a. Venetian Love Song ... Nevin b. Dawn Nevin Mrs. Ort Miss Lepper - a. Two Preludes Chopin b. Au Convent Borodin c. 0 Thou Sublime Sweet Evening Star.“ Wagner d. Love’s Old Sweet Song, Malloy Miss Lepper Benediction , Rev. Royer Postlude Miss Lepper The relatives and friends attending the dedication services were: • -

Miss Sarsh. Morson* Mr. AIM I. of Goshen; of S h ll

_ —■ BURDETTE HOLLOWAY TAKES OWN LIFE Burdette Holloway passed away at his home in Mentone at about 5:30 o’clock Tuesday evening, June 23, after having sent a bullet through his brain about an hour and a half before. For the past year he had been in poor health, which resulted from a severe attack of flu and other complications he battled with last winter. * However, he did not give up from attending to his duties as a rural mail carrier out of Mehtone. although there were days when he was scarcely able to be on duty. He did not regain his health, but instead seemed to grow worse, when it became known that it was necessary to have his tonsils removed, which he did this spring. For a time he seemed to be improving, but later his health grew worse and he came here to the home of his Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Holloway, where h# spent several days and rested. As he seemed improved, he' returned to Mentone and again entered upon his work. Tuesday he seemed to be in good spirits, and he finished up his day’s work and returned home. A neighbor was at his home and the two were sitting on the doorstep conversing, when he said he thought he was fully on the road to recovery. The neighbor started f. r home and Burdette went into the house, saying he was going down to get shaved. In about fifteen minutes the neighbor was notified that Burdette had shot himself in one of the rooms of his home. Mrs. Holloway and the children were up in the city, but upon returning home and going into the house she saw something that startled her. and returned, to the street and got a close Aighbor to go in the house with her, when, after entering, he found the body lying on the fl<*or in an unconscious condition. . . Physicians and a specialist ‘Were*Summoned, but upon their arrival they found that nothing could he done and he passed away in a short time. His parents were notified who immediately started for Mentone, but got there about fifteen minutes after he had passed away. The remains were brought to this city on Wednesday evening and taken to the home of his parents where the funeral was held this afternoon (Thursday) in charge of the Masons. Interment in the Syracuse cemetery. Deceased reached the age of 26 years. Besides his wife and two children, he leaves his parents, two sisters and one brother. G SUNDAY AT OAKWOOD PARK The Christian Endeavor Con-vention-Institute. of the United Brethren Church, which is in session at Oakwood Park, Lake Wawasee. will elose Sunday with a full program which is open to the general public. Sunday School will convene at 9:10 under the direction of Ben F. Smith, of Columbia City. A regular graded Sunday Schoo will be held with competenl

te At W5 r Dr l Tt^ Deever. of

Syracuse’s Slogan: “A Welcoming Town With a Beckoning Lake.

PAGEANT OF PEACE AT OAKWOOD PARK The young people of the Luthcran church here are very much interested in the “Pageant of Peace" which will be given the { opening night, of the Lutheran I summer school f>r religious workers to be held at Oakwood Paik on Lake Wawasee July 13 to 17. The pageant will tell the story-of thf world’s struggle for peace in a very striking fashion. It will be presented by the young people, and few of the older people from the Lutheran churches of Syracuse. Cromwell, p.nd Nappanee, under the direction of Mrs. R. N. McMichael. Several hundred Lutheran young people, church workers -nd pastors from all points in Indiana, Michigan and southern Canada will attend the school. Each forenoon session will be given over to regular courses of study and lectures for Sunday School. Luther League, missionary, and general church workers. Prominent on the faculty is Rev. Dr. Simon Peter Long, of Chicago America’s foremost Luthera-n preacher. The afternoons will be devoted to recreation, and the evenings to special programs. On Friday evening the Trinity Lutheran choir of Fort Wavrie will give a sacred concert. On Thursday afternoon there will occur the "AllWittenberg’’ reunion-picnic. Rev. L. F. Gunderman of Ann Arbor. Mich., is president of the | school, and Rev. H. W. Hanshue is secretary. o = *— RACES AT STATE FAIR For the first time Hoosier race fans will be able to attend a Grand Circuit racing program in their own state at the Indiana SLate Fair. Indianapolis. September 7 to 12. The Grand Circuit is the dean of all circuits in the country and because of the facilities at Indianapolis, including a mile track, the Indiana Board of Agriculture received an invitation to join Uje Grand Circuit, which they accepted. The 318 entries in the early closing events represent eighteen states and total 94 more than last year, when a splendid racing pr gram was given. The largest f number of entries in one race is 52 for the two-year-old trotting > stake. The next highest is 38 in : the three-year-old trot stake. The i total purses aggregate $37,000. ; The Murphy Stables of New York have the largest number of • entries, a total of 32. Other nationally khown stables that have r entered are as follows: Dickerson I Stables, New York; Good Time ■ Stables. Walter Cox. manager and trainer, ' New York; Calume| Farms, Dick McMahon, trainer. . Chicago: Forest Park Farm. Mar--1 vin Childs, trainer, Terre Haute; Baker Stables, Chet Kelly, train- ■ er, Indianapolis; Palin Stables. 1 Indianapolis; Parshall Stables of » Ohio, and Tiffany Stables of Calie forma. » The late closing events are ex- ’ oected to attract even more entries. making the State Fair t races this year the most attractR ive in its history. V ■■■ " '■■..o. "■ ■»»»■■■» I W. KITS ON GRADUATED

1 Xf - n P Wt re*.’

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY. JUNE 25, iWk

||~ —— I LAKE WAWASEE ITEMS | I I f A new Chris Craft hull, power- | ed with a Curtiss OXS, converted far marine use. is owned by M. Grace of Fort Wayne and Cedar Point. ~ “Wayzata,” the new 26-foot mahogany runabout beknging to Henry Caldwell of Indianapolis, arrived from Minnesota last week. It is powered with a Scripps F-4. Wendell Macy. “Skipper cf the Slipper," has sold his passenger boat to George Smith of Tippecanoe. Mr. Macy went to Elkhart Monday, where he will be employed by the Elcar Motor Co. E. L Martin of Huntington is the owner of a new runabout. It is a combination of mahogany and black enamel and was built < by the Everett Hunter Boat Co., I of McHenry, 111. It is driven by a Kermath engine. < “Fleet Wing," the dav cruiser belonging to Geo. Schliger of i Indianapolis, has been shipped from Lake Erie and is undergoing a thorough overhauling at 1 the Wawasee Slip, preparatory to launching it in this lake. A. W. Zimmerman of Fort Wayne received his new Great Lakes runabout last week. The hull is made of Honduras mahog- ' any and the power plant is a Scripps F-6, the engine which attracted so much attention at the < Miami regatta last winter. . o . BASE BALL Last Sunday Syracuse won a hard fought game from the Goshen Veneers at the Syracuse bail park, with a score of 5 to 0. The game was tight and snap- < pv throughout, but Charles Mack of Elkhart, pitching for Syracuse, seemed to have Goshen at his mercy on account of his excellent control and ability -. ‘e- »• 8 The Gosh’en boys were handicapped to some extent as Culp had not played ball for four vears; but he held out for three innings, then gave away the game before Grover could release him .to sit in the shade. Troyer, catching for Goshen, had two ribs broken, which affected his playing somewhat, but never-t.he-less the Goshen team were playing above their heads. The Syracuse boys played the best game of the season, only permitting three errors to occur which shows the brand of ball our team puts forth. The score by innings: Veneers .0 0000 00 $ 9—o Syracuse 00050000 o—s Next Sunday the Benton team comes to Syracuse to play off a tie which now exists between the two teams. Each team has one game to their credit and are preparing to take the next one. Let us come to the game and cheer our team to victory. With Mack on the mound for Syracuse there . is ho reason why we can not win. On July 4 New Paris will play at the Syracuse park. These games are sure to be 'thrilling and well worth your time. Admission 10c and 25c.

A NARROW ESCAPE L ~—nd his brother ’

TO PROTECT THEMSELVFS j AGAINST BANK ROBBERS of all but of the banks of Kosciusko county attended an enthusiastic meeting held in the Warsaw city hall on Friday evening, at which plans Were perfected for joining the State Protective association and arrangements were made for co-operation of local banks for ! protection against bank robbers. At this meeting it was brought out that practically all of the banks of the county have already taken steps for protection f/bm robbers by placing high powered rifles and shotguns in business houses nearby and arranging for the quick organization of a posse in case of a robbery. Under the plan of the State Protective Association, a company of from 10 to 20 guards will be organized in each town of the county and all will be armed and drilled. Each company will be headed by a captain. In case of a robbery at any bank in the county, all the captains will be notified immediately and they in turn will call out the members of their party and all roads will • be quickly patrolled in an effort to intercept the robbers as they flee from the county. Each member of the special bank guard will know exactly where to go hnd what to do in case of a robbery. The members will become members of the Kosciusko County Rifle Club and will practice markmanship, so that they will be better prepared to cope with the armed bandits. The pames of the captains will not be made public so that robbers will have no means of learning their identity and profiting thereby. The only banks not represented at the meeting last Friday were those at Sidney. Claypool, and Atwood, .and these banks have signified a willingness to co-operate in the plans for protection. n— NBW AIRCRAFT HERE < A new flying boat is 4>eing set up this week at the foot of Main street and because of its novel type has been attracting considerable attention. The boat was built by the Anderson Aircraft Company, of Anderson, Ind. Myron B. Reynolds, who has a cottage at Wawasee and spends his summers at the lake, is one of the stockholders in the company. Fred Parker of Anderson is here in the employ of the company, setting up and testing the craft before delivery to Dean Bossman of Indianapolis, who is planning to operate the flyingboat as a passenger craft over the two lakes throughout the summer. Other helpers are also here and assistance is being giv» en by the Lakeside Garage. The craft is a biplane, the planes being fitted to a light boat, and is able to fly in the air or over the surface of the water. It is equipped with a Curtiss 100-h. p. motor and will carry two pasengers. In the near future the company will bring out a new fourpassenger type of flying boat. It will be powered with a Curtiss 150-h. p. motor, with electric starter, lights, etc.

Fred Parker, wh<P is superintending the setting-up and testing. is an expertwith 21 years of experience' ift/sviatson. During the World war he was a mem-

BARN BURNED A large valuable bam on the John Kirkendall farm, 5 miles northeast of Leesburg, was Completely destroyed by fire on Friday evening. Two horses were burned to death and three tons of hay. numerous farm implements, harness and other articles Were burned up. The fire was discovered by parties passing the farm in-an automobile about 12 o’clock, just as the sides of the barn were caving in. Mr. and Mrs. AlbertPlew, tenants of the farm, were aroused by the parties discovering the fire. The cause of the fire is unknown. An insurance was carried on the bam, which will partly cover the damages. — O Cenol Roach Destroyer kills I burg Drug Co.’, Cenol Agency- M

I COWBOY LINGO FOR LOCAL RODEO FANS . - T - .» Just as the dictionary of the French laguage is essential to a European trip, so will a dictionary of rodeo lingo be of big help to the visitor in the West. For the especial benefit of the many here who are contemplating trips to the cattle country this year, the Journal publishes the attached list of terms used by cowboys, both on the ranch and in the rodea The Roundup and World’s Championship Rodeo this year will be held in Grant Park. Chicago, August 15 to 23. under the direction of the Chicago Association of Commerce, with *Tex" Austin, world famous cowboy, in charge of the contests. “Rodeo" is the'Mexican word for “roundup." It is pronounced “Ro-day’-o.” “Broncho” is another word originating in Mexico and signifies “mean” and “bad tempered" as applied to a vicious and unbroken horse. A “broncho buster" is merely a norse breaker. “Bull-dogging” is steer wrestling. A “hazer” is a bull-dogger’s assistant. He must pick up the former’s mount after the leap and protect him from being gored when he realizes his hold on the steer. “Houlihaning” is accidentally knocking down a steer instead of wrestling it. This will not be permitted in the Chicago Roundup. “Sunfisher" is a bucking horse < that twists its body in the air standing on its hind legs so that the sun hits its stomach. “Crow hops’’ is a term describing mild bucking motions of a broncho. “Salty” signifies spirit or viciousness in a horse. • “Eating gravel” means being thrown from a bucking broncho or steer. “Pulling leather,” ’ “shaking hands with grandma," “grabbing the safety knob,” all mean hold- ’ ing to the saddle, which disqualifies a broncho rider. “Dog fall” is putting a- steer down with its. feet under. The throw is not complete jmtil the steer is flat on his side with ail four feet out. “Chuck wagon" is the cook wagon. “Doughie” is an unbranded calf less than a year old that has lost its mother. “MaveriAc” is n unbranded animal more than a year old. ’ 0 TO AID SCHOOLS Kosciusko county, along with forty-one other counties in Indiana. has paid $3,176,182 since 1905 toward helping the other counties of the state maintain their schools. In effect, the wealthier counties of the state are helping the poorer counties, so that the wage paid the teachers and the terms of school may comply with the law. The school corporations are limited in the rate of taxation for school purposes, and where the property valuation is so low the maximum tax rate would not raise the necessary money, some other provisions had to be made. In 1905, when the first law for this purpose was passed, it provided that 5.2 per cent of the

state school fund should be set aside for this, and in 1919 it was increased to 8.2 per cent. Then in 1921 the law was changed to provide for a 7 cent state schoo levy, of which 30 per cent shal. be set aside to aid the poorer school corporations.

CAB WENT INTO A DITCH

NO. 8.

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT Review of Things by the Editor As He Sees Them on the SdYfaee. Yonr Part in Loral Progress One of the finest ways to help your community is to increase the intelligence, the good feeling, the courage, and the righteousness in it. As an individual citizen there is a best way for you to do this, and it is very simple. All you do is to take care of your intelligence, your feeling towards your neighbors, your courage, and your rectify. As Americans we are always prone to look into the business of someone else a little too much, and neglect that belonging to ourselves. The least citizen of this town can do much to help the town if he will do himself the favor of helping himself. The greatest citizen of the community can do no more. What we want to develop here is an inquisitive intelligence, a desire to learn the truth. We will need a real form of courage, very often, to swallow the detailed information which will surprise us in our local conceits. We must have a genuine good feeling, a desire to mutually assist each ether, if we are to digest the realities without stirring up evil passions to blast orogress. We must also possess, individually, strong characters, based upon right as we understand it» but subject, aways, to the like privilege of others, and the revelation of advancing truth. A community of citizens, each ; working to make himself the best citizen possible, will be the best community possible. There will be an easy solution of minor nroblems, such as law and order, good, schools, public morality, and so forth. . Cheer Un We are born, we live, we die. It’s just a flash, and did you wer stop to think that the first and last are unimportant? It’s the middle one which counts. How do you live? We have no control over how or where we ire born, and but little over how or when w’e die, but we are the boss of our own career and we are responsible for it. These are good thoughts to keep in , mind. s . — As a rule the newspaper is only a mirror of community life. It may be full of crime news and -ank reading matter, but that is what you evidently want. When they are on the front page it is because more readers want them there. The new-age editor endeavors to give the people what *-hey want. He does not pose as nastor of the flock nor $s a Sunday School teacher —eh s just the mirror of your ideals. If that were not true he would not be in business. A new species of “safety raror hog" is said to have been cultivated in a southern st Ate, but the hog we are most interested in is the guy who insists on keeping in the middle ofrthe. • road, who pays no attention to crossings or intersections, and always makes the other chan take the ditch on a narrow road. At' thia time of the year trie rosd hog flourishes.

w'nfhsr by vetobJ encouragecL Y Bill—An awfoFaccident up the happened? R-n_A ar ran into a garage. (• r -