The Syracuse Journal, Volume 18, Number 12, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 23 July 1925 — Page 1

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TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT Modern Ringiag Machine Being Installed at the I/ral Plant • In line with its policy not ohly to keep abreast with the needs cf the community but also to anticipate future growth, the Syracuse Home Telephone Company is installing the newest and highest type of ringing machine that can be obtained. Parts of the new equipment are now in operation. In a due time, when the completed details have been started functioning, it will be possible to give selective ringing service to the patrons on party lines, who may desire such service. The machine is a Leich fivefrequency synchronomic ringing set, made by the Leich Electric Co., of Genoa, Hl. This company is the largest manufacturer of ringing' machines in the world. Heretofore ringing at he local telephone plant has been dependent on the continuous operation of the electric light plant. In times of storm, if this current was interrupted, the ringing cur-rent-of the telephone company was cut off also. Incidentally, at such times as these there is always an additional heavy load on the telephone lines. This new installation renders the telephone company independent of the commercial lighting current, and enables it to deliver better service. The new ringing machine operates from its own storage battery. Part of the outfit is equipment for charging the storage batteries. The same storage batteries used in operating the ringing machine are used by the central operators in transmitting. The vibrators on the ringing coils run at five different speeds, or frequencies. One rings at 16 vibrations per second. Another at 30, the others at 42, 54 and 66. Only bells that are tuned to any one of these five frequencies wiH respond when thrown into connection. It is a handsome piece of equipment and is being installed with all modern methods of testing, at an expense of several hundred dollars. The telephone is an impersonal mechanism. The average person, when using * telephone, nothing but the instrument on the wall he can not see the many other people who are using telephones at the same tame, making demands on the operator. When he steps into a store and there are many people standing to be waited on, and the clerks are as busy as they can be attending to the needs of the customers, he can see and realize that only one person can be waited on at a time. In the store he takes patiently a wait of five, ten, or even fifteen minutes, for he can see what is humanly impossible for the clerks. Often , the telephone operator is called upon to attend to as many as twenty-five rings almost at once, and that some must be made to wait a few seconds ,is unavoidable. It U to expedite the service by the most up-to-date equipment possible that the Heine Telephone company has made such installations as the present new ringing machine, the more than four thousand feet of cable laid last year, the latest type of switchboard equipment installed about two years ago. The company has on hand now several thousand feet of additional cable that will be laid as soon as possible. A new directory has just been printed at the Journal office and is being distribued by the telephone company. It is of vast importance, in point of improving the service, that patrons make use of the new directory, and always call by number. The operator can not possibly remember everybody’s number, and when you call by name you require her to look in the directory for you. While she is doing this she perhaps is making. other people wait. Another simple but important way to improve the service is, when your conversation is completed. always to give a short ring, which indicates to the op erator that you are through talk ing and he Ene is available t< others. If everybody would rinj off the minute be is through talking, the report of “the lim hixv” from the operator woulc be less frequent.

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LARGE CROWD AT OAKWOOD a A large crowd of local people were at Oakwood Park last Friday night to hear the saered concert presented by the Trinity Lutheran choir of Fort Wayne. : The choir consisted of 35 mixed voices under the able leadership of Mr. Harry Krimmel. It presented a splendid repertoire of . sacred music, which was very ; pleasing to the large audience. The summer school held at * Oakwood last week by the Lutherans was voted a success in every way. 'ln attendance the school was far ahead of similar schools operated by the Lutherans in adjoining states. The executive board of the school decided to recommend to the Michigan Synod which meets in October, to continue the school next year at the same time and place. One of the pleasant features of the school were the twilight services on the lake shore each evening. Thursday evening they were conducted by the Luther Leaguers. . Friday evening a splendid address was delivered by Rev. Paul H. Krause of Fort Wayne. o— — W. M. 8. HAD MEETING The Women’s Missionary Society of the Lutheran church met Monday evening with Mrs. B. F. Hoopingamer as hostess. The study hour was conducted by Mrs. R. N. McMichael, who presented a very interesting lesson. During the business session the following officers were elected for the coming year: president, Mrs. John Mench; vice president. Miss Helen Jeffries; secretary, Miss Katherine Richhart; treasurer, Mrs. William Kindig. The society voted to extend an invitation to the Lutheran missionary Society of Cromwell to join in its August meeting, making it a picnic ’affair. .« o INJURED BY CAR Clarence Snyder, who about one mile west of Syracuse, was struck and knocked down by an automobile Monday and suffered a fractured skull. Mr. Snyder was in New Paris that day and stepped ; into toe street without observing an approaching automobile driven by / I. Leiter of Warsaw. Snyder was taken immediately to the Goshen hospital in an unconscious eondititon. He did not regain Consciousness until late Monday afternoon. His condition is improving, according to latest reports. o NOTICE OF HEARING The Public Service Commission) of Indiana wiH hold a hearing iri the Rooms of the .Commission! State House, Indianapolis, Indif ana, Friday, July 31st, 1925. jA 10 o’clock, in the matter of tie application of Joseph E. Rip>ey and Melvin E. Dillen, Ft. Wyne. Indiana, for a certificate of public convenience and necessity (under the 90 dAy clause) /> operate a truck line betwean Ft. Wayne and Nappanee, Indiana. ,—-x -1FIRE DESTROYS BBS One of the Reo buses inkuse between Marion and Wawadee'was burned Thursday morni nA about four miles south of Wab/sh. The bus had started frorrJ but the engine was notf working property, and when iy met the south-bound bus, the passengers were exchanged and/ it started back for Marion. Not one was in the bus except the /driver. o,—J COTTAGE BURNED The Rink cottage at Buttermilk Point burned to the ground late Tuesday evening. The Sy--1 racuse chemical truck was sent out, after an afcarm had been turned in. but dpon its arrival the cottage hadl been consumed ‘ by the flames. The cause of the r fire is unknowiy ’ HORSES KILLED i A team oft horses owned anc » driven by mat Mummert were : killed at tMe Middlebury cross- „ ing by a train last. Thursday, ' Mr. Mumtoert leaped to safety t before the/ train struck the team and escaped without a scratch 1 o 1 £ BIRTHDAY PARTY C Fifteen* little friends came ‘ and reminded Andrew Priest cd £ his tenth birthday last Thurs J day. Juli 16. The hours were e from d were sedteL

PURDUE JERSEYS HOLD FOUR INDIANA RECORDS Although the Purdue University Jersey cattle herd numbers cnly 15 mature cows, held at this number because three other breeds are kept in the dairy herd, four of the seven age class records are held by individuals inthis herd, a recent study of the records reveals. The first of these Indiana records was brought into the Purdue herd in 1921, when Purdue’s Golden Estelle set a new state mark for mature cows with 748pounds of butterfat and 14,052; pounds of milk. In January, I 1923. Estelle Joan, a daughter of j this first record holder, made a new Indiana senior four year old record of 700 pounds of fat and 12,336 pounds of milk. Later of the same year, Lady Clarice May not only topped all senior three year old Jersey records of the state but with a production of 716 pounds of butterfat and 12,530 pounds of milk, made the largest 365 day record of any breed for that age in the state. These with the two year old record recently finished by Purdue s Heir Primrose of 596 pounds of fat and 10,474 pounds of milk, complete the records held by., the university herd. Along with these high marks, these cows have won two silver and three gold medals offered by the American Jersey Cattle Club and the two year old is bred to freshen so that she will win a silver medal. The two and three year old record holders are by the Purdue senior herd si re,/Sayda’s Purdue Heir. | “It is somewhat remarkable for a herd of only 15 femajes to hold four state class records.” said Prof. L. H. Fairchild.jwho is in charge of the production end of the dairv business at the university. "This shows clearly that profitable dairy herdl do not need to be lare ones J* but that they must be able ,to claim as their ancestors goofl foundation females and good .dairy sires." The Purdue hfrd will be 25 years old this sap. It was started with a few foundation cows as the average farmer may do, and in all tKat tirpe no new feever, gftod sires have been ontainedjalways, and today the herd stand/ as an example of what constructive breeding will do. r __o — I BIG ONTON FIELD A traveling man for a paper hpuse is authority for the statement that M certain farmer not v3Y from Wolf Lake has a field As 65 acres of onions that promises to make him a fortune, says the Columbia City Post. This traveling man says the owner of the field was offered $265,000 for the crop, or an average of $4,077 per acre, and the onion grower refused the offer. The Post does not vouch for the truthfulness ,of the story, but the traveling man is positive that no finer field of onions, site considered, was ever grown in this part of Indiana, and as there is a shortage in the onion crop this year, or at least that is the impression, the price is bound to be good. TEA PARTY ?Mrs. Wallace Howard entertained at a tea party tjn Wednesday aftemoorf in honor of her sister, Miss Lillian Johnson, of Richgiond. Ind., who is her guest this week. »After a pleasant afternoon spent together, the guests motored to Goshen and spent the evening. Those present were: Mrs. PhilliP Hedges. Miss Kathleen Riddle. Miss Neva Meek, Miss Nellie Mann, Mhts Helen Bowld. Miss Johnson. I -— WOODMEN, ATTENTION i The Modern W'oodmen of AmI erica will hold an outing at Redl mon Park, Dewart Lake, on Suns day. July 25. There will be an able speaker address the gathering. Everybody is’invited. - COOKING DEMONSTRATION 5 •- Another cooking demonstration , of the Hotpoint Electric Range f will be held at the Syracuafe a Electric Co. store on Friday, l Julv 24, from 1 to 8 p. m. For particulars read the ad on page five. e PURCHASED CARS f Milton Rentfrow purchased an e Overland sedan and the Us Knight, of the Syracuse Auto Sales last week.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1925

DAIRY SIR* TRAIN i P. O. Hurley of the B. &O. | Agricultural department, R. D. Canan of the Purdue Extension department, and Countv Agent D. A, Parker were in Syracuse Monday to consult our business men and those interested relative to the Better Dairy Sire train which the B. & 0. railroad is going to run the first week in November the Chicago division. This train will make two stops each day, morning and afternoon, in towns along the route, if the » farmers can be interested enough to warrant this. About I fifty bulls of different breeds j will be carried on the train. These animals will be offered for sale and delivery made immediately. Every animal is guaranteed to be pure-bred. Each community is asked to finance the purchase of a bred heifer. On the day of the arrival of the train the owner of the heifer is chosen by lot. In this way the lucky farmer gets a heifer absolutely without charge. The only provision being made that he take proper care of the animal. The itinerary of toe train has as yet not been worked out, but timely notice will Ee given in the Journal when all arrangements have been completed. ' o— BUTTERMILK—-NO, BOOZE Buttermilk Point should change its name to Booze Point. The reason for the change is this: Sunday night three men drove in an automobile to the abovementioned place and began to uncork some liquor. B. 0. Mabie. who was employed by Manager Johnson to look after the Sunday crowd, took due and timely notice and told Charles Inks, one of .the trio, to depart and do the uncorking somewhere else. Mr. Inks, however, took exception to this sudden order, and in a few minutes a battle was on. Mabie used his sleepstickißftveral times and after he had handcuffed his man, put him in a. car and landed him in the Warsaw jail. Inks appeared in Mayrtr Sloan’s court Monday morning and drew a fine of the"' batttMfie other two men droye away, leaving Inks, who hails from Ligonier or some other seaport, to fight it out. o HIGHWAY PAVING PROGRAM With the letting of contracts for the hard-surfacing of 23.7 miles this week, the state highway commission practically has the entire 1925 road program in Indiana under A total of 218 miles of paving is being added to the system this summer. ( Early lettings are so well under way that many miles of new roads will be open to the automobile traffic soon, according to John D. Williams, director bf the highway commission. At the same time, the commission has under contract 58 miles of stone and gravel roads, which in several instances are being straightened and relocated, and hundreds of small bridges are being built. The federal government is paying one-half the cost of the new paving and bridges. Contractors are keeping well up to the schedule this summer. Director Williams said, the long droughts enabling them to pour the concrete as rapidly as the roadbeds are prepared. Last year rain and pther handicaps orevented the program from bein.? completed before the frosts halted the work. . —o GONE FOREVER An interesting report, just completed by the department of agriculture, reveals the fact that in 1860 it was possible to purchase four eggs for a penny. At ■ the same time corn was sold in | the state of Minnesota for 30c a bqshel, and wheat for 75c; while in 1846 in Illinois beef sold at 2jc a pound, and stove wood brought $1 a cord. In 1834, in Morgan county, Illinois, cows sold for from $lO to S2O apiece, t and live hogs could be purchased * at 2c a pound. But in “them f|days’’ every farmer, owner and , Vnant vras not provuKng for the r upkeep of an automobile. The » simple Hfe in the United States is perhaps gone forever. o BAKE SALE i The Church of God Mission - Circle will hold a bake sale at c Hedges’ Battery Station on Sat>»nhKjuly2s. Baked goods and c mt

ELEMENTARY TEACHER TRAINING COURSES ■ Kosciusko county high school graduates who expect to enroll in first year elementary teacher training courses at Indiana university this fall are warned by Dean H. L. Smith, of the ‘school of education of I. Ik, that I the limit of enrollment in these J courses will be 180 and that : classes will be filled by advance registration and enrollment. Applications for admission will be filed in the order of their receipt, either by mail or in person. The first 180 applicants showing satisfactory credentials will be placed on the elementary teacher class rolls and the rolls will then be closed. Dean Smith explained that the restriction applies only to students desiring the first year’s work of the two years’ elementary teacher training course. The students who have completed the first year’s work either in Indiana university or in any other state-approved institution will be admitted to the second year’s work without limitation. It is believed that facilities will be; available for all applicants for the second year of the teacher training course. Applications and proper entrance credentials should be in by August 15. This state of affairs is the result of insufficient facilities to meet increased enrollment, Dean Smith says. A 400 per cent increase in enrollment in teacher training courses at Indiana university has been experienced since the new teacher training law* went into effect. At the same time the budget for teaching purposes has decreased one per cent. The school of education last year sacrificed practically all research work to actual teaching of classes. The school officials permitted a 40 per cent greater teaching load than the average teaching load in the schools of education in six neighboring, state universities. Even then some 300 applicants had to be refused admission last year. To save prospective students in elementary teacher training courses an unnecessary trip to Bloomington, advance registration 'and enrollment has - been resorted to this year. * Indications are that there will be more demands for teacher training work this fall than ever before. When the maximum of 180 students in the elementary teacher training courses has been reached, announcement will be made that the rolls are closed. Dean Smith says. He anticipates that the maximum will be reached several weeks in advance of the opening of the fall semester on September 14. —— o FAMILY REUNION A number of relatives gathered at the home of Mrs. Joan Holloway on Sunday and enjoyed the day together. It was in the nature of a family reunion, and those present were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Riddle and family, who make their home with Mrs. Holloway; Mr. and Mrs* Elmer Holloway and daughter of South Bend; Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Hire and two sons of Elkhart; Mr. and IMb Jay Ross and son of Joplin, Montana. A picnic dinner was served and then the guests took an automobile trip around the gathering w» of double »flcance to the relatives on nf the presence of Mr. Ross, who a fe* days ago arrived from Montana, and who had not seen a number of the relatives for several years. INTOXICATED, ARRESTED George Williams, who was employed in a hotel on Lake Wawasee, was arrested last week on a charge of intoxication and taken ♦o the county jail. He claimed that the liquor was furnished to him by a colored youth who has been bootlegging about the lake for several weeks. The authorities are looking for the negro. YEGGMEN BLOW SAFE i r * The Larwill Bank at Larwill, Ind., was visited by robbers at 2 o’clock Tuesday morning and 1 about $2:000 in currency was ‘ taken from the bank safe, which ! was broken open with f charges of nitro-glycerin. The robbers escaped. 0 LADIES AID MEETING H The Ladies Aid Society of the j Lutheran church is holding its * I regular social meeting with Mrs. I William Beckman as hostess this afternoon.

| BIG PYTHIAN MEET Il Militant Pythianism of Indi- . ana and Illinois will be guests of . Martinsville, Ind., the week of August. 2. when sixty Companies J of the Uniform Rank of the Two- . | State Encampment will answer ' the call of their commanding officers to camp on the high school grounds and participate in a program covering six days. The Martinsville committee has provided cash prizes amounting to $3,000 and, the companies will be housed in the large high school gymnasium. Preparations are being made to take care of more than 2,000 men in uniform. Besides the usual military program and contests at such meetings the Pythian Order in the ♦wo 1 states pfans several other big features. Among the number will be the ! initiation of a large class of candidates in the Order. The Pythian Sisters also will have a large number to. initiate and the Knights of Khorassan, the playground branch of the order, will conduct a ceremonial in which candidates will < be brought from lodges in both states. It will be Pythian .week and the committee in charge is making preparations to care for more than 10,000 visitors. O : J. H. BRUNJES DIES ‘ Word was received last Saturday by D. H. Brunjes, who resides on’ Lake Wawasee, of the death of his brother. John Henry Brunjes, at his home in St. Petersburg. Fla., early Saturday morning. He frequently visited in Syracuse with- relatives, and made many friends here. He had been ill many months with a complication of diseases. The late Mr. Brunjes was born in Germany, coming to America when about seventeen years of age. Early in life he was baptised and confirmed in the Lutheran church. Besides the broth- j er here, he is survived by the widow, a sister in Germany, and another sister, Mrs. Adeline Hines, of Hartwick Seminary, N.; Y. The funeral services were held in Chicago Wednesday, conducted by Rev. R. N. McMichael of Syracuse. " was made in Oakwood Park there. —O ; TRUCK WELL GUARDED A truck loaded with $21,000,000 in securities owned by the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., of Fort Wayne,' was brought from Indianapolis to that city. A squad, of eight state policemen armed with rifles and shotguns rode on the truck. The securities were transferred from Indianapolis t<f a safe deposit vault in the National Bank of Fort Wayne. The transfer was made by the state of Indiana and thtjjpecurities were those which the insurance company is required to deposit with the state insurance commissioner for the protection of policy holders. The Fort Wa|ne banlc W« recently named as the depositorv for the securities for northeast-’ ern Indiana, W The truck made tSe from Indianapolis to Eqrt without mishap. Automobgqg] patrolled the roads in in rear of the truck policemen. . e 7/- * ° 'WINONA WATER SAfO| Dr. W. P. King, state hejlh. commissioner, has authorized tfce following statement relative -W typhoid fever at Winona Lake: “The condition which was responsible for the outbreak of typhoid fever at Winona Lake, Ind., have been eliminated. Lab* oratory tests of sample of watsfc show the Winona Lake watp?supply to* b<j safe and satisfac* tory. There is now no danger of tvphoid, as far asi the water supply is concerned.’’ ' PICNIC AND REUNION Mrs. Zella Leacock attended a reunion of the Wednesday Afternoon Club at Benton on Sunday. The occasion was for the former , members and their families, and I was in the nature of a picnic, I which was held at the Nymeyer > farm near Benton. Over 110 . were present and it was one of • the biggert days ever spent to- > gother bv the members—and “of all the dinners," so they all said. MARKET AND RAKE SALE » The Zion U. B. ladies Aid will ? conduct a market Saturday, July . 25, at Strieby’s seed room, s Chicken and noodles and a variety of baked goods. 12-lt

iTHINGS TO THINK ABOUT Review of Things by the Editor As He Sees Them on the Surface. _____ ' Keep Yonr Chin Up No matter what happens, keep your chin up. When you indulge in gloom you are hurting yourself worst of all. We know that there are some' feelings- that poison us just like arsenic. They have a direct effect upon the body. Anger reddens the face, fright makes the hain stand on end, grief destroys the appetite, and embarrassment makes the mouth dry. One o f the surest mental poisons is despair. It dulls the brain and confuses the hands. Why give up? As long as you live you will have some sort of a chance. Nine-tenths of success, after all. is pep. The man who faces misfortune with a smile and a stout heart can not he beaten. There is always Tomorrow’. and what Tomorrow has in store for us no one knows. At least make up your mind to this one thing: no matter what fate may do to us it shall not make usjafraid. Keep your chin up. Tot’s Keep Him m Symcine Every boy and girl in Syracuse is a potential asset to us all. The right development of this asset implies better schools, wholesome amusements, promising industrial and professional opportunity—environment that recognizes the developing power of t youth and gives it a real chance. ' When.you let John or Mary vhn pi-’tr havo lust a budding Lincoln. Edison, Ford —a "futujfe great." i Do your part in making Syracuse a better place to live and thrive, Spend your money in Syracuse, where your dollar con--1 vinues to do a hundred cents worth of work for the boys and \ girls of your own city—and incidentally to give you far greater return, both djrectly and indirectly, than you could otherwise ob + ain for it Keep him in Syracuse. Last year there were, more than two million jay-walkers. Automobiles have cut the number nearly one-half and so reduced the tribe that several cities are now arresting these pedestrians. If a man wants to-get run over or injured he i§ supnosed to do so at the street intersections. He must have a permit tn get knocked down in the middle of a block or go to jail. Personal liberty—there never was such an animal. Cupid is a mean little angel who meddles ’With other pejpnle’s affairs, and after getting nil tangled up-in an [nex<riEaW. mess of misunde*| rtanding. ,dealoa«v, disappoint** ment ants deceit, leaves them to <et out coheir troubles the best pray they, can, . Fifdi can talk alt you please the magic of hard work, Mlitre really is no magi? in g right thinking. f slave thougtits fjjrHcreate slave conditions. r Before we start envying a man who hs? become a great success, it might be Wejjrto ask ourselves if we’d Jbe 'trilMng to pay the price he has paid for his position i rs supremacy. J* -* - It is a* curious*fact that governmental reports show that the world has tdb much coal, Ac- ' cording to of sunply and demarSl the price should be getting lower instead of higher. Scientists say an oyster can Isv 60,000,000 ergs in a season. Whey not cut this out and paste it in your hen-house, so your hens can see it. ‘ Another trouble Old missed. His joy. no time can dim it; he did not have to keen his > ark outside the 12-mile limit. f The United States government . has discovered a flealess dog. It ’ new cnly remains necessary to discover a mosquitoless summer. Your income tox will be published again this year. Results j last year seem to justify pubr licity. The man who works hard selt dom has much tough luck.

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