The Syracuse Journal, Volume 18, Number 15, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 13 August 1925 — Page 1

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TOWN BOARD ENJOINED I ■ ■ I From Lotting Contract for the Paving: of Huntington Street The paving of south and north Huntington street is postponed for an indefinite period, at least. Dr. B. F. Hoy -has filed action in the Kosciusko circuit court to enjoin the town board, composed of Wm. Bowld. Nevin McC nnell and Emory L, Strieby from awarding the contract for the paving of Huntington street The court is asked to issue a temporary restraining order. In the complaint it is set forth that the town board has advertised to deceive -bids on the work August 11. South Huntington street is to be paved to the B. end 0. railroad, a distance of 2,000 feet and to a width of 40 feet. North Huntington street pavement is to be widened. The estimated cost of the improvement is $27,670 and Mp Hoy in his complaint alleges that fully 50 per cent of the cost will fall -upon the town. The reasons why a restraining order should be issued, as set forth in the omplaint, are that the action of the town board is illegal and void; that the present pavement is sufficient; that the costs exceed the benefits. It is further alleged in the complaint that the action was illegal in that two separate street improvement projects were combined in one proceeding. Lou Vail, of Goshen, is attornew for Mr. Hoy in his action. The members of the town lx>ard were served with a summons Friday to appear in court September 8. Attorney Geo. L. Xanders will represent the city in this action. Last Tuesday the town board met in special session to receive bids on the work. However, only one bid, that of McClintic, Colwell and Gordy, was received. It was not opened and will not be until the restraining order has been disposed of and the •action of the town board upheld by the court. < Under the present conditions the paving project is held up and nothing can be done until the court has passed on the legality of the action of the town board and the injunction re dissolved. o . ; HONEY CROP SHORT This season’s honey crop will be at least 4,000,000 pounds short of the usual 8,000,000 pounds annual production, according to Charles O. Yost, state apiary inspector of the conservation department. * Yost’s estimate is based on reports from all parts of the state showing an extreme in all conditions conducive to heavy production and successful bee raising. Weather conditions produced too-early brood-rearing, and early swarming, while the early dry weather dried up and killed much of the white and alsike clover. Honey was obtained principally this year from the sweet clover which better withstood the trying season. While the yield of honey varies in communities, state production will be far below last season’s crop. Yost predicts a higher price for honey this fall because conditions that curtailed the crop in Indiana also prevailed in several other states. '■ - CABLE FAMILY REUNION The seventeenth annual reunion of the Cable family was held at the summer home of J. W. Cabfet in Forest Park. Wawasee Lake on Sunday, August 9. About one hundred relatives and friends from far and near were in attendance. The forenoon was spent in handshaking and greetings. At noon a cafeteria lunch was sered. In the afternoon a short business meeting was held and . many enjoyed a good swim in Lake W&wasee. ■' ; s ' ........ .q— INJURED IN FALL Mrs. Frank Bailey caught her foot on a rug in her home on Monday afternoon and fell to the floor. She had her sewing and a pair of scissors in her hands, and as she fell she struck the scissors, which penetrated me right side of her face to the Wne. She narrowly escaped losing an eye.

The Syracuse Journal”* Syracuse’s Slogan: “A Welcoming Town With a Beckoning Lake.”

W. (1 T. U. INSTITUTE I The local institute of th b Retta Jones Union was held i the home of Mrs. T. D. Doll a' beautiful Waveland Beach, Wed nesdav of last week. e Mrs. Addie Patten of Warsaw the county president, was then with her interesting and helpfu talks, wherever she considered it best for the greatest numbei of people in the community. i The local President, Mrs. Ev« Grant, called for an experience j’ from many of the members, it ’ was entered into with much zest } and spirit Some spoke of the i past conditions, and others com- ‘ pared the present with the past ' and it was unanimously decided ' the moral and social conditions ‘ are greatly improved. A reading was given, entitled, £ Blossoms” by Mrs. Rose a lady seventy-two years hich was rendered with Ffect and highly appreciated by all This was followed by Mrs. Josephine Woods, the plrneer in the temperance work, of Retta Jones Union, who expressed great joy and satisfaction at the wonderful strides of the temperance work. Mrs. Addie Patten gave a very fine description of the W. C. T. U. Americanization home in Indianapolis and the great good it was doing among the foreign speaking people. The Union responded with a liberal donation to the home. Last but not. least the ladies served a wonderful fine chicken dinner. The Syracuse Union is under testing obligation to Mrs. Hazle Ward for bringing the county President to and from Milford. The next meeting will be in memorial of Mrs. Culla J. Vayhinger, wlx> left this world a year ago and had been state President for seventeen years. ~SwSsON=HOUBE The wedding of Mr. C. R. Swenson of Syracuse, and Miss Lottie House of North Webster, was solemnized by Reverend F ster, former pastor at North Webster, at his summer home in Epworth Forest, at 6 o’clock, Wednesday evening August 12. The happy Couple immediately left for an extended automobile■*nu r through the east, after which they will be at home to their many friends, at Elkhart Indiana. . Mr. Swenson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Swenson, living east of Syracuse, and has been a ■tudent in Purdue University for several years, where he has completed his work in Electrical Engineering. During his vacations he has been in the employ of the Syracuse Telephone Company. Miss House graduated from the North Webster High School, and after two years of Normal work at North Manchester Col lege, has been teaching, last yeai being employed at the Consolidated Schools near Elkhart. —o ■ —- REUNIONS The seventeenth annua! reunion of the Hamman family will be held at the home of Henry Koi berg, three miles south of Syracuse, on Saturday, Angust 15. Jake Hamman is president and Mrs. Violet Kolberg, secretary. The fourteenth annual Strieby reunion will be held at Redmon’s Park, Dewart Lake, on Thursday August 27. o ; NORTH MANCHESTER FAIR The great tri-county fair will be held at North Manchester. September 8, 9. TO, and 11. 1925, presenting a very neat and complete premium list in all departments. ■ The racing program is a splendid one and a great number of ‘ horses have already entered and the racing will be. one of the ( best in the history of the Fair. TURNIP ACREAGE : - —-■ ' Scores of Kosciusko county farmers have planted turnips tc 1 take the place of onions and other crops that failed to survive the late frosts and the Ion? drought late in May and early in June. Present indications an r that the largest acreage of turi nips .planted in the county in I ) decade will be harvested next f fall. - . . r ■ <>.- ~ c Colleen Moore wd John B»w i er; in “So Big”—from Edna Fer e ber’s -great story, at Crysta i- Theatre, Ligonier. August 18, 1! and M

j NEW PARIS MAN VICTIM OF HOLDU I 01 it i Milton Miller, proprietor oj it the Hotel Miller, at New Faris I- ana Also owner of a taxi busi ness was held up partly aftei r, noon Monday. e The highwayman Hid not wait il to get any of Mr. Miller’s money, d but drove away with his taxi, r Sheriff Long was notified and . immediately* began running a down clufcs that might lead to e an arrest. * t The highwayman was a strant rer in New Paris. He had been e “hanging around” the town all - morning, peering through show t windows and visiting several 1 business places* s Shortly before noon he approached Milter ahd engaged , him to take him to Syracuse. b Miller started toward the latter s t wn with his passenger occupyi ing the rear seat. About one mile and a half east of New Paris the man command- . ed Miller to stop the car and j emphasized that 'he meant it by i pointing a revolver at the taxi I operator’s head. • Then in a threatening voice - he commanded Miller to get out of' the car. Miller obeyed. "Stay there and don’t make an outcry,” Che holdup cautioni ed. “I won’t wait for your money but guess I’ll travel along in t-|hs c; r.” Suiting the action to his . words the highwayman started the machine and continued in the direction of Syracuse. Miller walked to New Paris and gave tihe alarm. Several autoists started in pursuit but at a late (hour h»ad not obtained a trace of the highwayman. The victim describes his assailan* as being about 25 years of rge. medium height, was well attired in a dark blue suit, straw foot and collar and tie. He had dark hair. The auto was a Ford touring car. , o BANK ROBBERS FOILED Perhaps a planned robbery of the Leesburg bank was "nipped in the bud” last Thursday. A young man was seen loitering suspiciously about the Leesburg streets Wednesday night. His actions became so unusual that Sheriff was called. T-: young man was taken to jail and given a “sweating". H<» told a weird story of having just driven from Chicago to Leesburg on a deal to purchase a farm. He said there were seven in the party. Early Thursday morning a mysterious au+o rolled into Leesburg. However Leesburg minutemen Were on the job wnth shotguns and surrounded tt’ie bank. The mysterious stranger was also picked up by the sheriff. After being held a few hours the men were allowed to depart. o PROMISING CORN CROP With a continuance of favorable weather conditions many fields of com in north-central Indiana give promise of yielding from 80 to 90 bushels of the grain per acre. Not in a score of years has corn developed in . this section as it has during the last three weeks. In many parts of Kosciusko and neighboring counties the stalks are 12 to 14 ! feet in height . The ears are now turning downward and are filling out WHITEHEAD REUNION The twenty-first annual reunion of the Whitehead family was held Sunday at the WhiteI head chur ch. west of New Paris with an attendance of 200. The followjng officers were elected ’ for the ensuing year: President, . Galen Whitehead, New Paris; vice president, Noble Neff, Mil- . ford; secretary-treasurer. r The reunion will be held next j year on the second Sunday in r, August in the New Paris school yard. ——-— o ; ’ '•<> ■ CARD OF THANKS y The members of the Seider and o Thornburg sections of the d Methodist Ladies Aid wish to thank all manufacturers who do g nated merchandise for the y manufacturers benefit sate, ese peciaUy, Roscoe Howard, W. M. - Wilt, Emory L. Strieby and a Syracuse Mfg. Co. t o NOTICE «■ r- There will be a chicken suppei r- at the Hex Grange Hall, tw< d and one-half mßes northeast ol 9 Syracuse, on Tuesday evening August 18. ’ 15-1-pc " 4 *'* t X

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1925

NUTRUTION EXHIBIT P AT STATE FAIT f Children nee l growing vita- >, mins which come from certain i- fo.ds and from sunlight but this r fact. stiU is overlooked by many persons. In ureter to stress this t point, arrangements have been r , made by the Home Economics Extension Division of Purdue 1 University to put on a nutrition ? exhibit in the Purdue Building a at the Indiana State Fair, Sept 7 to 12. It will be a veritable - short course in child feeding, 1 and will be of special interest 1 not only to the mothers and z fathers but will be so arranged 1 that children also will get the lessons. One part of the exhibit will be 1 demonstrated by the use .of . chickens, one lot receiving feed r that contains the growth vita- - min and the other receiving no growth vitamin. The difference t in the rate of growth with the ■ chickens brings out the value of 1 having this vitamin in the diet ’ for children. Rickets, a bone t disease frequently occuring in children, may be prevented by proper food and direct rays of the sun. Foods that contain the vitamin preventing rickets are butter, egg yolk and cod liver oil. Different lots of white rats are being fed to show' the value of these foods not. onl y for animals, but also in humans. The second part of the exhibit will be a stairway depicting “Pratical Helps in Child Care" in which mechanical dolls climb the stairway for a healthy child. The different steps to be shown will be; Full bath three times a week, play and exercise each day, meals at regular hours, whole grain cereals and a quart of milk daily, fresh fruit and vegetable, sweets only at end of meals, and 10 hours of sleep daily. o t GAIN IN RECEIPTS ■ Up to July 1, total receipts of the Indiana conservation department division were $151,789.83, the largest amount ever collected in any previous nine months by $10,132.82. If this gain is continued until the end of the fiscal year, total receipts of the division “will be at least $200,000, officials say. During June state game wardens arrested 166' -persons, convicted 138 and 27 cases remain tc- be tried, Mr. Mannfeld reports to Richard Lieber, conservation director. Fines and costs in June totalled $3,328.20. Leading offenses listed in this report were illegal possession of seines and using same, 51; hunting and fishing without licenses, 30; taking fish in closed season, 19; taking undersized fish, 17; taking fish with hands unlawfully, 15; taking fur animals in closed season, 8; dynamiting fish, 7; taking squirrels in closed seaon, 7. In the nine months of this fiscal year the office docket shows 1.431 arrests with 1,419 convictions. —o — MYERS—CLAYTON Miss Florence Clayton and Harold Myers were united in marriage on Thursday August ; 6. The ceremony was performed at Warsaw at about four o’clock by Rev. Butler, pastor of i the United church. The bride is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Clayton residing near Syracuse. The bridegroom lives in Nappanee, and holds a position at the Service Station there. . The newly married couple left on Saturday in their car for a . short wedding trip up in MidUj gan, -where they will visit among [ relatives. Upon their return they will go to housekeeping in ’ Nappanee. ’ . o —rA FREAK SPOT t , In Marshall county there is a j freak spot of ground, about five miles square upon which no rain has fallen for a year. That portion of the earth is parched and as barren as the Mojavo , desert. ’ Visitors drive for miles to see the waste land and marvel at its ’ appearance of desolation. e ~ BIRTHS A daughter was born on SaturJ dav, August 8. to Mr. and Mrs, John Byland, Jr. o How big are you? Just ask yourself, then see OoMeen Moore r asd John Bowers in “So Rig"— o the Orstsl T’.eatre, IJgonier, f August 18, 19 and 20. g o d f Subscribe for the Journal

(INDIANA DAIRYMAN’S 3! DOLLAR NOW BUYS MORE e The Indiana farmer’s dollar n from the sale of butter,, eggs s and chickens is now worth a y dollar and nine cents in mers chandise, according to computai tions of the Blue Valley Creams ery Institute, which finds that b the combined purchasing power i of these three farm products is f now about a four year pre-war » level for the same month. b Last year and for several , years after the war when the Int dtena farmer took a dollar re--1 ceived in payment for farm pro--1 ducts to the store to buy manu- » factored commodities, he found 1 his dollar would buy only sixty, » seventy or eighty cents’ worth f of goods compared to the dcl--1 lar’s worth it would buy in pre- - war days. Prices of Indiana ► farm products have now ladvancs ed to a point where today a dol- ; lar’s worth of butter, eggs and chickens not only brings the far- ; mer a hundred cents worth of s needed articles but even nine cents more than the dollar he received for these particular products before the war. It is ■ well to bear in tnind. say the In- ! stitute experts, that it is not the ■ number of dollars the farmer re- ; ceives for his butter, eggs, or poultry but what these dollars will buy in shoes, shingles, suits, salt, seed or silos, that count. FAWLEY REUNION The tenth annual reunion of' t*he Fawley family was held at Hufman Lake, near Atwood, Sunday, August 9. A bountiful dinner was served to one hundred and twenty Vive relatives and friends and dinner was sent to several sick friends. All had a good time. Officers were elected for the coming year as fallows: Perry Fawley, president; Mrs. Mattie Lung, vice-president; James Fawley, secretary and treasurer. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Lung and son Doil of Syracuse; Mn. and Mrs. Perry Fawley; Mr. and Mrs. William Fawley; Mr. and Mrs. James Fawley, Mr. and Mrs. Abe -Fawley; Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Fawley; Mr. and Mrs. Milo Fawley; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fawley and children; Orie Fawley; Evert Fawley; Mrs. Margaret Summers-, Miss Deltie Hoker and Mrs. D. Fawley, all of Warsaw; Mr. and Mrs. George Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Buhrt of Mentone; Lester Hawling of Lansing, Michigan; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hann of Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burkholder and children of" Wabash; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Malott of Nappanee; Mr. and Mrs. Eph ram Rave and John Herman of South Bend. io HEALTH AND INDUSTRY Do not get the idea that all of the talk one hears about the importance of health in business is merely a lot of bunk. The small amount of time that the officials of most corporations have given to this subject is an indication of managerial ignorance as well as indifference. In the United States we have approximately 40,000,000 men and women workers who lose 327,000,000 working days a year from preventable illness. Assuming an average wage of $4 a day, the annual loss to the workers and to the nation is more than one and a quarter billion dollars, without including the loss to employers through a decrease in the potential productive capacity. o PHYSICIAN ENDS LIFE Dr. John Scott, 73. a resident of Nappanee, was found dead in i bed on Monday night, an apparent suicide. An unlabeled bottle, #hich had contained chloroform, was found near his bed. Dr. Scott’s act is thought to , have been prompted by ill , health and financial troubles. W. (X T. U. MEETING I. . « > The W. C. T. U. met with Mrs. G. H. Bailey on Tuesday after- » noon. There were ten members 5 and one visitor present Mrs. Hedges and Mrs. Donovan Strock sang h song, which was enjoyed by all. Q—- - WINONA BIBLE CONFERENCE The thirty-first annual session of the Winona Bible Conference t opens Friday, August 14th, for b ten days. Director W. E. Bieder- - wolf of Chicago, announces that the policy of strict adherence to the fundamental doctrines of evangelical Christianity will be continued.

HANSHEW REUNION S The second annual reunion of r the Hanshew family and relas tives was held Sunday, August i 9, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. - Walter H. Tidd at Rome City, - Ind., where Vae forenoon was . spent by the men folks in visitt ing and pitching horse shoes, r while the ladies were busy 5 spreading a bountiful dinner r that was served at 12 o’clock. The afkernoori was spent in { visiting. Those present were: . Mrs. James McClure and child- . ren of Brimfield, Indiana; Mr. .and Mrs. Brough L. Cole; Mr. . and Mrs. Verner Cale and [ children of Columbia City, Indiana; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond t Lung and children; Mrs. Isabelle Hanshew; Mrs. Frances Hapner and children all of Syracuse, Indiana; Mr. and Mrs. Kaleel Juday and children of Millersburg, Indiana; Mr. and Mrs. Everette Hanshew and son Elmer; Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Evtcheson of Ligonier, Indiana; Mr. and Mrs. Vern J. Stump and children of New Paris, Indiana. All of the children were present except Jesse Hanshew, his wife and children of Syracuse, Indiana. There was one face of the family circle gone since this time last year, by the death of Frances Hapner, who died May 8, 1925. The name of the Hanshew reunion will be changed to the “Good" reunion to be held at the home of Mrs. Frances Hapner, three miles north of Syracuse, Indiana on the second Sunday of August 1926. o DEATH OF MRS. BOLAND Mrs. Mary K. Boland passed away Thursday morning, August 6th*, at the Lake View Hotel which she has owned and operated for the past fourteen years. Mrs. Boland had sold the hotel recently and was spending the summer at the Lake she loved so well. Her illness was of two weeks duration and diagnosed as cancer of the stomach from which she suffered intensely. The remains were shipped to Chicago where the funeral took place from the residence of her son, Saturday, August Sth. Interment at Irving Park Cemetery, beside the garvei of her late husband Frederick Boland. The disc eased is su vived by four children, Reuben E., Boland of Harvey, Illinois, Fred J. Boland of Chicago,Mrs. Norma Nye of Chicago and Marcia Jackson of St. Louis, who were at her bed side when she passed away. Can! of Thanks The family of the late Mrs. Mary K. Boland extend their heartfelt thanks and acknowledge their sincere appreciation to the many steadfast friends and infinite kindness and invaluable aid given us during our recent bereavement. We also tender our thanks for the many beautiful floral offerings. We especially offer Mr. Pletcher, the undertaker, sincere thanks for the kindness and thoughtfulness he has shown us and for the masterful service he so faithfully tendered! o PURCH ASED CARS • The Syracuse Auto Sales reports the following sales: Tillman Hire, 93 Sedan DeLuxe. Bishop Campbell Gray, 93 Standart Sedan. Joseph Bushong, 91 Sedan DeLuxe. Chas. Ellwood George, Willys-Knight Roadster. AUTOMOBILES COLLIDE Two Fords collided early Saturday morning, about 12:30, near Cranberry hill, injuring the occupants, Wm. Swihart, Jefiße Strieby, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil White, a boy and a girl, which were in the White car. Both cars were wrecked. Tbe injured were taken to Syracuse and attended to by Dn L. W. Ford and Dr. Q R. Hoy. o OFFICERS ELECTED Officers of the IWawasee Pro i tective Association have been elected for another year as follows: R. D. Sinclair of Chicago, ! president; H. H. Gortner of Goshen, vice president; Claude H. Coppes of Nappanee, secretary- ! treasurer. Directors are R. B. ■ Kelly, Frank Remy and Martin E Crow. ► Special Feature pictures at ’ the Crystal Theatre at Lkronier, - every Sunday nfarht. • Special mnsie <m the big Pipe Organ.

THINGS TO • THINK ABOUT ; Review of Things by the Editor As He Sees Them on the Surface. t - The Postal Tangle It is announced from Washington that efforts are to be made at the next session of congress to iron out some of the confusing absurdities in the new . postal regulations. The men who got up the present law certainly did a sorry job in preparing a number of the provisions. For instance, you can still mail a postcard which the gov- . ernment makes and stamps, for one cent, ibut if you buy one that is privately made and lick trie stamp yourself, it will cost you two cents. The cards !may be of the same color, weight and size, but that won’t help you. Government cards cost one cent to mail; all others two, and that’s that Another curious provision is that, without regard to size, weight or style, a bound pamphlet, with covers and containing 24 pages, or more, Is a book, and goes at the rate of one cent for eacth two ounces or fraction thereof. Under 24 pages, however, it is a circular, and goes at the rate of one and one-half cents for each two ounces. It is not the contents, the purpose or get-up that counts, but the number of pages. It may be a scientific treatise, but if it contains 24 pages or more, it is a book. How or why it should cost two cents to mail a privately made and privately stamped postcard, while it costs only one cent for a government card, no one seems tn -know. * , Why a 30-page real estate booklet should be classed as a book and take the cheaper rate, while a 20-page educational pamphlet is classed as a circular and takes the higher rate, is equally inexplicable. More Work for the Alienists A Syracuse girl recently received an offer of marriage. She asked a week to consider the matter, then organized herself into an investigating committee and commenced taking testimony from the married ladies of her acquaintance. The first one she visited used to be a ibelle and the most admired girl in the town before she was married six years ago. The examination brought out the fact that she had three children, did all her town work, including her washing and ironing, and hadn’t been down town for four weeks, and that her husband had given her but $2 since she was married, and that he had borrowed and forgot to pay back $lO which her brother once gave her for a Christmas present. Another , woman whom she visited . quit teaching school three years ago to marry the “handsomest and best-dressed man in town," and she is now supporting him. A third didn’t dare say her soul was her own when her husband was around, though she used to write some lovely essays when she was at school on “The Emancipation of Woman.” The fourth woman she visited / was divorced. After visiting them and summing up the evidence she went home and wrote to the young man. She will be married to him next month. A man feels superior to . a woman, but we’d like to see the man who could feel all dressed up wearing no more clothes than the average woman wears. Would you hire yourself for • your present job if you were the boss? If you are the boss vtould any other man hire you for a similar position? Now that they have flown, hiked, motored, bicycled, and bummed across the continent, who is going to try it on roller i skates? If you have any bouquets or brickbats to throw, throw them at the living while they can enjoy the one and dodge the other. ® Whipping posts are suggested for careless motorists. Why not sentence them to 30 days as pedestrians?

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