The Syracuse Journal, Volume 18, Number 43, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 February 1926 — Page 1

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ANOTHER VICTORY Syracuse Takes Two More (hones from Leesburg High School last Friday. 1 The Syracuse High School basket ball teams defeated the Leesburg High School Friday night. The second team didn’t play up to standard and didn’t hold a very large margin over the husky Leesburg boys. The first team showed much improvement in floor work but could not conneot with the basket. Syracuse, seconds FG FT PTS R Godshalk 0 11 Kettlring 11 3 H. Goifehalk 1 3 5 Bushong 0 0 0 Crow 1 2 4 Bachman ..<1 0 0 Total 3 7 13 Leesburg 2 nds FG FT PTb Q Stookey 0 0 0 Sbure .........i..0 0 0 Rjple ... 0 0 0 Popenpoose .......0 Hammon 1 0 2 Laughlin 0 0 0 Fervada 2 0 4 Total.. 3 17 Syracuse FG FT PTS Connolly -2 3 7 Auer. .7 0 14 Riddle ...3 0 6 Hoelcher 11 3 Snavely ~..0 11 Total 13 5 31 Leesburg FG FT ITS McCann ...........0 Stevens 0 0 J K. Stookey 2 1 Klopenstein 0 0 0 N0e1..,-,, 2 0 4 B. Stookey 0 0 0 Wallace 0 0 0 F. Vanator 1 0 2 Total 5 2 12 The Syracuse teams are practicing in the Milford gymnasium on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and hope to be able to defeat the strong New Pans teams next Friday night. If New Paris is defeated a new record in Kosciusko county basket ball will be established; for this will complete the regular schedule with all games played on a foreign floor, without a loss. The second team has won thirteen games without a loss and going to try hard for this Tickets for the District Tourney March 5 and 6 are on sale now and can be. bought from High School pupils, price $l5O. The High School’s share of the net profits depends upon the number of tickets sold, so be sure and buy your season tickets before Thursday March 4. The District Tourney will be held in Warsaw this year. STANDING OF TRAMS Team- W L Pct Syracuse ....10 0 1000 Atwood 10 2 .833 North Webster 4 .692 Sidney 8 5 Milford 4 3 .sil Claypool 9 7 .562 Pierceton 77 .5(X> Leesburg J .467 Beaver Dam .........5 6 .454 Burket -.5 10 .333 Mentone 4 10 -286 Silver Lake 2 8 fiOO Etna Green 3 14 .177 This percentage column does not include games played other than county teams. o LARGE REAL ESTATE DEAL One of the ’largest single real estate deals ever consumated in Florida was made Tuesday when the Fort Myers Grove (near Miami) was sold for $34)00,000 to the Wayne Development company. a corporation owned by Indiana capitalists and Fort Wayne business men. The tract purchased lies within the city limits of Fort Meyers and is considered one of the finest citrus groves in that section. J. B. Franke, of Fort Wayne, is president and principal stockholder in the InTO GIVE CONCERT The K. K. orchestra which is composed of famous musicians, has consented to give one of their concerts at the M. B Church, Wednesday evening, March 3. 8 o’clock sponsored by the Wednesday Afternoon CluA>- Actagssion 25c and 15c. 43-lt ■

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Syracuse’s Slpifani “A Welcoming Town With a Beckoning Lake.”

| TRAINLOAD OF ELK i A trainload of elk, claimed to be th? largest shipment of wild animals ever made, bound from the national bison range at Dixon, Mont., to a ranch at Middleboro. Mass., passed through Goshen Monday. The men in charge were cowboys. The train was an express of 12 cars. Railroad officials said it was being sent through in even better time than passenger trains. There were 379 elk in the shipment when the train left Dixon. Mont., last Friday morning, and Percy R Jones, who with his bother and father owns the animals | said that very few had died enroot?., The bodies of three elk that had died were removed. The herd was started orginallv by the United States Biological Survev, but multiplied so rapidly that the range, heretofore reserv'd for bison, was endangered, The Elk Breeding and Grazing Association contracted to take the herd, paying a snrdl sum per head and assuming all costs incident to the roundup and transportation of the animals. ——o—- ——- BURGLARS AT WORK Burglars entered Wfe B. & 0. railroad depot and the office of the M. Moore and company, lumber dealers. at Cromwell. Tuesday night and knocked the doors off the safes, getting only about S2O in cash at both places. The B. & O. safe was robbed of $8 in cash. The lumber company officials stated about $12.80 was taken from the safe there. Indications are that the yeggs used a sledge wrapped in cloth to knock the doors off as no signs of explosives have been used were seen. ■ The night telephone operator reported she heard a car speeding through the streets about- - o’clock bi t heard no noise at the officea robbed- The robbers took no checks or bond*, it was learned Wednesday after a checkup of the loss. ; —-o ■ ' i. VETERANS’ INSURANCE It is undoubtedly due to the fact that veterans do not understand their privileges ua<Jer the policies of their governmental < insurance that the stupendous sum of $30.000,000.000 worth of governmental insurance has been ' allowed to lapse. J A generous Congress made pro- ; vision so that the service men could keep the insurance up at I cost. There were no restrictions as to occupation, place of residence, nor anything except fraud. ! It was the cheapest insurance to bo had anywhere. The men were ; allowed to pay their insurance ! in small monthly premiums. Only 555,000 out of four millions 1 of men have 6 token advantage of i this low rate to protect their families and loved ones. July 2. 1926. is the test day : that these policies may be renewed. — o— ' < PUBLIC DINNER A SUCCESS The public dinner given by the Lutheran men of Cromwell last Thursday evening proved a huge success in spite of the bad weather. Over three hundred people were fed and fed well. The entire meal from beginning to finish was prepared and served by the men. It is said'that many Cromwell women, greatly enjoyed the spectacle of seeing their husbands working in the kitchen. Matty Katzer of Lake Wawasee served very efficiently as head chef, and D. H. Brunjes of near Syracuse directed activities in the dining room. Pastor McMichael officiated during the evening as a knight of the dishpan. DE.ATH OF MRS. H. RAPP Mrs. Henry Rapp passed away a her home in Elkhart on Wednesday evening at 7:00 o’clock, after a lingering illness. Her sons. Mefoem and Joe Rapp of this city and her husband, besides other relatives and friends survive to mourn her death. Mekbern received a message on Wednesday evening to come at once and he started, but his mother had passed away jiut a few minutes before he reached her bedside. :—-o—— —• COMMUNITY SALE 1 Friday. February 26, the > fourth community sale will be held at the Lnsley barn commencing at 12 o’tJock noon. Horses cattle, hogsk sheep, machinery J and a number of miscellaneous jartieles will be offered for sale.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1926.

TURKEY RUN STATE PARK SPLENDID SANCTUARY Turkey Run State Park is a splendid sanctuary and there amid conditions truly replica, of pioneer Indiana, feathered friends live and thrive in astonishing number and variety, filling an important mission in nature’s great scheme of life. This fact is reported to Richard Lieber, conservation director, by a committee of the Indiana Nature Study Club following a two days census conducted, by six members, in which they discovered 1004 individuals and 22 I species. The committee consisted of Mesdames • A. P. Thomas. E. H. Elwood, a G Ohliger. W. P. Morton, and James E. Cook and S. E. Pericins, 111. and in his report, Mr. Pei-kins says: "Woodpeckers abound over the entire park because of numerous dead stubs and trunks. afford nesting aod boring sites. Good farm husbandry means cutting out dead and dying timber so this valuable group of birds is scarcer on well kept acres than it should be. All species of woodpeckers found in Indiana at any season except the rare pileated were seen by our observes. The unsound species formerly more common as a summer breeder has felt the effect of civilization and being a dweller of the deep, dense woods, has largely sought wilder areas than Indiana generally affords. One was killed near Morgantown last fall and several unverified reports came from Brazil during 1925. but these seem to indicate the nearest approach of the pileated to Turkey Run. I believe it can be found at McCormick’s Park in mid-summer. “It was not surprising that we did not again find siskins as in 1925. They are listed as winter migrants and not as winter residents. Like the Cedar Waxwing and White-throated Sparrow, they spend the winter traveling in flocks about their range in search of food. This year, as last, except for the siskins, we found the juntos and tufted titmice, the most numerous birds. Often we found winter flocks of chickar dees associating in about equal numbers with the titmice and tree arrows in the same way with juntos, out at Turkey Run both chickadees and tree sparrows were much scarcer than their pals. “Winter birds apparently are fond of the farmhouses and barns and we found most of our birds jn speh vicinity. Also there vastly more birds about the combination feeding and shelter stations maintained at the park than in the unbaited areas. Quail especially used the stations when deep snow was on the ground. The maintenance of these stations is one of the most important things being done to preserve and increase bird hie in this park. We saw where grains best, liked for food by birds were being raised for the sole purpose of having throughout the year a supply of fragrant appetizing seed to draw and keep the feathered inhabitants in the park district. The practice of raising Kaffir com and other grains is carried out at all Indiana state parks with the same good results as here. “The Bald or American Eagle seen in 1925 was not again enoountered. There have been reports of killings of them during the year in that neighborhood which probably accounts for their disappearance. On January 14. one of the census takers handled, handed and photographed an inmature American Eagb cnugkt at Fountain town, route of Greenfield This bird, while one of prey, chiefly lives op hsh Because they are not protected I they have about disappea red. I census are ducks. Quail. Hawks ; Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodnecker Red-Headed Woodpecker. Rallied Woodpecker, Flteker. Jay. Crow. Goldfinch, Whitethroeted Sparrow, Tree Sparrow, J unco. Song Sparrow. Ca™ l "" Carolina Wren. White-breasted Nuthatch, Tufted Titmouse. Carolina Chickadee, Black-capped Chickadee and Robson. —. —o— - FARM FEDERATION The Farm Federation of Benton Township will hold their regular monthly meeting at the South Consolidated school, Thursday evening, March 4. The subject for the evening will be dairying. Everybocjy invited. - All Goshen automobiles will be kept off Main street on Friday i Feb. 26, Dollar Day. Plenty o room to park. 43-lt

DRATH FOLLOWS ACCIDENT | Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Edmonds were called to Mishawaka on Monday morning by a message stating that their son, Myton Edmonds, had met with a serious axident, at the rubber plant in that city, , where he was a nightwatchman. Mr. Edmonds went to work on Sunday night as usual, but some time during the evening, in going his rounds over the factory, ; he fell into a concrete pit„ about ten feet deep, and received a fracture of the skull. He was not missed by the other men at the factory until several hours later, when one of the men found his ?at lying on the floor, and a search was made. The injured man was found in a helpless con ifition. but conscious, and was token to the hospital. An X-ray was token of the fracture and an operation was performed at once, but the patient passed away on Monday night at o'clock, without having regained consciousness. Myron Edmonds had been employed at the rubber factory for seventeen years 0d was 44 years old at the time of his defcth. Besides his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Edmonds of Syracuse and an aunt, Mrs. Minerva Eagles, he is survived by his wife and two children, a son and daughter, and other relatives and friends who mourn his sad and untimely end. Funeral services were held in Syracuse at the Evangelical Chiuch today (Thursday) at 1:30 o’clock. Rev. W. J. Dauner, the pastor, officiating. Interment in the Syracuse cemetery. ALONZO CORY DEAD Alonzo Cory passed away on Friday, February 19, at his home near Girard, Kansas, at the age of 81 years. The deceased was a brother of Miss Linda Cory, who lives on Stringtown road, near this city, and an uncle of Mrs. Emma Gordy. Miss Sena Unrue. and Mrs. Rilla Sloan, of this city. Forty-eight years ago this spring Mr Cory and his family moved to Kansas, where they have made their home ever since. The dece?sed was well known in this community, where many friends will be to learn of his demise. He ? leaves his wife and three sons and one daughter to mourn his passing. Interment was made at the Girard cemetery. STRUCK BY AUTOMOBILE Frank Bailey was struck by an automobile on Saturday evening about 6:30 o’clock, as he was walking down the pavement with his wife, on their way to the doctor’s office. He was knocked down and received a severe blow in the side and on the shoulder, besides being, shaken up badly. However no’ bones were broken and both parties to the accident are glad it was no worse. Robert Bell was driving the car. WELL ATTENDED The third men’s meeting given at the Evangelical Church last Sunday afternoon was well attended E. E. Stacy, consulting secretory Indiana Y. M. C. A. gave his illustrated travelogue, “The Young Men of all Nations,” showing the activities of the organization in foreign lands as we’l as in the United States.

I Auto TragecKes Increase as Other Travel Is Made Safer AUTOS STILL CLIMBING HILL Os DEATH / t&ooe - XO®® _t-' ~ WHILE ratlroad tragedies and street car accidents tn the United States I have gradually been diminishing in the last ten yearn, the annual toll exacted by automobile casualties I* steadily mounting, says the StewartWarner Safety Council for the prevention of automobile accident*. Railroad accidents have been cut more than one-third, or from 12.520 In 1913 to 8.078 In 1928. the latest government figures available. Street car fatalities also have been cut down one-third or from 3,080 i> MBS to 1008^ tan years later. Automobile deaths, on the other hand, have taCTeased over five-st>l<L Against the 3,822 deaths in 1913 wo have 16.452 in 1923, and the score is * ro, C4ire* a more care and still more care, to the solution of this national problem The pedestrian must be slways on the alert and as spry as a kanraroo. If he to to keep out of harm’s way. and the driver tor his part most relax hto vMfitowe tor a Mtoaaat whoa human Uvea are at hto SMrcg.

r FREE-THROW TOURNEY SPONSORED BY L U s n Bloomginton. Ind., Feb. 22.— e Syracuse high school has beer - furnished entries for the thin s Indiana state high school free i throw tournament, sponsored bj - Indiana University. Separate emblems awarded to al i champion boys and girls in the J contest and to team champions. The free-throw toumam,ent is , for the purpose of stimulating t accuracy in high school i Competition consists of s trials at the basket, all t time or in two sets of “thh. g ? of twenty-five shots each. •~ j I contestant is allowed any ntflfh 1 her of practice throws before he I lignifies his intention of actuallj ompeting in the state contest ■ The high school priricipal and r basketball coach vouch for the 1 accuracy of eec?h record in the • local school. The throwing takes 1 place in the local gymnasium. • Team competition consists ol ■ fiftS' trials for each member od a boys’ or girls’ team of ten ■ members each. The tournament closes on March 6. Records are ’ then sent into the University Where a compilation is made tc determine the . individual and team champions. Professor ■ George E. Schlafer, of the I. U. 1 department of physical education for men, is in charge of the con--1 test. While there is usually no large audience for state free-throw tournaments, great interest in these events has been evidenced • among individual players during the past two years. In 1924, Herbert Havens, of Lebanon high school, was the individual champion among boys with a perfect score of 50 baskets out of 50 attempts. Miss Ethel Mandell, of the Indiana State School for the Deaf, was high point scorer among the girls, with 33 baskets out of 50 attempts. The Logansport boys team and the Michigan City girls’ team were team champions I in 1924. , | Last year the Logansport boys |team again won first place as a ' ; team and the Carlisle high school girls’ team was first among the girls. Gerald Rice, of Logansf port, took individual honors i among the boys with 46 goals out 50 trials. Miss Helen Shuman of Rochester, was first amongthe girls with 41 goals out of 50 attempts. Geneva high school took second place last year in the boys’ tournament and Rochester high school won honors in the girls’ tourney. WASHINGTON SOCI AL Twenty five members of the Junior League of the Evangelical I Church enjoyed a Washington Social at the Church parlors Monday evening, February 22. Mrs. W. J. Dauner, the superintendent, assisted by Mrs. Etta Ott were in charge. AH of the boys and girls entered heartily into the program of the evening, consisting of games and contests. The hatohet hunt seemed to create the most excitement A pot luck supper served at the close of the program was enjoyed by all as evidenced by the way things disappeared. The young people departed for home at nine o’clock. i o— Fridav. February 26, Goshen Dollar Day. 434 t

ENGINEER SUES DOCTOR J.* —— ' Suit for $50,000 was filed in - the Elkhart County circuit court n > last week by Floyd Hursh, of d Elkhart, through Attorney Guy Dauman, of. Goshen, against Dr. y I. Wright Short, <rf Elkhart. Dr. e Short is alleged in the complaint 11 to have conspired with Mrs. e Hursh in passing off an infant obtained at the Mishawaka Oris > phansi home, as one boro to g a'Cuhih and of which Hursh sj father. MgjpF. Short is a leading physician and is the New York doctor in that city. Mr. is a New York Central ie complaint changes that in y the summer of 1922, Mrs. Hursh t. advised her husband she e.x‘j*ctd cd to become a mother in the e soring of 1923. Hursh alleges e that, she used_variaus means to s make her physical appearance one that would lead him to bes lieve that what she said was f true n In April of 1923. so he alleges t she arranged, through Dr. Short, e to get an infant from the Mishajr waka Orphans’ home and had o I token it to the maternity ward d of the Elkhart General hospital, r That on April 19, when Hursh was absent., his wife had a nurse n bring the infant from the hospi- - tai to the Hursh home. It was “in a basket, covered with a e shawl” and the nurse is alleged v to have come in through a rear i entrance. 1' Hursh alleges that when he ? i returned he was introduced to j his new son. From then on until f i last month, he declares, he 81 thought the child his and treatsi ed it as hisu In January, he s • saj r s. he learned of the deception. 1! He decided to file suit for a dis vorce and also claim for danwes i against the Elkhart physician, s The Hursh.es. who have been - married 13 years, have one son i’ and one daughter and an adopts ed daughter. 3 O ■- WHY NOT GIVE US GAS? k The Insull interests which con--1 trol many gas and electric pro- ? perties in Indiana recently ac- - quired the gas plants at Elkhart s and Goshen. In order to elirftint ate wastes and cut down the cost i of distribution a pipe line has j been' Elkhart* to Go- - saen and the plant in the latter 1 named city will be abandoned. ; If profitable to pipe gas from • Elkhart to Goshen why not to > Syracuse and the lake? Gas is the ideal fuel for cooking and those who cared to might pipe their houses so as to use it for illumination. Also the farmers . along the line would be gas coni sumers, both for cooking and i illumination. The Insull people might be in- . terested if some one or the Com- . mercial Club would get busy and ; try to get gas service foASyrat cuse. » a REPUBLICAN LOVEFEIST The Republicans of Northern ; Indiana held the Washington bans quet at the Shrine temple in Fort Wayne, Monday evening. About ' two thousand republicans attendI ed the greatest party lovefeast : ever held in the state. Addresses were delivered by Senator James A. Watson, Senator A. A. i Robinson and Congressman David t Hogg. Wm. Gaeke, mayor of : Fort Wayne, delivered the address of welcome. The atten- » dance was above the expectance • j of all and more than 200 persons II had to be turned away as they I were unable to obtain seats in the large banquet hall. j Those from Syracuse in atteng dance were: L. T. Heerman. Stephen Freeman, Sol Miller, Frank Greene, Glen Gordy, R. E. Pletcher. Nevin McConnell, Fred Self and Harry Culler. —————o- — t EXCAVATION FINISHED The excavation for the new $300,000 Wawasee Inn on the north shore of the lake was completed Tuesday and work on the sea wall has begun. , •— —o BAKE SALE The Queen Esther will have a bake sale at Connolly’s store on ■ Saturday, Feb. 27, at 10 o’clock. J 43-lt u 1 ° “* t- Guaranteed Nursery Stock That d Grows ; 8 Send for catalogue. Agents • wanted. 5* Edgewater Nursery Goshen, Indiana 43-ts • o r . ii A man is a person who gets r wf-en the badier doesn’t t * v sS' Low h&s hair i cub.

THINGS TO THINKABOUT Review of Things by the Editor j As He Sees Them on the Surface. The Word ‘♦Daddy” We wonder if the average Syracuse man or woman really knows what the word “Daddy” means to a child 4,5, or 6 yeare old? To the boy, Daddy is an ideal, a man so skillful that he can set the pace in any imposs hle game; so wise that he can build boats and slingshots and kites that soar high; so heroic that he can go out each morning into the big world and come bark each evening without a scratch. To the girl, Daddy is the scouree of candy and dolls and nice dresses: the teller of stories that delight her; the big, strong <mab who. catthes her in his arms and squeezes, -her “most to death.” He is her ideal, too, of manhood. All around us as we go and come, we see these little manifestations of child-life, but we don’t think much about them. They are taken just as a part of our every-day life. Then there, comes, through the columns of . the newspaper, perhaps a call from a little child whose father has strayed from home, and we begin to realize how powerful D?ddy is, and what he really means to someone. Recently we read of an instance of tliis kind, the case of a little Milwaukee girl wso died of a broken heart because her Daddy token sick and “gone away.” Her playmate, her child’s ideal w.is absent and she refused to eat or to be consoled Impossible, you say, in a child of 4. No it isn’t. Just multiply a few times the intensity of child love that you see about right here at home* and you will have just that thing. What does the word ‘‘Daddy’’ mean? Ayell, joined with, the word “Mother,” it means just about everything in the child’s life, including at oneNend the material playmate and the other divine power ;«nd love. . > The To five in a* town—” . To make a living off of it— To educate your children in it — To get everything you possibly can out of it — And to put absolutely nothing into it! A reader asked us the other day what has become of the Turkey Creek Townshjp Farmers’ Institute. We cannot answer this correctly. However, we do remember that at last year’s ■meeting it was voted to hold another institute this year. It seems to us this part is up to the officers. Papers say married men make more money than bachelors. But that don’t mean anything. They never have it long enough on pay day to realize their superiority. In Adam’s time they played no basketball, nor Hid they have a eymnasham or a community building. But who wants,.to live in Adam’s time. It is said that a fool and his money are soon parted, and yet lots of fools keep right on accumulating wealth. We’ve reached the day. when we ran no linger accuse a girl of “putting everything on her back.” A lot more men would be sowing wild oats if they cotdd get someone else to harvest the crop. Men take opposite sides on the money question, but. the majority are on the outside. You can find »lot wrong with yourself if you have the money to pay for the cure. America is a tend of opportunity. Maybe that accounts for so much knocking. The hilling and cooing don’t end with the honeymoon. Only the cooing stops then. Some people are worried about the income tai. The outgo tax worries us the most. Tn this country lowliness of ■■ rj. ’ ■ - 4 . t sTjri’e 'f the ? ?-r' mind are right. '

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