The Syracuse Journal, Volume 19, Number 16, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 19 August 1926 — Page 1

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THE HIGHWAY PROBLEM Steam Reals and. Interurban Lum* have Much GhiKpetitk>n in Truck Lines The canals and the steamboat took the place of the stagecoach, the railway crowded out the side-wheeler and the canal barge, and motor transport is now jostling the railroad. Huge truck-trains lumber along the highways, and the number is increasing to such an extent that the small car is being crowded off the road. Already ten carriers have replaced local freight trains with trucks. Fiftyx>ne lines are using trucks as a part of their freight service. Thirty traction companies have changed over from trolleys to the bus. Steam roads are trying to abandon branch lines that have has their throats cut by the new competition. Many of them are using gas-cars on their ' main lines. This rush of big. wide-beamed, heavy and speedy vehicles has choked thousands of miles of country roads to the danger point and beyond. Many of them operate on schedules demanding a speyi of forty miles an hour in W? open. Their speed and weight combined are grinding the life out of the main traveled roads. Every year they are demanding more, wider arid more solidly constructed traffic ways. This means a heavier and still more heavy burden bn the taxpayers and licenseholders whose money builds the roads. They are pounding the highways every day. The upkeep of the roads traversed by these highpowered. heavy cars will become a staggering item in the general tax levies. Illinois is trying to meet the situation by laying a tax of $1 per 100 pounds of car-weight on all vehicles engaged in interstate traffic. Other states, cities and counties are

fumbling and groping toward licensing, taxation and other regulations. | ** For a generation the Interstate Commerce Commission has been worry ing over 250,000 miles of railways. Now it must bor? into a new industry' operating over 3.000.000 miles of highways and find ways and means to hpld this lusty, infant in check, force him to pay his way over the highways and restrain him from cut-throat-competition. *— o *> . RFX’EIVED NOMINATION Miss May Holloway, daughter of Mrs. Joan Holloway of this city, was a successful candidate , on the republican ticket for the nomination as superintendent of schools of Hill county, Montana, her home county. May is .. product of the Syracuse school and has proven a forceful and efficient teacher of the Montana schools. Without doubt if she is elected to the office to which she aspires, she will bring to the work a high degree of ability and efficiency. Her many friends here in Hoosierland are pleased to know of her progress as a good hard working teacher. o — REUNIONS The eighteenth Gilbert family reunion will be held Saturday, August 21, 1926, at the J. E. Alwine home, south of Goshen on the Riley Highway. Chas. Gilbert. Elkhart is president, affd Lilly Rodibaugh, North Webster, secretary. The fifteenth annual Strieby reunion will be held at Redmon Park, Dewart Lake, on Sunday, August 29. The Rentfrow and Harris reunion will be held Sunday. August 29, at Mottville. Mich. o — VNDERWENT OPERATIONS •' —. O. L Cleveland underwent an operation at the Goshen hospital on Friday morning. He returned Wednesday. Mrs. Ford Grisamer was taken to the Goshen hospital on Tuesday evening where she underwent an operation on Wednesday.

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NICOLAI REINION The third annual reunion of the Nicolai family was held Sunday, August 15, at Pine Grove, Palmer Lake, six miles north of Burr Oak, Michigan. Those present from Indiana were Mr. and Mrs. Glen Nicolai and daughter, Mary Elizabeth, of Cromwell; Mr. and Mrs. Alva Nicolai and son, Louie. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Nicolai all of Elkhart; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nicolai, Mr. and Mrs. Erving Byland. Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Brown, Mrs. Lucy Butt and children, Lois, George, Otis Clvde Jr., and Jimmie, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hinderer and sons, Robert and Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Eston Clayton and children. Frederick, Eldon and Lucy, Mrs. Susan Nicolai, Miss Alice Mann. Mr. and Mrs. Milo Kitson and son, Raymond and daughter. Lucile. Mrs. Fred Hinderer, of Syracuse. Walter Keg of Ligonier was a guest. All arrived at the meeting place in good time. After a friendly greeting of the relatives a very sumptuouS picnic dinner was served. At the business session the following officers were elected: W. T. Boocher of Burr Oak was re-elected president; Ernest Harper of Jackson, Mich., vice president; Roy Mackey of Grass Lake, Mich., secretary and treasurer. A fine program of music and readings was given which was very well received Then came ice cream and cake. The place for the next reunion was not definitely settled the time as near the middle of August 1927. Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Nicolai of Saskatchawan, Canada. Mrs. Mary Herrington of Wakarusa. S. F. Nicolai of Grand Rapids were present t*his year for the first nrfte. All departed feeling that all had a fine time and it was a day well spent and long to be remembered.

THE WATERMELON While practically everybody likes watermelon, comparatively few know anything about the history of the- fruit — where it originated, the history of its development and the wide scope -of- territory in which it can be successfully produced. The watermelon is an annual trailing herb, a native of tropkal and southern Africa, whenceXit has been introduced by man into all tropical, sub-tropical and many temperate climates. Just when it was introduced into America, is not certain, but there are records of it reaching back into early colonial days. While the principal producing regions are Georgia and Colorado, the watermelon is grown largely in all the southern states, and some of the short-season varieties are produced as far north as Michigan and in the province of Ontario. Canada. The muskmelon and cantaloupe are natives of southern Asia, but have been as widely introduced by man as the watermelon. Practically any climate or soil that will produce muskmelons. Both watermelons and muskmelons are fruits used exclusively in the raw state. An interesting fact about the watertnelon is that despite its juicy sweetness it has no by-products such as vinegar, sugar, syrup or brandy.

FREE STATE FAIR TICKETS Any child under the age of twelve years may receive a free ticket to the Indiana State fair for Saturday, September 4th, by calling at s he Journal office. All children attending the Indiana State fair on Childrens day must have a ticket to admit them to the fairgrounds. Children’s day is Saturday, September 4th, so all children under twelve year’s of age wishing *o attend the Indiana State fair on that day must have a ticket. The dates for the Indiana State fair this year are September 4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11, and September 4tb has been arranged for Children’s day. These tickets will be good only for that day. FISH STORY The color of canned sahnon indicates the variety rather than the quality. There are several kinds of salmon and these* vary in color after canning from a bright red to almost white. BASE BALL The Star Tank team of Goshen was defeated Sunday by the Syracuse Greys, the score being 14 to 11. The game was played at Syracuse.

INSECT PESTS AND PLANT DISEASES In a survey for the conservation commission of the most important insect pests and plant diseases noted in Indiana for the last few weeks. Harry F. Dietz, assistant state entomologist, lists cottony maple scale, flea beetles, army worms. wire borer, turnip aphis, fleas and yellow fire ” fly, in the order named, with fire blight and winter killing the commonest diseases reported or observed. “Cottony maple scale," says Mr. Dietz, “is exceedingly abunddant in many cities and towns throughout the northern half of the state. From Indianapolis alone, we received as many as thirty calls in a single day. The natural enemies of this scale, parasites and predators, have l>een lacking in most of the samples submitted, although in one sample from Brightwood and another from Pendleton, th% larvae of the ‘small twice-stabbed ladybird beetle’ had riddled the scale egg masses.” Trees suffering most from this scale are soft maples, and both summer and winter control of the pest will have to be practiced to prevent serious injury’ or less of valuable shade trees, Dietz says. The renort shows that army worm outbreaks have occurred in Johnson, Pike, Rush. Shelby, Boone. Hamilton and Hancock counties. In most cases the dam-’ age to corn has been slight because the pests were noticed in the tiinothy before this was cut, and control measures to prevent their damaging corn, undertaken. “Several species of wire worms have been common throughout the state, and in the northeast corner of Bartholomew county oyer a hundred acres of corn were killed by these insect pests. Flower growers have reported to the entomologist’s office that blister beetles appeared on roses, phlox and daises. The office used fluosilicate with excellent success in combatting the insects. Truck gardeners are having trouble with the common stalk borer, and reports show a heap’ infestation in Benton and | Marlon counties of turnip or cabbage aphis on turnips, radishes, cabbage and allied crucifers. In each case the office gave instructions for fighting the pes f s. Dietz’s survey, as well as reports from growers, indicate that there are no serious pests or diseases that threaten the apple and peach crops at this time.

CIRCUS TO COME HERE Oh. boy! Syracuse will have a real circus August 23. There will be elephants, tigers, lions, bears, ponies, horses, peanuts, red lemonade, popcorn ri 'everything! Little and big boys will be thqre, mostly the lit’le beys who may carry water to the elephants. This is a treat for the kiddies, who are now saving their nickles and pennies. Don’t forget the date, Mon Jay, August 23. Performances afternoon and evening. At the baseball park.

The Philadelphia of Our Ancestors Here is shown a sactton ot “High Street,” a reproduction of Philadelphia’s famous Market street in the days of 177«. It is one of the outstanding features as the Sesqui-Centennlal International Exposition now being held in Philadelphia to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. building has been built to actual sixe and in actual architectural detail The furnishings of each building are exact reproductions of those used in the Revointionaßr days. Many ot the pieces on display are the originals and today are worth thousands of dollars because of their historic value. The Exposition continues until December L

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1926

CUR FEW SHALL NOT RING Instead of devoting 'her time to an arithmetic problem, which had been assigned her, 16-year old Rose Hartwick idly scribbling on her slate, finally composed the internationally known ballad, “ Curfew* Must Not Ring To--1 night.” Publishers, quick to copyright the poem made much money selling it, but the author received only $1.50 in the form of a year’s subscription to the Detroit Commercial Advertiser, w’hich first published it. Rose a sentimental Mishawaka school girl, was inspired to write “Curfew” through reading “Love Loyalty." a ballad in Peterson’s magazine, an English publication The girl never had been in Eng* land and was not familiar with the scenes w’hich she portrayed in the poetn that awakened, with its appealing sentiments,-a response in the hearts of the ballad lovers throughout the world. Four years after writing the poem. Rose Hartwick married Edmond Carson Thorpe. Ten years after “Curfew” appeared in ' the Detroit paper, and while it was being published in half a dozen languages and declaimed before literary clubs, Mrs. Thorpe, in dire poverty, undertook to realize from the poem, all to no avail. During this time she wrote and sold poems and soon aften became a regular verse contributor. In 1881, Mrs, Thorpe became editor of three Sunday School publications in Chicago. Later she moved to California where she now’ lives. Mrs. Thorpe’s best known publications include "Fred's Dark Days,” “The Yule Log," "The Fenton Family,” “Temperance Poems,” and “Ringing Ballad.” Mrs. Thorpe is now’ seventy-six years old. o PUT NEGRO TO FLIGHT A burley negro who entered the home of Mrs. Vassey Tom near North Webster early one morning last week and demanded his breakfast, was put to flight by Mrs. Tom. The negro ordered Mrs. Tom to cook h?m breakfast and when shi; informed him she would not and'ordered him from the house, the negro repeated his demands and insisted upon her compliance. Stepping to the corner of the rgpm Mrs. Tom picked up a shotgun not knowing whether it w’as loaded or empty and aimed it at the stranger’s head, at the same time w’arning him. that she would shoot if he di dnot leave the house immediately. The negro fled o VARIETY IN BREAD Everyone gets tired of eating the same kind of bread day after day. Introduce variety by having whole wheat, graham, or rye bread’once in a while; sweet breads, such as raisin, dafe, nut or coffee ring; quick breads like muffins and biscuits; crisp breads including toast, crackers, or bread sticks. ■ O HU As a star lights the heavens so a Star car will be a light to the life of man. Trade or buy one and be convinced. Lakeside Garage. 16-lt

EXHIBIT OF FISHES AND AQUATIC LIFE '*•* The fish and game division of the state conservation depart- ! ment is preparing to make its j annual exhibit of fishes and I aquatic life at the State Fair during the week of September 6, ; and. according to George N. Mannfeld, the display will be ! more elaborate this season than 1 ever before. Conservation officials plan to show in glass tanks every specie of game fish native to Hoosier wafers; also frogs, turtles, etc. These will be displayed in 52 tanks. A competent person will be in charge of the exhibit who also will give out literature pointing out what Indiana is doing with artificial fish production at five state hatcheries, work of the warden service, etc. Mr. Mannfeld calls attention that this exhibit annually attracts many thousands of state fair visitors. On an average of 2,000 people an hour passed through it for 7 hours a day last year and it is estimated that easily 90.000 to 100,000 persons viewed the display and obtained a more intimate knowledge as to what this state office is doing to augment fishing conditions in Indiana. AUGUST What is the matter with August. It is the only long midsummer period of hot days, few showers and no holidays. There is not even a suggestion of a national celebration betw’een Independence Day and Labor Day. August Was not always the forgotten month of the year. In early times the name was unknown. When t)he year was divided into ten months by the Romans the period of heat and humidity marked by dry rivers, lakes and,£reeks was called Sextilis. History says it was Caesar who changed the seasons and gave us the month of Augustus, now shortened to August. Why not consult the goddesses, Ceres, Pomona and Flora, and get a proclamation naming some day in August for a national festival, in com melioration of the cereals, fruits and flowers. Or why not get some fabled mermaid-nymph to set apart a day for national aquatic sports and liven up the month of August? There are enough days to spare, the time between light and darkness is long and the danger in outdoor revelries is not so great as in some other seasons. August days and vacation-time are too bright to be passed in the humdrum of every day existence. o BRIDGE PARTY • Mrs. R; E. Thornburg was hostess to twenty ladies at a one o’clock luncheon at the Sign of the Kettle on Tuesday. After the luncheon the guests were entertained at bridge at the Thornburg home. The party was“ given in honor to the Misses Margaret White and Mart’ Clark., of Marion, who are guests of Mrs. Thornburg. The out of ♦own guests were: Mrs. Glenn Young of Milford. Mrs. B. B. Morgan of Chesterton, Mrs. P. E. Ort of Churubusco and Miss B. Gibbons of Chicago. — —o NOT TO GIVE PAGEANT Rev R. N. McMichael has announced that the invitation to present the pageant “The Seeker” at Mishawaka has been declined by the pageant management. pageant was given at Oakwood during the Lutheran Summer Assembly, and later repeated very successfully at Nappanee before one of the largest audiences ever assembled there. The urgent invitation to present the pageant in Mishawaka, speaks well for the high caliber of the production. — o KILLED LN FAM. Warren Berkey, 57, a farmer residing east of Goshen .was killed Saturday while standing on a gravel bin. He was struck by ai steam shovel used in unloading gravel from a freight car. He fell headlong 20 feet and his neck was broken. —o STREET PAVED The paving of Huntington street was completed Wednesday by the contractors, McClintic, Colwell & Gordy. Preparatory to paving the grading of Harrison street was commenced this week. o We now serve in "The Kettle” each week-end. Why not come and bring with you a friend?

HOiV WILL IT END* Scores of young men around Syracuse who answered the call of their country about eight I years ago, as well as their parents who bravely offered them as a sacrifice in the cause of democracy and to save France, are now doubtless reading witb deep regret the reports coming out of France to the effect that Americans touring that country are being subjected to open insults and are hurrying home by the hundreds for fear of bodily harm. And all because France, torn asunder by selfish and shallow minded political leaders, believes the United States responsible for the collapse of her monetary system. The United States sent enough men into the World War to save Fiance. She spent her money to train and equip them while they were in service. She doesn’t ask the return of a penny of the bil4ions she spent. She loaned France—at her own request—enough money to enable her to carry* on her part in the war, and she isn’t asking a penny of interest on that loan. She has even shaved down the principal and given France 62 years in which to pay? She cannot honorably cancel the debt France owes her without cancelling every debt that even other nation owes her. So for our sacrifice in behalf of France we are being paid in abuse. It is to be hoped that cooler judgment will prevail over there. Unless it does, there is no way of telling how serious affairs may become. This country has tried to do the right thing. If France makes her bed of thorns, then she will have to sleep in it.

INJURED IN AUTO CRASH Ralph Boyts, 22, and Russell O’Neal. -16. both of New Paris, were seriously injured Thursday evening when their auto ran into a concrete bridge railing on the Nappanee-New Paris road, about eight miles southeast of New Paris. suffered concussion of the brain, cuss and bruises on his face and head and a long and deep laceration on his right leg. Boyts suffered a fractured righ cheek bone, an irori bolt penetrated a leg and he was otherwise lacerated and bruised. The men were returning to their homes from their place of employment in Nappanee. As their car, a small roadster started to descend a steep hill a bolt in the steering wheel dropped out. Boyts who was driving was unable to control the auto and it crashed with terrific force into the bridge wall. The machine was almost totally demolished.

LIVING COSTS MOUNTING — ■' I The trend of the cost of living is still upward. In Detroit the cost of living is nearly 85 per cent above the 1914 level. Many cities are a close second. New York increased 78.6 per cent ahd Portland and Seattle nearly 70 per cent. Items responsible for the advance are grouped over the period from December, 1914 to June 1926; increases for Boston were: food 51.5; clothing 90, housing 53.2; fuel and light 94.4; house furnishing goods 133.1; miscellaneous 92.1; and all lowest in Portland. The highest increase for rent is in Detroit. These figures are furnished from revised records by the Department of Labor, which also shows that the average earned wages not kept pace with living costs. ■ o PICKLE COVER In making pickles the best cover for the surface consists of a circular board about one incn in thicknesss and. two inches less in diameter than the inside of the receptacle in which it is used. The best covers are made of oak or other hard woods—never yellow or pitch pine. Before use dip in melted paraffin and then bum over with a flame. O —« KILLED RATTLESNAKE Attracted by the screams of a woman, a vacationer at Elkhart. Robert Short, 14, of Indianapolis, ran to her rescue and killed a great rattlesnake as it was about to attack her. The reptile measured three and a half feet, BOY SCOLtF" The Boy Scout troop of Plymouth . arrived Saturday for a 10 days’ camping at Maxwelton Manor. They have with them the oldest scouj/ntaster and the smallest scout in the U. S.

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT . Review of Things by the Editor As He Sees Them on . the Surface. Small Town Pleasures ; There is the small town privilege, for instance* of going about in your shirt sleeves. It is not a social crime, either, to wear suspenders. If care io do it, you may sit on the shady side of the business streets’ in summer and on the sunny side during the winter. If you have something to say to a friend ’hree blocks down the street, you may- squall out at him and carry on a hollering conversation. None of these privileges are secured to the city person. And in the small town it’s easier a lot to find a place to park. Besides that, you have more friends in the small town, and when you are with one of them you may talk about the rest of them In a town the size of Syracuse, you can keep up with everybody’s business but your ow». Perhaps there are many other advantages that you can think of, too. The Street Roamers Young people who commit crimes and misdemeanors often seem to have acquired vicious habits as the result of roaming the streets uncontrolled. While the community can help such young people very much by providing wholesome recreations and clubs for them, it can not do the work of parents. Young people who have useful occupations and sports do not spend nJuch of their time in aimless loafing and roaming about the streets, looking for some excitement to turn up. The streets were made as highways to get to places where one wants to go, and not as places to which one goes to spend leisure time. The Hiwmn Newspaper If there is anything in your ♦own worth talking about, ten chance to one your own newspaper had a hand in putting it there. Every town gets its money’s worth through the home news.paper. It’s the wagon that carries all your goods to market. It ought to be kept in good repair. It will pay to grease it, paint it and keep its running gears in good shape and shelter. It is the guardian- and defender of every interest, the forerunner and pioneer of every movement and the sturdy advocate of law and order. One person in every six owns or operates an automobile. Every automobile can, or often does, carry six people. So we can boast that we now are 100 per cent motorized. Most of us are well acquainted with old professor Experience and he’s still conducting his school —still giving the only instruction that can benefit his pupils. The boy gets a thrill out of his first long pair pf trousers—he’s a man. Dad gets a thrill out of his first pair of “knickers” he’s a boy again. / If Uncle Sam succeeds in making a dollar bill that will last longer he’d better begin to experiment with one that will go farther. An Eastern college professor says woman is 50 years ahead of man. And the villian still pursues her. It may be all right to burn your bridges behind you, but it’s a godd idea to first know how to swim. A vacation makes sohne people so lazy that they don’t care if tliey never have to work again. Marriages at sea may not hold. The same may be said, as to marriages on land. We are for a new auditorium first, last, and all the time.

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