The Syracuse Journal, Volume 19, Number 17, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 26 August 1926 — Page 1

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SCHOLASTIC STANDING During' the Second Semester Among All Indiana I niversify Baseball Men » Bloomington. Ind., Aug. 23. — Emory Duckamiller, of Syracuse, was third highest in scholastic standing during the second semester among all I. U. varsity baseball men. Druckamiller, who was head of the baseball team, had 22 credit points to his honor. Figures showing the scholastic standing of athletes at Indiana University indicate that they are good average students. They make a C plus. iVarsity men averaged better in scholarship than all men of the University three semesters out of four for the period ending in the spring of 1925. Figures for the 1925-26 period have not yet been compiled for all men of the University. Basketball players have stood highest in three out of the six semesters during which scholastic records have been compiled on Indiana athletes. Wrestling was high both semesters of last year with a B minus average. Track men rated first the second semester of 1924-25. The averages of the various sports on a basis of credit points per hour (number of points ranging from 1 to 3 points per credit hour) were as follows: Wrestling 1.733 or B minus. Track and cross country 1.596 or strong C plus. Swimming 1.481 or C plus. Baseball 1.395 or G plus. Football 1.313 or C plus. Basketball 1.149 or C. Freshmen rated considerably below men of the sophomore and I upperclass squads. This situation has prevailed each semester, < thus indicating that first year men find it harder to keep up in their studies and at the same time to engage in athletic competition than members of the upper classes. Walter M. Hall, of North Webster, heavy hitter on Indiana’s 1925 championship baseball team, had the heaviest hatting average in scholarship last semester. He cleaned up a total of 54 scholastic credit points, which means a total of IS hours of straight A work. Fifteen hours of credit is the average for one semester. - o DINNER PARTY Miss Rebecca Fleming royally entertained the Junior ladies of the Round Table at her home on Wednesday afternoon and evening. This was a fan-well par’y given in honor of the senior members, most of whom will soon leave for vanojs colleges. The table was cleverly decorated in paste) shades. An appetizing steak dinner was enjoyed by all the members present. After dinner the members were called to order for a short business session, in which Miss Cecilia Moran was elected treasurer of the club. The rest oß|he evening was spent by playing cards. Prizes were awarded to Miss Elizabeth McClintic and Miss Margaret Freeman. Thte next will he held the second Thu r s«iay in September at the home of Miss Thelma Geyer. - O ; rCOLLEGE ALUMNI REUNION The unlimbering of the youthful jolities of college days will mark the annual reunion of the alumni of Wittenberg college who reside in northern Indiana and southern Michigan, which will be held at the summer home of Prof, and Mrs. F. H. McNutt on Lake Papakeechie near here on August 31. There are about forty Wittenberg alumni who participate in this pleasant affair. A picnic dinner at noon, and a full program of activities during the afternoon will be features of the reunion program. Band Concert Every (Wednesday Evening

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MOCK SCHOOL REUNION The Mock School reunion was held Thursday, August 19, at the Mock School. It was attended by sixty three former pupils, teachers and friends, dispite the threat of t»he dark lowering clouds that filled the sky during the forenoon. However the pleasant afternoon made, up for all the doubts and misgiving as to the effects of the unfavorable weather of the morning. The school house, a fine large concrete block building had been made clean and ready for the day by the local committee that always keeps deep interest in tais reunion. White the boys and young men gave themselves to field sports the most of the assemblage moved about to give greeting to each other and to renew and fast bind the friendships of long ago, as well as to recall the happy memories of school-mates who w’ere unable to be present or w’ho had been called into eternity. The Mock school dinner is always an event wherein goodfellowship and real friendliness rule and so long as this fine spirit continues the Mock school reunion will be a happy day in the lives of those who make up the reunion. .After the dinner, always a bountiful one, Rev. M. M. Lecount, president, called the meeting to order and proceeded to carry out the business and progranilof the day. The minutes of last years meeting were read and approved. The treasurer’s report showed a comfortable sum on hand and a vote of thanks given Charles Noel, a former pupil, fpr his < generous contribution to the treasury. Rev. M. M. Lecount’s fine talk as chairman w-as an inspiration to the members to preserve the organization and to maintain the fine spirit that actuates the yearly gathering. During the past year three members were called by death; Mrs. Ella Strieby, Mrs. Hannah Stiffler and John Willard and resolutions of respect were passed to their memory. 1 The officers chosen for the year of 1927 are: President. Rev. M. M. Lecount; vice-president, William Gilbert; secretary, Mrs. C. S. Rohrer; treasurer. Reuben Mock. After a short debate it was decided by vote to continue holding the reunion at the Mock school and grounds, for many very good reasons. The meeting next year will be held on the third Sunday of August. A full and hearty vote of appreciation was given the local committee fop the thoughtful* and complete arrangements made for the comfort of the assemblage. ' Among those present were George. Kreager veteran of the Civil War and Robert Adam Strieby, veteran of the Spanish American War. At *ihe close of the program all sang joyfully—- " There is a land that is fairer than day” and Rev. M. M. Lecount duly dismissed the assemblage with a word of appreciation for the privileges and pleasures of the day. o NtW HOTEL AT OAKWOOD Contract was let Tuesday to W. Nussbaum of Berne, Ind., for the construction of a new hotel at Oakwood Park for $37,870. The new structure will be erected on the site of the old hotel, which will be tom down. Work to begin about September 7. It is expected that the newhotel, which will contain 65 guest rooms and a large cafeteria, will be ready for occupancy May 1, 1927. GLADIOLI EXHIBIT Henry Beer, of Milford, grower of gladioli, had a beautiful exhibit of gladioli blooms at the Gibson Variety Store last Saturday. Mr. Beer booked quite a number of orders for bulbs for fall delivery. o ; BAKE SALE - The Church of God ladies will conduct a bake sale in the plumbing shop on Saturday, August 28. They will have chicken and noodles, salads, cottage cheese and baked goods. 17-lt Buster Kenton and Sally O’Neil hl “Battling Butler.” the world's funniest comedy. Better than any Harold Lioytl. It’s at OystaL Ligonier, next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 31, Sept lari 2.

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

Syracuse Gets The County Basketball Tournament Thia was decided at Warsaw Wednesday. The vote was 13 to 0.

TAX SUPPORTED BANDS NOW LEGAL IN INDIANA Taxation in support of Municipal bands and orchestras is now legal in twenty-six out of the 48 states in the Union, it is shown in a survey concluded by the Conn Music Center of Elkhart. Indiana is among the states that have passed this sort of legislation. Movements for similar legislation are now under way in Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky and New Mexico. lowa was the first state to pass legislation providing for the support of muinicipal bands, this being largely due to the influence of Major George W. Landers of Clarinda, lowa, w'hose efforts in behalf of this measure in his own and other states has brought him the title, "Father of Band Tax Laws.” The law in lowa, as in a majority of other states which have a band tax law, provides that cities may levy a tax for the purpose of establishing and maintaining municipal bands, or for paying some existing band to furnish concerts. This tax can be levied only after it has been authorized by vote of the citizens, and the question is submitted for vote upon petition of ! a certain percent of the qualified voters of the city or town.'Provision is made for repeal of the tax in similar fashion. The most common alternative to the band tax is a provision whereby a municipality may appropriate funds for bands or band concerts without any special tax for that purpose. This is the method used in Indiana, whereby any municipality may appropriate through its common council any sum not to exceed $1,200 per year to be used in providing public concerts. In a few isolated cases, cities in states which have no band tax laws have nevertheless appro pH ated funds for the purpose of providing free concerts for their citizens. The theory which permits ac’ion of this kind is that such appropriations are legitimate since there is no law against them. "The important virtue of a band tax law' is that it distributes the expense evenly and impartially—everyone enjoys the music and everyone pays his share”, says Maj. Landers. "The large number ol contributors makes the cost As each one exceedingly small.l In Long Br ach, Calif., for instance, they have band concerts every day but Monday, except for a two weeks’ vacation in the spring, and it costs the citizens, even with the unusually large number of performances, only about 85 cents per year. In Clarinda, lowa, the cost is about 35 cents per capita, which expenditure pays for about fifty public concerts presented throughout the year."

CIRCUS WELL ATTENDED The Orange Bros, and Moon Bros. Circus was Well attended last Monday. All pronounced it a good show. BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Harry Riddle of Toledo. Ohio, are the parents of a daughter, born on Sunday night. August 23.

THE STORMING OF THE GATES

*■ • * -,n "’VT’ 7 j I . ’I y HI flfcl-T. J 171I 7 1 Tli This picture is typical of many suck scenes enacted dally at the main of the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition in Philadelphia where STlWth anniversary of the alfnlnt of the Declaration of Independence * betas celebrated. The “shot" was made from outside the cates and shows the kuuTsweep of historic Broad street, the artery of the exposition. To the left can be of*" one of the capitals of the Palace of Liberal Arts and Manufactures which covers nearly ei«ht acres of grounds and which houses soma of the finest exhibits ever seen. The Exposition will continue until Doce» ML " .... -- -

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1926

SCHOOL BEGINS SEPT. 6 Vacation time is near at end. • On the morning of September 6, the school bell ■will ring again • and every child of school age i will be on its way to our institution of teaming. Following is the corps of teachers: Principal—Court Slabaugh. Assistant Principal—L ill ia n Hamman. High School —Wm. C. Gants, Emory Drukamiller, Louise Stuckiman. Junior High School —Calvin Beck. 6th grade—Edna Hess. sth grade—Mary Buchtel. 4th grade—Bernice Wilson. 3rd grade—Elizabeth Bushong. 2nd grade—Ruth Meredith. Ist grade—Emma Rapp. Music and Art —Gladys Minardow. An effort will be made this year to organize a school band. o U. B. CONFERENCE The eighty-second annual session of the St. Joseph Conference church of the United Brethren in Chris’, will convene at Winona Lake next Tuesday afternoon at 1:30. with Bishop H .H. Fout, 1 Indianapolis, Indiana, presiding. Tliis will be the fourteenth session of this conference at which Bishop Fout has presided. The session will continue until Sunday September 5. The closing session w’ill be a great musical program or Sacred Musical Concert in the Sunday Tabernacle. The report of the stationing committee w’ill be read at the close of the morning service, September 5, by the presiding Bishop. Miss Edna Yoder is the delegate from Syracuse Circuit, and Russell J. Kunce, of Indian Village, is the alternate. o CORN AND W IENER ROAST A corn and w’iener roast, with all the trimming for such an event will be the big head-liner for the men and boys of the Lutheran church tomorrow (Friday) evening. The affair will be held at the Jacob Kern home a short distance w’est of Syracuse. The late afternoon will permit the early arrivals to participate in some sport activities. The guests are expected to come right from work. A dollar fine is to be imposed on every white collar present. Entertainment of an interesting character will be a feature of the evening. The committee in charge consists of C. J. Kline, John Brunjes and J. E. Kern.

NEW TELEPHONE RATER The Public Service Commission has announced a new rate of the Syracuse Home Telephone Company, effective September 1. Business phones will be $2.50 per month and residence phones $1.75 per month in Syracuse. new rate sheet will be mailed to all telephone subscribers. LEASED HOTEL Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mishler leased the Pennsylvania hotel at Warsaw. They will make a number of improvements rn the building. The hotel will be opened September 1.

MECCA FOR FARMERS DURING STATE FAIR The Purdue building will be a mecca for farmers, their wives and children at the Indiana State Fair, September 4 to 11, for it will be the headquarters for specific information as to the results of study and investigation bearing on farm and home management by the Purdue agricultural experiment station and extension staffs. No part of the farm or home life will be overlooked in arranging the exhibitions and demonstrations for the building this year and a staff of over forty men and women will be on hand eager to discuss any phase of the exhibits and answer questions of those interested. — Those interested in poultry will find an exhibit based mainly upon the question of successfully hatching and raising chicks with information available on all phases of poultry raising. The livestock exhibit will be based upon beef, cattle and hogs, dealing chiefly with marketing the best quality of them at the lowest possible cost to the farmer. The dairy exhibit will deal w’ith the proposition of feeding at less cost for increased production. The soils and crops department will emphasize proper wheat growing, paying particular attention to such features as high grade seed and seed certification. Tomatoes will be given prominence at the horticultural exhibit, as will potatoes and the best methods for high production explained. Other horticultural products will come in for their share of attention. Insect control will be strikingly exhib- ; ited and the nature, value and results of Boys and Girls club ■ work will occupy another exhibit Throughout the building will be exhibits and demonstrations which aim for better farm products and better homes on the farm. Women will find exhibits on ■ clothing, food and home manage- < ment, the adaptibility of electricity to the farm, home and a 1 host of others important to the J present day farm housewife. It is safe to say* that it is impossible to make the trip through the Purdue building without gaining valuable ideas which can ' be put directly to use on the 1 farm and.it should come in for a < lengthy visit by every visitor at i the fair. 1

BAKER-MOORE REUNION The Baker-Moore reunion was held on Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Baker at Ogden Island. Lake Wawasee. There w’ere forty-five present to spend the day together and enjoy the big picnic dinner that was served. Those who attended the reunion were: Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Clouse and family of Albion; Mrs. Kate Woods and son, Ernest, Mr. and Mrs. John Moore of Cromwell; Mr. and Mrs. Hascall Crothers and daughter, and Miss Dora Hite of Ligonier; Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Frericks of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. O. L Baker and family and Mr. and Mrs. Ed. LeCount and family of Millersburg: Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Bushong of Wawasee, Mrs. P. L Kinnison of Ft. Wayne. Those from Syracuse w’ere: Mr. and Mrs. Bert Ward and family. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Riddle and family, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Gants, Mrs. Josephine Woods, Mrs. Will Bushong, and Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Riddle.

CLEARANCE SALE On another page of this issue of the Journal will be found the announcement of Bachman’s August Clearance Sale, which begins next Saturday. August 28, and lasts ten days. It occurs to ye editor that here is an opportunity foj parents to fit out the children tor school in shoes, dresses, handkerchiefs, etc at a considerable saving. As he says in the ad—A dollar saved dollar earned. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS High school students, desiring to take piano instruction for high school credit, please see me on or before September 6. 17-2 t ERNEST BUSHONG '" - o Buster Keaton in “Battling Butler,’* at Crystal, Ligonier, i next week. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 31, Sept. 1 lari 2.

EHWORTH INSTITUTE The Epworth Forest Institute held at North Webster the past week was a success ip every way. It is the largest Epworth League institute in the world. There was a registration of over 1,900, with 1,450 full time. There is a strong faculty back of it. The music, which was led by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Clase, was pronounced very fine. Dr. Charles H. De B®>w, pastor of the First M. E. phurch. of Cleveland, Ohio, spoke on Wednesday and Thursday evenings of last week to a packed house. He also spoke on Sunday morning at 10:30. The large auditorium vras packed to the doors every night. Friday evening was “stunt night,” and a very pleasant evening was spent, j At the Sunday morning service .there were 204 decisions made lor life service and 43 young people signified their intentions cf becoming Christians. Epworth Forest, with a population of about 2,000 people for the week, reports no accidents, no serious trouble of any kind, all of which speaks well for any community.

ARE HELD LAW VIOLATORS A traffic policeman may become a necessity at Lake Wawaee, unless a representative of the stete industrial board sent there is able to straighten out a tangle in navigation laws. Complains have been made by the Wawasee Protective association and the committee on navigation of "numerous and flagrant violations of the laws” with reference to the operation of power boats on the largest of Indiana lakes. Among the violations of. Indi- ( ana navigation laws reported were night racing, operation of ; unlighted launches at night and abandonment of mufflers. ( Several hundred power boats and launches are operated on this lake and careless operation < necessary results in great hazard. Principal requirements of the Indiana navigation laws are a maximum speed of 10 miles an hour after dark, closed mufflers < and the use of signal lights fore - and aft. A 30-day jail sentence or a SSO 4 fine or both are provided for persons convicted of exceeding the j 10-niile speed limit after dark. , J -o — - i DRIVE WITH CAUTION ( i -'-'Automobilists should drive ] with caution on the new Warner ( cement road. Although the road is open to traffic, it has not of- ; ficially been turned over to the < county, as all of the highway is not completed. According to Donald Lessig, county surveyor, enthusiatic mo- < torists drive on this road in excess of 60 miles an hour, knock- < ing down road flags and crashing into barricades. Special mention is made of the j fact that a one-way bridge is lo- < cated near the U-Come back Inn ( and the Wertz farm over a ( dredged ditch. Here for a dist- ; ance of some 50 feet there is no 1 concrete highway due to the fact , that a bridge is to be built, or , rather a culvert. One car has turned turtle at this point and others have received severe jolts ] due to the fact - motorists drive a on the Warner highway at an , exessive speed, and do not ob- i serve caution or danger signals. ( o DEATH OF A. T. ROCKHILL A. T. Rockshill, superintendent , of the Kosciusko county infirma- ] ry,died very suddenly at 12:30 ( o’clock Sunday morning. Mr. Rockhill suffered a heart attack on Friday evening but was } slightly improved on Saturday , morning and assisted with. t>he milking and other work about the county farm. During the ] day his condition became more . serious and (he was attended by Drs. A. C. McDonald, George Anglin and W. B. Siders. Death , came to him shortly a<ter midnight. Mr. Rockhill was bom at Mentone 59 years ago. He was superintendent of the county farm for nearly 19 years. He leaves has wife and one son. Morrison Rockhill, Kosciusko county prosecutor. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon. Burial in the cemetery at Mentone. o BAKE SALE The Lutheran Ladies Aid will offer baked goods for sale Wednesday morning, September 1, beginning at 10:45, at the Strieby seed room. 17-pd A classified ad will sell it.

THINGS TO ! THINK ABOUT J ' - 5 _ t Revx'w of Things by the Editor i As He Sees Them on : the Surface. I Would You Marry the Same Girl Were you going to marry again would you marry the same old i girl? Peculiar question? Yes. But it is a question that will catch the attention of some men whether it does yours or not. Second marriages are about as risky as first, and that in spite of the experiences of the parties. |Of course they think they jenow precisely how to select another partner, and this confidence may be their undoing. As a rule the women who had a good partner, to her one of the best, is apt to feel in her heart that what she wants is another like the other was. If the new one proves to be different, just to that extent will he be wrong, for she will measure him by the late departed. Now, if there is one thing that stirs up the bile in a man worse than another it is to have to fit another man’s shadow. Nor will a woman submit gracefully to the task of fitting herself to the domestic garb of a dead woman. You can readily imagine the feelings excited by the constant or even frequent ringing of the words "My late wife” or "My dear departed husband.” And if the new partner does no,t measure up to the .old. the that these words will ring^df ten and loud, and troubles more or less distressing and lamentable follow as a close second. A wbman may ardently and truly love an unworthy, or unsafe man. one who drinks, gambles, or is unthrifty. She may learn of all these, but if she heeds only the voice love she may soon find herself the wife of an unworthy man, one who will eventually wreck her <Jife. The proper exercise of common sense will save her every time. It having been decreed thqt men and woman shall marry, which decree cannot be set aside, it is up to them to so marry that their lives will not prove failures. Most failures could have been averted by a* careful exercise of common sense. So, if you were to marry again, would you marry the same old girl? This is Syracuse Stranger (stepping off a B. & O. train:) Isn’t this exhilarating? Conductor: No, sir, this is Syracuse. Lots of men and some business men do not appreciate their local paper as a thing of value except to the owner of the paper. and that is where their vision needs doctoring. The newspaper travels, and is the town’s only representative that is always working at the job. We’re not mentioning names, but actually found a Syracuse man the other day who thinks a good wife is one who will wash the flivver and sweep out the garage. This is the grave of a cute little girl who had a cute little fig- * ure, a cute little curl, a cute, little foot, a cute little way—A cute indigestion took her away. Money is the root of all evil, and the lack of it the cause of all worry—except to deadbeats. Gharecter assassins and, bed buxs have a lot in common —both are backbiters! America did get something out of the World War—the police dog. One-half of the world makes a good living working the other half. Don’t expect people to foltow your advice. Talk auditorium! Free Movies Every Monday Evening

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