The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 2, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 12 May 1927 — Page 1

VOLUME XX

CONDENSED COUNTY NEWS Happening* Throughout The ( ouuty Briefly Chroaieted In tins Cdumu. Verne Martin and Mart’n Ross now prisoners in the Kosciusko county jail and another Elkhart mwi whose identity is known but whose name has not yet been revealed, robbed and murdered Frank Tucker on the night of January 28 and placed his bodv in an automobile*. hauling it to Center Lak?. Warsaw, where it was weighted with heavy irons. and thrust it through a hole in j the ice. This statement was made on Monday at the state reformatory at Pendleton by Robert Sharp to Sircial IVosecutor Walter Brubaker. Sheriff Frank McKrill and Chief of Police W. A. Winebrenner. Center Lake is now being dragged with the hope th t the body may be found. Roval Sxrhler. 22. of Milford employed by the Reith-Riley Construction Co., died Tuesday morning in a hospital at Rensselaer. Indiana, from injuries rec ived Sunday afternoon in ah automdbite accident in the vicinity of Valparaiso. Royal, who was a graduate of Milford high school, class of 1925. was backguard on the basketball team. He was one of Mifford s best known young men. He is survived by his parents and three sisters. Rumors are again afloat that William Gray Loehr, prosecuting attorney of Kosciusko county. am 1 the County Ministerial association will sta<re a crusade a*a»nst public dance halls and Sunday moving picture shows in this county. Syracuse does not have a Sunday movie, as reported in several papers in the county. Hariy Burger. Even Lichals anr Robert Yarlot, near Cromwell, were arrested Thursday morning by Game Warden Click, charged with possession of a fish net. An affidavit was filed against them in Justice's Cain’s court and May 13 was set for the trial. Each gave bond to the amount of SIOO. Mrs. W. A. Sunday, wife of the noted Winona Lake evangelist who underwent an operation at the Mayo Bros, hospital at Rochester, Minn., several weeks ago, is making rapid recovery, her physicians states. and will be discharged soon. Dr. F. M. Hopper, former Kosciusko county veterinarian, has \ been assigned to duty in Bartholomew county. Indiana, with headquarters at Columbus. ELEI TED PRESIDENT Prophecying a hundred thousand members in the Hoosier State Automobile Association was Judge F. & Rawley's forecast when D£ E. R. Baldridge of Terre Haute was elected president of the association at a meeting of the directors held last week at Indianapolis. Dr. Raidridge has been feting President of the state association since the resignation of E. W. Steinhart. March 31st J. Cooper Props of Muncie was e’ectrd Ist vicepresident, Dr. James N. McCoy of Vincennes. 2nd vice-president; Mr. Props was also elected a member of the Executive Committee in the state association. Hold over officers are C. W. Lanz, vice-president. M. E. Noblet. secretary-manaojer, and J. L Murden of Peru, treasurer.

The Blackaller Steck ( «».. will profit “Ghost of the Past” a spleadid eonedyrirama. also Ke> Hayward ia “The Ovrrtead Stare,” • picture as big aw the heart of the West, at OystaL Ugoaier. Friday. May 13. HELP MISSILSSPPI FLOOD SUFFERERS By buying a ticket and attending the benefit, sponsored by the club women of Syracuse and vicinity, assisted by the business men. Thursday. May 12 Community Theatre 7:30 P- m. Following the movie show Ross Franklins Orchestra will furnish music for a. dance Ticket, include both. |

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

REFORESTATION IN INDIANA » ! Indiana's forest tax exemption k»w is paving the way Tor every’ 1 farm to possess its woodlot and for each agriculturalist to fur- ' trier engage in forestry on an extensive scale, if so desired i without burden-some cost. Meet- , ings will stress seriousness of the timber shortage of the nation. and trie fact that Indiana now pays $32,000,000 annually in freight bills to import timber from distant fields. It is false (economy and pure neglect to permit waste areas to remain a liability to the state -when they ■mav easily be converted into an asset and pro uce $15,000,000 worth more timber than at present. 1 The conservation department j plans to carrv the fight to refor--1 est the state's non-productive areas into every section of Indiana within a short time, and proposes to do this with the aid of county agents and foresters generally. after they become thoroughly conversant with the experimental work the department carries on at Henryville and th? possibilities afforded for providing trees at cost to those wishing to plant. The department on this 4,200 acre reservation used solelv for research laboratory, experimental tracts arboretum and tree nursery, has pointe ‘ the way whereby a forest crop may be mad«> a profitable crop to the Indiana farmer possessed of land unsuited for grazing or for grain production. Experiments are conducted w»th hardwoods and evergreens and work carried on th?re is among the most extensive of its kind in the United States where a reserve is devoted exclusively to experimentation and research. Since 1922 the static nursery has planted for experimental purposes a total of 327,000 seedlings to determine the species best suited to Indiana soils. In th ; - meantime it has also supplied to Indiana tree planters 600.000 seedlings at cost of production. DECORATION DAY At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday it was decided that this body take ch rge of the Derorat ; on Day exercises in Syracuse on Maj’ 30. The following committees were appointed: Finance Committee —E. L. Strieby. Committee to place flags on Graves- W. T. Bowld and Ben Ott. Committee to. Purchase Flags —Thornburg Drug Co. and F. L. Hoch. Music Committer —Mrs. Ebner Ott. Program Committee- Miss Lillian Hanynan. Calvin Beck. Court Slahaugh, W. C. Gants and C. C. Bachman. Marshak—A. L. Miller. Program will be given at the Community building. UHURCH CONFERKNCE

Dr. J. A. Groves, conference superintendent .of St. Joseph Conferenct\ Church of the United Brethren in Christ, will hold the third quarterly conference of the Syracuse Charge next Sundav afternoon at the Concord Church at 2:30. Dr. Groves will preach at the Concord Church at the morning hour, and at the Syracuse Church at 7:30. This will be the last visit of the superintendent to this charge during this conference year, and matters cf much importance to the work in and near Syracuse will be transacted. ROUND IaMLE CLUB The Round Table Club met with Mrs. Ross Osborn last Thursday evening. Two numbers on the program were given bv Mrs. Bowtersox, on “Biography of Carrie Jacob Bond.” with a little history about some of her songs. The other number was “Music in the Home.” by Mrs. Connolly. Round Table talks were given by the rest of the members on these two subjects and all renert a very interesting meeting. There will be one more meeting, a social affair given later, which will dose the* club meetings for the year. CHEAPERGABOUNE The Standard Oil Company of Indiana has announced a reduction cf two cents for gasoline and one cent for refined oil effective last Monday < -o If you wish something to cal on Sunday, as well as the other Lbys. too. just drop in Hie Ket It tfe, w« will gladly serve you. 2-11

. On The French Rivi*rn End of the Carnival at Nice ■ . — “ (By Mrs. Amanda L. Xanders.) Na 19

I At tw’o o’clock Monday afterinoon. February 28. the first battle of flowers took place, on i the Promenade des Anglaise. {along the sex For weeks an army of workmen were engaged in putting up iron frames, that projected over platfortns ’full of chairs. The frames were covered with red and yellow heavy awning, they extended from the King Albert Ordens to the Boulevard Gambetta, a distance of twelve blocks. The ed"e of the awning. the entire length, was hung with festoons of ropes of green and paper flowers. All hotels along the wav were elaborately decorated The beautiful, perfectly white Hoti'l Negresco, with its fanciful black wrought iron window protections, had festtoons of rones of grerns, that crossed and recrossed each other from the top floor to the teriaoe below. Tn between the entire length of the hotel, flags of , n>my nations, foated to the ! breeze. • It was with a feeling of pride. 1 I noticed, everywhere, the prominent nlace accorded the j St?rs and Stripes. Just before one o’clock, uni- 1 formed officers cleared that part ] of the Promenade. The entrance j places were then opened when J the cannon was fired .at twO|, o’clock, all the fenced off places were fairly pack|?d with people. ‘ A large military band led a com- , pany of men in blue uniforms, ‘ ten of them carried as many beautiful silk and gold banners, J prizes for the winners. 1 Among the many cars and ( carriages in the pnyt’ssion. only j ight w-ere gorgeously and artistically decorated with natural ( flowers, in fact nothing was al- ( lowed in the parade but natural ‘ flowers. The occupants of one of the , handsomest carriage, all done in white carnations and Calls lillies, were newlyweds.* Another very | expensively decorated carriage, j was all in lavendar. orchids, hundreds of them, and white and ] lavendar lilacs. • Men and girls kept walkinsr < back and forth, offering lar?e, j flat baskets, full of small bou- < quets of flowers for sale. j I could not long resist getting , into the fray, so I purchased a ] basket; at first my throw fell < wide of the mark and was crushed beneath the wheels of cars ( or picked up by a late corner, on < the way to his or her reserved ; seat. Towards the last everyone i counted as it landed exactly , where it was aimed. At our end , of the long platform there were , only light skirmishes, not so at < the other end, where the battle , raged fast and furious, as they j pelted each other back and forth. , in a perfect shower of bloom. , That evening there was an--, other open air ball on Place Mas- ( sena; of all the night affairs. I at- < tended but one. I took my din- j ner that evening at the Strasbourg Restaurant, when I returned to the Hotel, the concierge, handed n» a letter and a calling < card, asking me to come to the visiting room. I was delighted to find Prof. A. C. Beal, of Corneil University, Ithaca, N. Y., Mrsand Miss Beal, stopping at this Hotel Cecil. I had been expecting them in Nice. They crossed on the President Roosevelt. Their names were in the New York HeraM as passengers and lati?r as arrivals in Paris, where they were obliged to remain longer than they intended at this time to recover from sea and land sickness. They told of how the ocean for a few days looked like glass, then a terrible storm caught th«m and made both ladies iIL partly from fear, they acknowledged, because when the Captain took them on the bridge and explained to thorn how steamships are run they recovered at onee from thleir sickness and were able to grace the Captain’s dinner unmoved, even when hats the dishes landed in broken heaps on the floor. Several chairs were smashed and one lady injured, tho not seriously. There is nothing so delightful as an ocean voyage, when the sea ’ is cahn and nothing quite so dreadful as when it is in the [ clutches Os a terrific gale. After s nearly three weeks of merry making the enthusiasm for the Carnival seemed abated. On the , day of hte majesty’s last public • appearance, the crowd was great- • er than ever, the first day of) t March or Mardi Gras, as the day

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY. MAY 12. 1927.

before Lent, is called over here in France. It is ind?ed a revalation to me. t > see not only children, but m§n and women en masse, take part in the gay .abandon that comes with the Carnival. It made me so happy to witness once more, this gayest of gav scenes, being enacted for the last time this year. Such thrones oi people, as! surged thro the streets and avenues. a pilgrimage of reckless happiness, is inpcssible to knag»ne. or aptly describe. The thought that; more nearly describes it, is. “except ye become •?s little children, ye cannot enter the Kingdom ot Heaven” here was a host of tne nappiest little children. I tarried until th®- very last moment, before I could tear myrrlf away fiotn the fascinating scene, to take the trasn car for Vilkfranche. to witness a naval battle of flowers. Foreigners from all over the Riviera came by train, by tram, by motor, to see this lovek am’ unique fete. At Villefrandhe there is the most wonderful natural harbor on the Riviera. The town is in the center of a tremenduous horse shoe, surrounded by the most beautiful mountain scenery, in fact the town w built on the mountain side. On one of the peaks are the grey walls of an old citadel with its battlements centuries old. Below, in the harbor, seven French warships, painted dirk grey -lay anchored, just outside the basin or breakwater, where the naval battle took place. When our tram car, way up on the mountain side, turned the corner of the horse shoe, a matchless scene lay above, below and before us. Motor cars cf all makes and. styles frekn everywhere, filled every available bit of space. I found a place of vantage on the edge of a steep declivity, where. I could look down on the lovely scene below. The air was sufficiently balmy to permit the occupants of the boats to wear summer apparel. Every sort of small craft was repiescnted in the picturesque parade that went round and round the basin, while a spirited battle waged between the boat’s occupants and the spectators on the shore. The decorations were exceedingly beautiful a few were rather amusing. From the little fishing dory, to the passenger stean*er, all were there. Cleopatra’s barge, a mass of flowers, while the Queen reclined beneath a floral canopy. Neptune’s chariot was made of the beautiful yellow mbmosa. the two horses of white carnations a Persian Pagola. a huge red fish made rtf scarlet carnations, a Chinese junk, a schooner covered with blue and white flowers,, a barge most made of mAnosa, looked so pretty in the brilliant sunshine. A large band added greatly to the festivities. At the end, the water in the basin, was covered with floating blossoms, mimosa, carnations, narcissi. The Nxval Battle was under the patronage of the Prince of Monaco, the Minister of Marine of Baris, and the Duke of Connaught. The fireworks’ scheduled for that evening were cut short by rain, which did not however interfere with the burning of King Carnival, which took place no the beach. Seated in a high baby’s chair, with a bottle in one hand and a rattle in the otHer, he was consigned to the flames amid the booming of the cannon and shooting of skyrockets Since Mardi Gras the cloak of gaiety has been dropped. I am wondering if ever in the years to come. I will ever see anything so beautiful, as the golden glow of the illumination of Avenue de h Victoire. or that never to be forgotten spirit of Carnival. WACO W OPEN The Waco pavilion at Lake Wawasee will be opened Saturday and Sunday. May 14 and 15, and .May 21 and 22. Beginning Mav 28 dancing every night and holidavafternoons. Music by Ross Franklin’s Waco orchestra. NEW CABLE LINE The Syracuse Home Telephone Co., has added a new cable to ite equipment. “BanWys. the Magnificent' with John Gilbert, is a screen triumph at Crystal, Ligonier, j next Banda? and Monday, May 15 land 1C

WHICH SIDE OF THE-ROAD! Do you know the proper way to walk on a country highway? Most pereons especially the city bred, do not. and so the I Chicago Motor Club in the pos- • ter issued to the school childr n of northern Illinois and northern Indiana this month illustrates ; the proper method of walking on ' a country roadIn 25.000 class roams, in this territorv. the following bulletin prepared by the club will be read: “June days soon will be here, manv children living in c-ties .-•■nd towns will go to the country. leSson taught by the poster this month, cbes n>t .’pply to country children. Children who live in the country know better than to walk with the traffic, that is to w-alk on the right side of the road. Country children always walk on the left side of the roadway, asamst traffic. Visitors from the citv and town, are thp- ones who netthis warning. “Cars travel swiftly on country highways; drivers are not looking for anvthing to cross their paths. If you w-ere to walk with traffic, a car might bear down upon you before you could get out of the wav or before the driver could stop his cnr. Many accidents haw happened in this way. Drivers whose vision has been obscured by other cars, a turn in the roai, a hill, or by poor light, have struck persons walking on the right side of the roadway. These accidents, never would have happened if the persons injured had known that the only safe way to walk on a country road was to walk against traffic. A N.NI AL TONY ENTION The Kosciusko County Council of Religious Education will hold its annual Convention at Pierceton, May 26 and 27. A splendid piogram is being arranged and a good attendance of Sunday School workers from all parts of the County is expected. The leading speakers of the convention will be Mr- Albertson of Ind;anapofis, secretary for the State Council; Miss Nellie Young State Children’s Worker Prof. Lawrance Shultz of North Manchester, and Dr. Richardson of Ft. Wayne. There will be helpful conferences on all departments of Sunday School Work It is hoped that every school in the county will be well represented at this convention. FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS The following organizations of Syracuse and vicinity have made pledges or contributions to the Red Cross Relief F und for Miss issippi River Flood Sufferers. Eastern Star I 5.00 M. E. Church Missionary Soc... 5.00 Wednesday Afternoon Club .. 5.00 Church of God Missionary Soc. 5.00 M. E. Brotherhood 10.00 Royal Arch Masons SJM) Ladies df the Round Table Club 10.00 Pythian Sisters 5.00 K. P. Lodge 5.00 Lutheran Church Aid Society 5.00 Syracuse Lodge. F. AA.M. .. 5.00 W. C. T. U. of Syracuse ...... 5.00 Evangelical Church Aid Society* 5.00 U. R Church 5.50 Modern Woodmen Lodge 5.00 Ebeneser Sunday School 6.20 Total 601.70 GAVE DEMONSTRATION E. F. Simmons, a representative of the Pioneer Chemical Co., of Ithaca, Mich., gave a practical damonstration of the effectiveness of their product in Syracuse Saturday evening. A box was treated with a gallon of coal tar and set on fire. To tne flames were added a gallon of gasoline and a gallon of kerosene and aftor the fire had gotten under good headway the contents of one small extinguisher was applied at the base of the fire and was extinguished within a few seconds. The demonstration proved that it would be a good thing to have one or two of these appliances around the house to combat fires in emergencies. GRAVELPIT SOI L) The Wabee Gravel Co., of Milford, has sold its plant southeast of Milford, to the Neal Gravel Co. of Indianapolis. The consideration was SIOO,OOOI The Meal Gravel Company is the owner of seven other large gravel plants. Hie company plans to operate the Kosciusko county plant Hay and night adding new equipment to. the plant which already is considered one of the best equipped in the state. 'O 1 Kea Maynard hi “Senor Dare Derir at the Community Theatre, Friday and Saturday, May 13 and 14.

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE IS CLOSELY GUARDED i •. J • Although no attempts to do I physical harm to a president 1 have been made in recent years an extensive systen has been built up to protect him. No king is guarded mare carefully. Every time h? steps out of his house, from four to six sec- ; ret service men in plain clothes accompany him. One walks at bis side and converses with him when he goes on his walks through the streets. Three are usually lined up a few feet behind him. When he travels by automob;,e. a secret service car accomp .ni?s him a few feet in the j rear At bast one secret service mrn stands on the running board re’dy to jump ?t the slighest in- j dication of danger. The moment the president’s car stops they swarm around him. When th' president travels bv train the same retinue of vuards go with him. A lone engine is usually run over the tracks al half mile ahead of the presidential train to test the track and guard against accident. All obher trains .must go to the sidings to let the pres dential train through. nl addition to the secret service detail the president has his own police forrt-- known as the White House police. This group consists of a half down men in uniform who guard the White House and the executive officers dav and nkht One secret service man is always allotted to the wife of the president. She never goes out unless accompanied by this plain clothes protector. The necessities for this close protection has irritated some presidents in recent years but they have to submit to it. The present system w*as inaugurated after the assassination of President James A. Garfield and even the president himself cannot dispense with it o VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL Representatives of the differ-ent-Sunday Schools of Syracuse •met in called session Sunday afternoon at the United Brethren Church to consider the Vacation Bible SchooL which was to have begun this coming Monday morning. A very small number responded to the call, but the matter was thoroughly discussed, and, in view of present conditions prevailing in the conununity, the epidemic of measles, etc., it was thought best to postpone the school until June 6th. So, beginning with that date, thh Vacation Bible School of Syracuse will hold its session for the ensuing two weeks. o NMW HIGH SCHOOL A notice to sell bonds and receive bids for the construction of a new high school building for Syracuse appears in this issue. The building will be modern in all respects. The old baseball ground has been selected as the site for the building. o CONFERRED DEGREE The members o f Syracuse lodge No. 454, F. & A. M., met in regular session Monday night and conferred the Entered Apprentice degree upon Court Slabs ugh. o SALVATION ARMY DRIVE H. C. Culler, who had charge of the Salvation Army drive in Syracuse, has collected $41.69, which amount was sent to headquarters at Warsaw. BAKE° SALE Committee No. 3 of the Lutheran Aid will hold a bake sate at Klink’s Meat Market, Saturday, May 14, beginning at 10 o’clock. Chicken and « noodles, baked beans, cottage cheese, pies, cake and cookies. Please bring containers. 2-lt o See William Haines slide to the first base of entertrinmeat in “Slide, Kelly, SlWe.” at Crystal. Ligonier, next Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday, May 17, IK and 19.

Community Theatre This coupon signed and one 25c paid admission admits two to “FOREVER AFTER” May 16 and 17. Name Address

THINGS TO i THINK ABOUT M ■ F ' ° ‘ Review of Things by the Editor As He Sees Them on the Surface. ■1 ' • What Is Wealth ! Financiers, spcculaj tors and sociological students point with pride to our addition of “new.wealth,” but do not speak of the debt against it. The product of all the goll, * copper, tin and coal mines of the I world sink into insignificance ; when compared to the value or ■ the importance of food stuffs. ' The human and animal race must t at. ard they can’t eat metals or real estate.. Os the ten billions of dollars of “new wealth’’ produced from the soil of this nation each year, at least nine billions of it goes beck to nature before the next year's product is haraestrd. That is one debt that must always be The remaining onb-tenth of “new wealth” iftw back to nature at least once m. every generation cf man. Everything is destroyed ip t’-ne —worn out or devoured in the process of living. Even manufacture means bnlv a ch nge in fonm and development of a value already existing. From the tiiled earth cmvs the real “new wealth,” each ve-’r’s bearing promise of a new gift in the year after, and the quantity must b?. increased at least 10 per cent each year to keep pace with the increase in population and the number of bodies to feed. The bounty of God is a poor thing to utilbie as a speculative feature to the detriment and expense of the great (mass of people. and it is a poor thing upon which to build so called ’’prosperity.” The mere fact that we are to have enough to eat, something to wear, and a place to sleep should be cause for special rejoicing because the Creator and Giver of all things intended tiiat it should always be that way. Nevertheless Ynore than half the people on the earth do not have sufficient to eat. In our own country, with all its boasted wealth, one of every ten are subjects of chatty or maintained at public expense. The question, ‘What is Wealth’ has been discussed for a hundred years, and it is yet a question whether there is such a thing as wealth so ( long as the earth does not produce sufficient for the proper sustenance of all people, because “wealth” is supposed to be a surplus anove even what nature demands as its toll. “Wealth” does not consist of speculative paper values. All the , gold of the world would be valueless if there were nothing to eat. Once more the lesson is borne in upon us that o«r greatness conies out of the ground. We pouldl all be healthier with less food and happier with fewer things to worry about. Most of our mental attics are filled with marvelous machinery—but rusty and covered with cobwebs. We’ve heard a good deal about woman’s sphere being in the home but man seems to be a free ?gent. Just now his “sphere” is on the golf links a or at the ball ground. > People can preach a better sermon with their life than with their lips. Wonder how many in this locality are giving this a trial with their life. Joe Rapp reports that he nearly drowned the other night. Somehow or other tne pillow slipped. the bed spread and he fell into the spring. Every married man is convinced he would have been rich if he had remained a bachelor. Falling into debt is much like falling into a ditch. The climbing out is a different story. If a woman isn’t quite sure of her husband she always advertises for a plain cook. A news special says half the peach crop is but fails to say which half. Many a mail’s wife dresses stylishly because his creditors can afford it. I , M M SKIRT—Once & common noun; now only an abbreviate’!. The man burning with ambition is seldom fired.

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