The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 17, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 August 1927 — Page 1

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condensed COUNTY NEWS Happening* Throughout The County Briefly Chronicled In thin Column. The annual meeting of stockholders of Winona Institutions was held last week. Dr. J. C. Breckenridge in his annual report showed a balance this year greater than at the close of the season last year. The following directors were re-elected: W. H. Bruning. Evansville. Ind.; M. B. Williams, St. Petersburg. Fla.; Dr. E. S. Scott, Marion. Ind.; Charles R. Scoville. Chicago; John A. Sloane. Warsaw. C. M. Woods and Homer Rodeheaver, Winona Lake. William H. Northrup of Detroit was elected to succeed George W. Hartzell, of Piqua, Ohio, who was elected last year but failed to serve. The Claypool Fish and Game Protective association was organized at a meeting of sportsmen at Claypool, Friday evening. State Organizer Andrew E. Bodine, of the Department of Conservation. Indianapolis, was present and spoke on the protection of fish, game and birds. A bulldog belonging to Abe Magazine. Warsaw, was shot Friday morning by police after Dr. J. M. Jennings had pronounced the dog suffering from rabies. This was the fourth , case of rabies in that vicinity this summer. The annual meeting of the Kosciusko county Old Settler’s association was held at Beachwood Park, Hoffman lake, Sunday. About 6,000 persons attended the meeting. W. L. Stewart, 82, was found sitting on the davenport dead. Sunday evening, at the home of his son, Warsaw, with whom he lived, when the Tamily returned from a visit to. Ft. Wayne,

Charged with chicken stealing, S. Heddington was given a 60day suspended sentence and a fine of sls in Mayer Hansman’s court. Warsaw. ——J o PIKE A VORACIOUS FISH Game wardens of the state conservation department from June to August removed and destroyed a total of 2.731 gar and dogfish from public waters of this state, chiefly from some of the lakes of northern Indiana. According to George N. Mannfeld, fish and game division superintendent. two crews performed this work with gill nets and spears. G>r and dogfish are held as a great menace to other forms of acquatic life and the department is constantly besieged with repuests to remove them. In some localities they are also asked to remove the larger carp and pickerel which are charged with feeding on other fish. The pickerel or pike, as it is known, is a very voracious fish, and a ten pound member of this family is known tb consume 400 pounds of other fish life in a single season. It is to prevent such terrible inroads on the other species that some communities want the pickerel disposed of.

GOLF TOURNAMENT A three day invitational Golf Tournament on the Wawasee Country Club Links, and open to all rollers of the state, whether members of the Indiana Golf Association, or not has been announced for Saturday, Sunday and Monday, (Labor Day), September 3,4, and 5. Prises will be awarded for both Match and Medal Contests. Golfers have entered from Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Cincinnati, Louisville, and many from the Golf Chibs of northern Indiana cities, including Fort Wayne, South Bend. - Kokomo, Logansport Gary. Peru, laPorte, Goshen, and Elkhart. T¥te Dorant professional at the Wawasee Hotel and Country Chib Links, will be in charge of the tournament The principal trophy has been donated by 1 eonard Hicks, managing director of Hotel Wawasee. o BIKE SALE • On Saturday. August 27, beginning at 9:30 o’clock a bake sale will be held at the plumbing shop bv the Mission Circle of the Church of God. There will be chicken and noodles and baked gndr Bring nmufaent lift

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GUY REUNION The Guy family held their ninth annual reunion -at Redmon Park, Dewart Lake, August 21. All came with well filled baskets and all enjoyed the bounteous picnic dinner along wish delicious watermelon which was served at the noon hour. " | Before dinner was served, little Donna Pearl Guy gave a reading and Henry Guy of Bourbon. Indiana, offered prayer. The entertainment committee was at its best and had a number of interesting contests and stunts. The prize winners being. Mrs Eli Grissom, guessing the number of candy beans in a pint jar. Dora Jean Bayne won the peanut hunt. Raplh Remy the banana eating race, Bertha Landis the paper plate race. The men had a walking race and both men and women engaged in a tug of war, which caused much merriment. The contests were followed by a program of readings aqM music. Readings were given by Mrs. Lorinda Guy. Donna Pearl Guy, Mrs. Ellis Longfellow. Dora Jean Bayne, and Mrs. Henry Guy. Then some fine violin and banjo music. The business meeting followed. New officers were elected: Mrs. Ina Guy. President; Richard Gpy,, Vice-President. Scott J. Swanson, Secretary-Treasurer. Following the business session ice cream was served to the crowd.

OIL IN INDIANA While Indiana may never rival Texas, Oklahoma and some of the other states where oil has been obtained in enormous quantities nevertheless production is in a steady increase with very satisfactory results. According to a survey compiled by the geology division of the state conservation department, developments in Indiana oil industry during the first six tnonths of 1927, surpassed the activities for at least the past few years. Likewise there was an unusual increase in petroleum production for the entire United States. During the first six months of 927, reads the report. Indiana ompleted 127 wells with an initial production of 1.704 barrels, as compared with 67 wells with an initial production of 830 barrels for 1926. Os wells drilled in the first six months of 1927, 57 were oil. 15 were gas, and 55 were dry. The state produced 409.000 barrels of oil during the first six months of 1927 as compared with 285.000 barrels for the same period during 1926. This was an average daily production of 2,265 barrels. It is estimated there are 2.660 producing oil wells in Indiana today, although some of them are not being pumped regularly.

HAMMAN FAMILY REUNION The nineteenth annual reunion of the Hamman family was held Saturday. August 20th, at the home of Jerry Hamman. More than 150 relatives and friends from DeKalb. Whitley, Allen. Noble and Kosciusko counties were present. A picnic dinner was served at the noon hour, following which a short business meeting was held. The reunion next year will be held at Eaton Rapids. Michigan, and the year following at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Gipe near Columbia City. Earl Gipe was elected president and Mrs. Ethel Jagger secretary for 1929. Short talks were given by Edmund Auer of Goshen and Simeon Hamman and Commodore Hamman of Waterloo. •

CORN BORER SCOUTS W. & Coblentz and C. D. Schreiber. federal corn borer scouts who started their examination of corn fields in Kosciusko county, report that they have found a field on a farm in Turkey Creek township infested with the dreaded pests, says the Warsaw Union. This is the first discovery of corn borers in Kosciusko county by federal or state agents. Two townships in Elkhart county were found to be infested and many townships in counties which border Kosciusko on the east are already under quarantine. It is probable that a quarantine will be ordered for Turkey Cree k tow nship. PASTRY SALE t The M. R Ladies' Aid society will hold a pastry sale at the Dry Cleaning Shop, on Saturday, August 27, beginning at 10 a. m. Also chicken and noodles. Bring cwutainurc X«*Xt»

BEATING THEM TO IT Our mails are going to commence to get heavier now, because the concerns that depend upon mail patronage for their profits are mailing out their fall catalogues and announcements. They are the »n the world, these mail order folks, and they never let any I iass grow under their feet. If they are advertising for business now there is nothing to keep the man here at home, ’who has to compete with them, from doix< the same thing. Where the home man loses out in waiting until the mail-order and catalogue men have jumped in ahead and skimmed the cream. Time waits for no man, and neither does the ! fellow who wants to buy something and has the money to pay ! for it. The first one that gets to him is usually the one who sells . hjin. The Syracuse man who has I something to sell and who wants to beat the mail-order man to it, can do so by advertising NOW, while the catalogues are just commencing to flood the mails. He will also be the one with the least to complain of when the fall and winter season has passed. I

ERECTION OF CLARK STATUE Some thirty years ago the whole United States awaited with breathless anxiety news from an American battleship which was plowing its lonely way through the Southern seas. And when the word of its arrival off the coast of Florida was flashed over the wires (there was no radio in those days) there was nation-wide rejoicing. A short time ago a little town up in the hills of Vermont honored the memory of one of the two great naval heroes that state had given to the country, and when the statue of Admiral Charles E. Clark was unveiled it recalled , the stirring naval history of the Spanish-American war and the record-breaking voyage which the battleship Oregon made around Cape Horn. That feat is one of the proudest traditions in American history and retold in an illustrated feature article. “Vermont Honors Her Naval Hero.” by Elmo Scott Watson in this issue of the Journal. TO OPEN NEW STORE W. G. Connolly, proprietor of the Royal Store, has made arrangements to open a new store at North Webster in the O. F. Gerard store room. He will carry a fine and new stock of merchandise consisting of dry goods, ladies’ ready-to-wear, and accessories, men’s furnishings, and clothing for girls and boys. 0. F. Gerard will be in charge bf the North Webster store, which will be opened Saturday, August 27. GOES TO CARTHAGR FLL. Rev. W. CL Clawson, formerly President of Weidner Institute. Mulberry. Indiana, has been elected head of the Department of Bible and Religion, Carthage College, Carthage, 111. This chair was formerly held by Dr. A. H. Arbaugh. pastor of the Lutheran church of this city.

Paying When Due Is Helping Yourself and Helping Others

Collectively, as a community, we pay our debts promptly when they are due. If we do not do this, if we repudiated our bonds our promise to pay. no one would again buy our bonds, no one would trust us. Collectively, as a community, we refuse to incur any indebtedness that we cannot pay. We do not do the things that call for expenditures that we cannot afford. If we cannot afford to buy hew schoolhouses new road paving, or other public improvements, we do without them, because we cannot afford as "a community to impair our credit, the most valuable asset we haur What is true of us collective is also true of us as individuals When we. as individuals, fail to pay what we owe when it is due we have sacrificed our most valuable asset, our credit rating. When we say to one of our merchants. “Sell me merchandise and I will pay the first of next month." we should be sure of our ability to pay the first of next month, and be prompt in the settlement of that account on that date. The merchant who sells us merchandise must pay the man from whom he purchased tire merchandise when be has

SYRACUSE. INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1927

I INSTALLMENT BUYING IN INDIANA j j I Many people in Indiana are of i the opinion that installment buy-j ■ng is wrecking the credit struc-' i ture of this, country and it is in- • ' teresting to note just what influ- i ' ence installment buying has had! on the savings situations not only of this state but on the t cenntrv as a whole. Consider the condition of build- J ing and loan associations for example. These organizations are ,' not only numerous but prosper-! ous in Indiana. In fact, Indiana! is an unusual %tate in building and loan activity. Our building - and loan associations are numer-I ous and we boast of the largest( organization of this kind in the I world. Failures of Indiana build- • ng and loans have not been nu- j inerous and persons in trusting •heir savings to these institutions do so with security. Now it stands to reason if because of installment buying we <u-e tying up too much of our unearned income that building and loan deposits would either decrease or stand still. Therefore it is very significant for Indiana people to observe just what growth these savings institutions have experienced. There are approximately 13,000 building, and loan associations in the United States an<U since 1922 their assets have practically doubled. And marie you, during this period there has been more installment buying in the country than ever before. , During the last year these associations increased their assets about $771,000,000, which is quite a sum of money to be laid away in one year. In 1925 the increase in the assets of i building and loan associations was $744,000,000. At the close of the year the assets of building and loan associations were $6,250,000,000, which again is a lot of money considering the sums that have been spent for luxuries during recent years. So it is that Hoosiers have a right to feel proud of the record for savings they have made. And the pleasing part of this record is that our working men and women have had the wisdom to Jay away money for a rainy day. Since the war wages have been high in this country and much money has been spent, but .when vou see the streets of your city lined with automobiles do not get the impression that all of the money the people are earning is being invested in automobiles. This money that has been saved is Indiana’s armor plate against hard times. This wealth is helping to build up our state and it certainly is building up the peace of mind of those who have had the intelligence to save. NOTICE School opens Monday, September sth. In the grades book lists will be given out and assignments made for regular work starting Tuesday. Classes will be organized in high school and conflicts will be ironed outi Any high school students taking irregular work must have their conflicts adjusted Monday. All grades will be dismissed at 10 a. m.

promised to pay or he cannot buy more: he has sacrificed his credit. When he sells to us he must depend upon us to pay to make it possible for him to pay. If we io not pay .we have not only sacrificed our own credit, but have aided materially in sacrificing the credit of others. So it is that the business of not paying when due affects our entire community circle, and credit is the keystone of our community prosperity. So long as all of us pay what we owe when it it due the waters of our collective credit are unruffled, but for any one of us to fail is but the dropping of a pebble into the unruffled waters; the disturbance spreads until the entire circle is affected. If we are to prosper as individuals we cannot think only of ourselves. We must think in collective terms, for as we live collectively, we prosper or fail collectively. The prosperity or failure of any one of us affects the prosperity or failure of all. Paying our debts as individuals means the prosperity of ths community as a whole. FaiUnv to pay as individuals means, al least, the impairment of the ere dit of all.

BEEKEEPERS’ EXHIBIT Comparative methods of beekeepers seventy-two years ago and today, educational literature on modern ideas prevalent to make Indiana one of the forei most beekeeping states in the I Union, together with exhibits of , products, paraphernalia used, ietc. will form the basis of the ’ greatest display Indiana ever ’made in this line, according to .Charles O. Yost, state apiary inspector, now’ engaged in arrang- • ing this work for the annual Fair. September 3-10 inclu- : sive. | x i This exhibit of the state conservation department will ocicupy a prominent setting in the ‘south wing of the Horticultural 'and Agricultural building where space 200 feet long and 7 feet wide has been set apart for it. It is planned to show how’ the early beekeeper handled bees in a hollow log, nail keg or section of a barrel, and then it will be shown how the modern beekeeper with improved methods takes about ten times as much honey of far better quality from a colony of bees than did his predecessor with his primitive methods. Seventy-two years ago, Yost says, this state had many famous bee hunters w’ho cruised the forests in search of bee trees. Later when timber began to wane some pioneers hived wild bees in hollow logs and improvised hives of nail kegs and the like. Wild bees flourished in the great Kankakee marshes and ilkewise in southwestern Indiana where one small town for awhile bore the nahnfe of Beehunter by reason it was/the home of famous bee rangers. The department exhibit will showvsUl the up-to-date equipment in use in recent years, there will be observation hives containing bees and queens and widely known bee culturists on hands to explain every phase of this business "which in the past decade has grown from insignficant size to one whose annual product is marketed for several million dollars. In the opinion of Yost, Indiana bees this year will produce at least 10 million pounds of high grade honey. o EXPOSITION OF PROGRESS Manufacturers, merchants and business men of Elkhart are at a high point .of activity making final preparations for Elkhart’s second annual Exposition of Progress, which opens next Monday to continue during the entire week. Streets of the city have been decorated appropriately and exhibitors are putting finishing touches on their booths in the great canvas building on North Main street. That the exposition will be a far greater success than last year is already assured. The exhibitors are occupying 150 booths as compared to 102 last year. Decorations are much more lavish and almost every exhibitor is planning to present souvenirs to all who enter-the tent. Vaudeville performances will be given each night, with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday afternoon. The huge arena

at the rear of the exhibitor's section will seat 2,500 persons. There will be a complete change of vaudeville on Thursday. —o C. V. SMITH DEAD Q V . Smith, age 82, died Tuesday evening at the home of his son-in-law, W. T. Bowld. Funeral services will be held this (Thursday) afternoon. Rev. Floyd Hedges, pastor of the Church of God. officiating. UNDERWENT OPERATION Mrs. H. A. Buettner, the associate editor of the Journal. underwent an operation at the McDonald hospital in Warsaw last Saturday. She returned Wednesday and is getting along nicely. "; ‘ .....—O RED ARROW AUCHON The next Red Arrow Auction wil be held Saturday. August 27, at 3:00 o'clock. If there is anything you want to bid on get your bid inearly. o — BAKE SALE The U. B. Ladies Aid will have a bake sale on Wednesday, August 31, at the plumbing shop. ——o Nervousness. When nervous and in a ran down condition, see Dr. Warner. Re will help you. Calls made. PSdue 17&

BUILDING A FOX RANCH The building of the ranch for| “The St. Joseph Valley Silver i Black Fox Ranch,” which was in- [ corporated early this spring by O.• W. Platt and sons, Harold and Eldon. is progresssing very rapidly. | It is thought that the ranch will . be open to- the,„ public in al/out | two weeks. The ranch is being located on the old Ft. Wayne road, four ’"•les northwest of Elkhart. A force of workmen are now busy c oaring the woods, building the pens, watchhouse and rabbit ».ouse. The main part of the ranch will be back off the main road in a beautiful little woods, so that the foxes will be somewhat secluded. • The entire ranch is to be enclosed with an eight and one-half loot fencing. Extra pens are being constructed so that Elkhart fox owners can bring their fox to this new ranch, where they will receive expert care. The caretaker, Eldon Platt, has been working on the J. H. Hudson and Son ranch at Big Rapids, Mich., for the past year and is thoroughly experienced in the proper care of the fox. Then, too, they will be near at home, so the owners can see their fox whenever they desire. Mr. Platt also stated that they are intending to raise a fine strain of rabbits. Chinchilla and French Silvers, which will be used both for the fur and the meat. All reports indicate a big price increase jn the fur market which is going to be very beneficial, both to the present owners of fox and also to the prospective purchaser. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE The United States Department of Commerce announces that, according to the returns received, there were 40.409 marriages performed in Indiana during the year 1926. as compared 828 in 1925. representing an increase of 3,581, or 9.7 per cent. During the year 1926 there were 7,690 divorces granted in in the state as compared with 7,463 in 1925. representing an increase of 227, or 3 per cent There were 77 marriages annulled in 1926. this being the first year for which statistics of annulments have been collected. The estimated population of the state of Indiana on July 1, 1926, was 3.124.000, and on July 1. 1925, 3,095,000. On the basis of these estimates, the number of marriages per 1,000 of the population was 12.9 in 1926, as against 11.9 in 1925; and thd number of divorces per 1,000 of the population was 2.46 in 1926, as against 2.41 in 1925. The number of marriages was furnished by the State Legislative Reference Bureau and the number of divorces by the perk of the Circuit Court of ’each county. 'Die figures for 1926 are preliminary and subject to correction. In 1926 there were 227 marriages and 44 divorces in Kosciusko county. JUDGE ELBERT H. GARY The death of Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steql Corporation, marks the passing of an industrial giant. Starting in life as a farmer boy at Wheaton. 111., he worked his way through college and his first job was as a grocer’s clerk. Later he became court stenographer; he was admitted to the bar in 1867. and served two terms as county judge. He was elected president of the Federal Steel Company and was thrown into frequent contact with Morgan. Frick, Carnegie. Schwab and other steel men. When the great merger of steel interests occurred in 1901, Judge Gary was elected president of the first bil--1 ion-doll ar corporation. He was America’s outstanding business and financial optimist and believed in industrial co-operation as a world power. His fortune is estimated at 100 million. — -3-0 4 Norma Shearer in ’‘After Midnight.” The story of a beauty who thought goodness the bunk. It’s her outstanding film hit See it at Crystal, next Sunday and Monday, August 28 and 29.

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THINGS TO THINK ABOUT i Review of Things by the Editor As He Sees Them on the Surface. The Swift Life Some woman walks hand in hand with death and we are born. Passion more than often unbidden and far from welcome — these be the things which create and greet us. Colic and croup and frequent misdirected care; flies and fevers and fits and measles and mumps; eventually ’cbool with its dreary monotony and senseless endeavor. Then love butts in and from that motaentuous minute trouble begins. Whether you get her. or she gets vou. or the other fellow gets what you thought you couldn’t live without, really doesn’t matter —there’s always a twanging of heartstrings—unspeakable longing for the unattainable, with the final attendant uncertainty of a David Harum hosstrade. And then there’s life, with its ever empty flour barrel; the always absurd bank balance or overdraft; the double-cross from the fellow to whom you have always been a friend; gossip and greed and gross injustice; the work and worry of ceaseless toil and abortive effort; politics, investigations; financial, social, and household griefs which often approach the horrors of a sureenough red-hot hades, the treadmill of existence which is always a tragedy, and a happiness which at best is shot full of holes and garnished with a gray gayety. One of the most interesting documents ever issued by our government officials, says that one out of every eight of all marriages have resulted in divorces. But it does not refer to the number that ought to be divorced. This thought is not intended to be applied as a warning to the millions who are to be responsible for the manhood and womanhood of 50 years hence —its al) a part of life as she is—and it grows more so each year. The old globe whirls round and round on its axis at the rate of more than a thousand miles an hour — but it’s got to move on at a rapid pace„ to keep up with the prospective procession of the next generation or two.

To (live the Big One's a Chaace Glenn Walton, the “tall nine.” who conducts the third chair in Bushong’s barbershop .hands us this one: A man who had a small bass on a string when the warden wanted to know why he had taken a fish under size, gives the following excuse: “You see, warden, it was like this, the pesky little devil had been taking all my bait. So I just tied him up so as to give the larger one’s an opportunity to bite.” Pasteurized Milk “I do hope that you keep your cows in a pasture,” said Mrs. Newlywed as she paid the milkman. “Yes’m,” replied the milkman, “of course we keep them in a pasture.” "I’m so glad,” gushed Mrs. Newlywed. “I have been told that pasteurized milk is much the best.” The newest thing in automobiles has the rear seat turned around with a large observation window. It also helps" to abolish back seat driving. Next to teaching a calf to drink out of a bucket, the most fun is watching a girl chase a calf out of a flower bed. Borrowing trouble is a bad practice; lending it to your neighbor is worse; installment payments carry trouble both ways. One destinctive thing about the young folks of today is that they never go to bed the same day they get up. There is a closed season for hass and trout, but you can fish for compliments all the year round. Suckers also. In /Africa it costs eight spearheads to buy a wife. In this country a single bonehead can get one anytime. Good executives are usually poor politicians. They can’t be both successfully. I for future rexerence.

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