The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 35, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 December 1927 — Page 1

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CONDENSED COUNTY NEWS Happeaincs Throughout The County Briefly Chronicled In thjs Column. The $2,500 stock of the Jet White Groceteria on East Center street, Warsaw, was more or less damaged by a fire which was caused by an overheated furnace at 7:35 Friday night County officials are taking steps to break up a practice of "bootlegging” cigarettes to children of tender years, which has been discovered at the Etna Green school. A sentence of one year at the state farm and a $lO fine were assessed by Judge L W. Royse in circuit court against George Reynolds and Richard Vatch, Who entered pleas of guilty to petit larceny in stealing S2O worth of merchandise from a Nickel Plate freight car at Claypool. » The Pierceton Telephone Com pany has been purchased by Theodore C. Fraser, of Warsaw, and after the necessary perm is sion has been granted by the Indiana Public Service Commission the plant will virtually become a part of the Commercial s Telephone Company of Warsaw. Marcus Phillipson. 86, pioneer clothier of Warsaw, died in Chicago, Friday, after an illness ol several weeks. Kidney trouble following an attack of pneumonia caused his death. Mr. Phillipson was bom in Germany and came to Warsaw when 18 years of age. He is survived by three daughters and one son. Funeral services were held in Chicago Monday with burial in a cemetery there. One woman was fatally injured. another woman and a child were injured at l o’clock. Friday afternoon when their auto' was struck and demolished by a Winona interurban freight, three miles south of Mentone. r Mrs., Glen Holloway, 33, mother of six children, died in McDonald hospital at Warsaw, two hours after the crash. Her daughter. Lelah two. and a friend, Mrs. Fred Warren, are in the hospital seriously injured, but are exposed to recover. All of them resided at Mentone. They were enroute from their homes to Beaver Dam to attend a Christmas protram Mrs. Warren was driving. The j , child »s suffering from a "slight | | skull fracture .and a broken leg. | * Her mother died from affractur ed skull. Mrs. Warren suffered ■ a fractured right leg and severe lacerations to her arms. Saturday evening as Janies Smith, who resides on the N E. ♦ Haymond farm, five mites northeast of Warsaw, was on his way home’with a wagon load of coal, just north of Warsaw on State roadbJs, a coupe stopped just in front of him and two young boys jumped out -one grabbed one of the horses head and the other started to climb upon the wagon. Mr. Smith knowing that one of the horses responded quicktv to the slightest touch of a whip.* gave that horse a blow with the end of the lines. The horse gave a plunge and landed with one foot on the foot of the boy holding him. Mr. Smith then grabbed up a piece of coal to hit the other boy. when the screams, of the boy who had been stepped on, attracted the attention of the boy on the wagon and he jumped off. The coupe was left standing in the middle of the road and as the horses dashed by. the wago* hit it with enough force to knock it out of the road. Mr. Smith did not" stop to see what happened. o FAST CHIEFS CLUB The,Past Chiefs Club held the annual Christmas meeting od| Tuesday* with ’Mrs, .Lucy Butt. A pot luck dinner and the exchanging of gifts constituted the main part of the day's program. Mrs. Butt furnished the entertainment for her guests, after - which offers were elected for -the comSfe year, is follows: Fred Self;, vice president, iKrs, E& Hoch; secre-tary-treasurer.A. J. Thibo-

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The Syracuse Journal » • Syracuse's Slogans "A Welcoming Town With • Beckoning Lake."

DOWN WORTHY OPPONENTS Under the above /aption the Wakarusa Tribune J has the following to say regarding the Wa-karusa-S y r a c u s e independent game: "While our Greens were forced to play real basketball Tuesday evening at our gym, when they met the sharpshooting, crafty Syracuse All Stars, in the language of “K” Klimer. "it was a most satisfactory game.” “The score 31 to 48. with our Greens on the long end, doesn’t mean that it was a loose game. For it was great. The Stars Hashed bright the first few minutes of play, then the Greens began to connect and the score was clotted 17 to 17 at the end of the half. The half was a whirlwind, clever team work, long eagle-eyed basket shooting featured this tense Herve-rack-ing period. , “Both teams trotted in with full confidence and determination as the curtain was raised for: the second act. The shooting Stars got the edge on the start off, but not for long for the Greens guarded, shot and passed so quick and so fast that it was hard to tell just who had the ball until a Green sunk it into the bucket. As the end the hotter it got. every Green doing his stuff. ' "With that line-up. the best opponents, and let us say Syracuse is in that class, are none too good for our outfit. Bratton, the new member of the team added morale and pep to the outfit and played a wonderful game as forward, while machine men. Sipe, Hunsberger. Olinger. Pinkerman, and Riders were on their toes all the time and dimmed the lights of the Stars in the final spasm. It’s good to meet a clever |team like Syracuse as it takes a •lever team to outclass them. ■—- 1 ■———o - —- BASKETBALL SCOHIN Huntington, 28; Warsaw. 26. Warsaw, seconds, 29; Huntington. 27. Warsaw, 16; Goshen, 18, Btb grade. ■ Atwood. 25; North Webster, 13. North Webster, girls, 18; Atwood. . Pierceton, 45: Sidney. 18. . s Leesburg, 34; Mentone. 30. Mentone, seconds, 32; Lees |b*rg. 15. Etna Green. 23; Bourbon. 13. Bourbon, girls. 26; Etna Green. 6. Milford. 37; Bristol, 24. Milford, seconds, 37; Bristol. 15. Syracuse, $7; Nappanee. 23. Nappanee, seconds. 26; Syracuse. 16. Larwill. 45; Silver Lake, 33. Silver Lake, seconds, 23; Larwill, 17. m asons elhqt officers Syracuse Übdge No. 454. F. & A. M., Monday night elected the following officers for the ensuing year: W. M.—Warren T. Colwell. S. W.- Sam Scarfoss. J. W,—James Searfoss Treasurer— Ernest Buchholz Secretary—Fred B. Self. Trustee—R. C. Howard. S. IV Harry Culler. J. D.- K A. je ßuettner. S. S. —John McGarity. * J. G Howard. Tyler—H. G Clemens. The new’ officers will be installed Monday evening, Jan-’ ■ - — WEDDING ANNTVEKSABY Mr and Mrs. Idin T. Riddle I were married fifty years ago on the 13th of December. They did not celebrate their golden, wedding anniversary on that date because. of the difficulty of getting their children together at that time, but their daughter, Mrs. Nellie Clouse, of Churubusco brought a big cake with fifty candles on it. The cake occupied the central place on the table at their Christmas dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Riddle were married December 13, 1877. «aUNVED° MEKHN6 A The congregational meeting,of the Lutheran Church announced for Wednesday, January 4, has been clianged to Thursday. January 5- Members please take notice - J —o — — BIRTHS AND DRATHS ‘ During the month of October 41 births and 33 deaths occurred in Kosciusko county? — O L. ~. r

INSTALLED OFFICERS The newly elected officers of the Eastern Star Chapter were installed on Wednesday evening, as follows: Worthy Matron. Mrs. Ada Crow. Worthy Patron, John W. McGarity. Associate Matron, Mrs. Anna Bertram. Secretary, Mrs. Fanny C. Hoy. Treasurer. Mrs. Ida Hamman. Conductress, Mrs. Marie Bertram. Associate Conductress, Mrs. Grace Slabaugh. Those appointed to fill the star point offices are: Ada. Mrs. Bertha Rowdabaugh. Esther, Mrs. Elsie Gibson. Ruth, Mrs. Ella Self. Martha, Mrs. Mary Hoy. Electa, Mrs. Hattie Bowersox. Chaplain, Mrs. Hanna McClintic. Marshal, Mrs. Blanche McClintic. Organist, Mrs. Clara Holloway. Warder, Mrs. Rebecca Searfoss. Sentinel, W. T. Colwell. BASKET BALL The high school team won and lost at Nappanee last Friday night. The second team was defeated 26-16, but the first team won in a well played game, 27-23. After winning ten games without a defeat, the first team took in too much territory by going to Decatur Tuesday night, and while there practiced most of the mistakes they had learifed. This together with the speed, teamwork and accuracy of the Decatkr team, brought on the wwd defeat suffered by a Syracuse team in ten years, 74*20. The Syracuse boys will be tested Friday night against the fast Leesburg team. Do they hatfe the stuff in them to come back, or will thby keep on slipping?

STANDING OF TEASLB Team W L Pct. Milford 5 1 .833 Mentone 6 2 .750 Pierceton 5 2 .714 Claypool ...*4 4 .500 Sidney 3 4 .429 Atwood 3 4 .429 Burket ...3 5 .375 Etna Green 1 4 JOO North Websterl 6 .143 Silver Lakeo 6 .000 Beaver Dam 0 3 .000 This percentage column includes only games played by county teams with other county teams. ■ “ 11 < " 135 WEEKS IN ONE YEAR "Yes. 1 spent a week in that towh one d«y,” so runs a favorite stage joke and it's always good for a laugh. But how about spending 135 weeks in one year, when the calendar says that there are only 52? Seems impossible doesn’t it?* But it isn’t impossible x at all. it’s something that every American can easily do. • If you want to know why and how he can do it, read the article “135 Weeks in 1928?” by Elmo Scott Watson in this issue of The Journals

V" o ■ ■' — * s i rkalestatesales . ——— v ■ Chas. G Bachman, executor of the last will and testament of William McClintic, deceased, will offer at private sale all the real estate belonging to said estate, on Wednesday. January 18. 1928. If not sold that day. the sale continues from day to day thereafter until sold. All the real estate belonging to the estate of Abigail Hamman, deceased, will also be sold on that day. Geo. L. Xanders ia t& administrator. o ANAPPEAL ; The Registration Book will be open after January 4. The Band boys want you to only register and help them win. $50.00. a bag of gold, for money buys music and thats' what we need. No ganizktion has ever helped the band, so let’s all toss our names, in the book and help them. Hand your voucher slips to Helen J. SnobaW, or Alice January 4. for we, the bandrlwys, are a jolly bunch of «ood fellows.

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SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1927.

Hail, 1928 I A New Year will be with us soon. Astronomically the day is no different than the yesterdays —measured by the yardstick of eternity only a flitting moment—but it is a significant day. On this date men are accustomed to take stock not only of their possessions but of themselves. It is a time of balancing moral as well as business accounts. It is the time to write off all unpleasantness. all evil, all failures, ft is a time of looking squarely at the new page and carry over only kindness and good will and determination to be strong inbuilding up a structure of good. Let us resolve- to seek friendship and fairness in all dealings with ourj fellow men. Let us resolve to lie true to ourselves and enlarge the boundaries of hope for tomorrow.. As the bells -ring out all over the laffcl, marking the death of the old year and the birth of the new. let it be recognised as a solemn requiem over all that was empty and false and vain in our lives, and as a joyous greeting of a future earnestly dedicated to better things. So. hail, 1928. And while the Syracuse Journal wishes you a Happy New Year, and you are wishing your friends the same, let us not only wish ourselves some happiness but try to deserve it.

Syracuse Library Notes Copies of these books in childrens editions, David Copperfield. Vanity Fair, Three Musketeers, Tale of Two Cities, Cloister and the Hearth and Lodna Doone have Ween purchased. The print in thebe books is very good aruLthey as* nicely illustra* ted with colorea plates. It is hoped that the children will read and enjoy these Aroupd twenty five children attended story hour Saturday. Christmas stories were told and Santa put in his appearance about three o'clock, A few pictures were taken of the children and Santa which we are hoping will be good.’ “Last night, while we were fast asleep, 4 The old year went away. It can't come back again because A new one comes to stay.” “Books are not dead things but do contain a potency of life in them to be sg actite as that soul whose progeny tlfpy are.” Doesn’t any one need a good cot at a reaaonable. price? — - \ SONGS AND YELLS “Songs and Yells for Indiana 4H Clubs,” compiled by Miss Helen Keitemeier of the boyaj and girls' club staff at Furdua university, has just been published again by the Indiana Farmers’ Guide at Huntington. The edition numbers 25,000, enough to supply the approximately 2LQQO 01ub members in Indiana. the®Meaders, and other interested persons. The booklet contains 74 songs and yells which have proven popular with the young people. Copies of the ioqklet may be obtained free frdm the Farmers’ Guide or from the elub department at Purdue ■4— ---o HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING The roof on the new school house is about completed. The interior work will go on rapidly as weather conditions will not times uid while at work on the hi»& school buildfng being watched with eagerness by residents of 'Turkey Oeek township

THE QUIET OBSERVER Nuree in Indiana -to each 5,000 of urban population and one Public Hearth Nurse to each 29,000 of rural population. This may be W of the several reasons why boys and giris in such naj^e ? i T TO the WON’ FROM CLAYPOOL . . Indemtodents at the Community

WANT LAWS CHANGED • Resolutions opposing any 11 change in school textbooks by the : I state board of education, and re- . | questing the next legislature to amend and revise the present ’ salary law, that “each truetee in the state may be paid, according to the responsibilities and servi- • ees given the public” were adopi ted in the closing session of the* annual meeting of the Indiana State Association of Township Trustees in Indianapolis. The state board of education in February is to adopt high school books for a five-year period. The association also adopted resolutions asking the next legislature to repeal the present teacher tenure law, and requesting the enactment of a law by the next legislature which will confine i the different funds of the trustee |to the township, road, special school, tuition and dog funds. There are at present thirty-nine funds, it was said. Repeal or amendment of the budget law enacted by the last legislature was asked in another resolution adopted. -' o M. E. STATE COUNCIL

At the recent session of the Indiana State Council Methodist Episcopal Church, held at Roberts Park Church, Indianapolis, December 13-14, 1927, it was voted “that of one minister and qne layman from each conference be appointed, which with the Bishop ex-officio shall make a thoughtful survey of the accomplishments in. the past four years and a study of what the major objectives of Methodism in Indiana for the next four years should be.’’ This committee as appointed consists of Dr. W. H. Wylie, Vincennes. Chairman; Frank W. Greene, Syracuse, Secretary; Dr. A. E. Monger, South Bend; Dr. L. C. Bentley, Kokomo; Dr. B. D. Myers. Bloomington; William E. Carpenter and they are to report at the next- annual meeting of the State Council* x The Round Table Club was entertained last Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. Q. G. Carr, on West Main street The affair was the annual Christmas party, which always is enjoyed by a goodly number of children of the immediate members. A ibg tree was filled with candy and presents, which were distributed to the youngsters, and the presents exchanged by the members, as is the usual custom at this Christmas program. There were also Christinas stories read to the children, and games and contests furnished merriment for the members present. After the program brick ice cream and wafers were served. — —qNORTH WEBSTER GYM Some time ago Trustee Milo Strombeck, of Tippecanoe township. was notified by the state fire marshal to discontinue the use of the North Webster gymnasium, which had been condemned as a fire hazard. week Mr. Strombeck was in Indianapolis and held a conference with Fire Marshal Cash M. Graham on the matter and was given written permission to use the gymnasium until April 15, 1928, when the school year ends. This permission was granted for the that Trustee is preparing to construct a new school building and gymnasium in the early spring. ■ ■<) —■ ■ JUIMiMENT REVERSED A decision of the Kosciusko circuit court ih finding James A. Durham. State Game Warden, guilty bl assault and battery’in connection with the of Charles Long, on Little Tippecanoe lake was reversed by Indiana supreme court. Darham was Sned S7OO by the .Kosciusko Long has filed sipt against Durham for $5,000 damagts* The case will be heard on January 3. Long alleges in his petition that he has suffered permanent injuries as a result of on T&Wanoe Lake on December 4, 1924.

r Q—VERDOT Aiwyinth< court last Th ? wFa verdict awardingjtaa&esfin the sum of §1,200 to | in his action jtbarles F. I his wife’s mooo• X

COMMUNITY XMAS TREE The Coipmunity Christinas tree, whiclistands like a sentinel in the public square, silently speaks to all who pass by of the splendid Yule Tide Spirit that exists among the residents of beautiful Syracuse and vicinity. With all kinds of different colored lights on the tree, and the electric “Star of the East” on the top most branch, proves the committee did not forget what Christmas means. O n Saturday evening the school children gathered at the tree and were led in singing carols by their teachers and their pastors of the different churches. Rev. R. G. Foust, pastor of the Evangelical church, gave an interesting talk to the crowd that gathered to enjoy the festivities at the tree. Following this, Santa Claus drove up in a small truck and distributed candy and pop corn to all of the children present. The tree will remain standing on the square until New Years. The community tree and the program of the evening was sponsored by the Wednesday Afternoon Club.

CHARGED WITH KIDNAPING Charges of kidnaping were filed in the Kosciusko Circuit Court against Virgil Sproat, 19, of Fort Wayne, who is held in the county jail at Warsaw. Sproat was arrested in Tippecanoe, Marshall county, Saturday after he had been foiled in an attempt to make Miss Wilodean Arnold. 24, teacher in the Claypool schools, drive him to Chicago. Miss Arnold was enroute from ,a funeral, driving alone. When she stopped at the Nickle Plate railroad crossing near Claypool, because of a freight, Sproat walked up and got in the ear. He ordered her to drive back the other way. When she came to a cross road, instead of heading for Chicago, she turned and drove into Claypool. He jumped out of the car when he* saw that he was being ’ trapped jumped on a westbound freight just leaving the city. His arrest followed in Tippecanoe. AUTO EXCISE TAX ■' '"W"—" Relief to the motoring public from the three cent war excise tax has brought much gratification to the Hoosier State Automobile Association in its fight in co-operation with the American Automobile Association and other national groups. The House in the middle of December passed the bill with a vote of 366 to 24, and the bill as | it passed the House removed entirely this three cent war excise tax, and the fight, according to [ the automobile association’s' statement, is now being centered ■ to see that the bill passes the Senate and becomes a law without the excise tax on automo-1 biles being put back in the bill or a compromise being arrived at for any smaller amount than the full three cent excise tax being removed from passenger cars. o — NEW DOLLAR BILLS READY New dollar bills .smaller in dimensions than those now‘in circulation are due to be released in Syracuse and other Indiana cities shortly after the new year according to bankers. The bills now being run off the government presses in Washington are six and <five sixteentha inches long and two and elevensixteenths inches wide as compared to seven and one fourth by three and one-eighth the present currency size Twelve of the new bills will be produce*! from a sheet that now r will nfeke only eight it was understood. Since a bill wears only about eight months a great saving is expected to be made by the govemment AS PROG RA W ? On Friday afternoon thy.lower grades gave a in the CoramQni*mflpding. Each grade had little act, in whjch tbe 'Stou?’ of the First the Christspirit were portrayed. Over Uf* htSidred patrons showed iWiwftWterest in the school work Jby attending the program.

S?S.iy»GIFTTOI>EPUW l DePauw University announces receipt of a gift of $25,000 from the widow of the late Senator Bevei idge- The money will be I used to establish ! S hTlsSand also receded his

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT 1 I — k ■ ■ x * " Review of Things by the Editor LAs He Sees Them on the Surface. ! I . ■ 1 ' Self Reliance Brings Success Success always lives the other side of a struggle a fight. In the beginning it is a struggle with self. This may never be fully mastered, but in just such measure as one masters self one will succeed. : No person ever mastered self by beihoaning the flaws that lurk within. Teats never wash away anything but self-reliance and selfrespect, and heaven knows, we need ill we have of these great treasures, without risking their loss in such a foolish pastime as the weeps. After we have got self somewhat in hand, we may start out to conquer the outside of self. And experience has proven that the best weapons in this war are cheerfulness, patience and persistence. To put men and women under subjection with tftie sword is but to allay irritation for a time. But to br|ng people and things under subjection—to make them serve you because they love to serve you. just as the flowers I love the bright face of the sun—is to heal any malady that may lurk against you. This business of being an optimist is not injurious to the muscles Or the mouth. Cheerfulness is a state of mind, not of the mouth. The fact that one believes in the everlasting possibility of better things is no excuse for being a grinning gringe. Nearly all humorists look like conscientious undertakers, so why shouldn’t a few optimists tread softly on the smile. The true optimist is.the person who has a thought-umbrella for every misfortune-rain that come along; who isnt’ Wind to what is wjrong and out of joint, but simply prefers to let the eyes ? rest longest on what is right and in place; who lets the thorns in the flesh stay thorps in the flesh, not allowing them to become thorns in the mind, and above all, who knows that none of the possibilities for better things is worth thinking of unless he himself goes to work to pav<? the way for those better things.

Changed The father of a bright-eyed school hoy submits this as a product of the boy’s brain after a round with his history lesson: “My grandfather,” said the English boy, “was a very great man. One day Queen Victoria* touched him on the shoulder with a sword and made him a. knight.” “Aw, that’s nothin,** the American boy replied. “One day an Indian touched my grandfather on the bead with a tomahawk and made him an angel." Too many have their own "cash and carry system. They keep their cash in their pockets and permit their credi- • tdrs to carry them. It is not enough to be a “good* all ’round man.” It is also necessary to be a good, all-square one. You may be “worked to death,” and; still not have worked enough to Accomplish much. Evary man thinks that he is the proper one to stand around and boss the job.* The good old days were when you could get a cook to stay by marrying her. > Whpnaman is dqwn his enemies* atop kicking him and his friends begin. ’ Successful men. tnjgt themselves more than they do the other fellow. * • Give some people half a chance and they will take the other half. T* Saving money is not so hard as keeping it saved.; £ As usual the New Year begin® iwith January 1.J After Saturday write it 1928. Happy New Year! This Week's Puzzle Putter What kind of material should be used in making a shirt waist for an

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