The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 5, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 31 May 1928 — Page 1

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SYRACUSE LIBRARY NOTES News Notes of Interest Concerning Our Library Especially Written for The Journal The V. R. C. members rate as follows: Names Stars Kathryn Nicodemus 27 Velva «Brown 23 Marjorie Slabaugh 14 Ruth Nicodemus 11 Ralph Mick 11 Laura Bachman 11 Paul Isbell 9 Frances Houston 9 Blanche Lung 9 Carme Parkhurst ............. 8 Kingsley Pfingst 8 Agnes Fleming a Litcy Bachman 8 Rowena Insley 8 Gertrude Fleming ...... 8 Katherine Kern 8 Joan Riddle J.... 8 Lucille Osborn 8 Miriam Peffly 7 James Butt 7 Virginia Riddle 7 Wayne Tom 6 Edna Fleming 6 Edna Leacock J. 5 Margaret Smith 5 Joe Kindig ’. 5 Alice Coy 5 Gertrude Tyler 5 Duane Kline 4 Martha Leacock 4 William Osborn ? 4 Richard Isbell 4 Jaunita Geiger 4 Gerald Kline . 4 Alta Butler 4 Martha Fisher 4 ’ Betty White 3 Carleton Richhart 3 Otis Clyde Butt 3 Betty Ward 3 Lyle Byland 3 . Voyle Osborn .< 3. Maxine. LeCount- 3 Mary Jensen 2 Morris Crow .. 2 Maxine HWloway 2 Richard Bell 2 Helen Gordy 2 Virginia Culler 2 Pauline Shock 2 , Elizabeth Shock 2 Virginia Harvey 1 Erba Kline 1 Lucy Clayton 1 Ruth Rowdabaugh *. 1 Keith Cripe 1 Robert Ott 1 Meredith Mench 1 The total membership is 78. As you* notice from the above list 58 have reported on at least one book. Although we may continue the club latter part of August we are more inclined at present to set the date of termination some where the first'of August. This will give the children a chance to rest up for the coming school year. Those attending story hour Saturday were: Junior Trier, James Butt, Burton Niles, Katherine Dillon, Katherine and Martha Jane Kern, Christine Kline, Martha, Betty and KathrymFisher, and Edna, Gertrude and Agnes Fleming. There will be no story hours this summer. Next falj after school has started we will then continue with this work. ■ms The task of free libraries is to maintain the intelligence which schools exist to create 4 ' 1 o GRAND LODGE MEETING The annual convention of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons was held last week at Indianapolis. The election of officers resulted as follows: Grand Master—Chas. C. LaFollette, Thorntown. Grand Chaplain—The Rev. Homer M. Campbell, Thorntown. Grand . Lecturer—lvory C. Tolle, Lebanon. Grand Marshal —Rudolph H. Horst, South Bend. Senior Grand Deacon —Frank C. Laird., Indianapolis. Junior Grand Deacon—Harry Yeo, Muncie. Grand Steward and TylerJacob Rubin, Indianapolis. Elmer F. Gay, Indianapolis, was appointed reviewer and director of the Indiana Masonic home for three years and Frank E. Gavin, Indianapolis was nam- ' ' ed chairman of the George Washington national Masonic Inemorial committee. - o REAL ESTATE DEALS Floyd Hedges has sold his real estate in Addmore Park to Edwood Minnis of Goshen. The deal was made by Simon Bill. He also sold four lots in Cottingham Beach to J. B. Wortman of Terre Haute.

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MEMORIAL DAY Memorial Day was fittingly observed in Syracuse, Wednesday, May 30. In the morning Jupiter Pluvius threatened to spoil the exercises, however, Old Sol ruled in the afternoon and the people turned out en masse. The town was decorated with flags, especially , along Main street, and practically all the business places were closed at noon. Exercises began at 2:00 o’clock in the Community building, where the following program was rendered: Song, America the Beautiful — Audience* Invocation- Rev. A. Nicodemus. Song—Chorus. Address —Rev. Dr. Chas. H. Smith of Goshen, on the subject, “What Makes America Great.” Solo—Mrs. Floyd Hedges. Invocation—Rev. J. H. Royer. After the program a line of march was formed and with the Syracuse City Band in the lead, the World War veterans, school | children'and citizens marched to I the cemetery, where the graves of soldiers were decorated with flowers. Taps concluded the ceremonies. Major F. E. Marsh, a Civil War veteran, was master of ceremonies. A number of American Legion members of Milford attended the exercises. Two Civil War veterans were present and were taken in-cars to the cemetery. The arrangement committee, of which W. T. Colwell was chairman, and the several other committees, performed their duties well in arranging the program. ORCHESTRA AT HOTEL Geo. Stcherban and his Petrushka Club Gypsy orchestra’ direct from their Chicago engagement, will be featured during the summer at the Wawasee Hotel Lake Wawasee, which opened the 1928 season Wednesday. The orchestra will add much to the color of the Hotel Wawasee as a social and sports rendezvous. The orchestra was the big hit during the winter of the Petrushka club, decidedly Russian in atmosphere, and frequented by the 400 of Chicago. It was engaged for the Wawasee Hotel by Leonard Hicks, Chicago hotel owner, who is managing director for the Wawasee hotel. The orchestra is typically European, each member a consummate artist’ playing classical popular and dance music. Before its American engagement, the orchestra played in European cities, Petrograd, Moscow. London, Paris Berlin, Buda Pest, Vienna and Rome and appeared before many ruling leaders. The Petrushka club, during the past winter, was a smart rendezvous for Chicago’s fashionable pleasure seekers. The orchestra will play daily during the summer at the Hbtel Wawasee, according to the announcement. of Mr. Hicks. •— o ’ A FRIENDLY SHOWER The Junior Ladies of the Round Table gave a “shower” last Friday evening in honor of the two members of their club recently . married The two brides, Mrs. Maxine Jenkins Hoelcher and Mrs. Eva Yoder Godschalk, were given many pretty and useful gifts. The event took place in the home* of Mrs. Godschalk. Mrs. Hoelcher motored from Elkhart to attend the party. Dainty refreshments were served and the guests departed after voting the party as successful regardless of the many and varied tricks of Dame Fortune. These two girls bring the sum of married club members up to three. Eleanor Kline Schultz was the first member to marry. Who’s next is now the paramount question? —?-i t o FINE FURNITURE Considerable interest has been Shown during the past week in two fine groups of furniture, dis, played in the windows at Beckman’s. - ' Both groups, a bedroom outfit and an eight-piece dining room set, are featured with beautiful hand-matched veneerst exquisite marquetry, and rare woods, such as satinwood, maple, mahogany, ebony and walnut. The two groups are among the finest and most distinctive ever offered to friends and patrons of Beckman’s. —O i Esther Ralston and Neil Hamilton in “Something Always Happens”, a splendid mystery comedy, at Crystal Ligonier, next Sunday and Monday, June 3 and 14.

Syracuse’s Slogan: “A Welcoming Town With a Beckoning Lake,”

THE Bl MBAUGH TRIAL . The trial of Miss Margurite Bumbaugh and her two brothers, George and Girard, for the murder of Walter H. Cook at Niles on March 30, will open in the Berrien county circuit court at St. Joseph June 4. Judge White informed Prosecuting Attorney George H. Brookwaiter and # Defense Counsel Edwin H. Donahue and Allen S. Widaman of his decision to call the case on that date. Miss Bumbaugh, formerly Cbok’s confidential . secretary, walked into his office at the Ultra-Nu Basket Co., in Nilfes and shot Cook down. He died a few hours later. At first she clahns she shot him in self-defense after he struck her in the face with a basket. She said he had owed her $3,398 and had refused to pay her and threatened to> shoot her if she asked him for the money again. Later, however, she revealed a story of a ten year clandestine love affair with Cook, her married employer, of four alleged illegal operations and his alleged abuse of her. Her attorneys, refusing to allow her to plead guilty to a charge of manslaughter, are confident of an acquital on an alibi of temporary insanity. All children under 15 years of age will be barred from the court room during the trial, Judge White stated. —oAVON SUIT, GETS LITTLE The following is taken from the LigonieY Leader: Several months ago in the Kosciusko circuit court, a jury awarded damages in the sum of about SI2OO to Marion Morrison, of Lake Wawasee, because of the alienation of his wife’s affection by a neighbor and former friend, lhe money has been paid by the defendant to County Clerk Leland Kinsey, but it became evident recently, that Mr. Morrison will profit little. About S4OO was taken first to pay attorneys’ fees and other costs incident to the two trials and nearly S4OO more was paid to Attorney Everett Rasor to satisfy an execution resulting from a judgment rendered in the Noble . circuit court against Morrison in favor of the Fletcher Trust and Savings Company of Indianapolis. This left approximately S4OO to pay for the wounded heart of Mr. Morrison. O TEAM RAN AJVAY Wednesday of last week Charles Thompson was hauling gravel on a paved road when the tongue of the wagon suddenly dropped, frightening the horses which ran away. Thompson' fell off the wagon and the wheels passed over his legs. He was severely injured. The team was soon stopped without further damage being done. o _ — GRANTED DIVORCE Glen T. Davisson, of Milford, was granted a divorce in circuit court from Chloe Agnes Davisson on the charge of cruel and inhuman treatment. The couple was married October, 1927. By agreement the father has custody of Donald Earl, a son, and the mother has custody of May Louise, a daughter. —o . . MEMORIAL SERVICES Decoration Day services will be held at the Solomon's Creek church on Sunday June 3, beginning at 2:30 o’clock. Mr. Martin of South Bend will deliver the address and music will be furnished by the County High school band. o , — f MARRIED Miss. Alta Kolberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rinehard Kolberg, residing south of Syracuse and Donald Ringler of Milford were married on Wednesday at the Methodist parsonage in Warsaw, Rev. J. T. Bean performing the ceremony. o — 0. E. S. A special meeting of the Eastern Star Chapter will be held on Friday evening, June 1. There will be initiatory work and all officers are urged to be present, and also as many members as possible. Q o B. O. MABIE RESIGNS Bert 0. Mabie, has resigned as deputy fish and game warden to accept a position as officer for the Wawasee Protective Association at Lake Wawasee. The change will be effective June 1.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1928

WELCOME. JUNE! With the passing of June, 1928. one can record in his life’s history the fall of the curtain for one half the year, or six months completely gone. To some it cannot seem possible; to others it’s just a trifle —merely 187 days gone—where, how and when still a mystery. June this year is a great month, and in years gone by it has a record hard to equal. While the longest day of the year falls on the 21st. the month is also noted for the ushering in of summer, on the 22nd. The month is also noted for brides and roses, school commencement affairs, and the birth stone carries with it agate or chalcedony. Tracing back into the historic days of J une and those of recent years, we find many important happenings listedi among them x being that of Jefferson Davis’ birthday, which falls on the 3rd —a legal holiday in Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina Tennessee and Texas —Confederate Memorial Day in Louisiana. and also observed as such in public schools of Virginia. History also tells us that on June 10, 1752, a person named Franklin drew lightning from the clouds —a fete at that time considered a marvel. Another important day in June falls on the 14th—-Flag Day. In manner of successful batHes fought in June, we find that the Battle of Bunker Hill was staged on June 17, 1775, and the roar of shot and shell was recorded in the mix-up of Waterloo on June 18, 1815. In more recent years an Italian victory was fought on Austrian front. June 24, 1918, and our own Uncle Sam has it placed away on the .records at Washington that the first American troops landed in? France June 26, 1917 —a forerunner that the Yanks were on the job, not to return, until “it was over over there.” Completing our chatter on June, we are wlell informed that a full moon will appear on the 3rd, the last quarter to be on the flth, a new moon to shine on the | 17th, and the first quarter ushered in on the 24th. And thus we welcome June! o—■ — DON’T MISS THIS ONE “The Arizona Sweepstakes”, starring Hoot Gibson, will be shown at the Community theatre, Friday and Saturday, June 1 and 2. You’Tl bq right behind Hoot Gibson in every big (moment of this tremendous story! From the strange series of events in a big town that led a cowboy back to his West with a city sleuth on the trail—through the arch conspiracy of a millionaire scoundrel—and up to the magnificent climax of a cross-country race between the East and the West! To cross the finish line as winner meant handcuffs and a prison term! And not to win meant the loss of a horde and the girl he loved. See a dozen wild-eyed horse- { men in a hair raising cross count-! ry race with the one and only Hoot Gibson, leaping, plunging over hedges, ditches!, fences and fallen trees! A neck-or-nothing, deviltaken the hindmost, picture of mighty thrills with a rousing rallying finish that is guaranteed to make your nerves tingle with excitement! Don’t fail to see this thriller— June 1 and 2. o BAND CONCERT BEST EVER One of the best concerts ever given in Syracuse was rendered last Thursday evening in the community building by our Syracuse City Band and glad to say well attended. Much time had been spent by the boys practicing and making bigger efforts to give the best, and who could ask for any better was given last Thursday evening. The program included songs by the band and marches, piano selections by Frederick Beefy, vocal solos by our Director, M. D. Hire, and many other solo features too numerous to mention. The boys also appeared in their new uniforms which spell beauty and class. The band always has plenty of pep and here's hoping they keep on giving such splendid concerts and more of them. .—o—■ STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM— Always made with fresh, ripe, crushed strawberries, helps put the quality in Furuas Quality Ice Cream. THE GRAND Rowdabaugh Mann

OUR FLAG i In 1775 the Continental Congi ress appointed a committee to suggest a single flag for the thirteen colonies. This flag had thirteen alternate stripes of red i and white with an azure corner bearing the red cross of St. George and the white cross of St. Andrew. This flag was used by John Paul Jones on the flagship Alfred but there was much dissatisfaction because it bore a design so distinctive of the flag of England. On June 14, 1777. Congress provided “That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes of alternating red and white: and that the Union be thirteen stars, white, on a blue field, representing a new constellation.” From that date to this “Stars and Stripes” has never engaged in an unworthy cause, has no taint of scandal or dishonor, and today represents the mightiest nation in the world. The celebration of Flag Day, as conducted all over the country on June 14th, is not merely an occasion for the exhibition of surface emotion; nor is it designed simply to provide an opportunity for public display; nor to arouse a mere temporary patriotic enthusiasm.' Its purpose is to teach, in an entertaining and effective manner, what the American Flag really typifies; to impress anew upon the minds of all th history that has glorified it; and to inspire in every heart that true patriotism which prompts t 6 peace time loyalty and devotion no less than to war time sacrifice. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET' The Republican state convention held at Indianapolis last week nominated the following ticket: Governor—Harry G. Leslie, West Lafayette. Lieutenant Governor — Edgar D. Bush, Salem. Secretary of State—Otto G. Fiefield, Crown Point. State Treasurer—Mrs. Grace Valparaiso. Sune Auditor—Archie N. Bob- • bit Ehglish. Attorney General—James M. Ogden, Indianapolis. Reporter of the Supreme Court—Miss Genevieve Brown, Winamac. State Superintendent of Public Instruction—Roy P. Wisehart, Union City. Judge of the Supreme Court, second district—David A. Myers, Greensburg. Judge of the Appellate Court, first distrist—Elmer Q. Lockyear, Evansville. Judge of the Appellate Court,, second district—Noel D. Neal. Noblesville. —— o — — BUILT COTTAGE IN ONE DAY The Rev. A. H. Doescher, minister of the Evangelical First church of Elkhart, almost completed the erection of a cottage at Oakwood Park, on Wawasee Lake, Wednesday. There were about forty men and women in the crowd, who put up the cottage, which was of quite spacious dimensions. The building was also painted on that day. With the exception of some interior work the cottage has the appearance of beingcompleted. The ladies in the crowd prepared and served the meals and the day was spent pleasantly in addition to a big (fey’s work. A. H. Blanchard was there in the afternoon' and insured the building for SI,OOO. MOTOR TRUCK LINE The partnership of Joseph E. Rippey and Melvin E. Dillen, now operating a motor truck line between Syracuse and Fort Wayne, was authorized by the public service commission to operate a line from Ligonier to Goshen. — : o — t CASE IS DISMISSED. The appeal case in circuit court of A. G. Mitchell against B. O. Mabie has been dismissed in circuit court with cost to the defendant. o After 25 years of effort the House adopted a bill which will divest prison made articles of their interstate character and make them subject to the laws of the states where offered for sale. To protect manufacturers now under contract with prisons, the law will not go into effect for three years. o r “Rose Marie”, a screen masterpiece, from the musical romance that thrilled Broadway for two years. See it at Crystal, Ligonier, June 5, € and 7.

CHILDREN'S TEETH In connection with the work ■of our county nurse Miss Ava I Malone several members of the 'Warsaw Rotary 'and Kiwanis ! clubs were asked to write a ser- , es of articles on Health subjects. 1 As so much attention has been brought to the public of laty concerning diseases caused by bad teeth, it is quite timely to start this series .with some facts on children’s teeth and their care. 1 here is no doubt but that in the education of the expectant mother will be found the greatest aid in the prevention of dental decay. During the period when the germs of the teeth are being formed, between the sixth ! and seventh month before birth | and frorii that time until the | birth of the child, it is of mary importance for her to pay 1 careful attention to her diet. The ; mineral salts and vitamines I which are essential to the growth : of bones and teeth can be obtained from a liberal supply of milk fruits, green vegetables and cereals. When the child is born the enamel of most of the temporary teeth is already formed. The diet of the child has a great deal to do with, the development and preservation of its teeth. Mother’s milk is beyond the shadow of a doubt, the best food to supply all the needs of the three to seven years before' they erupt. The enamel, grows first; consequently, the need of proper materials to supply a well formed chewing surface is present at the very start of the growth of a tooth. Systematic care and attention should begin soon after the first teeth appear by cleansing them daily with tepid water to which has been added a little bicarbonate of soda or lime water using a piece of cheese cloth or absor bent cotton. As soon as all the first teeth have appeared, twenty in number, a child’s tooth brush and a mild dentrifice should be employed. Because eaten as they mostly are, between meals, sweets and candies are injurious to the teeth. There is no need for a child to know the taste of sugar for several years as cereals can be seasoned with salt and enough sugar to properly supply the body can be found in ordin-< ary foods and uncooked fruits. Sweets cling to the teeth and serve as a breeding ground for bacteria, which produce a lactic acid that softens and decays the teeth. Contrary to the common belief, the first permanent teeth to. appear are not the ones in front. At about the sixth year, the first permanent molars, four in number, appear just back of the baby teeth. They are often taken for j temporary teeth and are neglected with serious results. They are the first important teeth of the whole set, as they form the keystone to the dental arch. Also they are the ones most often extracted due to neglect from the time of their appearance to. about the age when a child begins to take notice of his personal appearance. Then it -is usually too late. All the other permanent teeth erupt in front and in back of these molars. Cavities in baby teeth should receive immediate attention, some filling material inserted that will arrest decay. If filled When they appear they will cause little or no pain, A mouth full of decaying temporary teeth is bound to infect the six year molars and later the second permanent molars which appear at about 12 years. Loss of the baby teeth through decay causes indigestion due to improperly chewed food and deformatives of the jaw and teeth. Decaying teeth cause a foul breath besides harboring all sorts of germs which produce contagious and infectious diseases such as tonsilitis, diphtheria and rheumatic fevers, Dental decay can be prevented by training the. child to avoid mushy foods, pastries and poor candies that injure the teeth and leave remnants that, promote germ growth, by providing a balanced diet including a liberal supply of milk, fruits and vegetables, raw and cooked, by leading him to prefer dry and coarse foods that scour and clean the teeth when well chewed, by training him to chew very thoroughly all foods and by enforcing the habit of cleaning the teeth at least twice daily. If inculcated early enough, the habit of systematic cleansing of the teeth becomes a real pleasure to the child. Os all the little and at the same time big things that a hiother can do for the child, the forming of this habit is probably the most vital.

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT / Review of Things by the Editor As He Sees Them on the Surface. That Childish Thrill We are wondering how many parents around Syracuse are taking the children- into consideration while planning, or starting work, on this year’s garden. Somehow many of us forget, as we grow older, the things that I gave us happiness in our youngler years. Parents quickly lose sight of the thrill they used to I get out of a few garden seeds I and a few feet of soil entrusted , to their care. Yet. when remindled of'it, they are as quick to realize thait their own children would find the same privilege equally as thrilling. So why not set aside a few seed and certain rows, or a special spot, in the garden for the * children? Let them feel that they, too, are doing something to share the responsibility of providing the din-ing-table with life-sustaining food? It isn’t expensive, it is far from being a waste of tlme/and anyone who knows the thrill that comes to a child permitted to have a hand in gardenmaking knows its value to them - in contentment and happiness. Take the children into consideration let them have a garden, too. The old grey mule is just what he used to be. Same old apostle of keen judgment and hard k cks. Like certain human beings he knows more than he looks. Baek of that sedate, forlorn, solemncolly. every-day the same- ) look, there is a keen intelligence. It doesn’t take him long to get your view point on the subject in controversy. He makes friends where he finds it possible, makes enemies where he finds it necessary. So if you should get kicked in the posterior areas by a s mule, you will know that he has something on his book against you. And if you feed him on candy and good deeds he could be made a good candidate for the Ladies' Aid Society. He has a natural mental equipment sorting out friends from makebelieves. He can tell when his master has a frigidaire machine on each shoulder. He is the. wisest bird that does not' fly, in short, he knows his thistles. Life is funny. The woman who is working overtime to get rid of her overweight, is" the same woman who a few years ago was padding to make herself look that wav. —■ '. If knowledge is power, then how does it come that a prizefighter gets S4OOO an hour and a school teacher has to be satisfied with S4O a month? According to a reader the old admonition to “Love your neighbor as yourself is responsible s for a lot of fellows getting* into the divorce courts.” Claimed that people do not value their homes any more, but any way they are considered a good place to sleep and get breakfast in. They say Lindberg has flat feet. But there was nothing t’he matter with that feat- he pulled off across the Atlantic. Many towns in Indiana complain I I that they are not on the map,"” but they are all on the tax books of the state and nation. Discretion is learned in the school of experience. You just' act the fool and let the neighbors do the rest It might help some if the manufacturer would use- a miniature figure of a coroner as a radiator cap ornament. ♦ It is said the average woman can dress in 55 seconds. And some of them look like they did it, too. And so the earth is losing speed. Well, that sounds hopeful. Perhaps it is on the up-grade. An eye-specialist says green quiets the nerves. This is especially true of greenbacks. This Week’s Puzzle Puller Question: Why is marriage like eating mushrooms? o; sji ;ou jo 3uii{4 {uoj sji aaipoqAi A\ouq oqi sji jaqjaipw Mouq joaou I jaAau noA asnvdeg uaMSuy, *4 -4

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