The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 14, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 2 August 1928 — Page 1

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SYRACUSE LIBRARY NOTES News Notes, of Interest Concerning Our Library Especially Written for The Journal That book is good Which puts me in a working mood. Unless to Thought is added Will, Apollo is an imbecile. What parts, ’ what gems, what colors shine, Ah, but I miss the grand design. (Emerson) The V. R. C. members who have finished their work will be given a picnic Friday, August 3. So far (Monday) thirty six have completed the course. Promote as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. (George Washington). These two magazines have been added to our collection: Scientific American and The American Girl. Ralph Mick presented the Library with a beautiful bouquet of flowers Monday. We now have a copy of Beatrice Burton’s “Little Yellow House.” p - INDIANA STATE FAIR Austin H. Sheets, Head of the Department of Amusement, Indianapolis. Indiana, states that the Old Fiddler’s Contest, in which there will be SSOO offered, will be staged again this year at the State Fair, which will be held September 1 to 8. The contestants must be 6.0 years old- or over and all entries must be made with the Secretary on or before Aqgust 15. , He also states that there are SSOO offered in the music contest for male quartets, in which all arrangements will be made through the Indiana Farm Bureau. Any person interested in the Old Fiddler’s Contest or the Farm Bureau male quartets should write to E. J*. Barker, Secretary, Indiana State Fair, Room 212, State House, Indianapolis, Indiana. It is now being planned to have the old fiddlers and the quartets judged as They play and sing over the air, as arrangements are? being made to have a broadcasting station at the Indiana State Fair Grounds during the fair. The head of the Department, Mr. Sheets, stated that these two features would probably be the two main ones in the amusement department. o SWINE DAY AT PURDUE The sixth annual swine day for Indiana Farmers will be held at Purdue University, Friday Sept. 28, it is announced by Prof. C. M. Vestal in charge of the swine experimental work. The annual swine day is a period set aside each year for a study of the feeding experiments at the , experimental livestock farm inspection of the different lots of pigs on feed, and discussion of the latest ideas in pork production. From 500 to 1000 farmers usually attend and an even larger number is expected this year because of the interest now in “the mortgage lifter.” o MARRIAGES AND DIVORCES Marriages in Indiana increased in 1927 over 1926 but decreased in Kosciusko county according to information received from Washington. There were 41,112 marriage licenses issued in the state in 1927 as against 40,409 in 1926. There were 8,067 divorces in 1927 as against 7,685 in 1926. In 1927 there were?9s-jnarriages annulled as against 82 in 1926. In Kosciusko county there were only 192 marriages in 1927 as against 227 in 1926. There were in the«ounty 42 divorces in 1927 as against 44 in 1926. G . CROWL FAMILY REUNION All relatives who have not been feached by cards are urgently invited and requested to be present at the 15th annual Crowl family reunion to be held in the beautiful grove at the Eli Crowl farm on Dewart Lake, three miles south of Syracuse, on Sunday, August 12. ’ ’ ‘ ROSE E. TUCKER Secretary and Treasurer

The "Syracuse Journal Syracuse’s Slogan* “A‘ Welcoming Town With a Beckoning Lake.”

OAKWOOD PARK ASSEMBLY The Oakwood Park Assembly of the Evangelical Church of the Indiana Conference convenes at Oakwood Park, Lake Wawasee, August 2nd to 12th inclusive. The Assembly embraces three divisions: The W. M. S. Conven tion and the Oakwood Park of Leadership Training. The Evangelistic conference will be conducted by Rev. A.- J. “Dad” Elliott of Chicago, 111., Student Secy. National Y. M. C. A. Council. This conference is for the ministers aw[ laymen. The W. M. S. Convertßbn under the lead-, ership of Mrs. O. O. Lozier of Pawtucket, R. 1., it’s president will maintain a study group course which will be taught by Mrs. “Clara Eilert Giulians of the Italian Mission in Milwaukee, Wis., and The School of Leadership Training with Rev. R. H. Mueller of South Bend, as dean, offers six courses with the following persons as Instructors: Dr. Geo. Stiditz, D. D. Ph. D. of the Central Reformed Seminary,. Dayton, Ohio., Dr. Howard J. Kuist, Ph. D. of the Biblical Seminary, N. Y. C., Dr. P<|ul Landis of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, Philadelphia, Pa., Violet Rush, of the National Kindergarten College. Evanston, 111., Mrs. Howard T. Kuist, Director of Vacation Church Schools, White Plains, N. Y. Charles J. Theuer of Cleveland. 0., will be the Song Lead- 1 er of the Assembly and Harry F. Fussner of Cleveland, 0., will be the Pianist. The Recreational Director will be Willard L. Muehl of Naperville, 111., and the Deputation chairman is Rev. A. A. Knepper of Kendallville. o— CAR INTO DITC H <While motoring near Adrian, Mich., on Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Connolly and son Leon met with an automobile accident. When making a curve, which was on an incline, another car came to the curve, going in the opposite direction. In order not to hit the other car, Leon, who was driving, turned his car quickly to one side and went into the ditch, his car turning over on its sidd. Leon suffered an artery cut in his left arm, but his parents escaped injury, except being shaken up and somewhat frightened. The car was quite badly damaged and the visitors did not get to return home until Monday evening. Q DOG SAVES CHILD’S LIFE The intelljgence of a dog saved the life of Marilyn Gregg, aged 3, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Gregg of Fort Wayne, last Sunday. Marilyn walked out to the end of the pier at Buttermilk Point and’ fell in the water. A German police dog, owned by J. G. Hood, of Columbus, Ohio, who has a cottage nearby, started to bark when it saw the child struggling in the water and jumped in after her. The dog held to the little girl’s clothing and kept her out of the water until help arrived. o FIRE ON KALE ISLAND The cottage on Kale Island belonging to August Swanberg of Goshen was destroyed by fire at about 7:30 this (Thursday) morning. The blaze started by the explosion of an oil stove. The cottage next to it, belonging to Geo. Wandell of South Bend, was badly damaged. Mr. Swanberg is proprietor of the dry cleaningestablishment in Goshen. The chemical truck was taken out but arrived too late to save the cottage. —O FARM HOUSE BURNED Fire of unknown origin, about 9:30 o’clock last Saturday night, completely destroyed the fiveroom house on the Clyde Juday farm, three and a half miles northwest of Middlebury. The house was unoccupied at the time, the Judays having moved to South Bend. Part of their furniture was in the house. o BAZAAR AND BAKE SALE The Ladies Aid of the M. E. Church are having a summer bazaar at Beckman’s funiture store on Friday and Saturday, August 3 and 4. Also bake sale Saturday , at the Dry Cleaners. Opening at I 10:30. Chicken and noodles. I Bring containers. 14-lt i ° * Milton Sills in “Burning Day i Light,“ a Jack London story at Crystal, Ligonier, next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. August 7, 8 and 9.

FORESTER ENCAMPMENT The Forester Encampment of the Modern Woodmen of America, in session last week at Oakwood Park, came to a close Saturday. Addresses by United States Senator Arthur R. Robinson, Republican, and Albert Stump, Democrat, his opponent in the election this fall, were on the program Thursday''afternoon. The Columbia City camp initiated a class Thursday night. A school of instruction for special district and camp deputies ■ was on the program for Friday, also music by Terre Haute and Palmyra bands and the Woodchoppers’ quartet. Prize winners in the state championship drill contests held earlier in the week were announced as follows: Senior —First, Camp 8800 of Terre Haute; second, Camp 3688 of Columbia City. Junior —First. Camp 5358 of Indianapolis; second, Camp 7248 of Greensburg. William D. Headrick, Indianapolis. state lecturer, gave instruction in and lectured on ritualistic work. Prizes were awarded for proficiency. Fully 600 Woodmen were in attendance at the gathering. o INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Mrs. Mary Louise White, aged 70. of South Bend, widow of Bishop John Hazen White, was seriously injured at 11:30 Wednesday forenoon in an auto accident near Dunlap. Her son. the Rev. H. R. White, also of South Bend, archdeacon of the northern Indiana diocese of the Episcopal church, was less severely injured, and her daughter, Miss .Mary Mae White, of Ridgefield. Conn., escaped with minor wounds. Her son* who was driving their sedan, was cut over the right eye. and suffered a severe shock. He is also a patient in the Goshen hospital, jz Mrs. White is in the Goshen hospital. She suffered a severe head injury- and probably a skull fracture, a hip injury and a deep gash on the right arm. The exact cause of the accident is not known. Mr. White lost control of the car while passing another machine, and it went into the ditch and overturned. The three were on heir way to Wawasee from South Bend to spend a month at their summer home at the lake.- — -o HELD REUNION The annual reunion of the Held family was held on Sunday, July 29, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Held, in Elkhart. There were thirty-eight relatives present, and three guests. A picnic dinner was served at noon, after which a program was given. Officers elected resulted as follows: President, L. W. Held; vice-president, George Stansbury; secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Effie Held. The next reunion will be held the last Sunday in July, 1929, at the home of L. W. Held in Syracuse. The oldest member present was Mrs. George Held, aged 75, and the youngest present was Loren Hover, aged 11 months. Those present from Syracuse included Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Held and family,, Mr. and Mrs. George Stansbury and family, Mr. and Mrs. George Held and Mrs. Effie Held and children. o FISHING LICENSES A toal of $1738 was collected' in Kosciusko county during the month of July for hunting and fishing licenses. At the present time many hunting licenses are being issued. The squirrel season opened Wednesday. o— EPWORTH INSTITUTE The annual Epworth Forest Institute of the Northern Ind- ■ iana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church opened at ■ North Webster Monday, July 30, and will close Sunday August 5. O 7 NOTICE The Cable family will hold • their twentieth annual reunion ■ on August 12, 1928, at Forrest ' Park, Lake Wawasee. We hope 1 to see everybody there that can r possibly come. JESSE CABLE t UNION SERVICE / Let us not forget our union t service next Sunday evening at , the Lutheran Church at 7:30 • o’clock. Rev. Royer will bring us the message. Let us hear him.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 2, 1928

500 POULTRYMEN MAKE INDIANA TOUR More than 500 poultrymen and women from over Indiana took part in the fourth annual state poultry tour which was held July 17 to 20 under auspices of the Indiana state Poultry Association and the Agriculture Extension Department of Purdue University. The tours are planned each year as a recreational and educational trip for men and women interested in various phases of the poultry business. Assembling at Tipton, the tourists spent the first afternoon in visits to the Tipton Hatchery, whose proprietor,. Roy D. Girard, is president of the state poultry organization; to the plant of the Fear-Campbell Produce Co., and to the plants of the Advance and Oakes Manufacturing companies, concerns which produce poultry equipment. Free rooms were provided the visitors that night in Tipton homes. The first stop the next day was at Colonial Place Poultry farm near Kokomo, where the tourists studied efficiency management and layout of a farm with 3000 layers. The next stop was at Mayhill poultry farm near Marion to study a modern layout and hen house 400 feet long. At Huntington, the Indiana Farmers’ Guide entertained more than 250 persons at lunch and the tourists then saw the C. E. Bash and Co. poultry farm of 90 acres and under construction a new hen house 300 feet long. Eventually, the entire farm will be used for poultry. A squadron of police escorted the nearly 100 cars in line when they entered Fort Wayne. That evening the tourists were guests of the Sherman White Packing Co. at a theater party. The following morning was spent in visiting these tw’o plants, getting through in time to drive to Lake Wawasee for lunch and a visit to the state fish hatchery. A visit to Notre Dame University’s poultry plant was the final stop of the day. The tourists spent the last night, at Plymouth and drove the following morning to Mentone to study-grading and shipping of eggs by local producers, and to visit White City Egg Farm near Rochester, where 40,000 ducklings were brooded this year and 24.000 of 1 them still on the farm. The entire tour was planned and directed by M. A°. Seaton of the poultry organization. o GOLF MATCH Os particular interest to golfers in the Northern part of the state, is the match on the links of the Wawasee Hotel and Country club, Saturday, Aug. 4, featuring Archie Compston, greatest match player that Great Britain has ever produced, and Audrey Boomer, French’professional, his playing partner. Pitted against them Will be two of the best players in the district, probably Pete Duran,’ pro at the Wawasee Links and Guy : Paulson, young Fort Wayne professional, who won the recent Indiana professional championship at French Lick Springs. Compston and Boomer are internationally known, and both have scored victories over Hagen. Boomer holds a victory over Sarazen. Compston won the Easter Open champion on one occasion. Both are known for remarkable accuracy and distance prowess. Duran and Paulsen are both well known Indiana golf pros. Duran., is recognized as one of the best long distance shots in the state. . Paulsen has shown his- extraordinary putting ability on many occasions. o — PURCHASED GROCERY Nelson Byland, who for several years was employed at the Seider and Burgener grocery, purchased the South Side grocery of Jack Wright, and took possession Monday. o BIRTHS ANDJJEATHS During the month of May there were 39 births and 30 deaths reported in Kosciusko county. ■ o For something good try Furnas Quality Ice Cream. GRAND HOTEL Rowdabaugh Mann BAND CONCERT Every ’ Wednesday ’ Evening

AUGUST DAYS ARE HERR i Tracing back into past years we find history has given this month an important listing, which in regard to wars, deaths of great men, inventions, etc., makes it rank on an equal with its sister months of the year. Interesting among these we find that on August 1, 1914, marked the real- beginning of the European war; on August 2, 1923. Warren G. Harding passed away in San Francisco; Fulton’s first steamship voyage in America is recorded as that of August 11, 1807; the Panama Canal was officially opened to navigation August 15, 1914; the Battle of Bennington occurred on August 16, 1777, and in commemoration of this event August Ist is celebrated in Colorado as a legal holiday; the first Atlantic cable message was made known on August 17, 1858. We are told that the first steam boat to cross the Atlantic was launched August 23, 1818, and on August 31, 1886, Charleston. South Carolina, experienced an awful earthquake. The calendar gives us the following record of the moon’s activities for August: Full moon Ist —3oth, last quarter Bth, new moon 15th, first quarter 23rd. o— BOY SCOUTS CAMPING Four of the Boy Scouts of Syracuse Troup No. 1, left on Monday morning for the Nattional Camp at Eagle Lake, Edwardsburg, Mich. Rev. R. G. Foust, the scout master, took the boys and remained with them for physical examination and dinner. Mr. Foust reports that the boys have three good meals a day, with plenty of recreation, such as playing ball, swimming, pitching horseshoe. canoeing, hiking, learning the names of trees, birds, etc. The executive and officers in charge of the boys are: C. M. Arnold, Scout Executive; I. E. Palmer. Camp Director; Horace Lott, Swimming Director; Jack Landon, Activities; H. O. Mejvin, Health Officer; Archie Hawks, Camp Cook; David. Kendig, Camp ’Buglar. The boys, who will stay one week, are: Charles Beck, Otis Clyde Butt, Joe Freeman and Will N. Osborn. - o ATE STRYCHNINE TABLETS Phillip Lantz, 2| years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Lantz of Millersburg, died Friday afternoon as a result of eating strychnine tablets, which he thought was candy. The tablets were given to his mother by a physician. Phillip found the box of tablets on the table, while his mother was busily engaged in housework. Dr. C. Lutz of Millersburg and Dr. C. R. Hoy of Syracuse were called when the mother discovered the child had eaten the tablets. Both doctors worked frantically over the child, but were unable to counteract the poison, and the child died in convulsions about 6:30 o’clock. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Solomon’s Creek U. B. Church, the Rev. A. P. Hubartt, officiating. Interment in the Solomon Creek cemetery. o STRUC K COW Frederick Clayton was drivingon the highway Tuesday evening about a mile and a half north of town, and in some unaccountable manner struck a cow that w r as being.led along the road by Geo. Mullen, a farmer, about 8:30. The car was damaged some, receiving a bent fender, headlight, radiator and fan. Frederick was with Mary Jane Hire and Margaret Wolf. He was able to drive the damaged car to town; — o HOOKS A BIG ONE H. B. Holloway, of Goshen, last week hooked and landed a 34inch pike, weighing about 10 .pounds, while still fishing with live bait at Lake Wawasee. o UNDERWENT OPERATION Attorney Geo. L. Xanders underwent an operation for hernia at the Elkhart hospital on Saturday. He is doing nicely. o OIL PRICES UP Effective Wednesday morning, all grades of gasoline and kerosene went up one cent a gallon. o SUPPER • The Ladies of the Evangelical church will give a supper Wednesday, August 15, beginning at 5 o’clock 14-21

I KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT — Miss Catherine Downing, 19, a nurse at the Emergency hospital and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Downing, of near Claypool, and James Spiece, 18, 6254 Gidding street. Chicago, were instantly killed at 1:25 | o’clock Sunday afternoon when a I west-bound interurban struck the Ford touring car in which I they were diding. The accident i occurred at the Woodward crossing four miles southwest of Warsaw. Two others. Miss Irene Rhoades, 14. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rhoades, of near Claypool, and James Thomas, of Chicago, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Thomas, were injured. Miss Rhoades is suffering from a broken collar bone and cuts about her head. She is at the home of I her parents near Claypool. Thomas is a patient at the McDonald hospital. He has a compound fracture of the left arm and lacerations about the head. Miss Downing and James Spiece were dead when picked up by witnesses of the crash, apiece died of internal injuries and lacerations about his body Miss Downing’s death was caused by a fractured skull and internal injuries. o WHAT PRICE GLORY” Every soldier will tell you thal he had a lot of fun out of a war. Ask any reminiscent veteran ol the A. E. F. or some erstwhile gob of the U. S. N. and they will smile and say “betcha.” But ask a leatherneck, a soldier of the seven seas, what he thinks about it, and your answer will be “hot dog”. That’s why the Captain Flagg in the picturization of “What Price Glory” remarks after a leave of absence and a hilarious visit to Bar-le-Duc - “This is the best war I ever attended.” The comedy end of war was what impressed Winfield R. Sheehan, general manager of Fox Films, when the job of making a screen story of the Stallings-And-erson play was undertaken at Hollywood—and Sheehan knew because he was a Sargeant in the U. S. A. and saw active service in Cuba in the Spanish-American war. Uhen, Directlor Raoul Walsh took battle aS a background gave it . plenty of clash and conflict, tragic touches and pathetic pulses but he let his soldier man overseas just have the time of his life—in which Director Walsh was right and followed form. So laughter of the uproarious, deep-down kind is promised when the picture, “What Price Glory”, comes to the Community Theatre, Wednesday and Thursday, August 8 and 9. Victor McLaglen, soldier of fortune, captain in the world war, and a capital actor, is the Captain Flagg of the story: Edmund Lowe is Sergeant Quirt, and lovely Dolores Del Rio will be seen as Charmaine. These head a great cast and a host of auxiliaries in the big scenes. o OUTPUT OF BABY FISH The June output of Indiana’s five fish hatcheries was 153,000 baby fish, George N. Mannfeld, superintendent of fisheries and game, reported to Richard Lieber, state conservation director. Os this number, the report said, there were 64,600 smallmouth black bass; 8,000 crappie and 3.000 yellow perch. No bluegills and none of the crappie were distributed because they were of'unsufficient size. July distribution has been delayed, according to Mannfeld, on account of the high and- muddy condition of waters. In consequence hundreds of applications have not been filled and it is very likely that the division will not conclude final deliveries before September. Applicants are advised when deliveries are to be made so no delay will be occasioned after the motor trucks start from the hatcheries to points of destination. o A SNAKE STORY Daniel Claus, residing two miles north and a mile west of Nappanee killed a snake that is a real freak, says the Nappanee Advance-News. The crawler is built on the order of an alligator and has four well developed legs. The front are about two inches- long and are tippqd with sharp claws while the otheV pair are about an inch in length. The reptile is about two feet long and the kind is unknown. Mr. Claus killed the snake in his barnyard . and has it hanging up in one of , his sheds for the inspection of , the unbelieving.

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT Review of Things by the Editor As He Sees Them on the Surface. The Juvenile Court in Every Town And City One of the most commendable movements' of modern times is inspired by a desire to save the boy or the girl who is inclined to go to the bad. This is a subject I about which everyone is concerned and one in which everyone should take an interest. The responsibility for the proper rearing of our boys and girls is not wholly upon the parents and the school teacher. Outside of the home and the schoolroom there is the larger social and business world into which our boys and girls find their way and come in close contact with influences that help mold their character both for. good and bad. Neither the parent or the school teacher can direct this changing school. Here is where each member of society must take upon hisself a share of the responsibility and he should feel an interest in the moral and physical welfare of the boys and girls he meets in the churches and other public places. 'I he State has recognized its responsibility and through its Juvenile Courts is looking after the delinquent boy and girl. In very town and city in the State, Juvepile Courts are established whose sole duty is to care for the luvenile delinquents. In counties where there are no larger cities the Circuit Judge takes charge of the Juvenile Courts. Each of these courts has a Board of Children’s Guardias and a probation officer as assistants. When information comes to this Board or to the probation officer of criminal or other moral or villainous misconduct on the part of the boy or girl they are at once looked after and the inquired into. Wry often just a visit and an admonition by "’the Board or officer is all that is required. In other instances the ptfender is brought before the J udge and he deals with, the case. In most cases a reprimand from the Judge is all that is needed. In case this fails then the Judge is authorized to send such obdurate boy or girl to an Institution provided by the State for such delinquencies, By these means many boys and girls are saved from ruin each year. Os course it costs something but in the end it is cheaper than to allow’ these boys and girls to be confirmed criminals and a prey upon society. See the bright side of things, if you have rheumatism think how much harder your uncle had it. If it's appendicitis, think of the pearly gates. Take your local paper while here. It may not circulate over yonder. Somebody has discovered in the Himalayas, long-legged sheep that can run forty miles an hour. It would take that kind of a lamb to keep up with Mary nowadays.;— We’ve heard of dancing, swimming, running, eating, and sitting marathons, but as yet no one has suggested anything like a working marathon. This is the time of year when a lot of men feel that they need a good tonic, consisting mainly of about five yards of cane pole and a can of bait. The old problem was to get to the North Pole’. The problem to-day seems to be to get back from it. s ~I " ■ Eating fish is said to nourish the brain. So some people should eat whales. Autoists run across many curious things in their travels and over some. Ten years more of life for careful living. The trick’s the price. v The hand that rocks the cradle doesn’t roll the cigaret. The only thing wrong with any country is the people. This Week’s Puzzle Puller Question: Why are bells most disobedient? Answer: Becausd'they w.on’t keep still when they are tolled (told).

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