The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 15, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 9 August 1928 — Page 1

VOLUME XX

SYRACUSE LIBRARY NOTES News Notes of Interest Concerning Our Library Especially Written for The Journal V. IL C. Picnic Friday the children who finished the V. R. C. work enjoyed a marshmellow and wejner roast on Mrs. Edna Hess farm. Fortytwo children finished the club work But only thirty-two were able to attend the picnic. Velva Brown has the honor of having read the most books totaling 43. The librarian wishes to comment here on the behavior of these boys and girls. Never has she seen or had charge of such a splended group of children. It is unusual to have so many children together and not have quarrels but there wasn’t the least bit of trouble in .any sense. Each child did what she or he was told to do and did it willingly. There seems to be an idea prevalent which condemns the boy or girl as a book worm and an uninteresting specimen who reads. Could you have seen these wide awake, alert, healthy, happy and perfectly normal youths you would certainly needed to change your opinion. To the parents of these children only this can be said; you deserve the heartiest congratulations for the splendid discipline your children show. Mrs. Edna Hess and Mrs. Nora Colwell deserve the most hearty thanks for their splendid assistance and co-operation throughout the entire affair. — During the month of July 800 books circulated. This is an in r crease of 100 over the previous July and we were closed a week at that. However, it is a radical let down from the circulation in June. Is it too hot to read and enjoy books? From August the fifth till the nineteenth the librarian intends to enjoy a, vacation. A substitute will have charge of the library. I. The library board met Tuesdayevening in the library. | . o CAUGHT A BIG ONE Mrs. Frank Method, of Millersburg, has the distinction of being the first woman in northern to land six fish in one. J While fishing at Lake Wawasee last Friday afternoon with her nephew, Otto Mitchell, pf Syracuse, Mrs. Method hooked a giant pike. After more than 30 minutes of work the fish was j landed and it weighed 17.1 pounds and measured 42 inches Where were the other five? Well, when the pike was opened ;there were five good sized perch which had been swallowed by .the larger fish. i o ! PEPPERMI NT Oi L ¥1 ELD

r„ —1 • Stills are operating steadily < now in Allen, WShiley and Noble coufities taking oil from peppermint, a.valuable crop in a very The oil tfiis year is selling around s2l a gallon. It is used as flavoring by chewing gum manufacturers and for medicina' purposes. Peppermint will grow only in muck pockets as it requires a high degree of moisure. For that reason the growing area is very limited and three northern Indiana counties and a few in south- • ern Michigan comprise practically all the nation’s acreage. o CRAFT OVERTURNED Eli Lily, Indianapolis manufacturing druggist, and two negro servants were caught in a squall on Lake Wawas€e while in a sail boat Sunday. When the craft overturned all three clung to the sides of the craft until rescuers arrived. PASSED AWAY Mrs. Mary E Goodwin, who ■* suffered a stroke of paralysis, when informed of the death of John D. Widaman, Warsaw attorney, died Wednesday after- —. ——o— NOTICE TO WATER TAKERS • j All water takers are requested S to observe the sprinkling hours and not to use more water than necessary. Please help us to pre--1 serve the water until we are able • ! to furnish a better supply. THE TOWN BOARD.

The Syracuse journal Syracuse’s Slogan: “A Welcoming Town With’ a Beckoning Lake.”

DIED OF HEART FAILURE John D. Widaman, 77, prominent Warsaw attorney, the oldest member of the Kosciusko county bar and admitted to practice in 1875, was found dead at 6:45 o’clock Monday morning at his home in Warsaw. Mr. Widaman was attempting to put on his clothing after arising from his bed Monday morning, when he was stricken with a heart attack and fell over on his bed. He died before a physician could reach the Widaman home. His death was pronounced due to heart trouble. Mr. Widaman had been subject to heart attacks for several years, but had apparently been in his usual health until Monday morning. A neighbor, Mrs. Mary E. Goodwin, who was in the house at the time, suffered a stroke of paralysis when informed of the death. The colored maid. Miss Ruth Gary, of Indianapolis, who had been employed in the Widaman home a year, suffered a heart attack at the same time. .Mr. Widaman was activelyengaged in the conduct of his legal practice up to the time of his death although in recent years practically all of the firm’s court business has been conducted by his son, Allan S. Widaman. Mrs. Widaman preceded her husband in death several years. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Edith Lynch; a son, Allan S. Widaman; a brother, Frank Widaman, of Greensburg, Pa.; a sister, Mrs. Melissa Winsheimer, of Greensburg, Pa., and four grandchildren, Miss Estelle Lynch; Miss Christine, Widaman,, Miss Jean Widaman and John Widaman, of Warsaw. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon with burial in Oakwood cemetery, Warsaw. - * o —«—■ >; Filed suit for divorce Hazel M. Graff, of Syracuse, last week filed suit for divorce against Walter Graff, now working in Lowell, Ind., alleging nonsupport, cruel asd inhuman treatment, failure to provide and abandonment. The couple were wed October 17, 1921, and separated July 23, 1928. Mrs. Graff asks custody of three children, aged six, five and two years, allowance of support for the children and S7OO alimony. Mr. Graff is heir to sl,000 from the unsettled estate of the late Frederick Graff. Mrs. Graff alleges that she has been forced to seek employment in a Syracuse factory to provide for her children and has been dependent upon her father. Plaintiff also asked for a restraining order which was issued Friday.

WITTENBERG REUNION About fifty graduates and students of Wittenberg College, and their families attended the annual reunion of Wittenbergers from northern Indiana and southern. Michigan which was held at ;;he summer home of Prof. F. H. McNutt on Lake Papakeechie last Thursday. Ft. Wayne, Goshen, South Bend, Elkhart, Spencerville, Nappanee, Culver, and points in Michigan were represented at the gathering. The 1929 reunion will be field at the NcNutt home again on the first Thursday in August.

CAUGHT LARGE GARFISH A large garfish, measuring 42 inches in length, was landed Saturday afternoon at Winona Lake by E. A. K. Hackett and his brother, Wayne Hackett, operators of the speed boats, They were casting with a small bass rod and artificial bait near their pier. A twenty-minute battle brought the fish to shore where it was dispatched with a boat oar just as Hackett’s line severed. It is probably the largest fish landed there for several years past. - —Q— , W. C, T. U. The W- C. T. U. will meet pn Tuesday, August 14, with the Misses Violette and Vera O'Dell, beginning at 2;30 o'clock- — SUPPER The Ladies of the Evangelical church will give a supper Wednesday, August 15, beginning at 5 o’clock. 14-2 t —q Milton Sills In “Burning Daylight,” a Jack London story, tonight at Crystal, Ligonier.

TWO ELECTROCUTED Mr. and Mrs. Elmer I. French, of Indianapolis who spent two week's vacation at Lake Wawasee, were electrocuted at their home in Indianapolis Monday night. - During their absence a thunderstorm had put the radio aerial out of order and French decided to restring it. He. threw the aerial over a high tension w re and 2,400 volts of electricity passed through his body. As the blue flames danced over his body his wife rushed to his help. When she touched her husband the flames leaped to her body, too. Only the presence of mind of Tames McGlamrock, a neighbor, who desperately held back Rollin French, son of the Frenches, averted a third tragedy. When the connections were broken, Mr. and Mrs. French were dead. He was 62 years old and she was 57. o ROGERS BAND REUNION The second annual reunion of the old Rogers band was held Sunday, August 5 at the George V. Roscoe cottage at Syracuse lake, with about fifty present. Many came from out of the state to attend the gathering. The band was organized August 1, 1882, by the late Charles E. Rogers of Goshen and the event Sunday is considered remarkable in view of the fact that in the histor of reunions this is the only case where a band of this age assembles with many of the original and old members present. Dinner was served at noon by the ladies and. the afternoon was spent in visiting, with short talks and bits of forgotten history by the band boys.

SWALLOWED SAFETY PIN Ruberta Lou, nine months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hively, Silver Lake, swallowed a safety pin and was immediately rushed to a physician, but nothing could be done. Mrs. Hively was dressing the little one preparing to go for a few hours’ visit and the little Miss was lying on the bed. Shegot hold of an open safety pin unnoticed by Mrs. Hively and began to choke. Mrs. Hively tried to get the pin but it slipped from her grasp, the closed end going down. Later, however, the pin was recovered and the baby was unharmed. The pin was open and the wonder is that it did not lodge in the or intestine. TALKING MOTION PICTURES Talking motion pictures are rapidly taking the film industry by storm and will probably be the most important development in the amusement field the coming season. Practically all large film producers and theater owners are rushing preparations for making films and installingreproducing apparatus, About 400 theaters have thus far been equipped with reproducing apparatus, and it is exby the enA of the year. About 400 contracts are awaiting installation. Experiments prove that incomes are greatly increased and new interest created with the public.

NICOLAI REUNION The fifth annual reunion of the Nicolai farnily was held at Oakwood Park, Klinger Lake Michigan, on Sunday, August 5. After a fine picnic dinner the election of officers was held, the old officers serving again for another year: President, Ernest Harper; Vice president, Alva Nicolai- secretary-treasurer, John Mackey, of Grass Lake, Michigan. A number from here attendedAll enjoyed a fine time. The time and place for the next reunion will be decided later. —.—o- —— jINSTITUTE CLOSED More than 4,000 people attended the closing exercises of the Epworth Forest institute nt North Webster Sunday. Os the 46 classes maintained during the week, 1,356 young people were granted certificates for full time work during the course and 107 received diplomas for graduating from the thre&-year term. Two hundred five ministers attended the institute this year from the six districts and Wabash headed the list with 45 p]inisters. 0 Yon can taste the quality in Furnas Quality Ice Cream. THE GRAND

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 9, 1928

A RULE FDR MOTORISTS "T This season of heavy traffic on the need for repeating a warning against a practice that causes many avoidable accidents, in the opinion of M. E. Noblet, Secre-tary-r-Manager of the Hoosier state Automobile Association The condition tb which Mr. Noblet refers is that created by the motorist’s failure to pull entirely off the road when changing a tire or making a similar small adjustment or repair to the car. “Many States have a specific regulation requiring that the car be driven half (and it should be more than half) off the highway in Such circumstances,” says Mr. Ndblet. “Os course, it is impossible to station motor cycle policemen in positions to enforce this on every mile of the extensive highway system. It is a regulation, however,. that should need nd police enforcement. Based upon a sound principle of safety, the individual car owner should be whiling to abide by it under every condition. “With States lifting their speed limits, it becomes more and more imperative that the car owner who needs to make a roadside repair take the precaution to move his car from the path of the fast moving traffic. The motorist has been demanding higher speed limits because he knows they are safe, but he defeats their undeniable safety by such practices-as this. “Our Organisation and others of the 1065 affiliated with the American Automobile Association have records of many accidents that are attributed directly to the ignorance or carelessness of car owners in this respect. A new season of heavy travel it at hand. It is up to the individual -whether this condition shall maintain throughout another year. “The wisdom bf the warning, how’ever, should be obvious to a way as to assure an improvement in conditions. If we demand high speeds, we must be willing to make our practices conform to the conditions they establish.” — M—ICE MAIL Miss Elcie Weaver of New Paris received a shipment of ice cream by mail from Washington, D. C. last week. It was packed in the new refrigerant, Chemo-Ice, which contains no moisture and therefore makes shipment by mail safe and practical. The ice cream is the same brand which often graces the White House tables.

This new form office bo,doubt will revolutionize refrigeration and shipments of- perishables have been made successfully to practically all parts of the. world as distance does not matter. This new ice will usually last ten days but with proper packing will last much longer. Chemo-Ice was invented by Fred Berlin who was born and reared in Marshall county, and is made in various temperatures to meet any particular need. DROWNED IN WINONA LAKE Robert Hartzell, six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hartzell, of Troy, Ohio, was drowned in Winona Lake on Thursday evening. The little boy disappeared shortly after 6 o’clock and his body was not found until about 8:15 o’clock when it was brought to the surface by Ernest Bunting, of Winona Lake, one of a number of young men who donned bathing suits and rushed to the rescue when it was reported that the little fellow might be ip the lake. The Hartzell family occupied the Sunshine eottage, Winona Lake. The body of the little boy was taken to Troy, Ohio, for burial — CHICKEN SUPPER The Ladies Aid of the U. R. church will give a chicken'supper ip the basement of the church Wednesday, Aug. 22.15-lt o— - During the next three years the federal government will spend $73,125,000 each year qn federal-aid roads. Tg obtain this aid states spend a minimum of $198,049,992 per year. This constitutes a- total expenditure of $803,524,976 independent of other state and county improvement.

BAND CONCERT Every Wednesday Evening

J INJURIES PROVED FATAL Mrs. Marie Louise Holbrook White, 70, who was injured in an automobile accident August I, mention of which was made in last week’s Journal, died at the Goshen hospital August 2. Mrs. White received severe cuts and bruises about the face when the automobile in which she was riding, with her son. .Archdeacon H. Russell White and her daughter, Miss Mary May White, overturned just after the driver, Mr. White had passed a truck. Loose gravel or a flat tire is believed to have been the cause of the mishap. Mrs, White was married to Bishop White April 23, 1879, while he was pastor at Water bury, Conn. A year later she went with her hjusband to his new congregation at Christ Church, Joliet, 111., where he was pastor for eight years. They also spent three years at St. Paul, Minn., and four years at the Seabury Divinity school where Mr. White served as warden. It was during his service at the divinity school that he was elected bishop of northern Indian. Bishop and Mrs. White went to South Bend from Michigan City in 1910, where they had since resided. Bishop and Mrs. White were regular summer residents on Lake Wawasee. Bishop White passed away several years ago. Mrs. White is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Edgar S. Pancost, Salamanca, N.- Y.; Mrs. Charles Marquis, Toledo, Ohio.; and Miss Mary May White, New York city and Ridgefield, Conn.; three sons, the Rev. H. Russell White, South Bend; Walker White, Lake Wawasee; and Elwood White, Sound Beach, Conn.; and a sister, May Walker, Rome, Italy, who is now in Paris. . Funeral services were held Saturday morning at 10 o’clock in St. James church, South Bend, the Rev. Campbell Gray, bishop of the diocese Episcopal church, officating. Interment in the cemetery at Michigan City, where the body of Bishop White is hurried.

AVANT ROAD IMPROVEMENT The following is taken from the Warsaw Times; v

A committee of boosters of the Bishop road from Syracuse and Wawasee appeared before the county commissioners- Tues- ' day morning urging the con- I struction of the proposed two- ' mile cement stretch extending from the Syracuse-Wawasee road south and east towards the north shore of Wawasee lake to the Sargent and new Wawasee hotels. The improvement is much needed, would be a shorter route < to the north side of the lake and would vastly improve property and open up an undeveloped section of the lake shore, the boosters told the commissioners. The proposed improvement would cost about $40,000 but no action is likely since' the township funds are exhausted for any further road improvement in Turkey Creek township. A previous road improvement project, the House road in Turkey Creek, Tippecanoe and Plain townships is also held up for lack of county funds available for road building. SKY FIREWORKS The earth is about to keep its annual date with Perseids and anyone who cares to stay up until after midnight ©n the night of August U has a good chance of getting an eyeful. On that night one is certain according to the astronomers to observe a brilliant shower of shooting stars, One can see meteors on other nights in the year but the show put on by the Perseids i<s the biggest and most brilliant of all. Tfiig way and that, they shoot; almost horizontally. o REUNIONS The fifteenth annual Crowl family'reunion will be held at the Eli Crowl farm on Dewart Lake, on Sunday, August 12. The Cable family will hold their twentieth annual reunion on Sunday, August 12, at Forrest Park, Lake Wawasee. t Sunday, Aug. 26, the Stiefel reunion will bo held at the home of F, J, Klink, in Syracuse. • —— —o FRIED CHICKEN SUPPER The Ladies Aid of the Lutheran church will give a fried chicken supper in the basement of the church Friday evening, August 24 15-pd

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP

• The membership of the Roman Cathqlic church in the United {States showed an increase of I nearly 20 percent over the total lof ten years before, which was reported as 15,721,815. The figures were made public recently by the census bureau as a part of i religious body membership. Catholic churches in 1926 numbered 18,939 as compared with 17.375 in 1916, z Census returns for a .number of the larger protestant denominations have been announced by the bureau for 1926, but are still incomplete. A total membership of 4 080,777 was reported for the Methodist Episcopal church for 1926 with 26,130 churches as compared with .29,315 churches and 3,717,785 members in 1916. The Methodist Episcopal church south had 18,096 churches and 2,114.479 members in 1926. The northern Baptist convep Hon in 1926 had 7,612 churches and 1,290,438 members against 8,148 churches and 1,232,135 members in 1916. The Protestant Episcopal church for 1926 reported 7.299 churches, with 1,858.066 members while in 1916 it was credited with 7,345 churches and 1,092,821 members. f'he Presbyterian church in the United States of America for 1926 reported 8,947 churches and 1,891,030 members against 9,639 churches and 1,611,251 members in 1916. There were 5,257 Congregat ional churches with 901,846 mem bers in 1926 against 5,863 churches and 791,274 members in 1916. The negro Baptist church in 1926 had 22,082 churches and 3,196,823 members while in 1916 it had 2'1,071 churches and 2, 938,579 members. The Disciples of Christ had 7,648 churches and 1,377,595 members in- 1926 against a 1916 church total of 8,396 with 1,226,028 members. All of the protestant denom inations, the bureau explained have a number of federated churefies in which two or more denomination are associated. All figures for 1926 were announced as preliminary and sub ject to correction.

WILL SHOW “FRECKLES” . — Introducing on the screen the best known book of a famous authoress “Freckles,” by Gene Stratton-Porter, will open at the Community Theatre, Monday and , Tuesday, August .13 and 14. ■ “Freckles” deals with the simple and charming love affair between an orphan boy and a wealthy girl who meet, through their mutual love of the great outdoors and the mysteries it presents. Laid in the Limberlost Forest, made famous by Mrs. Porter, the - thrilling story is presented against a background of woodland dells and giant trees which will appeal to every true lover of nature. A one-armed boy, an orphan without a friend, is given the hazardous task of guarding the valuable timber in the Limberlost. Through a marvelous collection of moths he accumulates, he makes the acquaintance of the Bird Woman and her daughter, whom he likens to an angel. The boy’s bravery in dangerous situations and several breathtaking encounters and his openhearted frankness win the respect of the elder woman and the love of the girl, who, when her lover gets? in trouble with timber thieves, eome§ gallantly to hfs aid. But the timber guard realizes the difference in station between himself and his love and is afraid la propose. Only an accident in which he almost loses his life to save hers brings them together in a sweet and charming finale. A remarkable east was assembled by Meehan to make “Freckles.” and it includes John Fox, Jr„ Gene Stratton, Hobart Bosworth, Eulalie McKee. Miss Gene Stratton, granddaughter of the author, has the role of the Swamp Angel. Q BAKE-SALE The Mission Circle of the Church of God will hold a bake sale Saturday, August, 25, at Klink’s meat market. Baked goods, chicken and noodles. Bring containers. 15-17 — o -— Ramon Novarro, star of “Ben Hur,” in “Forbidden Hours” at Crystal Ligonier next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Aug- . ust 14, 15 and 16*

THINGS TO i THINK ABOUT Review of Things by the Editor As He Sees Them on the Surface. If We Only Kpow Yes, if we only knew the why and the wherefore of things we would be more charitable to those who say, and do j things which we don’t like or don’t understand. One of the chief reasons why we don’t like .some folks is that we don’t know them, don’t understand why they do thus and their point of view. Have you ever aided in injuring the reputation of anyone by repeating scandalous rurfiors? This is a very serious question, and one that every man and women should ask themselves and not only ask but answer. It is just such little things as these that tend to the development of the good that is in us and oft'mes involves the good name of your town as well. Many men have been maligned because of political hatred by press and pulpit, by men who would be the first tp cry a protest under any other cause. Malicious misrepresentation finder the clock of politics isl just as dirty as any other kifid and leaves its smear and smut on the character and individuality that passes as pure. The strong man who happens to be' in distress does not go about laying bare his troubles, but tries to hide them, and resolutely sets about overcoming them.

It is characteristic of the good and the strong to keep their troubles and sorrows to themselves. While this is -burdensome it nevertheless stimulates and encourages them to get rid of the unwelcome load. Yes, if we only. knew. Is it not well, therefore, not to take snap judgment on those whom we do not quite understand and wait until the facts are fully developed. Gene Tunney, the champion prizefighter, his expenses and income tax paid, has better than four hundred thousand dollars left for his three-quarter-hour’s work: Some very useful men labor a lifetime for much less. How times have changed! Two or three years ago we felt real wicked while watching girls in bloomers play base ball. Now one-piece bathing suits fail to draw a paying audience. This certainly is a speedy age. Autos and airplanes may be fast but they can’t compare with the rapidity acquired by certain prominent people in serving jail sentences.

Many merchants are beginning to take their daughters into their firms as they have been doing with their sons. The pew business heads read John Doe and Daughter. Women have engaged in almost every known occupation and profession, but the latest is girl horse jokeys. In France they are advertised and prove to be a drawing card. There was one place where buggyriding had it on auto-joy riding. If you . had to walk home there wasn't so much territory to cover. A sometimes hurts but he’s doing you good; sometimes your best friend gives you a jolt in the jaw that hurts—but it may be for your best interests. For more than,a century, Canada and the United States have demonstrated that peace can be maintained without considering war as an instrument of policy. In these hot August days a clean man in a clean light suit is a cool man —a delight to himself and to his associates. The average girl now gets a scolding from father for wearing so little and one from mother for working so little. We hear a good deal of talk about “cheap politices” when the fact of the business is all kinds of politics are costly. This Week’s Puzzle Puller Question: Why do they measure the sea in knots? they couldn’t have an ocean “tide” otherwise.

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