The Syracuse Journal, Volume 22, Number 1, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 2 May 1929 — Page 1

VOLUME XXII.

EVANGELICAL CONFERENCE * J — Seventy-Seventh Session Held In Fort Wayne This Week The seventy-seventh session of the Indiana Annual Conference is being held in Fort Wayne this week at the First Evangelical church. Bishop John S. Stamm, D. D., of Kansas City, Mo. t will preside. On Wednesday forenoon, Rev. E. Garfield Johnson, pastor of the church, will have charge of the Conference Missionary Society of which he is also president. The conference proper will open on Wednesday afternoon with Bishop Stamm presiding. A sacred cantata entitled, “Bethanyj’ will be presented by the choir of the First Evangelical church on Wednesday evening. Thursday afternoon and evening, addresses will be given by Dr. Merton F. Rice, pastor of the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal church of Detroit on “Modern Methods in Evangelism.” Friday afternoon, an address will be given by Bishop W. M. Bell, o. D., of the United Brethren church. On Friday evening Dr. Gustave B. Kimmell, president of the Evangelical Theological Seminary at Naperville, 111., will speak on “The TendenPreaching Difficult.” Saturday routine conference business will be conducte, and a sight-seeing trip of Fort Wayne in the afternoon, through the courtesy of the Ft. Wayne Chamber of Commerce. On Sunday, services will be held in the auditorium of the North Side High School. The Ordination Sermon will be given both morning and afternoon by Bishop .John S. Stamm, assisted by the district superintendents. At three o’clock the Missionary Sermon will be given by Dr. E. W. Praetorious, general secretary of the Board of Religious Education, of Cleveland, Ohio. The closing address of the conference will be given on Sunday evening by Bishop John s . Stamm, at the First Evangelical church.

LIBRARY NOTES More new books— Drake —The New Morality— Some chapter headings—Supernatural morality, moral skepticism, natural morality, self indulgence and luxury, lawlessness and crime, intoxication and bootlegging, irresponsible parenthood, etc. - Webster —The Ciock Strikes Two —an old man, a clock, thrills. Young—Vicar’s Daughter—the title should be enough to insure many readers. The new pamphlets are now on file at the library—brief history of cattle breeding in Alaska, a high-pressure gas compression system, combination cleaning and treating of seed wheat, agricultural outlook for 1929, rural church and co-operative extension work. The reading club members rate as follows, (figures designate number of books read so far); v Agnes Fleming, 1; Edna Fleming, 1; Gertrude Fleming, 2; Joan Riddle, 1; Virginia Riddle, 3; Baja Rowdabaugh, 3; Ruth Rowdabaugh, 3; Margaret Smith, 4; Betty White, 1; Elsie Nicodemus, 2. A Mother Talks “Let blithe hearts dance the night away, But as for me,” she said, “At home I much prefer to stay, Nearer my'baby’s bed. “Let some on pleasure feast their eyes If they are free from fear, But if for me my baby cries, I must be waiting near. “ Tis strange, but when I’m far away A mild distraught, have I, I scarce hear what the others say, Thinking I hear him cry. “ ’Tis better pleasure to deny And better not to roam Than venture forth to sit and sigh And wish to be at home. ‘Tor though the pleasure may be gay And merry be the song, The hour that mothers stay sway Are anxious ones, and long! o Job printing—that’s our business.

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FIRE MARSHAL ISSUES WARNING The State Fire Marshal Department issues the following warning relative to spring cleaning: Spring is a time of fire danger. Care must be taken to avoid unnecessary risks at this time. Paints, varnishes and paint remover should be used only in open rooms. They must never be exposed to flame, as they are highly explosive. / All oiled, waxed or paint stained rags should be burned in the furnace or stove immediately after being used. - They are highly combustible and very prone to spontaneous ignition. All papers, magazines and all other accumulations should be removed from basements, attics, and closets. Papers should not be burned outdoors, as they blow easily and can thus easily create a serious fire hazard. No rubbish fire should be left unattended. Many women, impelled by motives of economy, do a great deal of dry cleaning at this time of year. This Department does not encourage such work, as it is very dangerous. In all dry-clean-ing, only non-inflammable cleaning fluids should be used. If the home or other buildings are to be re-roofed, this year, it would be a highly profitable thing for the owner to consider the advantage of fire resistive fire-proof and fire proofed materials. They will lessen the outside fire danger and will materially assist in reducing the insurance rates. OBITUARY

In the year 1855, January 28, there was born in Kosciusko county, near Syracuse, a daughter to David and Harriet Stuart. This daughter, the first of a family of eight children, was christened Rebecca Ann. As a child, she showed a marked tendency toward education and although at that time it was considered unnecessary for a girl to obtain more than a moderate education, she patiently and perseveringly over-rode obstacles and by dint of hard labor and much sacrifice, she finished the common school and a few normal terms and managed to secure some training at Valparaiso College. Thus equipped, she began the realization of a cherished ambition, that of a teacher, and for nine years she taught in the public schools, proving herself and able, efficient and sympathetic teacher .urging her scholars to allow no obstacle tojstand ip the way of obtaining a practical education. About the year 1883, she was married to John Dewart, and from then on, until the time of her death, her world pivoted largely around one central axis, her home. Into this home there came five children, three boys and twin daughters, and the mother spent long, anxious, self-sacrificing days and years caring for and nourishing those whom God had given her, for money and means were not over-abundant in those early days, but her cheerful disposition and her apt ability to cope with life’s problems, together with her splendid management of material things, carried her family over what might have otherwise proven discouraging barriers. Along with her other traits, she possessed an abiding faith and a supreme belief in her maker and in early life, both she and her husband became members of the United Brethren church in their home community and for years she served as a teacher in the Sunday school, thereby enriching the spiritual life of the community and keeping her own soul fed on the Bread of Life. She was possessed of a remarkable physical endurance, never, having experienced sickness requiring a doctor’s care except once, and also a wonderful mentality, her mind being a veritable storehouse of facts and events acquired during years of experience, and much reading, for reading furnished one of her chief sources of pleasure and profit, up to the day of her death. On Easter Sunday while entertaining her children, she was suddenly stricken with paralysis and survived only two weeks, her death occurring on April 16, 1929, at the age of 74 years, 2 months and 19 days. Her husband preceded her in death 3 years and five months. In this dark hour, her children realize, as many another has done, that the major music of their lives was sent to them by

GAR AND ••DOG FISH To Be Removed From Lake Wawasee and Syracuse Lake Quite a large number of local sportsmen were present at the meeting in the Libray basement Tuesday night, and heard Mr. George Berg of the Department of Conservation, on the question of removing gar and dog fish from the Indiana lakes. This work has been carried on under state supervision and by men employed by the department of conservation for that purpose, for the past three or four years, and is meeting with satisfactory results. Mr. Berg reported that waters that had been worked in previous years are to be gone over again thru the efforts and petitions of sportsmen and others interested in these waters. During his talk, Mr. Berg also stated that last year over 400 gar fish and over 200 dog fish were removed from Maxinkuckee Lake. One of the gar fish weighed well over thirty pounds and when cut open, it was found that he had just feasted on about five or six pounds of small fish, one of which was a pound bass. The fact that Wawasee and Syracuse lakes are full of these two species of scavenger fish is no secret, and was so stated by more than one of the local fishermen present. However, there is no way to check up on the damage they do to game fish in these waters. Should that be possible, the figure would be sur- ( prising, and would disclose the • reason for so many fishless fish- ' ing trips, every fisherman experiences.

At the meeting it was unanimously agreed to have the state place a crew of men on these two lakes this season and rid the waters of at least a part of them. The preliminary work to that end, is being taken care of at present by* local men, and it is hoped that enough enthusiasm can be aroused to enable this work to be continued on these two lakes for the entire season, and each following season. The only support that the conservation department asks from the local people is to furnish housing quarters for the men placed here to do the work. Their salary and other expenses is taken care of by the state. We have at our front door, the largest lake in the state, and according to Mr. Berg, a body of water large enough to justify the services of a crew of men from early spring until late in" the fishing season, and if this work is consistently carried on, will improve fishing conditions 100 per cent within a very few years. Due to later information, we are pleased to inform our readers that the work of removal of gar and dog fish has been favorably accepted by enough people interested in our local lakes, to enable this work to be done, - Two men from the department of conservation arrived in our city yesterday, Wednesday, and the work of seining and otherwise removing these fish, is beginning today and will continue for an indefinite time. _—o— BAKE SALE The Lutheran Lftdlef Aid Committee No. 3, Saturday, May 4, at 10 o'clock, at Klink’s Meat Market. Menu: pie, cakes, cookies, doughnuts, potatoe sal ad, meat loaf, chicken, noodles. Please bring containers. 53-ltp God through their mother, and that from now on, the faint and far-away strains of that music must be rekindled and upbuilt by their mother’s memory and by their efforts to emulate her in her good deeds, forgetting her mistakes. She leaves to mourn her passing, three sons, Lester at home, Lawrence and Lloyd of Milford, and two daughters, Mrs. Harry Strieby of Elgin, Illinois, and Mrs. Bertram Whitehead near Syracuse, four grandchildren, three brothers, Lincoln, Clarence and Clinton Stuart, and one sister, Mrs. Eilmer Brown of Goshen. Three brothers and one grandchild preceded her in death. Card of Thanks We wish to thank our neighbors and friends for their sympathy and assistance during the illness and death of our mother, Mrs. Rebecca Dewart. TheTamily.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY. MAY 2, 1929.

MANY LOCAL STUDENTS Zs , i Kosciusko county, on the 109th anniversary of the founding of ■ Indiana University, will be represented at the institution by 41 students, according to the registrar’s list announced here today. They will join with 30,000 I. U. alumni and former students throughout the Hoosier state and in many parts of the world in observing Founder’s Day, the first week in May. Local programs were held May 1 at the university, in many county seats of Indiana, and in the larger cities of the nation, including Detroit, New York, Denver, Cincinnati, Louisville, Pittsburgh, St. Paul, Duluth and Indianapolis. Students enrolled in the university on the 109th birthday include the following from Kosciusko county: Syracuse: Charles C. Bachman, Lelia R. Connolly, Robert L. Connolly, Prentice Kindig, Elvin S. Miller, Virginia M. Pierce, Robert H. Riddle, Meredith E. Tom, Paul G. Wyatt. Claypool: Robert D. Blue. W. I. Caldwell, Marshall B. Tucker. Etna Green: Nellio.F. Mikel, Wayne H. Stackhouse. Leesburg! 1 : Betty Ferm ie r, James R. Rohrer. ' Mentone: Ira D. Anderson, Wendell C. Anderson, Don A. Bunner, Jennings D. Carter, Frances B. Clark, Leslie A. Laird, Charles L. Manwaring, Miles L. Manwaring, Rosalind B. Mentzer. Pierceton: Laurence G. Dill, Agnes B. Hass, Nan F. Matchett. Warsaw: John L. Boggs, Dorothy B. Brubaker, Kenneth F. Coyle, Lucile M. Coyle, Richard Ferguson, Frances C. Foote, Elson B. Helwig, Mary O. Rippey, Mildred C. Thomas, Helen L. Van Curen, Christine Widaman, JMary Marguerite Wood, Esta L. Yocum. POST OFFICE TO MOVE To Larger More Modern , Quarters"} tie Near Future

The rumor that the post office is to be removed from its present quarters is a reality now, a contract having been let by the government for the west room of Kettring building, now owned by Ralph Thprnburg and Occupied by the Thornburg Drug Co. The contract covers a period of ten years. # The interior of the romm is to be remodeled and new and up-to-date post office equipment and fixtures is to be installed just as soon as shipment can be made by the manufacturers of these fixtures. A rear driveway is to be built to accomodate the rural route mail carriers and the necessary equipment for their use is to be installed which will add to the service that these men are giving their patrons. The business now conducted by the Thornburg Drug Co. in this room is to be removed to an addition to be built on the east side of their present quarters. However, the room for the post office will be ready for use by the first of June. — 0 — JUNIOR ROUND TABLE The Junior Ladies of the Round Table enjoyed a pot luck supper at the home of Mrs. Byron Connolly last Thursday evening. The occasion was a surprise to the hostess, the members presenting her with many dainty gifts, After the supper the girls played bridge and hearts. The next meeting will be held Thursday evening at the home of Miss Phyllis Mock0 , ~ L A. SEA R FOSS ASKS DIVORCE Justice A. Searfoss filed suit in the circuit court for divorce from Clara I. Searfoss. The couple were married April 10, 1916 and separated April 18, 1929. _o LADIES AID MEETS The Ladies Aid of the Methodist church met at the hotne of Mrs. J. H. JSowser Wednesday evening. A reception was also held for Mrs. Armstrong. 0 BUCHHOLZ CLAIM HEARD The case of H. W. Buchholz against Josie Snavely, executrix, in which a balance of $281.25 is asked, (s now on trial before a jury in the circuit court.

COUNTY MEETING • Os Knights of Pythias Was Held On Last Thursday Eveuin g An enthusiastic meeting of the representatives of all Knights of Pythias lodges of Kosciusko county was held at the Castle Hall of the local lodge last Thursday night. The meeting was one of the many county meetings to be held in the near future and was enjoyed by all the members present. Lodge was opened in the usual form with the exception of the early hour which had been arranged at 6:30 in order to take care of the program which had been prepared. The regular business meeting was held at this time after which two candidates, Milo Miller and Henry Godshalk, received the initiatory work in the rank of Knight. At eight o’clock the members retired to the reception room and enjoyed a banquet which had been prepared by the Pythian Sisters, after which lodge was again opened in an informal manner at which time the program and entertainment took place. County Deputy Hartman, of Warsaw, took charge of this part of the meeting and called on various speakers for impromptu speeches. District Deputy Grand Chancellor, Herschel Lehman, also of Warsaw, delivered the address of the evening which was very instructive and enjoyed by all. After the informal meeting, Ross Franklin, assisted by Wm. C. Marshall, a member of the Ross Franklin orchestra, entertained with a number of musical and vocal selections which were 1 very much appreciated by visiting brothers as well as the local ' members. Visiting members to the number of thirty=seven were present representing most of the lodges 1 in the county as well as a few out of the county ledges, and forty-one members of'Kosciusko Lodge No. 230, were in attendance.

MRS. ADA GRIMES PASSES AWAY Mrs. Ada Grimes, aged 39, passed away at 2 o’clock Tuesday morning, at the home of her brother-in-law, Joe Grimes, in. South Bend, Mrs. Grimes, accompanied by her husband, and two sons,, and Mrs. Dale Grimes and son Robert, had gone to South Bend to spend the day in the home of her brother-in-law, Joe Grimes. About noon, Mrs. Grimes became stricken with a severe pain in her head. She became unconscious and remained so until the end. She is survived by her husband Earl Grimes and two sons, Paul and Walter, one sister and three brothers, several nieces and nephews and a host of friends who mourn their loss. Funeral services were held on Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock, at the Evangelical church, in Syracuse. Burial at Albion. .—Q CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. ,H. M. Hire were very pleasantly surprised, the event being the seventeenth wedding Anniversary. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Millard Hire, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Howard, Mrs. Roy Darr, Mrs. Minerva Eagles and Mr .and Mrs. William G. Connolly and son James. o CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank the friends and neighbors for their kind assistance and expressions of sympathy during the illness and death of my beloved wife. Also wish to express my appreciation for the beautiful floral offerings. N. P. Altland. — o CHURCH REDECORATED The interior of the M. E. church has been completely redecorated and presents a very pleasing appearance. Much credit is due the Ladies Aid for making the redecorating possible. Rev. and Mrs. Arthur J. Armstrong, son and daughter, who were transferred here recently from Fortville, are nicely settled in the parsonage. Last Sunday was his second Sunday to conduct services here. - o Be sure to hand in your news items each week.

MEDICAL SOCIETY TO ATTEND CLINIC

Members of Kosciusko County medical society were invited to attend a clinic to be conducted today, at Indianapolis, by Dr. Arthur Steindler, professor of orthopedic surgery of the University of lowa. The clinic will be held at4he Indiana University medical school and is under the auspices of the university and the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association. The clinic s the fourth of a series which has brought before Indiana physicians some of the leading medical authorities of the country. In his announcement of the clinic. Dr. E. T. Thompson, ad- j ministrator of the Indiana Uni-] versity school of medicine and I hospitals, points out that Dr. Steindler is a graduate of the University of Vienna and not&l as one of the outstanding orthopedic surgeons in the country. Dr. Thompson announces a diagnostic clinic in the amphitehater as the medical school at 2 p. m. and another address at 4 p. m. m the subject of “Paralyzed Upoer Extremity.” At Bp. m., Dr. Steindler will speak on the subject, “ Posture and Health.” The evening address will be of semi-scientific nature and will be open to the public. Both addresses will be illustrated with motion pictures. Circuit court judges have been invited to attend the clinic, in view of the fact that commitments to the James Whitcomb Riley hospital for children, one of the university’s hospitals at Indianapolis, are made under the law by the circuit court judges.

LAID TO REST SATURDAY AFTERNOON Mrs. Pearson, who died suddenly last Wednesday evening, was laid to rest in the Syracuse cemetery last Saturday afternoon. A large number of out of town relatives and friends attended the services, which were conducted by Rev. Foust. Obituray Viola Sackman, daughter o f Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Young Sackman, was born at Ridgeville, Ind., March 18, 1866, and departed this life at Syracuse, Ind., April 24, 1929, at the age of 63 years, 1 month and 6 days. On June 14, 1894, she was united in holy matrimony to Elwood Pearson, and to this union were born four children, Mrs. Eva Brickel of Elkhart, Indiana, Elvah Deo of Mishawaka, Ind., Mrs. Edna Shock of South Bend, and Mr. Oliver Pearson of Elkhart, Ind. She leaves to mourn their loss, the husband, four children, four grandchildren and a host of relatives and friends. She was a member of the Presbyterian church at Wabash, Inc(. Card of Thanks We wish to thank our. friends and neighbors for their kind assistance and sympathy, and for the beautiful floral offerings. Elwood Pearson and family. o W. A. CLUB Mrs. O. C. Stoelting entertained the members of the Wednesday Afternoon Club, at her home on Wednesday afternoon, May J.

Seventeen members responded to roll call. The club collect was read by Mrs. Mabel Bowser. “Lead Kindy Light” was sung by the club. A paper, “Great Men of Christendom,” written by Mrs. Laura Bowld, and an article, “Cathedrals of the Old and New World” was read by Mrs. Georgia Miller. Mrs. Marguerite Boyd then gave a very interesting book review, “The Man Nobody Knows” by Bartori. The meeting closed with the song, “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.” May 15 will be the last club meeting for the year. o NOTICE TO TOWN VOTERS Under the interpretation of the Primary Election Law by the State Board of Election Commissioners for 1929, town officials are to be nominated at a convention and not by Primary. Therefore, please take notice, there will be no primary election held on Tuesday, May 7, 1929. 1-lt Town Board of Syracuse. “It costs a lot to be President,” writes Mr. f Coolidge. On the other hand, there’s a Democratic deficit to say that it costs a lot not to be President, too.—Philadelphia Record.

THINGS TO THINKABOUT | Review of Tilings by the Editor As He Sees Them on the Surface. The Grouch It is not easy to believe here in Syracuse that much of our happiness in life is self-inflicted, yet a careful study of conditions as they exist today force us to such a conclusion. It may be our present manner of living or it may be some phase of dissatisI faction innate in the human i heart, and which has developed gradually from generation to generation; or it may even be pure contrariness of spirit, which accounts for our discontent, but whatever the cause we cannot help knowing that as a whole the human race is not as happy or as light hearted as it might be. So many persons go through life with a chip on their shoulders, so have a grouch of their own creation, either against a fellow being or condition which does not please them, and rather than take the trouble, or be fair, and impartial enough to prove their e contentions groundless, they prefer to fan their smoulderong discontent into a blaze which sometimes consumes their reason and makes them incapable of acting with common sense. Fortunately, such cases are more the exception than the rule in Syracuse, yet, at the same time, there are many other persons, who, while not going to such extremes in the blindness of their personal antipathies, are still unfair enough to nurse their grouches at the expense of others as well as themselves.

In this latter class which also wields so unpleasant an influence in all conditions of life—in the home, where perhaps its blight is the greatest; in the sacred circles of friendship; in business relations and in all forms of social intercourse. The young men whose pockets are filled with cigarettes, mustache combs, finger nail cleaners, miniature curling irons, looking glasses, etc., and have their mothers crease their trousers every day—are not the ones who will make promising husbands by a long shot. The pockets of those who are helping to make the country bloom and causing two blades of grass to grow where God planted but one, will be found filled barbed wire staples, and different sizes of nails and screws. They are the boys girls should look to. This Week’s Puzzle Puller Question: Why is love and bologna so much alike? Answer: Because of the mys-‘ teries both conceal. The season for the annual crop of daylight saving regulations is at hand. Most people who favor daylight saving, waste it anyhow. If the present matrimonial tendency keeps up it won’t be long until each marriage license issued will contain a blank divorce application attached, just like one of those reply post cards. Men who get married always drop out of the limelight. For instance, what has become of Gene Tunney? * 1 We don’t know of anything harder for a minister to compete with on a bright Sunday morning than a pink and white baby gurgling and cooing in the back, pew. Who remembers the good old days when the dapper bartender with the waxed black mustache, the red necktie and the horseshde pin was regarded as the last word in masculine splendor? It is reported that fewer boH weevils survived the winter in the South than for many years. Maybe they were killed by the Al Smith freeze down there last November. Michigan has repealed its law by which a bootlegger can be given a life sentence for a pint of hootch. But the purchaser of said hootch may still get a death sentence by drinking it. Things are getting a little better for father in some ways. For instance, they used to blame him for spilling the ashes on the parlor rug and now they can’t prove whether he or mother did it.

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