The Syracuse Journal, Volume 22, Number 21, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 19 September 1929 — Page 1

by Arthur Brisbane The Warship Question Cheaper Cars Coining? Standard and Shell Diamonds from Sugar

Ramsey McDonald arrives soon to talk over armaments at sea. He probably comes prepared to ratify officially a program already agreed upon substantially He’would not want to return with nothing after Snowden’s triumphant round trip to the Hague. The British, well informed by their separate air department, care little about surface ships for any future war. They know that ships will cut no figure. But they have 70,000 miles of coast tp patrol in their empire. Their cruisers are really floating forts or police stations, boarding houses for marines that can be landed when needed, then moved on to soothe the next troubled spot. If the President would establish a separate air department, appointing a head engineer with others under him, all„controlled by Engineer Hoover, to develop new ideas, Uncle Sam might not spend his life copying Germany, Italy and Britain. And we would not worry about warships. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president of General Motors, told stockholders he bought “a substantial interest” in Opel, great German automobile manufacture of automobiles rather thap supersede it with organization and methods entirely American. This country depends largely on export of manufactured articles, it is, therefore, interesting to hear from Mr. Sloan that in Europe his company in 1928, in dollars and numbers of units, sold more automobiles any European concern manufactured. Mr. Sloan plans for Europeans the kind of ca,r they want at a prce they can afford. Not so rich as we, they do not demand so much luxury. Mr. Sloan, Mr. Ford and others in this country may need to produce here a cheaper car than any now offered. General Wood, head of Sears, Roebuck, plans a car for S2OO. Henry Ford, years ago, showed the writer a small, powerful, engine made for a car to sell at $250. He probably has kept the plans for that product.

Professor Hershey of McPherson college told scientists at Minneapolis that genuine diamonds of superb color can be made by subjecting ordinary table sugar to a pressure of ten tons to the square inch. He has produced such diamonds in his laboratory. In another laboratory, the senate, Mr. Smoot is about to prove that he can produce for friends enough money to buy all the diamonds in South Africa by subjecting ordrinary table sugar to a tariff pressure of two cents or so per pound. Standard and other oil stocks have been going up despite the British invasion by “Shell.” The 24,754,967 shares of Standard Oil of New Jersey are now worth about two billion dollars. That is just one fragment of old Standard Oil, built up by Mr. Rockefeller and chopped into pieces by a rampageous government because it was supposed to be worth “nearly a billion ah together.” What old Standard is really worth now, nobody knows. Including oil in the ground, ten billions, probably would be a reasonable price. Mellon needing $500,000,000 for Uncle Sam’s use, invited subscriptions to treasury certificates. He was offered $1,486,000,000, almost a billion more than needed. He did not pay 9 per cent, or the Federal reserve 6 per cent discount rate, either. Mr. Mellon could have bought the $500,000,000 of certificates himself, and saved on income tax. But he avoids all business connected with government. And besides, he knows how to invest more profitably. In his government Mussolini held eight posts. Now the powerful Italian resigns seven of his cabinet offices, remaining premier and minister of interior only. The king announces the changes by royal decree. Mussolini told him what to announce. The years are passing, Musso(C’on tinned on Last Page)

Syracuse Journal Syracuse’s Slogan: “A Welcoming Town Wit Ha. Beckoning Lake.”

VOLUME XXII.

T.E.SNAVELY DEATH ENDS ILL HEALTH Old Syracuse Resident Is Buried From Home of Son Wednesday Conscious until the last, and uncomplaining, Thomas Edward Snavely, 83, died Sunday afternoon at 5:30 o’clock at the home of hits son and daughter-in-law, Mr .and Mrs. Sam Snavely. Mr. Snavely had been bed-rid-den for the last 18 months, suffering from leakage of the heart. Always active utnil five years ago, when he fell from the roof of his son’s home where he had been fixing the chimney, to the ground, Mr. Snavely was .forced to go about on crutches until he was ordered to bed by his doctor, a year and a half ago. According to his one remaining son, Sam, Mr. Snavely was a tireless worker, never idle. He was a stone mason, whose hobby after working hours was his truck garden. In later years he was a broom maker. Mr. Snavely’s people moved to the Syracuse district from Ohio, in 1849, when the deceased was a youth. He met Mary E. Bockman, whose people lived east of town, and they were married June 15th, 1867, by the Rev. Castetter. The Snavely’s built their home on Huntington street, 56 years ago. Mr. Snavely died in 1900, and their son William died three years ago. The funeral services for Mr. Snavely were held at the home Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock, Rev. Foust officiating. Mr. Snavely was a Mason, and at one time served as town marshall. Besides his son, Mr. Snavely is survived by five sisters, Mrs. Andrew Edmonds, Mrs. A; J. Thibodeaux and Mrs. Warren Eagles, of Syracuse; Mrs. Sarah Houser, of Millersburg, and Mrs. Ella Byers ,of Peabody, Kan.; one brother, Oliver Snavely, of Syracuse.

CONVENTION COMES BY SPECIAL TRAIN One hundred and twenty members of the Chicago Automobile Trade Association, came by special train supplied by the B. & O. Railroad, to hold their annual convention at the Wawasee hotel this year. The party arrived Monday and returned to Chion Wednesday afternoon . They expect to make Lake Wawasee their regular meeting place. Representatives of all large Chicago newspapers accompanied the party, and a special edition of the Daily News was sent by airplane to the hotel Tuesday afternoon for the convention’s enjoyment. Movies were also brought by the ’plane and were shown at the hotel. In addition to the routine business, a tournament, wtih SIOOO in prizes, and a horseshoe tournament, were enjoyed. The prizes were distributed at Tuesday night’s banquet, and every member who attempted to make a speech of acceptance, or of any other kind were fined. The Board of Directors is headed by J. R. Histed, president. Other members are: H. A. Wehmeir, T. J. Hay, M. J: Lenahan, L. Markle, George Hird, W. E. Butler, C. E. Gandill. R. P. Law of Indianapolis, W. A. Wood and Clark Vance of Peoria, 111., were among those who attended the convention. ■ o MARRIED FOUR MONTHS WIFE SEEKS DIVORCE Charging cruel and inhuman treatment, Mrs. Mary Ellen Corwin has brought suit for divorce from her husband, Mervin N. Corwin. The couple were married last May, 25. In her petition, Mrs. Corwin claims that her husband had told Grangers he intended to “skip out”, and that one night while she was at her parents’ home, Mr. and Mrs. David Hoover, Mr. Corwin removed his clothes, the radio and typewriter from their home. She says he lounged around pool rooms, but had ordered her to stay at home nights.

Do You ; , Remember--- _ J I Twenty Years Ago This Week When the Syracuse schools j opened with 54 enrolled in high | school. — Fifteen Years Ago Five Syracuse young men and six girls friends surprised in the melon patch of Sylvester Unrue north of town, were ordered not to run but Jgive their names on penalty of being filled with buck shot. ———• Ten Years Ago Richard Miller, five year old son of Sol Miller, had a broken collar bone as result of being knocked down by an automobile. Five Years Ago C. C. Bachman’s stolen Ford car was returned to him from Fairfield, Pa., intact, except for the spare tire which was taken. o Buchholz Says He Refuses to “Be the Goat" Because he refused “to.be the goat” any longer, and for “the edification of the editor,” who had asked two weeks ago why the receipts and disbursements for the year ending June 30th were not available so that the coming year’s budget could be made out complete the first week of September, H. W. Buchholz stated his position before what would have been the board of trustees meeting Tuesday night, if President Seider and Mr. Hoopingarner had been in attendance. Concluding his talk in which he said he took care of $40,000 worth of business a year for 20 cents a day, Treasurer Buchholz said that the reason the books hadn’t been in shape for the making out of the disbursements and receipts, was because Attorney Zanders hadn’t notified him in time. He also stated that the information could have been obtained from the town clerk, Crowe, if he had done his duty in the manner prescribed by law. Accused thus, Mr. Crowe agreed, and stated at the meeting that he knew he was not doing many things required of him by law, but that the State Board of Accounts was not checking him up, and that next year when they would be, he did not care to have the job, except at a much larger salary. Mr. Buchholz went on to say that that fellow —meaning the j new editor of the Journal—had been in town but 15 minutes before he started razzing public officials about something he knew nothing about, the editor giving as his excuse that the law states that the budgets for the (Continued on Last Page)

Interesting Personal Paragraphs About Home People

Mr. and Mrs. Gawthrop, of Milford, visited the C. D. Thompson home Sunday morning, and Mr. and Mrs. Benton Dubbs called Sunday afternopn.. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hammond were in town last week visiting the Harve Cory’s. Mrs. Hammond is Mrs. Cory’s aunt, and their hoffie is in Kendallville. Mr. and Mrs. Cassius Gordy attended the funeral of Mrs. Frank Gordy, in Goshen, Monday. The deceased was formerly a resident of Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Hoffmon came from Goshen Sunday, to visit Mrs. Hoffman’s father, Sam Smith, who has been ill for some time. Mr .and Mrs. Jesse M. Slates, of Bergholz, O„ who has been visiting Rev. A. H. Arbaygh, and family, left Tuesday morning for Kirkman, lowa. Nelson iMles motored to Chicago, Wednesday on business. Miss Donna Miles mde the trip with him and will visit friends there before returning home. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Unrue, of this city, Mr. and A|rs. Adam Kimes, of South Bend, and Mr.Arthur Blizard and son of North Carolina, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Tillman Hire. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Disher, who drove Leon Connolly to Bloomington, to re-enter the University, last week end, spent Sunday travelling near Bloomington.

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BABY GIRL OF MARK RIGGS’ IS DROWNED Yisit From Ft. Wayne To Margaret’s (1 reat-grandparents Here Ends in Tragedy A week end visit to her greatgrandparents ended tragically Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, when Margaret Bernice, aged 2 and one half years, daughter of Mr .and Mrs. Mark Riggs, Fort Wayne, drowned in Syracuse Lake. Margaret had been playing with the other children on the pier'at J. D. Lind’s boat landing, which is near the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Dawson. The child evidently fell into the water, because her four and one half years old brother Jimmie, ran to call his mother and father. When the child’s father reached her, her body was floating in about four eet of Water. Doctors were immediately called, but Margaret was beyond aid. The coroner’s deputy, called from Warsaw, pronounced the death accidental by drowning, Mr. and Mrs. William Riggs; grandparents, were sent for, and they came from Ft. Wayne, Sunday afternoon. The child's body was taken there Monday. Burial was made in LaPalle, Tuesday. The child’s other grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. 0. B. Wooluns, are in St. Petersburg, Fla. The Sunday drowning' comes as the first this season, and towards its close. — 0 GIRL BREAKS ARM IN RECESS PLAY Marjorie Sapen, eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Sapen, broke her arm when she fell from the swing at which several youngsters were playing, Friday morning, at recess time at school. Marjorie is in the third grade. When she recovered consciousness after her fall, she was taken home and the doctor called. She was taken to the Goshen hospital in L. Held’s car, to have an x-ray picture taken of her broken bone. It had been feared at first that not only the upper arm, but the collar bone had been broken during the fall, and that hn anesthetic would be necessary for the child so that the bones could be set. But Marjorie was so interested in the x-ray picture which made her arm look, she said, “just like a broken chicken , bone,” that the broken ends were snapped in(Continued on Last Page)

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Myers and little daughter Doris, pf; Nappanee spent Sunday with’ Mrs. Myers parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Clayton, south of Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Meek-and son Edwin left last Friday by auto for Pennsylvania to visit with friends. They expect to return the latter part of this week. A meeting of old friends occurred when Mrs. A. C. Ketring entertained Robert Brabrack and wife of Pierceton, Frank Brennan ind wife of Warsaw, and Newton Calbeck and wife, last week end. Mr .and Mrs. Fred B. Self and Mr. and Mrs. Rchards of Rich: ville, have returned from a ten: day motor topr pf Ontario, Can,, going byway of Niagara and rp= turning by Nprth Bpy, The Womna’s Missionary Asosciation of the United Brethren Zion Chapel, are meeting today for a pot luck dinner, and to spend the day quilting and sewing. The Pythian Sisters lodge will meet for the first time since the summer vacation. Friday evening at the hall. AH members are urged to be present as this is the last meeting before grand lodge, The Ed Kelly’s, who formerly lived here, and stored their furniture when they went to Florida several years ago, had it moved to Elkhart for them, this

First Banker of Syracuse Dies |

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KLINE VACATION ENDS IN WRECK Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Kline, who left Spnday on a week’s vacation returned home last Tuesday night, by train, Mr. Kline with a strained neck, Mrs. with a strained hip, their car ieft bedhind as junk and.their baggage expressed home. There was an accident. One mile north of South Milwaukee, on rainy Monday afternoon, at 2 o’clock, the car of Steven Motil, of Cudahay, Wise., crashed into the ear of the Klines turning it about in the road and facing it the other direction. The seriff and highway traffic cop arrived almost immediately and Mrs. Kline was rushed tp . the emergency hospital, where she was released suffering only a strained hip. What remained of the car wasn’t worth repairing and was junked. DR. HOYS’* RETURN Dr .and Mrs. C. R. Hoy returned Saturday, from their two weeks motor trip through the northern/part of Michigan.

week, where they will make their future home. Mrs. Maude Law and daiSfchter Helen of Bowerston, 0., who have been visiting their brother and uncle, Rev. A. H. Arbaugh for a week, have returned to Carthage, 111., where iss Helen is a student in Carthage College. Harry E. Mann left Sunday Morning soy Britton, Oklahoma, for a visit at the Paul Garriotte home. His wife and little son Jack, who have spent the past two months visiting her father, Mr. Gariotte at Britton, will return home with him. The Loyal Temperanpp Legion will have its regular meeting in the Library basement, Saturday afternoon, Sept. 21st, at 2:30 o’clock- Officers are tp be elected, and graduating exercises for those who are to receive diplomas. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Kline, left Sunday for a week’s vacation in Crandon, Wise. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Shultz, their daughter and son-in-law, were here with the Klines Saturday and returned to Gary with them Sunday. The Klines’ were going on from Gary to Crandon, Monday, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Wright have returned from their week’s motor trip to Kentucky. They visited Mammoth Cave, Onyx Cave and Crystal Cave, and saw where Floyd Collins was trapped and where he has since been buried. They enjoyed the un-

Snavely Petition to Extend Vk ater Given to Board

Insisting that many old residents of Syracuse have lived here and paid water tax for 30 years, and still do not have city water, Harry Clemens defended the petition for water submitted by A. Snavely at what would have been the regular meeting of. the town board, Tuesday, if President Seider and Mr. Hoopingarner had been able to attend. Mr. Clemens stated that a little over 300 customers are served by “city” water. He went on to say that there is too much money set aside for street funds, in the apprpriations for the year, and not enough for watef, He stated that the S6O a year on each of 33 fire hydrants, which is interest on money borrowed, eats up the water fund so that there, is none on hand for the extension of the water main§ x Mp, Snavely stated that he lives within two blocks of a stand pipe, and can get no water. Another objection placed by Mr. Clemens, is that the cemetery lots are being sold for $lO, with S2O for perpetual upkeep.

usual experience of riding in a boat on the subterranean river 360 feet underground, in Onyx cave. Shermar\ Juda#, who lives northeast of town, has been ill •since last Friday v He was able t«< be out the first of the week, but not to return to work. His illness follows a run of hard luck, this season. Mr. Judaj r had one cow to die last spring, and another a week ago. Mrs. S. P. Byers, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. A. E. Edmonds, returned to Peabody, Kansas, Sunday. Mrs. Byers left Sunday morning and it was impossible to reach her by wire in Chicago Sunday evening with the news of the death of her brother, T. E. Snavely. Mr. Baldimaro Roig, a Porto Rican, arrived in Syracuse, direct from Catano, Porto Rico. He visited Rev. and Mrs. Arbaugh, and brought to them greetings from their son, Rev. W. G. Arbaugh, of San Juan, Porto Rico. Mr. Roig has gone to Carthage, 111., where he plans to attend college. Rev. Wyatt, Mrs. Wyatt, and Mrs. Rosie Bartholomew, visited the county infirmary Sunday afternoon, and found the six patients there from Syracuse, well cared for and cheerful. Before the guests left, they held prayer service, which pleased those who remembered the hymns of their early youth.

S.L KETRING FUNERAL TO . BE FRIDAY Death of Noted Resident And Business Man Follows > « Six Day Illness With four of his five daughters with him until the end, Silas L. Ketring, aged 84 years, 6 months and three days died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Sol Miller, Tuesday evening at 5:40 o’clock. Mr. Ketring was taken ill last Thursday and his daughters were sent for. His death resulted, from hypo-static pneumonia. Funeral services will be held at the Miller residence, Friday, morning at 10:30 o’clock. Rev. Armstrong and Rev. Cremean of LaGrange, will officiate. Silas Ketring came with . his parents, Adam and Rebecca Ketring, from Stark Co., Ohio, to this township in 1854. Their old home is now known as the John Alexander place. Mr. Ketring went into business with his father, and then operated a store alone for 40 years. He organized the first bank in Syracuse in July, 1899. After his private bank became a state organization, April 1908, Mr. Ketring was president until his retirement in 1917. Silas Ketring and Mary E. Warner, of North Webster were married by Rev. Cooper in Leesburg, May 4, 1873. Os this union five daughters survive, Georgiana Miller, of Syracuse, Blanche Schmerda, of Saltville, Va., Jessie Morgan of Chesterton, Aida Miller of .North Manchester, and Earle Roberts of Oakland, Calif. Mrs. Roberts was not able to be ■with her father at the time of his death. o 62 DESCENDANTS ATTEND RE UNION Sixty-two descendants attended the Miles re-union, held at Camp Mack, Lake Wabee, Sunday. the telling the family history it was bfought out, that Enos Miles, father of Evan Miles, who brought his family to Syracuse, was the head of a family of 26 children. The 10 children of Enos Miles, by his first wife, who died, remained in Ohio, where the family founder lived. Enos married the widow Rentfrow, who had 10 children by her first marriage. This couple in turn had six children, Preston, Evan, Elhanan, Cynthia, Lavina, and Enos. In 1852, Evan Miles came in a covered wagon to Indiana, and settled near Syracuse. His Children who attended Sunday’s re-union are: Mrs. Jane Bachman, Ellen Holloway, Katherine Kindig of this city, and Alice Felkner and Douglas Miles of Milford. In addition to the enjoyment of the family re-union, the guests said that it was surprising no appaplexy or acute indigestion was experienced from the quantities of food eaten Sunday. o LOCAL FARM BUREAU MEETING IS HELD The Turkey Creek Township organization of the Indiana Farm Bureau held its regular monthly meeting Tuesday night, in the High School buliding. During the business session, it was brought out that one car of live stock had been shipped from this section, since the organization has agreed on co-op-erative selling. President Sherman Deaton left the meeting open for the discussion of the fact that a creamery not decided upon as the co-opera-tive purchaser of the tion, has approached individuals, asking for their product, but not as a group. During the social hour, Irene and Pauline Shock entertained with a duet, and Rev. Nicodemus, accompanied by Mrs. Zella Leacock, at the piano, sang a solo-. Refreshments wefe Served.

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