The Syracuse Journal, Volume 22, Number 24, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 10 October 1929 — Page 1

JittSfUiiK V Arthur Brisbane Britain’s Real Ruler Old Fashioned Daughter Drugs in That Prison? A Prosperous Country

Ramsey McDonald, elected as head of the British Emipre by the Labor party, is here, the first British Prime Minister t< visit the United States while in office. The Prime Mnister is the mos' powerful man in, England. The King, addressing his lords am commoners, says exactly whai the Prime Minister tells him t< say. Miss Ishbel MacDonald, here with her father, will seem hopelessly old-fashioned to many o. our rising female generation. She does not smoke or drink alcoholic liquors and does not paint and-powder her face. And most old fashioned of all, she does look after her father, and take serious interest in public affairs. If you see Ramsey MacDonald, Labor Prime Minister of Great Britain, you may also see Miss Rosie Rosenberg, vivacious, able young woman, the Prime Minister's private secretary. Miss Rosenberg joined the Socialist party in London eleven years ago and has been MacDonald’s secretary nine years. *■- ' . - Observe the difference between “democratic America” and “conservative Great Britain.” Here, if you join the Socialist party, and talk “that way” you stand a fair chance of being locked up. In Britain you may become secretary to the Prime Minister. The tragic rebellion of convicts in the Colorado state prison ended with 150 convicts walking out, hands raised above their heads in surrender. Four leaders of the rebellion had killed themselves. The convicts, at intervals, had thrown out of an upper window the bodies of guards captured and murdered by them, the warden having on each occasion refused to let them go free. Once a prison inmate was a poor and miserable creature with poor and miserable friends, if any. some woman, sad faced, might come to see the man in jail, bringing her child to see him, through the bars, giving him perhaps, a few cents’ worth of tobacco. That is all changed in these bootleg days. Convicts have outside the prison walls, gangster friends that control money unlimited. Convicts can afford to buy privileges, including drugs, even at the high prices charged in prison traffic. That drugs played a part in the Colorado outbreak, with its reckless disregard for death and its suicide seems probable. Guards will learn from the Colorado tragedy to watch their prisoners carefully, and to watch with especial care any guard or other person engaged in the prison drug trade. Uncle Sam continues to prosper in spite of the increasing expenses. In three months ending September 30, he collected more than one billion dollars, and $128,959,834 more than he collected in the' same three months a year ago. Its a big, rich, country with one single city spending in a year as much as the United States used to spend before the war. Bootleg whiskey, “home brew” and automobile accidents are related. Drunken drivers kill many. Everybody knew that. Now Dr. Norris, chief medical examiner of New York City says that “drunken walkers” cause accidents for which the automobile industry is blamed. Dr. Norris urges that reckless walkers be fined and adds that, “Twenty five per cent of adults hurt by automobiles are intoxicated." Herman Linderman, New York gangster, strangled himself with his belt in prison. He had “squealed” on his associates, had been stabbed once in prison, and feared what would happen when he reached the penitentiary again.

He put $8.50 in the pocket of a criminal asleep in his cell with a note asking that it be divided with a friend. He wrote to that friend, “Have a good feast on (Continued <m Last Page.)

f ’ r acttse Journal ' fuse’s Slogans “A Welcoming Town WitK a Beckoning LaKe.”

VOLUME XXII.

NOMINATIONS ARE MADE BY REPUBLICANS Searfoss, Clemens, Strieby, Rapp, Miller, to be Voted On For Town Offices in Nov. James M. Searfoss was nomilated trustee of the first ward, larry Clemens of the second, did Robert Strieby of the third t the convention of Syracuse republicans, held in the baseaent of the library last Friday wening, for the purpose of nomnating town officials to be voted apon at the November election. A. L. Miller was nominated for ity clerk, and M. E. Rapp was lorpinated for the office of city treasurer. The Republican convention was called to order by H. W. Buchlolz, who had been appointed permanent chairman, by the Co. Republican Committee. F. W. Ireen was elected secretary of the meeting, and the meeting .vas declared open for nominations for trustee of the first ward. Susie Bowers and James Seaross were voted upon, and Mr. learfoss received the majority of he votes cast. Harry Clemens, M. E. Dillon, and Frank Maloy, were nominat'd for the second ward office, and larry Clemens received the maority of votes cast. Robert Strieby was the unaninously nominated for the hird ward office; A. L. Miller was unanimously nominated for L the office of town clerk; M. E. lapp was unanimously nominated for the office of town treasurer. A motion by Simon Bell, to •ombine the offices of town treasurer and town clerk, was lot seconded or put to vote. A petition to the town clerk vas signed by twenty Republian voters, declaring those nomnated were the choice of the •aucus, so that the town clerk ■ould put the names on the Rejublican ballot, to be voted on n November. COUNTY FARMERS ATTEND CLASSES Forty or 45 farmers of the :ounty attended the opening of he farmer’s co-operative marceting school in Warsaw last ? riday evening, according to lherman Deaton, president of the Turkey Creek Farm Bureau. )ne hunderd and twenty five ire expected for the second leson tomorrow night. The classes in marketing are ieing held each Friday evening or seven more weeks, by the Itate Board of Education and he Indiana Farm Bureau Federation. All farmers and their famlies of the county are invited, ind half a dozen women were iresent last week, according to Mr. Deaton. C. S. Masterson, if the state farm bureau, is in harge of the classes. The first lesson was a general introduction md the course of study for the following lessons was outlined. The Turkey Creek Farm Bureau will meet next Tuesday evening in the high school building. The women of the organization have charge of the program. 0 BIRTHDAY SURPRISE PARTY HELD SUNDAY Fourteen friends surprised Miss Erin Fleming Sunday evening in honor of her birthday. A pot luck supper was served, after which, gifts were opened. Later, Eugene Maloy won the prize when Bunco was played. Besides Miss Erin Fleming’s sister Velma, attending the party, were: the Misses Roberta Crowe, Kathryn Richhart, Mary Jane Hire, Irene Shock; and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Maloy, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kitson, and Messrs. Raymond Kitson, James Connolly, Ralph Leacock, Guy Peppinger, and Bob Lepper. TWO DELEGATES COME BACK FROM CONVENTION Mrs. Jerry Hamman and Mrs. Warren Colwell, delegates, have returned from the Pythian Sister’s Grand Temple, held in Indianapolis last week. They report a wonderful time, and that 187 representatives were among the 426 who registered for the convention.

Do You Remember— I -t Twenty Years Ago When the Art Exhibit of the high schol was patronized so that receipts totaled SSO. Fifteen Years Ago The farmers of South Syracuse organized for the protection of game birds. Ten Years Ago Afteiß postponement reaching over a period of years, the concrete foundation of the Carnegie library were finally laid. Five Years Ago. W. Yoder, on the David Deusch farm, west of Milford, was de- • dared the champion mint producer of this section, having received $217.50 per acre. CHURCH OF GOD’S PASTORS CHANGED At the church of God conference, held near Worthington, south of Indianapolis, a week ago, it was decided that Rev. G. W. Wyatt would be asked to leave Syrecuse, and go to Idaville. Rev. E. L. Chapman, who came from Missouri a year ago to Idaville, is to come to Syracuse, and will preach his first sermon here next Sunday. Rev. 0. O. Tracy, former Syracuse pastor, will be sent to Thorn Creek, near Columbia City. Among the decisions made at the conference, was the returning of Rev. Berlin Yeager to Columbia City for his second year. Attending the church conference .which began a week ago Friday and closed last Thursday. "Were Rev. Floyd Hedges and wife, Mr. an Mrs. Kressel Kitson, and Mrs. Sena Unrue. Mrs. Wyatt states that they are not yet ready to announce their future plans, but that she can at least state that her daughters wil Ispend the winter here, where they take such part in local affairs. —o JUNIOR LADIES OF ROUND TABLE MEET A meeting of the Junior Ladies of the Round Table was held at the home of Anna Rex, last Thursday evening. There were nineteen members present. Two new members were heartily welcomed into the club. Esther Wyatt was chosen to write a Junior Club Song, and Helen Schroeder was selected to attend the Federated Club’s Convention at Fort Wayne. After the business session, a report upon Brown County was given by Elizabeth McClintic. A delicious two course supper was served by the hostess. o Miss Nellie Mann left on Sunday for a ten-day vacation, and while away will visit her class mates, Mrs. Betty Pressler and Mrs. Elwood Bateman, at Chicago.

Interesting Personal Paragraphs About Home People

Sam Porter, who was rushed to the Goshen hospital Monday afternoon for an operation is reported as d6ing nicely. Mrs. Porter is with him. Mr. and Mrs. Elihu Scott, who were visiting here, returned to their home in Plymouth last week, taking with them their small grand daughter, Mary Margaret Hollett for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Snavely will leave their home here next week to spend the winter in Elkhart with their son, Maxwell Snavely, whose wife died in Detroit recently. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bishop and Mrs. Irving Bishop left Saturday for a few day’s visit in New Castle, with Mr. and Mrs. H. Stretch, and then they planned to drive on to Turkey Run, before returning home. Joel Wilt, who had his tonsils removed in the Goshen hospital last Friday, was able to return home Sunday. Immediately following the operation he had a hard time of it, suffering two hemorrhages. Mrs. A. R. Schmerda who has been the guest of the Sol Miller’s the past few weeks, left Wednesday for Gary and Chesterton, 111., where she will visit her sister, Mrs. B. B. Morgan, and her cousin, Mrs. F. M. Stultz before

SYRACUSE. INDIANA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1929

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’S RECESS ENDS Group Decides to Ask Return of State Game Wardens—Will Post Electric Traffic Signs During the business session of the Chamber of Commerce, which met for the first time following the summer vacation at the I Sign of the Kettle Tuesday noon, several civic enterprises were discussed. Action was taken on two of these. The first was that a petition should be circulated to retain for next summer, the state men who have been engaged in catching and destroying the fish which are destructive to the edible fish. The second decision was the appointment of Ross Franklin, as a committee of one, to collect money for the urpose of erecting two electric signs directing tourists to Lake Wawasee. Mr. Franklin has since stated that these two signs will be 14x40 inches, with an arrow pointing to Wawasee Lake when the signs are in place. The two .positions decided upon for these signs were: at the junction of the Benton Road and State Road No. 2; and at the Junction of the Yellow Stone Trail and North Webster road, a mile south of the Hills and Lakes Road. The cost of these signs will be met by interested parties living around Lake Wawasee, and the power consumed in illuminating these signs will be born by the Chamber of Commerce. The petition for returning the state men is being circulated in Cromwell at present. These men are sent here by the state on the provision that someone gives them a suitable place to live. In the past ,the Chamber of Commerce .through the donations from business men, sportsmen and the lake dwellers have paid the rent on two cottages for the men, and intend to do so next year in the same manner. During the meeting Harry L Porter was elected secretary of the organization, after he and W. L .Disher had been accepted as members of the organization. o OLD FRIENDS MEET Mr. and Mrs. George McElfresh, of Anderson, came to Syracuse Sunday to visit with Mrs. Sarah Younce. „ Their arrival was so unexepcted that Mrs. Younce had to be called out of church. Later in the afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Berd Shaffer, of Millersburg, and Mr. and Mrs. Clee Younce and two children of Elkhart, joined the party.

returning home to Saltville, Va., the last of next week. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Hoelcher have moved from Niles, Mich., to Goshen where Mr. Hoelcher is working as linotype operator on the Goshen Democrat. Both young people are recent graduates of the Syracuse high school. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stein have closed their cottage at Lake Wawasee, and have returned to their home in Chicago. They were accompanied by Mrs. Hattie Kindig who expects to spend the winter in Chicago. J. W. Dye of South Bend, visited Mrs. Henry Snobarger’s home last week. He is a cousin of Mrs. Snobarger, and was on his way west, where he expetes to see her brother, O. V- Bartholomew. Mrs. E. McPherson has just returned from a two week’s vacation, spent visiting her son, Hugh C. McPherson ,and wife, of Detroit. They toured the eastern and central part of Michigan, and visited the old land marks of Detroit. Mrs. E. McPherson reports that she has just picked off her tomato vines, three tomatoes, each measuring 15 inches in circumference, and each weighing one pound, two ounces. These three tomatoes sure from the same vine.

“Sinkers” Increase Sinking Fund To Re-decorate Church

Doughnuts, dropped one by one into hot grease, cooked, sugared, and sold, have made possible ?the re-decorating of the United Brethren church, which is to be started within a few days. This announcement was made, following the meeting of the official board of the church, Monday night, when plans for reroofing the church, and redecorating its interior, were discussed. It was brought to the attention of the meeting, thgt the Ladies’ Aid Society, which had been earning money for the purpose of re-decorating the church, had nearly S4OO on hand. Last winter, the society dividLOCAL MAN USING HIS WORLD SERIES TICKET It is reported on good authority that Ellwood George is spending several days this week in Chicago. So far as is known, Mr. George is the only local man fortunate enough to have gotten seats to the World Series. SKATING RINK MAY OPEN FOR WINTER With the Community Theater closing this week, for the winter it was suggested at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, by Ross Franklin, that the building could be used for a roller skating rink this winter. Mr. Franklin said he knew of a party interested in starting such a skating rink in Syracuse, and he added that he would open up negotiations to get the matter under way immediately. o LADIES OF ROUND TABLE ENTERTAIN Thirty-three attended the meeting last Monday evening when the Ladies of the Round' Table entertained the Junior organization at the Sign of the Kettle. Mrs. Zella Leacock was hostess, assisted by Mrs. William Kindig, and Mrs. Court Slabaugh. A program of musical numbers, readings, and a sketch, “Clothes Line Gossip,” was enjoyed. Refreshments were served later in the evening. s o FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY Mrs. Clarence Smith, who died last Friday morning, at her home west of Milford, of double pneumonia, was buried in the Milford cemetery. Services were held Sunday afternoon at the Brethren church at Gravelton, Rev. Weirick, pastor of the Nappanee church, officiating.

The Woman’s Home Missionary | Society of the Methodist church met at the home of Mrs. Stephen Freeman Monday afternoon. The Ladies of the U. B. Missionary society last Wednesday afternoon held their monthly meeting. A number of the members are planning to attend the county rally, of the different unions, which is to be held at Etna Green next Tuesday. Hilary Bachman has gone to Chicago, where he will attend the Scholl Orthopedic School, in order that he may be even better qualified to give service and practical advise to patrons of the shoe department of his father’s store. Ernest Buchholz and Melvin Rapp were in Indianaplois Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, as convention delegates to the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pyhtias. Tuesday afternoon they visited the K. of P. home in Lafayette. Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mick, moved from North of town, to the Holloway property on Pearl street, where, with Mrs. Mick’s mother, Mrs. Pearl Disher, and her sister, Olive, they will make their home this winter. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kroh, spent Friday and Saturday in Chicago. His mother, Mrs. Celes-

ed into two committees, to take turns making and selling dough- ■ nuts. Although exact figures are not ready for publication, until the two committees report to the Ladies’ Aid meeting next week, it is understood that over S3OO was earned by the doughnuts. The rest of the fund was earned by bazaars and other ways of making money for the church. Re-roofing of the church is to be begun this week, and the redecoration of the interior will follow. Announcement as to the services will be made later, if any change in the regular program is necessitated by the work, according to Rev. Nicodemus. SCHOOLS TO CLOSE 2 DAYS NEXT WEEK X - Schools jvjjj. not be in session Thursday and Friday, Oct. 17 and 18, according to the announcement made this morning by Court Slabaugh, principal. The teachers are planning to attend the Teacher’s Association meetings which are to W held in Fort Wayne and Indianapolis on these two days. g According to present plans, Mrs. Meredith, second grade teacher and Mrs. Gants, fourth grade teacher,' will go to Fort Wayne for the meetings there. The others plan to attend these in Indianapolis. 23 GUESTS ATTEND BIRTHDAY PARTY Twenty there guests were entertained at Rowena Insley’s party, Wednesday, a week ago. in honor of her eleventh birthday. Ice cream, cake and popcorn balls, were served to the guests, who came after school. Attending were: Virginia and Joan Riddle, Maxine Holloway, Lucile Osborn, Erba Kline, Ruth and Baja Rowdabaugh. Pauline Hibschman, Marjorie • Slabaugh. Mary Ellen Pletcher, Martha and Edna Leacock, Virginia and Mary Francis Culler, Marjorie Cripe, Olive Disher, Martha Brower, Jean Burr, Meredith Mench, Mary Louise Stoelting. Virginia Harvy, and Lois Insley. WAWASEE HOTEL GLOSES Dr. Urbana Spink, who is assistant manager of the SpinkWawasee hotel, has returned to the Fletcher Sanitarium, in Indianapolis, for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Cuniff are supervising the closing of the hotel for the winter, and plan to go to' Indianapolis Saturday, leaving caretakers in charge of the grounds. Mrs. Cuniff states that she is going to return often, especially for the ice skating this winter.

ta Hillabold, who had been a guest of her daughter, Mrs. F. W. Brian, of Bloomington, 111., met the Krohs in Chicago, and returned home to Syracuse with them, where she is visiting her daughter, Mrs. C. C. Bachman. According to word received by Mrs. Orval Carr, her husband, who was operated on in Indianapolis last t week, for sinus trouble, is getting along nicely, and wil be home soon. Mr. and Mrs. Milt Rentfrow, and Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Bowers, drove Sunday to New Carlisle, where the visited Mr. and Mrs. Ray Worth, and Mrs. Oro Vorhis, the latter, a daughter of the Rentfrows. Mrs. Jerry Hamman ,and Miss Lillian Hamman, her daughter, attended the funeral of Mrs. Alice Hamman, Mrs. Hamman’s sister-in-law, at the McClintick church Monday afternoon. The deceased had been living with her son in Plymouth, where she died. t Word has been received that N. C. Isenbarger of South Bend, is critically ill in the Epworth hospital there. He was taken to the hospital a week ago, with kidney trouble. His son, Otis, of LaGrange. 111., has been sent for to be with his mother at this time, in So. Bend. The Isenbargers are former residents of Syracuse.

DAMAGE SUIT NOT BROUGHT INTOJIOURT Grady-Peffley Case Settled For S2OO And Hospital Fees— Never Caine To Trial (By J. C. Grady) “To the editor of the Journal: I wish- to say that the $50,000 suit for damages brought against me was settled out of court yesterday, for S2OO, of which there will be little left as fee for Attorney Simon Bell, after Mr. Peffley and Attorney Douseman get their share of the amount. “I want to warn all parents with children who drive cars, to watch out who ride with them, • and to beware of "ambulance chasers.” “We settled the case out of court, for S2OO, and I paid the doctor bill and the hospital bill for the boy who was injured.’’ After a number of cintinuations, the Grady-Peffley trial was to have come to trial in Warsaw yesterday, but was settled out of court. According to friends of both parties concerned, the accident ’or which James Peffley sued J. C. Grady for $50,000, occurred a year ago last April. They state that Dean Grady, ;on of J. C. Grady, was taking two girls, Mary Jane Hire and Henrietta Brunjes, and Gary Robison in his car, to a skating □arty the high school students were having, and had granted George Peffley’s repeated requests for a ride there too. About two miles out of town, an the Milford road, near Oxbur?er’s place, about 7:30 in the evening was when the accident occurred, the car being wrecked. The two girls, received but minor cuts and bruises, young Grady so severely cut as to have nearly bled to death, witnesses (Continued on Last Page) o VERNE BECKMAN HOME FROM WEST Having seen nothing more dangerous than a rattlesnake coiled it the side of the roadway on which he was walking, in Kansas, Verne Beckman returned home Sunday from his 31 days’ trip west. Mr. Beckman left on his vacation, expecting to drive to Denver, Colo. When he reached Chicago, he changed his mind, bought a hiking outfit, and a knapsack for baggage, and started to walk. He states that at no time did tie walk very far, until some car driver would stop and ask him if he cared for a lift. At no time did the walker have to do the asking, Mr. Beckman says. In Denver he found a former Fort Wayne friend, Howard Daugherty. From Denver, Mr. Beckman visited mountains of interest, such as Pike’s Peak, and also Colorado Springs. ' On his way to Denver, Mr. Beckman visited with relatives in Omaha. o . LONGEST NEWSPAPER ROUTE IS DISCOVERED Believe it or not— The World’s longest newspaper route is in Yellowstone Park; it is 160 miles long and absorbs between 600 and 800 pounds of newspapers daily between June and September. It is a full day’s work that confronts the driver, Bird Newell, when he steps on the starter of his Chevrolet coupe, and sets about the day’s business. Fast driving and knowledge of short cuts are necessary to complete • the task before dusk. Newell’s subscribers number several hunderd persons who reside each summer in the isolated camps and resort hotels of America’s greatets natural park. Until 1928 these vacatiqnists had no means of getting their hometown newspapers. Since the route opened, the Chevrolet coupe has been in constant ser-» vice, never missing a day. o — Mr. and Mrs. Vern Bushong, and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bushong and daughter Barbara, drove w to Pierceton Sunday to attend the birthday party in honor of Mm. Vern Buajwnff'a fathatv

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