The Syracuse Journal, Volume 22, Number 35, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 26 December 1929 — Page 1

by Arthur Brisbane The Prince Receives Chucunaques Dying Mellon Knows How Wanted, More U. S. Prisons

The British motto is “Business First.” No past disappointment, or prejudice of today, must interfere. The Prince of Wales amid a brilliant company in St. James palace, received the ambassador from Russia to Great Brita n. saying pleasant things about the glory of the Russian people. King George did not receive the Russian for two reasons. The present Russian government kiHed the czar, who was the king’s cousin. And the king, official head of the established Church of England, doesn’t like Russia’s effort to make religion ridiculous calling it “the opium of the people.’ However, the prince did the receiving well, the ambassador is satisfied and the British will do business with Russia. F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, British explorer, back from. Panama, says the interesting Chucunaques, survivors of a great Indian nation will soon vanish. Spaniards long ago landed among them, robbing, killing, and since then they have excluded white people. The Britisher pretending to be a god, lighting fires around his tent at night, going through an elaborate, meaningless religious ritual, impressed them. They tolerated him. Only about 1000 Chucunaques are left, and disease will soon kill them all. Their worst diseases are ignorance and superstition, the diseases that have killed off many ra<es and nations, allowing the others less ignorant and superstitious to take their places. Heavy fogs in the East tied up shipping, causing great loss, interfered with the Atlantic cables, stopped the air mail completely for days. Perfection of the helicopter airplane would overcome fog difficulties. In one day in this prosperous country,-there was a''‘turn over” of one billion eight hundred million dollars in tax payments and treasury financing . alone. Not a ripple on the surface of the financial waters.

Interest rates didn’t go up. “Call money,” the kind used for Wall Street speculation remained at 4J per cent with unorganized lenders “on the outside” offering to lend at four percent. Secretary Mellon knows how to handle big finance smoothly. To him a billion dollars is only a billion dollars. Perhaps that’s because he has a billion or so of his own. A mother with a baby handles other babies easily. Mr. Mitchell, President Hoover’s Democratic Attorney General, wants $7,000,000 to build new prisons for the United States. He says the problem of prisons is the major one before the Department of Justice. In Great Britain they are closing prisons, renting prison building for other purposes, because crime is diminishing. The air mail brings to President Hoover a petition signed by the presidents of seven Haitian political organizations asking him to keep our marines in Haiti and supervise the coming presidential election next April. This year little Haiti has 100 candidates for the presidency. They are all fighting men, and their followers are fighting followers. They want the marines to stay and keep them from doing to each other things that they might do. How many times do you breathe in a minute? Guess offhand. Many that know about the revolutions of an airplane propeller, or a steamship screw, take little interest in their own machinery. The breathing question is suggested by the case of Miss Margaret Mclntyre, of Plainfield, (N.J.), school teacher, who only breathes five times a minute, twelve seconds to a breath. Scientists call her “physiological miracle.” You, probably breathe fifteen to eighteen times per minute ,the average for adults. However, Miss Mclntyre has one advantage. She breathes very deeply. Experiments show that she takes in three pints of air at a breath. The average adult takes in only one pint. (Continued on Page).

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crowd Tvcarols with RODEHEAVER Community Christmas Treat For Children Destributed By Santa Claus Even if the weather man did prevent Syracuse from having a Community Christmas tree, for the. first time in eight years, the *rowd enjoyed the singing of Christmas carols, and the distribution of the Christmas treat, to the children, Tuesday evening. At 6:30, when Homer Rodeheaver began broadcasting over VVLS Chicago, the crowd, led by angers of the Art Club and the ■hurches of Syracuse, joined in singing the Christmas songs. Then Santa Claus, assisted by the club women, distributed the mnual Christmas treat to the children. The Chamber of Commerce •ommittee, had picked out a Christmas tree, to be transplanted to the school yard, to be used this year and following years. Last week the wet ground and ainy weather made its transplanting inadvisable. Wednesday t snowed, and reaching the tree to move it, through drifts, became impossible. It is planned to move the trees L o the school yard, when the veather man so wills, so that cext year and following years, v here will be a community tree.

26 MEN SHOVEL PATH TO TOWN Twenty six men who live along the lake road, donated their services Saturday to opening the road to Syracuse. A few men started shoveling mow about one o’clock, and as they progressed along the road, their numbers increased. Chet Brown made a path with his team, so the school hack belonging to Orval Klink, and driven by Russell Warner, could advance. In the hack were two boys, Junior Brown and Guy Warner, .vho kept a fire going in the hack. When the men shoveling mow grew cold, they went into the hack for awhile to warm lands and feet before returning to work. At five o’clock the party reached Syracuse. The road workers who donated their services Saturday were: Chet Brown, Lester Mock, Charles Mock, Elza Law. Everett Ketring, Floyd Grey, Edward Walters, Albert Emerson, dr. Nailer, Dwight Mock, Burr Futrell, Mr. Stuckey, Leland Baker, Richard Brunjes, Mr. Miller, Stephen Freeman, Joe Freeman, Xrnold LeCount, Jesse Strieby, Mattie Katzer, Raymond Lung, Junior Brown, Guy Warner, Rusnell Warner, Edw’ard Schlect, Jill Fisher and his two guests.

KITSON FUNERAL SERVICE MONDAY Funeral services for Judson iitson were held Monday afterloon from the Richville church. Mr. Kitson, aged 53, died last Friday, following an illness of the last 12 months. Surviving aim, besides his wife are two laughters, Mrs. Stewart Carney vho lives with her parents; Mrs. Melvin Schlotterbach of Ligonier; his son Walter, at borne; two brothers, Harlan Kitson, of Chicago, and William Kitson, of Ligonier; an uncle, Harry Hire of Syracuse, and a number of distant relatives of this vicinity. Not all of the Syracuse relatives and friends who wanted to attend his funeral Monday, were able to do so, as travel over the roads was difficult. o PARTY HAS HAMBURGER FRY—POT LUCK SUPPER Mrs. Millard Hire entertained a group of friends at a hamburger fry Tuesday night, last week. Following the pot luck supper, nenuckle was played, Miss Gertrude Hoch and Miss Alice Mann vinning prizes. Guests of Mrs. Hire were: Misses Alice Mann, Lois Butt, Gertrude Hoch, Helen Jeffries, Nellie Mann and Mrs. Joe Rush of Milford.

i Good Old Fash ion e_d Nevv Ye, Ml ¥i I A May this new year, which marks the dawn of a new decade, bring prosperity unrivaled, and expansion hereto undreamed of, to this our home community, is the wish of the Syracuse Journal, the home paper.

OLIVER SNAVELY BURIED FRIDAY Although the coroner could not reach Syracuse through the snow drifts, last week, to give an official verdict, it is thought that Oliver C. Snavely’s death last Wednesday resulted from heart failure. Because Mr. Snavely’s body was found in the snow drifts when George Tom was driving school children home in his school hack, it was first believed that Mr. Snavely had fallen in Wednesday’s blizzard and was frozen to death. But this opinion has since changed. Mr. Tom phoned /or help, to Syracuse. When friends reached Mr. Snavely’s body, its warmth even after such a delay led those of the local funeral parlors to feel that Mr. Snavely had not frozen to death. Mr. Snavely was 79 years, 11 months and 2 days old. He was born in Ohio, Jan. 16, 1850. In 1876 he was married to Catherine Houser. Their one child, Arther, is a resident of Syracuse. While Mr. Snavely wafc a child, his parents moved to Indiana. Since then he had made his home near Syracuse. In addition to his widow and son, he is survived by five sisters: Mrs. Elnora Byers of Kansas; Mrs. Angeline Edmonds, Mrs. Minerva Eagles, Mrs. Emma Thibodeaux of Syracuse, and Mrs. Sarah Houser of Millersburg; and by five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. He was a member of the K. of P. Lodge. Mr. Snavely had gone out for a load of wood despite Wednesday’s blizzard, when his death occurred. He fell in a drift at the side of the road. Funeral services were held on Friday afternoon, Rev. R. G. Foust officiating. Interment was made in the Syracuse cemetery, bob sleds being used to carry the mourners through the snow. PRO PERTY TS SOLD AT SHERIFFS SALE The American State Bank of Ligonier, holder of the mortgage, has bought the Fred P. Hart property on Lake Wawasee, for $7,232.47, the amount of the mortgage, at sheriff’s sale. This property was at one time part of the A. M. Jones hotel property.

Weather Man Plays Tricks On Syracuse Folks

Miss Erin Fleming spent from Wednesday over the week end, in Syracuse, being unable to reach her home on Papakeechie. Mr. and Mrs. Landis Pressler came home from Chicago Tuesday last week, to spend Christmas vacation with their parents in Syracuse. Jim Traster had been at Fred Harlan’s near Leesburg, Wednesday, to shred corn fodder. By Thursday night he had worked his way home as far as Frank Ritter’s. One of the horses of Henry Ruffner’s team, hauling coal for Sprague’s, fell and broke its leg, near the Elmer Miles home, Friday. It was necessary to shoot the animal. John Cook and F. A. Morrell of Fort Wayne, who reached Syracuse Wednesday, tried to drive out of town Thursday. Roads being blocked in all directions, the men took the train, leaving I their cars. , Two men from Milford spent ‘Wednesday night at ths local

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| SAPEN FOUND GUILTY — Pleading guilty to the charge of failure to provide for his wife and six children, Charles Sapen was given a suspended sentence of six months at the penal farm, in court Saturday. The sentence is suspended as long as Sapen works and continues to provide for his family. o WOMEN FIGHT WAY THROUGH DRIFTS Mrs. Frank Bushong and Mrs. Guy Bushong were in Goshen when Wednesday’s snow storm increased in violence. They had left their car in a garage there. When they went for it, the garage man persuaded them not to attempt to drive home. They left their car, and as Goshen was overcrowded with people who could not get out, and needed places to sleep, the two women went to Elkhart on the interurban to spend the night with Mrs. Frank Bushong’s brother, Marion Miller, who is ill there. It took three hours to get to Elkhart from Goshen they say. (Tn Thursday they got back to Goshen, where the found Mr. Melford of Milford, who was going to take anyone who so wished, to Milford. *' The two women went with him through Milford as far as Elmer Dewart’s home near the gravel pit. Here the road was found to be impassable. They phoned for Gerald Bushong to come for them. This he tried to do, but his i bob sled and team also stalled. By this time it was dark. The two women, who had met Perl Wehrley on his way to Syracuse to meet the evening train, were walking the railroad tracks towards their home. They saw the glow of Mr. Bushong’s flashlight and attracted his attention. They reached home, having come one and one half miles on the rail road ties. Mr. and Mrs. Merle Harkless came from Chicago the first of this week to spend Christmas with relatives and friends here. Christfas Eve, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Harkless entertained their three sons and wives. Christmas day the Merle Harkless’s were guests at the A. W. Strieby home, where Mrs. Harkless’s parents entertained their family party.

hotel. They were C. B. Duncan and A. C. Scott. Thursday they took the “milk shake” as tar as Milford Junction, from where they planned to walk home. Miss Helen Jeffries, who had been assisting the night operator, Mrs. O. Craft, Wednesday evening was unable to get home through the storm, and was forced to spend the night with Mrs. Craft at the tiephone office. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Macy were two of the people whose cars got stalled trying to drive through the drifts along Smoky Row, Wednesday night. They were forced to walk through the blizzard to Wawasee Slip. Mr. Macy got a team the next day and pulled his ear out. Mrs. L. J. Solt got back to Syracuse from South Bend Wednesday. But she could not get home from here, so spent the night at the hotel. Thursday, she was a passenger on the mule-bob-sled, which the workmen for the Interstate Co., used to get 'along the lake shore. Earl Hire had one cheek al-

CITY WORKS WAY OUT OF SNOW BANKS Business Men Os Syracuse Start Clearing Streets >-Rural Mail Delayed Insisting this was the heaviest snowfall since 11 years ago next month, Saturday, Syracuse folk began digging out from under the high drifts which came as a result of Wednesday’s blizzard, and Thursday and Friday’s high winds. School was dismissed and the Christmas parties planned for last week were called off. when streets and roads became impassable Wednesday night. Thursday and Friday .were quiet days with the only people venturing out, being those forced to by business. Rural mail service was suspended until late Saturday afternoon when some deliveries were made to points nearest town. Sunday, other carriers went out, but by Monday most of the residents on the rural routes had come to the local pcstoffice for their mail, or had h?.d fri mt’s who did come in, carry mail back to them. Saturday. 40 re idents, many of whom were Syracuse merchants and business men, worked on clearing the road to Milford. Saturday afternoon, Syracuse business men shoveled snow from Syracuse streets, to the truck being run by Orval Klink and Jim Druckamiller. Saturday morning the Elkhart (Continued on Last Page) $4,000 DAMAGES ASKED IN SUITS In a petition claiming their car was stopped on the right of the road, 40 feet from the crossroads, when the accident occurred, Mrs. Mary Ellen Wehrly, and her husband, Clyde S. Wehrly, have brought suit for S4OOO damages, against Andrew Konkle of Warsaw, the party whose car is alleged to have crashed that of the Wehrly’s, Nov. 24. Mr. Wehrly claims that the impact of the crash of Konkle’s car with theirs threw her against the windshield of their car in such away as to strike the spotlight attachment, which caused her to lose-the sight of one eye. In his suit Mr. Wehrly asks damages for the injury to his wife and to his automobile. The Wehrly’s were on their way to Elkhart to the hospital where Mrs. Wehrly took treatment, Sunday, Nov. 24, and intended to come to Syracuse to visit Mr. Wehrly’s mother here, Mrs. Margaret Wehrly, when the accident occurred. The Wehrly’s had moved from their home near Milford to Warsaw, before the accident occurred. but Syracuse friends and Milford friends remember them as residents of this locality.

most frozen, coming home Wednesday afternoon from work at the gravel pit. A group of the workers out there, started for town about 3:30 o’clock, and reached here sfter 5:30. They report there were times when they didn’t expect to make it at all. Mrs. Joe Rush and small son, of Milford, spent Tuesday night with Mrs. Rush’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Foster. Mr. Rush drove over from Milford Wednesday to take them home. They finally reached there safely, but it was necessary for Mr. Rush to shovel snow away from his stalled atuomobile in places. According to rooters for both sides in the contest of teams Thursday morning’s round with the snow was won by the horse team being driven by Bill Swihart. It seems Jim Juday’s mules, trying to carry the telephone gang of workmen out to repair wires, couldn’t get through the drifts at Smoky Row. But, the story goes, Swihart’s horses with the workmen for the electric company came along—and w'e'rtt On through-.

Do You Remember—--20 Years Ago— When Ralph Stookey’s death vvas caused by gangrene setting *n, his right arm having been wounded when his shot gun was accidentally discharged. * * * 15 Y’ears Ago— Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Jones celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. * * * 10 Y’ears Ago— Mrs. Chas. E. Bishop and Bert Whitehead won the prizes in the Mickie puzzle chart, printed in the Journal. 5 Years Ago— The/fhornburg Drug Store was robbed of several hundred dollars’ worth of jewelry and other articles. Z* rozen Pipes Burst, Flood Disher Home The snowstorm Wednesday brought with it a senes of mishaps to the Lloyd Disher family. With Mr. Disher trying to move his stalled trucks on the BentonLigonier road, Mrs. Disher had gone to his people, Mr. and Mrs. Columbus Disher, Wednesday. That evening it was impossible for her to get back to her own home, but she felt that there would be no danger of pipes freezing, she had fired up the furnace enough to last until morning anyway. Thursday morning she returned home, to find a few coals in the furnace, and no bursted pipes in evidence. She fired up the furnace, and when the house began to heat, trouble commenced The pipe to the lavatory in the bathroom upstairs, evidently burst where it had been joined and water poured out, and at once soaked through the floor to the ceiling beneath. Mrs. Disher said: “I tried to turn the water off, in the basement. but I found it broken there so I couldn't move it. I phoned (Continued on Last Page) _o 27 UNEXPECTED GUESTS AT OITS Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Ott entertained 27 people at their home on the Benton-Ligonier road last Wednesday night. The party was in the nature of a surprise, no preparation having been mad for so many guests. But as the number of stalled cal’s kept increasing, the number grew to whom Mrs. Ott said, “Always room for one more.” Thursday morning there was quite a party. All of the guests peeled potatoes. One of them had been stalled with his load oi cookies. These he added to the menu. Another had been trying to deliver meat when the weather interfered. So the Ott’s entertained at a “pot luck break-fast-dinner-supper.”

Roscoe Howard and Bernard Skidgell, who went out Wednesday afternoon to repair lines for the electric company, discovered they could not drive back through the drifts between the Pickwick side road and Smoky Row. They phoned for Joe Rapp and his wrecking crew, but they couldn’t get through from the Syracuse side. C. W. Howard tried also and failed. So Roscoe Howard and Mr. Skidgell walked home, two and one half miles, through the driving snow. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brown and Mrs. Brown’s sister, Miss Lydia Bellinger; and Mr. and Mrs. John Walton, had been in Ft. Wayne, last Wednesday. Coming home through the snow, their car stalled between Mart McClintic’s place and Ed McClintic’s. It was necessary for the. two men to carry Miss Mellinger who has been in ill health for some time. The other two women stumbled along as best they could through th& blinding snow to McClintics. Mr. Brown and Mr. Walton went to their homes to care for furnaces" and stock; but the women of the party stayed with Ann Medihtic,

SCHOOL IS CLOSED AT EXAM TIME Students Are Rushed Home Before Blizzard Blocks All Highyaws Trying to quiet crying, frightened.children and at the same time, force the school busses through a blinding blizzard and drifting roads, the drivers of the Tppkey-Creek Township school hacks goy most of their charges safely delivered to their homes last Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wolf took care of nine of the children from George Tom’s bus, Wednesday night, when he discovered he could not .complete his route that day. The other drivers from the Syracuse school finished delivering their charges, but had to 'eave their busses stalled in the mow, stay all night at some farner’s home, or walk back to town. School had been dismissed in Syracuse at 2 o’clock Wednesday, .vhen it was seen that the storm’s ntensity was making the roads mpassable. In Milford the ehilIren stayed in town all night. Drivers from the Bethany and Benton township schools report ‘ighting the storm until midlight Wednesday night, their •Tightened charges crying: and the children’s parents phoning dong to various homes on the rotes, asking if “they’ve reached ■ our place yet?” Jesse Shock, driving out of Syracuse reports that he got all >f his children_delivered, except wo,.the dtfughtp’s of Howard Rice. WhHim 40 rods of their home, the bus stalled, and could be urged no further. Further back Mr. Shock had picked up Sd Leslie, whose car was stalled. When the bus refused to go on, he two men carried Ann, aged 15. and Nathelda,- aged 13, the 10 rods to their home. Mr. Shock and Mr. Leslie start'd to walk to Syracuse, Mr. Leslie finally leaving Mr. Shock n a cut off to his destination. Ur. Shock stopped at the Sloan "arm to get warm, and there liscovered Mrs. Mary. Gants whose car had stalled in the road lot far from there. WithXlass?s excused, the teacher had been rying to drive to her home near )ismal. .when her car stalled in snow storm. She thought .vith Mr. Shock’s help they could ret it started, and return to Syracuse in it. But no amount of working over the machine did any good, so the two tried to walk the three miles through the blizzarti, back to town. They stumblel on, nearly exhausted, and finally completed .he trip. They had stopped once it Clee Hibschman’s to get warm. 3ut in the fight against the wind md snow, Mr. Shock’s right hand ind wrist were frozen, and Mrs. Gants was near collapse. She went to the Jerry Hamman home to stay for the night. When she •eached there, her condition Harmed the Hamman’s Her . iothing was soaking wet, and ; he was so fatigued as to be near ollapse. They gave her an alcohol rub coffee, and put her to bed.’ Thursday night she took the train for Cromwell, to try to reach home from there. The children in Mr. Tom’s bus were so frightened when the bus came upon the body of Mr. Snavely, who was found lying in the snow drifts, Wednesday, that Mr. Tom did not dare to stop long, but phoned town for help for Mr. Snavely, when the bus reached the next farm. Walter Koher delivered his last children to their homes near Papakeetchie, and was forced to leave his bus there. He walked on to his home that same Wednesday evening, but refined with a team the next day and got the bus. Melvin Niles and Russell Warner safely delivered their charges through the storm. Orval Klink had gotten as far as Russel Warner’s with his student passengers, when his school hack stalled. When Mr.- Earner returned from delivering his ■ charges, Klink s 'ferred to Mr. Warner’s truck. I The two men saw all of the chil--1 dren home safely and were on 1 (Continued <m Last Page)

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