The Syracuse Journal, Volume 23, Number 27, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 30 October 1930 — Page 1

by Arthur Brisbane TALKING 14,400 MILES. WHAT IDLENESS MEANS. WHAT MADE THOUGHT. THE MOON AND RADIO.

You may now talk to your friend in Australia, price $45 for three| minutes. I The telephone company announces approaching reductions in long-dis tance- rates generally, which should increase gross and net receipts ane. profits, stimulating use and encouraging business by bringing, all Amei icans together. This writer talks from an office in New York to a ranch on the edge of the Pacific acean with absolute ease and clearness, whereas it ip necessarx to walk into the next room to speal to the assistant fron the phonograph. - 3 You realize what the earnings ol workmen amount to in industry, business and prosperity when you consid er efforts to relieve unemployment. There are undoubtedly fotir million men idle, and many more. Four millions, allowing for each man earning only $4 away, three hundred days a year, would amount $4,800,000,000 a year. Even on the “dole basis .of So 1 week, the annual bill would come t< $7,040,0W,000. No wonder our “best financia’ minds” want to avoid the dole, which would have to be., added to taxation. Charles M. Schwab says a “record boom” is approaching. An ordinary boom, such as we hac a year ago, would satisfy the aver age man. Many predictions of return ing prosperity have turned out to b.< descriptions of mirages. The peoph are tired of the Doctor Coue pros perity, with its “every day, in every way, we are getting better and bet ter." 5 Dr. Irving S. Cutter, dean of tht Northwestern university medica school, deVelopes this theory. Eons oi years back, ultra violet rays were much more pow erful that they , art now, 1 and they “activated protoplasm into life.” ■ That’s how life camel | The doctor does not tell us whai activated the living protoplasm inti thought, emotion, art,-imagination. On the south Pacific island of Niau sou, where scientists were successfu in photographing the eclipse, this strange thing happened. As the moor' passed between earth and sun, shut ting out light, it also shut’ out what ever jt is that enables us to send radn messages. While the eclipse 1 aster the radio w'ould not work oyer th< Pacific. Scientists could' not sene radio messages. That would interest Zoroaster, wh< taught men to worship.the sun. Kingford-Smilh flew the Atlantic, the Pacific and now, having flown from London to Australia, announces in the city of Brisbane that he makes long-distance flights no more. He obeys the orders of a young woman soon to lie his wife. Zionists, intent on rebuilding the Jewish hofneland ih Palestine, attack savagely recent utterances and decisions of the British government, which has the Palestine mandate Britain proposes to stop, or greatly decrease. Jewish immigration into Palestine. Jewish organizations accuse the British of putting the welfare of Arabs, who have been in Palestine for 700 years, ahead of Zionist welfare. . » The British do not mention it, but they have more than 100,1*00,000 Mo-, hammedans in the empire, and, al most, three or four million Jews. They do not want to annoy the Mohammedans by irritating Arabs, who are also Mohammedans. The brother of the Japanese emperor took his wife to the opera in Germany and obtained a “close-up” of western civilization. ’ The opera, about colored people, was called “the Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogany ” Members of a Fascist meb yellew: “Hail Hitler!" and "Germany awake!” To make sure that Germany would awake they threw bombs, unpleasantly described in the Associated Press dispatch as “stink bombs.” It is proposed to spend two hundred millions, or so, of public money to help the unemployed. Corporations are urged to tax themselves and contribute. But you are told there must be no “dole," none of the English system under which government gives the minimum necessary to live, in cash, directly to those ou? of work. Everybody hopes it will not be necessary to start the dole here. On the other hand, if money were given direct to those that need it to be spent by themselves, thal-might be better than spending by committees, and avoid the unpleasant feeling of charity. Moscow reports officially the execution of one man, and the jailing of 74 others, for “graft in food and clothing sales." The man executed and the 74 jailed speculated in food and clothing prices. Russia deals with such enterprises vigorously.

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BARN BURNS, TOTAL LOSSARREST MAN Brother-in-Law’s Arrest Follows Burning of Horses —Cow. The fire last Saturday night about If*o'clock, which resulted in the loss of the Ott barn rented by James Peffley, and all its contents, was the direct cause of the arrest of David McGarrity, brother-in-law of Peffley. and his sentence to the penal farm for six months. McGarrity is believed to have been responsible for the burning of the barn. He was arrested Saturday night and taken to Warsaw, where on Monday he entered a plea of guilty to the charge of public intoxication on Main stieet in Syracuse, Saturday night. The complaint was signed by James Peffley. The court fined Me Garrity $lO and costs, and sentenced him to the penal farm. According to the story of the fire told by the Peffley family, >David McGarrityi who makes his home with his brother, John McGarrity, near Syracuse, came to the Peffley home about 10:20 Saturday night, in what Mrs. Peflfley termed a drunked state. * He said he was going out to the barn to sleep. She tried to get him to go to bed there in the house, she said, but he refused, and went to the barn. He is an habitual smoker. About 10:45 he returned to the house, grumbling about people forcing a man to sleep, in the barn, and say ing he wasn’t going to do it. Mrs. Peffley, who was sleeping Th the room with her daughter, Marion, who has been ill, urged her brother to go into the room where her husband was asleep. She said it took possibly IQ minutes or so to get his co'at off and shove him into the room. She had just gotten back to bed in the room where Marion was, when Manon raised up, telling her mother to look at the glow outside the window, someone’s house was on fiie. On getting out of bed they discovered it was the Ott barn, rented byMr. Peffley. The alarm was 'turned in, and neighbors rushed to help, but the fire was too far along to save any of the contents dr any part of the building. Three horses, a cow. a cat were burned to death, tons of hay, seed corn, a corn planter, corn plow, mower and a brand new binder were defU yed in the flames. The savings of years went in 20 minutes, and there was no insurance. A wagon load of corn shocks which had not been run into the barn Saterday, was saved. Peffley . said she feared her husband would be murderously angry with McGarrity, so she had a cousin of theirs take him to the John McGarrity home, before Peffley would return to the house from the fire to reach him. =. .When Peffley called the officers to arrest his brother-in-law, it was nec(Continued on Last Page) B. B. SEASON OPENS FRIDAY EVENING Friday night’s basketball game opens the season for both Syracuse and Sidney teams. According to Coach Beck, Sidney has had good teams in the past years, and Syracuse can expect a hard game Friday night. The preliminary game between second teams of the two schools will be the first time members of the Syracuse second team have played in any game for the school. Line upa for the two teams are not yet decided, but all members are in good condition for playing, and have shown marked improvement during the last week of practice according to the coach. Although Syracuse lost several men from last year’s team, the coach feels a strong team will represent the school, this year. — —-oPAST CHIEF’S CLUB MEETS AT EDMOND S The Past Chief’s club of the Pythian Sisters met Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Angeline Edmonds. Twelve members of the chib attended the pot luck dinner and meeting, which was in honor of Mrs. Lilly Hoopingarner, who leaves soon for Tampa, Fla., and in honor of Mrs. C. H. King, who goes to Fort Wayne next week. Those who attended the meeting were: Mesdames Harkless, Hoopingarner, Colwell, Unrue, Kegg, Hamman, Self, Thibodeaux, King, Eagles, Holloway. In the afternoon Mri. Rippey of Goshen called.

MATTY TO START COAL FUND WITH DONATED DINNER

Matty is inviting you to be his guest at dinner at the Tavern hotel, next Tuesday evening; where a meal will be served to you free, if you will give 50 cents toward a “Helping Hand” fund, which is. to be used to buy food, clothing arid coal for those in need in this district, this winter. There are “no strings attached” to this offer, this being Matty’s attempt to do his bit for the other fellow. He said, in telling of his dinner party, that dinner will not be served until after the polls close Tuesday evening, Nov. 4, election day. Then, anyone and everyone equipped with 50 cents is welcome to come to the Tavern hotel. His or her 50 cents will be taken at the door and put into the “Helping Hand” fund which will be deposited in the local bank, to take care of urgent calls this winter. Matty is furnishing all the food, and preparing it. His only statement when told he was doing too much for his share, was that he hated to wash dishes, that all the help he’d ask would be for some volunteer dish washers. Already club women of Syracuse, I CREDITORS FORM AN ASSOCIATION A creditors association, known as the Intercity Creditors exchange has been in Syracuse, Milford. New Paris, and Leesburg, by the merchants of these towns, and a representative of the Rekrap National Co. This company operates .credit bureaus over the country and acts as a clearing house upon information sent in by, members of this organization. The object of the organization as given in the literature of the company is “To promote the welfare of Local Creditors and Honest Debitors through the reporting and exchange of credit information, by and between all local firms.” A debtor is rated in Class “A”, excellent, those who pay their bills promptly and when due; Class “B”, fair to good, those who are honest but slow pay;-and Class “C”, undesirable, those who refuse to pay, and are reported as unworthy of any consideration. — o— SYRACUSE COUPLES ~ GIVE F IRE ALARM Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Maloy and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith, of Syracuse, on their way to a show in Elkhart, Saturday evening about 8 o’clock, turned in the alarm for fire which brought assistance to the burning house of John Henry, on the new Goshen-Elkhart roaid. Maloy says they were on the new road from Goshen to Elkhart, when they noticed a peculiarly lighted house/ and thought from the glow, there must be a Hallowe’en party under way, with even the cellar lighted. But, just as they passed the house, he looked back, and told Smith to stop the car. that house was on fire. They hurried to the door, and saw" flames just burning up from the cellar through the first floor. They could rouse no one, so rushed to the home of the nearest neighbor, about half a mile away, and turned in the alarm. By the time they returned to the burning home, Goshen and Dunlap fire depatments had reached there, but it was impossible to save the home, which was completely destroyed. Mr. Henry, a bachelor, had just remodelled this house for a summer home. He had bden there that day, but had gone back to his Elkhart home before the fire was discovered, it was thought, but he has net yet been located and the ruihs are being searched to see if he might have per? ished. —.—o— WINS CONTEST. % Miss Ruth Blanchard has just won a prize in a literary contest. The party which conducted the eastern tour, which Miss Blanchard made last summer, held a meeting of those who have gone on these tours in recent years, at an Indianapolis hotel during the teacher’s meeting recently held there. Prizes were offered for the best description of some party of the tour, Miss Blanchard was among those who submitted papers and hers took first prize—a picture of one of the points visited. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Klink and Mrs. Garrett Grissom were Warsaw visitors yesterday.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY', THURSDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1930

old and young, as well as some of the husbands, have offered to go out into the kitchen of the Tavern hotel, when they have finised eating dinner w’ith fellow residents of this district, and make a party out of cleaning up the kitchen. i ■ Election night was chosen as ,the night for the party, because it is this night that jpeople gather in groups at homes or on the streets, to hear election returns. The radio at the Tavern will be tuned in on such returns, to keep those gathered there informed as to state and county results. Informajion as to township voting will be telephoned to the hotel from time to time. Those who wish to pass the time away while waiting,election returns may form groups to pltfj- bridge, bunco or such games. Its to be a houseparty where guests will furnish their own amusement in friendly groups. And by paying 50 cents for a dinner will contribute that 50 cents to(Continued on Last Page) HAVE YOU PAID YOUR TAXES? According to the bank, where local taxes are paid, Monday is the last day for payment of taxes. Taxes will be lower next year in both the township and town according to news coming from the courthouse. The republicans are taking credit fob this, because the reduction came under republican regime. Next year taxes in the township' will be $2 on the hundred, compared to $2.20 of this year. In the town taxes will be $2.62, as compared to the $2.82 this year. —o . MRS. JONES DIES AT HOME SUNDAY Funeral services for Mrs. Mary J. Jones were held Tuesday afternoon, from her former home on Lake Wawasee, and burial made in the Syracuse cemetery. Mrs. Jones, who was 84 on the 19th of October, was the widow of A. M. Jones, who died November 22, 1929. They were married Decembef 20, 1864, in their former* home in West Moreland, Pa. They came to Syracuse on the first train run over the newly laid B. and 0. tracks in 1874. Mr. Jones was put in charge of the pumping station of the road. Later they started the Jones hotel, the first one on Lake Wawasee. They owned the “Anna Jon&,” early excursion boat on the lake, and supported many enterprises durtheir years here. The funeral was in charge' of Rev. Hedges, who came from Garrett for the services. - ' Survivors of Mrs. Jones are three sons, Wilmet Jones, A. P. Jones, James Jones of Lake Wawasee and Anna JOnes Trowbridge of Kendallville. Mrs. Jones had been in ill health all summer; but her condition became serious ony a few days before her death, which occurred Sunday afternoon.

SYRACUSE DIDN’T DRINK LAKE DRY —THERE WASN’T ENOUGH RAINFALL

The extremely low level of water in Syracuse and Wawasee lakes, is causing mUch comment. The argument is as to how much lower the present water level is, than at time of high water; and to what extent the water used hy the town of Syracuse is effecting the water level in the lakes. From M. W. Macy, the following data was obtained. He in turn obtained the information from a Conservation Department survey made of the lakes several years ago. In this Conservation Department survey, the area of Lake Wawasee and Syracuse lakes, including the swamp at Oakwood, was given as 3,529 acres, and the total volume of water as 23,250,000,000 gallons. Macy states that the present water level is 18H inches below high water last spring, and 22 inches below the high water marlTof past years. From estimates given, it was learned that usually there are 800 acres covered with water, which are not under water now. So, taking the average area and the depth of 18 inches, the result obtained is that there is now approximately 4,650 foot acres less water, or 2,520,155,000 gallons less than last spring. The town of Syracuse is using approximately 140,000 gallons of water a day, according to the amount learn-

HOUND DOG WAS HUNGRY—BUT HE FOUND NO FOOD This is one of these human interest stories about a dog. But in this case, a small portion of sympathy can be spared for the man who didn’t own it. Last Thursday, Vern Fisher, a plumber from Ligonier, came to the South Shore of Lake .Wawasee, to follow instructions, and turn off the water and drain the pipes at the Ben Schaefer cottage. Mr. and Mrs. Schaefer live in Goshen. Whe the plumber entered the house house a tramp hound dog must have followed him. Anyway, so far as is known that is the only time the cottage was opened. But on Sunday afternoon Roy Brown who with Mrs. Brown, was entertaining guests at their home, noticed a dog howling. Mr. Brown went in search of an animal which certainly sounded as though in distress. The howls seemed to come from the Schaefer cottage, so Mr. Brown went to his home, got the keys, and entered. The dog was there. In fact, he had been there. The poor animal was nearly starved, its shrunken sides seeming to be flat against each other. He had tried to find something to eat, but nothing satisfied his hunger. He had chewed up a rug, pulled electric lamps from tables, breaking the shades, had tipped over flooi lamps demolishing more shades, hae chewed the light cords, chewed up numerous victrola records, damaged fireplace brooms, had been, on every bed in the house, but hadn’t gotten as far as tearing up feathei pillows. And there was other dirt. The Browns took the hound dog home with them and fed him, Mrs. Brown saying she thought she never would get him filled. They wrote to the property owners of the damage, and on Tuesday, Mr. Schafer and maid came to clean up the house. Mrs. Schaefer was visiting relatives and friends in Pennsylvania and so did not know of the damage done to her home. ' Q. MRS. LUNG LEFT MONEY TO CHURCH Mrs. Mahala Lung’s will was filed in probate court in. Goshen, Monday. Mrs. Lung died at hor home neai Solomon’s Creek, Oct. 16. The testarnent was made April 15 1905 j and states that after funeral expenses are paid, and debts, the residue of the personal property and a life tenure of the real estate is to be given her husband, Nathaniel Lung. Two hundred is the sum to be paid trustees of the Solomon’s Creek Cemetery association.- Another S2OO is for the Erection society of the U.. B. church, of which she war a member. Another S2OO goes to the missionary society of the church, and after the death of her husband, the residue of the estate will be divided among three nieces. A cocfdil, added to the will, Nov. 26, 1917, bequeaths an additional $2,000 to the United Brethren church. Mr. Lung is executor of the will.

ed in treating the drinking water with chlorine. Even if there were 3 times as much water used to drive the turbine as is used to supply Syracuse with water, ft would take the town of Syracuse a little over 6,000 days or close to 20 years to use the amount eff water lost from the lakes since last spring. So It can be seen that the small amount of water used by Syracuse is not going to materially lower the level of the lakes, but that other factors must be taken into consideration. * Evaporation probably plays the most important part in lowering the. water level;. and with the unusual draught this summer, it is easy to understand why the lakes are unusually low. Another fact can be recalled, that last spring when there seemed some danger from high water, millions of gallons o fwater were allowed to escape under the gates, to save property that seemed in danger of being inundated. The loss was never made up, because the rains thlt were expected during the summer never materialized. . » It is feared there will be a property loss of hundreds of dollars this year on account of the action of frosts heaving out sea walls which are now exposed.

Do You Remember—--20 Years Ago. , Do You Remember When Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Brady and Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Hollaway moved to Annona, Fla. « • « 15 Years Ago Dan Wolf sold his Camden bakery and brought his family to Syracuse for a visit before entering on some other business. * • • 10 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. Deal Craft went to Warsaw to spend the winter. • • * . 5 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. Emory Strieby, and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Miller of Elkhart left for Lakeland, Fla, for an extended stay. PASTOR SURPRISED BY PARTY AT HOME I Rev. and Mrs. Jarboe received nany gifts at the surprise party, held n their honor at their home, Tues day evening, by members of the con gregation of their church, the Elkhart, South Bend and North Webster churches. Unknown to them the party had been planned last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Klink had been named tc invite Rev. and Mrs! Jarboe to a pot luck dinner Tuesday. When they insisted on knowing Where the part) was to be held, Mrs. Klink told then it was to be at the home of her son and that she and Mr. Klink woulc call for the Jarboe’s. When Mrs. opened the dooi of the Jarboe home about 7 p. rm, anc asked if they were ready, they botl jumped up from their chairs when they had been waiting, and sai&* “Yes". So about 90 church members and their families walked in the front door. Rev. and Mrs. Jarboe were seated near a large table, which was soor. piled high with gifts, and what the table wouldn’t hold was put on the floor at their feet. Potatoes, canneei goods, sugar, all sorts of eatables were among the gifts. A pot luck supper was enjoyed by the party, after the first excitement of the surprise wore off, and Rev. and Mrs. Jarboe attempted to express their appreciation of this act. do STORE FILES SUIT. The Seidter and Burgher grocery store has filed suit in the Elkhart county circuit store against Mr. and Mrs. Earl Brown, asking judgment for $85.15 on account. DIVORCE GRANTED MRS. MABEL CRESS Mabel King Cress was granted a divorce from Howard D. Cress, in circuit eourt in Warsaw, last Saturday. They were married May 8, 1920, and separated in July, 1930. During the trial Mrs. Cress testified that she was a that she continued to teach after her marriage so her husband could continue his musieal studies in Chicago. She said she had to buy her own clothing, fuel for their home and pay the taxes. She testified that Cress came home from Chicago once a week and at that time showed “more love for the cat and dog than he did for me". She said that she had had no word from her husband for several months. — oCLASS PLAY NETS SENIORS $115.18" The Senior Class of the Syracuse High school reports the net profit of $115.18 from the play, “Fixing it For Father" given at the school auditorium Friday nigh. With the class, the coach of the play, Mr. Barnhart wishes to thank Mrs. Dan Klink, Mrs. Grady and son Dean, whb loaned furniture and equipment for the stage. They also particularly mention the prompting work expertly done by Nathanial Fick. ; Money received from the play will be used by the class to meet expenses of graduation. -Q-—-, Perry Sprague left Tuesday for a three weeks hunting trip in Canada. The party*has a cabin located about 50 miles north of the Sioux, and will start out from there in search of moose. Mrs. Sprague and daughter, Nell, took Mr. Sprague to Lagrange, Tuesday, from which point the Start was made.

ELECTION IS TUESDAY, 4TH OF NOVEMBER Everyone Planning to Turn Out to VoteMay be Record. An unusually large vote is expected next Tuesday, Nov. 4, when state and county township offices are to be filled by voters at the polls. Most of the candidates have been active, and both parties have been trying to bring before the public why they and their platforms should be supported by the voters. Locally the center of the stage is occupied by the two candidates for the office of township trustee. A close race is expected by the political prophets. t ; In the county, a bitter fight is developing as to who will fill the offices of county prosecutor and sheriff. Locally the result is awaited with more than the usual amount of interest, due to the issues involved. Calls for support have been issued by both parties, and results of the calls will be learned Tuesday night or W’ednesday morning, when final counts are reported. Candidates for offices in the township, county and state are as follows: REPUBLICAN TOWNSHIP TICKET . ■' A / For Trustee, Harry Clemens. For Assessor, Walter Koher. For JTownship Advisory Board, Gerald Bushong, Dr. 0. C. Stoelting, Bert Ward. For Justice of the Peace, Alva Galloway, Roscoe C. Howard, Robert E. Pletcher. For 'Constable, Chauncey Cory, Fieldon Sharp, Hugh Causer. DEMOCRATIC TOWNSHIP TICKET .For Trustee, Daniel Klink. For Township Advisory Board, Arnold Pfingst. For Justice of the Peace, Isaac J. Grimes, L. N. Kitson, Jesse Shock. REPUBLICAN STATETICKET For Secretary of State, Otto G. Fifield. For Auditor of State, Archie N. Bobbit. For Treasurer of Stated Harry E. Nichols. < For Clerk Supreme Court, Charles L. Biederwolf. * . For State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Roy P. W isehart. • For Judge Supreme Court, First District, Thomas B. Coulter. For Judge Supreriie Court, Fourth District, Willard B. GemmilL For Judge Appellate Court, First Division, Solon A. Enloe. For Judge Appellate Court, First Division, Charles F. Remy. For Judge Appellate Court, Second Division, Willis C. MaMahan. For Judge Appellate Court, Second Division, Alonzo H. Nichols. (Continued on Last Page) MRS. WRIGHT ASKS $4,000 ALIMONY Mrs. Lola Wright filed suit for divorce from Carl Wright, in circuit court in Warsaw, Saturday. They were married September 20, 1922, and separated October 18, 1930. In her suit, the plaintiff asks for $4,000 alimony and S3O a month support money for herself and two children, whose custody she asks. The petition for divorce states that the family liye over a garage and that the fumes are so bad that the mother had to send the younger child away to live. Mrs. Wright was removed to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Moore, of Warsaw, following her recent operation in the Warsaw hospital, $325 DAMAGES ARE AWARDED BY COURT Last Thursday a jury in circuit court in Warsaw awarded $325 dafnagea to Mrs. Nora Bushong Phebus, who had asked $5,000 personal damages in her suit brought against Chas. Devault, several weeks ago. Mrs. Phebus alleged that on March 15, 1930, and prior to that date, Devault had promised to marry her. On April 15, 1930, he married another woman. Both parties are said to be 55 y«ar old. Mrs. Phebus lives on Boston street, and Devault lives on the. Stringtown road-

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