The Syracuse Journal, Volume 25, Number 11, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 July 1932 — Page 1

by Arthur Brisbane IF ALL DEBTS VANISHED THE TURTLE’S HEAD AS COSMIC BEINGS SEE US WISE SIAMESE KING

Mr. and Mrs. James Hennum of Sloan, lowa, who believe in “forgiving and forgetting,’’ own a general store and have cameled $75,000 worth of bills and refuse to take money , fron those that come to pay. What Would be the effect on prosperity, etc., if all debts in the Unitec' “ Stales, were suddenly canceled, the nation waking up one' morning t< find nobody owing a dollar? Should we’be w orse off or better ? off? ■ • A friend informs the writer that in ! ancient - times the Jewish people once, \ every fifty years wiped out all debts,] everybody starting afresh. It migh ) riot be such a bad idea, like taking j the barnacles off a ship. But ownei. of mortgage* would not like it. j Boys of Fanwood, N. J., used to be-1 lieve that the head of a snapping tur ] tig cut off did not die until sundown.! Superstition never dies, no matter how ; . often you cut off its head. . Port of Spain, Trindad, tells, of “a frail bended Spanish mystic” suddenly coming ftoiri th* mountain* to the village of St. Helena to anm ut ■ < that w ithin six months- the world ? will be burned up. . - . Chicago would say, coldly, "Go back t<> the mountains and get ipore de tails.” The credulous villagers have . given up work to devote all then time t«> mediation and prayer. The prophet has gone back to- th< inbuntains. He will be annoyed six months heme, but have a good excuse. ' /„ -' -I- ' '' ' I Through four gates, as Bunyan j would say. you find easy access t«the...hum:ni rijind. the gales of superstition, greed, race ’ hatred, religion, • hatred. .] A hundred times the end world has been announced and beW lieved. At jhe beginning-of the-yeai .1000 many sold their lands and ■■• d for next to nothing, put on whit< rid>es. and went Up into the ' • tains to ... ... as | ble when' the end came. It did nt come anti won’t come in one huiiti.v, , | mill on j ears. .*’• The~iate -Andrew D. White. : dent of Cornell university, tells of a Jewish prophet w ho. long. after ( hl is announced himself as "The ssiah.” ’ gathered a great following, and an-i pounced that he could walk i pon the 1 water and that those that believed iri « him could do the same He walked down a steep bank into deep water, ? followed by a big ; crowd. AU were 1 5 di ow ned I e.mvrs perst ■ . oft -' - en believe what they suy. That mak- i , es them dangerous. We know how the World around ,u> I looks. Boxy we look to one of the < i osmiC'beings that .'.presumably, sur • ioun<l us in F IFe .sec-' ppi sun, a small star one ! < * million times smaller than some other | >un», rolling in its mysteron* journey ] toward the great-star Vega above out j.| heads \: . d our sun he sees little i planets, following the sun as newly r hatched chickens follow their moth- 1 er, traveling in a spiral round and ' round the sun.

—% ' j , If he had a very powerful telescope .with . microecbpic attachment, he might see us and our-little works bridges; houses, - . canals, railways, banks, prisons and. libraries. Looking even n.ore closely, to read, newspaper headii gs about things . that interest us,. he would say. “Queer little creatures’ 0 Interesting information f-ivm Bangkok about Siam's revolution - King I Prajadhipok himself encouraged it. He was worried about the drop in rice exports, caused by Siam's foolish * gold standard. Rice to Siam is what coffee is to Brazil- And gold seems u not to agree with eastern lands. Also, like wise Louis XI of France, ! the King of Siam decided that his,! great nobles were becoming 100 powerful and decided that it would be Wise to depend on the people, that revere him. I Louis XI encouraged the nobles to kill off each other, saying, “The less they amount to the more 1 amount to." You remember how he disposed of the foolhardy duke of Burgandy. • • -I—' '»■■■■■ A sad story comes from the thirtysecond story of a Chicago hotel. A young brjde- wept when her husband said he did not think she could make . him happy, after they had been mar-I ried only one day. c She replied, “I can only give you all I have,” took off her wedding ring and engagement ring, handed them to him, and jumped through the Window to death. She suffered but a moment. He will suffer while he lives. ' Mountain climbers, attacking Mont Blanc every fine day, scaling the Jungfrau, occasionally attempting Mount Everest and failing, are admirable. But you have in your home a little mountain climber that, will surprise yo(L ' Starting from 1929, with the buying power at 100, it has climbed almost perpendicularly past 150, and ' (Continued from First Page) .

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TWO RESCUE!) ON WAWASEE ON SATURDAY Two Boats Capsize In I ' •• j y High Waves No < One Hurt. I Hig.h wind made Lake Wawasee so. rough Saturday that boatiing was langerous. Two boats caj;sized and • ely with no e sere .s results ■than duckings. , i ■ •i>, I. Miller had the speed boat Miss Waco from- the Slip, land was.'l J ni front of the South Sjjg're linn, Saturday afternoon when he noticed far ' rout in the lake what appeared to be a-c apsised boat. He went out in the speedboat to ; discover that the ,l> .it was the < anue which 1. C. DeHnven-had reijted fioiji I the Slip. To this overturned carioe • ■ j . near the boat was Irvin U. DeHaven, the- other $ but h who had be«ffi an- I • Upan; f the’ < a evv i high wave‘DeHaven had one of the I cushions from the canT>e and was trying to swim to shore for help for hi< ft lend, holding ,«»n to the cushion as j a plate oil which h® could rest when hg, became -tired trying toiswirn in his heavy- wool shirt, sweater and ! sh •<■'. ; . ' .His friend. Bill - Snore, ’ S'h<> had I come from li dial ip ■ is t< S| "nd the < tv red i.n heavy clothinc as p: lection ■.gamst the cold wind. He could not ! •'' ■ I 'Witn to shore and‘was clinging to : the boat while DeHavep Went fpt J ■ ■ ■ I Millet g »t both young -.men .into the speed boat and towed the canoe at the back and took them tb the I landing at the -DeHaven cottage. ; An accident fortunately without fatal results occurred on Lake Wawa-1 . - ii o’-1 dock. Puul and Lyon Lavermer Were j sending ?he..> 32 homey, ve: John ><>n motor i- at ab-ng at a rapid’ speed, and attempted too short a turn in the waves, just in front! of The j Tavern hotel.. The boat capsized and I Shey were thrown into t,he lake I. B. Eutrellp saw the acchieh.t and] called on Dwight MoCrk f": he took a boat out to the young "men | and got them out of the water. Or.e | of the boys , clung -to.the capsized I boat aiid the other swam? lb “-meet j ’>!■> e..be: ■' v. -• '..'A frighteneyi by the mishap.

v t, ■ * INCREASED POSTAL RATES IN EFFECT Increased postage rates oh fij-stl class mattex'and aif mail became. eL fective yesterday. Letters and other first class rnatteti require three cent 'tamps for an ounce or fraction of an ounce. ’ Letters in busines? reply envelopes three-<3l cents an ounce or fraction of. an ounce, plus one (1) cent addilional for each letter. Airjnail, eight (5) , cents for ’he first ounce or ■fraction of ah ounce, and thirteen (13) cents for each additional ounce, or fraction thereof. Those having a supply of twocent stamps may use same by attaching a Jone cent stamp additional, and as to i the two-cent envelopes, the same pro*, cess may be foil wed in preference to turning same in for redemption. ( In connection with the new three- : cent series of stamps, it is of interest to know that a record breaking order for stamps was placed by the Poet j Office department with the Bureau ! of Engraving and Printing. The order .calls for delivery to post offices throughout the country of 900,000,000 stamps, 90 per cent being of the new. three-genl varieties. i.O — ' GAROES PARTY HELD AT MRS. ISABEL GRIEGERS Seventy-five or 80 attended the successful garden party of the Ladies Aid of the Methodist church, at the home of Mrs. Isabel Grieger in Maxwelton Manor, last Thursday afternoon. Mrs? Grieger’s home was beautifully decorated with flowers. The guests met there but the refreshments were served at the boathouse on the lake. Mrs. Breckbill from Kendallville gave an interesting talk on her experiences in the Holy Land. Mrs. Aker from Columbia City was the soloist; Mrs. Joe Rapp of Syracuse gave a reading, and the quartet from the Christian church of Kendallville sang. Guests were from Syracuse, 1 Lake Wawasete, South Bend and La- , . Porte.

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CYCLIST GIVES TWO PERFORMANCES ON STREET ON FOURTH OF JULY

One of the largest crowds which have been in Syracuse on the Fourth of July'for years, etijoyed the two performances of Amos Audrey Sny|der, on his bicycle am] unicycle, Monday morning and afternobn.Mair. street was rbped off at the corner of Main and Huntington and 'at the first alley west, so thut no | c|rs could pass ! through- during Snyder's performances, Which ' idsted about 30 minutes. Parked ears in this space were iff ved before the bicycle shpw. J ? v»f Syracuse and Lake \Vaw.isee. v-sit-cs fl."-- Chicago, 8..--charian, M.ch.. and young people and ;-ofd ; people enjoyed ’the performance : off-'the gray -haired cyclist. Owen Striehy’s ] adio furnished. music for b?>th shows. . I I i Snyder tiist appeared on the street? ! i iding his bicycle of: w hich he had ( : sed f!or 14 daJys in the Coin- * r i ;’(-.unity He had iv»t i!.ade a o . b ■ • ' ■ ipent from the stage seven years ago ,j - ■ Et .. a number of difficult Licks oil the'l'icycle and then on the.

BELIEVE 11 OR NOT /■' ■' ;' ■ " . ? \ I i’he Foit WayneJ Journal .-/Gazette, ; i'riday morriing ebntairied; the following item: ALLIGATOR IN 1 AKE. Hunt Started tor Hi-ptile at Syracuse as Bathers Become Alarmed. SYRACUSE, June 3t’ An alligator ajbbut six feet ip length is at large r. Sy ■ acusg lake. The refitile was g.ht. to. the lakg last spring, by a i iikan who. spent the/winter in Fl rida li was presumed ’ that the alligator i had not survived the - winter, but the mild weather apparently failed to kill CAMP MEETING TO ! START JULY 10TH The Epworth Fbrest Camp Meet-i irig will, open Sunday. July 10, with] •a’ sernioti at lt’:3u by Dr. Rollin W,-i Walker, of Ohio Wesley an Univer-i -ity The afternoon addresses will be, delivered by’ Dr. 0- W. Fifer,, the] .revv ly elected editor of The Christian: Advocate (Cinciri.ri|ati. Edition),’ The) Rev. C. A McPhetters, pastor Tri.ri I tj- cbuich, Elkhart), and president of, he Camp Meeting association, w:' ; i it -r, .. ..--ide service in the ev.en rng at 6;3p. Dr. Ernest l.ytnan Mills vvill biing the first of the evening evangelistic messages Sunday at 7:30. The following are the leaders en-, gaged for the session: Dr. Ernest Lyman Mills. pastor, Springfield, Mass., preachers’ retreat and evangelistic hour; Dr. Lucius 11. Bugbee. if New York, editor church school, publications, religious education for-, >Jm; Professor R. Ilin 11. Walker, j Wesleyan University/ Bible| hour; Mrs. J. N. Rhodeheaver, of j Chicago,. Woman's home mission'arj speiety; Mrs. W.iibur T. Ale, of De-; tfoiL Woman’s- foreign inissiohary’l society: the Rev. and .Mrs. J. Floyd'] Seeling, <>f Grace -Church’. Anderson; niusie directors; the Rev. John Ward of Keinp ) Memorial Church, ■ Tjipton, platforrn 1 manage;. i Local pastors Will lead the Lakeside service each evening, as f Hows:; July lb-.’ Cn A. McPhetters: July 11. P. B, Smith, > f Noble Street church -i A,nder>on. July 12. A. P. Teter, f ] Winchester; July 13. B M. Bechdolt,’ f t.ai rett; July 14, J- F. Edw of Huntington; July! 15. 1, G. Jacobs, of Broadway Church. Logansport; July lb, F. E. Fribley of Fir f -' Church. New Castle; July 17, C. G. Yoemans ••f Mishawaka. .I. ' . . ■ - ‘ Xo • FUNERAL SERVICES HELD ON SATURDAYFuner.al services for Benjamin' St'ver. K>, who died suddenly at. his home last Thursday morning, were held Saturday afternoon with Rev. J. H. Pettit officiating. Burial was in the Syracuse cejnetery. Mr. Stiver was born in Elkhart Cbunty, January) 12, 1H47. the son of Michael and Mary Stiver .He had lived in and arbund Syracuse all of his life. In 1871 he was married to Miss Ellen Wehrly, who died in March, 1931. One son, Alonzo Stiver of Goshen and a grandson, Clifford, who lived with his grandfather,.survive. CATCHES PIKE ON FOURTH George Roscoe of Pottowatomie Park caught a 6S pound pike in Syracuse Lake, on the Fourth of July. He used a night crawler forbait. F

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i; unicycle. He rode on the bicycle 11 standing on his head, which rested >i on the seat of the bicycle. Then he ■ stood upright on the saddle and • steered the wheel with one foot oh the {handle bar. • | • A low bench was placed in the midl die of the street and Snyiler rode ‘ the bicycle up to the bench and I hurdled it as though his wheel were 1 a race horse. Then he asked an onlooker to lie on a rUg placed in the street, and Snyder hurdled over him. ? His last stunt at both performances was to ride his wheel - tri a bench [about waist high, somersault over the 1 bei ;h holding the wheel in the air, ' land on the saddle of the w heel arid ■ ride away. Mr. Snyder was pleased with the re gption which the appreciative c. w<i gave him and wishes to thank 'one and all for their kindness. | He wis pleased to be able to. give such a -how in his home town, which he left years ago to go on/the stage and) travel over this country and •Europe',

LUTHERANS WILL MEET AT OAKWOOD ' '■ The Luther League convention Sunday night anp Monday here in Syracuse will precede 'the annual Michigan Synod summer school for Lutherans at Oakwood Pa)rk, next week. On Sunday evening Rev. Paul H. Krauss of the Trinity churgh in Fort Wayne will deliver the sei njion atlhe service in the church here] in SyraIcusie. Rev. Stickles, of Detroit, Mich., will be chief speaker Monday. ' ■' ?.|onday evening at 6:30 the annual I banquet of the Luther League will ibe held in the High school, to be served by the Ladies Aid °of the ! Syracuse church. | Oin Tuesday the summer school commences at Oakwood Park. Tiresi day eveninfi. Rev. Paul A. Anspaugh, a .missionary to china will give the ; aridt ess. . ' Mj’ednesday evening. Rev. Edwjin ; Mol)l. pastor of a churgh iri Chicago, i w ill) be chief speaker, his topic to be “A Complete Christ for a Confused I Civilization.” j O'h Thursday evening sacred music .by the. Trinity Choir of Fort Wayne ■ wii.l be the program. Oh Friday ..evening . Rev. E. E. Flack will give . the address. Saturday afternoon. is.- designated at Young Women’s Day. At 6 [o’cldck will be the Y-. W- fellowship supper and an' inspirational service in the evening. The sermon of Sunday morning’s sunrise service will be by Rev. A. H. Keck. This w ill- be followed by Bible L - ’ . ' ] The address at the service at 10:30 [that morning will be by Rev. Rees ’ j.Edgar TuUoss, president of Witten- ■ berg C< liege. His topic will be “Is Religion Wurth YVhiie”? I ■ ; -o— ~‘ i - GUN AND BURGLAR’S KIT FOUND IN CAR [ Rev. Jarboe and wife returned hom[e, Saturday, driving, their stolen land recovered car, 8 weeks after the j.theft. Rev. Jarboe said that it was • recovered in: Manhattan, Kansas, only ■three days after it was stolen from Syracuse, and in the. back of the car was a sawed-off shut gun and set of burglar tools. T]ie license plates on the car had .beep stolen from another machine, al Ford, so the officers followed a false ciug these down. When it !’ w as learned the license plates did not belong to the stolen and wrecked Buick, the engine number of the • ca: was traced ty the factory, tu the de Her, and to the man the dealer had cold the car to. It cost the insurance company S3OO to repair the machine and return it to Rev. Jarboe. It had been driven 880 miles from Syracuse when it was found wrecked, the third day after it was stolen. : ; 0— HAVE SURPRISE PARTY i Friends of Miss Lucille Mellinger held a surprise party in. honor of her birthday, at her home, Wednesday afternoon last week. Guests were: Misses Frances Houston, Joan and Virginia Riddle, Betty White, Mary • Jane Green and Helen Gordy. Games -were enjoyed during the afternoon and refreshments of ice cream and cake were served. -- ■ . ? o BIRTH ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Whitmer are ; announcing the birth -of a son Ro- ) I Lert j Gene, last Thursday. <

RIDDLE SOLVES ONE AIR RIDDLE -GETS PATENT An instrument in connection with radio for correcting the errors cauSv ed by change in atmospheric pressure in the reading of altimeters, has been patented by Harry Riddle, well known aviator. The instrument upon which Riddle has obtained the basic patents is an altimeter made ‘more sensitive so that the hand moves over a larger space on the dial with' a -variation in altitude than the hand does on ) the ordinary altimeters. Combined ? with the iilthnetgr are two graded I circles. The outside one is marked off to represent almospheric pressure in inches of mercury. The inner one is graduated to represent feet. The scale of the altimeter and the graduated "circle representing feet are riioveable about a 'pin. With this instrument one of the last great dangers of Hying is eliminated. This danger, according to Riddle, is not in being able to find a certain location—radio compass has taken care of that, but is due to the ; fact that up until now no One has been able to devise a means of accurately determining the height of an airplane above the ground in fog or! at night, because the altimeter is effected b,y the changes in air pressure. With a falling barometer, the altimeter will show that the airplane is higher than it actually is, and this fact, with fog, makes the crossing of mountains and landing especially hazardous. With Riddle’s instrument, if an aviator wants to land On .a , certain landing field, he will radio for the barometric pressure and for the height of the landing field. Upon receiving this data he will set one of the hands of the instrument at the barometric pressure, the other at the height of the landing field. These hands are so 'arranged that they compensate for the difference caused by the atmospheric pressure. When the aviator goes to land he will watch the hand of the altimeter. The altimeter . will now show with accuracy his height above the ground. Before, in fog the aviator did not know if he was 10 or 200 feet above the ’ground. Riddle has been working and thinking, about some device for correcting altimeters ever since he cracked up in the mountains of Tennessee three years ago in fog. -—— —— b . VARIETY STORE IS SOLD TO BUETTNER Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Buettner, former owners and publishers of the Syracuse Journal, completed the purchase of the Variety Store from Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Gibson, last Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Gibson owned ) and operated the store here in Syracuse for the past nine years. Mr. Gibson has been in ill health for several months and for this reason they desired to go Out of business. - Mr. and Mrs. Buettner have continued to live in Syracuse since selling the Journal three years ago this spring, to Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Heerman, who now own the paper in Burr, Oak, Mich. Mr. Buettner was employed in Ligonier and in New Paris until recently. Both he and Mrs. Buettner are glad to be -back in business again in Syracuse, and other business places are welcoming their return. TAR BEING PUT ON UNPAVED LAKE ROAD If Helvy, in charge of the county sprayer finished road work elsewhere, work was to be started today on the road to Kale -Island, leading from the pavement of Road 13 to Warren Colwell’s .home and then to , King’s grocery. Workmen were filling washouts on , the road the first of this week and Helvy is to put tar on it. Work was started this week on the , lake road from the Vawter Park school house, to tar this .oad to ( meet the tarred road from Putter- ] milk point so that the lake road is ] pavecl from Syracuse to the South ShiSre Inn, and then the road has a ’ tar surface to Buttermilk Point and , the east side of the lake. It was necessary to fill with gravel ; the deep washout in front of Lee Henwood’s home. o , FIRST TOMATOES L. A. Seider presented us with • three home-grown tomatoes, of ] his garden, last Friday morning, July L

| DO YOU REMEMBER—- . 20 Years Ago. j When lightning struck.the barn of j Jesse Miller on the Beckner farm and the barn burned? .15 Years Ago When the Syracuse Power and Light Co., was sold to the Hawks ) Electric Co., of Goshen for $70,000? • • • 10 Years Ago When the young men from South Bend who robbed the Star Clothing store in Syracuse were arrested, i plead guilty and were sentenced? • • • I Five Years Ago. When O. F. White’s speedboat won the race, at Tri Lakes on the Fourth? ' —o— — |- ION LAKE WAWASEE] Mr. and M rs. Herschel Ray of So. Bend; Mr. and Mrs. William Semple and Miss Loretta Wolfang and Thos. Higginson of Chicago were among those who spent the Fourth at The Tavern. • W. P.' Zimmerman and party of nine friends from Muncie spent the week end at The Tavern. Chicago’s Golden Gloves squad will come to the Spink-Wawasee ho-' tel July 10 for 14 days training to meet the champions of Germany at Soldiers’ Field, Chicago, July 26. Twenty men will come for this training. . “Salt and Pe’anuts” who broadcast over WLW, Cincinnati, spent the Fourth in Mrs. Laura Wertz’s cottage next to the Silver Beach hotel. Mr and Mrs., Beard of Scherer-' ville spent the Fourth with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Long. Mr. Long returned to Chicago after ? spending the holiday at his lake home. Mr. and Mrs. Toni Ewing of Fort Wayne spent the week end and holiday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Mellinger. Mr. and Mrs. Richler and party from Muncie are spending this Week in one of Mellinger’s cottages, and Mr. and’Mrs. A. L. Curry of Indianapolis and friends rented the other cottage for the Fourth. Among the guests at the South Shore Inn over the holiday were: Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Cfister of Cincinnati, 0.; Fred W. Wilson of Chicago.; Nicholas Shaheen of Canton, 0., Charles R. Van Kenien of Cleveland, O.; Morris B. Cheaney of New’ York City. ■ Mr .and Mrs.. Howard Bowser, Mr. and Mrs. Charels Weber and son, Mr. and Mrs. A. Dompky and daughter of Chicago spent the week end and holiday at the Miller-Harkless cottage i_n Maxwelton Manor. Miss Helen Bowser and guests, Miss 'Mildred Dompky and Roy Huffsnider and Al Keller were guests of Mrs. J. H. Bowser. The Doering family reunion was held in Oakwood Park, Monday. Dr. Porter and wife of Fort Wayne are spending this month in the Inks Cottage on the north shore. | Mrs?, p. H. King spent Tuesday with her mother in Columbia City. Mrs. Amanda L. Xanders had for guests at ’her Lake Wawasee home, from last Thursday morning until Saturday, Professor J. W. Barwjck, head of the history department at the York Collegiate Institute and York County Academy. He was accompanied by four students, George Hummell, Roy Fox, Edward Manifold of York, Pa., Cutris Rider of Fulton, N. Y., and Henry Abts, sori of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Abts. The later joined the party here and accompanied them when they left on their automobile trip to Los Angelesi, Cali. They will visit places of interest between here and the coast, and will spend two weeks on a ranch near Dubois, Wyoming. Ten days will be spent at the Olympic games and the return trip will be byway of the Grand Canyon arid the Santa Fe. During their stay at the lake, Mrs. Xanders entertained the 5 party at luncheon at the Tippecanoe Country Club. Miss Nancy Cowgill spent several days this week in Wabash. / Mr. and Mrs. Walter Foltz, in the Oneal cottage entertained 15 guests over the holiday. Mr. and Mrs. Alec Mundie of Tonowanda, N. Y, are spending thisi week with Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Holman at their home in Maxwelton Manor. Bernard Carmen of Chicago spent last week end with the party. Mrs. C. M. Kitch and son Jack of Fort Wayne spent the Fourth at their summer home. M. Zimmer of Warsaw entertained 25 guests at dinner at The Tavern, Friday night. Mr. and Mrs. Hal Staab and daughter Marilyn of Northampton, Mass., were guests at the South Shore Inn this last week end. They are neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, living but two-doors from them., Mr. and Mrs. William O’Connor of (Continued on Last Page)

NO ACCIDENTS LISTED HERE THIS FOURTH I ■ ■ No One Injured by Fireworks or Auto Wrecks. “It was the first' Fourth of July since I have been practising cine in Syracuse, with not a burA requiring medicaf attention, resulting from fireworks,” is the way Dr. C. R. Hoy summed up Syracuse .and Lake Wawasee’s safe and sane Fourth.’There were none hut minof automobile accidents, and these out injury to anyone. Dr. Hoy thinks it wasn’t the depression, it was the rain. “Why, of all the days in the year . did it have to rain on the 3rd and 4th of July,” is the way business people of the vicinity summed it up. Visitors to the lake for the most part did little complaining about the weather, realizing this is something * over which resort people have no control. Hotels and cottages -were filled with lake visitors, over the past week end, and many residents of Syracuse who never accommodated tourists in their homes, did Saturday And Sunday night. Golf enthusiasts and fishermen who refused to fish in the rain were disappointed, as the rain started Sun- ! day morning and kept at it in a de- ] termined way, with few let "ups until the middle of the morning, Monday. Crowds enjoyed the dancing at Waco] during the week end and holiday, and restaurants and hotel dining rooms of the lake and Syracuse were busy almost the clock around. As one of the business men summad it up; “There wasn’t the sale of soft drinks as thfere was last year when it was so hot over the Fourth, but we were all busy.” Stores*in Syracuse were, kept open all day instead of half a day as in previous years, and were busy ail day. Crowds were in town to watch the morning and afternoon performance of Amos Audrey Snyder l , cyclist. ’ Syracuse’s Fourth must have been safe and sane because of care in setting bff fireworks, as the stores having these for sale were sold out and had to disappoint many would-b* buyers of firecrackers who cams in too late. • ", One automobile accident Monday evening damaged property on Kai* Island but injured no one. According to Warren Colwell two young men from Nappanee, Slightly under th* influence of intoxicating liquor, wer* z in the automobile which struck th* fence at the home of Stanton Gest on Kale Island. No one was injured iri the accident. NEW PUMP BEING INSTALLED TODAY The new Deming Triplex, 9xlo inch pump with a capacity of 417 gallon* per minute was installed yesterday and will probably be in operation by this evening. R. B. Deutsch, who is representative, of the Grinnel house from which th* pump was purchased by th* town board, is taking charge of the in* stallation. . The pump is being installed so that it can be operated with a similar pump which was installed a few years, ago, also either the new or old pump can be operated singly. The old cljutch was repaired by Sam Searfoss and two gate valVea were purchased. The gate valves will be placed on the outlet of each pump so that when one pump is not in operation the city water pressure" can be closed from the valve chamber of the pump. 0 FISHERMEN FINED IN SHOCK’S COURT Two fishermen were arrested on Lake Wawasee, on July 3, for having Undersized fish in their possession when accosted by Gam* Warded* Milton Justice and Rd Saurer. They were brought to Syracuf* and tried in Justice Shock’f court. Richard Creek was fined sl9 for hevinng undersized perch, and Ed Clanin of Pierceton was alto fined sl9 fer having undersized fish in hi* possession. %

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