The Syracuse Journal, Volume 25, Number 22, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 22 September 1932 — Page 3

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The days were tilled with Joy for the homeless lad. lie was quick to learn. He enjoyed ISS work. One day a tall brown-bearded nnn entered the store. Shad was alone talking with a boy known in the neighborhood as Bony. The man hud a serious face hnd a brisk manner. "HurrjTup, boy, and give me a pound of the best tea.” he comnianded. lie paid for his purchase and hurried out of the store. This stranger was not like any other person Shad had seen in A Hill y Dam. "Who Is that?" he inquired of Bony. "That, sir? Its Cyrus Doolittle. We call him /Cyrus the Great.' He hurries more an' does less than any man I know of. He's a politician. He’s the great man of the town.” , lu>ny was a born satirfit. A slim hatchet faced lad with a sense of humor. he worked at odd jobs here and there. •>lf you want to know more about Cy Doolittle, you ask ol’ Bumpy Brown •bout him.” “Who Is Bumpy Brown?” Shad asked. ' "He's the best dammer( In Amity Dam. N<w an' then he taLs a holl- , day an' sets down con/ftabie an’ spends It cussln’ Cy Doo/tHe." This somewhat fanclfuj Introduction being ended, the boy endeavored to restrain his Imagination with no great success, white he presented the outstanding facts in Mr. Brown's biography . ; "Bumpy Is an old feller with a wooden leg who lives 'bout three miles away in the cur'usest shack you ever see. It's on the shore of the river. As a liar he’d take the first premium at the county fair. Nobody believes hint” “Don't he like Mr. Doolittle?” "Hates the ground he walks on He'll.start from Piermont sober and. with po help anyone knows <>f but the scenery, he'll be drunk when he gits here. He never carries n bottle. It’s a mystery. He'll set an' lean ag'in* the telephone pole opi»osite this store an' laugh an' cuss Cy tilt the I cows come home. When he thinks he'i ruined Cy. enough he’ll bmp oft down the road. He can walk ns fast as anybody." j The boys laughed. j That day shad received a package of books from Colonel Blake: school i book* and some tales by Oliver Optic. The kindly Mrs, Smithers began to help him evenings with his grammar and arithmetic. He wrote many letters to Huth Blake. They did not sat? Issy him. They violated a hidden growIng sense-of arti*!C propriety. He studied; and burned them i On a Septeml»r afternoon be got leave to go with Body to the fair id Ashfield. There Shad came face to face With the sister of his stepmother —a young French woman of the name of Ba'tiste.. Shad treated her to lemonade and ahe promised not to tell anyone that she had seen him. One day Bumpy Brown came out and sat in his accustomed place on the corner at Amity Dam. Shad went out of the store for a look at Old Bumpy was In an advanced stage of inebriation. He was muttering. •'llascaW” "Dirty i sneak !” and like words of bitter scorn. As Shad approached the old nun looked at him and nodded with a smile, lie was about sixty years of age. "Hello, boy!" he said. Bumpy Brown was not often drupk. Three or four times in a summer he went on a spree am! when that happened he came always to Amity Dam. He was then so harmless and quiet that no one interfered with his pleasure. Shad was deeply interested In the curious man. He had to hurry back to the store. As he left, the drunkard called out laughingly: "And there lay round upon the ground great heaps of so'gers." Bumpy's assessment of Doolittle did not agree with the sentiment of the countryside. While people thought Doolittle a showy man, not overfond of work, who was deeply Indebted to the bounty of hie father-in-law, with whom he lived, everybody respected him or seemed to, everybody but Bumpy Brown pM< the boy Bony Squares. However, Bony was nobody. He came from nowhere. Moreover, he was down on the whole village. Mr. Doolittle was the friend of every great man In the county. He waa a supporter of the church. He spoke at political meetings. That evening . Shad was probably the happiest boy In the county. The mall had brought him a letter from Ruth Blake. Three times he bad read It and then had put the treasure very carefully In his pocket. Often he touched It with his fingers. Ruth and her mother and father had invited him to their home. He felt like a person of importance. Looking at the letter had brought back to him the singular elation which had come from looking into her eyes, from the feel of her hand. Shad was getting along. He had better manners. He had studied the grammar and dictionary. He had shaken off his rude dialect. He had not yet learned how difficult it la to ahake off the thing called background. History is often like a wolf on the trail of a stag. Shad and Bony were alone in the store that evening. Suddenly the door opened. Shad's heart sank within him when he saw his father. Bat Morryson. and the village constable appreaching him. "Ton d-Mi runaway* At kut

found you!” said Bat “What are you "doing here?” “Working,” Shad answered. “You're going tb come with me. Tve got work enough for you at L zAM 1 JkWw "If You Go a Step Further, I’ll Turn You Into Hay.” “Is be your father?" lhe_ constable asked. “Y<s. sir.” "Then I expect you’ll have to go with him.” Bony picked tip a pitchfork from a s,tii>?k of tooltk. "I ll get my coat and hat.” said Shad as be hurried into the rear room. But started after his son. Bony halted hi tn with the pitchfork saying, "If you go a step further. I’ll turn you into hay.” CHAPTER 111 A Day at the Fun Shop. From the rear-room of the store Shad ran downstairs to the cellar and “out of its open hatchway. He went directly to the Smithers' house. The merchant, now familiar with the history jpf Shad, was at home. Learning the truth, he said to the boy: "You disappear until the colonel comes. I'll telephone him. I don't want to know where you are." He hurried to the store. Shad went to the loft in the barn and spread a I blanket on the haymow and lay down. I Mr Smithers found the Cyclopean J Bat swearing mad. Shad's father and ; the constable were tn the store. The latter introduced Mr. Smithers. "Where is that boy?" Bat asked. “I don't know." "You re a d—-d liar,” "1 don’t allow swearing in this store," said Mr. Smithers in that gentle tone which he used in selling ribbons to a lady. ''lf you'll sit down. I'll consult my attorney on the telephone arid ask him what ought to be done." He called Colom) Blake, who said. "T<;l the man that 111 meet.him at your store tomorrow at eleven o’clock." The Interview next morning was very brief. 7 "Morryson. 1 know all about you." said the colonel “You ought to be in Jail. 1 shall see that you are put there am! tr><! B-r brutally to your children if you do not get out of this country today and stay out of it. Don't Irritate me by talk or tarrying. 1 want you to start now." Bat started. He had heard of the district attorney of St. Lawrence county. the terror of all the lawbreakers of the north country. He would make no word* with him. . The colonel set out for bls home. At last Shad was free. He celebrated his emancipation with asocial adventure. It marks the beginning of the second act of this drama of country life. He and Bony went down to Brown’s cove on the river for a visit with Bumpy Brown. "It'll be Sunday tomorrow —lord, how I dread It!” said. Bony. “The bell* an' the yells an* the stillness an’ the sleepiness an’ helpin’ Miss Spenlow pick flowers an’ then the walk In the cemetery to the graves of her cruel ancestors. Let’s break away an’ pike off to Bumpy Brown's. I'll paddle down today an' tell him we're cornin'" Now, Mrs. Smithers was a worker la the church. Shad “had sat in the Smithers pew every Sunday with her and her husband. His compliance with their wishes had pleased them. The long prayers and sermons, the singing and shouting had generally given him a pain In the heed. Shad's sense of rectitude was being slowly undermined by this ordeal. Soon he would be willing to lie to escape it That Sunday morning he told Mrs. Smithers that he was going for a walk to see the country and to think up things to write In a letter. He would not come home for dinner. •TU pray for you," said the good woman. At the store he met Bony. “1 suppose that Sister Smithers wanted you to go to the Sob Works?" said Bony. "The Sob Works 1" "The meetiu' bouse,” Bony explained. Always be called it “The Sob Works." “She's good to me,” said Shad, remembering her kindness. “Well, -you’re good to them. Ton do all their dirty work for ’em." They walked down the river road together. “What does Bumpy Brown do; - ’ Shad asked. x ,

i "Kind of .a tinker—mends umbrellas an' clocks au' tiu puns an’ 'most anything. He's got a tunny bird that talks." o By and by they left the road and took a well-trod palh that led into a thicket of evergreens. Beyond ibis i on the hi.iii bank of the river wus the I curious little home of old Bumpy ! Brown. H was built of small logs ’ stranded iu his cove when the high water of the spring went down. A few shapely cedar trees stood around it. Bumpy used to say of his acre on the river shore that it was “God’s Fair Ground." A man of imagination going to tiie lonely little bouse on a clear June muruiug would have culled it the i capital of Fairyland and chiefly because of the many voices in the reedy marsh and the w<mmlb and the flowerstrewn grasses near it. Bumpy was wont to call the birds his chickens. He fed them with crumbs from his table. With his own hands he bad completed the picturesque little house. It was snugged into trie river bank, its curving rc|of had a wide overhang, its windows were almost flush with the ground toward the trail. Ils fluor was somewhat below the level of the ground ou three sides. Its south sidetoward the river had a door and two windows, aliening on a flat rock ledge. Beyond them was a fltie stretch of still waler. The roof was partly covered with overlapping cedar strips from an abandoned .launch, a patch of shingles, a paich of rusty tin, and a patch of tar piiper. The windows and door* differed in shape and sixe. They had come from abandoned mills and houses. The snug and shapely structure, about sixteen feet square, gave one the impression that it bad grown out of the ground. Though delightful in fotm, it wus a thing of shreds and patches. Bumpy Brown was cutting wood buck of the house. > (TO BE CONTINUED:) .FOUR CORNERS. Mr. and Mrs. Crist Darr entertained Mr. and Mrs. James Chilcote from Nappanee: (Mr, and Mrs. Rob Chilcote of Milford: Mr. and Mrs. Earl Darr and daughter from Goshen at their cottage on Lake Wawasee, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Hampton, Mr. and Mrs. Koglars and son Harland from Chicago Heights: Mr. and Mrs. Hylers, uncle and aunt of Mrs. McSweeny sp*nt Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Howard McSweeny. Mesdames Geyer, Reynolds of Syracuse; Mrs. Smith and daughter of Fort Wayne, called at the Darr home,; Saturday afternoon. GFandma McKibbins of Milford and Mrs. Amanda Hoover of near New Salem spent several days at the James Myers 110100. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Graff and children called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Beer near Milford, Saturday evening: Mr. and Mrs. Crist Darr were Goshen visitors and called at the home of. their son there, Wednesday. ?. Mrs. Estella Darr and daughter of Syracuse called at the Crist Darr home, Monday. Artie Geyer was at Warsaw, Wednesday oh business. CONCORD Messrs and Mesdames Everett Tom, Guy Fisher and Lloyd Dewart and family spent Sunday with Lawrence Dewart and wife. Rev. Keller and family were guests at the Ray LeCounl home, Sunday. Those who called at the James Dewart home Sunday were: Jacob Bucher and family;’ Rev. E. C. Reidenbach, Ernest Mathews and Charley Ryman. Rev. E. C. Reidenbach and family of Syracuse enjoyed Sunday dinner with Ernest Mathews and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Harold LeCount and family, Mrs. Ethel Rookstool and daughter Rethel spent Sunday afternoon at the Chester Stiffler home. Ralph spent Monday evening with Mr. and Mrs. James Dewart. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Miller and .Mr. and Mrs. William Wyland spent Saturday evening in Goshen. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Gallaway of Cromwell and Edith Troup spent Sunday with Grandma Fisher. George Strieby, Lester Dewart and Bertram Whitehead and family spent Sunday with Mrs. George Gilchrist at their cottage at the lake. AFRICA. Mrs. Sim Lewallen and daughter, Mrs. Stanley Roberts spent Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Elisabeth Shock. Mr. and Mrs.. A. M. Likens called in the Elmo Shock home, Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Frank Brown of Indian Village called on her mother, Mrs. Elisabeth Shock and Mrs. Elmo Shock on Friday afternoon. Miss Pauline Shock is employed in the home of her brother Pearl Shock in North Webster. Elmo Shock and family called on Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Baugher Thursday evening. Miss Olive Baugher spent the night with D’Maris and Doris Shock, j Mr. and Mrs. Harry* Wingard, daughter Luella, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Crow and Mr. and Mrs. Vern Hursey and son Edgar visited last Sun-' dsy with Hr. and Mrs. Eli Sauers

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■ and family near Etna. Jonas Cripe, Mrs. Elizabeth Shock and Mr. and Mrs. Lon Clingerman • of Indian Village, spent Sunday with , Adam Gipe and family near Coliim- : bia City. Miss Lucile Rothenberger spent Saturday night with D’Maris and Doris Shock. The Crows, Wingards and Hurseys enjoyed a surprise party at the home of Harley Mars near Etna, one night last week. Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Shock and son Joe called in the Harry Wingard home Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Dye and son Charles took dinner with Mrs. Dye’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Shock,’ Sunday. Miss Hazel Gants took dinner with Sim Lewallen and family. Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Shock and son Dickie took supper Saturday evening with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Shock. & Callers in the Jacob Click home last week were: Frank and Will Swihart, Jesse Strieby, Miss Margaret Cripe of Goshen and Mrs. Amy Wingard. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Shock spent Tuesday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. S. Neilson. Mr. and Mrs. Granville Deaton spent Sunday afternoon in the Jacab Click home. RICHVILLE Mr. and Mrs. Henry Whitmer spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Unrue of near Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. John Myers, Mr. and Mrs. Harley Juday of Goshen, called at the John Stettler home on Tuesday evening. Mrs. James Ramsey left Sunday morning for Greenwood, Ind., where she will spend this week at the homeof her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eston Esbit. The Huff Musical Radio family made a personal appearance at the Richville M. E. church on Tuesday evening, Sept. 20. Ralph Krieter of Mishawaka came Monday to visit Earl Treadway and family, for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Granger; spent Monday in the John Stettler home. Mrs. William Stettler is confined to her home," with a severe cold. ; _— o——— ZION. Mr. and Mrs. David Hill of Elkhart spent Sunday with. Mr. ’ and Mrs. David Clayton. The Zion Ladies W. M. A. met last Thursday. The day was spent in quilting. A delicious pot luck dinner was served. f Mr. and Mrs. David Clayton enjoyed supper with Eston Clayton and family, Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Guy spent Saturday in Elkhart and also called on Mr. and Mrs. John and Mr. and Mrs. Omar Cable. Velma and Celia Bell Disher called on Martha Brower, Sunday afternoon. ' DISMAL Merrit Lung and wife, Ralph Lung and wife and Maurice Lung were guests at the home of Mr. and MFs. Sol Lung in Cromwell, at a picnic supper, Thursday evening. The party helped them celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. Other guests were Roy Miles and aunt of Milford. Max Burley and wife of Ligonier called on Mr. and Mrs. Lon Burley and Frank, Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Craig entertained a friend from Fort Wayne at their summer home at Cedar Point, a few days last week. Miss Lucille Stoner of Goshen and Dwight Bowser of South Bend spent Sunday with Miss Katie Bitner. The Ladies Aid was entertained at the home of Mrs. Dale Grimes, Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Fox of Chicago spent Thursday night with Claus Bobeck and wife on their way to Ohio to visit a sick relative. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lung visited a part of last week in Chicago with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Mullin. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer, who reside on the Sloan farm near Syracuse left Saturday for Kentucky to look for a location to make their future home there. SOUTH SIDE Mr. and Mrs. Merl Laughlin called at the home of Oat Rarig, Sunday evening. Mrs. Coy and daughter of near Milford visited her sister, Mrs. Clint Bushong, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Warbel of near Elkhart and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Warbel and son Charles took Sunday dinner at the Warbel home. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Laughlin and Mrs. Dan Warbel called at the Gilbert home last week. Mrs. Marion Davis, Mrs. Bertha Koher of Elkhart and Mrs. Woodard Clouse spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Jack Wright. Miss Leone Bollinger and Russell Kretzmar of Jackson, Mich., were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Woodward Clouse. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Davis of Flint, Mich., have gone home after spending several weeks with Lida Davis and Mrs. Hovarter. Mrs. Pat Ritter of Milford is go*

ing to the sanitarium in Warsaw for a few weeks. She is the daughter of Mrs. Alice Jarrett. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Koher, Will Kincaide and Emory Kinriaide of Elkhart visited in the home of his sister, Mrs. Marion Davis, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Will Ray went to Indianapolis, Sunday to see their daughter who has been in the hospital there for more than a year. SALEM Conrad Auer spent Tuesday night with his son George and family. Dale Tom-and family, and Alfred Tom called on Glenn Tom and family, Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Galloway were Sunday guests of Rial Troup and family. Arch DeFries, wife and son Donald spent Sunday at the A. R. Hollar home. Chauncey Weybright and family called at the A. E. Clem home, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Roberts spent Saturday night with George Auer arid family. Donald Smith, spent Saturday night with George Coy. — — oINCREASING WEED CONTENT PERILS INDIANA’S WHEAT LAFAYETTE, Ind—There is some complaint from the wheat markets that Indiana wheat is getting worse in weed content, which hurts the grain at the terminal markets, and is necessarily reflected back in the prjee to the grower. The condition has become so general that it has attracted the attention of inspectors at the terminal markets to such an extent that they are pointing out that Indiana wheat is in grave Jdanger of getting a bad reputation. It is reported that the grain inspection records covering wheat marketed frpm the present crop in July and August show an alarming increase in the presence of cheat, cockle and rye compared with previous years. Cheat increases the dockage and cockle and rye lower the market grade, all of which inevitably reflects back in a lower price to the producer. This, market observation indicates that the condition will get still worse next year unless special precautions are taken to provide pure seed for sowing this fall. At a time like this, when the price of wheat is so low, there is a natural tendency to save effort and expense. To be careless about weeds may be very costly in the end. The farmer who sows impure seed; is courting trouble. Everyone should be interested in grading against Jndiana wheat getting a bad reputation. The individual grower should recognize it as definitely to his own interest to sow only pure seed and to make every effort to get rid of weeds in fields already infested. Farmers having infested wheat that they cannot clean for seed should get new seed. There is plenty of it available at little or no extra cost. Often someone else in the neighborhood has clean wheat. Many elevators will arrange to exchange for good seed, and lists of growers who have good wheat can be found in the county agricultural agent’s office. In southwestern Indiana the millers have arranged for portable seed cleaning equipment operated under the supervision of the Purdue Agri? cultural Experiment. Station, to serve farmers wanting wheat clean-? ed. The w ork is done at .a cost of one bushel for each 15 bushels cleaned, or the equivalent in cash, and the demand is greaterer than can be met. ■-£- 0 You can cure a ham, a sore throat or a dog from having fleas, but not with the same treatment.

7 SPECIAL FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 26th. First-Class Cleaning Same as I Always Have Had SUITS Cleaned and Pressed -75 c 2 for j - sl.lO Top Coats or Overcoats Cleaned and Pressed - -75 c 2 for- -sl.lO Ladies Plain Dresses Cleaned and Pressed - - - -75 c 2 for- -sl.lO Ladies Plain Coats, Cleaned and Pressed - - - -75 c 2 for- -sl.lO Ladies Fur Trimmed Coats, Cleaned and Pressed, 85c and 95c M. E. RAPP

Wives of Club Members Bar Meetings at Night Saginaw. Mich.—Wives of Exchange chib tnembers took over the club’s weekly luncheon meeting and. voted unanimously to ban night meetings. “A husband's place is in the home, helping his wife with household tasks at night,” a resolution passed by the wives read. The wives agreed, however. with Miss Burnice It. Bibbs, a speaker, who said: “The reason husbands toll so many lies is because wives ask too many questions.”

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Specials for Saturday All Items Cash _____ I ' I SUGAR, PURE CANE, 10 lbs 46c BUTTER, New Paris, Ilb 1..... 23c • : , SWEET POTATOES, 10 lbs j 22c n/YrrTT 1 With Ilb of Chase & COr rLt Sanborn Coffee, a 10c Tea Coupon will be SPFCTAI O I s iven > all for U1 laUlMla ■ ; : : f— — l MUSTARD, 1 qt. a 20c value l 15c CRISCO, 3lb can ....... L 55c . SOAP, Swift’s Quick Naptha, 10 bars .. 20c .j BUCKWHEAT or PANCAKE FLOUR, - Little Elf, 110 c pkg .— 5c BAKED BEANS, Libby’s, 10c can, 6c PUMPKIN, a 15c canlor ...J .... .... 10c 0. K. SOAP, 10 bars ' 40c Seider & Burgener

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 22, 1932

O. E. S. TAKE NOTICE l There will be a pot luck supper? at 6:30, before our regular meeting which will be Wednesday, Sept. 28. All are urged to attend this meeting as it will be the only one before our annual inspection which will be held in Leesburg on Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 12. • -i "i .■ ■ A ,—o ; j TRY A JOURNAL WANT AD Lost 20 Lbs. oi Fat. - In Just 4 Weeks Mrs. Mae West of St. Louis, Mo., writes: “I’m only 28 yrsi old and [weighed 170 lbs, until taking one box ! of your Kruschen Salts jitst 4 weeks j ago. I now weigh 150 lbs. I also . have more energy and furthermore I’ve never had a hungry moment. ! Fat folks should take ope half teaspoonful of Kruschen Salts in a glass .of hot water in the morning before ■ breakfast — it’s the SAFE, harmless j to reduce as tens of thousands lof men and women know. j For your health’s sake: ask for and' get Kruschen at any drug store —the ' cost for a bottle that is but a trifle and if at ter, the first bottle you are not joyfully satisfied with results —money back’. —adv