The Syracuse Journal, Volume 25, Number 23, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 September 1932 — Page 3

Irving Bachellen

••Hello, Body!" Jbe shouted. “I'm gettln* ready; to start up the fun works." "it's >a silit to see you workin’.” Mldßouy. , ••Say. by Jeedix! When I've swung an ax a while 1 git a grudge ag in* _ Adutu fer earin' thut apple.” # Bony Introjuced bls young friend. **Say, boy 4 What be you expectin'?” The boys lid not quite understand bls query and were silent. "We ll have a good visit an’ a reg’lar Chris*inus dinne*. Come down to the spring a minute 1 want to show ye Buthln* calcullatej to improve the Condition o' the poor.” They descended from the high ground t» a wooded ravine. A covered dishpan was sunk to its cold spring. It held a small dressed turkey. “My friend Mugglrb brought that to me. knowin’ 1 expH’ted company,” Bumpy explained, “li m-ikes him feel bad to s<e young turkeys sleepin' out-o'-doors, to a tree, theta frosty nights. They ain't comftable. Me puts 'em out o' thsir misery.'* The old man laughed ai he added: “There ato't a-goin* to ke no sufferin' here If I ran help It" „ He walked with a knotty crooked stick cut in the woods. Hit artificial leg squeaked at ev<ry step. He limped a little but he Could travel at a good pace. As they entered the house a strange geatle voice called out: •'Hello, pard! Are you happyr " “Tea, Dick,” Buncpy answered. “Praise the Lord!" the voice exclaimed. It came from a yellow-headed parrot in a cage that rested among some potted ferns on a windowsill. The floor was well swept. The whole itterlor of the little house was notlctably clean. A crayon portrait of t plain looking woman hpng on the wal. “That's her—my wife," said the oil man proudly as he stood looking at th* portrait. "Just as nat ral as can be—made from a photygraft. Alwus l<».»Ulu’fat me—the best woman that ever Uvea. Died ten year ago. this tomia fall—September seventeenth, at four ten tn the mornln’ exac'ly." He wiped his eyes with a faded bandanna handkerchief ami went to the wbodbox. He began to whittle kindlings for the stove. He stopped sod. looked up at the boys and Added: ■| said she died but she's still here—alwus speaks to me when I come home an' we talk things over same as we used to.” He hurried out-of-d«»ors.. “Always hustles around like that after he's spoke his piece about her," said Bony with a smile. Bumpy returned with an armful of wood. He turned to Bony and said: "Say. listen to me. 01* Bumpy Brown has quit drinkin*. No more whisky fer him—not never no morel By Jeedix!’ 1 mean It. The las' time 1 come near breakin’ my good leg an’ then my wife an' I bad a talk about it. she argued it out plain. An’ then I ha<i a dream an* I heard her voice. She screamed to me an* she said: ■lwk out, BUU took out!* I was ocalrL" Bumpy shook his forefinger at Bony with this solemn declaration: “It you ever see me drunk ag'in. you can take off my wooden leg uu' split it up fer kindlln's, 1 guess the a—if thing would burn well." The parrot broke into laughter and then said In a gentle voice. "God Is love." “My wife taught him that," said Bumpy. “He’s good comp'ny. Dear me, Sus I Guess I'd *a* caved In long ago without him." It would seem that the bird performed an Important service In that little home. It was like the spirit of the dead. “Nobody ever see you drlnkln'," said Bony. “I supposed you got drunk thinkin* o’ Cy Doolittle an* the scenery.” / "Well, an* 1 Just as soon tell you boys suthln* if you’ll keep it a secret It's very private." The boys Indicated their respect for his confidence, with unusual emphasis. Bumpy winked and sat down and pulled up his right trousers leg to the knee, exposing most of bls wooden member. On one side was a little shelf with a holo in it and a cork In the hole. “Ye see, all I had to do was buy a bottle o* whisky an* fill up my leg with it That ol’ leg holds enough to see snakes with. When I wanted a drink Fd lift my pants leg an* stick a straw la the bole an* shift a part o’ the load a little higher up. I call It my happy New Tear leg." The boys laughed. •Yea, air, my ol* leg an* me Is goin* to behave." He took down a fiddle hanging on the wall and said: “Here’s the main Shaft o’ the fun works." He tuned Its strings and played "Money Musk" and “The Sailor's Hornpipe." The bird sang joyously and Bony danced a Jig as Bumpy played. He hung up the fiddle and said to Bony: "If you'll run down an' bring up that turkey an’ the butter. I’ll start the doln’s." The boy ran and fetched them. The bird indulged In a weird chortle. Bumpy smiled and said: “Well, Dick, you've never learnt how to make a fool o' yerseif as 1 have. Bve got a maggot tn my brain." Dick whistled a bar of the old bugle roti for assembly. - Bwpy pfcMd 9 • imHV, «houh

dered it and marched briskly across the room as if obeying the call. Returning to his task be said: “We have great times —that bird , an* me. We visit together an' he sings party. When I go a-tlnkerin’ I take him with me. carry him on a stick behind me. fastened to my pack. He amuses the fam'ly while I work. Everybody loves him." Bumpy had a Jolly way of bullying the boys. “Go an' wash yer hands an* comb yer hair." he said. "By Jeedix! Anybody would think that you was settln* down with common folks to a plain dinner. It any o' my rich friends should come 1 want ye to look right'* Bony had a nervous habit of winking and wrinkling bis brow when amused. "Stop screwin' up yer face that way," Bumpy would command. “la>rd I Seems so the devil had stepped on yer big toe. It makes ye look like Mrs. Smelts." “Who is Mrs. Smelts?” Bony asked. “Well, sir, I reckon she's the humll- . est woman In the world. Lives In Pitcairn. She'd wilt ye down. Smelts is dead. He must 'a' died lookin' at her.” So the time went until the turkey, well browned, and baked potatoes and fried fish on the table all smoking hot. Then Bumpy brought to the banquet a pot of delicious coffee and a Jug of cider “with a little edge on IL" The feast began. Bumpy keV the boys laughing with an account of the singular adventures of Dick and himself on the road. In telling these stories he was wont to use the first person plural. Even when speaking of his own thoughts he said "we" as if out of respect for his comrade. It was different when he told of Pickett's charge at Gettysburg and of crawling Into a clump of bushes with a bullet In his breast at Cold Harbor. There was generally a note of vanity in his stories. Some of them gave the Impression “that he was a man of amazing courage and fortitude. Then the scars! By and by Bony had his turn. He knew all the droll sayings and misdeeds of Amity Dam. While Bumpy was filling his pipe he turned to Shad Morryson and said: “Boy. you ain't done a thing but laugh an' listen. Slip yer belt on the pulley an’ keep the works a-goln’." It was then that Shad's remarkable gift for Imitation was discovered. He told a numtier of the stories of Phide Scott, reproducing the droll dialect so faithfully that his friends roared with laughter. They sat talking the hours away until the sun was low. Suddenly Bumpy arose and began to pick up , the dishes, saying: “And there lay* round upon the ground great heaps of so'gen" j Bumpy used this rhymed picture as a kind of tailpiece to every situation. There was t touch of satirical humor j In tt> Doultleas at the lodge and at other places where old soldiers were wont to gataer he had been fed up with bloody tiles of the great conflict. There was a rap at the door. Shad I opened IL A well-dressed, handsome young lady awut twenty years, old I stood looking it the boy with an exI pression of astonishment in her face. She uttered no word of greeting. j Her manner vas haughty when she i said: “1 want io see Mr. Brown." She turned away as she spoke. Bumpy'changed color. With a look of Her Manner Was Haughty When Bhe Said, "I Want to See Mr. Brown." surprise and embarrassment he said: “AU right I’ll be with you in a minute." The girl descended the steps and disappeared. Bumpy put on his coat and hurried out-of-doors saying: “Set down, boya. I'll be with you soon." He closed the door behind him and followed the young lady. Through a window the boys saw them walk together into the edge of the thicket where they stood talking. "Who Is that?" Shad asked. "Darned if I know," was Bumpy's answer. “But I’d like to set an* took at her for a week." “She is pretty—no mistake," Shad agreed. Soon the girl went away. Returning Bumpy stopped in front of the shack. The boys went out to him. He did not speak of his mysterious caller. He finished bis work. He put some tools and clothing 1a hi* p«abia& -

I “Well, boys, we’ll go along with ye," he said cheerfully. “Dick an’ me are ' goin' io Bolton tonight so we cun ' begin work In the moruin'." Two small green sticks having four 1 crutches were lashed on either side ,of the basket They stuped upward and backward. A lashed rod lay In I the lower crotches. This was Dick's saddle. The rim of the basket helped the bird to balance himself when necessary. Released from his cage, Dick laughed Joyously and shouted, "Come on," and flew to his perch behind the pack basket now on the back of his master. In a moment, settled on his perch he soberly declared: “Money makes the mare go." The boys laughed. It was indeed an outfit as curious and as amusing as any that ever took to the road. Bumpy slopped suddenly and turned to bis two companions and said: “By Jeedix. bbysl We’ve had fun an' we'll have some more. I like you. if ary one o’ you,ever needs a friend era home, come to me." When he had returned that evening Shad succeeded in writing a let- [ ter to Ruth Blake in which he felt a sense of pride aud satisfaction. It ' told of his day with Bumpy Brown. Its spelling and grammar Would later have made him wince but not in his best days could he have improved its humor. (TO BE CONTINUED.) X MAIL SALEM Henry DeFries and wife and "Arch DeFries and wife attended the Bourbon Fajr'on Thursday. , * Mrs. Enieral Jones called on Mrs. Arch DeFries Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Strieby and Mr. and Mrs. Williams called at the Reuben Mock home, Sunday. Frank Hieoer and family spent Sunday afternoon at the Henry DeFries home. Conrad called on friends in this vicinity last week; Mrs. John Auer spent Thursday afternoon at the George Auer home, Mrs. Ruth Reber called at the Rial Troup home Sunday afternoon. John Auer and wife called at the George Auer home, Sunday, evening. Henry DeFries and wife spent Sunday evening with Mrs. Richard Rankin. Allen Smith and family of near New Paris called at the Joe Smith home Sunday afternoon. Miss Bertha Gresso called on Marjorie Smith Saturday evening. Alvin Magnusen of Elkhart was a guest of Lucille Smith last Wednesday and Thursday at the home of her parents. , Mr. and Mrs. Emory Guy called on Joe Smith and family last Wednesday evening. M’COLLEYSCORNERS Ward Robison called at the Greeley Yoder home, Monday evening. ■ ■ . Mr. and Mrs. Charles Richcreek and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Schooder and son Everett of near Milford spent Sunday afterrioOn with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Miller of near Millersburg. Mrs. Dick Miller and Miss Wilma spent Sunday evening at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Nat House and Mr. and Mrs. Greeley Yoder. Mr. and Mrs. T- L. Comer were shoppers in Goshen on Saturday. Mrs. Ida Richcreek and family spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Orvie Richcreek and family near Syracuse. V Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Darr and family called at the home of Mrs. Ida Richcreek Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. George Kreger and Miss Florence Strieby were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Silas Gilbert of near Syracuse. Gary Robison was a caller at the Harold LeCount home, Sunday forenoon. Mrs. Ed Robison, Mrs. Dick Miller and Miss Wilma spent one afternoon last week at the Ward Robison home, canning peaches. Charles and Edward Richcreek helped Graham Tyler in his saw mill on Tuesday. • Mrs. Charles Richcreek called on Mrs, T. L. Comer, Friday afternoon. Dale Weimer called on T. L. Corner. Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Saggars of near Topeka spent Saturday night and Sunday forenoon with her mother, Mrs. Ida Richcreek and family. Sunday afternoon they visited relatives in Goshen. TIPPECANOE W. C. Vincent, Royal Kline, Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Garber took supper in the J. L. Kline home one evening last week. Mrs. Charles Bigler spent Saturday at the George Tom home. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Gordy visited with Will Kuhn and family, Friday. Emmitt' Gordy visited his sister, Mrs. J. W. Willard of Kuhn’s Landing Friday last week, and while there tried his hand at fishing but had no success. Lawrence Scott worked in Elkhart last week. Mr. and Mrs. J. Garber, Ivan Kline and family called at the Eaton Kline home, Sunday afternoon. W. C. Vincent, Royal Kline, Mrs. J. L. Kline and daughter Hazel, Mr. and Mrs. J. Garber were shoppers in Ligonier Saturday, and also took in the fair.

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Charles See has purchased the Charles Baugher farm and we uni derstand that Joe Weimer and Bert ■ Bausman have traded farms. W. C. Vincent took dinner with j the Schaefers in Pierceton, Sunday. Charles Bigler called on James Jarrett in North Webster, one day last week. FRONTSTREET Mr. and Mrs. J. Lind from Akron 0., are here this week visiting Joseph Lind on Front Street. The Big Slab Layer on U. S. Road No. 6 is near the ■ Bethany or big I church. No. 6 is open from the Old | Huntington road east. The Berm ( builders are about at the Solomon’s ! Creek bridge coming this way. I Whiteheads. (Cont'd.) Samuel Whitehead, the sixth born and third son of Valentine and Mary Whitehead was born Dec. 21, 1810, in Montgomery Co., near Dayton, O; He lived with his parents 21 j years, then married Sarah Frantz : who was born near Roanoke, Roan--1 oke county on the hills of old Viri ginia. Mrs. Frantz had two older sisters, Anna and Elizabeth, Ann married Henry Neff near Boone Mills .25 miles south of Roanoke, lived there several years, then moved 3 miles south of New Paris, Ind. Elizabeth married Mike Myers Sr. and located one mile west of New Paris. In 1844 unto the Myers union was born Eli, Mike Jr., Henry, Lydia and Sarah. Mike married Cyntha Blake. Their children were Charles, Clyde arid two daughters. Eli married Susan Stutsman. Henry married Miss Cart. Lydia married first a Mr. Early, then Joseph Lesh. I Sarah married Aaron Miller. | The first and second generations I have passed away and lie buried in I the Whitehead, Bainters Mill, Syracuse and North Manchester cemeteries. Samuel was^ar farmer near Dayton, 0,, for seyeral years. He moved with the Whitehead colony to Indiana in 1836. He located two miles f southwest pf New Paris on the southeast one-fourth of section 17. To the Samuel Whitehead union was born Valentine, Mary, Lydia, Anna, Elizabeth, Henry and Daniel. Valentine was born near Dayton, 0., July 30, 1833. He taught school in | the old Gilbert schoolhouse two and i one half miles northwest of Syracuse. | The writer werit to Mr. Whitehead’s school his first term, the winter of 1861. Valentine married Tena Smith, , April 7, 1861. Their children were Ellen, Sarah, Anna, Ida, Samuel, Frank and Clara. Ellen married Solomon Mishler Dec. 29, 1883. They have Frances and Iverson. Frances Mishler married Pearl In-, body and »hey have 1 a son George. Iverson married Minnie Bainter. They have two children, Florence* and Gerald. Anna Whitehead married Mishler October 21, 1883. They have four children, Clara, Nora, Zelda and Goldia. ’ Samuel, son of Valentine and Tena Whitehead was born May 15, 1870. He married Doshia Peters. Their children are Merle, Cecil, Russell, Harold. Merle married Edna Berke Ty. They have four children. Cecil Whitehead married Miss Kendall Aug. 27, 1920. Russel Whitehead married Dorotha Warstler, March, 1921. Harold Whitehead married Alta Frey, July 31, 1927. Frank Whitehead, son of Valentine and Tena married Clara Wagoner. They have Elmer, Romaine and Gladys. Clara, daughter of Valentine and Tena married James Peters, Oct. 25, 1896. Their children were Grace, Vera, Bernice and Paul. Mary, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Whitehead was born Dec. 5, 1834. She married Cyrus Lents of Dayton, O. Their children were Albert, Moses, Dessie, Jennie, Dora, Ollie and Charles. - ’ Albert married Mary Robinson. They had 11 children: Lulu, Edward Emerald, Cleo, Imogene, Charlotte', Helene, Elizabeth, Arthur, Jeanette and Richard. They married into the Smith, Geiger Potter, Dumas, Gram Sears, Cook and Anglin families. Dessie, daughter of Cyrus and Mary Lentz married Benton Dubs. They have Grace, Blanch, Georgia, Agnes and Ruth. They married into the families qf the Snaders, Stewarts

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McCoy and Davison. ■ Jennie Lentz, daughter of Cyrus and Mary married Charles Hammond Their children were Roscoe, Fred, Ruth, Gordon, Donald and Esther. They married into the families of Vanness, Heaton and Ingles. Moses Lentz married Emma, daughter of John Dubbs. They have Winnie, Mary, John and Pauline. Pauline married Leonard Buffer. They have a son Richard. Ollie Lentz, daughter of Cyrus and Mary married George Grove. They were the parents of Lottie, Margery, Fred, Carl and Elizabeth. The Lentz families live in Milford and vicinity. Cyrus and Mary Lentz once lived on the William, Weybright farm. They are buried on the north side of the hill top in the Whitehead cemetery. UNCLE LEW. AFRICA. Mrs. Amy Wingard called on Mrs. Eli Shock, Tuesday forenoon. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lewallen annd son Jack spent Wednesday evening in the Elmo Shock home. Mrs. Granville Deaton and her mother, Mrs. Ella Angel accompanied Mrs. Rose Click and her daughters Katherine and Geraldine to Ligonier Wednesday evening. The Fidelis class of the North Webster Brethren church met with D’Maris and Doris Shock, Thursday evening. A box supper was enjoyed, the girls bringing the boxes and the boys buying them with “coppers.” There were 20 present and all reported a good time. ’ The Kum-Joyn-Us Class of the | North Webster Brethren church met with Mr. and Mrs. Ercell Wright , Friday evening for Bible study. Jonas Cripe, Mrs. Elizabeth Shock and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown of i Indian Village spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Will Shock of near Warsaw. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Crow and Mr. and Mrs. Vern Hursey spent Sunday in Nappanee. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wingard and daughter Luella were Goshe'n visitors, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Eli Shock called in the Pearl Lautzenhizer home Monday evening. I Mrs. Rose Click and Mrs. Anna Crow called on Mrs. Amy Wingard Tuesday morning. Dinner guests of Eli Shock and family Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Lautzenhizer, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kizer and son Carl of Walkerton and Mrs. Alice Shock. Afternoon callers were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fidler, Mr. and Mrs. Summers, Miss Alta Dye, Mrs. Lee Dye and son Charles. DISMAL Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Johnson and two children from Michigan were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brownbridge and children over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Grear of Cedar Point were Fort Wayne shoppers Saturday. Mrs. Evaline Bobeck spent last Thursday with her sister, Mrs. Mabie Burley in Ligonier. Ray Wilkinson, who is recovering How Modern Women Lose Pounds of Fat Swiftly—Safely Gain Physical Vigor Youthfulness With Clear Skin and Vivacious Eyes That Sparkle With Glorious Health Here’s the recipe that banishes fat and brings into blossom all the natural attractiveness that every woman possesses. Every morning take one half tea--spoonful of Kruschen Salts in a glass of hot water before breakfast — cut down on pastry and fatty meats —go light on potatoes, butter, cream and sugar—in 4 weeks get on the scales and note how many pounds of fat have vanished. Get a bottle of Kruschen Salts —the cost is trifling and it lasts 4 weeks. If even this first bottle doesn’t convince you this is the easiest, safest and surest way to lose fat—if you don’t feet a superb improvement in health—so gloriously energetic—vigorously alive—your money gladly returned. But be sure for your health’s sake that you ask for and get Kruschen Salts. Get them at any drugstore in the world. —adv.

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'from typhoid fever appreciated the i help of his neighbors when 24 came Saturday morning -and cut about 300 shocks of com. Wilbur Wilkinson was a South Bend visitor Saturday. Grandma Bobeck remains about the same, confined to her bed most of the time. Mrs. Perry Lung of Cromwell and Amelia Clingerman called on Mrs. Bill Reed and daughter Joan of Elkhart and Mrs. Stanley Lung, Monday afternoon. Dean Carlson, wife and daughter of Topeka were the guests of Dora Clingerman and wife, Sunday. Quite a number from tfee Dismal attended the carnival at Ligonier Saturday night. SOLOMON’S CREEK Mr. and Mrs. Ford Overlease of Milford and Mr *and Mrs Ed Fisher motored to the Gene Straton Porter hqme at Rome City Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Bunger, Charles and Frank Bunger, Belle Juday of near Millersburg, Mr. and Mrs. Herb Foos of Middlebury, Mr. and Mrs. Rice and little daughter of Goshen, Miss Hellen Tully add Mrs.

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SEPT. 29, 1932

THURSDAY,

Ora Miller of Goshen, Mr. and Mrs. George Darr anid son Ralph, were callers at the i Albert Zimmerman home Sunday afternoon and evening to see Mrs Wilbur Miller and little son. * The Brotherhood* and other members of the chhrcfh gave Rev. and Mrs. Dobbins as, reception at the church basementTuesday evening. A good crowd ; attended. They had a pot luck suppter and program. Mr. and Mrs, 1 Walter Simpson and son George sp|nt • Sunday with O. Whistler and family. RA A truck brought Rev Dobbin’X, household gootjls here last Wednesday and took Rev. Sherrill’s goods to Frankfort Thursday. The Brotherhood will meet at the home of Earnest Juday Oct. 11 Miss Meriamj Darr will entertain her Sunday school class Oct. 7 Preaching service here Sunday morning and evening at the usual hour. | . -L—n— . . ENTERTAINS S. S CLASS The Young People’s class of the Evangelical Spnday-scßool were entertained at the home of ’Ralph Dish- . er, Tuesday evening. Following the meeting, refreshments were served.