The Syracuse Journal, Volume 25, Number 31, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 24 November 1932 — Page 2

WEDNESDAY. NOV. 23, 1932

THE SYRtCVSE JbUßX’ll. REPUBLICAN. Published every Thursday ul Syracuse. IH<llai»a< Entvii-c as secund vlaas iwatwr <•■ ■ Muy 4lh. IS»’>S. at the potoffice a Syracuse. Indiana.' under the Act of Con aress of March 3rd. 1879. - SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, in advance .... . 5 . ....$- 00 Six Months in advance ..... Lo< Single Copies .0> Subscriptions dr«»p|»ed If not renewed when time Is out. ~~ 111 KUY L. PORT HL JIL Editor find I‘tibltsher Office Phone 4 Home Phone **o4 WEDNESDAY. NOV. 23. IWJ THIS WAS rHE FIRM SNOWFALL O Roland Crow, who is in charge of maintenance of state road 13 is to be congratulated on the way that he kept this road open during the recent snow storm. Many persons have remarked that road 13 was the best cleared road around here. A. W. Emerson said when he took Mrs. Emerson to Marion on Wednesday that road 13 was the best cleared road he traveled on. and the editor’s wife said the same thing after hei trip to Rockville, Thursday > if Road 13 was in the best shape during and after the snow storm the same cannot be said about the olhei roads and streets.in Syracuse. A county snow play did not show up around Syracuse until Friday afternoon. it snowed Tuesday afternoon and n ght. Even on Friday the county plow cleared only the road between Milford and Syracuse. Which is not sei vice. Os course the county ablh>?t ities were not prepared and the sm-w caught them with many of the truck* in need of.repair But even if the tyucks had been ready for use. Syracuse, located in the coiner of the county Wpuld .not. have seen- any county plows until nioat of the so, w on the roads'had-, been beaten down by cats until the roads weie made passable. Under the present system! •-f main tenauce within the i.'Ui ’.y. "a., ti ui k> and snow pl 'wfs are kep* in W-arsaw. Necessarily the i ..ds i-etwici \\ a: saw and Syracuse must te cieaied! before the snow -plow < an nfeai h Sy r a cuse This is usually done t". lute t> ■ do any real good What we need to e rrect this surd system is t ■ have one pi w at ! least kept in. Syra< tse ■ of Syracuse The people ..f Turkey Creek ’• ft ehip pay enough laws > d use em ugh I . gasoline that they are entitled to -< • vice when they need-it. iv«t after the rest of the.county ha* :><-e: taker care ot The Chamber of Comfi.erce. the Farm Bureau,- the town board and ull cituens of Turkey Creek town »h p should see to. it that; a county mow plow is, kept in thii cornei <f j the county. We have, heard some ■complaints * that the snow should be hauled aw ~y from the gutters f . the slr.eet* n Syracuse, as cars are stalled m th< snow when parked lheie That would be Ine if the town could afford it. We were also told tn the same bieath that other t« wn* did it. That may have been in the past ! but not this year. Other towns ar.e ! as hard up financially aS Syracuse To have snow hauled*,aw ,iy csts money and money for hauling snow means more tuxes The cry is for less taxes, so some luxpries and even ' some of the things that have come to l»e regarded as necessities must be done away with. There are many people who are being helped by the trustee from the taxpayers' money Why do they not come forward and offer to clear snow from the streets? This is true not only in Syracuse, but other towns and cities of the state including Indianapolis \ r.seii', Pc ... W - . Ixiganspot. Lafayette. Crawfords ville, etc. Highways were cleared of snow as fast as possible by the high way department, but streets of towns had not been touched. And every city is helping its unemployed. iU —_o „ . Mr. and Mrs. Walter Keggfphin ned to return ho:oe fr. I •.<|nj/ap-' Its. Tuesday, after a two days’ visit there with relatives, but 'on account of ths snow they did not return home until Friday. Mr. Kegg’s sister Mrs. S S. Schrock, who accompani- i ed them stayed witlj Mr and Mi* Kegg here in Syracuse until Sunday and then went to Kendallville for a few days visit before going home tv Scranton, Pa. A pre-Thanksgiv ing family dinner party was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Kern Sunday Guests were .Mr. and Mrs. Forest Kern, Miss Helen Jeffries and S. O. Jeffries of Syracuse; Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Rippey and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Ulery of Goshen. . . i n—»—- — ■ IJ Among the visiting ministers at the communion services at the Church of the Brethren last week were: Rev. C. Metxler and .wife: Rev. T. G. Weaver and wife of Wakarusa; Rev. Lee Cory and wife; Rev. Mild Geyer of Milford; Rev. 0. H. Warstler and wife, pastor of the North Webster church. 1 O Mr. and Mrs. Chester Stiffler and Mrs. Lavina Brooks spent Sunday as- . ternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Orland Stiffler.

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The colonel WS# vy< i:v. He uro*e presently mi'! 1 1* t” ' s y«>ui ’ friend that they -o to Led. S': • 1 aro*e and - d good night, i ■- ,"■ gave him n P v..<.uit 'tni'-v a* she utia. “Hqw Grand >ou Look!* cvv. r.--• H. r,. .. . . !.• <.. > » note of di-app’-mimcTit in h»r eye* The g>rl went with hfth to the i ,< t <«f the s'. ; t . vv >-... ■ ; ! vs ::i svv.-« t on. our-.igciiii-nt ui her » y - *.: How gran 1 you * k ’ He vv.-nt up*’.i with tl.-e colon 4 w , lb' Io S r* it 1... \ In the mottling and Ruth m«: him lu the hall and looked-Into his eyes with' I •'How ta/v you nr. ' !<«■ bc-n u; an .” v.., ■■ „• ■ ; ■ rc: " He was ’h.,ppy.a* he ■ststhmered,' r;i■ l.i-r .. ' kvv .i?.. s ’1 ■ .: I ■.. . klo wi ’ » 1 vv . ■ ! .-.-a at dav I.ght. Rath blushed, *;n ’ I ! i>< g<4 to hurry jwavt.-i.ii.w". ] ■ V , ■ ■ . ■ ■ . - ■ ’. \s • . H part of the old strategy. She knew th.p it .vvo'/d ' - li : - ’* ■<• her v<> • thought of his bl er. 11 1 dev *t ting di*.ip|‘o,htmont. So *hv lit! him. Before *h< 1. d got;.' a !>■ •. k *he pro tended to have f' lgo; en > v. tiling > - 14 v . ■ : v . • ■ otto •• '1 '. .y th.- '■ w. * ■ omfort.il- y " ttl.e.l in a furnished room. Hl* ~...* vs.:e ' • bl- ■vv et,: y v o ih>! til• s a mo: ■ • lie v. .* - to- g. t >, < ti o *' ■ • ■ ' !’ o •< a *p.-cu);:tion on the part of the y.chereu* lawyer : k«|- that <-f Vlttillg a coit -n .a tr-. ■ • - .- 1 ■ wp* quick to barn. Moreover, lie hid a mind of t * own, ami agreeable manners. . - • ■ ■ The cotiutry wag now at u.ir W '■ Sr-i.ti. A !’ •■*-■ ■ . ? ■ ’ >■ .• •• from the War department to. consult the eolom-l. ' It was tli>n that Shad le.'irtiol that Colonel Blake was an acknowledged authority in devi*itig ami rcu'i.ug cipher : e**;tg<-* use<i m Facta of vital Interest w ere di<- * killing of «’*■' ar Perry. The brief of Colonel Blake submitted to the Appellate divi*.on of the Supreme court recite* the testim -ny of Sei gt. William K. Petty of \e’.v York m expert on revolver* ai ] a:, mu:.: oti, who ex- ; w ■ 1i ■■ Vi “ d ' bullets am! counted the.r groove* He In it* time the American Bulldog Thirty eight. Il wa« manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arnis pally.' -They < v.i*ed to make and sell it it. iMMk. The w.-epon has thlg pm cullnrity. When it < tired th<> trigger niu*f be release’!—the trigger linger hiu*t cease to -pro** it. -.before It Is t-ocked'for another discharge.” • While. t‘ie sergeant examined the bullets. Colonel Blake made a note bf this illuminating fact. •• i he-e cartridges were undoubtedly made for the Winchester-Colt rev , «d* ver,” the sergeant resumed. “They are thirty-eight caliber, long, centralThe weight, the shape oT the point, the form tml ’ac<-s of ::,.i cannelure* have no rofTiif for douLt.” < nel lUake ICerbetLihat the trade In northern New York bought their supplies AST W inchester arms ami ammunition from a stofe of the company in Ctica. On !>t< return the cbtonel Mopjved at this store. Its .record of <a’.-s for. sollte y Eir< Trior to 18U0 were-still on Ala, A b k’eepeb W;:* p . an it- rm <i ate *uf\ ey of th-*- r-* - i* and a*eerla n t<f vvl-.at tr.ide*:m*n in St. Lawrence county the An • Buibi-g revolver 4 (bet ■ H'* report Was that only jiotie .revolver of that type had, been sold In St. 1-iw-rence county. It hud been shipp’d In Septei-aher. ISs'.i, vv th three boxes of thirty-eight e:ilil»-r. long, central-fire cartridges to' fit it. to E. J. Bonfield, a hardware dealer of the village of Mi!-*- na. A little later-Shad went with Colom] Blake to Massena. They learned that Mr. Bonfield had sold his *t<*ck and gone out of business in 1S90; His goods had cone to some merchant in Norwalk. Shad and the district attorney' dnwe to that small town, which was five miles from Ashfleld. In the general store run by Cobh and Maxwell they found the long resting-place of the antiquated weapon which had killed Oscar Perry. Mr. Cobh had bought the revolver and its boxes of ••artridges from Bonfield in ISB9.

“To.whom and when did you sell It?” - he colonel asked. Mr. t'ol’h answered) “We sold It • he: n ’o <1 ! Bumpy Brown, the linker. ' ||<> *. :•; tliat ho was. gening it for arp .••’.er r <n who win’.-! to *’io >t some t cats." ’ Tlds is important evid. nee. Why 1 i’ : P yen report it to me?” was the I query of the district attornsf?\ . “Well. 1. w i* tn < 6. • when I’. ' • ' V. - 4A--V*’ . I •'' ■ In't ’get 1 hack tint ! a week ago. I thought I that Td wait qhd see what happened.’’ ’’Have y. u any :■!' < or suspicion as .- to the last owner <>f t! :< weapon?” ”Ne. sir. bur F th:nk that Brown I t <.! ! im- th,' ’ r.p!. A* •'olmiel l‘. ~ko ami h:s young j clerk went to the hotel for supper the J former sat.!: ' ’T! s s a < ■ ■■'.. •< ca* ( . Again !t [ . o:m-* up t<> I’. i’iipy Prowtr. We'll ! know more of this ’t-at n r before we ’ retnrne! to Canton by the ' I ♦'Venin.: train ami .!- >•»• d <e-.’y to the I r : J vv is brougln out to the ] sheriff's oit'Ke to talk with them, lb* :' I * in’ S< n ■F« shoui ’ers atld j h.k’d in hi* eyes and exclaimed: '■ t..y ’ 1 ii: y-a lose :...tli in r. ' 4 • Never. '■ shad answyrv.’ Tl -■ < ■: .j spoke: *Thfe b. y had . ■ almas? convinced nm of yoiir inn.oeence . tr- 1 I hnod today that a •] ..rt of. your :e*t-mony is ful-e. You once ' owned a r.-v,.:*. - . L r.tnnpy answered; r ! "N- I ■! ■ I h.Hight a rev her om- 4.tv at Cobb and Maxwell’s in Norwalk;. but I bought it for another ”an I m v.-r owned it a minute. I day He . | s.ii.] : it. frn'.e’Pn'.yroiind I miglit see a ci .’m e to lniy a good rev oh er <h ap I’’ I - I I «t” git it for h m l i e island was overrun with’ ; .«-.(■* I!- wan: I to shoo; some of ’em. lie give me exactly-what the , revolver an*, ca’trldges cost. It was a ' ' ' ' 1- ! e g.ve me. It. Lad beeir tore in the middle an* pasted togeJ:>T. lie said he imd go? p from ll.'i i v I oekvv ... ! tlmt day an’ that Lehi guarantee it vv. s good.’’ 'W.is anyone pre-. iit when, you di'- '.-■■■ re . V , ' •“N * 1 -r of >•• He v * • in ii *!.--p lie went up- . a: n pr sent for me. it vgn*' a knit muffler with his initials' | wove In - it. 1!< *a.’l that, he never ■ VM’d i r ’* “Wl. t dd you do with that fivei dollar hill fli.t: Wfts torn in the mid- I di. <-..toßlake asked. I Bumpy Brown .Hmuglit a mometit. | I ”\Ve!i. sir. I might as well tell you—: t 1.1 give it to my Wife to keep for me.” ' ’A r\v ■. "* ti e co’..ml exciaitned ' ! I-th. ’. that year v. if e had been i .1,. ■’ for v rs■*_ I “I don't b!.um‘'.v<’ for thinkin’ so.” I .-I r.,.:: Went ■■:: ( j.tit her in her 1 —-ave •.. -s . . ’•» ■ si •'ain’t dead, no j sir. She’s up there In that little shack : o’ ii.. ie an’ Im.i.in’ at me an’ talkin' I to n;e. n.i,; as *ae tlsed to. every day I 1 lai to home. 1 m:*s tfer aw ml .when ; I'm away.” !' Ti e eld man pair--"! and wiped his • ..-.<* with h .* handkerchief and contiiiued: “Ye *■ e. I alvvus u-od te give her the nmmy ;o keep. We lived r..ir,:"i-l ie. I m ve. got drttnk them days-never. I , d .ne weil. There on the wall she’s . i . I w di i e I-, ut my f—ii*hn'ess • Jin’ I protaisei her that 1 wouldn't do •| it no more aft* I agreed that rd give 1 her the ■ y to save just a< I used * !■>. Now; wli i I say 'is private. I ' T .' v. !>, r p.i. .r' • the wail an' i :•. ■!:,.■ t>o ' o' ll ■' i an’ j ut a *].. ». ov. r-the -mortice so neat I ye cpuiln't see ii. .Ewrv week I ■ ■.! s. : ■ ■■ y into that hole in t ie frame. It was Uke givin' it to her I to keep for me." - T : take you to I’-r-wii's cove tomorrow am! we ll see if we can find that fivedoll.tr bill.” ell, sir it, that l ain’t no liar," said Bumpy, "if 1 <!■' 1 any murderin’ it must be that I do It I in . - I ketched my*. ,:’ In the act—not yet.** a* s . and Colonel Bl ike "■ re leaving the Jail the latter raid: *1: Is | .almo't clear to me that the old man •It I that we ahali'soon be.done with hlift I | save as a witness.” I The sheriff drove out to Brown’s I ; e. t-rny; eiy vv •’<h tiw di'trivt ntt-r---m • •1‘ t r Tli-'y - fouml tlm . I d Lili w .th < Imr money’ Irr the I hiding place Bumpy had de*eri!>ed. ! Henry Lockw.m ! w.m ::t L * farni near ilhe cove. He ide: tin five-doilar , bill In question; He g;. In paying a bill and- guaranteed Its I validity. Ln doing so ’he had made a I I note in his memorandum l»ook of its I tex t. As they left I.ockw’vod’s house the district atturn-y said to the old man: ( “It does look as if your wife was t still alive. I think that she is going to get you out. of this scrape.” “Oh, she-site’s a wonderful wom- ' an!” said the tinker. "I could always !- coft.pt on her in the day' 6’ need.** I ! Colonel Blake’s mind wa* nearing 1 its decision. The tan suit, the motive, I the possession of the revolver and the | rubbers seetnetl clearly to Indicate | the guilt of Royce. i i (TO PE CONTtNUBDA j Some men conceal a wonderful col- , lection of faults and get away with it, other merely think they do. 4

THE SYRACUSE JOTTRNAI.

- -edtEafpeningj Ned M >rky spent sever: I Cays last eek w. - h relaJ'.es in Leesburg. Mrs. George Colwell is recovering ‘.vtr. her recent illness. ' , D. D. Clayton lost a horse, Friday The animal became sick and died. Charles Egolf is reported as not being so Well this past week. Miss Olga Beckman is expected home fqr Thanksgiving vacation. Mrs. George Kreger is suffering with an infected leg. Leon Connolly is expected home frftm Chicago for Thanksgiving.; Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Macy plan t<> spend I h.. . , ing with, relatives in Conveise. . ; A new bulletin board has been placed in front of the Lutheran church for announcements. Mis. J, H. Bowser and son Harold v. ill be gues s of Dr. Fhillip Bowser a id wife in Goshen, Thanksgiving. Mrs. Roy Darr has been ill in bed the past two weeks. She has sciatic . heumatism. Mr. and Mrs. Cha;les Ryman were Sunday dinner quests of Mr. and Mrs. Mart Long, Mrs. Jarboe .displayed three of her > uilts at the vjuilt show in Warsaw I..st week. Iwo of these won prizes. Bob Morgan of Chesterton, took Mrs. A R. Schmerda h. me to Saltville, \’.i., last week. M.s. Eloise Kliuk is expected home . cyhiesday. e-e-t : for Thanksgiving vacation front school. I ibe annual P.miiy dinner pa: ty is tod>e held at Tthe Fred ' Hinderer s*s,e. I'h --goijr.g Day.. .'•lt*, t :i.e*t Kusho’ g and daughter '•a u..ra spec.: Monday with Mis. t heOra Christie in Ligonier. < Mr. and Mrs. Merle Harkless of Chicago spent the week end with Mr. . nd. Mi*. Sheldon Harkless. .Vernon Evans of Detroit, Mich., planned to spend Thanksgiving with Gerald Henwvod. ». Liai.rj Mann got all wet Friday. He, went th:, gh the ice on Chet Miller's pond. La Gams of Warsaw sfient Sunday . ::d Sunday night w.th Mt. -and Mis. Jerry Humman. '•tr. and Mi*. Ernest Richhart Jr. t South Bend spent Sunday with his parents. ens ■ - : othei and w ife •'< W * were .■*.. ay •i'innei a his home.— l.u’.vin. Meek spent Sunday with lis grand parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Stout. Harold Bowser went to Chicago on business.Tuesday, planning to return

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I home tv dav. . * ■ -Tiss Margjrci Fieeinar. planned tc. ■ some from Chicago to spend Thanks- ; giving at home. The Brotherhood from the Solomon’s Creek church is to . furnish music at the services at the Evangelical church tonight. ■ I. Joe Rapp has gone to DeMotte to i bring Mrs. Rapp and the children home to Syracuse for Thanksgiving vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Fielden Sharp end sons Roland and. Lowell spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Cunt Baker of Goshen. Miss Katharine Rothenberger told of her experiences’ in England, at the meeting of the Luther League. Sunday evening. | Mr. and Mrs. Cho*ter Miuc’etoh expect their son Maxwell hon.e from Indiana Central College for Thanksgiving. Airs. Sarah Lingofelter has gone to Nappanee to visit her daughter and sister in law , who have been ill there. *■ Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Stone pjan tspend Thanksgiving with their daughter ,and bust ..nd. Dr. and Mrs. Carl Swanson ii; Detroit, Mich. Mr. and Mr< ><a R-thenberger, Rev. Denb > ami wife of .North’ Web ster took dinner Sur.dav with Mr. and Mrs. W. Swenson;’ and son Harold. ~u .’.nd' Mis. N. G. Skidgell left on Monday for Toledo, (). , where they planned to spend this, week at the home of their daughter. Mis. E. M- Place. ’ ■ ■ 'Mr, find Mrs. M. E. Rapp and Mr. and Mis. Court Slabaugh ami family plan to spend . Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mq.' A. P. Evans at Crowwell.. y airs. R. k' Pletcher’s father, and ; her brother Charles Carteaux and , fawiily from Warsaw- Will be guests iof Mr. and Mr*. Ple.eher. Ti'.anksigiving. . I ' Ml*, and Mrs. Elmer Goodw ine and daughter Blanche of Fennville, \\ ! Hals’, of Holland. Mich., were week end guests > f Air. and Mrs. Fielden Shain and Mi. and Airs. Earl Bai.er. Airs. Nora Wilee-x suffered another (heart attack while at the home of Airs. Emory Kindig. Tuesday inorn- ■ mg, and' the doctor was called and i Charles Wilcox tiied to get in touch Iwith! hi* sister wh- was ' visiting I relatives in Chicago. Mr. and Airs. Dallas McClintic M [Chicago; Mr., and Mis. Donald McClintic of ,Milwaukee: Alts. Stiver. 'Mi', and Mr's. Clarence Vance 'of Goshen: Mr. and Mrs. Chet Smoker of New Paris: Ray McClintic of Huntington and Miss Roberta Crowe

were guests at the Ed McClintic home Sunday. Mrs. Norman Peterson and son John from Elkhart spent this week with her brother, Rev. Pettit. Mr. 1 and Mrs. Albert Keyser, their grandparents, who keep house for Rev. Pettit spent the week in Elkhart. Mrs. Martha Pryor of Chicago is to be the guest of Mr. and. MrsJohn Grieger, Thanksgiving Day. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grieger, who spent the first of the week in Hanna, will be other guests on Thanksgiving. Rev. and Mas, Jarboe are spending a few days this week visiting relatives in Chicago, Lena and Dixon' 111. They took several hundred bot-

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ties of tomato soup and grape juice . which the Brethren Ladies Aid made, to the Bethany hospital in Chicago.

!- . — Toys, Dolls, and Christmas Gift Goods Now On Display GREETING CARDS Single and In Boxes CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATIONS. The Variety Store SYRACUSE, INDIANA