The Syracuse Journal, Volume 25, Number 43, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 16 February 1933 — Page 1

by Arthur Brisbane NO TEN PER CENT 48 OPINIONS, NO OPINION TO CHANGE A GOOD NAME THIS LITTLE PLANT THRIVES

Washington is waiting for England’s proposition concerning the war debt! Mr. Rainey of Illinois says one bil lion, or 10 cents on the dollar, the most probable propositioin, is “sheer nonsense.” Mr. Rainey must prepaic for another shock, fur the proposition may include payment in depreciated British or other currency, and possibly partjiayment in silver, at fc pi ice about double the present value. Would it not be simpler to say to. our European friends, “go ahead and default. It will be worth ten billions plus interest, to know' that your promise to pay is worth nothing.” One thing is any political party accepting a 10 per cent debt settlement would not stay ip power - long. , ■ Without losing his temper, Uncle Sam might say: “You owe us the money, if you- don’t intend to pay, don’t. We could then proceed to collect indirectly. Two days after his inauguration, | Piesident Roosevelt will have a meeting of governors of the states, in the White House, to discuss “what to do” To let the governors come in, express their opinions, get acquainted with the President and each other, is a good idea. But 48 opinions would mean no opinion. If! anything is to be done, it must be done by one man’ with the right idea and the power to make others accept it. Lavergne, French-Canadian cabinet | member ot parliament, suggests that j Canada’s name be changed from Do-. minion of Canada to Kingdom of Canada. He says it would have been called “kingdom" originally, but ‘ fear of offending United States sentiment prevented." Canadians fear nothing, as the old Gauls told Alexander the Great, "except that the sky may fall on us. ” And they centainly need not feat United States sentiment, Il would, seem rather silly, however, fora frtc people, with a king more or less of a‘ figurehead, three thousand miles away, to c*il themselves a kingdom. I All we ask of Canada is to inc res se i «' in prosperity and power and act rs a; good pacemaker for this country. ■ Crisp county, Georgia, bt i',t its , own hydro-electric power pl nt and issued ,bonds to pay for it. Now the county ealte in bonds, p- ymg them, principal and interest. before they* are due. Os course, anything in the way of “public ownership" is a fearsome ( thing in the opinion of bur "best minds. ” But perhaps some that invested in private power pjit.ts, Insull plants, for instance, wish they had bought bonds of the little Georgia hydroelectric institution instead. I A bill in the Massachusetts legislature makes it necessary for nonresidents to buy a permit “before they may cig Massachusetts worms for | , fishing." \ Calvin Coolidge, who fished with 1 worms, would, if present,* have ■ something to say about that. Nonlesidents will be puzzled by the worm digging rule, wondering whether it is intended to protect Massachusetts citizens that dig worms as a profession and sell them to strangers, or to protect the worms from extermi- < nation. It is a new idea in taxation. Scientists have described variously the difference between a human being and an animal. J One sap the human being is the only annnal that laughs. Another, says that man is the only animal that thinks. It might be more accurate to say that man is the only animal unable .to mind its own business. j In New York, 3,000 march solemnly, in protest against Japan’s war in China. How does this concern anybody among the 3,000. How many of them know that those killed by the Japanese are largely Chinese brigands that the Chinese government has been unsuccessfully trying to kill? The difference between a man and a bird is shown in the plan to reach the top of Mount Everest. Men striv* — —ihg to reach the top on foot have * toiled, Climbed, fallen and come back down, without success. An airplane that will presently fly over Mount Everest, mapping the ’■ • peak and the whole mountain range, the valleys, foot by foot, with photographic maps, recently made a test flight. 35,000 feet into the air. It took only 74 minutes to climb 35,000 feet. The flyers found a temperature 76 degrees below zero, but , were prepared and did not suffer. lowa sends notice that farmers plan a nation-wide strike. President Reno of the Farmers’ Holiday association says there will be a break "between cities and farms,” and cities “won’t know anything about it until * it ’happens." Then they won’t have anything to eat. The only remedy, he says, is for the government to do something. Farmers conspiring to starve the cities, while 12,000,000 people wander up and down idle, might be a good idea and might not.

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OPTIONS ON LAKE LOTS ARE TAKEN C. of C. Obtains These —Hope for City Park. After several weeks of quiet negotiations, a committee of the Chamber oi Commerce has obtained options on lots known as Lake View Addition, on Syracuse Lake, for. the purpose of creating a city park. The greater portion of this property belongs to Mrs. Ellwood George. The same committee was instructed at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, Tuesday, to formulate a tentative plan to raise the amount of money, $2,900, necessary to purchase these lots. Members of the committee are Lew Seider, Roscoe Howard and Ross Osborn. The tract of land on which agreements have been obtained from owners lies between Road 13 and Syracuse Lake, and is known more familiarly as “the dump heap.” Mrs. Ellwood George, who owns lots 4,6, 8, 9 and IQ of this addition and about an acre of ground on the north side of the road acrqss from this tract, has agreed to sell the lots and the land providing these are used L»i park purposes, fbr $2,000. • Court Slabaugh, who owns lot 5, h s agreed to sell his lot for SSOO. No price on lot 7, which is owned by Dr. Weaver of Goshen, has been obtained, but the committee thinks it can be obtained for S4OO. This makes the approximate price for the land about $2,900. The park question was renewed when W. E. Long, prominent Lake Wawasee resident several weeks ago urged that the dump heap which detracts from one entrance to Syracuse be removed. His idea was that anything adding to the beauty of Syracuse Lake and the town of Syracuse enchanced the value of his own lake property which is on Lake Wawasee, and make Lake Wawasee a better place to live. Mr. Long had a landscape artist from Chicago draw plans for a park to be located there, and offered to donate SSOO to be used in the creation of a park out of these lake lots. The Chamber of Commerce learned of Mr. Long’s offer and appointed the committee to obtain options on the lots. No Open-Air Shows. During the meeting Tuesday, the Chamber of Commerce declined a proposition of Mr. Washburn of Wabash, who wants to show out-door talkies here, one day a week for 18 weeks, the price to range from sl7 a night to $25 a night, according to what day of the week the movie would be shown. , The sentiment of the members was that the town should support the band in preference to a movie. The merchants agreed that both band and movie could not be supported. > The Chamber vs Commerce accepted the invitation of the Good Fellowship Club of Milford, extended by Dr. Snyder from that place, to attend a meeting in Milford on Feb. 28 of the different business clubs of the vicinity. There is to be a speaker from the American Legion state speakers* bpreau. o ; PLEAD NOT GUILTY WARSAW, Ind.—Anderson Wogoman, 43, and Martin Hoover, 33, of Syracuse entered pleas of not guilty when arraigned before Judge Vandervder in circuit court on charges of petit larceny. The two men were arrested two weeks ago by Sheriff Harley D. Person. They were accused of stealing coal from the B. A O. freight icare. Date of their trials has not been set. Alleging that they were unable to ‘ pay a defense attorney, Wogoman i and Hoover, both of Syracuse, filed ! a “pauper” petition Tuesday in circuit court, asking that the court ap- [ point an attorney to defend them I when they are tried on charges of petit larceny. The court approved the petition and appointed Walter I Brubaker to act as attorney for Wo- ; goman and Hoover. BENTON BUREAU TO MEET The Benton Township Farm Bureau will meet Thursday evening, Feb. 23, in the Juday school let 7:30 o’clock. Entertainment will be by members of tho Elkhart township bureau who will present the play: “Van Weatherby’s Mistake.” E. J. Fricke, district manager of the Indiana Farm Bureau will speak on “Benefits Derived from Co-opera-tion.” Everyone is invited to attend.

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RIDER SENTENCED BY COURT MONDAY WARSAW, Ind.—Benjamin Rider, 25, of Fort Wayne, was sentenced to six months at the state penal I farm, and fined SIOO and costs when he entered a plea of guilty to an assault and battery charge, before Judge Donald Vanderveer, in circuit court, Monday. Rider was arrested January 15, following a party at the Roser cottage on Kale Island, which resulted in the death of Thomas Clayton, 20. Both young men are alleged to have been intoxicated. Late Sunday afternoon Clayton started for Syracuse in a I car belonging to Rider. Not far from the bridge on the Kale Island road, his car failed to make a turn and left the road and overturned. Internal injuries caused Clayton’s death in the Goshen hospital early Tuesday morning, . After Clayton left the cottage, Rider started out on foot and called at many of the cottages on Kale Isi land. Finally he knocked at the door of Max Cornell's cottage, and when entrance was refused, he struck Cornell, and then went upstairs and went to bed. Nightwatchman . McPherson and Joe Rapp answered the call for police, telephoned to Syracuse, and with difficulty managed to overcome Rider and bring him to the Syracuse jail. Later Sunday evening he was taken to the county jail where he remained until he entered his plea of guilty, Monday. Rider was taken to the penal farm yesterday. .—, „ . ~ FUNERAL TO BE FRIDAY MORNING 3) ■ Mrs. William Beard, aged 70, died at her home near Syracuse, Wednesday morning, after a lingering illness. Funeral services for her will be held Friday morning at 10 o’clock in the Church of the Brethren here in Syracuse, with Rev. Jarboe and Rev. Warstler officiating. Burial will be in the Syracuse cemetery. Louisa Catharine Coy, daughter of Henry and Mary Ann Coy was born April 4, 1862, on the farm adjoining the one on which she died. She was of one of the most prominent families of this section in pioneer days. j On May 14, 1882 she was married to William Beard. He and their one child, Mrs. William Fackler of Syracuse, survive. There are also four grandchildren, Mrs- Robert Bell of Elkhart; Forrest Fackler of Goshen, Harry and Junior of Syracuse; four sisters and three brothers, Mrs. Mahala Maloy of Warsaw, Hester Kitson of Goshen, Amelia Deeter and Matilda Coy of Milford; Ben and Tom Coy of Syracuse; Irvin Coy of Cromwell. Nieces and nephews are Frank and Milo Maloy, Harry Coy and Mrs. Charles Lutz, Mrs. Virginia Symepsma, Sherman Coy of Syracuse; Charles Coy of St. Louis; Mrs. Bert McCluan of Gofthen; Miss May Voris and Marion and Nettie Deeter of Milford; Roy and Ernest Coy of Cromwell. WILL CONSIDER TAX STRIKE FOR INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS,—W. H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc., said farm owners and other property tax owners have been called to a meeting here today to consider a tax strike pending legislation by the General Assembly to broaden the tax base. The Farm Bureau, President Settle said, is demanding the enactment of a sales tax measure and other tax legislation. Settle said those who oppose the wider distribution of the taxes are working to defeat the sales tax and , other tax legislation that will | broaden the base. He added that I home and farm owners of Indiana! are ready to consider a tax strike i unless there is an equitable distribu- j tion of taxes. The meeting will be' held in the Claypool hotel at one o’clock. —■- ■ o GOBLE FILES SUIT Roscoe Goble has filed suit for specific performance against Grover C. Wright in which he asks that Wright give him a warranty deed to certain property in Syracuse, and if he refuses Goble asks a commissioner be appointed to make the conveyance. Goble alleges that on August 24, 1926, an agreement was made whereby he was to pay $309.64 for lot 30, and the land near the lot, in Hillabold’s addition in installments of $5 each. He claims he has kept his part of the contract and charges that Wright has refused to convey the property to him. The property in question is at prseent by Clarence Ra*d.

SYRACUSE. INDIAHA, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14, 1933.

I CURRENT EVENTS I — Feb. 15. A gunman fired a stream of bullets, into the crowd which had just heard Presidentelect Roosevelt’s address from his car in Miami, Fla.', and wounded Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago, and four others, but Mr. Roosevelt was unhurt. The gunman gave the name of Guiseppi Zingara, 33, Italian brick layer from Hackensack, N. J. His arm was struck by Mrs.' W. F. Cross of Miami as he let go with the fifth shot, and James W. Galloway and a policeman of that city overpowered the man. Mr. Roosevelt had just finished speaking from his automobile in Bayfront Park, and had sat down when the shooting occurred. Mayor Cermak of Chicago was about 20 feet from the machine when the first shot entered his body and lodged between the 10th and 11th lumbar vertebra, I near the spinal cord. His condition is considered dangerous, but not immediately critical. Others in the crowd who were injured were: Miss Margaret Kruis of Newark, N. J., shot through the hand; Russell Caldwell of Miami, struck in the head; Mrs. Joe -Gill of Miami, perhaps fatally sjzot in the abdomen; William New York policeman, critically shot in the.head. Zing'kra told police he had attemptei to shoot the King of Italy 10 years ago, and when he heard Roosevelt was to be in Miami, he bought a gun to kill him because he hated the rich and powerful. “ Feb. 8. The Indiana House passed the administration « state highway bill. The bill was returned to the Senate for concurrence in House amendments. Two Englishmen, Oswald R. Gaylford and Gilbert E. Nicholetts broke the world’s straight line distance airplane flight record, when they flow from Cranwell airfield, England, to Walfish Bay on tho West cqast of Africa, a distance of 5,340 miles, in 57 hours and 25 minutes. Former Premier France. Edouard Herriot, was elected chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the chamber of deputies. Feb. 9. Charles G. Dawes and Melvin T. Taylor, president of "the First National Bank of Chicago have been subpoenaed to appear in Washington when the senate stock exchange investigation begins its inquiry into the Insull crash. The seven story elevator, of the Rosenbaum Grain Corporation of Chicago and its contents—l,7oo,ooo bushels of grain—were destroyed by fire. Joe Bryant and Norman Harvey were arrested at Roanoke, Virginia apd charged with attempting to extort $50,000 from Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, threateding to kidnap his second son as the alternative to payment. The administration bill to reduce salaries of county officials in Indiana was jammed through both Houses of the Legislature under the suspension of rules. The biH affects the salariea of every county official in the state and has been estimated to' make a reduction of SBOO,OOO in their salaries Feb. 9. The House Democrats plan to place an amendment on the $940,000,000 Treasury-Port Office supply bill that will give President-elect Roosevelt the power to reduce pensions, veterans’ compensation, abolish major departments and Cabinet posts, reduce air and ocean mail subsidies, suspend rivers and harbor* and public building programs, hold up and impound appropriations, and reduce salaries of all Federal officials not fixed by the constitution. Congress could only vete his plans by a two-thirds majority. Feb. 10. The House of the Indiana Legislature passed the old age pension bill, which would pay sls a month to persons over 70 yean of age without other sources of income in excess of that amount. Under the plan, the counties will pay half of the pensions expended within their borders and the state will pay the other half out of the general fund. The state highway commission reorganization bill which ousts the present commissioners and establishes a new organization was given final approval of the Indiana Assembly when the Senate approved the House amendments. One of the amendments provides for taking bids on at least two types of hard surface materials and at least one nonrigid type, the latter being the asphaltic or oil base. Two Senate bills that will permit abolition of the position of every highway superintendent in Indiana were passed by the House. (Continued en Last Ptfge)

HEART ATTACK IS FATAL TO MEREDITH A heart attack caused Augustus P. Meredith to drop dead, Friday morning, when he was cutting wood at th€ home to which he had just moved two weeks before. Mr. Meredith was a cement building contractor and with his wife had moved to the former home of Retta Warner on the southside of Wawasee where he and Mrs. Meredith planned to raise garden truck and chickens. His son Merton Meredith has lived in Syracuse and vicinity for the past few years. Mrs. Meredith teaches school in the .Second Grade here. Another son, Dallas, from South Bend Was visiting his parents and was with his father when the fatal heart attack occurred. Funeral services for Mr. Meredith were held Monday afternoon from the Christian Church in Argos. Burial was in the cemetery there. Survivors are: the widow, Mrs. Nora -Meredith, a son Dallas of So. Bend, Merton of Syracuse, and Eugene of Argos; and six grand-chil-dren. Mr. Meredith was of Mr. and Mr*. Orange Meredith, who, moved from Ohio to Indiana. He had been a contractor in East Chicago, but had moved later to Hammond. With his wife he had lived with their son in Argos until he moved to the Retta Warner farm. o FISHERMEN’S GUIDE BURIED YESTERDAY Jacob Elwood Pearson,, known to his friends in Syracuse and those who come to the lake to fish as "Dynamite Bill” guide on Lake Wawasee for the past 20 years, died athis home, Sunday night, after several weeks’ suffering with heart trouble. Funeral services for him were held yesterday afternoon from the ; Evangelical church with Rev. Fous officiating. Burial was in Syracuse cemetery. Mr. Pearson and his parents were Quakers. Mr. Pearson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Pearson, was born in Wabash county, June 14, 1863. With his family he moved to Syracuse where his children attended school. Mr. Pearson’s nickname was given to him as his trade was to travel to various parts of the country to dynamite tree stumps, and when the cement mill was in Syracuse he did this work for that company. Mr. Pearson’s first wife, Mrs. Viola Pearson, died April 24, 1929. He was married again on Feb. 28, 1931. His widow and three daughters Mrs. Wilbur Brickie of Elkhart; Mrs. Glenn Shock of South Bend; Mrs. Sherman Deo of Mishawaka; a son Oliver of Elkhart; and a brother Otto and a sister, Mrs. Laura Hughes, who live in Wabash, survive. There are also four grandchildren. o—— MARRIAGES ANNOUNCED Marriage licenses were issued in Warsaw, Tuesday to Milo Klingaman and Mary F. Felch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kline; and to Verne V. Davis of North Liberty and Viola Pearl Strieby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Strieby of Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. Klingaman will make their home in the cottage of C. G. Michael on Lake Papakeetchie. Mr. Klingaman is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ike Klingaman of Buttermilk Point. Miss Strieby and Mr. Davis were married at the parsonage of the Church of the Brethren, by Rev. Jarboe, Tuesday evening. Announcement is being made of the marriage of Miss Marjorie Neely, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ford Neely, to Henry Godschalk, at the bride’s home in Jefferson, 0., Sunday, Feb. 5. Mr. and Mrs. Godschalk returned to he home of his parents, Tuesday evening last week. About 30 friends and neighborswent there and -“belled” them, on Monday night. 0 NOT DIVORCED The divorce action of Ruth Bell Steinmetz and Ray Steinmetz heard in Elkhart county court in Goshen, Friday, resulted in no divorce being granted. The court found for the plaintiff on his complaint and for the defendant on her croes-complaint, and ordered the plaintiff to discontinue his payments for the support of the minor child of the parties. The costs of the action were assessed to the plaintiff. CHOIR MEETS Last Thursday evening the Junior choir of the Methodist church met at the home of Mr*. L. A. Seider. Following practise a social hour was efljayed and refreshments served.

DO YOU | REMEMBER—- . I20 Years Ago.. When the B. & 0. had its annual ice harvest off Syraouse Lake, planning to load 400 cars? * « • 15 Years Ago When Mr. Weidner of South Bend bought Brainard’s department store? • * * I# Years Ago ’ When announcement was made of the marriage of Orrin Klink and Miss Grace Davis of Bloomington? • « * Five Years Ago. When Mrs. Murrill Neff was accidently shot in the right leg by her husband who was loading a shotgun in preparation to shooting a squirrel which had lodged in the attic of their home? — o ON LAKE WAWASEEj Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Martin left on Saturday for a two weeks stay at their winter home in Clearwater, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. John Murphy left for Miami, Fla, last week. They plan to locate there. They, had spent recent months in the cottage of Carl Smith of Muncie. Miss Margaret Mock, Mrs. Murphy’s sister accompanied them to Florida. Carl Tuttle came from Indianapolis, Friday, to visit Matty Katzer at The Tavern, until Tuesday. Monday night, Tuttle, Katzer, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Porter and Roscoe Howard were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bown. Louis Solt assisted by a number of residents of that vicinity cut ice and put it up for Solt this week. Dr. and Mrs. Grayston and party of friends from Huntington spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. George Mellinger. They were surprised to see how much snow had fallen in the vicinity of the lake, as there had been but about an inch of snowfall in Huntington. . The. meeting of the U. D. club, scheduled to be held last/Friday at the home of Mrs. Landefelu was postponed as Mr. and Mrs. Landefeld were called to Garrett by the death of her brother-in-law. Committee No. 3 of the Methodist Ladies Aid, known as “the peanut huskers” is meeting this afternoon at he home of Mrs. A. W. Emerson. Mrs. Bernard Cuniff and Dr. Urt bana Spink have been at the SpinkWawasee hotel this week. ... — Q EMPLOYES OF R. R. FORM TAX GROUP At a meeting of railroad employes and other taxpayers of Kosciuskc county, called in Warsaw last night by D. S. Leonard, traffic officer of the New York Central railroad in Fort Wayne, the Railroad and Taxpayers Association of the county was organized. The meeting was called to order by John Motto and officers were elected. C. M. Wood of the Pennsylvania railroad in Warsaw is president; H. W. Buchholz of the B. & O. in Syracuse is vice president; S. M. Wormer of the Winona in Warsaw is second vice-president; E. B. Williams of the Nickle Plake in Silver Lake is secretary; E. M. Lufler of she Big Four in Warsaw is treasurer. School teachers, railroad employes, township trustees, county commissioners and about 300 other taxpayers attended the meeting. The organization is interested in the bills passed by the house but not yet voted upon by the Senate, concerning regulation of commercial trucks either under the Interstate Commerce commission or the Indiana State railroad commission. • The trucks which they want regulated are not farmers’ trucks or grocery trucks or other such delivery trucks, but commercial trucks, they say. The House bills are No. ’s 110, 124, 125, 131 and 157. It was brought out at last night’s meeting that the Railroads in Kosciusko county last year paid $252,068.39 in taxes. Os this schools received $95,759.83; highways received $80,615.18. The railroads paid 19.6 per cent of all " the taxes in the county. In Turkey • Creek township alone the railroad . paid $12,657.27 taxes last year. Os this amount the schools received $3,784.14; the highways $5,089.07. The railroad paid 12.4 of all the texes of this township. In the town of Syracuse the railroad paid $6,467.75 taxes last year. The school .received $1,453.99; and the highways $1,654.54. The railroad paid 18 per cent of all the taxes of the town. - —-o NO MEETING THIS MONTH There will be no meeting of the Turkey Creek Township Farm Bureau this month.

WEATHER IS I CAUSE OF ACCIDENTS Big Ice Magnate Falls Into Syracuse Lake. !.■ - ■ ' Two accidents have occurred this week while men have been cutting ice. On Tuesday a- cake of ice fell on Vern Brown’s foot and it was painfully injured. Yesterday, Lloyd Disher was riding a cake of ice and fell from it into water slightly chilled and about 18 feet deep. Workmen handed a pike pole to him and pulled him out. Although the snow and drop to below-zero temperature last weak, inconvenienced many, meant school in Syracuse closed Thursday and Friday, lural mail route* not covered, telephone lines out of order, roads blocked, little business and much suffering, there were a number who benefited, among these being; the coal dealers, the owner of the wrecking i car, the plumber, the doctor, and the ice company. Temperature Thursday morning which dropped to 19 below zero, or 16 to 24 below, according to whose thermometer is taken as official in an argument on temperature, meant frozen pipes for a number of householders. One who attempted to thaw out the pipes beneath his house wa* K. E. Holloway. The wood caught fire and the smoke nearly overcame him before he could crawl but from beneath the house. Fire and smoke damaged the kitchen so that repepering and repainting were made necessary. The fire- was put out by Wade Zerbe. J' C. W. Howard* was busy thawing out pipes so* 1 many others, and Joe ; Rapp’s wrecker was hard at work pulling frozen cars through the snow. Both the Lakeside Garage and Syracuse Auto Sales witre filled with cars the below-zero nights last week. Orders for coal were rushed to two supply houses by residents who bought their own, anjd the trustee supplied many duriiig that extra cold weather. tOne family which njoved to Syracuse but two weeks before from Noble county received clothing from the Red Cross and doal from the fund of the Chamber of Commerce, as the trustee cannot givp help to people who have not bden residents of the township for at least a year. Telephone lines were out and Wade t Zerbe, working on top of poles in sub-zero weather had bis nose frozen and has been suffering from both the shape and pain of it since that time. C. R. Hollett had his feet frozen driving from Plymouth to Syracuse, and working with his stalled car. The basketball gamei, to have been played against Millersburg Friday night, was cancelled bn account of the weather. 1 1 Ice boats were busy on both lakes, Saturday and Sunday, and on Monday, afraid there would be no more ice, but a rapid thaw, Lloyd Disher prepared to cut ice for storage for > the ice company until next summed. It was cut near the channel on Syracuse lake, and was between nine and 10 inches thick, he said. It waa- npt as thick as he would have liked, but Disher said ice this thick would permit delivery to customer* in town, i both for use at home and in places of business. Thirty men were kept busy the first of this week. e On Monday Clee Hibschman and Loren Eyer cut ice near the bridge. This they stored for their own use n«xt summer. Roads out of town had been blocked Wednesday night, part of the time Thursday and Thursday night. There was much complaint that county roads in this section were not open but that Crowe kept open the part of Road 13 under his supervision in this county. Lawrence Cripe, the printer at the Journal office, 4 who lives near Millersburg*was unable to go home until Friday morning. - ' Rural carriers could not cover their routes, until Saturday. Then, although some side road* were not open they had reached resident* by phone on their routes and notified them where they would leave their mail. Travellers were helping each other on drifted roads. But the story Fred Self tells, is about Harry Hire helping shovel out an gutomobilirt who was stalled in the road in front of Self. Self assisted Hird with the shovel, and when they got the auto(Csatimmd <m W* . |

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