The Syracuse Journal, Volume 27, Number 20, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 6 September 1934 — Page 2

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THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL REPUBLICAN. Published every Thursday ac Syracuse. Indiana. Entered as matter oh May 4 th. 1908. at the post off ice at Syracuse, Indiana, under the Act of Conarsss of March 3rd, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION’ KATES One year. In advance A $2.00 Six Months in advance 1.00 Single Copies „ .06 Subscription* dropped If not renewed when time Is out. HaHy L. PORTER. JIL Editor and Publisher Office Phone 4 — Home Phone 904 THURSDAY, SEPT. 6, 1934. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Langston visited the fair in Chicago, over the week end. John Moore and daughter from Cromwell visited Mrs. J. T. Riddle last Thursday. Dr. and Mrs. C. R. Hoy left last Thursday on a trip to Northern Michigan. Mrs. S. C. Lepper and son Robert from Milwaukee, spent Labor Day with friends in Syracuse. Court Slabaugh has been having his house re-roofed and a new front porch built, this past week. Joel Wilt and Orland Strieby returned from their eastern trip last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe 'Rex are moving to the property of Mrs. Elda Tom, south of the railroad tracks. Miss Ann Murray of Chicago came Labor Day for a visit in the home of her cousin, J. P. Dolan. Miss Ruby LeCount went to Indianapolis, Munday, where, ahe has obtained employment. Mr. and Mrs. James Brickel spent Labor Day with relatives in Fort Wayne. The Ladies Aid of the .Methodist church is meeting today with Mrs. Walter Kegg. Marion Culler left on Saturday for Seattle, Washington. He is driving /so ROUND TRIP TO Ghicagp Every ?ek-end Travel In comfortable B & O coaches SEE THE 1934 WORLD’S FAIR and B & O Exhibit In Travel & Transport Bldg. Art about othrr Bargain Fart* Ervry tlnt-aui tv 11 u O pob.u For datail, coomilt Tick.t Amt Baltimore & Ohio

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a new Chevrolet car through from Chicago to a dealer in Seattle. Mrs. C: W. Howard’s mother from Richmond, Ind., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Howard this week. Mrs. J. H. Bowser is spending this week at the home of her son Harold, in Elkhart. Mr. and Mrs. Will Yeager and Miss Etta Yeager of Barring Springs, Mich., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kegg, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Merle Harkless of Chicago spent several days this week with relatives here in Syracuse. Sunday afternoon callers at the Levi Kitson home were Mr. and Mrs. Harry McMillan and daughter Barbara Jean of Hammond. Vernon Stover of Bloomington spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Millard Hire, and Miss Daisy Stover. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Freeman, Jr., and son from Indianapolis spent the week end and Labor Day with Mr. and Mrs. Freeman. Sr. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. White and daughter Alice, from Mark Center, O. , werjr week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wolf. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Darr and son from Goshen, and Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Plank were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Mr. and Mrs. Hubert D. Roberts of Detroit, Mich., spent the week end and Labor Day with Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Gants. Mr,, and Mrs. Ernest Carr and family of Silver Lake spent Labor Day with Mr. and Mrs. Orval G. Carr. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Dill and two children from Indianapolis were guests of Mrs. Edna Hess from Tuesday until Fyiday last week. Guy Houston/ came from South Bend, where he is employed, to spend the weekjend and Labor Day at home. r Mr. and Mrs.LC. R. Ott and daughter returned yo Fort Wayne, Gabor Day, spending the summer here. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Clapp and two friends of Indianapolis spent Sunday night with the former’s uncle, J. P. Dolan. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lecount have moved, from Niles, Mich., to the Lige LeCount farm on the North Huntington road. Joe Kindig entertained 16 members of his Sunday school class at a chop suey supper, Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mills of Indianapolis spent Labor Day and Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wegg. Mr. and. Mrs. Chester Middleton took their son Maxwell to Indianapolis, Monday, where he is commensing his Anal term at Indiana Central college. Millard Hire attended the American Legion convention, and as a' member of the Goshen American Legion band, played in the Hall of Slates at the World's Fair. Mrs. Will Kindig and son Joe took Wesley Wehrley home to Blcgomingdale, Mich., Sunday, after a two weeks visit at the Kindig home. Will Kerwin, who with his wife has been staying with his sister-in law, Mrs. J. H. Bowser for several months, suffered a Ight stroke, Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Baird and daughter from St. Paul, Minn.,

•ailed on Mrs. Baird’s uncle ;and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kigg, yesterday. ( Rev. Mrs. Allie Eisenbise of Bethany Seminary in Chicago is spending the week in the home of Rev. and Mrs. Jarbeo. They were old friends and co-workers together in Nebraska. Last Thursday when she returned home to Churubusco after spending the summer here with her mother, Mrs. Hermoine Peflley took Mrs. Nora Wilcox withgjfier to spend the winter there. The Ladies Aid of the Church of the Brethren are canning several hundred quarts of fruit and vegetables this week for ’ the Bethany Bible Seminary in Chicago. The fruit and other things being canned are all donated by friends of the church. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brow'n and son Laurel of Dowagiac, Mich., and Miss Mattley Shess of Niles, Mich., Sunday afternoon with Miss FlogeretyFXMaster, who has been confinedr-to her bed the past 12 weeks with visceroptosis. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hoopingarner have started on a motor trip to Detroit,. Niagara Falls, New York City and Washington, planning to return before schools in Chicago, where Mrs. Hoopingarner teaches, open Sept. 17. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Culler *and family and Mr. and Mrs. Hallie Holloway and family spent the week end and Labor Day with relatives in Hicksville and Defiance, O. They brought Mary Jeanette Carey back to Syracuse with them for a visit here. As Orrin Klink is not yet able to leave the Goshen hospital, Mrs. Klink is staying here in Syracuse, and their son Jimmie entered school here. Mrs. Klink said she did not think that Mr. Klink would be able to travel to their home in Springfield, 0., before November Ist. Iwo friends from school, the Misses Juanita and Wilma Thompson of Indianapolis, who were guests at the Spink-Wawasee hotel over the week end, called on Miss Mary Alice Kitson, Monday morning. Miss Kitson left on Wednesday for South Bend where she has been transferred to the Riley High school, to the Mathematics department. Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Walker and Mr. and Mrs. Lantz of Indianapolis came to Syracuse, Saturday, to spend the week end and Labor Day with Mr. and Mrs. Levi Kitson. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Clapp of Indianapolis, accompanied by Mrs. Hostettler and daughter Martha, who had come to bring Charles Hostetter home from Camp Mack, joined the party Sunday. — o BUYS PROPERTY. Mrs. Jennie Connorton of Chicago who lived in Syracuse some years ago, has purchased the Stiver property on Syracuse lake, in which Mr. and Mrs. Earl Baker have been living, and is .having the house remodelled. _ 0 » LAST BAND CONCERT The last band concert of the season was held last night. These weekly concerts have been enjoyed by crowds who have come to Syracuse each Wednesday night this summer to listen to the music.

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IromOnrieadetas——a Bison, Mont., Aug. 20, 1934. The Syracuse Journal, Syracuse, Indiana. Friends: In answer to your query of date regarding Weather and crop conditions here, will make the following report, based, mainly on personal observations. Naturally, in a state of this magnitude—the third largest in the Union—■climate, weather, crops and precipitation vary in different localities. The state’s average, annual precipitation is 15 inches, though there was a low of only 11 inches in 1904 and a high of 20 in 1924. The average altitude of the state is about 4,000 ft. but of our own county somewhat less. The growing season, free from frosts, is shorter than in states to the east or west but the of hours of sunshine is greater. From April first to Sept. 30, the average hours of sunshine for Miles City, Mont., is 128 hours more than for Terre Haute, Ind., for the same period. January is usually the coldest month and July the hottest. From a memory dating over our 24 years’ residence here, I believe, personally, that the winters are much milder and the summers, winner than formerly. In this particular season; May was hot and dry, June, cool and wet; July and August thus far, very dry and hot with our first rain in many weeks, the other night. It is too late, however, to do much good except to very late grain and gardens and to make living a little more pleasant. Moisture in July would have been truly “A million dollar rain” in its effect on crops. We live in a small triangle, whose apexes are: Havre or| the east, Shelby on the west and Great Falls to the south and this area has presented a more promising appearance and prospect for grains, according to tourists, than that of adjoining localities and states. A neighbor reports, that on a recent motor trip, he noticed in eastern Mont, and N. Dakota that there was no vegatation whatever and that groups of thin cattle scarcely able to walk, were being driven to the stations for shipment, either to better pasture or to canneries. A man told him he had shot 43 head of his own cattle in the pasture to save their sufferings before he learned that the government was buying them up. Our papers carried pictures of -the dead finals on the prairie and stories of the guarding of the few remaining wells and waler holes. But none of this suffering" and privation has reached us even remotely. In our travels, we have seen gardens and grain fields in varying degrees of growth and stock in good condition. Our own look sleek in a small pasture with no other feed. We did, however, have a very severe grasshopper menace and crops were saved only by a constant, organized fight throughout the state. It was known last year that hoppers would be abundant as every handful of soil yielded many, many pods each containing 20 to 50 eggs or more, so appropriations were made and officers appointed to handle the

campaign this spring. Carload after carload of poison bait was shipped in to all points and distributed to the farmers who used various hand made devices for quickly scattering over wide areas. Day after day the men and sometimes the women spent in driving around through the fields in an effort to halt the ever increasing, hungry horde of young hoppers. Many fields and gardens were entirely taken but our own loss was not very great except for the time, work, gas and wear on the truck. Harvest is now on in full swing with the use of combines mostly, though some binders and headers are seen. The days of the shocked grain, the separator, the many teams and wagons, the rolling cookcars i|nd bunkhouses and many hungry men and horses to feed are virtually memories of the past which we are well content never again to experience. Due to the drouth and hoppers, the grain yields vary much, from 35 bushels per acres to fields cut for feed. Ours already cut will average 20 bushes or more an acre. We own 480 acres and lease 680 more but crop very modestly in comparison with many farmers. This spring we seeded 10 acres of oats, 65 acres of tame mustard and 358 of wheat. Some individual farmers here this spring, received allotment checks for SI,OOO or more for one payment and another smaller payment is due now. If I remember rightly, the highest check for Kosicusko county was SBO. * To summarize: wheat has been as low as 24 cents per bushel, but struck the dollar mark one day recently and is now 93 cents, we have had a depression though we felt it less than the average family in towns, practically every family has a car and perhaps a truck in con--stant use, even to bringing up the,; cows from the pasture, dances, fairs entertainments and meetings of all kinds are frequent the year round and always draw < crowds of well dressed people with money to spend, it seems, many faniilies are getting relief, but I know of no cases of actual want, and grain yields reduced one-half or more by hoppers and drougth. Most of us have all the necessities of life and some of the luxuries. However, this conclusion is drawn from observation and personal experience in connection with a small section of the state and is; most likely not applicable to otherregions in its entirely. Others may’ take a more pessimistic view. I trust this may be of interest to, you. Perhaps, at some future date,! you may care for a discussion of, other phases of life here> in what is very erroneously styled, “The Wild and Wooley West.” With regards to our former friends and neighbors. Yours very truly, Mrs. Mae Holloway-Ross

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I GOING AWAY TO SCHOOL Many graduates of Syracuse High school will soon leave for college. Os the 30 in the class of 1933, eight will go away to school this year. Joe Kindig returns to Wittenburg College at Springfield, O. Miss Betty Ward and Bill Osborn will also go there. Charles Beck will attend North Manchester College. Wayne Fisher will go to Purdue. Joe Freeman willreturn to Depauw. Harriet Bachman will return to Indiana University, where Laucks Xanders will also continue. Harry Stone will return to Purdue.

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Os the class of 1934, Miss Lucille Mellinger will go to North Manchester; James Freeman to Depauw with his brother. John Gordy and Maxwell Middleton will continue at Indiana Central College. Kingsley Pfingst plans to attend the Northern Illinois School of Optometry in Chicago. Miss Maxine Holloway is attending business college in Fort Wayne. o GET MARRIAGE LICENSE A marriage license was obtained, Saturday in Warsaw, by Miss Bessie Byrd, class of 1933 Syracuse High School, and John Scarberry.