The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 8, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 20 June 1935 — Page 5

THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1935.

e\MAIL NEW_SALEM George Auer and wife, Art Hummel and wife spent Saturday evening in Goshen, the guests of William Wogoman and family. Glen Smith and family of near Benton, Howard Watkins and family of near Bethany, Emory Guy and wife and. Arnold LeCount were I Sunday guests of Joe Smith and family. Roy Koontz and family of Mishawaka spent Sunday with George Auer and family. John Auer and family of Syracuse and Art Hummel and family were evening callera. Harry Smith from near Medaryville spent the week end with his parents, Joe Smith and family. \ Joe Smith and wife called at the Joe Godschalk home Thursday evening. j The lake was** full of fishermen Sunday. The Dewart Lake boys played ball with the Webster boys Thursday evening, 16 to 1 in favor of the Dewart Lake boys. WEST END Rev. Manley Deeter and wife, ! Mr. and Mrs. Henry Neff, Mr. and Mrs. Emerson NelT and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Raleiih Neff spent Sunday in Goshen at the home of j Mr. and .M r -. Km*>ry Vorh'ees. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Weybright, . Mr. and Mrs, J. W. Weybright and * family, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gail I and fondly spent Sunday in Chicago J at the h me of Mr. and Mrs. Leo ! Mack. 1 Miss Waneta Neff. Mis* Evelyn ! Weybright are spending the week j with Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Lender, near Bourbon. Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Neff spent r Tuesday in Elkhart. I ’ Mr. and Mrs. Anglo Barnard and j daughter of South Bend, Mr. and j Mrs. Eldon Lutes and family were j Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs, j Charles Lutes. * j' Mr. and Mrs. Roe Hoelcher and • family of Milford are moving to j

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Thornvllle, 0., on his father’s farm. Mr. and Mrs. Osero Rensberger of South Bend, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Rensberger spent Sunday in Goshen at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Rensberger. • Mr- and Mrs. Curtis Warstler of 'near Leesburg were guests Monday of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Rensberger. SOUTHSHORE Mrs. Winters of Goshen spent Saturday and Sunday with her son I Houston at the lake. Mrs. Gid LeCount spent Sunday With Mr. and Mrs. Elmer McGarriety of Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Searfoss spent Sunday evening with Mrs. Jordon and Mrs* Snepp. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Niles and son Burton spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Searfoss. j Mrs. John Bowser and daughter spent Thursday evening with Chauncey Coy and family. I Mrs. Charles Dalke of Indianapolis has come to the lake for the summer to help at the Sleepy Owl Case. Jackie Murphy of South Whitley has been visiting his grandparents, : Mr. and Mrs. Lester Mock the past week. CONCORD 1 Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Rohrer and family, Mrs, John Rohrer, Mr, and Mrs. Lawrence Dewart spent Sunday with Mr.' and Mrs. Ralph Beiswanger. Those who spent Sunday at the Jacob Bucher home. Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Chester Stiffler and family and Tobias Fike. Miss Dorotha Green and Miss Yvonne Bucher enjoyed dinner Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Buhrt. Miss Yvonne Bucher, Miss Dorotha Wiley and Mrs. Green spent a few days at the Dewart cottage, at Redmond Park, Dewart lake. Mrs, Marie LeCount spent Saturday afternoon with Mrs. James Dewart. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Godschalk

spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Dewart of Milford. Pearl Strieby of Chicago spent a few days with his sister, Miss Hazel Whitehead and family. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Coy and family spent Sunday evening at the Sylvester Coy homfe in Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Whitehead and daughter Martha Lee, Mrs. Pearl Strieby of Chicago, were callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Dewart Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. James Long were callers at the Ernest Mathews home Monday. Mrs. Cory and Mrs. Mildred Wyland were in Goshen Monday. DISMAL Edwin Lung of South Bend visited over the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Merrit Lung and family. Mr?. Norman Cole of Mahoney, Pa., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Shermap Morrie for a few weeks. , Neighbors and friends gathered at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Alvin Stutzman, who were recently married and gave them a belling on Thursday evening. Miss Tilda Bobeek called on Mrs. Will Bobeek Monday, who is ill at her home west of Ligonier. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bitner and Howard Bitner of Waukegan, 111., and Roy Wilkinson and wife were guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Bitner and family for Sunday dinner. Raymond Bitner and children called in the afternoon. Mrs. Matiford Morris and Arthur made a business trip to Nappanee on Monday. Mrs. Raymond Bitner is slowly improving from her recent illness. Mr. and Mrs. frank Harper and children attended the Michael reunion at the park at Ligonier Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Longfellow and two daughters of Warsaw and Mrs. Mary Wilkinson were entertained in the Ray Wilkinson home, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Himes and three children of Chicago called on Dora Clingerman and wife Saturday Perry and George Dull visited a brother in Ohio Sunday, who is in ill health. TIPPECANOE Miss Mayzel Kline took Sunday dinner with Edith Tom. Kermit Rothenberger spent J Sunday evening with Albert Gilbert. Clarence Mock and family, J. L. Kline and family took Sunday dinner at the J. Garber home. J. Garber and Royal Kline made a trip to Syracuse Saturday. Mrs. Royal Kline and Miss Elnora Gilbert called on Mrs. Vern Martin, Thursday. Miss Neva Likens and Miss Mayzel Kline were at the Chas. Bigler home Thursday. Lee Bigler and family visited Chas. Bigler and wife Sunday. Mrs. C. Cripe is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Edna Tom.

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL

i —1 HISTORY OF SYRACUSE SETTLED IN 1835 J I The following is taken from the history of Syracuse and Lake Wawasee, compiled by George W. Miles, and printed in the Syracuse Journal weekly, in 1909: The Birth of Syracuse. Another name that has been lost i altogether is Duck Point, by which j the narrow point of land running | down to the outlet at Conkling Hill was long known, appropriately named on account of the myriads of ducks that flew over it every evening on their way from the creek below and the ponds thereabout to their roosting places in Conkling Bay. And what splendid sport the hunters used to have felling them on this point of land as they flew across it. P. L. (Lank) Henkel, who still lives somewhere in Michigan and writes interesting letters to the Goshen Democrat, and a Mr. Grubb, whose first name I have forgotten if I ever knew it, and Jerry Alien, all of whom were then of Goshen, and Sam Eisenhour, Kale and Tom Oram, Preston Miles, father of the writer of this history, and Preston F. Miles, now of Milford and his father, Evan Miles, and Mahlon Vennamon, Eli Bushong, Sam and Levi Akres, Fred Butt, Ed Miles and many others of Syracuse what duck shooting they enjoyed at Duck Point and the Fish Trap, with Rover, old Rov, the property first of Mr. Eisenhour and later of Eli Bushong and the faithful servant of them all. A spotted pointer was Rover, and the truest, most intelligent retriver that was ever born we all in the olden time firmly believed, and to this day (those of us who are living) do yet stoutly maintain. So noble in character indeed was he, and such a large part did he have in the doings hereabout in his day, that no history of the lake or town should ever be written and he be not given an honorable place in it. And The Fish Trap—the narrow place in The Channel just south of the present wagon bridge leading to Kale Island, named because in the very first days of the new settlement, before the waters of the lake ,were raised by a dam, there was a fish trap built across The Channel there. And it w'as said that many tons of fish were captured in it, which could very easily have been true; for be it remembered that white men had never yet taken any fish out of the lake (or lakes, they were then) and we can have little conception now of how plentiful they were. Now, this fish trap was an affair of logs of some five or six inches in diameter, and they remain yet in the bottom of The Channel at The Fish Trap, where you may see them if you look closely as your boat passes over then, through six feet or so of clear water. When they were placed there The Channel was not, but a small stream or creek conducted the waters of Turkey Lake into Syracuse Lake, the surface of which latter was three feet or so lower than the former. This you may prove for yourself if kyou will, by measuring, the depth of the water at the original outlet of the larger lake at Duck Point, where the bottom is hard gravel. You will be convinced that if the lower lake were drained altogether dry the upper one would be lowered hardly three feet. But the dam holds up the water in the lower lake six feet or more above its original level; so that, if it were taken away we would have two lakes instead of one, and the surface of the lower one would be fully three feet lower than that of the upper one, as I have said it was. Knowing which will make it easy for you to believe the story of the fish trap, though it would otherwise be hard for you to understand how it could have been successfully constructed across The Channel. Now, this fish trap must have been built by Crosson & Ward themselves, or at least by some of the very first settlers, for the bonding of the dam was about the first work undertaken after the land here was entered and purchased from the

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United States government, and that was July 28, 1836. I have been unable to learn in just what year the dam was built and if any of my readers know I wish they would inform me. Nor do I know in what year the first mill was built—the one that was located just below the dam and that sank in the quicksand there —and I would be thankful for that date too. But the original plat of -the town was made for Samuel Crosson and Henry Ward by Christopher Lightfoot, surveyor, and was acknowledged by them before G. K. Patrick, (I wonder if the name was not really Kirkpatrick,) justice of the peace, Aug. 11, 1837, two years and a few days after they entered the land here, and I guess that the dam must have been completed and the mill built not very long thereafter. And I wonder- why they named their new town Syracuse; whether they came from the vicinity of Syracuse, New York, or had seme knowledge of the dity of that name in ancient Sicily 6 , or whether they were prompted to do it as w,as the old lady who named her daughter Neuralgia because she thought it sounded pretty. The original entry and purchase of the land on which the town stands must have been made on account of the possibility of creating a water power here, for the land itself was hilly on one side and swampy on the other, and the soil was of that the first settlers design nated as barren and of little value, while the first pick of all the better lands hereabout was open to Crosson & Ward. Now, in this age of steam and gas engines and electric generators it is hard for us to understand what was then the value of a water power in this new country. Grain must be ground if the settlers were to remain and survive, and, though many houses were built without boards of any kind, it was most convenient to have boards for their construction, and steam mills were out of the question. And the places where witer power could be created were not plentiful and were therefore esteemed of much value. And here was one of them, and a promising one. And Samuel Crosson and Henry Ward were ambitious not to build up their fortunes by tilling the soil, but rather hoped to do it by serving and furnishing means of sustenance for their neighbors, and by the “unearned increment” the settling up of the country would bring to their lands and, having means with which to build a dam and a mill, it is not strange that they located on the uninviting lands whereon now stands our town. And later they entered and purchased from the government many other acres of land in Turkey Creek township in addition to this first tract—too many, as we shall see. The first lot purchased in the new town \ appears * to have been bought by Ann McNight, and she received a deed for it in 1838. It was lot number 35. Look at one of the blue print maps of the town and see where it is. And later in the same year William Kirkpatrick became the owner of lot number 82. Thefre was none other transferred that year. In 1839 there were less than a half dozen lots sold, including 66, on the corner of which the Journal office now stands, the purchaser of which was also William Kirkpatrick, and 53 "and 54; on Huntington street-, which Came into the possession of Mr. Timothy Mote. Not a large real estate business had grown up yet, truly. Nor did it rapidly increase, though in 1840 John Woods paid S2OO for lot 53, both to Andrew W’oods, and J. H. Woods paid to Samuel Woods SIOO- - lot 52. John Gill became the owner of lots 53, 54* 64 and a part of 63 in 1841. H. Pierson of lot 66f' and William Conkling of lot in 1842 and after that there was little or nothing doing until 1845, and then, the firm of Crosson & Ward having risked too much, and the disaster of the loss of their mill, that must have-cost what to the settlers appeared to be a fortune, having come upon them, and the

growth of the town having been slow and the sales of their lots disappointing, they were unable to meet their obligations and became bankrupt, and their lands were taken away from them, and the sheriff of the county, Mr. Ludlow Nye, went into the real estate business here, and he was a crackerjack. He sold in that year six lots to Charles Strombeck for the sum of five dollars, thirty nine and three-fourths cents, (no explanation of how the change was made) four to John A. Butt for $1.15 apiece, ten to Matthew Boyd for five dollars, forty-five and a half cents—a trifle over 54 cents each—six to Thomas Davis for sixty and a third cents apiece, seven to Andrew Woods for five dollars forty-one and a half cents, seven back to Samuel Crosson for even $3.00, five—Nos. 50 and 94—to James H. Jones for —twneyt-four cents apiece, three to Allen Richhart and twenty to E. S. Muirheid for like prices—in fact he cleaned up the whole town, barring the dozen or so of lots that had been sold by its founders, for a total sum much less than a single lot had sold for three years before. He was a great hustier-r-the original knock-down, sacrifice, going-out of-business, closing-out sale man of Syracuse. ________ first mill that I have spoken of was built just below the dam and across the race to your right as you approach the Huntington street bridge on your way to the B. & O. depot, where now is an ugly sink hole grown up with small willows. It was built of logs, there being no saw mill then to make lumber,. and by much labor and cost the necessary millstones and other machinery for it were transported here on wagons, over almost impassable roads for many, many miles. I am not sure whether any grain was ever ground in it; if any was it was but little, though it was completed and, ready for the grinding. On an evening when its proud and hopeful owners left it, it seemed to stand fair and firm and promising of profits, but its foundation was insecure, and when they returned the following morning it had disappeared. Only the ends of a few of the logs were still above the ground and they remained to mark the spot where the mill had stood for many years; indeed, if they have not been covered up by the town refuse dumped upon them you may be able to discover them there now. The emotions of Messrs. Crosson & Ward you may imagine. The labor of years, the fortune they had brought to the new country—all irretrievably lost in a night! True, the water power remained, but without funds to improve and use it it would be valueless to them, nor could they hope to sell it for money sufficient to save themselves from bankruptcy. Ah well! They and their families are all dead long since, and they no doubt laugh together now at what then seemed to them such- a stupenduous disaster. But had it not happened, and had .they been able to keep and increase their fortunes and build it, how different its history might be. In 1846 I find the first record of Aaron Brown, who,* I believe, was the father of Leonard Brown, now of Des Moines, lowa, whose interesting letters are appearing in the

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Journal. By purchases at the sheriff’s sale and after, Crosson & Ward had again come into possession of a few lots in the town, and Mr. Brown in that year bought from Crosson lot 17 for ss(l, and from Henry Ward, lots & and 16 for S2O. Indeed, I meant to state that, at the sale by thp~-sheriff, , Mr. Crosson bought Use 9, 10, 17, and that he paid $34.70 for the four, which, it seems t 8 me, ought to have put to shame the hungry fellows who were grabbing off better lots at twenty-four to fifty-five cents apiece. The name of Esten McClintic, whom I mentioned last week, ap pears in the records for 1842,. when he purchased from Crosson & Ward lot 55 for an honest consideration. He owned it seven years and then sold it, in 1849, to Hon. J. H. Defrees. Many years thereafter the same lot came into possession of his grandson, Edmund McClintic of this P* ace - Geo. W. Miles. 0 Some of these days we expect to read where grandpa and grandma flew back home from Miami to attend the celebration prepared for their golden wedding annniversary.

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