The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 18, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 August 1935 — Page 4

THE SYIAOm JOUINAL - > REPUBLICAN. _ Published every Thursday at Syracuse. Indiana. Entered as second-class matter on May 4th. 1908. at the poatofflce at Syracuse. Indiana, under the Act of Congress of March 3rd. 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One yeur. in advance >2.00 Six Months in advance .— — LOO Single Copies 06 SubMcrljrtlom dropped If not renewed when time Is oat. H A KRY L PORTER, JR. Editor and Publisher Office Phone 4 — Home Phone *O4 THURSDAY, AUG. 29, 1935.

I HISTORY OF SYRACUSE SETTLED IN 1835 | I— —1 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; Cornelius Cable came in 1836. His sons were Jacob. George, Benjamin, John and William, and his daughters were Anna, who married John James. Delilah, who married John B. Strieby, and Phebe, who married John Jones. William died during his serkice in the war. I do not know the name of the elder Westlake, but he came very early—in 1835 or 1836. His sons were James and Wesley and his daughters Bashaby, Jemima. Minerva and Mary. Bashaby died when she was a young woman, Jensima died in the awful flux year of 1853, Minerva married Morgan Sulcar and Mary was the first wife of Benjamin Cable. Thomas Hall purchased eighty acres of the farm now owned by Joseph K. Mock in the early forties. His children were Noble, John, .Sheppard and Mary Jane. She was still single when most of the family left here for lowa in 1855. Noble kept his residence here until after the war, and then he, too, moved to the west Willis Armsworth bought the Michael Strieby place in 1838. He had a son and daughter die of the dreadful fiux during the epidemic of 1853. His remaining children were three daughters: Martha, who married Elisha Boggess. Ann Elisabeth. who married William Rippey and Mary, who married J. W. Crawford. James Weaver came in the .early forties and settled on the farm now owned by Stephen D. Miller. His zona were James and John, and he had three daughters, one of whom married her cousin, a Mr. Hagar, and another was the wife first of John Kreger and later of Hiram Kindle. Os the third one I have no record. John Phebua first settled on the Starner place, near Dewart Lake. He was a bachelor. Adam Starner came from Boliver, Ohio, and purchased the place from him about

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1859. His sons were Al and Frank, and his daughters Catharine, who married back in Ohio and remained there, Lydia Ann, who married Dai vid Strieby, Mahala, who also mar- | ried in Ohio,. Laura, who married i Allen Ruple, and Emma, who be- ' came the wife of John Norris. I. Henry Noel purchased the farm of Thomas Powers, now owned by Gottschalk, sometime in the thirties. His children were three boys only— John, Lewis and Jacob. Andrew Spangle came in 1835 and entered the farm that now belongs to John Cable. Joel was his only son. He had four daughters, two of whom married men named Mohler and Frank and moved to lowa in early days. Catharine married John Goppert and Teeny married Josiah Wright. John Hess entered land just east of the John Cable ' farm in 1837. His father was Balsar Hess, one of the first settlers on the Elkhart Prairie, and he had a brother, Israel who lived in this township for a time and owned the Vawter farm, on which Vawter Park was afterward platted. John’s family consisted of two sons, Ephriam and John R. . and three daughters- Mary who married Frederick Huff, Catharine, who married Lewis Lape and who died in Ligonier three weeks ago, and Sarah Ann, who was the first wife of Abraham Mower, and the mother of his children. Frederick Huff was an early settler and owned the farm now the property of R. N. Desjardins. His sons were two- Eli, who moved to Kansas, and Samuel, who went to California. His daughters were Catharine, who married Joseph Goble. Polly Ann, wife of William McClintic, another whose name I do not know, and who married Frank Clemens, and Anna, the youngest jof them all, who moved with hetparents to Kansas in 1859 and died there unmarried. Rev. Allen Richhart first settled on the farm long afterward known as the Sulsar farm on WawasCe lake, this side of Vawter Park. His daughters became the wives of Layton Sulsar, Reuben Dewart and William Master. Later he moved to the lands southwest of town nowowned by his only son. Rev. O. L. Richhart. All the years of his life an humble supplicant at the throne «»f grace was he, and a preacher who firmly believed that the fires iof hell were real and lurid and sizzling, and who was blessed with ability of language to so picture them to those who sat to hear his sermons -or who stood to hear them, for that matter, for his voice ■ eached far without the confines of church wails. And when he led the congregation .in the good old hymns of his time. It was with a vigor and a volume and an ecstacy that set many hearts acquiver, and drove many a coward sinner to the mourner’s bench out of very fear. And now I am reminded of another story that I probably ought not to tell. The water had broken over the dam and its complete destruction was imminent. Men were making heroic efforts to prevent the impending wreck of the dam and disaster to the farms in the valley below, and in their work their clothes were soaked with . water, which was cold. There was whisky furnished them freely, and Brother Allen partook of It. (Be it not remembered to his dishonor, for I have told you of the customs of the time, and you must know that there was probably not such a thing then known as total abstinence.) And, unused to the effects of liquor as he was, he took a little too much of it not enough to make his condition anything like maudlin, now mind you, but just enough to increase his zeal and to stimulate him to renewed efforts in the work. And it was said that the commands he gave were heard al-

most to Milford. All of which was thought to be a great joke at the time by all who were present, and particularly by Bob Cory, who was , there to share the fun and who enjoyed it all as I cannot tell you, but as you will realize if you are an old timer and knew Bob Cory. John Richhart was a brother of Allen. He first settled on the Vawter farm, but disposed of his enterest in that to Mr. Hess. Later there was a fierce feud between him and John Hess that got them into the courts and cost them the waste of much money. His first wife was a daughter of Frederick Funk, who bore him a daughter who became the wife of Marion Corn. After her death he married the widow of Thomas Brady. ' Eston McClintic came also in 1836 and entered a large tract of land just west of the south end of Wawasee lake. He died there in 1856 while still a young rpan, when typhoid fever attacked him after about three years of ague had i brought , him to be an easy victim. His sons were William, John, Mitchell and Aaron, and his daughters Abigail, who married John Hammond. Elizabeth, who married John Stuard, Margaret, who married Harvey Kincaide, Lt: inda, who married Jeremiah Zents, and Melissa, who married Martin Koher. Frederick Funk purchased from ! the Maddens the farm whereon now 'lives Jesse Grady, as I have told you- He died on this farm of fiux. in 1853, as did very many others in that fateful year. His sons were Frederick Junior, George, James, I Jacob and William, and his daugh-* ters were Sarah, wife of John Richhart. Margaret, wife of Allen Richhart, Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Guy . Cynthia Ann, wife of Charles Sheffield, and Catharine, wife of Jacob Ruple. Bentley Jarrett settled early in I the hills south of Wawasee lake. ’ His sons were Jonas, who became a j physician and died in Norjh WebI ster. Lewis, William, Jesse and I Isaac. He had several daughters, Jof whom Barbara married George . Middleton, now living in North I Webster and almost a centenarian, | Jane became the second wife of old man (Harrison H.) Wilkinson, Lena married Ephriam Brumbaugh, and Elizabeth married John Bray. Christian Haas, in 1853, entered away down in the hills, in the southeast corner of the township, a forty acre tract that up to that time, 1 take it, nobody had thought worth the trouble and the little expense of entering. A small, self important fellow was Mr. Haas, and he there aS happy as did the McClintics and Striebys and others on their broad and level acres. And he has a monument more enduring than is likely to be erected to any one of them, for the everlasting hills among which his domicile was entrenched were named for him. One thing must have grieved him had it been possible for anything in all the wmrld to do so, and that was that his Hoosier neighbors corrupted his name, and Likewise the name of the hills he had pre-empted, to “Hoss” and, indeed, the Hoss hills are they known to this day, and most likely ever be; which is an enduring injustice to his memory. , And in the hills, too, not far from Mr. Haas, settled Samuel Swihart. His son, Jonas, still survives. Os his three daughters, one married a man named Miller, another (Elizabeth, 1 believe) married Jasper Angel, and Ellen married Isaiah Burket. John Gans came about 1853. His farm was the one now owned by

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Mr. Neilsen, east of the Vawter farm. His sons were David, Jonathan, Jacob and Samuel, Sarah and Margaret. Susan first married Conrad Auer, and after his death became the second wife of George B. Mellinger. after the death of her sister, Susan, also married Mr. Mellinger. They are still living in the south-east part of the township. Margaret married Ephriam Hess. Abraham Brower came about 1854. His sons were Henry, Isas' and Samuel. Catharine, his daughter, became the first wife of Mr. Mellinger aforesaid. Henry lost his life from a wound made by a pike being driven through his hand by another when they were raising a log building. He was the father of Abraham Junior, who lives south of town. Harrison H. Wilkirfson was one of the early settlers and lived east of the farm formerly owned by

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Henry Strieby and later by William Huffman. He was here but a few years and left in the early days, and I cannot tell you who were the members of his family, except that his wife was Jane Jarrett, and this I have already told you. Adam Shock came in the early fifties. He had six daughters, but I cannot name them. Emaline is the wife of John R. Hess. Catharine married one of the Mocks, as did also one of her sisters. Os the other three daughters one married a Kreger and another a Kuhn, I believe. Moses Wright lived for a time on a farm near the one now owned by John Cable, and then moved to lowa with his three children, Anderson, Daniel and Angelina, all of whom were unmarried. It’s the things you see that you are not expected to that attract attention.

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Delinquent Tax Sale SYRACUSE PAVING 7 A list of lots returned delinquent for the year 1935 and previous years in the Town of Syracuse. Ellen Trastek (Deceased) Pt. out lot 4Me& L, 98.8 ft fr0nt.5222.28 Jesse Coy (Deceased) Lots 7 and 8 Water Power Co. Ad. 97.96 Jesse Coy (Deceased) Lots 7 and 8, So. Main Sewer 15.60 Z Byron Doll Lots 1, 2 and 3 in block 3 ad- So. Main Sewer 10.03 Byron Doll, - Lots 1, 2 and 3 in block 3K 4 K Paving I 78.65 May H. Beach N. 32 ft. E. half lot 3 Kindig ad. 33.22 May H. Beach E. Half lot 4 Kindig ad. 141.29 John Dillon (Deceased) N. half lot 14, O. P. 78.54 Hattie Kindig, S. half lot 33 O. P. 96.95 Catherine Snavely Lot 19 O. P. “123.31 I, John Harley, Treasurer for the Town of Syracuse, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true list of the lots returned delinquent for the non-payment of paving assessments for the year 1935 and previous years. Notice is hereby given that so much of said lots as may be necessary to discharge the tax interest and cost which may be due thereon at the time of the sale, will be sold at public sale, subject to the unpaid portion of such assessment not then delinquent, at the door of the Town hall, Town of Syracuse, On the first Monday in September, the same being the 2nd. day of September, 1935. JOHN HARLEY, Aug. 22-29 Treas. for the Town of Syracuse. Notice to Taxpayers of Tax Levies 5 In the matter of determining the tax rate for certain purposes by the Civil Town of Syracuse, Kosciusko County, Indiana, before the Board of Town Trustees. Notice is hereby given the taxpayers of the Town of Syracuse, Kosciusko County, Indiana, that the proper legal officers of said municipality at their regular meeting place on the 3rd day of September, 1935, will consider the following budget: GENERA L FUND. 1. Services Personal. 11. Salary of Trustees $ 150.00 12. Salary of Clerk„ 75.00 13. Salary of Treasurer L_; 75.00 14. Salary of Marshal 900.00 15. Salary of Health Officer _ ; 25.00 16. Salary of Town Attorney 50.00 17. Compensation of Firemen &. 125.00 18. Other Compensation ' — r 150.00 2 Services Contractual 22. Heat, Light, Power and Water. 4000.00 23. Printing and Advertising — 100.00 24. Repairs, Building and Equipment 100.00 25. Services, Other Contractual 100.00 3. Sup plies. 31. Office Supplies u— -- 50.00 32. Other Supplies ?_-— -- 100.00 4. Material. 42. Street, Alley and Sewer; — -— — 200.00 5. Current Charges 51. Insurance and Official Bond Premium —— — 250.00 52. Improvement Assessment Again st Town — - — -— — 100.00 4. Current Obligations. 81. Bonds and Interest — -— -- 268.00 TOTAL GENERAL FUND —J —56818.00 < ESTIMATE OF CIVIL TO WN FUNDS TO BE RAISED FUNDS REQUIRED FOR EXPENS E3 TO General DECEMBER 31st OF INCOMING YEAR Fund 1. Total Budget of Incoming Year — — —56818.00 2. Necessary expenditures to be made from appropriations unexpended July 31st of present year — — — 3225.00 5. Total funds required (add lines 1,2, 3,4) .— _. —10043.00 FUNDS ON HAND AND TO BE RE CEIVED FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN PROPOSED TAX LEVY: 6. Actual balance July 31st present year —— — 1811.23 7. Taxes to be collected, present year, December settlement,.37so.oo 8. Miscellaneous revenue to be r eceived Aug. Ist of present year to Dec. 31 of incoming year — 200.00 9. Total Funds (add lines 6,7, and 8) — — — — 5761.23 - 10. NET AMOUNT TO BE RAISED FOR EXPENSES TO DECEMBER 31st OF INCOMING YEAR, (deduct line 9 from line 5) —— — —— 4282.00 11. Operating balance (not in excess of expense Jan. Ist to June 30th, less miscellaneous revenue for same period 2172.00 12. AMOUNT TO BE RAISED BY TAX LEVY (add lines 10 and 11) 6454.00 ’ Net Taxable Property i-— -— $1,044,976.00 Number of Taxable Polls 183 Levy on Polls Levy on Property General 25 45.75 .62 ,$6478.86 1933 1934 1935 1936 To Be Collected Collected Collected Collected General $6651.56 $6239.00 $5912.05 $6478.85 Tax payers appearing shall have the right to be heard thereon, after the tax levies have been determined, ten or more tax payers feeling themselves aggieved by such levies, may appeal to the State Board of Tax Commissioners for further and final action thereon, by filing a petition therefore with, the County Auditor not later than the Fourth Monday of September 1935, and the State Board will fix a date of hearing in this county. EMORY STRIEBY WM. G. CONNOLLY, FIELDEN SHARP, Board of Trustees of the IncorEirated Town of Syracuse, osciusko County, Indiana

THURSDAY, AUG. 29, 1935.