The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 23, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 3 October 1935 — Page 1

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KILLER IN LOCAL BANK ON SATURDAY 6. Wawasee Youth Also Jailed Following So. Bend Murder. On reading the account of the killing of a filling station attendant in South Bend, in an attempted robbery Saturday afternoon and the capture of the three young men soon after in Valparaiso. C. C. Bachman Jr., noticed the pictures i>f the young man and recognised the one who had confe«sed,-sh(>oting the attendant as the. young man who was in the Syracuse bank that morning, “acting suspiciously.” Bachman said the young man came into the bank Saturday morning, and asked to have two dollar bills changed into nick les. He seemed to be “looking the bank over," Bachman said, so he watched the young man when he went outdoors and climbed into a car bearing a Michigan license, where two other young men waited him. Bachman said they eat there for Sometime, and he watched them through the window, but finally they drove away. It will be recalled that the Syracuse bank was held two years ago, and the thieves caught and sentenced to jail. These three said to be from Chicago; Danny Valuskus, aged 17, confessed to doing the shooting; Alphonse Skuscwich, 19, and Nicholas Achtion, 19, in a stolen car, attempted to rob the filling station. 1 Valuskus, who admitted shooting the attendant, Roy.Croery, 57, in the back, said his finger slipped. Valuskus was identified by a candy ; salesman who witnessed the crime. The arrest of the fourth accomplice in the crime,. Frank Bornmann, 17, <>f Chicago and Wawasee occurred accidentally, Sunday. I “Nicholas” had been identified by a number .as one who had visited Bornmann this summer, hut Bornmann had gone to Chicago two weeks ago, to enter school. Bornmann had been at his lake home this week end, driving a car without license plates. When he drove the car, Sunday, t through Goshen, - the state police approached him, doubted his story ’ about delivering the, automobile to ■ a client in Nappanee, and started to Chicago with Bornmann to check his story. They were scarcely under way when Bornmann saw the front page of a newspaper, picturing the three who had been seized Saturday afternoon, two hours after the hold up. He grabbed the paper and said: “Why, I know those fellows. 1 was with them Friday night.” The officers took Bornmann to . the St. Joseph County jail where he was questioned. It seems the four left Chicago in two cars, one owned by Valuskus’ mother, the other stolen by Achtipn. The filling station and lunchroom across from the Bendix municipal airport on U. 8- 20 was selected by Valuskus for the holdup. Bornmann, a|one In the car which had been slightly damaged in a collision, got the signal and drove ahead a quarter of * mile to wait for the youths to transfer to this car after the robbery, Shooting of Mr. Creery upset the plans- As the three youths left the filling station they were hotly pursued by officers of four countiee, city and state police, and missed their companion in the second car. He came to his like home, Sunday before starting back to Chicago. BIRTHS ANNOUNCED. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Weybright are announcing the birth of a daughter, Dorothy Virginia, Monday. The baby weighed 7H pounds. Mr. and Mrs. James Russell are announcing the birth of a son, James Lee, Monday, at the home of Mrs. RqmoU’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Coy. The baby weighed TH pounds. Dr. and Mrs. David Jenkins are announcing the birth of a son, David Monday night at their home in Benham, Ky. He weighed 8H pounds. Before her marriage Mrs. Jenkins was Miss Virginia Bachman. Mrs. Chas. Ryman, who lives south of town spent Tuesday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mose Ryman, caring for Mrs. Ryman who M BL

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i jON LAKE WAWASEE| Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Tuttle and her mother. Mrs. Gass, have returned to Indianapolis for the win- ’ ter. George Gass planned to remain at the lake until Frida?, when he intended to go. to Chicago to attend the World Series Games. Sixty of the Elkhart City Club which always spends the first day of the Series together and then attends the games, spent Wednesday at 1 he Tavern. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Doister Jr., entertained 25 guests at a houseparty at their cottage last week end, the party celebrating his birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Whitehill of Indianapolis entertained 21 guests at a house party at the De Haven cottage last week end. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miles and Mr. and Mrs. McCaffey of Fort Wayne spent the week end in the Bushong cottage. Bruce Wilcox went to Indianapolis to play in the open golf tourney Tuesday. Mrs. Frank Russ visited her sister, Mrs. M. L. White over the week end. Mt and Mrs. White have had the bathroom and kitchen of their home remodelled and have returned ■to Noblesville for the winter. Mrs..E. L. Booster of Hollywood, Cahf., is the guest of Mrs. Harry rtshack. j Charles Miller and party .of friends from Anderson spent the week end at his cottage and tried fishing on Wawasee. i . —■ - Mr. and Mrs. Zahner of Fort Wayne, who spent the summer at Highland View Gardens have moved to Eilwood George’s home. Mr. and Mrs. George are staying in ; town at the Jacob Altland home, superintending the construction of their new home. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Mock, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Ingalls, and Mr. land Mrs. Alva Kindle of Goshen visited the fair in Hillsdale, Mich., last week. j Mrs. Adeline Sudlow’s sister, Mrs. Banks, returned to New York last week, after spending several weeks with her. ! Mr. and Mrs. Bill Gingrich and friends from South Bend spent the ,week end at the lake. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Farrell, and Mr. and Mrs. 8.. G. Shaeffer planned "to close their summer homes this week and move back to Goshen. Mr. and Mrs. Urbach of Chicago closed their cottage, Friday. Mrs. Grace Olds entertained at dinner one evening last week: Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Emerson and Dr. Wallace; Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Naylor Mrs. Adda Martin, Mrs. Harry Fishack, Mr. and Mrs./Ed Ackerman. Mr. and Mrs. Reeder of Kokomo were guests of, Mr. and Mrs. Ch». ( Naylor, Sunday, , “Dad” Franklin is going to spend the winter with Mr. and Mrs. Ira Landaw. Celebrating Rev. Seamans’ 91st birthday, a group of his Wawasee friends held a pot luck dinner party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Emerson, last Thursday. There were four birthday cakes. Among the guests were Mrs. Church and Mrs. Broday of Warsaw; Mrs. Adda Martin, Mrs. Grace Olds, Mrs. Harry Fishack, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ackerman, Mr. and Mrs. C. £. Naylor, Dad Franklin and son Roes and Paul Dickerson. Mr. and Mrs. Grobel returned home to Anderson, Monday, after two weeks stay with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brown. Mr. and, Mrs. Judge of Marion spent Saturday and Sunday at the Harwood cottage. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Horst of Indianapolis spent last week end at their lake home. They, with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schrader and family, plan to come to the lake tomorrow, to attend the centennial celebration. Mr, and MtsTr.V. Mauer of South Bend spent the week end at their lake home. i Mr. and Mrs. Palmer of South i Bend who spent the summer at Highland View Gardens h|ve rented the (CmUmm « Last Page)

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1935.

I; STAR MAIL ROUTE NOW SERVES TOWN Only Six Days Service Since “Milk Shake” B. & O. Train Taken Off; 9 Change In Mail Schedule No longer will mail come into Syracuse, or leave, on Sunday. Long ago, mail was brought to Syracuse from Goshen in a spring wagon, twice a week. ' Since the B. & O. railroad opened through town in 1874, mail has been coming here daily by train. But Saturday night Was the last run of the “milk shake” train—early from the east in the morning; arriving here at 8:13 from Chicago each evening. On Sunday there was no mail distributed in the local post office. In place of the Milk Shake, a mail route by truck from Garrett to Milford and return for six days a week has been established The route was awarded to Tony Runion of Garrett, for $2,191 per year. He has the contract from September 30, 1935, to June 30, 1936. He is to make the run from Garrett railroad .station by Avilla, Albion, Kimmel, Cromwell, Wawasee, Syracuse to Milford, 50.6 miles and back, six times a week. He is to leave Garrett not later than 6:30 every morning, and is scheduled to make the run to Milford in three hours. So mail is not distributed in the local office before 8 o’clock each morning, as it has been for years. The star route mail truck is to leave Milford every night at 5 o’clock to arrive at Garrett depot by 7:30 p. m. Bert Whitehead, postmaster, has stated that money orders made out in Syracuse post office later than 4;30 in the afternoons will not leave town until the next day. Trains which carry mail are: the one from Chicago which arrives at 12:36 p. m.; the 2:29 from the east; the parcel post one at 4:08 from the east. The 10:55 to Chicago each morning does not carry mail. The change to a star route for the morning service has meant a rush for rural carriers to sort mail for their routes, as they are scheduled to leave the post office every morning at 8:30, except Sunday. Newspapers did not arrive that first day until the mail truck, but Sharp has made arrangements to have papers thrown from the fast train, Chicago bound at 5 a. m. There is only one train which stops at Bremen daliy, and complaint is being made on the star route system from Nappanee to Teegarden. O . “YES” COY BURIED SUNDAY AFTERNOON Meapt Trouble Caused Death of Retired Farmer Last Thursday; Widow, T Children Survive. J. Sylvester Coy, aged 66, who was found dead in his bed, last Thursday afternoon, .was buried in the Syracuse cemetery, Sunday after- , noon. Funeral services were conducted at the Church of the Brethren of which he had been a member since he was 20 years of age. Rev. Lee Cory was in charge of ’ the service and was assisted by Rev. Jarboa. Mr. Coy had asked I him, two weeks before his death, to I officiate at his funeral. Mr. Coy ( had been suffering with heart 'trouble, but had attended the county fair the day before his death, and had been “uptown” here in Syracuse the rooming of Ida death. Ho waa the son of Henry and Mary Coy, born Jan. 20, 1869, in Elkhart county. Ho was m? "led to Ada Hoover on Feb. 20, 18SU. His widow and seven children survive: Tillman of Goshen; Chauncey, Dewey, Harold, Mrs. Mary Stiffler, Mrs. Velma LeCount of Syracuse; Mrs. Alta Darr of Goshen; four brothers, Edward of Syracuse; Clarence and Irvin of Milford; Carl of Leesburg. j He had lived on a farm near Syracuse until 7 years ago, when he moved to town. 0 PLEASE REGISTER HERE! All visitors in Syracuse on Saturday for the first day of the Centennial celebration are asked to please sign their names and place of residence in a book which will be on ‘ hand at the entranee to the Journal office. Thia book will also be in evidence. Sunday, for other signature, at the High School.

Old Residents | ' I » ■ Aged More Than 90, “Remember” Attending Syracuse’s 100th Birthday party will be five ladies Who don’t mind admitting they are more than 30 years of age. Each one is more than 90 years of age. They are: Mrsl Minerva Benner, who was 90 last Monday; Mrs. Josephine Woods who is 93; Mrs. Margaret Wehrly who was 90 last summer; Mrs. Jane Bachman who is 92; Mrs. Susan Nicolai, who will be 93 in November. Mrs. Benner, daughter of Preston Miles, Sr., who died 50 yet rs ago, came with her parents to Syracuse, 82 years ago, by covered wagon, frum Miamaburg, O. She remembers the children in the party playing in back of the wagons all day -and sleeping in them at night and their parents sleeping beneath the wagons. She said her parents, and her father’s brothers and half brothers and a man named Seese, and their families were in the party. Mrs. Benner said much of the way was cut through timber, before the lake and Syracuse was reached. In 1864 she married James Benner who went to the Civil War. She remembers that at that time cuse received mail by wagon from Goshen, but twice a week, and the returning soldiers reached Goshen without word being sent to Syracuse ao had to walk to town. She said when they reached the Huntington hill there never was such a shout as they set up, and which residents returned, but when they reached Main street for a community reunion, it was as sorrowful as it was joyful—because there were so many who did not come backMrs. Benner ren mrbers the Indians when she first uyne here, with her parents. Sh'e remembers when the first burial was made in the Syracuse cemetery it was a baby, she said, and the baby was buried at the foot of a tree, because it was thick forest there then, where the cemetery is now located. She said her husband, whose people had come here two years after her parents had made the- journey, ' used to move houses in Syracuse, and that for a long time Mrs. Jane Bachman’s house was the furthest one down Huntington street, but then her husband moved theirs to the present C. E. Brady lot. She said she remembers standing her children on the fence around the yard, to see the “iron horse” go past, as there was nothing to block their viewing the railroad tracks from there. She said she remembers the old |ogS of Crosson 4 Ward’s mill standing in the air, after part of the mill had sunk, and that her children used to play on these logs, before these finally went down in the quicksand too. Mrs. Josephine Woods is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Baker, and her parents came to Indiana in a covered wagon, when she was six years old. They settled on a farm which edged on Papakeetchie lake. She was married to Milton (Continued on Last Page«

LONG-TIME RESIDENTS REMEMBER HOUSE MOVING IN SYRACUSE

One hundred year* ago. when Syracuse was first settled, there was * no “Main street,* of course. But one was. established, and during the life-time here of Mrs. Minerva Benner, aged 92, and Milt Weaver, 82, changes have been made. Most of these seem to be moving of houses. They both remember when Sharon Hall's farm house stood where the Journal office is now located, with an orchard extending almost to Bachman's corner, and up the hill in back of this present block of buildings, the fruit protected by a high fence. Where Roscoe Howard now lives was then known as ‘Pig Cured Alley." Hall's house w»s moved to Huntington street and at present is being remodelled into their home, by Mr. and Mrs. Roy Schleeter. Adam Ketring and son Silas had a store where Bachman’s is now located. There was a grist mill where the power house now stands, and Eisenlohr had a store where the Charles Crow home is on Main Street. “The Ruff 'N Ready" hotel was located about where Will Rapp’s home is. On the other side of Main street in this block, Sharon Hall

B. & 0. R. R. WILL > EXHIBIT ENGINES » • Tom Thumb" of 1829, the “Arabian” of 1834; Chinese Wheelbarrow and Japanese “Rickshaw" Being Sent Here. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the only steam carrier serving this community,, will participate in the centennial of the Town of Syracuse, which will be held October 5 and 6. During the two-day celebration the railroad will have on exhibition here models of two of its historic locomotives, Tom Thumb of 1829, the first built in America, and Arabian of 1834; a Chinese wheelbarrow of 1850 and Japanese jin-rik-sha of 1860 The tiny Tom Thumb locomotive made history on August 25, 1830, five years before Syracuse came into existence, when it lost a race with a horse, but won a greater victory in proving that steam could be used on rails. The Arabian was the sixth locomotive to go into service on the B. & 0. , having been constructed by Phineas Davis in 1834. It was known as a “grass-hopper” type. The first of this type was the famous “Atlantic," of 1832, now part of a 4month exhibit at Smithsonian Institution, Washington, commemorating the entrance of the first passenger train into the Nation’s Capital, August 25, 1835. The Chinese wheel-barrow of 1850 and the Japanese jin-rik-sha of 1860 are examples of modes of transportation in use for centuries in. their respective countries. Both, with the two locomotive models, are to be sent here from the B. & O.’s historic collection of “steam engines and dream engines, at Baltimore. 0 STRONG WIND DID DAMAGE, MONDAY • Backboard of Basketball Circle Blows Down, Strikes Three Boys; Power Company Repairs Wires. The high wind, Monday, caused an accident in the playground in the Grade school yard, as well as much repair work for the Northern Indiana Service Co. At the first recess in the morning the boys were shooting baskets when the backboard was blown loose from the post and struck three boys, Robert Baumgartner, Robert Byrket and Vernard Ray. Fortunately they only suffered minor bruises. Blowing together of wires caused fuses to blow out at the sub station Monday morning, and Monday afternoon, a branch of a tree blown across the power line on Huntington street at Boston street, caused more difficulty which had to be repaired. The large streamer which Ralph Thornburg had painted and had strung across Main street to advertise the jpoming centennial celebration was torn into shreds. The first snow and hail fell with the rain Tuesday.

had a store room, in which the first post office was located. Mail was brought to Syracuse, from Goshen, twice a week in a spring wagon by Henry Phebus. Bill Guy had a store Where Insley's beer parlor is now located. The Lake House was located where the Grand hotel now stands. It was managed by Henry Blanchard, and Mrs. Benner said when her parents came here, 82 years ago, they, Mr. and Mrs. Preston Miles managed the hotel for a number of years. They had first lived in a two room house where the A. L. Miller home now stands. The Lake House was later moved to Front street by Charles Wilcox, and is now standing there, property of the Lind estate. Joe Hendrickson had built, for Mart Hillabold, the house which was moved back for the Gafill filling station, which now makes a home> for Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Davis. Hendrickson also built a house for himself where Connolly's building now stands. This house was later moved to South Main street, the Rippey property, in which Miss Helen Jeffries lives. On the same side of Main street, (Continued on Last Page)

I DO YOU j i REMEMBER— When Jacob R. Kitson and Elmer Kitson hauled stone for the “new” school house in 1874, from Cranberry hill? When they hauled stone about that same time for the building of the Miles house where Mr. and Mrs. Mereton Meredith now live? When some one’s hat always landed back of the counter, near the tobacco when Hall started sorting mail brought to his store by Pappy Wallace? 1 How James Benner was seriously injured when his "pung” or sted, ran away, coming down Huntington hill and crashed into the steps where Inaley’s beer parlor is now located? When Ed Holloway, who played his guitar and his daughter Lizzie who sang ajnd danced, used to entertain people with performances on | the street? When George Miles and Al Acker organized a band? When J. P. Prickett organized the first newspaper in Syracuse. “The Syracuse Enterprise” in 1874? When The Syracuse Gazette was started in town in 1877 in a building where the Journal office now’ stands? When two years later Elmer Kitson and George W. Miles published the Syracuse Reflector, to serve Syracuse and Milford? Do you remember Dr. Shock? Dr. Kelly? Dr. Ihrig? Dr. Collar? When Jacob Kitson had a livery stable where the library now stands? When Mart Hillabold had a mill where the U. B. Church stands? When the course of the Mill race I was changed at Main street? 4 When Main street was paved? I When Alf Roberts and Jim Benner | were butchering and Alf Roberts was {carrying a rifle to shoot a pig, and ; it accidentally went off, killing Dow BilderbackJ That there were only 26' children in the family of which Preston Miles Sr., was a member, though his father had 16 and his mother had 16? Who had the first automobile in town, and when, and the crowd which turned out to see it? <” When it was possible for a man to go out on the lake fishing, and (Continued on Iji'si SUNDAY WILL BE OLD FRIENDS’ DAY Old Settlers' to Meet W ith Mor? Recent Arrivals at Services and Dinner at School House. In the opinion of C. C. Bachman, chairman of the centennial celebration: “The high point of the observance of the 100th anniversary, for the older folks, will be on Sunday, for it is there that old friends will meet, old acquaintances be renewed and old times reviewed. “This meeting will be unique in that the people of the community, without regard to political, religious fraternal or other affiliation, will sit down to eat together—as they should do at least once a year. How increasingly important it is to foster a feeling of unity, oneness, neighborliness and friendliness, for do we not have a common interest here in all things pertaining to the well-be-ing of this community? “This is Our community. Here we have cast our lot. Our children were bom here, grew up in this paradise for children. And the chances are that many of them, and we, will die here and be buried on the hillside. In a very true sense we are ‘bound together* by a common interest. “We hope there will be no hesitation by anybody on account of fear of confusion at the dinner hour. The committee from the Masonic Lodge will do their best to have some organised system to the procedure. And suppose there is a little confession—what of it? The only thing that matters is a spirit of good fellowship, and simple, human companionship. “I. R. Good, one of our boys, now president of Indiana Central College, will speak at 11 o’clock. Dinner will be at 12 o’clock. Judge Royse wil tell his early experiences in Syracuse, in the afternoon. The • day will be done, the celebration become history, and who will worry about what the folks have at the next Centennial Celebration? “Coffee is Vo be furnished free at the dinner Sunday, but folks are requested to bring food and table service for all in the family. Tables and chairs will be provided by the committee,” Mr. Bachman said.

j CENTENNIAL • CELEBRATION IS OCT. 5-6 Parade and Shows to be on Saturday; Old Setf' . £ tiers Day Sunday. i J • Syracuse’s 100th birthday is being celebrated this week end. A big parade composed of many interesting features, followed by free acts, rides, a parade by the uniformed Shriners’ band and patrol of the Mizpah temple in Fort Wayne —fire works in the evening is guaranteed to entertain the big crowd on Saturday. A mammoth community basket dinner, something never attempted by any town is scheduled for Sunday, with union service in the High School at 11 o’clock with I. R. Good president of Indiana Central Collegg as speaker. In the afternoon, former Judge Lemanuel Royse will speak. Store windows are crowded with relics and antiques, preserved in the growth of the town by its resi-. dents. No one thought there were so many articles from the past, kept intact until people started displaying them. They are attracting much . attention. e The celebration will commence, Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with many interesting and unique floats and features in line for the parade, planned by farm organizations, women’s clubs, men’s organizations, the ministers, the school, the business men. Different episodes and customs of the pioneers will be depicted. The parade will form on the High school grounds, proceed up Main street to Hunting-* i ton, down Huntington to Pearl street around the block and back to Main street at the library corner. All who are to participate in the parade are asked to be on the school grounds early, as Roscoe Howard, who is in charge of the parade has declared that, it will start at 2 o’clock and not one minute later. There will be provisions made to take care of horses which are to be in the parade,, Ke said. Mu§ic for the parade will be furnished by the Wawasee l egion’s Drum and Bugle corps and by the Goshen American Legion Band. At 4 o’clock the Shriners’ uniformed drum corps and patrol from | Fort Wayne will give an exhibition ' on the streets. Between the time of the two parades there will be free acts on the street. In the evening there will be more free acts, dancing on the street, and fireworks in the city park. Among the acts is the colored quartet from Fort Wayne, and the I CCC camp has promised a display of fire eating, buck and wing dancing, and dancing on glass. There will be various- contests among these, the old fiddlers* contest, a pie eating contest and a hog calling contest. Prizes will be given as follows: for the most original float, $5; for the best historical presentation of customs or events, $5; the most comical . float or costume, $2. Prizes for the Old Fiddlers’ contest will be $2, sl, and 50 cents. Prizes for hog calling will be $2, sl, and 50 cents, and for pie eating sl. The detailed program for October 5 and 6 is printed elsewhere in this issue of the Journal. TO OPEN STORjT hERE W. G. Connolly planned to leave so Crhicago htis morning, to buy goods to open a dry goods and notions store in his building, which has been occupied by Gibson’s, it is rumored that Gibson’s will move to the building next to the Journal office. 9 ANOTHER' TICKET. Instead of but one ticket in the field, this town -board election, another seems likely, as a nonpartisan meeting has been called to name a Citizens ticket. This meeting is to be held the same I hour as the Republican nomination meeting Friday evening, Oct. 4th at 8 o’clock. The Republican meeting is to be held in the library; the other meeting in the Grade school house.

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