The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 28, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 November 1935 — Page 5

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1035.

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HISTORY OF SYRACUSE T ~ , SETTLED’TN 1835 ,y„„ , _ MW The following is taken from the hbtory of Syracuse and Lake Wawaeee, compiled by George W. Miles, and printed in the Syracuse Journal weekly, in 1909: I have a private letter, dated at Millersburg, Ind. Oct. 16, 1906, from a gentleman who signs himself S. A. Widner. Do any of you boys know anybody of that name? 1 don't think 1 do. I used to know a ; boy named Ves Widner, who was ' all nerves, and who had an imagin- ' ation so vivid that it enabled him tin broad daylight to see dragons in iharness, dragging rattling chains over the ground, and strange «reaItures in the air, and at times to al* most compel the rest of us to see > them. His father, who was a brother of Uncle Zebedee Widner of this ■ place, lately deceased, had a blacksmith shop on the hill, which he abandoned at two different times to j enlist in the service of his country in the dreadful war of the rebellion, each time leaving Vee and Hank,

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hi, older, brother. and rheir sister whose-,na«»e has-escaped m* now, to be fdd Ar.M cared’forXy xjbd' selfsacrifkes- aad-heeeic labors of- their most noble mother, Margaret, or Mag .as ,-we called hot—God bless her memory! And shortly after the war the family moved over to Millernburg, where the father still lives at an advanced age. And I seem to dimly remember, too, of having heard at some rime in the misty past, that Ves? real name was Sylvester. But I never knew S. A. Widner. His letter, as 1 told you, is private, but as 1 have made this whole paper that same it will be no violation of his confidence to give it here and so here it is: Millersburg, Ind., Oct. 16, 1909 | Dear Friend Geo. Miles: A few days ago 1 received the j second copy of the Syracuse Jour- 1 nal and in reading your reminis- j censes of Syracuse and its old set- > tiers 1 «as very much interested?} ] They bring back almost forgotten j memories. Carried back to the days of 1866 to 1869 by your articles 1 can recall many things. Well do I remember the Skinner ditch, and its grass pike, and the swimming hole below the old grist mill, in which, once on a time, the water was not deep enough to cover our backs, and our dear old mother (now gone) had to lay us on our stomachs and, with a feather, grease our backgjwith sweet oil for a week or two before we could again wear our muslin suspenders. We didn’t know anything about rubber suspenders then. Another incident of the hole below the mill: I was standing back of another boy while he was throwing his line just far enough to xatch his hook in my upper lip. My . mother took me to Dr. France, who i said he would have to break the i hook in two to get it out, whereupon j I set up a great howl, because that I would spoil the hook, and hooks were hard to get at that time. As I remember they cost possibly as much at ten cents each. And by my protest the hook was saved, as was also my lip. Yes, George, I too wonder wheth- I er the boys of today enjoy themselves as we did. We did not have ! knee pants, nor tailored suits, with white shirts and collars and tan colored hose and shoes. I wish it were possible to get the boys of those days together once more, but 1 suppose it is not, as those of them who are living are scattered from Maine to California. I often try to locate them and to have my old school days over, when we assembled in the old double school house, where Anna Aker, Miss Pauline Baker (now Mrs. Augusta Roach, living three miles south of here) used to make us toe the mark before taking our seats and !

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say J •» « HeteYtestand. C- ” Hand in-hsmd - —-** - Ready for our exercises; rl* - Heads upright, • With delight. Sparkling in our eyes. And when that crooked necked Diets made Wils Dillon stand on two sticks of wood on top of a red hot stove. And how he used to flail the Odells, and the Dandises, and the Mileses, and the Bairds, and the Widners and others! And how we used to ride our sleds down the hill on our stomachs and guide them with the toes of our boots! And howl we boys would take our wagons and sometimes go three or four miles for hickory bark for our fathers to go spearing with! And we put it in . the boat before dark, and then, if Iwe left it unguarded for ten minj utes, how some other fellows went ; fishing and we stayed at home, the j while vowing vengeance on the fel- • lows that swiped it. And now, in conclusion, enclosed you will find a dollar for which send me the Journal, and count on me for a book when they are ready. Your truly, S. A. Widner. Say, Ves, since you mention Wils Dillon: you know, he was considerably older and much bigger than the rest of us. and a mighty tough customer, too, and our parents gave us all standing orders not to be caught in his company on pain of a trouncing You remember that! And were you in the party down by the creek bridge the time Milt Hlllabold cracked him on the head with a dornick as big as an egg, and thought he had killed Gee, but there were some scared kids there! You remember, Wils lay altogether stiff for a little while, and j then his muscles began quivering ! and presently he sat up and looked ’ about him in a dazed sort of way; and then, gee whiz, if there wasn't a scatterment! And here is another letter from Loren Hendrickson, who would like to be admitted into this company. A little bitu nder age you are, Loren, but as there seems to be no objection 1 guess you may come in. Osage, Kan., Oct. 17, 1909. Friend George: I want the history of Syracuse in book form at any cost I read every word of it, and it brings back many fond recollections. I almost count some of the experiences around the old water saw mill and other places along the creek as part of my assets. Your truly. L E. Hendrickson 1 can by no means promise you Loren, that the book will ever be published The number of names I have on my list of persons who have signified their desire to me to take it is still, far short of being sufficient to justify its publication, and if you think anything In these articles to be worth saving and you would make sure of keeping it, I would advise you to clip it out and paste it in a scrap book. Ik may be, however, that many persons who wish to subscribe for the book are simply careless about telling me so. there being plenty of time ahead of us yet. I want to ask Doug Miles, while he is present, if he remembers the highway robbery we committed on Bill Woods. I am going to tell the rest of you abolit it. None of you were present wNan it occured. And I must caution to keep it to yourselves, for in telling you of it I must make confession of a erime I would not for anything have the public know of, even though punishment for it is long since barred by the statute of limitations. Bill had a box of fine minnows tied to a stake in front of the house wherein he and Mam lived on the bank of the lake. There came a strong east wind and, the waves lashing the box, the string that hold it was broken and it drifted against the great pile of saw dust on which wo played so many times below Mart Hiliabold's steam aaw mill, and there Doug and I found .it. Now we had lines net in the lake at that very time, and though wo had made most strenuous efforts to get minnows to bait them with, on account of the very high water in the creek wo were unable to do so. And casting about for justification for the crime we desired to commit it occurred to us that without doubt Bill had many times stolon fish off our lines. And so we hastily procured a minnow pail and began transferring the minnows from Bill's box into it. While wo were making this transfer Doug peeped over the bank of sawdust behind which wo wore quite well hidden and discovered Bill approaching us, not more than a hundred feet away. Hastily telling mo to finish the job, he ran to

THERE is in Syracuse a firmly-established, but fatal, historical social practice that divides men into war- K ring groups, some of which attend only to “earthly" interests, while the vital focus of the others is, by religious misdirection, centered only on "the next world"; thus cancelling all serious effort toward solving human problems. I desire to exprw the sorrow I feel, because of this moot difficult human problem, in a completely religious gesture of opposition to such practice. W. L. BALLARD

moot him and grapple, with him in a wrestling match,- such as were commonly had there, net dreaming but that bo. shonid. be thrown, for he was fourteen years old, while Bill was twenfty-one. But to his own surprise, and to Bill's too, I am I quite certain, and greatly to mine, i he took Bill down and firmly held l him, flat on his back until I had » finished swiping the minnows and had effectually hidden the pail and 1 the box. This, I believe, is the greatest crime that Doug or I can . be truthfully charged with. Doug did, however, afterward get to steal ( ing gill nets, but I don’t think that t should be held against him, for examples of it were set him by his . elders, many of them the best peo- , pie of the town—even such citizens as Eli Bushong, and Fred Butt, and • Ed Miles, and fifty more that 1 could name. And again, I wish to pledge you not to mention our robbery of Bill, for indeed I have not Doug's permission to tell it, oven-to you. Q i \MAIL ..:-anxf<S? AFRICA. Mrs. Elmo Shock, Mrs. Ira Crow and Mrs. Verna Hursey called on Mrs. Harry Wingard Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Jacob Click and daughter Geraldine helped Mrs. Emanuel Cripe of West Goshen make apple butter. Wednesday. Noah Shock of Ligonier took dinner with his mother. Elizabeth Shock, Tuesday. | Sim Lewallen is slowly recovering from his recent illness. | Mrs. Stanley Miller spent Friday . with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sim Lewallen. ~ Elmo Shock and family and ; Maurice Lewallen and family were Sunday dinner guests in the Clarence Lewallen home. Mr. and Mrs. Leander Yoder were afternoon call-ers-J/ Mr and Mrs. Jesse Grady. Isaac Grady and daughter spent Thursday evening in the Jonas Cripe home. Mr. and Mrs. " Eli Shock spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mock Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Shock and son and Mrs. Alice Shock were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Shock of Syracuse Mrs. Charles Ringgenberg spent Friday .with her mother, Mrs. Eli i Shock. DISMAL Mrs. Carrie Dillen is assisting with the work in the Raymond Bitner home. Mr. and Mrs.' Calvin Beck and Richard and Wendel were guests of relatives at Remington, Ind., over the week end. Mrs. Hanson of Hammond was calling in the Dismal, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bobeck, after visiting different places in Ohio and Michigan on a wedding trip, returned to the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Claus Bobeck, Monday evening. Mrs. Irma Wilkinson and two daughters, and Milt Moore es Cromwell were callers at the Raymond Bitner home, Wednesday last week. Last Thursday, Mrs. Milbert Bitner, Mrs. Ted Voris, Mias Tilda Bobeck and Amelia Clingerman were there. Mrs. Katharine Beck visited re- ! cently with Mr. and Mrs. Charles 1 Beck and family. i Mr. and Mrs. Claus Bobeck and Grandma Clingerman visited with Dora Clingerman and wife, Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot Jones are visiting relatives in Nebraska. j Mr. and Mrs. Chet Clover and family of Pierceton, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Carlson and daughter of Topeka spent Sunday with Dora . Clingerman and wife. I SOLOMON’S CREEK WUbnr Simpson of Columbus spent the week end with his brother and : family. Mr. and Mrs. Bowman of Burr Oak were Sunday guests. ! Robert Hibechman is limping, having boon kicked by a cow. | Charles Bunger and Belie Juday spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Perry Bunger. Ralph Darr, Mrs. Louise Miller and son Bobby and Juanitp Guahwa called in the afternoon. The funeral of Charles Juday was held at the Benton church, Tuesday afternoon. j The boys of the Leaders Class will entertain the girls, Tuesday evening j November IS. Miss Evelyn Lockwood spent Sun- ' | day at the Hillbish home. i j Ike and Ed Zylman, Harold Woodruff and Ray Elinga of Kalamazoo, 1 Mich., spent Wednesday last week - i with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fisher. i j Billy Zimmerman of Indiana Cen-

tral Coilegiß’ spent = Saturday - and i Sunday with his parents. Rev'! r Uoto6o^ last Bible lecture here, Tuesday night. Rev. Paul Bilby of North Webster conducted the young peoples’ meeting, Sunday evening, and de- . livered the sermon in the evening. Sunday school and preaching service, Sunu-y morning. RICHVILLE Mrs. Davis from California has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Emery for the past week, at the Farrell Ott home. Mr. and Mrs.- Frank McDaniel were Sunday callers in the Geo. McDaniel home. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Granger of Mishawaka were Sunday visitors with R. E. Treadway and family. Mrs. Fay Green of Millersburg spent last week with Mrs. Grace Green. The Richville Methodist church had an all day meeting Sunday with a pot luck dinner. They had two speakers and lots of music in the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. James Brown entertained with a pot luck dinner Sunday in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Chas Pillery of Inka, Kan. There were 46 relatives and friends present. Quite a number from this vicinity attended the Street Fair in Goshen last week. Carl Stettler was a Chicago visitor Monday. CONCORD Mrs. Elbe Robinson spent the week with her daughter, Mrs. Jas. Gilbert and family. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Coy and family attended a birthday surprise party at the home of Frank Hoover, it being his birthday. Forty-three neighbors and friends were there. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Clingerman and family of Kimmel and Mr. and Mrs. Imon Rookstool of Oswego were guests at the Chester Stiffler home. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews were guests at the Orvie Neff home, Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. James Gilbert spent Sunday afternoon at the Bill Hann home. Fred and Robert Godschalk and family of South Bend spent Sunday at the home of Ray Godschalk and family. Lloyd Dewart and family called at the Paul Buhrt home, Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dewart Spent Sunday, at the Bert Whitehead home. James DewarF. -fe'rftVSt Mathews ‘ and wife called at the John Roop home, Sunday. ' Herman Lutes and family pf Nappanee spent Sunday with Paul Buhrt and family. Mr. and Mrs. Hobert Mullen and Mrs. Hattie Fisher were Warsaw shoppers, Saturday. SOUTHSHORE Lester Mock and family spent Saturday afternoon and evening in Goshen. ’ ' I Mrs. Jordon and Mrs. Snepp spent Friday in Elkhart. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Searfoas spent Sunday evening with Mrs. Jordon and Mrs. Snepp. Corlyss LeCount spent Sunday at the Gid LeCount home. ’ Mr. and Mrs. Roy Niles and son spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. I Bert Searfoss. Houston Winters is spending this week at his cottage. .

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