The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 31, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 November 1935 — Page 5

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' 1 .mi MMTGRY OF MnMMDGI* '' SETTLED IN IMC Th® following to teb®a from th® history of Syracuse and Lake Wawtoto, compiled by George W. MUee, and printed in the Syracuse Journal weekly. In 1909: John Benner used to aak me regularly, whenever I met him. if I “over saw the cars," and aa I had not over seen them, and as I was a lad of ten yean and more, and could therefore not answer the question without stultifying myself, I always grew righteously ind gnant when he asked it, as I had a right to do. And this yielded him such good fun that he never forgot to ask it when he saw me. Thirty-five yean had passed since the plat of the original town was made by Crosson & Ward, and it had grown to have thirty-seven or thirty-eight dwelling houses and a half dozen small frame business rooms, and a population of some two hundred people that were supposed to be alive.- The cemetery held as many more. And then from somewhere came vague rumors of the possibility of a railroad hitting thia place. “Old Bill Guy" (he died in 1868 at the ago of 60 yean) had for ten yean predicted th-t some lime the Baltimore A Ohio railroad would extend its lines to Chicago, and that when it did it Would strike Syracuse. Now this was thought to be a pipe dream that came to him while ho slept'by the little Move in his dark and gloomy old grocery store on the corner, and nobody took it at all seriously. But sure enough, the line it was now rumored might come was the very one he had predicted would come

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’ sometime arid ff hfto fkith toaa prod--4 ieatod on a drdhfll'lt was that, it’now'appe*r®d, fnfghk cbm® > true. : -.t rr » 1 Milford, that had through «U ttor * years been a rival of Syracuse, had been fortunate enough to aoeure » the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan, (now the Michigan branch of the Big Four) that had been built » from Elkhart to Anderson by Mr. [ A. G. Wells and his associate® throe I or four years previously, and had paid, in the way of money subocrip- ‘ tlons and taxes, a good round sum I to get it, and the people of that * town had since looked down somel what on the poor, benighted citizens t of Syracuse. t You may.,guess what fond hopss » it raised in the bosoms of us all, t I this rumor that the railroad might | come to us. Immediately the wise > * men of the village began to get i j busy to learn if they might do any- : | thing to promote its coming. For * along with the now born hope was i the fear that, if the road were built, i it might miss us. The Baltimore A i Ohio was a rich corporation, it was said, that was looking for transcontinental business, and would i take the shortest route to reach * Chicago, regardless of whether it ■ touched any towns along the way or not. Knowledge of this gave us I not a little worry, it never occuring i to us that this very fact might i prove to our advantage; for if the I object were to hit towns along the : way a pretty sure guess it would . not come to Syracuse. Now Marlin Hillabold and Uncle Adam Ketring, father of Silas L. i and Louis Laps and others of the wise ones, thought of a plan to ' cinch the location of the road near > the town. It would be impracticable to build it through the great hills to the south of the lake, and i not wise, if the lino chosen were as . far south of the Lake Shore as Albion to swing off here to the north any further than was absolutely necessary, they said, and they know a route across Buck Island and the channel that, with but two bridges of moderate length over shallow water, would be just the one to locate it on. And you may bo sure they lost no time in bringing this route to the attention of the company's engineers, then working somewhere to the east of us. And you may be sure also that they did not neglect to assure the railroad agents of their willingness to assist in securing right-of-way and voting money subsidy too, and doing anything in reason and within their means to secure the building of the road on this route. For they had in mind the fate of Benton, that in the earlier days was a' prosperous trading point, surrounded by a most beautiful farthing country, and that gave promise of being one of the bast towns in Elkhart county until the Lake Shore railroad was built a little to the north of it and brought Millersburg into existence, and caused its death. It was said that Benton might have had this road • too, but several of its most promij nent citizens, at the time the road was built, had opposed its coming there, contending that it would ruin the business of the teamsters who had regular employment hauling fiour away from the town and merchandise into it. And with thia object lesson before them, the people of Syracuse were prone to bei stir themselves, lest the fate of their | town be similar. Now, had the lake not boon where it to the railroad would never I have been swung north far ehough to hit the town. But then, had the lake not been whore it to the town wouldn’t have been heje either. But the lake being whore it to, and it being necessary to select the route across Buck Island, it was hardly possible that the road could hit Milford, though the people there were willing and anxious to do anything possible that might bo required of them to bring it to their town. There was a railroad meeting | held in the school house here to which Milford sent a delegation of her representative citizens to beg

of the people «< pyxaetoi®. their as-' stotew>9 lodilH the talrfoad peoi pie to* loeate ths road through or I near .their town, and I remember .it very well, for then only did I over see Dr. Higbee, father of E. W. Higbee, banker, of Milford. And boy though 1 was, be made an impression on me that remains yet, as fresh aa though it were made yester- . 1 have no recollection of those who were with him, though there were a number of them, with all whom I probably became well acquainted afterward. But Mr. Higbee's lustrous eyes and his black mustache, and the masterful appeal he made in behalf of his town, all impressed me deeply. I felt then, and I have never doubted since, that I was in the presence of one of God's noblemen and an intellectual master. I have never given Ed Higbee, his son aforesaid, any particular credit for being the fine fellow that he to. It's in his blood, and I doubt if he could be less a gentleman if he tried to be. And hto splendid intelligence, too, to a direct inheritance from hto father, in my opinion. There were several surveys made, all of which wore over Buck bland, and there the road was finally located. And then Messrs Hillabold and Ketring and Laps and- others were called upon to redeem their promise of assisting in securing the right-of-way through the township. And willingly these throe did assist at this, at great sacrifice of their time and money, and to the neglect of their business. And when an election was called to vote a subsidy they, with about all the other men of the town, busied themselves to induce the farmers to come to their assistance and vote the tax, and successfully; too, as the result of the election proved. And" one day in the spring of 1873 there came into the village Messrs. Thomas Dalton and Major George Bill, who told us they had secured the contract for grading the road past the town, and they > had with them a number of men from their homes in Wisconsin to assist them in the work. And the railroad would come, and all doubt and suspense were ended. And Messrs. Hillabold and Ketring and Lap® were much honored of all the citizens of the town, and “Old Bill Guy” was remembered as a true prophet. As time keeper for the contractors, Dalton A Bill, came Mr. Joseph P. Dolan, then a young man, who was destined to become a permanent citizen of the town, to have charge of its schools for many yeav<''and have a large part in all )he future history and growth of the place. And also came James Kilbride, Jwho would marry and take back to Wisconsin with him as hto bride, Amanda Akers, one of th® town's most popular young ladies, oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Akers and sister of Samuel Akers, of the Strieby hardware store, and Thomas Dalton, Junior, nephew of Thomas, the contractor, who took away with him Maggie, another most popular young lady, daughter of Henry Yaste, farmer, who lived along the line half way to Milford Junction. And also came many others. And these men brought an unhoard of custom. They worked only ten hours a day—from seven o'clock in the morning until six in the evening, with an hour off at noontime! Such a thing as that had never been heard of here. The hours of labor, of whatever kind, had always been at least from daylight until dark of the longest days, and by lamplight at both ends of the shorter ones. And great was the wonder that those contractors were satisfied to pay for a full day's work and only got ten hours of service. And the unheard of wages they paid too! A dollar and seven-ty-five cento a day for laborers, and twice that amount for teams. In the summer of 1874 the iron was put down, and in the autumn of that year the first locomotive camo whistling and chugging into Syracuse. And the joy of the people was complete. In the meantime the railroad officials had decided to make the division point hero, and expectancy was at fever'heat. Their representatives had come to Messrs Hillabold Ketring and Lape and asked them what the town would do in the way of a bonus for the location of the shops and division point at this place. Mr. Hillabold had quoted scripture to them, as ho was wont to do on many occasions: “Gold and silver wo have none, but such as we ave. that will we give thee." bo said; lands, sufficient for your needs for yards, shops and round

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• house, and mpchmbreto yifeld /dtt greit' profits fhbrn the increased value -your coining. witt give if. Od this bat is a contract was made and accept*! by the company. And hen there were platted Hillabold's and Ketring 4 ®, and McConnell A Lape*®, and the two Strombfck & Weaver additions to the tor n, that their owners had no doubt would make them rich. But for some reason that was never understood here a large tract was purchased in the swamp where the city of Garrett now stands, the division point and shops were located there, and the contract made with the people here was repudiated. It was always believed by Mr. Hillabold and others here that railroad officials in whom rested the fixing of the division point bought the cheap lands in the Dekalb county swamp, organized the Garrett Land Company, and fixed the division point there for the profits it would put into their pockets. Had it been put here, as was at first intended, Syracuse would be a very considerable pity by this time. The coming of the railroad itself put somewhat of new life into the town, and within a year or two it doubled its ’ population. And in 1880, when the government census was taken, it was found that the place contained 492 souls. Meantime it had ceased to be a village, having been incorporated as a town in 1876, immedi.te.y after the memorable show and balloon ascension and the great fight that I told you all about several weeks ago. - o A CONSTITUIIGNAL thanksgiving in i?« 9 Now that we are again approaching the latter part of November and getting ready to render thanks to the Almighty for the blessings conferred' upon us it is interesting to note that no less a personage to render thanks for the American Constitution. In an interesting article in the November National Republic calling attention to this fact, Mr. J. E. O’SuLivant says in part: “The people of the United States are approaching another Thanksgiving Day. The holiday of thankfulness seems to us a purely American Institution. The observance of the event began with the Puritans. They set aside a day to render thanks to the Almighty because he had permitted them to found new homes in the wilderness, to protect themselves < from the savages and to raise enough food to supp.y themselves and the members of their • families. These Puritans were rugged individuals. They came to America to secure freedom of religious worship from an autocratic government which sought to deprive them of this blessing, They did not set out in government ships with tools and other provisions provided by government bounty. They came equipped only with the meager accoutrements which a niggardly civilization had provided them. They came not with government aid but to escape government regulation of what they regarded as their inalienable righto as free born citizens. “The colonies fringed along the Atlantic grew and prospered, as prosperity was measured in those lean days. .Then came the demand z for more liberty from an autocratic government, then lor a free nation dedicated to the rights of man. But even in the stirring days of the Revolutionary wur wuh it» sacrifices and its suffering. Thank-gibing was not forgotten. Frequently during he long struggle the Continental congress set aside special days of Thanksgiving, to commemorate American feats of arms and to seek the blessings and guidance of th® Ruler of all mankind. “Peace was followed by discord, even by the danger of confederate dissolution. But this experiment in a new continent was not so ended. A congress of American patriots assembled in Philadelphia and there came forth, after a summer of dehste, an Americ n Constitution, providingi for the establishment of a new kind of government, a republic in a democracy, in which the rights of the individual were to be preserved without s enticing the essential powers of nationalism. “Although some of the forward lookers of today take pleasure in telling us that the patriot fathers expressed some doubts as to the future of Corutuutibnai government, St to good to know that even in th® days of its adoption, the Constitution was regarded as a political savior of th® new nation. Its adoption was looked upon by the First Congress of the United States as a feat worthy of national Thanksgiving. Accordingly Congress appointed a committee ‘ whose duty and pleasure it was to wait upon President Washington to r®quesit that he recommend to the people of the United States a > day of public Thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, th® ’ many signal favors of Almighty I G<x>* especially by affording them i an opportunity to establish a Const!- , tution of government for their safety and happiness. ’ “It to a far cry from 1789 to 1936, i as individuals come and go. And y®t | in th® life of the average nation it . is a brief temporal sptn indeed. In . this space of a century and half th® 1 United States of America has grown i from an experimental backwoods • country to potentially the richest r and most powerful nation in th® . world. For this tact let us tender due thanks, with a reverent deter- , mination to do our part that Axnerican Constitutional freedom which mad® then® things possible, shall not fall before any Orientally conceived despotism cloaking its deadly intent with a mantle of hypocritical cant of world-wide brotherly love. Eternal vigihmc® to Mill the price of liberty and the enemy who bores from within is all th® more deadly because of hto cunning tactics.* 4 o — . Last year stomp taxes were paid on 125 000,000,000 cigarette®. Th® question now to, how many potatoes will stamp taxes be paid on next year? o - — It used to mean a man was up-to-date if you said that he was “city broke.” Now ft means that ha to aa

SOUTHSIDE Mrs. Ollie Hovarter called at the , McGarity home, Sunday, Mrs. Warbel, Mrs. Jarrett and Conrad Auer attended the funeral of Mrs. Charles Strieby, Sunday as- •: ternoon. Mrs. Elizabeth Dewart to staying with Mrs. Mary Cable, while EJstelle Swartz is spending a few weeks in Chicago. Mrs. Merl Laughlin and daughter Frances were Wednesday afternoon vtoitois in the H. W. Buchholz home. Thursday evening, visitors in the Noble Ringler home were: Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hess, Freida and Dorothy Egolf, Lewis Garrison and Frances and Marjorie Laugfilin. Mrs. Rean LeCount took supper with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer McGarity, Monday evening. Orlo Cabl®, who has had quinsoy, to recovering. Mr. and Mrs. Forest Ringler and children, and Enos Ringler were Sunday visitors in the Nobel Ringler home. ’ - Marjorie and Marl Laughlin were Sunday afternoon callers in the Ode Rarig home. 0 DISMAL Wilbur Wilkinson spent the week end at his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Joe ington, bringing hto mother, Mrs. Mary Wilkinson horn® after visiting there a few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wilkinson and children of Winona spent a part of last week with Mrs. Kate Dull and George Dull Mr. and Mrs. Dean Bobeck of Ligonier were guests in the Virgil Bobeck home Wednesday evening. The Ladies Aid was entertained at the home of Mrs. Katherine Beck and Mrs. Izel Beck Thursday. Everett Miles of Fort Wayne spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. and family. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Dull and two children of Cromwell spent Sunday evening in the Stanley Lung home. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Snepp and family of Monroeville visited over the week end with Lon Burley and son Frank. Mrs. Alvin is at the home of her pareiito.' Mr. and Mrs. Deeter, helping to care for her father, who is ill at hto home near Milford. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Lung spent Wednesday evening in the Dora Clingerman home. RICHVILLE Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McDaniel were eallers at Diamond Lak®, Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Strieby and family called at the Monroe Ott home, Sunday evening. Elaine Wilsey, Janice Snyder and I race Stettler are back in school, having recovered from the chicken pox. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Self wer® Sunday evening caller® at th® Ernest rtuhards horn®. . Mrs. Ma® Ott called on Mrs. Chas. Shuder, Monday afternoon. Mrs. John Emmert has a severe cold. Mrs. Lizzie Hire spent Thanksgiving in Fort Wayne with her son, Estie Hire. The Hex Rural Economics club will meet Dec. 4, with a pot luck linner andudLdtoy meeting. TIPPECANOE Mrs. Stanley Morehead visited Mrs. J. L. Klin® and Mrs. Isaiah Kuhn Wednesday. J. Garb®r and family took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Jake Klin® of Elkhart. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Mor®h®ad md family visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mock. Rev. Emeral Jonas and family, Royal Kttne and wit® visited Mr. and Mrs. James Gilbert Sunday. Park Lent/ tdbk Sunday dinner with Noble Kline. Le® Lants and family mad® a burinees trip to Warsaw Saturday. Mrs. Royal Klin® visited Mrs. James Gilbert Tuesday. Noble Klin® called at the Lentz home Saturday evening. Jama® Gilbert and family took supp«r with Mr. and Mr®. J. Garber. SOLOMON’S CREEK Ralph Darr, Mrs. Louise Miller and son Bobby and Mtos Juanita uuahwa spent Sunday with Charles 3unger and Bell® Juday, near ersburgMr. and Mrs. Jim Fisher, Alton Ftober, Mrs. Lotti® Barringer and Laurel Rarue all of Elkhart spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fisher. Mr. and Mrs. Ksnneth Hapner and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Manford Mishler and son of near New Paris spent Sunday with Mr. and Ms®. John Darr. Mr®. Albert Zirmnerman, Mr®. p®rry Banger and Mi®. Charles Etlins of user Goshen spent last «. hursday afternoon with Bello juday. j Harry Mcßrid® end famUy spent

Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Sam 1 Eamick oFnear Tiilnersfiurg' ’ Rev. and Mrs. Dobbins spent one day hat-week ip South Bend. Mr. and Mrs. Vic Niles, Mrs. i Bender, Mr. -dnd Mrs. Alfred Ott i attended the funeral of Mrs. Charles ; Strieby, Sunday. A number from this place attended the Indoor Fair at the Hex Grange, Monday evening. The Helman orchestra from New Paris furnished the music. On next Tuesday, Dec. 3, a group meeting will be held at the Church. There will be an all day meeting with dinner inn the basement at the noon hour. Sunday school, Sunday morning. AFRICA. Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Shock visited last Wednesday in the Leander Yoder and Will Tooley homes near Kimmel. Sunday visitors in the Eli Shock home were* Mr. and Mi's. Lee Dye and son of Elkhart and Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Ferverda and baby daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Sim Lewallen spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Miller. Jonas Cripe and Mrs. Elizabeth Shock spent Friday in Plj mouth in the Ira Mock home. Maurice Dorsey and Doris Shock called on Mr. and Mrs. Dexerl Bowser, Sunday evening. Jonas Cripe and Mrs. Elizabeth Shock spent Sunday a ternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Lon Klingerman of Indian Village. CONCORD Mr. and Mrs. Button Howe spent Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Park Losier of Goshen. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bucher and Mrs. James Pew*art we:e c. Ilers, Sunday, at the John Roop home. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews tnd Lloyd Dewart and family spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bucher. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wyland were guests at the home of Alfred Brady of Ligonier, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Fisher spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. Estep of Milford. Imon and Merrit Rookstool ■ and wives spent Monday evening at the Chester Stiffler home. Mrs. Cora Wyland and grand-dau- ! ghter, Patricia Ann spent Monday ' afternoon with Anna Ma* hews. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Wyland spent i Monday afternoon in Ligonier. It won’t be long now until nearly all American children will be born in hospitals. And this will just about eliminate the log cabin candidate. —_ .. . _ If, as a university professor says, we reach our creative peak at age 35, what becomes of the theory that life begins at 40?

SILVERCUP ; Beginning Nov. 16, we pay $1.75 for Milk PRICES ARE ADVANCING Local Representative Is D. C. Berkey Syracuse, R. R. 1

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