The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 16, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 13 August 1936 — Page 6

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Published Thursday at Syracuse, Indiana. _ Entered as second-class matter on May 4th, 1908, at the postoffice at Syracuse, Indiana, under the Act of Congress of March 3rd, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, in advance, $2.00 Six Months in advance _— SI.OO Three Years, in advance __ $6.00 Single Copies 5c Subscriptions Dropped if Not Renewed When Time Is Out. SYRACUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY, ING, PUBLISHERS F. Allan Weatherholt, Editor Thursday, August 13, 1936 DREDGING THE CHANNEL For sometime the Chamber of Commerce here has been endeavoring to have the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad dredge the channel between Lake Wawasee and Syracuse Lake. To date no definite action has been shown here, although officials of the railroad company have repeatedly promised their cooperation and immediate action. The channel is a vital link in the commercial and social life between residents on the two lakes, and should be dredged. We believe that once it is opened so that any boat on the lake can negotiate a safe passage, the two lakes will be drawn closer together in a spirit of friendliness and neighborliness. Much of the success of the Mardi Gras, depends too upon the opening of the channel, as there must be a means of water travel between the two lakes for all boats during this celebration.

BUYING AND SELLING Here is. the case of a small little town that seems to have torn a leaf out of “big business’s book." Hermiston, Oregon, has a population of 600, and a Government report says that it transacted almost a quarter. million dollars business with its consumer cooperatives m 1936. Its additional transactions in marketing cooperatives was another $250,000. A Government publication heaps unqualified praise on Hermiston and its methods. Apparently the whole town has “ganged-up” as a business center that buys and sells the community needs in feeds, seeds, lumber, hardware, fuel, cannery products, gas and oil, groceries, meats, creamery products, and other necessities and luxuries, without regard to' any class of local merchants who got the hook in affairs of trade and local commerce. Hermiston’s co-ops buy iri large quantities and sell at cost plus the actual expenses of operation. Down in Washington this bit of news is printed with unqualified approval in a Government publication called the Coaisumer’s Guide. It is officially oked as a swell performance by the co-ops. If the community plan is a public benefit and an effective method of buying and selling one must think it curious that private food industries that organise and carry on buying and sailing plans that furnish goods to the consumers cheaper than the old methods of merchandising are regulated, investigated and ordered to behave so-and-so by the officials of the Government. The progressive little 600 Hermiston crabs the big merchandising idea and gives its whole population the benefit, Oh, but that is different! Is it? AVOIDING HOT WEATHER MOTOR TROUBLES Even a “short memory* recalls the trouble motors gave us on hot days, . particularly in the hilly country or when we “stepped on it" for more speed. * But today one of the principal reasons why automobiles perform equally well in hot summer weather and in the cooler seasons of the. years is through the use of the Bohnalite cylinder head. This light aluminum alloy has the wonderful quality of being able to dissipate heat three times as rapidly as cast iron. These cylinder heads insure cooler engines and consequently there is less tendency for pinging under hot weather conditions. Cars which use aluminum alloy cylinder heads no longer experience this difficulty. A tremendous per-;

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centage of cars are now equipped and it is interesting that this type of cylinder head is not confined to higher-price cars but is found in the lowest-price field as well. Manufacturers realize that it is an economical method of developing the best performance possible. It is one of the big reasons why the modern car is better than the older types. i On The Hill By UNCLE LEW. Looking Backward Syracuse began in the ox team days and came on through the beginning and the complete development and final decline of the horse and buggy days. Syracuse witnessed the beginning and wonderful growth of the automobile, aeroplanes, and is now in the midst of the gasoline days. The gasoline days that are killing people by the multiplied thousands on the highways and on the rail road crossings. Our mothers and our sisters were i great workers in the early days of I the town’s history. They were the home makers. Home makers in the i true sense of the word. They also made many things that were essential in the homes. They made with their hands the articles that are now turned out from factories in mass production. First came the Light from the blaa-. ing fire place in cabins. Abe Lincoln did much of his reading by its light. Then came the fat lamp in some old can or pan. After the fat lamp, tallow candles were used for lighting purposes. In early times candle molds and large balls of candle wick were kept on hand in every home so that the mothers could make candles from time to time. The writer has helped mold many tallow candles. * • It was our mothers who made all the soap used in the laundry work and for washing the hands and face lor the feet. Bathing of the entire body was a rare treat, and was only possible in the creeks during warm, weather. Bathing suits for women were unknown, as were bath and toilet soaps. In every home was a large iron kettle which was used, in the spring of the year, for the making of soaps. Fats were boiled in lye to make the soap. To make the lye was another chore for our ■ mothers. Large wooden ash hoppers were placed in the rear of the homes i for the making of the lye. The writer has built more than one of those hoppers and filled it with wood ashes from the winter fire*. Then men al-

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The Belgian shoemaker. John Vrombaot, in the Streets of the World at the Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland, makes wooden shoes for visitors to buy as souvenirs. His wife. Matilda, helps hew the shoes out of rough wood. The Vrombauts were born in Eckloo, Belgium, 58 years ago and since they were old enough to work they have been practicing their trada.

ways built the hoppers, but it was our mothers who carried the water to pour over the ashes. The water, in soaking through the ashes obtained a substance from the ashes which changed the water into lye. This lye was caught in an under trough and drained into an iron kettle where it was kept to use in the making of soap. To test the strength of the lye an egg was placed into the lye. If the egg floated half submerged in the lye it was the correct strength. Our mothers also made the hominy for the family meal by boiling shelled white corn in the lye to remove the shell and heart of the kernel. No hominy was ever made by machinery that equalled the flavor of the whole grain lye hominy. It was also our mothers work to cut and dry apples, and peaches to preserve thfem for winter use. The fruit was spread on the roof of the smoke house where they were dried by the sun. They also stored large amounts of apples and peach butter ,Tor use later on in the year. These butters were made in large kettles out in the open. Later on the art of canning fruit was learned. Before floor coverings came into being carpets were made by cutting rags from cast off clothing into strips which were sewed together end to end, and rolled into large balls. These were sent to the weavers to be woven into carpets. But, even the weaver was some ones

mother who operated a hand loom in her home. For many years the mothers of Syracuse cut and sewed by hand all the clothing worn by the family. They spun the wool and knit the socks and stockings that were used. Syracuse has come a long way on the road of advancement. Candles were replaced by coal oil lamps, then came electricity. After many years factories began to make soap and hominy in a limited way, and the clothing and carpets that were demanded in these modern times. So, mothers were gradually relieved ■of some of their burdens. But I sincerely believe that none of the women who work in factories, clerk in stores, or even those who are teachers in public schools are as happy and contented as were our mothers and grandmothers of other years. DIVORCE SUIT FILED Marjorie M. Connolly of Syracuse, has filed suit foi a divorce from Arthur B. Connolly in which she seeks SIOO alimony and $3 per week for the support of a minor child, James William, aged 7. The plaintiff charges cruelty and failure to provide. She alleges that her hus- ‘ band was disagreeable at all times, that he called her vile names on several occasions and at various times struck her. The couple was married June 10, 1928 and separated on August 17, 1935.

REMEMBER August 11, 1910 Alva Galloway fell from the hay mow at the Enock Nulfs farm, and shattered the bones in his arm. Helen Hendricks was surprised at the home of Fern McElroy. The guests included: Ruth Beitman, Natalie Kilgore, Emma Strieby, Edith Griffith, Wilma Kitson, Mrs. Wade Zerbe, Ellis Zerbe, Wade Zerbe, George Thompson, Fred Jeffries, Harold Bowser, Carl Weaver, Nelson Miles and La Voy Rorhig. Dr. Oren Neal, noted eye specialist, Chicago arrived at Lake Wawasee for the remainder of the summer. The Kincaide reunion was held at W. H. Kincaide’s in North Webster. The Syracuse Water Power Company and the Board of Trustees held a joint meeting at the Eli Lilly lake home, to consider ways and means for permanently improving the dams, waste gates and power house owned by the Water Power Company and leased for a number of years by the Syracuse corporation. 4J : . Library Notes By “Lust for Life” by Irving Stone. Here is a novel of a'man who flung himself passionately at the blank canvas of life, and who designted in his short span of thirty-seven years, one of the world’s most colorful and profoundly stirptwr stories. At twenty-one was heir to the greatest art galleries in Europe, y&Twnen the cruel frustrations of love taught him the nature of pain, he inherited the disenherited of this earth. He worked in the plague-ridden slums of London, became in turn bookseller, teacher, preacher, and finally evangelist in the coal mines of Belgium. But, because he took the word of Jesus too literally, because he gave away his food, clothing and money he was excommunicated from the Church and cast adrift once again, broken in health, disowned by his family, with no future and no hopes. Later his brother Theo came to help him; Theo, gentle, sympathic, loving Vincent more than anything in the world. We follow Vincent in his years at The Hague and the small towns of the Dutch Brabant. Then he plunges into the art life of Paris, where he becomes part of the greatest renaissance since the fifteenth Atty. Wm. Gray Loehr In All Courts. Notary Estates, Wilis Deeds REAL ESTATE EXCHANGED $5 Correspondent Courses 118*4 S. Buffalo Street WARSAW, IND, Watch and Clock Repairing A. J. Thibodeaux First House South of U. B. Church Lake St. Syracuse, Ind. 9-24-36 _ W. R. BIGLER JEWELER I Opp P. O. Syracuse, Ind. L 47-4tp

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