The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 12, Number 18, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 August 1919 — Page 1

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FRAMEWORK OF Hffl TABLE FACTOR OP Site Increased by Addition of Three More Lots at the •Rear. The new factory building of the Syracuse Table Company is rapidly coming into' being. The foundations were laid on the company’s site west of the foundry building last week end, and on Monday morning a force of carpenters began erecting the frame work. At the time of +o press +he side walls have all raised and the sheeting laid on them in preparation for the metal lathing and stucco. Hobart Miller of Chicago, one of the members of the table company, gpent last week end here viewing the site and going over the arrangements that had been negotiated. He was enthusiastic over the site that'" had been chosen; three additional lots adjoining the site at the rear were purchased to furnish a more adequate area for storing lumber. Geo. J. Cronenberger, head of the new company, is personally supervising the construction work and is pleased with the progress being made. It is his purpose to have the building sufficiently advanced to receive the carload of wood-working machinery that is now on its way to Syracuse. Prospects are bright for an early beginning of production. * The building now under construction will have 6,000 feet of floor space. . It will be a onestory structure, stucco. An abundance of light is being provided with well arranged windows, placed both for service and for artistic effect. The building is spaced on the grounds in a manner to enable a park arrangement that will also lend to the attractivepes of the place. L_ Q , MASONS TO BANQUET Herbert A. Graham, grand inspector of Masonic bodies in Indiana, will be at the Masonic hall at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 2, and will spend the afternoon and evening here. Cromwell, Milford and Syracuse lodges will confer the three degrees. A banouet will be served at the supper hour by the ladies ol the Eastern Star. o CHAS. WOGOMAN DEAD Charles WogOman, who had been taken to the Elkhart general hospital Tuesday to undergo an operation, died during the night. Funeral services will be conducted at the home at two o’clock Friday afternoon. <j COMMISSION AT THE LAKE > Members of the state conservation commision have been making a tour of the lake district of northern Indiana during the past several days. H. Lieber, head of the commission, accompanied by Senator Guthrie and Mr. Brosman, hydraulic engineer, were at Lake Wawasee Sunday. o $100(( FOR BEST NAME San Francisco, Aug. 14.—Can you create the one word which will best denote the United States and all parts of Britannia? If so, you will be paid at the rate of SIOOO a word. The World Trade Club of San Francisco has offered SIOOO to the person who suggests the word which, in the judgment of the club’s Metric Campaign Committee, is best adapted to world-wide use. / The competition is open to all humankind. The money will be paid to the winner 7 at noon on 15th May, 1920, by a committee appointed by Presi dent W. H.

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| Hammer of the World Trade Club. ‘Brit-Am,’ ‘Ambria,’ ‘Ambrittica,’ ‘Br-Am,’ ‘Sam-Bull,’ are some words thus far suggested.i New names are constantly com- ; ing. The World Trade Club is offering this award because in carrying on its present campaign for the adaption of metric units by all English-speaking people —the United States, the British Isles, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, United South Africa and so on,—it was hampered by the lack of a single short word which would express all these. The metric units of weights and measure are now used by all he world except ‘Brit-Am,’ or ‘Ambrittica’ or ‘Sam-Bull.’ : OWE GOT TIPPECANOE BEAT SOME, ANYWAY ' i -— I We Have the Story, the Picture, ■ the Fish and the Nene To Prove It. — Under the headline “We Got. Wawasee Beat Some, Anyway,” in last week’s issue of The Leesburg Journal appeared the fol- 1 lowing: In telling of the monster fish ! which was caught in Wawasee • lake, last week the Syracuse Journal stated: “To Wawasee, the largest lake in Indiana, now belongs the ■ honor of having produced the! largest fish which, according to records, has been caught in In- | diana waters.” But the Journal editor will! have to dig up a bigger one than I that for Hi Ferverda tells us of; a monster taken from Tippe- j canoe lake some 30 years ago by » Cy Long and Ezra Paugh. This I fish weighed 150 pounds and was caught in almost the same manner as the one taken from Wawasee last week. This species of fish is what was known as the spade fish around here at that time. Now some call them sturgeons. If the people of Leesburg want to edge into the big fish game by running in yarns from thirty years back, lawsy! we got fishermen around who have seen big ones in Lake Wawasee that • weighed exactly thirty-five ! pounds more than that Tippecanoe fish. It takes more than just a yarn to get into this big fish game. ELECTRIC SMASH UP The Milford sub-station on the Winona line, south of Milford, was badly damaged when an extra amount of power was turned on from Warsaw without Harry ■ Stiffler, Milford operator,' being notified. If he had been notified, he might have prevented the accident by changing a lever and allowing the heavy current I to pass. It is estimated that the damage to the company will not be less than $5,000, and can not be repaired under four or five weeks. The damaged property. includes household goods of Mr. Stiffler, who lives in the build- j ing. Fortunately, everybody was out when the charge came so that nobody was hurt. o COUNTY AUTO TAX Kosciusko county will receive $11,830 as its share in the distribution of auto license receipts for the first six months of the year. The total amount received by the state, according to the figures of Secretary of State Roach, is $1,395,388.47, about $34,000 less than last year. ,— o STRIKES WELL OF OIL An oil well yielding from 60 to 75 barrels of oil daily has been struck near Peru. It is said to be one of the finest in the county. i

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MASTODON FOUND HF , WAUBEE GRAVEL PIT 1 ■ Prehistoric Ages Are Recorded i Through Centuries of Time. While excavating at the Waubee gravel pit last week, workmen uncovered portions of a huge tusk, probably having belonged to a magatherium or mastodon of prehistoric davs. When the portions were fitted together . the tusk measured about seven I feet long and about fourteen I inches in curcumference at the I larger end.. ! Judging by the size of the I tusk, the huge elephant-like I beast to which this belonged was | probably the size of the average farmer’s barn. By the means of fossils discovered in clay pits, quarries and coal mines scientists are able to picture to us huge trees, and ; monstrous lizzard- and elephantlike animals that roamed over |the earth centuries before men I began recording history. Workmen at the gravel pit are ( on the alert for portions of the ! skeleton.. o MISS SACK AT CROMYVELL Madeline Sack, native of Ligo-' j nier and famous throughout the : country as a violin artist, has been secured by the Cromwell ■ Labor day committee to give a I concert in the evening of Crom- ; well’s big day. Miss Sack’s violin was made • by the French master Valliaume | and is valued at SIO,OOO. i It is expected by the committee that many people will go to' Cromwell from a considerable distance and stay over through the evening in order to take advantage of the opportunity to hear Miss Sack. — o—<— SOLDIER’S DAY October 1, the second day of the Kosciusko county fair, will be soldier’s day. A special committee has been named to have I charge of the delegations of solI diers from the various parts of i the county. Sol Miller is the ' one named to receive the Syracuse boys. The soldiers will be entertained on Oct. 1 at a big basket I picnic dinner and jazz band dance at the new Felkner building in Warsaw. o POSTOFFICE SALE GOOD The parcels post sale of army foodstuffs offered through the • local postoffice met a popular response. Everything that was offered except one item was sold out, and will be distributed as soon as the goods arrive. I This completed the disposition I of the allottment made through the local postoffice. Postmaster Hoopoingarner is expecting notification to offer army blankets for sale by parcels post. OFFICERS DEMOBILIZED Washington, D. C. —Only 12,117 officers of the 188,434 officers in the army when the armistice was signed are now in commission. This represents a demobilization approximately 74 per cent complete eight months after hostilities ceased and before the peace treaty has been ratified. In the air service 18,140 officers and men are still held as against 195,023 in service November 11. — O FOURTEENTH CENSUS The fourteenth census of the United States will be taken in 1920. The supervisor of the thirteenth district has not yet been announced. The population of Indiana in 11910 was found to be 2,700,876.

• z * The codfish lays a million egg* * * And the helpful hen lays one; * ♦ But the codfish does not cackle ♦ • To tell what she has done. • • ♦ And so we scorn the codfish coy. * • But the helpful hen we prise; • ♦ This indicates to thinkihg * # minds * ♦ It pays to advertise.—(Ex. * a • •«»*•«*••* — . -oCYRUS HALL HA RT Cvrus Hall, presi of the Leesburg bank, was Seriously although not fatally injured last Tuesday at Bellefontaine, Ohio, when a speeding car struck him and ragged a considerable distance. He and Mrs. Hall had stopped their car and Mr. Hall was standing beside it when the speed fiend came alonp". Mrs. Hall was not injured, as the standing car wfs not struck. The victim was rushed to the hospital, where a careful examination was made, discovering the fact that no serious internal injuries were sustained. LEPPEmGE SOLD S. C. Lepper has disposed of his garage business and Ford and Overland agencies to James Godschalk, of Three Rivers, Mich., who assumed charge last Friday. ' James McElroy, also of Three Rivers, has been placed in charge as manager of the business. Mr. Lepper has been engaged in business in Syracuse for the past thirteen years, and has always identified himself with the progressive interests of the town, making for himself a host of friends. The townspeople welcome the new owners oaFtfte business and wish for them prosperity. o DAYLIGHT LAW REPEALED Repeal of the daylight saving act was accomplished, the senate voting to sustain the house in passing the repeal measure over President Wilson’s veto. The vote was 57 to 19. The repeal of the law which now takes its place among the very few which have been passed over a presidential veto becomes effective after the clocks are turned back to normal in October. o BALL PLAYERS HARD HIT During the ball game Sunday Dr. Fermier was kept busy caring for the injured players. Ogden, the Nappanee catcher, had a finger busted by a foul tip. Hall injured his leg while sliding to second and has since been hobbling around on crutches and Ponko tried to stop a foul tip with his “wish-bone.” The doctor’s aid was called in all these cases. —(Leesburg Journal. ——n —, BIG OATS YIELD Clarence Trimmer, who resides on the Kaier farm in Union townshin, managed by Wallie Kaier, threshed Monday and from a 7| acre field got 375 bushels of oats or an average of 50 bushels to lhe acre. The threshing was done by Arthur Kyler.-— (Columbia City Post. WOMEN PROTEST Resolutions and letters of protest from women and organizations over postponement of the special session are pouring in to the governor. He has given no intimation to the Franchise League as to when a special session may be expected, and in reply to some letters from individuals, has only stated it would not be held prior to October 1, 1919, but specifies nd date when it will be called. | Mrs. Stephen Freeman* and children have returned from their trip to Vermont.

CLUB WORK PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED At Syracuse on Home-Coming Day; Exhibit at Library Site. Forrest Nickler, who has , charge of the boys’ and girls’ agricultural clubs of Turkey Creek and Vanßuren townships and Stephen Freeman, township trustee, acting as a committee in charge of arrangements for the agricultural parts of the homecoming celebration to be held in Syracuse on September 10, have announced the schedule of"prizes that will be awarded the boys and girls on the results of their work during the season. The prizes are as follows: Pig contest —First. $5.00; second, $3,00; third, $2.00. Garden contest —First, $2.00; second, $1.00; third, 50c. Poultry contest—First, $1.00; second, 75c; third, 25c. The exhibits will be held on the new library site, and will be in charge of the committee. Request has been made to Purdue university for an agricultural expert to be here on that date and assist in awarding the prizes; other competent judges are also being arranged for. The contestants are instructed to bring their entries to the exhibit early so that the prizes can be awarded and the prize winners marked. Their note books and records must also be brought in along with the entries, as a basis for awarding the prizes. o—, • LAKES WILL BE DRAINED In the rush of the last few days of the legislative session, there was passed a bill for the draining of the beautiful Limberlost lake country in northern Indiana, made well known by Mrs. Gene Stratton-Porter’s writings. The bill was passed, it is alleged, without much thought nor realization of what it would mean. A committee of citizens from the Limberlost country, including Dr. F. H. Broughton of Wolcottville, G. F. Eshelman of LaGrange, C. C. Harrah of Noble county and state representative John H Hoffman of Ligonier, called upon governor Goodrich lately, and asked him to include in his call for the extra session of the legislature, if such a session is called, the recommendation that the drainage bill be repealed. Mrs. Porter has written an article on, the subject for the newspapers, in which she explains that this drainage will mean the turning of the now beautiful country of lakes and growing trees and plants into a desolate waste, practically useless, because the soil is sandy, and when drained will give little response to cultivation; that it will mean the death of the trees growing there because they are adapted to very wet ground alone, and, because of their destruction, that the country will be deserted by the birds which they shelter. Her article states that the people of the region effected did not know of the bill until it had been railroaded through the legislature by the dredging interests. Richards Lieber, head of the Indiana department of conservation, was present at the committee’s conference with the governor. He will probably visit the Limberlost region for the purpose of making an investigation. He told the committee that the department would not be antagonistic to a reasonable drainage project, but that it must be shown that the drainage of certain lands will accomplish good and will not have the effect of destroying .useful lakes and waterways. He said the department of conservation is interest-

ed in safeguarding the beautiful scenery of Indiana, on account of the aesthetic and practicial advantages. In regard to drain- i age projects, he said that in- • stead of removing a few stag-1 nant and useless ponds, they often remove useful water basins j and create stagnant ponds. A similar project in recent years turned the many miles of beautiful Kankakee marsh with its towering old trees and thick underbrush harboring all 'sorts of birds, a veritable fairyland, into prosaic, bare looking country with a straight ditch running thmugh it, and no vegetation except a few weeds alongside. As Mrs. Porter says in her ari'He. whf'n the work of the dredoe is done, it is done for all time, for no amount of irrigation can restore the lost conditions. o WHY BE DISSATISFIED? Do You, as a Teacher, Find Your YVork Is a Drag? Thousands upon thousands of teachers are dissatisfied. Why? Because their work is a drag. Every student, each different from the other, presents a succession of new problems which seem more difficult of solution than th<sSe which have gone before. But there is a remedy for the inability to cope with these problems. More training of the right sort will give new impetus to a teacher’s work and will supply new ideas which pull and tug for expression. According to a recent state law, teachers having the necessary training can get life licenses to teach in the elementary and high schools any place in Indiana. Tri-State College located at Angola, Indiana, has been credited by the state as a normal school whose graduates are eli-, gible for these licenses. A two-year course leads to a I life license to teach in the elementary grades. The four-year course prepares the student to be a high school teacher, a principal, or a superintendent of schools. Both courses open September 30. Write today to President L. M. Sniff and ask him about how much more training you need, and let him tell you how valuable a course obtained at Tri-State will be. 8281 o MISSION WORKER COMING Rev. Claybaugh of Chicago will spend Saturday and Sunday evenings here and will give an illustrated lecture each evening in the Dunkard church at eight o’clock. There will be no charge for admission. Rev. Claybaugh has been engaged in mission work for several years, working in hospitals, laboring amongst the slums and visiting the tenement districts. His whole life has been spent in performing duties of service, and his experiences amongst the distressed and needy have rewarded him with a fund of facts and stories which he ably presents in his illustrated talks. o WEST POINT CANDIDATES Cong. A. J. Hickey on Monday sumitted to the war department the names of three candidates for^ admission to West Point military academy. Choice will be made from these three following examination for admission to be • held in February: John Hueni, Bremen, principal; F. Clarence Bunce, LaPorte, first alternate; Peter W. Shunk, Westville, second alternate. —o LAKE VIEYV NOT SOLD The Journal was misinformed and incorrectly stated last week that the Lake View hotel had J been sold by Mrs. M. K. Boland to the Wawasee Amusement company, now operating the Waco dancing pavilion. Mrs. Boland , still owns and operate the hotel.

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PARAGRAPHIC ffITS I ABOUT HOME FOLKS Notes of the Week on the Coming and Going of People You Know. Rude Wilkinson is quite ill at this writing. LOST—White Spaulding sweater coat, between Syracuse and Jones; reward. Return to Ruth Hooks. 8281 p Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Flynn of Gary came Tuesday to visit with Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Colwell and other relatives here » Mrs. Chas. Scott of Garrett has been in Svracuse taking care . f her mother, Mrs. Lewis Neff, who has been quite ill. LOST—One 35x5 cord tire between Syracuse and Brunjes Park Wednesday morning.* Finder return to Journal office; reward. Harry C. Groves and family have returned to their home in Oshkosh, Wis., after spending two weeks here visiting their parents. Harry, Paul, Donovan, Robert md Kathleen Riddle came Monday from Joplin, Mont., where they bad been visiting their aunt Mrs. Jay Ross. e C. C. Bacaman, Calvin E. Beck, Miss Lillian Hamman, Miss Mary Miles and Mrs. Carrie Shannon are at Warsaw this wek attending teachers’ institute. Mrs. Cremean’s mother, M’S. Brennhizer. and her sister, M»ss Naomi Brennhizer of Fort Wayne have been visiting at the pa--sonage for the past several days. Mrs. June Hire received word Tuesday of the death of her ’ brother, Harry Kabrich of Jacksonville, Fla. He was a printer [by trade; years ago he wAs a ' balloonist. i Mr. and Mrs. Aldean Strieby have shipped their household goods and on Monday left for Danville, Ky., where Mr. Strieby will be given the management of a farm. Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Widner left Thursday for Warsaw, where Mr. Widner has accepted a position at the Globe Clothing store. They have rented a furnished house for the present. Garfield Walker of Indianapolis, founder of The Journal, is spending this week at the L. N. Kitson home. Mrs. Walker and children had preceded him and spent a few weeks here before he came. GIRLS—-When you attend the Fair as Goshen, visit the Rock Run Mills and let us show you how to meet the H. C. L. by becoming one of our sewing machine operators. Several positions now available. Rock Run Mills, R. E. Jepson, Supt. 8281 Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McKesson, in company with Mr and Mrs. Bowen and son Robert of Kokomo, Ind., called Friday on Editor P. H. Miles, a former college friend. The party had been spending an outing of a few days at Yellowbanks. Chas. V. Smith, most of his life a resident of Syracuse, reached here fronts Long Beach, Calif., Saturday. He will spend a week here visiting with relatives and friends before returning home. On his way home he will stop at Phoenix, Ariz., to i visit his son. o INFLICTS ANKLE WOUND Ed Kurtz, of Goshen, accidentally shot himself in the right ankle Saturday of last week, when he wasjireaking the barrel to open a 22 caliber target pistol at Buttermilk Point. He was taken to Goshen, and 1 submitted to much probing in search of the bullet, which was finally found by the use of the X-ray. It was removed on the opposite side from that on which ' it had entered. •

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