The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 12, Number 42, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 12 February 1920 — Page 1

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NEWS ITEMS FROM OUR SURROUNDINGS Contributed Notes on the Happenings in Nearby Communities. WHITE OAK Mr and Mrs. Charles Ryman of Milford are spending a few days at the Samuel Dewart home. Mrs. Dewart is suffering with heart trouble and is not improving very fast. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Roop of Stringtown spent Sunday evening with Mr. and r Mrs. Ernest Mathews. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dewart of near Milford spent Sunday with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Dewart. Miss Marie Strieby spent Friday night in Syracuse with friends. * . Quite a number from this corner attended the big sale at Milford Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. James Dewart spent Sunday at the Ernest Mathews home. j Miss Crystal Ross spent Saturday night with her sister, Mrs. Orland Stiffler. Lester Dewart spent Sunday evening at the James Dewart home. Mrs. Els worth Day is is on the sick list. William Searfoss spent Sunday with Henry Hoover. Tilman Coy called at the Wm. Smith home Sunday. | Mrs. Rebecca Deivart spent Saturday afternoon at the Lloyd Dewart home in Milford. —-*v -o H NORTH END Eva McFall spent several days of last week as a guest of her sister, Mrs. Irvin Mellott of Nappanee. Misses Helen Pennsinger and Eva McFall and Messers George Hart of Milford and John Rineberger of Bremen spent Sunday in Goshen. Helen Pennsinger, who has spent the past two months at the Walter Weaver home, returned home Saturday. Kenneth Strock and his lady friend of Garrett sp§nt the week end here with his jfarents. Harold Coy, who is employed at Mishawaka, spent the week end at home. Carl Gordy and Thomas Gilbert of Elkhart spent a few days of last weeb here. Eva McFall and George Hare of Milford spent Tuesday in Goshen. Mrs. Ed McFall, who has been seriously ill for the past few days, is somewhat improved. LaFern Ritter spent the week end in Elkhart visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Clinton Bushong is on the sick list. H. S. Clarke of Bremen spent the week end here, j jMiss Mildred Ohaver returned Goshen Saturday. Mrs. Ed McFall returned home Monday after spnding a few days with her aunt, Mrs. Hapner at Solomon’s Creek. o LONG ISLAND Miss Mabel Tuvel returned home Friday from Missouri where she has been spending the winter with relatives. Mrs. Jacob Wilkinson received the telegram that the small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Munson of New York, was seriously ill. She left for there Tuesday evening. Max and Frank Burley spent Monday evening with Mr. Dora Clingerman and family. Those who helped Klas Bobeck butcher Tuesday were: Dora Clingerman and family, Harry Vorhis and family and Nels Bobeck and family. Mr. and Mrs. Klas Bobeck and

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sons, Mrs. Dora Clingerman and daughter and Harry 'Vorhis spent Sunday afternoon with Nelson Bobeck and family. John Tuvel is on the sick list this week. Elva and Theodore Vorhis called on Charles Hinderer and family Sunday afternoon. Klas Bobeck and family and Miss Mary Wilkinson spent Sunday evening with Harry Vorhis and family. George Stacker and family called on Wilmot Jones and family Sunday afternoon. Miss Lois Tuvel spent Sunday afternoon with Misses Dorothea and Treva Deßrular. About forty of the neighbors gathered at the Kauffman to remind Mrs. Sarah Kauffman of her birthday. Refreshments were served. o PLEASANT RIDGE Mr. and Mrs. Amos Hubler assisted Andrew Armbuster butcher Wednesday. Mrs. Arthur Brown spent last Thursday with her mother, Mrs. Dora Weaver. Mrs. Ellen Robinson, Minnie and Ruby, called on Mrs. Raymond Kettring Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Coy were Goshen shoppers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Cripe and son Keith were Sunday guests at the J. C. Cripe home. Little Ernest Blue is still improving. Raymond Vail is on the sick list. Minnie Robinson and daughter Ruby ’visited at the Clinton Bushong home. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Coy visited with Mrs. Sarah Ott and family. Ralph Vail and family and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brown were Sunday afternoon callers at the Emmett Weaver home. Mr. arid Mrs. Jonathan Cripe* of Goshen spent the week end at home here. oWEST END Donald Weybright of) Nappanee spent Sunday at the home of Claude Niles. f Wm. Weybright ness trip to Goshen Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Cory spent a few days of last week wit friends here. Mrs. Susan Weybright spent Friday afternoon at the home of Albert Warstler. Mr. Safer is preparing to move family on the B. H. Doll property west of town. T. S. Sheffield is ill with the la grippe. Mrs. Wm. Weybright is on the sik list. Mrs. Orba Weybright returned home from Goshen where she had been caring for Mrs. Nora Kennedy, her sister, tbe past week. She reports Mrs. Kennedy is slowly improving. Donald Weybright of Nappanee purchased a Ford car of Henry Carlson. John Stough’s children have the measles. Mrs. Silas Bauer visited a few days in Elkhart at the home of Raymond Vorhis. Mrs. Dellia Weaver, who has been very ill for some time, remains about the same. Mrs. Joe Bailey of Frankford is spending a few weeks with friends here. Mrs. Hattie Lehman, who died of the influenza in Mishawaka recently, was a sister of Mrs. Anna Dewart of this place. o • FOUR CORNERS Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Snyder spent Sunday with friends in Syracuse., Mrs. Frank Maloy, who is suffering with the flu, is improving. Mr. and Mrs. John Wogoman of Syracuse spent Thursday at the home of John Bushong. The Bushong family have been suffering with the flu. Mr. and Mrs. LaTone Jensen spent Friday evening with Melvin Stutsman. " 1 \

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1 Arden Geyer and family spent Sunday with Roy Miller of Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. Crist Darr and son called at the home of Walter Augzpurger Sunday evening. Mr. Melvin Stutsman remains about the same. GILBERTS Mrs. William Sheffield spent Tuesday with Mrs. Calvin Copper. i ( Russell Warner of near Vawter Park sawed wood for Chas. Harris and John McGarity last Tuesday. Jesse Mellinger spent Sunday in Mishawaka with Frank Linderman, who was seriously ill with neuralgia following influenza. Carl Rowdabaugh spent Sunday at home. Mrs. Milton Rensberger is confined to her home by illness. Little Orpha Warstler is slowly improved from several weeks’ illness. 4 n SIDE Mrs. Carrie Shannon is not feeling so good at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Beach are on the sick list. Kenneth Strock and best lady of Garrett spent over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Strock. George H. Bailey left Saturday for South Bend to visit his daughter, Mrs. H. D. Parker. o DEATH OF DONALD WAGNER Donald, 19 years old and the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Wagner, passed away at 12:30 Friday at the home of his parents after a year’s illness of tuberculosis. For a year the boy had been under the attention of doctors, and last ’ spring for several months, received treatment at the hospital, west of Indianapolis after which he was brought home and lived in a small house built for him several feet from the home of his parents. Mrs. Wagner then cared and provided for him in a most tender manner. There were no efforts spared for his comfort. i He was a loving and kind son i and brother, very effectionate to I all and in a special way to his' parents. Those who remain to , mourn his departure are the 1 parents, five sisters and two brothers, many relatives and friends. j The funeral „.was held at the j Bethany church Sunday morning at 10 o’clock and burial was made in the Milford cemetery, Rev. Amsa Clem officiated. o WARSAW WOMEN ROBBED • Two well known Warsaw women, Mrs. Frank McConel and her daughter, Mrs. T. U. Franklin, were held up and robbed by ' two highwaymen in Fort Wayne Monday evening of last week, j The women were on their way i to the station to return to their homes, when they were stopped, and relieved of a handbag containing a sum of money and' other articles. o DeVAULT-LeCOUNT Miss Elva DeVault, a former Syracuse girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. DeVault of Cromwell, was united in marriage to Millard LeCount, a young farmer of Cromwell, on Saturday, Feb. 7 j at Albion. I The Journal joins the many friends of the bride in wishing her and her husband a happy and long married life. o WOMEN OPERATORS Washington, D. C.—There were 233 American women serving as telephone operators in the American expeditionary force in France during the war, it is reported by the chief signal officer of the army. They had charge of telephones in the larger central stations. j

. * DON’T GET SOUR * * . * [ * By P. S. Nielsen * • *** ***•••« We have often been told, i “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; cry, and you cry alone” and “Smile, smile, smile!” I intend to change it to, “Don’t get sour.” It wilt be a wonderful help and smooth over many rough places if you can make the decision for 1920, come what will, “I will never be sour.” Let us try, if trials and cares ! test our patience to the limit, never to make others share the trial, never to frown. It we have to drink wormwood, don’t ask others to drink of the cup. j Sweetness is the condition of preservation. Whatever materi- | ally is sweet must be kept sweet, ;or be worthless. Fruit is worth- | less when it sours. Don’t be morose. Molasses can easily be turned into vinegar, but vinegar can not be turned into molasses. A man loses his biggest assets, his attractiveness, when he scolds and frowns. Curb your j temper. Laugh when you meet Mr. Obstacle, and he will depart through ’the side door. Be sweet, not only today, but repeat it tomorrow. Be a ray of the sun, a real sunbeam, and realize how many a cold heart will be warmed up. Let your sweet temper dispel the ice from your neighbor’s greeting. If you find the best friend is getting cold toward you, a sweet face, a sweet word will restore friendship when you least realize it. No capital is required to acquire the sweetness, nor age limit is described. So let us now all together join in the membership league of “Don’t get sour” for 1920, and when a mile-stone is reached, another year being ushered in, we will be so grown up in sweetness that we can be nothing else. What a happy world this is! o WORD FROM FLORIDA Daytona Beach, Fla., 2-4-20. Editor Syracuse Journal, I Syracuse, Ind. i Dear sir:—• I have been getting your paI per regular and have been very ] much interested in reading it. ! It has kept me posted regarding the cold weather, the thickness of the ice, the depth of the snow, j etc., up there so thought I would j drop you a line and post you regarding conditions down here. We have had very fine weather here since we arrived (Dec. 16th) until about a week ago when it started to rain and has kept it up almost continually since until yesterday when it finally let up and cleared off. At St. Augustine (75 miles, north of us) they had even more 1 rain than we had here. In 48 hours, their rain fall there was ! 17.70 inches while we had here 115 inches during the storm. Railway bridges were washed out and we have had no mail here j for several days. The bridges also on the Dixie highway are gone so if we had to go home the only possible way would be via airplane so I think/we will stay for a while anyway. I am sending you under separate cover a copy of our home paper which may be of interest to you. I regretted to hear of the ; scarlet fever epidemic which inj vaded your community but was pleased to learn there were no deaths. This generally is a good place to be while you people up there are cutting ice and shovelling snow. The' temperature here has been as a rule around 60 to 73 which makes it very comfortable to live outside. On the warmer days straw hats are quite common with the men and quite frequently one sees women carrying parasols as you know some of them are quite finicky regarding their complexion, j Well, I will not burden you

1 any more for this time. You can get the balance of the news from here frm the Journal which I am sending you and it is much easier to read than my writing. For the present we are all well and contented here but when your winter is over up there we t will be glad to come back and again be citizens of Syracuse and Lake Wawasee as those places always look good to us. With kindest regards to everybody. I am yours resp., C. M. Baker. o—■ —— MILFORD GETS CHAUTAUQUA The business men of Milford last week completed arrangements for a chautauqua to be held at that place after the sth of June. — o ——— HARRY HAPNER DEAD Harry Hapner, 34, died at 9 o’clock Saturday night at his home near Solomon’s Creek from a 10 days’, illness of pneumonia. He is survived by his wife, two little sons, Wayne and Kenneth, and his mother, Mrs. Louisa Hapner. Funeral services were held at the home Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock. Burial at Solomon’s Creek cemetery. —o BIRTHDAY PARTY On returnting from the basketball game last FridayN evening, D. H. Brunjes found his house full to overflowing with friends, who had met there to celebrate his wife’s birthday. Remembering the delicious food and fine service always found at Brunjes’ Park, the ladies, who served, did so with a bit of misgiving. But the lunch disappeared with no noticeable lack of appetite in “Dick" mr his - guests.body reported a good time, and Mr. and Mrs. Brunjes an ideal host and hostess. O : BRADY MILLER SENTENCED Brady Miller, alias Brady Shank, arrested at New Kensington, Pa., by Pinkerton detectives on a charge of forging bad checks against banks at Syracuse Cromwell and Ligonier, pled guilty when arraigned before judge F. E. Bowser in the Kosciusko circuit court on Wednesday forenoon of last week. He was fined $lO and sentenced to serve from two to fourteen years in the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville, Ind. It was charged that Miller forged a total of about S3OO in bad checks against the three banks. He secured $175 from the Bank of Syracuse, forging the name of a Mr. Bassett, a well-to-do farmer near Syracuse, with whom he made his home for over a year. Miller gave his age as 28 years He called the attention of the court to the fact that he had never been arrested before and urged that the court allow him to go without a prison sentence. “If you let me go, I will pay my fine and all the costs and will make good the checks I forged,” Miller told the court.* “That will not satisfy the State of Indiana,” Judge Bowser informed him. “If you send me to prison, the state won’t get anything,” replied Miller. When Judge Bowser pointed out the fact that Miller gave the State of Indiana all the trouble possible in bringing him here for trial, refusing to come without* extradition papers, Miller replied: “It wasn’t my fault that the State of Indiana went to all that trouble to bring me back for trial.” It was brought out during the trial that Miller was a deserter from the navy and is now being sought by U. S. authorities. So this becomes another story of a young man who went wrong trying to get money easy.

JACOB RENTFROW DEAD Jacob Rentfrow, 89, died Friday at his home. He had been : in poor health for a long time but the last few weeks he had grown more and more feeble. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the United Brethren church, Rev. Miss Ethel Hollingsworth preaching the sermon. Burial was made in the Syracuse cemetery. .—o MRS. CHAS. WEADE DEAD Word has been received that Mrs. Chas/ Weade has died at the Soldier’s Home in LaFayette, where she and her husband have spent the winter. The body was brought here yesterday. The funeral will he held today. —o 1 EARL LECOUNT DEAD Earl Lecount, the 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lecount, residing southeast of town, died Saturday at the hospital in Fort Benjamin Harrison. He enlisted last September in the army. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at the M. E. church. * o SAVE FLU PATIENT Charles Pease and family of near Areola, all ill with influenza were rescued from their burning home by neighbors, who carried the patients out of the building on cots. Most of the household goods were saved. The loss is estimated at $2,000. o WHO AND WHERE Mrs. Nellie Masters was on the sick list the past week. Harvey Cory of Kimmell spent a few days in Syracuse. Francis Brady has been ill psgr week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bushong spent Sunday with John Bushong and family. Mr. and Mrs. B. O. Mabie entertained Mrs. Mabie’s mother and other guests over Sunday. A. A. Rasor of Warsaw was in town attending the monthly meeting of the directors of the bank. Delos Weaver has been for several weeks quite ill with appendicitis, but is now able to be up. Clifford Foster, who is working in Goshen, spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Foster. C. H. Pfingst of Chicago, spent Saturday and Sunday here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Pfingst, arid friends. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Wright are in Cromwell to care for their daughter, Mrs. John Beck, and family, who have the flu. Mattie Jones with his wife and son Ray, of Fort Wayne, visited Sunday with his parents/ Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jones. Supt. C. C. Bachman attended the State meeting of the town and city sdhool superintendents held last Friday and Saturday at Indianapolis. Mrs. Carl Haab of Bremen visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Snobarger Thursday. Little Louise Snobarger went home with her for the week end. Evangelistic services at M. E. church closed Sunday night. It was considered inadvisable to continue them because of the many cases of sickness in the town. Mrs. Sol Miller and little son Richard, Who have been visiting the former’s father, S. L. Ketring at the Methodist hospital in Indianapolis, were called home Saturday evening by the illness of Mr. Miller, who is suffering with the influenza. He is threatened with appendicitis. Mrs. Miller reports that her father is feeling better and may be sitting in a wheel chair in a few days.

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PARAGRAPHIC BITS ABOUT HOME FOLKS Notes of tlie Week on the Coining and Going of People You Kuow. Dr. B. F. Hoy has been ill the past week. Mrs Sarah Sloan iis in town this week. Moselene and Mandy Wogoman have the chicken-pox. Jesse Rookstool Confined to his home with asthma. A. L. Miller and C. L. Knauss made a business trip east. In many of the presidential booms the powder seems to be wet. Cheer up! It is supposed to be only nine weeks to a young onion. Wilbert Statler of.Mishawaka visited here with his parents, over Sunday. Mrs. L. T. Heerman and son Spencer spent three days last week in South Bend. Mrs. Jas. Peffley spent Monday in Elkhart visiting some friends at the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Frar.k Younce and Mrs. Elezan Yoder were Goshen shoppers Saturday. Mr, and Mrs. George Phebus returned last week from Fort Wayne,* where that had been visiting. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Richards of South Bend spent Saturday evening and Sunday at the Chas. I. Beery home. Vird Shaffer and son Harry of riear Millersburg spent Saturday night with his daughter, Mrs. Oscar Masters. Mrs. J. H. Bowser, who has spent three weeks in Chicago with her sister, returned home Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Linkenfelter of North Dakota, formerly of Syracuse, spent Friday with . Mrs E. A. Weaver. A few people know that even though booze is gone they can get a headache by making out an income tax report. Miss Abbie Jahn of Columbus, Ohio, visited her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Buchholz, Thursday and Friday. Chas. Benner and family spent over Sunday at Ligonier with his mother, Mrs. M. A. Benner, and his sister, Mrs. O. W. Christie. Mr. and Mrs. George Hummel of Mishawaka spent Sunday and Monday with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hummel. • Mr. and Mrs. Vern Younce arid son Raymond of Goshen were Saturday night guests of the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Younce. Frank Darr and family of South Bend and Thomas Darr ir„ of Mishawaka spent Saturday night and Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Darr. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clason of Goshen spent Sunday with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rasor. Little Evelyn Buhrt returned with them to spend the week. The Journal is in receipt of a request from Mrs. Geo. O. Snyder for change of address of her paper. She informs us that Mr. Snyder is now employed by the Toledo Times, and that they have moved from Bremen to Toledo. Noah Moneyheffer, residing near New Paris, was painfully injured on Wednesday of last Week while working in his barn. The tine of pitchfork entered his knee. Owing to the condition of the roads he was unable to secure the services of a physician until later.