The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 12, Number 43, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 19 February 1920 — Page 1

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NEWS ITEMS FROM .' OUR SURROUNDINGS Contributed Notes on the Happenings in Nearby Communities. 7 , ______. WHITE OAK A— ■ — James Dew&rt was in Milford Saturday. Miss Marie Strieby spent Saturday in Warsaw. Mrs. Ellen Warble was a caller at the Jaynes Dewart home Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Howe spent Friday at the Earl Hammon home.. Mrs. Charley Searfoss spent Thursday afternoon with his mother, Mrs. Kate Long. Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Matthews spent Thursday evening at the Samuel Dewart home. Mrs. Dewart is suffering with heart trouble, but is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Forest Kern spent Wednesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hammon. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Roop of Stringtown, spent Sunday at „ the Earnest Matthews home. Lester Dewart spent Sunday eveping with Mr. and Mrs. James Dewart. Sylvester Coy spent Monday with his son, Tilman and family. Mr. William Masters and his (daughter, Mrs. Marion Long, of Syracuse, spent Thursday afternoon at the SamUel Dewart home. Jacob Whitehead has been very sick, but is some better at this writing. Mearl Miller was a caller at the Joh n Dewart home Sunday. Roscoe Smith and Lester Dewart spent Saturday evening at the Earnest Matthews home. FOUR CORNERS Guy Cory and brother Noble of Milford were on our streets Saturday. Mrs. Rosenbaum and Mrs. FeL kner of near Milford Were visitors with Mrs. Ed Rossie wednsday JOE Kraut-r called at the home of Dave Hoovers satureday aftenoon . Earl Darr called at the Latone Jewson home thursday evening r Frank Grove and son and Frank Maloy attended a sale out near Nappanee friday Milo Maloy was a Warssaw vis -itor satureday Willard Baird called at the home of Dave Hamilton Sunday evening. James Grove and wife of South Bend, who spent Saturday night and Sunday night with his sister and mother, Mrs. Grove and Mrs. Coy returned home Sunday. * ‘ Clarence Snyder and wife of near Syracuse spent Sunday at the home of Latone Jenson. James Grove and wife called at the home of Frank Maloy Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Mary Deardorff of Syracuse, spent Saturday at the home of Mrs. Marion Coy. < o SOLOMON’S CREEK Sabbath School at 10:00 A. M. Preaching service at 7:00 p.m. Rev. Smith and wife spent Friday at the Garrett home near Burr Oak. J • Melvin Gushwa and wife and daughter are ill with Influenza. Mr. John Good is able to be about again. Merle Darr and wife ate recovering from the Influenza. Rev. S. S. Simon and, wife were here to attend the funeral of Harry Hapner. Mrs. Hapner is recovering nice ly, but is still under the care of the doctor and nurse. L . , Mrs. Bird Darr returned home in Goshen. She. has been caring for her son Merle the past week. Harry Good spent Sunday evening with friends near Milford.

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M erle Darr called at the Hapner home Sunday afternoon. Mrs. John Good is on the sick list for a few days. Mrs. David Holsinger, Mrs. H. Rex and Mrs. Albert Darr have been at the John Darr home the past past several days. \ PLEASANT RIDGE Mr and Mrs. Charles Benner and two daughters spent Thursday evening with Raymond Retiring and family Mrs. Birt Gripe had an attact of tonsilitis but is better at this writing Mr. and Mrs. John O’Conner and two daughters of Breman, spent from Wednesday until Saturday at the Johnathan Cripe home. Delos Weaver returned to school Monday after being out three weeks with sickness. oNORTH WEBSTER Rev. Clear and family are among the flu convalescents. The flu situation is improving in this vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Milo Strombeck returned from California a week ago to attend the funeral of their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Earl Strombeck, which was held at the Saint’s Church a week ago Monday. Helen Eugenia is the name given the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Avery Garber. • o CARE FOR BREEDING EWES t ' Flockmasters are urged to see that their breeding ewes are receiving the proper kind of attention at this time in order to produce the most profitable lambs. The ewes should be in good thrifty condition. It is not necessary to feed a large amount of grain to breeding ewes which are receiving good, clean, mixed clover and timothy hay, clover hay, or alfalfa. Where bright corn fodder is available in conjunction with some leguminous feed very good results can be obtained from feeding what the ewes will clean up nicely in the middle of the day at one feed. Where the breeding fiock is a little thin in condition a grain mixture of equal parts of corn, oats, and bran by weight, fed at the rate of one-fourth to onehalf pound per head daily, will be found most satisfactory and will increase the profits, as the ewes will be better mothers and stronger milkers when the lambs come. It is not necessary to provide close quarters for the breeding flock, according to United States department of agriculture specialists. They should be kept in a clean, dry place, which is dry overhead and underfoot and free from drafts. Plenty of exercise is very important, and the breeding ewes should be out every clear day. ’ Where forages are fed and winter pastures are not available it will be found beneficial to spread the forage over the ground some distance from the shed, -and as 'the ewes feed back and forth over it they will thus gain of, exercise. The flock which is in good thrifty condition, properly housed and properly fed, and receives adequate exercise, will lamb our much better and will cause the shepherd far less difficulty.■a ? CHICKENS MADE TO PAY * • Mrs. Mary Pettieger, of Major County, Okla., is a successful poultry woman and also local demonstrator. She set 2,500 eggs last year - and sold 1,015 baby chicks. She also disposed of 200 pullets for breeding purposes, and during the year sold 2,313 dozen eggs on the market and 700 dozen eggs for hatching. Some of the feed for the flock was raised by their owner, but the rest was bought. Besides buying a $175 incubator, which holds 600 eggs and a $23 brooder, Mrs. Pettieger received a net

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return of $1,043.80 from her flock in the year ending in November. o .— UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH Sunday School at 9:30. Preaching Services at 11:00 a. m. and 7:00 p. m. Prayer Meeting Thursday evening at 7:30. Our second, quarterly conference will be held Saturday evening, Feb. 21. A full attendance of officials is very much desired. FOR SALE—Household goods of all description will be sold at public Feb. 21, at 1:00 p. m„ About two squares south of B. & 0. Depot. Terms: cash. O. E. Larson - SUFFRAGIST CONVENTION The most interesting national convention that suffragists have ever held convenes in Chicago, Feb. 12-18, and the members of the Franchise league plan to attend it in great numbers. Indiana is also to have a part in the program. Mrs. Richard Edwards of Peru has been asked to arrange and manage the spectacular feature of the ratification banquet, which will be the largest and most elab rate affair of the entire convention. This feature is “The Living Ratification Valentine’’, and will I require a large number of people several of them from Indiana, beautiful costuming and some scenic effects. It will come as the climax of the banquet program, on which the finest women speakers in the country will appear. This convention will be unique in that it will combine the celebration of the ratification which is sweeping over the country and the planning of a construe- \ tive program for the future ac-’ tivities of suffragists. There will ■ be a great many special features: i a demonstration of rejoicing; ratification banquet; memorial to; Dr. Anna Howard Shaw; pioneer suffrage luncheon; presentation of certificates to suffrage honor roll; Susan B. Anthony Centenary; a procession of suffrage victories; then and now told in ■ pictures. During the suffrage convention the first congress of the league of women voters will * also be in session, and the dele-; gates to the former will also be i delegates to the latter. In this . congress will be adopted a pro- > gram of legisative plans. A poli- ’ tical session will be held to discuss “What Shall We Ask of Political Parties and What Shall We Do for Political Parties?” o TO STOP GAS WASTE Secretary *of the Interior Franklin K. Lane Friday ap- ! pointed a committee of ten, » headed by Van H. Mannipg, di- • rector of the Bureau of Mines, I to take up the question of stop-• ping wastage o.f natural gas due to inadequate appliances for its handling and use. The commit- • tee, representive of industry, ’ the public, and the Government, I is an outgrowth of the recent t conference at the Interior Department,- at which it was as- | serted that 80 per cent of Amer-| ica’s natural gas output is being wasted. o INDIANA STOCK REPORT The numbers of dairy cattle, sheep and swine on Indiana farms Jan. 1, 1920, are some-‘ what greater than a year ago, but the numbers of horses, mules | and other cattle have decreased to some extent according to the j report issued today by the co- ; operative crop reporting service ■ for Indiana. The report also: shows a decrease in the average value for all stock except mules : and milch cows, which have increased $3 per head; horses have declined $2, all other cattle 80 cents, sheep $2.10, and swine $4.30 per head as compared with the farm prices a year ago. The total value of all live stock on farms of the state is estimate at $301,513,000. " f

LEONARD WOOD, ADMINISTRATOR ——— ——— Pww

WOOD HAS VARIED CIVIL EXPERIENCE '— . i ADMINISTRATIVE QUALITIES ARE TESTED AND PROVED IN HANDLING GREAT BUSINESS PROBLEMS. By EDWARD B. CLARK. From time to time people ask, ■ “What has been the administrative , anil business experience of Leonard i Wood? What has been his experience ■ with men outside of .the aymy? What I does he know abouf conditions la'ihe i different parts of the United States land in our overseas possessions? Has he any thorough knowledge of foreign affairs and of our foreign relations?” The administrative qualities of Leonard Wood have been tested and j proved. No American living has been tried more thoroughly than he in coin- ; plex fields of constructive civil work, administrative work of the highest ' order which carried with it the necessity for the exercise of keen business i acumen. I The republic of Cuba, built upon firm democritic foundations, is a mon- : ument to the administrative ability of i Leonard Wood, In the Philippines is 1 to be found another monument to his I statesmanship. I Leonard Wood graduated in medicine from Harvard University In ISS4 and served for more than a year in one -of the great hospitals, later to take charge of the charity departments in a section of the city of Bos- 1 ton where the poor lived. Not long after the completion of 1 Wood’s work In Boston lie became an assistant surgeon in the army, coming Into contact with the western plainsman, the miner, the people generally, I and giving much of his time to the j work of assisting the Indians and to a study of the problems of irrigation . and reclamation. Then for Leonard Wood there came four years in California. He covered the state many times in pursuance of his duties and extended his field as occasion required into the states of , the Northwest Then for two years he i i was in service in the South, having I , beadquarters In Georgia, j From the South Leonard Wood went to the city of Washington, where his work brought him into daily contact with ffrover Cleveland. Then he had i | the SUftie intimate relations with Wil- ; Ham McKinley and the men of his time. Then came the Spanish war and the active campaign in Cuba as the col- , onel of the regiment of rough riders of which Theodore Roosevelt was the lieutenant colonel. At the close of the Spanish war Leonard Wood’s supreme administraI tive duties began. He was made the ■ governor of the city of Santiago and ! a few weeks later of the entire eastI ern half of Cuba. Under Wood profiteering was abolIshedr industry was built up, agriculture rehabilitated, hospitals organ- • lied, equipped and maintained, tens i of thousands of people clothed and i ted —and all this done in a thorough i businesslike manner. It was done un- • ier tribulations which arose from the fact that the people were impoverished. to the point of starva- ! tion and had been dying by thousands tor the lack of the things which Wood juickly provided. Then there came the rehabilitation ■ of the municipalities, the establishment of schools, the opening of roads, the organizing of government in the provinces, the readjustment of taxation and of the courts, and the work of providing for the thousands of children made orphans by war or famine. Ik There was more business and more

i-■ ■ - varieties of it than it has been the lot of many men ever to have placed upon their shoulders. Not long after this there came the greater opportunities in Havana. It was necessary to re-write the election . laws to make them fit the habits of the 1 people: Production had to be stimulated, for agriculture was the main source of the island’s wealth. Here | again the same measures were followi ed and as a result there were estab1 1i shed law and order, protection of ; life and property, and liberty wlth- * in the law. These were the foundation stones. Wood knew that the government must be run by the Cubans, and so 90 per cent of the officials engaged in the great work of reconstruction were t from the people of the bland. The Cubans were taught government while the government was being built and thus they were able.to run Lt when . the rule of the Island was turned over to its inhabitants. [ When it became necessary to reorganize the Cuban railroads Wood secured the services of Sir William Van Horne, president of the Canadian Pacific, and of Granville M. Dodge, build-. sr of the Union Pacific. i The same general policy was foli lowed in dealing with the problem of ; caring for the tens of thousands of orphans that left by the war. Homer Folks, commissioner of charities of the state of New York, was called to Cuba by Wood to aid In tlie I establishment of a system for placing ■ and permanently caring for these little desolates. Chief Justice White of the Supreme court of the United States, at that time an associate justice, was consulted as to the method to i be pursued in reorganizing the courts. Leonard Wood was in Cuba about 1 four years. He left there a reorganized and sound banking system, a good railroad system, no debts, nearly £2,000,000 unincumbered money in the treasury, a sugar crop of nearly 1,000,000 tons, sound municipal laws, fine public works, a firm agricultural foundation and an absolute respect among the people for life and property. The school- system which Wood established was founded on the laws .of Massachusetts and Ohio. Roads were built which made communication speedy. The hospitals erected under his I supervision were of the highest type. Lord Cromer said he wished this I'American officer available to follow him in his work in Egypt. Ellhu Root said this work never was paralleled in colonial posi sessions anywhere. Theodore Roosevelt said that Leonard Wood "has rendered services to Cuba of a kind which, if performed three thousand years ago, would have made him a hero mixed up with the sun god in various ways.” After the Cuban experience Wood was for five years in the Philippines confronted with the difficult labor of establishing a civil government, this time among a Mohammedan people. There he did the same successful work he did in Cuba. This period of residence in the Philippines gave Wood an opportunity to study conditions in the British colonies, Borneo, Singapore, and to keep in close touch with conditions in Japan and along the China coast. Wood traveled through India, spent some time with the Dutch in Java, and with Lord Cromer in Egypt He gained and retained knowledge of all which at that time came under his studious observation. Then Leonard Wood became chief of the general staff of the United States army, in whose hands rests very largely the direction and administration of the military establishment, which after all is 90 per cent a business matter. The administrative career of Leonard Wood is spread upon the records •f his country. The work which he has done is lasting. It is a statesman's work. —.l--

COUNTY SCHOOL FUNDS County Auditor Nye last week received from the state department the January installment of the stale tuition fund and has distributed it among the various school districts as shown below The money is apportioned according to the number of child- , ren in- each district between the ages of 6 and 21 years: Jacksons 708.78 Monroe 493.86 Washington 1,266.66 Tippecanoe 683.36 Turkey Creek 499.86 Van Buren 999.15 Plain 514.44 Wayne 809.83 Clay... 683.63 Lake 667.63 Seward 887.12 Franklin 567.02 Harrison 1,262.08 Prairie:. 480.14 Jefferson 777.38 Scott 695.06 Etna.. 688.21, Syracuse 658.48 Leesburg 185.20 Warsaw 1,576.75 # o FROM FT. HARRISON The following letter from the Quartermaster Detachment at Ft. Benjamin Harrison was received by John LeCount, residing east of town, and was handed to the Journal for publication. “It is with deep regret anc sympathy that this letter it written, for we the members ol this detachment realize just what your loss is and, in the demise of your son we seriously realize that We have lost a true friend and comrade. “Earl was highly esteemed by all the members of this Detachment, and we feel honored to have been associated with him in the close and intimate manner in which we have for the tion of his enlistment. “You may be assured that in this your hour of trouble and bereavement that our heartfelt sympathy is extended to you. The Boys of Q.M.Detachment, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind.” . —o . TRADED FARMS Mr. C. J. Kitson, at present residing near Mentone, has traded his sixty-five acre farm at that place for the Oscar Ott farm, north of town. He will obtain possession on March 15th We will be glad to have Mr. Kitson back with iis again. o RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT Hall of Syracuse Lodge No. 454, F. & A. M. WHEREAS, God in His Infinite wisdom has decreed it fit to remove from our midst our dearly beloved brother, Nick Steinmetz, and WHEREAS, by the death of this brother, the lodge has lost one of its most faithful and efficient officers and the community an influential and highly respected citizen, be it therefore RESOLVED, that the Charter of this lodge be draped for a period of thirty days in memory of our departed brother, and be it further RESOLVED, that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the records of this lodge, and a copy be inserted in the Syracuse Journal. (Sam Searfoss Committee (Heerman W. Bucholz (Warren T. Colwell o WHO AND WHERE Now that about every state has its favorite son in the wild and woolly presidential scramble, it is time for the cities, towns and villages to trot ’em out. Who’s ours? Rev. Updegraph, field secretary of the Forward Movement of the Churches of God, will be at the Church of God Saturday evening, Feb. 21, also Sunday morning and evening. Everyone is invited to attend these services.

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PAfIAGRAPHIC BITS • ABOUT HOME FOLKS Notes of the Week oe the Com> ing and Going of People Yon Know. Albert Bunger spent the week end in Elkhart. Arthur Snavely has been quite ill the past few days. Mrs. James Peffley spent the week end at Elkhart. 0 Mildred Ohaver returned home from Goshen, Monday. Get an inner tube free at the Quality Hardware Store. Hobart Clarke of Bremftn spent the week end in Syracuse. Mrs. Ed. McFall is somewhat improved at this writing. Charles Roher of Garrett spept the week end with friends here. •' Jesse Roakstool is slowly improving after an attack of pneumonia. See the Quality Hardware Store for bargain prices on Implements. Miss Lena Pike of Indianapolis is visiting at the home of her brother, C. W. Soltau. A careful scrutiny of this town will disclose abundant food for thought—and action. Helen Stewart of Forest Plank, who is working in Goshen, spent Sunday with her parents. Alva Nicholi is moving his fam ily to tdwn and he is employed in the Launer grocery store. Don’Vbuy your farm implements until you get our prices. The Quality Hardware Florence Haskin who has bee* employed at South Bend, returned home Tuesday to stay. Mr. V. S. Richhart of Versailles Ohio has been visiting friends and Relatives here the past few days. Mrs. Nora Shannon was called to the home of Riley Wantz on account of sickness of Mrs. Wantz. Mrs. Jesse Darr and children spent Saturday and Sunday in Goshen with Wm Wogoman and family. Mrs. Elizabeth Akers, who has been with J. E. Morris Elkhart, this winter, returned home last week. Pip Peppinger, Joe Mangold and Jay Waltus of Nappanee spent Saturday evening with friends here. Mr. and Mrs. George Schick and family spent Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jackson. Miss Helen Soltau returned to Indianapolis after spending the week end with her parents at Oakwood Park. Mrs. J.’jJ. Cornell and daughter, Emma Catherine of Peru are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Miles. Sooner or later we’ll get in on this proflteerifig game ourself. Have you an automobile you want to trade in on subscription? buy your farm implements now. Stock to be sold at a discount. Come in and see us for prices. The Quality Hardware store. Mr. Chas. Kine and John Mitchell of Garrett, and Miss Mary Kine of Syracuse, spent Sunday afternoon and evening with Miss Evva Schick. Mrs. Homer Mallott, who has been spending some time he”e with her mother, Mrs. Mary Deardorff, left Thursday for Ladysmith, Wis., her home. Mr. James Eppert of Mishauaka came Tuesday to attend the funeral of Harry Hapner and spent the remainder of the day with his sister, Mrs. Ed. MeFalL

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