The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 12, Number 47, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 18 March 1920 — Page 1

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UHK ITEMS FR OM OUR SURROUNDINGS Contributed Notes on the Happenings in Nearby Com- \ munities. ZION CHAPEL Sunday school was organized at Zion Chapel this week. There will be Sunday school every Sunday. Let us try and make this season better than any of the past. Charley Drudge has moved into the Charley Strieby property. Will Kelly and Esten Kline cut fence posts for Mrs. Juday Monday. Sugar making is coming late this year, but we still live in hopes. It will cost this neighborhood about SI,OOO for dog taxes this spring. Charley Byall is able to be on our streets again. Ed Knox and Esten Kline attended the street sale in North Webster Saturday. Mr. Knox purchased some fine young cattle. Floyd Brower and family took dinner with Richard Guy and family Sunday. Mrs. Bert Swank of Syracuse visited with her mother, Mrs. Dennis Kelly Sunday. Esten Kline and family called at the Ed Knox home Sunday evening. If the high wind continues a few days the lake will be all open—with fishing the rest of the year. - ' ■ —o _ L NORTH SIDE Albert Rissel of Fort Wayne spent Friday night with his sister, Mrs. G. H. Bailey. Mr. and Mrs. Don Strock are the parents of a son, born March 7, weighing 9 pounds, and named Ernest Philip. Mrs. H. D. Parker of South Bend is here taking care of her sister, Mrs. Don Strock. Mrs. Frank Younce, Mrs. S. L. Outland and Mrs. G. H. Bailey spent Friday afterpoon with Mrs Jacob Yoder, it being her birthday. Mrs. A. A. Beach is able to be out again. Mrs. Carrie Shannon and two daughters Bernice and Winifred were home over Sunday. Mrs. Hedges called on Mrs. Don Strock Thursday. Jesse Yoder of Gary spent the Sunday with his mother and sister. Miss Della Otis called on Mrs. Carrie Shannon Sunday afternon. Mrs. Hedges’s mother came to make them a visit, returning on Monday to her home in Columbia City. Geo. Zerbe’s daughter came from Colorado and made them a visit. • Mrs. W. H. Pence received a telegram from her son in Arkansas, stating that he is in very poor health. Alfred Russell took dinner on his birthday, Mar. 12, with his sister, Mrs. Geo. Bailey. Millard Hentzell returned to his work after spending a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Hentzell. the strong wind Monday a large window at the Bert Clelland home blew out. Ma ster Geo. Albert Strock is spending a few days with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Bailey. o •, SOLOMON’S CREEK Sabbath school next Sunday at 10 o’clock; preachn g services at 7:00 p. m. Rev. Smith and Rev. Pxul of Syracuse attended a minrsertial meeting at Warsaw on Monday. Jim Long and wife were Sunday guests of Willie Wortinger

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and family. Wilson Ott called there in the afternoon. The Paul Ringwald family spent Sunday with Merle Darr 1 apd wife. Paul and Fred Ringwald have taken charge of the Benton garage and .expect to move to Benton soon. Ben Zimmerman of Fort Wayne has rented the B. F Juday farm and will move into Nathan Longs tennant. house as soon as the roads will permit him to move his household goods. Harry Good has rented the Frank Bunger farm . Melvin Tully sold his Ford car this week to Guy Nicolai of Goshen. Harry Smaltz and family called at the Albert Darr home Monday. John Good delivered horses in Goshen Saturday. Rev. Smith and son Cletus on Friday were hanging paper for Em Ringwald. o LONG ISLAND Those who spent Thursday at the Nels Bobeck home were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bobeck and son Waljace, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hinderer and daughter Lucile, and Mrs. Wm. Deßrular. The funeral of the infant girl of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Beck was held at the home of Mrs. Godfrey Beck Thursday afternoon. Burial was made at the Beyer’s cemetery. Those who atended the Syracuse sale Tuesday were Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Stacker, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Deßrular, Dora Clingerman, Nels Bobeck, Wilbur Wilkinson, Harry Vorhis and Kias Bobeck. Dora Clingerman and family enjoyed Sunday dinner with Lee Lung and family. Miss Lillie Bobeck spent Sunday night in Aubum.,as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Larson. Miss Elva Vorhis took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Clell Buchtel and daughter Anna. Kias Bobock and family spent Sunday with Chas. Hinderer and family. o WHITE OAK Tillman Coy and family spent Sunday with the Charley Bushong family of Syracuse. Fred Wild and Vernon Dentle of Huntington spent a few days among the people of near Zion in the interests of the church college. Ellsworth Davis enjoyed dinner Monday with his daughter, Mrs. Harrison Rogers, and family of Syracuse. Earl Hammond is on the sick list. James Dewaxjt was in Milford on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. James Berry of Syracuse spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Whitehead. . John Roop is spending a few days with his sisters, Mrs. James Dewart and Mrs. Ernest Mathews and families. Orland Stiffler and wife spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ross. Mrs. Ray Klingerman of Indian Village spent Wednesday with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Snavely. Mrs. Hazel Whitehead spent Thursday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Dewart. Mrs. Burton Howe spent Friday afternoon in Syracuse with Mrs. Mary Hoy. Mr. and Mrs Henry Carlson, Miss Mabel Strieby and Robert Strieby of Syracuse spent Wednesday evening at the home of Bert Whitehead. Mrs. Jane Rookstool spent Saturday afternoon with Mrs. Sam Dewart. Ernest . Mathews and wife spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. James Dewart. GILBERTS Mr. and Mrs. John McGarity spent Sunday-with their mother, Mrs. Sim Smith. Fayette MeAlastor of Chicago spent the week end at the Chas.

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I ’ Lutes home. | Mrs. B. H. Doll and children of Syracuse spent Sunday with her ( parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm., E.i Sheffield. ■ ' Miss Pearl Dausman of Goshen spent Sunday at the Morehouse home. Miss Edith Weybright, who is attending Bethany Bible school in Chicago, returned home to care for her mother, Mrs. Wm. Weybright, who is very sick. —< -o — ' PLEASANT RIDGE Mrs. Vernon Slater spent Monday with Mrs. Bert Cripe Mrs.. Ellen Robinson was on Thursday a guest of Mrs. Chas. Egolf and Mrs. Sarah Lingofelter. Little Edna Hurtig is on the sick list. Mrs. Bert Cripe and little son Keith returned home from a visit of a few days with her niece, Miss Fern Alberts, and with other relatives at LaPaz. Mr. and Mrs.. Roy S. Robinson of Mishawaka came Saturday to visit until Sunday evening with his mother, Mrs. Ellen Robinson. Mr. and Mrs. James 0. Gilbert and daughter Lavada were visitors at the Mrs. Ellen Robinson home. John Heathe is very sick with pneumonia. Delos Weaver is able to be up now. Raymond Vail is entertaining the mumps this week 2 o TIPPECANOE Graham Tyler buzzed wood for A. W. Scott Tuesday. The meeting to have begun at Tippecanoe Sunday evening was postponed on account of the bad roads - Sun bonnets are making their their apearance. < Mrs. John Baugher and son Kenneth made a business trip to Warsaw Thursday. The Tippecanoe sextet will meet at the J. L. Kline home on Wednesday evening. The township assessor was on our streets Saturday. James Hammon and Clara Shock took Sunday dinner at the Chas. Bigler home. Stanley Morehead and wife topk Sunday dinner at the J. L. Kline home. I. Kuhn and family called in the afternoon. o ALL VOTERS MUST REGISTER Every voter in Indiana will be required to register again this year if he wishes to vote at the November election, regardless of whether he has registered for any previous election or not. September 4 and October 4 are the days set aside 4 fbr registration. The registration law passed by the 1919 general assembly requires that everyone must register before being allowed to vote. The registration law of 1917, heretofore in force, was repealed at the same assembly by a separate act. The new law requires the election board to hold in each precinct two regular sessions this year, the first on the 59th day before the regular election in November and the second on the 29th day before the election. Any woman voter whose name has been changed by marriage or divorce or court decree subsequent to the registration and prior to the election must file with the election board a certified copy of the court decree or certificate of marriage. —o RED CROSS ORGANIZING The first Red Cross class will be held Monday, March 22, at 1:15 in the new school building. Anybody wishing to enroll may do so by notifying Mrs. H. D. Harkless. - ~o Keep your feet dry and comfortable by wearing the Weyenberg Service Shoe. A. W. Strieby.

| * * * * * * * « * « * * TRAINING LITTLE * * "CITIZENS ♦ i * * ““ ” * * 'Punishments * * * * By Louise H. Peck ♦ ***** «* * * * * Many parents long for the time when their child shall “show reason” r and then, the majority of them proceed to check the development of their little one’s reasoning power by resorting to methods of punish-' ment which tend to fill him | with fear! Not infrequently they resort ter slapping, spank- J ing, whipping or even telling . terrible lies in order to frighten him into obedience. This kind of training naturally produces a lawless child; for ( through fear of unjust punishment he resorts to dishonesty in self-defence; then too, the example of his parents teaches him to strike when angry. Let parents reverse this process, be honest and kind but firm with the tiniest child and teach him the importance of obedience and consideration for the rights of others; the cultivation of these qualities forestalls much trouble. When a child is disobedient let the parent “talk it over” with him in a reasonable, self-con-trolled way and reach a fair conclusion. A mother cannot begin too early to train her little one. Before the child is old enough to understand words he understands the difference between her smiles and frowns and by the expression of her face she can teach even a little baby the difference between right and wrong. For example, take the habit of pulling the table cloth from the table; let her look directly into hhiey’eX, her smiles' all gone, take his hand from the cloth and shake her head with “No, no.” She must have patience to do this well, but by these first lessons in obedience she is saving much future trouble for him, for herself and for society. Os course, there are times when discipline and punishment are necessary, and when parents need to correct their children they should do so in private. To permit another person to enter into the discussion or even overhear it and smile at such a time utterly ruins the effect of the punishment and the lesson is lost if it is not clear to the little one that right conduct brings approval whereas wfong doing merits disapproval and discipline. A very effective form of punishment is social isolation. For example, excuse a child from the room and make him sit facing a corner in another room by himself; at another time send him to bed early; at another, have him eat his meal alone, away from the other members of the family. If he quarrels with his playmates make him play alone while the other children are happy together, until he/is willing to be agreeable. Another form of discipline is to make a child go without something of which he is very fond, no desert for dinner, or no candy for several days are punishments which have a good effect. But to lock a child in a dark closet or to threaten him with terrifying lies is as harmful and useless as whipping, for such treatment instills dishonesty and cruelty into him. Parents who use the rod or hand most often are generally the ones who complain that their children are naughty and disobedient. “Spare the rod and spoil the child” seems to be the one Scriptural text familiar to some irritable grown-ups. Why is it that £he home is the last stronghold of whipping? The whipping-post disappeared long ago; whipping is no longer tolerated in schools, it is illegal even in prisons! Then why is it that many a gentle mother who cannot manage her own little one either whips, him or reports his

misconduct to his father, too often telling only her own side of the story, for in such cases the child is not allowed to appeal to the father as judge, but must submit to the whipping which his parents mete out to him at. a time when they are tired and • irritable. Let grownups cultivate self-control and justice and remember that wise parents never punish when they are angry but wait until they can see the child’s misdeed from 1 an impersonal point of view. j To associate anger with physical blows is to plant the seeds Jof war in tiny children. Before ■ we can replace war with arbitration among nations, we must do so in the home.. The following list of books ' will be found helpful. When Children Err and Misunderstood Children, both by Miss Elizabeth Harrison. Price $1.25 each, published by National Kindergarten and Elementary College, 2944 Michigan Bl’vd., Chicago, 111. Love and Law in Child Training by Emilie Poulsson, price SI.OO, published by Milton Bradley, Springfield Mass. The Dawn of Character by Elizabeth Mumford price $1.20, published by Longmans, Fifth Ave., New York. o LIEUT. STONER KILLED Lieut. Clayton Stoner, U. S. mail aviattfr on the ClevelandChicago route, was burned to death last Wednesday morning when his machine crashed into the trees at the Neff woods about 'five miles west of New Paris. He had apparently lost his course, according to the observation of farmers near the scene of the accident, and to enable him to find his way again in the haze and mist he was flying low. When he came to the Neff woods his machine was touched by a tree-top. A loud explosion followed and the plane crashed to the ground. The farmers who had been watching the airplane rushed to the assistance of Lieut. Stoner, and although they reached him quickly he was so badly burned that he lived only a few seconds afterward. The plane was completely wrecked.- The 350 pounds of mail he was carrying was also greatly damaged: it was gathered up and sent to Cleveland. o CHURCH A CURB ON CRIME The testimony of Judge Lewis Fawcett, of Brooklyn, to the power of the church in curbing crime is a pretty satisfactory anwer to those who are harping upon the present day ineffectiveness of our churches. Judge Fawcett says: “Approximately 2,700 cases have been brought before me in my five and one’half years’ service on the bench. During all this time I have nevhad to try a man who was at the time of the alleged offence or ever had been, an active member of the church.” A Chicago judge who has tried many divorce cases says that rarely, almost never, were the parties to the divorce suit active church workers. The fact is‘ the Christian church quite Sufficiently justifies its existence to the nation merely as a preventive of crime, a barrier against relapse into barbarism, a police agency in preserving order, a preservative of common virtue and decency. The church is the wall which holds the world from falling back into primeval habits and criminal instincts. Most of our respectable, attractive communities of high moral tone are so because the church of Christ is there. Our beautiful towns are what they are, instead of being hotbeds of vice, drunkenness and crime, because the church is there. Members of church are not usually criminals, whatever else they are. Neither are all non-church members criminals, but the vast majority come from their class. If any town is not predomin-

antly Christian, crime would make it impossible as a home. Hie church is a beter form of burglar insurance than the ini surance companies. It makes I the streets safe for our daughters. If every man were in the church it would save the expenses for police, judges, lawyers and courts. Crime now costs us $700,000,000 a year. It would cost us ten times that if there were no churches. It would cost us hardly any of that if all were in the churches. Really, the man who is living in our crime-free, respectable towns and does nothing for the church is living on charity. He is profiting from the church’s curb of crime, but is giving nothing in return for these benefits. — (Selected by Rev. S. W. Paul. o Mathias walerius dead Mathias Walerius, formerly a resident of Syracuse, died Wednesday, March 10, at his home in Mishawaka after an illness of ten days of pneumonia, at the age of 63 years, 2 months and 4 days. He is survived by his wife, formerly Miss Elizabeth Akers of Syracuse. Funeral services were conducted at the home in Mishawaka Friday forenoon and the remains were brought to Syracuse to await burial in the cemetery here. o NAPPANEE TROUNCED The basket ball game last Thursday evening between the Syracuse city team and the city team of Napanee on the local floor gave the home men another victory in a 30 to 18 score. The game was fast and well playecr throughout. Syracuse started the scoring, and wound up the first half 16 to 8. Nappanee was determined to win, but even running in four substitutes failed to turn the trick. o PYTHIAN SISTERS TAKE TRIP About twenty of the Pythian sisters went to Cormwell Saturday evening, having been invited by the Pythian sisters lodge of that place, to attend the initiation of a large class of members as well as the reinstatement of some former members. The ladies returned home on Monday morning. o TO ENFORCE LICENSE LAW The state law requiring automobile owners to hold a license for the operation of their cars will henceforth be strictly enforced in Syracuse. This is the decision of the town board, and the city marshals have heen given instructions to see that all violators are arrested and fined. o NO FREE SEEDS Acting on the recommendation of the new secretary of agriculture, the senate agriculture committee voted to eliminate from the? annual agricultural bill the $240,000 voted by the house to continue the time hallowed custom of distribution of free seeds to their constituents by members of congress. o TO BRING BACK BODIES The bodies of about 50,000 of the American dead in France will be returned to the United States, while between 20,000 and 25,000 will remain permanently interred overseas, according to a statement made by Secretary of War Baker to Chairman Wadsworth of the senate military committee. The secretary, who wrote in response to a senate resolution, estimated the cost of returning the dead and concentrating the bodies remaining in cemeteries overseas at $30,000,000. o , Get an inner tube free at the Quality Hardware Store.

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PARAGRAPHIC BUS' . ; ABOUT HOME FOLKS ‘ Notes of the Week oa the Coming and Going of People Yon Know* i ' ’ » Rev. Cremean spent Monday ■ in Warsaw. Mrs. Jane Kern has been help- ’ ing care for Mrs. Forrest Kern this week. Mrs. Willim Darr is visiting her • father, Marion Angel, at South Bend. \ Mrs. A. A. Pfingst is showing some improvement after a few weeks of trouble with her heart. S. C. Lepper hastened to Warsaw Saturday because of the illness of his father. Jacob Kern and family spent Sunday with S. 0. Jeffries and family. M. M. Smith went to Toledo Friday to visit his brother and other relatives. Why weigh yourself down with greater burdens? A smile weighs less than a grouch. Mr. and Mrs. Burdette Holloway have bought the residence in south Main street occupied by Dr. and Mrs. C. V. Stockberger. Dick Unrue has sold bis Lake street property to Robert Strieby, and it is reported the new owner will occupy it soon. Mrs. Pearl Houtsinger of Chicago, is spe. ding this week at" the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Morley in Pearl street. The Ladies’ Aid society of the U. B. church will meet this after- , noon at 2 o'clock with Mrs. J W. Vorhis. The 0. E. Larson residence property south of the Baltimore & Ohio tracks was sold recently to L. E. Schlotferback. The Methodist brotherhood is planning a social meeting for this evening, with a program to be headed by a debate. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Carlson have moved into the Lake street residence property they recently purchased of John Dillon. 3 s Dr. and Mrs. B. F. Kdhn and infant son Franklin Edward of Elkhart, drove over and spent Sunday afternoon at the Preston H Miles home. Gentle Spring often comes dancing in with a dash of snowflakes, and a cold in her head, and a bottle of tonic in her pocket. The Wednesday afternoon club is meeting this week Mrs.. J. H. Bowser. The meeting is social in celebration of St. Patrick’s day. Mrs. R. E. Thornburg and son Ralph White went to Marion on Sunday to spend a few days at the home of Mrs. Thornburg’s parents. Mrs. L. T. Heerman and son Spencer went to South Bend on Tuesday to spend the remainder of the week visiting at the Irvin Treesh home. The W. C. T. -J. will meet next Wednesday afternoon, 2 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Lydia Deardorff. Everyone interested in the temperance work should be present. • The United Brethren ministers of Kosciusko county held a convention at Warsaw on Monday. Rev. S. W. Paul and Rev. J. D. Smith of Syracuse and Solomon’s Creek attended Do not fail to put in your coal. If you wait until you need it next winter, you are likely to find the black diamonds as scarce and hard to get as the bluewhite ones. Warren Eagles spent Tuesday in Albion attending the Democratic love feast and banquet. He reports that over 180 were seated at the dinner and that the speeches were well worth hearing.

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