The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 12, Number 48, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 March 1920 — Page 1

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NEWS ITEMS FROM OUR SURROUNDINGS Contributed Notes on the Happenings in Nearby Communities. PLEASANT RIDGE John Heathe died Thursday night of pneumonia and the body was shipped to his old home in Florel, 111., for burial Saturday morning. His lady friend came to accompany the body back to Illinois. Mrs. Ellen Robinson has been on the sick list the past week. Little Orpha Warstler is still improving. Delos Weaver was able to ride to Syracuse * Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. James 0. Gilbert and Mrs. Raymond Kettring called on their mother, Mrs. Ellen Robinson Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Huber called at the Andy Armbuster home Friday. 0. H. Warstler and son Marvin made a business trip to Goshen a Saturday. 5 Mrs. J. C. Cripe spent Saturday and Sunday at Goshen. Mrs. William Fackler and son Harry and Mrs. 0. H. Warstler spent Saturday afternoon in Syracuse. Elmer Hicks and Miss Wilma Warstler of South Bend visited at the 0. H. Warstler home Sunday. Daniel Price and daughter Grace attended the church at Milford Sunday. Mrs. William Fackler and children spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Baird. Jesiah Garber and family and Hugh Warstler and family spent Sunday at the James Rothenberger home. / Irvin Neff went to see his aunt Mrs. William Weybright, who has been very ill. Raymond Vail is able to be out again after a seige of the mumps. Miss Ruby Bailey spent Sunday with her cousin, Miss Violet Kettring. John Hurtig had a seige of the la grippe this week. _o TIPPECANOE Kenneth Baugher and family have moved into the house with his mother, Mrs. Celia Baugher. Chas. Baugher has moved into the house vacated by Kenneth Baugher. J. Garber, J. L. Kline and son Royal were in Syracuse on business Tuesday. Mrs. J. Garber and Mrs. J. L. Kline called at the K. Baugher home Monday evening. The Tippecanoe ladies’ aid met with Mrs. A. W. Scott Thursday. The sugar camps are not rushed very hard this season. J. L. Kline made a trip to Leesburg Friday. The Zion vicinity must be composed of mostly dogs as taxable property this year. John Garber is improving very slowly. Mr. and Mrs. J. Garber and J. L. Kline and family spent Sunday with Jas. Rothenberger and family of north of Syracuse. o WHITE OAK Mr. arid Mrs. Orland Stiffler are the proud parents of a baby girl, who came to live with them. Roy Ross and daughters, Crystal and Dorothy, spent Sunday evening at the Lesta Stiffler Mrs. Jacob Bucher and son Wayne spent Saturday and Sunday with her farents, Mr. and Mrs. James Dewart. Mrs. Cora Wyland and son Eldon of Goshen spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mrs. John Dewart. , Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Coy and gon Ralph spent Sunday at the

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Tilman Coy home. John Bushong was a caller at the Charles Searfoss home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Kinney spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Irvin Darkwood, and family of near New Paris. Mr and Mrs. Mart Long of Syracuse spent Sunday at the Samuel Dewart home. Mrs. Ellsworth Davis spent Sunday in Syracuse with her daughter, Mrs. Irvin Wogoman, and family. Iman Rookstool and family of Oswego enjoyed Sunday dinner at the Chas. Rookstool home. Those who enjoyed Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Emeral Jones were Lloyd Dewart and family of Milford and Guy Fisher and family. Mr. and Mrs. Mathias Warble spent Sunday at the Ernest Mathews home. o— SOLOMON’S CREEK Sabbath school Sunday at 10 a. m.; preaching services following. Rev. Smith has been ill the past week but is some better at this writing. Melvin Gushwa has been home from the hospital for a week but is not able to be around yet although he is somewhat improved. Anderson Juday and daughter Lelia, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Long and Grover Hilbish and family were Sunday visitors at the home of Willie Wortinger. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Juday, Mr. and Mrs. Kaleel Juday, Ben Zimmerman and family and Geo. Mullen ''•yl family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. James Long. Those who were Sunday guests at the Albert Darr home were Mr. and Mrs. Bird Darr and daughter Marie, Mr and Mrs. Geo. Bemenderfer and son John and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bemenderfer. Merle Darr and family took Sunday dinner with John Good and family. Mrs. Jeff Hire and Nurse Williams, who has been taking care of Henry Snyder since leaving Hapner’s, were Sunday visitors at the Hapner home. Jessie Darr was a Sunday guest of Frank Juday and wife. .<■ Melvin Tully has purchased a new Overland car. WEST END Mrs. Arthur Brown is ill with the “flu.” Mrs. Dora Stough spent a few days with Mrs. Wm. Weybright, who is very ill. Mrs Henry Doll of Churubusco spent Saturday and Sunday at the home of B. H. Doll. Mrs. Mary Wogbmon is ill at the home of Jesse Darr. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Geyer were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Weybright. Mrs. Charles Lutes and daughter Isabelle called on Mrs. Wm. Sheffield Sunday afternoon. Robert Yoeman and family of Elkhart spent Sunday here with friends. .—o FOLK CORNERS Rev. and Mrs. Cremean and child of Syracuse spent Wednesday at the home of Crist Darr. k Mary Ulery returned home Sunday morning after a week’s stay at the home of Harry Cullers in Syracuse. Earl Darr broke bread with the family of Frank Maloy Thursday evening. LaTone Jensen and Frank Maloy sawed wood Tuesday. Lester Dewart of near White Oak did the work for them. Charlotte Maloy called at the Darr home Saturday afternoon.' Mr. and Mrs. John Bushong and child spent Sunday in Syracuse. * • Melvin Stutsman’s condition remains about the same. Mr. Gill of Warsaw called at the home of Crist Darr Wednesday*

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Mrs. James Callender and daughter Lucile of Gravelton called at the home of Clinton Callender Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. LaTone Jensen called at the home of Melvin Stutsman Sunday evening. o N. P. HOFFMAN WRITES N. P. Hoffman, for many years proprietor of the jewelry store here,, during which time he and Mrs. Hoffman won a large circle of friends who remember them warmly, wrote to W. M. Self from Gibbs, Idaho, under date of March 10. Amongst other things mentioned in the letter are the following paragraphs that will be of interest to the people of Syracuse: “ We hardly had any crop again last year.” “I had to take Mrs. Hoffman to the hospital the 15th of January for an operation. They removed two tumors from her stomach, one as large as a gallon bucket, and one more than half as large. She was in the hospital three weeks, and is just so she can get around in the house again.....” “We are going back on the farm in three or four weeks if Mrs. Hoffman is able to go, and put in another crop, and hope I will have better luck this time ” o THE SUFFRAGE AMENDENT The suffrage amendment situation in Delaware is admittedly critical. The result of the hard fight of the suffragists to secure the ratification of the federal suffrage amendment in time to permit the women of the country to vote at the coming presidential election apparently depends on the result in Delaware and Velmont. A few days ago the suffragists were confident of the result in Delaware but recent reports indicate that the vote in the two houses of the legislature of that state will be very close and may go against the amendment. The campaign is so hot that even churches are divided. The state is flooded with both advocates and opponents of the amendment and it is expected that the fight in Dover over this important question will be the hottest that has yet occurred in any state. oAURORA BOREALIS MONDAY • The aurora borealis, or northern lights, display of Monday night attracted a large number of our people out of doors. The night was clear, and although the moon had not yet risen the out of doors was lighted by the electrical discharge. Like a huge umbrella the canopy of pale blue light reached from the center of the sky to the surrounding horizon. Slowly moving concentric waves rippled inwardly from the horizon toward the center, and as each wave ring reached the center the display of colors was beautiful. The display lasted for more than two and one-half hours. o JUST POSTPONE SAILING The state department is without an official head owing to the fact that the senate has failed to act upon the nomination of Bainbridge Colby as secretary of state and the further fact that the thirty-day term of assistant secretary Polk as acting secretary has expired by operation of law. This putsan embargo on foreign travel as there is now no officiab authorized to sizn passports. o BIRTHDAY SURPRISE Mrs. B. F. Hentzell celebrated her 66th birthday last Sunday in away that surprised her. When she returned from the church she found her home filled with twenty-two of her friends, who had come to remind her of her birthday and to help her celebrate it with a big dinner.

WAWASEE TIRE AID RUBBERM. ACTIVE Officials Here This Week to Bogin Preparations for Locating. W. 0. Hocker, sales manager of the Wawasee Tire & Rubber Co., reached Syracuse Monday morning. E. W. Sai-sman, president of the company, will arrive here today. \.iey are here to begin active preparations for locating in Syracuse a corporation capitalized at $600,000 and to erect factory buildings for the manufacture of automobile tires and various other rubber products. The construction plans of the company call for a modern and in every way up-to-date plant, where will be manufactured every thing that is made of rubber, as the charter from the state of Indiana empowers. The men at the head of the concern and who will direct its operations not only possess the scientific and technical knowledge of the rubber industry, but have had years of successful experience in the manufacture of rubber goods. The company is offering 3,000 shares of its preferred capital stock at par, SIOO a share. An opportunity will be given the citizens of Syracuse and vicinity to become share holders. There is no set amount of the stock available, but it is expected the local investors will fairly substantially represent our community among the shareholders. Each purchaser, of five shares of the preferred st;ock will receive a bonus of one share of. the common. The company expects to dispose of its preferred shares within a short time and to commence the erection of the plant on their site near the Baltimore & Ohio station at an early date. Those who are conversant with the rubber industry the country today are convinced of the desirability of owning an interest in a modern rubber plant. Great fortunes have been made and are being made in rubber factories. There is a great demand for rubber goods, and the demand is increasing faster than production. New uses for rubber are constantly being discovered. This condition has existed for a long time, and according to those in a position to know, this condition will continue for years to come, notwithstanding the fact that practically every large plant is increasing its capacity and new ones are being organized. Syracuse people are pleased to secure a plant of this character. Such an addition to the business and industrial interests of the town wil Ibe welcome. _o ***** * * ♦*** * THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS * * OF SYRACUSE * * * * By Rev. S. W. Paul. * ***** ♦* The reports of the Sunday schools of Syracuse recently received by the township secretary shows an aggregate average attendance of three hundred and fifty, and a good per cent of this number come from the surrounding country. The population of the town is approximately twelve hundred, so it will be readily seen that only about one out of every four of our inhabitants attend Sunday school. When we consider that a much smaller number attend other church services than is representted in the Sunday school attendance we are at once confronted with a situation that is both serious and appalling. We have seventy-five students in the high school, and while I

have not been .able to get hold of exact figures yet enough information has been secured to warrant the statement that the per cent of these young people who attend regularly any service what ever is alarmingly small-probably less than half. The same is true of the hundred and sixty-seven children who are in the grades of the public school, and of the children who are under school age. I am wondering if parents who remain hibitually indifferent to these things and allow their children to do so have the slighest conception of the awful import of their conduct. They are certainly espousals of the very cause, and are augmenting the very forces that are seeking the overthrow and utter ruin of £ll that is worth while in time or eternity. With our present day invironment to bring children up untainted and trust them out in to society clean and is surely hard enough we have all the help that can be secured, but when we wilfully refuse the plan of an all wise Father, and constantly ignore the plain injunctions of earths greatest teacher, how hopeless the task. I am wondering too if the Christian people of the town are as keenly alive to the situation as they should be. There must be a remedy somewhere, how and where can it be found, who can tell? Will not every citizen of this beautiful village awake to the absolute necessity of giving the greatest possible encouragement and supppart ta these religious institations that are making the town what it is, and without which a decent home here would be impossible. ; —<j RURAL SCHOOL TEACHERS Superintendents of city schools have always felt at liberty when they needed a teacher,- to make a. raid on the nearby rural schools and lure away the country teachers by higher salaries. You could not blame the teacher for leaving, but some school authorities are seeing that this drain on the country schools is poor public policy. The school superintendent of a Pennsylvania city said a few days ago at a teachers’ convention that rural teachers ought to be paid even more than city teachers, so they would stay in the country where they are most needed. It would of course take state and national aid to help the country schools pay this level of salaries. But if the experienced teachers could be kept in the country schools, they would be leaders of community progress, and help raise rural life to new levels of progress. o BOOKS FOR EVERYBODY Extension of library service to the 60,000,000 persons in the United States today who have inadequate opportunities of owtaining good reading matter, self-education and promotion of better citizenship through good books, are the principal aims of the “Books for Everybody!” movement of the American library association now under way in every state in the union. The enlarged program adopted by the association forecasts a time when every man, woman and child in America w’ill have free and access to all that is best in the world of books. Encouragement of technical libraries in industries, of more books for the blind in the standard Braille type, and the expansion of the county library system, are other phases of the movement on which much stress is laid. Greater and more flexible service to the merchant marine, coast guarcf stations and lighthouses; translation of the best books about America into the various foreign tongues for the benefit of the 15,000,000 with

Americans, financing of libraries and service to ex-soldiers, sailors and marines in hospitals of the United States public health service—these are projects put under way by the association in its broad program. Opportunities for self-instruc-tion in all lines of human endeavor and a broader general knowledge through reading and study courses to be prepared under the direction of skilled librarians are available under the “Books fr Everybody!” movement. It is a program of better citizenship through universal adult education. To carry out the work of the association for the next three years, a fund of $2,000,000 will be obtained, not through an intensive drive, but by individual efforts of librarians, library trustees, and friends of libraries. o BIRTHDAY REUNION — — \ Last Sunday, March 21, was a day of feasting at the Geo. H. Bailey home in north Huntington street. The occasion was the celebration of Mrs. Bailey’s birthday and that of her granddaughter, Miss Dorothy Bailey, of Scotts, Mich. They received many nice presents. Those present were: Charles Bailey and daughter of Scotts, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Bert Bailey of Kimmell; Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Parker of South Bend; B. V. Bailey of Marion, Ohio; Fred Bailey and lady friend of Fort Wayne; and Mr. and Mrs. Don Strock and children. In all, 19 partook of the feast. » GREAT GUNS! France has just purchased the invention rights in a gun which it is said will throw a projectile 180 miles, or about three times as far as the “Big Bertha” which was used by the Germans to bombard Paris. It is expected that this new engine of destruction will revolutionize warfare. It is claimed that this invention can be applied to existing heavy guns and also to rifles and machine guns in such manner as to double or treble their veloa city and o NEW CANCER DISCOVERY Cancer is not produced by invisible microbes, as was formerly believered, but according to M. Champy, a well-known physiologist of the college of France, the disease is engendered by functional disequilibrium of the rganism attacked. Although he claims to have established the nature of the disease, M. Champy offers no suggestion for its prevention or cure unless it is in the preservation of the natural equilibrium of the body, or, more simply stated, strict attention to organic health. SURPRISE PARTY A surprise party was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Millard LeCount Saturday evening. Following an evening spent in music, Miss Lois Reeves at the piano, and games, dainty refreshments were served at 9 o’clock. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Reeves and children, Lois, Weldon, Almeda and Earl; Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Thanander and daughter Bertie of Kimmell; Mrs. Thos. Jones, Mrs. Chas. DeVault and son Wilbur, and Mrs. Wm. LeCount and daughter Effie, all of Cromwell. The friends departed at a late hour, all having enjoyed a very pleasant evening. o_. , BIRTHDAYS The state of maine celebrated, on March 15, its on-hundredth and the American Legion its first birthday. > — o *— Our shoes are not the lowest in price, but best in quality. No subsitutes for leather, more comfort and more days wear for your money. A. W. Strieby.

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PARAGRAPHIC BITS ABOUT MME FOLKS Notes of the Week on the Coming and Going of People You Know. Mrs. Mary Wogomon is no better at this writing. Mrs. Thomas Darr is ill with gall trouble. Miss Elvah Pearson of Elkhart was home here over Sunday. Mrs. Elsie Cable is spending a few days with her daughters. Floyd Price is preparing to move his family to Goshen this week. Mrs. Susan Rookstool spent Saturday night and Sunday with her son, Lonzo, and family. Misses Marjorie Miles and Margaret Smith spent Sunday at Cromwell. For the rst half of March the most popular indoor sport was filling income tax schedules. The interior of Hoch’s drug store has been improved by repainting and revarnishing. The Salvation Army drive is scheduled next. Keep your pocket book handy. Miss May Tish, IJlrs. Warren Ruple and Frank Younce were in Goshen Monday. Mrs. Preston H. Miles fell at her home Monday evening and sustained a painfully sprained knee. Mrs. Fieldon Sharp and two children spent Sunday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Baker. Now that the ice has left the lake it is a good time to lay plans for getting the coal bin filled up to the brim. Miss Hattie Leedy and little niece are spending a few days with the former’s, Mrs. John McCloughan. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Younce visited Saturday afternoon in Elkhart at the home of their son, Clee. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Leedy of Warsaw returned home after spending a few days at the home of John McCloughan. Mrs. Ella Wolfe and son Kimber spent Sunday in Nappanee with her daughter, Mrs. Jesse Mitchell, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Will Podd of Cromwell, and Mrs. Oscar Masters and son Lester took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Younce. In the spring the house-wife’s fancy blithely turns to thoughts of the thrift garden. (Leap Year—that’s the reason for the paraphrase.) Mrs. N. C. Shirley of Continental, Ohio, came Tuesday and will spend a few days at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Preston H. Miles. F. W. Launer underwent an operation at Elkhart last Thursday for the removal of his tonsils, and since his return is recovering very nicely. Art Hummel and family, Doris Hummel and family and Mr. and Mrs. George Hummel spent Sunday here with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Hummel. S. C. Lepper spent Sunday in Warsaw at the home of his father, David Lepper, who has been in critically poor health for the past several days. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Brunjes, who have spent the winter in town, moved back to their lake home Tuesday to prepare for the busy season that is expected. , O You are now allowed SI,OOO mortgage exemption. See Butt A Xandars. 3185

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