The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 13, Number 11, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 July 1920 — Page 1

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NEWS ITEMS FROM OUR SURROUNDINGS Contributed Notes on the Happenings in Nearby Coin* * munities. TIPPECANOE Adam Darr and family of South Bend made a short stop at the J. Garber home while enroute for home, after spending the week end with relatives around North Webster. J.L. Kline assisted Esten Kline in making hhy Monday. Lawrence Scott and family of Elkhart are spending the week with A. W. Scott and wife. The Tippacanoe met with Grandma Stuart Tuesday to celebrate her birthday. Royal Kline called on Ida Bigler Friday afternoon Mrs Hattie Baugher spent Friday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Reed south of North Webster. Eli Shock and family, Virgil Mock and Susanna Tom were q unday guests at the Chas Bigler home. Jas. Rothenberger and family, Jonas Cripe and wife and J. Gar- ’ er and wife tcok Sunday dinner at the J. L. Kline home. Clarence Mock took Sunday dinner at the Dan Eberly home. o—HECK’S , Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ott of Syracuse spent Sunday with his parents, Mr and Mrs. Alfred Ott. Mrs Allie Swickhart and daughter. Marie of Ohio are spending a few days with the former’s sister, Mrs. John Meek and family. Miss Myrtle Bushong spent over Sunday with Opal Cleland in Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. Georgo Sargent with Mr. and Mrs. George Snyspent Sunday in Fort Wayne der. Roy Meek spent over Sunday with Gerald Groves of near Milford. Mr. and Mrs. D.L. Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Milton Brown spent Sunday with Clem Cullers and family of near New Paris. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Buhong and cnildren spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Will Snyder of near Ligonier. Joe Buhong spent Sunday with Albert Stabler. o NORTH SIDE W. H. Bailey went to South Bend Sunday morning to visit his sister, Mrs. Parker and other friends. The lightning struck the home of Rev. J. C. Bailey and burned all of the contents, causing a loss of about three hundred dollars. Mrs. B. F. Hentzell is much better at this writing. Mr. and Mrs Geo. Bailey will be in the new home this week in Short street. Mrs. Don Strock entertained Mrs. H. D. Parker and Mr. Benkson Friday evening for supper. o WHITE OAK Rev. Vance of Ligonier spent Saturday night and Sunday at the Guy Fisher home. Mrs. Jane Rookstool spent Wednesday with Mrs. Lesta. Stiffler. Charles Stiffler was a Milford caller Thursday. Lester Dewart spent Thursday afternoon at the James Dewart home. Mrs. John Hurd of White Pigeon, Mich., has been spending a week with her brother, J. A. Fisher. She returned home Sundva with Mr. Hurd’s son, Walter. Mr. and Mrs .Williad Hochert of, Goshen spent Sunday with ' Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Coy and Kfamily • Ik James Dewart and wife spent

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Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Jacob Bucher and family. i Chester Sriffler and wife and I and Mrs. Lesta Stiffler spent Sunday at the lamn Rookstool home. . Lester Dewart and Merl Miller called on Bert Dausman of Milford Junction Sunday afternoon. Rev. Floyd Hedges and family, and Frantis Brady and wife of Syracuse enjoyed Sunday dinner with Henry Mathews and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Roop and son Richard of Columbia City called in the afternoon. Floyd Galloway and family of Cromwell attended services at Concord and enjoyed dinner with Vern LeCount and family ■ Sunday. Earnest Mathews and wife spent Sunday evening at the John Dewart home. o TAXPAYERS WILL BE HEARD The state board of tax commissioners, consisting of Fred A. Sims, S. N. Cragun, Philip Zoercher and W. C. Harrison, has given notice that on the 28th day of July, 1920, at 9:30 a. m., at the office of the board in the state house at Indianapolis, the board will meet any representative from the board of county commissioners of Kosciusko county and give hearing in the '•onsideration of increasing the assessments of both real and personal property within our county. The state board will then determine the rates of addition or reduct'on from the listed or assessed valuation of the property in Kosciusko county. The taxpayers of the several townships and towns of Kosciusko county are further notified that the state board will at the same time me&t any re-' presentative of the township trustee or town and be heard on the matter of mcreasing the assessments of either real or personal property, and consider the rates of jaddition or reduction from the listed or assessed valuation of all property. This hearing has nothing to do w ; th appeals irom the county board of review, or the hearing of cases certified on the order of the state boarfl of tax commissioners. o LEAK CAUSES FIRE The automobile owned by Lee Dye escaped complete destruction Friday by the timely arrival of members of the Warsaw fire department. Lee was attending +ne carnival at the county seat and had left his car standing on South Indiana street and a hole in the tank allowed about four gallons of gasoline to leak out under the car. It is supposed that some one dropped a cigarette stub into the oil. Soon the car was a mass of flames. Lee hiked over to the fire station and got the firemen with their small chemical tanks. The blaze was soon extinguished. One tire was burned off the car and the radiator was considerably damaged by the flames. Lee was badly burned about the hands in trying to move his machine from the pool of oil. —(Leesburg Journal. o RACE AGAINST STORK A man who gave his name as H. J. Allen was arrainged Friday in the city court at Elkhart on the charge of jumping trains. " He showed Judge Hoover a telegram from his wife urging him 1 to return at once to their home in New York as she was about to become a mother. Thieves had ’ relieved him of S2OO in a western city and he was forced to ! beat his way, he said. The ’ judge let him go. o — • EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE i A five-day conference on rural I. education in Indiana is being I held this week, July 12-16, at Bloomington, the seat of Indiana t university.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1920

_ —-»■! GOING THE ROUNDS I ; i i i Familiarity An old lady who had been introduced to a doctor who was also a professor in a university, felt somewhat puzzled as to how she would address the great man “Shall I call you ‘doctor’ or ‘professor’?’’ she asked. r /u Oh, just as you wish,” was the reply; “as a matter of fact, some people call me an old idiot.” “Indeed,” she said sweetly, “but, then, they are people that know you.” —(Tit-Bits. A Penny Saved The butcher grumbled angrily to himself as he put up the tencent meat order. “Cheap skate,” he muttered, “if she ever let loose of a dollar —*’ Just then a small boy burst excitedly in the door. “Hey,” he shouted,“are you putting up mama’s order of cat meat?” “Yeah,” replied the butcher “and all I gotta say is—” “Unwrap it right away,” announced the boy. “Kitty’s caught a sparrow.” —(American Legion Weekly. o SUFFRAGE LAW ATTACKED Proceedings to enjoin Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state, from issuing any proclamation declaring the suffrage amendment ratified were started last week by C.. S. Fairchild of New York, president of the American Constitutional league. Mr. Fairchild also seeks to prevent Mitchel A Palmer, attorney general, from enforcing the amendment. Justice Bailey issued a rule on Secretary Colby and Attorney General Palmer toy show cause, July 13, why the motion should not be granted. The basis of the proceedings is the claim that the ratification of the amendment by the West Virginia legislature was illegal on the ground that the legislature lacked authority, under the state’s constitution, to act on the measure. Governor Bickett of North Carolina on Wednesday of last week issued a call for a special session of the legislature for August 10, at which ratification of the suffrage amendment will be considered. o MINIATURE HOMESTEAD A recent acquisitin to the museum in the state house at Indianapolis is a miniature art model of the pioneer homestead of John McCormick, the first white settler of Indianapolis. The miniature is in plaster, carved wood, paints and oil. This is the work of John Q. Adams, a metal pattern maker, who studied ten years under Rudolph Schwartz, the sculptor who executed the groups on the soldiers and bailors monument. It proved one of the fascinating features of the Indianapolis centennial in June and is expected to prove interesting to students throughout the state. The miniature is a faithful reproduction of the log cabin which John McCormick established on the east bank of the White river, just north of what is now Washington street; and is a true replica of the topography of Indiana in 1820, together with the state’s frontier period, r o WHY PRICES ARE HIGH • 1 ' ' According to Americans returning from France millions of dollars’ worth of American goods are strewn in the open on the wharves at Havre, Bordeaux and other ports. At Havre there are said to be mountains of sugar with the sacks split and the contents spilling over the ground. Broken boxes of American cured hams stand in huge piles. There are

.... : 1—- y ..3.. ... J acres of bales of soggy, wet American cotton, while ruined typewriters, broken sewing machines, rusty farm implements are scattered all about. The breakdown of the French railroads is responI sible for the port congestion and the speculators to whom the goods were consigned have been unable to move them. No one i wastes tears over the speculators losses, but it seems a shame that foodstuffs and supplies for which there is great need both in France end in America cannot be saved from such wanton waste, America at least should see that this country is drained of no more commodities that are to be added tn the piles of rotting merchandise in French nurts.--(Toledo Blade. —oSHORTAGE IN TEACHERS Public schools will be short by 15,000 teachers when the fall term opens, according to estimates by A. O. Neal, of the bureau of Education. The bureau re’•ecently conducted an extensive . «nquiry among more than 7,000 high schools in the country. These schools now employ 65,857 teachers and will require 17,275 new teachers in the fall to provide for the normal increase in enrollment and to take the places of those who are leaving the schools for other work. Mr. Nr-al considers that this proportion fairly represents the general condition in high schools throughout the country, and he estimates that a total of 25,978 places must be filled before the next school term begins. The visible supply at present dees not approach that number by far. A canvass of colleges and universities to ascertain the number ofgxaauates would take up teaching show that of those who will adpot this calling 1,630 men and 4,742 women will choose high school teaching. On this basis it is estimated only 16,620 members of this years graduates from higher institutions will teach in high schools. The difference 15,358 places must be filled from sources which are not now apparent or that number of classes will be withut instruction. The threatened shortage is twice as great as the total number of teachers in New England, and greater than the number in New York and Pennsylvania combined. School boards everywhere are being advised to strengthen *heir»forces in every possible way, by raising salaries and improving conditions as well as in other ways. — > TAX INCREASE; INVALID Late Wednesday evening the Indiana supreme court declared the horizontal tax increases made by the state tax commission to be invalid. The order is one of the most sweeping which has ever been decreed by the court? and affects practically every county in the state. In Kosciusco county a horizontal increase of 30 percent on personal property was ordered by the tax board to be in effect against Etna, Harrison, Monroe and Prairie townships and the town of Silver Lake. At the time the increase was ordered ‘considerable agitation stirred up among the local county officials and the taxpayers. who were united in their belief that .the action was not fcir. TRAIN GIVES UP Train No. 5 on the Wabash railroad, long known as one of the fastest trains going east out of St. Louis, has been discontinued on account of the mail contracts lost since the advent of the airplane in the mail service. —o— You can’t convince Hie fellow who is loking for < Rouse that this is an empty world.

- I From Nearby ToWas I — Rumors that Strauss Brothers k company will leave Ligonier are without foundation, according to I Banner. . f , Mrs. Lucile Hardesty Wagoman ( mother of five children, whose » husband Perry Wagoman was . drowned some weeks hgo was c united in marriage July ’4 to Al-' . I>ert Juday, father oflsiXAchilj dren whose wife died a year ago. - The parties reside in Goshen. 1 Sig Kahn of Ligonier, who was 1 at the San Francisco convention [ as a floor-leader for Edwards the > wet candidate, returned home be . fore the convention closed, sati isfied that his candidate did not have a chance. Miss Brenda Haist of Nappanee, a graduate of the Kokomo school of music, will teach in ; that place A rooster belonging to Lewis Johnston, a farmer near Bluffton became very sick and Was placed alone in a coop. Somebody stole 1 him. Not long after the theft 1 members of a family in the Johnston neighborhood became ‘ill. Physicians diagnosed the ailment as coming from eating ' sick chicken. Clam diggers along the St. Joseph river are busy and some of them have made large sums. w o— HARVEST ARMY MOVING A land army of 100,000 farm hands is moving northward across the western wheat belt, harvesting the nation’s grain crop in better time than iw former years, according to reports of the United States department of agriculture, by which department the army was recently reaited. “For the first time in years, farmers have not been handicapped through labor shortage,” said Director Tayl%r of the farm bureau. Attracted by a wage of $7 for a 10-hour day, thousands of workers from Atlantic and Alleghany regions have gone west of the Mississippi river to join the harvest drive, according to department officials. o BOYS BURIED ALIVE Ralph Argubright and Ray Brown, both boys of 15 years, were both buried alive on Tuesday of last week while at play in a gravel pit at St. Joe, Ind. It had been raining ju§t a few minutes before and this is thought to have loosened the gravel bank. The boys were alone, except for a dog that returned to the Brown home a mile away. The dog kept barking and running back toward the pit, and attracted in this way the father of one of the boys followed to the scene of the accident. o CARRIER PIGEON STOPS A carrier pigeon, carrying a tag “U. S. 448” and a message wrapped around one leg, stopped to rest at the cottage of Anthony Deahl at Wawasee. The pigeon was first seen on Mr. Deahl’s porch by the ladies, but would not allow them to pick him up or handle him, while Mr. Deahl could handle him with ease. The bird remained at the cottage over one day, seemingly resting and preparing to finish his flight on duty as a messenger for Uncle Sam. o PLANT LICE TROUBLES X , Several species of plant lice are affecting flowers, trees and garden plant life, and serious damage may result to tomato and potato vines if control measures are not employed. This is the statement of Frank N. Wallace, state entomologist, after making a careful survey of conditions throughout the state. The lice suck the juices from tQmato and potato vines, causing {be plants to wilt. The lice also

secret a substance known aS honey dew. which attracts bees, and which may ruin the honey , crop for edible purposes. The that this pest be controlled by , snraying with a solution consisting of 1 pound of fish oil soap mixed in 6 gallons of water or 1 Huid ounce of nicotine sulphate to 6 gallons of water. o - . TWENTIETH AMENDMENT? News dispatches of Friday carried the information that a ne\y amendment is being prooosed to the constitution of the United States, to be presented as soon as the nineteenth amendment is ratified. The twentieth amendment will be submitted to congress by the Society for Upholding the Sanctity of Marriage, and its purpose will be to make divorce unconstitutional. Officers of the new society are, Rev. Dr. Walter Gwvnne of Summit, N.J; the Rev. M’lo H. Gates, the Rev. C. F. J. Wrigley, and the Rev. E. A. White o HOOSIER MILLIONAIRE DIES Allen Gray, aged 65, died at his home in Evansville Friday. He was one of Evansville’s most prominent citizens, and his wealth is estimated at between five and seven million dollars. Mr. Gray was never married. Recently he was sued for ' 500,000 by Annie O’Connor, “the Irish Rose,” for breach of promise. The suit/ which was tried in an Indianapolis court, resulted in a verdict of SIO,OOO, which Mr. Gray accepted. . o REVIEW BOARD ENDS The property appraisment for Kosciusko comity has been increased $2,371,080, according to records of the board of reviewers which last week closed its last session on the valuations and assessments for the year. The lists are not completed, and it is expected that the sum will be somewhat increased before the" final report of the is made. o OWNS FINE COW Robert R McNagny of Columbia City has received official notice that his Guernsey cow “Sweet Belle” broke all state records for ’Guernsey cows on butter fat tests. The official test shows that his cow produced 13,668 pounds of milk, from which was taken 710 pounds of butter fat The highest previous record was 557 pounds. o 200 TONS OF SUGAR ARRIVES A shipment of 200 tons of refined granulated sugar arrived in New York Thursday. It came from Japan byway of the Suez canal, transhipped at Gibraltar on the steamship Sophie Urankel The sugar is consigned to American importesr. — o OLD M AIDS MEET Old maids met in convention at Roann and used bachelor buttons for decorations. Miss Bellie Absbire of Roann entertained the members of the association. Miss Myrtle Walters , lectured on "How to be Happy, Though Si ngle.’" o NOTICE All persons who subscribed to the library fund should at once piy their subscriptions to Mrs. H: M. Hire at the Grand Hotel. —: o It appears to be hard for a man to hear the call of duty ’ above the jingle of coin or the murmur of love. o Inevitably the small child trained to be just and kind toward the defenseless animal be- 1 comes just and kind toward his fellows. Here lies the connection between humane education ' and good citizenship.

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PIWMC bits MOT fflf FOLKS Notes of the Week oa the Coming and Going of People You Know. An easy way of an airplane in flight is to carry a small mirror. Samuel Wenger of Milford rut 21 loads of clover hay from 21 acres of land. Mr. and Mrs. A. H Miller of M’lf ord dr:ve over to Syracuse Monday on business. The chilly weather of July has set some people thinking of t*ieir next winter’s coal supply. The annual picnic of the Lutheran Sunday school of Cromwell is being held at Lake Wawasee today. The only way a fellow can be ontimistic when he prices a pair of shoes is to be thankful he is not a centipede. Mrs. Chas. I. Beery and children, Juanita and Frederick, reCridersville, Ohio., where they had spent more than a week visiting with relatives. The chautauqua tent did not arrive until last Thursday afternoon, and the first session of the program was held ?in the Methodis Episcopal church. Mr. and Mrs. A. R Schmerda of Indianapolis spent over Sunday here at the S. L. Ketring home, returning home Monday evening. * The class of young men of the Evangelical Sunday school of Nappanee enjoyed an outing at Lake Wawasee with their teacher, O. L. Beyler, on Friday and Saturday of last week. A will left by Edwin W. Higbee of Milford leaves all his property to Mrs. Higbee, and the banking business will continue under the same firm name, Miles & Higsbee. M A. Cotherman came home Wednesday from Wawasee where he spent several days fishing. Mrs. Cotherman and the children will remain at the lake cottage for the week.—(Ligonier Banner. Wouldn’t it be fine if we could all do the Rip Van Winkle stunt, and then wake up about the t'me the high cost of living had taken a tumble and the peace treaty had been settled to the satisfaction of everybody? A new counterfeit ten dollar bill is in circulation, the denomination being raised on a onedollar bill'. The counterfeit has the picture of George Washington in the left hand corner, which is not on the genuine tendollar bill. Irving > Bishop and Vernon Beckman d r ove to Fort Wayne Saturday and rttended the great Marcus shew of 1920. They returned Sunday evening with Wm. Beckman, who is recovering nicely from his recent operation. Mr. and* Mrs. CVist Darr of Syracuse were m Warsaw Friday morning for a brief time visiting with frerus. They left for Mentone where they will visit so” a few days as the guests of Mrs. Blanch Darr. —(Warsaw Union. There is a striking similarity in the lives of Senator Harding, republican nominee for president, and Governor Cox, the neighboring Ohio cities. Both learned the printer’s trade, then became reporters and finally editors of daily papers in the ran for governor, but Harding was defeated, while Cox was elected and is serving his third term as governor. Another peculiar coincidence is that the maiden name of Cox’s wife was Harding. «

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