The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 13, Number 12, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 22 July 1920 — Page 1

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NEWS ITEMS FROM OUR SURROUNDINGS Contributed Notes on the Happenings in Nearby Comin uni ties. WHITE OAK Forest Kern spent Monday evening at the Karl Hammon home William Rogers of Syracuse is spending a few days with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Elsworth Davis. Rev. Emeral Jones and family are spending the week in Michigan at the lake. Mr. and Mrs. Be't Whitehead, Mr. and Mrs-. Harry Strieby of . Chicago and Mrs. John Dewart were callers at the Loyd Dewart home in M’lford Monday afternoon Mrs. Burton Howe has been suffering w'th a bad cold. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews spent ■ Sun lay evening at the Win. Wylard home. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Strieby of Chicago are spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Dewart. f Those who spent Sunday at the Wm. Wvland home are, Mr. and Mrs. F»1 Workman of Larwill, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Stump, and Mr. and Mrs. Si Ivin Stump of Warsaw. Iman Rpokstool and family enjoyed Sunday at the Lesta Stiffler home. Irwin Darkwood of near New \ Paris called at the Ernest Mathlews home Saturday . evening. * Ms. and Mrs Harry Griffin of Michigan snent Saturday with her son, Vern LeCount and family. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Fisher and family ,and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dewart of near Milford. Burton Howe was in Goshen Monday. Those who enjoyed Sunday dinner at the James Devyart home are Bishop Alwood and wife of Michigan, Charles Iden and family of Indian Village, Jacob Bucher and family of northwest of Milford. John Dewart spent Sunday at the Chas Rpokstool home. S;mi -jßewart is in very poor healtm . o —- FOUR CORNERS Mr. Wright and his daughter, Mrs. Stutsman, and Mr and Mrs. LaTone Jensen spent Sunday atternoon at Blosser’s Park near Goshen. Gerald Gijoves of near Salem, Jay Cory of Milford and Chauncey Hibner were callers at the Frank Maloy home Sunday. Mr and Mrs. Clint Callander arid three children spent Sunday at the home of Guy Cory of Milford. Earl Darr and Joe Bushong spent from Sunday until Tuesday with friends in Toledo. Mrs. Ma.y Uiery spent Sunday in Milford at the mbw of Jacob Neff. - ! \ Mr and Mrs. N. J Smith and Mrs. Bropnersburg of near Muncie spent Monday at the home of Crist Darr. They were enroute to New Carlyle. Ed Rassip of Bremen was caller on.friends Sunday. Miss Nopa Showalter of New Paris returned home Sunday after spending a few days with Mrs. Stutsman. Marion Showalter of New Paris was a visitor at the home of Mrs. Stutsman Sunday. Misses Olive and Opal Geyer are spending two weeks with their aunt, Mrs. Ball of Toledo. Tom Hepler and family of near Nappanee spent Sunday at the home of Clint Callander. Mrs. Maloy spent a few days with her sister, Mrs. Baird, who

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has been in poor health. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Groye and son called at the home of Frahk ! Maloy Sunday evening. Roy Niles is spending a few weeks at Logansport. Mrs. Kitson of Goshen called i at the home of her sister, Mrs. Baird Thursday. ■ o SOLOMON’S ( REEK Sunday school at 10:00 a.m.; To these all are invited to attend. The Dodge people met with Mrs. Bertha Hapner Wednesday evening of last week to practice for the entertainment which they will give Thursday evening July 23, while the Fords give the banquet so we invite both sides of the Sunday school to be present. Mm Chester Firestone and Mrs. Artie Nicolai called Friday evening on Mrs. Melvin Tully. William Umbenhour of South Bend spent a few days with his sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Juday. Mrs Albert Darr and daughter Cloy and Miriam Darr spent Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Sam Juday and Mrs. Bessie Ringwald. Mrs. Etta Medesker of Fort Wayne spent a few days of last week with Mr: B F Tuday. Mr. and M r s. AH-m Hus'iqw ~ook Sundav dinner with M • and Mrs. Chester Firestone. Mr. and Mrs. Beckley and three sons and M r . and Mrs. Walter Rex and .daughter Mildred of Avilla took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Warble in Syracuse, and then railed, at the home of Mr. Rex’s uarents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rex •n the afternoon. Mrs. Jl, Maty Ott rifri! daughter Laura are visiting at the James Long home. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Gushwa and son and Harvey Statler and family of Elkhart were Sunday guests of Mrs. Nora Gushwa. The ladies aid cleared some over eighteen dollars at the social Friday evening Harry Good spent over Sunday with friends near Milford. Mrs. Emmett Walburn fell and dislocated her wrist and broke some of the small bones in her hand Tuesday. o PLEASANT RIDGE The John Hurtig family were called to the home of Samuel Fann Tuesday evening by the serious illness of Mr. Hann Two of the Johnson boys reached here Thursday afternoon from Wisconsin called here by the serious illness of their grandfather Samuel Hann. Roy Vail is visiting in Goshen, Elkhart South Bend and Mishawaka. Mrs Ellen, Minnie and Ruby Robinson spent Sunday with James 0. Gilbert of Stryagtown. Ralph Vail and family, Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Weaver and Mr. md Mrs. Arthur Brown spent Sunday with T. S. Sheffield. Harold Cripe who has beeh working in Louisville Kentucky visited at the home of his fathei J. C. Cripe returning to Louisville Saturday. o HECK’S Sunday School every Sunday at 9:30. Everyone is cordially invited to attend. Miss Mary Moats spent Friday afternoon with her aunt Mrs. G. A. McDaniel. Miss Opal Cleland spent Sunday afternoon with Myrtle Bushong. Earl Baker who is employed in Logansport came home Wednesday. He is unable to work because of blood po ; soning in his hand. Miss Eva and Neva Meek spent Saturday night and Sunday with Wilma Grubb of Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. Orley Brown and son Eugene, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Moats and daughters and*

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SYRACUSE, THURSDAY, «|ULY 22, 1920

I ; 1 I GOING THE ROUNDS ; f [ i Expensive Shoes The depreciation of oiur currcncy today is nothing compared with the slump in Confederate paper money after the Civil war. 1 Gen. Mulholland relates that I shortly after Lee’s surrender he i. heard two Confederate soldiers bargaining over a very ordinary I looking horse. “He’ll do for my farrh, Jim,” said one, “and I’ll give you $20,000 for him.” “No ” said the other. “Give you $50,000.” “No.” “Give you $100,000.” “Not much!” replied the owner “I jus* paid $120,000 to have him shod.”—(Houston Post. This Beat Him ’ They say that over in Miami county, Burton Green made a speech at an agricultural meeting with a view of advancing his candidacy. “I am .a practical farmer,” he said boastfully. “I can plow, reap, milk co\vs> work a chaff cutter, shoe a horse - in fact,” he went on proudly “I should like you to teP me one thing about a farm that I can not <jlo.” And the’ after an impressive silence, a sma'l bo.', in the back of the .room shouted: “Can you lay an egg:’’ —(Rochester, Ind., Sun, Mr and Mrs. William Moats spent Sunday at the Brown cottage at Lake Wawasee. Mr. and Mrs. Dolphus Stabler and daughter Edith spent Sunday in Syracuse with Mrs. Dave Grubb. -r Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rippey spent Sunday with relatives in Goshen. ’ Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Bushongspent Sunday in Syracuse. Miss Lida Wilkinson spent Sunday with her sister Mrs. Arnold Stabler. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Ward and children and Mr. and Mrs. Will Miller and family spent Sunday with Clee Hibschman and family Mr. and Mrs. Sarp Bushong snent Sunday afternoon with Daniel Lingofelter. Mr. Lingofelter who has been- sick all summer is able to be up and around the house. o NORTH SIDE Mrs. Marie McParlson visited over Sunday here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hentzell. Mrs. Lula Cook and daughter of Elkhart were the guests of her parents, Mrs, and Mrs, Geo. Zerbe Sunday. There was twenty-one people took Sunday dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Bailey. Those who were present were: Mr. and Mrs. Albert Russell and Mrs. Matters and daughter of Fort Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. V. V. Bailey and two daughters of Marion, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bailey and children, Dorothy and Arthur, of Scotts, Mich., Mr and Mrs. H. D. Parker and a brother of Mr. Parker of South Bend, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bailey, William Bailey who has been home for 3 few weeks, and Alphus Russell. —-4 SCHOOL APPORTIONMENTS The report of State Superintendent of Public Instruction L. N. Hines, of the apportionment of state school fund, has been received by Tom J. Nye,. county auditor. $15,257.85 will be apportioned to Kosciusko county by the state for distribution to townships here. $7,041 was derived by taxes from the enumeration of school children from ages 6 to 21. The amount derived from the state school tax was $lB,415.64. and the interest collected on the common school func since the last apportionment was $4,058.98. The rate per capita for the new apportionment will be *52,167, the report also states.

I REGISTER OR NO VOTE | ! ■■■■ I Unless the law is changed at the present special session of the . legislature every Indiana voter ■must register this year in order) *;o vote next November. This anplies to both men and women. ■ Persons who are to be twenty- ! one years old before election day ! bat not during the registration ; period must register in anticipation of their vote. There are tol be two registration days—the, ! first Saturday in September ifnd ! the first Monday in October. ; . Voters may register in anyone of the following wavs 1. By appearing in person before the precinct registration board on one of the above mentioned days. 8 2. By mail, when proper regi.tration papers have been sworn to before a notary public, or certified to by two voters who reride in the registrant’s precinct If mailed, registration papers should be sent to the precinct registration board, and should reach them on or before one of the above mentioned days 3. By pr perly filling out registration b*ank before registration day, swearing tc it before a notary or having it certified to by two voters residing in the registrant’s preeinc* and placing it ir the hands of a voter residing in the registrant’s precinct, who must deposit it with the precinct registration board on rogistralio" day. _o BIRTHDAY PARTY Wm. Tully, residing two and one half miles north of Syracuse, was pleasanilv surprised Sunday when forty-one of Ids friends and relatives fath<ic.l at his. home in celebration of his seventy-fifth birthday. Those pi esent were* Mr. and Mrs. Mel r| ’u !y and son Joe, Norman H; rts. ugh and family, Otis Hartscugh and family, Lloyd Hartsough and family. Roy Hartseugh and family, Mi. and Mrs. Victor Niles, Guy Nicolai and family. Henry Tully and family, Mrs. Victor Hapner. Fordie Grissamer and family, Mr. and Mrs, Bender an I Odry Heltzell, John Bender and Odry Heltzell. All came with well filled baskets and ice -ream was served in the afternoon. o BOY SCOUTS COMING The Boy Scouts troop of Nappanee will be at Lake Wawasee Monday, to open camp for two weeks They will be in charge of Herbert Neher. Within he next two weeks a group of Muncie boys will be at the lake to open camp. Lake Wawasee is becoming a popular camping ground in addition to its fame as a summer resort. At one time this reason more than boys were in camp around the lake. o LOSE BY 2-0 SCORE In a fast game of baseball played at the West End park Sunday afternoon the Syracuse team was defeated by the Oswego team in a 2-0 score The game was well played, and the enthusiasm ran high in the good sized crowd that was in attendance. Oswego scored in the "’irst and last innings. The team is arranged to play New l'ar : g here next Sunday. o MANUFACTURI NG CENSUS The statistical division of the U. S. government is conducting a manufacturing census of Kosciusko county. A representative, Fred Cluen, of Elkhart, is now working in the county obtaining the necessary information. NOTICE All persons who subscribed to the library fund should at once piy their subscriptions to Mrs. H, M. Hire at the Grand Hotel.

I: ~ • I i FROM NEARBY TOWNS | ‘ 1 j According to the News-Times, ; a modern Goshen Sampson got in i his work last week one evening when he fractured three ribs for his sweetheart in a good-night hug. A surgeon put the injured girl in a piaster cast. Millersburg corporation desired to purchase a fire engine to i protect the property of citizens. There were no local objections, but the state tax board hampered the movement and The Grit says just when the people of the town were congratulating themselves on their success in spending their own money the state board again stepped in, and now the fight must be made over. In the meantime the town might burn up. O. R. Mendham of Elkhart caught a turtle Sunday in Christiana lake which weighed 50 pounds. The age of the creature was estimated at 70 years. Gardens were literally flattened out, oats beaten into the earth and wheat rendered worthless over a considerable district lying between Cromwell and Indian ’’illage during the hailstorm of last week. The Jacob Sheets store of Ligonier was burglarized early Wednesday morning of last week. Two voung men, named Gust and Robinson, of Fort Wayne and Indianapolis, are being held on the charge. They walked out of town with considerable loot after dressing themselves up in entirely new clothing. Frank Miller residing south of Leesburg was injured and bruised but fortunately escaped death when the team hitched to his hay rake ran away. Mr. Miller was dragged a considerable distance o TAKES AIRPLANE FLIGHT Ellwood George made an effort to get some camera views for The Journal while the “Flying Fish" was making flights here recently. It had been our hope to get a good view of the town from above, a view that would show both the town and Wawasee. A large number of exposures were made, and although some of them were interesting, none of them was suitable for newspaper reproduction. F. M. Hawky the pilot of the plane was very obliging and per-' formed many skillful maneuvers in his effort to bring Mr. George into position for good views; he ( dived, volplaned, banked, and, so forth, at a height of 4,000 feet. I Mr. George remarked that' while he was so near heaven he felt a regre* at not meeting anybody from Syracuse STRI EBY-DEATON Promptly at high noon Saturday, July 17. at the heme of Rev. I G. W. Deaton, minister for the Eel River Church, Miss Mosciline M. Strieby, daughter of Mrs. | Belle Strieby of Syracuse, became the bride of Sherman B. Deaton, son of Jacob 0. Deaton . of Claypool. t Both the bride and groom are from fine families in their respective communities and have a wife circle of friends who were pleasantly surprised by the j event. The ceremony was preformed by the grooms brother, Rev. G. W. Deaton of near Claypool, in the presence of Mrs. Belle StHeby, mother of the bride, and Miss Delphia Irene Deaton, sister of the groom. The bride wore a beautiful gown of white satin. After the ceremony the bridal party motored to the home of i Mr. and Mrs. Ray LeCount, j where the wedding supper was : ..erved. The groom will be an instructor in a rural school near Syracuse. He was a graduate from.

the Claypool high school in 1913,! and for the past five years he has held various 1 f ehing positions in Kosciusko county. Miss Strieby completed the high school bourse at Syracuse, . bc'ng graduated with the class . of 1920. On Monday the newly wedded couple will depart on a honeymoon trip of a week, visiting Niagara Falls and the grooms , sister, Mrs. Horace M. Tucker, who resides at Ashtabulla, Ohio. After their return they will re- . side near Syracuse. —o — . FI YE GENERATIONS In the feature section of the South Bend News-Times under date of July 11 appeared a photo-g-aphic likeness of the family group of Mrs. Jane Akers. The ■ captiop for the picture read as ' follows: j “Five generations are represented in the group pictured here. Mrs. Jane Alters, the old- , e«t member, celebrated her 85th I birthday anniversary April 1 of 't’ is year. She has living, two sons, one daughter, 15 grandchildren, 36 great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. “Mrs. Akers was born in Peble county, Ohio, but the greater part of her life has been spent in the northern section of this state. When she was very young her parents removed from Ohio to Syracuse, Ind., making the iourney in a covered wagon. Since those early frontier days i Mrs. Akers has liv£d in the , vicinity of her adopted home, at Present dividing her time among j her children and grandchildren, .' making extended visits with each. “In November, 1854, Mrs. Akers was married to Levi Akers who died at Syracuse March 2 1913. Mr. Akers served his country during the Civil war. “Pictured with Mrs. Akers in the accompanying cut are her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Walerius of Elkhart, her granddaughter, Mrs. D. E. Blue of this ' city, a great granddaughter, Mrs. i Ralph Rohleder of Elkhart, and I her great-great granddaughter, little June Elaine Rohleder, who is three months old.” — n WORD FROM MONTANA Hinsdale, Mont., July 17, 1920. Mr. P. H. Miles, Syracuse, Indiana. I Dear friend: —You will find ' P. 0. order of $2.00 enclosed for renewal of the papeV I think lit is about due. I do not want j t j miss a copy —just like getting I a letter from home. We will have some crop this year, maybe our seed back. And tne hay is good this year, better than it has been for the past two years. We have had quite a bit of trouble this year. First we thought we were not going to get the necessary moisture, but ,it finally came, so everything | started fine. ‘ Then the cutworms and gophers got in their work in places—just took crops. I Well, I see by the paper old ‘Cuse is on the boom. Sure glad , ■ o to hear it. - j This leaves us well and busy ' making hay. Yours .to oolige, Roy Hire. 0 COMMERIAL SCHOOL A school ot commerce and finance was organized last March and added to the state university at c Bloomington. It comprises courses of study extending over f our years, and the entrance requirments are the same as for any of the other schools of the university. It is expected the enrollment in the new school | will be large when the university opens on September 13. | o — —— BAKES4LE | The Ladies’ Aid society of the U. B. church will have a bake sale at Colwell & Gordy’s plumb- ( ing shop next Saturday, July 24.

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PARAGRAPHIC BITS ABOUT HOME FOLKS n —=*— Notes of the Week on‘the Com* ing and Going of People You Know. A conscience needs exercise to keep it in a healthy condition. Mrs Harry W. Barclay returned Friday evening from Weldon, 111. John Snyder, proprietor of a garage at Pierceton, was in Syracuse Monday on business. The Camnfire "iris of Nappanee spent last week at Oakwood park. ’ r he ladies of the M. E. church hold a bake sale last Saturday in the rubber company’s office. Cheerfulness is about the only contagious thing we ought not be afraid of. Mr. and Mrs. Kinney spent Saturday and Sunday with Harry Leming and family. Mrs. Joann Holloway returned from Elkhart Sunday after spending a week there with her daughter, Mrs. W. E. Hire. Tillman Hire, who has#.been confined to his bed the past several days with serious iftness, is out on our streets again. Miss Helen Lewis of Elkhart is spending the week with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Watt. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Whetsei were in Toledo Sunday and Monday with Mr, Whetsel’s mother, Mrs. John Byland. It has proved to be a fact, that the man v. ho makes the moot noise talking makes the least noise thinking. M’.ss Mabel Pippmger of South Bend came Saturday and remained until yesterday here as g’mst of her friend, Miss Goldie Mathews. Hobart G. Miller of Chicago spent from Friday evening to Sunday evening here with his wife and baby at the Geo. J. Cronenberger home. Morton Stults, service editor at the Fort Wayne branch’ of the Western Newspaper union, wps in Syracuse Thursday calling on Editor Preston H. Miles. Miss Mildred Rookstool has returned to her home in Elkhart after visiting with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rook stool. Earl Darr and Joe Bushong drove to Toledo Sunday mornine, and when they returned Tuesday they were accompanied by the Misses Olive and Opal Geyer. Marion Strieby, who is employed by a wholesale hardware firm at Toledo, Ohio, spent the first part of the week here at the home of his father, Anderson K. Strieby The band concerts are proving very popular. The crowd that gathered on the streets last Wednesday evening was good sized and the band boys pleased their audience with a well arranged and well rendered concert . A musical program, under the auspices of the Epworth league, will be given at the Methodist church at 8 o’clock this evening. Light refreshments will be ser- 1 ved in the basement and a silver offering will be taken. The public is cordially invited. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mollenhour of Bourbon came Saturday evening and spent Sunday here at the Joe Smeltzer home. Mr. Mollenhour is foreman of the Bourbon News-Mirror. When they returned home Sunday evening they took with them their little niece, Charlotte Richards, of Grand Haven. Mich., who has been visiting at the Smeltzer home for the past two weeks. I

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