The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 13, Number 23, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 October 1920 — Page 1

In 1908 this home newspaper was established and yearly has made progress.

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NEWS ITEMS FROM OUR SURROUNDINGS Contributed Notesoh the Hap- j penings iu Nearby Communities. SOLOMON’S CREEK Remember the Sunday school . each Sunday morning at 10:00; preaching services at 7:00 p. m. All are invited to attend these services. Mel Tully, Geo. Darr and Wayne Hapner made a trip to Michigan Sunday. Mrs. Henry Juday and Mrs. Chas. Juday spent Thursday with Mrs. Ben Coy, who is on the sick list. Mrs. Mary Hire, who has been sick at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Hire, was able to be moved to her home last week. Rev. Mast, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Pearman and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rex were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. David Holtzingcr. and Mrs. Levi Pearman, Mr. and Mrs. John Good and Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Juday attended the home coming at the Burr Oak church Saturday. A good crowd was present with well filled baskets of good things to eat. Also a good program which was enjoyed by all. Rev. and Mrs. Simons of Butler, former pastor here, were present. M. and Mrs. Emmett Walburn spent Sunday with Frank Shaffer and family. Mrs. George Darr, son Ralph and daughter Louise and Mrs. Nora Gushaw and daughter Waneta spent Sunday evening at the Charles Method home. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rex are the proud parents of a baby girl, who came to bless their home. Mother and babe are doing nicely. Mrs. Henry Juday and Mrs. Chas Juday spent Monday with Mrs. Will Stetler. Silo filling was the order of the day. Mrs. Sam Rippey spent the week end with her parents in Goshen. The Ladies Aid of the United Bretheren church will serve lunch at the sale of Mrs. Henry Juday, Oct. 14. Come and get a lunch of hot coffee, pies and hamburgers. j o NORTH WEBSTER Mr. and Mrs. John Weaver entertained their daughter and ■ family of Pierceton, Sunday. Mrs. Stanley Venator has taken charge of the Dunham school. Trustee Gerard was fortunate to secure her services to fill this vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Bates. Mr. and Mrs. George Leegarden of Goshen and Rd*ss Rodibaugh and family were Sunday guests at the Lloyd Miller home. Quite a number from this vicinity attended the Warsaw fair last week. Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Hontz entertained about thirty guests at their home here Sunday in honor of heir visiting uncle who is back from Kansas. Dr. and Mrs. B. F. Kuhn called at the Dr. A. N. Drulcy home Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hines east of here were host and hostess to twenty or more guests Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Neill McMeekan and two children of Elkhart and Miss Veeta McMeekan of Kalamazoo, Mich., spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs Ross Rodibaugh. The Methodist Sunday school Rally day with a big dinner and afternoon services Sunday Oct. 10. o SOUTH SIDE Wm. Ray was called to Garrett on account of the sickness of his (Continued on Page Three)

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THE OPEN FORUM I ‘ Boys Leaving The Fann Why are our boys leaving the farm, and how are we going to stop it? The proposition is important. Farming is the biggest business in the world. Should we undertake to persuade the young man to stay on the farm instead of educating him away from the farm? Garfield told us something about the importance of the farm when he said: “At the head of all the sciences aand arts, at the head of civilization and progress, not militarism, the science that kills; not commerce, the art that accumulates wealth —but agriculture, the mother of all industry and the maintainer of life.” What has been dene to give our boys and girls that conception of this great industry? In the past father and mother, teacher and adviser, and everyone else, have been trying to educate the boy away from the farm. You recall, and so do I, conditions as they were in days gone by back yonder on the farm, when farmer Jones pointed with considerable pride to his young son and said, “I am going to make a lawyer, a doctor, a great merchant, or a teacher of that boy of mine. I am going to send him to college. He is going to make his mark in the world. I never want him to work as hard as I have had to. No sir, I am going to make it easier for him if I can.” And never did we hear the father say “I am going to make a good farmer of this boy.” Right here is where the difficulty lies. Our agricultural colleges have helped much in this regard. They have helped to make good but too few of them have gone back to the farm. How many good, practical farmers have we made by this process? In the first place, we should try to show our boys and girls m the farms what their place and responsibility in country life really is, what part they play in the world's affairs, particularly as it relates to their home and community. Every individual must work for the food he eats, the clothing he wears and for his shelter. There are other minor essentials, such as fuel spiritual needs (the church)? These desires can all be satisfied directly on the farm, Farmers should make the homes pleasant and attractive. Unless we do something to make the home attractive for the young people, with things to beautify, such as flowers, lawns, and try to eliminate the drudgery of the farm by replacing an incentive to do some good things, they will be looking elsewhere for life’s satisfactions. Most farmers have automobiles. That means they should have good roads, so that it will be easy to get away from home and easy to get back to it. Town and country co-operation is necessary for development of the community spirit. We must plan together, serve together. Good food, fresh air and a clean life, with an interest in all of the things that enter into farm matters, should be - a part of the boys’ and girls’ everyday life. The question is, have we taught it to them rightly? I think not. My observation is that we have neglected these very things so vital to formation of boy and girl character on the farm, a willingness to work and to do this biggest of all jobs —producing food to feed the world. Some of our country boys are properly treated in this respect, but that there has been great neglect no one can deny. —(F. P. W. o— —— A bold attempt is half of success, and a perfectly clear conscience can bear any trouble.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1920

! PROGRESS [ It is a little over a decade since the Wright brothers were working on their aeroplane in a secluded country barn near Dayton. The towering genius of these inventors is recognized the world over, but it is only a short time since they were considered dreamers, and no capitalists would come to their relief. It is only a little over two decades since agitation was started for the free delivery of mail in the country the same as in the city. The pioneers in the movement for rural mail routes were also considered as cranks with a vision of impracticable policies. After the free delivery of mail was provided for along rural routes so that the mail could be delivered during all seasons of the year, this movement was materially assisted by automobiles coming into general use. (t will be remembered that the first builders of- automobiles were also derided as visionaries. The agitation for “good roads” is still going on. When it first began there were those who considered it impossible to improve all the highways, just as there are now those who consider it impractible to improve the rivers and connect them by means of a barge canal with the Great Lakes for a complete inland waterway system the same as the railways and highways are connected. There are some public-spirited citizens, who have devoted their lives to the development of transportation by air or water or rail or highway, and all are benefactors to their race, as they are contributing to the welfare of their fellowmen. The next twenty years will find many of the so-called present day dreamers, theories fully realized just as the aeroplane. =_o D SHOWMAN DEAD Frank Lewis, 53, adress unknown, a canvas man employed by the “Uncle Tom's Cabin" company that played in Syracuse several days ago, died in the General hospital at Elkhart, to which place he had been rushed from Ligonier following an altercation on Friday with a negro who struck him over the head with a tent pole. The negro made a sudden disapearance after the fight and is still at large, although officials throughout this section of the state have been searching for him. o A GOOD RECORD Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Daniel arrived in Syracuse last Friday for a visit with Mrs, Daniel's parents Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Neff, They drove through from Denver, Colo., in their 1917 Ford car, a distance of 1,400 miles over the Lincoln highway. They used 70 gallons of gasoline, costing 020.03, making an average of a little better than 19 miles to the gallon. They were also fortunate in not having a puncture or blowout, arriving in Syracuse with Denver air in their auto tiros, o INCREASE TAX RATE Indianapolis.— Approximately $2,000,000 will be added to the state coffers as a result of the state board of tax commissioners increasing the tax rate from 18 cents to 22 cents per SIOO on taxables. -— o— BAKE SALE The U. B. Ladies’ Aid will hold a bake sale next Saturday, October 9, at 10 o’clock, in the Colwell & Gordy room. Dressed chicken and noodles will be sold. o Mr. and Mrs. Eli Grissom attended the county fair at Warsaw and visited over Sunday at the home of her brother, who resides south of Warsaw.

i : ——————| : i i FROM NEARBY TOWNS I 1 ’ I I- — While returning to Pierceton fiom Syracuse last week Jot Mercer was seriously burned when the radiator cap blew off of the big truck he was driving for the Mickey & Hover Road contracting company. He drove on into town and had the wound dressed. Two armed bandits held up a screened U. S. mail truck at South Bend and escaped with mail valued by J. N. Hunter, the postmaster, at from $5,000 to $6,000. Considerable damage resulted from frost in nearby localities. Ralph Cox, 18, of Mentone suffered a badly fractured skull and broken collar bone as the result of a fall through the scaffold work in the new concrete garage being constructed there. Charged with stealing potatoes from a freight car, five Warsaw men employed by the gas company there are under arrest. Three toy balloons tied together and carrying the advertisement of J. H. Shobe of Rochester were sent up during the Fulton county fair. Three days later the deflated bags, with advertisements attached, were picked up by a farmer near Kenton, Ohio. They traveled 150 miles before descending to earth. Mr. Shobe is in receipt of a letter from the farmer who found the bags. The Leesburg chamber of commerce is considering a proposal made by a farming implement manufacturer to locate a factory at that place. Fifteen minutes . after Rodie Fawn Smith, of ..Warsaw, had been granted her /divorce, she appeared in the county clerk’s Carter, also of Warsaw, and secured a marriage license. o JOHN M, OTT DEAD John M. Ott, a life-long resident of this community, passed away at his home in Pearl street early Monday morning, following an illness of about three and onehalf months of paralysis. He would have been 75 years old in January. For many years he lived on his farm at Solomon’s Creek and thirteen years ago he and Mrs. Ott moved to Syracuse to make a home for Mrs. Ott’s father. He was always a great lover of trees and for many years was engaged in the nursery business. His optimistic disposition won him a wide circle of friends during hia voyage through life. He is survived by his wife; two children, Mrs. Isaac Kindig of Solomon’s Creek, and Wilson Ott of Garrett; and two grandchildren, Joe and Helen Ott. Funeral services were conducted at 2:00 o’clock yesterday (Wednesday) in the Church of God, and burial was made in the Solomon’s' Creek cemetery. o — BIRTHS County Agent and Mrs. Meritt Shearer of Goshen are the parents of a daughter born on Monday morning. Mrs. Shearer was formerly Miss Mildred Akers daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Akers. A daughter was born last Week to Mr. and Mrs. Leander Yoder, south of town. o NOTICE FOR BIDS Bids will be received by the Syracuse and Turkey Creek Township Library board until 2 o’clock on the 11th day of October, 1920, for a hot air system of heating for the public library building, in accordance with plans and specifications furnished by S. A. Craig, architect, Huntington, Ind. (9302) Wilma Ott Hire, Sec’y.

A LITTLE STORY Once upon a time, a certain man thought he would do a great business and make a lot of money. He would sell on credit at a high price, while he bought goods on'time at 6 percent. He wrote to all the people telling them he would like to open a charge account with them. They could buy what they wanted and pay for it when they wanted to. He bought large stock whereever he could get it cheap and was allowed the credit of 6 per cent. At the end of three months he had sold a goodly amount of stock and had made much profit (on the books) but he could not collect the larger share of the accounts. Then his bills came due. He had to find the money and the extra $3,000 for interest. He could not borrow from the banks, he could not collect from the bad customers, and he could get no more stock on credit to sell to the few good customers. I will say he was desperate. What do you suppose he did? He went to the local publisher and confessed his condition. It looked like an emergency case, so the local publisher accepted his watch as security for an advertisement, and this is the way it read: "This village will be without a dry goods store unless I can pay my bills by the first of the month. I can pay every dollar I owe if the people who have my stock will pay what they owe me. We need a dry goods store in this town. It would be a shame to have it closed up by the sherriff. Therefore I will give fair notice that I will publish in this paper the names of all the people who owe me money and are partly responsible for my failure, unless said people pay their bills ten days from date. This town and I are not going down in disgrace without the honest people knowing why.” You bet the people read that advertisement and they talked about it. Within forty-eight hours that merchant had collected enough money to tide him over. Then he bought more advertising space and he used it to tell the people that there would be no more credit business for him. He would sell on a small margin of profit, for cash only, and he told them why, The best people in the town seemed to like the new arrangement, because he has a splendid business now and is very wealthy.—(Business Chat. o MARRIAGE AND H. C. L, There have been fewer marriage licenses issued during September in Kosciusko county than in the corresponding month for six years, according to the records of County Clerk Butler. The high cost of living has doubtless given Dan Cupid a solar plexus blow and is responsible for the dearth of licenses. For the same month more fish and game licenses have been issued than in the same month in six years. - -o AUTO ACCIDENT Abe Brown and daughter Marjorie of Milford met with an accident Friday afternoon while on their way home from Warsaw. Their car collided with a car being driven by Mr. Rohrer of New Paris at the Kinsey corner in Leesburg. Miss Brown was knocked unconscious and received several bad cuts about the face. She was taken to the Goshen hospital. Mr. Brown and Mr. Rohrer were uninjured. o CHICKEN SUPPER The Ladies’ Aid society of the Methodist church will serve a chicken supper in the basement of the church on Thursday, Oct. 14 from 5:30 to 7:30 p. m. Price, 50 cents per plate.

I GOING THE ROUNDS I i i It All Depends When James A. Garfield was president of Hiram college a man brought up his son to be enured as a student. He wanted the boy to take a course shorter than the regular one. “My son can never take all those studies,” said the father. “He wants to get through more quickly. Can’t you arrange it for him?” “Oh yes,” said Mr. Garfield. “He can take a shorter course; it all depends on what you want to make of him. When God wants to make an oak He takes 100 years, but He takes only two months to make a squash.” (Town Topics. Bawled Out There was a flip young clerk at the boarding house table who was always trying to show off. He seldom asked in the usual way to have a thing passed to him but had to get off something smart. One day when he wanted the milk he sang out, “Drive the cow down this way.” The landlady, who sat at the head of the table, called the maid, saying as she handed her the pitcher, “Here, Mary, lead the cow down to where the calf is bawling.”— (Pipestone, Minn., Leader. o - FANCY DISEASES An old colored lady who washed for a living in the best families, picked up a great deal of information as to various diseases, and expressed herself after returning home one day: “Lawsee, thah’s moah various diseases than I ever heard of afore. Ole Miss Bales has two buckles on her lungs and she’ll die mid hermitage of de lungs. Ole man Haggett’s elementary canal is out of repair and he has tansass in his throat. Dey don’t know how to subscribe for people these days. If they would throw away the patent nostrils and stick to de ole arb bag dey’d soon all succumb and get well. • o NOT ALWAYS A SINGER Miss Marie Morrisey, whose concert here on October 18 promises to be one of the most delightful of the season, insists that her voice was not always received with the same favor as it is today. It seems that Miss Morrisey has always been determined to sing. And when she was a little girl, she used to lift up her voice and carol loudly for the edification of herself and all the neighbors. One day, the policeman on the beat passed Miss Morrisey’s house, and hearing strange sounds issuing forth, he finally concluded to investigate. He was a good policeman, was Pat, and he took an interest in all the affairs of the street. So he presented himself before Miss Morrisey’s mother. "Madam,” said he, "is that your child?” Miss Morrisey ceased her singing long enough to hear her mother admit the relationship. “Well, Madam”, said Pat, "what in the world is the matter with her to make her cry all the time.” o _ BOWSER-COY Miss Zella Bowser, aged 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bowser residing east of town, and Chauncey Coy, son of Sylvester Coy also of same place, were united in marriage Saturday afternoon at the M. E. parsonage by Rev. Leslie Naftzer of Warsaw in the presence of their mothers of the contracting parties. The newlyweds will reside on a farm near here.

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PARAGRAPHIC BITS ABOUT«FOLKS Notes of the Week en the Com- , ing and Going of People You Know. Ed Unrue, who has been ill for some time, is improivng. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rasor left Thursday for Mishawaka for a visit until Monday. w Charles Bushong of Elkhart spent over Sunday here visiting with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Miles left last week for Peru, Ind., to visit their daughter, Mrs. J. J. Connell. Henry Kline of Los Angeles, Calif., spent the week end here at the home of his cousin, S. L. Ketring. Vernon Beckman who is attending business college at Fort Whyne, spent over Sunday here at home. Wm. A. Marvel of the Fort Wayne Printing company spent Thursday in Syracuse calling on friends. The Misses Violette and Vera O’Dell, who are teaching in Elkhart schools, spent over Sunday here at home. Mrs. A. J. Gallagher, who has been afflicted with heart trouble for some time, shows but very little improvement. The Pythian • sisters were served with an enjoyable and dainty lunch at their regular tea held Tuesday afternoon. Harrison and Frank Craven of Kendallville drove over Sunday and spent the day here at the L. N. Kitson and Jos. P. Dolan homes. The United Bretheren church will organize the Sunday school on Sunday, October 10. There will be preaching in the fore noon. Mr. and Mrs. John Byland jr. of Toledo are here spending a vacation at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Byland. Mr. and Mrs. Ham Hiller and two sons of Buchanan, Mich., came last Sunday and spent the day at of Mrs. Hiller’s brother, P. R. Sprague. Miss Georgia Whistler, who was called home on account of the sickness of her mother, has returned to Sullivan, Ind., to resume her work in the Sullivan County hospital. Richard Vanderveer of Milford, one of Kosciusko county’s foremost attorneys, spent Friday forenoon in Syracuse on business. Atty. Vanderveer is a candidate for judge of the circuit court. Rev. R. V. Johnson, and his mother-in-law. Mrs. Anna Albright and family, occupied the Christ Darr cotage at Lake Wawasee during part of August. Before returning to Kokomo they purchased a lot at Kale island. ? Miss Alice Sprague, who spent the last part of her summer vacation at Bay View, Mich., proceded directly to Greencastle. Tnd., to resume her work at DePauw university, and thus made her escape from hay fever this year. John Klingerman returned last week from Detroit where he has been employed in the office of the Hudson Motor company. The Hudson company is indefinitely laying off men, as are many of the other automobile companies of the country. Mrs. Harry Whetsei gave her husband a complete surprise on Tuesday evening of last week, by inviting in the U. B. Brotherhood members and their wives and some other friends. They reminded him that it was his thirty-ninth birthday. Delicious refreshments were served.

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