The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 13, Number 35, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 30 December 1920 — Page 1

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NEWS ITEMS FROM OUR SURROUNDINGS Contributed Notes on the Happenings jn Nearby Communities. BENTON—SOLOMON’S CREEK Sunday school at 10:00 a. m. each Sunday morning; preaching services following. A general invitation is given to all to attend these services. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Pendall of near Dunlap spent Sunday with the latter’s mother, Mrs. Sam Whitehead., Porter Sheline returned to South Bend after spending a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Sheline. David Ott, who had one of his sick spells Sunday morning, is much better again. Rev. P. L. Mast spent Christmas day with friends in Bremen. Little Miss Naomi Wortinger is a scarlet fever patient. Grover Hilbish and Willie Wortinger are suffering with gripe. Rev. Mast was presented a handsome gold watch by the men and ladies’ aid at Burr Oak church. The decandents of the John Darr family held their annual" Christmas dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Colwell in Syracuse. Mrs. Colwell was the youngest of the Darr family. Many good things to eat and a general good time was enjoyed by all present. Mr. and Mrs. Levi Pearman spent Sunday with friends at Silver Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Long entertained the following to Christmas dinner Anderson Juday and daughter Leila, Mr. and 4 Mrs. Wilson Ott, Mr. and Mrs, B. F. Juday and Mr. and Mrs. Merle Mazy and daughter Dorothy. Miss Vera Darr is home for the holidays from Indiana university. The following were entertained Christmas at the home of Mr. and 'Mrs. Henry Rex in Benton were: Mr. and Mrs. John Rex, Mrs. Minnie Colter and daughter Lillian and Mr. and Mrs. Orlo Green and son Joseph and daughter Dorothy of Millersburg, Leonard Rex and family of Milford, Walter Rex and family of Avilla, Frank Shaffer and family of near New Paris, Glen Shaffer and family of New Paris and David Holtzinger and family. The dinner and Christmas tree with many useful presents were enjoyed by all present. <y NORTH WEBSTER Dr. and Mrs. G. N. Druley returned Tuesday after visiting (jfor several days with friends and relatives in Indianapolis and Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ringenberg • spent a few days here with their daughter, Mrs. Chas. Gerard. Stanley-Black, who was operated upon at the general hospital in Elkhart last week, is improving very rapidly considering his serious condition. The school vacation here will; last during this week with the doors open again next Monday. The local high school basket ball team defeated the Larwill team here last Friday evening when they played in the room they recently rented of the Rodibaugh and Miller hardware. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Whitehead are visiting with relatives this week. . I Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Gerard moved into their new home last Thursday and Friday. - Mr. and Mrs. Ross Rodibaugh and son George spent ChristmM day in Milford at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Rodibaugh. Mr. and Mrs. Milo Daniel’s children of Elkhart spent Christmas with their paafctats htere.

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Little Joe Gerard, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gerard,, has been ill with a severe cold. The Efficiency class of the M. E. Sunday school met Tuesday evening for their regular business and social meeting in the church basement. Homer Hiner returned from the Mishawaka hospital where he underwent .an operation one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Breading and children, Helen and Kenneth spent Sunday in Warsaw. Over thirty dollars were the collection in the M. E. church Sunday school on last Sunday, all of which will go to the Near East Relief. Preaching services of» the Methodist church here will be held on Sunday evenings during the months of January and February. Revival services will begin at the same church early in January. o TIPPECANOE Chas. Baugher and J. L. Kline hauled fodder Monday. Mrs. Alta Kyle and Miss Sylvia Scott spent Christmas day with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Scott. ' Chas. Baugher had a sick horse Tuesday. J. L. Kline and Mrs. J. Garver were in Syracuse Friday Kenneth Baugher helped John Garber butcher Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. James Jarrett,, Pauline Gerard and Florence Cochran spent Christmas at the Joseph Morehead home. J. L. Kline will get a lot of fancy pink salmon and pickerel the jlast of this week. Order early as they are about all engaged. John Eberly and J. L. Kline took' Sunday dinner at the J. Garber home. Mrs. J. L. Kline and children took Sunday dinner at the Dan Eberly home. r — ; o : . GILBERTS Curtis Rarick is confined to his home with la grippe. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Weybright entertained their children and their families Tuesday. Miss Edith Weybright, a teacher at the Bethany Bible school at Chicago, is spending her holidays at home. -Miss Pearl Dausman of Goshen spent Friday night with her sister, Mrs. Frank Morehouse. Eldon Geyer, who is attending college in Michigan, is spending the holidays at the home of his unc],e, Jesse Metz. E. J. Cooper and family spent Christmas day at the home of Calvin Cooper and family. Mrs. Ellen Lutes of Milford and Mr. and Mrs. Orval Lutes spent Tuesday at the home of Charles Lutes. Mrs. Sam Dillen, who is spending the winter in Cromwell helping to care for her mother, is home here for a few days. George Morehouse of Fort Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Beranger of Peru, Frank Morehouse and family and Guy Morehouse and family spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Morehouse. The patrons of the Jackson township school were ente 'tained at the school house Thursday evening by the children The house was artistically decorated with Christmas bells am other holiday suggestions. After the very interesting program a box supper took place and a beautiful airplane box brought $9. Presents were exchanged on a very beautiful Christmas tree. — - SQUARE Mr. and Mrs. John Kauffman and family took Christmas dinner with Mrs. Emily Gcrdy of Syracuse. ( - Mr. and Mrs. Earl Grimes and family speht Saturday with relatives near Albion. Mr. and Mrs. Wilmett Jones and family anti Mr* anti Mrs. Cteo.

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Stackers of Richville took Christmas dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Cory and family. Miss Elva Vorhis and Raymond Bitner were quietly married at Goshen last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Grimes spent Saturday with Mrs Grimes’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gutherie of near Albion. Miss Hilda Bitner snent Sunday with Miss Mary Clingerman. Albert Dull took dinner at the home of John Kauffman Monday. (Continued on Page Six) —o — CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION Robert R. Knepper of Etna Green was chosen chairman of the Kosciusko county organization by students from his county attending Indiana university to lead in the formation of a program for more public support of the state educational institution and education in* Indiana. Chairman Knepper is a junior at the university and is active in student affairs. Indiana and the other state institutions are asking for sufficient levy to enable them to keen pace in the forward movement in higher education and give the instruction possible to the students. In the past few years the states surrounding Indiana have broadened their support of the university and because of this the best members of the faculties of the state educational institutions in Indiana have been attracted away from the Hoosier state. To regain their position in educational circles Indiana's schools of higher learning must have more liberal public support. AH, the ’state educational institutions in Indiana are cramped for class room and need more equipment. Enrollment has increased a large per cent and the funds of the state educational institutions, Indiana, Purdue, and State Normal have not been sufficient to permit building new class rooms, or renewing their equipment and the adding of the latest developments. Surrounding state supported universities have budgets as high as three times as much as the Indiana institutions. Other Kosciusko county students chosen in the organization are Edwin Neff of Milford, vicechairman, and George Bowser of Warsaw, secretary. This committee will have charge of the school program in their county. • o RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT Whereas, it has pleased the Supreme Ruler of the Universe to remove from our midst our beloved sister, Ellen Colwell, and Whereas, Syracuse Chapter No. 283 Order of the Eastern Star, has lost thereby a faithful member who was ever ready to render loving service and friendly counsel, and Whereas, we do deplore the loss of our sister from our fraternal circle, while we believe that Our Heavenly Father who has seen fit to so bereave us, doeth all things well, be it Resolved, that we the members of Syracuse Chapter No. 283, do hereby extend our heartfelt sympathy to the family of our deceased sister in this their deep bereavement, and Resolved, that in taken of our sorrow and sympathy our charter be draped in mourning for a period of thirty days, and Resolved, that these resolutions be spread upon the records of our Chapter, published in the Syracuse Journal and a copy sent to the bereaved family. (Signed) Fannie C. Hoy/ Ida Hamman, Com. WILL PURCHASE BUILDING The Ancil Geiger post of the American legion at Milford has opened negotiations for the purchase of the two-story brick building at the corner of Main and Emeline streets to afford thtfm club Aidm ifda'rters.

WHY MONTANA LEADS ALL STATES IN HER SCHOOLS It was a notable privilege in September to enjoy a campaign which took me into fifteen cities in Montana so that in the last four years I have had the privilege of knowing most of the counties in the state educationally. This is the rounding out’ of an opportunity which had its beginning thirty years ago, and in these years I have been in the leading cities end in the higher institutions of learning many times before these later opportunties. There has probably never been a greater educational surprise than when Colonel Leonard P. Ayres in the Sage Foundation Index placed Montana at the head of the states in the fundamentals of education. If there were no other reason for gratification in r knowing Montana that fact alone would justify prideful satisfaction? But there are other sources of gratification. Every visit to a state intensifies acquaintance in geometrical ratio, for it adds materially to the friendship of old acquaintances Qnd engrafts many new ones, and the increased salaries are attracting some highly valuable men and women whom we have known in the east and in the Pacific states, In Roosevelt county with only one city of 600 population, there are three city superintendents receiving $3,000, one $2,400 and three $2,200, all men from the ea§t with scholarships in eastern institutions. No other state, probably, has had as great difficulty in securing teachers for rural schools. In earlier days it was easier to get teachers for small far-away schools than for city schools because good teachers from the east homesteaded and had to teach where they could live on the homestead over the weekand. The passion for being the proud possessor of 160 acres of land was often uncontrollable, but when they had proved up they - often sold and returned to city life. This, together, with the great reduction in attractive lands for homesteaders has largely eliminated a former large supply for rural districts. But the county' superintendents are hustlers. They have advertised all through the east for teachers in rural districts at $125.00 to $140,00 a month for nine months and even then it has not been an easy matter to find teachers. Miss Elizabeth Ireland and her assistant at Havre, Hill county, wrote a thousand letters, and sent many telegrams, but they had a teacher for every school when the new year opened. Everywhere the present-day county/superintendent is a community leader, often rivaling city superintendents of the section in capability and personality. In Montana every county superintendent is a woman. To be nominated the first time she must win the favor of the community; The day of the convention has passed. The primary makes it necessary that the candidate must be believed in by her party, and she must have attractive qualifications to strength her part in the campaign for election. This magnifies scholastic attainments, professional experience, good reputation and a compelling personality. All this has conspired to give Montana county leaders of exceptional strength. A new factor in public education is the county nurse, the handmaid of the Red Cross workers. It is but a few years since the United States knew the possibilities of the county nurse, but soon she will be as indispensable as the corps of teachers. They are all efficient; so far as my observation goes, but one jtrast elect a sample <ifeniorfstra-

tion if he would duly emphasize achievement and I choose Roosevelt’ county, Montana, and Miss B. Delia Dahl of Wolf Point as the efficient nurse and her work with cripples as the special functioning activity. I take the case of Harold Miller as one of the six boys rescued as brands from the burning. Harold Miller is fourteen years old. He was physically wrecked in childhood by infantile paralysis. Always thereafter he was well nigh as helpless as a cripple, growing worse each year. It was supposed to be incurable, and if not it was impossible for the parents to pay for an operation. Miss Dahl wrote Dr. C. E. Eikenbarry, St. Luke’s Hospital, Spokane, a description of > the case and the financial situation. The doctor said: “If the lad has a good heart I can do all the rest.” Simple tests which Miss Dahl could apply determined heart reliability, and she took Harold to Spokane. His feet were as impossible as the most alert mind can imagine. There was nothing right about them. In less than two hours the surgeon had taken out all the short cords and the long cor<js and exchanged them so that the feet and lower limbs were right side up and right side out. In eight days the lad stood on two good feet and in six weeks he went home as completely ready to leap and shout for joy as in the case of the cripple whom Peter healed at the gate of the temple. Dr. Eikenbarry make no charge for the operation and the Rotary club of Spokane provided the hospital bed so that there was no charge to any one for the miracle, except the carfare for Miss Dahl to and from Spokane, and the county paid that. So far as we know Montana leads the nation in the number of school dormitories, in the application of the dormitory idea to children of the rural districts and uniformly efficient motronizing of these school homes. In Teton county, Miss Ruth Sweat, county superintendent, has a county high school, with a dormitory in which are thirty scool girls from country’ homes. The matron is a trained nurse, the cook is an efficient housekeeper, and her husband incidentally does all sorts of handy jobs “between the acts," as it were, just for his board. The county provides the building and pays the matron, who must run the home for S2O a month per girl. Many of the farmer-parents pay the girl’s board in whole or in part by supplying from the farm things called for by the matron. The boys eat at the dormitory; but must at present pay for their room in private families, but they are usually able to “work it out" by handy helpfulness. The national scandal in progressive education is the fact that eighth-grade examinations call for a knowledge of “old stuff’’ with which no up-to-date teacher wants to cumber her work. Miss Trumper has a standing appeal to every teaches in the state to notify the state department of education if they find any question in the eighth grade examination that is out of date, and if such question is reported the answers are not allowed to affect the standing of a pupil. High schools often have arrangements with the local churches to conduct educational Bible classes for the serious .study of Bible history, literature and teachings. The results must Be as definitely exacting as in the case of any other school study, Catholic priests, Jewish rabbis and all other sects and denominations join in this. Students can earn one-fourth credit in a year or one full credit in four years, or one-sixteenth of the high school course can be (Continued on Page TBWe)

/INSTALLS POSTING MACHINE The State Bank of Syracuse has installed a new posting' machine that is a wonder of human inventive genius. The machine is operated by electricity. Loose leaf pages of the bank’s account books are in- , serted in the machine, and the figures are written thereoh in neat and readable typewriter face. The machine does its own figuring, adding when necessary, subtracting at the proper time, dating automatically, carrying the balance through'and setting it down in the right column. Not only is there a great saving of , time and an added feature of , neatness,'‘but also an advantage of unquestionable accuracy. | In these progressive days, anybody who can afford to buy one of these machines can run a bank —anybody with enough ability to turn on the current and let her flicker. T n S. C. DICKEY DEAD sr. Sol. C. Dickey, general secretary of Winona assembly, died suddenly of apoplexy at Deland, Fla.,? where he and his wife were spending a few weeks of rest. Funeral services were conducted in the Presbyterian church at Warsaw on Tuesday of this week, and the services were attended by eminent church men from a radius of hundreds of miles. Dr. Dickey has been the guiding spirit in the building up of the Winona Bible school and assembly, which has gained a fame that reaches not only from coast to coast but to foreign lands. o : TWELVE ROADS SOLD Contracts for the contruction of twelve roads in Kosciusko county have been awarded by the county commissioners. There were thirteen roads offered .for sale, all but one of them to be <?f concrete; six of them three-mile roads and seven county unit roads, an aggregate of thirty miles. The total of the contracts let is $937,184. McClintic, Colwell & Gordy were awarded the Disher and the Geyer roads leading out of Syracuse. ' THE LIGHTS FAILED When Dr. A. C. McDorfald and his assistants at the McDonald hospital were in the very act of removing the appendix of Floyd Berlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Berlin of this city, on Monday night, the city was plunged momentarily into darkness. With the incision matte, and the operation but half completed, the surgeons were greatly relieved when the lights flashed,on again after a short period of darkness. — (Warsaw Times. — * O BREEDERS TO MEET The annual meeting of the Indiana Swine Breeders’ association will be held in the palm room of the Claypool hotel at Indianapolis next Wednesday, January 5. The program, which will begin at 9:30 in the morning includes addresses and discussions by eminent breeders and specialists. This is the oldest swine breeders’ association in America, and the annual meetings are usually well attended. o NEW COUNTY AGENT The Kosciusko county board of education has elected T. A. Parker to serve the county as agricultural agent. Mr. Parker was formerly a high school teacher at Pierceton and for the past three years has been serving the people of Steuben county as their agricultural agent. o Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Brunjes, who are living in town this winter, spent Christmas week in Chicago at the home of their son, Dr. D. H. Brunjes, returning; Home Tuesday. * . .

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PARAGRAPHIC BITS ABOUT HOME FOLKS Notes of the Week on the Coming and Going of People Yon Know. Rev. F. H. Cremean is spending this week in Fort Wayne. The Misses Cronenberger were here over Christmas from Chicago. Miss Florence Haskin and her friend ;of Goshen spent Christ-* mas at home. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Connell and children of Peru spent Christmas at the E. E. Miles home. Mr. and Mrs. Alldean Strieby of Indianapolis visited last week at the E. E. Strieby home. Mrs George Howard of South Bend spent over Christmas with her sister, Mrs. Madison McPherson. Otis Isenbarger of Ann .Arbor, Mich., came to. visit with his grandmother, Mrs. Paul Otis, over Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Strock of Auburn spent Christmas at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Strock. Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Shearer and daughter Judith of Goshen spent Cfiristmas here at the Sam Akers home. Mr. and Mrs. Carl O’Haver and children spent Christmas at the home of Mrs. O’Haver’s sister, Mrs. A. Vantine,, in Elkhart. At the Methodist church Sunday morning the Sunday school collected $124 to be donated to the Near East Relief fund. Mrs. Amanda Darr returned Thursday from Chicago, where she had -spent several days visiting with M. V. Landis and family Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Benner and daughters, Theora,. Hazel and ♦Alice, spent Christmas in Ligonier at the 0. W. Christie home. Miss Virginia Cleveland, who is attening Valpariso university, is spending the holidays here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. 0. L. Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Merl J. Harkless of Harvey, 111., came Thursday evening to spend over Christmas here at the A. W. Strieby and Sheldon Harkless Homes. •_ Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rothenberger and daughter Miss Katharine spent Christmas in Elkhart at the Will Whithead home, returning Tuesday. Orland Strieby, who is attending Indiana university, came Thursday night to spend a tenday vacation here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Juday. Mrs. Ray Clingerman (nee Helen Snavely) of Cromwell, spent Christmas here with her parents, “ Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Snavly, and with other relatives and friends. Stephen Freeman jr., who is a student at the United States Naval academy at Annapolis, was given leave from Friday until Sunday to spend Christmas here with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Verd Shaffer and children, Harry and Marjorie, of Millersburg, Miss Irene Shaffer of Goshen and Mr. and Mrs Oscar Masters and little children spent Christmas with Mr. and - Mrs. Frank Younce. ' According to the law the husband is the head of the house. Now, please do not misunderstand us—we said according to law, and did not say any other way. And a lot of us do not know it, at that. ' Mrs. Ida Strieby received as a Christmas present from Mrs. Ella Unrue a beautiful doily made of linen that was woven by her grandmother, Mrs. Rebecca Mr.ggart, more than 100 years ago. The linen has been in use all the time, and is still better than can Be toragfit iriy pWe tally.

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