The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 14, Number 35, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 December 1921 — Page 1

| This home newspaper circulates every | Thursday and is re- * ierred to thereafter.

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NEWS ITEMS FROM OUR SURROUNDINGS Contributed . Notes on the Happen! ngs in Nearby Communities. North Webster Mrs. A. B. Warner is spending this week in Chicago. - Mr. and Mrs. John Weaver entertained their children Monday. A. £. Warner was a guest at their home the same day. Mrs. G. N. Druley returned from visiting a few days with , her parents Monday ieve^ng. Dr. and Mrs. W. C. HonLz and daughter Miss Edith spent Sunday with Dr. Lucky and family at Wolf Lake. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Kline entertained relatives from Elkhart Christmas Day. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Baker called on Howard Bockman and family Sunday evening. The Carter Dramatic company presented several plays in the Recreation theater last week. The members of the company boarded and roomed at the N. J. Kline home. Adrian Hahn has been quite ill with the grippe. , Revival services are now in progress at the M. E. church. Rev. Earl Naftzger and party are conducting, these services and Will hold services for the next three weeks. Miss Florence Irvin is spending her vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Irvin. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Warner took Sunday dinner with the latter’s sister, Mrs. Katey. The lake here was frozen over ftba*fiis#'. threw* thhs, season on, Sunday morning. This pleases 5 the local skaters as well as the icemen who haxe been anxiously watching the weather. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Strieby ond Lawrence Deardorff of Syracuse spent Sunday afternoon at the Ross Rodibaugh home. Several cases of mumps have been reported among the school children but with a vacation of a week it is hoped there need be, but few vacancies. The pupils of Miss Angel's and Mrs. Gross’ room gave a very pleasing Christmas entertainment before a number of visitors Friday afternoon. A tree with the trimmings and gifts were a delightful feature of the afternoon also. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Whitehead are spending theif vacation with relatives. ’ Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Weimer entertained their daughters and sons-in-law and grandchildren at their home south of town Christmas flay. Master George Rofiibaugh per cpfved his Christmas tree frqm Ladysmith. Wisconsin, Mr, and Mra. Joe Weimer and yon Daje spent Sunday with Mr, and Mrs, Art Phelps at Warsaw, On the way home their ear overturned. The car was slight* ly damaged but the occupants escaped with only minor injuries. North Side Mr. and Mrs.' Frank Bailey took Christmas dinner with Mr. and Mrs. George Bailey. Mrs. Bailey’s brother, Alfred Russell, .was also there for dinner. Mr. and Mrs, Don Strock and ghjlflren t°9h Christmas pinner w With his parents, Mr. and Mrs ; A, R, Stroek, f _* H. W, Case is net so* well at this writing. , Vern Long is on the sick list. Mrs. Elizabeth Akers was at the Ike Unrue home for Christmas dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bailey ajsjd tso sons tool&i}pper wit}} sr. fiailey*s parent? Monday evening They also called at the of his hPrwk, an’4

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his sister, Mrs. Don Strock. W. A. Bailey has ieft for Denver, Col., to visit with his sister Mrs. H. M. Noe. Saturday night after the entertainment at the U. B. church, Rev. W. T. Kessinger was given a surprise with filled baskets and a fine comfort for his Christmas gifts. Before leaving for their homes, all wished him merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Four Corners Wishing you a happy New Year, Miss Charlotte Malpy spent Friday night at the home of her uncle, Milo Maloy of Milford. Earl Darr spent a few days with his uncle, John Darr, at Three Rivers Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Clint Callander and children ate Christmas dinner with Lloyd Dewart and family of Milford. Mrs: Mary Ulery attended the funeral of her brother-in-law, Jacob Cullers of Goshen Thursday. . Mr. and Mrs. Lee Cory and child of near Milford and Dean Cory and family of Elkhart broke bread with Clint Callander and family Monday. Mr. and Mrs. LaTone Jensen spent Christmas with friends in Richville. Crist Darr spent- Sunday with his father of Syracuse. The Christmas dinner given at the home of 1 * Mrs. Stutsman was enjoyed by all. They were A. L. Miller and 'famiy of Syracuse, Mr. and Mrs. John Neff, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Snyder and her mother, Artie Geyer and family and Crist Darr and family. Those who enjoyed seeing the Christmas tree at the home of Clarence Snyder Saturday evening were A. L. Miller and family of Syracuse, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Dillen and baby daughter, Mr. rmd Mrs. Jots Neff, James Gilbert and family, Artie GeyeFand family, Crist Darr and family, Mr. and Mrs. Alva Ketring and Mr. and Mrs. LaTone Jensen. Gilberts Mr. and Mrs. John McGarity and Charles Harris and family spent Christmas day with Mrs. Sim Smith. Mr, and Mrs. Sam Dillen, Miss Mary Warbel and Floyd Price spent Christmas day with Mrs. Della Vorhis and children.Mrs. Bert Umbenhour spent Tuesday with Mrs, Amsa Clem and family. Mrs. Russell Whitehead, 'who spent two weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Warstler, returned to her home Friday. Miss Edith Weybright, who is attending the Bethany Bible school in Chicago, returned home to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Weybright. |4r- an Mrs. Q|yal Lute? pf South Penh §ppnt the week epd with Charles Lpteg apd family. Albert Douglas and family returned tp Logapsport Tuesday after a pleasant visit with her parents, Mr, anh Mrs, J; W, Rowdabaugh, Calvin Cooper and family spent Sunday at the home of Mrs, Andrew Strieby, The children, grandchildren and great grandchildren to the number of forty-six gathered- at the home of Mrs. Strieby to spend Christmas day with; her. ' Mrs. Jesse Metz is slowly recovering from a recent illness. On last Thursday evening thp petpany schoo} had a bps supper in connection with Digjr Christmas entertainment Nearly thirty dollars was the amount realized from the sale. This will be applied to the manuhl training and athletics. Mrs. Curtis Rarick and sons, Dean and Waymon, left Friday for Muncie to spend the holidays with her mother, Mr?. Rens. Henry SymenSma spent fjay with Jesse • family:

SYRACUSE. INDIANA. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1921

We wish All a Happy New Year i THE New Year finds our country emerging from a period of depression that no doubt would have meant a financial panic for us if the federal reserve banking system had not been in operation. All the causes have been present for a panic, factories closed and widespread unemployment, readjustment of prices on commodities of merchandise, drop in farm values and farm products, mines closed, etc. We have had "hard times” indeed, but we have not had a panic. Prospects for the new year are bright in fact. They can be made still brighter if each of us will lend a hand in boosting. Some would have us think that the troubles of the past year have been altogether psychological. We are convinced that the troubles have been real, sure enough, but we are also convinced that they have not been made easier to bear by the calamity howlers. On the other hand, if each of us will assume a sincere spirit of optimism—of pure faith, if you' please, religious as well as business—we can hasten the improvement of prevailing conditions. We wish every reader of The Journal a happy New Year, and we have faith that when we wish it, such happiness as may come to you through improved business conditions will surely come to you. But the bigger happiness .we wish upon you may come not so much from our faith as from yours>—you must have faith in your fellowmen. With this you can work with a song in heart, and your night’s sleep will give you rest.

RECEIVES SEVERE SHOCK Miss Fredonna Deardorff was prostrated for about three hours after having touched a live eleC- j trie light wire at her home in j Ligonier. Her father, Albert Deardorff, had been changing the wiring unknown to his daughter and when she attempted to touch the lighting button in the usual place she touched the wire. It was thought for a while that she would die but in few hours she was alright again. • — —o >. j THUMB SHOT OFF l i While hunting Warsaw last Friday,'' Ralph Warner, 18, of Burket accidentally shot off the thumb of his right hand and badly lacerated the rest of his | hand in trying to* scare a rabbit from a brush pile by shaking the brush with his gun. He was taken to a Warsaw hospital where his wounds were dressed, o KILL RED FOXES It seems that red foxes are becoming more numerous in Indiana of late. Two of them were killed near Wolf Lake last week by James Adam of Ligonier and another man whose name is not given. T#o were killed near the head of Wawasee lake last winter by a hunting party made up of farmers of that vicinity. Those kmed last week were surprised in a clover field and easily shot, but to shoot one when he knows that he is being hunted requrieg a skillful hunter. Those killed last winter were hunted several days by quite a large number of men and some good dogs before they were finally caught. Tippecanoe Mrs. Alta Kyle is spending the holiday? with her parents, Mp. and Mrs. A, W, Bpqtt, Mrs, Ida Bigler helped tp butcher at the Luther gtrombeek heme in North Webster Wednesday, . | Mr, and Mrs, Virgil Mock spent Christmas at the home of his sister, Mrs, Elmer Haverstoek of Warsaw, I. Kuhn and family spent Sunday at the Emanuel Kuhn home in North Webster. Those who took Christmas dinner at the J. Garber home were: Mr. and Mr?. Nat «?• Kline of Nqrth Webster, Isaac L, Kline and family of Leesburg and J. Kline and family. J. L, Kline received another shipment of fine fish from Chicago this week. Esten Kline called at the J. Garber home last Monday. Pleasant Ridge Mr. and Mrs. Roy §. B°hipsqp of catpe Saturday evening to spend Christmas here with his mother, Mrs. Ellen i' Pwttoflw# m fm

BEAUTIFUL FLORIDA Dunedin* FI?., Dec. 24.—Florida in winter is easily the queen of the carnival of states Her soft white arm extending out into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico on the one side and the Atlantic on the other makes her climate everything, free from malaria and flu, the sweet aromp, of the orange, magnolia, oleander and palm driven through the open doors and windows. The question of the morning is never, Where? but Which shall we fish?—in the still waters of the bay where the mullet fish are jumping, or shall we take one of the larger boats and enjoy deep sea fishing in the ; ever ebbing where red fish ‘ silver king and tarpon test the metal of the disciples of Isaac Walton. And then we hear the familiar bob white and the quack-quack of the Muck reminds us that dog and gun will furnish a fine day’s sport for tomorrow. Guests going and coming tell wonderful stories of the fisherman's luck and the hunter’s fun, and others will say, “What have you seen? Have you been to Dunedin Yacht Club, have you been to Tarpon Springs and seen the million-dollar-a-year sponge fisheries with the sail boats reminding you of the Aegean Sea? Have you seen the fresh water springs boiling up out of the Gulf salt waters at Crystal Beach? Have you tasted the espirtu sants waters, the health i giving springs%t Safety Harbor? Have you been to the jungfe where the mounds tell of ancient Indian mound dwellers? ypq takep thp famous river trip where the tropical foliage dips its branches into the water, and at a sudden turn in the river jpay be seen a fine specimen of, alligator?” 1 Thickets, groves, overhanging foliage and climbing mosses, dense undergrowth,, many hued shrubs and feathery palms, an= dent live oaks with massive trunks holding up their wide spread branches. The undergrowth in unfamiliar form and color delight the eye at every turn of the winding river. The boat turns and twists with the channel, now coming to the right shore and then her port side passing close to the vegeta* tion that fringes, that hides the other share, and again passing beneath overhanging branches. The river winds and curves, almost doubles upon its tracks, but the boat finder the skillful guidance of her pilot at la^t brings us back horfl£, find tired apd to take a well earned rest.—fL. A. Neff. o It, will be at least three months before everybody will be wrjti mg 1922. i % I

NEW TAX REGULATION Burt, Thurman internal revenue collector for Indiana says: profits tax is repealed M of January 1, 1922. The rates for 1921 are unchanged, j “The surtax rates for the calendar year 1921 are unchanged and range from 1 per cent on ‘ the amount of net income between $5,000 and $6,000 to 65 per cent on the amount of net income in excess'of $1,000,000. For the calendar 1922 the surtaz rates range rom 1 per cent on the amount of net income bej tween $6,000 to SIO,OOO to 50 per cent on the amount/ by which the net income exceed $2(10,000. “The exemption allowed for a dependent is increased from S2PO |to S4OO. Married persons living with bustard or wife and headsof families are allowed a personal exemption <*f $2,500 (ini? stead of $2,000) unless the net income is in excess of $5,000, in which case thespers6nal exenvp* tion is only $2,000, The act provides that in no ease shall the reduction of the personal exemption from $2,500 to $2,000 operate to increase the tax which would be payable if the exemption were $2,500 by more than the amount of the net income in excess of $5,000. This is to overcome the disparity in the case of two taxpayers, one of whom is ■just within the lower $2,000 exemption and the other just within the lower $2,000 exemption and the other just withinuthe higher $2,500 exemption. “Single and married persons not living with husband or wife are allowed jp* exemption of SI,OOO. Non-resident aliens arp allowed a single per-, sonal exemption of $l,$OQ, Persons having gross incomes for 19gl of $5,000 or over are required to make a return regardless of the amount of net income. "Provision is made for the repeal as of January 1, 1921, of the tax on stock folders of a personal service corporation as such, After that date such corporations are to be faxed in the same manner as other corporation^. The income tax corporations for the calendar year 1922 and there after is increased from ten to twelve and one half pep cent. The $2,099 exemption heretofore allowed corporations is to he granted only to those corporations whose net income is $25,000 or less. “The tax on parcel post packages is eliminated effective January 1. 1922. | ; “The netv act pvoytdes that no j taxpayer §hali he subjected to; ■I examinations or in* : vestigations, and only one inspection of his books of accounts ■ shall be made for each taxable year unless the taxpayer request otherwise or the commisj m . » t

AUTO LICENSE STATION A representative of the office of Secretay of State was in Warsaw Friday and arranged with Ray Henderson, who operates the Henderson & Parker Delco Light store there, to act as the agent of the Secretary of State in issuing licenses to auto owners of Kosciusko and surrounding counties. The first consignment of plates will be received this week after which it is expected that the will be a rush to the substation which will be located at the Henderson & Parker store. There are about 4 ; 500 automobiles in the county and with the number that will probably be drawn from surrounding counties, Mr. Henderson will probably be kept busy for the next month or so. Only those who apply in person will be issued licenses and they will be required to bring with them their certificates of ownership. No mail orders will be accepted. f 0 CLARK-NEFF . Miss Bernice Clark, daughter of William Clark of Solomon’s Creek, was on Christmas Day united in marriage to Murrill C, Neff, son of Mr, and Mrs. Irvin Neff residing north of Syracuse. The ceremony was performed by Rev. A. E. Clem at the pastor’s home. Following the ceremony the couple motored to Elkhart, where the members of their families had gathered for a Christmas dinner and gave them a hearty surprise, The newlyweds will be at home on the farm after January 1, 1922. The Journal joins their many friends in wishing them a long and happy married iife. MAY uTOP riML .7 — Postmaster Geroerat Will H. Hayes has recommended to Congress that it withhold appropriation of funds for free delivery of mail in about 40 cities in Indiana which he terms 'villages’. Included in the list are Albion, LaGrange and Sutler. Hayes says that this service is costing the tax payers about $1,500,000 per year and that the benefits do not warrant the expenditures However, it is not expected that members of Congress will accede to his wishes for political reasons. O —: ORGANIZE LUMBER CORodibaugh and Miller of the hardware firm at North Webster have organized the North Webster Lumber company and will be ready to supply that community with all kinds of building material in the near future. They have ordered several carloads of lumber and expect to bo ready to care for the spring building demands. — WIN TWO GAMES Friday night the Syracuse High School basket ball team won the fastest game played this year at Culver, against the Culver High School team. The Culver team outweighed our boys about 100 pounds, but the fast aggressiveness and accurate shooting told the same old story. This was the first game Culver has lost in their new gymnasium, and naturally the Culver fans took their defeat rather hard. The finaP rqunt stood, Syracuse 16. Culver- 11, ’■Tuesday night the Leesburg team met our boys at the local gymnasium and were defeated in a rathej* slow, loose game, the score being 34 to IS, *- High School will play here tomorrow night, and this promises to be the best game on our floor this year, as Nannanee won at their place on Thank sgivinf Pay*

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PAR/TGRAPHIC BITS ABOUT HOME FOLKS Notes of the Week on the Coming and Going of People You Ruow. Miss Goldie Mathews spent Christmas Day at Cassopolis, Mich., visiting. A. J. Medlam spent Christmas with his son, Harvey, and family at Bremen. At the last minute the weather man decided to do his part and delivered a white Christmas. Miss Grace Davis of Indianapolis spent Christmas here at the Frank Klink home, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Miller of North Manchester spent the holidays here at the Sol Miller home. The Rochester Sentinel says that the old fashioned man who could drink or let it alone is now letting it alone. Last week it was. What shall I give for Christmas? But this week it is, What shall I swear off for New' Year? Mr, and Mrs. Dan Mishler and little daughter Martha spent Christmas Day at New Paris with Mr. Mishler’s mother. Dallas D. McClintic reached home Thursday from Chicago, where he is employed, to spend the holidays here. Millard Hire, who is employed at York, Pa., came Thursday to spend the holidays in Syracuse with his grandparents. Mr. and Mi's. Donald Bailey have been visiting in Orland, Ind., with Mrs. Bailey’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rumsey. Everett and Edward Smifh of Cromwell drove to Syracuse Saturday an i took dinner at the hiiniv a f their Smith. The typical American landlord who asks others to join him in putting rents down to a reasonable basis is not yet the center of a crowd. Glen A. Gordy came home Friday evening from Fort Wayne to spend a vacation of ten days here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, C, M. Gordy. Peter S. Nielsen left Saturday for Chicago to spend a holiday week at the home of his son, Sverre I. Nielsen, visiting and transacting business. Mr, and Mrs. Court Slabaugh and little daughter Marjorie went to Cromwell Sunday mor»ing to enjoy Christmas with Mr. Slabaugh’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Wright of Cromwell assisted in giving Master Jack Smith a merry Christmas at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Ernest Smith. Mr, and Mrs. Forrest Bowld of Memphis, Tenn., came Friday evening to spend the holidays here at the home of Mr. Bowld’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. William T. Bowld. Little Eldon Medlam of Elkhart* is spending his Christmas vacation here with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Medlam and Mr. and Mrs. Thos* Steward. Jas. J. Connell and family of Peru came Thursday to spend the holidays with Mrs. Connell’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Miles, and with other relatives and friends. During the tedious week of striving to get to press, we have received numerous messages, postcards and words of mouth, of a nature to indicate that we are to have a prosperous New ; Year. Tlio annual meeting of the TnI diana Swine Breeder’s association will be held in Indianapolis next Wednesday, Jan. 4. Sessions will be held in the Palm Room of the Claypool hotel,'be-o-irrdnr*’ p* a. TO. A grtnd' nr'Y’Ta.rn bis been and! a larje attendance is expected* «