The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 15, Number 2, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 11 May 1922 — Page 7

SNAKES ARE VALUABLE The allegation that snakes are fit only for a welcome by shotgun or hoe is a distinct deviation from what a great many zoologists are striving to do nowadays, and that is to ease off in the general desire to slay the smaller wild creatures. Not only do we slay for sport. ■ We deliberately continue the killing of many forms with the attitude that their creation was a mistake; that they have no right to exist on the same earth as man; that they are useless. This extermination of many forms has disturbed the balance of nature. The assertion that birds and toads are the farmers’ friends' and that snakes destroy these useful types demands a bit of t advice about the actual status of birds, toads and snakes from the standpoint of economic value to the farmer. Birds and toads are destroyers of insects and of great economic importance on that 1 account. Unfortunately, owing to drainage, another necessity of civilization, the tremendously useful toad is becoming absolutely extinct over large areas. The toad requires swamps or shallow pools, as it lays its eggs in the water and. begins life as a tadpole. In these areas we must now depend on the birds. As birds are intensely alert and resort to flight from the ground when pursued, they are elusive prey for snakes. We know, of course, that they do fall victims, but the number of birds destroyed by snakes is negligible when compared to the number of rodents pursued and captured by serpents. The plea we make for the lives of the harmless snakes results from their destruction of the} many teeming species of injuri- > ous rodents —injurious to the products of man. And there are many observant farmers who are j very careful about preserving t the lives of the useful types of creatures on their lands. A recent booklet issued by the United States Department of I Agriculture says: “Snakes are I extremely useful in controlling the numbers of rodents, very few snakes are venomous is too often forgotten and all species are wantonly destroyed. People throughout the country should acquaint themselves with the habits of snakes and learn the folly of killing them. Farmers especially should do all in their power to protect the harmless kinds.”—(By Raymond L. Dilmars, noted American zoologist. o — LOW BROW N’YORK According to figures carefully and boastfully gathered by a reliable New York paper 70,000 people in little old New York in one day attended concerts, operatic performances, lectures, and recitals visited museums,, gallerie and libraries. Within easy

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. I 1 1 Well Known Doctor Finds His Own Prescription Far Sup- 1 i erior to Others. ( —. 1 , < Contrary to the theory that a doctor cannot be cured by his ; own medicine, Dr. Richards cured,; himself of a very severe case of t stomach trouble, after failing to' get relief through the prescriptions of the best doctors in the country. He not only cured him-' s§Jf of stomach trouble but hundreds of other cases besides. Dr. Richards has used the same prespription in his private practice) for nearly half a century. He' writes a very interesting letter concerning this remedy, as fol-. lows: “While helping to clear up my ( father’s farm I strained the mus- ( cles of my stomach and for months was unable to be out of the house. I was under the care of the most successful doctors in the country, but received very little help. In a last effort to save my life I compounded a remedy of roots, herbs, barks and berries and started using that, in a short time began to see some change for the better, and in one j

distance by rail or motor or boat from these concert halls, opera houses, libraries, galleries and museums, live 7,000,000 people, j That is to say, one person in every hundred in New York once ( a day patronizes some form of intellectual diversion. These lines are /written in a town of approximately ten thousand. The average daily attend- ' ance at the City Library is 267; an exhibit of pictures drew 248 people a day; and one night, recently, “Miss Lulu Bett,” a high brow show if ever there was one, drew out 974 people. On the New York average of one to every available hundred in range by motor or rail, this little Wes--1 tern town should have over 140- 1 000 people,- which is more people than live within fifty miles of the toWn. If New York’s brow was as. high on its forehead as the aver-1 age country town’s, it would be ( baldheaded to its heels. Here (and in the average country ( town) one person in every eight! goes to some form of intellectual ( diversion, and New York brags her teeth loose because one person in every hundred is not out. hooch-hunting, crime-waving, or I overstuffing interior arrangements with corporal or mental staple and fancy groceries, drugs,! paints and oils, undertakers’ sun-' dries, and other characteristic. fare. As a matter of fact, on her ( own showing, New York is a low ( brow town—so low, in fact, that she can dry her tears with her Adam’s apple!—(By William Allen White. o , CHURCH IMPROVEMENTS Many improvements have been made at the United Brethren church, the nrincinal one being a fresh coat of naint on the exterior. The old dilapidated boat houses at the shore have been torn down, and the lawn has been beautified to the waters edge. .—o BIRTHS i. ' , Mr. and Mrs. Wasel Gordon are the parents of a daughter, born on Tuesday, May 1. Advertising? If it is results you want you should use this paper. It circulates in the majority of homes in the community and has always been considered I The Family ] Newspaper I The grown-ups quarrel about it, the children cry * for it, and the whole fam--1 ily reads it from cover to i cover. They will read your ad if you place it before them in the proper medium. i 1 —a

month was able to be out of bed, and in another month was able to begin work, much to the surprise of everyone and the amazement of the doctors. This same compound has been used in my private practice, with great success for neatly half a century. And this same medicine is now manufactured by the Dr. Richards’ Medical Co., Columbia City, Ind., under the name of Dr. Richards’ Famous Prescription. Not only this remedy but all the other preparations that are now on the market under my name, are my own prescriptions, and I have used them in my practice with very great success.” Dr. Richards’ Famous Prescription is a doctor’s prescription, especially good for stomach ' trouble. It is guaranteed for rheumatism, appendicitis and all stomach, liver, kidney and blood disorders. Try it today. It will help you as it has thousands of others. It must please you or you get your money back. Dr. Richards’ complete line of remedies is sold in Syracuse by Ralph Thornburg, and leading druggists everywhere. Don’t fail to get s bottle of this wonderful medicine today. Remember the name oi •Dr. Richards’ Famous Prescrip tion (“Its Different”).

| CROWD OVER, FELLERS! DEVIL HAS FIRST PAGE j Tulsa, Okla.—Harry McCoy, 15 i years old, at various times a soda 1 clerk, office boy, and a “devil” in a printing office here, has risen , to the millionaire class overnight, i Harry quit being a “printer’s devil” Saturday when he was informed that lie and his mother had inherited an estate of $2,000,000. I A telegram announcing Harry’s transition to the millionaire class came from his mother at GreenI wood, S. C. The fortune was left at the death of Harry’s father. He was advised that his mother remarried, that his father’s will ! had been taken into court by relatives in an effort to break it, and that they were unsuccessful lin the attempt. Now the estate I goes to Harry and his mother, i According to the information | contained in the telegram, the i estate comprises $750,000 in cash, i $125,000 in bonds of a tobacco l company, and the remainder jn i real estate which is located in 1 I North Carolina. 1 EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE | The annual Episcopal confer- , ence at the South Shore Inn at I Lake Wawasee will be held June • | 19-24. A committee is now at 1 I work on the program, which will | be announced soon. Among speakers who are to be I heard are Rt. Rev. S. C. Partl ridge, D. D.; Rt. Rev. S. M. Gris- , wold, D. D.; Rev. McVeigh Harrison, O. H. C.; Miss Laura F. Boyer of New York; Miss Sarah Ashurst of Cuba; Mrs. C. W. Scott of Chicago, Mrs. J. D. Herron of Ohio, Rev. C. T. Bridgeman of New York, and Rev. Chas. N. Lathrop of New York. Large attendance is expected. o MAJESTIC HOBBY The King of Denmark delights in crochet work. At an early age he developed a taste for this sort of work, but as it was regarded by his parents as effeminate, he did it secretly. Queen Alexandra possesses a fine shawl made by his hands. o Wasted Talk. Calling a man a liar is the last word In wasted talk. If he Is a lair he already knows it and you are springing old stuff on him. If he isn’t one, you are and he has found It out.—Farm Life. RiSSSEBSHSSKSSSSSESESBS’SSPIS ei a E3 3 0 « V . f g The Life , 0 a 0 r a 0 or a An Invalid a a 0 a 0 .a 0 grows very monotonous, a I Everyone desires good i 0 health. a 0 If you are not perfect- a 0 ly well I invite you to a 0 personally investigate, a | Chiropractic. | 0 a 0 a 0 a 0 i i Spinal Analysis Free 0 a 0 a 0 — 7 — a 0 a 1 DR GEO. H. BROWN 1 Chiropractor Phones: a I Office 127-2 Res. 127-3 | 0 a I a a 0 a SBBSBSBBBBBBBBBSBSSBBSBSBB : g State BanK § I ■ ! g SUF3GU36, Ind. ■ - ■ is Our ■ 1 □ ■ I ■| Bank ■ ■ E . ■ we want ! j'B uour business g >-'■

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GOING THE BOUNDS ; I I Written on the Run Men’s suits at 98 cents. Choice model summer weight union suits in knee length and the favorite band top knee trimmed with dainty lace. Sizes from 36 to 44. —LaPorte Herald. I Bachelor with good home ' wishes to marry widow and small i children preferred. No snuff dipping or tobacco chewing women need apply. Address Box 299, Gulfport, Miss. —Biloxi Herald. Miss Woods Receiving— Grace Woods is recovering nicejfr from the effects of severe burns sustained when- she fell into a boiler of hot water last Saturday. A lid on which she was sitting slipped and let her into the water. —Lewison Democrat-Herald. | The esteemed Times prints a i picture of “Lady Geddes, New i York Wife of the British Ambassador.” —New York Tribune. Wasn’t Open A rather green countryman has just returned from his first visit to New York. “Well, Si,” said the postmaster, "what did you think of the metropolis?” “Wat say?” gawked the other, i stumped by so big a word. i “I asked how did you like the metropolis?” i “Oh, that —t’wasn’t open,” said I Si.”—Boston Transcript. o MARRIED 100 YEARS AGO Popular Bluff, Mo. —A. G. McKenzie, who has passed the fourscore mile post in the journey of life, has reported that his father, 122, and his mother, 119 years olds, celebrated their 100th wedding anniversary in Scotland a short time ago. McKenzie said he was the youngest son of seven in the family, and all his brothers are alive. 8 o Journal want-ads are invest ments that pay dividends.

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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS I Notice is hereby given by the Board of Trustees of the Town of Syracuse Indiana, that sealed proposals will be received by it, at its office at the hour of 8 P. M. on Tuesday, the 16th day of May, 1922, for the following described public improvement in the Town of Syracuse, as authorized by the improvement resolutions named for the construction of a 15 inch sewer in Main Street, from corner of Main Street and Boston Street, to Turkey Crefek ditch. All work done in the making of said described public improvements shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the improvement resolution, as numbered, and the detail plans, profiles, drawings and specifications which are on file and may be seen in the office of said Board of Trustees of the Town of Syracuse. The bidders, in submitting proposals to make said described public improvement, must accompany each bid with a certified check in the sum of not less than SIOO.OO, as evidence of good faith that the successful bidders will execute, within ten days from the acceptance of proposals, contracts and bonds satisfactory to the said Board to do the work of making said improvement. A failure of the successful bidder to enter into such contracts and bonds upon the acceptance of such proposals will forfeit the check and the sum of money payable thereon to the Town as agreed and liquidated' damages for such failure. The Board of Trustees reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Board of Trustees of the Town of Syracuse. ■ o Discouraged. “Don’t you consider bridge an intel- ' lectual game?” said Miss Pepper. “Too intellectual,” replied Miss Cayenne. “After reading the books of instruction I haven’t the courage to attempt it”

-The Thirty Tyranta." “The Thirty Tyrants” was the name giver! to an aristocratic body which usurped the government of Athena 404-403 B. C. The most notable was Critlas. Their rule was overthrown by the democratic party Under the lead of Thrasybulus. The same name Is also applied to the body of pretenders to the Roman empire under the reigns of Valerian, Oullienus, etc. Outstanding among them were Tetricua and Odenathus. — 0— Many Varieties of Crows. Many birds are crows—that Is they are members in good standing, or bad stat. ling. In the crow family—and they are all birds’ of distinction or “personality,” and all are remarkable for some tab nt or some vice. There are the raven, the rook, the blue jay and the green Jay. the magpie and the Jackdaw and many others. The crow has his kin scattered all over the world. O What Wii Wrong With Mule. Sum, u cc’ored “clicker,” sold Mose a mule. A few days later Mose told Sam the mule was blind. “What makes yo’ think <’.at dat mule is blind?” “Why. 1 turned him loose in a field and he run right into a tree-.” “Mose, dat mule nin’t blind. He Just don’t give a d —i.” —The Argonaut. We are in a position j to give all 1 -Job-—* Printing Prompt and Careful Attention Individuality in your letterheads and other printed matter is helpful to your We are ready at all times to give you the benefit of our experience. WWW W’WWW 1 WWF

I Suring Merchandise WITH green creeping back the trees and coming other bright colors of glad springtime, thoughts of the wardrobe crowd uppermost. Spring sewing becomes an enjoyment when you can choose materials that will awaken your enthusiasm. <Our new spring lines of merchandise 4 have been assembled with this thought in mind. GINGHAMS— We have a line of fine guality dress ginghams in fc a large range of colors, 32 inches wide at 30c a yard. Red Seal ginghams, 27 inches wide at 25c a yard. PEBCALESBest grade of percale, 36 inches wide at 18c a yd. THIN GOODS— We invite inspection of our line of thin dress goods, of the latest materials and styles. SILKS— A large assortment of silks for dress, in pongee, crepes, messalines, satins and taffetas —all the i new shades. WAISTS— We have left a few values in silk waists, going at $3.50, —UNDERWEAR— z We offer good underwear in the Dependon brand, that you can depend on for wear and comfort. In sizes for men, women and children. „ -SHOES— Star Brand Shoes are better. Look for the star on every heel. Every pair is guaranteed to give service, style, fit and comfort. Let us show you our line, of Weyenberg work shoes. None better at the price? From $2.85 to $4.85 a pair. —CURTAIN MATERIALS— We have a large line of curtain materials in swiss, marquisettes, voiles and art squares, which can not be duplicated any place at our prices of 15c #nd up. Hang your curtains on a Kirsch flat curtain rod, one that keeps its shape and does not tarnish. —LET US SUPPY YOUR LINOLEUM NEEDS— We pay the highest market price for produce. Bring your trade to our Cash and Carry Grocery and save j money. A. W. Strieby General Merchandise | SYRACUSE INDIANA i — —

Practical Uncls. The wealthy uncle was talking over the prospects of his nephew with the soy's mother. “How is h«. doing with Ms studies?” “Oh, very well. He's very intelligent; he shows a great talent for music, and his manner is very iiaughty. His teacher thinks he will jecome a conductor?” “Ah! Indeed!” responded his uncle; "bus or trolley .•ar?" Blooming Plants. All blooming plants need light and should be turned daily so they do not develop one-sided. A window in-, the -oom in which they are should be >pened for at least ten minutes dally. If the weather Is cold the plants diould he removed to the far side of the room. OJ Words Change Their Moaning. Hiere are many Instances where words change their meaning completely In the course of time. The word mansion meant simply a tent pitched for soldiers on their march. Later on It was applied to n roadside house for the accommodation of strangers. SBBEBBBBBSSSEiSSSBBSSSSESSfI 0 a s a 2 ' B) e a e a h a | PRICES I 1 DELIVERED a a 0 a 0 a 0 a | Touring $490 | | Roadster $460 a 0 a 0 Chassis $417 a | Sedan S7OO | ® Coupe $633 ® 10 Truck $469 a i Tractor $420 0 3 0 a 0 o a ; <8 ® 0 a C. R. HOLLETT Ford Dealer | Phone 80 - Syracuse 0 a 88888888888888888888888888