The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 15, Number 44, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 1 March 1923 — Page 4

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL Published every Thursday ft Syracuse. Indiana '* Entered as second-class matter on May 4th. 1908,, at the postoffice at Syracuse. Indiana, under the Act of Congress of March 3rd. 1870. Fo7.ignAdverti.ina Representative THE AMERICAN PR £33 ASSOCIATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oae year, in advance s- >2.00 Six months 1 00 Three months .60 Single Copies 05 — » H. A. Buettner, Editor and Publisher Clara 0. Buettner, Associate Editor - —STAFF— Mrs. Crist Darr Four Corners Mrs. Ross Rodlbaugh..North Webster Mrs. Wm. Sheffield West End Mrs. Calvin Cooper Gilberts Mrs. Henry Rex Solomon's Creek I. L. Kline Tippecanoe Minnie Robinson Pleasant Ridge Mrs. Ernest Mathews White Oak Violet Kauffman ..Cedar Square Mrs. C. Richcreek. .‘Colley's Corners Thursday, March 1, 1923. “I how lot wht th trvtfe>ay h, I toll It is 'twit told to ne.”—Editor

DEATH OF A LITTLE BOY Milton Junior, the youngest son of Vern and Lydia Lecount. died Monday, February 26. at the age of 9 months and 9 days. He was born May 17, 1922, and his mother passed away May 19, two days after his birth. During his short life he was cared for by his grandparents, G. L. Lecount, south of town. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at the Church of the Brethren by Rev. A. E. Clem, pastor of the Bethany church, assisted by Rev. Raymond Lantis, a Brethren minister, who resides here. Interment in Syracuse cemetery. Card of Thanks We . wish to thank neighbors and friends for their kindness during the sickness and following the death of our little Junior, and also for the beautiful floral offerings. j,Vern Lecount and Children Mr. and Mrs. G. L, Lecount and other relatives. CELEBRATED BIRTH DA Y Mrs. Amanda Darr celebrated her sixty-seventh birthday on Sunday, February 25. The affair was in the nature of a surprise, and it happened this way: While Mrs. Darr was at church services in the morning her brothers and sisters and their families gathered at her home and prepared a big dinner. When she came home they told her it was her birthday and that they had come to celebrate and spend the day with her. PIYS FINE OF $163.60 Leonard Niles, a farmer residing near North Webster, was assessed a fine and costs totaling $165.60 in the circuit court in Warsaw on a charge of violating I the liquor law’s. When officers conducted a raid on the NileS place they found and confiscated | ten gallons of mash, a barrel of sorghum and other whisky-mak-ing ingredients. * o ■ LYCEUM COURSE Joseph Crowell. The portrayalist And make-up artist. At the Oakland Theatre, Thursday, March 1. Mr. Crowell’s Program includes Both humorous And serious numbers. Pianologues, and Specialties. MUSICALTROGRAM The Syracuse School orchestra will render a program in the Evangelical church on the evening of Friday, March 9. In addition to the selections by the orchestra there will be special musical numbers, and recitations. No admission fee will be charged, but a collection will be taken. Watch for the program next week. o K. K. K. CLUB The K. K. K. Club met at the home of Mrs. Herschel Hark less on Tuesday evening. February 27. After an interesting and instructive meeting a dainty lunch was nerved by the hostess. o — The Journal 52 times a year toft

INCOME TAX FACTS The revenue act of 1921 provides that an income tax return shall be filed by every person, married or single, whose gross income for the year 1922 was $5,000 or more. Broadly speaking. gross income includes all income received by the taxpayer during the year from salary or wages , or from “business, trade, profession or vocation,” dealing in property, or the transaction of any business carried on for profit. Net income, upon which the tax is assessed, is gross income less certain specified deductions for business expenses, losses, bad debts, taxes, contributions, etc. Among the most important items in the returns of many taxpayers are the deductions for business expenses. In the case of a storekeeper, - they include a reasonable allowance for salaries paid employees, amounts spent for advertising, premiums for insurance against fire or other business losses, the cost of water, light, heat and fuel used in his place of business, drayage and freight bills. A professional man, doctor or lawyer, may claim as deductions the cost of supplies used in the practice of his profession, expenses paid in the operation and repair of an automobile used in making professional calls, dues to professional societies, subscriptions to professional journals, office rent, and the cost of fuel, light heat and water used in his office, and the hire of assistants. The farmer may deduct all amounts paid in the production, harvesting and marketing of crops, including labor, cost of seed and fertilizer purchased, cost of minor repairs to farm buildings (other than the dwelling, which is personal expense) and cost of small tools used up in the course of a year or two. Rent paid for a farm also is an allowable deduction. Deduction of personal or living expenses such as rent paid for a dwelling, hire of domestic servants. education of children, etc., is expressly disallowed by the revenue act. _o GAS TAX BILL PASSED Indianapolis, Feb. 28.—After failing Tuesday morning to give a constitutional majority to the bill embodying Governor McCray’s proposal for a 2-cent gasoline tax, the Indiana house of representatives, in the afternoon, voted Again on the measure and passed it by a vote of 54 to 38. The vote at the morning session was 47 to 46 in favor of the bill, or four less than the number required. It now goes to the senate. Failure of the gasoline tax bill would seriously cripple the activities of the state highway commission, administration leaders have declared, inasmuch as the measure is expected to produce $3,000,000 for good roads. - o SOUTH SYRACUSE Those on the sick list are May Cory, Jed Searfoss and Mrs. -Dan White. Mrs. James Laughlin has gone home w’ith her son, John of Michigan, to spend a month. Born to Mrs. Eureka Dempsey McClintic a very fine little girl: Her name is Waneta Elizabeth. Frank Warbel and son Harry were Sunday callers at the home of his parents. Harry was out trying his new machine. Mrs. Dan Warbel, who visited her daughter and family at Avilla for the past week, is home and reports that her granddaughter, Mildred Rex, has tonsilitis. Those who took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Merle Laughlin were: Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Laughlin and son, John Laughlin and daughter of Michigan, and Mother Laughlin of this city. o DISTRICT MEETING A meeting of the district federation of women’s clubs will be held at Akron, Ihd., May 4. Mrs. Elmer B. Funk of Warsaw is chairman and Mrs. Francis M. Neff of Milford, secretary. NUMBER 23 Number 23 has for sometime been regarded as a “jinx.* but we’U bet a perfectly good dime that the year 1923 will be a winner for the man who doesn’t talk too much and who attends to his own business. ’ O . Monday and Tuesday, March 5 and 6, at the Oakland Theatre, the big special: “When Knighthood Was in Flower.”

PARAGRAPHIC BITS ABOUT HOME FOLKS Notes of the Week on the Coming and Going of People You Know. Bert Dausman of Milford was a business visitor here Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Fieldon Sharp and son Ronald are on the sick list. Warren T. Colwell attended the funeral of L. R. e Stokey At Warsaw Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Seider went to Plymouth Sunday and spent the day with Mr Seider’s mother. Mr. and Mrs. Riley Miller spent Sunday in Milford, guests in the home of her mother, Mrs! Viola Cory. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Shock spent Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Mallon, living south of town. Miss Joy Deardorff of Chicago came home Saturday to spend a few days here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Deardorff. Rev. F. H. Cremean went to Wakarusa on Sunday evening, where he filled the pulpit in the Methodist church that evening. Miss Alice Orebaugh came up from Kokomo Friday evening to spend a few weeks here in the home of her sister, Mrs. H. A. Buettner. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Baker and children, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Baker and Mrs. Frank Younce spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fieldon Sharp. Mrs. Hanora Miles returned home Tuesday evening from Goshen, where she has been spending two weeks in the home of’ her nephew’, Ira Howard. Mrs. Chas. Hess of Vawter Park spent Saturday night and Sunday in town, a guest in the homes of Mr. and Mrs Jerry Hamman and Mrs. Ida Knorr. Mrs. Clyde Dirrim and daughter Betty of Garrett and Mrs. Ray Teagarden of Hamilton, Ind., spent the week end here in the of the ladies’ cousin, Mrs. Flank Klink. Mrs. John McCloughan returned to her position as inspector in the woolen mills in Goshen on Monday. She spent most of last week at her home here on account of illness. Mr. and Mrs. Funk and family have returned home after a three weeks' visit with relatives in Nappanee. They live in Mrs. Louise Bunger’s house on North Huntington street. Miss Hattie Croffley, who has been quarantined for diphtheria for several weeks, left Saturday for Janesville, Wisconsin. She is a sister of Mrs. L. E. Baumgartner, who, w’ith her husband, moved to Janesville last week. Mrs. Ruth Rapp resumed her duties as teacher of the first grade on Monday, having fully recovered from her recent operation. Mrs. L. A. Seider taught the grade in her absence. "Mrs. Artie Geyer, Mrs. Clarence Snyder, Mrs. Sam Rippey, Mrs. Frank Bushong, Mrs. John Neff, and Mrs. Bickel of Nappanee were pleasantly entertained in the home of Mrs. Dan Neff Tuesday. Mrs. J. W. Agnew of Omaha, Neb., was called to San Diego, Calif., to the bedside of her father. H. N. Callander, who is seriously ill with abdominal trouble, complicated with pneumonia. Mr. Callander is well known in Syracuse and vicinity, having formerly lived here. ■ —o THE VALUE OF SHADOWS Reflections and shadows form an important aid to decoration. The shadow of a spray of roses or a group of ten grasses against a light wall or table is very beautiful. So is the reflection of a well-planned group of furniture or pottery in a mirror. A gray silhouette of a vine is sometimes painted on the window shade of a svn room to give the effect of a shadow.

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DO NOT PUT MONEY IN YOUR MOUTH Did you ever take an inventory of the contents of your small boy’s pockets? Marbles, two jack-knives, a piece of chalk, a stub of a pencil, a half-eaten “lollypop,” six or eight nails, a shiny pebble and a. brass doorknob—this would be a modest collection. f The boy’s pocket is the repository of everything that comes along. It is just as natural for him to deposit things here as it is for him to be attracted by the many interesting devices he sees. We are creatures of habit. Most of our habits are good, but some of them, I am sorry to say, are very bad indeed. Once in a while we should take account of c-urselves to see if we are really following right rules. One of the most common and one of the vilest of all the bad practices of the hupian family is the habit so many have of putting everything in the mouth. Watch a little baby—he fills his mouth full of thumbs. Angers and sometimes toes. He has to be watched every minute or he would try to swallow the sewing machine! But it isn’t babies alone who must be watched and scolded. There are plenty of grown people who use the mouth as a receptacle for pencils, toothpicks—some of them none too clean — fingers, rulers, paper-knives and particularly money. It is a perfectly filthy habit some folks have of putting coins and paper money in their mouths. Nobody should do this if for no other reason than for the sake of others. You don't want to have things in your mouth that have been in the mouths of others. But, frankly —and I hope you will bear this in mind—every coin and bill you handle, unless it is just from the mint, has been in many mpuths. Watch the conductors on the street cars, watch the newsboys, watch the clerks in small stores —it is surprising how many of them habitually .employ the mouth as an extra hand. I have one pocket which I use for money exclusively. Ido this because I cannot bear to mix this filthy circulatory medium with other things I carry about with me. Fortunately, • there are few diseases which are carried by things. Indeed, we say these days that “disease is carried by nersons and not by things.” This does not mgan literally that it is impossible'' to carry infection by money when it is passed from one mouth to the mouth of another. Children must be taught to respect the mouth. It is not enough to teach the use of the tooth-brush. What is the use of cleaning the mouth once or twice a day when it is' freshy contaminated twenty times daily? It makes me shudder to see a person bite his dirty finger-nails, clean his mouth with his finger, or hold a filthy dollar bill in his lips. Alipost all the so-called contagious and infectious diseases are carried by the secretions of the mouth and nose. That is why the spray from those organs is dangerous, and. why health boards prohibit sneezing and spitting in public places. I beg of you, for the sake of your health and long life, to guard this portal to your body—the mouth. Put nothing in it except things of known purity. The food should not be carried to the lips except with hands which have been thoroughly washed with soap and water. • Get money—but never put d>t to base uses, and no perversion of its use is worse than putting it in your mouth. —From health talks by Dr. Copeland* o Subscribe for the Journal.

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MILFORD NEWS , ■ Samuel Reams of East Milford is confined to his bed, ill. Several members of the family of Mr. Alexander have been ill of grip but all are better. John L. Gregg and daughter, Mrs. Norman J. Groves, were in Warsaw on business Friday. Dr. and Mrs. Forrest J. Young and daughter Frances were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Long o f. Goshen, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Gawthrop and son Harry were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gawthrop and son Harold. Mrs. W. E. Groves is seriously ill with heart trouble and her niece, Mrs. H. Glenn Young of Warsaw, was called to the home Thursday. Mrs. Isaac M. Groves of West Catherine street celebrated her 79th birthday Tuesday and had as a .guest at dinner her sister, Mrs. Henry Gibson. The Willing Workers’ Sunday School class will hold the annual class party on the evening of March 16. Mrs. J. W. Brower of South Henry street will be hostess. Miss Helen Stilwell returned to her home in Nappanee Sunday afternoon after a visit of several days with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Robinson. ' Mr. and Mrs. Willard Patterson and son, Meredith, who'lived on the Mrs. Alfretta Skeer farm, southeast of Milford five miles, are now occupying their own property. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Funk, who live with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hamilton, north of Milford, are the parents of a daughter, Lucille LaVon, born Sunday evening. Mrs. Mervin Pfeiffer entertained the Ladies’ Aid society Wednesday. Fourteen members were present. Following the devotional and business session the hostess served refreshments. The Beacon Light Sunday school class of the Christian church were guests at a banquet given by a Sunday school class of the Warsaw. Christian church in that city Tuesday evening. Mrs. Lloyd Sinning is teacher of the local class. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Shaffer gave a dinner party Sunday. The following guests were present: Mrs. Audrey Kinsey of Elgin, 111., who is a niece of the hostess, and Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle D. Barnes and daughter Joan, Mr. and Mrs. Vern D. Brumbaugh, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brittsan and daughter Hazel, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lott and Miss Eloise Pinkerton, all of Milford. Gordon Otstot of South Bend, state highway policeman, filed complaints against George Graff and .Robert F. Higbee of Milford and Thaddeus Cummings of Warsaw, in the court here of Justice of the Peace Norman J. Groves, Wednesday afternoon, for running motor vehicles with improper licenses. All three pleaded guilty and paid fines of SI.OO and costs, amounting to $2.50, apiece. The King’s Daughters Sunday school class of the Christian church, which has a membership of 15 young girls, was engaged in a contest for some time. Last Thursday evening the losing side gave a Washington’s birthday party to the winners, with Mrs. Sylvester E. Johnston as hostess. The girls’ mother were also present. Various amusements were indulged in. Among the prize

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winners were Mrs. Richard Rosenbohm and Dorothy Bird. A delightful luncheon was served. The favors were miniature silk flags and small hatchets. Pussy willows were artistically used in decorating. This class recently installed new electric light fixtures in the main auditorium of the church at an expense of SSO. Mrs. Andrew Orn is teacher. o EXPERT, TELLS HOW TO GET MOST OUT OF COAL LaFayette, Feb 27.—About 20 percent of the coal used by the average householder is wasted by improper methods of firing, according to Prof. R, W. Noland, head of the heating and ventilating department in the school of mechanical engineering, Purdue university. He says that this loss can be eliminated if proper methods are used in handling the home heating plant. He offers the following suggestions: In the-ordinary hot air furnace or a small heating boiler which has a round fire pot or one which is a little longer in the front and rear direction, the fire should be allowed to burn down until only a bed of coals remain. This bed of coals should be raked toward the firing door with a properly constructed rake or hoe until they are level with it and slant down towards the rear of the grates. A fresh charge of coal should be then shovelled in filling the rear very deep and gradually tapering down toward the firing door. When the drafts are turned on the coal will begin to burn gradually from the front to the rear. This charge should burn evenly for a period of from six to eight hours. At the next firing period repeat the performance. When the weather is mild allow a bed of ashes to collect under the fire, as it deadens the draft and checks the combustion. The furnace should be kept clear of soot at aW times because soot is a very poor conductor of heat and the more soot there is in the furnace the less heat for the amount of coal burned. Dampers should be adjusted with care to give the proper draft, as too much draft is just as bad as too little. * —o Time cures everything, but it takes such a long time.

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IN OUR CHURCHES | I 7; Evangelical Church Bible School ‘...9:45 a, m. H. M. Hire, Supt. Morning Worship.... 11:00 a, m. Christian Endeavor Jr., 6:00 p. m. Mrs. Elnora Wilcox, Supt, Evening Devotion... .7:00 p. m. The public is most cordially invited to all these services. L. E. Smith, Pastolr. Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School 9:45 a. m. Morning Worship... .11:00 a. m. Epworth League 6:00 p„ m. Subject: “What Jesus Thought About Folks.” Mark 10:14-21; John 15:14. Evening Service 7:00 p. m. “Church Night,” Tuesday evening, March 6. To these services we give you welcome. F. H. Cremean, Pastor. ' United Brethren Church Sunday School 9:45 A. :n. Class Service 10:45 a. m. C. E... 6:00 m. Preaching by-Mrs. Harman, 7:00 Prayer Services each Thursday evening at 7:30. A Pre-Easter service inf the form of a revival will begiin on March 18, at 7:00. This will lead up to a Decision day by the Sunday school during Easter tide. T. H. Harman, D. D., Psstor. o GEESE BLOCKED RAILROAD Wild geese thronging the fight of way of the Spokane-Portland railway north of Wallula, Wash., interfered seriously with the operation of trains for about a week. So numerous were the big birds that several times it was necessary to stop trains that the bewildered honkers Aright not be slaughtered by hundreds. Engineers tried to drive the birds from the tracks by tremendous blasts from the locondiotive whistles. When the great flocks took wing to clear the way for the trains the noise of their beating pinions could be heard for a great distance. o Do not ,miss “When Knighthood was in Flower,” which will be shown at the Oakland Theatre March 5 and 6.