Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1911 — Former Lowell Girl Trys to Suicide by Drowning in Lake. [ARTICLE]

Former Lowell Girl Trys to Suicide by Drowning in Lake.

Valparaiso Messenger. Cecile Esty, the 22-year-old Lowell young woman who was rescued from Lake. Michigan by two men in Chicago, following her deliberate attempt at suicide, was at one time a student at Valparaiso University. Miss Esty became infused with the reformer idea and determined upon the life of a settlement worker. Contrary to the wishes of her parents, who desired her to remain at home, get married and settle down, she went to Chicago, following a course of study here. After a two weeks’ starvation, she joined the White Cross mission. Her experiences are best told in her own words: “I found everything just as horrible as I supposed it would be, but I didn’t find the work of betterment so easy. Also I discovered social service doesn’t pay enough to live on. A good many times I went hungry. Eventually I decided to get outside work. “I knew nothing of stenography, bookkeeping, or any other kind of business work. I could tell the exact amount of money spent in Berlin for philanthropic work in 1910, but that was about the limit of my accomplishments. I went to work in a box factory, and couldn’t live on the wages. Hne day I awoke without a cent. That afternoon I went to work in a restaurant. It gives me a living, but that is all. “I don’t know why I tried to drown myself. It wasn’t a love affair. I was just tired and despondent, and the water looked restful.” J. M. Studebaker, millionaire vehicle manufacturer, is seriously ill at his home in South Bend. He contracted a cold recently, which has kept him at home for several days. Judge Remster at Indianapolis Friday granted sixty days for an appeal to the supreme court of the so-called “Tom Marshal constitution,” which he recently declared irregular and unconstitutional. Daniel G. Reid, of New York, who is visiting his old home in Richmond, this state, has announced a gift of |25,000 to the Y. M. C. A. of Richmond, contingent on a like sum being raised by subscription among the citizens. Sidney W. Conger, 61, prominent member of the Indiana state board of agriculture and formerly state supervisor of oil inspection, died Friday at Fletcher’s sanitarium in Indianapolis, after a year’s illness of cancer of the throat Banks, saloons and other institu-. tions which close their doors on legal holidays will not close Columbus day, October 12, Gov. Marshall and Attor-ney-General Honan holding the act of 1911, which created the day a legal holiday, to be invalid. The Indiana free employment agency conducted by tbe state of Indiana will not solicit employes to take the place of the strikers on the Illinois Central and Harriman railroad systems. .Orders' were sent out Monday from Indianapolis to the Evansville, Ft. Wayne, Terre Haute and South Bend offices that the state agencies must “keep hands off” In the strike. ' Have your sale bills printed at Tbe Republican office.