Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1913 — SUICIDE OF YOUNG MAN AT THAYER [ARTICLE]

SUICIDE OF YOUNG MAN AT THAYER

He is Said to Have Been Despondent Since the Death of His Father Two Tears Ago. A young man named Ralph DeFries, aged about 19 years, the Monon agent at Thayer, suicided Saturday night by shooting himself with a pistol. It is said that he has been despondent for some time and one report is to the effect that he was involved in some financial difficulties. He paid his local debts, according to a statement received at The Republican- office, Saturday .evening and then went to his home in Thayer and killed himself. Hello Bill. J. K. Davis, of Greencastel, is here on buisness. N. J. York returned this morning from Lafayette. Mrs. L. B. Sayler spent Sunday with Mrs. Ed Dewees at Pleasont Ridge. . Phone 579 for any kind of electrical work or call on K. T. Rhoades & Co. The screaming farce comedy “Hello Bill,” at Ellis Theatre, Monday evening. Wheatfield played ball at Lowell Sunday and met defeat by the score of 9 to 5. D. L. Richardson is very low this morning and it is probable will not improve very much.

Walter Selby, of Pullman, 111., visited Miss Bertha Hoffman from Friday until this morning.

Corn and oats, chop bran, middlings and all kinds of poultry feed for sale by Hamilton & Kellner.

Whitsell Lewis went to DeMotte today to see his daughter, Miss Linnie, who is reported to be quite sick.

The Home Missionary Society' of the M. E. church will meet Tuesday afternoon, June 3, with Mrs. W. O. Rowles.

Remember, Hamilton & Kellner sell the Deering line of binders, mowers and other harvesting machines.

Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Davenport, of Steubenville, Ohio, came Saturday for a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Davenport.

Mr. and Mrs. Omar Kenton and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Amsler returned home this morning after 'a visit of several days in Chicago.

A meeting of the cabinet officers and committees of the Epworth League will be held this evening at the home of Mrs. A. A. Fell.

Misses Minnie and Blanche Kissinger and Miss Elizabeth Kahler, three of this year’s graduates, left this morning for Valparaiso to ah tend the summer normal school.

Miss Ellen Carlson, who has been employed for several years in the office of Dr. J. Hansson, went to Brook this morning to visit her sister, Mrs. Emel Anderson, and expects to depart soon for her native home in Sweden, where she may remain permanently.

Mrs. C. B. Brunsdon, who has been visiting her father, W. R. Shesler, during the past week while attending the commencement events, her brother being a graduate, was joined here Saturday evening by Mr. Brunsdon and his sister, Miss Bertha Brunsdon, and today lai returned to Hammond.

Guy Clifton and wife, of Chicago, came down Thursday for a few days’ visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Warne, of Parr. Guy has for five years been shipping clerk for the Union Interior Finish Co., of Chicago, one of the largest of its kind in the world. Guy expects to grow with the business.

Thos. F. O’Connor, Sherman Barber, and J. H. Johnson were arrested by Game Warden Randall on the charge of dynamiting in the Tippecanoe river near Hughes’ island. It seems the incident happened about the first of the week. The cases will come up for trial next Thursday.—Monticello Journal.

I. A. Leave! is loading his car today and departing for Bainbridge, where he recently traded for a feed store and milling business. His son, Charles Leavel, and Wife, have moved to the house on Milroy avenue which he vacates, and Charles Clift has moved into the house on Weston street vacated by Charles Leavel. ;

Capt. and Mrs. G. B. Ward arrived Thursday evening to spend Decoration Day among/ their oldtime friends. They have spent the winter at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, with their daughter, Mrs. Mollie Ward Butler and her son. The latter is suffering from an obscure spinal disease but has made an appreciable gain in health since going to the Springs and they have hopes of his ultimate recovery.— Monticello Journal