Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1915 — MELON GROWER IS FROZEN TO DEATH [ARTICLE]

MELON GROWER IS FROZEN TO DEATH

Dies From Exposure Near Home at Freedom.* <?' * ' FOUND BY SEARCHING PARTY • .9 . Emmett Kay, Forty-Three Years Old, Supplied the City of Bloomington With Watermelons for Several Years. Bloomington.—Emmett Kay, age forty-three, who operated extensively in the growing of watermelons, ' -Was found dead of exposure to the cold, near his hornet at Freedom, ■Owen county, by a searching party. Relatives offered no explanation for liis absence from home all night. He Ihad supplied this city with melons sev■eral years. Sees Revival of Business. Indianapolis.—“ There will be -a revival of business in the American Industrial fields during the year 1915, I believe,” said Satnuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, who arrived in Indianapolis. President Gompers will speak at Tomlinson hall, under the auspicesv>f the ’lndianapolis Central Labor union, the subject of his address being the Clayton antitrust law. “The depression in business which occurred in the last year,” President Gompers said, “may be largely attributed to the European war, but responsibility must also rest with the financial interests, which always show their timidity when the .slightest mention of ‘hard times’ is made. A great mistake is also made by local governments in adopting policies of economy when such conditions occur. Indications are that there will be a decided improvement this year to the betterment of employers and employees alike.” The man who has been the head of the organized labor federation of the continent virtually since its origin seemed in good health. He was escorted to the Denison hotel by a committee of labor men, representing the Central Labor union. -

Opticians Meet January 12. Indianapolis.—The Indiana State Optical society will hold its eighteenth annual convention in the assembly hall of the Hotel Severin January 12 and 13. The literary, scientific, quiz and clinical program will be conducted by the following lecturers and teachers of national reputation: Dr. C. W. Talbot, president, Washington State School of Optometry; George A. Rogers, lecturer, inventor and writer; R. C. Augustine, writer, lecturer and optometrist; Dr W. B. Needles, president of she Needles Institute of Optometry; Charles M. Jenkins of Richmond will give a practical opthalmoscopic dem onstration with the opthalmesccpe assisted by William M. Edwards of Knightstown. Etherled Ciirtis of Laporte and H. E. Woodard of Iridian apolis. ■

Body of Woman Found in Home. Warsaw—Miss Amanda Reisch, fif-ty-five years old, Was found dead in bed at her home within a block of the business district here by neighbors, who broke into the house. It is believed she died more than a week ago. She was last , seen when she entertained a number of her friends. She told neighbors she was going to the country for a visit, and for that reason her disappearance was not investigated sooner. When neighbors looked in the windows they saw her body in the bed. A water bottle, with the contents frozen into a solid cake of ice, was at her side, indicating .hat ■ she was sick when she retired. Miss Reisch was a seamstress, and for many years lived alone.

Boys Held as Hog Thieves. Petersburg.-—Ajap Lewis and Royal Hooper, twenty and seventeen years, were arrested here in the act of selling two 200-pound hogs, which, it is charged, were stolen from Whitaker’s slaughter pen here. Two weeks ago three hogs disappeared and later

two more disappeared. About daylight the boys drove up to Wyatt’s .farm in a wagon and for'the second time offered two hogs. Wyatt told them to wait until he cotild thaw out his scales. He then telephoned the sheriff, and kept the tfoys until his arrival. Both boys confessed, it is said. Farm Hand Cuts Throat. Washington.—James E. Arvin, for-ty-eight years old, a farm hand, committed suicide at the home of his sister, Mrs. Patrick McCauley, near here, using an ordinary knife to sever the jugular vein. His sister witnessed the act. Death ensued before . a physician could be summoned. Rail Men, to Resume Work. Washington.—An order was issued at the B. & O. S. W. railroad shops here whereby 1,000 men were placed at work on the seven-hour, six-days-a-week schedule. For some time the shops have been employing about one'hundred men at one-fourth time County Agent Reappointed. Columbus,—At a meeting of the Bartholomew county board of education I. B. Jothson was reappointed county agent .and his salary was increased S2OO to SI,BOO a year.