The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-07-28
PROHIBITION WRECKS BUS
MESS AND He CANNOT
PAY DEBTS
ONCE PROSPEROUS
knti-SaIoon League Harnesses
Victim of Dry Law His
Health Shattered, He Will
Spend His Last Years In Ma
sonic Home for the Aged

The Syracuse On W Journal tells
this story of wrecked life:
The Masonic Home in Utica is the
place where Charles e. Candee hopes
to spend the rest of his life. The for
mer Onondaga Valley hotel proprietor
who also was alderman Of the old
Sixth Ward for nearly a decade many
years ago has made application to be
admitted to the home maintained by
the order in which he has been an ac-
tive member for over half a century.
That such a step had been taken by
him was confirmed by Mr.. Candee on
Monday afternoon when he appeared
in County Court and heard the trial
of the excise indictments against him
adjourned until next fall
Penniless Old Man.
Broken in health and financially
ruined by the developments of the
past few years, Mr.. Candee admits
that he is practically penniless and is
dependent upon his relatives. He has
seen his fiourishing hotel business fade
before the light of prohibition, his ho-
tel sold on a mortgage foreclosure,
bringing much less than he invested IN
it, and the furniture disposed of on a
chattel mortgage sale for an amount
ridiculously inadequate to the sum
paid for the furnishings Of the subur-
ban hostelry.
Having passed his seventy-fourth
birthday, Mr.. Candee realizes his mis-
fortune came too late in life for him
TO have a half chance TO recoup his
losses and get on his feet again. His
hotel investment represented about
$4,000 in the first instance. About
five years ago fire destroyed the place.
Nearly $50 900 was spent, the profits OF
many years, in rebuilding more mod
ern inn.
Then the prohibition wave hit On
l ondaga Valley. Receipts gradually
| fell off and soon Mr.. Candee was
\ unable to meet his interest payments
| on the mortgages and had difficulty
| in even keeping UP appearances. Hare
| times put him in even. worse position
and finally he found himself a bank
rupt and his property taken away
| The hotel furnishings worth nearl,
i 10000 sold for less than $1,000 ant
i Mr.. Candee says he disposed of hi
i iewelry to help liquidate his debts.
"The Last Straw"
The last straw was the recent In
| yestigation carried on by Anti-Saloo
| League agents who claimed the
| caught Mr.. Candee in their net Of eN
i idence spread for all the hotel keeper
: ! in the suburb. The case was slate
Il for trial Monday afternoon but Al
j sistant District Attorney John /
Mosher made application to Judg
Il William G. Cady to postpone it unit
| fall.
i Miss Ethel Kaufman, the woma
investigator in the pay of the Ant
Saloon League, failed to come to Syr
cuse to testify and her absence mac
| the chain Of evidence one link shor
and the most important link at tina
Efforts will be made to guarantee NJ
presence in the fall when the cast
against Mr.. Candee and Duane Ho'
ard. another hotel keeper in the V;
lev. come up for trial in County Coul
: Attorney Lawrence T. Jones, repr
. senting Mr. Cadee, was also anxio
TO have the trial adjourned on q
ls count of the continued absence of
10 material witness who is expected
aid Mr.. Candee in attempting to pro
that no liquor was sold at his place
the Anti-Saloon League agents.