The Holt County sentinel., 1916-10-06

II was claimed that third more work
would he accomplished by the teacher
with such an arrangement.
MIR. Roy Adams and his wife, OF
Bigclow, will he at the Christian
church. Thursday evening. the i2tn.
- hold n meeting. They desire to
meet their many friends and acquaint.
arccs they have here before taking
their departure for foreign fields. NJ.
adams, a. many know, II a son of q.
W. Adams, who H. better known. and
has been for several years past pre-.
pairing himself for service a. n for
cign missionary TO japan. These
young people will sail from Seattle,
Dccembcr 3. and are now starting
westward, preaching rs the, 70
through Kansas. Oklahoma, Tcxas.
Arizona and California. They are
filed with zeal and enthusiasm for
the cause they represent. and we pre-
diet that there will be good audi
cnce at the church TO bid them Gods
speed.
---Whiskcy and bad company seems
10 have cost ut least one Young man
his life. Two young men, who regis
tered at the Park Hotel, Saturday,
September %, rs John Tcetcrs and
lesser Spargcr, had been in the en-
ploy Of the American Telephone Co.,
and were working under the supcr.
vision Of Mr.. Clyde Young. They
were painting telephone poles, along
the company's line, and on Saturda,,
September 90. were paid for Tie
weeks labor. Mr. Sharp assigned
them TO room No. ~. They were no,
suspected Of being drunk or even
drinking when they retired. Parties
who passed the room that evening
heard them talking and counting their
money. a little after one O'clock,
Mr.. sharp, the land lord, heard some
one. whom he now believes 10 be Tcc,-
cfs, come hurricdly down the stairs
and leave the hotel. Early Sunday
morning. both Mr.. and Mrs, sham
hoa'u some one upstairs hcaving AMI
/ vomiting, and Mr.. SHARP proceeded
70 ascertain who II was that was sick.
ne round the other Young man,
phrger' unconscious and IN stran-
siei condition. DR.. Ottman was SUM
moncd, who. when he came, prn.
hoHnced The young man in very dan
gcrous condition. The doctor CAV.
as his opirion that while the Young
I'm had been drinking whiskcy.
Mh'', coulh be easily detected, he also
ma been doped. Spargcr remained
a. nay IN a semi-unconscious state.
no""ay morning, he was conscious
mn broke. His employer bought
T'n ticket FOR 81. Joseph. and he
tpartcI on the noon passenger. Some
Huihr, tuesday, our marshal, Sam
Nocl!, was called on the telephone by
woman IN ST. Joseph, who told Nj.
Nrcly that Spargcr had died from the
cnectS OF ms debauch, and that some
onc would be up from there to inves-
uiEnte me cause. When the room, in
when thcse young men had stayed
w. hight, was searched, an empty
pn'.e, labeled odd Homestead Wills
~, Was found. When Mr.. Sharp
Uau Sparger, the young man was
dressed and evidently had not gone
20 ped. No money was found in the
.n1n or on the young mans person,
a ,ha Mr. Young had paid him SO
Lne evening previous. Nothing is
n nn5 mere concerning the reputation
anu character Of either of the Young
, Mr. Young says he picked them
~ IN an employment bureau, in st.
S S, some two weeks before.
" npng tod some one that he was
married, and that his wife and eieh-
teen months old baby lived in ST. TO-
seph. No one has appeared IN to this
time in Craig, from st. joseph or
elsewhere, to make any inquiries con-
corning the case. Neither has any
one any information concerning John
letters, the other young man who
disappeared about one o'clock, Sunday
morning, but persons saw him, stag
gerlng drunk, board the south bound
passenger that morning. ''
GOOD-ENOUCH