The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-02
SUNDAY SEEKS
.REPOSE IN HIS
WINONA HOME
That's Where He will Retire
When He Quits Fighting the
Devils Patron Saint of
the Town.
BELOVED BY CITIZENS
By OBSERVER


nacle in Richmond, come on over to
Billy Sundays famous bungalow in
this town and pass the day there
Winona Lake is garden town, sur
rounded by fence and lake. Spring
comes there little later than in Rich
mond, Winona being farther north
Buds are just beginning to burst
The home of Winona Lakes most
famous citizen, the same being Billy
Sunday, stands on a sort Of knob, and
is built of the wood of the fir tree and
is stained dark brown, and cost $4,000
to build IL years ago.
Myth About Mansion
OF course, it isn't, as a rule, nice to
discuss the cost of your hosts home
when you go visiting. But there's a
myth abroad that Billy Sunday lives
In 100000 mansion, filled with all
the familiar appurtenances of luxury.
Therefore, it is necessary to crafty
the curiosity of the gossips.
| Billy Sundays house is the kind OF
a place one might buy in r. -. on
for $500 to $4,000, on which a build
ing association probably would loan
$4,000.
! The disagreeable statistics being
disposed of, we now can enter the
house, ma" Sunday herself opening
the door. We find ourselves in "a
large living room that runs the width
of the house and has a large brick
fireplace at one end, a piano at the
other, and comfortable things to sit
in between.
When Billy gets too old to fight
the devil he will have a soft nook by
the fireplace to sit in while he waits
his call to heaven, the log ,on the
andirons cracking cheerfully the
while
Three Ginning cIoeks-FoIks
There's an oil painting of Billy
Sunday on the wall and three chin
ing clocks-all gifts of admiring com
munities-play sweetly with the pas
sing hours. We mention the clocks
because when Billy Sunday is through
with his revival in Richmond some
grateful folk, thinking to give him a
: useful present for his house, may
decide clocks the very thing.
II Now, folk, take off your hats and
wraps and make yourself at home in
Billy Sundays house while Nora Lynn
the housekeeper, prepares lunch and
MA" Sunday shows US around
And this" says Ma, taking US
into the upstairs sitting room, 'is the
old sofa Billy and l used to sit in when
he was counting me. 1t stood in the
parlor in my home in Chicago.
II Billy would sit at the right and MA
at the left. 1t was in this very sofa
that he proposed to her.
Just Waste Of Space
II Nell" he began-but what's the
use. Every married man knows what
Billy Sunday said that evening
n And over the ancient sofa hangs an
oil painting that MA" Sunday paint
ed herself before she married Billy.
It's picture of cows and sheep drink
ing at a babbling brook and use TO
hang over the same sofa when Billy
was preparing to ask ma" to marry
him.
H Then out of a drawer in desk that
the Chicago baseball team gave MA
and Billy when they were married, she
takes lot Of pictures of Billy, and
among them are the love letters he
sent her when he was travelling with
the team.
81 have kept them ALL" says "Ma"
III like to read them sometimes, and
to discover that he is the same loving
Bill that he was. It's a good husband
who, 80 years later, still is living up
to his love letters"
One of BiIIy's Letters
II And INA" let's US hold a love letter
that still is in the envelope in which
Billy Sunday mailed it to Miss Helen
Thompson, that was Mas" maiden
name of Throop street, Chicago
"Ah, mel" signs Ma, romatic like
And she takes us all over the house
and shows us the bathroom and the
kitchen and everything and then we
go down into the cellar and help hel
bring some logs for the fireplace.
Then we sit in the cozy corner BY
the fire, while ma" feeds US candy
until she says it's time to go out and
see the town.
And as we walk along the pleasant
| paths we meet various fellow-citizens
/ of Billy Sunday A fellow may be {
big man away from home, but wha
does his home town think of him?
WELL" says John Motto, a Repub
lican leader in the county, you are II
the home of one of the greatest men il
J America and the world.
More Than Any Other
Sc at makes me angry to hear SOM
lg people knock Billy Sunday. I think
- know more about Billy Sunday thar
any other man. And if would star
rs telling you about all his charities yol
Id could fill up your paper.
or Il know of an old preacher in New
Q- ~,..->
York who mortgaged his home t
v" raise money for his church. An
10 when the notes became due and h
o- couldn't pay them, his home was abou
az to be sold over his head.
y BILLY Sunday heard about II, ir
d. vestigated. paid off the notes an
saved the preachers home.
OF 81 know Billy Sunday will be angr
eli when he reads this in your paper Blu
40 want the world to know what sor
We of man he really is when he's ava
n from the tabernacle. There are n
to bells on his charities.
at Zone day when he was in Ney
York, Billy Sunday heard OF an ir
id valid woman whose daughter was i
nd tie tabernacle choir and who grieve,