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News of Our Neighbors

WOULD NOT VISIT AT HIS OLD HOME

Missing for 17 Years, Father Refused to Go from Fort Wayne to Bluffton.

Bluffton, Ind., June 12. -- Charles Spencer is back in Bluffton after visiting at Fort Wayne with his father, Calvin W. Spencer, who left home seventeen years ago and returned just as unexpectedly Sunday after being declared legally dead. Mr. Spencer, senior, stopped at Fort Wayne as the guest of William Thane and L. H. Johnston, 2128 Broadway, the latter being his brother-in-law, the husband of a deceased sister of Mr. Spencer.

Both Charles Spencer and his sister, Mrs. Lottie Barrick, wife of E. C. Barrick, of Uniondale, tried in every way to persuade their father to come to visit the scenes of his former residence in this county, but they could advance no effective argument and he retunred to Albany, New York, where he has a lucrative business as a cattle buyer.

The son stated that his father is in independent circumstances and that he will take steps to turn the money on deposit in a local bank, due him from the estate of his deceased wife, over to his two children, amounting now to several hundred dollars.

He inquired about many of his old friends in and about Ossian, where he was formerly a butcher, and Uniondale, but steadfastly refused to come to visit them. Mr. Spencer is 63 years of age and is enjoying the best of health. He had little to say to his son concerning his reasons for leaving his home.