Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1929, Page 27

THE SU WANDERED HOME, FINDS OWN GRAVE' “Buried” 19 Years Ago, So; Townsmen Thought—Man | Finds Family Gone. I ALMA, Nebr, October 5 (N.AN.A.. —1In this busy little county seat last week a man literally came back to life efter 19 years and reached across his own clearly marked grave to shake hands smilingly with the undertaier who buried him there, The man is John Bartels, and lest the reader become incredulous, we has- ten to explain Bartels was not dead, but_every one said he w: His “widow,” his best friends. who were the pallbearers—all were positive And to make the record more definite was found in the Alma Cemetery the Bartels plot with a neat granite head- stone inscribed: John F. Bartels. 1856-1909. Time was when John Ernest Fred- | erick Bartels was one of the prosperous | citizens of this rich Southwestern Ne- braska county. He owned 480 acres of | good farm land and earned a comfor- | table living buying and selling broom corn. He had a wife, who was a good | cook and an excellent housekeeper, and | two daughters, who encouraged him to | keep adding to his bank account. Yet Bartels was not happy. Moves to Missouri. So in 1894 he moved to Missouri, an took up his home in Neosho. He soon was established there as a broom manu- facturer, then a year or two later be-i came a grower and shipper of straw- berries. Crops were good, money seemed | plentiful and his bank account grew. | But still he was not happy. One July day in 1901 he said to his wife: | “Etta, I'm tired out. For severa] sea- sons T have been lool after all the | strawberry pickers, besides the loading and shipping. I've put out 37 cars of | berries this Summer—and that's an| awful lot for one man.” 1 “What are you going to do now.| John?" he says his wife asked, look- ing at his gaunt face. “Do?” he retorted. quit.” He produced a checkbook. “Her he said, tearing out a check. “Here an order for the balance I've got i the bank. It's $1.000—yours—take it I'm going to Kansas City—away, some where, to rest.” So he went out of the house and out | of the life of his family, which was not | “I'm going to| to see or hear from him again for 19 | County Court, explained that although tWeen national champlons, nine youths | the petitioner stated Barte's had died , —boys and girls, or all boys, as prowess years. Old Man Appears. Farly the morning of September 19, last, an old man walked away from the Burlington Station in Alma. His gait was infirm and he depended on a| stout hickory stick. He entered the grocery of W. A, Swartz on Alma's main strect. “Hello, Wyley!” he said Swartz glan: grinder. “Good morning. sir." “You don't know Bartels.” Wyley Swartz stared John Bartels? Why, you can't be —he’s dead and buried many years!" “But man alive, I am John Bart the caller insiste me—I'm John grasped his hand and he shoulder. John,” said the gray-haired grocer, “I can't belleve it. Why—why. I w a pallbearer at vdur funeral 19 ye: ago last March!” “They_ didn't get me, Wyley,” turned Bartels, with a chuckle. The old friends talked animatedly Swartz said there was no mistake about the funeral. He recalled some of the other pallbearers—J. G. Thompson. now a veteran Jawyer of Alma: “Sam"” Whit- ney, a decor: . and Henry Metzger, the town's plumber. Second Recognition. Th> friends sauntered across the street and into Thompson's office.! ‘There was another amazing recognition. | Bartels persuaded Thompson to ac-' re- HERE’S no dou d up from the colfee or » gone. England’s Orator F. WHITNALL ALLEN. company him to the ceme[ery to look at_his grave, Bartels gazed long and wonderingly. He was an old man now, older than most men of 73. For here were records to show he had lived and died. Now he lived again. With John Bartels alive, v the grave suppos~d to hs hi: Ths correspondent sought George 8. Joyce. undertaker who had conducted Bartels’ “burial.” My records do not show John E: 8 s ever buried here,” the undertaker 0 lies in 1 have his name on the tomb- stone,” he was told. “Yes,” replied Joyce. “but Mrs. Bar- tels ordered that. The name of the man whos2 body we brought back from Illinofs and buried here was recorded as John Mitchell. I understood that John Bartels sometimes went by th2 name of John Mitchell. so when his wife heard about John Mitchell's death in Peoria she identified the body .as thet of John Bartels” Bartels said he never used that name, or any assumed name. Motives of “Widow.” . What was the motive of Mrs. Bartels in showing these last marks of respect s to a husband with whom she is sald; have completely broken? Papers of administration were granted he “widow,” and the estate probated. john Bartels was legally dead, the ourt’s finding that “deceased departed his life intestate in Missouri on or about the first day of July, 1909.” John R. Starr, judge of the Harlan in 1901, ths law presumed he was alive until seven years later. ‘The heirs of Bartels, who inherit~d all his property, were adjudged to be | Etta Hunter Bartels, the “wido 2nd two daughters, Daisv, th-n 24, iiving in Minneapolis, and Grace, then 18, cf Neosho. Bertels says he was worth $60,000 at the time of his “death.” xile" wandering, to Kansas City. Baltimore, North Carolina, T=xas, then Mich'gan and back to Baltimore, where for a time he op-ratsd a small green- house. His property has been disposed of and his “widow” and daughters have Bartels has nothing to do but Tesume wandering. “I decided to come back here to Aima and visit my old friends and pallbcarers and see my own grave,” he concluded. (Copyright, 1920. by North American News- paper Alliance.) Revised Rate Schedule Filed. October 5 (Spe- STAUNTON, Va.. cial).—In accordance W made to the people of this community through the city council. the Virginia Public Service Co. yesterday announced that it has filed with the State Corpora- n Commission a revised schedule of 2s for _col ercial and domestic lighting, effective October 1. Nearly 75,000 women are in the Brit- ish government employ. Bartels said he had spent his years| BRITISH ORATORY FINALIST 1§ 13 Oxferd Candidate and French Canadian Youth Coming Here for Contest. . While Great Britain's western prov- ince, Canada, will be represented in the coming Fourth International Ora- torical Contest finals here by a French- speaking youth, England herself is send- ing a 19-year-old Briton, who will | enter Oxford University this Fall, to | do_her battle. F. Whitnall Allen of St. Michael, | Liverpool, is the lad who will carry | England’s banner into the competition in Constitution Hall October 26. Allen will make his bid for the high school oratorical champlonship with a speech on “Willlam Ewart Gladstone,” in which he will portray the effects of that t‘fl'tlmln'l influence on international~ m. Allen is a mature sort of youth whose observations will contrast considerably with those undertaken in previous in- ternational contest finals by his Eng- lish predecessors. The others have spoken generally about England's con- tribution to constitutional government and kindred subjects, while Allen is expected to dijcuss some of England’s own problems and trends in his speech. Graduated Last Spring. ‘The youth, within six months of the age limit set up by the official rules of the contest, was graduated last Spring from. the Liverpool Collegiate School, an institution of secondary education grade, as a student of which he won his right to defend his country in the world oratorical meet here this month. | His activities at the Liverpool school were confined entirely to academic ac- complishments, for which he attained quite a name as a tennis player and a | mountain-climbing enthusiast. He has obtained special permission from the | Oxford University officials to enter that { institution later than schedule requires |in order to come to the United States | for the contest finals. At Oxford he plans to prepare himself for a career of teaching. ‘Two of Nine Comtenders. Allen and the French-Canadian | champion of Canada will be two of nine national contenders for the world | championship in the international con- test finals here October 26, In all, 21 | nations competed in the contest, and through group elimination meets be- and fate decree—will fight the final i conflict in_the new Daughters of the American Revolution auditorium. Ben W. Swofford, Kansas City, Mo., | oy who won the 'United States na- | tional championship in the Washington | | Auditorium last May, defeating the other regional contenders, will repre- | sent this country. The meet will be ttended, present indications show, by as brilllant an audience as ever wit- | nessed any kind of event among high | school boys and girl. The diplomatic | corps will be well represented, as will | the highest educational circles of the | world powers, Doresey Carrier of Strasburg Will | Compete at State Fair. i Special Dispatch to The Star. STRASBURG, Va. 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