Note: Gravestone has incorrect death date. It should read March 30 vs 22.
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Funeral services for Charles C. Dreger, who hanged himself Thursday, will be held Saturday at 1 o'clock from the Frautschi funeral parlor. Interment will be at Middleton Junction cemetery.
Middleton Times-Tribune
Charles Dreger Commits Suicide By Hanging
People of this community were shocked when they heard that Charles Dreger had committed suicide by hanging himself in the celler of his farm home in the town of Madison at about 7 o'clock Thursday morning. Mr. Dreger had been in poor health for some time and was married over financial matters. He left a note saying "I am ill, about to die, take me to the undertaker and then to the cemetery". The note bore no address. He was about 49 years old and leaves a wife and four children.
Middleton Times-Herald March 31, 1922
Communication (as written in the newspaper)
A letter I want to be printed in the Times: -
Charley Dreger at present is the talk of the town and the surrounding country.
I wonder how many of the proprietors of serrounding saloons feel guilty that they had a hand in helping to distroy Charley's health and loosing all his property, even to that which his wife received from her parents estate.
Stop and Think everyeone who reads this, what booze will do and end in.
Who is responsible for his soul and the plight of his family? Liquor is, and those who have sold it to him by the jugs or bottle for the last fifteen years.
Those should now all join in and help the widow and children, nothing left for her, while the wives of the soloon keepers can dress in silks and the very latest that is to be had. I hope this be a warning for a great many that have the same temptation.
Outside of liquor Charley Drager was a good husband and father, his wife, my dear sister, all these years has not complained once to any of her sisters or brothers about her husband, she bore it all herself, and did not know that her money was gone.
Mrs. C. Knoll Middleton Times-Herald April 7, 1922
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Funeral services for Charles C. Dreger, who hanged himself Thursday, will be held Saturday at 1 o'clock from the Frautschi funeral parlor. Interment will be at Middleton Junction cemetery.
Middleton Times-Tribune
Charles Dreger Commits Suicide By Hanging
People of this community were shocked when they heard that Charles Dreger had committed suicide by hanging himself in the celler of his farm home in the town of Madison at about 7 o'clock Thursday morning. Mr. Dreger had been in poor health for some time and was married over financial matters. He left a note saying "I am ill, about to die, take me to the undertaker and then to the cemetery". The note bore no address. He was about 49 years old and leaves a wife and four children.
Middleton Times-Herald March 31, 1922
Communication (as written in the newspaper)
A letter I want to be printed in the Times: -
Charley Dreger at present is the talk of the town and the surrounding country.
I wonder how many of the proprietors of serrounding saloons feel guilty that they had a hand in helping to distroy Charley's health and loosing all his property, even to that which his wife received from her parents estate.
Stop and Think everyeone who reads this, what booze will do and end in.
Who is responsible for his soul and the plight of his family? Liquor is, and those who have sold it to him by the jugs or bottle for the last fifteen years.
Those should now all join in and help the widow and children, nothing left for her, while the wives of the soloon keepers can dress in silks and the very latest that is to be had. I hope this be a warning for a great many that have the same temptation.
Outside of liquor Charley Drager was a good husband and father, his wife, my dear sister, all these years has not complained once to any of her sisters or brothers about her husband, she bore it all herself, and did not know that her money was gone.
Mrs. C. Knoll Middleton Times-Herald April 7, 1922
Note: Gravestone has incorrect death date. It should read March 30 vs 22.
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Funeral services for Charles C. Dreger, who hanged himself Thursday, will be held Saturday at 1 o'clock from the Frautschi funeral parlor. Interment will be at Middleton Junction cemetery.
Middleton Times-Tribune
Charles Dreger Commits Suicide By Hanging
People of this community were shocked when they heard that Charles Dreger had committed suicide by hanging himself in the celler of his farm home in the town of Madison at about 7 o'clock Thursday morning. Mr. Dreger had been in poor health for some time and was married over financial matters. He left a note saying "I am ill, about to die, take me to the undertaker and then to the cemetery". The note bore no address. He was about 49 years old and leaves a wife and four children.
Middleton Times-Herald March 31, 1922
Communication (as written in the newspaper)
A letter I want to be printed in the Times: -
Charley Dreger at present is the talk of the town and the surrounding country.
I wonder how many of the proprietors of serrounding saloons feel guilty that they had a hand in helping to distroy Charley's health and loosing all his property, even to that which his wife received from her parents estate.
Stop and Think everyeone who reads this, what booze will do and end in.
Who is responsible for his soul and the plight of his family? Liquor is, and those who have sold it to him by the jugs or bottle for the last fifteen years.
Those should now all join in and help the widow and children, nothing left for her, while the wives of the soloon keepers can dress in silks and the very latest that is to be had. I hope this be a warning for a great many that have the same temptation.
Outside of liquor Charley Drager was a good husband and father, his wife, my dear sister, all these years has not complained once to any of her sisters or brothers about her husband, she bore it all herself, and did not know that her money was gone.
Mrs. C. Knoll Middleton Times-Herald April 7, 1922
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Funeral services for Charles C. Dreger, who hanged himself Thursday, will be held Saturday at 1 o'clock from the Frautschi funeral parlor. Interment will be at Middleton Junction cemetery.
Middleton Times-Tribune
Charles Dreger Commits Suicide By Hanging
People of this community were shocked when they heard that Charles Dreger had committed suicide by hanging himself in the celler of his farm home in the town of Madison at about 7 o'clock Thursday morning. Mr. Dreger had been in poor health for some time and was married over financial matters. He left a note saying "I am ill, about to die, take me to the undertaker and then to the cemetery". The note bore no address. He was about 49 years old and leaves a wife and four children.
Middleton Times-Herald March 31, 1922
Communication (as written in the newspaper)
A letter I want to be printed in the Times: -
Charley Dreger at present is the talk of the town and the surrounding country.
I wonder how many of the proprietors of serrounding saloons feel guilty that they had a hand in helping to distroy Charley's health and loosing all his property, even to that which his wife received from her parents estate.
Stop and Think everyeone who reads this, what booze will do and end in.
Who is responsible for his soul and the plight of his family? Liquor is, and those who have sold it to him by the jugs or bottle for the last fifteen years.
Those should now all join in and help the widow and children, nothing left for her, while the wives of the soloon keepers can dress in silks and the very latest that is to be had. I hope this be a warning for a great many that have the same temptation.
Outside of liquor Charley Drager was a good husband and father, his wife, my dear sister, all these years has not complained once to any of her sisters or brothers about her husband, she bore it all herself, and did not know that her money was gone.
Mrs. C. Knoll Middleton Times-Herald April 7, 1922
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