Wells County news from the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette,Sun Jun 30 1918:
Dwight Maddux, a local machinist, is home from Detroit, to recuperate from an attack of poisoning. He has been employed as a tester of liberty motors at the Packard plant and with eleven other testers employed on government orders developed poisoning after eating a lunch bought from a stranger at the noon hour, it having been the custom to buy lunches from stands near the grounds. It is now believed the workmen were made sick to delay work on the government orders. Their employers gave orders that the workmen are not to buy lunches in that way in the future.