Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1910 — Children Have Short Wild Ride in W. G. Paxton’s Auto. [ARTICLE]

Children Have Short Wild Ride in W. G. Paxton’s Auto.

W. G. Paxton, formerly of Rensselaer and now the leading lumber merchant in Hammond, left his automobile in front of his home on Rimback avenue in Hammond Monday noon. He did not turn the engine off when he ran into the house and two neighboring children, 6 and 3 years of age, climbed into the car. Not knowing anything about the mechanism they turned on the power. The machine started o.t at full speed, shot across the street aud struck a popular tree. Fortunately the children were not injured, but the car suffered some damage.