Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1911 — Medaryville High Wheeled Auto Went Up In Smoke Last Week. [ARTICLE]

Medaryville High Wheeled Auto Went Up In Smoke Last Week.

Medaryville Advertiser. “Betsy” is no more; she died in the performance of her duty and her ashes have been scattered to the four winds of the compass—she burned up. Betsy was the pet name for C. W. Holl & Co’s, high-wheeled automobile, an International, and was one of the first machines brought to this town. On Tuesday morning a quartet of hunters, Chas. and Ed. Holl, Chas. Yundt and Dr. Thompson, groomed up Betsy for an all-day hunting trip and everything went along well until about the middle of the afternoon and when in the neighborhood of the Anthony ranch in Cass township. By this time Betsy was pretty warm “under the collar,” and when in that condition she had always been liable to cut up capers. On this occasion her cup of endurance seemed to be full to overflowing and when the air-fan ceased to work ana after the hunters had left her by the wayside but a short time, the climax came; the cylinder exploded, and setting the machine on fire, it soon was a heap of ashes. C. W. Holl & Com. pany carried some insurance on the machine.