Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1911 — Poor Joe! Lost Auto Here And Spark Plug in Wheatfield. [ARTICLE]

Poor Joe! Lost Auto Here And Spark Plug in Wheatfield.

Kankakee Valley Review. Joe Davisson, the genial agent for the Frisco system at Kniman, is having all kinds of peculiar troubles with his new Maxwell runabout. Joe reported that while on business at the county seat last week ’he actually lost the car. All he had left for sometime was the spark plug. Last Saturday he came to Wheatfield and lost the spark plug. After trying to get the machine star:ed. cranking her until big beads of juice stood prominently on his noble forehead, Joe discovered in the presence of Bill Meyers and other sympathetic friends that the durn critter would not budge an inch without the pesky spark plug. Then Joe felt in his right hand pantaloon pocket, where he was positive he put the plug when he stopped the car on arriving in town. After he had retraced the many steps he had taken about town, with his eagle eye on the ground, looking for the lost plug, he gave up in despair. Then John Pinter loaned Joe an' extra plug he had laying on the tobacco shelf, which seemed to look like the one Joe had lost. Then Joe started the machine and went away back to the biggest town in Walker township, remarking when he left that it was a long. that didn’t have a turn, and hoped to meet us all at the Kankakee Fair.