Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1912 — Former Newton County Man Has Resilient Wheel For Automobile. [ARTICLE]

Former Newton County Man Has Resilient Wheel For Automobile.

—J. H. Branson, of Jordan township, is being visited by his brother, Johnathan Branson, of Danville, 111., and his brother-in-law, Isaac Jay, of Pendleton, Oreg. Mr. Jay prior to -twenty years ago lived in Newton county and for a short time in Jasper. He has recently invented and perfected a solid tire bicycle wheel with resilient spokes, which he is convinced will prove just as satisfactory as the cushion tires used on autos at the present time. The spring spokes are so arranged that all of them help hear the wrigbt of the machine and a demonstration at his home town has proven the scheme entirely satisfa? tory. He has been in correspondence with a large manufacturing company in Cincinnati and will go there in a few days to confer with the proprietors about the manufacture of his wheel. •?*.