Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1913 — Says That Some Person Put Nails Along the Road. [ARTICLE]

Says That Some Person Put Nails Along the Road.

Harvey Messman was in town Friday and reported that some person had scattered nails in the road up his way and that automobile owners Were having a lot of tire trouble as a consequence. Many tires are ruined by nails, which often turn point upward When struck and are forced through the tire. There is no term mean enough to apply to a person who would deliberately do an act of this kind with a view to the destruction of property. He is on a par with perpoison horses or other stock to “get even” with some one. He is even worse, because the act is probably prompted by jealousy, a green monster that destroys one’s peace of mind and makes him an object of general hatred.