Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1915 — IKE STEPHENSON SEVERELY INJURED [ARTICLE]

IKE STEPHENSON SEVERELY INJURED

Returning From Trip to DaMfotto Ruwabout Overturns and Severe Damage Results. An automobile accident that almost resulted fatally occurred Thursday evening at about duak a short distance south of DeMotte. Ike Stephenson, of Parr, who was driving, had his Tett ear torn entirely off and suffered an injury to his, skull the full extent of which can not yet be determined. He also had one rib on his right side broken. In the runabout with Stephenson were A. S. Lowman, the Mdnon agent at Parr, and Dick Gassoway, of near Virgie. (Mr. Lowman was rendered unconscious but suffered no serious injuries. Gassoway escaped injury. Lowman and Gassoway either jumped or Ml free from the car but Stephenson Was pinned under •the oar when it turned over. The car was badly damaged. Dr. English was called to attend Stephenson, who was returned to his home in Parr. He found that the left ear was torn entirely off and that his bead was'otherwise injured hut could not ascertain for a certainty whether the skull was fractured or not.

Carl W. Reddick, formerly editor of The Winamac Republican and former secretary off the republican state central committee, has for four or five years been living on a big ranch near Lewistown, (Mont., and in an interesting letter to his old home paper this week he tells of the opening up of seveal new townships near him for settlement and recommends prospective settlers that there is a good oppor-

trinity there. He offers to answer any letters -written: to him about that country. Lowell Knights of Pythias, some sixty in number, attended the district meeting at Crown Point last week and took -with them sixteen candidates for the rank of page. The lodge was -given a large Bible and a lodge book of rules of the order.