Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1916 — HAD AUTO TROUBLE. [ARTICLE]

HAD AUTO TROUBLE.

Mt. Ayr Tribune. Dr. Merry started Thursday for Cassville, Wis., taking his daughter, Miss Jessie, with him to begin her school work m the Cassville schools, of which she is principal. Near Elgin, 111., they came onto an asphalt road which had become badly v/orn. Great holes had become worn and by dropping first to one side in one of these holes and then to one on the reverse side caused Miss Merry, who was driving at that particular lime, to partially lose control of the car and it shot down an embankment of some four or five feet. Luckily >t did not overturn and neither of the occupants were injured. Considerable damage was done to the car, however, and the doctor had to walk to the nearest farm house, where he got in touch with a garage at Elgin which sent a machine out and pulled them out of the ditch and into that city. A new wheel and a few other parts were found necessary, which the doctor secured there and decided to go no further on the journey, but returned home, reaching here Saturday afternoon. Miss Merry went bv rail from Elgin on to Cassville.'