Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1920 — EVIDENTLY HE WASN'T READY [ARTICLE]

EVIDENTLY HE WASN'T READY

Colored Driver Didn't Wait to See Who It Was That Had a Dee ire for Him. While visiting In Nashville, Tenn„ my ventriloquist son and I hired a car and driver for a sightseeing tour, writes a correspondent. In leaving the city we passed a private cemetery where the gravestones were close to the road, and I noticed that our driver put on speed and rolled his eyes toward the spooky-looklng plot. I was startled myself to hear an unearthly groan come seemingly from beneath the nearest stone, but turned in time to watch my son grinning before the colored driver put on a burst of speed that nearly threw us out. Then came another groan that seemed to come from the seat next the driver, and a deep voice that said: “Boy, I want you.” . That was just beforef we went over an embankment, and our driver lit running in the road. It was an hour after he disappeared in the distance before we caught a ride back to the city.