Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1920 — Useful Gifts FRANK HAM MADE DEFENDANT IN $20,000 SUIT [ARTICLE]

Useful Gifts

FRANK HAM MADE DEFENDANT IN $20,000 SUIT

Personal injury suits aggregating $20,000 were filed in the circuit court on Friday against Frank B. Ham, Maude Shelley and Adeline Moore are the plaintiffs. They allege that on the evening of October 19, 1920, while they were being conveyed from Oxford to Lafayette in an automobile . driven by Leo Wolfe, a car driven by Clifford Ham, son of Frank Ham, collided with the car driven by Wolfe. Both women allege they were severely injured and claim the accident was caused by carelessness and negligence on the part of Clifford Ham. Maude Shelley is asking for damages in the sum of $5,000 and Adeline Moore is asking for $15,000. The accident is alleged to have occurred two and a half miles west of Montmorenci. Clyde H. Jones and Charles A, West are attorneys for the plaintiffs. —Lafayette Journal. Mr. Ham was formerly a resident of this city, he and his family moving to Lafayette about three years ago. Floyd Meyers, Rensselaer’s leading real estate dealer, was in Wheatfield today to look after an important land sale.