Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1909 — GRANT DAVISSON BUYS AUTO. [ARTICLE]

GRANT DAVISSON BUYS AUTO.

. Ex-township trustee Grant Davisson of Barkley tp„ who has been suffering for several weeks with an attack of the automobile fever, now has the disease under control, having bought a Ford touring car which was expected to arrive here this week. In fact it was looked for Thursday, and no doubt ere this item is read he will have bad the machine in hand and tried to beat “Farmer” Hopkins’ record in climbing telephone poles and uprooting wire fencesBarkley township is now the banner township in Jasper county for automobiles, that is, outside of towns, of course. There are at least seven autos owned by farmers of Barkley—W. H. Snedeker, John Marlatt, Mark Shroer, Wesley Hinkle, Granville Moody, 8. H. Hopkins and Grant Davisson each having one. Milroy, Newton and Walker are so far, we believe, autoless. While there are quite a number of autos in Remington, outside of the town there are none that we know of in Carpenter tp.