Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1910 — STILL DOING GOOD SERVICE. [ARTICLE]

STILL DOING GOOD SERVICE.

Probably the oldest auto in point of service in Rensselaer if not in Jasper county, is that now used by the Jasper County Telephone Co., for its linemen, agd is still doing good work. This machine is the one-cyclinder Cadillac formerly owned by Joseph A. Fagot of Remington, and- which caused Mr. Fagot’s death at the slough bridge south of Rensselaer some five or six years ago, by running off the grade and burying him in the mud of the bayou on. the east side of "the road, one night when Joe and his two little sons w-ere driving Jrom Rensselaer to his home in Remington. The machine came into the possession ot a Wolcott man some time later, who used it for several years,and several months ago the telephone company traded one of their old Orient Bucktyoards for same.-:' ■ ■ ’ ■ ’