Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1910 — AGED MAN GETS BAD FALL [ARTICLE]

AGED MAN GETS BAD FALL

Uncle James Shindler of Jordan tp., met with a severe accident on Monday morning of last week. He had come down from up stairs but for some reason went back again, and when starting down the second time he seems to have slipped and fell, sliding the entire length of the stairs and striking his head against a lounge at the bottom. When picked up he was unconscious and his head was injured .quite badly. He has been out of his head a part of the time since and owing to his advanced age, upwards of 70 years, his recovery will likely be very slow.

William M. Hoover, of south of town, had been reading in the papers about the big potatoes, corn, turnips etc., grown in this locality and concluded to make ’em all go back and pit down, on the turnip question a* -least. He unloaded three flat-bottom turnips at The Democrat office Saturday that tipped the scales at 11 pounds and one ounce.