Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1912 — Fast Auto Driver Will Know Better Next Time. [ARTICLE]

Fast Auto Driver Will Know Better Next Time.

The party who was breaking all speed records on the streets of Rensselaer last Sunday, mention of which was made in Wtednesday’s Democrat, was arrested near Templeton, Benton county, Wednesday by Sheriff Hoover on a warrant sworn out in the circuit court and gave the sheriff a bond for his appearance in court next week, probably Monday, providing his father, Patrick Kennedy, who recently returned from undergoing an operation in a hospital, is able to come over with the boy at that time, as he wants to come with him. The boy’s name is Martin Kennedy, and he attended St. Joseph’s college here last year. He is only 17 or 18 years of age, and admitted that he was probably driving 25 to 30 miles an hour on the streets here, and perhaps 35 miles on the country roads.

His father is a wealthy farmer, and does not uphold the boy in bis actions, and told him plainly that it was enough to furnish an auto and buy gasoline without having to pay fines (for him.

The crowd of boys with Kennedy on the streets here were some of the new students at St. Joseph’s college, and the faculty didn’t do a thing to them cut pack them up bag and baggage and send them back home. A student at St. Joseph’s* must conduct himself in a gentlemanly manner or out he goes, and there is little ceremony over his going. It the protestant and secular colleges were conducted in this manner along the lines of St. Joseph’s, we would hear mighty little about the rowdyism of college students, and living In a college town would be more of a pleasure than it is at present.