Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1914 — The Passing of an Old Relic. [ARTICLE]

The Passing of an Old Relic.

The old single cylinder Cadillac automobile which has done service for the past few years for the Jasper County Telephone Company’s linemen, has at last gone to the j'unk piR. a b reakage in some of the machinery having occurred that will probably not be repaired. This machine was! among the first hutos introduced in Jasper county, and was originally owned by Joseph Fagot, of Remington, who bought it new several years ago. The machine caused the death of Mr. Fagot the first season that he owned it. With his two small sons lie was over to Rensselaer one evening during the summer, and. in returning home he lost control of the machine ' just after crossing the iron bridge at the big ditch a few miles south of town, and it went off the high embankment and overturned in the mud in the bayou at the bottom of the grade, burying Mr. Fagot in under it. and he was dead when removed some time later. His two sohs escaped without injury and hurriedly summoned help, but help arrived too late to save their father’s lifA .

The auto was later purchased by a party in Wolcott and finally came into the possession of the Jasper County Telephone Company, who have used it for a number of years and it has done good service. They have now purchased a Ford runabout and will use it for going out on repair and line work. ‘