Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1915 — Joe Thomas Has An Expensive Automobile Accident. [ARTICLE]

Joe Thomas Has An Expensive Automobile Accident.

Joe Thomas of Newton tp., met 1 ’ I with an automobile accident near the old Rensselaer stock farm, on the Pleasant Ridge road, about 7 o’clock ß Saturday evening that might easily' have ended fatally for some of the occupants of the car. in company with his son, Ray’ Day and Mrs. Chase Day and baby daughter, he was ' driving out on the Pleasant Ridge road in his Ford car, and when near the stock farm some one driving a team putted up on the stone road ahead of him, not seeing him approaching, and just then a dog ran out in front of the car. In attempting to dodge both, the car struck the dog and was whirled around in the road, heading back west and going into the shallow ditch on the north side. All of the occupants were thrown out, the two right wheels and the glass wind shield of

the auto broken and the rear axle sprung. AH escaped without serious injury except the child, which had the bridge of its nose broken. Mr. Thomas was also considerably bruised up, and the dog was killed. The automobile was brought in by the Rensselaer Garage and is now undergoing repairs.