Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1915 — Tourists Meet Mishap When Auto Strikes Rope Across Street. [ARTICLE]

Tourists Meet Mishap When Auto Strikes Rope Across Street.

H. H.. Henley, wife and mother, of Minneapolis, Minn., who were driving through here Thursday in Mr ; Henley's Ford car, met with a mishap when their car run against a rojpe stretched across the oiled street near Mrs. A. M. Stockton's home on Division street. The rope catching a suit ease that lay in between the hood and fender, projecting out a little in front, the latter was thrown through the windshield and up in the air several feet, while the car was whirled about in the street and up against the. curb. The windshield was broken and one of | the bows of the top bent. One of the ladies was also slightly cut from the Hying glass. The rope had been down in the oil, some one having run against it the night before and broken a lighted lantern that was there, and Mr. Henley did not see it at all, it being so near the color of the street. He thought that the city should pay the damages, in view of the fact that there was nothing there to show the presence of the rope or that the street was closed up, and on going to see Mayor Spitler about it, the latter told him to have the damage' repaired and the city would pay the bill. Accordingly the car was taken to the Rensselaer Garage and the repairs made. The party were returning front a visit to their old home at Bloomington and Terre Haute. Mr. Henley is in the electrical business and was driving a 1913 Ford which he said he had driven through to the Atlantic coast twice besides having driven it thousands of miles for pleasure and business, and that it had always taken him through and brought hint back home. Mr. Henley said that the auto license fee in Minnesota was si.so tor three years, regardless of size of car, but they only issued licenses there every three years, that is, say ! 915-6-7. and one procuring a li - cense the latter year would have to pay the lull $1.50 same -as lie who took out a license in 1915. In lona, he said, the license was $lO per year on Ford’s, and he didn’t know what it was on a larger car. They ’are expending the money received on the roads, same as we are doing in Indiana, and the roads certainly need all they can get.