Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1916 — Might Have Been Much Worse. [ARTICLE]

Might Have Been Much Worse.

While returning from Delphi Saturday night where they had attended the track meet of the Delphi, Monticello and Rensselaer high schools that afternoon, H. E. Parkinson, accompanied by Mrs. Parkinson and daughter Helen, Elizabeth Witham, Faustine West and Bernice Long, in the former’s Studebaker automobile, had a narrow escape from what might have easily proved a fatal accident when the car went into a ditch containing about one foot of water, when Mr. Parkinson was making a double turn at the bridge on the road just south of Seafield. Owing to the fact that the car was running very slowly at the time no damage was done and nobody was hurt. A car was called f rom Rensselaer in which Max Ivepner and W. H. Parkinson went to the aid of the stranded, and all reached home about 7 o’clock the next morning none the worse for their experience.