Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1916 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. MONON GIRL IN AT TO WRECK Machine Turned Over Near Wolcott When Lights Blinded Driver. Miss Oakle Smith, who was riding in an automobile with Frank Agen of Wolcott, had a narrow escape from death Thursday night when the machine went into a ditch and she was thrown through a barbed wire fence. The accident happened about a mile south of Monon. Mr. Agen was blinded by the lights of another car and off the road. Miss Smith’s ''face was badly lacerated and her throat was cut, the jugulir vein being exposed. She was taken to the office of Dr. Reagan at Monon and twenty stitches were taken to close the gaping wounds.