Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — 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. AUTO SALESMAN MEETS DEATH Speeding Auto Turns Over on Jackson Highway—Driver Killed. Howard D. Hutcheson, age 34, district manager for the Lexing-ton-Howard auto company, was fatally injured Tuesday forenoon when the car he was driving turned over on the Jackson highway one mile southeast of Montmorenci. He died that afternoon in the St. Elizabeth hospital at Lafayette. Harry Williams, a salesman for the same ..company, who was accompanying Hutcheson, suffered a fractured leg. The accident was caused by excessive speed. The wheels of the auto ran into a rut in the road and when Hutcheson attempted to turn out the machine turned over and Hutcheson’s skull was fractured. Mr. Hutcheson was one of the best auto salesmen in the state. He w'aS formerly sales manager for the Gibson-Overland company and hgd charge of all Overland agencies in Indiana. The body was taken to Chicago Wednesday and will be cremated today. He is survived by his wife. The men were enroute from Indianapolis to Chicago and expected to pass through Remington at about noon Tuesday. They were blazing the trail for 100 new cars being driven from Ihdianapolis to Chicago. They chose a route through Remington, Goodland, Brook, Morocco and then north. A more direct route would have been through Rensselaer, but the fact that the roads north of this city for several miles are very bad made them choose another route. There were 103 Lexington cars and 150 people with the patty driving them through to Chicago. They reached Lafayette Thursday night and a midnight banquet was given them at the Fowler hotel. They passed Remington yesterday morning. This is said to have been the largest fleet of automobiles ever driven direct from factory to dealer at one time. The Lexington factory is at Connersville, Indiana.