Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — EX-EDITOR CLEARS HIGHWAYS [ARTICLE]

EX-EDITOR CLEARS HIGHWAYS

Sidney Schanlaub Has New Method That Is Effective. Ex-Editor Schanlaub of Jackson township, Newton county, has a strictly new and original scheme for breaking roads. Last Tuesday morning he hitched to the running gears of bis wagon, threw on a few icy planks, and started out to bust a path for the mail carrier. Getting into his first snow drift, the horses began to plunge, causing the plank to shoot forward, slap up against the team, and then the real work of road miaking was on. Schanlaub keeps nothing but running stock and on this occasion the way and manner in which his horses smashed and otherwise maltreated the world’s sprinting record, after kicking loose from the wagon, was a sight long to be remembered, according to the testimony of those who witnessed the performance. With the ex-quill pusher holding to the lines and making a sled runner of himself —using his nose as a snow plow—a nice path a quarter of a mile long e more than a foot deep was made in just no time.