Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1919 — YOUNG GIRL IS BADLY HURT [ARTICLE]

YOUNG GIRL IS BADLY HURT

When Auto Overturn* Saturday Afternoon Near Pleasant Ridge Prank Benark, who la employed fcy Joseph Neaius, Jr., just east of town, while driving the Ford car belonging to Mr. Neaius Saturday afternoon in company with the Neaius children and Frances Halsenva, of this city, had the misfortune to let the ,car run in the ditch and turn ovfer with them. The accident occurred Just this Side of Pleasant Ridge, and it seems {hat a tire blew out, and the car skidded . and before Mr. Benark could straighten it up again went into the ditch. The little Halsema girl was badly injured, receiving a cut around the back part of the head which torn the entire scalp loose except a small piece on the Rensselaer. All the other occupants of the car escaped with only a few slight bruises. She was taken in to the I. L. Jones home, near which the accident happened, a doctor called then brought to the hospital in Rensselaer.