Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1900 — A Valuable Invention. [ARTICLE]

A Valuable Invention.

Our townsman, M. L. Hemphill, proprietor of a blacksmith and wagon and repairing shop, on Front street, has long been developing an apparatus for holding wild or fractious horses, while they are being shod. The apparatus, or stall, is an entirely successful one for the purpose. It holds the wildest or most vicious horse or mule with perfect security, where they can neither harm themselves nor the men who are shoeing them. But the apparatus takes such a perfect grip on a horse, that they understand at once that they are helpless, and once inside the stall, they never even attempt to kick or struggle. Some 30 or 40 of the most fractious horses in this region have been iMPliiPlhft? stall, life Mr. Hemphill’s shop, this season, and not one of them made the slightest trouble or suffered the least j injury. Mr. Hemphill has already been granted a patent on the apparatus, preparing to introduce it to the blacksmiths and horeeshoers of the oountry.