Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1903 — Good Mare Gone Wrong. [ARTICLE]

Good Mare Gone Wrong.

It’s not a good man but a good mare, that has gone wrong, this time. She belongs to Wilson Clark, two' miles northeast df town, and has always been counted one of the bfcst and safest family driving horses in this vicinity. His mother Mrs. Lucy Clark has driven to town with her, scores of times, and she always was as gentle as a lamb. So remarkably kind and safe was she, and such a fine driving mare, that $175 has recently been offered for Her, by some one that ¥ahted a specially safe family driving horse. Saturday night her good reputation was shattered in a minute, and the fragments of it were scattered to tl e winds Sunday morning. , Saturday night she took fright at one of the big wooden drums containing the new telephone cable, which was lying in Weston' street, near Makemself sewer. Wilson and Will Clark were in the buggy. Both vtore thrown out and Wilson was braised up rome, but Will was Cot hurt. Bhe was hitched to a fine new rubbered tired buggy, whidi was upset, and'damaged until it will have to be sent back to} the factory for repairs. Sunday morning Wilson drove her in alone, hitched to an old buggy. He drove her past the same big drum, and she shied some, but he kept her in control until close to the Kreeler feed barn, when she began \to kick and plunge, like a bucking broncho. She kicked in the dashboard, narrowly missing Wilson's head. He was pitched out on his head and face, and cat and bruised until he had to have his injuries dressed by a physician. This buggy, also, was badly broken up.