W. W. SHIELDS' Auto Accident, 1917

SHIELDS

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/11/2015 at 03:32:37

The Leon Reporter
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa
Thursday, January 27, 1917, Page 1

Struck a Heifer with Auto.

W. H. Shields of this city had another auto accident last Friday, while driving near Elston (sic). He met a man driving a bunch of cattle in the road, just as he came over the top of a hill, and in spite of his efforts to miss them a fine heifer got in front of his car, and when the heavy car struck the heifer who of her legs were broken. Mr. Shields send a butcher out from Ellston and had the heifer killed and saved something in this way from the sale of the meat and hide, but it cost him about twenty dollars ore to settle for the heifer. Will says he can strike more things with his auto than any man in seven counties, but always comes out fairly lucky.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2015