Iowa Old Press
Alton Democrat
September 12, 1908
A CLOSE CALL.
Mrs. Guy Honnold expects to leave this Friday for Hendricks, Minnesota, where she will join her husband who is teaching school there. Mrs. Honnold has been here for three weeks having come this far with her husband from Crawford, Nebraska, where they spent the summer on a ranch with his folks. Mrs. Honnold expected to leave here sooner but has been laid up at the home of her mother, Mrs. Koolbeek, as the result of an accident. She and her sister, Mrs. Hilbelink, and their mother were visiting at the Sipma and De Graaf homes southwest of Hospers two weeks ago. Mrs. Honnold and Miss Mable Sipma and her brother Sip Sipma together with the hired man drove out into the fields to watch a threshing crew. On the way back the neck yoke came down and the tongue of the wagon dropped while the horses were going at a good pace. The tongue ran into the ground and broke off and the wagon was thrown high into the air. The four people were slid to the front end of the box and for a time it looked as if they would be thrown onto the horses. Sip Sipma, who was driving, lost hold of one line and thereby pulled the horses to one side so that instead of being thrown onto them the four people were thrown violently to the ground. The wagon box was thrown on top of them and lit with such forces that it turned completely over and lit right side up at some distance from them. Mrs. Honnold was struck across the back and quite seriously hurt. The rest were also bruised and skinned up. Persons who saw the accident state that it is a wonder some of them were not killed. As it was, Mrs. Honnold has been seriously crippled for the past two weeks and is only now in condition to travel again. Mrs. Honnold reports that she spent a very pleasant summer on the Nebraska prairies. Her husband’s folks own a large ranch there and there is lots of unfenced wild land across which a bronco may be given free rein and where numerous coyotes and rattle snakes may be seen. Mr. Honnold and his brother came very nearly getting bitten by two large rattlers which they found under a sheaf of grain which had lain over night and which they picked up to shock the next day. One of the reptiles had nine rattles and a button and the other had eight rattles and a button.
NEWS OF NEWKIRK.
Will Terpstra has rented a farm between Boyden and Sheldon. What next, Billy?
The roads and paths and walks of Central Park New York are forty-six miles long.
The Rev. Schuurmans were absent last Sunday and Rev. George Douwstra of Lansing, Illinois, occupied the pulpit.
Last week John Grootenhuis left for Hale Center, Texas. He went along with Dick Rensink who went home again.
Gerrit Top was at the Minnesota State Fair and at the same time visited John and Will Schut who reside sixty miles northwest of Minneapolis.
Last Friday Missionary Hondelink gave some moving pictures in our church. They were good. It is too bad that some one had to disturb the audience.
The Excelsior Band of Capel township had the honor to be accepted by the committee of the mission feast of the Christian Reformed Church which was held the eighth of September.