Show RUNAWAYS GALORE last saturday morning a chapter ot of runaways enlivened the already animated scene on main street thronged thron ged as it was with ith students and patrons ot ot the elementary schools from all over the county the first act was performed by the city water wagon in other words the street sprinkler mr pierce had just finished loading at one ol of the upper slain main street stands when an auto drove by lightening frightening the horses and Iii Inthe their lr quick turn sir mr pierce was jar jarred red loose from his high seat and came nearly being run over the team then gathered speed as quickly as possible and as much as possible under tinder tho the heavy and went ment madly down main street successfully cess fully dodging the numerous rigs tied and met en route but as they neared the forest street crossing it took some clever clener work on the part of the blinded animals to get through unscathed scat hed at one moment it appeared as though the heavy outfit would crash into the he drinking fountain and end up on the steps of the first national bank but the horses decided differently as they neared that point and turned quickly to the right just missing a rig standing at the hitching rod A gentleman was coming along in a whitetop white top just north of the cement crossing and as the sprinkling team swerved in that direction they were headed straight tor for his outfit with no possible chance of stopping on account of the in momentum taking in the sit sil bation at a glance he grabbed his whip and gave his horses a sharp cut causing them to jump and clear the path of disaster as the heavy water wagon bumped past within a mighty few inches of the rear wheel the team then barely cleared some standing rigs rigs in front of the C W it co and continued on down main street in endeavoring to make the turn to go up first north toward home the horses misjudged distances and the whole outfit crashed into the big locust tree tre at the corner bringing it to a mighty sudden stop with very little damage except to the tree which was barked iome somewhat what As the water wagon went past merrell lumber Comp companas Company anys 8 plant it inspired the faithful old grey h horse orse belonging to herbert savage which stood i there attached a to the light wagon I 1 and he be made abild a ald dash in the wake of the sprinkling team the horse crashed into something farther down the street however and was soon captured not to be displaced from the limelight and haver bave attention d distracted from its proprietors the delivery horse of tile the C W AI co cons considered dered the matter carefully and decided that eat the only thing for it to do was to go its contemporaries one better and made a dash that would have some results which it accordingly did and succeeded admirably in smash smashing Ti up a new buggy take it all in in all last saturday morning was some eventful forenoon for this quiet village |