"Huntington Auto Driver
Victim of Scare When Driving at Night"

A Huntington automobile driver got a bad scare Thursday night when he saw a rope stretched across a road on which he was driving. When he saw the rope he was so close that he could not stop without taking a chance of ditching his machine, so he put on more power, determined to break it. He thought a harder shock would snap the rope loose from its fastings, taking the thing for one by which a cow is tied. Just as the machine was within a few feet the rope dropped and then the driver knew he was the victim of jokers.

The driver thought of the possibility of a green driver getting confused and ditching his machine so he reported the incident to the sheriff, telling him it happened near the Otha Dolby home in Lancaster township.

From the Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel 6 Oct 1915