The Mankato free press., 1923-09-28
Went ON JOYRIDE
TWO WELLS GIRLS WERE
IN SOME THRILLER
T..
They Had An Experiences Which
Should Last Them
Lifetime

Wells, September 25.--Two fool
ish girls; two strange men; q car
ride and "moonshine" figure promi-
nently In an unsavory incident near
Wells Sunday night. Two Wells
girls accepted the invitation given
them by two strangers to take a
ride. Both men were slightly intox-
icated, but the driver soon had
enough to make him Ugly and when
he drove up to a vacant building
near Easton and the girls objected,
he pulled out a gun and said he
would shoot the Hrst one that tried
to get away. 1t was raining and
very dark, so the girls and the other
man, who did not like the turn Of
Affairs, took a chance and jumped
from the car and darted away in
the darkness. The enraged driver
shouting anathemas, followed with
the car, trying in vain to locate
them by the headlights.
Just then the fugitiyes spied the
lights of a car coming from another
direction and made for it's The
driver stopped, took them In and
The first driver, who had gone In an
opposite direction then turned and
made for them trying to ram their
car. His drunken efforts failed and
because they were in q better can;
they were able to ont distance him
and got away.
The farmer who picked up the
trio drove home and phoned to
some neighbors living, near to come
over and escort him to Wells so
that in case the other again crossed
their trail they could better protect
themselves.
Four men responded and the fool
ish and thoroughly frightened girls
were : taken home reaching there
sometime in She early morning, safe,
and wiser. This experience Is enough
to show all the girls the folly of
riding with strange men.
Frank Cushing met with what
might easily have been a fatal ac-
cident on Friday morning while
driving south of Blue Earth. A car
coming from the opposite direction
turned out to pass another car and
the driver became SO interested I'm
some cattle beside the road, that he
forgot to turn back to the right side
again and crashed into Mr.. Cush-
ing's car that was crowded as near
the ditch as possible to avoid q
crash. But his efforts were futile
for the other car struck his Ford
coupe with force sufficient to throw
It over a five foot embankment
where 1t turned completely over. Mr..
kosw n knH oh
back and hip, but was unharmed by
the broken glass with which the car
was filed. The car, however. Is
nothing but mass Of junk. The
other car escaped with little dam
age to itself or the occupants. A
trivial incident was all that pre-
vented Mrs. Gushing and the baby
from accompanying Mr.. Gushing
that day. Had they done so the re-
suits might have been much more
serious.
A couple, a man and his wife con
siderably past middle life arrived In
town Friday evening, destitute and
weary, having walked from Delayan
that day. They spent the night in
were-picked up byJ. w.-fIurst who
hotel until they could find employ
ment Their story runs like this:
They were formerly from Council
Bluffs, Ia, but work being scarce
they took what little money they
had and started for Pipestone, Mimi.
where they heard work was plenu-
full. Their quest was failure and
being then without funds they
started tout on foot In the hope OF
getting something to do, The rainy
weather came on and they had q
hard time with little to eat, and no
place to sleep. They had been on
the road ten days when they
reached here. Work was found for
them on the Steve Payne farm
where they. now are. Mr. Payne
reports that they are giving very
good service. They walked all the
way from Pipestone, much OF the
distance being ,traversed In mud.
Eat To Fast
Doctors say We eat too fast Most
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