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Sunday Snow Falls

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
December
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

SUNDAY SNOW FALLS

A NUMBER OF PEOPLE TIPPED OVER YESTERDAY.

An Unusual Variety of Runaways, With No Serious Accidents to Be Chronicled.

The mild weather and smooth sleighing Sunday was a great temptation to all to indulge in the delightful recreation of sleigh-riding. Every public and nearly every private rig in town was out during the afternoon and as a consequence current history is enriched today by the accounts of several accidents of more or less moment. One of Robison's double sleighs containing one conple tumed the corner of Ann and Division sts. to pick up another couple and so intent was the driver on his mission that he cut his corner too short, and spilled himself and lady out. The team ran up Division to Washington, thence west on Washington to Seventh, over to Huron and out the Dexter road where it was overtaken and brought back without a scratch or a blemish.

Geo. Wahr, while driving out to Tobias Laubengayer's, in Scio, overturned once and so delighted was he with the fun of picking himself up out of the snow that he tried it again with marked success before he reached his destination.

John Schmidt also en route to Tobias Laubengayer's upset near Scio church. He was not so successful and with his lady walked a mile and a half to Mr. Laubengayer's where they found the rig waiting none the worse for being temporarily without a driver.

Three sleighs overturned at the corner of Main and Packard during the day without serious results to rigs or occupants.

Some students who rented a sleigh of Robt. Benz, had a runaway on N. Main st. which did some damage to the sleigh but none to the occupants.

The mail carrier from Worden reported that a driverless horse attached to a single cutter was stopped by a farmer a mile north of Emery. The horse was covered with foam and there were blood stains upon the cutter. Inquiry at all of the Ann Arbor stables failed to locate the ownership of the rig.

The horses of Fred Krause which were tied on Broadway broke loose from their hitching post and ran all the way up Broadway into a hitching post. The horses fell and were quite badly cut.