Mishaps - like the following item - on main street in Sheldon were quite common. To think, as teenagers who cruised up and down it, we never had the slightest idea that this had been rather common 50 years before.
NEWS from the March 31, 1911 edition of the Sheldon Enterprise: Three or four teams hauling empty hay racks and one of these chug-chug-go devils, otherwise called motorcycles, made a combination that created a little excitement yesterday morning on main street. Some of the horses became frightened at the unearthly noise made by the motorcycle and the result was that one hay rack was overturned, one team ran away, and another gently meandered along the railroad track. The runaways rushed across the street into the yards occupied by A. S. Taylor and Son’s Farm Machinery and brought up against a manure spreader which effectually blocked their progress in that direction. They turned and had just obtained a good start in another direction when a telephone pole bobbed up in front of them and they came together. The pole withstood the shock nobly and before the horses could get another start E. F. Hull and Ed Fallon rushed up and each grabbing a fiery steed, held on until assistance arrived. The driver of the runaways, a mere boy, jumped as soon as he saw that the team was unmanageable and so escaped uninjured. No particular damage was done.
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