Good old days - Sept. 2, 2010

8 years ago, Sept. 4, 1885

A team belonging to Rev. J.W. Bluett, hitched to a wagon load of hay, upon which Mrs. Bluett sat alone, her husband having dismounted, took fright last Saturday near the slaughter house north of town and ran away, the lady being unable to check them.

They soon overtook the Gazette’s telephone construction wagon, in which were Gov. James Harold Doolittle, Heman Chapman, and two others and attempted to pass it on the narrow grade.

The result was a collision and both outfits tumbled over the bank, luckily into the dense brush which lines the creek at this point, or se...