Woodhouse
Farmer Instantly Killed
Simcoe, 22 Nov 1921 -- John
Russell Yeager, a prosperous Woodhouse township farmer, and a sons
of the late Bramwell Yeager and of Mrs. Yeager, now resident on
Colborne Street, Simcoe, was instantly killed in his barn yesterday
afternoon.
With his helper, Sidney
Benstead, he had been engaged during the afternoon cutting
cornstalks, using a gasoline engine. The work completed, he threw
the belt off the cutting box and noticing that the belt was
beginning to tangle up on the shaft, he was in the adct of hurrying
across to shut off the spark when his foot became caught in a loop
of the belt. He was drawn to the shaft and instantly killed.
Deceased was 39 years of age
and married. He leaves a widow and three small children, two girls
and a boy. Mrs. Norman Forse of Simcoe is a sister; five other
sisters live here with their mother.
The funeral will leave his
late home at one o'clock on Thursday for interment at Oakwood
Cemetery.
