The following newspaper article, hand-identified as feing from an Oct. 1955 Tribune, was found in a scrapbook owned by Town Historian Richard Schmal:
IDENTIFY MAN KILLED ON ROUTE 2, OCT. 17
John Eskridge of the Eskridge Funeral Home informs interested readers that the pedestrian killed on state road 2, just west of Lowell on Monday evening, Oct. 17, has been identified as William Haines of 4214 Haders, Chicago.
The man was hiking to the Termunde farm in West Creek Township where he sought employment. He was approximately 60 years old.