D. R. HARKEY WAS ILLED AT 1:30 A.M.
A very sad accident occured about 1:30 this morning, (Sunday July 26) one mile south of Dickens. D. R. Harkey and a chum were enroute home from Spur, and while making the turn at the Y south of Dickens ran into W. B. Arthur's car with considerable speed. Mr. Arthur saw the boys approaching and stopped to give them all the opportunity possible to get by, but the speed they had prevented them from making the turn. The car which the boys were driving was turned over a number of times.
D. R. received injuries about the head which caused his death within about an hour. Dr. Morris went to give first aid and started to the Nichols Sanitarium with the boy, but he died about two miles north of Spur.
The other occupants received injuries but are not thought to be serious.
Young Harkey was in his seventeenth year, and was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Harkey at Dickens. He had spent his life in that community and had a great host of friends.
Probably funeral services will be held at Dickens this afternoon and interment made in Dickens cemetery.
The Times joins the many friends in extending sympathy, in this sad hour.
Dickens County Times, Re-Published in The Aspermont Star, Thursday, July 29, 1926
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