Mr. J.B. Coates, a farmer living some six miles up state highway No. 10 toward Clayton, from this city, was the victim of a serious and painful accident on Wednesday afternoon when an Emerson tractor which he was operating turned over, pinning him so securely down that several of his neighbors had to work an hour before he could be released.
Mr. Coates had been plowing in a field with the machine and was moving to another to continue his work there when he crossed a miry place. There the tractor mired down with sufficient force to throw Mr. Coates from it. Before he could escape, the machine had caught him and sunk him two feet in the mud.
As soon as he was extricated, he was rushed to the hospital here where it was found that his hip had been badly broken. It is reported that he is doing well since his wound has been treated.
Mr. Coates is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Coates of this city, and he is well known here.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, April 9, 1926
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