In 1932, Edgar Polley, local truck driver, was hauling a mixed load of stock to St. Joseph. He was about half way up Witt Hill when a bull he was transporting “decided he had gone for enough and jumped over the rack, breaking the rope with which he was tied, and causing the truck to come to a very sudden stop.” The bull didn’t go far, luckily and “allowed the driver to catch him again and with the aid of passersby was soon loaded back into the truck, but this time was "hog tied" in such a way that he could not jump”.
A few hours later, he was safely secured in a stock pen in St. Joseph. The article ended with “If anyone buys meat within the next ten days that has a tendency to jump out of the skillet while frying, you can rest assured that it is a part of this same bull.” (Ridgeway Journal, “It’s Just Like a Bull”, Nov 3, 1932.)
