The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1904-04-20
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lot in Monson to Rev. Alfred Barone.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Horniss return.
ed last week from Narragansett Pier,
r. I.
George Benton has resumed work
at the Glynn mill after an enforced
absence of six months, owing to ill
ness.
r. H. Worden, who has taken a
clerkship at the Hooker house in Will
limantic, moved his family and house
hold goods to that city the latter part
of last week.
Henry Knapp has completed the
new retaining wall at the corner of
Furnace avenue and Edgewood. The
wall was built from solid foundation
and is substantial structure. The
line of the wall has been Strengthened.
Henry Sands fell off a load of
debris in front of the Rockwell block
Monday afternoon. He fell on his
head and shoulders, and it was at first
thought he was injured, but he soon
gathered himself together and resumed
his employment. ..-
A republican caucus will be held
Tuesday evening at the town hall at
Stafford to choose delegates to the
state convention, where choice will
be made of the national delegates. At
the same time a town committee will
be elected The state convention
will be held at Hartford May 10th
and 11th.
Michael Fitzpatrick, who was
severely burned at the fire of the
Rockwell block last winter, was re-
leased last week and visited friends
here for a day or two before going
to Monson. He is still in bad shape,
and the authorities at Monson thought
it advisable to send him to the state
institution at Tewksbury, where he
will have a chance to still further
recuperate.
The Schofeld- Gary horse case,
which has been topic of interest
ever since the trade which originated
the litigation, was settled the first Of
the week out of court. The case was
tried in the borough court, and was
to have to come up this week in the
superior court. So much has been
said about the case that considerable
disappointment was felt that it was
not tried at Rockville. By the terms
of the settlement Mr.. Schofeld gets
the gray horse, and Mrs. Gary the
Arabian steed Mr.. Schofeld made
some concessions on his side, which
brings the price of the gray somewhat
higher than on the original transac-
tion, and both sides are now satisfied.
Several bets were made on the result
and these have been declared off. At
torney r. III. Fisk acted as arbiter in
arranging the settlement, and to his
diplomatic efforts much of the credit
is due.
The following from the magazine
"Now' we print by request -
A friend of the editors, a trained
nurse, recently was told by two physi-
clans that it was either an operation
for appendicitis or death. She re-
piled: Gentlemen, I know, and you
know, that not one in ten of those so
operated on live. will take my
chances. will not have an opera
tion." p" In ten days she entered the
Office of the consulting physician a
we'll woman, much to his surprise, and
not until he had made an examination
did he believe she had not an abscess.
In this connection this statement made
from DR.. O'Hanlon of New York, a
man of wide experience and reputa-
tion, being connected with the cor
oner's Office of that city, is significant.
He says: Appendicitis belongs to q
class of diseases we often read about,
but seldom see in autopsy. Again
and again I know of cases where a
diagnosis was made upon the strength
of pain in the right lilac region and
some gastro-intestinal symptoms, all
of which promptly disappeared after
a dose of castor oil. Among 5000
autopsies made during the past seven
years have seen only ten cases of ap-
pendicitis. had forty-two cases sent
to me for autopsy which had been
diagnosed as appendicitis; in ten of
them I found a greatly extended colon,
but no lesion of the appendix, either
gross nor microscopical, could be
discovered. In the remaining thirty
two even the distension of the colon
was absent and the appendix normal.