Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-04-14

lington Tuesday to stay t~o or thrs
days.
Mrs. o. B. Copeland was taken to th
sanatorium Tuesday to undergo an opera
tion for gall stones, which was success
fully performed yesterday morning b.
DR.. F. C. Angel, assisted by Drs. c.
Rumrill and A. G. Bailey. Mrs. Cope
lands niece, Miss Jessie Simpson OF Law
renee, Mass, came yesterday to stay unit
her aunt is well advanced In GONZALES
cence.
Mrs. E. A. Thomas has safely under
gone a very delicate operation upon he
throat at the hospital OF the Drs. Mayo ii
Rochester, Minn., and Is making crafty
ing progress towards recovery. She wal
able TO leave the hospital Tuesday but il
10 remain In Rochester some DAYS longer
Mr.. Thomas ard DIR. and Mrs. J. p
Clifford have been With her through ths
ordeal.
Rev. and Mrs. G. o. Howe and Mrs
Emily stockwell expect to leave tbs
Howe's winter cottage at Lakeview, N.
c., the 25th of April, bound for Ran.
dolph. II was thought their arrival
might be hastened by the serious illness
OF brother, AFRO Stockwell OF Rochester,
who was threatened for awhile with
pneumonia and finally developed bad
case Of erysipelas, but he is now much
better.
The fire alarm sounded Tuesday after
noon for the confiagration of a rag in the
basement tenement OF the II. T. Holman
house at the lower end OF Main street.
The family OF James Goodell occupy this
tenement and one OF the children took q
poker from the stove snd laid II away in
q closet with the result that a fumigating
odor and considerable smoke soon became
noticeable. The firemen were called out
but before the hose cart reached the
house, the smudging rag had been cast
forth and the fire was over.
james Grant, French Canadian who
had been working in lumber camp at
Pittsheld, was brought here in team
sick with typhoid fever and landed in the
depot until 1t could be decided what
should be done with him. pr. c. ].
Rumrill was summoned and had the man
taken 10 the sanatorium, where he lies in
critical state after severe hemorrhage
Monday night. His brother and sister
from Ottawa, Can, were in town Satur-
day and Sunday to see him and assume
responsibility for his care. Mr.. Grant,
who is about S5 years Of age, worked At
painting for. w. J. Dukett for some
months last summer. 1t was reported
this morning that he could net live
through the day.
Sherman spooner had finally to submit
TO the amputation OF his right limb,
which was taken of last Thursday to the
upper third, just below the knee, by Drs.
A. c. Bailey, e. J. Rnmrill and F. G. An
gell Every effort had been made to save
the limb which became infected from a
cash cut in the instep Feb. ls by an ak,
shat slivered the bone and severed an ar
terry, causing an alarming hemorrhage.
March %, Mr.. Spooner WAS taken to the
sanatoriuln, expecting then to have the
amputation but the physicians Ia council
decided 10 try more extensive drainage OF
the foot in the hope that it might heal.
1t proved obstinate, however, and removal
OF the limb was the only alternative.
Mr.. Spooner stood the operation well for
one in so weak a state as his and has
since been steadily improving. His
brother, Albert Spooner, is likew Use
afflicted BY having a bad case of infection
in the second finger OF bis left hand, cut
by knife. He was taken to the sana-
torium yesterday and the member opened
for treatment by Drs. Rumrill, Angell and
Bailey.
Merton, the two-year-old son OF Mr..
and Mrs. b. 5. Hart, living at the Harris
Holman place on Hebard Hill. was badly |
burned March 10 by opening the stove
door, while left alone a moment, and |
thrustine in piece OF paper. The FIRE |
caught his clothes and he was all ablaze
" hen his mother heard his cries and ran |
back into the room and smothered the /
flames. The flesh on the inside Of the l
child's right elbow was fairly cooked and /
there we're large burns all over the arm
and down on his side. So extensive was
the burned area that council of physi-
rians decided that skin-graiting would be
and the boy and his mother
we're brought to the sanatorium, where
the operation was performed Monday.
The skin was taken from the mothers
limbs above the knees in patches equal in
all to a strip 5x9 inches Drs. L. A.
RussIow and fl. II. Hayward etherized
Mrs. Hart and the child; Or. F. c. An
cell shaved the skin from the mother,
snd Drs. G. J. Rumrill and A. c. Bailey
grated it onto the child's arm from the
wrist nearly to the armpit, for two
inches above the elbow, below the elbow
% within three inches OF the wrist aud
Ior about three inches on the side. The
process required three hours time and
vas apparently successful, as the boy and
Mrs. Hart are doing well.
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