Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-03-31
HIGH SCHOOL
GIRL INJURED
By Explosion of Chemicals
While Making Experiment
BURNING FLUID
THROWN IN FACE
Last Lyceum Lecture on April 20,
and Some Interesting Notes by
Our School Reporter

Our School Reporter
On last Friday afternoon. dur
ing the chemistry study period, a
startling accident occurred in the
high school laboratory, as a result
of which one member of the class
Gladys Sever-had her beauty
badly marred and it is considered
almost miraculous that she escap-
ed with no more permanent injury
than a scar or two.
In company with Mabel Baxter
she was conducting an experiment
with arsenic and hydrogen sui
phite when the test tube is sup
posed to have been overheated
and it exploded, throwing the
burning acid directly into Gladys
Sewers face.
The cries of the acid victim and
her Mortified companions brot to
Prof. Walker, the chemistry
teacher, knowledge of the dire &C.
cident and he Immediately made
liberal use of all the ammonia
water in the laboratory, which
somewhat counteracted the effect
of the acid and at once stopped
further damage from the burning
fluid.
BY this time an auto had been
secured and Gladys was hurried
to the Pollock hospital, where the
entire staff was soon employing
their skill in alleviatipg the suffer
ings of the stricken girl and
doing everything that medical
science could make use of to
check and counteract the dire
damage that had been caused.
Grave fears were at first enter
tanned by the doctors that the
sight of one eye had been dam
aged if not destroyed-as the eye.
ball was specked by the burning
acid-and it was almost certain
ty, according to the physicians
that the girls face and forehead
would be badly SCARED and pit
ted, but after 4S hours of unremit-
ting attention they were able to
give out the good news that Miss
Sewers eyesight would be COM
pletely restored, and the very
latest report is that Gladys will
soon be able to resume her studies
tho not in chemistry-with but
tiny scar or two to show Tor the
unusual experience she has had.
School Notes
The last number of the lyceum
course will be held at the high school
on Wednesday, April 26. Mr.. Denton
C. Crowl will lecture instead of Mr..
Sias, who had to cancel his engage
ment on account of sickness. This will
be one of the best number in the
course and Mr.. Crowl's lecture will be
both interesting and instructive.
The parents and teachers of the Lib
erty school met for the last time until
the end of the year when all the schools
will have a general meeting. The
room was well filled and those attend
ing were given fine program. The
children of the lower grades sang
songs and played games for the enter
tainment of their guests. Miss Engel's
paper. "The Use of Books" was in
structive as well as interesting and the
discussion following the reading of the
paper was also brisk and full of interest.
Superintendent Walters is giving the
Courts tests for English to the differ
ent grades of the Liberty. The grades
being examined are the third to the
eighth inclusive. These are standard
tests for composition, handwriting and
spelling.
The agriculture class of the Liberty
school was taken thru the o. C. Frantz
poultry ranch. There they had a
chance to study conditions as they saw
them, and it was more interesting and
profitable than if studied in books.
The Junior-Senior reception will be
held oil the fourteenth of April this
year. The Juniors are planning big