Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1910 — Ex-County Commissioner of White County is Now Totally Blind. [ARTICLE]

Ex-County Commissioner of White County is Now Totally Blind.

White County Democrat. The many friends of Ex-County Commissioner Pefry Spencer will be sorry to learn that he has become totally blind, not being able to see to get about at all without assistance. For some twenty-two years Mr. Spencer has been blind in one eye from a cataract. Some months ago the sight of the other eye began to become obscure, the trouble rapidly growing until it is now entirely gone from the same cause. He has arranged to go to Cincinnati next Monday where he will have one eye operated on—the one that has been blind thg. longer—in hopes of restoring the sight. The operation involves cutting the eye open and removing the crystaline lens from behind the pupil. The operation is a rather delicate one, though not regarded as very serious, what danger there is arising from the possibility of inflammation following.