Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1916 — Grip Causes Blindness Of Rossville Banker’s Son. [ARTICLE]

Grip Causes Blindness Of Rossville Banker’s Son.

Monticello Journal: Many fatalities and complications have been reported resulting from the grip epidemic that has been sweeping over the country, but the saddest case reported in this vicinity comes from Rossville in Clinton county. George "Smith,"the 9-year-old son of, Adrian Smith, cashier of the bank at that place, is totally blind as the result of a case of grip that attacked him several weeks ago, and from which it was thought he had entirely recovered. At the time of his illness the disease affected his brain and acted upon the optic nerve. The Tad is being treated at a Frankfort hospital, where he has been examined by some of the best ooculists in the state. They are of the opinion that the boy will never again recover his sight.