Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1919 — LIEUT. GWIN THOMAS UNDERGOES SECOND OPERATION. [ARTICLE]

LIEUT. GWIN THOMAS UNDERGOES SECOND OPERATION.

Lieutenant Gwin Thomas, of Monticello, a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gwin, of this city, and a son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Halleck, recently underwent a second operation, the result of wounds received in France, last August. The following item is taken from the Monticello Herald: Lieut. Gwin Thomas, son of Surveyor and Mrs. George A. Thomas who was moved from Debarkation Hospital No 2, Staten Island, to the Walter Reed hospital at Washington, D. C. several weeks ago, is recovering from a second operation for the removal of pus from his lung, which he underwent about two weeks ago. He submitted to an operation while at the Long Island hospital and for a time improved in health, but it was found that the pus was not draining from the lung as it should and the second .operation was performed since which time he has made a rapid improvement in health. Lieut. Thomas is also still suffering from wounds received in battle on August 6, 1918, following which he contracted influenza and pneumonia, but it is believed that the wounds will not give him much trouble when he recovers from the other illness. His leg which was injured, and which has been partially parahized is improving and it is thought that when he is strong enough to walk on crutches that it will gradually regain its normal strength.