Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1905 — MRS. BEAM IS IMPROVINQ. [ARTICLE]

MRS. BEAM IS IMPROVINQ.

Mrs. W. H. Beam was taken seriously sick Sunday night with strangulated hernia, and Monday it was decided that an immediate operation was necessary to save her life. Accordingly she was taken to Chicago on the 9:55 a. m. train Tuesday and the operation was performed at the Mary Thompson hospital the same afternoon. She stood the operation very well and was reported yesterday morning to be feeling considerably better than the day before, when the symptoms were reported not so good. It is stated that had the operation been postponed a few hours later die chances for recovery would nave been very slight indeed, as evidences of gangrene were already present. Opperations for this trouble do not usually turn out well, and only about 25 per cent, of those operated on recover. It was from this trouble that Mrs. Theodore Keiper died a few months ago. The many friends of Mrs. Beam hope that she will speedily recover and be returned to her family.