Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1916 — MISS GERTRUDE HOPKINS [ARTICLE]

MISS GERTRUDE HOPKINS

Must Remain in the City Several Months. Mrs. Zoe Thompson and son Ralph of Sullivan, Ind., who are here visiting her mother, Mrs. Frances Hopkins, went to Chicago Monday to see her sister, Miss Gertrude Hopkins, who injured one of her eyes so badly about a week previous at the State bank where she was employed as bookkeeper, by breaking one of the lenses in striking it on the lever of the safe to which she had gone to take ; out a package of change, forcing some of the broken glass into the pupil of the eye and practically ruining the sight thereof. Miss Hopkins will have to remain at the Wesley hospital, where she is being nursed by Miss Nell Biggs, for several days yet, and will then go to the home of relatives in the city to remain there for about two months and make daily trips to the hospial to have the eye treated. She is doing as well as could be expected, it is announced, but will never be able to see but little if any with the injured optic. It is expected to save the pupil, however. Mrs. Frances Hopkins will accompany her daughter, Mrs. Thompson, to Sullivan and remain with her for the most of the summer while Miss Gertrude is in Chicago.