Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1920 — DORRIS CROOKS AT SANITARIUM [ARTICLE]

DORRIS CROOKS AT SANITARIUM

Dorris Crooks, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Crooks of this* city and for some time past employed at the Hilliard & Hamill clothing store, •was taken to Martinsville last week to the sanitarium there for treatment. Mr. Crooks has tjeen confined to his home fop the past three weeks suffering from an injury he received while serving in the U. S. navy during the recent world war. At the time of his injury he and his comrades were employed in mining the North sea, and in helping to steady a mine as it was being lowered into the sea Jie was struck in the bach and left hip. He was given proper treatment at the time and it was thought the injury had healed properly, but it began troubling him again recently and it was through the influence of the local American Legion that he was placed in the government hospital at, Martinsville for fiirther treatment. Cope Hanley accompanied him to Martinsville, returning the next day.