Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1920 — LITTLE BOY BADLY INJURED [ARTICLE]

LITTLE BOY BADLY INJURED

Firman, the little 8-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Learning of Chicago, who with his mother, has been visiting here for some time with his • grandmother, Mrs. B. F. Learning, got one of his eyes badly injured Saturday. He was playing with some other children and was struck on the bridge of the nose with a walnut thrown by one of the other children. The blow struck just where the optic nerve enters the eyes. Some dirt or hull fronrthe walnut struck one eye and made a small incision. It was thought at first that the injury would nbt amount to much, but later an abcess formed on the ball to the eye and the little fellow waft taken to Chicago konday .by. his parents, accompanied by Misa Maude Spltler, for treatment.