Show serious accident mrs elizabeth brannon biad a very choie call last Sat saturday arday she happened to loe oe alone at her home and aid was attempting to step across a ditch when she slipped and fell backwards falling upon a sharp stump which i penetrated her body its ita full length with difficulty she extricated herself and crept to the house though she was bleeding profusely from the ghastly wound she felt her strength failing and thought her time had come she was able to reach her doorstep where owing to her failing strength she was compelled 0 to remain and for 0 er two hours the question in her mind was whether she would die before some come person aou would id happen along finally two little girls who were canvassing for some small article came to the house she asked them to carry her bedding into the house then sent them for some of the neighbors As soon as neighbors arrived dr genett odonnell was summoned and operated upon the patient it was found necessary to tie several blood vessels it was discovered by the doctor that through the patient lying still so ao long while waiting for help the blood had coagulated in the wound otherwise she would have bled to death long before help arrived the operation was both difficult and dangerous but waa successful and the patient Is ia now making rapid pro greci toward recovery mrs brannon was waa sixty nine years of age the day af after ter the accident her children had planned a family reunion at the home of the old lady in honor of the sixty ninth anniversary of hor her birth the doctor eay she passed through the operation and rallied after it like a young person w would have do done ne it is ig a curious fact that she has neit neither lier had a serious illness nor met accident until this one during her whole life she is the mother of eph and john mrs andrew johnson mrs mra sim atwood mrs J A black and miss lilue brannon who is teaching school over in nine mile canyon this winter |